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yeah, I'm not a fan of seafood.

Was watching some travel videos, not sure if what's available or just their tastes. I know some people love to try tons of new foods too as part of the experience.

Knowing me I'd probably go halfway around the globe and visit McDonald's for some McNuggets. I know Egypt has them. but I wonder about the language barrier when ordering too... I think in some touristy areas though at least one worker would know some English as a pretty common language.

But I guess at the end of the day get back to your ship with your room, same toilet, etc. However, I wonder if world cruises change up their menu as they sail or if the buffet would always have similar food... I'd think a cruise leaving America and returning for half a year would probably still serve up some American styled food while in China for example... but I think they might also offer some more local styled dishes.

Maybe someday if I get lucky in tech as those types of cruises cost about the price of a new luxury car. I know through a half a year cruise, probably a lot of Visas and I think you need a yellow fever vaccine depending on the ports. but I guess if you have that kind of money to go on one, probably someone to advice you. But I've never been a cruise anyways, so probably go on a few ones around the Caribbean, Bahamas, Mexico as that is pretty common from the US. Also interested in an Alaska, Canadian New England ones first to see how I like them... and then if going on a world cruise check out the same line on a shorter cruise once or twice before committing to something that huge. Be like a once in a lifetime experience though. There's even some that go to Antarctica. Mediterranean ones in Europe. Also seen some that go around Washington State, Oregon and California too.

Always been interested in cruises and traveling more though, but feel like it'd be the perfect style of travel. I think if I hit it big I'd probably just sail full time for a few years, then RV across the US. Be an interesting alternative lifestyle. I know my family is against this idea though, but I think it's because people judge small little snippets of what they see on TV. Sure bad parts of Mexico and crime, but I think if you stick to touristy areas and be careful you'd be alright. So much fear mongering on television.

Speaking of television. I remember when the travel channel used to actually be about travel. Now it's just back to back marathons of ghost hunting shows it seems.
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Fair points but at least you don’t have to worry about changes in implied volatility (Vega) when shorting. You can buy a put option right before an earnings report and watch it’s implied volatility drop like a rock after the earnings report is released. This can remove any profit you would’ve made pretty straightforwardly with a short. Not to mention you also have to pay Theta (time-decay value) all while holding the put option.
Anyone know of a framework for building out tools like this one with our own blocks? I have a use case for an internal tool to enable constrained configuration builds.
Some of these are pretty volatile: https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/5A570E78-23CD-11E...

Tesla is also unusual in having an extremely large P/E compared to the typical S and P 500 company. That means it's being valued on future expectations, not present realities. Expectations of the future can swing much more wildly than those for present based businesses.
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Did you catch the fact that it wasn’t his idea to start doing that and that they never told him not to do so?
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I always liked the old travel burglar alarms that were effectively a door stop with a trip point on it that would trigger a small charge that went off like a gun if someone opened the door while you slept.
How do brains remember decisions?
There's an interesting angle here of what a "superpower" does to someone's psychology. He internalized the ability to do these extraordinary things - including using the phone staff as a therapist line - as such a part of his identity, that he was devastated by having to live normally again. It's hard for myself to imagine myself getting to the point where I think I'm that special, but I'm not so naive to think that if I had a bunch of money and/or privilege for decades it couldn't happen to me too.

> “So in my incoherent state,” he writes, “I would book a seat for Dan or Laurie just imagining that they might come. I was making reservations and didn’t know whether I was even going. Here is why. I was up and [alone] in my home office and bored. So I would call the 800 number for the AAirpass desk and talk to the agent about the news or the weather or about Paris or little London. Then, after an hour of nothing they had to hang up. So I would make a reservation and ask them to fax it to me. Then the next day I would take the fax and cancel the reservation. I needed someone to talk to at midnight. The 800 number was open.”

Even his son says up front that he doesn't see what his dad was doing as such a sensational, extraordinary thing, that that description "doesn’t quite land," which is astonishing too.
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What if... This is crazy, but what if the lock also exposed different colour so a locked one is red, but an unlocked one is green? ;)
How hard is it to build a c compiler with garbage collection and compile all the the pre-existing code with safe garbage collection ?
I like the idea of having something like PROLOG/minikanren builtin to the language.

Prolog is neat, but I wouldn't use it for text processing and database access, so the logic programming piece to me makes better sense as embedded functionality in a more general purpose language, which is what I'm guessing you did here?
It depends on whether you think everyone should be encouraged to vote or whether you think only people who are 'informed voters' should vote (people who have followed the political debate and are informed on policy positions, etc). The latter don't need to be encouraged; they are self-motivated.

