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On the NJT screens too? Amtrack track assignments still show on the DepartureVision web site.
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Yes - he definitely lobbies against various rail projects, for reasons that are spelled out in the book. He’s advocated in various cases for buses as an alternative, so I don’t think “against any public transportation anywhere” is a fair characterization.

You don’t have to agree with his thesis to find the book valuable though. It’s useful to understand where people on the other side of the debate are coming from, and even someone with opposite views will probably enjoy the detailed history of passenger rail in the US that he presents.
It depends, for me it is not a problem most of the time but there are periods where it affects me.
> I don’t blame the current owners

I do. Who do you blame?
I just got back from a 15 day trip in Switzerland. Their train system was amazing. We trained everywhere; there where intercity trains every hour at least.
SO it's not about actual Reverse Engineering which is tearing the wings off software to understand it better
A fantastic suggestion I hadn't considered, but others here refer to:

If there is no time, then the arrow of causality is lost. So there is probably no 'Why' 'How' or 'When'. So the question of why the universe exists is presumably answered by the question becoming null and void

I assume that if this reasonably voids the unanswered causality of the universe, then it also voids the unanswered causality of God?

And if so, I suggest to explain the existence of the universe this ways depends on something outside of time and outside of the universe and capable of a massive creative act

And you can predict my one track mind: this explanation of existence logically depends on God, or at least something with very God like abilities

This might be why God describes himself as "I AM who I AM." He is invoking this lack of causality outside of time. He simply is

I'd love to hear your thoughts on that, and sorry if I haven't explained myself well
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because it's an oligarchy.
That's very sad. As a huge Star Trek fan, I remember Nog very well.
That doesn't make sense to say when talking about videos. Investigative journalists in all ages have received this charge.
The American rail experience is dying because of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008. Anderson and the management he has brought in are implementing the goals mandated by Congress.

Amtrak may be dying as we have known it but it is not dying. It is transforming into mostly a regional passenger train service focusing on the highly profitable Northeast corridor.

If the public values the traditional American rail service they need to let Congress know this and that they are willing to continue to subsidize it to a large degree. To date they have not.
It’s typically a condition of your options agreement. Unless you get a (company sanctioned) secondary sale somehow, you’re locked up until IPO or an acquisition.

You can sometimes perform some clever financial engineering with a forward contract and a motivated investor to get around this though.
You said above that most people will do as the system rewards. Do you not see the contradiction? Let me make it very clear:

1) The current system rewards greed
2) Most people will do as the system rewards
3) Most people are not greedy

One of those points is wrong.
I sometimes feel guilty having the few friends I do, because I feel I can never give them enough time, between work and family commitments.

Work is the easy one - it’s easy to say “I’m done working today because I want to spend more time with my family”. It’s not so easy to say “I’m done with family time today because I want to spend more time with my friends”. I’m conditioned to feel selfish at such thoughts.
Ah yes, colonialism will save manhood.
“toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets” setting to “true” useless
Firefox 68 unabled my carefully css-customized colored scrollbar back to the standard grey color. The "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" setting to "true" does NOT solve this. Now my scrollbar is stuck at the almost invisible grey color. What is wrong?
Ok but ingress controllers don't talk to the kube-controller-manager though, so I wouldn't lump them in as a standard object. In fact k8s doesn't even have a standard ingress controller object.
Understanding the concepts is not the issue with me (as of now). It is the hard to read syntax (my personal opinion!). It puts a lot strain on my mind. Same is the case with C++ with extreme use of STL. I have difficulty in reading that, although with clear mind, I will eventually get the code, it is not fun.
It is not just the US. 10 hour workdays (officially 7.8, but if you would actually 'just' do that and skip the 8am or the 6pm meetings you will not be keeping up with the Joneses and pay the piper) and spend 2-3 hours in commuting each day doesn't leave much for hobbies.
> Yes it can be slow, but I’m not on it to play games or whatever. I’m on it to read.

Ok, but what about zooming and panning, or flipping pages?
It certainly feels ethically questionable from a certain perspective. But we can look at it in a specific way. We want pricing to be fair. A typical customer's perspective of a fair price is that is should approximate the unit cost of production plus the up front development cost of a product amortized over units. In this view fairness, if a family of widgets all have the same hardware, and use the same based software to enable or disable different features, they should all have the same price.

However, there's another view of fairness (or maybe just a desirable feature of the markey). It should be possible for a customer to purchase only the features required to meet their requirements, and that they should be able to spend less money on less features.

