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Interesting read but none of these ideas actually explain what problems they solve. Programming is my hobby and being financially secure, I’m in position where I could easily spent half a day writing someones code for nothing more than “thank you, good job”. Seriously, so long as I know someone’s problem is being solved. I wish there were website like “thank you for programming dot com” where people with low or no budget could post problems that programing can solve and programmers could tackle those at zero financial gain, maybe only as a extra point in their resumee.
Shit happens. At least with Amazon it's super easy to make a return (at least here in Germany).
I probably would. Too bad nobody is giving me a million dollars for that. Except for the weather (which is admittedly pretty nice) and salaries (which are admittedly very juicy even after adjusting for cost of living) I am not entirely sure why California is so much better than other places. I mean, San Francisco has a lot of nice stuff there, but other places do too, and they don't have today's SF downsides... So I am not sure why.
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From a values perspective I like this approach. I don’t like that other people get to determine how much of the capital I pull in gets to be mine after all.

On the other hand, I don’t think it would create much tax revenue.

We only gave our government the right to institute an income tax thanks to the idiots who banned alcohol. Before that the feds relied on alcohol taxes to survive.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/at-the-history-cente...
Yesterday's discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22074707
This is one of the cases where JITs win over AOT compilers.

Intel has made the work on OpenJDK for taking advantage of AVX when present.
If you arrive in town before your check-in time or have access to a property. Hotels handle this with a bag check. Same issue if you aren't headed out around the time your check out time.
This is the right answer. Thank you.

But I still have a question :

> Unfortunately, on some teams, a strict hierarchy is imposed and you ARE expected to comply with a peer's instruction in all cases.

Or maybe fortunately? How do you handle weighting benefits when the team is flat, i.e. there is no clear hierarchy?

Say for example, two senior developers disagree on how to structure a piece of code, because each one finds it more readable his way.
Now structuring that code would have implications on other dependent pieces, the team using it, and future development.

How do tou handle such disagreement when each member has a strong opinion about the issue?
What is the takeaway here? The government has done a lot of terrible things against its own people, especially when it thinks it’s making decisions “for the greater good”

If anything that’s more of an argument for constitutional gun ownership than against it.
But at any given moment you don't know if your consciousness has lasted more than a few seconds or if you've just appeared with the false memories of having been conscious for a long time.
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I think they meant that upon checkout you need to take luggage with you immediately.

Many hotels will store your luggage after checkout, until you are ready to depart.
I think you are misinterpreting what I said. This is about a difference in law and not about being special in any way.

Also, don’t fall into generalizations of “Americans” and the whole “greatest country in the world” meme. This isn’t Star Trek, where all Klingons are a uniform cultural and behavioral monoblock.
> Start here [1]

I see nothing there but speculation about evolutionary history. It would be a shame if the potential STEM contributions of half of the human race were left fallow because of a half-assed evolutionary just-so story.
The key of the matter is that California wants to tax, full stop. The socialist greenies running the state are neck deep in debt and making new exorbitant taxes is their only option. No wonder people are fleeing from the Californian dream in droves! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/california-congression...
Atlanta was never a “nice area” until “liberals” moved into it.

Atlanta, the city, was a shithole ridden with crime until the “liberals” moved in.

Which is, for better or worse, the reality of all these cities that seem to complain about “liberals” moving in. They are shitholes because the “conservatives” are all cooped up in suburbs, and so no one pays any tax to maintain the city which ends up being somewhere that is just where the people come in to work and leave in the evening, until the “liberals” move in.
100% agree with this.
some numbers:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20160327
In another life I want to own a US construction company. 119B is greater that the gross national product of my home country. When smaller countries build road, bridges, other pieces of infrastructure it cost a low number of billions. Every time I read about construction in America the price is always enormous. There is just no way a wall outside of NY are costing anywhere near 119B. I refuse to believe that. It is an abusurd amount for this
People move to Texas for cheap housing.

