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I still believe it's relatively easy to find high quality material, even for amateurs. For example, I can watch live train yard cams nowadays on Youtube (Virtual Railfan on Youtube), and watch people who know what they are doing do live coding. I'm definitely losing myself in a multitude of options but I won't balme it on the accessibility of modern Internet.

20 years ago there were definitely less garbage on the Internet, and less gems as well.

But I definitely agree with the movie part. We still get a few good ones here and there but it's kind of rare nowadays :(
It probably depends where you are on your career path. For me, those silicon valley startups were offering less than my target salary and I was going to try to negotiate up. For the small company I ended up at, I gave my target salary range and they exceeded it by 10k. I wasn't shooting for big publicly traded companies, and I don't know how they're acting currently. From friends I do know that some are seriously considering changing their remote work policy obviously.
I find the FIRE movement fascinating but also slightly depressing.

Among the actually old (my parents' generation - in their 60s and 70s) retirees I know, around half of those retiring from decent 'knowledge worker' jobs have kept on working part-time to some extent. They are consultants, advisers, board members, independent researchers, and so on. They seem to be very happy - they are working at something they are good and believe in, while not having any economic constraint forcing them to work more than they want to, or for anyone they don't get along with.

I can't imagine having 'Financial Independence', but not wanting to do something like this. I enjoy my work in general, and I would enjoy it much more if I had almost complete freedom to plan my day and to walk away from toxic situations. But all the FIRE people that I see online seem to be basing their lives on the other type of retiree - the ones who take leisure activities and sports such as bowling and tennis far too seriously, read and watch constantly but quite aimlessly, and go on endless trips to 'tick off' different world destinations.
All of this is indeed true.

However, he didn't win elections because of them. His win in 2014 was a reaction to a government lead by the Congress, where the Congress party leaders were intent on defaming and destroying their own Prime Minister.

And the 2019 success was a result of the focus on base infrastructure, economic, diplomatic and defense policy in the first term (the government made genuine and very noticeable improvements in terms of sanitation, electrification and water access across the country).

They also made some epic economic blunders, however, that pain is truly being felt several years later (besides the immediate pain which they were able to explain away by promising long term benefits, but as those benefits don't materialize, they are losing trust), and appear to have given up on economic and social development, and appear to be focused on purely extending their rule through policies of hatred.

It remains to be seen how successful their strategy will be, but the initial results seem to indicate that they are greatly underperforming local elections. And most of these were conducted before the impact of teh devastating 2nd COVID wave, which the government didn't just mishandle, but were probably responsible for, became apparent.
As someone who started a job remotely during the pandemic (and I'm not even entry-level), I can unequivocally disagree. It's much harder to get your technical bearings, not to mention your social bearings, over Slack and Zoom.
The record 9.3 million job openings may be evidence that commonly used hiring practices have broken down and are not serving labor markets efficiently.
One thing a lot of people miss is that there is a profit motive here. You can make money, sometimes a lot of money, by building a huge social media following being a political outrage merchant. You can find examples of people doing this on all sides, especially at the extremes where outrage and other powerful negative emotions can most easily be stirred up.

All the outrage over "cancel culture" is not about censorship. Censorship means state power is deployed to silence speech, and that is not (at least in the USA) happening much. What the outrage is about is money. While you can still speak elsewhere or on your own web site, being kicked off the majors makes it hard to monetize that speech.

Deplatforming really knocked the wind out of a burgeoning outrage-for-profit industry that had some influencers making millions by being controversy and outrage trolls on social media.
How does this compare to Onfido?
Hmm, I'm not militarily experienced obviously, so I'm not going to push this any more. I guess my last statement is that I believe you're correct, but it still seems like the creation of an additional system to safely designate a calibration target would be beneficial, especially to the side. Giving away your position sounds more error prone.

Other comments about what calibrating actually means seem to have filled in that missing intuition though.
ICT has totally changed the way people communicate, but offices, until recently, were still structured the same way they were for the last 200 years. It is like when factories first switched over to electrical power. They kept the same layout, just with electricity. It took a while before people realized that they could restructure the factory layout to increase productivity.

Maybe there is a better way to structure office workers that will increase productivity.
Did a timeshare presentation offer a few years back that came with an extremely discounted 4-night stay in a nice resort in Orlando, plus a $100 gift card to Planet Hollywood in Disney Springs. At the time my kids were so young they usually split a kids meal, so I remember thinking "I don't think we'll even be able to use this whole thing in one sitting!" Yet somehow two burgers, two kids meals, and a couple beers ended up at just about $100. Food was mediocre at best, maybe competitive with Applebees. Had I been paying out of my own pocket that would have been among the worst quality:dollar ratio of any restaurant meal in memory.
I'm really surprised they don't support Polish IDs. We've had them in the same format for ages and I've done automatic verification with some other companies (e.g. Revolut).

