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> writing, which was my main project for about 2 months.

> The writing itself only took about 70 hours (measured hours of focused time actually writing, not a vague estimate of my time at the desk)

AKA: How I made slightly under $50/hr for about 2 months of work.

I don't want to take anything away from the author (I've written zero books), but it's not an indication to me of an extraordinary outcome relative to the time, effort, and expertise required.
You should watch some of the riot videos. In one, I saw an Antifa kick an unconscious man in the head. My mother, who lived through Nazi Germany, would have understood these people as brownshirts.
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Soldering everything down and limiting max memory for mobile chipsets have been my biggest gripes with chromebooks and newer computers in general.

I upped my C710 to 16GB for $50 a couple years ago
(also swapped the 847 board for a 1007u, and dropped in an SSD), and it's been great. If and hopefully when 16GB DDR3 sodimms drop in price I'd like to bump it up to 32GB.
It’s a public space. You can walk in. No one mans the gates.
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Technically it does. You can ask for read uncommitted mode, though you'll just get read committed mode. This is correct because you're getting the minimal guarantees that you asked for. The SQL standard allows this.
In US law, closed shop refers to something different, which is illegal. It means that you have to be a member of the union to be hired in the first place at a certain employer/job site.

However, what is allowed is to require people who are hired to join the union, with the exception that if they do not want to join the union, they can opt to pay only "financial core" dues, to compensate the union for its work negotiating an agreement that the non-members supposedly benefit from too. The effect of this is that workers remain governed by collective bargaining, pay a lesser amount than members, and have no say in union leadership. They are also exempt from union discipline (ex fines for strikebreaking).

In some states, with so-called "right to work" laws, the employees who do not want to join the union pay nothing at all. This is actually not inherently a right of the states to make such laws, but an option they are delegated as part of the federal laws. After a recent SCOTUS ruling, all government employees can do this in any state.

In any case, what OP said is true re: our collective bargaining system is built around one union (whether or not everyone is required to pay dues) representing all workers, whose pay/benefits/other matters cannot vary from the union contract. Whether or not non-members must pay any dues

As to your point, the names for the old unions are largely historic vestiges. The "Big Labor" unions are massive conglomerates (just like the companies they rail against) that grow as big as they can. Ironically, the true hard-leftists like the IWW originally advocated for "One Big Union" as opposed to small, factional unions for each trade--but they would hardly be pleased with the highly-capitalist mammoth unions we have today.
There's also jobs that exist as the result of Moloch traps, e.g. many corporations need to keep a lot of lawyers on staff because their competitors are litigious. If they all agreed to be less litigious, they could all realise a huge net savings. I imagine much of advertising is similar, albeit in a less straightforward way.
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It doesn't. No one is offended by this.
A strong option for MPEG-DASH streaming with an open source toolchain is gpac[0] - especially in the 0.9 preview, which implements a "filter chain" concept.

The thing is, the "dasher" is only one component of a useful system - in order to do low-latency streaming (less than 6-20 seconds between source and viewer), you need a special HTTP server which can serve files as they're being generated, a solid low-latency connection to both your source and your clients (implying a CDN in many cases), and a few other bits and pieces. In production, you'll also want integration with things like connection bonding so your source can distribute to the server over a fallback connection when their main internet connection drops out, falling back to a "technical issues" screen when the source does drop out entirely, ensuring the source can come back again without starting a new stream, and so on. It's a lot of polish to build something of acceptable quality, and that's all after you've actually got your stream to a server in the first place - the process of generating a production-quality stream to broadcast in the first place is even more work.

[0] https://github.com/gpac/gpac/tree/filters
This is not true. Unionization based on enterprise-level votes was put in place with NRLA in 1935. The NRLA and Taft-Hartley would have to be amended or replaced to change this. I have no idea if large unions have ever lobbied against replacing them at the Federal level, but there hasn’t (in recent history) been any serious push to do so that these unions would oppose.
It’s awfully hard to tell whether this is parody or not, but yes, media are “allowed” in. In fact, far as I can see on the various vids, anyone can just walk in
I've never known that people add sugar to their apples. I have lived in US & Canada and I find that odd people need to add sugar to enjoy an apple.

Croissants or baguettes are not a daily thing if my assumption is correct. My experience is buying them when walking home from work and if I'm in the mood because bread isn't generally healthy for people compared to something else that happens to be better.

edit: okay, I now understand the comment is about apples having natural sugar.
I absolutely agree - sugar is definitely the issue. Most individuals don't get enough healthy fats due to marketing tactics. Stuff like Omega 3s and general unsaturated fats are incredibly important for brain function, reparation of tissue, etc.
YAML is the new XML. Monstrous configurations used by some magic runtime to glue pieces together.

