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A few hours ago I finished the Y Combinator Startup School program. The partners undoubtedly bring insights loaded with intellectuality and valuable information.

Today I launched what I turned into my life project

I hope you feel identified with the need for the new educational concept that I am already beginning to build and I would be very grateful if you could take a look and see if you have any suggestions.

If you do not want to send your email, it is not necessary. You can send me your comments here:
virtualgeducation@gmail.com
http://linkedin.com/in/jorge-reyes-43309b35

Why did I choose this as a live project? ...
I am a civil engineer and also the owner of a construction company, but all my contacts are suspended due to the pandemic. So, the last 9 months I have dedicated myself to help my daughter in her educational process and I had a profound experience with her that reminded me of all the frustration that I experimented during my 18 years of college and university receiving a lot of information that in a large percentage was irrelevant to me. For this reason, I decided to create a new educational model with a totally different approach from the traditional one, hoping to avoid my daughter having the same frustration that millions of people share with me and with the conviction that this educational vision is the correct way to educate

Have a nice day :)
Try `$mod+s` for stacking and `$mod+w` for tabbed.

Check out 2.2. Changing the container layout here: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html
How often do you browse git logs? I see others also mentioning using git logs, but I really myself have not used it very often except maybe in some very edge cases and it is hard for me to imagine when it might be useful.
> Google was taking 80% of money that should have gone to them

This seems to presuppose an alternate universe in which Google doesn’t exist but ad revenue is the same?
Bob Lazar, is that you?

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34752972/1982-jul-30-bob-laz...
> > Most software devs make more than that [$49] per hour

> if your definition of software dev ends at the borders of California, then yes. Otherwise, not so much.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics disagrees:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

”Quick Facts: Software Developers

“2019 Median Pay: $107,510 per year / $51.69 per hour”
Keeping your speed under 40km/h would do a lot. And removing cars from streets.
That is not the primary source of wear problems on Mazda Wankels.

What you're describing is a challenge on peripheral port (race) engines where very large intake and exhaust ports must be bridged by the apex seals, and in the pursuit of performance their radius is often less than ideal making the transition onto and out of the port area more abrupt.

The spark plug hole however is relatively small and circular.

High-mileage Mazda Wankels typically require overhauling because the side seals become seized in a compressed state (their springs are meager segments of ~sinusoidal wire, and the motor burns oil by design causing excess carbon/coking clogging them up), resulting in excess blow-by and unintended oil burning. Once the side seals go, the combustion gases start reaching the oil control rings, baking their soft interior seals into brittle plastic and it's all downhill from there.

source: former rx-7 enthusiast with multiple diy engine rebuilds in his past.

Edit:

BTW something that's often misunderstood about Wankels is that the rotor turns lazily at 1/3rd the engine RPM. So despite it being a "high revving" engine, there isn't actually that much centrifugal force acting on the apex seals at conventional engine speeds. The pain point in this department is the stationary gears responsible for converting that 3X eccentric shaft speed into a mix of orbital and rotational motion at the rotors.
Is every dollar that Google earns a dollar of harm to the public?
For a long time I've wanted VR-like games, but played in the freedom of AR, where it maps and adapts to your environment. This would allow you to actually move around and interact with your space.

I briefly played the HoloLens AR game where you have to shoot at robotic bugs that crawl out from your walls.[1] The fact that I could duck behind my office partition was awesome. The fact that when I blew a hole in my wall I could see the "studs" behind it was similarly cool.

In an ideal world, I could trace out my house and play up and down the stairs. Or go to a field or forest and play in a whole other world.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29xnzxgCx6I
We have for a long time, except it was called "ActionScript", and was used for another Adobe product: Flash animations.
If you haven't used a Quest headset then you should update your thoughts after doing that. It pretty much solves the points you raise.
Such a fatalistic view of human understanding helps no one.

"couldn't" is past tense. The GP clearly expects/hopes there's a quick remedy here, and your reasoning about "can't" in the present tense (and implied continuing future tense) doesn't hold.
What you say, man, to make yourself feel better about yourself. Is your arm sore from patting yourself on the back?
That's not the point. The point is the judgement of the answers to "how do you improve the phone" are totally subjective. Maybe as the interviewee I guess you want some crazy answer like "well we could built it into your car" but what you really wanted was proof that I wouldn't waste time on this but instead focus on getting stuff done.

As an aside, IMO smartphones are not an improvement on phones. They are an improvement on PDAs. As phones they've utterly failed. People called each other (as in use a phone) way more before smartphones. So smartphones are not better "phones". They're worse phones and better something else.
The goalposts just moved so far we’re not even on the same field.

>> In 1918, several American cities jailed people breaking quarantine or otherwise putting public health at risk.

