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I love IntelliJ IDEs. I use Android Studio for Android, PyCharm for Python, and GoLand for Go. They are powerful. I just wish they didn’t fill my 500GB disk as if there is no tomorrow. For example, with IDE settings left over from old installations. Bash 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 $ du -shc ~/Library/Application\ Support/JetBrains/* | sort -h ... 264M JetBrains/PyCharm2023.2 359M JetBrains/PyCharmCE2023.2 382M JetBrains/PyCharmCE2023.3 387M JetBrains/PyCharmCE2024.1 625M JetBrains/GoLand2023.2 927M JetBrains/GoLand2024.1 938M JetBrains/GoLand2023.3 950M JetBrains/GoLand2024.2 ... 5.3G total If you check inside, it is mostly “plugins” that are consuming the disk space. It is safe to delete all the old versions of the settings unless you are planning to downgrade. ...

Pregnancy is difficult to attain, hard to maintain, and even a successful one is just the beginning of a the process of child raising

Most digital nomads are from the western world. Technology workers and immigrants in the US, Canada, and Australia are overwhelmingly from India. Even then the digital nomads are fewer. I think the reasons are two-fold.

Compared to Tallinn or Budapest, Riga is unassuming. Most people end up in Riga while doing an Eastern Europe tour. The bus ride from Tallinn to Riga is only 4 hours and ~ €20 one-way. I would highly recommend the comfortable buses of Lux Express for this journey. Day 1 I started my day with a walking tour. If, like me, you are coming from Tallinn, then don’t have high hopes, as there isn’t a lot to see in the walking tour. ...

Keep yourself secure - Always run third-party CLI tools inside Docker

Both genders propagate their genes, but they do it in a gender-specific way

A doctors per capita comparison misses out on the nuances of how healthcare is delivered in different countries

I started from trip on an evening ferry from Helsinki, Finland. Tallinn, like Budapest, is a charming Eastern European castle town. Day 1 Starting with a walking tour, Tales of Reval is amazing. After the Danish Christian king established his control over this region, he invited German traders to set up trading outposts. The original name of the city, “Reval” comes from German Reh-fall, or a deer that fell off the cliff during the hunt. ...

Open AI is ditching TypeScript to rebuild Codex in Rust. This is a great example of why you should always ship tools as standalone static binaries using compiled languages. Reddit Comment The biggest advantage of such tools is not speed or efficiency. Rather, it is the ability to not install the full tool chain to just use a tool. Compiler provides additional safety check Compilation is an additional guardrail that reduces the likelihood of shipping non-functioning code. ...

The figs are from Greece. The dates from Tunisia. The mangoes from Mexico. The blueberries from Chile. The grapes from South Africa. I explained to my mother while showing her the kitchen. “And what’s American?” she asked. “The pieces of paper with Benjamin Franklin’s portrait given to those sellers in return”, I replied.