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I've been monitoring how much it costs to run an hp i5 6th gen desktop 24/7 over the last few weeks. I use it as my main server. The electricity cost is coming in at about £2.50 per month (idles just under 20w).

An old hp dual core duo box is coming in at about £3.50 per month.

I'm sticking with SSDs as metal disks burn about 5w per disk. My monitor on standby burns about 10w, so it is being powered off.

I thought if you were reading about modding a desk you may find this interesting :-)
The big point here is that Apple users choose the walled garden for themselves. Many people buy apple products specifically because of it.

Of course apple holds a “monopoly” over their own users, exactly the same as how Walmart and Target hold a “monopoly” over the space within their own stores.

If you don’t like the business model of Walmart because of how they have ruined local businesses, you can go shop at the farmers market or local organic shops. But you wouldn’t file a lawsuit which would demand that Walmart host the local farmers market in their own parking lot.
Russian government certainly doesn’t have the monopoly of that kind of practice. It’s a standard practice in wordlbank projects as well : wordlbank finances the development of a system in a foreign country, and the projects requirements are written in such a way that only US companies can answer.
Yes, and in the process of that discovery it turns out the "process" is 100 different processes for 100 different people. One person performs data entry by faxing a handwritten list of excel data. One person just tells the current DBA what to put into the DB. One person uses a homegrown webapp that some intern built to automate some of their process.

"This is asinine!" you say. "Just make sure you dont break our existing workflow" they reply.
Yes. Exactly.

There are a bunch of reputational benefits to certain types of book writing which (probably) lead to significant career/comp benefits. But the direct money can be less than what companies will pay for a ghostwritten content marketing-type blog. Or even whatever a lot of salaried people earn for doing that sort of work on company time. There's a reason a lot of "creatives" end up working for corporate product companies as their day job.
I disagree - passion can emerge after you’re much deeper into something. I liked building things but wasn’t passionate about engineering until my last year in undergrad. It took 3-4 years of grinding away uncertainly until I had enough skill to make it really fun and interesting. That knowledge snowballs.

Plenty of people are passionate about work which appears arcane. Few of them started with that.
I think what he is suggesting is that historically buying after a 20% or more sell-off leads to outsized gains in the US market.

That does not preculde already being invested as sitting on the sidelines waiting for such a move can be self defeating (the market rises 50% then drops 30% dramatically you would still be better off to have bought day one).

If you sell puts and are assigned, it may or may not happen at the optimal post crash price, but you will still be adding to your long at a much lower level. For instance, you sell a 30 put when the market is at 45. There is a great sell off, you are assigned when the underlying is trading at 25. You own at 30 less whatever premium you received, likely above 25. Certainly not the end of the world, but investor psychology is such that some people will be upset after the fact if they are paying more than current market price.

However, if you are not assigned you'll be pocketing those premiums as added income. But that is also another risk with naked puts - the market sells off but well before expiration and then rises again. You would miss the chance to buy unless you make the decision to take back the short puts at a loss and buy the cash at the now lower price. Again, you'll likely be paying net more than just having parked the cash and waited.

So naked puts may not be the best strategy if you know you absolutely positively will want to buy at a certain price, no matter what.
You must be the only person who ever runs that on your own code because you skipped the pyenv step
I'm suspicious of a plan to help the poor that depends on rich people making a bubble pop. Somehow the rich always manage to put their losses onto the poor.
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>Wow - you spent 6 months building and it’s time to deploy? The security team really hates CYZ tech and we’ll have to escalate this to the director

This right here! The "cyber" folks always throw a wrench in the works at the last moment. They rule by FUD and also have literally ZERO idea how stuff works. There's an old saying about teaching, but these days, and especially in government contracting, it applies to "cybersecurity."

"Those who can, do. Those who can't go into security."
> Being passionate about something for a long time ... seems to be a requirement for success in everything.

There’s a book that attempts to debunk this myth by making the case that generalists are typically more successful: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Range
That seems to be fairly common. School curriculum tends to have a brainwashing element to it. Also, each generation thinks it has all the answers. I remember discussions with older relatives, trying to convince them of something. They turned out to be right more often than not.
(Jan. 25, 2021 10:55 AM)

GME was at 65 back then. It's at 325 now.
At least in San Francisco, over 80% of residents in new buildings lived in the city before moving in. I haven’t heard a single induced demand argument which is actually borne out by reality.

For the one in this article: the cities with housing crises have extremely low vacancy rates. And the drop in rents during the pandemic has been most substantial in new buildings. If supply was totally inelastic due to money laundering, that would not be the case.
My two cases were indeed moving violations, but the cameras are there at all times if you choose to leave them on. Well until your battery drops too low, in which case the car prioritizes saving energy for driving. Some people turn them off at home if they feel the power usage is not a good tradeoff. For example if they have a secure garage with cameras already.
We won't if enough people vow to never buy anything ever again that was advertised on them.