That’s the biggest thing these states have going for them. Lots of space and associated cheap housing.
This article reminds me of stories my grandfather had told me about how amazing the red car system was in Los Angeles and how buses replaced and ruined the system. The red car originally went from Los Angeles and ended all the way down to the end of the Peninsula in Newport Beach Orange County. Today if you go to the Pavilion in Newport Beach California you can see the end of the line portion that would rotate the red car. At the time I thought my grandfather was just talking about the good old days but this article gave me some good context on a good system ruined.
Why not get a pair of passive ear protectors if you only want to reduce noise? They cost about a tenth of what a pair of Bose headphones cost.
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I think he did mean that they are of-and-from as in taken away/given away freely while they previously were an integral part of previous mostly tyrannical power hierarchies.

The psychoanalytical “father” is both good, and tyrannical, and i think part if its wisdom in that it manifests today as government and written ideal (where the ideal has power to reign in the government) is testament to our wisdom as a society.
This reminded me of the documentary of the last Red Car journey from Downtown to Long Beach in April 1961[1].

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ebboO52In1w
The solution to bad government housing policy is less government housing policy.

I like the model of forcing new construction projects to have some units setup for public housing while private owners buy or rent the rest.

It takes people from lower socioeconomic parts of society and pushes them to mix with folks who are on top.

Church used to do this before religion started to retreat from society.

Lack of mixing of classes is killing civil society in America.
It's not even that it's one party. Since there's only two parties, there's a lot of variance within each, and you can be a Democrat without trying to make freelance work impossible, petty crime routine, streets smeared with human excrement and a trip in public transportation both rare and dangerous. I don't see why even somebody who would never vote Republican still can't choose not to vote for somebody like politicians who pushed through the idiotic AB5, for example. Or the ones who have been in charge for so many other ills plaguing modern California. I don't think it's party-against-party thing. If CA voters wanted, they could vote for much saner policies still well within the mainstream of Democrats (or at least something that has been mainstream of Democrats before 2016), but for some reason they do not.
>There are at least 20 cities in China larger than NYC.

This is incorrect.
I used a similar service in NYC in December. My partner and I were in the city for a half day. We got into the Port Authority around noon and dropped our bags at a Best Western near Penn Station. It allowed us to spend a day visiting with friends without the need to lug the luggage around. During the day we walked about 6 miles. Three bags ran about $20, it was well worth it.
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Great work, congratulations! Will definitely give it a try. Having said that, this project needs data import/export functionality (certainly for GitLab and GitHub; perhaps, also for less popular options, e.g., Bitbucket, Gitea and Gogs). Re: "I take a lot of time optimizing the performance, and it can easily handle large amount of issues, projects and large repositories at company scale" -- I'm not sure whether it makes sense to spend time on this, unless you plan on adding enterprise features and building a business around it (technical support, etc.).
Birds of a feather. I wrote about 200 macros for TeX. So, I have table of contents, cross references, simple lists, unordered lists, ordered lists, business cards, ways to put TeX output on figures imported into a TeX document, etc. The spell checker Aspell that came with the TeX distribution I use is my favorite spell checker for everything!

I REALLY like TeX.
There are empty lots for sale even in dense parts of LA.
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> > All people are born vulnerable to being beaten up and coerced by the guy with the biggest club. There is no "inherent" freedom in nature.

> Sure there is! You are not prevented from grabbing a stick and defending yourself by some artifice. You might lose. Or win. And you are free to make that choice.

> In CA if someone comes at me with a baseball bat and I have two sticks tied together with a short piece of rope to defend myself I can end-up in jail. I once asked a police officer friend (LAPD Commander, actually) what I could legally carry in Los Angeles to defend myself and not get into trouble. He said "your best pair of running shoes".

This is actually very sound advice and what you get told in every reasonable self-defense class. Carrying a weapon around is really more about satisfying some sense of self importance/illusion ("I could heroically defend myself, if I get attacked") than actual self defense. I remember doing that when I was 16 and feeling very tough, I've grown out of it.

