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Thank you for your advice. In the past, I didn’t care about joining other clubs and only cared about my programming hobby. Now, I think that I should be more well-rounded and pick up other activities, especially ones in which I am more likely to find companions. I will find an interesting club to join.

w.r.t being better than others - I go to a school with a strong academic culture. In absolutely no way do people put each other down, not at all, but I feel like there is an underlying motivation to have good ECs to make oneself attractive to colleges. In particular, you mentioned the debate team, which, at least at my school, seems to me like a highly competitive club that boosts college applications. I feel extremely cynical about the culture of people padding college applications, so I had decided previously to ignore clubs and only pursue my passion of programming to be “true to myself.” However, now I feel a desire to join a club out of genuine pursuit of happiness (as opposed to boosting an application). I hope that I will find a club with a passionate and genuine culture, without competitive people.

Before, my mother had told me that I should have activities outside school that I could show for. Part of it was for colleges, as I would have a hard time competing with others if I didn’t do much outside school. However, my mother also said that part of it was being a fuller person. I used to feel frustrated because I felt like she wanted me to do stuff just for college, a motivation that I felt was “phony,” but now I see what she meant about being more active in general.
Their cover photo is a joke if you have even the slightest idea of what you’re looking at.

Double stacked D&H mags with no pulls, an Anderson “poverty pony” AR, BUIS behind a 1.5x ACOG on an 18” with a cheap non-QD Mount (iron sights with a magnified optic in between doesn’t work)... I’m sure there is more.

But... for the Steve Huffman and similar types, they’ll just see what they want. The real joke would be Randy and his $999 AR (with optic) will just rob Steve-types blind the second there is a without rule of law scenario.
Plus, actually trying out outdoors skills can be fun.
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It took me a very long time to realize this is an okay reply. "Let me stew on this."
Where is Xcor supposed to get this money? They lost their revenue source, laid off all their employees, and any property they have is presumably not nearly enough to satisfy their debt. The business is almost certain to close pending the resolution of the bankruptcy.

Certainly, if people were promised that there was money in escrow and it wasn't, that sounds like fraud, but that doesn't mean those who perpetuated the fraud have the money either.
Airports aren't going away.

Engine makers aren't making them any quieter, laws of physics and time (airplanes in service for decades)

Airplanes have to follow a certain path and certain procedures, for example they can't land like helicopters from 30,000 feet.

So for the people that bought cheaper homes near an airports, it sucks, but get used to it (other than a rare case when the plane deviated from standard procedure). Maybe they'll make complaint filing manual.
Airport expansion, or addition of new runways etc. are usually a tediously long process, and usually with a lot of community feedback and approval etc. (at least, here in Australia it is). Not something that can happen overnight without anyone knowing.

Flight path changes are more common. But then again, those are usually departure pathways. The worst noise issues are on final approach or on the takeoff run on runway heading, which rarely change. Most turning points are above 1000ft AGL where the noise levels are a lot less.
Option 5: run for the hills screaming?

(Only half-joking here. I know it sounds like it's an important client, but it seems as if there was a serious breakdown in communications on the client's part, _and_ they're stuck on obsolete technology. These are not realistic requirements.)

I suppose option 6 would be to figure out how to get the client to upgrade their systems to a modern hardware and OS, and then run the old software in a VM instead.
These guys (and Women?) are at the extreme end of the economic and social hierarchy. The only thing that might endanger their position is if society collapses. Prepping is sort of an insurance policy against the long odds of society collapsing. All societies have collapsed and once the process starts it can happen quickly. They can devote the resources to guard against rare events, because they are already protected against other concerns (they mostly have plenty of money).

IMO, this type of behavior is the same as the bio-hacking crowd trying to beat aging / maximize health. They have everything else covered, so they move out further-and-further on the tail of their perceived threat.
Even if its OCS we're talking about the supervisory channel is truly out of band in that its generally on a proprietary wavelength isolated from your other channels carrying customer traffic.

In this sense its no different than how a copper ethernet management VLAN should not be able to take down your entire production network.
Evil? It seems really good based on how you described it. Useless rocks get transformed into infrastructure.
That’s a generic argument. You ignore that we’re talking about running against candidates who are favored by billion dollar businesses, and the people on the other side are not wealthy. Where can they ‘raise’ this capital from?
Since Elon the Magnificent clearly doesn't care what the Board says, one can only wonder why Ellison signed on for this ride.
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>>Loudness of aircraft nearby can vary greatly due to weather conditions.