Those two views of fairness can be in contradiction with each other.

The ability of a company to be able to provide a family of products at a variety of feature and price points cheaply is aided by their ability to do software based control of features. Use of a single physical platform reduces cost (which aids the final customer). If a company had to price everything at a single feature/price point, the average customer will see an increase in price to pay for features they do not want.

Anyhow, that's the argument. Still feels icky though.
A few weeks back, I was working on trying to patch a BSD driver for another Realtek product (a wireless network adapter) and their were a handful of comments / source reference mentioning "8051". I assumed this to be the microcontroller and, out of curiosity, attempted to disassemble the provided firmware binaries, sadly to no avail.

Does realtek publish their documentation on products publicly? I found it interesting that the author of the tweet has, for example, a pinout.
It's not possible to form genuine friendships under capitalism. The system is just too competitive, especially if you're in a decent income bracket; the kinds of people who make it in that bracket (which you spend the most time with; e.g. at work) tend to act selfishly. They're only loyal to the extent that you have some kind of leverage or interdependence within your work environment. The instant you lose that leverage, they won't hesitate to throw you under the bus for their own benefit.

I think this kind of ruthlessness is necessary though; in fact, it's the only ethical way to operate under a capitalist system. If you have any economic leverage in society or in your workplace and you choose to make friends based on someone's personality instead of based on their ability, you will probably end up giving that person access to opportunities at the expense of someone else who is more talented, more worthy and more capable of creating real value for customers.

Not only is this kind of nepotism unfair, but if the environment keeps becoming more competitive, you will risk your company's survival.

Under capitalism, if you want a friend, get a dog.
There are like a million activities. Martial arts, team sports, crossfit. Volunteer work, soup kitchens, helping children and those with special needs, respite care. Outdoors activities like hiking groups. Oddball niche hobby groups like fan clubs.

Like whatever. Some of those are more gender balanced than others but the basic premise is get out there into a group and do something that scares you a little based around a common activity.

Things like this feel "hard" to do because of emotional resistance, it's actually super simple and straightforward from a logistical standpoint.
I could be wrong, but I surmise it's about reverse engineering the hacker culture
Think about it this way. If you find friends that vibe well with you, you're reducing the pressure on your family later in life to keep you connected. It is a real concern.
I think the garbage collector is easier over all, obviously.
Callibre has a decent EPUB->PDF converter
I spent most of my 20s (7+ years) at a startup that is currently a “unicorn”, and consequently have an ok amount of shares locked up in the same situation.

As the company’s valuation grew higher and higher the equity grants became significant lower. It was balanced out by my pay becoming more and more competitive vs other large companies. But eventuality I decided ~80% was as fully vested as I’ll ever be — Not to mention my boss and commute were driving me insane — and because I joined so early my options were cheap enough to exercise over time, so I called it quits.

Now I’m at a boring public company, commute via train, but with no hope of ever making big $$$ someday.

My overall mental health seems a lot better now. I hope I made the right call letting go of that 20%.
Something worth being aware of: the Jetson Nano development kit that's currently available has an early version of the Nano module which isn't pin-for-pin (finger-for-finger?) compatible with the current production version sold separately.

The production Nano module (which you can also now buy) won't work in the dev kit carrier! Similarly, the dev kit Nano module won't work in a carrier compatible with the production Nano module.

Apparently they'll refresh the development kit to match the production Nano module later in the year, but for now it's a big gotcha if you're designing hardware using the dev kit.
depending on the area there are various sports clubs out there (I do badminton every once in a while and have met fun people there)

Also just going to tech meetups or something related to an actual hobby? There are definitely things going on.

If you’re looking for something with a decent gender balance then yeah something sports-y will probably work out better
And now we accept 30,000 traffic deaths per year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_motor_vehicl...

I was going to ask if we will eventually go numb and accept these numbers for gun deaths. But we're already there and beyond. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_S...
Currently the nation is roused over hundreds of gun deaths per year.
> my wife and kids fill the void

This is pretty common among men, but what happens if you get divorced? Any plan-b?
Tons. Most cities will have a social club with a range of activities.

Go look on meetup for "social" club type things, or choose a sport and Google for clubs, or whatever. Boardgame clubs, programmer meetups, kayaking, rambling, rock climbing, etc.

