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He was, at one time, doing consulting for $20k-$30k a week for multi-week gigs. I can’t remember what his highest publicly stated billed rate was, but he has been fairly open and detailed about this.

I think he was in the process of jacking up his rates to $50k a week, but then he mysteriously stopped consulting. I’m curious about why. He has alluded to it before, but he was was very circumspect about the whole issue/experience.
Utility computing
hm. Yeah, there is an argument for working around the shortcomings (longcomings? largecomings?) of modern cellphones with accessories.

As a younger person, I used belt holsters for my cellphones. Around the time of the iphone 5, (incidentally, when I jumped on the apple phone bandwagon) i switched to wearing pants with a special cellphone pocket, which isn't big enough for the big cellphones, but velcros closed (which I think is essential, for phones are slippery and are far more likely to slip out when sitting in chairs designed for short people than a wallet or keys are) - also, the special pocket means no fishing around in your pocket for the phone.

Now that I carry a separate phone for work, man, I've had a hard time of it. but... why don't I just order a belt clip for the work phone? Done. $15, and it will be on my desk, most likely, when I get in to work on Tuesday.
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As a DB mainly guy whom never did any hex maps of any kind, the double coordinates felt most natural to me. Was reading the other systems and kept wondering why one like that is not there until further reading. In my case I'd put them in a 4 column table and SQL the shit of everything in there. Would actually be very easy once you have experience with composite types from PostgreSQL, as an example.
Not all code is flight code :)
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I don't wear t-shirts often, and don't think any of mine have needed mending. I do wear thin long-sleeved sweaters, so if you don't mind I'll answer for those: The most common problem starts with a small hole somewhere, frequently just next to a seam, and is mended in a minute or two if caught early. Disastrous tears are a different matter, but happily also a rare one.
>"Amazon doesn’t need a large local labor pool. They get far more applicants than they need and plenty of people willing to move to work there."

Nonsense. It's far more efficient to be able to tap a local labor pool. Google, FB, et al set up shop in NYC for this ver And there are always people who don't want or can not relocate. Or who simply do not want to live in New York City.

>"And in most cities parking isn’t a problem so the transit isn’t necessary"

Please name just one top tier city where parking isn't a problem and mass transit isn't necessary.
Perhaps you’re thinking of the Battle of Midway where the US defeated Japan, and which was indeed six months after Pearl Harbour. However Midway was attacked just two hours after Pearl Harbour.
Spying stuff aside, I feel the bigger reason we should think long and hard about this is the same reason we don't source parts for our weapons program from foreign countries: mobile networks are now critical infrastructure and any form of sabotage would be devastating to our national security.

Sourcing foreign components alone massively increases risk surface area, never mind a full-scale nationwide implementation of an astoundingly complex tech.
Video transcoding and a UI to scan through, categorize, tag, etc. sounds pretty valuable.

Who knows - it might integrate with case tracking software and do speech to text and semantic search etc.
I've implemented some sort of "poor man's Docker" using LD_PRELOAD, back then in 2011 when Docker wasn't a thing. It works by overriding getaddrinfo (IIRC) and capturing name lookups of "localhost", which are then answered by an IP address that's taken from an env variable. The intended use is the parallelization of automated testing of a distributed system: by creating lots of loopback devices with individual IPs and assigning those to test processes (via the LD_PRELOAD hack), I could suddenly test as many instances of the software system next to each other as I wanted, on the same machine (the test machine is some beefy dual-socket server with lots of CPU cores and RAM). Each instance (which consists of clients and several processes that provide server services, thus they're by default configured to bind themselves to specific ports on localhost, as it is common for dev and test purposes) would then be able to route its traffic over its own loopback device, and I was spared of having to somehow untangle the server ports of all the different services just in order to be able to parallelize them on a single machine and of the configuration hell that would have come with this.
It helped that processes by default inherit the env variables from their parents that spawned them - that made it a lot easier to propagate the preload path and the env variable containing the loopback IP to use. I just had to provide it to the top-most process, basically.

Today, one would use Docker for this exact purpose, putting each test run into its own container (or even multiple containers). But since the LD_PRELOAD hack worked so well, the project in which I implemented the above is still using it (although they're eyeing a switch to Docker, in part because it also makes it easier to separate non-IP-related resources such as files on the filesystem, but mostly because knowledge about Docker is more widespread than about such ancient tech as LD_PRELOAD and how to hack into name resolution of the OS).
it's modular if you enter the extended configuration, poster above mentioned it runs "nothing but wireguard"
I do, at least for some personal projects. They're more than capable enough for many tasks, and cheap enough to be willing to just grab another if you have a quick task.
We use a sort of similar trick (not via LD_PRELOAD, though) to inject faults in M_NOWAIT malloc() calls in the FreeBSD kernel. FreeBSD kernel code tends to be a bit better than most userspace code I've seen as far as considering OOM conditions, though it is not perfect.
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This is really cool. Unfortunately the 4.x kernel requirement wouldn't work for the majority of my work since RHEL is still on 3 :|
same same, I recently bought a second-hand laptop for $150, an i5, came with 4 gigs and I bumped it up to 8 gigs and installed ubuntu, I use firefox.

