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Many towns in VT and NH still have public/non-profit ski hills that are even cheaper. Especially for people who are new to skiing, these are fantastic deals (many also have cheap lessons, and there's no reason to pay big-mountain prices to spend all day on the beginner slope).

I learned to ski here as a kid: http://www.vtsnowsports.org ($75 season pass, $200 for a family).
Down the road from me now (lift currently closed for a mechanical issue, will hopefully re-open this weekend): https://skistorrshill.com ($160 season pass, $270 for a family). There's a bunch of gems like these scattered throughout New England if you look. And, since they're in "normal" towns, there's plentiful cheap lodging and plenty of other stuff to do. You're not isolated at a resort.

Cross-country and back-country skiing are even better options for the budget-minded, and almost limitless in where you can go. Ski-skate sales are full of cheap gear every fall, so the cost to get started is almost nothing.
Games that follow the old shareware model (free to try out, choose whether or not to pay for full game/disable ads) are my preference for sure.

I don't mind paying $5 (or more) for a good mobile game, but with so much crap out there, it's tough to justify unless I am lucky enough to run across a trusted review or it's something from a developer that has earned my trust through previous offerings.

Looking back, the games I buy/unlock tend to be the ones where I get to try them out first. If I play the first 10 levels or 1/5th of the story and really enjoy it, I'm eager to pay in-app to continue the game.
Nah. They'll just blame the gays. Or immigrants. Or something, anything, except what they don't want to change.
> And trying to get 20 people to switch to something else is a complete non-starter.

Eh. I participated in getting all my friends to start using WhatsApp and later to stop using it.

Way more than 20.
Maybe to you, for people who live in mountain villages in Europe, around which these resorts grew, it's a "little" different.
Facebook, WeChat and Office are counterpoints.
"think of the company as the Google of the 1960s"

Author doesn't seem to understand there weren't that many computers on the planet in the 1960s
From my experience, dumping memory and most likely reverse engineering the binary is a must.

Actually as it is legacy system, changes are this will be easier.

To be honest, the path to follow mostly depends on the OS.

As it is critical system, I would start with reverse engineering the binary, making sure the config is preserved across life time of application.
>Coffee could go extinct and our generation would just have nostalgic idle chats about it here and there

Maybe the consumers...you have to keep in mind the competing interests of capitalism. I could see SV and SV VCs falling all over themselves with such a "market opportunity."

>And so long as someone has financial motivations to push the idea that this is normal, people will keep thinking it is and they'll forget just how much things changed.

This! I could see VCs start investing in numerous companies hawking all kinds of caffeine pills and supplements, spending billions on marketing, such that consumers would stop talking about the nostalgia of coffee, rather begin asking how we ever lived without X startup that has disrupted the industry and optimized "human energy."
> 5 signed pilot agreements (to start once we finish a couple of features)

Just a word of caution here.
It would be important for you and the client to already be aligned on financial terms / paid pilot when based on feature development.
When dealing with larger organizations, it’s not unusual do see B2B postmortems caused by ‘death by a thousand features’ where the deal never happens.
Until the organization has to pay anything you may not have a deal at all (didn’t go through procurement, legal, etc).
An honest question: if a technological solution were found that both solved climate change and allowed us to continue burning fossil fuels, would you accept it?
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A server running software has both perishable and non-perishable elements. The physical hardware is perishable and weakens with age, but as the software itself ages the likelihood that it contains bugs like "it crashes whenever daylight savings occurs" decreases.

The question is which effect dominates at a particular point in time.
You're exactly right that there's an editorial line, so this list reflects my personal beliefs and classification on BS/noBS. I think cosmetics are fine, since you can fully enjoy the game without them, and if a game ONLY has cosmetics, it can go on the list (there's even a dropdown item for that in the submission form).
Trees for Life - trying to get the Scottish Highlands back to something approaching their "natural" state:

https://treesforlife.org.uk/
In my experience both clang ASAN and UBSAN (and TSAN, the thread sanitizer) are very solid tools, IFIR I haven't seen a false positive yet (of course some code may be specifically written to rely on undefined behaviour, but of course that's a mine field).

On the other hand, the clang static analyzer may have a shocking amount of messages when run first on a large existing code base, and some of those warnings can be considered more "opinions" than warnings. It's still makes sense and is very rewarding to make a code base "static analyzer clean".

The runtime sanitizers in comparison are very precise and always pointed to actual "sleeper bugs", it's almost definitely a good idea to use them and take their warnings serious.

But anyway, clang ASAN, UBSAN, TSAN and the static analyzer are all really excellent and important tools for everybody writing C or C++ code.

