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Just an anecdote

I live in SF and it has plenty to do. But last night despite aching to get out of the house I couldn’t.

I don’t have a ton of friends out here and the ones I have are frequently busy with their own projects/life

The typical offered advice is join meetups to meet new people, but a search of meetups going on last night were only for events where you drink heavily (a weekly beer pong tournament for backpackers, that I’ve been to twice only to find it’s a huge rip off and nobody shows up) or for niche groups I don’t fall into (LGBTQA+, Elderly, meetups for specific racial groups)

Every now and then I’ll go out anyway, just go to a bar and see what happens, and maybe 30% of the time I’ll meet cool people, but those relationships never blossom. I’ll text them after and then later in the week to hang that next weekend, and lo and behold they’re busy

I do clubs/exercise classes during the week, but so far, those haven’t blossomed into outside of club/class relationships. Every now and then I’ll ask if it feels right.

My roommates are cool and my age, but much more of the “finance bro” type. I don’t mind that so every now and then I’ll suggest we grab a beer or watch basketball (they’re really into the Warriors) but they usually pass. I think they can tell I’m not quite like them.

In terms of dating, dating in SF is kind of a crap shoot, What with there being something like 2 guys for every girl out here (thank you tech), but when I do get a match on tinder and go on a date it usually goes well, then we’ll go on a few more then I inevitably end up ghosted, or call it off if it’s not working from the other end

Loneliness exists inspite of our efforts not because of it.

I’ve been in this city for over a year now, and despite all of the effort, my friend group hasn’t grown
12 years ago I could code on a side project 8 hours straight. It was fun and exciting. 6 years ago I could do that, but with less frequency. Today its a rare thing that I can even sit down and get in 4 hours in. My computer is littered with barely started projects and a few projects sitting around 50%-90% completed.

The last side project I was able to hammer out was a thin API wrapper that I open sourced to github. It only took about 4 hours to code. It's a piece of a bigger project I am working on. Maybe thats a possible solution? Breaking your bigger project into smaller chunks?
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> the correct way to prepare for deflation is to have liquid, cash assets

I agree that we're more likely to struggle with deflation and stagnation, and holding cash is the textbook response.

But in the last 10 years of ZIRP, cash underperformed every major asset class -- stocks, bonds, real estate, fine art, private businesses, precious metals, cryptocurrencies, even rare books [1].

Cash was the worst place to be.

We can blame it on QE, but policymakers will do infinite QE before they'll allow asset prices to fall very far.

So I'm not sure the textbook response is valid in the world we actually inhabit.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/10/index-reveals-...
> "All right!"

It isnt exceptional to ask for a source, no need for sarcasm.

> "I'm curious why you felt that such a hostile response was justified. You could have just said "I'd like to see a source for that" and I would happily have provided."

There was nothing hostile about it, just facts. Making those posts without sources is worse than useless if your goal is really to convince people you are correct.

> "Did you really think I was just making up lies, and would slink away in defeat when challenged?"

No, I wanted to see where you were getting these ideas. Now I know...

I can tell right away that none of those sources are going to contain enough info to really tell how those conclusions were drawn but nevertheless, can you extract the most relevant quotes from each and attach to your claims? I mean if you really want to convince people, don't give them secondary sources and make them dig into the primary sources. Go get the direct quotes from the research literature or researchers involved yourself. BTW, I have never had the experience of journalists being able to accurately describe anything I am an expert about.
Sustenance is not the same thing as unrestrained growth.
For gameboy, the pokemon cartridge I checked uses a Hyinx GM76C256CLFW, which is 85ns for address acquisition and 45ns for output-enable to valid data. Tightest timing is it requires only 5ns for ~OE being asserted to the outputs being high-Z.

It doesn't multiplex address and data pins, so there are only 8 pins that need bidirectional conversion.

The TI SN74LVC8T245 has a max time for OH on the 5V pins of 10ns, which is probably good enough.

All the NES games I just tried to check require a security bit I don't have to open, so I couldn't check any of them.

