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> Purposely believing in something that you know is most likely to be incorrect

This makes me think of: acting. One way to act like a character is to try to believe you are that character. Or to believe everything the character believes. Then you figure out the detailed implications: when you see x, you think y, so you feel z (which should show on your face and body language) and do w. One way of finding the implications is to physically put yourself through experiences your character has had; if that is impractical, you can look for substitutes. (There is a famous story[1] of an actor who gave a compelling performance of a character agonizing over killing himself with a revolver in his hand... by imagining he was about to take a very cold shower.)

Which then brings to mind an approach: imagine you are the person you would like to be, imagine how that person would act, and act that way. (I'm not sure whether, to the parent commenter, that would be "a greatly successful person in the early stages" or "a person who will do the best he can—choosing the strategies with highest expected value—knowing bad luck may crush his efforts in the small or in the large, and won't be bothered if/when that happens because his choices were still the best".)

[1] https://www.rehearsalroom.com/offcuts/offcut31.html
I'm serious, yes, it's better. I'm not going to say it's as good as other apps. I mean, if you're keeping a to-do list, better to do that in Apple Reminders -- especially now that they've added that new shared list feature and assigning todos. But if you have to put up with Jira, then yes, I personally find the Jira app to be faster than the website. It reminds me why I like apps as much (or more) than websites.

I've also run Jira on a server before, and if you optimize the Java runtime's settings and over-provision, you can get a pretty fast Jira instance going. It's just most folks rarely touch the default configurations, which are terrible, or don't shell out for SSDs when running it. And the cloud version ... well, it seems a bit under-provisioned if you ask me. Jira doesn't appear to be written well enough to take full advantage of the cloud, yet.
People who spend this much money on their own leisure are repulsive.
Same way it is up to me how you use books you bought (kindle) or songs you bought (any streaming crap nowadays).

If you're shitty enough person (good businessman) you can profit off of anything.
Same question but with $5M asked here a couple months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683297
>In many cases there are actually several layers of popups obscuring the content, and some are delayed so they only pop up after you start reading the content.

I swear I've had ones that popup as I move the mouse to close the tab.
Freelance contracting is probably the easiest way to work part time. There is some stuff that is only x number of hours a week. This seems to mostly be sysadmin work or basic web design. The other option is to do something like 3-6 months on, then however long you want off, etc. Probably easiest for web and mobile developers.
I have used automatic daily and weekly LVM snapshots. They slow down your write speed (especially the second one IIRC), but in software development use I haven't found it an issue. If you are write huge videos all day long that might be different.
Minor detail, but is anyone else irritated by the use of the word "learnings" instead of "lessons"? "To learn" is a verb. Nouning verbs seems to be an unnecessary operationalization.
I had an economy row on intercontinental flights for myself a couple of times (back in 2009 during the financial crisis, when flights were routinely half empty). It definitely helps, but you can't fully stretch out if you are taller than 5ft and it doesn't compete with business class.
I must say I had to look for how to disable JS in Firefox + uBlock.

As someone pointed out, there's a button on uBlock to disable it.

I didn't quite spend so much time on Firefox preferences but I didn't find the option. I'm sure it's there somewhere

You can open developer console, go into it's settings and look for Disable Javascript. Checking the box will disable JS and reload the page.
Is anyone else confused or put off by the term "fomite"? It has such an odd sound/etymology, isn't used in anything close to daily language, and doesn't sound like something to do with surface droplets or particles that transmit disease. I would think a different word could help popularize awareness better.
I think Mike from Newgrounds is the lead developer on the project, or at least the guy who created it.
you should've seen my programs before I learned about arrays.
Yeah, I've gotten love letters too. But that doesn't change the reality of what I said! It's not legal, if you order enough they will charge you under the Federal Analogue Act... or even on a small order they'll make up whatever story they want and raid you if they suspect you're up to something else more lucrative.
> Updates being installed without my consent,

This is not true. You explicitly consented to it by voluntarily installing software that has this (horrific) feature.
I didn't realize the lib was in there by default. It is instantly recognizable as Logo, although the syntax is clearly python.

This video from Mathologer about solving polynomial equations might be just as easy to implement in Python with that library as it would be under NetLogo (a more multi-dimensional science-oriented implementation of Logo), which certainly justifies having a turtle library to begin with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUC-8P0zXe8

I'd hate to program that under BASIC.
Give it all away and do it again
> sometimes you don’t have a choice as a nation but to do some detestable act for some higher purpose

It's always important to force yourself to remember that essentially all detestable acts are done for detestable purposes, no matter how selfless the rhetoric tries to make them sound. There may have been a handful of exceptions in history, but they are so vastly outnumbered by the other kind that they can safely be ignored.