So what the Gov to do, ground all air traffic in certain weather conditions? Air travel is a fact of life and planes must land in airports.
Once again - anecdotal evidence from my own experience - when we bought our house, which was the biggest purchase of our lives, we made sure that during the cooling off period before final settlement, we spent a lot of time parking our car on the street where our house was and walking around.

Day time, night time, weekends, working hours, we spent at least 30 to 60 minutes in the neighbourhood on multiple occasions to see what the noise and traffic levels were like amongst many other factors. I cannot believe that most people don't do this more often when looking to settle in a family home that you are going to live in (and possibly raise children) for a large chunk of your lives.
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> "on average is it better or worse than modern medicine?"

The vast majority of people using/practicing "CAM" are not claiming "CAM" to be "better" than modern medicine; they take a horses-for-courses approach.

Modern medicine is fine for acute illness where you need a medication or surgery to address an infection, break, blockage, etc.

"CAM" seems to be valuable for chronic non-life-threatening conditions like fatigue, pain, mild hormonal issues, mild auto-immunity, etc. It's also chosen by people who are quite healthy and want to keep it that way by optimising their nutrition, emotions, muscular-skeletal strength/alignment, etc.

So it's not a matter of what is better or worse than the other, it's a question of finding the right tool for the job. Every conventional doctor I've consulted in the past few years has endorsed that approach.
I don't think those human-centered metrics can be classified as marketing. Is marketing the business of satisfying customers?
It is an opportunity. Much like Nomadlist rates remote working locations on various important factors, it would be good if there could be a neighbourhood rating system that included things like traffic and noise levels. I am sure something already exists.
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Back in 2016 I followed Justin Kan on Snapchat and he used to hang out with Steve Huffman on his stories.

I recall a few particular snap stories where they went out to Justin's new house and were shooting guns, throwing axes and generally doing fun outdoor stuff. I do seem to recall at some point there was talk about survivalist stuff in those snaps.

I've done quite a lot of survival training with the US Government and have been in places where people lived by those skills daily. I have to say that the majority of what these guys are doing, and what most "rich guy" survivalists do, as indicated by this story, is mostly worthless. Especially long term.

There's a hat tip to the most important part, forming groups and all the rest of the community building work, which is not inappropriate, but it's missing the point where you basically do that now with a diverse set of people - not just your rich friends - which is actually a sustainable strategy.

There's a lot to nitpick here but I guess the most interesting thing to me is that, for all their wealth, access and smarts, none of these people seem to actually be trying to solve the systematic and endemic problems which would soften the blow of a major existential risk.

In that sense Levchin and Johnson are 100% on the money here with investing in structural improvement, not some temporary escape plan that doesn't survive first contact with a handful of real actual killers.
If only.

(Counterexamples: Drug laws, speeding laws, digital piracy...)
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I would hope that most people who visit/buy in Seattle would realise that one of the biggest airplane manufacturers in the world is based there (and has been for nearly a century), and that there are several airports spread around the city with lots of traffic. I find it really difficult to understand that this wouldn't be a factor with anyone who was looking to purchase a property in the city.
Yes, a flat tax (percent) is proportional to the amount of income one earns. So if you earn ten times your neighbour, you pay ten times the amount of tax. The problem is once it passes a certain threshold, well off people will employ tax consultants and lawyers to avoid paying taxes, bribe politicians to obtain asymetric advantages etc. Increasing taxes "proportionally" (progressively) would only have the adverse effect: wealthy people would only be more likely to avoid paying taxes, some would even flee their tax jurisdictions. It would only impact the middle class, which is getting poorer as we speak and we'd end up with feudalism. That's why tax the rich doesn't really work. You are taxing the ones that are already good at tax avoidance.
I totally support pulling up pilots who break the noise abatement rules. If these devices were used as intended, we could expect sudden occasional spikes in reports to pin point a flight where the pilot strayed too low etc., but I expect that these devices will mostly be used by irate people who just keep stabbing the button several times a day every time they cannot hear their television clearly.
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I am by nature not the most charming person in the world, but with effort I can be extremely charming and even charismatic.

The approach I use is to really listen to people talking and work out what they are trying to say and mirror it back to them in a more eloquent manner. The result is they think the two of us have totally "clicked". I rarely use this approach as it is mentally very taxing and I don't need to charm many people, but it is very effective.

Another strategy that works well for creating friendships is to build a thicket of small favours. Ask for some small favour and then let the other person ask you for something small in return. Repeat.

It is always best to be in favour debt with other people (you owe them) than the reverse. There is no better way of creating a true enemy than really helping someone and not letting them return the favour.
Yes, and especially as charities that are effectively subsidized by Joe Everyperson taxpayer, they should not be left off the hook.
According to the article, the centers were "offering English lessons, screening movies and hosting visiting music and dance performances".