[edit]

I ordered the right driver bit and amazon suggested CR2032 batteries, which I found amusing.
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Blind software engineer here.
Sorry to hear about your eyesight issues, dealing with that is always hard, but the good news is that there is life here. I've been working on a bunch of open source projects and recently I found a full time job as developer. I know almost a dozen blind software developers working in big IT companies.
Let me introduce you to the tools you can use. There are basically two types of tools: screen magnifiers for those with low vision and screenreaders for those who don't have any usable vision. Judging by your description, you might want to start with a magnifier. In the unfortunate case if your vision keeps getting worse, you can consider switching to a screenereader. Magnifiers are obviously easier to learn, but you can write code and do all the good stuff with screenreaders too.
I am not that familiar with Magnifiers, but I've heard that the most popular one is called ZoomText and it is for Windows. Macs have their own magnifier, not sure about Linux.
In the world of screenreaders you have NVDA and JAWS for Windows, VoiceOver for Mac, ORCA for Linux and also EmacsSpeak, which is an accessibility extension for Emacs. You can also use phones with screenreader: there is VoiceOver for iPhone and TalkBack for android.
One suggestion is try to find an organisation in your country that deals with blind and low-vision people - ask your eye doctor if he knows any - they might be very useful in your situation as they can recommend a lot of tools and resources specific for your country, such as white cane trainig, if you need it, guide dogs, braille training, they can also probably teach you how to use screenreaders and magnifiers.
Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions: anton <dot> malykh <at> gmail. And good luck!
Microsoft seems to struggle the least at the moment amongst the tech giants.
iPhone uses Google as built-in search engine in Safari, thus indirectly compromising data privacy. And Apple is reported to get billions from Google for this https://community.e.foundation/t/google-could-be-paying-appl...
> Source?

Exactly. Without source code you have no idea what they're doing. All you know it's what they say they are doing. Two completely different things.
I do not use a terminal based file manager - I find that a better workflow for me is to use sshfs to create a local mount on my laptop and then just use the Finder to browse ... which gives me preview, etc.

HOWEVER, there is a specific use-case - renaming a bunch of files in a directory - where I do use a "file manager" and that file manager is 'vimv'.[1]

vimv is a very simple tool - you run vimv in a directory and suddenly the vi editor opens up with the contents of that directory. You then use the vi editor to edit the filenames any way you like. Upon :wq, the files in that directory are renamed.

Very useful - and in many cases, much faster than crafting a sed/awk one liner to do the renaming (especially if some of the renaming is arbitrary or random).

[1] https://github.com/thameera/vimv
However with Jevon's Paradox, we get the opposite consequence and people consume even more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Bamboo has a very good strength to weight ratio allowing you to build very tall structures. The real issue is it degrades faster than wood.
You know that doesn't just require detonating nukes in remote locations, which would be bad enough, but setting megacities on fire, right? And it's not something you can do repeatedly once the effects wear off. Climate change outlasts nuclear winter.
I would love a book like this about cpython
I find it interesting that after reading books so many of us want to see it visualized on the screen.

After reading Enders Game to my son, we watched the movie. The acting wasn’t great, and they condensed the story a lot, but it was still fun to see the way everything was reproduced on screen (and he loves it).
I've never come across the Fat Acceptance Movement before, but it is something I've thought about.
The issue seems to be equated with race and gender equality, rather than addiction, which I'm not entirely convinced by either. I don't think obesity 'denormalisation' is the answer, but I don't think we should close the door on saying a certain weight isn't healthy.
I'm not sure anyone who truly cares about effort uses .net core. :p

I mean, it's a cheap shot, but it's frankly so unproductive compared to Django it's basically a running joke. Not that .net core doesn't see a lot of usage, much like angular it's very popular in the european public sector, but it's just such a waste of resources. By resources I mean, man hours by the way, because it's really effective technically, it's just that, all that you can pay for around a million years of AWS/Azure time for the extra wage-hours you need to pay programmers when you use .net instead of something useful.

And in two years it'll be obsolete anyway, because by then Microsoft will have completely changed their direction, again. I say this, as as someone who's running Azure and 365 as our cloud provider for the majority of our services, as someone who's genuinely happy with the services Microsoft provides and having had a great 25 year long business relationship with them, but as far as development goes, .net is just too crazy to be worth it these years.
Could this possibly make search engine monopolies impossible?
Phrased exactly like that? Probably not, but I do ask "so what's your story?" as an ice breaker quite often when meeting people, but I have heard it.

I'm a little astounded that so many find such an inquiry so abnormal.
`nnn` integrates `vidir` for batch renaming.
Yeah I suspect this is a tongue in cheek (but still silly) title. The halting problem is not about probabilities at all.

If there's even one single program that cannot be proven to halt or not, that already makes the halting problem undecidable, regardless of the fact that an infinity of programs can be proven to halt / not halt.
Up until they have no choice but to sell, and in that case, have to sell at any cost.
Apple is focused (theoretically) on privacy now, but that doesn't mean they won't change, and if they do change, Apple users won't know about it until their information is sold.
We do see many, many strangely unemployable types who from a modern perspective seem to clearly have all the signs of ADHD or other mental issues that have only been recognised comparatively recently. Especially when there is that little bit more history thanks to their being of a famous or diligent journal keeping family. In their time were institutionalised or kept at home as the black sheep of the family, or drifted from inconsequential job to job or were the petty indolent criminal, or even imprisoned for years.

