![]() ![]() to switch to Linux inline, launch into VS Code, then return to your Windows shell. You can also use WSL inline to do ridiculous things like…įrom your terminal, launch into Visual Studio Code using code. You can also switch into Linux directly from the Command Prompt or PowerShell by entering wsl in the terminal - that's just one of the many ways WSL is so deeply integrated into Windows. Open WSL either by launching the Windows Terminal and creating a new WSL tab or by launching the Linux distro that you installed. Optionally, check out the beta Windows Terminal for the best possible terminal experience on Windows. You'll also need to install Visual Studio Code and the WSL extension. ![]() You can learn more about how to get started in the Installation instructions for WSL 2. If you're following along, make sure you've opted into Windows Insiders builds and enabled WSL 2. The increase in performance means you can also run alternate shells such as Zsh and even use your favorite Node.js version management utility. Your modules will install quicker, your repositories will clone quicker, and your favorite libraries will work reliably. Expect high levels of integration between Windows and Linux, extremely fast boot times, a small resource footprint, and absolutely no VM configuration or management.Īll of this translates to increased IO performance – up to 20x faster compared to WSL 1 - and full system call capability. Where traditional VMs may be slow to start and feel isolated, WSL 2 is just as seamless as the previous version. That's right, WSL 2 now ships a VM, but it's not the experience you might expect from a VM. While incremental improvements were made to add support for more functions, WSL 2 takes a completely different approach to this by shipping a lightweight virtual machine with a complete Linux kernel. You may have noticed this if you used early versions of WSL and found libraries and tools that were attempting to access system calls that hadn't been implemented (for example, the Go debugger). System calls are essentially functions provided by the kernel, which means that only the calls that were implemented were supported in the WSL environment. The first version implemented system calls natively on Windows. I've been using the beta since it landed in Windows Insiders and I quickly switched over to using WSL 2 exclusively in my daily development tasks. Septemby Matt Hernandez, been a couple of months since the initial betas for the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) were launched and I wanted to share a bit about what this is all about and how this will help you be more productive. Node.js Development with Visual Studio Code and Azure. ![]() Moving from Local to Remote Development. ![]()
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![]() We've had long discussions abotu MARTINAMIS tho on this blog, "TImes Arrow", etc. Here's why it's not a typical Monday (IMHO)ĮIGHT theme answers (plus EARTH, which throws the theme off ever so slightly, bec it throws the "progression" of the word ART slightly off.Īlso it's a hidden word, which is usually more Tuesday esqueĪlso MARTINAMIS whom I love and think is the most articulate guy alive is NOT well known to many many folks, tho his father, Kingsley, probably is, thaks to "Lucky Jim" and crosswords. I am shocked, shocked at Rex's time, bec I would have thought this totally challenging. It's probably one of the best Monday puzzles you've ever done bec there is nothing about it that's a Monday! 2 really wants me to listen to it now, so goodbye. Also, an anagram of APT.īartok's Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra No. My favorite clue of the day is a very simple one that no one is likely to have noticed- 61D: Congratulate nonverbally ( PAT). I screwed up but once during my entire solve-put in TAPE instead of TIVO (which has tripped me up now two days in a row). RARE EARTH also seemed to fill itself in without my thinking about it ( 40D: With 43-Across, yttrium or scandium). IONO- was a dead giveaway for IONOSPHERE ( 10D: Where the Northern Lights occur) likewise ICONO- for ICONOCLAST ( 26D: Antiestablishment figure). I got several answers today, including one theme answer and both long Downs, without ever looking at the clues. Density alone doesn't impress me much, but when it's coupled with relative grid smoothness, it's noteworthy. More on thematic density: every Down answer crosses a theme answer, most cross two, and four Downs actually have to cross *four* theme answers. 