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I know Brian Prestidge has been there a while and obviously has stats pedigree going back before even most of the data providers. But I don’t believe he’s been doing most of what Deepmind are talking about here (or which Will Spearman has been working on at Liverpool), which (as I understood it) is why they’re hired people like Laurie Shaw etc over the last year. Happy to be corrected, they all seem like great guys.
I think compiling usually comes in when it's not in the repo or proprietary.
Cheeky-and-also-serious response:

Soil, for the food you grow to eat, share, or sell. Much about a green, growing area is passive income for is.

Another option is lobbying your elected officials to regulate in the interest of healthier land, water, and air, which will help you and many others.

Making something useful and giving it away (or charging a nominal amount for hosting costs, or asking others to help with that to keep the use-barriers low) is an investment in other people that may continue paying dividends long after you’re dead.
> First up, there is no worldwide currency. It would be nice in an internet world, to have a worldwide currency.

Crypto is not a currency, especially if it's deflationary. It's an asset.

Crypto is also not even close to useful worldwide, and it's hard to imagine why it would be come useful worldwide. USD works pretty well as a global currency at the moment. It has cheaper exchange fees than crypto.

> Next, decentralization is awesome.

Until a 51% attack takes all your money away, or your wallet gets hacked...
My advice is this: Think about your unique domain knowledge.

Ask yourself:

* What do I know that gives me an advantage over the average joe?

* What other resources do I have that give me an advantage over the average joe?

Generally speaking, if your idea to make money sounds really lame, boring, risky, complicated and/or esoteric to an uneducated layperson - but due to your domain knowledge you know that it's not - you're on the right track. Bonus points if it benefits from obscure, difficult-to-get resources that you already have (for instance, a best friend who owns a niche website you can advertise on, or family connections in the X industry, or you live in a town that has a huge Y industry.)
> ... it is the only animal I have ever treated this way.

I wonder if that is actually true. I am thinking about this video and how we humans are treating all the other animals on this planet:

https://youtu.be/NxvQPzrg2Wg?t=165

Sure the text is about something different, but at times I do wonder how cruel we are and how little we think about it. I like to imagine seeing some aliens doing to us what we are doing to all the animals.
Wrong in what? In cypto being a fad? Is DogeCoin used as cash in everyday life?!
As someone who reads novels continuously, I find it really depressing that there might not be new novels to read much longer.
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I've seen this type of analysis show up in a couple places, and I think it usually misses one critical factor:

The vast majority of books frankly suck.

I say this as an aspiring writer and as someone who (as part of that) has critiqued a bunch of books and parts of books. Even published books can be mediocre or bad. And this is even more true now in the days of self-publishing, where there's basically no barrier to pressing "go" before you're ready.

What I see in the central table in the post (a couple paragraphs down from the top) is a power law distribution: at each successive level, roughly 10-30x more titles are able to get there. Sure, some percentage of those successes are due to a pre-existing platform. But how many writers are truly writing at the level of quality of the best-selling authors? I know, for my part, that after doing half a dozen or so major passes on my book, I still get critiqued for a variety of issues, some of which are embarrassingly basic.

Look, I'm not saying writing is a great way to make money if that's your primary goal. But I do think there's more correlation here between quality of writing and sales than most people give credit for. It takes a lot of work to get there, so most people just don't. But that's not to say that the opportunity doesn't exist.

I do appreciate the thoughts on alternative platforms though. Just because the journey is hard doesn't mean I shouldn't be trying to maximize the money I can make along the way. :-)
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Ah sorry, my bad.
If a non-trainer soldier wants to read it, they are welcome to do so and the manuals will never turn away willing students (unless it is classified material of course). But regular soldiers are not the primary audience of this document.
Well I don't know what else to tell you - common sense tells you this definitely isn't what they mean. Junior soldiers are not expected to read documents like this.
How is comment not whataboutism?
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The real question is, when did "don't use proprietary software" become an acceptable thing to say to people?
That's Frank Drake's answer to the Fermi Paradox. He doesn't think it is a paradox, because he thinks it's just a matter of time before SETI makes a detection. It's just that the search needs to be thorough enough since the aliens stick to their solar systems.

Jill Tartar has talked about how we would need to think about investing in a powerful radio beacon for 60,000 years if we wanted other aliens to know about us. That gives one an ideal of the scale of time and distance SETI is dealing with, assuming their assumptions are more realistic than Fermi's was.
Around $1000 - $1500. The $3k varies by month too. April and May have been slow, while Jan/Feb were really good.
Specifically for technical books, reaching a niche audience is perfectly fine and these things tend to grow an audience over time as they become reference material.

