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This is written in October. He's been living in the van since the middle of May. Basically late spring, summer and early autumn.

How is he going to feel after another 150 days? Camping in winter can be fun, but it's not warm. At all. Trying to work in a van when it's below freezing outside will be pretty hard work. I can't even type when the room drops below 15 degrees. Vans like the one he has are basically uninsulated steel boxes - they get cold pretty fast.
No, it's not something I worry about at all. I'd be interested to know why you think the education would be objectively lower.

I'm still living in a city, just a small one. Having checked Wikipedia, it tells me the population is officially 320k. There are six Universities and the city is UNESCO listed as a Cultural Heritage site. I just don't see this location disadvantaging my child. In fact, I think it's a location with a pretty good mix of culture and nature.

Nothing is perfect of course, but I think we're in a better position than if we'd stayed in London.

If we were to move back to the UK, I'd be looking at somewhere like Cambridge or Edinburgh perhaps.
I don't get why Houston wants to spend $400M on a reservoir. Sure they need a reservoir, but they need all of the other stuff too. Perhaps if they had $4B budget, they could actually fix everything that needs to be fixed.

Houston needs to get to the point that they can handle 60+ inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Token efforts might keep their budget balanced and the voters appeased until the next election, but they're getting 100 year storms so frequently now, they'll have to stop calling them that.

Climate change is great and all, but even if you sharply cut carbon emissions today, it would take a years before 100 years storms went back to their previous frequency.
CppCast episode:

http://cppcast.com/2017/04/sara-chipps/
He is in a van. I guess he can just drive south.
That's true, but why did Silicon Valley pick that shtick when other industries don't seem to except maybe when they're trying to greenwash.
When stuff like this happen I wonder if we can try to trick the system, overloading it with information, faking things. Couldn't we just somehow make sure we are online all the time (some script pinging the app), then the data would become meaningless..
I don't think somebody would intentionally use Wix to inflate their payload.
Anbox.io is in its infancy - run Android apps in an LXC container.
Holy cow. What happened to your social life, if I may ask? Friends, family. How do you maintain your relationships?
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Why? Here's a <1k site that accomplishes the same thing: https://reinefjord.github.io/peopledontscroll-lite/
Not sure where are you from but in Europe many cities smaller than the one parent settled in have their own universities and significant cultural scene... Basel, Perugia, Lille, Salzburg are some examples of cities with less than 250k residents where you would have all of the above.
Weird gender divide? They are operating within social norms so it isn't a divide or weird to most people.
I've noticed that I'm unable to select text in facebook posts in the browser on my phone. Quite irritating.
Electromagnetic compatibility, come and see
I'll probably spend the winter down in southern Portugal/Spain where temperatures are around 15 degrees in average during the winter. I've also installed an old heating that works with Diesel and electricity. But yes, summer life is easy and I'm looking forward to experience my first winter in the van.

BTW: I bought the van in February and already worked and slept in the van while it was freezing cold: https://ruby-on-wheels.github.io/blog/the-first-ride/ it was ok.
I'm also pretty curious about the costs.
The restoration work they did was amazing http://www.fortgeblasen.at/material/Englisch/pdf_english/res...
Bacteria are already working devices.
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Enjoyed the movie based on the novel as well.
Of course the tests are tested – by the code they're covering, which is also covered by other tests.
Ok, here one of those nomads for already mmm... 12 years?

Not all of us want to escape. We just want to see the world and learn. I grew up in a small town, I dont have a place I could call home apart the earth...

On the other hand, I know there is an increase of people that want to escape, but maybe they have a reason to do it. City life is not for everyone. Many of us want to have a slower life, cherishing small things in nature and learn about the world directly, without intermediaries.

And I dont think is about struggling with the high competition or have a cheaper life somewhere else. Some of us just prefer to have a different life style. Some people chose to have 2 cars, a house and lots of stuff inside, some others just prefer to have only one backpack with their belongings in it and move slowly around the world...
Another great sandboxing capability added to systemd, and as easily employed as a single flag:

IPAddressDeny=any

What I enjoy about systemd is the fact that I can employ capabilities like this with any process on the system using only a line of configuration. FTA:

> It's a simple way to lock down distribution/vendor supplied system services by default. For example, if you ship a service that you know never needs to access the network, then simply set IPAddressDeny=any (possibly combined with IPAddressAllow=localhost) for it, and it will live in a very tight networking sand-box it cannot escape from. systemd itself makes use of this for a number of its services by default now. For example, the logging service systemd-journald.service, the login manager systemd-logind or the core-dump processing unit systemd-coredump@.service all have such a rule set out-of-the-box, because we know that neither of these services should be able to access the network, under any circumstances.
The very definition of the word "innovative" is "featuring new methods, both advanced and original." If Apple has been able to best everyone at their best feature, then, by definition, AirPods are innovative since they do things that nobody else has ever been able to do before, right?
The best litmus test is "is telling which document was earlier helping in
anything?", because this is precisely what blockchain is solving.
Maybe we need nullable checkboxes; so you have to explicitly make a choice either way, rather than leaving things to default.

