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Should you work on accepting your body, or building a body you can accept?
An easy question to answer. But I need to be careful about disclosing details in a public forum.

System is fundamentally unsuitable for automotive or other timing-critical applications. Engineered wrong from the beginning. It's a dead end.
This is bad advice for most people because, regardless of business skillsets, these kinds of one-sized-fits-all prescriptions don't take into account human diversity.

Fear is a terrible motivator for many people: rather than providing a productive boost of energy as it does for some, for others it provides an unhelpful dose of anxiety and negative stress which is at best counterproductive.
Like I said below, the study this is based on started in 1940. Hence the 'old-school' New England.
It's more in the translation step between your vision and your mental image.

If you ever stare at a single word it's never muddled or back to front, but when you scan a sentence and think back over what you have seen words may be in different orders, perhaps based on a typical grouping for those words.

For example if you scanned over your comment, it could come out as, "it does mix dynamical while reading". "It does" and your typo being corrected.

Try staring at a group of 5-6 words quickly, close your eyes, visualize them and read them back.

For me it's like there is a limited buffer, so when I parse a sentence and then read it back in context the start may have become corrupted.
I think that he meant that you would be an employee of the corporation. The corporation would then be the contractor for someone else.

I'm still not convinced that this works, but that is how I read it.
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I value talented people but sometimes during the hiring process I find myself thinking:

1. You're spoiled

2. You're overpriced

3. Your lack of humility is going to burn us one day

Technical folk and designers hold the whip hand right now, but that's no reason to abuse it.
A big problem with ICEs is that you need a large and heavy component (the engine) somewhere practical and accessible. In most consumer vehicles you can't put it anywhere but the front or the rear because the passengers get in the way. Making the car aerodynamic helps here, because you end up with dead space in the hood/trunk which you can put stuff in. Of course Tesla uses this for luggage.

Putting the batteries underneath is a natural solution, giving you a nice low centre of gravity. Virtually all the stuff in the engine bay is unnecessary on an EV. If you have a motor for each wheel, you can distribute weight very evenly.

There are also advantages for cooling, possibly. A long, thin, cuboid gives you more surface area than a squat cuboid.
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I'm mildly dyslexic. I sometimes read words incorrectly - so for example a local hill is called "Butser", but I frequently will read "Buster" as I drive past. So I find I read slowly aloud, because I need to process the text before I can speak it. It doesn't happen frequently anymore, but I do still get it. It's amazingly frustrating.

Weirdest thing - I can read that website pretty easily. I can see the words. I think it's because I look for more markers than just the word shape when I read. I don't know. How do others find it?
> Mercedes needs to do a complete 180 to become an electric car manufacturer. Employees with education and years of experience in internal combustion engines will fight their obsolescence. Plants and production lines that are specialized for ICE manufacturing will buck against the change. Their supply chain, dealerships, and repair shops will have the same problems and will also provide resistance.

This! There is an incredible amount of people (and contractors) whos life depends on building components of ICE cars around these companies. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep those profits from dwindling even if that'll doom them in the long run. The amount of internal politics must be staggering and IMO is the main reason why all EV attempts from these companies are so awful - they literaly look like someone tried to sabotage each and every one of those projects.
I've noticed that, starting quite recently, Bluetooth has always been off every time I've gone to use it on my trusty old Nexus 5. I figured it was the sort of bug that tends to accumulate on old phones, but maybe not eh?
How do we refer to the type of architecture without server-side component proper[0][1][2] though? Makes it surprisingly hard to find material and research on those topics.

Recently I was looking for one insightful talk (with a PoC) where websites run completely on users’ machines. It’s been a couple of years since I saw that talk for the first time, “cloud” was the term of choice to refer to what’s “serverless” now. I had to give up after pages upon pages of search results talking about Lambda or Azure (otherwise I’d have linked the talk here, of course).

[0] https://github.com/jhiesey/peercloud
[1] https://github.com/lucaspiller/shortly
[2] https://paul.kinlan.me/serverless-sync-in-web-apps/
Additionally, you can read the email's source transmission. That way you can read the SpamAssassin headers and see exactly why it was flagged ham or spam. It's been a pretty indispensable tool for email testing for my personal projects for how nifty it is.
Public sector salary pre-tax income is usually only 66-75 percent of total comp after adjusting for health insurance and pensions.
A Darwin Award is when a person removes themselves from the gene pool (usually but not always by dying) in a particularly idiotic manner.

It may be distasteful, but it has nothing to do with bias against a particular religion or against low-skilled workers.
From the other side of the table, employers usually hold all the cards. I don't care about your mission, your values, just show me the money. This is a transaction, not an interview for me to be a part of your family.