The narrative of doing something for the greater good should be treated as a lie until the burden of evidence is so high that you are forced to accept that it was indeed good. In particular, spy agencies have produced far more terrorism, coups, and disinformation for their own people, with the goal of supporting the monetary interests of their nation, all others be damned, than they have ever defended anything. The exceptions almost always happen when the goals of empire happen to be aligned with those of the people, like during WW2.
They figured what it was..remnant from west world set. Reddit sleuths figured it out.

Posted earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25206387
> ..it hit me how bad a conventional chain and sprocket is.

Not at all! The article claims 98% efficiency.

Roller chains are used to transfer torque in bicycles and motor cycles, inside internal combustion engines to drive cam shafts... and many more applications covering a huge range of power levels and environments.

Not only is it efficient, it's cheap.

If that last 2% of efficiency was important (or easy to obtain) it would have been on a GP motorcycle already.
If it is not inflation hedged, you've no way of knowing if it will be enough. Holding fiat currency is exceptionally dangerous.

Diversity is good. You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket, and risk it all.
Don't be fooled, this game has "PERMADEATH FEATURE"
I’m beginning to think that a lack of ability to label and understand argumentation techniques like those mentioned in the articles is a major failing of US English education.
Survey for my fellow SaaS startups
Hey guys, I'm new to this community and have never done a startup before.

Recently, I had a problem of collecting user feedback from my enterprise clients. The non-technical clients had a hard time communicating their concern's / wants and I had to be physically present at their office to get them to explain the problem to me effectively. This is a problem which I felt that most startups would face(Or maybe not..).

The concept of my solution is simple, give users the ability to visually tell the developers what the problem on the app is (via screen recording and click captures), contextualize the problem and organize it for developers to understand the issue effectively.

Of course, there are other solutions out there like Bugherd and UserSnap, but I feel that I can still bring value to the table.

That being said, thank you for reading thus far. I'm currently trying dig deeper into the problem and see if other people are facing the same problem as me. If you could take a 5min to complete the survey, I'll be extremely grateful!
https://forms.gle/nngqFJnMvQo6f3hn6
if this is dynamo, this is just a bunch of BS. you cannot get the latencies DDB has with a ton of abstractions on top of MySql.
0.6% compounded for 30 years would be barely $1.02M
Macos is free to use?
A rule of thumb (from trinity study) is you need a lump sum of 25x yearly expenses to retire and live off investment income. So with 1M you'd have a $40k/y budget. It can be enough (a lot of people in the world live on much less than that), it can be a stretch - depends on your personal situation, lifestyle, location, etc.
So is a lot of malware, that doesn't mean the specification matches the final build. And even if you can verify the board, you can't verify the chip itself or any other IC.
People who judge how others spend their hard earned money are repulsive.
> What are the chances of taking $1M and investing so that I don’t have to work anymore?

Not high.

I'm going to guess, based on the fact that you have 8 years in the tech industry, that you are probably in your late 20s or early 30s. Given modern life expectancy, that means you could be alive for at least 60 more years.

In order to make 1 million dollars last that long you are going to need to take on significant investment risk. "Normal" investment risk, e.g. from index funds, is not going to grow the money enough -- if you withdraw enough every year to live on, the money will run out. When it runs out, you will probably have been out of the job market for decades, and therefore unemployable.

If you are living on a fixed income, predictability of expenses is key. Home ownership is one way to control your expenses -- get a fixed-rate mortgage and your monthly cost of living will be fairly predictable. Property tax and utility costs might fluctuate, but in most places the mortgage will be the largest cost, and you can lock that in at a known monthly amount. However, you just sold your house. If you are planning to rent, you won't have the predictability that you need in order to plan for future expenses. If you are planning to buy again, that $1 million is going to shrink by the amount that you pay for your next home.

You probably can't retire on $1 million. But you can take some time off, like a sabbatical. If you aren't happy in your work, you can look for another job, and having that money will let you coast for a while until you find it.
1M$ is not enough to up and quit. But it is enough to quit your job to do a job you actually enjoy and supplement that income with dividends.

Dividend + buyback yield is around 4% on s&p 500. So you could reasonably safely take out 4% / year (assuming you dividend reinvest).

Spending is the real issue. If you can get your spending down you could actually pull it off.
I'd recommend buying rental properties in areas with low housing costs relative to rent.

There are parts of Florida where 3 bedroom existing homes (i.e. not new) are $100,000, but monthly rent for that same house is $1,000+ per month.

Based on discounted cash flow, you can determine the value of any revenue stream. In some parts of the country, you'll find homes are undervalued compared to rents.

Stocks are good, but they're not good for steady withdrawals. For example, during a bear market your withdrawals are very costly.

To retire, you need predictable income streams, and rental property is one of the best.