64A: *Gradually separated ( MOVED APART).60A: *Like some checks and vendors ( THIRD PARTY).51A: *Container next to a bowl of cereal ( MILK CARTON).45A: *National discount store chain ( DOLLAR TREE).25A: *Having both Republican and Democratic support ( BIPARTISAN) - ha ha ha ha ha ha.20A: *College near Philadelphia ( SWARTHMORE).17A: *British novelist who wrote "London Fields" ( MARTIN AMIS). ![]() Sometimes I'm freakishly fast sometimes I'm freakishly slow. Hence "Easy" for me, probably more "ordinary Monday" for most. I blew through this one in near-record time (2:32), then noticed I was nearly a full minute faster than the guys by whose times I usually gauge myself (at the NYT puzzle site). Sub-Monday, if there were such a category, which there isn't. Not often you see a theme this complex on a Monday-and for me, it definitely came in at a Monday time. Getting ART to "progress" like that is one thing-getting it to "progress" through answers that are both beautiful and (in several places) stacked on top of one another is amazing. You had me at MARTIN AMIS over SWARTHMORE. ![]() Dense, multi-layered, and full of vibrant and original-seeming answers. The Company also operates a multiprice-point variety chain under the name Deal$. The Company operates one dollar stores under the names of Dollar Tree and Dollar Bills. Its stores are supported by a nationwide logistics network of nine Distribution Centers. ![]() A Fortune 500 company, Dollar Tree is headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia and operates 4,009 stores throughout the 48 contiguous U.S. ( NASDAQ: DLTR) is an American chain of discount variety stores that sells every item for $1.00 or less. Word of the Day: DOLLAR TREE ( 45A: *National discount store chain) - Dollar Tree, Inc. ![]() ART starts in the first letter position with ARTICULATE, second letter position with MARTIN AMIS, and eventually ends in the eighth letter position with MOVED APART or, literally, what the answers to the eight starred clues contain?) - eight starred clues contain the word "ART," which "progresses" one letter to the right in each new theme answer (reading top to bottom), i.e. THEME: A WORK IN PROGRESS ( 36A: Unfinished project. I think times will be somewhat slower-than-avg. ![]() ![]() There are several forms of Skat played in different countries the BSA plays the standard German game and the website offers an English version of the rules translated by Parlett. The British Skat Association (BSA) was founded in 2001 to 'promote the playing of Skat in Britain. Although there are 100’s of books on Skat, almost all of them are written in German. 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A Southwest aircraft at San Francisco International Airport in 2011. ![]() ![]() Unlike Ryan, in Jason’s moment of weakness, he found writing a book about the repercussions of returning to the maddening life of a professional gambler satisfied his urges to place bets, thus averting any personal downward spiral. Jason Beem, the author, is a recovering compulsive gambler and, like Ryan McGuire, he is a professional announcer at a horseracing track in the Pacific Northwest. It is an often-poignant portrayal of the pain associated with anxiety attacks brought on by the imbalances of his life. Southbound reads like a personal account of an addict, lending insight into the mental processes behind the ill-advised choices and warped logic that results in placing bets against long odds. Even though he hasn’t placed a bet for more than two years, he lives with the knowledge that it only takes the one time of caving in to the weakness for his addiction to return. He manages to save money and begin a relationship with a young professional. Attending Gamblers Anonymous meetings Ryan has been able to step away from the pain and destructive behavior. In the past, he has spent time away from others, studying racing forms and picking horses. Even when he has longer relationships he seeks attention on the side that threatens any relationship he has.Ĭompulsive gambling is the biggest threat he has to finding companionship, though. And his compulsive need for human attention compels him to seek one-night stands over longer-term relationships. He fears it is inevitable, that it’s only a matter of time before he breaks down and relapses. Yet he is always aware that in a moment of weakness he could lose control. So, Ryan knows about his weaknesses but tells himself he has everything under control. Some of it he may have inherited from his father who was an alcoholic and also liked to bet on the ponies. Ryan has a few other problems that are attached to his compulsive personality as well. It’s what he knows best he is a racetrack announcer and has been exposed to the temptation to gamble for all his life. Ryan McGuire, has a disease manifest in all types of gambling but his primary focus is on horseracing. Jason Beem’s Southbound is an eye-opening exploration of the darkness of human excess and addiction pertaining not only to gambling but other types of compulsive behavior. My first novel, SOUTHBOUND, is slated