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Suburbia has made parents lives needlessly miserable with extra kid hauling. For the other rare occasions, rent a bigger vehicle. The idea that we need to clog the roads to prepare for that 2/y errand is also ridiculous.

> I’m getting tired of the “all I need is a tiny tin box thus so should you” crowd.

I don't care to tell people what they need, but I do want my public space back. Car owner's aggregate decisions absolutely do effect personally and the commons so they have no right to hide behind that shield.
I grew up in Northern Michigan, 6+ foot snow piles from drifts were the norm. Growing up, all we could ever afford were tiny sedans. Can you do it, sure, absolutely. The problem is a sedan not capable for all winter tasks, even minor inclines on ice create a major impediment to getting to work. My mother recently chose to spend a little extra on here quality of life and purchased her first SUV. The effect is that you forget ice even exists, it's incredible!

To me, this entire problem can be solved by having a market with varying options for varying situations in life. If you don't want to spend the extra money on a big SUV, you don't have to, and one can use their own reasoning to decide what's right for them. If some person in Russia is happy with driving a crappy little car, all the more power to them. If they want to spend more on a vehicle that more adequately handles the conditions, I would be happy to sell them a big SUV!

I've lived in both rural areas in secluded towns of less than 3000 people in the wintery north and in cities with 1 million+ metros that hardly get a few inches of rain, let alone snow. Different situations call for different tools and if one doesn't like their current mode of transport, they are always free to either move somewhere that fits with their lifestyle more adequately or simply change modes of transportation.

I'm all about the right tool for the job for your life. Personally, I hate snow and love walking so I choose a city that is both walkable has relatively short winter months (Ann Arbor, MI). I'm able to walk or bike to work for most of the year, but I choose to own a vehicle to handle snowy days and Costco visits. Could I get rid of my car? Absolutely. Uber, Lyft, and good neighbors to the rescue... but the cost of ownership is so low compared to the value I get in return. By keeping my car and paying a small amount for gas, maintenance, insurance, etc.., I get to travel anywhere in the continental united states whenever I damn well please without talking to another person, why would I want to get rid of that? If my neighbor hates to travel, hates driving, and is fine with walking a few blocks or waiting on the bus/train to get groceries every few days, all the more power to them. Been there, done that, I'll take my car.
Yep - the ultimate solution fo many dangerous sitations - make the people in danger more robust or ideally effectively immportal. Solves a lot of issues & makes otherwise very complicated safety measures into much simpler ones.
You're against better nutrition?
A professional researcher in Europe is a professional Horizon grant writer.
No one needs a car at all. We could live like hermits in the woods and go back to hunting and gathering.

But if you live in the real world, why not drive a car that makes it easier to do all the things you want to do, if it’s easily affordable?
I largely agree with what you're saying. But the challenge is that, while people are willing to tolerate some crime, they're generally not willing to tolerate more crime. Very few voters will bite the bullet and say realizing suchandsuch principle of fairness is worth 10 more murders each year, so any reform which can't convincingly explain how crime will stay down is dead in the water. (New York in particular ran into this problem; they actually abolished bail in 2019, but brought it back immediately in response to preliminary suggestions the reform might have increased crime.)
Interestingly (I'm one of ther guys self-teaching as an adult), this is exactly how I'm learning. I'm doing a course that uses Jupyter to cover all of the major areas up to linear algebra. I also aced my Geometry class in high school exactly because of what you said: it gave me some of the flavor of proofs and "real math," which was fun and made me motivated. I remember at the time being sorely disappointed when no other math classes were like that again and figured it was some kind of lucky fluke.

I think you're onto something, because teaching myself programming was precisely my backdoor into math. I remember a line in the Clause Shannon biography "A Mind at Play" that said he was essentially the same way: he wanted to apply his mathematics and understand the proofs/structure behind it, but essentially (as the title suggests) it was a form of play.
Unicorns are perhaps not something to wish for.
> Contrary to myth, successful sales is about listening, not talking.

