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I have no paranoid browser settings (i.e. JS still is enabled), only an ad blocker, and yet all I get is

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dhtiece9044ep.cloudfront.net
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d1muf25xaso8hp.cloudfront.net

Even from sites with ad blocker blocker have I ever seen such a failure to even load the page at all.
He's not promising it. Despite the optimistic language, its a somewhat-realistic dream that he'd like to do and plans to work on. At least that seems obvious to me.
> Humanity will stand through this.

Or not. What if the Great Filter isn't a nuclear war but collapse of ability to tell truth from falsehood? To tell reality from fake images and videos?
Same. It’s the reason I own a house now (cash for 30% down payment in overheated market), and retirement savings are also pretty healthy due to cashing out company stock as soon as it vests.

Also means I can walk any time I want, most I’d lose out on was next year’s RSUs.
Lack of paper books is killing the African programmer
I feel that I would be waiting in the queue to buy a GPU to expand my own brain someday.
>Plumbing work

Done some of that.

>electrical work

How often is this needed? Unless your house is so old and not up to code...? To give you an idea, I lived in a place for 2 decades and it never needed electrical work.

>trees that need trimming

It's your property - you control how many trees and how big. If it's too costly just get rid of them. Having said that, I just trimmed two trees on my property over a month ago. An hour or two of work and the right tool. Of course, if my trees were much bigger I'd have to pay someone.

BTW, I did not assume yard work as part of the amount per month. Of course, everything (including HOA, yard, etc) needs to be factored in, but I thought you were talking only about maintenance of the house.

>kitchen or bathroom remodels

How often? My house is almost 20 years old and I can see it going at least another 20 years before any such work is needed.

>painting

I assume you mean exterior? I guess - how much you need depends on the type of house. Mine uses vinyl sidings - no paint needed. But yes, you need to paint a few other parts. For my house, this is once every so many years - and the estimate I got was under $1000.

>replacing windows and doors

20 years old and look like new - I think mine will last another decade or two.

>furnace work including annual cleaning

I get my furnace tuned every year - costs $85. I included that in my estimate of less than $130/mo. Don't forget water heater maintenance too!

As I said, I'm not pulling numbers out of nowhere. I actually did this analysis some months ago. I have all the numbers on how much I've spent repairing stuff and maintenance in my software. I added it all up and calculated the number I gave you. It was actually $100/mo, but since then I think I've replaced two appliances so I bumped it up to $130 (total cost of the appliances + install is under $1000 - divide it up by 48 months I've lived there).
I think a lot of it is NodeJS settling on its standard library a bit ahead of the larger language ecosystem itself. Promises were standardized shortly after Node bumbled into a callback-heavy design. The efforts on the ES2015 Module syntax occurred after Node settled for "CommonJS" which wasn't all that common at the time.

Node's HTTP library as a specific example, particularly suffers from callbacks instead of promises. It also suffers here in that it also predates the Fetch standard making its way into browsers now.

Hopefully the Node standard library will continue to converge with the overall JS ecosystem and catch up to the work that the Browsers have been leading here.
I'm all for transparency. To me, AI feels like another avenue in which those who are truly engaged in their jobs will excel and those who aren't will get found out. In most cases, I think AI will be a rising tide that lifts all ships and it's smarter to start figuring out how it works for your business now rather than scrambling to catch up when it inevitably becomes the "norm."
If I was douchie enough - I am working on p2p internetless cryptocurrency transfers and distributed ID. Otherwise it would be antiphishing, improved open source debuggers, and RISCV implementations.
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Meditation Could Help Anxiety and Cardiovascular Health
Merchants using Facebook (among other places) to broker fake Amazon reviews
Pure async/await does not allow to track any contextual state - like current transaction/request.
Great tips. I love Bubble. I think they are onto something good.
For decoding serial one of those $5 logic analyzers is more than sufficient, you don't really need an oscilloscope at all. I don't really like using protocol decoding on my scope unless I need to correlate timing with an analog signal because it's tedious to set up and use for a simple digital signal.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Arrival-USB-Logic-Analyz...
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I think these people will find life tremendously boring post work. If your work is drudgery, then sure, retire early. But if you enjoy it, why the hell would you give that up to live a life of poverty?
> They've been trying the "let end users code in an impoverished pseudo programming language" for a long time and at best it only ever takes over small niche.