Multiple much smaller countries' IDs are supported.
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How about the entirety of the US medicaid program? If you literally have no income you get free healthcare, even if you have limited income you may qualify for Medicaid or a heavily discounted marketplace plan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
The bike lights that cost 15-20 € in Europe cost 2-5€ in bulk on alibaba. Literally the same model. I guess it's mostly shipping, import duties, taxes, marketplace fees, free shipping to customer, returns handling and profit margin.
The reasons are political, and German meddling isn't exactly innocent in this matter. Wind turbines are MASSIVELY subsidized and are actually an elaborate form of scam against taxpayer money; plus EDF has been coerced into selling its cheap nuclear power to its "challengers" with a loss, to create a "market" with "competition" that was supposed to drive costs down, and instead increased dramatically electricity prices (+60% in 14 years).
It only becomes a train when there's multiple things in a row.
I've used GSuite for years and find it fine. I do think it performs best using Chrome though. The document collaboration works well, and search works when I need it. Much better than something like Confluence.

What other tools would you suggest in place of GSuite (email, calendaring, collaborative document building, searching/finding docs, etc...)? O365 is all that comes to mind.
This HTML editor site has now been penalized by Google for unnatural link practices as I had assumed they would be.
Yes, but the stories and abilities regarding that greater entity will be as varied and inconsistent as those found all over the world. And most importantly will not be the same as any of them. How many wildly different stories are there regarding the creation of the world?

Whereas the axioms of math will be substantially similar to the point that any modern mathematician would recognize it. We see this on ancient tablets where folks were calculating the square root of 2. Or any of the cultures all around the world that had no significant contact with one another that deal with pi. Sure we'll see base-12 number systems as with the Babylonians or base-20 as with the Maya, but the underlying principles and lessons are largely IDENTICAL.

The worlds of math and the metaphysical could not be more different in that regard. Rather than being a very shallow statement, it is one of the most all-encompassing and profound in all of human history. It gave rise to the principles of the scientific method: humans are biased, so multiple people performing the same steps should come to the same results and predictions made based on those results should yield their own repeatable consistent results.
> Beyond the distasteful idea that we should always act in a way demonstrating obedience to potential employers

Maybe even more than distasteful, perhaps soul nullifying?
(Pardon the awkward phrase, it's what I get when looking for an antonym for affirming.)

For myself, when I leave the engineering field it will not be to return to engineering again unless it's strictly on my own terms. More than likely teaching or similar would follow a "gap year".
i see this popping up around the internet every now and then and it's always the same few dudes who advocate "for nuclear". not "use nuclear and renewables" mind you, it's "nuclear good renewables bad". i genuinely wonder why.

nuclear power is inherently lethal. not nuclear plants, nuclear energy. to keep it safe, you need a. tons of money, and b. stable government. miss one and you won't build plants. if you have both, might as well build more cheaper and faster alternatives like renewable energy.
This is not indicative of engineering skill.

This is indicative of political savvy and the ability to influence.

Rewarding influence indicates a lack of leadership. Humans being social animals, we're already prone to being influenced by those who are good at influencing.

If management magnifies this tendency, they'll end up turning the workplace into something like social media with paychecks.
how are mobile notifications on the web going for iOS?
That's part of how it gets to a high efficiency. You sometimes have a fast and inefficiency mode as well, although I've never needed to have my clothes dry right now, so I just run the dryer during off-peak hours and the clothes are dry in the morning.
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I tried this experiment: read nytimes, wapo, fox, national review and politico. I wanted to get different perspectives. However, I encountered a bunch of issues:

They dont talk about or even cover the same things, which makes it hard to compare liberal vs conservative perspectives. This is the most common form of bias I've come across.

In the rare case they do cover the same thing, many articles either simply do not mention the other side or present a very simplified or exaggerated view and provide an opposing viewpoint.

They cover the same thing differently depending on which party is in power. The border crisis is a good example of this.

All of these make it real hard to compare viewpoints with a proper reference frame and even treatment. Eventually I just gave up and read Politico, Bloomberg and FiveThrityEight now. They seem to be used by pros from both sides and mostly report on what's "happening" rather than provide opinion. I can then form my own opinions.
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looks neat! but I guess tracking tool like this may be useful for recruiters than candidates.
> this channel is in violation of Freenode policy

Any word on the alleged policy violation? Or has Lee just starting nuking communities at this point?
Cool! I put my old mining rigs on FAH from 3/20 to 4/21..
Between those, and the home lab I managed to get in the top 2K for both single and team contribution :-)
Thanks for the commiseration.

