For merges and other finicky git actions I’ve been increasingly turning to Atom instead of the commandline. I like how it auto-formats my commit messages to line wrap and how it makes highlighting merge conflicts easy.
I just wish it wasn’t so tedious to version control Jupyter notebooks. I always try and clear the output before I stage it so I don’t have large binaries of plots or figures that were generated.
I'm glad that they have released support for the Web Authentication API. Hopefully I won't need to use Chrome for websites I choose to be more secure with.
Although, with a quick look it seems like I still can't use U2F with Google on Firefox.
And while the C.D.C. recommends washing all produce with water, including heads of lettuce, it does not recommend washing other forms of bagged lettuce, which has already been washed before bagging. “Your chances of contaminating it in your kitchen” — with contaminants that may already be on your kitchen countertop, hands or elsewhere — “are actually higher than if you didn’t wash the salad greens,” notes Dr. Gieraltowski.
High performance computing (HPC) is a specific field. Fast communication between compute nodes is very important and you won't get that on GCP or AWS where you may get 10gbs at the max. Most of the fast simulation codes are bounded by communication time between nodes.
Although, Azure is currently doing some HPC offerings.
If the person already knows markdown, Pandoc is a great option [0]. I find it really useful for creating pdfs. I haven't used it to create official documents that often, but I have used it to create Beamer slides and it was a very smooth experience. If you're an advanced user and you want to do something LaTeX-specific you can just write LaTeX inline and Pandoc will accept it.
Firefox barely supports U2F. It works on Github and Dropbox, but doesn't work on sites like Vanguard and Google. Every time I do a Firefox update I do a search of the bug listing and they seem to have an incomplete implementation of the spec. They're kicking the can until they fully implement the WebAuth API and jump over dealing with whatever earlier spec they were targeting.
Speaking of which, why does Vanguard force you to still have SMS two factor available even when you add a U2F device...