Exactly. Creating a "simpler programming" for business users, in the end, only creates a 2nd language the IT staff has to support. Even getting business users updating something as simple as a quality CMS is an uphill slog.
This looks amazing and exactly what I want if I didn't suck with vim.
High frequency trading. Built enough of a nest egg (probably < 5MM) at age of 30 and will go off to pursue his own goals. Before you think that "talent was wasted on a zero-sum game", keep in mind that the rest of my peers in the same age group are likely to be working even more inconsequential desk jobs while paying off mortgages for the rest of their lives.
Gnome jumps back to my last application with alt-tab. Pretty sure most desktops do.
Now everybody will be able to create convincing fakes. That's not continuous progress, that's a phase change.
I guess that is fair. But as someone who works in software, the obligation to work has never loomed over me, because I always have extra money, and I know that I can quit my job and find a new one if I want. So I don't understand fixating on early retirement as a top priority.

I understand that not everyone is in my situation though, and not everyone has the same motivations as me. I just think that living extremely frugally in your twenties is kind of a waste of your twenties.
> aren't very many coloured people

Highly recommend using "people of colour," instead.
Weird...

https://support.google.com/chat/?hl=en

"Goodbye Google Chat

Google Chat was officially shut down on June 26, 2017. To continue chatting and video calling, try Hangouts. Learn more about Hangouts.

Google Chat, the simple Google Talk chat experience in Gmail, launched in 2005. In 2013, we began replacing Google Chat with Hangouts, while still giving users the option to continue using Google Chat.

Hangouts offers advanced improvements over Google Chat such as group chat, Android and iOS apps, group video calling, and integration with other Google products."
The ThreadPool class picks a sane default (number of cores), but I believe it uses Python threads instead of processes.
I usually want to reserve the noun like "author" as the embedded record after a join. That way "author_id" is always the key and then "author" is the json_agg joined object that embeds the whole record.

Otherwise you're actually introducing ambiguity imo.
Yeah I dont see that either, maybe you can retire in Costa rica or something but its still cutting it close.
Interestingly, the term "font" itself came from the fact that typefaces were cast.

"Font" originally described a size, weight, and face. It no longer includes a concept of size, because digital typesetting allows sizes to be changed so easily. What we refer to as a "font" today was originally referred to as a "typeface," that is, the general style of the lettering.
That could be it. Like him, I didn't run into that abbreviation for my first 20 years of coding. It wasn't until I needed to do a dual English/Czech project that it came up.

We're always learning.
Yet people still insist on using Chrome as their web browser.
>> then annuities wouldn't be a thing.

Annuities are not pensions. They pay fixed amounts based on some interest rate. The difference is in the lifetime of the beneficiary. We all die eventually, normally befor hitting 100. Short of magic, that isn't going to change much.

The difference with a defined benefit retirement plan is that the cost of benefits can rise drastically. Look at the difference in the cost of health care today and in 1960.
orclev law :)
I think you overestimate people. We DO want to be pranked. We want to believe powdered rhino horn will cure impotence, we want to believe the Moon landings were faked, we want to believe in that Florida property we purchased sight unseen, we want to believe our grandparents are in the afterlife. And we will damn sure want to believe in videos of despised evil politicians biting the heads off fetuses they ripped out of the womb with their bare hands.

In some respects lies are easier to believe than the truth because they don't rely on facts at all.
That's my point. And while niche, the niche is enormous and important. Spreadsheets are a huge success in domain-specific programming for everyone.
While I'm sure that some people are trying to retire early because they hate working, others are doing so because they love freedom. Speaking for myself, I spent about a year travelling, and found it very hard to go back to a full-time job. So for me, a job is a way to buy freedom / quality of life, and the FIRE folks are just compiling a list of ways to get the best exchange rate.

It also doesn't hurt that if you save up enough money to retire, then realize you want to continue working, you're not exactly in a bad place.
Tulian: Insights from Tuples and Lists, Using Comprehensions
No, it’s just SQL statements pulling data into the if...then in your preferred language. I’ve never done actual logic with SQL, not even sure if it’s possible.
BeOS absolutely did not have a microkernel; all the hardware drivers, filesystem interfaces, and lowest-level network protocols ran in ring 0.
This was my first thought. Although, they were also exposed to enormously high levels of lead just walking around outside because of leaded gasoline.
Is the code for this open source?
exactly. You are trading one job ( the job ) for another ( constantly trying to live frugally ). Just get a job you like - voila, problem solved.
Wouldn't have access to MAC addresses.

Geo IP location is possible but unlikely: the location was very precise and accurate, and I would assume Verizon (wasn't on wifi) wouldn't be handing out IPs with that level of specificity.

Plus it only ever happened that once.
Wait, microG does this stuff too? Or did you mean OpenGApps?
Geo IP location is possible but unlikely: the location was very precise and accurate, and I would assume Verizon (wasn't on wifi) wouldn't be handing out IPs with that level of specificity.