Plus, it's easy for a regular person to leverage money for real estate. For example, with $1 million, you can buy $3 million worth of property with 33% down -- not counting transaction fees, though).

33% down should give you immediate profits from most of your properties.

$3 million could get you as many as 30 condos/homes in the right areas.

If monthly profit on each of those 30 condos/homes can average $200 per month, that's $6,000 per month right there.

You might still want to continue working for a few years to give you capital to deal with hiccups and allow some time for those mortgages to pay down further.

In a nutshell, rental property is one of the faster ways to generate income without working.

The other, simpler way is to move to a country like the Philippines.
> I simply don't understand why developers keep investing their time on platforms that are openly hostile to them.

It's because the users are there. It's similar to things like YouTube. Every YouTuber complains about YouTube... but there is no other place where their random video is going to be recommended to a million strangers. (Twitch is similar.) So, they put up with it.

It boils down to what problem you want to solve. If you can figure out how to convince Mac users to switch to Linux, then you can be successful in your approach of "ditch Apple for being evil" or whatever. If you can't, then you have to find a new line of work (there is plenty of software engineering to be done that never touches an Apple product), or you have to put up with the poor developer experience.

It's also unlikely to be sunshine and roses on the other side of the fence. For everything that's bad about platform X, platform Y probably has just as many annoyances. If you're looking for perfection, you're going to have to remake the world in your image from scratch. That's a lot of work!
What are you doing that requires kernel specific code? Shouldn't you just be using cross platform libraries?
I took a break and over 18 months I cycled 30,000 km (20,000 miles) in 12 countries. My burn rate was very consistently $1,000/month, even during 5 months in the expensive US. This included airline tickets and replacement bicycles

https://www.cycleblaze.com/profile/nicroets/

The best way to make your money grow over the long term is a diversified equity portfolio of which a low cost index tracking fund should be your first choice.

If you want real value for your retirement savings, you should live abroad: South Asians countries don't have a lot of exports, making their currencies weak.
I would find it surprising if a individual state passes medicare for all during the most expensive possible time to implement it. This seems like it would have to be a federally funded thing.
The market is way overvalued. Hold cash until it corrects.
Please, tell me more!
I think you could use only a fraction of that money to setup a homestead and live off the grid. You would have to plan it properly: (e.g. rain fall, solar hours, land area, soil quality, rivers, and so on) and put in more work outside. But where there's a will there's a way. Even without homesteading 1 mil would go a long way if you purchased cheap property and didn't fall into the rent trap.

In my current situation I could do it with less than half of what you have. But I'd personally get bored. Good luck with the retirement.
Looks like you dropped a zero in your calcs for example 2. Should be 1,000,000 * (1.006 ^ 30). Perhaps you used 1.06 instead. Works out to about $1.2m after 30 years, unadjusted for inflation.
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One of the biggest lessons of 2020 is that rental income is not as reliable as people thought it was.

During the pandemic, many renters were allowed to stop paying rent and landlords had no legal recourse. Several states have created new rent control laws in the past few years, too.
I suppose you could find what you are looking for by checking out the health data of homeschooled children compared to non-homeschooled children.
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The easy path on M1 would have been to lock everything down. Use the same iBoot phones use, the same kernel configuration, and call it a day.

It takes a lot of engineering work to make more permissive security modes work. To re-architect booting. To make external drive booting work. To make developing kernel extensions on production systems work. To allow signing your own boot blob. Work that 99% of users don't even understand let alone care about.

If that isn't enough evidence then nothing ever will be.
Based on the given info, here is the advice I have:

0. Debt is a killer. Pay yours off.

1. Live below your means

2. Look up the 4% rule - can you live happily on 4% ($40k) per year? If not, you may need to save some more.

3. Implement a strategy to leverage the 4% rule. I usually try to avoid investment fees and invest directly in exchange traded funds. To learn more about ETF investing, read The Simple Path to Wealth.

4. Try to get a part-time, less stressful job. That way there is more room for error in your calculations. If you employ DRIP investing, your savings compound even effortlessly this way as you don’t withdraw as much.
Yeah, that math was miles off, apparently based on 6% (way too high), not 0.6% p.a.
Consider a use case where you need high concurrent write performance and you don't want the things you are writing to be accidentally dissociated from the file. If you have to write to a zip file there will be overhead every time you append a new "file" because you have to rewrite the central registry at the end of the file.

Basically there is no way to say to you operating system "hey, can I get a no-nonsense, don't what to have to come up with some other conventions that will be broken, way to have some additional storage and file system paths that are just for this file so I don't have to worry about name collisions?" I already have a perfectly good unique name under which I could stash information, but the posix standard basically prevents me from using that name as a way to safely namespace things that I need per file.