I will be polite, but if you offer a dollar less in total compensation than the other person, I will accept the other offer and thank you for your time. Have to make hay while the sun is shining, and the music could stop at any time. Don't say someone is overpaid when the issue is you don't want to pay market rate; you're bringing emotion into a business transaction. Can't hire someone for a role? You're not paying enough or you're not willing to train someone to be as niche as you need.

Source: Infosec, ~2-3 contacts a week from recruiters.

EDIT: To those who are replying that I'm detached, not who you'd hire, etc, that's perfectly fine. Hire someone who undervalues their time and values your team or your working environment over getting paid what they're worth. I work hard to save up faster for financial independence; I want to spend my time working on what I want, not what someone else wants me to work on. Life is short.
Do any of the dyslexia fonts help?
Yep, that's the reason I host my own email also.

I'm working on a guide for setting this stuff up; still WIP [1] -- feedback appreciated!

1: https://medium.com/@cyberpunk_networks/nsa-proof-your-email-...
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Not 100% right as some companies in EU member countries such as Finland, where I'm from, were allowed to use a certain clause that would allow them to still add roaming charges (mostly data related). This is done because the majority of operators sell contracts based on the speed and not a monthly GB cap. Almost all contracts are unlimited in data. I for one have a ~30€/month contract that has unlimited data with 50Mbps down / 30Mbps up.

After the roaming change my contract includes ~6GB of roaming data within EU. When that's reached there is a 0.0057€ per MB price in data abroad.
I'm not saying this is a good metric, just relaying an anecdote :)
Rather "into an I/O-bound problem". Apologies for ruining Ken's great joke.
First guess was dropping a dropsonde[0], but watching the video and cross-checking a P-3 cockpit[1], looks like he's controlling the throttle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropsonde

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f5/79/e9/f579e91f79ac79d91dc0...
>It's already patched.

This refrain is tired and myopic.

We must operate with the assumption that like BadUSB, heartbleed, and this latest attack, there are likely devastating vulnerabilities present in all devices we use and actors may have the chance to exploit them before we ever become aware of them or have the opportunity to apply a patch.
I'm biding my time until the Cubist reaction to Flat UI.
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GOES-16 was just launched in November last year. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/witness-the-firepowe... There are 3 more of them scheduled for the next 20 years.
> The threat model here is phishing, not drive-by downloads.

I think you missed my point. What if it isn't a phishing attack? Or even, what if it isn't just a phishing attack?

Your suggestion leaves users vulnerable by encouraging them to open suspicious looking links on the off chance it is, at most, a phishing attack.

> Browsers have a much greater ability to mitigate those.

Except when they don't. For what it's worth, I've also seen mobiles fall victim to drive-by download attacks.

> Also, a drive-by download email doesn't have to impersonate any particular sender, it just has to look like something that a user might want to click on.

E-mail worms are spread by the trust relationship between people known to each other (ie a user opening an attachment because it's from a recipient they know). I don't see why drive-by download attacks couldn't exploit the same human condition (ie "Hey bob, check out this link. It's awesome").

In fact I have seen that kind of malware in the wild, now I think about it.
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For all use cases? Or just yours
Vision based on visible light doesn't suffer from the problem in the same way as echolocation or lidar, since it is not dependant on observing signals emitted by the observer. I guess very smooth surfaces might act as mirrors, which will probably bring it's own set of difficulties for machines. Anecdotally, I can say my own stereo vision doesn't have big difficulties with most smooth surfaces though :)
I find it interesting that they guy is talking about tweaks, hooks and pokes to keep you interested, and the whole trying-to-expose-you-to-new-stuff phenomenon... but I find it all makes fb less appealing.

I check it a couple of times a day now I guess. Never allowed it to get its mitts on my phone, though, web use only.
More and more of my feed is "Your friend X liked some inconsequential response by Y on a boring post by Z" where I don't even know who Y and Z are.

It may be that my friends are gravitating away and posting less - I certainly am - but I suspect if it is then it's part of a big feedback loop initiated by facebook trying to become a news source rather than just a place to share everyday happenstance and a few pictures with friends.
> You're scared because an average app hasn't considered a problem that's 21 years off? Seems like a premature worry

'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'. --George Santayana
The battery power wasted is negligible (it's unnoticeable in the noise that makes me go from 100% at midnight to ~55% by the end of the day).