Care was a little different as was the tendency for families to stick together. Perhaps the institutions, prisons and family spare rooms were used in place of modern homelessness? We can't know it wasn't responsible for significant homelessness. Figures were impossible to compare as the record would just show petty thief or lack of work ethic, or poor money management. If that.
FWIW, it took me a year and a half to establish a friendgroup in SF, and I didn't find it by meetsups or recreation, just by pure happenchance of finding someone who WILL reply to your texts, and welcome you into their friendgroup. I also find friendgroups in SF to be fairly surface level, OR vibrant/intense but short-lived.

That said, roommates are also a great way to expand your friend circle, though not all roommates are looking for that, and sometimes it takes a few different pairings to finally "click," with your roommates.

I think drop-in sports/intramurual leagues are good for this, though I could be wrong. Join a kickball league or something maybe :)
Aside from the simpler method of dropping wpa_supplicant.conf in /boot as has already been said, mdns support in Android is terrible/non-existent. I've had no end of users struggling because of that, I 100% do not suggest relying on it.
But this is just the process of connecting it to a wireless network, which would be the hacker's network? The risk seems pretty contrived?

You could make the same argument for other assisted headless installations: speakers, smart plugs, etc.
> When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.

Couldn't outrage culture be seen as a good thing? What is the appropriate response, if not outrage, to rampant systemic racism, sexism, and other forms of social injustice? Should we just lie down and accept it?
Well theres nothing in the article that falsifies that statement.
It may seem financially reasonable to rent out a house, but normal people don't want the risk and hassle.

Renting out houses is an occupation, with special skills. You have to navigate the legal situation to avoid being sued, while still doing your best to refuse people who seem like they could be trouble. You can expect damage and non-payment of rent. You can expect the state to make it extremely difficult for you to get rid of destructive people who aren't paying. You can get sued over a lack of repairs, but meanwhile the renters are causing the damage and failing to tell you about it. Renters will ignore water leaks that don't seem to impact them, letting your home rot from the water. Renters will smoke and keep pets, despite any rules to the contrary, and they will fail to control destructive kids. Renters will illegally authorize workers to drill holes to run cables through the walls.

I've known people who tried renting out a house. They ended up with drug dealers, prostitutes, new doorways and other openings being cut, a bloody murder scene, floors and walls rotted out, destroyed cabinets, etc.

Most new homes are in home owner associations that prohibit renting houses out.
Does anyone know how effective incognito mode is at preventing data and privacy abuses like this? I've been using it more and more, but I imagine there may some clever ways of tracking even across incognito sessions (or between incognito and regular).
It's insane what schools can get away with for price discrimination.

Remember the uproar over Orbitz (and others) price discrimination based on Mac/iOS usage? [1]

Schools have been doing the same thing in broad daylight for years and years with far greater consequence, basing their price on your parent's income levels.*

And near zero public blowback. It's confusing.

* This is all done through school scholarships, but there's practical difference between that and a more direct price adjustment.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304458604577488...
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Are you potentially confusing GODR with the EU cookie law?
Well one needs to know the Disk Utility exists as well, or disk management thingy in Windows.
I yearn for the day when we are over the trend of building cool new "lightweight" frameworks that supposedly solve some problem that the previous 10 "lightweight" frameworks did not for some reason
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The right thing is probably to apply the categorial imperative. If you don't want white people voting "we will not be replaced" then you might not want to support judges who think that insights about justice are uniquely available "wise old Latinas".
This is equivalent to claiming that if you randomly sample from the real number line the probability of sampling a natural number is 0, therefore natural numbers can't exist.

(Of course I doubt the author(s) were making these claims in all seriousness).
Requiring a physical address to create an Apple ID to download free apps doesn’t seem privacy oriented to me.

Sure, I can use a fake address, but what if they start to check against it and then lock me out of my account?

It’s bad enough all the players require my full name. I do use an alias whenever I can, but for vital accounts, I don’t because I’m afraid one day they’ll ask for a government issued ID to verify my account or I get locked out.
Google is "built-in" as far as it's the default. It is changeable and can also be set to Yahoo, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, as well as Google.
Every house does not cost the same amount. Yes, the average price might go up, but in my experience people will buy the biggest house they can afford instead of over bidding on a smaller house (in most markets).
The hardener would need to get into the crevices too, which would be difficult (especially since the vacuum insertion would no longer work, and it would harden near the surface before you'd have enough time for a good mix).
Yeah, it's pretty well documented to be fair.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wire...
> You could make the same argument for other assisted headless installations: speakers, smart plugs, etc.

