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Interesting to bump into this article as a young friend recently quit his just-obtained ambulance EMT job for, in essence, the exact issues described.

His take was less sympathetic (paraphrasing): "i thought i would be helping society, not endlessly cleaning up after its recurring mess-making."

I know a few people in first response fields (eg, fire, emergency med, police) and this is a common view, albeit not often leading them to quit their jobs.

Since there is seemingly no political will to prevent and mitigate drug epidemics, the issue rolls downhill to emergency workers.
How many of those systems are owned by private people that has no idea what to do about it? Do you plan on suing half the planet?
Good answers.

But.. that only makes sense if you’ve already replaced fossil fuels with carbon free energy everywhere else (with rare exceptions such as maybe air travel). Otherwise you’re wasting energy by converting carbon to co2 and then using more energy to convert it back to carbon.

So the first step is still a carbon free economy.
Can't wait to tell Gran she's legally liable for a DDoS because her unsecured IOT washing machine best buy sold her caused the internet to cave in ;)
I bet GCS docs will not keep up with changes to GCS very well either, judging by other Google docs. Start out good, don't keep up with changes. AWS docs are relatively good at keeping up with changes.
You’re missing the point. Would a visibly brown family have the same latitude?
The Roman Empire comes to mind also. But with new surveillance tech, ever more sophisticated methods of behavioral modification and better weapons, including autonomous drones and the like, it seems like the sky is the limit when it comes to mass crowd control. Look how well China does with little breakthroughs like their social credit rating system/5g
And there has been no terrorism in Kashmir since decades, right?
This article lacks numbers.
I wouldn't expect those services to offer you much more personal attention, honestly.
I think the word you want is colonized, not modernized.
I mean tons of the last 7/10 of a mile is done by old beat up delivery trucks, with much less capacity than 18 wheelers, that idle in traffic or idle double parked in the turning lane. I'm not going to argue that cities aren't more efficient but the picture that city-dwellers (self-satisfied New Yorkers in particular) paint about their environmental and ecological impact tend to be a very narrow window of the overall impact of their choice to live there.
I've gone from very rural, to suburban, to very urban and I'm the opposite. When you're freed from the commute grind, life becomes much more quiet and laid back. I do have a little less space, but I also have an endless variety of things to do and one of the best parts of the big city is the multiculturalism. We have so many neighborhoods of immigrants that the cultural variety from food to entertainment is incredible. I've found that I'm much happier in my smaller home than I was in a four bed suburban nightmare. Spent a lot of my free time and a chunk of my income just keeping it clean and maintained. That's not the life I want lol.

I've never been as happy as when I could walk to my local soccer teams stadium and walk to my local grocery store. Although the massive international and farmers markets are very close too, so I always have every fresh ingredient I could ever need for every dish from every culture I've wanted to try. Especially if you don't get to travel much, being in a place where travel comes to you can be very rewarding and enriching.
Search in the UI is my particular bane.

Sometimes it works great (searching for EC2 instances).

Sometimes you need to construct restricted search queries (slightly aided by a slow dropdown auto-complete) that look like `Name: Begins With: /blah/` (ParameterStore).

Sometimes search is client-side, and only searches the page you're currently on (ECR, I think? I can't remember what does this). I think in this case it's sometimes form just following the limited functionality of the API.

I have a _lot_ of scripts that are just ways to extract data quicker than I can in the UI.
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>That's to say, I think you're absolutely right - people want to move to these places cause they perceive them as little Brooklyns or little Seattles.