Plus it only ever happened that once.
What would you advise looking into in regards to formal methods? Any particular software, books, or talks?
Degradation Through Work – E.M. Cioran (1934)
I’m giving you my numbers as well. I haven’t kept close track but with big projects—which have included improvements—it’s been something more than $1k per month. But then it’s 200 years old and was in serious maintenance debt when I bought it.
This is a common question, but as a person of color, I would push back on it - this question has the effect of adding more work on the backs of the marginalized, underrepresented, and oppressed to educate you.

My personal answer would be to ask that you read, make it a habit to educate yourself before relying on the labor of people of color, and keep an open mind whenever you have kneejerk responses to anything racially charged.
Let me be clear: hallow retirement plans really grind my gears. So much so that I strongly believe they should be illegal, either offer a real retirement plan or don't offer one at all. Minimum employer contributions should absolutely be mandatory.

I also think that IRA and 401(k) contribution limits should be combined, so none of this "$5,500 IRA limit and $18,500 401(k) limit," it should be "$24,000 combined 401(k)/IRA limit."

I was just saying that if you are young and have $10,000 a year to save for retirement you are better off, from a tax perspective, saving $5,500 into an IRA and $4,500 in your hallow 401(k) rather than saving $5,500 into an IRA and $4,500 in your Fidelity brokerage account. That's it.
Overbooking doesn't seem to be a problem in Europe. In hundreds of flights I've never missed one because of overbooking and I don't know of anyone else missing one either. In the same time I've had 3-4 flights cancelled or rescheduled due to weather or mechanical issues.

The queues or electronic waiting lists for standby seats (people at the gate who aren't yet confirmed on this flight) are something I notice when travelling in the US that I don't really see in Europe.
I think we have evidence that 12 characters is where should start the <first-letter><N><N><last-letter> shortening.
Their sun-tan, their golf swing, and their fly-casting.
Pensions are cheaper than 401(k) accounts. I will say it again, this is simple actuarial math: Pensions are cheaper than 401(k)s.
Three reasons: 1. Some people will die before they collect, others will live far longer. With a pension the former subsidize the latter, and everyone who needs income gets it. In a 401(k) everyone has to save like they're going to live forever, or risk running out of money. If you keep your withdrawal rate at 4%, you probably could live forever, but that means you need 25 times your salary saved. Twenty five years salary! A pension does not need nearly the same level of assets.

2. A pension can ride out a "bad" market because some people are paying in while others are paying out. In a 401(k) if you retired in 2009, you took a lifetime hit, even with a balanced portfolio. And you can get hit by a bad market and a long life at the same time!

3. Individual investors are morons. They buy overpriced funds and do a lousy job managing them. I am a moron, but at least I know it and invest accordingly. Vanguard did a huge study of all their individual retirement accounts, and number of trades that produced the best return was: zero. Every trade you make (statistically) is buying high and selling low. Pension managers aren't perfect, but they pay attention to expenses and don't chase the latest hot stock. Therefore you need much less of a contribution to fund a pension.

It depends on how you assess these factors, but Joey Schmoe is going to have to save 15% or more of her salary to get the same retirement security as a pension contribution of 10%. A pension is only unaffordable if those contributions aren't made, and then a wave of retirements sets off an unsustainable withdrawal. But that's not a feature of defined benefit vs. defined contribution, rather it's governments who use shady accounting rather than making a small contribution annually.

When you add in the fact that almost everyone who contributes to 401(k)s is well-off (half the population doesn't even have access), it is hard to imagine a method that is less likely to lead to comfortable retirements.
As a business model I think SpaceX should be a manufacturer and not in the transportation business akin to Boeing or Airbus. There is a ton of logistics involved in transporting people globally. Of course there is the safety issues as well.
From anecdotal experience it seems to me that high intelligence has a strong correlation with emotional instability, which in turn often manifests in the form of substance abuse.
Using a 180 nm process, this isn't going to outperform an FPGA at 14 nm either on clock rate or power. And the iteration time will be several weeks instead of minutes. So I'm curious what use cases this will have -- maybe something that doesn't fit into the FPGA mold like asynchronous logic?
See: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/875bu4/goog...
Exactly. Everyone craps all over LBO deals and complains when the funds earn huge payouts.

Well, they earn huge payouts because of the risk involved, which is plainly clear in this case.
I think you will find in your 50s finding those jobs will get harder.

