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Cops can still come and harass you by coming to your house if they can find you or you filmed something they don't like. One person who filmed apparent police violence in seattle had 5 cops come to his to arrest him for something random about another protest. They may have found him from the account he posted it on. In either case, there will be attempts to find some people who weren't involved in violence.
Lately I have become fully dependent on the remote development extension for my research, and this makes me very uneasy. I do not want to be restricted to using proprietary tools in case they change something down the line that is not to my liking. It was a lot of trouble moving on from Matlab to Python already...
> I don’t know any other language with lambdas which requires me to spell out explicitly which variables it should close over

PHP closures have to specify which variables they close over, and whether it's done by-val or by-ref [0].

Nowadays there's also a shorthand single-expression-closure syntax that closes implicitly and by value [1].

[0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php#exampl...

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.arrow.php
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A common theme among stories like this: they pledge to take breaks and keep from burnout. Then they launch into it and immediately forget to take breaks. Then they get frustrated, overtired and make more mistakes.

The breaks have to be scheduled like anything else, or they won't happen.
Oh shit.. Covid is making a lot of dreams go wrong indeed. Adapting to the circumstances while keep the core of changing your life seems a smart way to deal with it.

There is nothing in the link you posted, btw. Not sure if a typo or you just didn't publish the site yet
Interesting. I meant CRTs. Maybe my memory is a bit rose tinted.

Still, I remember never having confusion about whether my CRT TVs where responding to the power on button press or not. There are plenty of times where I turn my current TV off since I think it didn't receive the first button press.
For complex pipelines and code reuse (plugins, pipeline libraries, scripting) between projects, Jenkins offers more features for power users, and its maturity has been proven while GitLab CI still suffers from his young age.
Other examples with the Cons at the end of this article : https://medium.com/sv-blog/migrating-from-jenkins-to-gitlab-...
and https://stackoverflow.com/a/37430097/2309958
(and I can probably find a lot more :-) )
Addressing you and woodandsteel: What I mean by "fake" is that QAnon is substantial enough to devote resources to it. Subversive techniques are highly effective, and QAnon is apparently making an impact on the world, whether we think its tenets are complete crock or well-founded.
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You probably had fun, learned something and will use the tools again.
That's a really good idea! Thanks for mentioning that, it's something I've used before (coded support for) but it completely slipped my mind when thinking about this.
Not really sure why you are being downvoted. My own experience aligns with what you are describing. For most residential work a homeowner can do a solid job as long as you are handy and willing to spend a little time familiarizing yourself with building codes and the appropriate techniques. Being a professional means being able to estimate accurately, meet those estimates, manage multiple jobs, etc.

If timeline isn't the most critical factor a homeowner can do an excellent job. Often even better than the professionals because you will be willing to spend extra time and attention to get everything perfect.
True, but what I'm talking about is asking another country to spy on your citizens for you so you don't have to violate the law. Wink-wink style.

An open mind that considers other viewpoints is one that can outplay opponents. Literal thinkers can be led in circles.
I am amazed at the amount of knowledge you have acquired by doing it yourself! That's also my main motivation for building my own stuff (+ it's really fun when you take your time).

I built a small balcony garden off a few pine planks. Many mistakes were made along the way, some were corrected (how do you cut in straight lines with a jigsaw ? Use a maconnery ruler and a few clips), some were compensated by the overall overbuild. It took me a few months but I always expected it to take more time and money than buying it from Amazon. One nice thing is that it matches perfectly the width of the balcony! With this small success and many more, I will - maybe - have enough knowledge to build my own cabin in 40 years.
I used to have dreams like this. I attempted to chase these ideas every few years. I quit a very good job once and moved halfway around the world in an attempt to fulfill one of these dreams.

At some point I got married and eventually had kids after which these kinds of romanticized ad-hoc adventures became impractical. Sometimes I wish I'd been more focused when I was young. I feel like I probably wasted a lot of time pursuing ideas that had a high risk of not being sustainable for the long-term.

I find myself giving younger people advice that I would have balked at at their age. They don't listen to me of course, just like I didn't listen to more experienced adults when I was in their place. No one wants to be told, "Don't follow your dreams. Weigh the risks and the potential return on investment first". I guess part of being young is taking those risks and learning from your failures. And sometimes, chasing an impractical dream pays off. Sometimes they pay off big.