I think people just want to be able to afford a mortgage without giving up some basic urban amenities like walkability or nice restaurants and bars. They might miss things about Brooklyn or Seattle and want to recreate it, but that doesn’t mean they think it’s a “little” anything.
I'd actually love to see a fully working IPFS fallback for wikipedia when regular hosting doesn't work. Would it even be possible with ipfs?
There is another dynamic at play, not mentioned in the article: the smaller cities are actively trying to become better places to live. Here's a nice writeup: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-land-is-your-land

Quoting from that blog post:

"“Cool,” which is to say, a certain type of bourgeois, with a certain aesthetic that unites it with larger cities while still maintaining a feeling of quaintness. In Tulsa, for example, there’s a gorgeous new book store, an ever-expanding number of breweries, co-working spaces in rehabbed brick buildings, coffee shops in rehabbed brick buildings, airy restaurants with farm-to-table menus in rehabbed brick buildings. There’s a walkable downtown, a First Friday art walk to get people there, a cultural tourist site (the Woody Guthrie Museum) and public (in this case, actually private) outdoor space (The Gathering Place)."
You can't expect everyone, kids and elderly included, to be able to identify when their machine is running a rootkit from the result of exploiting a 0-day, for example.

People also have a very limited view on what's happening on their phones, too. What if the rights to the source and distribution of a free closed-source app is purchased by someone that's going to modify it to include all users in their botnet? It's not like you can monitor what kind of traffic your phone apps send out.
Power tripping most likely.
Ok, Senator Calhoun.
Do you have kids? Often times this is the differentiating factor. Lot's of moves between expensive cities for raising children seems like a challenge.
You'll also have to prove the IOT device DDoSing from my IP isn't a rogue device. I swear it's not mine.
The assumption here seems to be that all the yard and home space everyone is complaining about is left unused. You may need pubs and coffee shops for socializing in the cities. In the suburbs, people host each other in their homes or yards on a pretty regular basis, at least in my experience.
So basically any form of real money payment/purchase hybrid app is banned or just gaming ones?
> I didn’t even lose my “walkability” you can find that in many places if you choose the right neighborhood.

Sadly the case for me seems to be that there are very nice walkable areas in these small cities, but everytime I interview for a job it turns out the office in in some way out suburban office park, so I have no way of commuting
Being old and remembering before the massive liberalisation of Sunday trading, far from wishing away the token restrictions we have left, I wish we could go back to the old way. No opening on Sunday at all unless you're on the exemption list, as it used to be. So the takeaway, ice cream seller, corner shop etc were fine to open, typical high street shops were not. It's really annoying to have every day a normal day with no distinct break.

There was a distinct change of pace and feel, far, far less traffic on the roads, and a day free of annoying commerce everywhere. The whole world seemed quieter and lazier on Sunday, and thanks to the huge reduction of traffic, smelt nicer. It was the obvious day for the BBQ, day trip to the beach or theatre, the event in the local park, meet with friends etc.

I miss it.
Do these kinds of attacks usually have a motive?
On top of that if your startup has any meaningful operations or customer service headcount, you will save so much money outside of SF/LA/NYC -- not just because of wages, but because of rent, as well.
The contextual difference here is that many of these people are being criticized for working with Epstein well after his conviction. There's a big difference between pre and post conviction, even though it was somewhat of an "open secret" before he was even charged.
Use bing. I prefer the results (MUCH less censorship than google) and they let you use it like a tool.
Most people using the subway aren't using those maps to begin with.
As a New Yorker....I just track the orientation vs. the train direction and the path I take in the station. Do people not practice spatial awareness?
I like these standard definitions, thanks for sharing.
Would you mind elaborating why you prefer working remotely given you already live in a big city? When I've worked remotely I've always found the lag of actual face-to-face interaction a huge downside and prefer a short, ideally walkable commute. I'd love to hear your experience. Thanks!
There was a string of arson attacks on little free libraries in Metro Vancouver; eventually a pair of teenage boys were arrested.

