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> Use my spare time to study a more lucrative field

assuming you are in software development field, it is tricky to get into a more lucrative one, probably easier to just stay here.

> Move to a country where the cost of living is cheap, and freelance with international clients

Not long-term sustainable. Might work for couple years (especially if you are single and have perfect health), but after a lot of problem will show up – relatives, friends, connections, etc. Also, you might want your own home.

Overall, you listed it. Other ideas are:

1. embrace it. Be consistent in your hobbies, and dedicate one day to it (like Saturday). It is tough for new hobbies, but if you are already in it, might be just fine. Not everybody has to produce something artsy and from their passion – your family, what you like might be enough. Try to reflect on it sometime, it might clear some things for you.

2. Retire early. If you live more frugally (or not so posh, depending on your preferences), you can easily save plenty of money, which will allow you to retire not in 65, but around ~45 (number depends heavily, but you got the idea).

3. Aggressively negotiate vacation days, and take off 1–2 days at the end/beginning of the week. You'll work much less (you'll notice it), and taking 2 days off reduces 2 weeks into 4 days work week.
In Canada, you can go to a local grocery store or meat shop and choose meat cuts and have them grind them for you on the spot.
Isn't that just something WordPress developers say?

I work on enterprise "Line of Business" applications and WordPress has no place in that world.

I'd agree it solves most of the "we need a website" needs. And some of the "we need to be able to sell shit through our website" needs. But not "the majority of business needs".

Though I agree with your fundamental assessment of just focus on how to deliver business value and less on hype. It's true. But I'm going to hazard a guess and say it's possibly more true for some segments of the population than others.
I find it hilarious that most solo or indie developers (who they are targeting, and the vast majority of developers) won't be able to get a .dev domain judging by these prices. If they really cared, they would have some program where they validated you were a real developer and actually put some effort into screening out squatters.

Instead they have implemented a braindead dutch auction-style system that ensures developers will not be represented fairly. The marketing and implementation of this are out of touch and its doubtful this effort will be successful.
This is probably what I resonate with most.
The article is about going solo.

If someone pays you 250k for a simple project. Either you got a REALLY good deal or the project is complex and it will require you to hire people. On the latter it's not about solo anymore.

> You do not want to be some charge me by the hour consultant where they can just find someone cheaper, they will start to think of you like that, and will find someone else.

I can make the same argument about hiring someone else who charges less per week or full project. Simple.

The amount you get payed is highly dependable on the client. For most freelancers, charging for a week is a terrible mistake unless you've a proven track record and some reputation.

I'm assuming the vast majority of freelancer are software developers. The location has a major impact on how much you get payed. If you live in San Fran you can charge a lot because that place is terribly expensive. Don't forget Europe has good developers fluent in English. You'll face competition worldwide.

Also, it's easier to hire someone by the hour. The client can quickly see if you work great together and even give you bigger projects. It takes some time to build reputation and trust with clients.

> You do not have overcharge or be dishonest about it.
From a moral point of view, hourly is fair.
I'd expect that 40 push-ups are a proxy for good cardiovascular health rather than a cause of it. I.e. practicing push-ups in isolation is unlikely to improve cardiovascular health by itself.
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slow and bloated as hell
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Omg so it's not just me. For a while maybe I thought Im just a bad person for feeling that way.
99% of people who can't do 40 push-ups are going to fail because they don't have the strength. Firefighters are probably one of the only demographics where you are going to get a non-trivial percentage who have the strength but not the cardiovascular health required.
There are people in the ML fields right now getting those rates for 1-2 person shops. That is where I have seen this. It totally does depend on the field though. Look, I totally understand that you cannot walk off the street and get those rates for project. You need to work your way up, specialize, build a reputation, and cultivate the correct clients, etc. That is all I am trying to get at. My strategy would not be to charge by the hour after the initial stages. I was just trying to make the point that you can focus on the end results. But, different strokes for different folks. There is always multiple ways of going about things.

The thread rpeden references is a really sound way to implementing this plan.
If you're a big org, presumably you could just get your org to just buy the TLD if it's that much trouble.

Something tells me it's not actually that much trouble though, and people just like whining about minor inconveniences because it's the internet and they can.
Amazon Route 53. Full blown registrar.
I heard this 30+ years ago in a business strategy class so it's probably true.
Get a lawyer, review contracts, hire an accountant, register as a company...is this really better than working a regular 9-5?

Sounds like the OP spends just as much time (if not more) doing paperwork, meetings, phone calls and other assorted meta-work as programmers in Big Tech Co, if not more.

Corporate America can be a drag, I get it. Annual reviews, backstabbing office politics, the wrong people get promoted, loud open offices full of clowns that prevent you from concentrating but from this write-up it doesn't sound like going solo is any hassle-free Shangrila, either.