I'd sign that.
When would shadow binding help create more readable code? (I agree with everything else in your post)
It's not friendly to mobile and too grey for my taste. Reading on this site is really hard task
Stop the white adjacent bullshit. There is a substantial Asian underclass. Your opportunities if you looked Asian would only be very similar to whites if you were upper middle class Asian.

The difference is that some of those lower and lower middle class Asians who make it go up through the educational system (work hard and study culture).

That is why so many Asians defend magnet schools. How do you think many of them rose up from poverty?

The lower and lower middle class Asians don’t initially have the same networking opportunities or social access that whites do.

Also whites from disadvantaged backgrounds often face different difficulties.
No the plan to help the poor is to build enough supply that there is housing for all who desire to live in a place. That aim is eminently possible, and to the extent some of those people need subsidies no matter what, becomes easier when you have a larger tax base.

The only realistic plan to help poor people afford healthcare in the United States will necessarily tackle the enormously high costs. The opposition isn’t narrowly “rich people” though but instead a wide range of above median income white collar industries.
They started Signal "to support, accelerate, and broaden Signal's mission of making private communication accessible and ubiquitous". Yes, Marlinspike is highly talented and worked on the security at Twitter. I don't see anything bad about that.

Signal started of with not ONLY privacy in mind. In the beginning the app required even Google Play Services, which was dropped because of pushback from the community. It seems that his experience in sillicion valley startups, also reflects on how Signal manages growth and thinks about user adoption of their product. On top of that, they try to apply as much privacy as possible. If they would have started the other way around, they wouldn't have gotten so far. A certain spirit seems to be necessary to give privacy to the masses.

Next to that, they are paving the way to no longer require phone numbers: https://signal.org/blog/signal-pins/
Sound engineer here.

RNNoise is an amazing feat, but please, don't overdo it. Most of the time, you don't really want complete ambient noise elimination, as human speech appearing from dead silence sounds unnatural. Moreover, most noise reduction software is considerably less effective in reducing noise during a person speaking, either removing too much, producing degraded speech sound (worst case) or too little. If it's possible, always start adding your noise reduction gradually, stop when it sounds good to your ear and then back up a bit.

If you're doing voice recording/streaming, please, get to know Expanding and Compression first, and only after configuring your sound processing chain add noise reduction in.

On of the serious offenders is OBS studio, which recently added RNNoise filter, but provides no means of mixing processed sound with the dry one (in other words, filter is always 100% on). Wet/Dry mix knob is heavily needed for most filters there.

I'm very saddened by the state of sound quality in lots of amazing videos people have been producing lately and now I'm considering writing a guide for voice processing for streams/conferences/etc for the techy people, if anyone's interested.
Pipx is pretty much that - installs a package into its own venv and links script entry points to .local/bin
I was not trying be to snarky. I was genuinely curious to know how it is priced after the oracle acquisition. As a language that I am most used to, I wanted to evaluate how much it'd cost (a rough estimate based on cores/users) if I were to launch a web service based on Java.
> Journaling is the act of frequently recording personal thoughts and life events

perhaps. but jrnl is a tool that goes beyond journaling.

one of the ways I use jrnl is to record meeting minutes. the @ annotation allows quick search based on keywords, and jrnl works from any folder (in other words, it is better than just editing a text file using your favorite editor).
Surprised nobody mentioned IKEAHacks, there's a community dedicated to specifically modifying IKEA products into other things: https://www.ikeahackers.net/
The problem is Youtube almost certainly will not filter on "lies and hate."

Youtube will filter on some blackbox intersection of heightened speech that has the potential to rile people up on the one hand, and a balance of cases such that Republicans cannot grandstand in Congressional testimony that Google is targeting the right.

So Jimmy Dore-- who generally yells, is unpleasant, and calls people names as he spews truths (mixed with the occasional naive opinion)-- might hit the filter. Or some boring socialist collective that nobody's heard of, like that case that Dorsey clearly used just so he'd have the name of a left-leaning organization that Twitter had banned.

Another way to say this: I do believe in "more speech" as a way to fight "bad speech," but if "more speech" does not include the freedom to read, understand, modify, and publish modifications of the recommendation algos that prime over a hundred million people then it's a dangerously constrained and misleading debate.

Furthermore-- if we depend on the "temporary" solution of trusting the companies to do cherry-picked bans to appease hundreds of millions of users, the companies will use all their data, money, and connections to paint that as a long term solution and leverage it to their bigger fight against monopoly regulation.
That's great! Are you making the argument that I won't be able to find an example where doing some transform in a type-safe way is awkward in TypeScript, or just that this one example can be done in TypeScript?