I've been in pre-sales for about 8 years now. From the vendor and reseller side. Mostly on the technical side (SE) but I also know the process side of the account executive (AE) very well at this point.

Yes, you need to listen. But you'll never sell anything if you can't articulate a destination, lay out the path and showcase to the customer how what you're representing will benefit them more-so than the products you're trying to displace or something new that will bring with it a myriad of gains for said customer. If a customer is always telling me what they need from me then I'm not providing any value. And, honestly, it's very rare to find a customer who's ahead of a good sales team. We have full access to PMs, internal business units and access to far more insight to our bits and pieces than any reseller or customer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying customers can't be experts. But I'm here to know and bring things to the plate that they just can't.

Understanding your customer is often times more valuable than listening to them outright. I've found paths for the customer that has helped them avoid making mistakes, saved them money or improved their operations through paths they hadn't considered or didn't know existed. Good sales teams work hard across the board through strong technical positioning as well as strategic deal creations.

There are sales teams that rinse and repeat for every interaction and then there are sales teams that are looking to help their customers, trying to find where the wins are for the prospect. I've walked away from deals by telling a customer we weren't a fit for them. Sales gets a bad rap, but there are some of us out there that walk into every conversation not with the only intent of closing quota, but trying to make a positive impact.
Tell that to their stock price if the vaccines associated with them perform well.
They havent chosen they havent gotten out of committee, like thousands of other bills per session. I would agree with you if the full house actually voted and failed.
> Some of your developers might have that experience even if they were not hired as devops engineers, or they might be able to consult with their colleagues who are developers who have that experience but aren't devops engineers. I think it is usually better to let people work in the way that is most efficient for them.

Yeah, perhaps. It'll depend on the circumstances, right.

I've got a reasonable amount of GSuite and Exchange experience, and same for Active Directory.
I'm reasonably confident that I can work my way around those and do most of what I need to do without breaking it.

I needed some GSuite groups set up, some folks added to them, and a GSuite OAuth application set up and some values passed back and forth to do some integration.
The only way to do all of that is with full GSuite Administrator rights.

Now, I could ask why they don't just give all Devops folks GSuite admin rights, it'd be much easier (for me) and I could do my job more efficiently.

The response is going to be something along the lines of:

> You don't need that access most of the time.
> The times you do need that access it's often for a limited time or scope, and to resolve a specific problem.
> For now, It's better that you work with someone who is responsible for that stuff on a day to day basis to do those things.

This is, in my opinion, pretty reasonable.
Sure, it meant more delay until someone was available to do the GSuite configuration, and we needed to jump on a call to pass IDs back and forth and test it out.
But it got done, and it wasn't overly burdonsome.

They didn't hire me as a GSuite, Exchange or AD Admin - they already have folks to handle that.
That I have that knowledge and experience is still useful for the company - I know exactly what to request is done, and we can talk on the same level about it.
Heck, if it turns out that I need this every day and I'm constantly going back and forth with them on setting things up - then I might get that access, but it'll probably come with an explicit requirement that I use it in specific ways, that I follow their processes/procedures, and keep them informed on when I'm using it and why
It seems to me that determinism is the simple answer to this. If we're all basically just actors playing out a predefined movie then time-travel is just a loop within that movie.
Good thoughts. Your first problem also need to address your position in space itself. The Earth and solar system are travelling at 230 km/s in reference to the galactic center. Going back in time 100 years would plop you well out in interstellar space if you didn't account for your universal location as well.
Regardless of being out at sea for 14 days. If the border is closed you can't enter the country. Just because you arrive in a boat by yourself doesn't change this.
Hey there, my friend Waseem tipped me off to your question.

Your situation is why I wrote Founding Sales: https://www.foundingsales.com/

The full text is available online on that Squarespace site.