for release in March 2014 from Pandamoon Publishing. ![]() Or just my name for solo stuff), a Master’s student at Lewis and Clark College in their Mental Health and Addictions program, a lover of baseball, and a writer. Along with announcing, I’m a musician (youtube search Stabone, you won’t regret it. I’ve called races at Portland Meadows, River Downs and even a few at my hometown track of Emerald Downs. ![]() I’ve worked as a horse racing announcer since 2006. I bounced around after that, first working at a poker room, then tried real estate, before I found my real passion of announcing horse races. I played cards in Vegas for a year after college, went to Gonzaga Law School and promptly dropped out when I started having daily panic attacks. A graduate of such prestigious institutions like Meeker Junior High and Kent-Meridian High School (Go Royals), I studied at the University of Washington from 1998 to 2002, getting a B.A. It's saturated with the sensory joys of the race track, and a pleasure to read." - Pauls Toutonghi, Pushcart Prize winning author of Evel Knievel Days and Red Weatherīorn and raised in the south suburbs of Seattle, Washington, I was born the day Mt. Beem has written a smart, perceptive novel - one that is about the difficulties of addiction and recovery - but also about the yearning for love, and the ways people fill the vacancies in their lives. It's as horrifying as it is intense and written with a lean sharp eye."- Willy Vlautin, author of The Free and The Motel Life "Jason Beem's Southbound begins with the drama of a close horse race - and it never lets up from there. "A gritty fearless portrayal of a man in the midst of a gambling breakdown. He's on a straight path southbound to rock bottom and only he has the power to stop it. Despite knowing that all he loves is on the line, he succumbs to his vices and his life quickly spirals out of control. Just one bet could cost him everything.his job, his friends, his fans, his girlfriend, and even his own life. ![]() Based on Amazon Best Selling author Jason Beem's own painful journey with a gambling addiction, Southbound follows Ryan McGuire, a horse racing announcer who faces his gambling demons on a daily basis. I sweat reading it."- Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and A Headcase. Jason Beem's novel Southbound derails your ordinary life and shoots you into the thrill, rush, and dark brutal truths of gambling and racing. Southbound " There's a line that runs alongside our ordinary lives, just beyond the grind of things. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, at this point, it is customary for women to immediately reject any assertion that women's rights are wrong as the Talibanistic ranting of an embittered man who has been denied ready access to attractive women's bodies. How could one even to begin to parody this astonishing bit of insecurity wrapped in arrogance: He also frequently uses the phrase, "The lesson as always: I'm an idiot." To invoke a throwaway bit of humor as a serious argument in favor of his own misogyny is quite absurd. Day is apparently unaware that Simmons is a comedy writer, not a political commentator. "The lesson, as always: Women ruin everything." While one does not usually expect to find deep sociological truths in the sports pages, so great has been the degradation of the acerbic art once known as the editorial, so filled with fear are the vanilla-minded commentators, that one finds more veracity on a single page of ESPN than in opinion pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal combined. The greatest media scribe of these latter days, Bill Simmons, is known for a certain pithy mantra. He annoys me right off by invoking Bill Simmons (the infamous and brilliant Sports Guy at ESPN) to introduce his argument: ![]() For an example of just how insipid his writing is, look at this column in which he rails about the evils of women's rights. It's bad enought that he actually puts his membership in Mensa in his bio, but on top of that his writing is just so bad. His real name is Theodore Beale and his rich father is on the board of directors of the Worldnutdaily, which is the only explanation for how he got his position as a columnist there. Readers of the Worldnutdaily are by now familiar with a columnist who goes by the pseudonym Vox Day. ![]() ![]() ![]() You order, get you food and take it to a table or booth. Finally there is absolutely nothing fancy about Fireside and there is no waitress service. Oh, and I checked the price list for their cold cuts and they are still very high so I'll be going to my regular market for that. I have no opinion as to the other offerings but if they are as good as the ribs there probably good enough to try. I returned last night for another rack and I'm happy I did. He didn't