And in 2020, several American cities did exactly the same. The link was my citation. Aside from millions of dollars in fines, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses forced shut to the point of financial ruin, yes, people have also been arrested.

>> Public health powers are old, precedented and powerful. They are barely being used here.

Now, the question wasn’t the necessity of the response, or the appropriateness of the response or even the effectiveness of the response.

My incredulity was simply with the characterization of the magnitude of the public health response. The magnitude of the public health response is unprecedentedly and undeniably massive. To say public health powers are barely being applied is wrong, but also unfair to all those who have been directly impacted.

Your opinion that people would be fearful enough of COVID that they wouldn’t have gone out anyway is highly speculative, belied by the data, but also besides the point.

I think your concluding paragraph is entirely inappropriate and against site guidelines. I suggest you delete it. More so, it’s just in bad taste. Two weeks ago an 11 year old shot themselves on a Zoom call. It’s just one of the most grievous examples of the mental health impact of school shutdowns, but the overall mental health of school age children has been broadly effected.
We still have a birth rate that is too high. It will be a long long time before we need to work on raising the birth rate and the problem isn't that complex.
The primary limiting factor is emissions for road cars and 2-strokes.

2 strokes have to go oil-sump + direct injection with supercharger to be able to match a 4 stroke when it comes to maintaining thermal efficiency, match power density while meeting emission standards.

All that complexity and the 4 stroke atkinson's cycle looks really attractive again. A huge benefit in of the Atkinson's setup is it can switch back to the Otto seamlesssly and directly drive the car for additional power (i.e Hybrid vehciles)

If you can parse through the noise of Quora posts, this highlights above[0].

Tesla won't use it gasoline for range extension - it's against their religion - which I subscribe to.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-2-stroke-engines-used-in-car...
It's got no notability guidelines and no real verification. It's a free for all. Also it tries to be fun to read.
> How do you prove that cashiers are recorded more than police?

You've never worked as a cashier. If one is behind the till, they have a direct camera on them for their entire shift.
Yes and no. I think it will greatly reduce its value and allow for easier regulation. Part of what makes it hard to regulate, I think, is it’s unclear what actually exists and how it’s used.
It's a play on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-body_problem

But referring to a relationship, and the difficulty of finding a location that works for both people in a relationship. See:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=two-body%20p...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-body_problem_(career)
Well... https://www.extremetech.com/internet/308167-windows-zero-day...
> But those who are not comfortable with the foundational theory stuff just don't see it and don't even think to approach the problem in that way.

Or maybe all that "foundational theory" is oblivious to cache hierarchies(hello Big O notation) and generates worse performance on constrained devices. Or perhaps there's enough unknown, unknowns that throwing something at the wall is a legit way to get data if it's not a one-way decision.

However the attitude on display above is a problem because you've just alienated those people who may have come from a different background or do know the theory but are approaching a problem in a different way.
The case in the US would be around the market power of Facebook, Google and Amazon. That vertical merger case is being run by the Department of Justice’s antitrust division. The European Commission is also investigating the same three companies under its EU Merger Regulation rules. The EU competition enforcer has opened a case against Google for some e-commerce practices.
Newsletters are always at risk of being flagged as spam, or not delivered (eg the recent Gmail outage). Meaning their email delivery has to be perfect or their subscribers miss out.

An RSS reader makes perfect sense for them, actually.
> It is definitely one of the internet's great rabbit holes.

There's incidentally an entry for those:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WikiWalk
Ubuntu LTS includes everything in main and restricted. Debian LTS includes whatever Freexian has funding for.
The parent was questioning I think whether Google+ failing was a result of something like Google and Facebook dividing up the market and agreeing to stop competing. As crazy as it sounds, it makes as much sense as Google making so, so many bad decisions around Google+ that it eventually had to be put out of its misery.
FWIW, I think there is a big difference between a large scale volunteer project, and a job. If your job isn't doing well by you, absolutely you should threaten to quit... you are essentially in a relationship and if you think the issue is correctable, everyone will be happier if you offer that option, and you do yourself a big disservice tolerate something you aren't comfortable with. But for Wikipedia? Would they even notice if you left? Did they negotiate with you originally to be there? Did they promise you anything? It is just a massive time sink for everyone if you threaten to quit: you should probably just leave.
I appreciate the footnote that basically says "Whoa, this is more practically useful than we realized!"
The Answer Man: An ancient poem was rediscovered–and the world swerved (2011)
I feel like we're in a very interesting place for main stream computing. The technology has matured enough that it's nearly impossible to add novel, valuable features. It feels like everything is just starting to break for no good reason.

At the same time, companies have hard data about what works and what doesn't work so they're starting to trim excess.
China’s lunar mission Chang’e returns to Earth with Moon rocks
‘All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players’, once you find your role, you’ve got a part in the play.

