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> A shop replaced my failed catalytic converter ($1200+

> replacement) with a straight pipe ($20 pipe and $200 of

> time) many years ago because they (correctly) assessed me

> to be a broke-ass student who wouldn't tell on them.

The mechanic may have even made even more money by scrapping your catalytic converter.

In the UK, swapping the exhaust out for a straight pipe is a common (illegal) modification for greater performance and sound. To get the car through the MOT, you either need to find somebody willing to "look the other way" or re-weld the original exhaust in place.

I've seen in many scenarios "boy racers" dipping the clutch and coasting the car by the police. If your car is making a sound resembling a Spitfire you're sure to get pulled over, where they'll use a road side test kit and confiscate your car.

Some other popular cheap modifications include completely removing the air-filter (dangerous), stretching tires to create low-profile wheels (extremely dangerous if they let go [0]), putting the car on a diet (ripping out all interior, seats, etc), running contaminated fuel (either diesel/petrol mixes [1] or running farmer's diesel) - the list goes on.

There are also some processes for purposely causing the car to backfire regularly (especially on a down change, with quite large flames) and getting more "bang" from the fuel. At one point we were also experimenting with the idea of using the starter motor strategically to aid engine acceleration - but nothing ever came of it.

[0] We had a car crash on the motorway into the central barrier, which then caused all of the tires to instantly disintegrate - all at ~90 mph (~145 kph).

[1] We once had a vehicle literally explode when unburned fuel collected in the catalytic converter/exhaust and suddenly decide it wanted to be on fire. This in itself wouldn't have been an issue if a) somebody noticed and b) it didn't then ignite the fuel lines.
> We all come from the same family, at the end of the day.

Of course, but I'll be damned if I let my brother sock my mother in the nose just because he's family. Not that I'm walking around looking for a fight. On the contrary.

And if it were my specific responsibility to protect people, it would be foolish for me to become out of shape, unequipped, sloppy, and inattentive. Staying prepared has "costs", of course. That doesn't mean every minute of cardio, training session, or watchful minute is a waste. It would be if someone else already fulfilled that responsibility or if I were egregiously overpreparing or mispreparing somehow.
I still don't see how these have to be mutually exclusive. Fine, default to phone number since that's what most people are comfortable with, but it's not like there's anything inherent making supporting alternative identifiers a difficult problem.

Let it be my problem making my friends add my e-mail address to their contacts.
>> But let’s be real—both Bangladesh and Ireland have benefited from British language, institutions, law, and culture

Well you cannot check out the alternate world where this didn't happen.

How can you be a proponent of democracy at home and still be a colonialist ?
To give an example of this British schizophrenia, John Stuart Mill, who wrote On Liberty, worked for the EIC for 35 years. I am still trying to understand how he would reconcile this with what he wrote.
I think you misunderstand how much planes cost. Many GA pilots aren’t rich. You can by a Cessna 150 for $16k as an example:

https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?category_level1=Single+...

The pilot of this is likely not some rich individual undergoing clandestine operations.
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Anyone know why they didn't go with angle brackets? People familiar with C++ and Java would find it familiar. I wonder if its too unpythonic, or makes the parsing too hard.

e.g. Instead of

func Reverse (type Element) (s []Element) {

why not do:

func Reverse<Element> (s []Element) {
Bats can use leaves as “sound mirrors” for better navigation (2019)
I think there will be some sites like books, they are timeless. And Rosalind is one of them. I'd add Philip Greenspun's /books (http://philip.greenspun.com/books/)
F*ck Zuck.
Loneliness is because people have convinced themselves that the cost of being with someone is bigger than the reward of being with someone.

The immediate cost of being alone is going down.

We need to understand, no matter how much a person has read or introspected their behaviour or are kind at their heart - no one will every be able to live up to the expectations of millions of people on internet.

This is why relationship advice on internet is such a joke, whenever anything happens, advice that's given to them is "leave this person, this person is abusive, manipulative, you deserve better". They follow the advice and end up alone and convince themselves that being alone is best.

Now, about the people who want to pursue romantic interests,the game is soo different now.

Long ago, girls from my town only dated local boys. They had to do with what's available to them locally but these days, one girl tells me that their boyfriend is coming to see them on weekend from Italy, while others boyfriend is coming from Greece, etc... Meanwhile men of town have drowned themselves in video games, porn and drinking/drugs because they've no meaningful relationships - they told me they feel like loser because girls aren't interested in them.

