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Inspiring story for sure. But even if you pull the trigger and make all of the needed sacrifices, you can still be a lifelong failure.

Hard work, an appetite for risk and resilience are required for success. But they are in no way a guarantee.

Instead of taking an all or nothing mindset, you can choose to invest in yourself over the long term. Financial investments, education. Maybe this won't be enough to achieve your goals, and you'll still live with regret. And maybe you'll die before you reap the benefits. Or maybe this will be enough for you.

Who knows. The only certainty is death. Doing something is better than nothing.
Yes, people will still purchase the $.25 gold ring over the $.25 plastic ring. Do you ever look at two identically priced items and purposely purchase the one of lower quality?
Was there a job offer / spot bonus?
> That's what was likely the cause of French jets downing a civilian plane over Italy in 1980

Note that the event is heavily disputed. The British Air Accidents Investigation Board claims that a missile strike does not match the wreckage analysis; instead stating a explosive device in the rear bathroom was the only possible cause.
40 years ago a typical family was 1 main wage earner and a stay at home mum, or at least a mum with a flexible employment

Now you have two people (a+b) in a career. They start off living 10 miles from their office (A + B), and meet each other at a mutual friend (f) that's 10 miles in the opposite direction

A -- a -- f -- b -- B

They then move in equidistant, 20 miles

A -- -- afb -- -- B

Then office A moves 10 miles the wrong way

A -- -- -- afb -- -- B

How do ab move closer to work?
After making those changes, they would need to then retest the code which they might not be able to do as thoroughly as the original author could
Because media report on events. There is someone saying not-yet-president groped them without permission? They can report on it. It's called free press.
And drugs aren’t automatically covered by that single-payer system (except in hospitals).

Some groups are a federal responsibility for health care: (aboriginals, military, federal police, federal prisoners and veterans)
Planting that many trees is not what's required. What's required is growing and maintaining them. If they burn in a fire, you need to start over. If they get cut down, you need to start over. If the land they're on gets sold and redeveloped, you need to start over. Etc. I think this seems a lot easier than it is because the wrong language is being used to describe what is actually required. You need to bring into existence and perpetually maintain (even after your death) 172-572 trees. That is not easy.
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One of the concepts being pushed by some in the Lean community is the idea that some activities need to be bounded at all times.

You don't want people favoring starting new work while someone else is flailing on old work. The fact that they started this two weeks ago indicates it was probably higher priority than whatever you might start today. If today's work is an emergency (eg, if we could go back in time, we'd have started this immediately) then sure. But barring extenuating circumstances, go help Paul. He's been staring at that code for weeks and making no progress.

I think having a rule for how many branches/forks whatever you want to call them, can exist at once might be a good idea. Every time another opportunity to use a branch comes up, the older reasons have to defend their continued existence. Having to explain yourself over and over is a form of positive peer pressure, if potentially a little passive-aggressive (solution: use an assertive person to be the messenger).
The L- and X-band radars used by the S400 are exceedingly easy to jam, and no matter what Russia says they have not figured out a way around the laws of physics that enables them to reliably target low-observable aircraft.

So yeah, if an F-15 blindly stumbles within the effective range of an S400 it will be shot down.

The fingerprint of the S400's radar are detectable from thousands of kilometers away and a nice little icon will be plopped onto the pre-mission overlays before the F-15 takes off.

You don't even have to detect the radar beam, you can detect the data link.

As for casualties, what casualties?

The only casualties a drone launching a glide bomb results in are those on the receiving end.
Electricity from solar photovoltaic generation has life cycle emissions 90-95% lower than fossil-derived electricity, per median figures in the IPCC's 2014 tabulation of global warming potential of selected electricity sources. Geothermal, concentrated solar power, nuclear power, and wind power have even lower life cycle emissions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse-gas_emis...

Displacing fossil-derived electricity with enough low-carbon electricity to supply an air conditioner is more effective than raising the AC temperature one degree or planting a tree.

The key issue is to reduce emissions. Sometimes that necessitates reduced consumption of energy services [1]. But reducing consumption is not sufficient and often not necessary to deeply cut emissions.

If 3 tons of CO2 per capita per year is a sustainable emissions rate, then the US emits at about 550% of the sustainable rate. Even Cuba emits at 107% of the sustainable rate. No polity is going to voluntarily reduce their material standard of living below that of Cuba. And even a super-emitter like the US could reach the sustainable rate with a combination of more efficient energy use and non-fossil (renewable and nuclear) primary energy production substituting for fossils. So I think that "stop burning fossils for air conditioning" is a prescription closer to solving the root problem than "endure a little more discomfort in the air conditioning season."