AOC is a good example in politics, suddenly everything coming out of her mouth is some truth bomb tweet espousing every cutting edge liberal perspective. A caricature, totally insufferable and not an ounce of nuance. She found her role and is playing it to the max. Weird, Trump found his role in the exact same way, and he never let off the pedal.

Neither for a brief moment ever tried to think about anything they say from a broader perspective, it’s simply not their role.
This either calls into question 'modern standards' or the interpretation of their actions, from my point of view. They were certainly no saints, but to a couple whose writings ranged from anti-statism, skepticism of morality, and (proto-sex-positive) feminism, I'm not too keen to call them hypocritical, despite that. The intellectual dissonance is not uncommon among philosophers, who generally cannot be expected to behave any more ethically than the rest of us. Unlike moral philosophers and Spinoza, however, de Beauvoir never claimed to be fighting the moral realist's crusade - and after Nietzche, I can't blame her a bit.

But to a person like Sartre who subscribes to the maxim that 'morality [...] is but a bourgeois pretension" in the words of one of his intellectual sources, I find more sympathy for him than the grave crime of.. grooming adult students and the ambitions of a New Yorker journalist feeling like he's blowing the lid of the sordid lives of the philosophers. By these words we hang de Beauvoir in a weird game of cancel culture to own the literati because we clicked on an article from 2005 in an American paper.
rotaries are far from quite, my friend
"Who cares if people involved with google make more money"

They might not engage in as much harmful behavior if they actually wound up losing money by it rather than making money, and if it cost them time in jail.

"The point of anti-trust isn’t to punish individuals but to remedy harm to the consumer."

Which is evidence that the current antitrust laws are too lax.

Also, I'm not sure how harm to the consumers is supposed to be remedied if the consumers will ultimately be the ones paying the fees that these companies are charged for breaking the law.
Contributing to each dependency you use is not realistic. What instead happens is that people leave GTK for more stable dependencies. This is what I did. That's what many likely choose to do.
Never use LOOP. I don't! (Except in the trivial keywordless form in which it means "loop forever".)
Glad to see, but worry that Cpanel on Ubuntu coming in late 2021, corresponding to the end of CentOS 8, is cutting it close.
> I assume they were for a good reason

That's where you're wrong. The reason they gave is "we don't want to confuse casual users with comiplcated functionality" or something along those lines, which is absurd because there has always been power user functionality available to those that need it without hurting the casual user experience, and installation of extensions is up to the user, casual users don't need to do it.

So since their explanation doesn't add up, tell me, why do you think Mozilla, who gets most of it's funding from Google, decided to make add-ons such as Privacy Badger and umatrix and cookie autodelete unavailable to us to use?

Never just assume someone does something for a good reason. Never assume malicious intent either, but don't just take it laying down when a tool you use no longer works for you. If a tool keeps getting worse and worse from a user perspective, it is because the changes being made aren't made with the user in mind.
Usually several cameras, all pointed at the cashier and their hands from different angles, with even more cameras littered throughout their workplace.
Not being able to scale the fonts for different resolutions is something only a young person with 20/20 vision would thinks is a feature.
Karishma, you were shadowbanned. I've seen nothing in your comment history which would warrant this so I've vouched this comment.
Really small 2 strokes (like leaf blowers) use mixed oil-fuel which is absolutely terrible for emissions.

To make a 2 stroke meet emissions while maintaining its primary gain - thermal efficiency, and matching the power density a lot of complexity is needed.

This quora post[0] largely sums that up, but quora is only so trustworthy.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-2-stroke-engines-used-in-car...
I think there's a lot of truth to this.

But there is also truth to the argument that more competition would (probably) have driven prices down, and that Google and FB colluding to fix prices in auctions caused this
Taberu: the Japanese Art of Eating.

Kaimonosuru: the Japanese Art of Buying Groceries.

Nomikai: the Japanese Art of Drinking too Much With Coworkers.

It’s about time Western media stop essentializing Japanese culture and make something special out of a normal things that happen everywhere.
I've done both graphics and embedded systems. I don't think any of that is true. In fact I found most the formal education around graphics to be outdated or disconnected from the reality of how systems are built(mostly due to trade secrets and the industry moving much faster than coursework could keep up).
You might also consider that outside of California doesn't mean that software development ends at the American border. Here in the UK, the average salary is somewhere between 30k-40k a year.
@dang is this some bot activity?

Same exact comment from two different accounts.
A less idiotic purchase would be to buy art in form of paint or sculpture :)
The pdf2htmlEX program does this. It creates exact renditions of PDFs in HTML, using embedded fonts and positioning each character. Personally, although it’s an amazing demonstration, I don’t really understand the purpose, when you can just distribute the PDF.

https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
I used to have this problem until I got a Kindle. I buy books less now.