Yes, the men they are with are wayy better than what's available locally. Better according to preference of those girls, not according to me.
Can I blame women for choosing best available to them? No. Many guys will do same provided they had the opportunity.

If romantic interests is not what you wanna pursue, it hardly matters if you are not very attractive - you can find plenty of people are church, at beach or anywhere where you see people. Finding people to spend time with us not difficult at all provided you can fulfill the minimum required to not put off the people.

I am pretty sure when people say they are lonely - they are talking about absence of people in their life who care about them or make efforts to make them happy or go out of their way to make them feel special, cared for, treasured. Who doesn't want this?

How technology can solve it?
Those same business solutions have generated more value than costs.
> I'd like to know where the students go to study now instead of The Perg

What's wrong with the college library?
Out of the ~20 million college students, the number that come from families with $40k in liquid assets is probably not plural-millions-with-an-s, and is probably considerably less than a million. With the field of competition winnowed thusly, and again considering the myriad unearned advantages such a background generally entails, this person's success is probably far more common than you're wagering. All you're proving is that people in his class are far less deserving than we'd thought.

>Degrading in your twenties (in any meaningful sense) is _highly_ atypical.

Nah. One's twenties are a common period for mental illness to develop, as well as the period when heretofore silent congenital defects become apparent. It is also generally the first time when injuries become much less likely to fully heal, and when they may become lifelong encumberances.

Someone who hasn't experienced some form of degradation by 30 - worsening eyesight, a sports injury, onset of depression, even balding - is someone who is privileged indeed.
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oops, for some reason I thought that the paper talked about using differential dataflow, but it seems that I was mistaken.
The hell stems from inheritance, which is just syntactic sugar over composition. And a very unhealthy kind of sugar as that: problems with co- and contravariance, problems with copying, the need for redundant type declarations. And inheritance doesn't guarantee autofulfillment of the Liskov principle, either. One might even wonder why inheritance is needed at all in a language. Go and Rust are certainly fine without it.
The real issue is that "market price" legitimately has an amount of slop in it that can eat the company's entire profit.

Suppose it costs $50M in salaries to create intellectual property which is then licensed to customers for $500M. Which one is the "market price"? It was sold for both prices, once by the employees to the company and then by the company to the customers. But the difference is a factor of ten.

More than that, the difference can be justified. When the $50M is paid, you don't know whether anybody will buy it. Maybe you'll make a billion dollars, or maybe you'll make nothing and just flushed $50M down the toilet. Or maybe you'll make a profit but the profits are spread over future years whereas the work was paid for immediately, so in an arms length market transaction you would expect the price paid to be discounted for the time value of money.

So they pay $50M for something they go on to sell for $500M. Which one is the market price? Both of them.

This obviously leaves more than enough slack for chicanery.
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I don't think that's a "new to Matrix" thing.

They run their own server, just like they ran their own IRC server before, and at first didn't really consider the need to make that explicit. I doubt there was any misunderstanding of the tech, or that the channel names are per-server.
I think using gsuite software would defeat the point of switching desktop operating system to avoid being dependant on a single company.
Is it possible to deliver the feedback to your manager and then ask to reduce interaction? (e.g. avoid working on the same projects, etc).

That's how I'd try to approach it if the person seems like they can't be reasoned with.

If the person seems like they can be reasoned with, then I'll just go have a conversation with them and give them the feedback directly. If that fails, then I'd fall back to trying to distance myself from the impact as much as possible while delivering the feedback to people that can potentially help make the situation better.
>The mechanic may have even made even more money by scrapping your catalytic converter.

Oh, certainly. Not to mention that removing it would have been a larger & more difficult job, which I'd have to pay for... OR they can get less money but it's (very) easy money.

>completely removing the air-filter (dangerous)

Good god... Who the hell does that? What ricer would willingly risk killing their motor from eating some leaves (or a piece of gravel!) for a minuscule performance increase? The risk:reward scale there is just bananas.
Also because they get moldy and stink from the humidity, and because many people believe they have ghosts.

The absolute quickest way to kill home value in Japan is have someone die in it. Absolutely nobody will want to live in the place and property owners will warn you before you consider looking at it.