PS: the reason why those checks are optional is that they increase compilation time (sometimes dramatically, like 10x slower compilation or more), and they add runtime instrumentation code which both increases the executables size and decreases performance dramatically (also 2..10x times or more, although the clang sanitizers are really quite fast compared to other solutions).
My Asus laptop bought with Windows 7 on it back in 2009, is running the latest Windows 10 version.

Both Microsoft and Asus keep having updates for it.

Google just needs to actually care.
What exactly are we supposed to do?

All the proposed solutions would end capitalism and even communism as we know them and lead to mass starvation.

It all comes down to a Thanos Snap one way or another.
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That only "fixes" climate change as long as the trees continue growing and do not die. When dead, trees release their CO_2 that they've sequestered back into the atmosphere due to decomposition. Therefore, assuming those forests stay around, you've only delayed the problem by sinking a fixed amount of CO_2 away into the living biomass of the trees. The only way to make that a permanent sink would be to biochar the trees as soon as they die, which would be a logistical nightmare.

Negative rant over, it's still not a bad idea for the fact that it'd slow down the worst effects of climate change for a while, buying time for other solutions like renewable energy and whatnot, but it's not a pancea.
Countries die and are reborn as new countries. The USA is a child of England.

Countries definitely do reproduce, usually on a longer cycle than that of the humans that make them up.
> It's the healthier and environmentally friendly version of alpine skiing.

I used to think that too, but recently I'm softening to the argument that a given number of vacationers on even the nastiest bulldozed runs has much less regional impact than if the same number of users would go touring instead, everyone spreading out to seek their own patch of untouched nature.

Of course in terms of global impact (energy use per person) touring is nonetheless much better.
To my knowledge there is no technical reason why a hashed value of the passcode should be stored on the iPhone in any way. If a hashed value could be extracted from the device, there would be no reason to perform the brute forcing procedure on the device itself, which seem to be the case with GrayKey.
Having your cake and eating it too sounds like a great option. It just doesn’t have any basis in reality.
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> Where is this magical place where it used to be snowy all winter long and is now averaging 50-60 degrees with snow now being a rare occasion?

Here in Buffalo, NY, we've had 1 snowfall this year >6". It was in November. It hasn't been much over 48F though, not in the 50-60F range. But last year had some of that, and we're only half way through January.
unless the software stack has a degraded mode for power saving
The standard doesn't say dereferencing a null pointer is invalid. The fact that it gives it as an example of undefined behaviour is a defect in the standard. In the discussion on core language issue #232, the intent has been explicitly stated:

> Notes from the October 2003 meeting:

> ...

> We agreed that the approach in the standard seems okay: p = 0; *p; is not inherently an error. An lvalue-to-rvalue conversion would give it undefined behavior.

http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/cwg_active.html#232

WRT your edit: no, that says dereferencing a null pointer and binding a reference to the result produces undefined behaviour. That agrees with what I was saying. "which" refers to the whole of "to bind it to the "object" obtained by dereferencing a null pointer", not just to "dereferencing a null pointer".
> As someone who believes in climate change, and grew up playing in the snow - what on earth are you talking about? Where is this magical place where it used to be snowy all winter long and is now averaging 50-60 degrees with snow now being a rare occasion?

We've had an extremely mild winter in Rochester, NY. It's finally taking a turn this week, but my expensive ski season pass has had a rough run so far.

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2020/01/14/r...

> What's more, the high temperature every single day since Dec. 21 has been above freezing. That’s never happened in Rochester’s recorded weather history. The average temperature during that time has been a rather astonishing 35 percent higher than normal.
Figure out some useful logistics solutions for polyculture producers to complete with monoculture ones.

Help foster sustainable ag economy!
People are basically the cells of a city.
When the recent Sonic the Hedgehog re-release from SEGA did this I just deleted it off my phone. shrugs
Thank you for taking the time to reply in such amazing detail. It is seriously appreciated. I'll have a thorough read and do some link chasing this evening.

Cheers
As always, being deterministic may make a system predictable in theory, through in practice there are to many variables for it to matter. To soften the existential dread.
Cool. FWIW, that sounds like a good line between BS/No BS to me!
How does an introverted tech founder with no free time network?
I am not a fan of social media.
I live in a city that doesn’t have a strong tech presence.
I work FT a software dev team lead.
I am a dad.
I spend all hours possible building my own startup.

Any advice or suggestions on how I can meet like-minded individuals?
Childhood memories are not scientific fact.

I grew up in Upstate NY. There were plenty of warm winters in the '70s and '80s. I don't think anything is remarkably different.