I wrote it after selling my last company - it chronicles what I learned going from a PMM / PM at VMware to a business generalist founder, who then had to learn how to sell, and then manage sales people.

Also, this deck will be useful to you: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pcSy-zV-776abGmZ8WJ7...

Hope that helps!
Interesting, "Sign Up" is bad but "Sign Up Free" performs better (even though signing up is usually free). I guess humans really are just monkey-brain and need incentive keywords to appear so that they're interested.
I don't see how scale matters to the moral question. Whether they are a giant multinational company, or a little personal blog, the problem is still there. They currently do not have employees who examine this stuff or decide if it needs to be reported to the authorities. You think the law should require it? If so why then shouldn't I also be required to read what's in my email spam folder to check for crimes too? Sure it's not very likely there's much there, but we aren't talking about a new law just applied to me. It would apply to all other individuals like me too, and 300 million people being required to check our spam folders and personal blogs may well uncover far more crimes than on facebook.
FWIW, the Wahls Protocol benefits me. It's certainly not a cure all. And eating proper meals is a lot work. But it helps.
We don't need to exhaust it. We only need to exhaust the easy to find sources.
That's more than a hypothesis; it's the plan.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux

"In cities where demand exceeds the supply of customer-owned cars, Tesla will operate its own fleet, ensuring you can always hail a ride from us no matter where you are."
The challenge with scaling it is that many criminal defendants have no regular income and extremely little wealth, so any nonzero amount of bail is impossible for them to pay on their own.
A system like this is on the ballot in California this year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_25

A "yes" vote would replace all cash bail with a ruling from the risk-assessment system.
The insurance figure came from https://blueshieldcaplans.com/?marketcode=15WS10900
Depends in the code base... a big C++ project can take a long time to compile and tests even in beefy machines. Some of our biggest projects are in the 3-6h mark using ccache.
Perl 4 was a beautiful language that I loved to use. The release of Perl 5 was when Perl and I parted ways.
Have you already looked into refinancing that debt? If you have a relatively high paying job, you may be able to get a lower interest rate, especially now.
> The market is widely regarded as the best way to find exactly these solutions

There is no such thing as "the market". There are innumerable markets on Earth. Some do a good job at accounting for externalities, while some do a terrible job of it. No market is perfect!

>for millions of Americans they decide to spend their hard earned money on a large vehicle because in fact it provides massive utility to them and their family

Nobody is disputing that large cars are useful for people who drive them. The claim is that the utility they provide to the driver is massively offset by unaccounted for negative externalities.

Road wear, brake dust, and fuel consumption is all higher with heavier vehicles. If those costs were paid by the drivers and owners of heavy vehicles, those people would be more likely to purchase smaller and lighter vehicles.

>somehow segregating the bigger ones

Why is that not practical? Why should passenger vehicles drive on the same roads that are constantly torn up by heavy trucks? I imagine most people would be pleased to drive on smooth roads with less air pollution.
There is the hypthecial concept of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb which pending some so far unavailable metamaterial would reach temperatures of up to 20,000°C and generate mostly hard UV-light in a closed cycle.

Which reminds me of some decsriptions of Indian Vimanas, or rather the parts about their engines, which allegedly were made of some crystals.
Hi! Another member of the ossia crew here: so, no, there's no connection between both projects (so far).
However, even if both projects seem pretty similar at first sight, they might be quite different (I say "might", because I didn't find any way to download or try hyperproduction).
ossia score is initially oriented towards managing temporal behaviors and evolutions (aka "interactive scenarios") whereas hyperproduction seems more oriented towards creating and managing conditioning and mapping of control data and signal. ossia score can also do (some of) this, but so far hyperproduction seems to have a larger base of data-processing modules. Maybe we should try and see if both can be connected/made interoperable ?
This is neat.