If old people in the US saw their homes as a time-limited investment where they needed to sell them while they still can in order to ensure their spouse/kids have money, prices might drop. Maybe bringing back superstitions is a way millennials can finally take back the housing market.
This is a phenomenal read for dealing with toxic people in the workforce and all areas of life.
Taming Toxic People, By David Gillespie

Phttps://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760555047/
> Energy resources had almost finished

Reminder that the sun exists.
Do you think that catching lightning in a bottle still matters as much as it did in 2004 - 2013ish, or do you think there's an argument to be made that we're now in a post-lightning-in-a-bottle era?
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Two tech legends left us this week: Larry Tesler and Bert Sutherland. Both played key roles at PARC, the research center Xerox started that sparked large chunks of what we use today.

Regarding Tesler: I sat next to him when I flew back from interviewing at Microsoft. He was in the last row on the plane. I saw his Blackberry, assumed he was a nerd. He had just left Apple, was on the committee that hired Steve Jobs. He had his fingers in so much of the tech that we use today from object oriented programming to the Newton that set the stage for the iPhone.

Sutherland participated in the creation of the personal computer, the tech of microprocessors, the Smalltalk and Java programming languages, and much more.

Huge losses for our industry.
What particularly about the top comment is nonsensical to you? If English is not your first language I can try to simplify the prose to 5th grade English.
This (air)ship has sailed long ago. Even without ADS-B - which in effect will broadcast your location to any receiver, internet or not - there are many other sources. From flight plans, to radio communications, which are not encrypted in any way and can be listened to by whoever bothers to have a receiver (and not even counting liveatc.net)

There are likely to be other information sources that are out there in the open. I assume there's extensive paper trail, starting from the point someone decides to purchase aircraft, to aircraft maintenance. And even more if they want to pilot themselves.

Even without zero technology there are plane spotters, although they will likely not be interesting in every Cessna 172 that flies by.

None of this is very surprising though. The aircraft industry thrives on transparency. Which is a good thing for safety.

Note that you'll be tracking the aircraft, not who is flying it. For instance, we know that Elon Musks' aircraft tail number is N628TS (btw - N, or November, also tells us it's from the US). I just did a quick google search for it. So now you can track it. Whether or not there's anyone else other than the pilot is another matter entirely.

If you want privacy, owning an aircraft is not the way to go. Renting or chartering one might be better against casual observers, but there is still a paper trail. You may be able to add some more levels of indirection.

That said, you are correct that there is a slippery slope. For aircraft, the above is understandable, as you are dealing with human lives, including on the ground. However, now the FAA wants to add even more strict requirements for _drone_ operators(even recreational), including broadcasting your own position at all times while operating a drone. At least one can argue that you are safe while flying an aircraft, no such thing if you are on the ground. https://www.thedroneu.com/blog/faa-announces-drone-remote-id...
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I'm wary of incentivizing corporations as a personal wealth vehicle, but I still agree with you. Payroll, sales, capital gains, and value added taxes are a great place to shift or grow tax revenues should we ever reduce the corporate tax rate.
Totally. We could replace our GPU stack with who knows how many CPUs to hit the same 20ms SLAs, and we'll just pretend data transfer overhead doesn't exist ;-)

More seriously, we're adding multi-node stuff for isolation and multi-GPU for performance. Both are quite different... and useful!
> does that mean you get to know the name and address of every person driving local streets

That might be a thing when self driving cars proliferate.
Have you tired https://joplinapp.org/ ?
New form generator is in the hood! Welcome Jafar
New Form Generator by Verizon Media (Yahoo & Aol) was recently shared as an open source on Github! It is a based on a cool pure javascript form class, that any UI library (such as React, Angular and Vue) can use to expose Form and Field components. Currently contains also integration to React. Check it out, Try it out and I guarantee you wont go back to implement forms / manage pages without it again! :)

GitHub:
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Website:
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Medium Post:
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> I still like MVC for its original purpose: Multiple views in a CAD/CAM program. Makes perfect sense there.

That sounds intriguing. Could someone expand a little on it? Why is MVC more suitable for that particular problem?
Mostly agree, but berkeley CS PhDs do not make 55K per year before taxes; my info shows 33K for 2019. If you do an internship this might increase to your numbers, but that's not a given.
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In a highly dynamic ecosystem,how does one better prepare for possible changes in policies that may affect One's company on the long run?
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Drupal is a great dev experience, in my opinion. WordPress's code is a dumpster fire, but the recent rewrite of Drupal in Composer is a pleasure to use. A bit of a learning curve, but it is powerful and extensible, plus it has a great community.
I think the fear is that unless you watch someone work or see something they’ve produced, they can say all the right things but then be unable to really code without say a big huge helping hand.
Yeah right now you have to have an account, then you have direct access to customer support via the UI.