Dependency injection frameworks were there already and decided against it at the end. I wish CI, data pipelines, config management, IaC tools and all other modern users of YAML-fits-everything approach learned from the past.

What we need is an ease of creating mini languages, but apparently it is not something industry/academia is aiming at, so this skill in not existent among common engineers, which often come up with ideas of new products.
It's somewhat telling that both the mayor and the police chief deny ordering the abandonment. Who the hell is running the city?
Is the notation the problem here? IPs have 16 bytes now, so the notation is a bit more compact: hex instead of decimal numbers, and :: is a shortcut meaning "replace with as many zeros as necessary to fill the address to 16 bytes"
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Sorry if my comment sounded harsh, that wasn’t my intention!

Good job finding a niche and running with it!
Back pain is almost always an indicator of posterior chain weakness. Do daily squats (just up & down), and do toe-touch-stretches (legs about 2x shoulder width, right-hand-to-left-toe, stand up with arms in the air, left-hand-to-right-toe).

Personally, I just do weighted squats & heavy deadlift, but if your knees are bad, that's a bad idea. You can chat with a PT for 50–80$ and they can tell you exactly what's wrong & how to fix it in less than an hour.
Matrix.

You can run your own private server and private federation. You don't have to federate with Matrix.org, you can make your own company federation, or hobby or whatever and federate with others. It's fully encrypted and has web based, desktop client based and mobile app support from multiple different clients. Riot is the most popular and what we currently use. Has amazing VOIP integration. It'll run easily on a low-tier linode VPS.

It's about the closest thing to Discord we could find that, and it's way, way more secure.
> It all started on June 20th, when I tweeted an idea for a short book. It only got 6 retweets, but that was enough to take the idea seriously.

What an epic product test
I think there were studies that black text on yellow background is the easiest to read. Yellow Mode when?
Heroku with another SSL related outage 2 weeks after certificate problem
What were the changes you made that had biggest impacts?
I think the most sustainable way to lose fat (not weight ofc) is to gain lean muscle mass. You can substantially increase your basal metabolic rate and induce a calorie deficit to incur fat loss without actually eating any less. The problem of course is that your body does automatically increase your appetite commensurately as your BMR goes up, but calorie counting + discipline can help you stay lean as you gain muscle mass, and then lose the fat over time.
My father was an instrumentation engineer for the DoD and much of what he worked on during his time at the high speed test track out at WSMR did involve ejection seat testing.

They had an assortment of very expensive mannequins rigged up with a multitude of sensors to determine strain or torsional effects that were used to determine whether the ejection was "survivable." I believe the certification process included the smallest possible dummy that could survive the seat ejection, and the largest that would fit.

Too small and the seat couldn't be rigged with enough ballast to prevent the acceleration of the ejection motor from crushing the pilot's spine. Too large and the seat wouldn't clear the tail or other aircraft structures. If I understand it correctly, the seats are configured to the pilot for this reason.

It's absolutely true that designing around averages is not how ejection seats are constructed or, for that matter, tested.
Hennessy and Patterson's Computer Architecture remains the bible.
No, I'm saying that it won't help people at all. Its an indulgence to make the person doing feel like they are doing something. It will not materially improve lives.

It would be fine if it just made them feel good, but it substitutes for efforts that would help. Its a personal indulgence taking energy from a system when more is needed. It also is a distraction from actual issues. Nothing is often better than something.

> However, while you may be trying to live an optimally utilitarian life, the rest of us aren't. I can only speak for myself of course, but evaluating all my life's actions on only that axis is too strict for me.

Yeah, this is wordplay that has nothing to do with me.
The state of URL readability on mobile platforms is terrible, people fall for phishing all the time it’s easy to blame the users but it’s a solution to the problem.

Phishing via email, texts and ads in apps heck even Google at times had phishing URLs come up in search results, CDNs being compromised and transport attacks (e.g. hotspots) make distribution over browsers a problem.

AppStores allow you at least in theory to validate an app not only to be the app that you want to download but also that the app does what the developer claims it does, it also facilitates distribution segmentation by region and device (especially important for Android) and automatic updates.

Not sure about you but I’ll trust the Apple AppStore more than any given bank website simply by being familiar with the security teams and practices in FAANG vs commercial banking.
You appear to currently be at the level of "rationalist" mindset where you understand some ways in which people's reasoning is not ideal, and you haven't yet understood and accepted that "rationalism is by definition choosing approaches that win", and that being obnoxious tends to lose. Don't deliberately choose approaches that lose. (That's quite separate from things like "there is value in defaulting to treating people decently".)