By the way, my example was meant to be more like User -> User where there are some string values and some other types of value. You want to do the transformation in a generic way, but still have the type-safe object come out the other end with all the expected keys.
You might like git-crypt then, to add actual version control for your secrets
Nothing against your company, but when smaller companies get good long term contracts, they get bought up by larger companies and the good people leave and start new smaller companies.
It it both an awesome company and a company whose stock price has outstripped any normal method of valuation. There’s no law that says those two conditions can’t coexist.
I thought it was pretty good, actually.

> The GameStop saga is a ludicrous stock mania born of pandemic boredom and FOMO, piggybacking off of a clever Reddit revenge plot, which targeted hedge funds, who made a reckless bet on a struggling retailer—and it’s going to end with lots of people losing incredible amounts of money.
To see the big picture as life in this universe rather than earthly problems. This helps me to get into solutions quickly.
This is not atypical for US government projects. In 2012 I was brought in to “rescue” the UI for a huge multi-contractor system that was supposed to replace an aging legacy system written 40+ years ago.

I worked with the architect tirelessly for almost 3 years, trying to implement various changes but at its core the new system was highly flawed and suffered from various team changes and reboots. The UI/UX “expert” was not a developer and had very little technical background, and was therefore unfamiliar with basic HTML and CSS concepts. For some reason they let end-users dictate style and behavior aspects of the application. For example, the legacy system consisted of green-screen terminals and all the associated keystrokes (think ancient POS systems you still see in some retail stores). The vocal minority of these end-users demanded that we replicate this interface exactly instead of building it from the ground up as a modern best-practices UI using the latest web idioms and paradigms.

It gets worse. At some point someone important said Javascript is evil, and we were to avoid using it as much as possible, despite the application using several embedded and third-party Javascript libraries.

I ended up leaving that project for a slightly less insane one, but the pay was good. Anyway, I heard about a year later that the entire project (a 10-year effort that cost tens of millions of dollars) was abandoned. They continued using their greenscreens but I heard they hired a company to build an interface that reads these screens and presents a modern HTML facade over there screens that operates them kinda like a proxy.

You can’t make this stuff up.
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Weird of you to assume that I don't work in Python. Do you just not interact with the scientific Python community? Your anecdata that is blind to large swathes of the community is no more valid than my firsthand experiences. This comes off as defensive, not informed.

It's an objective fact that Python 3 was not adopted quickly (given various EOL deadline extensions) and that plenty of libraries are stuck on 2, so your point that types have been around for 10 years is not really an argument that I can actually expect to be able to use types when working within the ecosystem.
Having been involved in one such affair (see my other comments on this story), I'd put that in the "true but not useful" category. It still allows a form of blackmail. Why should the target of defamation have to pay to do this? What happens when most people's online reputation is mostly a matter of how much they were willing to pay to a reputation-washing company, and people in the lower economic echelons can't afford to play? These kinds of companies already exist, and make as much money burying genuine misdeeds or making up accomplishments as anything else. How is increasing the size and importance of that industry a good thing?
Biden spent months talking about how much work he was going to do to fix everything on day one. Literally nothing that matters has even been done yet. No excuses
I wrote something similar many years ago. Strtod has to check for null on every byte, and doesn't get inlined
...unless they do. That's the thing about BitCoin. It never leaves the internet. You want to exchange them - do it.

Indian currency exists outside India. Exchanging it for bitcoin is a digital transaction. On the internet.

So I still don't see the ban as even meaningful words.
In our dorm all CS student closets rather resembled server racks. A friend overdid it though as he additionally used 4 workstations as bedposts. In summer he regularly slept in the shared kitchen because in addition to noise the temperature would also be of concern. I don't think the WAF would have been measurable.
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Oh jeez! I'm admittedly an SFI super-fan, but had never heard of CoA! They seem like a neat little feeder institution. I used to camp there as a kid, so the area is very familiar to me.

Thanks so so much! I feel like some kid in my "future sphere of influence" -- whatever that might be -- could very well end up there, so your comment feels impactful.
Those who do not understand Thomas Sowell[1] are doomed to wonder why reality never quite conforms to their conceits.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...
There are ide plugins to use the jupyter kernels thought. Atoms hydrogen[1] or vscodes Python Support [2] comes to mind. Jetbrain IDEs have similar plugins.

They enable pretty much both package managers and scm without any overhead to speak of.

> 1: https://blog.nteract.io/hydrogen-interactive-computing-in-at...

> 2: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/data-science-with-pyth...
Crime, corruption and decaying buildings were much more prominent in NYC of the 1970s than NYC of today. Or Chicago in the 1960s than Chicago of today. Or Boston in the 1920s vs. Boston today.

