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Changed the trajectory of our lives.

My wife and I quit our jobs to travel Europe and work on farms (helpx.net). I set up a personal blog to write about our experience and realized that, given ample free time, my mind gravitated towards writing, coding, and photography for fun.

When we returned home, I eventually went back to work with my old employer, but with a new perspective. I had already quit, knew what the world looked like outside the office, and was no longer afraid to get fired. Paradoxically, this made me more valuable to the company -- I acted bolder and spoke more truth. I took on a new role, coding again after a hiatus, writing personally and professionally, and started speaking at tech conferences. This mix of activities led me to join Twilio as a developer evangelist in 2014.

When we quit our jobs to travel I was making ~$65k/year. When I joined Twilio a few years later, my starting salary was $120k/year.

I share the professional benefit first because the short-term professional/financial costs are the most concerning when considering extended travel. But, in a way that never would have made sense on paper, that trip catalyzed a trajectory shift that significantly increased my earning potential and professional satisfaction.

There were also a bunch personal benefits. We lived for two weeks with a family that had young kids and realized that we'd probably enjoy being parents. We now have two of our own, and we do. We saw how folks in Barcelona, Paris, and Stuttgart raised families in small apartments and rethought the necessity of the suburban homes we grew up in. We now live in Brooklyn. On a thirty-cow organic dairy farm in the mountains of northern Spain, we drank milk still warm from the udder for breakfast and cooked dinner with ingredients we harvested from the field. We eat differently now. During six weeks in Turkey, we accepted spontaneous invitations for tea in people's homes and offers for rides while walking dirt roads during rainstorms -- hospitality extended to us by Muslim strangers unlike anything we'd experienced before. My wife and I were raised in Evangelical churches.

We saw beautiful sights, experienced new cultures, challenged our perspectives, made lifelong friends, etc. All the cliches you think are going to happen when traveling the world. And we also saw tremendous professional growth, precisely because we took a break from our careers to gave our minds and hearts the space and time to explore.
Ha! Very interesting thanks.
without the language would be very difficult IMO, also having "gambling" money for your own projects can help. what worked for me was try to bring foreign investors to the economy, make deal with start-up incubators, accelerators, etc. Talk to people who already do business there (expat scene is usually small). Connect with professors at local university, start teaching niche subjects you're an expert in. Ultimate goal isn't to make a boatload of money but to learn, not get ripped off, and hope you can exit the situation/business undamaged.

my experience is that ultimately all opportunities will remain hidden until I actually go there.
Now do a Z80 on Micro Channel architecture.
You mean the time when slavery was common throughout the world, and that literally every spot on planet earth was fundamentally ethnocentric?

So yes, if we want to talk about racial issues during the foundation of America and world history, then sure, but it has not so much to do with America and also, it has little to with White Supremacy and more to do with Ethnocentrism.

Literally today in 2021, in almost every single nation outside the New World or the West, a White person would always be considered an outsider by virtue of their race.

That fact is completely ignored by the woke crowd who want to somehow decontextualise all of this to make it a 'white problem', when it's not. Frankly, I suggest there are a lot of racist impulses behind a lot of the woke smokescreen.
Only slightly related to your point, but I find almost the entire VC community not one that I would want to be working with very closely with. It’s just not the kind of people I find interesting. Not that they’re not skilled or provide value, but the whole fundraising dance seems to be tiring and honestly pointless. Harkens back to an equally pointless endeavor I’ve been through before: the struggle to get good grades in college. Artificial struggles created by humans for other humans. I guess some people like that but it has an element of “rat race” that I find deeply disturbing.