But now days when I get the wanderlust or some feeling of discontentment and find myself wondering, "there must be more to life than this?", I just try changing something small in my routine, like, "you know what? I think I'm going to start taking walks during lunch every day.", or, "I think I'll study this new language for an hour every night after the kids go to bed.", or, "I think I'll build a garden enclosure in the backyard". I often find that by changing something small in my routine, I can break out of the monotony and feel some sense of accomplishment I hadn't noticed was missing.

But even then, there is still some voice in the back of my mind that says, "someday, when the kids are old enough and out of the house, I think I'll take one last big risk and embark on some kind of unlikely adventure."
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Perhaps that's true for people who buy personal Macs, but in several companies I've worked for, the companies that buy Macs for work almost always use the smallest SSD option: you don't need a lot of local storage, since most files will be in company-managed storage systems.
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>But I really hate this notion of "just pay someone to do it correctly", because this proposition also has a ton of risk and expense associated with it as well.

For almost any task you'd consider hiring a professional, there is less risk and less cost, which is why professional exist. They are the best option for a wide range of cost/risk tradeoffs.

>Not every contractor who takes a job is Bob the Builder

But the majority are a lot better than the average person thinking they can build. Experience is a useful thing, in software dev and in building.
It's so frustrating being forced to use your cell # to register. Obviously they're using it to tie together data.

For the developers out there reading this: please be the change you want to see, or at least try. If your company wants to add a user requirement like this, be the person who speaks up against it.
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Recording doesn't use a full decoder.

The incoming channel data stream is saved as-is. It will need a demultiplexer to separate out one channel from the multi-channel data stream, but it won't need to decode that stream, which is the intensive bit. Decoding happens when you play it back later.
> the TV predates the era of open computing platforms like Unix.

Do you mean Unix-like? I'm not sure what you mean by "open" in this instance, but Unix definitely was not very open, leading to nascent platforms and movements such as GNU and Free/Libre software.
Yeah, seriously. I'm a bit shocked that it's even legal for them to sell this cabin. Surely permits should have been required somewhere along the way?
I could stomach going through all the algorithms and data structures that I learned many years ago even though we don't use most of them just for fun, but what I can't stand is the time pressure. There is no way in real life somebody will write a complex algo like that in 45 minutes. Their process is just so broken.
I suppose the timing depends on if you have one of the anemic iphone ones or a full 2.4+ amp USB charger. Given that charging status is unreliable at low charges and charge tends to "come back" a bit when not actively drawn.

My current phone has an old battery and can go directly from 40% to 70% charge in one refresh cycle (10-30 secs?) after plugging in to my ikea charger.
Sim City 3000 might be the pinnacle of "Sim Cities" when it comes to the feeling of making a big scary city.

I would rather play Skylines than 3000 today due to nice feeling and the roads, but the limit that 6 squares depth from the road is as far as housing will "grow" and that you can't make deep neighborhoods or more angled zones, is a sour thumb for what would otherwise be a perfect game. 3000 neighborhoods felt deep and the isometric view didn't make me sad about not doing angled zones.

If Skylines could make roads free of the square course why not the buildings that seem to have to be orthogonal to the tangent of the road.
I've eyeballed family plans a couple times, in some cases it's just a minimum of 2 phones sharing a larger data pool. I've toyed with the idea of putting the 2nd SIM in my old phone and just having it around for... whatever, as long as it's not consuming data.
Nope. Saw that. That's where they glossed over the more likely outcome (fail to reproduce) and said well, probably somebody dies. Not supported, not necessarily the true mechanism. Which was my point - to make the title of the article seem correct, they whitewashed that entire mechanism. "The Price of Life Is Death" is clickbait in that sense.
> His reasoning behind running a bar is that the bar serves as a daily cash stream

Of course the downside is that if things go wrong it acts as a daily cash sink, instead. Most businesses, especially retail/catering businesses, fail. Don't get into that unless you know what you're doing.

