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While I agree they are decent jobs, I think you are severely underestimating the costs of many trade jobs. My father, a heavy equipment mechanic, can't even open up a jar anymore because his hands are so worn down from wrenching his whole life, they are basically simple claws even if he won't admit it to himself. My grandfather who did masonry, had constant near unbearable back pain by his 50s to the point where he had trouble sitting up in a chair without severe effort. My uncle, who did general contracting, had to have both knees and both hips replaced because of the physical tolls. All of them suffer daily physical pain far beyond simple aging. Not to mention the boom and bust cycle of construction with the economy means unpredictable income in many cases. Not to mention the 20 years or so each of them have shaved off their life span.

Trades is a good job in your 20s, probably your 30s, but once you start getting to your 40s or above and your body stops performing and healing as it once did then it becomes a problem. How many trade workers never get to enjoy their retirement because their bodies have failed them?

The pay is decent, but in most cases it isn't good enough. If we started clearly putting a price tag on years of peoples lifespans and quality of life, trade jobs are no longer as attractive, and I think that is being reflected in peoples hesitation to join a trade, especially if they are a personal witness to a trade worker with failing health.

As for myself, I started trades myself doing carpentry, I was happy, then I got into an accident, another not uncommon occurrence in trades, after I recovered and tried to start again from a weaker state it became blindingly obvious how hard even just 10 years of real physical labor had done to my body. Yeah it became less noticeable once I got back to full strength, but I realized that it was just me ignoring the very real damage I was doing to my body on a daily basis. Today the only work ill even consider doing for public hire at market rate is high-end cabinetry. I still use my skills in my normal life, but im not going on some strangers roof for a paltry raise over a cashier. Im not going to breath in the chemical fumes and material dusts and pretend it isn't a problem. Im not going to lay brick for even a 20% raise. I plan on being able to actually enjoy my retirement rather than being confined to a lesser physical state full of pains and ailments.
I wish you luck, Troy!
Just don't sell it to some data mining/ad company.
I'd love to see a non-profit organisation like Mozilla pick this up, but that's obviously going to mean a lot less money going to Troy.

OTOH, it's kind of difficult to begrudge Troy gaining financially from HIBP, since he's spent years building it up and has helped increase security awareness for so many people.
This post is totally accurate. Not having a cofounder eliminates an entire class of problems. Joint decision making, maintaining shared goals (especially over time) communication and trust all are sources of difficulty on a co-founder relationship. (Source, have been a co-founder and watched multiple founding teams including some who split and some who exited.)

However, as the op points out, nothing is free (tanstaafl). Being a solo founder provides a whole new set of problems as well.

The biggest one in my mind is emotional support. Building a business is hard, and you have up and down days. I have had some miserable days as a company founder and derived enormous comfort from my co-founder. Yes, other people can help a bit, but they don't (and can't) have all the context.

The second biggest one is time. Depending on your business and runway and skills, two or more people can get a business up and running more effectively than one. Yes, as a software developer you can make sales calls. But when you are doing so, no one is writing code.

Finally, all the communication, goal setting, trust building and joint decision making that you get to skip when you are a solo founder? Eventually you have to do all of that with your employees (even if you only grow to a team of three or four). Not saying you should have a co-founder only to practice that stuff (which is hard) but don't think you're going to avoid it forever (unless you remain a solopreneur, in which case more power to you. You either have an enviable business model or a job you can't leave).
It is a burden however, and one that isn't necessary if your company has a sane BYOD policy that protects them while not being too invasive.

The reality is, convenience wins again here. I, for one, don't give a shit what control my company has over my phone. Not only has nothing ever happened as a result of me using a BYOD policy, the overall rate in the industry seems acceptably low too.

I only have 24 hours in my day, I can't be worrying about things that aren't likely to effect me in any material way. I simply don't have time.
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This is really public utility work and should be treated like it instead of a for-profit project. Many thanks to Troy for his hard work over the years for making the internet a safer place.
If my nice car tomorrow comes with a free driver, why would I be less likely to buy/own/use one?

Ridesharing is a greenwash smokescreen for an industry that predicts yearly driven miles to go up by 300%.
I use Emacs with Termux on Android. You can use the volume buttons as modifier keys, so it’s not so bad. Other solutions like Orgzly and Beorg exist, but I haven’t tried them personally.
Me too. What am I supposed to do about it, divorce my wife or take away her car keys? This is not a battle I can win without major collateral damage.

