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Short answer: anything I can.

Longer answer: If I have to struggle for hours with something someone else can do it like Daft Pank (better, faster...) AND I can afford their time - will go for it. From car repair, through web hosting, to healthcare.

Longest answer: There is a reason why we as humans went into specialisations through the ages. Of course most of the people can handle most of the tasks on their own. But - do we have time for that? I think - we don't. This is only thing we in fact truly have in this world as currency - time. Best/worst part is - we don't really know how much do we have. So every hour, every minute, every second - counts.

I'm quite confident in my craftwork skills, yet if I face pipe problem in my flat I'll call a plumber (preferably not the one in red cap). Why? He had fixed more pipes in past year than I have. So he'll do it better and faster. And the question I always ask myself - what is more worth for me - spend couple tens for professional services and enjoy my time with family or spend hours from my time with family to keep couple tens in my pocket? Usually I choose to pay.

Also - and here were it's getting really weird for most of the people - I do not argue with decisions of the specialists. Plumber say I need to get such and such connectors? Ok, he knows better. So what there are cheaper ones? Taxi driver is riding me the longer route? OK, he is on the road whole day, he knows better. Maybe there are some road works ahead, there was an accident, whatever. And so on.

Yes. I know I probably will be cheated sometimes. I know I will be overpriced sometimes. No big deal - I'll find another specialist who hopefully won't screw me up. But - and this is the win for me - I respect their skills in their fields. They spent who knows how long to learn and practice and get experience. They know, I can assume.

As a developer I expected the same. I constantly learn for last two decades. I've written more code, than most of the people wrote words in their whole studies. And I encountered more mistakes in my work than they have. So when I have customer, I expect him to tell me what he want to have and how this have to work. But I don't expect advices how to do my work or questioning my pricing. If you cannot afford me - find somebody else. If you are a dentist I don't question your choice of dental tools or your technique or your prices. Either I can afford you or don't. If I can afford you and I'm satisfied with the outcome - I'll be Schwarzenegger, I'll be back. If I aren't - sayonara! I'll find someone else.
I'll try what you're suggesting.

To give you a feel, one evening in the office when I turned off my laptop; colleagues stood up and asked what loud noise just turned off.

From that day, we noticed that our laptops were loud because of the fans. Sometimes the noise blends in because of AC and generally noise office. But the pitch is very high, and it's because CPU @ 60+ because the McAfee web control thing is running even though one has no browser open.

IT haven't been helpful, to the point where against compliance, a few of us being our own laptops to work, and use company ones here and there
the high speed rail line data point is interesting.

are there conditions unique to california that could rationalize this massive gap in cost?

if not, and other governments can build affordable rail lines under comparable conditions, why can't the california government emulate those blueprints?

aversion to wasting money, rather than lack of compassion, seems like a reasonable objection to high taxes. what governments in your opinion offer the best mix of transparency and/or responsible spending?

thanks for sharing.
Thanks for he feedback :)
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basically you use GP as a last resort, when you don't have any knowledge of the actual problem space that would help you make better guesses from previous ones.

This is also usually the default situation, because often we really don't know anything about the problem space.

Of course if you do know something about the problem space in the form of a gradient or probabilistic graph, and then you use those things & you won't be doing GP anymore.
Sounds like you've got an awareness of CRDTs now. That's a win and a differentiator from many other engineers.

I already knew about them, but there will be a stack of other stuff I don't know about. Just get Googling when you hit different problem areas.

I found out about CRDTs because I was working in a niche where a security device was used that breaks TCP between two hosting regions for an application. So I searched for issues to do with that and refreshed myself on the two general's problem, Byzantine fault tolerance, 2 and 3 phase commits and at some point OTs and CRDTs popped up. You'll find this stuff if you keep looking at a problem for long enough.

That was a while ago though and despite still working in that area I've still not implemented anything with them because I'm a contractor and I'm under the direction of people who don't have CRDTs in their toolbelt and don't want ideas from others! I guess my cheerful message is keep at it but know you can only do so much and there's plenty of other pits of despair to fall into even when you're out of the current one. Yay!
There's a bit of disjoint between what those tools do and they what Rust does. Rust provides something different - you write the source in standard code and get a sound app. Verifiers can't do that with C. You essentially either write a parallel list of annotations or generate the app from another language. It's a valid approach, but that's why I objected to "exactly the same thing".
That really depends on the country. For exact sciences in the Netherlands, two year master degree followed by a 4 year PhD degree are the norm.
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unfortunately there isn't an easy answer here, but you could always check out individual static site projects and peruse their available themes - hugo's gallery is pretty decent

echoing the other comment: with the caveat that i've always had a basic familiarity with css/html, i wound up throwing everything out and just building my own theme up from scratch. the real headscratcher is figuring out the whole grid/flexbox div positioning stuff, but from there it's not super tough to look at website source code for ideas, and/or google around.