For a certain class of people they like the "freedom" and hey, more power to you. By all means, enjoy the IC life. But I'd just as soon move to a different company if I'm unhappy at my job and not deal with this Kafkaesque amount of paperwork of being an independent consultant.
Keto isn’t a high protein diet.
Using technology to kickstart the discussion about the economical solution is not a bad idea. It would be nice to have a neutral place to discuss technology and it's slowly stopping to be a thing.
Depending on your usecase, Leafnode might be reasonable.

Personally, when I needed NNTP I sprung straight for INN, but be prepared to educate yourself.

http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/
hard to tell from the description of the study, it was done on firefighters, I would have though most would have reasonable cardio, I'm not sure if they did anything to isolate an overall lack of fitness from pushups
Go to meetups, talk to colleagues who have quit your current company, try to attend or speak at conferences, start a blog and post at the bottom that you’re available for consulting...

There’s no rule that says you can’t pitch projects to people, if you think you could help make a company better call them up and pitch them on it.
I have been using OneNote over text files for a while now. Herr are my reasons.

1. Better organization. One note organizes my files into notebooks and pages. This is really important to me to prepare study notes, as I find arranging the notes just like the technical books' table of content I'm reading.

2. To easily apply Cornell(two columns of hint and description) note taking method.

3. To search easily. Once I studied a book and took my notes well, there is no better way to search and recall.

4. Sketch with my notes. This helps me represent ideas I study into my own mental model. Also great for representing my startup ideas.

5. Record myself into the note reciting the material.voice memo.

6. Doing all of the above on my computer and phone and finding everything in place.

Again, there might be work around for doing all this. But once you get into Evernote and OneNote you find it really hard to go back into text files.
> (1) made only with ingredients or processes endogenous to living organisms without human intervention or (2) when harvested industrially, the harvest is only mechanical.

Well, there goes cooked food.
I have a Keyboardio Model 01: https://shop.keyboard.io/

The Kickstarter version cost $250, they go for $329 now. It's really comfortable, and I use the palm-switch and thumb keys very naturally.
The solution is to stop respecting the style tag and enforce sane defaults that the user has control over. The Web was meant to be a means of creating academic documents with fancy citations in a tree structure, not a glossy magazine delivery mechanism.
Delta did lifetime silver for 1M miles, which was their lowest level. They did give a nice Tumi suitcase at the 1M (or was it 2M?) actual miles mark, but I don't think it does much outside of a normal high status... probably zone one boarding, or something like that. Once you hit diamond status, upgrades domestically were pretty common. International... not so much. The flexibility was the really nice thing - they always would go out of their way to get you on the route you wanted if possible.

With status multipliers (but flying meat space), the most I ever hit was 623k miles in a year. I suspect it was close to 300k 'real' miles. Our travel person was booking 'round the world' tickets to save money at that point.
I find this "growth mindset" stuff disturbing.

Let me start by saying that I don't believe a word of it. The evidence I have seen suggests that intelligence is important in pretty much all intellectual activities, can be accurately measured by IQ tests, and cannot be improved. This is also, as far as I can tell, the strong consensus of the psychological community.

Assuming this is true, the proliferation of this "growth mindset" thinking has at least two scary thoughts:

1. If we encourage people to adopt a growth mindset because it will make them do better, than we are telling them what to believe without caring whether or not it is true. We are encouraging the adoption of convenient beliefs. Is that what educators should do?

2. It may lead to building an even more unequal society than the one we already have. Imagine the person who has no natural ability at all in a given field and does not succeed in it. If that person has a fixed mindset, they can conclude they have no ability and move on. If that person has a growth mindset, will they have any other option than to blame themselves for being lazy? A growth mindset means that mere bad luck is turned into culpability. Success is largely the product of luck, whether due to the wealth of one's parents or one's natural ability. If everyone in society adopts a growth mindset, then successful people can claim they are morally superior than people who fail.

Even assuming this research is accurate, it's not some happy uplifting story about how being positive can solve all your problems. It's a nasty ethical can of worms.
Used to? What do you do now? What happened?
I agree. It’s true of many (all?) diets that its proponents tend to overestimate the applicability of any one diet to all people.

Dietary science is at its infancy. Contrary to what most people would assume, we have mountains of anecdotes, mountains of opinions, and very few hard facts. Navigating diet from a fact-first, science-first perspective is deeply frustrating.
I think it's important to keep in mind that Lena Forsen (and the other models of Playboy) made the decision to be photographed nude and to have those photos published as a creative expression. To portray the exhibition as exploitative robs them of their agency and demeans their decision.
If the toothpick was spinning around it's long axis it would be hell easy to balance it. Not only bigger things are stable, it depends on the dynamics of what you are trying to solve.
> 7. Solder in order of cost and success rate.