I connect to two different bluetooth devices; my helmet intercom (for phone calls, podcasts and music while commuting) and my headphones (normally for podcasts while doing housework or motorcycle maintenance). Needing to toggle settings on two different devices before connection would be more tedious than just one.
Did you get this far? This explains a bit:

"Trust me I know this already. I’m like barely 22."
I think you are really misunderstanding what vanilla javascript and HTML really is.

No UI in plain HTMl is scalable. If you have a UI each piece of code needs to be repeated on each page. Have a ten page website?

You need your footer, nav and whatever side bar on each page. Copy and pasted. What it changed? You need to change each and every page.

How did we get around this? WAY back we used server-rendered HTML. The server would serve different pieces, partials, to a piece of content.

This was done largely to PREVENT ugly and repeated code. Because making a simple UI in HTML/Javascript stack is overly repetitive and complicated.

No one needed to make server-side rendered pages to solve that issue but it did make maintaining that website easier. Eventually you could use server-side rendered pages to send data that was tailored to a user too.

This same problem happened on the front-end. Both the back-end and front-end started to use templating languages to help with these kind of repeated code.

The reality is a server creating the UI of a program and sending it to a user was OVER utilizing a server. All applications on a machine render and put together their UI. They utilize their power/cpu to construct those. So Web has started to move those templating languages to the front-end.

Some use build chains to create their pages other use SPA to contain it into one page. But the responsibility to construct the repeated components of the UI have become the clients-side for many sites. A server-rendered site is overkill for most these apps.

Things like middleman, jekyll, gatsby exist to do these for you. Create static pages that have repeatable components.

Pretending that none of these tools were created to actually solve a problem seems like you are ignoring what it's like to actually write a plain html/javascript website with any type of functioning UI.

Any form of website where you repeat components or interaction requires copying and pasting every time you edit 1 piece for every page or we use tools or server-side technology or frameworks to eliminate this.

If you wish to code in that style, in that world, or pick and choose what technology framework solves these problems (Rails, PHP) but complain out other frameworks that are front-end(React, Vue) then you seem to be closing your eyes to the full-stack development. Cause back-end programmers ran into these issues and solved them with templating engines themselves and now we are just doing that for front-end to solve the same issue.
Ah, you're right, my mistake. Apologies all.
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Ask HN: What are some good examples of personal websites (Software Engineers)?
I am trying to build my own website, and I would like to get a sense of what makes a good and a great personal website. I am intending to start blogging as well. While I use FB/Twitter to express my interest and opinion, I am willing to keep my blog as a space to showcase open source experiments. In this case, do you see it as a duplication (Open Source on Github with Readme file + blogpost on how to re-build things and lessons learnt ).

The idea behind the blog and the website is to find a new a job, so it would be a place to show what I am capable at. My interest and work is around data science and data engineering.

If you are a manager or recruiter, what do you want to see in a website when you hire a Software/Data Engineer ?
For me it was number 7. I fought with it for a number of years. I went on summer break one year around 8 or 9, came back and all my 7's were backwards again. Thing is I couldn't see it till the teacher pointed it out.
What are the biggest downsides, as you see it?
And they would have had much more money to invest if their income tax had been lower.

You don't seem to want to understand my point: Low taxes for investment benefits wealthy people disproportionately. Yes, lower income also get some benefit but the vast majority goes to the wealthy. Same for all the Republic "tax reform" proposals: A little tax cut for small incomes, large tax cut for high incomes.
Thanks for reference, just ordered the 2nd edition.

"Different dyslexics have different symptoms and experiences depending on what part of the pipeline is affected how"

One student that I worked with a couple of years ago talked of the words jumping and changing size on the stark white page. She had lilac coloured paper for handouts &c.

OA has been added to my teacher-training list of pages.
It's slightly related, and only to people with your specific use case.

The amount of people that would use "temporary bluetooth" is so small, that adding it would not be wise as it would confuse the majority of average users.

Most people that leave their bluetooth on do so because they have bluetooth headphones or devices they use regularly like their car stereo/phone link.

If you're worried about tracking or power consumption, turn your bluetooth off when you're not using it.

Trying to get the rest of the world to conform to your use case is not practical and would only introduce problems with little benefit.
Sorry, what about being a girl conveys unprofessionalism?
There are very few cases in practice where it's needed. The bigger issue is deciding what consistency semantics you _do_ want to have once you decide that strong isn't necessary. Every decision exposes another corner case where someone's application breaks.
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I also deploy to S3 largely for operational reasons — it costs nothing unless it's getting pretty significant traffic, and it easily scales up to handle ~infinite volume in case I'm not (unlike say running on Digital Ocean or something).