it kinda seems like you're shooting for a solution in which you'll find exactly what you're looking for without having to pay a designer or even put in some time on google. in my opinion, learning css was far easier than learning how to properly maintain a static site - so it kinda threw me for a loop. on top of that i'm not really sure what you mean by 'quality' and 'finesse', except that from all possible existing designs, i can safely exclude 'most of the ones of jamstackthemes.dev'
I wrote an article for folks like you (because I also felt like this was my life at one point).

In this article I explain the basics of the simplest CRDTS the way a web developer without a deep knowledge of CS could relate to it: https://statagroup.com/articles/editing-shared-resources-crd... . I don't present the concept 100% fully, but I give a starting point for someone who "only knows rails". I found most online tutorials dive directly into the theory.

I included all the resources I used to learn the concept on the page too.

It's part of a series I wrote about editing shared resources ( https://statagroup.com/articles/editing-shared-resources ).
This is the most "it depends on what consulting house you work for" thing I've ever heard. If you're at any mid or large sized consulting firm, office politics are 3-4x as important as anywhere else.
4 billion years life has been on earth.
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My (and your) personal definition isn't at play here.

When companies offer you privacy they usually mean privacy from others, not from the company itself.

This is the hard reality of what these companies mean when they use the word privacy.
That is precisely what I am talking about: peer pressure/influence. You are just confirming my point. We already have enough influence on children from different angles: Religion, Race, Sex etc. I am saying that children should not be forced into these things and instead just allow them to explore the World in their own way. Let them learn about everything they feel interested in. This is not an age to be force-fitted into a mould. This is an age where they are growing/learning. Once they are ready they should be given their voting rights.

Giving them voting rights at such a young age will just make them all into activists or worse politicians. I see so many child activists who are just being exploited by their parents for making a quick buck. Most of what these children utter on TV is just stuff that have been told by their parents. If you talk to them outside of all this media circus you'll know that they are innocent and don't have much idea about the World except for doing what they are told.

This is what happens when you engage children in politics/activism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUhKpnv8-k

They are just not prepared for it. The moment you go off script the cookie crumbles. But keep aside politics/activism for a moment. Do you think it is fair that a child has to go through this sort of exploitation for what should be adults coming out with solutions? Because let us face it. This is exploitation. The child needs to be in school studying and enjoying with friends. She will never get back this youthful life again. We as adults are literally using children as props to settle our political issues. This is immoral and not right.
So it's not VPN but uses Android's VPN API.
They don’t but POSIX requires M_PI.
College isn't about job training, it's more about demonstrating that one is good prospective employee (signalling).[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education#:...
I think it is possible, 3 years ago I didn't have a connection in my home. I used to have to drive into town and connect through open Wifi hotspots.

I still do not have a cellular phone plan, I have the phone but it is not connected to anything other than my home Wifi and I primarily use it as a BT mp3 player and camera.

Unfortunately quitting the Internet does put you at a disadvantage in many ways, including financial. Many restaurants and service based companies offer big discounts for either online ordering or using their apps.

I would compare not having internet to not having a bank account or credit card, it can be done but puts you at a disadvantage.
Sure people should continue learning and pursuing their interests their whole lives. But why do taxpayers need to subsidize it? If someone has an interest in something as a hobby, they can finance it themselves.
OpenBSD is somehow easy to setup, mainly due to the KISS philosophy and excellent documentation. Besides that they aim to be a very secure OS.

But my experience to make it work as a Desktop OS is very poor. Some reasons:
The overall performance is way worse than Linux, the ports are not always up-to-date, other OS simulation is also outdated which means running commercial apps will be a challenge, upgrade process from version X to Y can be quiet painful, the lack of support for certain HW and Battery usage on laptops.
I could never find anything that i could not do better and more efficient on Linux.

On the positive side: CWM and their Artwork are really cool.
China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encr...
Well this sucks for people like me who were arbitrarily banned from making payments to google, likely because I travel too much.