I have a daily cash stream; it's called a job.
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Beware of falling into the trap of replacing everything on your "Someday maybe" list with Youtube subscriptions. Did that for a while, don't have much to show for 2017. Watching someone make/do cool stuff and put it on the Internet satisfies similar dopamine reward functions as actually doing it yourself, with a lot less effort. Except you didn't actually do it, you watched someone else do it. Same with actually making a "Someday maybe" list, writing down the goal feels like it's something you're accomplishing even though it's not actually started yet.

When you look back on your summer/year, what will you have accomplished? What skills will you have developed?

If you don't really value a process/skill, but just want the material result (i.e. a cabin), pay a pro for it. If you just have an itch that needs to be scratched, watch someone else do it on Youtube. If you want it to be a part of who you are, pruning your list by moving items to the former two strategies should leave you enough time to develop it yourself.
I often have to deal with CAD files from various vendors (people insist in sending them in proprietary formats instead of proper interchange formats, for example "DWG" instead of DXF)

And also I use Win, Linux and OSX.

Windows is basically mandatory for CAD, not only a lot of CAD is not available at all outside windows, often they fail to run on Wine and whatnot, I suspect sometimes this is on purpose.

And a unrelated big offender is Roblox, they consider Linux a "hacking tool" and ban you if it detects you are somehow running it on Linux, no matter what method you used.
I shared this because it's the perfect example of how tiny decisions developers make can ruin someone's day by not taking user psychology into account

If you attempt to go to the main menu in the iOS word app (after writing a 1000 word document and trying to save it for example) you're presented with a dialog that ask you if you want to save.

If you were planning on exiting the app, it makes plenty of sense that the dialog is your chance to save.

However, in a new users mind, they're going back to a menu.

Why should what they wrote be lost?

So they have a dialog interrupt a very simple operation, instinctively hit the highlighted confirmation option since there's no clear cause and effect... and... their document is deleted.

My suggestion if anyone from this team is here (as a fellow mobile dev) would be to change the back button to an X if it's supposed to represent exiting with finality.

You could also change the order of the options so that the default choice is the one most users will want, to save what they typed.

Such a simple change completely clarifies the intent of the button
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And realizing that $850 is effectively for 24GB, because Apple was already compensated for the 8GB in the base price.
I find that most contractors are incentivized to maximize throughput and thus do a just-good-enough job so that the average person doesn't notice. Once you learn some common skills like electrical, drywall, tile, etc, you will never stop finding defects in everyone's homes.

I've saved myself hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years by doing my own work, but now I can only see defects everywhere because that's what I've trained myself to look for.
Even without `active` and `currentWindow` parameters the extension cannot get urls and titles from other tabs because it has only the `activeTab`[1] permission declared in the manifest. You need more powerful permission for that.

I think with the `activeTab` permission you still get the an object for every tab other the active one, but without access to `url`, `title` and `faviconUrl` properties.

Thanks for checking out anyway. I built this tool especially because all of the others already available were a privacy nightmare.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
It’s funny how when you’re young you it’s hard to learn about these types of things.

My wife went to school with a guy who didn’t like college. He took a summer job on a road crew, learned how to use an excavator and got hooked. Dropped out, saved up, and bought a used dump truck, which basically made him.

Started out hauling stuff and then got into water/sewer work and excavation.

He’s up to about 20 trucks a decade later, and pays the bills with the sewer work. He leveraged the assets he had (trucks, diggers) and won demolition contracts — they make money on demolition. Like $75-200k for an emergency demolition if they can get there in 90m.
This hipster atttiude of replacing proper software with barely functional webapps really gets on my nerves.

People use and will continue using Skype and especially MS Office. It is much more functional that gSuite alternatives and moving people to castrated and slow webapps is not progress.
And https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ (click 27-inch) says

> four SO-DIMM slots, user accessible
Pretty negative? Having a job and being the boss are certainly different, granted. But working at your own business is also a job.
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Crowdsourcing feedback on what founders are seeing in the market with regards to early stage fundraising.