[1] For example, there is no foreseeable technology that will enable trans-Atlantic passenger flights without burning chemical fuels. Long distance flights could burn synthetic fuels made using non-fossil electricity, but that would raise fuel prices. Whether by fiat or by pricing, long distance air travel will necessarily become less common if/when aviation faces pressure to reduce CO2 emissions.
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Don't worry. I was carfree and moved out of south park because of SD's crap infra. Whoever moved on almost certainly drives.
I think it's much more likely that Pharma manufacturers would cut supply to Canada and pressure the government to price match what US end users would end up paying - it's hard to tell but... I don't have a very optimistic view of the morals of drug manufacturers and this would be a highly convenient crow bar.
Just because you have a "goal" of drinking gin at the pool of a 5 star hotel doesn't mean you aren't taking a vacation.

You are just better at traveling than most people.
When extended beyond initiation it acts in good ways like attorney fees retainer. Perhaps borrow more elements from that other industry?

The engineering retainer times out monthly and gets refreshed before the next month, or when it's exhausted, whichever comes first. Done properly you're not one of your client's creditors: The client should always be in a financial position w/r/t you where you're pre-paid, your compensation secured by the positive retainer balance and if you really get serious, by retaining a perfeted security interest in the work product.
His claims remind me of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A1i_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc
Additionally, this article presents the views of a single interviewed person, and includes flat disputations from him of documented events. People have died and are dying due to lack of access to insulin, and simply stating "I do not accept the idea that people are dying..." doesn't make it so.

If there are life-saving alternatives available to people, surely there are ways to provide that information without being condescending and dismissive.
Related: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
> Drones are (over)priced like jewelry (because they can!)

That's a pretty dishonest take. Those drones are incredibly complex.
Denver is taking the same approach, and, really, it's the only tool we have for preventing huge increases in traffic as population increases and actually getting people to rely on public transit. I live in a transit-oriented development zone near train+bus stop and love how easy it is to walk to anything I want.

Transit-oriented development is the only sensible approach I've seen to scaling a modern city.
This is all well and good, except that you cannot easily plant 1000 trees and ensure they continue to exist in mature form forever. At least, you cannot for most values of "you." Maintaining 1000 mature trees is not a trivial matter.
> Blocks IPv6 on the client to prevent IPv6 leaks.

No IPv6? That's a no.
> Insurance firms sometimes cover extremely “long-tail” risks, such as alien abduction insurance.

That's not what "long tail" means in insurance. It does not mean unlikely, it means the claim might need to be paid out years after the period coverage was paid for. (Think current lawsuits about asbestos exposure from the 1970s).

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/longtail-liability.asp
The settlement should have required them to provide free credit monitoring to every US citizen in perpetuity, AND a cash payout to all the people they screwed over.
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> I have my cell phone set up to automatically block all calls that aren't scheduled.

This isn't really a viable option if you have kids and need to be available in case something happens to them, but can you go into some detail about how you did this?
35.9k members in that conlangs subreddit?

When did my shameful little hobby suddenly get so popular??
Paper ballots can be dumped in the trash. What's your mitigation for that?
The folks who decorated Denver International Airport would like a word with you...

https://www.outtherecolorado.com/gallery/whats-creepy-apocal...
I work in compliance for a major bank. Our process to investigate odd spending/payment patterns could not have been more manual. Essentially, cases alert according to a variety of rules and you investigate accordingly. Everything starts in Excel and you know what to look for based on why the case alerts. I automated everything (analysis) required in Excel using VBA. Did not know any programming prior to this but I did know this was the point of using computers ("bicycle for the mind"). Learning VBA was a little painful but eventually I figured out how to control a web browser with it so I would pull the required documents from the web. From there, I got Excel and Word to talk and auto-generated our summary memos. So, pretty effectively automated myself out of my position. The lesson is, while I thought it was all pretty straight-forward, many of my colleagues found my new work flow challenging to use and were pretty concerned my path would put us out of work eventually, which was only kind of the goal. Have since rewritten everything in Python, which is a comparative joy, and I'm now working on using machine learning, NLP, NLG to replicate some of the same work to be more intelligently automated.
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Point well taken, but I think it can be both:

1. More value used to be placed on efficiency.

2. As time went on, the value of powerful, cross-platform tools and platforms became more obvious.

3. Since this was later in the evolution of the industry, the people who made it happen were a different generation that didn't prioritize efficiency.