Perhaps more importantly, writing a technical book is professionally akin to doing a PhD: you show a depth of subject matter knowledge and ability to sustain a long form project.
I'd venture it is a fellow former philosophy major having fun with it, so some of both.

Steve Martin followed a similar path, philosophy major to comedy with a flair for the absurdity of life -- followed to the (il-)logical conclusion...
Ok. Leaving aside quarantine, do kids really need to talk to other kids through a personal computing device that they carry around as a constant companion? Does that foster something developmentally that could not happen without it? What do kids lose if they use such devices as their primary means of communication?

And let’s say, we think the “constant companion” is the problem, and we restrict the kid’s interaction through an old school, family computer. Is that necessarily any better?

I have already seen first hand how social media interaction at the middle school (when kids are starting to form social identities independent of their parents) gets toxic.

And looking at the social-media-fueled culture wars since 2014, it does not get any better for adults. (https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/06/a-quick-battle-field-g...).
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I have a trick that helps me. I say out loud, "I'm looking for ____ " or "Where is ____". The vocalization focuses me, and hearing the word makes my eyes jump to the item if it's in field of view. Sometimes, I find myself stopped, staring at a part of the wall, not sure what's going on, but there is the item at the base of the wall in the corner. Just had to move my eyes more but my whole body was answering the question for me.

I really do feel like I'm holding the reins of a big dumb animal sometimes.
What I feel is that digital medium is too pristine, I dearly miss analog limits that gave glare and blurry trails on spotlights. Even tone often added to the pictures (another instance is Kodachrome). It wasn't a defect imo
So let's say the number is 50% lower. That makes it okay? Or 90% lower. Just to be nice.

Bernie Madoff turned himself in and was convicted. Sounds like they could have seized the money some other way.
"Any time a brand’s logo appears in a film — even if it’s just in the background somewhere — producers have to get clearance from the company to include it."

Why?
'target the EU market' is vague.

These are independent operators, NGOs etc, services being 'used by EU citizens' not really 'targeting Europeans'.

From a liability perspective, to the author's point these services I suppose would have to just filter out European sources?

Why would they publish a regulation so obviously vague, full well knowing the reality on the ground?

Why wouldn't they use language that unambiguously places NASA etc. firmly 'in our out' of the regulations or, some criteria which they would be one way or another?

Seems odd.
I also use Alpine Linux as my main Linux distro. It's very good to be focused - with Alpine, I'm not tempted to try to install WINE and play games, etc.
I do get why you were downvoted; because it's easy for readers to assume that open source logically HAS to mean open to every dictator, too. But it doesn't. You're right about that.

We could have "friendly nation" or "no pirate nation" open source licenses that do not give North Korea, Iran, Russia, etc massive free software gifts to help them oppress their citizenry. Logically, there didn't have to be a North Korean Linux (which there is.)

Such licenses wouldn't extend any rights to citizens of rogue countries, or to non-citizens while in such countries, nor entities (including companies) with control or ownership ties to rogue countries, or, say, countries which jail or execute LGBTQ. (At the very least, we don't have to extend a license without payment and contracts.) There are risks to friendly-nation or no-rogue-nation licenses, granted; but there are nasty consequences to handing more and sharper knives every year to rogue countries, too.

Whether one likes it or not, an executive order from Biden could perhaps make that happen tomorrow.
Wait, you got a car for $2,000?
Would you say the same thing about someone who rented a house in a meth town?
I would anecdotally counter argue that brand/audience/community building drives far more sales than the book quality
Getting up and going outside is a huge one for me. I could sit here at my desk all day working and be miserable... and suddenly I am excited at the prospect of mowing my lawn.

I mean at the end of the work day, I shut my computer... and that's it. After my lawn is mowed, I can look out and enjoy how it looks. Hell, I can work 10+ hours outside doing boring terrible tasks, shovel ditches, spread bark, weedwhacking the blackberries... but man does it feel great. I used to hate this stuff so much. Give me a paintbrush and let me go paint the shed, or build some crappy shelf to organize things.
Over the years, I got cold feet and paid off somenof the principal. Thats why I said overall I spent $350k so far
The last few chapters are all about training.
Naive question from someone with a superficial understanding of Django- I thought the advantage of Django was to abstract away from SQL through Class/Model so you don't need to write these queries? I can't quite tell what the use case would be here
Again, the document clearly states that Soldiers are the intended audience. In plain English. In the second sentence.

Your interpretation, irrespective of accuracy, is at odds with what is written in the actual document.
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>>> And org charts frequently show up. Many of them go up to the President. Who wouldn’t put the President in their org chart if they could?