I noticed facebook, gmail and a few other sites really killed performance, the interface would freeze with high swap and cpu.

I keep them closed now, I use session manager to start and stop sessions.

I tried a tab suspender, it used to work fine but I'm not sure what happened to it, eventually it disappeared from firefox addons website and someone started a new project, but I got weird issues with other extensions like ublock origin crashing with the tab suspender running, whereas they are fine when the tab suspender is disabled.

So, for now, I only start facebook and gmail when I'm using them and close them when I'm not.

Edit: before firefox containers were a thing I had a profile for different tasks, one for facebook, one for google, etc, to try and limit tracking. I have no idea how effective that is, I'm thinking not very. But anyway, that's also a handy way to start and stop sessions. You have the setting to restore the previous session, and when you exit and start it up again, only the tab with focus gets loaded into memory, the other tabs load when you click them. So you can have 20 tabs opened and restarting the profile only loads one tab, then others load on demand.
Yes, and if you're installing it on all your nodes anyway, you can use it to encrypt a flannel overlay net too.

https://github.com/coreos/flannel/blob/master/dist/extension...
And the metric system.
That's the nth time I read that citation here. It's appealing but does not match my experience. I can afford to buy good and expensive stuff, but it is really difficult to tell good and bad stuff apart especially outside ones domain. And you can buy a lot of crap for much money. The main problem is information asymmetry and I'd wish regulation would take this out of the equation (like a mandatory sticker "Must last at least until...", although this doesn't solve all problems).
My 10 year old MBP17 still works, but it's good that finally there will be a replacement option available. Hopefully it will have upgradeable parts again (at least RAM and disk).

So please start making bigger MBPs and smaller iPhones!
Just installed it and nothing much. works now, but I really need the reminders
Snippets from 2014 CFR discussion:

"…So the question I'm asking myself is can we figure out a way to accelerate the second curve of human response in a fashion -- in -- in -- in identical ways to the way DARPA accelerates the first curve of technological challenges."

"… What about Facebook? What about Twitter? I have no idea what Twitter is good for. But if it flips out every tyrant in the Middle East, I'm interested."

Funny how tools work…
How do you do reminders with natural language?
I am in the same boat. Or May be it isn't really a phone any more. I think WhatsApp and Gaming takes up 90% of my usage on my phone. I could do WhatsApp even on an iPhone SE size phone. For Gaming it depends, 6.5" Max barely fits for my big hands, I would love to have a 7" devices for gaming.

I am starting to think may be it should have been two separate devices for these two functions.
Ahh.. you're not counting room and board. $19k if you include that.

https://admit.washington.edu/costs/coa/
Why would that dissuade anyone? Win a gold medal and keep it (and fame, resulting endorsement deals, etc) for ten years vs don't win it at all, live in poverty and obscurity, etc. Tough choice!
"I've heard the complaint that some of us shouldn't be EMs, but I'm a firm believer that if it's something you enjoy, you can absolutely learn how to be a great EM."

The worst manager I've had probably thought they were a great manager - but that was someone who shouldn't be one.
How do you prove something is disinformation? Time for a ministry of truth?
I can imagine already imagine for example which version of the Convington kids case would be considered official and information.
When I started playing an instrument again, that I stopped playing ten years ago, all came back. Ofc you need some muscles to play it well (especially when you play something demanding on a bass), but it felt like riding a bike after a long winter.
i have to rename to default, thats my mistake
Depends on the app for example I use Standard Notes. For me the utility is search, tagging, security and sync between devices.
It's more of a "prevent app developers from asking you to do it". A normal user that has to disable SIP is a lot more of a barrier than a normal user typing in the root password.

Normal users need UX to save them from owning themselves.
It doesn’t work with setuid binaries
No its just HTML and CSS. no backend. purpose is to serve as a starting point for designing dashboard
It was definitely the primary attack. That's where First Air Fleet was going and they only had so many carriers. Spread them around and they might have all failed. Midway and Wake were much smaller attacks, but I'm not sure they were quite incidental, weren't they both significant oiling bases? They were certainly both part of Yamamoto's first phase strategy. So were the Philippines, Malaya, and Borneo. Malaya and Philippines were attacked and invaded the same day. Phase 2 would have turned south across territories toward Australia.