However, to your original point I have partially implemented this [0] using zip files on the read side. I treat the internal paths inside the zip file as if they are rooted at the zip file itself. I haven't implemented rewriting though.

0. https://github.com/tgbugs/augpathlib/blob/master/augpathlib/...
Growl is dead, long live Growl!
Land. Buy farmland. People have to eat. Make it work for you for a steady stream of passive income. Create a self sufficient compound so your passive income is only for your spending money.

If all else fail, you still have the land to sell. You can’t print land. It will always be in demand.

Buy productive land you can steward. One acre of fertile land with water is much better than 500 acres of scenic acreage.

Where can you find that in America? I have a rough rule. Follow the Amish. Can’t go wrong.

(This is not investment advice. Just my thoughts.)
Don't retire! There is too much uncertainty. Invest some of the money in US stock, and some in stocks in other parts of the world: China, Vietnam etc. Put 1% of that in Bitcoin/other cryptos.

Wait until it's 2 or 3m, then live frugally. There is no clear indication on the future value of the dollar or other currencies for that matter.

Save and spend as little as possible. If you don't have a kids and wife, don't spend on useless things. You don't have any responsibilities so just be happy.
It seems unlikely. There's a lot of extra complexity with multi-socket and there's no actual reason for them to do this. I'm not a CPU designer but they might do the equivalent of what you said with a chiplet design like AMD (Intel also has announced plans to eventually get to chiplets).
$1 million is more than enough if you are willing to live in a rural area or small town, or can move to somewhere like Greece, Croatia, Portugal, Sicily, etc.

But, I would only suggest this if you have a clear plan for what you’re going to do when you retire. Write novels? Work on open source? Become a world-famous painter? The world is at your fingertips, but if you don’t have a plan, you’ll be bored of retirement within 2 years. If you don’t have that yet, I suggest keeping your job for another year while you plan you escape.
The CNET article linked from a comment in that link doesn't say that it was a prop. Just that Reddit discovered that westworld was being filmed nearby, and then that Utah authorities reported that it had since been removed by an unknown party.
People who $verb how others $verb their $noun are $adjective.
At the risk of failing a turing test and being lectured about human eyeballs:

What people asked for: choose between black on white or white on black.

What people got: dark gray on off color gray mode, or light gray on off color gray mode.

Simply having + honoring a system color scheme is a 100% solution, but then the designers and marketing folks wouldn’t have anything to focus on while they avoid improving the actual product.
You might want to wait a bit before you retire. 1 million is a lot but unfortunately there is no save investment that will net you a comfortable long term income. If you are lucky you might get 2% a year but that's very little to live on anywhere in the U.S. Even if you could live on that inflation will eat up the buying power over time.

Think about investing money in real estate. With a million dollars you could buy an apartment building live in one of the units and manage the others. Over time you will have enough money to retire. The one plus in this type of investing is that you have a lot of control over how successful your investment will be.

You'll need to educate yourself on the intricacies of apartment building rentals but the success is very likely. Also, Real Estate is a long term investment so once you get involved expect to have your money tied up for many years.

You did the hard part of saving the money now it's time to move on to the next step. Good luck!
Theres a spectrum of differences throughout the country, but in my area Amazon is providing a better starting wage and vastly better benefits to hundreds of warehouse workers on day 1 than any small retail businesses can compete with in the area.
They definitely had this functionality since the iPod (being a general usb storage). I haven’t tried it since starting to use web storage (eg google drive) but used this feature in high school with my original iPhone and iPhone 3g.
In other words, don't worry about the so called global warming.
The big advantage of make to me is I understand it and can figure out what happens when things go wrong. When something doesn't work the way I want with cmake or autotools (I haven't used Bazel etc.), I have to randomly start googling things. Sometimes I literally resort to editing the generated cmake Makefiles because I have no idea how to tell cmake what I want it to do...
A million dollars would save hundreds of lives if directed to the right people or causes. If you are spending that amount of money all on yourself and your comfort in a few months, you're a bad person. It's that simple.
How do those of us inclined... commit, represent, and impact?
> minus withdrawals

Withdrawals change these numbers tremendously
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They go up. Probably by a lot. I didn’t say the taxes would be fun.
This is laughable. If propaganda and advertising don't work, then why is everyone so invested in creating it?

The people creating propaganda are also interested in enforcing censorship if they are in the position to do so.

Propaganda and censorship work far better together than individually for groups that want to brainwash society into certain beliefs.
Yes and I'm comfortable with that. What's leisure for you might be passion for me.

An average SpaceX rocket launch costs over $50m and I'm telling you, if I got $49m more I would launch one for fun, then die broke with a smile on my face and a rocket emoji I pre-etched on my grave.