My car is nasty. The seats are brown with aftermarket goo. This is how it is when you must cooperate and compromise with other people.
Why is that an absurd statement? If you can’t say something bad about a religion or religious group, you don’t have free speech. And there are multiple countries in Europe that have laws against criticizing certain groups.
Amoungst this big thread, I've not noticed any evidence for this and the original article does not back this up with anything. Is the allegation that google are using battery warnings to push people towards using firebase notifications? Has anyone any experience of this?
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It will take years: https://www.wired.com/story/intel-meltdown-spectre-storm/.
What is "Ikea's food racket"?
It's disappointing that the article lacks any actual examples of how this might be achieved.

Take web apps for example - I imagine each micro-frontend loading in an iframe, which feels kind of icky. Alternatively, maybe you could build out a plugin architecture, where each micro-frontend is loaded as a plugin into the host.

What other approaches can be used, while keeping the "feel" of a single, cohesive app?
Please explain to me how these systems can solve the Halting problem --- Everything I've tried to find on "Hypercomputation" has either been philosophical, or computability theorists playing with halting oracles for fun. I don't know of thing that seriously claims that hypercomputation is /physically realisable/.
The article raises a very important point but unless I'm missing something, the comments here are identical to the twitter mob being talked about.

Are not statements quickly ripped of in a heat of emotion and consisting solely of impressions, rumors, opinions, hyperbole and intentional bias exactly the problem?
I withhold any opinion until I see a XKCD that expresses my feelings towards your statement.
Is it still the case that an AMD core is less powerful than an Intel core for the same frequency? I understand that AMD is making it up with more cores but in a cloud you get charged per core. Can a cloud substitute an Intel for an AMD cpu?
If you mean you want a VPN to auto-connect when certain domains are used, I'm pretty sure this feature already exists since at least iOS 8.

See https://developer.apple.com/business/documentation/Configura... and go to page 95, where it describes the OnDemandRules key for VPN configuration, which supports matching criteria based on domain names, SSID, interface type, and server reachability.

EDIT: I misunderstood. The point is not to get the VPN to auto-connect, but to use the VPN for only certain domains.
I don't doubt that it's far easier to abuse traditional captcha systems, but I wonder how wide spread that is. A while ago I did a test with securimage and tensorflow/python/opencv/keras after I read a Medium post. While it could solve captchas with a little distortion when I added squiggles, dots, and more distortion it was unable to solve the captchas. I'm sure you could spend more time and create a system that can solve these captchas, I wonder how much effort some random spammer will put in to attack your blog. Yandex uses traditional captchas, and they don't seem to have any issues.
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Could it also be a simple result of the cars coming in a giant ship all at once? I'm not sure how many cars fit in one of those ships, but I'd guess quite a few..
> There are no major systems out there of even moderate complexity that aren't built on an rdbms.

I don't think this claim is accurate.

https://www.dynamodbguide.com/the-dynamo-paper/
> I mean that I consider cryptocurrency scene to be net social negative

This sounds like nonsense. Cryptocurrencies allow people to perform secure financial transactions without relying on central banking systems, and to use the blockchain for things like decentralized time-stamping, automated escrow, prediction markets, online voting, and other services. There’s a huge amount of social value to these innovations.

> an environmental disaster

What specifically are you referring to?

> should have never left the research stage

I’m glad it did. In addition to their utility as decentralized mediums of exchange, they have inspired a lot of research in the fields of game theory and cryptography, including work on voting protocols, mechanism design, and secure multiparty computation. I think the world is much better off with this newfound knowledge, though you seem to think otherwise.

> As for Uber, their only innovation so far

Their innovation was revolutionizing ridesharing and ride-hailing. In 2015, and in the United States alone, they created $6.8 billion of consumer surplus [1], a surplus which has only increased since then. Over 95 million people use it on a monthly basis [2], with 14 million trips completed each day [3]. It is popular with the public, especially the young [4]. There is huge demand for services like Uber and Lyft to become more widely available. See for example [5].

You clearly have an axe to grind and it’s clouding your ability to evaluate things objectively.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w22627

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/833743/us-users-ride-sha...

[3] https://www.uber.com/en-CA/newsroom/company-info/

[4] https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/canadian-millennial...

[5] https://globalnews.ca/news/4895650/bc-ridesharing-poll/
Never heard about the payment for streets in front of your house for example?
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They're the claimed enemy airplanes shot down. Some of those kills were shared with other airplanes. There were several gunners on the B-17, so the number there represents all of their work.

The painted bombs above it represent the number of combat missions.