Also, we had some summers that were freezing--like you never wanted to go swimming the whole summer except maybe one week in August. Other summers were blazing. My parents' old farmhouse didn't have A/C. They still don't have A/C now.
All of these are "not only but also" solutions. One thing we need to do is end the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, but that only addresses one type of pollution, and it only gets us so far if the alternative doesn't pollute in some way. (For example, solar and the waste that it generates.) We need to solve the whole ecosystem issue.
One of the reasons I think no human will ever be immortal is that we can't even make houses live for more than a couple of hundred years in the general case, and houses are objects rather than dynamic systems.
> Our goals are to build a great product and make a living.

If those are the only goals, then they might be accomplished by either joining a company full time or consulting.

I hope you see what I'm getting at here. You'll need to be very specific about your goals and the company's goals before enumerating options.

You've picked one option - outside funding, but don't seem to have considered anything else.

As another example, you noted earlier:

> Our solution is a very horizontal process automation platform that has the potential to adapt to a lot of different industries and company sizes with the goal to automate pretty much any business process.

Your pricing model is $10/month. What other potential customer segments might there be which will pay 10x of that?

In other words, getting funding from your customers rather outside investors might be an option. You haven't said anything about what you tried in that respect.
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I don't disagree, but I live in Australia where our PM brings coal into parliament to say how much he loves it. 2038 would be a great goal here...
Completely agree with you. I am a Dutch citizen and have been living in the UK for over a decade; I would say the build quality of housing in the Netherlands is far better (if I had to guess probably because of stricter regulations). This is especially evident in apartment blocks.
Please re-read what I said. I never claimed it was easy to port in every situation.

I merely pointed out that "depending on what you are doing they (semantic differences) are minor considerations." and then gave an example where that was the case with a simple application I was working.

If you want a more complicted library that was ported from Ruby to Crystal then you can also look at Sidekiq ( https://www.mikeperham.com/2016/05/25/sidekiq-for-crystal/ )
Honestly, tree farming is carbon negative. By continuously growing trees and turning them into lumber you capture carbon and turn it into houses and furniture. Using the profits to buy more land to reforest, then cycling though planting and cutting down trees on a cycle.
> ... there’s a plausible case that a portion of the blame for the war is due to climate related ...

No, there really isn't, and if PNAS is making such claims, they should be derided. The authors should also be closely examined for why they might be making such preposterous claims; they may belong to governments or groups which ... actually caused the conflict in Syria.

Such assertions are transparent propaganda which should be laughed to scorn by any numerate person.
I'd recommend you to do some consulting. I know it's counter-intuitive and something you don't want to do forever, but at the beginning of a B2B company it's extremely useful for 3 reasons:

1) It provides quick cash so it removes the stress of having to look for money too soon.

2) Direct customer feedback while working with them on day to day problems. At this point you really want to understand your customers pains so later you can solve them with technology.

3) Initial validation/traction for your product. At the beginning, customers will value your consulting way more than your product, but for every new customer, try to provide less consulting and cover the rest with your product. Check if your customers are equally happy.
For me (php5, older now I know) it was things like create_function() taking a string. It was (is? dunno) an ugly and crude language, no subtleties in the syntax, just warts. I'm firmly of the belief you can make good things with any language but I don't feel any desire to make things with PHP when there's other good options.
Does hangouts.google.com not work for you? It works for me. You don't need an installable app to use it. And it works inside Gmail too, of course.

(True, for companies Google's currently transitioning to the alternative "Hangouts Chat" which has enterprise features. But that's different from consumer Hangouts, and in any case obviously neither depends on Chrome Apps.)
> Breaking encryption is not illegal under the DMCA except in the cases listed in the DMCA.

isn't it the other way around?
Uh let’s start: heating pipes routed outside walls. Walls made of single layer drywall, wide apart studs, no soundproofing, cheapest plugs possible (even in premium apartments), window frames installed without the necessary PU foam, just screwed on the brickwork.

The list goes on...
"Pretty liberal for an Islamic country" is not the same as "liberal by Western standards".
> I guess on the theory that they’d rather have sure money than you deciding at the last minute not to go.

Wouldn’t everyone? Salaries have to be paid, equipment maintained, property taxes paid.
That's too bad. Chrome Apps allows TCP/UDP communication and it could create interesting apps.
There are properties that get listed by an agency and it's totally free game for who sells it. I've had a realtor tell me that I should "use her exclusively" because she would get me better deals.