His strategy was not too dissimilar to China's today. Loosely to create a huge space of Japanese air space by taking those far flung outposts to ensure any enemy was stretched across thousands of miles of hostile Pacific.

The Battle of Midway, six months later, was one of the most famous and strategically important naval battles of the entire war. As they lost that naval battle it is never really called an attack on the islands, least not in what I've read. They didn't make it that far.
No more butterfly keyboards please
Q:would I need to purchase the $350 license for a commercial product like a SaaS? A:
No you just need single license for $15
While Apple "may" add more memory to their MBP specs, I can only wish they could add more USB-C ports AND spacing USB-C ports to farther away each other.
Remote workers are good for this scenario. My current employer is maintaining an outdated backbone.js app, thankfully I'm not on that team.

We have one guy in the office responsible for all of it, as warm bodies with backbone experience are impossible to find. However, should we decide to employ remote workers, we can easily find developers with backbone.js experience from Romania, Lithuania, India, and Pakistan who would work for a pittance and be grateful for the opportunity.
I don't run Debian, but I have multiple ARM SBCs that I work with as well.
This is exactly right. Trusting a government to determine what is true and what is not, and enforcing that version of truth via shutting down certain speech and penalising those who speak it, is a bad idea. I’ve no problem with a government announcing that they believe something is true or false, but I have a big problem with them restricting the speech of people who happen to disagree.
I wish I knew this much about any subject at all.
Just keep everyone in constant communication with one another. I find Slack + remote work is the best at this.

Another option is someone officially employed for this, i.e. a system analyst. Their job is just to know how everything comes together and point out what existing documentation exists, which parts of the system are flawed, what has been tried and failed, why it failed. It's not too hard to train someone for the post either; 1-2 months is long enough.

Formal documentation isn't so great because it's difficult to write and often you need some meta to help you find where the right documents are stored. But you do need a combination of written and oral documented knowledge.
Steroids are not legal lol
An algorithm that's more optimal than LRU on most workloads is Window TinyLFU. Some nice simulations and graphs can be found here: https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Efficiency
Hey Amit

A big thanks for your site. As someone who fiddles around with small hobbyist game projects, your site is the defacto bible for me.

I was wondering if you plan on writing something on game AI. specially where the AI has infinite permutations of actions that they can take. How do these game AIs actually formulate a list of possible actions and how do they prioritise them?
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>The web says SQL is in fact TC contrary to your claim.

Did you even read the link? You need extensions to make SQL Turing complete. Your replies indicate to me you lack the necessary theoretical background to discuss Turing completeness, since pure SQL not being TC is such a basic fact you don't need to look it up on the web.

The fact that the entire tech stack is TC is not a proof that TC is needed for individual parts of the tech stack. Indeed, some of the components of the web stack, namely CSS, are not TC (no, please don't look it up on the web and come back with "CSS is turing complete" bullshit, they're clearly wrong because halting problem of CSS is decidable).

By the way Turing machine doesn't involve human interaction, so all your examples that involve interactivity (UI loops) are outside of scope of this discussion.

>What is preventing TC buying your language when the programs are bug free?

There's no such thing as bug free program. When you need to execute arbitrary programs, not being TC buys you a lot of guarantees that can be useful.
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Love all the content on your site, keep writing more new things please!
Can you perform your most enjoyable "hobby" or "skill" as a job?
Instead we have a ministry of truth being perpetuated by sites such as Youtube, with incredibly harmful information being disseminated and treated as truth resulting in disease outbreaks and outright denial of history.

In your idealistic world of free speech, the innocent pay the price for the freedom to spread lies and deceit. At what point do we accept that it has to be fixed, or are we OK with diseases previously eradicated coming back in full force?
Not just drugs, governing bodies very much disliked when swimming records fell left and right due to better swimsuits. Or how bikes must be upright and have a minimum weight.
Here let me invert that for you - If any of those things didn't matter Amazon would not have chosen NYC in the first place.
Yeah, that is true but also note that a lot of people in that age DO use steroids but no one admits it. The whole fitness industry is built on people on steroids trying sell others that they are not on steroids.

Except heavy weight bodybuilding of course where it is too obvious.
This is a beautiful document and a very sound set of rules.
An important aspect of removing things from life is to make a decision about whether you intend to continue having something as a part of your life - either in thoughts, ambitions or as an object you possess. Without resolving this, the question of "should I keep this?" can not be answered satisfactorily. Our time is quite limited and these choices are either made actively through conscious decision making or passively through inaction. I am still trying to learn to make the decision actively.
That's true, but very often review systems are not designed for bombings and fall apart there.