Again, I'm not taking either position myself but those are two different political positions which exist. Google is choosing one and thus taking a political, pro-active stance.
The second "part" to his huffpost article is re-telling the story from the first nytimes article from his perspective - it was eventually solved via removing "20 crafty lines from a config file".

Interestingly, if I go to his site now, it's ran on PHP 5.6.40 (not supported[0]) and is on Joomla 3.6.2, current Joomla is 3.9.5.

0: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
Miku is absolutely based on one and only one person: Fujita Saki. Though the two don't sound like each other.

Also, just cause you find it creepy doesn't mean it's reciprocated by everyone else in the world. Besides, the usage in that booth was very tongue in cheek.
Wow this some FUD hit job put out the day before earnings... #fakenews
Some day what employees actually make with stocks will be public and doubt will be dissipated all ways. MAybe a company like Forge can do it.
1., 2. Sounds like a pain in the arse to manage while I work at maintaining my work-life balance.

You're presenting a false dichotomy. There is also

3. Technically superior whose top priority of learning things got them where they are. Maintaining work life balance is just one of the many tools this person has learned over the years to be consistently effective over the long term instead of running into burnout.
Right. Tesla short-sellers and media critics say all their doings are virtuous and normal actions in the context of stock markets, but I think the intensity of the feeding-frenzy makes it all a bit weird.

For example, let's say I think IBM has oversold 'Watson' AI. I would take a short position in IBM and start publishing my concerns. Fair enough. But if I start camping outside every hospital that uses Watson, badgering staff going in and out, it should at least raise eyebrows... Same with all the claims the Tesla short-sellers manage to spread by spending their lives flying planes over factories and camped out near parking lots trying to count vehicle production/sale figures, leading to mainstream media publishing vague allegations like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/tesla-cars-quest...
You don’t even need a compiler for this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector
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I'd choose the first and I don't consider "moving fast and learning tons" very compelling.

That might just mean that the 2nd person would try to shoehorn projects into new frameworks and discount working solutions for shiny new (and cutting edge) tech. All in the name of "moving fast and learning tons".
Don't forget that this would not have been possible if it weren't for the human creation of art. Machines cannot really think, but they can leverage and amplify.
This guy was a stockbroker, not some random barista. He knew what he wanted and how to ask for it. Trying to pretend that travel agents did this all on his behalf and he's just a poor victim is naive.
A prominent Republican once said: ‘if you’re not with us, you’re against us’. I get the impression that this is still their policy.
You were outside? I mean...
I need to spend time with people. I feel miserable when I don't. I doesn't matter if it's quality time, I can literally be doing nothing useful but if I'm sharing that time with someone else then it's all good.

The irony is that I frequently don't because of some circumstances that I live in, but I'm working hard to change change that.
"Chaos and Fractals", a huge tome of a book , from the 1990s, is an incredible book to learn about Feigenbaum's work and others. The programming language it uses is rather obsolete, but it's such a wonderful book for a motivated high school or college student.
I think the exact opposite way. I wish there were no legally paid time off ever. Just pay people when they work and not when they don't.
> once you're senior enough, you are never 100% on vacation

This has not been my experience either personally or by proxy to my more-senior colleagues. But it may be I have found myself in a particular niche which is non-representative.
I wish we could get some numbers on this, as I've lived in the same spread of places as you and I agree with the GP. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

The sustainable rural community is exceedingly rare - most are propped up by ag subsidies and state aid. For much of the central part of America, there's no housing benefit or tourism to speak of, just resources (corn/soy in general, maybe livestock).
Wonder what tech company will end up purchasing Tesla.
I've brought this up at my workplace as well and it isn't a budget issue in the US, it's mostly a lack of creativity or follow through from your office management team. Because more private, both in height and gap, doors aren't common in the US contractors aren't used to installing them and suppliers don't commonly carry them.

You can find them at suppliers in major cities but you have to rely on the persistence of your office managers to track them down and spend time on something that most people don't rally around or bring up in discussions. The compromise in my office was rubber strips that cover the gaps found in normal stall doors, those are easily bought and installed by anybody.
The mark of an intellectual is curious mind is to investigate even things that seem obvious, to understand their nature.
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As someone who used this very technique to get into a leadership position, there's a difference between using this to give other people credit and using this to get people into your side. The idea is to have a win-win situation where your needs and theirs align. You should have something to consider a win for yourself out of this. As an example, you have a customer who defines success as X. In order to get to X you need feature Y. By having a conversation with the product manager you use leading questions to get the product manager to suggest Y. You agree, the product manager gets a win in a new useful feature the customer loves, your workload goes down and the customer sees you as invaluable. Customer retention goes up and you get to celebrate that win for yourself.