30s seems pushing it for no reason but by 50 it is quite nesc.
Well as I said it takes extremely intricate and not all that well performing SQL to perform signal processing and latent trend analysis, as it's not really designed with matrix multiplication or iterative transformation. So anything with noise, seasonality, ARIMA etc shouldn't be done in SQL, it should be done in a proper ML tool, because 99% of the time your developer will miss something and you'll improperly assign value to something that is in fact no pattern at all.

You can't recreate the Netflix Prize in SQL, you can't really do NLP, you can't do pretty much any clustering or unsupervised learning. Again, "can't" meaning "can't do it easily or in a sustainable manner (i.e. shouldn't.)"

And if we add in AI, I don't need to explain that SQL has no abilities to generate new content - it can't write a new song or headline, understand context and provide feedback, or drive a car.

Now what OP is arguing is that you can get a lot of lift with SQL and basic exploratory data analysis and I totally agree. But ML can take you further out into the speculative realm and can work on a much less explicit and prescriptive model than SQL.

Basically in SQL if you don't write it (whatever it is, a pattern, an anomaly, a correlation, a context) in your query you will never learn a single thing about it.
Is there not a chain of trust here that can be enforced with fairly simple technology. And then the trust in the technology is something like a "kite mark" - a global standard of handling video content.

Let's take a simple example - I am a journalist who videos Obama talking. My raw video footage is tagged in each frame with a hash of the pixels in the frame. then I process the video, making linear cuts etc.

If i publish the whole lot as a package, anyone else can come along and rerun the processing and check the hashes match up.

This should be decentralisable and scalable. and we just have to get used to clicking the kitemark to check if anyone has verified the process or even run it ourselves.

one could imagine a cottage industry of verifiers
I think there is something huge in being able to not work. That necessity is very binding.

Can you quit your job for 2 years to study AI and change fields and earn more money and get a more rewarding job? (not you specifically, just an example). The constant nagging of rent, then work + strees and then spending to relieve that stress has something rotten at its core, and its that its aimless.

Fire is a way to cope with that dynamic.
Yes, let's perhaps create a law forcing everyone to provide Facebook with some more of their (meta)data /s

Perhaps in some utopia, where we could force Facebook to sell WhatsApp and have it be managed instead as a non-profit sponsored by our benevolent world government...
I know a family who has been doing it for 10+ years, and they publish their budget online. It can be done!

With that said, our actual income will be ~7x our budget, so there’s plenty of cushion.
> Hmm, here in Europe were I live 27C would be considered a rather pleasant temperature.

There are many factors that influence how tolerable the heat is - low humidity and the presence of a breeze can make a huge difference on how tolerable 27C is.
SpaceX plans to refuel the BFR on Mars with methane and oxygen produced via the Sabatier process and electrolysis [1]. They might do the same thing on Earth, even if only for the bragging rights of being carbon neutral.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Manufacturin...
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This was happening in SF in November, 2017.

https://sanfranciscopolice.org/article/sfpd-issues-warning-t...

Does anyone else find it troubling that scammers and spammers using spoofed calling numbers are doing to the voice phone system what spammers did to email, and before that, to NNTP? (The "Green Card" spam was 24 years ago.)
OpenGApps is Google Play Services, the only thing open about it is the script to get Google's Apps.

I meant MicroG, it is documented on their site (see the link).
I don't get it. Because only a sizable percentage of visits come from desktop browsers instead of most/all of them, then it doesn't make sense to improve things for them?

Bizarre reasoning.
This injunction doesn't really scale across a team.

I've spent weeks of my life tuning SQL, to the point of writing SQL generation libraries to effectively override the database optimizer when it consistently makes poor decisions in specific use cases. But I don't expect the rest of the team to know SQL as well as I do.

When I'm writing or generating SQL, I don't really care much what the naming convention is. If it's consistent, then SQL is easier to write. Consistency is more important than the specifics of any conventions.
> "Boise engineers make $85k and SF engineers make $145k"

if you click on the Boise link you provided and change the city to SF without making any other changes, it shows about $125k, not $145k. 145 is if you add "senior" to the title.

I haven't checked Pittsburgh, and I'm not trying to make an exhaustive list. Just making a more general point -- run the numbers for yourself, based on your specific offers and your specific needs. Because you might find that you personally can make >140k in SF and <85k in Pittsburgh and won't come close to making that up from taxes and CoL. Someone else might find they can make 140k in SF and 120k in some other city and easily make up the difference through taxes and CoL.
Did a little googling. Methane is primarily obtained from natural gas fields which are below ground. Atmospheric concentrations are relatively low (on order of parts per billion) although it is still an important greenhouse gas (30x more potent than CO2 per ton). There's a lot of ongoing research into generating CH4 from CO2 using renewable energy but it's relatively energy intensive to date.