Thanks for this. I guess I've always gotten lucky here but now I'm imagining the frustration of getting done with all the discretes on a board just to blow it all on the uC. Great advice, thanks again.
But the study also measured cardiovascular fitness via treadmill and didn't find the same correlation.
This. It’s interesting to read all the other reasons people think that we don’t have a shorter workweek but the above is the simplest reason. It’s also easier to manage 1 person working 40 hours than 2 people working 20 hours. It’s also less effort to interview and hire 1 vs 2 people. As the business owner you might even prefer hiring a 60 hour employee over 1.5 40 hour employees by the same reasoning, but we in the U.S. and western world have reached an equilibrium in the supply/demand at something around 40 hours.
There’s a bit of a prisoners dimemna in the “individual choice” aspect of addressing climate change. Because, a lot of people don’t want to give something up (e.g., fly less, eat less meat) if no one else is going to.

But I don’t think that means individual choice can’t be effective; it’s just an unsolved problem as to how we get people to make those choices. (Because if it’s time to panic, it’s in large part due to the fact that public policy has not budged on the issue. We need every tool available.)

Agriculture really is the thing to address. Some estimates put it as high as a third of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s not just methane. It’s the soil degradation (healthy soil being an extremely effective carbon sink), the destruction of forests for grazing land, all of the petrochemical inputs, all of the transportation costs to bring that out-of-season fruit from halfway around the world to your plate.

I really believe that in order to address the issue of climate change, in the time frame we have, our diet has to change, and with it our method of farming.
I tried to buy stuff much more simple to what we are talking about here and the vendors wanted ITAR weivance papers and stuff.
The gross part isn't using all the animal. Go ahead and make sausage. The issue is pretending a low grade of meat is a higher grade.
> Sounds like the OP spends just as much time (if not more) doing paperwork, meetings, phone calls and other assorted meta-work as programmers in Big Tech Co, if not more.

That's business ownership for you. The one thing you're almost certainly NOT getting (at least at the start) is more coding time.
Working out for 40 minute high intensity sessions (making every minute count) 3 times a week is enough to become buff as hell.

You need adequate resting time as well.

The rule is if it doesn't ache for a couple days after, you need to go harder/heavier.

Sounds like he's not making the most of his workouts.

You can actually do a full body workout with just 5 compound exercises: https://stronglifts.com/5x5/ and believe me when I say that after doing just 5 sets of 5 reps at your max of a deadlift you will be tired as hell.
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The biggest advantage with medium is the visibility of your blog post. Why not just use google blogspot website if all you want is just adhoc blogging?
Not phishing?
At least you aren't directly accusing me of failing to RTFM!

I've been vaguely aware of what's in that RFC, but I don't think reserving those TLDs for local stuff means that other TLDs are off limits. I certainly don't use example.com for all example emails. Developer happiness comes first.

I got burned by going with domains outside that doc, but I think the blame goes on Google, not on those who decided to use .dev without making it an official standard. I think if it was an official standard Google might still have muscled their way into getting .dev, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same with .test in the future.
What's the need if you're not having any form of credential store?
Let's dial things back to before we entered the darkest timeline: the fork in the road where HTML5 happened instead of XHTML2 development being continued. A stricter, saner markup standard with less overhead to developing a rendering engine, and shitcan scripts as well.
Green-washing the stuff doesn't make it any less of a processed food.

These are orthogonal issues.
My understanding is that yachts are owned by a company whose 'investor' keeps having to bail it out. "Oh dear" cries the billionaire to their accountant "such an enormous tax loss". Of course, the occasional week long rental to mere multi-millionaires does help fill the hole a little.
[idea]Compatible code for Markdown literary programming
Compatible code for Markdown literary programming. Just add a custom line comment character before each line of Markdown.

When previewing or converting a format, you only need to simply preprocess: replace the `\r\n\;` with `\r\n`
(note: line comment character of Clojure is `;`)

For example:

```

;# Markdown literary programming

;## example01:

;```clojure

(defn f [[evens odds total amax amin] x]

(let [[evens odds] (cond

(even? x) [(inc evens ) odds]

(odd? x) [evens (inc odds)]

:else [evens odds])

total (+ total x)

amax (max amax x)

amin (min amin x)]

[evens odds total amax amin]))

(reduce f [0 0 0 ##-Inf ##Inf] [5 6 8 -3 -9 11 156 6 7])

;```

;`=>[4 5 187 156 -9]`

```
Start with hourly, move away from it as soon as you can workably do so.
The idiom "it's best not to watch the sausage being made" comes to mind, here.
I am the OP and I spend far less actually... a few hours at the beginning of a contract sure but the average contract is multiple months. All of the bills are auto paid, I just need to choose the right card/account when I pay for something. Invoices take about two minutes to generate using a free site called “invoice-generator.com.” The accountant I would have hired anyway to do my taxes. I don’t pay for the lawyer if I don’t use them.