Volunteering is another option for meeting people.
Mysql has json columns. You can select and create indexes on json fields.
Google published a paper on it in 2017: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46403
This is a photo of Nog:

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/21300000/Nog-ferengi-...
It's true; China has the 996 problem, for instance.
The company I work for interprets it as any EU citizen any where on the globe, so we just implemented GDPR for every one regardless of their location or particulars.
I run 300 forums, and I had a startup for them. The lofty goal of the startup was to "cure loneliness" but I never told the users that.

My path to doing this was to encourage interest based communication, in a way that would allow them to take it offline. How? Well to make it interest + geography, i.e. horology nerds in Cumbria, cyclists in London, petrol heads in Cornwall, audiophiles in Suffolk.

By binding together an interest, and a geography, it naturally encourages trade, showing off, having a beer... and coming together. But not in a way that ever was to "cure loneliness" (which few people admit to feeling, and frankly most people find lonely people unattractive people from the perspective of wishing to hang out with someone like that).

By providing a space to share a passion, the forums brought people together.

I had to make our own software to achieve this, i.e. a forum with events built-in by default, etc. But it worked.

Except I couldn't get it funded beyond the crowd-funded angel round :shrug . But still, 250k monthly users, hundreds of marriages, tens of thousands of friendships, and still people meeting weekly for beer and chatting with others.

And like all love, when the lust is gone what remains is something special... these forums are evolving now, from the original interests, into just a group of friends for life.

If I were lonely today, I would say... identify a hobby or interest you could get into, start looking for entry things to dive in, and then look for groups on MeetUp, or forums online, that will help you find other people.
>I see it in my youngest daughter as well, and I do worry for her

It's good that you worry. As children of staunch loners, my siblings and I all turned into loners as adults. Edit: We don't even talk to each other.
This was my strategy with club promoters.

They maintain an air of exclusivity with gaggles of beautiful women around them, and self preservation would tell you not to dare approach any of the women or the table and that the promoter - usually male - would be disinterested or aggressive towards you.

But a reality is that the promoters are also desperate for casual conversation. All those beautiful women around and if the promoter gets close to any one then they lose entire cliques, and then lose the other clique when the relationship is over. The promoters are also prisoners. Introducing yourself and partying with them lets you act just like the models on the table, and access to all models on the table because remember: you aren't a promoter :) but you have inherited the clout just from being there and competition has been completely removed. The selection of women have been pre-selected by several people (the model agency, the state department, the promoter, the doorman, the man/men that subsidize them) otherwise that woman would not be at the table. This results in a heavy selection evolution of consensus-based attractiveness but the exact same distribution of whether two people will be interested in each other. Very advantageous compared to the general population in being around consensus-attractive people (as in, even if its not your ideal you still know what other people find attractive and the social benefits that come with that).

A lot of benefits in recognizing these things.
I enjoy Kubernetes because it weeds me out from all the people who aren't used to actually having to read docs to understand the layered concepts of k8s as a networking model, of which there can me multiple opensource Implementations.

The opsys bros I know who are used to hacking together docker-composes that are more insecure than your grandmother's internet explorer browser in 30 seconds and calling themselves geniuses fail miserably when they are left to design construct and optimise secure kubernetes clusters and elegantly port a variety of full stack web applications in a coat efficient manner.

It requires planning and design. Just because you haven't invested hundreds of hours into reading the docs.and testing, and building k8s clusters for which the docs are incredibly useful...

Also "kind" represents the type of k8s object, like service or deployment. It's not ambiguous at all, it just requires reading to the third paragraph of "general Kubernetes concepts" in the Kubernetes docs to understand it.
Sounds good. So technically an ID is not needed.

Just to make sure we are on the same page, we are equating "ID" to a physical identification card, right? Since I think that's what this conversation stemmed from.

I bet those credit unions were just running my Social Security Number against a database to make sure it matched with the name, DOB, etc I provided.

I wonder if there is a legal definition of "verify" when it comes to banks and customers. Verifying could just be asking the customer, what their name is.
These trends are set in contrast to times when fraternal organizations provided a kind of social fabric that isn't the norm now.

For men who are recognizing that social isolation is a long term risk in their lives and want to do something about it, I heartily recommend looking into these organizations. They're a mixed bag, like anything, but a bunch of guys who can hold anything together for decades should make anyone's list of options to investigate.
You are describing being "alone", not being "lonely".

Lonely, is defined as "sad because one has no friends or company". Which I would say is unfortunately common in the modern world, where we believe the internet to connect people, but in reality it socially isolates.

Alone, simply meaning "having no one else present", is not that bad, no, until you start to feel lonely. I enjoy alone time for the same reasons you describe. However, too much of it leads to feelings of loneliness.

