Another trick you can try is to just wet the grounds (same temperature as brewing) and let them soak for 30 seconds before continuing with brewing. This allows the release of CO2 from the grounds which is then converted to acid when dissolved in the brewed coffee. I use the pour-over method of brewing, so this is easy to do, but if using a drip coffee maker, it takes more effort.

Depends on your mouse, but sometimes the mouse wheel (for scrolling) is also a button, and if you press down (click) the wheel, it will be in scrolling mode so your mouse scrolls with movement.

The 320kbps does not refer to the sampling rate, but the data transmission rate. I just calculated the transmission rate for a particular flac file and it is 1961kbps. Encoding a file with the mp3 codec does not change the sampling rate, but instead modifies the data based on how we hear sound in order to reduce the data size without reducing the apparent sound quality much.

If cleaning the jack doesn't work, I can highly recommend the Audioquest Dragonfly (comes in 3 different levels; Black $99, Red $199, Cobalt $299). It is my portable headphone source of choice and is quite small. It is amazing how good it is, and if you care about music, not too expensive for the sound quality. If it is for only at home and you don't need portable, then there are many options and I would suggest looking at schiit.com for a good dac/amp combo or separates (you would just need to use the preamp outputs for your speakers).

The only time I had an issue with Ubuntu was the one time I tried to upgrade from one LTS release to the next. Otherwise, I have had zero issues with about 6 machines I've had on Ubuntu since 2007. Your issues with grub may be due to the developers not correctly dealing with dual boot systems? Don't know.

We have one developer in our group who makes changes to the pipelines and build servers. At this point, he doesn't have much to do on a daily basis, and most of his time is devoted to regular development on our product. We have a group of about 10 developers and about 6 business analysts and 5 qa testers. The business analysts take the business feature requests and create features and pbis and write up the requirements. The business analysts keep the backlog in priority. The developers groom the backlog once or twice a week to estimate complexity. The business analysts set up the sprints and the developers determine what can get done in the sprint. Sometimes there are too many items in the sprint, and we work with business analysts to determine what to move to the next sprint and what to keep. Sometimes we can complete more work, so we try to add additional pbis to the sprint, or add some tech debt pbis (which devs have created and groomed earlier) to the sprint. Over the years, we have added custom status to some of the dropdowns in the pbi and task items, and we have also added some custom fields we track. It's pretty easy to add these items, and the managers usually do it (either the manager of the business analysts, or the dev manager). Setting up the build environments (build servers and configuration) and release pipelines is the biggest task, but once done, only needs a little maintenance (such as updating the build servers with updated third party libraries). We use SQL server, WebAPI, vue.js, webpack, node and other web and other .Net Core technology stack.

We have been using it for at least 2 years now. We are also using the scrum templates (now modified quite a bit, but started with the stock ones). The architecture works well. We are using git and use pull requests to approve dev work. We have deployment pipelines to 4 environments, so it's easy to deploy to any environment with just a click. When a pull request completes, we deploy automatically to the dev environment, then there is an auto deployment to the QA environment during the late night. Deployments to other environments happen manually with a button click and an approval. The whole architecture is soooo much better than it was before 2015. I can highly recommend it for a Microsoft shop over JIRA and Jenkins.

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If you are after a software MIDI synth, then you can use Yoshimi. It is installed with Ubuntu Studio (can also be installed separately). I have never used it (Yoshimi, but have used Ubuntu Studio). If you are trying to control events during a recording session, then use Ardour as the DAW and you can use MIDI to control events. If you are trying to use a MIDI keyboard to enter music notation, then I have no recommendations as I have not done it in a very long time. If you are looking for a software MIDI drum machine, then try Hydrogen. I think the basic MIDI control is in Alsa, but you need a device that is supported by Linux...tricky to figure out, but there are various forums that discuss them (including the Ardour forums). It usually takes awhile for people to write the modules to drive new devices, so community support lags current devices by at least a few months, and often a year or two. Basic MIDI, however, is probably supported for many devices (it's usually the Alsa mixer portion that needs special driver modules).

git commits are unrelated to solutions...commits are related to repositories. How you commit your code depends on how you break it up between repositories. If you code resides in more than one repository, then you must make separate commits to each repository. In other words, each repository is versioned separately.

The db issue you point out with cloud is a main reason micro services have become popular. Each micro service generally has its own db. Designing micro services for an application requires some of the same skills as partitioning a db...you have to break them up such that you minimize the number of db updates required to get your micro services into a consistent state. It can become quite complex and if not done well, can end up in a tangled db mess. Fortunately, I write internal apps, and have only a few thousand users, so have not had to go the micro service route.

I developed Android apps between 2011 and 2012. I saw the abysmal security and rampant sharing of data, so I stopped developing apps and got rid of my phone.

Kent must have used the word "did" in his blurb as it has gone missing.

I have found i7-9750H to be fine for development with 6 cores (12 hyper-threaded). I have 32GB RAM and 512GB nvme m.2 ssd and can choose between intel integrated gfx or NVidia. This is in a laptop running linux that cost about $1800. Something similar in a desktop could probably be built for <$1000 excluding NVidia gfx, not including monitors, just the cpu box and internals. I no longer run VMs, but I used to some time ago, and this config should do fine...currently use Docker for multi-machine systems development.

The only problem I've had with barebones systems is the quality of the motherboard. Barebones systems usually have cheap MB, so I prefer to choose my MB with features and quality in mind.

The caffeine raises your heartbeat to help consume the extra calories?

musefan wrote:

Not difficult to lock an account after 5 or so failed attempts, right?

Hackers are not brute forcing on the site; they already have the encrypted password in a file and are brute forcing until the result matches. There are tools to set up all this and even guessing salt values.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:

Also, no SQL Server, which is what I missed most.

Are you saying that Mono has no support for the .net sql libraries? There is definitely a version of sql server that runs on linux (install is much faster and easier too!). We used it in a containerized application and it worked well (using .net Core).

I hear you there! I've been using Linux at home exclusively since 2007. Windows and Office are the two most troublesome technologies at Microsoft. Windows updates are an embarrassment compared to Linux. Office is just too big and unwieldly, resulting in lots of wasted time when something goes wrong. Visual Studio is starting to be that way too. I still trust 2 groups at Microsoft to produce good work; .Net and Sql Server. I have used Mono back around 2010-2012 and it worked well for the daemon programming I was doing on Linux. For UI work, it was not so good, but I don't know anything about its capabilities today. Back in the day it was always way behind .Net framework. Today, I use .Net Core at work (a Windows shop), and I wouldn't hesitate to use it at home as well (it's good). At work, I use a combination of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (Code is better at most web dev stuff than Visual Studio). At home, I rarely use .Net, but I still use Visual Studio Code as it's the best free option out there. For paid IDE, consider JetBrains Rider for C# and WebStorm for web work. My current systems: New System76 Gazelle laptop running Pop!_Os (pretty nice, but could use more battery) Desktop running Ubuntu rPi running either Raspian or Ubuntu Mate

try running gparted so you can see the drives and partitions. if it is not on the install, try "sudo apt-get install gparted" from a terminal window. it will ask for your password and install the tool. This tool is often used from a live cd to manage partitions on windows computers.