> The whole thing is preposterous. What ends-up happening is that lots of people secretly conceal-carry because they don't want to be victims. They do the math and conclude they rather go to jail than be dead. Truly sad.
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Except no one talks about guns that are used for hunting when talking about gun control policy (maybe the idiots who use massive powered automatic rifles for shooting deer may be slightly affected).

Politicians use gun control policy to create divisions in people, but the actual gun control policies being considered themselves almost always poll very well amongst all Americans including those in rural areas and hunters.

It’s like Obamacare, where the actual policies within are supported by overwhelming majorities, but obamacare barely breaks even.
I am planning to apply for an open position at DO. Does anyone thinks it's the right time to switch there?
Should be higher imo
Keynest: get the key from a shop.

Keycafe:get the key from a self service box in a shop.

Keesy: get the key from a machine.

Vikey: keyless. Enter with a code.

And many many more.

At Host London exhibition there were at least ten new ones.
Not true at all. You simply bring in the workers through an employment agency. AB5 does not impact consultants.
Yeah here in Iceland we have state run kindergarten’s open to kids from 18 months. They are staffed by degree educated people specialising in child development as well as assistants. They’re nothing but delightful in my experience. They are definitely underpaid though and I would absolutely like them to be paid more.

I’ve also heard horror stories of private daycares from my friends who have lived in the US though. Particularly those studying so without particularly high incomes.
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I'm from southern Europe. Fires are a common occurrence.

Most of the time they have a human origin. Not necessarily arson, though it is not uncommon (but it's difficult to catch perpetrators), but human activities make accidents happen (cigarettes, BBQ, cars, electric circuits, controlled fire gone awry, etc).

I never said or suggested that that current situation in Australia was mostly arson or that it is how it always has been. But equally I do not subscribe to the current hysteria. I think that Australian bushfires before humans arrived must have been quite a thing.

A problem we have is that it is difficult to have a measured discussion on these topics these days as illustrated by how my previous comment is downvoted and your ridiculous suggestion about the sources of my readings.
This. It's an issue both before and after the stay.
Spoken like someone who has never moved.
3rd world doesn’t mean poorly developed.

It just means not 1st world (NATO countries) or 2nd (Soviet Bloc)
Thanks so much for the advice. It's really hard not to be on screens before bed. I'll try cutting this one first...
Thanks for all the support, folks!

I'll focus on my CS major, even when I'll probably be over 40 when I finish (due to the several next crisis along the road).

In my last job, I found great joy in reverse engineering (interoperability with a quarter-century proprietary legacy system). I also find cryptography and cryptanalysis amusing (applied abstract algebra is nice).

I would like to focus on that career path. Job openings involving those areas are mostly security-related.

But I fear a possible toxicity in that adversarial role (i.e., last line of defense against a whole industry of malware and malicious actors). I can only imagine future burnouts and extended anxiety while dealing with the ever-increasing work demands.

How realistic is that gloomy scenario in InfoSec?

P.S. Cryptopals [1] and Dennis Yurichev's reverse engineering challenges [2] seem quite reasonable for practicing/learning.

There are plenty of Capture-the-Flag, Crackme, wargames, programming challenges, etc., but initially I'll do these.

[1] https://cryptopals.com

[2] https://challenges.re
> I do wonder if it's an amount proportional to their wealth

Federal income tax is based on income, not wealth. It's entirely possible (and happens all the time) that wealthy people have a bad year with their investments and lose money. They don't pay income taxes on losses.
The difference should be obvious:

In the one case, if your speech causes harm to others (i.e.: you incite a crowd to attack me) the consequences of your actions lead to legal repercussions.

In the other case all you have to do is look at the supreme ruler the wrong way and you are dead.