I suspect that the sharing of knowledge and encouragement of developing wisdom is, to some, a threatening prospect. Perhaps they have experienced learning difficulties and are struggling with shame and frustration, or perhaps they disagree strongly with the concept of an intellectually liberated population. Libraries are, after all, a pillar of liberalism.
Doesn't Perl6 have a pretty extensive ability to call other languages like Python, Lua, Ruby, C...etc?
To counter this sort of cheating, one of my prof had us defend our papers in a one on one 'podcast' interview with him for 10-15 minutes and then graded the paper based on our performance.
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Natto, a traditional Japanese dish made of fermented soybeans, is especially rich in mk-7. It's the result of an alkaline fermentation process, which makes it initially challenging to Western palates more familiar with the tangy acidic fermentation processes used to make "half-sour" pickles, sauerkraut, and kombucha.

I've tried natto, and it does take some getting used to. Fortunately, a small amount is all you need.

According to Chris Masterjohn, "the foods that are richest in K2 are natto and goose liver, both of which may be difficult-to-acquire tastes. Natto is a fermented soy food popular in eastern Japan. The source of K2 is the bacteria used in the fermentation, not the soy beans. As a result, any vegetable fermented with natto bacteria should be rich in K2. For example, 100 grams of traditional natto contains just under 950 μg, while 100 grams of natto made from black beans contains almost 800 μg. The value for black bean natto is a little lower than that for traditional natto, but both values are phenomenally high. Simply adding 18 grams of natto (about two-thirds of an ounce) to your diet each day would give you 200 μg, and just two ounces of goose liver would provide the same benefit."

Source: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/blog/2016/12/09/the-ultimate-...
Are you implying that rest of the anti-Modi folks wanted this mission to fail? That's somewhat sad.

ISRO is funded by the Government and PM heads the Department of Sapce. So, what did you expect him to do? Nod off and go to sleep. It's actually good to have a PM who stands by country's scientists even at the time of failure(and not just at the time of success).
You typed all that on a flip-phone?
Giant boats and trucks moving things in bulk is, pound for pound, way more efficient than every single person riding a 2 ton machine to move things around.
They seem to be at the leading edge of hiring remotely and they don't pay anywhere near facebook salaries. The culture must be attracting some strong developers.
To add to this:

My mom hid all signs of guns (ads for outdoor/hunting etc).

We didn't have a TV then.

Still we somehow realized that guns were super exciting.

My father took it from there and taught us to be safe with guns, that war was cruel and not in any way cool but sometimes sadly necessary.

I still cringe when I see inexperienced people with guns :-/
Yes they are on the whole. But that one time there was some unexpected delay, and it ruins any goodwill the clock built up in the eyes of the rider. It's quite frustrating to see.
No, it was shit. Completely and totally shit.
Yes I was about to give that advice, Wine handles 16 bit games pretty well
It's because they're just serving a big site, not running the world's most sophisticated surveillance and ad serving machine. Serving giant websites isn't all that hard if you're just spewing out SQL queries into html templates. It all scales in all directions with a properly thought through architecture.
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What about education and health ? I mean even moving out of the big city in UK you are going to see very variable schooling and hospital coverage?
Probably proving their skills to potential clients.
Same here.

My wife and I lived in SF for close to five years. We wanted to have four kids and well, that would have been a nightmare in the city.

So we moved back home to family in Lincoln, NE. We now have four kids, live in a great school district and I've continued to consult with startups.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimjones2/

P.S. First year of being completely remote was fantastic. Fifth year? Really lonely..
> workers tend to make more money in Sweden. In the US GDP is mainly distributed to the upper classes.

That just isn’t true. And, in minimum wage, the number of people that make minimum wage is extremely small — not even 2% of the total workforce.

https://mises.org/wire/when-it-comes-household-income-sweden...
Remote work not only allows workers to be in small cities, it allows employers to be in small cities (or outside the cities).
There's a minimum of two strip maps on every car since 2000. This is a non-issue.
From a cursory glance at the site and source code, it's really hard to see who/what is involved with building an archive. There's automated builds set up for the Pi image itself.
Please be careful of logical tautologies:

"It all scales in all directions with a properly thought through architecture" sounds dangerously like, "Programming isn't that hard if you just do it right."
Just a wild guess, but they could be showcasing their capabilities before selling them to the highest bidder.