That is to say, perhaps there's no fundamental reason you couldn't have the nirvana of efficiency and portability (best of both worlds), and it's just that no community of developers has actually aimed for that.
Actually esp32's are quite fun and easy to program with micropython. Something like this project should be pretty straightforward and would arguably much easier than a pi. For micropython there is only the python code, no docker containers, Linux maintenance etc. And remote development can be done over a an http repl or even using jupyter notebooks (still have to try but just read about it). Doesn't get much better than that I think
Your idea will get more traction if you describe the behavior as rotten to the core instead of the person. After all, you are projecting your value system onto another set of people who have different values. Neither of your value systems are true.
I feel the circular plots make the data harder to read. I suspect some boring line plots with time of year on the X axis would be much more visually efficient
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A quick comment regarding 4: Cockroach DB is also employing the "Enterprise Features" model https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v19.1/enterprise-licensin...
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And now that one is wasted too :(
Those people are not in San Diego.
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Steve Koonin was sure good at whoring himself out to the oil and gas people for a while there
I have good news! Wasmer has already reached beta status in Windows. WASI is already supported there as well (Emscripten still needs some love, but we are working on it)

With this release we also added support for the LLVM backend in Windows, so you can also run WebAssembly-SIMD programs in Windows!

Regarding mingw-64 being a better target than Win32 for porting unix-y programs into WebAssembly that's probably right since the POSIX gap is smaller.
the vast majority of ML/data scientist positions are actually similar to the hypothetical ML engineer position you described.
I haven't read Atomic Habits yet, but I read 'The power of habit' by Charles Duhgig. I think motivational quotes, inspirational stories are overrated and habits are underrated.
Inspirational stories are great to make you realize that you too can achieve something, but they stop there, they don't take you any further.

Recently, I stumbled on a website called Focusmate and I think this is going to help me in the long run.
In my experience the biggest entropy generator with browser fingerprinting in system fonts. I ran Panopticlick against both my Firefox browser instance (running Ghostery, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger) against a Chromium instance running no plugins and both cases yielded 17 bits from browser fingerprinting. It makes me curious whether system fonts are a major source of privacy leakage.
Like a lot of things in a Good Team, dependency curation requires a tempo. This will be done, and putting it off doesn't get you out of doing it.
Individual citizens aren't incentivized to lead a protest (because that will get them arrested), but they're incentivized to participate in a protest while avoiding arrest, because that's usually effective to extract concessions from the government who want to avoid a repeat of the Tiananmen protests.

E.g. most recently in Wuhan against a trash incinerator plant too close to a residential area: "At first the Xinzhou district government attempted to calm the unrest. It issued a statement last Wednesday denying that work had started on the incinerator. It said the project hadn't even been registered, nor had it gone through any environmental assessment." https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48904350
it's alright. a little too idiosyncratic (and nm the "object oriented" code). but the intuition around bayes filtering is nice and clear.
Or, they were always empty and merely a honey pot to catch anyone trying to break in and steal the technology.
Last year maybe, but I just bought a few for €3.80 each and €0.40 shipping from aliexpress.
They are on this side of pound.

The large majority of STEM university degrees have engineering in the title and are overseen by the Engineering Order as proper degrees.
I don't really see a difference between "these evil rich people are spending money / living if ways that we don't approve" and "these evil rich people are having sex in ways we don't approve" (i.e. Thiel is gay!!!1). Both are a needless distraction from progress/living happily and encourage a hostile political climate.
The only problem I have with that is that many areas that are grassland in the UK now may have been heavily forested and were denuded of trees prior to or during Roman colonization.

I found this video on Caledonian reforestation interesting: https://youtu.be/UDtsExXe93Q
Wasn’t this abrogated?
IIRC, LLVM IR has ABI, word length, and endianness baked in so you could generate IR that's portable to, say, any 32-bit LE processor. Basically that was Chrome PNaCl.
Not impossible to tell. If you do a 100% poll of a given county and ask for statistics afterwards, you have an impromptu security analysis.

How would you conduct a similar audit of how secure a paper ballot is for any given system? If all you do is an audit of a single vote, then you're no different.

Until paper ballots can no longer be dumped in the trash, paper auditing is hard at best.
You need to know the history: the pharma companies wanted the current system in Canada, because the previous system was compulsory licensing: ie: anyone could manufacture a patented drug as long as they paid a royalty.