A FAQ page I should put together, that's correct.

Your questions:

1. The tiers differ in pageview restrictions and developer support access. The highest tier provides migration support for the platforms that don't have automated migrations today (you can import from Disqus, Commento, and a couple others).

2. Right now domains are unlimited and validated at TLD. When you sign up just enter the sites you want to use like.com, this.org. For example, I dog-feed it on my blog at blog.winricklabs.com, but I only have winricklabs.com on my account.
> One wonders if you could drop a battery operated GPS beacon reporting by satellite

What do you mean by GPS beacon? It gets a GPS-position and transmits it... where? Using what carrier?

You do have AIS already, and it is absolutely battery-operable, but I’m not sure to what extent the equipment is battery operated in the real world.

A typical aid transmitter
Asking the question implies you have an answer ... I’d love to know what you see
First, I’m sorry you’ve found yourself in this situation. The good news is that you are going to learn some new skills and grow from this challenge.

I’d try to respond to PR comments/ talk or slack directly with the person and ask them to elaborate whenever they leave these negative ambiguous comments. You can even preface it with some humility - “I’m struggling to understand your point, could you restate this in another way for me?” You can keep going down this, and if they are just being catty, disrespectful, etc, you can potentially ask other developers to way in with their opinions, to help come to some consensus.

As for the mocking regarding production going down, I’d counter if possible in the thread acknowledging that even the most experienced developers write bugs, and this speaks to a system problem, not an individual developers fault. I’d try to remove blame from the individual.

Finally, I’d recommend trying if at all possible to get a little distance from the situation, whatever the comment is, etc that is bothering you. By that I mean trying to not let it get under your skin by focusing on your task at hand despite the negativity (be extra positive instead), maintaining identity outside of work and allowing yourself some self confidence in your skills and yourself.

Remember: a) this person might be or act like an asshole (maybe they are just really insecure? Who knows? Doesn’t matter?)
b) management is complicit
c) you maybe able to change behavior but may not
d) you may not be able to control your understandable and appropriate emotional response to the person now, but if you practice mindfulness (pausing and keeping perspective), you maybe able to mediate your response and feel better about the situation.

Good luck! I’m feeling for ya!
>both Bangladesh and Ireland have benefited from British language, institutions, law, and culture.

You must be joking. If you look at historical share of world GDP, or (most strikingly in the case of Ireland) historical population, you get a very good picture of the 'benefits' of english institutions. Ireland has still not recovered to the pre-british occupation population levels.
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Actually, this makes a lot of sense. Reasoning about a single machine is just way simpler and keeps the full power of a modern transactional database at your fingertips. Backups keep taking longer and disaster recovery isn‘t as speedy anymore, but we‘re running on Postgres internally as well and I‘d scale that server as big as possible (even slightly beyond linear cost growth, which is pretty huge these days) before even thinking about alternatives.
Thanks! Do you have a connection to it? I'd be very curious to hear an inside take.
I mean, odds are you’re never going to catch lightning in a bottle. This has always been the case and always will be.
Ian mentions it would make the parser contex aware, which isn't needed currently.
Typing of the dead is a great example.
Java is also going to take a ton more memory.
This is so bizarre for me because it's like a flashback. I was seeing errors exactly like this in Firefox years ago, around 4-5 years or more I'd say.

This was on windows 7 64bit with a probably outdated install because my favorite extension for vertical tab tree was always behind on version support.

This error would manifest when I had many tabs open for a long time. I'd often keep sessions of hundreds of tabs open for weeks. The errors would start to appear and gradually get worse until I had to force crash ffx and restart (and recover my tabs!)

Not really actionable or reoro, but anecdotally maybe it helps to hear this isn't strictly new.
A page of iframes would do it!
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The crew are (were) paid by a crewing agency, typically providing a crew to the charterer, who finds a ship from some shipowner or other to offer freight services to commercial clients.

The shipowner is invariably located in a PO Box in a jurisdiction which makes Swiss banks seem downright extrovert; however, this is just a shell company controlled by an opaque holding company, &c.

Global shipping is a rather murky business, designed to facilitate tax and responsibility avoidance.

If this sounds interesting, investigative journalist Ian Urbina published a most informative (and scary) book on the subject last year - Outlaw Ocean.