If I had a wish to materialize an ideal VC firm, it would be a place with both business types and highly skilled engineers who are on top of their skills and continue to build things.
Fridges need software because only then the manufacturer can drop the support after 5 to 8 years and you need to buy a new one.
Doesn't patreon also need to follow the US tax code? Just because they haven't it doesn't mean that they don't have to. Countries taxing content creators from other countries will get crazy.
Is that a typo? I only see OVH bare metal starting at >$50. How could a provider offer a bare metal server for $5?
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I've been looking forward to attending the Tokyo Olympics since they were selected years and years ago. This is very sad.
How is that screwed up? Unemployment income is still income. It works the same way in canada as well[1]. I get why it sounds stupid on the surface (ie. why is the government giving you money, then asking to give a portion back?), but it makes sense if you think about it. Otherwise unemployment disproportionately benefits high income earners because it's tax-free.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/news/2021/02/governm...
In no way does that indicate I’m anti-American or engaging in self-flagellation.

Having a minor criticism of one’s country is a healthy, normal thing.
So if the vast majority of people survive, we should just let it rip?

What would happen if we would let it rip:

- Without any counter measures such as masks or lockdowns the rate of infection would be significantly higher resulting
- Tens of millions more dead (https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/09/8724419...) The link shows projections done last year in May. Mutations that spread more such as B1.117 (British variant) are not even in this consideration

- More people with long term effects and need for rehabilitation, which will lead to a significant influx on the health care system in third world countries such as the USA were even now Kickstarter ist the most widely used insurance service....

Even if only 1.5% die across all age groups accross the world that would still be 117.000.000 million people.

Now the population of people above the age of 65 is 700.000.000 here the mortality rate is higher. Let's be conservative at say 20% ( since there is also an increase between ages 65 and 75+) that would be 140.000.000 Deaths
Now for the age group below age 65 and acording to stats from 2016 are 16% of the world population obese . Obese people just like older people have a higher risk of dying from covid than healthy people. 16% from 7. billion ( deducted the above 65% since they already have a higher chance) That would be 1.120.000.000 people that would have a conservative risk to die of covid of 20% = 224.000.000

total death toll = 140.000.000 + 224.000.000 + 88.500.000 (5.9bil healthy people with death chance of 1.5%) = 450.000.000

By no means are these number accurate but they show about what kind of dimension we talk about when we talk about letting it rip. Important to not is that the 5.9 billion people are not all healthy so in reality that number would be much higher.

The flu itself kill yearly 650.000 people globally ,.. so every one who says that covid19 is not dangerous is an idiot.
Got to deathbed (series of strokes) etc. Then had the poor grace to get better, sort of.

Made sure to say what I wanted to kids, (best I could). Reached out to ones that I wanted to.

The experience definitely changes perspective. Spending time with loved ones is far more important. Work is far less, except when I need a break from loved ones.

I really stopped giving any sort of sh*t what anyone thought. So I’m much less afraid to call it like I see it.
The war was such an embarrassment most Americans don't know much about it either. For a real laugh read about the Siege of Detroit.
Problem with NUCs is the thermal limitation.
A cd at music player speeds is somewhat forgiving.
In the same TOS change Google added a point where they say that they can show their own ads on demonetised videos https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10090902?hl=en
Why on earth do you need an app to watch a video in a web page? It doesn't even store anything locally, IIRC the iOS one just displays an astronaught cartoon and a fake apology when there's no connection.
I think this pretty well sums up the loophole. You have the right to repair... what? If I buy a macbook, do I get to replace the case? keyboard? These seem pretty reasonable. But what about the right to replace/repair the L1 cache? This is obviously a different story - it would be nice, but the part probably isn't manufactured by Apple (maybe it is on the new Silicon?). My point is that at some point, things start to get blurry, and it is in the manufacturers best interest to continue blurring these lines. I don't think we can reasonably expect the government to do a deep dive into every product category to work all of this out - what would this look like for cars, where safety is a concern?

I think having the law on the books is a move in the right direction, but I don't expect it to have teeth until te can figure out how to actually measure repairability. Maybe the EU could experiment with a supply chain approach like VAT, but for a repairability score? This also sounds fraught...
I use a NUC as an HTPC, and benefited a lot from tweaking the fan settings in the BIOS.