- If you have to opt in, most people won't bother as it's not of direct benefit to them (even though overall it's beneficial to the community the more people who do opt in).

- If you have to opt out, people will complain even where the option's made explicitly clear (i.e. where it's not an attempt at being devious / a deliberate dark pattern).

Admittedly then people complain that they have to make a choice / can't just install-and-go... :/.
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My Excel 2010 doesn't execute shell code from author's example. Heck, it doesn't even parse CSV and loads everything into one column as text. What am I doing wrong?
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>No, but I would expect you to read the release announcements. [2]

Yeah, well...where is it?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/08/14/announcin...

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/2.0...

Or do you seriously expect me to read every beta/RC release note of versions I won't ever use for elementary issues like this?
What are Google's rules about names? Only difference I can see here is the fake one is called "AdBlock" and the real one "Adblock".

Is changing the case of one letter enough to get an extension into the Chrome store? Or even worse are overlapping names allowed?
The applications that are communicating either have to agree on the types in advance or they have to use an interchange format that makes it explicit. If your applications don't both know the types in advance then you shouldn't be using CSV.
I think it's really sad and pathetic that someone can enjoy such a simple, non consumerist based life. How are you supporting the global economy? How are you proving that you are worthy? This sounds like homelessness to me. Without a home, are you really a worthwhile human being deserving of a mate? I don't think so. Unless you shop and own, man, you don't really exist.
> It's very easy to socialize with travelers: they invite your for dinner right away. Sometimes you even don't have to approach them actively. I've also spent a couple of weeks with the same people and we had dinner together every evening. Once you life in a van you often meet people who do the same. So basically you have friends near by.

To expand on this based on my and my parents experiences, we have friends from ~10-15 years ago when they were full time RVers that we still stay in contact with. They often go travel around the US and meet/stay with them.

I try to make it a point to remember that, regardless of who people are or how you meet them, you never know when you're going to make a lasting friendship. I think, paradoxically, it's sometimes easier to make friends in a situation where everyone doesn't have high expectations.

Also we made acquaintance with a guy who traveled with an entire array of fantastically high quality whisk(e)y. Yes, we did stay a little longer there as a result, and yes, it was totally worth it.
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> I expect someone who cares about telemetry to search for it. It is well publicised, discussed, and available

I missed it, maybe I was on holidays at the time or just missed the headline, unfortunately I'm quite fallible.

> There is a telemetry warning when first using the tool.

This is assuming it was run manually, by a user at the command prompt and that it wasn't buried in thousands of lines of output. Those are all false assumptions. If I set makeprg to "dotnet build" in vim for instance, I'm only going to see filtered output (compile errors). Visual studio and other tools will also hide a lot of the raw output.

> No, but I would expect you to read the release announcements

Silly me trusted them, lesson learned.
I think FreeBSD’s capability to run Linux binaries predates even lx branded zones in Solaris 10.
The problem isn't with CSV, it is with spreadsheet applications.
Johannesburg is Afrika's most visited city
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Just my two cents but there are a lot of people who don't have problem with competition in these big cities (can outcompete majority of people and are top 1% earners in NYC/SF/London etc) but they don't find the office/corporate/busy life fulfilling so they decide to go and travel around or work remotely for few years.

I know couple of people like that. Just to make a point your argument about these people trying to escape because they can't make it in a big city is not necessarily true. At least not universally true, there might be people that fit your description.
Ah, gotcha. I think I’ve been getting by with Firebase transactions for counters and db rules for complex authorization. Firebase doesn’t have columns.

Can you share a specific use case that’s difficult to accomplish in FB?
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Chrome's T-Rex game hosted on IPFS
Lot of top universities around Europe are in smallish cities (200-300k people). I don't know why you think top universities are only in London/Berlin/Paris. That's not true at all, especially in Europe. Not sure about US.
The people who are going to say "well if he had dropped out he might've been bill gates, instead of just running an RND department at IBM" are not going to change their mind if you had shown them data.
A bit of a tangent, but evidence such as this makes me fear the trend towards greater centralization and globalization of powers. In other words, it's not just that there are obvious benefits to competition, it's probably true that we need it to progress.
metro/winrt -> uwp wasn't really an overhaul, it was just a new name for the next version of the same thing more or less.
Some MBAs caution against it because they BUY software businesses or programming services. If you know how to write software you can start them and fail quick with so little risk.