I am now trying to work out how to fit the UK COBRA response unit into any of my Disaster Recovery Planning templates. They really do need spicing up.

Maybe go with a sentence like "It is considered unlikely that we shall need to notify MI6 of any interruption to our service. The number just in case is 555-12345"

See who actually reads these darn things.
Once you go down that path, it starts getting kind of dystopian. Should it be illegal for me to lend or give a book to a friend without paying a fee, because then they are "getting the experience without paying the price of admission"? I'm reading a book to three kids, should I have to pay more than reading the book to one kid? That's three times as many kids "getting the experience", same "price of admission"! Taking the book to my brothers house to read to his kids -- nope, that's illegal unless you buy another copy?
Nice. I am a big fan of your swag repo for LetsEncrypt certs and have been exploring browser-based Linux desktops for several years and will give this a go.
They shouldn't be above the laws they enforce, yet they typically are (e.g. qualified immunity). I agree with one thing though, the solution is not to abolish LE, but just as with asset seizure which is what TFA was about, checks and balances should be in place and should work properly.
Or the bike was a rare or otherwise irreplaceable item.
As someone who hasn't started using types in Python seriously yet, it's a bit discouraging to see that there are already so many competing type checkers with different approaches and no clear winner. I understand that the problem is a bit harder than `{go, cargo} fmt`, but I feel we'd be better off with one type checker to rule them all.

Or does it mean that we should check types using all type-checkers available to have the most compliant code possible?
I personally use neovim with coc-pyright plugin. It integrates remarkably well mypy. It has saved me so many hours of development, I just can't dev without it nowadays.
It's a life-saving grenade that produces a 180-190dB shockwave and flash, incapacitating bad guys for a few moments. It's misclassified as a 'high-explosive ordnance', even though it produces no shrapnel and can safely go off at your feet.

If there's anyone that's time-proven competent at tactical equipment handling, it's law enforcement. It's sad to see the guys on the frontlines denied equipment when soldiers can fire $50k missiles at mud huts and request air support. This is coming from a 2A supporter.
I don't really know how I'm going to approach this once my child is old enough to use devices but I think one might be able to argue that it makes sense for them to learn how to interact with the world as it exists, rather than a fantasy world where devices and the internet doesn't exist.
Using debt to buy future cash flow is like one step away from a ponzi scheme. Oh I guess thats why they say the economy is a ponzi scheme.
Camera phones have significantly better processing than newer full frame cameras at this point; obviously they can't take the same pictures, but full frame cameras can't do HDR, noise stacking, night mode etc very well. You can do it by hand by shooting raws and editing them together but it's inconvenient. The autofocus is also more advanced in iPhones with lidar.

I assume part of this is that the camera companies are Japanese and refuse to pay any engineers more than $20k a year.
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Your interpretation, irrespective of accuracy, is at odds with what is written in the actual document.

If it is true that junior soldiers are not expected to read a document such as this, then the document should not state that the intended audience is soldiers.

A military manual is not a James Joyce novel. If the manual says the intended audience is soldiers, then you should not be able to come in and say 'actually, regardless of what they wrote, that's not what they really meant'.
As a parent, those always present computing devices have been a problem. Instead of doing a variety of different things... many of which build life skills... my kids want to just stare at rectangle screens.

I now wonder what society will look like in 20-30 years.

By life skills I mean things like creativity, being able to work out things on their own, in person interpersonal skills, grit, etc.
Yes, Facebook doesn't create that out of mercy. But what is the alternative aside from becoming Amish?

You can't take away smartphones completely. And once there is the smartphone a communication app is the most useful thing they can get. Better than any game or whatever. But an open messaging app can quickly lead to issues.

Would be good if there were non-profit vendors of similar things, bit they don't exist, yet.
You must have hated when kids got cell phones.
Words I live by:

"Never Take Legal Advice from Opposing Council."

Terms-of-service and Facebook's employment agreement were generally drafted by experienced counsel. That means they do a good job of protecting the person on the opposite side of the table, not of protecting me.

And the term isn't "free software." It's "freemium software."

It's exactly this sort of comment which makes me distrust TimescaleDB.
>Part of what makes military diagrams so fascinating is that they look a lot like the images civilians use to do their regular workaday jobs. It’s just software and hardware, after all, and there are only so many ways to draw a network diagram. Yet the scale of these systems is immense; the lines being drawn are between jets and satellites, not between a couple of web servers...No matter how abstract they are, these pictures describe systems that the U.S. military uses to make optimal, efficient decisions about killing other humans.