I got it to the point where it's silent when watching a movie or something, and only noisy when under real load.
Their is actually a programing language that has this feature.
It's called ABAP[1] and it has build in SQL Support with OpenSQL[2]. OpenSQL is just a SQL dialect which is translated to the equivalent SQL needed for the DB specific underlying DB.
Sadly ABAP is a proprietary programming language only available on the SAP Netweaver stack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP

[2] https://help.sap.com/viewer/fe24b0146c551014891ad42d6b2789e5...
Probably not. The US is one of few (two?) countries with tax policies that cross jurisdictions like these, and so far there doesn't seem to be much of a pushback from other nations. Might have something to do with who has more aircraft carriers.

But yeah, YouTubers are going to be confused. And it makes me wonder, what's next? What about ad revenue from Google / Facebook? Or is that handled through their offices in Ireland?
It also doesn't mean that most complaints about 2x taxation aren't from people seeking 0x taxation while complaining that they're still stuck with 1x taxation.
For what it's worth, I agree 100% with the premise of withoutboats' post, based on the experience of having worked a little on Zig's event loop.

My recommendation to people that don't see how ridiculous the original post was, is to write more code and look more into things.
This is exactly how I found myself building a homelab! I first upgraded the SSD in my MBP-2015 and that gave me a bit of relief, but I soon started running into RAM limits and swapping.

So I bought a beefier NUC (Ghost Canyon) and run ProxMox on it. I setup a NFS server in an LXC container, and then a typical VM for development[1]. In all it took me a couple of weekends to really get things dialed in nicely.

ProxMox is great, I really love that I can provision and throw away instances quickly! It makes for less variance in trying to establish what made thing X work suddenly.

[1]: I need kernel modules and the guest to have access to USB for my dev
I disagree. Disproving solipsism is the same task as proving that a Philosophical Zombie (a non-conscious human that behaves no different than a conscious version of itself) is a logical impossibility.

This proof only requires demonstrating a single scenario where it would be logically impossible for a p-zombie to behave in the same way as a non-p-zombie.

It comes down to data. A conscious entity has data about “what it is like to have consciousness.” A p-zombie doesn’t. A p-zombie’s mind lacks the data that enables it to comprehend the very idea of solipsism.

We can replicate this here.

Tell me, what is it like to have a yargabizad? Do you think you might be the only person on earth to have a yargabizad? What if they are just pretending to have a yargabizad, and are just going through the motions of having a yargabizad without really having the experience of a having a yargabizad?
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I suppose a non-citizen subject to this tax would have to appeal to their own government and raise the issue diplomatically. But I doubt most nations would be in a position to change the United State's behavior in this regard. Maybe the EU has enough clout to contest this in a court of international law. But that also depends on them wanting to raise the issue in the first place.
When you fill out the certification for unemployment, there is a question that states exactly that: would like us to hold the tax or will you pay it later?

I helped someone go through the process. It definitely does for California.
It's exactly the same? Activitypub just changes the way subscriptions work.
Nobody made any money from Spanish viewers... they made money from YouTube.
Well, not replacement fans, but a replacement case: I bought the Akasa Turing fanless case [0] for my NUC and couldn't be happier. I like the new looks, too.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16191/akasa-turing-fanless-ca...
My wife's car simply alerts her to nearby cars. That alone is enough to make her driving more dangerous. Every beep, every flashing light and she swerves (unnecessarily) to avoid imaginary conflict.

E.g. a car coming up in the next lane left will trigger an alert, resulting in an involuntary swerve to the right. This is not improving her safety at all.

You can say 'just learn to deal with it', but its been a year and no change.
It is a war that nobody except some Mid-Westerns wanted. Britain had already sent a group of diplomats to make offers to resolve the tension. The US declared the war before they got there.