This is precisely my case: Our laws come from us, not them, not government.
Sounds like you’re the property criminal, because the odds of every single person you know having property crime committed against them is ridiculously low, unless you’re the one committing it.
With brand new vehicle "ownership" right behind.
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Because it has nothing to do with reducing crime or improving the quality of life for the population. They want access to encrypted communications because it gives them power. Child exploitation, terrorists and drug cartels are merely the political tools they're using to justify their overreach. Their real targets are whistle blowers, dissidents, journalists, people who can do real damage to the foundations of their power.
Matt; it's easy to say "it's incremental" - for example, an application that lets you order books online or communicate with groups of friends would be seen as incremental in 1990. The CEO's of Blackberry thought that the iPhone was good and feature rich, but they saw it as incremental as well!
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> any other product

You can design a car with very little math. An airplane requires a lot of math. A spacecraft - everything is math, because the margins are awfully slim.
Were you trying to reply to a different comment? It seems unrelated to mine.
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Also thought that some of the technical points were good, but...

Mixing together Linux and Unix?
Saying that killing a process from command line in Linux is bad because MacOS has GUI for that?
Not explaining in more detail a claim that C is responsible for Spectre?
Topping a technical presentation with political statements?

That's too much for 30 minutes I think.
Like you almost all women I've seen in tech are brilliant. The best explanation I have for the imbalance is lack of interest on average. Having a son, we could see the difference even from around age 1. Boys really are drawn to things that move while girls seem to react more to social interactions. We really tried not to influence e.g. with the choice of toys. I find it no surprise that 20 years later the same boys fill up IT and engineering while the girls are working in HR and corporate communication. There's always outliers, and I we need to take care of them especially because their contributions can be very valuable (on both sides), but I think trying to evening out the gender gap in all jobs is like chasing an invisible dragon.
Though, he or someone else with Aurelius in their name wrote a guide telling self to suicide if you lose control over your mind and was rather obsessive about it.

I think quotes should be without mentioning the person. If the quote is a valid assertion then it will prove itself otherwise it tends to rely on the 'who' for its validity which lacks context and is decisive in nature.

0] https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...
Heller was a 5:4 decision made against text, history, and precedent by radical judicial activists. The decision doesn’t stand up to historical or logical scrutiny, and it was accompanied by a very forceful dissent. Justice Scalia’s claim to being guided by “originalism” and “textualism” was shown to be a hypocritical farce by this and similar rulings.
I think careers in IT/software can have exactly the same issues of work/life balance, though it's very dependent on which industry and company you work in.

For an extreme example, just look at the AAA games industry.

Having said that, I think you could say the same about most industries unfortunately. I don't know if it's just because that's what competition forces us into, but I would guess that is a big part of it.
It wouldn’t be if society recognised the importance of the next generation and pooled together collectively.
By the way, a huge reason the Wrights were successful with their 1903 Flyer and the others weren't was because they did the math, and the others were doing trial and error. Or more accurately, just error :-)

The Wrights are often dismissed as mere "bicycle mechanics", but they were anything but "mere".
No, it isn’t, in a country of laws these things have weight and meaning. If, on the other hand, we are talking about complete anarchy and the end of laws as our guiding principles then, yes, sure, in that case words on paper do not matter. Until then...
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Depends on where you live. Hancock park? Sure, no petty crime other than burglaries. Pretty much anywhere else but the most bougie neighborhoods are rife with petty crime.

When I flew for the holidays my bike was stolen out of a gated garage. LAPD isn't going to jump on a grenade for my bike. Cars parked along the street are regularly targeted for smash and grabs. The nearby encampment maintains a cache of torn apart electric scooters and bike parts (maybe mine is in there too). I've been on a bus that was 'ambushed' for a bike mounted in the rack out front. Last week on the train two unstable men made eye contact and started posturing and raising their voices, one pulled a shiv out of his pocket and luckily the other one fled the car, but that could have been bad. Life on the west side, but I still wouldn't trade it for anything.