I also get to skip doing phone screens, interviews, being oncall... I am spending a lot more of my time focusing on product problems than I was as a full time employee.

Also - this might be obvious but the goal is to make more than you made as a full time employee or get more vacation time for the same amount per year not merely tread water.
I mean it's not surprising that, in firefighters, pushups would be a better predictor of cardiovascular health than a VO2 max estimation. For the treadmill test, they cut participants off at 85% of their predicted max heart rate. Whereas with 40 push-ups you're pretty much guaranteed to be at your actual max heart rate after the first 10 or 15.

In other words, push-ups are probably a better measure of cardiovascular fitness than the treadmill test, but only for the tiny percentage of the population who isn't limited by strength.
Nope. Testing is a meaningful term in software development, and what I was using it for doesn't entirely fit into my concept of testing. Much of it was just development.
People deserve to be judged on the outcomes they achieve and the evidence they provide.

Sure, much of the evidence around for this stuff is anecdotal or n=1 pathology results, but it's necessarily the case that anecdote and small-sample data is the first step in the chain of events that can lead to scientific findings.

If your point is simply that sometimes people believe things that are untrue, that is obvious to the point of banality.

If it’s that anyone experimenting with carnivore diets and reporting positive results should by-default be treated with distrust or contempt, your point seems to lack both compassion and scientific awareness.
You assume that the women who choose to model in Plaboy do so not out of their own free will and choice. That is somewhat diminutive of these women wouldn’t you say?

Who are you to say anything about their character or quality as “objects”? It seems uncharacteristically harsh to just make an assumption like that.
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I think the problem is that runPar is currently allowed to return an IVar to the code that called it, which could then pass that IVar into a different runPar invocation. That's not something the runtime system expects, or the type system should allow.
"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" Be sure to guard your hearts from the idolatry of work.
It's not honestly lean beef. If it were, it would be red.

It's connective tissue, with a bit of lean beef mixed in. This has a different nutritional profile. There is less iron, and the amino acid proportions are different.

We could call it "pureed tendons, ligaments, defatted fat tissue, cartilage, lean beef, and ammonia or citric acid". That is a long and unwieldy name. The common name, known to consumers, is pink slime.
i really worry about what we're doing to the ecology of the ocean with all these fish oil supplements.

in my country they're now also selling "red krill oil" which sound horrendously inefficient.
Re grid representation - The convolution operator is translation equivariant. (waving hands, it means that the translation operated on the Input Signal is still detectable in the output features set)

However, it was shown many times that coupling the convolution operator with a pooling layer achieves translation invariance by means of dimensionality reduction.

Moreover, rotational equivariance (and subsequently invariance) is an active area of research. There's an interesting talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UKL3kOlOds&list=PLlMMtlgw6q...) by Boomsma/Frellsen about the use of spherical convolutions in deep learning applications of molecular structures.
A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)
> I would have though most would have reasonable cardio

I don't know if there are any national standards. But I'm under the impression that at most places there is some baseline cardio component to the fitness test, but that the upper body strength standards are much more demanding.
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This recommendation, solicited or not, is a very strong example of how to market a consulting business. Sales for consulting businesses can be more than half the trick to making it go and selling services requires credibility. Most consulting businesses that I'm aware of start with one or a small number of existing relationships with built-in credibility and usually the business is started with at least one sale in pocket. When it's time to try and go beyond your initial customers recommendations especially public ones from past happy customers go a long way to establishing credibility and shortening the sales cycle. So it pays double or more in the long run if you can establish relationships with and take care of the directors, VPs and CEOs that you're working for regardless of who the hiring manager is.
I am thinking of launching a course on how to become a UX consultant / designer if anyone here designs and wishes to go down that path. Let me know... You can expect 60-150k, work from home.
This isn't AI; it adds letters and words...
So when my two sisters were plastering their walls with very good looking males to which they masturbated, it was making it harder for me as a male to be percieved as being equal ?

Or the fanservice aimed at females in current-day shows like Riverdale where these hot guys throw off their shirts at the hint of an opportunity ?

This idea that it is somehow wrong to appreciate and find pleasure in the physical appearance of people is something I find very hard to understand. Are we going to ban makeup ?
I’ve heard the line between collusion and conscious parallelism, viewed from the outside, described like this: A group of people leave a building and all open their umbrellas at the same time. If it’s raining, that’s conscious parallelism. If it’s not raining, that’s collusion.
Isn't that problem shared by all ground beef?