The problem with this explanation - even though it sounds reasonable - is that it lacks predictive power. There's always crime, corruption, and decay, because whenever large groups of people come together there's crime, corruption, and decay, and cities are defined by large groups of people coming together. But for this to be the cause of collapse, you need to explain how cities can have high levels of crime, corruption, and decaying buildings and then recover back to lower levels of crime, corrupion, and decaying buildings.

I'll posit a simpler explanation that sounds a lot less sexy. Cities rise when the industry they specialize in becomes a regional or global powerhouse. (Here, I use "industry" broadly - it can also refer to power & governance, like with Rome or Washington DC, or to culture, like LA.) They fall when that industry becomes relatively less important.

So Detroit fell because the American auto industry is no longer competitive vs. the Japanese & Koreans. New Orleans fell because the Mississippi river trade lost its importance when steamships & containerization happened.
Boston fell when the textile industry moved south, and then renewed when it was replaced by the education, minicomputer, and biotech industries. There is very little cities can do about this other than refocus on another industry, like Boston did.
It's not that simple to create an effective professional union you need to hire specific skills there is a limit to what lay officers/activists can do in there free time.

Just remaining within the absolute letter of the law is complex and panties for failure can be heavy - I know I have dealt with this aspect in the UK.
If you go to conventions to network, the smoking section is the best place to meet people.
Belissimo! I went to Rome a couple years ago and this adds a lot to understand what I saw.

But there's one thing I'd love to see: the filth and life. I want to see horse manure and mud on the streets, urine and faeces pouring from houses, the immense slums that would surround the city but left so few archaeological remains, graffiti on the walls, wear and tear on the streets (like what you can see in Pompei), the smoke from kitchens, pubs and bakeries, etc.
Apparently Leonardo Da Vinci Wasn't a Fan of the Mona Lisa
> India has taken in Rohingya refugees just like Tibetan …

Since we are talking about this government could you point me to stats on Rohingya's given asylum in India. How many has been given asylum ? I presume you were speaking from a position of knowledge. On lack of a response I will update my assumptions about your good faith.
I've met zoomer power users. You can find them on widgetsmith and Discord.
Apple seems to be undoing some of their stupidity on the iPhone lately with eg shortuts/widgets/iSH. The cynist in me says it's just to blunt the coming lawsuits though.
Spin up their own unaffiliated union?

A few googlers teaming up can presumably afford to pay some labor lawyers to draw up the paperwork and guide them through the process. It'd also leave googlers' more in control of their destiny than quickly becoming a franchise of a larger union.

With the hundreds of members they now have, they could cover a few staff and/or consultants. Maybe even with some sort of loan to the union for spin-up costs that could be repaid from future dues if successful?
I like this model because I think it really represents what people already do. Articles like this, and ones about privacy (there's some overlap), always focus on LGBT, activists, whistleblowers etc but people in more mainstream groups participate in identity compartmentalization as well. Sometimes they'll open an account for their pet, other times they'll just share less intimate details on more open platforms. I've long thought PGP and derivative keys are a good solution for this.
I'm surprised they are not identifying the service in the token. A lot of services are scanning GitHub for committed tokens, and being able to tell if that token is a fake/testing one or a real one for a specific company would make those scans more useful.

For example, SendGrid tokens start with "SG", Amazon tokens with "AKIA", etc. Why not build that into the URL scheme?

This scheme will have services stick to well-known unformatted prefixes in the token itself, and prevent small actors from being notified by GitHub and other security scanners.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25016838
India does not have free market in Agriculture. The sector itself is extremely subsidised. No political party has the capability nor will to touch those provisions.

The current farm laws are teeny tiny step towards that. The current ruling party would oppose them had they been introduced by previous Government.

As with every thread on India here, There are a ton of people who feel strongly about things, Including some Canadian citizens :)
Oh just in this case I was working at a security company and everybody we imported were from Israel. I’ve worked st 3 security companies and they all either had Israeli offices or had acquired Israeli security startups. It just seems to be a thing there.
maybe https://www.kickscondor.com ?
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I think they mean like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/7h077...

At 70k, the median house price is still very cheap. https://www.redfin.com/city/5665/MI/Detroit/housing-market
I've installed portacle, and ended up in a nest of errors I didn't understand.

Can anyone here recommend a non-editor based version of lisp?
It may sound similar to how china or russia control media, or how trump supporters think the liberal media is controlled.
Holy... that's hilarious. I turned my G5 into a Hackintosh before, but now it just sits in the basement. Still ove how it looks.
Eliminating memory safety bugs won't prevent other kinds of bugs (of course), but it would still be a net win for security and reliability.