An ironic aside. I think many people, deep down, would rather feel slightly annoyed by turning down or avoiding social situations with friends, than to not have those situations available to them in the first place.
These 8/16bit cores are rarely used for the main function of the device. They often exist as a general purpose controller to glue together random logic. For example, they might implement the logic that makes the LED be blue when the device is on, and flash blue when the power button is held for 3 seconds, and then trigger a power off when held for 10 seconds (or whatever).

They sometimes might even exist along side of a fully 32bit ARM micro.
Not GP, but they probably were referring to ReasonML, a JavaScript style syntax for OCaml that primarily targets the web.
I love that vegetation and landscape - the oaks and madrones, and higher up, pines, with lots of grassy meadows. It starts in southern Oregon and extends south in fits and starts.
Our society does seem to value pay > a lack of loneliness. Who here would go into total isolation for a large enough paycheck?
I think he’s referring to ReasonML. Which plenty of OCaml developers dislike, but managed to build a healthy ecosystem in a short amount of time.
If it only was so easy :(
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I understand that this might be a problem for some people. But I actually prefer to use my Kindle to read e-books. I actually like the rather minimalistic approach the DPT-RP1 has. It does one thing, and it does it great (for me at least).
A fair few phones now can be set to have the virtual assistant listen for the wake-word in the same way as an Alexa / Google Home / ...
The "lefty" epithet, how handy.

You could start by telling us why the statements aren't the same, using examples and facts.

You seem to want to have an abstract, bloodless, clinical discussion of when it is acceptable to kill people in the name of "efficiency" (I will interpret this as "profit").

I can tell you that is a dishonest discussion, if that's what is intended. If you want to have it honestly you will have to first indicate an understanding of exactly, in detail, the most evil things that will happen as a result. Also the most devastating things that will happen and be protected from proportionate legal recourse under your proposed or imagined regime.

It won't be a bloodless conversation.
Middle aged white American male here. Bye!!
Aren't you conflating "alone" and "lonely"? I think there's an important difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyERPRjFLQs

Interesting.
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What is interesting is that most people understand the concept of a plan B when it comes to things like what university they will attend, their careers, their financial safety nets, etc. But they assume their marriage will last forever. As you imply, it’s a big mistake.
And it at least may be worth mentioning that Amtrak came into being in large part because essentially all its predecessors had been losing money and merging--culminating in the largest bankruptcy in American history up to that point in 1970 (Penn Central).

I have a sometimes hankering at least for the idea (if not the likely reality) of taking a long-distance Amtrak train trip. But I'm not sure I could really justify why middle-class American taxpayers should subsidize my Chicago to Seattle train ride.

Maybe there's a market for private luxury long-haul trains with a "flexible" schedule across routes in the West.
They could call it something cool that evokes its history as a dining car!

I’m thinking ‘diner’ would be a good choice...
out of curiosity, why do you think accents put you off?
Ebay checks the house number as well. The problem is the package is routed to the local post office using the machine readable barcode which contains the postcode, then somebody reads the house number when they deliver the package. By photoshopping the printed address, the parcel can be deliberately misrouted.

That said, Royal Mail say anything over £100 should be Signed For so why did eBay let somebody return an iPhone without using Signed For?
One of the big problems I find is that when I call or text my male friends they often fail to respond. My female friends always respond. I've had multiple discussions with my male friends about this and my conclusion is that they are mostly overwhelmed with the responsibilities and demands of being a modern man. Friendship falls low on the priority list. I, like many men, want more camaraderie but it takes work that's difficult to commit to.
Group tennis classes work for me, I enjoy them greatly. Do whatever you want if you're not doing it to meet women.
what a cynical take. Your marital status usually doesn’t factor into whether someone wants to do something with you (excepting the obvious things)

Like I barely know the marital/relationship status of people I talk to all the time!

Maybe I’m naive or lucky, but seriously anyone who’s making major value judgements on that point of information sounds like a not great person
Have these targets ever given consideration to not keeping their secrets on a computer directly connected to the Internet?
The substance benzocaine is in certain soar throat pills.
That's true. If you want it across all platforms, you are restricted to the Scala ecosystem, and can't use Java and JS ecosystems.
I agree that the third party doctrine is a huge problem for privacy. We're making progress on that front: https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-privacy/supreme-courts-ca...
I'm not sure if it's liberal or not, but opposition to immigration seems perfectly legitimate to me, and is directly opposed to Soros' goals.