My current flow is: 1 tap purchase icon, 2 remember that I'm banned, 3 navigate to apps website and feel better about not losing the developer 30% of their revenue.
Original source:
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/infighting-busywork-...
Let's be real, if credit didn't exist only rich people would be able to afford things like an education or property. Sure, we can talk about it being out of control with things like student loans and auto loans but a system that is being abused doesn't necessitate the abolishment of the system all together. That would be like saying that no one can ever get married because you had an abusive partner. The situation is messed up, but the root of the issue is not in the system, it is in the abusive partner. Maybe we can iterate on the system to reduce the ability to abuse, but now we're talking something different.
And Nintendo. And Sony. And Microsoft. And Steam. And...
Who cares, really? I lead a 13+ member software development team and two women that I work with are almost the best developers we have. As with everything in life, in practical sense, it all boils down on how long are you willing to work on something to become good at it.

Those two are both smart, result driven, hardworking individuals that are not treated in any shape or form differently. They are also not shy and are very good communicators, with one of them being our go-to communicator to business users that we develop for and the other being the best paid developer in my team.

Throughout the years we also had other women working with us and level of their "skill" was once again proven to be the result of their willingness to focus their time on honing their skills rather than spend it on other pursuits such as hobbies, sports, etc.

In my case, time has shown that gender discussion in this particular case is pretty much useless and is often used only by weaker participants to avoid responsibility - and yes, I have seen it used both ways, even by males saying that someone was privileged because she was a woman and vice versa. Under performers in addition to this excuse use anything else

People should stop finding excuses for their weak performance and focus on task in front of them or change their goals. That's the whole wisdom of it.
> The money spent on these auctions is advertising money, and it's hard to argue that the companies spending the most on advertising are the most efficient.

There's no direct metric that would measure "efficiency", as no single metric would be able to capture such complex question in a very meaningful way. As far as ways to choose, auction isn't that bad of a method to maximize the efficiency of resource allocation. That's why e.g. spectrum gets auctioned off. It's not just to generate more money - it's one of the easiest ways to ensure a relatively efficient resource allocation.

Auction does have downsides, but "advertising money" is not a convincing one.
Lambda was repeatedly in the news about reselling ISAs contra their marketing claims.[1][2]

They also engage in puffery misrepresenting mixed-to-bad student outcomes.[3]

I know Austen Allred can only fall up into more money, but my read on Lambda by this point is that it is a predatory institution.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135134/lambda-school-st...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22313474

[3] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...
Demographics. Compulsory public education became a thing in the US around the same time child labor laws were becoming wide spread. This was coincidentally around the time men were coming back from the world wars and needing to take back the jobs their children/wives had been filling. Well, all those boomers are still alive, and we needed an excuse to keep their kids/grandkids out of the work force a little longer. Hence over-saturation of college degree requirements. That's changing as the boomers die out, so we will see "college degrees" become less of a requirement. The only thing that could keep it going is competition from immigrants, but I doubt that will be the case.
My take away is that the tax system needs to be radically simplified.

Eliminate Capital Gains tax, all income is taxed as income.

All tax rates are lowered the effective tax paid for each tax bracket.

All deductions are eliminated except for primary residence.

Two new brackets are created:

>2M 54% tax rate
>10M 70% tax rate.
Got to wonder what the ratio will be for cocaine purchased per share. This IPO looks like it's headed for the Guinness Book of World Records, but I'd be curious to see how it stacks up with other IPOs. My bet is Uber is the overall #1, but if there's one individual who could singlehandedly shoot McAfee to the top, it's John McAffee. Less a man than a black hole for cocaine and prostitution, he's going to be pushing those numbers to new records. The only exception to this is perhaps post-Grimes Elon Musk. Not sure to what extent those 2 are stimulating the economy but they're certainly stimulating the economy for stimulants. On the other hand you have everyone else working at, what is by all accounts, a mature firm staffed with nerds working in a quiet sector.

At any rate, exciting news and I wish them the very best of luck.
If people really wanted to learn, they could have been auditing courses. The obvious reality is that most students don't 'learn' much, and it doesn't matter. You needn't fear, because your university (like all the others) is in the business of providing a scarce resource (degrees).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education#:...
You might enjoy Definitely Mayby by Strugatsky Brothers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel)
I don't know if the the schedules are better out east, but here in CA the Amtrak schedules are wildly optimistic. Like, double the listed travel time. And they run infrequently, at odd hours.
That was kind of a trashy product. Intel doesn't take their client/consumer SSD business very seriously these days, and that was only halfway an Intel SSD. The controller was Silicon Motion's first NVMe SSD controller, the drive had numerous firmware bugs, and it was probably also a bit of a dumping grounds for low-grade flash from Intel's first generation of 3D NAND. The successor to that drive switched from three bit per cell TLC NAND to four bit per cell QLC NAND and still managed to be a superior product in almost every way because the updated controller and firmware were so much more mature.
That is true, but you cannot say that this will lead to the same situation as in the US. The apprenticeship system is well established and it it just not feasible for everyone to take the time and money to study. Apprenticeships are payed. I just cannot see a baker with a M.Sc. :)