The Brits fought the war with the units they didn't need for the much more important war with Napoleon.

That American don't remember their capital being taken and their most important government building burnt down by another nation is kind of funny however. And that's why nobody remember it, no movies about it.

Then the US spent the next 50 years fortifying their East coast to prevent it happening again those forts are where the Civil war eventually started.
OVH has new servers.

Their sub-brand soyoustart has older servers (that are still perfectly fine), roughly E3 Xeon/16-32GB/3x2TB to 4x2TB for $40/m ex vat.

Their other sub brand kimsufi for personal servers has Atom low-power bare metal with 2TB HDD (in reality it is advertised 500GB/1TB, but they don't really have any of those in stock left, if your drive fails they replace it with a 2T - so far this has been my exp) for $5.

All of this is powered by automation, you don't really get any support and you are expected to be competent. If your server is hacked you get PXE-rebooted into a rescue system and can scp/rsync off your contents before your server is reinstalled. OS installs, reboots, provisioning are all automated, there's essentially no human contact.

PS: Scaleway, in Paris, used to offer $2 bare metal (ultra low voltage, weaker than an Atom, 2GB ram), but pulled all their cheap machines, raised prices on existing users, and rebranded as enterprisey. The offer was called 'kidechire'

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It is kind of interesting that on the US side everyone is in disbelief, or like "why not use AWS" - while most of the European market knows of OVH, Hetzner, etc.

My own reason for using OVH? It's affordable and I would not have gotten many projects (and the gaming community I help out with) off the ground otherwise. I can rent bare metal with NVMe, and several terabytes of RAM for less than my daily wage for the whole month, and not worry about per-GB billing or attacks. In the gaming world you generally do not ever want to use usage based billing - made the mistake of using Cloudfront and S3 once and banned script kiddies would wget-loop the largest possible file from the most expensive region botnet repeatedly in a money-DoS.

I legitimately wouldn't have been able to do my "for-fun-and-learning" side projects (no funding, no accelerator credits, ...) without someone like them. The equivalent of a digitalocean $1000/m VM is about $100 on OVH.
What I said was true. Whether it was digital or not can be a subtle difference.

I never said that vinyl is only analog or that that is the reason for the difference in sound between vinyl and other formats, because it’s not.

The “warmth” is cassettes and more so with better balance in vinyl is known. Digital didn’t kill music quality; it did affect waveforms, but that’s not the reason for vinyl sounding better to most.

Of course, there are many more reasons that music sounds better or worse.
Standardization is nice in theory, but I'm not sure if it is practical - designers like to make silly little changes for branding reasons all the time. Which is why your 5 year old shelf is probably out of production anyway.

As for sturdier designs: that is a design feature you need to be willing to pay for. Make sure you check on that in the next fridge and tell others. (Price is not a guide to quality - often but not always cheaper fridges are bought by those who buy enough to care about value and quality is a part of value, while the more expensive ones are targeted at people who buy fancy features and don't know to think about quality - but this is a maybe not a guide)
Immutable is another common software domain word. An article posted to yCombinator's "Hacker News" titled "Immutable Architecture" could refer to edifaces that don't change (?) but I was not surprised to discover that it refers to software architecture.
There are families living on boats. Some of them blog and vlog. This family has a couple toddlers on a trawler.
https://www.bumfuzzle.com/trawler-vs-sail/
Budgeted £42k ended up costing £60k for us both. I know some people which did it for a lot less (like half) but we didn't want to miss out on various things as we went.

We stayed in a lot of hostels, along with some guest houses, Airbnbs, hotels but the majority of the time it was something in the cheaper end of the spectrum.

We initially budgeted £10 food, £5 drink and £5 activities per day, and kept quite a lot of records at time, but ultimately we just ended up feeling "it is what it is". We made the active decision to just make the most of the trip and overspend. For a reasonable number of days we could average out towards our budget but we found fairly regularly there were bigger expenses for activities which would blow the budget and we neither wanted to miss them or do nothing for the next fortnight! Once you have committed so much, it sort of feels like it is better to commit a bit more and make it awesome (£60k spent on awesome seemed better than £42k spent on okay).