However, there are plenty of unofficial sources for those in China, without the help of the State Department. For instance, pirated DVDs of virtually every American movie/TV series are widely available despite official censorship, etc.
I've had something similar happen to me once. I'm DevOps, very systems focused. I was leaving Cisco and got on an interview panel with 4 network engineers at some place.

I caveated I know networking better than most but I'm by no stretch a network engineer. They agreed and explicitly stated the position was on the systems side and it was fine.

The interview was only an hour and half. About 30 minutes into they ran out of questions and started to get bored. They tell they're all studying for their CCIE's and decided to start borrowing questions from the final exam.

They decided to play "lets stump the Cisco guy". And did they? YES! Did they stop? NO! This was 7+ years ago and I'll never forget how uncomfortable and bad that interview was. They managed to dredge up all these arcane, stupid questions, some of which bore no practical function.. and listened to me "I dont know" for a solid hour

I'm sure it left them with a bad impression of me, and it certainly left me not wanting to work there.
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There are some people in my school who program, but they aren’t interested in type theory. Nevertheless, I think that I would be closer with them if I could just see them more often in terms of class schedules. I will find time to be with them more often.
Dogfooding their process is going to give them adverse results here: Microsoft is paying them to take all the time they want, but good candidates won't be so willing to spend so much time. Already, they're up to a full day of interviews, which is ridiculous. One of the worst parts of current FAANG interviewing is how long it takes to get to the day of interviews, needing to take off from work to attend the interview day, and then getting rejected nonetheless. Not only does this process ask for too much commitment on the part of candidates, it selects for candidates for whom such a commitment is less relatively costly - i.e. people who are currently unemployed, students, etc, and while there are many such people with great talent and potential, respectively, they're also less likely to be strong candidates than people who are currently employed.

One of the key issues in recruiting is how to make hiring decisions quickly. Good candidates don't have the patience for your internal politics to resolve over a month or two to figure out whether they're getting an offer or not; they're just going to interview with other places in the meantime who will beat you to the punch.

Take a resume off the pile. Email or text to schedule a call. During the call, talk about relevant experience / past projects, what each side is looking for, etc. Make a decision during the call whether you want to invite the person for a two-hour interview, and schedule it during the call, first offering an evening time slot for the interview. In the first hour, talk about culture, problem-solving and teamwork approaches, engineering attitudes. In the second hour, pull out an actual current problem and solve it collaboratively. If all goes well, send an offer, and offer to set up a dinner to talk about / negotiate the offer.

It should not take more than a few hours to make a decision on someone; it should not require a candidate to take paid time off. Your hiring pipeline's average lead time should be measured in days.
First thing I notice in the article...(prob) an ex-military man with automatic weapons serving as a guard. In a doomsday scenario he will, eventually, kill or enslave all those nerdy guys that paid a fortune to seeking shelter there.

But then you have everything else and buying these things are a drop in the bucket. Makes sense even if it has a very small chance of happening. What's an extra billion going to do to Steve Ballmer life? Nothing. Money after a while loses value, living is another matter.
This article is from 2017.
It’s not for Dum-Dums.
It is amazing and amusing to observe how money trampoline one's feeling of self importance to unimaginable heights.
This is what journalists need to be doing a lot more of. There's way too much he said/she said reporting. When two sides disagree, we need journalists to work harder to figure out what the actual facts are, not just publish the statements from the two sides and say "we have to leave it there".
I think you're out of luck. Hindsight is 20/20, but shouldn't their hardware and software requirements have come up long before you started development? How did you get to the point at which you were actively developing without knowing your target environment, especially if you're on premise?

At first I wrote a response suggesting a few ways you might be able to get it working on older versions of Windows, but they're just not feasible for anything prior to XP. Possible? Probably, but more work than rewriting everything, most likely.

You might be able to convince them to upgrade and virtualize their Windows 2000 programs--heck, you might even be able to get away with using DOSBox. That seems a lot more realistic than virtualizing Linux or a newer version of Windows on Windows 2000. But I wouldn't get your hopes up--anyone still on Windows 2000 is going to object heavily to upgrading; that's why they're still on Windows 2000. You can eliminate all the barriers for them and they still won't want to do it.