Another very nice piece of the puzzle is TLS certificate management using Amazon's ACM. It's no cheaper than Let's Encrypt, but it's a lot more convenient. You put it in place once, and you never have to touch it again — Amazon's engineers will deal with hiccups and bugs instead of you. It's no more convenient than CloudFlare, but I like to minimize the number of services my dependency graph.
I switched to using mutt with gmail and have never looked back. Mutt actually does a brilliant job of converting all html to plaintext.

Here's the entry that I wrote about it (includes my mutt config): https://smalldata.tech/blog/2016/09/10/gmail-with-mutt
Chargers are already described by Levels: Level 1 is wall-outlet 120, Level 2 is "dryer outlet" 240, Level 3+ is "super-charger"/CHaDeMO. Most car displays show estimated charging times for each level in one way or another.

"Refuel experience" is a red herring at best. Partly because the ubiquity of the electric grid means that you can charge anywhere: that's the subtle game changer that doesn't always come across when someone new to electric vehicles thinks about them. A Level 1 trickle charge while I'm asleep at home is plenty for my daily work commute. My car is parked nearly the same amount of time in my work parking lot: if the office park added a Level 1 or Level 2 charger next to the street lamp I park by I'd almost never need to charge at home.

Road trips are definitely the exception to the daily grind, and are the place where you really want a good "refuel experience". I think Tesla's superchargers fit that fine, but obviously there's a range currently to people's road trip experience. (90% of 300+ miles in 30 minutes; that's about my bladder range and 30 minutes is a light snack, a good stretch, and a brief glance at Twitter or a chapter of a good book.) It might get better than that as battery tech changes, but let's face it that we're at a good enough start now that we should stop dismissing electric cars because you don't think they have a "refuel experience".
That's true. In the past, however, they never had to deal with a new competitor as "cool" as Tesla.
I can't wait to see products like these spawn brand new professions like Email Summarizers to get the gist out of long threads, Department Librarians to organize and catalog discussions and events, and Communications Coordinators to train teams on more effective patterns of e-communication.

PMs unwittingly take all these roles today, but these tools will surely unlock further specialization.
Overexposing and underexposing (formally known as Bracketing) is typically a great technique in landscape photography too because it captures as much of the dynamic range as possible. Most DSLRs can bracket right out of the box. Set it up to take 3 exposures (1 underexposed, 1 normal and 1 overexposed) with about 2 or 3 stops in between. Then merge all 3 exposures in Photoshop and you'll get an image with a TON of information embedded in it for you to tweak in post-processing.

Also, while I have't tried this, I'd think that using an ND filter in light-polluted areas like this could help a little bit with astrophotography.
NOAA Hurricane hunters fly WP-3 Orions. https://www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/aircraft-operations/aircraft... USAF 53rd Weather Reconniassance Squadron fly WC-130s. http://www.militaryaircrafthistorian.com/53rd_wrs.html

Inside the eye can be calm, but the highest winds, wind shear, tornadoes, rainfall, and hail, are in the eye wall.
What is "pseudo ADHD"?
they could of responded, "no, random is uniform" (the answer to the written question) and that wouldn't of answered anything!
I don't need evidence to know that increasing return on investment stimulates investment. Some things are self-evident. I am giving the professor a D-.
Sure. That's why Magisk exists, right? Because OEMs have nothing against you rooting your device. At all. They are perfectly okay with it.

Please. Actions speak louder than words, I am sure you would agree with that.
By making either making the establishment embrace what are currently fringe ideas, or replacing the establishment entirely
Not that there aren't other signals, but iOS will periodically change your MAC address for privacy.

It's still good to keep WiFi and Bluetooth off for battery and security.
For anyone curious about how those Tektronix terminals rendered things (and never watched the original Battlestar Galactica), here is a demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYqXlsgo78
I think hiring sales is much more of a lottery than hiring engineers.
30 mil US accounts on FB were scraped using Mechanical Turk in an ingenious way. No hacking was required.

I don't think that for many it matters if their data was obtained through hacking or through legal means.

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/30/facebook-failed-to-prote...
Read up on the concept of "moral hazard." These temp companies are small entities, often run out of homes. If you go after them, they'll simply liquidate and fold up shop. Small entities have an advantage in highly regulated environments, because the most they can lose is 100% of their assets, while they stand to gain many multiples of that. Incorporation laws prevent owners from being liable for the debts of the corporation, in most cases, so in the event of a failure, the owners dust themselves off and move on to the next.

Large corporations love to outsource risky/dangerous/questionable activities to small firms who are willing to gamble.