Great article, despite the sardonic tone I found the graphics actually interesting, like something that would be read out loud and discussed on Jocko's podcast. That last line, however, reminded me of just how far we've taken it with systems that stalk targets from the sky for weeks to be used as evidence to authorize drone strikes.

https://www.wired.com/story/palantirs-gods-eye-view-of-afgha...
I'm sure you've experienced 300+ page textbooks in high school.
Constantly being on a kid's case for not behaving/thinking like you do isn't likely to work out well unless you actually know where the disconnect is.

Not everyone processes or thinks the same way.
I misplace my keys, often. Even after placing a small dish near my front door and trying to form a habit around using it. I opted into a Tile as soon as they came to market. It works great, not only can I find my keys if I have my phone, but also visa versa (tile has a button that causes your phone to chime as long as it's in range).

I have a little 'tile dot' (smaller form factor) attached to my wireless headphones charging case. It's black and hard to see via 'scanning'.. I see other headphones now have this tech integrated into the device, that seems awesome.

It's also a very cheap way to do gps type things, this is going to be especially effective with air tags I suspect. The tile trackers are essentially bluetooth beacons and all tiles can be detected by any phone that has the tile app on it (i assume, I'm only familiar with the apple side of this particular equation). I expect that number is growing but fairly low. However every moderish iphone will be detecting airtags, that's going to give you a ton of coverage.

This opens up some other things like 'find my car's airtag in this huge parking lot'
Thank you very much :)

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That same logic presumably applies to libraries. Books are physical objects at the end of the day just like a piece of pottery someone made. First sale doctrine explicitly allows the owner to lend or resell it to someone else.
> As you get older, you should read fewer new books,

What? Why? Who says?

I plan to read just as many if not more new books as I get older.

I do not understand your answer about "the leverage algorithms can provide".

I enjoy reading new fiction books. Why "should" I do it less as I get older? If I someday retire, I would plan to use some of my additional free time to read even more books.
That would almost certainly fall under the "bona fide occupational qualification"[1] exception.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualifi...
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I know for a painful fact that "here's our documentation, here's our bug backlog, have fun," is also realistic. For comparison, the productivity multiplier is something like 0.01x against the baseline...
I was watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. in HD and there is the occasional out-of-focus shot you would never have noticed at the intended resolution
Doesn't do much of any lens compensation. It compensates for the sensor quality, but not the lens. There is portrait mode of course.
What a hilarious bug-and-yet-a-useful-feature on the part of their TV
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My tax advisor said that for our income levels, it will not decrease or increase any tax brackets.
This seems to me because after connectivity (“solved” with service mesh) getting proper insights at scale on observability is quite hard. Security is and will always remain har as one mistake can have large consequences.
This tool is aimed at mainly administrative folks who want to understand what's going on in their app/company by looking directly at data. Those folks are usually sql oriented, and you can build any ad-hoc query to do pretty deep analysis in sql. That's why being able to visualize things is also key here. Usually you'd do this in an OLAP db but this is a nice "poor mans" way for at least checking out what's going on without switching too much context.
> until it happens to you.

I guess. In this case it's happening to a bunch of rich folks in Beverly Hills (literally) buying boxes from a seemingly-shady places called "US Private Vaults" (vs. say, the Wells Fargo down the street) that in fact appears to be under legitimate investigation.

My "cry me a river" reflex is twitching hard, sorry. Reason is silent for decades as cops everywhere snatch property from minorities, but they decide to take a stand for their rich donors[1]? Ugh.

[1] Per the article, the victim was a supporter. I'm not making this up. At least they disclosed it, I guess.
Isn't it a National Security issue if the document is public globally?
Firefox built-in Tracking Protection out of the box works well enough I can imagine a lot of other users feel their needs are met without additional add-ons.

I know I don't have any additional add-ons installed, but I'm already getting nagged so much by websites to "disable your adblocking", with many confused to thinking I have something like uBlock Origin installed and only a few so far realizing it is just Firefox. (Those that do sometimes requesting I reopen the page in Chrome seems to prove the point that Firefox is doing some things right and Chrome not at all.)
Staking cryptocurrency in a very conservative way has produced the following incomes:

$4600 - 2017

$23,000 - 2018

$3700 - 2019

$2500 - 2020

2021 is shaping up to look like 2018 again but I haven't run the numbers
> There are thousands of paid fiction authors on Patreon but only 25 earn more than $1,000/month, only six earn more than $2,000/month, and only one earns more than the $5,000/month (and she’s already a bestselling author).

This is just incredibly wrong? There are quite a few web serial authors making more than $5000/month on Patreon.
Star Wars is not a very good basis for a moral argument.