I suspect my case is Piriformis too, which causes the same symptoms as Sciatica, but less likely people would have heard of it. Doubtless self-inflicted too as I'm the kind of "no pain, no gain" person who grits his teeth and carries on exercising through injuries. In this case, I carried on cycling a few times after feeling a pain in my buttock while out on the bike one day. With these unfortunate consequences.

Last time I had a bad attack like this was about 5 years ago, in similar circumstances. Hopefully this time I'll have learned my lesson and will stop working out next time I feel the tell-tale twinge. Twice in one lifetime to go through this hell is enough for anyone!
I think the big lesson chess in particular teaches is the duality of offense and defense. A naive player sees them as different things, a skilled player sees them as a unified whole. This insight applies to plenty of things in real life as well.

It is also something that demonstrably many people don't understand and don't even see as something they should understand, in contrast to "plan ahead" which of course everyone will agree is important, even if they don't do it.
This just won in terms of simplicity, ease of use and cost. Especially in the UK. There are no other competitors at this price point right now.
I can't see how you mentioned Egypt and Saudi Arabia as dreaded regimes but see Iranian supporting the Syrian regime as positive where they are the same and even worse on some accounts.
Syria needs to be split up into at least 3 or 4 countries that's why there was so much internal tension there but you want to preserve the current ruthless regime who bombed their own civilians by the 100s of thousands, despicable.

They don't preserver the existing state they plan to take over and rule from a far.

> Israel clashed with it to the point they began aiding Syrian rebels

Israel assisted the rebels by giving medical aid so they won't hurt the druze population in Syria because the druze in Israel are blood relatives and enlist in the Israeli military that's a far cry from suppling weapons and intel

> overwhelmingly in Israel's favour.

You still didn't explain how.
Every time I see posts about/like this and people comment why companies wont ramp up production. I wish they would look into the Beer Distribution Game and the Bullwhip effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
Sorry for the tangent, but have you found any benefit in maintaining a traditional CV / resume?

I'm not actively looking for a job, so I just tell them to have a look at my LinkedIn profile. But I wonder if that's keeping me from some worthwhile opportunities.
It's unclear from the readme whether this supports Next.js's Incremental Static Regeneration (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/04/incremental-static-...) that talks to the CMS every X seconds, diffs for changes, and rebuilds only the affected page if it detects any. It makes Vercel a lot faster at updating pages than Cloudflare Pages (which, by default, is only a static page server and doesn't do ISR... though maybe it's possible to hack Next.js to use Cloudflare Workers to do that instead, not sure).

Vercel is a lot more expensive than either Cloudflare Pages or Amazon Cloudfront.
Sometime during quarantine I had an evening thought excercise about clever password choices in this context. It was a fun game, and would be a cute scene in a movie or a book.

Ultimately the password `fuck you cop I'll never tell` is a fun idea, but little value. Complying without appearing to comply might change up the game a bit, but you're still screwed.

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it is kind of fun to think of a password so offensive that it doesn't matter who asks you, they won't believe that's your password. Technically might buy you some time before they figure it out.
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Sniper units are often deployed behind lines and spend hours or days in observation. They may arrive on site well in advance of their target and be very sure of identity before firing.

Also, a marksman deployed with an infantry unit will support small arms fire (~200 yards) with range extension out to say 800 yards. A dedicated sniper team could be taking targets out as far as 3,000 yards. So perhaps a infantry marksman would be more willing to take a shot at a closer target given they are part of a squad, where a sniper team won't shoot at a tin cup or fake head in case they give away their position. It's worth just waiting another hour and see if that guy patrolling comes by again etc.
If the company you're interacting with uses Stripe ID verification and you are forced to use it to pay them, I'm not sure it's much better than going to a bank and opening an account and then Equifax getting the information immediately.
Agreed. My point was more about taking a break or negotiating better QOL. My anecdotal experience is similar to yours in terms of compensation. However, I haven't seen anyone be able to negotiate lower hours, more vacation or periodic employment that would allow them to pursue the 'RE' once they have reached the 'FI' of FIRE.