Being able to take down such big websites would probably go a long way in giving them some credibility when selling their services.
More likely just trying to have fun. I'm sure they would do the same to local schools.
I feel exactly the same way. I stopped using social media and reading the news a few months ago and I've never been happier in my adult life. It's shocking how much regular reading of negative news can impact your emotional health. I even considered myself on the verge of depression at one point. As soon as I stopped reading the news daily and completely cut myself off of social media, my mood and emotional wellbeing began improving.

There's nothing you're missing out on by doing this, only the spread of fearmongering by the media. The world is not ending tomorrow, and experiencing your own life is more important than vicariously experiencing all the negative things in the world through the internet.
I believe when the NYC subway tried that they did have both.

I think what this misses, at least as far as Manhattan is concerned, is the grid system that already exists. Once you understand the grid, and the relationship between the subway system and the grid, then knowing the subway map is as good as knowing the geographic map and vice versa.

The first time I visited NYC was in 2004 before our handheld map systems. It took me all of 15 minutes to know exactly where I needed to go and how to get there without ever looking at a map, because my friend explained the system to me.

A map that divorces the geographic and subway systems simply leads to the necessity of learning 2 different things that are very intrinsically related, and in the case of Manhattan can actually substitute for each other.
Out of curiosity, why are you running multiple EC2 instances across more than two regions?
This already exists. Most exists, at least when in the grid, are indicated with the cardinal direction.
More powerful, more addictive.
The original author always used "=" as "proportional".

I know a lot of cases where equivalence/comparison the relations are not linear. These are very powerful toys. In these cases people usually uses "equivalent" or a custom name for the equivalence. Using "equal" is too confusing unless it is very extremely super clear from the context.

I recommend to stick to proportional relations and to say that the things are "proportional", not "equal".

Quoting again the part we both quoted from the article:

> Here’s another way in which the analogy falls flat.

> So what do we make of all those thermodynamic relations that include volume, like Boyle’s law

The problem is that there is no analogy. There is no real thermodynamics for gases and a fake thermodynamic for black holes that is somewhat analogue to real thermodynamic for gases, and where each magnitude for gases is replaced for a magnitude for black holes that is somewhat related. So it is not necessary to copy the Boyle's laws for gases to a analogue law for black holes where each magnitude is replaced by an analogue magnitude.

The main error is that this is an extension of the theory, not an analogy.

Just imagine that someone has discovered thermodynamics for (ideal) gases, including entropy and Boyle's law. Now someone comes with an object that is a solid. What it the Boyle's law for solids? To extend thermodynamics to solids, there is no analogies, it is necessary to define some properties like entropy and internal energy. It is not necessary to copy the Boyle's law to solids, because Boyle's law is a law that is valid only for gases (and even only for classical ideal gases).

> Callendar was making his core argument that the entropy of a black hole is not expressed as a function of volume in one sense

As the sibling comment says (in a too technical way), it's difficult to define how much is volume is inside the sphere of the event horizon of the black hole. The space-time inside it is very distorted and you can no longer use the classical formulas. But it is clear how much surface are it has and is easy to calculate. So it's wise to write a theory that uses the surface area instead of the volume.
Can someone who downvoted this please explain their reasoning?
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Thanks, I'll check it out for some ideas!
IPFS has a Wikipedia mirror but it is fairly out of date since it is dependent on the Kiwix archive.

https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror
Of course not, because awareness is haaaarrrdd. (And they would have to look up from their phones.)
Because that investment and modernization drives out the less fortunate onto the streets. Nobody is investing in affordable housing, it's all luxury apartments to sell to foreign buyers and maybe that one kid who made a few million selling his startup. Then they dress up the surronding area to pump their investment's value.
I was 35 before I understood, truly, deeply understood why people become addicted to opiods. Prior to 35 never had pain medication of any kind. Got a kidney stone, writhing in pain, vomiting, couldn't quit crying. The pain is the worst you can experience.