I guess there is just something about a physical book that makes it desirable outside actually reading it.
I do think there is a bias that lumps all police officers as evil power hungry egomaniacs. And I do think this bias has stemmed from cherry picking the worst occurrences and these getting millions of views so this bias was bound to happen.

I am not from the US, so it may be true that all police there behave in such manner, but I think it is unlikely.

I also believe there's many individuals really hoping to get that next piece of viral content and it doesn't matter how much the video could be out of context, so I can definitely understand why good hearted police may not like being filmed.

That being said I think recording should be allowed, but my point is I can understand why a morally decent police officer might not like being filmed and it is not to avoid accountability specifically, but being taken out of context and becoming a viral victim of hate and judgement.
> We still have a birth rate that is too high. It will be a long long time before we need to work on raising the birth rate and the problem isn't that complex.

Do you have any citations for this? Not snarking—genuinely curious, not arguing, but I was under the impression that most population growth in developed countries like the U.S. was due to immigration rather than above-replacement fertility rates.
Simply look overhead next time you're paying for something. There's a camera on the cash drawer, a camera watching your face, a camera watching their face, probably a camera watching the whole lane from a wider perspective.

I used to work on point-of-sale equipment, typically fixing scanner-scale or receipt-printer issues, but all the database equipment is in the same back room as the security DVR. The number of cameras in a modern store is staggering, and nowhere are they more concentrated than the checkout area.
I think 2 great areas of research in PL are:

1. Program synthesis. Roughly, deep learning to write code (https://sunblaze-ucb.github.io/program-synthesis/index.html) (tab-9 being an incredible application of it)

2. My own area of research: Tree Notation (https://treenotation.org/). More generally: the idea of programming languages and programs as 2-D and 3-D structures.

I follow thousands of languages and those are the 2 domains that I think are most exciting (I'm obviously biased).

There's lots of incredibly value incremental work as well, but not much else I see that will cause a 10x+ jump.

If you are interested in PL research, I recommend https://reddit.com/r/programmingLanguages and https://futureofcoding.slack.com/
I like making furniture too (it's a stereotype for many devs), but I don't look down my nose and pretend that there's some objective reason that my hobby is "more fulfilling" than someone else's (particularly when that person's hobby also involves being creative and using their brain). I mean, sheesh.
Mystery gap in Florida Covid deaths appeared before election
> As of 2019, however, 52.4% of the mobile OS market belongs to iOS, and 47% to Android.

This doesn't pass the sniff test, unless you're doing something weird like measuring the mobile OS market in dollars spent on phones.

> Neither of our favorite mobile phone OSes have succeeded in comparison.

To be clear, I have no experience of Windows Phone. I'm just bemused that 100% of comments about what it was like are so glowing. For some other product, you'd expect to see some comments saying "this was the greatest product ever to be commercially available" and some others saying "no, I had one of those, and it sucked". That doesn't seem to happen for Windows Phone.
SingleStore DB 7.3 Is Now Generally Available
"This guy fucks"
Absolutely recommend this too. You can also buy an edgerouter from Ubiquiti for maybe $50 for the gateway/routing/switching, and then spread a couple of the Unifi access points around your house for the WiFi. I did that since I balked a bit at the cost of the dream machine. This would be way more powerful (the edgerouter has a lot of advanced features) and reliable (access points in high use areas) than a high-end consumer WiFi router at the same cost. And the mobile apps + dashboard are super nice.
Can You Get a Covid Test at Home?
I haven't had any issues using the official Windows distribution of OpenSSH. After adding my ssh keys to the ssh-agent it just works. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
Ranging 2015—mid 2017, BTC was slowly going up in price, in a nice steady fashion. It wasn’t until late 2017 that things went completely apeshit.

At any rate, the price instability is exactly that — unstable. It’s not systematic hyperflation. For when you don’t have access to conventional forex, it’s better than nothing.

> You're not wrong for wanting to help poor people. But people need to come to the realization that bitcoin has been Theranos-like the whole time. It's a waste of time if you're goal is to help the poor.

Yeah. That’s a large part of why I used to work at a Bitcoin company.
https://archive.vn/Y2Ed8
You can donate to the foundation. I'm not sure why that would turn out any different -- even if you paid a subscription for Firefox directly, what would prevent Mozilla from using that money for their other products?

The problem with optional subscriptions is that most people will never opt-in. If subscriptions are made mandatory, the general public will be driven to one of the other major browsers.
There was a time when 'a set of computer instructions' was called a 'routine'. Computer 'languages' are extremely restricted, and are primarily logical.

Unlike human languages: English (and probably most others) has hundreds of words that can be used to nuance, imply, suggest, refine, gradate, distinguish, obscure, conceal, intimate, impute.

If we don't know what they mean we can often skip right past them. (Computers don't do 'gist'.) Illogic is not only permitted, it's often essential.