My father was the navigator, which was up front. His gun pointed out the side, which made for rather difficult deflection shots. He said the favored attack by the Luftwaffe was head on, which made deflection shots as they passed that much harder. The nose of the B-17 is a plexiglass hemisphere, and he could see the Me-109's firing straight at them, and wondered how they could miss. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, no armor.
The operating system is only a tiny fraction of commercial code out there most of which is either written in (more) memory safe languages like Java, C# or C++. SAPs code base alone is 1 billion lines of mostly C++ and their own proprietary scripting language.
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This is a strong argument for a second car, which would be much cheaper than a divorce.
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> taxis ... results in a price of 56 rappen (about half of 1 euro) per kilometre driven.

Ahem... a 7 minute ride from our hotel to the train station came up to 35 CHF. That's around 5 km, so around 7 CHF/km or 6.25 EUR/km. Just something to these dreamy 56 rappen and realism of the study in perspective.
I doubt if Apple would start a VPN service. Even if it did, it’d have restrictions, like not allowing the user to break out of their geography since that could allow users to violate policies of content sellers on Apple’s store and also any geographical content segregation that Apple may do for its own shows and movies in the future.
>Second, we already know that people are willing to spend a large amount of money on personal transit that goes above and beyond the bare necessities of transit, at least in rich western nations. I see no reason why that would suddenly stop once the vehicle’s owner is no longer behind the wheel.

The success of Uber suggests that some people are choosing not to purchase private vehicles. But we don't know if this is limited to Millennials.
> a cushy market like bookstores

Haven’t book stores been in a perilous position for decades?
Why specifically tacos?
Nerds agree that naming things is hard. Again. News at 11.
Benchmarked? For one lookup, or for repeated lookups?

Hashes have terrible cache locality. Unicode itself has locality, with the greek characters generally separate from the chinese characters and so on. The tree-based and array-based methods take advantage of this locality.
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To begin with, this may be true. But then people will think, why am I spending all this capital buying and keeping my own device when I could use a service when I need.
PostmarketOS in tandem with the Pinephone[0] should be a great choice in the future.

[0]: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/.
I used a method somewhat similar to this as an undergraduate researcher to cheaply develop patterns on copper-clad kapton for flexible circuits.

I used a solid ink printer, which I found by crawling the university network for printers and querying them for their model number until I found one. Then a very nice sysadmin let me use it on a thick sheet of copper clad kapton and it luckily did not jam! One of my few research success stories.
Because your overall cost will be lower if you just pay for what you use, and it is more convenient to not own it.

If you need it for a daily drive (in a low demand route) buying it is probably cheaper, if not, just pay per use.
> Finally, one can use the savings from paying rent

What savings?

Rent as you stated already includes anticipated maintenance costs, property taxes, the landlord's mortgage costs, often an agency fee, plus a margin for the landlord.

I don't think I've seen rental rates ever cheaper than a personal mortgage. The main advantage of renting is avoiding long-term commitment but you'll pay a premium for that flexibility. Otherwise there wouldn't be an incentive for landlords.
Would retrieving the module bring the same kind of benefit as fixing Hubble did?
It would have to be done in stages anyway. The first stage would be to send a tug out that would return Snoopy to an Earth centric orbit. Such a mission would be unmanned and would take many years, on the order of a decade or more. That mission would be something low cost and low risk.

Getting it out if Earth orbit and back to Earth would be much harder. But who knows, maybe by then something like starship would be operational.
I doubt that the house would be 4 million. Thanks to reducing population, increased building and housing. Plus who knows how the weather will be, I'm not sure that owning a house is the right thing in 20 years.
I think a set of two equations is enough:

Eve + AliceBob → Alice + Bob + Eve
Alice + Bob → AliceBob

I understand with non-deterministic behaviour and 10 Alices, 10 Bobs and 10 Eves I can get in a certain state (Alice, Bob, Eve, AliceBobs) = (1, 1, 10, 9), but if we stick to the evaluation order defined by the language, then the two rules above satisfy the condition.
> so the agent didn't have to show us any houses or help us along in any way. She just submitted our offer and that was that.

Why didn’t you submit it yourself and save all that money?
I don't know much about company account structures and finance dynamics, but that doesn't sound like much compared to the $15.7bn price?
In Sweden agents that help with house hunting basically don't exist outside the very very top end of the market. Everybody finds their own houses via ads, book their own viewings with the sellers agent and handles the bidding process themselves. When it comes to paper work the buyer and seller "shares" the same agent who has a fiduciary duty to both parties (even though they're paid by the sellers). With the internet being what it is people should be able to "hunt" their own houses and set up their own viewings.
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The author talks about some of their projects, with videos, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/byyu30/vulkan_lasers_...
I don't understand why BigCo would ever go with the last option after talent exhaustion. The former two make way more sense.
"Of course, if only we'd thought of that! All that waste we waste, we could just stop wasting it!"

https://youtu.be/Zoz5EuIF_y8
It would be nice if they had included images/gifs.
Not everyone is internet savvy. Not everyone knows what they want. Not everyone knows what they can afford. Not everyone comes from a history of property ownership. Some people need assistance on things that others can self-serve.
What do you mean about the images and files, specifically? If embedding images within an org file, it is super easy, just do ‘[[file://image/path.jpg]]’ and run M-x org-toggle-inline-images (i think that’s the command).