You can point out a problem or fallacy without reveling in abrasiveness. Consider how good the brain is at pattern matching, what patterns people will match your comments to, and how you could more successfully convince others compared to your current strategy. Before assuming that you're just better than everyone downvoting you, carefully consider the accuracy of your priors, and the biases that make people generally tend to give more weight to their own beliefs. Consider how rarely people actually change their minds; seriously consider what it would take to convince you that a different approach would be more successful. Consider what failure modes you could fall into if you assume that you couldn't possibly be wrong in your approach to interaction with others. Consider whether, in the course of making rationality a sacred value (not by any means a bad thing), you have also come to treat "disregarding feelings and empathy" as a sacred value, rather than valuing empathy as a critical input.

If you want the world to be more rational, you are not only not convincing people, you are actively harming that cause through the example you're setting; you're giving people associations and exemplars for "rationalist" that will make people want nothing to do with it. If you think that people shouldn't care about feelings and should be pleased to get your feedback, then 1) you're committing the is-ought fallacy by not recognizing how the world actually works and acting accordingly, and 2) you should question your "ought", and what a world where people don't value empathy looks like.

(Lest this be misinterpreted: Choosing to value empathy does not mean choosing not to value truth, or to value it less.)

I've been where you seem to be. I've lived the is-ought fallacy, on multiple topics. It took me a long time (and various helpful writings) to learn to question some of my assumptions and hypotheses, test them, and improve my worldview. (One of the first ones I took a while to learn was "yes, how you dress matters, people will judge you accordingly, stop resenting it, accept it and use it to your advantage".)
Very cool, congrats. I've published a couple of books on Amazon with similar levels of success (https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Interview-Manager-... is the most recent), and the one thing I'd strongly recommend to you is to try Amazon advertising. It's very simple to set up and has been profitable the whole way. Nothing earth-moving; in the last month I've spent about $30 in ads and that's yielded about $80 in profit (before the cost of ads). The sales from ads also help keep your book higher in search, which can generate organic sales.

Congrats again!
I really appreciate Twilio's features that limit unexpected costs. I have a personal Twilio account I use to tinker, and to run a simple phone system for my small business, and I would be super worried about doing that if it was like AWS where the best I could get was alerts. Instead Twilio let's me charge my account upfront and disables it if I hit that cap. It's great peace of mind for smaller users.
> The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room...

In any respectable community, those sorts of people tend to get unceremoniously ejected from the community - from IRC channels to web forums to community-run game servers of old.

Now, games are match-made and game companies are pretty much forced to exercise discretion about what kind of community they want to have playing their game. Personally, I no longer have the patience for losing 30+ minutes of my life to a game that was lost because there's a 3-stack on my team who do nothing but throw, team-kill and think they're the height of comedy because they say offensive things or have a swastika as their profile picture.
The ultimate critic, my 11 year old daughter, just listened to the whole Shakespeare stream. That she peeled away from defeating Protea in Warframe speaks loudly of how much she enjoyed it. Great job!
Finally, Rust is production-ready.

It is neat to see something more practical than an Brainf* interpreter.
1. running CI locally

2. issue relations in core

3. getting a repository file via curl easily (yeah, seriously)
You don't develop type 2 diabetes from being fat, you develop diabetes from high average blood glucose levels triggering insulin resistance.

Also, what is the pollution you are talking about? From what I understand, lipolysis generates ketones, which at normal lipolytic amounts aren't toxic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_diabetes?wprov=sfla1
it is unfair, because the answer isn't necessarily wrong. It's just outdated. If somebody asks "How to do X in rails", and your answer isn't valid in Rails 6 anymore it's not necessarily wrong if it still works with Rails 2.3.8.
I think the OP meant natural sugar, not added! And sadly, many jams and pies have extra sugar added, I much prefer the no/low sugar versions.
I identify with this more than anything else said here.

"I worked stupid"

I put in effort on the weekends or night but it didn't make a difference in my career. I was too dumb to realize it.
It doesn't need to be extreme, taxes are proven to be effective and are quite simple. They solve the problem of unhealthy food being too easily available by raising the price to reflect the true cost to society (the externalities, like obesity). Junk food is only cheaper than healthy food because our society has made that choice, and it can just as easily choose to change that.
The current state of Perl for Python fans:

Perl 5: I'm not dead!

TIOBE: 'Ere! 'E says 'e's not dead!

Internet: Yes he is.

Perl 5: I'm not!

TIOBE: 'E isn't?

Internet: Well... he will be soon-- he's very ill...

Perl 5: I'm getting better!

Internet: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

TIOBE: I can't take 'im off like that! It's against regulations!

Perl 5: I don't want to go off the chart....

Internet: Oh, don't be such a baby.

TIOBE: I can't take 'im off....

Perl 5: I feel fine!

Internet: Well, do us a favor...

TIOBE: I can't!

Internet: Can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long...

TIOBE: No, gotta get to Reddit, they lost nine today.