That's true, but in those devices can be isolated from the internet by a firewall. Berrylan can't be, or it loses its utility. In order to talk to the app, Berrylan has to send packets to and receive packets from the internet. Also, even after the setup, most RaspPi applications entail having the computer continue to have access to the internet. So the situation is much risker with the RaspPi.
I think this is a minority of real estate markets (mainly SF and Vancouver). Even in NY there's enough of a spread that someone making 250k a year will have the option of buying a house under their max buying potential.
>you’ve clearly never had bad neighbors

No, I’ve had bad neighbors. What I haven’t done is to generalize the experience to seek to avoid neighbors as a class, which is exactly what misanthropy is, as well as exactly what white flight and suburbanism is.

Also, as long as you’re prattling about “rights”, please notice how easily you assumed the right to mischaracterize and invent a convenient and false history for me.
I think the argument here is directly analogous to why university prices started going loony. When it became impossible for even private education loans to be dismissed in bankruptcy suddenly education loans became seen as very near 0 risk. And everybody's told from the time they're in diapers that they need to go to university, with cost given little to no consideration. And it's also seen as priceless investment that will pay for itself and then some in the future. Suddenly people value something immensely and have access to an effectively unlimited line of debt. This incentives universities to arbitrarily increase their costs. University costs only started to stabilize as university enrollment started to decline.

But there's a big argument against this that I don't see the answer to. Everything that's mentioned in this article is true for buying a house, but not for renting. Rental prices have also gone through the roof - and the only reason they're able to go through the roof is because people are able and willing to pay the costs asked. But people renting are getting absolutely no return whatsoever on this exchange, and rent is also generally not paid from debt. So how would this explain the willingness of people to pay ever higher prices for rent?
> I wouldn't say "easy". It's possible. Here in Seattle, we're building a new 2-mile tunnel (for cars). It was originally scheduled to open 3 years ago, and will finally open in 2019. It was planned to take 29 months, but took 67.

To add to this, some areas are made of materials that are simply difficult to bore through. Atlanta, for example, sits on top of a bunch of granite which at least partially contributes to the difficulties of underground rail expansion.
"outrage culture" generates outrage for its own sake - not for the sake of motivating productive action, since outrage isn't necessary for that. Twitter is a great example of the futility and impotence of outrage culture on display. The vitriol I see in my feed accomplishes nothing but clickbait, virtue signaling and memetic toxicity, it certainly doesn't help.
You already made your point at length and with considerable energy, I would even say aggression, elsewhere in the thread. Now you're hounding someone. That's not cool. Please stop now.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18522177 and marked it off-topic.
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this second comment is much more constructive than your first one, because you criticized specific policies for their results. let's keep putting aside the tribal and partisan language and come together to brainstorm and debate solutions.

and yes, we need to ease nuclear regulations, protect all speech, and fix regulations around housing (including the regulation of interest rates through freddie/fannie).

a key fix to everything you said about the suppression of black folks (and most of the rest of us) is a return to a progressive tax system. a few decades ago, the US taxed the 1% at up to 90%, didn't have a separate capital gains tax, had an inheritance tax that encouraged industry, and didn't have corporate tax shields (along with encouraging immigration). and thus we prospered.
Sure, but that is available on a simple right mouse click on the device.

In any case you are focusing too much on mkfs, I can think of plenty of other examples, many of each aren't even portable across UNIX environments.

While GUIs at least can offer navigation and visual cues as means to discover features.
Not an "analysis", but here's the last (?) HN discussion on Vancouver's housing market https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608918
Obligatory mention of emacs wdired-mode, which sounds very similar. I mention it because I used emacs for almost a decade before noticing that there's a wdired mode as well as dired mode.
If google is the issue maybe - but I seriously doubt they are the issue: they sell their ability to target you, and selling your data to third parties would essentially be against their interest. This kind of FUD has been repeated ad nauseam here and everywhere in tech sites (against Facebook too usually), but that's not the way their business model works.

If it's your doctor or your pharmacist, or the shop you bought online (or offline) something once, incognito will not help at all. They have your personal information already, the only thing that can stop them is law. The cause of the robocalls may also have been his medical insurance, if you want to go full paranoia. :)

Note those shops, the sites you created an account on, the companies those shops sold your personal data to, all of them can target you with ads on both facebook and google by using your PI (essentially donating your data to facebook and google in the process).
You can do without by using prepaid cards you buy with cash.