It seems like a lot of work, but if you do this continually then you build trust with other teams, and you become more skilled with the process. Bad actors generally aren't smart enough to realize when you're giving them rope to hang themselves so this same technique can be used against them and they will look insane blaming others for their own bad ideas.

It sounds as if you could use a mentor to guide you through the technique and avoid the pitfalls you fell into. I'd also suggest learning how to effectively market yourself. I'm nothing special, don't have a bachelor's degree, and used to have terrible people skills. I'm now highly in demand and effectively can make my own roles wherever I go. It's definitely possible for anyone to do.
I was pointing out another very mainstream language (even more than Go and far more than Erlang) that has the same abilities.

What do you mean by impact/shift exactly? I guess I'm not understanding what's suddenly going to change now since, as you say, these ideas are old and implemented several times before.
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We really would like to pack you in quicker, but were wondering how to sell it.
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Learn JavaScript and Rust by writing a naive JavaScript engine in Rust from scratch

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> of the 3,009 flight segments Dad booked for himself from May 2005 to December 2008, he either canceled or was considered a “no-show” for 84 percent of those reservations.

So for a period of three and a half years, he booked about 2.3 flights a day, every day, and then only flew on about 1 in 6 of them. And he did a similar thing with his companion ticket.

There is a cost to this — 1st class seats the airline couldn’t sell or give to more valuable customers. The greater cost to the airline it seems was not flying this guy around, but his cancellations - which cost him nothing. And I think the judge, and many reasonable people would say that while the rules are unclear, he was clearly acting in bad faith.
Oh, perhaps you meant to reply to someone else, as workplace charging was the topic of my parent comment.
God, yes.

The last three times I’ve had international flights, the puddle jumper connecting flights have been so delayed that I missed the connection. It seems like the big flights rarely get delayed, but God help you if you need to fly from, say DC to Philly (145 miles) or Baltimore to New York (250 miles).

On my next-to-last trip, it took American 13 HOURS to get me from DC to Montreal (450 miles). And they lost my luggage. Literally, I could have taken the bus faster.

It’s gotten so bad that I no longer take the puddle jumper flights. I now book to fly directly out of Dulles or Philly or New York and just drive there, or take Amtrak. It’s both faster and cheaper.
I know about that one but can I compile mysql, httpd and all its dependencies with it enabled? I don't care if it is 100x slow.
It's not "more demanding" it's "overcritical".

The benefit comes from exactly the thing you're superficially asking for; it seems "higher quality" to be cynical towards things, as if you're "discerning". From it you can get respect from people who aren't very credible.

The problem is you miss out on good ideas and the more credible people don't generally take you seriously.
The world isn't going to end because of war or famine or anything like that, but because humans will be too infatuated with their artificial partners to bother reproducing.
If loneliness causes poor health habits, a machine that cures poor health habits would be an exquisite device for psychological torture - removing the possibility of death while preserving all the yearning for it. Asimov wrote a story once about that -- a selfish and suffering God who tortured brilliant souls by giving them eternal life so they would help God in God's quest for a method of suicide that would kill an immortal.
I think what’s been helpful for us with posting this here is to hear of different ideas for how someone might hack Fathom. When we came up with it, our starting point wasn’t “you have the salt and IP address”, go break a hash. It was on the assumption that you don’t have the salt or IP. I think we can improve what we’ve built. 720 salts improves resilience in a few areas but not in the scenario you are painting here. The scenario you’re painting here has made me think of additional ideas though.

If they had the salt, IP and user agent, they’d have to also brute force every possible hostname and pathname, which would be insane. But I suppose they’d only have to do a few million based on the data we have on hostnames / pathnames...

Lots of ideas for improvement are popping into my head and I love how this community keeps challenging you to improve things. We had feedback on Reddit but it was much angrier!

The next step is to take your feedback and look into how we would defend against the scenario you’ve provided. Thank you!
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The ideas in Getting More, by Stuart Diamond.

And many others...in particular books written in foreign languages, which I cannot share here due to linguistic barriers.
I think he reined it in pretty well for this article, there were a few personal asides but it didn't throw me out of the narrative like it usually does.
Austin, TX apparently. FTA: “Level Two is a 240 volt socket, which are the weirdo-looking ones you see for your washer or dryer or some kinds of ovens. This is a much faster connection, adding 20-25 miles per hour, but most garages don’t have them, so you need to get an electrician to install them (that’s $2,000 right there) and then you need to buy the charger itself (usually about $600, though there are often rebates for this sort of thing).”
(2017).