Don't do that, it's incredibly stupid.
Thanks, we will continue to push hard on this. I am concerned however about staying afloat long enough to reach product-market fit. I really think we are on to something, but the constant stress over my head of "what are we doing to do in 8 months when we run out of runway" is concerning.
> Here’s why the high-bandwidth visual interface is important: The common thread in between the autocompletion in zsh, IPython, Xcode and OS X help is that it makes it easy to find hidden things.

The best I’ve seen in this regard of discovering hidden things is the Visual Studio C# auto suggestions which refractors your code to use modern language features. It’s quite magical, sometimes doing non-trivial refactors.

I find it a great way to get exposed to the ongoing evolution of C# without actively polling the language spec.
That's the scary part! You can't anymore see whether it's a joke or some cutting-edge consultant speech... ;-)
I concede somewhat, you are correct, the psychological manipulation present in contemporary game design certainly ups the stakes, still, we can teach our children that gambling is a risky activity, it will cost time and money, lost opportunities, so there is still hope.
Unpopular advice: find a subtle way to make it crash, preferably stealthy, but if not possible, at least in a way that can be attributable to mild innocent incompetence instead of malice!

Then there will be more and more interesting work to do for you and others, either rediscovering and properly documenting the config, or, hopefully, architecting and coding its replacement! In the aftermath, the organization will be more robust. If it actually collapses bc of this, then it deserved to die anyway, you only helped accelerate the outcome and reduced the suffering.

Some things and processes need to be "helped to fail faster", everyone will benefit from the renewal in the end, even if most will hate it ;)
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"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It" - Upton Sinclair
If you go back to the early 20th century, several Vermont resorts were forced to close due to too much snow.

The problem with East coast skiing is that it won’t take that much more warming to make them economically unviable.
I always feel bad software like SoftIce will never be a thing again. Felt so much power using it.
It is not that easy, as you can see from the yearly snow height of 2 locations in the alps:

https://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/2016/02/18/schneemessreihe...

There is no clear trend visible. The reason for this is that during the climate catastrophe not only the temperature rises but also the mass of the evaporated water rises. This results in more extreme cases where there is no snow at all or drowning in snow. This year there is no snow but last year there were some villages in the alps that were no longer reachable because of the amasses of snow.
This is very reminiscent of VPRI (and Kay's) efforts to shrink code size using shared abstraction written in OMeta.

Also a lot of attempts have been made around meta editors (eclipse tried, and probably still does with EMF/xText)

Honestly.. I cannot help but to think that most programs are parsers. My vue app is a weird GUI to assemble a tree of things by swallowing (reducing) over a stream of events (not unlike a stream of bytes).

Anyway one day it will happen.
Are there methods of tree farming that are focusing solely on carbon capture? For example, is it known that a species of plant that grows quickly captures carbon very efficiently?
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I don't remember all the little details, but it was the year I started to actively avoid anything they touch, starting with their search engine. I think the main concern was the privacy nightmare.
Nice! Was looking for that on my bingo card. :-)
Don't get me started, if a complex brain can finally understand the brain, does that not mean we will still be missing the special sauce that was the cause of the complex comprehension, er, I'm out!
You might try something like this, hoping that the process still has the gone file "open".

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/268247/recover-file...
Thank you, I think one of our customers would be open to this. This is definitely an option worth considering.
I could not agree more to this article. Not only am I a happy IPython and zsh user, but also like searchable menus (also refered to as "OSD search" or similar in non-Mac OS X contexts).

My feeling is that we experience a revival of keyboard-based searchable/explorable GUIs due to two reasons:

(1.) Many people use notebooks where both hands rest on the keyboard (in contrast to an external mouse where one hand permanently rests).

(2.) Desktop searches, or virtually any kind of search with a fast index took over (clearly pioneered by Apples Spotlight). That's the Google spirit of searching for things instead of clicking menus.

This is probably one of the changes where in the retrospective we can say "the 2010s" brought us. :-)
There was an Angry Birds movie released within the last couple of years. It's still extremely popular.
That's true. I am using memory sanitizers in my workflow, but I haven't been using the `undefined` sanitizer. This could have saved me a day worth of effort.
But when the trees die, new trees will grow in the same area, sequestering more or less that CO2 that was emitted from the dying tree, no? Would this not turn the forests into a permanent CO2 sink, at least on a rough scale?

Or do they sequester less than they emit?
Being a dad gives you numerous opportunities to network with other parents. You can do it for free while waiting for the soccer practice to end or the last school bell to ring. Depending on your situation, there may be other options.

This network might not give you direct access to the people you want to talk to, but that seems to be the idea behind networking. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

If you don't regularly write a blog, you might consider that. It's a way to have people interested in what you're doing contact you rather than the other way around.
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