To add to that: This trend only shows that people do not want to do low-pay hands-on jobs anymore. It does not mean that universities compete with apprenticeships. Although this certainly causes the rise of bullshit study programs.
I agree with you. In the vastness of time we've been here just a moment and we are precariously balanced on the top of a food chain that we take for granted.
> The Constitution doesn't directly say the Supreme Court has a power of judicial review

Yes, it does. Jurisdiction literally means the ability to say what the law is. There is no plausible definition of appellate jurisdiction in the Anglo-American legal tradition that would not involve the power and duty to reconcile incompatible sources of law.

> Congress could also remove the appellate jurisdiction of the court to hear claims that laws are unconstitutional

No, it cannot. First, the power to make "exceptions" does not imply the ability to completely remove power. Second, whatever power Congress had under Article III was limited by later amendments, e.g., it cannot remove jurisdiction in a way that results in an impingement on the right to due process under the Fifth Amendment. There is nothing in the text of the Constitution nor in any case law that would support your implicit contention that Article III is somehow immune to being subject to the amendments process.

Third, although Klein has been a bit disfavored lately, it was reaffirmed in Patchak only a couple years ago. Some commentators focus on the plurality opinion while ignoring the fact that they're only a plurality and not the dissent because of Ginsburg's and Sotomayor's concurrence. That opinion interpreted Congress's intent generously and reasoned that Congress merely amended its waiver of sovereign immunity rather than dictated a result in a particular case. Of note, the concurring opinion explicitly agreed in principle with the "dissent," and they still ruled substantively on the merits notwithstanding Congress's attempt to strip jurisdiction.

If you'd like to continue this, please read Chemerinsky's excellent hornbook on federal jurisdiction first. And, you know, maybe go to law school.
Alternatively, you pay up to $60/night for the privilege of keeping your car underneath your hotel while you walk or ferry or scooter or even uber your way around your destination.

I'm a car owner but it's stupid expensive and if there were a reasonable alternative I'd stop in a heartbeat.
> * you don’t need Google to sign every app. You can allow external apks and even keep Play monitoring for malicious apps.

They've updated the rules. You will need to sign every app on Play Store with the certificate provided by Google. Just like on App Store.
My experience has been that DDG produces satisfactory results 95+ percent of the time and Google produces more ads that crowd out the results 100 percent of the time.
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This article is not about a drive's total write endurance or lifespan, but about short-term durability of writes across events like unexpected power failures or system crashes.
6 months. 3 power failures in the meantime and remounting has been flawless.
I'm reminded of https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/college-level-mathematics which contemplated adjunct professor pay …
First of all, there is no soft cap on company size being proposed. Just the use of a certain strategy.

But a cap on how big you can get using that strategy, prolongs the usefulness of the strategy indefinitely. Using legislation to prolong the life of a strategy that would otherwise be vulnerable to innovation is exactly the opposite of innovation.
The effect of... unchanged enrollment in four-year programs? Did you read the linked article?

Bachelor's degrees are not significantly changed, post-bac programs are up 20% or more, and master's programs are up as well. This suggests that students with money are seeking more schooling and more expensive schooling, not less. It's the poor people who get two-year degrees who are dropping out.
Our life has been here 4 billion years. What if it meets with life that has existed for similar timescales, or a billion times that?
So what's the difference between ruby and python?
That leaves you vulnerable to selection bias, of course... the best example (IMHO) being the Wall Street "binary search" stock prediction scam.
Our physical rooms have phones and external phone numbers. Also we had a big teleconference room back in the day where we did hybrid meetings.

So, it depends. :)
Conservatives have been actively targeted by big tech for censorship, shadowbanning, selective and often false fact checking, flagging, and outright banning. After the 2016 election, Google employees met to discuss "what they should do about..." the outcome. They are a partisan, extremely political corporation that abuses its monopoly power for a variety of things. Conservatives are not welcome in silicon valley. It's an extremely intolerant and abusive subculture that is completely at odds with middle America. They hide behind section 230 protection, which was designed to protect free speech on the internet, not stifle it with massive monopoly advertising, persuasion and attention algorithms.

Google is evil.