respond so I continued by telling him he made a safe bet that we would enjoy his ribs because they are very good.He thanks me for my call. He took my call and I identified myself and reminded him of his parting comment. I called fireside and asked to speak to John. I took them home where my wife and I ate most of the rack. I thanked him and his parting words were" If you don't like those ribs I'll give you another rack on me. Anyway I finally asked him to select a rack not to well done and he wrapped them to go. Chooks to Go near me in Plainview Menu, price, restaurant reviews, contact, location, and more for Chooks to Go Discover the best Fireside food in. He them showed me each rack and said do you want them crispy or not. He asked me what I wanted and I said a full rack. I said "My son told me you have great ribs so I'm here to give them a try." He said my son has good taste and showed me about 5 racks of ribs he had ready to go. I approached the counter where they have many selections for eat in or take away and was greeted by John. Ok, so I figured what can I lose, my son also enjoys Smoky Joe's and if he thinks Fireside is good why not, right? So last weekend I decided to make a visit and was impressed with how they changed their offerings since my last visit which was about 20 years ago. I found their prices very high especially their cold cuts so until now there was no need for me to visit. I should mention Fireside has been around forever but I just never dine there. My son enjoyes ribs as I do and he told me about the ribs at Fireside. fix in Aruba had to last me for 11 months but not any more. We have a time share in Aruba and spend 1 month there every year so we get to visit Smokey Joes Ribs at least 3 times while there. Plainview, NY 51 Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 7:30am- 7:00pm Sun 7:30am-6:30pm View in Google Maps Get In Touch Contact Us Your name Your email Subject. I truly enjoy good pork ribs but unfortunately it's been slim pickins lately. Contact Us Our Location Where to Find Us Please place order by phone, fax or email.Your Order will be ready when you arrived. 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In any case, i thought about using both clouds as backup for critical data (only) - considering my critical data is less than 1TB You could say the monthly storage fee is just another form of “ransom” supposedly… Dunno, maybe it’s all psychological, but it feels to me like it’s just something they could always easily hike up unlike the storage-fee which is more competitive I guess…?Īlso, I can easily see myself making a bunch of mistakes or inefficient decisions when restoring data, forcing me to pay for egress more than once - and thus incurring unnecessary costs (i’m always more of a trial-and-error than fully-plan-out kind of person) That’s an interesting POV but I hate the concept of egress costs in principle – it is sort of like having the data held captive for ransom. Don’t let an egress fee be a deal breaker for an otherwise great cloud storage provider. For example, Backblaze B2 charges $0.01/GB/month for downloads, so restoring 1TB of data (likely equal to at least 2TB of uncompressed files for anything but music and videos) would cost $10 – a small price to pay if recovering from a cloud backup is the last resort. I’ve used a lot of cloud storage services, but not Wasabi, so the only advice I can offer is that because you’ll have your own NAS as your first line of defense, even if there were an egress fee the cost would be reasonably low. Some people prefer to use just one program for all parts of the process, while others don’t mind combining Duplicacy with rsync, rclone and/or some other transfer tool. Rsync, rclone and even the cloud storage provider’s own sync client could be used to mirror Duplicacy’s storage archive to the cloud. ![]() Efficiency also increases as more devices are added to the same storage destination on the NAS. Yes, as far as backing up to the NAS first, then uploading from the NAS to the cloud. Would the best practice be something like backing up to the primary destination (NAS) first using duplicacy, followed by a simple sync of the data into the cloud, from the NAS?