I'd love an NTP sync'd wall clock but my time for hardware hacking is pretty limited. Are there any off the shelf wall clocks that do NTP? Bonus points for POE and no WiFi.
I just tested this with a new account and it’s working fine from mobile Chrome. It returns you to the home page on registration so perhaps access one of the chapters? Like this one to start: https://www.foundingsales.com/1-mindset-changes
YouTube's keyboard handling is Insanely Intuitive™, I must absolutely agree.

Usefully, the up/down keys don't change the volume unless the player is also focused.

What's incredibly sad is that j/k/l were agreed upon to rewind/pause/forward the video, and these generally work unless you're in a textbox... but dedicated keys were not similarly approved to control the volume.

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My current winner for Absolutely Favorite Piece Of YouTube-Related Keyboard Functionality©®℠ is...

YouTube Music (https://music.youtube.com/)... which uses a different set of fundamental keyboard shortcuts to YouTube. [;]=pause, [j]=next, [k]=prev, [l]=forward, [h]=rewind.

There are two disasters here.

The first is that <YouTube/pause> == <YouTube Music/rewind to beginning>. "Nooooo! I was 2 hours?? and how many seconds??? into this video... >.<". Naturally, in this situation, I ReWoUnD ThE ViDeO To ThE BeGiNnInG MySeLf, so YouTube's "last play position" indicator can't help me here. YAYYY.

The second disaster is that it's obvious a Vim user clearly argued successfully for Music to use Vi-style hjkl, but both the key choices and how they are presented in the UI could not be less intuitive, regardless of whether the user also uses Vim or not.

I copied above exactly how the UI (in the [?] popup) lists the sequence. Specifically, the whole thing is shifted left by 1 position, wrapping [h] around to the right. Fixing that to show the sequence how a Vim user would expect, it looks like: [h]=rewind, [j]=next, [k]=prev, [l]=forward.

But then, any Vim user is going to be utterly confused by this sequence, not only because of the mild readjustment of assigning up/down to prev/next and left/right to seeking - but because Vim "up" [j] is assigned to "next", and Vim "down" [k] is assigned to "prev".

Upside down playlist much?!?!

I no longer use YouTube Music, solely because of the number of long videos I have rewound and lost my position in.

I'm also incidentally trying to passively commit hjkl to memory (you know, the whole spaced repetition thing), and all the above was just too confusing.
As I understand it, this is basically correct. OLGA and the tab creators couldn't publish the tabs because they didn't own the musical compositions. The only ones who could publish the tabs without being sued were the owners or licensees of the composition rights, the publishers. So effectively they owned them even though someone else did all the work to make them.

This isn't a crazy outcome and it matches up well with traditional property laws. For example, suppose Olga came to my house without my knowledge, mowed my front lawn for me, and then I come home and I eject her for trespassing. In that case I still get to enjoy my nicely mowed front lawn (i.e., the product of Olga's labor) and Olga doesn't have any right to payment because we didn't have any kind of agreement. (Note: This actually happens sometimes when painters paint the wrong house. The owner getting a free paint job is less bad than forcing the owner to pay something he didn't bargain for.)
Solve space is awesome
Well it also may be the key layout. After years of using a certain HP calculator, you get used to the layout. I prefer the 32Sii. Some have primary keys for x^2, x<y, 1/x, PI, etc. if I designed my own I’d have 10^x and LOG(x) as primaries. All depends on what field one works in.

Anything non RPN sucks anyway.
> It cites creationism.org (!!!)

Ouch... that's an enormous red flag. That irrecoverably tarnishes the entire article.
I have a hunch every society in the past thought that.
The new edge is just chromium, which already ran on Linux. It seems like a stretch to suggest it is emulating the windows version rather than just being a native Linux app
Google drive app if you just want to manage your data in the drive you have. Google docs if you wish to edit the file. Also google docs if you just want to work with doc files as google docs will list all previously edited files in the app.

Will we ask the question do I need Word if I have a file explorer?
Kerberos (sssd-ad) backed authentication for SSH is really the best.