Raising money at a pre-seed stage. Curious as to what terms people are seeing for convertible debt? Especially interested in what valuation caps people are seeing for very early stage companies (<1yr)?
People who want a Mac but don't need performance.
Good to know thanks
Also worth noting that most of the restaurants on the show closed [0]:

> More than 60% of restaurants featured on the show "Kitchen Nightmares" are now closed, according to Grub Street New York, which did the math. Approximately 30% of those kitchens closed within one year of their episode's air date.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/many-restaurants-on-kitchen-...
You might not need to wait that long. I know union electricians in NCW making quite a bit more than most software engineers i know. Some are clearing 6 figures their second year.
Why didn't they just add a well so they didn't have to do seller financing?

I also feel like this story isn't complete until they do the follow-up about whether the seller financing worked out. That's a big risk.
I'm a life long Windows user and fan and I recently bought a Macbook Air and love it. It's so much better than the $1800 windows laptop I've had for the past two years. Granted the windows laptop is for gaming and they're very different devices.
We're one of the most profitable companies in my country, and we're probably on the S&P 500.
Language models can take input and figure out a response. They're designed to predict words - you just set it up so they predict the response. In fact I think that's the only thing their API lets you do at the moment.

https://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.h...
I do think I could build a house. First one might not be great, but like software or any skill iteration matters. The patience to spend years learning to build something and doing it badly several times is probably the factor that prevents people from just building a house for themselves. It takes years to grok a complex software system, this is not transferable to grokking a house. It takes similar years to grok a modern home for sure.
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> And yet there are people who have built cabins in Alaska with nothing but some metal and a lot of ingenuity and muscle.

You're forgetting time. Not sure if you've seen "Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG3fUIoXQ5A).

It's a great watch, and a good example of what I think you're referring to overall...that said it looked like an extremely hard way to build and from personal experience helping my sister build their holiday home, also not an approach I would recommend to anyone that doesn't have a very strong conviction and/or passion to see a self build through.
I realize that games these days are full of high detail world-building, but I shudder to think that 250-500 gb for an install is considered commonplace these days...
Yeah, septic and well are definitely not something you do to save money. They're things to do because you can't get water or septic at a location.
Eh, your milage may vary. I see thinking of a bar as a _source_ of money as unreasonably positive, especially right now. Even at the best of times, a lot of them run in the red.
If I may add something: I became dissatisfied with "IT as an industry" in the sense that, despite where I was working (a tiny shop, with tiny projects, flyover state, nothing is ever going to go viral or hit big), some people were apparently prepping for FAANG careers and generally trying to turn things into some Agile megashop with dozens of layers of technology, on and on, for some rinky-dink projects. I liked doing the rinky-dink projects but all of the overhead of play-acting like we needed to scale like Cloudflare was wearying.

I took up with some TechShop stuff -- before it folded -- and enjoyed my work on laser engravers, and the CNC machines, and the lathes, and whatnot. My educational background and IT experience were certainly a help, and I thought, "Dang, it sure is nice to construct a physical object at the end of the day instead of an arrangement of magnetic fields that will simply be blown away when some high muckety-muck notices whatever fad has changed."

I jumped ship for something adjacent where I use my IT skill constantly. Programming wasn't in the job description, but my ability to program brings a certain level of power. All of my decades of IT experience is very helpful here and I still feel like I am doing something with an actual concrete output and utility.

So, I sympathize with the urge to pull the ripcord on some kind of jetpack and blast far away into the sky, but there are plenty of places that are not what HackerNews thinks of when they think IT that need all of your skills. Perhaps I like being a medium-sized fish in a smaller pond, it could be that, but it does feel fairly nice.
I agree, still running a 12" 2015, it's an incredible machine that just doesn't feel as though it has been replaced. Makes the Pro and Air feel like heavy weights.
It would be difficult to concoct a more diabolic mechanism for driving people insane than a disembodied voice that is constantly whispering in your ears.

The whole experiment reads like the beginning of a Black Mirror episode!
If you enjoy investing and can spend some time learning about trading options, it can provide a nice income stream in a taxable account. Somewhere around 0.5-1.0% income a month is possible and reasonable without taking on extreme risk.

Income from options on indices or futures is subject to 60/40 long/short term capital gains tax and really helps keep the tax costs down.
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I consider down-voting a badge now. I just hit negative points today!
At a complete wild guess I would say something like $50m.

(Obviously it depends what you mean by "usable" - I use it now, so in a sense it is already usable. I guess you mean to get to the point that businesses would rely on it.)