Before leaving I ran a couple of companies, one which employed 12 people and another which was contractor based. I wasn't wealthy (at least not by the standards set in the UK if you speak to a financial advisor) and £60k was a large amount of money for me to spend (a very large amount). But all things going well with life, you earn it, you spend it, we decided we wanted to do some of that spending earlier in life whilst we could enjoy it.

Since then... I have had heart ops, a blood clot on the lung, my partner has developed ME/chronic fatigue syndrome... COVID19 has engulfed the world. Needless to say we are glad, thankful and lucky we did what we did when we did!
I interacted with foreigners in a daily basis for the first time and got to learn how to speak english. Next, I found a remote job as a software engineer for an american company and have been travelling the world since then, for 5 years. I multiplied my earnings by 5x while having 10x more fun in life in a common day. That's a lot of personal gains.
> Nothing like getting a stimulus check and then giving it all to the IRS plus some.

In what situation is the income tax over 100%
> The abstraction that is an ORM is leaky AF

Add to that, as someone mentioned above ORMs tend to be "common least set of features". And if you for some reason want to use a specific feature of your RDBMS you have to jump through hoops and the ORM "illusion" ends.
That is probably a strong term. What term best applies to money that has been taxed multiple times?
Unemployment income is taxed as regular income in every jurisdiction I am aware of. Not sure where this outrage is coming from. And as the previous reply explains, it makes sense as to why that happens.
Some people lie like they breathe, it’s automatic, and doesn’t have any meaning. It’s not meant to be malicious.
Exactly. Numbers like these are actually quite pathetic when we look back 10 and even 20 years to IRC.
The world’s largest democracy, India, turned into an electoral autocracy [pdf]
How so? A process which is capable of reproduction.

Single cells and above quality, viruses and other molecular patterns don't.

Life is a process. This is definition.
> the government creates infrastructure to enable it.

Hearty laugh.

Yes, to a degree, but at the current time (and for a good long time) the US government does not even pretend to try. Tell me a significant infrastructure package since the interstates.

Many relevant infrastructure are created by telecom companies, should we owe taxes to those too?
Yes.. and how does that make anything I said incorrect?
Yes, that is exactly why I wouldn't like to work during travel, it's hard to do both effectively.
Frost1X has seven years' experience reading that comment.
This is an essay version of xkcd 'standards'. It's not wrong, but it's not the entire picture.

The author is correct, sql does everything they need, cause it's so expressive. (Mysql8 is turing complete with it's domain specific syntax duh-duh-daah...) But that power comes at the cost of scrutiny and composition.

ORMS are fish in a barrel--they fail because they are the wrong abstraction. Queries shouldn't be the language, they should be the verbs in the language.

With a very restricted query AST, introspection and composition are possible. If queries point to the same table, you can combine them into a new query whose result cells are union or intersection of the input result cells. You can automate joins and subquery indexing. You can recover from a dropped column by replacing references to it with null, and limp by with partial results instead of no results.

I agree with the author's hate on DSLs as a substitute for sql... when they have the same level of abstraction. But if you want queries to be lego bricks that snap together, the bricks can't have NP hard surface area. DSLs fill that need.
There's probably a strong interaction effect with charisma. People who have an easy time making friends tend to see extended travel periods as a non-stop adventure of fresh experiences. Whereas if you're more of an introvert who takes a long time to warm to people, it can be a protracted period of crushing isolation.
> The problem is you need to be highly skilled to do that repair.

You also need to be highly skilled to do a lot of automotive repairs, which is why there is a thriving market of third-party mechanics who will perform those repairs for a fraction of the cost of buying a new vehicle. The same can (and should, IMO) be true for electronics.