My org files (all of which reside in my agenda directory, ~/org) are divided primarily into archives.org (i keep a datetree log here), wiki.org (bookmarks, notes etc), and tasks.org. With sparse trees, narrowing to subtree etc I tend to keep big monolithic files and just filter for the view I want, though many seem to prefer smaller ones (i find it harder to sync more files and directories though, and I’m unsure of the advantages more files provide).
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Everything seems to be going towards "As a service".

People who used to buy DVDs now use Netflix.
Companies who used to buy serves use AWS.
What if I don’t know what couch I want?

I spent like 2 months going couch shopping every other weekend. I couldn’t decide. Whatever I bought I’d own, and be tied to forever, it feels like. Selling shit is time consuming and annoying. Moving it later or donating it is annoying and maybe been expensive. And the damn couch itself was expensive too. It felt like this big decision that I had to get right.

I didn’t end up buying anything.

I’d have much rather just picked out something interesting to rent for a while, see if I like it. If I do do, great. If not, it’s easy to change it.
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After 4 years you paid for the sofa 2400$, "rest of your money" is -400$, sofa doesn't belong to you, and in case of scummy renter you own money for damage repairs and cleaning. Ready for legal litigation?
> The ideal level of demand and price lies at a fleet of some 3,000 automated taxis, which results in a price of 56 rappen (about half of 1 euro) per kilometre driven. This roughly corresponds to the current per kilometre costs of a conventional private vehicle, but is much lower than the 2.73 Swiss francs per kilometre of a conventional taxi.

If you look at the full context, I think the article states that this is the price which could be achieved by an optimally sized fleet of driverless taxis - it even says right there that the actual, current price with conventional taxis is much higher than that figure.

The current taxi fees in Zurich are actually even higher than 2.73, even before factoring in the base fee and fees for waiting times, but I don't see how that in itself would limit what prices driverless taxis can realistically achieve.
>a case of prioritizing your organizational chart over the end user experience
this seems to happen regardless:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Interesting. One of the reasons I switched to mutt (well, neomutt) is that it is faster for me to work with attachements from a cli. This is mostly due to tab completion, which for commonly accessed locations is practically muscle memory. Takes me forever to to click my way there.
I've bought 3 homes now and sold 2. There was no "house hunting" process. I went online, looked at photos, and made an offer - same as you.

On my second home, I told the realtor exactly what I wanted and where. She failed to find it in her search (she did a zip code search instead of looking at the map), so I showed her the listing I wanted to see. There was no extra value to justify 3% of a sale for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

As for the seller's agent? They put the listing on MLS and have a token "open house" for a couple hours on one day. If you're lucky, they get a professional photographer and print a few brochures for the walk throughs.

> People seeking to disrupt the “fill out the final transactional paperwork” part of real estate need to figure out how to disrupt the whole value chain, not just the part that looks outrageously overpriced.

Why is that? Why not focus on fixing the worst part of the problem?
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Not everyone understand French.
Will they work only with ProtonVPN?
Not OP, but many think that Disney's launching it's streaming service will kill Netflix since it will pull all of it's content from Netflix and other streaming sites.
> Why was StackOverflow their last resort?

A quick look at pretty much any question on SO will explain that - between the "you're doing it wrong", "your question is worded 95% too imprecisely for me to help", "use something else", "[answer to entirely different question with overtones of patronisation and insult]" etc. answers, life's generally too damned short to bother with SO.
How many people do you know that have replaced a personal car with Uber? I’ve known two people like that, and everyone else I know uses them in place of traditional taxis.
One blemish is not enough to cast away the entire credibility of the source. NYT has published a lot of original reporting that has proven to be true, but of course that doesn't matter on this conversation at all, doesn't it.
Yes, not everyone can read or use a computer. And yet almost everyone pays for all those realtor services they don't need or even use.
> in a cloud you get charged per core. Can a cloud substitute an Intel for an AMD cpu?

In a cloud you typically pay for cores from a specific CPU type. Presumably any clouds at offer AMD cpus will price them in a competitive manner.
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Why not just keep calling it OpenSUSE, a recognised brand, and use the leverage that its brand recognition brings to SUSE (the company) 's products, to get them to do what the community prefers, or keep the right sort of distance etc. ? Sounds like a win/win.