I have worked on about 20 projects between $100,000 and $3,000,000 where the primary stakeholders felt that writing a check was enough to run a software company. Like somehow buying bespoke software creation was like buying a used Honda and the key will just start it later if you ever get it out of the garage. A buddy of mine describes the trap as "It's easy to imagine, so I imagine it's easy."

By contrast I've seen non-technical guys with $30,000 take an interest in the work and not just listen to the creators, but inspire creativity, turning that to millions.

I've seen some developers deploy a beloved idea how like OP sold $20 chicken and are surprised when no one gives a shit. If you polish your turd like Duke Nukem Forever or Chinese Democracy, you might not get the response you want and it misses the utility we have in software to engage quickly while correcting course to get the thing on it's feet.
Nokia pulls back on VR and axes 310 jobs
Prisons like that are only possible in countries with a high percentage of tax paying citizens as is the case in Norway. Here in Africa there is simply no money for that.
Estimating the gravitational waves of a home run
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Hi!

Happy to finally show you our new tool BotEngine, which is now integrated with LiveChat. BotEngine is a tool that lets you build your own chatbot and integrate it with communication channels you're using. Over 21k companies using LiveChat are now able to use chatbots in their work - it's a pretty big step for the customer service business.
Picking a less-common separator might help but you could also just follow RFC 4180 and quote fields that have commas then double any single quotes in values.
The desktop ship certainly has sailed - it's lost the home market as people use phones and tablets now.

> And on Android and ChromeOS, it isn't exposed to user space, so kind of irrelevant

Sure, and I can run Windows applications on Wine, so Windows is kind of irrelevant. Don't be silly.

> The only place where Linux really made it, was replacing expensive proprietary UNIX servers with free (gratis) clone.

Except you're forgetting that these expensive UNIX servers were supposed to be replaced by Windows NT (later Windows Server) machines. So you'd have Windows at every level and could hire a point-and-grunt "sysadmin" to run it all at a much lower TCO. That's the grand vision that we've been spared.

And you forgot about the embedded market. Hell, my TV runs Linux and I didn't even know (my wife chose it) until I was poking about in the menus and found a copy of the GPL. And you also omitted Cloud Servers, where Linux is hugely dominant. Oh, and Supercomputing where 499 of the Top500 Supercomputer run Linux.

But yeah, apart from embedded, phones, tablets, laptops, servers, cloud servers and supercomputers...what has Linux ever done for us?
I'll probably steal your comment and use it for a blog post. With credits of course. :P
> he changed the meaning of the equals sign.

Into what?
From what I have read, margins are so thin in the restaurant business that doing an energy audit and tightening up costs that way can be the difference between running in the red and profitability. That doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room for a greenhorn to learn the ropes, to figure out this isn't working and pivot, etc. I imagine that's part of why franchises are so popular in this space.
I am quite a successful active investor (sorry for the lack of modesty).

What I look for is:

1. Small companies (none of the serious big guys look at small companies so you have a chance);

2. and are doing some real and valuable;

3. and are being ignored because the past management were terrible, but where the current management has nothing to do with the old management (reverse takeover, backdoor listings, etc).

On point 3 I am amazed how many investors treat companies like people. They will continue to punish a company for the sins of the past even when everyone involved is different.
What I find missing, compared to back-in-the-day, is the _maturity_ of that ecosystem.

Win32 has warts on warts, but around the year 2000 the MS development space was a monoculture and the COM-to-GUI story was increasingly mature and integrated.

.Net came along and, on the one hand, positioned MS to be a whole different kind of tool provider (F# on dotnet core on linux in kuberernetes is niiiiice), but they also lost a few hundred man-years worth of local improvements to their platform. This without providing a credible replacement for Win32 ensuring it would be around for decades.

That fracture fractured again with XAML, again losing tons of maturity, and then fractured even further with the UWP/Silverlight/Metro/WhoKnows. I've never been a bigger fan of MS's product line, but can't justify or defend using much on the client other than html for fancy things or standard winforms for deployability.
Babysitters generally don't need to manage more 15 children all at once (none of which are related or have known each other for a very long time), in a setting that is not their home, for longer periods of time than they are with their families, for the purpose of education and not play.

There are transferrable skills, but they're transferrable in the way that making buildings out of LEGO is transferrable to building actual buildings. There are large differences and a whole host of other challenges.