More recent news from 2019: https://paxex.aero/2019/06/molon-labe-s1-staggered-seat-faa-...
why would you want to tear someone down like this? even if they are a bad maintainer
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At first I was on kind of on your side against the other comments telling you to delete your other comment. I think its important to set the record straight if you can as early as possible. A small retraction/correction isn't guaranteed to make the frontpage of HN again.

But then this comment took it into a weird turn with how fast steven can learn rock climbing (seriously, i am still kind of unsure if we're talking about rock climbing because its so random and unrelated).
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Want to give it another chance with $TLRY and $CHWY? :D They’re both heading down but you might still (or might not) lose money if the option’s market has already anticipated and priced in the drop. You might also still lose money if IV decreases.

Maybe try it with a paper trading account?
Sorry for only now replying to this, but are you saying basically the tear itself isn't actually that valuable in this process? That proving that your half matches up with the other half of the bill isn't important at all?

I see what you're saying otherwise, and it's not like I can really think of a specific situation where re-joining the dollar would be important, but I am curious if you've got any thoughts on how that might be useful, if at all.
Why don't we settle for just straight lines and pure utilitarianism in our homes today and still insist on decorating them? We spend about as much awake time at work as home. Why did business stop caring about what was thought within the community, or by the workers?

Sure, some was projecting success, or the confidence of their age, but there seems to have been an expectation things would last. As an awful lot has. Half of many city's buildings are well past a century, little built post-war is likely to get that far.

It was an age where they were trying to leave things better - to their definition of better. Now it seems we're in an age of leaving things cheapened, not necessarily cheaper, but more profitable.

I'm not a fan of the current lowest cost beats all fashion.
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Chances are, you’re not as open-minded as you think
I don’t rent a ton of cars but Avis is the only company that seems to have it together. A couple months ago I rented a car from them only because it was the cheapest option. Got an email when my flight landed with my exact car and what spot it was in in the rental car garage. When I got to the car, the keys were in the ignition and I just drove away. I was very surprised how pleasant the experience was.
Why don't you be more specific? If you get down to the guts of everything... It's all "creepy".
You should read "Body by Science" to prevent destroying your bones, cartilage and to waste time. There is such thing as the golden minimum.
Please let's not have yet another comic book battle between the superheroes and supervillains of Teslaland. These are all the same, and because they're all the same they're all boring.

That goes for this entire subthread, not just this comment.
Not even an artificial problem: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/27/japan-shrinkin...
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Random semi-useful idea: use an SSH public key as input, giving a very memorable image for verification.

I could also see something like this having applications in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon generation.
I think this is asking the wrong question
People will write terrible code in every language. Some languages make it easier than others, but mostly the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.
Yeah no, I know I'm open-minded.
These things are pretty damn impressive, but I would guess like self driving cars, we’re pretty far away from them displacing humans at the same task. It does seem like technology in this vein could be used to help the creative process, though on that note it’s only as good as its data set, which is of course something a human has to handle for now.

Even if robots replace human illustration in short order, it will probably never stop being a fun hobby, and I imagine neural networks were bound to be at least involved in the process at some point. People still draw on paper even though it’s hard to argue against the benefits of modern digital drawing.
As a frequent flyer, 2005-2008 was also a period of time when there were empty seats on planes and the airline industry was still recovering from 9/11. You could fly and half the plane might be empty. Cancellations fees weren't nearly as bad either.

Let's not jump to conclusions that he was acting in bad faith.
Sounds like there needs to be more tsundere in the data set.
There's nothing wrong with capitalism or companies trying to extract the best deal they can get, but I can't stand people feeling devalued. It took me longer than it should have to realize my economic and personal value. If I can help just one other person to realize that they are valuable and more than just their work then that's a success in my book. It took my getting diagnosed with a terminal disease to get me to realize what I wanted my legacy to be and I'll spend every day I've got left trying to make this world a little bit less sucky every day.
> There is nothing, except Chicago’s suburbs, within about 300 miles of Chicago in every direction.

My lord, what?! Three of the top 25 largest cities in the entire US are within 300 miles of Chicago (Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit), and the Twin Cities (3rd largest metropolitan area in the US, larger than Chicago itself) are only 350 miles away.
Does it matter? I drown out most of my decisions by chugging a fifth.