The best design I see for this is something like Steam, which has "recent" and "overall" reviews, which are more resistant to bombings but also allow them. If the publisher screws people on a DLC or IAP, people would want to know, but in some cases, it's just emotional exaggeration led by someone else.
Hello Ilya. Great work.

One of the reason Elon distanced himself because of what OpenAI team wanted to do. I am wondering if this new paper has anything to do with that? Or what it is in general that Elon doesn't agree with what OpenAI is doing?

Thanks!
audio generation from malloc and read: https://github.com/gordol/ld_preload-sounds

also for OSX: DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
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Question: how many of you uses a crypted VPN Tunnel daily?
We all know that privacy is important and it will became more and more important in the next few years.
Does tools like WireGuard help in these cases? Or I miss the main focus? Should we all used a private VPN tunnel?
> Besides Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and a handful of minor outlying islands, the US maintains roughly 800 overseas military bases around the world.

Germany has a few US military bases. It’s a bit of a micro cosmos. People pay in USD and can buy American products there. I think even the VAT is added on checkout to the price (whereas in Germany, prices in stores always show VAT included).

I was on one a couple times when they played a theatre play (Christmas Charol or so). Quite interesting.
The experiments are interesting but they never explained what the strategies are. It's OK for LRU and FIFO but certainly not for 2-random!
Not in China where we work 12+ hours per day, 6+ days a week.
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> There is no performance hit from using webRequest like this

Citation needed. My personal experiments show that blocking webrequest has more latency than the network connection!
> I used react-router before but absolutely hated how it mixes presentational logic with URL matching.

You may like redux-first-router, which has the URL literals as part of a routemap attached to the Redux store, and then has all routing in the app actually just be the dispatching of Redux actions. Your navigational components then end up with stuff like:

<Link to={{ type: THAT_PAGE_WITH_THE_STUFF }}>Link text here</Link>

...where the Link is actually just a convenience helper component wrapping <a> that dispatches the action and provides a browser-friendly href reverse-engineered from the routemap if possible.
Reddit-wise I doubt nothing honestly. That subreddit has been a hateful cesspool for years now, but the community and the money/traffic it bring in for the site due to the sheer amount of traffic, and backlash from big name rightwing nutters that use it for their propaganda launchpoint is more than reddit management wants to deal with, thus it's not going anywhere.
I sure hope they are wrong about the lightning port living another year
Get the impression that the author thinks themselves very special for “having hobbies” and “not being able to hold a job” too. Almost everyone has random interests and feels suffocated by having to do one thing their entire lives, but most people eventually consider money and a stable lifestyle more important. Everyone wants to have less things but most people eventually find out that having things is nicer than having no things. Big whoop!
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Can you install Linux or FreeBSD on it?
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Maybe you stumbled on an honest reason why recruiters exist?
I don't read it like that personally.

I mean, judging by some reporting[1] it sounds like the final meetings involved a framework for unionization efforts which to Amazon was probably unpalatable enough to pull out entirely just based on that.

I guess if you consider "working with the community" to equal "greasing the local union bosses" then maybe. But it's just more logical to just imagine that Amazon doesn't want to exist a blueprint for other unionization efforts nationwide.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/amazon-held-11th-hour-meetin...
How does it compare to Tunnelblick and Viscosity? Any reason to switch if I'm using a paid subscription to a mainstream VPN provider?
The question is why these minimalist tendencies exist?

If I had to guess I’d say it is about the feeling of control. If we don’t have any control over the outside world which has become quite unpredictable, and we have a hard time to control our own emtions and thoughts, it can be a soothing feeling to know exactly what you have where. It can also help with a nomadic life.

I’d argue to keep things strategically. Don’t just keep everything, but don’t just throw out everything either. Keep organized, label your drawers, sort stuff.

You should view your space as an external hard drive for your brain:
- it helps you to keep things in focus
- it helps you to revisit topics (hobbies, thoughts, emotions) now and then
- it might contain tools for creating things

If your only reason for not using that space is to avoid the mental work it needs to maintain it, that mainly means you don’t trust yourself with the decision how to organize your space in a way that serves you.
I will never buy a macbook again if they keep these stupid butterfly keyboards.
People are definitely doing this, also codified in this paper: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/9919/eurosnp.pdf (Inferring Confidential Corporate Mergers and Government Relations from Air Traffic Communication)
The difference is that there is also an overwhelming force of true speech to counter the lies and deceit. Once you start banning speech, only "official" lies will be allowed. See China.

Where the hell did you get the idea that free speech is only OK until people start to lie?

You can take my free speech from my cold, dead mouth.
It is, in itself, becoming a standard.

A small RFC should suffice for xkcd:<number> URLs to become fully supported across browsers.
Can someone explain the use cases for WireGuard? I think I'm pretty new to this whole topic.
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