You no longer have to deal with SSH keys whatsoever and all the management that goes with them:
When users get their access revoked on AD, they get their SSH access revoked as well.
You can have group based authorization (only those in the SRE group can access this class of QA endpoints), so when dozens of people a month are being added and removed from the various groups, you don't have to worry about giving them keys/access.
They can SSO from their laptops, so all they have to do is open PuTTY and they can connect away without even typing their usernames and passwords.
etc.

Lots of these new generation "devops" and "full-stack developers" haven't had the experience of AD and Kerberos, so they spend all this time, blog posts, money, etc. to reinvent the wheel.

Sad really.
Real example: my family could not afford a car when I was a kid. We used 2 options: cycling (with all the gear, picnic blanket etc) or a regular bus.
There were also organized summer outings in a chartered bus.
Later we I also managed to go to weekend outings in a mazda 323 with 2 kids. You just take less stuff.
Being bigger doesn't automatically make a car better at snow.

A family with kids probably has more than one car, and probably only needs one big one.
And it was probably true for most of them. The stakes for humanity keep rising, so "now" is usually the most important time in history.
They do make them in both watch and wall clocks. Stop2go is the branding. The rest are generic movements.
Most people's vision of a salesman is a smiling guy who talks a mile a minute, won't let you get a word edgewise and won't take no for an answer. There are even courses that teach you how to be that guy. Sorry the reference is dated but a Herb Tarlek from WKRP in Cincinnati type of guy.

The best mental picture of a salesman is as a consultant. You're there to solve their problem, hopefully using your product. But if your product isn't their best solution send them to your competition. You do it by asking them questions, then stopping to listen to their answer which prompts more questions.

If they don't have the problem, apologize for wasting their time and leave. I remember one of Gary Vaynerchuk's DailyVee videos where he flew to Chicago for a single hour long meeting. In less than ten minutes he realized he wasn't going to get the sale, said goodbye and headed back to the airport.

The other thing to remember is to always be asking for the order. I can't tell you how many times ten minutes after getting there I threw away the rest of my questions and wrote up an order. It is entirely possible to talk yourself out of a sure sale, when I was starting I did it multiple times.

I know a lot of introverts think they can't do sales but
sometimes they make the best sales guys. That's because they have less of a problem talking all the time. Ross Perot was definitely more of an introvert yet he was once IBM's top salesperson in the country. He once made his entire yearly quota in a week!
Subjectively it feels sorta true for a 40 year old, but I bet it pales in comparison to WW2. Large portions of many nations perished, and their kin had to rebuild society. Nuclear weapons were deployed for the first time.

The fact that we even recovered from it is amazing (although some didn't, certainly).

I live in the US because my grandparents' generation lost the war. And the US has a generation named after the effects of the war (baby boomers).

I remember reading the phrase "post war" dozens or hundreds of times as a child, but it took awhile for the reality of it to sink in.
It's harder on the poor. The percentage figures will vary based on your income level. Luckily the OP chose an income level in the top 2% of all Americans which made it a somewhat reasonable level.

This was also an individual plan bought on a healthcare exchange. Large employers have a stronger negotiating position and can get somewhat better rates, but in the end you're still basically paying a tax and it is disingenuous to compare tax rates with countries that provide socialized healthcare with their taxes and not include the cost of healthcare coverage in the States.
These seem like extreme cases that just take more words to translate due to limited overlap of shared experiences. If it never snows in Hawaii, the Hawaiian language may not have a word for it. But snow is a real thing apart from language. I think what is meant by informal language is more the structural rules, which ultimately seem to just be arbitrary patterns of behavior people fell into, instead of sometime deeper.
35 years ago I saw bumper stickers reading "Don't Californicate Oregon".
Some things never change.. I suppose if bumper stickers were a thing at the time (1960s, early 70s ) & the locals were more aware of the consequences of selling their orchards to the developers there might have been bumper stickers reading "get your East-coast butts out of our valley"... but it seems lucre lessens many insults.