IV Morphine wasn't touching it. Then she came in. An older lady and told me it was going to be alright. She pulled a syringe up and I was blubbering in pain, crying and explaining to her I would do anything to make the pain stop and how I

I quit talking. I quit crying. I was comfortable. Happy. Content. The world was fine.

It was Dilaudid.

When I was released it occurred to me that this is how people feel when using the drugs.

The best explanation I've ever heard is from a reddit comment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9huWlXFA1s
But also perhaps it’s because they didn’t allow a team to endlessly iterate on tech minutiae until they required many teams to keep it running and iterate on tech minutiae.
Thanks. I think it would take 8 months night works. But it took longer because of breaks.
I was always interested in low-level stuff especially about syscalls (how they jump to kernel from userspace). So, I was familiar with syscall internals and memory protection. But I learnt all including how paging is done in x86 when I was writing Soso thanks to OSDev.
I can somewhat see how being American-sized in a European car could be uncomfortable...
This is a real art project!

Some day I should sit down and publish my art project: "abandoned toys".

(Since I got my first camera phone around 2005 I have been taking images of toys that were abandoned on playgrounds etc.)
Maybe the portion sizes are bigger in the US. I ordered a two egg portion of scrambled eggs in Denny’s once and I have to say, the eggs must have come from a dinosaur because a mountain of eggs the size of El Capitan were served to me - yes, I know they just buy the raw eggs and pour them out, but good grief. And this scenario repeated itself everywhere.
It’ll be decades before all of the trains from the ‘70s and ‘80s (pre-recorded-announcement systems) are replaced and all trains have recorded announcements and decent speakers.

Heck, we’re only just now starting to replace the last of the trains (R32s) from the early 1960s (the trains that were supposed to replace them ended up instead replacing some ‘70s trains (R44s) that turned out to have a construction or design flaw that caused them to fail earlier than expected).

And the agency is basically bankrupt.

Decades to next upgrade the crappy waste of money digital displays seems to me to be a reasonable conjecture.
Thank you for protectief me and the rest of the World from fraudsters and conpanies that trick you info buying things and make it reeeaaaslllyy difficult to cancel any subscription
"Le Crobag" to me seems to be a standard backery + a lot of sugar coating (like actual sugar). Which is probably a well received offering considering they target near exclusively travelers, so people under stress, in need of a quick refresh of their sugar reserves.

If you are looking for really good backery stuff (in Germany), you won't find them at the airport/train station at all, as these are nearly universally only served by large chains, none of them especially known for being above the standard.
The ruling class stood by the nation's scientists at the time of failure, which is not a norm in India. But again, I've seen people who hate Modi/BJP "celebrating" ISRO's failure on social media. So, this comment wasn't exactly surprising.
Eh... they're getting very dated at this point, almost 30 years old since the last redesign.
This. I moved from Downtown Seattle to Downtown Raleigh with a remote job, and cut my rent in half without changing driving or living patterns significantly. My husband and I still share 1 car which gets used 2-3 times a month for trips to nearby cities/beaches/mountains (Charlotte, Wilmington, Asheville), and then otherwise we walk to cafes, bars, restaurants and corner stores, even my doctor and dentist are only a short walk away.

There are not many parts of Raleigh where you can do this, and it's still more expensive than suburb living out here. But I find that I have equal or better access to the stuff I actually want and use, so I don't feel like I sacrificed much.
As someone who lives in a small city (120k city pop ~800k metro pop) I'm still looking to move to larger one for an number of reasons. Most of probably due to my specific niche issues and likely arent important at all (for example early 20s, I cant drive, lowering my quality of life, etc.)

But one big one is networking. I've been told by people trying to get into larger tech companies that the only way to get in as an experienced professional is referrals. Living in a larger tech hub opens up so much more potential for networking and career growth that I just cant get here.