Lifestyle creep only moves in one direction and is usually permanent.
Yeah i know right? Orbitals where a big thing in my chemistry degree, and magnetic fields are basic but until reading this i don't think I'd ever heard or thought about the orbitals changing shape in mag fields. They change shape in reactions and depending on what the element is bound to. Maybe it's only something that happens in the superfields they have there? I don't know. Apparently these U alloys have weird behavior on top of that, too.
> Safari gets a lot of grief for being too slow

Literally mostly from Google employees just mad their pet project doesn't work on iOS. I, and plenty of others, appreciate the position Safari (and sometimes Firefox) holds in only supporting web APIs that provide value greater than the security and privacy risks they introduce.

Google's busy trying to invent ways for websites to tamper with your USB devices, and it hasn't even managed to deal with how much malware it distributes through it's extension store alone, much less through it's ad platform and misuse of the notifications API.
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I'm studying at a UK university too, and I always scratch my head as to how on earth people get the money to travel around Europe or Australia before they go to uni. Who funds it?
> But power stations are contracted/paid on the basis of the energy (ie MWh) they generate.

But will they be continue to be paid by the solidified alumunium smelter and the gunged-up paper mill the week after the cloudy weather?

That said, in interesting innovation that may deal with dispatch-ratio limitations of renewable energy has become popular here in Africa for domestic lighting.

As you know, we have 'moved on' from electricity to candles and bush-fires for reasons relating to what is euphemistically called a skills-shortage.

Many of us are now using LED light bulbs with batteries in them. They charge when the power is available (Deo Volente) and offer ~4 hours light.

And we get to see the stars now.
To all those downvoting. Do your due diligence first like I did ;)
I've been successful using PyInstaller to make executables out of PySide2 (Qt5) applications for Windows, Mac and Linux. (I probably should do a write up on that at some point). It's been quite a while since I touched Wxwidgets, but its packaging process should be similar and may result in smaller binaries if it's calling out to shared libraries (ie for the toolkit on Win).
I’m actually surprised that Slack hasn’t tried their hand at an email service to combat this. Yes o365 is more than email but that’s their foot in the door. If you cut off that sales vector you make MS have to compete on the merits of their add-on services and they don’t hold up. Notion is a OneNote and Sharepoint destroyers. Zoom and Slack are better than Teams and S4B. Okta and Auth0 are better than ADFS.
Maybe Stripe is not that much popular in Poland compared to other countries? I would not be surprised that they put priority on the countries where they already have a significant user base.
Omnipotent. Omniscient. Omnibenevolent.

Like the CAP theorem, you can only have two without substantial compromise.
I wonder if its goal is too choke out the competition in true Bezos fashion on the already dominant gaming market, steam, playstation store, xbox marketplace, or if it is going to distinguish its self in any way
Thankfully, the government still exists and also works to solve problems in parallel with charities. I don't advocate that Buffett takes charge of the world. It's also nice that Buffett doesn't give all his money to one charity- he distributes it across multiple charities that (I assume) he deems as "effective enough to be worth taking a risk on," which is about as good of a guess as anybody has on anything. And even if his motives are more personal, the motivation of earning the autonomy to act for your own best interest is one of the primary motivations that causes people to do hard work that both earns money and (often, but not always, but I figure more often than not) makes the world a better place to live.

At a certain level, any decision made by any individual with autonomy is anti-democratic. The greater that person's autonomy, the larger the effects, and for billionaires those effects are large. They aren't always "better at picking" than the government, but having diversifying our methods of problem solving yields better results. The world would not get eradicated of polio as quickly if the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation didn't work on it. The Against Malaria Foundation does a more cost effective job of preventing malaria than just about any organization on the planet. Habitat for Humanity completes an amazing mission of building affordable housing, teaching skills to interested volunteers, and helping people invest in their community all at the same time.

If government is the only tool in the toolbox, you'll only hammer the nails that governments can hammer.
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- A simple php script that emails me daily asking "what did you do yesterday" and logs my replies (using Mailgun's free threshold). I've now had a diary for 10 years.
- A simple php script to log the dates of mp3's I add to a certain folder, which helps me organize my monthly radio show (So I'm sure I play the new music I get).
- A WordPress install to store recipes I like.
- A small browse extension + php api to catalog social accounts I visit often. I often mention the same people in my twitter, facebook, instagram posts (I review their music), so I don't have to look up their multiple accounts every time.
There are plenty of people building houses, growing food, and maintaining infrastructure like water treatment that directly contribute to sustaining life. And there are plenty of people in the industries that are required to support those people.

I'm not saying they don't know how to cook- but I'm saying that the least the rest of society who aren't responsible for sustaining us can do is make life better for those who do
And it's way harder to pull off than just good old fashioned, cease the center and bludgeon the opponent. Especially against a competent opponent.