It was a lot like playing songs on the radio: nobody could stop you as long as you paid.

Then the system was switched to give the pharma companies total control of the distribution of their patented molecules.
What's the difference between backcountry and tent? I feel like they overlap - I often camp with a tent in the backcountry..
>Doesn't perform any heap memory allocations

That's fascinating, I wonder how they managed that (unless they used cheats like sbrk of course).
Thanks!

I've been working on this for about a year and a half now, though I was able to get my first customer just a few months in.

The first place I went to was ShopStyle, since I had worked there previously and had experienced the problem that Builder aims to solve first hand (non-dev teams needing to build new pages all the time, and devs without time to constantly code up all this new content).

So since I had a good rapport with them and this was a pretty "hair on fire" problem with them, they were willing to be my first customer. I also charged them very little - at first at least ;)

Then I got new customers from word of mouth and from being able to demonstrate what ShopStyle had done (the pages their non-devs were making and how it was helping their business). When people liked the product they were happy to refer me to others who could use it. This was slow but it eventually got me a handful more initial customers, some I knew personally and some I didn't.

Anyway, happy to answer more about the process if you have other Qs or interested in more detail!

Edit: Typo
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F.ex Scotland, on public land. Next.
So, we could skip the hole drilling part, and set up shop near abandoned mines? That turns the idea from expensive to relatively trivial to do.
Circular graphs are half the problem I see on the "dataisugly" subreddit. At least this one isn't too bad.
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The fact remains that currently, china is investing more in renewables than the rest of the world combined.

You are right, Europe and US pioneered the industry, but that makes the fact that they are currently fiddling while Rome burns even more damning.
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Facts are facts.
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The cases share some features, and differ in others, so it's not entirely unreasonable that their 1st amendment protection differs. But it's a very interesting contrast nonetheless.
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Unless you have multiple phones or multiple numbers on one phone. I think some phones allow for dual sim cards. Perhaps you could do this on per phone number if you knew every number that was expected to call you about work.
`sbrk` modifies the heap [0].

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/2/sbrk
That's great news! Thank you to the entire wasmer team for this awesome software.
I’d assume that the following spring and for the next year or 3, there would be a huge growth increase in the area due to ash, light and space.
Probably tent-camping campgrounds vs no campground. They didn't want to label it "campground" because that could refer to an RV campground too.
Seems like in an ideal world, games would select that profile programmatically. Assuming, of course, that there's no reason to prefer mouse acceleration and that we're talking about using the mouse as a linear controller for stuff like aiming or moving.
As an American this is pretty embarrassing. Somehow trying to absorb the benefits of another government's regulation and billing it as creating a "freer" market is more popular than solving the problem here? I don't buy it, I can't imagine a lot of other people really do either. I'm also not sure that it would even work. That is supposing Canada wouldn't respond to lukewarm hostility with measures to counter this. It feels like we're civically brain-dead. Said sitting on a stash of decade old epi-pens.
Work-life balance? People should not be slaves to their work.

One advantage of both cars and proper mass transit systems is that you don't have to move if your work does, or if you switch jobs, or if a partner moves in...
Drug companies are not a monopoly any more than Apple is a monopoly because only Apple can sell iPhones. While a company may have a monopoly on making a specific branded drug, its rare that there is just a single branded drug on the market that can address a particular condition. Look how many different drugs are FDA approved for treating HIV: https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/aids-hiv-medication. Or the long list of drugs approved for treating high blood pressure: https://www.rxlist.com/high_blood_pressure_hypertension_medi.... Or insulin: https://www.drugs.com/drug-class/insulin.html.

Drugs aren’t a perfectly competitive market involving commodities, like say wheat or corn, but there is oligopolistic competition similar to say mobile phones, internet search, or social media. Would having the government set prices in those markets improve efficiency? Or are they competitive enough—even if not perfectly competitive—where the government probably wouldn’t do better?
This looks very nice. There’s a lot of competitors in the space now, though. One thing that makes me think twice is the proprietary output. It’s extremely valuable for a design process if you can share the prototypes with people regardless of what platform they use. Arguably that’s one of the purposes of a prototype, to bring a design to life for everyone involved in the project. Very useful for user testing (the other purpose) over video, too.
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Some are good. I’m not an Apple hater. I have an older (good model) MacBook Pro, an iPad mini 2, an iPhone SE, and an iPad. (All with connectors such as headphone jacks)

It’s some of the newer models that strip off functionality for aesthetics , or at least slimness at any and all costs, that turn many of us away.
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