[I'm not a teacher, but I have a few friends that are teachers or training to be teachers.]
Hey!

> How much was the initial cost of the van?

I bought the van for 7.000 Euro.

> How did you maintain your internet connection?

I'm working with 4G. Works perfect all most everywhere in Europe! I use a pre-paid Italian SIM-Card that I can use all over Europe. It costs me 9 Euros for 20 GB. I usually need around 30 to 50 GB a month. So it's roughly 20 Euros per month.

You can read more about the technical setup here: https://ruby-on-wheels.github.io/blog/turning-my-van-into-a-...

> What would you say is the biggest struggle?

I'm currently in Madrid. Living the van life in big cities is more challenging. Especially if you don't want to stay in the suburbs. I plan to write a article about my city experiences in Madrid soon.
Do you think the insurance risk to your friend's company would be mitigated by automating parts of the labor? I've always wondered where a construction company would stand on this topic. On the one hand, there's a fear of replacing the human labor, especially when you have close relationships with your employees and they have a specialized skillset or trade. On the other hand, it seems like workers compensation and accident insurance are really substantial costs and appreciable risks for these companies.
No I can’t imagine all the nice places full of parked vans with programmers working/living there all the time. Go hermit somewhere else
What is the general direction of packet filtering in Linux - it seems that it is nftables vs ebpf/XDP at this point. In fact https://lwn.net/Articles/609571/

>There was "a brawl" at the workshop about possibly replacing the nftables virtual machine with eBPF, but there is one major show-stopper in any such plan: nftables allows partial replacement of a firewall configuration, while eBPF, in its current form, would not.

Cloudflare, Netflix, Facebook, etc are all using eBPF via XDP https://www.iovisor.org/technology/ebpf

eBPF and XDP are supported seamlessly on kernel 4.12 and later.
FreeBSD and Illumos have always seemed to be good friends rather than competitors in the operating system landscape. Not only do you rarely hear something bad said about the other from the communities, but there is a healthy level of respect and cross-pollination going on.

...

It is refreshing to see such cooperation in an otherwise extremely competitive field. This fantastic attitude inspires us.

We are truly lucky and blessed to have the people in the FreeBSD community as friends.

It is a great time to be a part of both communities and have such advanced techologies at our collective disposal.

The future is bright indeed. There are no two platforms I’d rather be on than SmartOS and FreeBSD. Thank you dear friends for everything you’ve done.
I tried this around SF Bay Area. Unfortunately SF isn't as van-friendly as I would have liked, and the high crime rate and high rate of break-ins left me less than desiring to stay in SF. Had a friend successfully camp out in East Bay, but got sick of it.

I moved down to Redwood City but the cops basically harassed me, and treated me like a criminal. I finally would park in my van outside of Social Capital in Palo Alto.

Palo Alto remains a legal place to live the van life. You'll also meet a bunch of other van dwellers from tech companies around there. There is even a couple of secret facebook groups for nerds working/living out of their van in and around SF/BA.
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Wow what a miracle who could have seen this coming -_-. It is an absolute mistery to me how a county this big still runs a prison system that is so obviously dysfunctional.
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But different people are accepting of different tastes and even those change with age, what people accept as nice smelling/tasting food can be quite subjective because the very same smell can be overpowering to some while appealing to others.

How to calibrate a sensor for something like that on a per user basis? I don't know, but apparently it's possible because "electronic noses" do exist but are mostly used in laboratory settings, probably on account of their price.

There's also a reason why we still use pigs and dogs for work that require good smelling senses, like search&rescue or truffle foraging. Training these animals is very expensive, but it still seems to be the cheaper option compared to building "smellobots", so I doubt smelling sensor are far enough along to be put into a ton of kitchen bots at small cost.
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You assert forcefully, but I think there are problems with what you say: firstly there is no guarantee that we would spend the money saved on global warming on those other things that you list; secondly it's false to assert that we have to choose between those things and fixing global warming; thirdly efforts to fix global warming could have benefits of their own including in some of the areas that you list, i.e. malaria is likely to increase due to rises in temperature, efficiency measures and reductions in consumption could help cure pollution problems.
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What a great game but it lacks a proper end (bugs arise all over the screen).
Why should vacuum expand?

Is it due to gravity of the filament molecules pulling those molecules together into larger 'strings' or 'planes' which leave 'holes'? Or some other mechanism?
In my country, a public school from 5th largest city, with population of less than 100k, routinely makes it into top-3 high schools. It gets worse only when population is < 10k or so and can't fill a full-blown school. On the other hand, quite a few schools in big cities are notoriously shitty...