Internet: Well, when's your next round?

TIOBE: Next year.

Perl 5: I think I'll go for a walk....

Internet: You're not fooling anyone, you know-- (to TIOBE) Look, isn't there something you can do...?

Perl 5: I feel happy! I feel happy!

----

But seriously, Perl 5.30.2 just came out this month. It's not dead yet.

https://www.perl.org/get.html
> Or one that does not work for this trivial assertion?

Or one that does work for this trivial assertion, which is to say not emit a diagnostic.

What ends up happening in a situation like this is that somebody removes the assertion to quiet the compiler diagnostic. Then the types change and all of a sudden it can fail, but the assertion is gone.

You might say, "well, now that one of the operands is size_t how could the types ever change to reintroduce an issue?" That's the wrong question to ask. The whole point of the assertion is to avoid having to answer such a tricky question, or at least to encode your answer in a way that if the unforeseen happens things break loudly instead of silently. Anyhow, you'd be surprised by how things can break. I personally religiously use size_t for anything related to object size, but many other developers don't (including at Google and Mozilla), and so you often see a mix of, e.g., size_t and uint64_t, size_t and uint32_t, size_t and int, etc, and regular tweaks back-and-forth, which can easily introduce regressions.

I understand why compilers emit a warning--the idea is that if the assertion couldn't possibly be false, maybe it has a bug. But, IME, the opposite is usually true--it's well-written and deliberate, because the developer is trying to catch spooky action at a distance where the type, which is defined far away, is changed, accidentally or intentionally. I don't know where to draw the line in terms of second-guessing the code to help catch bugs, but GCC and clang need to provide far more succinct constructs to tell the compiler to shut up. Currently you're stuck with inline pragmas, __extension__, statement expressions, and other weird convolutions that require far more code than the assertion or operation itself. The issue makes writing arithmetic overflow-safe code more tedious and error prone.

(Other languages simply prohibit mixing integer operands of different types, so if a type is changed far away then code will break loudly even without any assertions. But in codebases like SpiderMonkey and V8 that use a wide range of integer types for space and performance optimizations, that tends to encourage casting, which has the exact same problems.)
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What about the master copy of a recording? That's what git's master is anyways.
Oh this is Justin Murphy. He got some attention in the British press when he was kicked out of academia for a whole slew of public statements (https://thetab.com/uk/soton/2018/10/02/southampton-uni-launc...)

he seems to have attempted to turn that into a sort of career by the looks of it
When I tried drawing portraits I really had to relearn how to look. In my mind eyes were positioned at the top of the head while in reality they are in the middle.

But when you draw cartoons it looks a kind if silly when eyes are drawn at the accurate location. And maybe this is the feature you mentioned. It's fun to play with it.
That isn't what OP was talking about, but to answer your separate question--in Seattle you have unarmed people who pushed some concrete blocks into the street, in Oregon you had well armed people occupying a federal building.
even better resource, learn wardley mapping
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how to use maps in business
Despite all the lecturing, the research doesn't really agree. Crash(extreme) diets work just as well as slower diets and the people gain back weight at roughly the same rate.
The question, though, is how long he'll continue to make sales. I wrote my first short book on a couple of plane rides, and it has reliably done $50-100 a month in royalties since launch. I'm not doing anything at all now to maintain it, so the effective hourly rate of my time spent working on it just keeps going up.
I’ve never had a potential employer call my parents for a reference, but they have called co-workers. That implies that the market values the co-worker’s endorsement more.
Ah, the Americans... ;-)

As a Dutch person living in Amsterdam, I completely agree. I noticed when I visited SF a few times (and California in general) that:

- Vegetables are more expensive

- Bread is sweetened (there goes my breakdfast)

- Bread sucks (yep, I said it, basic bread should be thrown into the thrash can)

- Basic cheese in the US is a new species, and I am afraid of it

I went around these 2 issues by buying the highest quality French bread and imported cheese (how I missed actual France with their actual French bread... :'( ). While it was expensive, I could at least make a breakfast that I eat in Amsterdam (bread with cheese with butter, unsweetened).

The butter was normal. I have to give the US that.

Though, I do like what you guys can do with oatmeal. It taught me that the normal Dutch breakfast is uninspiring as hell, haha. So all in all, it was reall a positive experience, but it's so much nicer when you meet American people showing how they eat breakfast rather than traveling around in the country and simply guessing how to eat normal (normal being unsweetened / healthy -- I find that normal...).

Also, I found the US amazing with certain dinner options (e.g. sushi burito's).
-Yes but not the only one, was a succession of problems (why did i use mongo on the first place, on a transaction heavy callcenter database? Because the customer forced it because it was the only thing he knew)

-No just a single huge instanced, managed on Azure
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