Edit: This might sound crazy, but have you looked into whether it's possible to make some changes to Electron to get it to run on Windows 2000? It's designed to be portable, so, in theory, you should be able to get it to run on a potato--assuming said potato has enough RAM.
American culture is so pervasive and widespread how is this not just a fan blowing against the wind of a hurricane?
I wonder about the bincompat of such a change. "32-bit clean" all over again?
Because some don't mind the text-based ads, but do mind the 10mb+ animated flashing overlay ads with audio that make the internet unusable.
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Former combat zone contractor here: I would bet $20 that tacticool guy in the photo wishes so hard he had actually been hired as PSD by blackwater or triple canopy in 2005. Instead he probably ended up running logistics for the dfac at KAF.
Regarding the bonus: you're just shifting the problem. Your ISP can't see your traffic, but now digital ocean can.
I find it laughable that the rich think they can hide away forever in some bunker.

If they are in that position it means the rule of law has eroded and anarchy is in place.

The first thing pissed off people do is hang their leaders and the children of the rich.

Rightfully so, nothing more than parasites on our human race, take their wealth and redistribute it to those in need.
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Option 6 seems like the most viable to me, but it's still a long shot. If they wanted to upgrade, they would've done that a long time ago. At the end of the day, they don't want to upgrade. I'm sure they could get software that does the same thing that runs on newer platforms if they cared enough.
This is an interesting piece of advice and I will try it. I have a peculiar nature where I go out of my way to help others but resist favours and help. It is not received very well and have always been confused by it.

Can you expand on 'there is no better way of creating a true enemy than ...'
> The real joke would be Randy and his $999 AR (with optic) will just rob Steve-types blind the second there is a without rule of law scenario.

I've always wondered how they'd prevent that. How does Randy not shoot Steve or take him hostage and then bring his own family into the compound.

I am sure there are a few schemes, ranging from benign like promise a huge payday at the end, lots of land, resources, power whatever to more sinister ones, like hire another Randy (possible a lot more than one) to watch the first one if he (she) tries to do something.
Grew up in the Permian basin (Odessa, UT grad as well), there really is a disconnect between larger cities and smaller towns in the state on ethos of renewables. DFW will likely be one of the first major metroplexes in the US to be powered 100% by renewables, but it won't be because the state is particularly environmentally friendly (even if DFW/Houston/Austin are). It will be because there is a vast expanse in the west side of the state to plop wind turbines and it’s cheaper than digging it out of the ground.

Not sure what point I’m trying to make here, just adding more context. Reality is that while many Texans may answer a survey asking if we should move away from fossil fuel dependence in a positive way, for most conservatives in the state I’d be surprised if it was anywhere near their chief concern when voting and would likely actively vote against it if the platform they are voting for meets their primary concerns. Thankfully, their chief concern is usually money/economy and Texas is a state that can be that can be very effective at migrating to energy alternatives in an economically beneficial way thanks to 300+ days of sunlight a year in most regions and large flat windy expanse from central Texas to Big Bend and up the padhandle.

Would just add that there is another level of complexity here. While fracking and the shale revolution do present a huge environmental problem, it’s advancement in the last 5-10 years does provide the US an extremely valuable foreign policy tool in removing the necessity of energy reliance on the Middle East whenever we want. I hope the state continues to move forward with renewables but fossil fuels, specifically in the Permian basin, is here to stay for a long time even if the state goes 100% renewable. It’s now a national security and economic priority in an age when American/Middle East relations are waning and American retrenchment from traditional allies is increasing.
> rather than trying to improve the system to prevent, or lower the probability of the doomsday scenario in the first place

I’m not sure Sillicon Valley billionaire can do much too save the earth from collapsing.

It’s not about rich changing the world to save it, it’s about the world monetary system , capitalism and thermo-industrial economy that has climax and is now going to end.

Hence , every society has cycles. Roman era disappeared, Vikings disappeared etc... this society will disappear as well and let something new come.
You definitely get more bang for your buck spending on yourself vs trying to change society.
I agree and it makes me sad. I always say: imagine all these smart people currently working on “stupid” business problems would start solving the real issues we have. In my view we’re investing too little brain power into these. And even though Musk is a bit of a weird fellow I think he’s doing that: using his connections to gather huge sums to solve some existential problems.

BTW: I watched those snapchat stories too. Mark Suster had good ones as well
Wow this was powerful and a very good classic “corporate politics” story.

I used to have so much trouble understanding corporate politics. I had a manager who suggested reading books on child abuse to understand the political environment of an office. One of the best suggestions I’ve ever been given.
> for all their wealth, access and smarts, none of these people seem to actually be trying to solve the systematic and endemic problems which would soften the blow of a major existential risk

They may be. This is just a silly hobby to bond over. Sort of like zombie apocalypse preppers. The few that are serious aren’t doing press interviews.
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when you look at code it's hard to recognize. if there is a way to success of a visual programming language that is the code should appeal more recognizable than text.