Īnd then, is that what the copy task is for? and how does the copy differ from something like rclone 's copy - if at all? It is my understanding that if I just backup (using duplicacy) from PC → NAS it already creates chunks at the destination, and then, if i try to backup (to the cloud) the chunks themselves using duplicacy i probably end up with something inefficient -īut - backing up separately to the two destinations also feels a bit weird - since it seems like a lot of duplicate work is being done (and a lot of unnecessary strain on the PC and its HDD’s) What I’m still not sure is what would be the best practice in terms of the backup flow -Īt least some of my important data would sit on my own desktop computer – and I would wanna use the NAS as a backup destination for it, but - I would also want the same data to be backed up to the cloud I’m also pretty sure I want to use Wasabi as the (main) cloud backup since I like the fact that I can easily create buckets with different regions on the same account there (and the no-cost for egress) So, I’m about to set up my first-ever NAS soon (already ordered 3x16TB HDDs ) based on a Synology system (420+) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spoiler Alert: We loved Space Center Houston so much that we went back on another day for the winter evening Galaxy Lights display (cost $29.95/person). Thus, I’m going to try to hit the highlights on things I think visitors won’t want to miss. A visitor cannot possibly see everything in a single day, and it is hard not to get overwhelmed with the vast amount of information in the place. I recommend getting in line as soon as you arrive at the center.Īccording to the website, Space Center Houston is home to “over 400 space artifacts, permanent and traveling exhibits, exhibits and experiences and theaters related to the exciting future and remarkable past of America’s human space-flight program.” Even if someone spends seven hours (420 minutes) at the center, that’s only about one minute for each thing. Visitors must be physically present at Space Center Houston to get in the “virtual line” for a tram tour. At the time of our visit, there were two tram tours available: one tram tour took visitors to the historic NASA Mission Control building and another tram tour took visitors to the Astronaut Training Facility and to Rocket Park (more on both below). The tram tours take visitors away from the museum and off-site to other NASA buildings. We arrived right when the center opened at 10:00 am, and quickly got in the “virtual line” for one of the tram tours. During our thirty-minute drive to the center, I read through some of the mobile app content aloud to Kasie so that we would know more about what to expect in advance. We downloaded the Space Center Houston mobile app ahead of time. We planned to spend nearly the entire day at Space Center Houston on a weekday in December, hoping to avoid the crowds. The place is always ranked high on most “THINGS TO DO” lists (it’s #1 on TripAdvisor). Her responsibilities include assisting astronauts in their EVA training underwater.Today, the price of admission to Space Center Houston has tripled ($29.95), and pretty much everything can be booked online. She’s been a recreational diver since 2000, a professional diver since 2011, and joined the NBL dive team in 2017. She has held many different positions at the pool, including safety diver, dive supervisor, environmental control system operator, and test director. Melass is a dive operations specialist at the NBL. His primary focus now is to support NBL operations and hardware integration. He has been a part of the team at the NBL since 1999 and was part of the dive team until 2009. He currently manages NBL external customer and facility projects related to development operations and future capabilities. McArthur retired from NASA in June 2017 as the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance for NASA Johnson Space Center.īrandon is the NBL Flight Lead. A veteran of four space flights, McArthur logged 224 days, 22 hours, 28 minutes and 10 seconds in space, including 24 hours and 21 minutes of spacewalks. Panelists include astronaut Bill McArthur, NBL Flight Lead Danny Brandon, and NBL Dive Ops Specialist Kristie Melass. Even at this size, the International Space Station, at 350 ft x 240 ft, will not fit inside the NBL. It is 202 ft in length, 102 ft in width and 40 ft in depth (20 ft above ground level and 20 ft below) and holds 6.2 million gallons of water. The NBL is split into two sections, each of which can be used for astronaut training simultaneously. Though suited astronauts are not weightless while training in the pool, neutral buoyancy is the best current method to train astronauts for spacewalks. In such a state, even a heavy object can be easily manipulated, much as it is in the zero gravity of space. If an item is made neutrally buoyant through a combination of weights and flotation devices, it will seem to “hover” under water. Neutral buoyancy is the equal tendency of an object to sink or float. ![]() NASA team members use the NBL to develop flight procedures, verify hardware compatibility, train astronauts, and refine spacewalk procedures during flight that are necessary to ensure mission success. The mission of the NBL is to prepare for space missions involving spacewalks. ![]() |
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