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https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment?

There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.

A few states have introduced bills to require taking cash (Idaho, Mississippi and North Dakota), but as far as I'm aware none have ever actually passed into law.

That's not really relevant here yet. GP doesnt have a "debt" before the transaction takes place. Nothing about that statement forces a business to do business with you. They are perfectly within their rights to only agree to do business with you if you pay in chickens.

Thanks for that suggestion. I found a couple of containerized multiplayer "servers": https://github.com/cavazos-apps/stardew-multiplayer-docker and https://github.com/JunimoHost/junimohost-stardew-server that seem to (as best I can tell) both run a game client as the server. So it sounds like a dummy player seems to be the way to go.

Haven't tried either of those yet though. I assume the JunimoHost one, at least, won't work with the current version of Stardew.

I've found a couple mods to change timescale that would let me have 1 second = 1 second, but nothing so far that would let me match the time of day properly. Now I'm considering writing a mod for this myself. I just need to decide if all of this is actually worth my time...

A crucial point was ensuring that all layers were deposited at or near room temperature, thus [...] [allowing] the use of plastic or polymer substrates, opening the door to the flexible electronics of the future.

So, to answer the headline, no. This isn't about the top end, its more about the bottom end I guess?

Plastic layers don't sound great for heat dissipation or max temp, but still very interesting for miniaturization of low end stuff.

I've always wondered if something like this would work:

Take a relatively short bit of wire, make a flat spiral at one end about the size of the button, tape that spiral to the button. Then take the other end of the wire hook it up to a relay with the other end attached to ground (or any big metal object probably). I would imagine then closing the relay is "touching" and opening the relay is "not touching".

I have no idea if that would actually work, but it seems to me like it should. You just need something to interrupt the electric field above the "button".

That's how it used to be for me too, something has changed. Before this current job search, I'd never put out more than 4 applications to get a job. Now I've put out dozens (I refuse to spray and pray), and am still unemployed 6 months later.

Yeah, the last 5 jobs (of 6 jobs) I've had I've applied with a markdown file or just a link to the rendered webpage in an email, IIRC.

In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality. I also suspect it might help the applicant tracking systems parse my shit more correctly since it's just plaintext. (Though the opposite could also be true since I assume the vast majority of submissions would be PDF.)

I wrote my CV in markdown for my website. I just submit the markdown file as the resume. For the few jobs I've applied to that have required a PDF, I just copied the text from my webpage (to get rich text formatting) into LibreOffice and exported as a PDF.

Though, I might not not be the best example to follow, I've been unemployed for almost 6 months.

I'm in the process writing my own version of webscript.io, an old service that died back in 2017. It was a dead simple service that would run a Lua script for each HTTP request that came in to a URL. It sounds pretty trivial, but it was remarkably useful for hacking together little scripts for things like watching webpages for changes, little custom APIs for DIY IoT devices, translating from one API to another, and other simple stuff like that.

I've got enough of it built that I've been able to make a few actually useful things with it already. A few different job posting website scrapers were the first thing I made. I also made a little script that queries a live traffic api and sends my wife an estimated drive time for her commute home. The plan with that one is to watch the drive time as it's getting closer to the end of the day and if it starts spiking earlier/worse than normal, it can email her letting her know she should leave early if she can.

Before anyone thinks this could be good news for EA...

The offer comes from a group of investors that includes Silver Lake, one of the world's largest private equity firms, and Saudi Arabia's controversial Public Investment Fund.

WSJ states that it would "likely be the largest leveraged buyout of all time."

A leveraged buyout from a PE firm means they've decided EA needs to die and they're going to pick the carcass clean.

I've been wanting to play this for years, it seems right up my street, but I've never been able to get it working. No matter how much I fiddle with in-game settings, steam input, or proton, I can't get it to do anything but immediately look down and spin the camera.

I'm curious, have you used Rust much? Most of those changes just feel like "rust should be more familiar to me" changes.

Also:

As Rust 2.0 is not going to happen, Rust users will never get these language design fixes

Isn't necessarily true for most of your suggestions. Since most of them are just changes to syntax semantics and not language semantics they could be made in an edition.