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> I overhauled my garage, building a French cleat system and organizing all of my tools. I built a movie/reading nook for my spouse, with a sliding bookshelf door. I caught up on cutting and splitting firewood for winter. I played board games, cooked, baked, rode bike almost every day, sat in the cool breeze overlooking nature, sat by the fire pit and boy, was I not bored.

Your post looks a lot like what I did along side a 40 hour per week job before I reached FIRE. Sure, I couldn’t do it as quickly but it’s not as though having a job is mutually exclusive with riding a bike every day or overhauling the garage on weekends.

One of the biggest things I learned post-FIRE was that doing the things I enjoy wasn’t as difficult as I had come to think while I was employed. There’s something about FIRE blogs that makes it easy to think of activities as pre-FIRE (work) and post-FIRE (fun).

Instead, I’d rather work on balance. Find jobs where 40 hours per week is average and I don’t have to waste time on commuting. Then make time in the evenings and weekends to do things I enjoy.
No. We don't cure viruses, we cure diseases. A disease like COVID-19 is launched by the virus and some antivirals may be found to be effective in slowing down/stopping replication.

The severe cases of COVID-19 after a week have usually very little virus replication and the disease is about tissue inflammation, organ damage and immune system disorder. There are some treatment protocols for these and they are evolving.
I think that's literally about putting the gas line into your tank and pressing the trigger...
Sure, but we're not talking about roads, we're talking about cell infrastructure.

This means that the biggest cost is, by far, CAPEX, not labour. If you don't believe me, we can look at the financial statements for Bell : https://www.bce.ca/investors/AR-2020/2020-bce-annual-report.... [PDF Warning]. Labour is only 33%, and a lot of that labour is in wired connection installations which require disproportionately more labour than wireless installations. I don't see why these costs would be any lower in Russia.

Indeed, if you try to get data for Wireless only, you'll find that the Wireless section has an EBITDA of 3.7 billion, with a revenue of 8.7 billion. That's an insane EBITDA margin of 42%. and that's in a pandemic year. Now the issue with these figures is that this takes into account contract phones, as revenue. In reality the profit margin of just providing the wireless network is simply through the roof.

So even if you were to remove the 20% or so that goes to labour in the wireless segment completely, Canadian telecoms are still 5x+ more expensive than they should be.
Tramp is by far the most magical feeling trick in the emacs toolbox.
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The official Indian death numbers are a vast undercount by most accounts.
If you're referring to stemming climate change, you won't succeed. I doubt anyone will. Modern society depends on manufacturing, food, and travel, and nobody will give it up. It's a steep fitness landscape and doesn't really work because someone "breaking the rules" will have a substantially easier time.

Climate change prevention is a meme for rich countries. It's an unwinnable battle.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be paying attention. We absolutely should. But humans follow gradient ascent and won't be willing to handicap every area of life to make modest gains on the climate front.

Paper straws don't even make a dent.

It's happening, and we'll just have to adapt. Sucks immeasurably for the current biodiversity, but life has adapted to much warmer climate in the past. We should catalog what we can while we can.

To address your comment, I think you'll find greater success in extending the lives of rich and powerful people. Once they realize there's a long term ahead, they'll adjust their thinking and time horizons.
Maybe the marketing value of being “truly unlimited” outweighs the cost of the abuse? There are a good number of people who value the lack of cognitive load of fine print, even if they’re paying more for it.
> The spelling of an artist’s name must be correct and remain consistent across all content for that artist.

However, some artists change names. Famously Prince, became "The artist formerly known as Prince" and then Prince again, but appears to only exist on iTunes/Apple Music as Prince.

Meanwhile, Japanese artist Yumi Arai, changed her name to Yumi Matsutoya in 1976 after getting married and exists as two separate artists under former name and current name.
How do you "live amongst the Amish"? Sounds like you're contributing to their community in some ways ie. dam building. Did you buy any land from them or a home? Just renting? I always assumed that they're an insular community. Want to get down there sometime and try the food. PA Dutch food looks so good.
What are they burning exactly, other than fuel?

The money isn't disappearing, it's going to people feeding their families and creating research valuable to humanity as a whole.

So, exactly, what the fuck is Bad about this?
I think you missed the point of that commenter's rant, understandably though.

A majority of people (these days) see the benefit for a wide spectrum of folks this modern space race is producing. What no one gives a shit about is the ego driven, "I was first" billionaire crap that the media is focused on. It's like people who post, "first" on youtube videos. Sure, helps the video's algorithm stance a bit, but a useless attempt to feel important over something silly is annoying as hell.
I absolutely know people who not use it in good faith. Same people that crammed many terabytes into Amazon Drive back when it was unlimited so that they could "back up their plex server".
> then did it again a couple of weeks later

Make that days - 29 September and 4 October 2004.
I've consumed a small amount of snus and it always ended up making me feel sick. Never had it with vaping or cigarettes though. But snus was a far superior nicotine experience before the bad stuff started.
It could, but as someone who has spoofed user-agents in the past (primarily to get Chrome-only websites to cooperate) I would prefer if it wouldn't. If the baddies can snoop my https traffic or directly copy the auth cookies from my machine then also copying my user-agent isn't that big of a step for them. One might argue that detecting changes in user agents could be part of some kind of defense in depth strategy, but as a user I imagine I'm already so boned in that scenario that I doubt it would save me. So overall such a mechanism would bring me more inconvenience than security.
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This guy is the self-proclaimed "creator of mRNA vaccines," in the same way that there is a certain self-proclaimed "inventor of email" with whom we're all familiar. His role in the development of the technology that eventually became mRNA vaccines appears, however, to be relatively minor, and it lies decades in the past.
>Ideal situation is 2 to 3 days of work a week, with very few zoom meetings, scrums, or other bullshit.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could trade pay or hours for avoiding arseache like you can negotiate a salary? Like, "I'll take a 5% salary cut but I'll not be required to attend certain meetings" or "I'll work an extra x hours a week for free but I'll never have touch an Atlassian product ever again".
True that.

We also ported our Elm codebase from 0.18 to 0.19. It took us almost a week working almost 24/7 across two timezones to make the damn thing compile again. Did not see the UI for the entire week, but once it compiled it (mostly) just worked like nothing had changed (that's after 429 files changed, 16422 insertions(+), 12116 deletions(-)).

My colleague took notes of the progress at https://gist.github.com/mordrax/efcd34739ed56bb64d2b12d2401b...
Billionaire worship is indeed pathetic but these nuckleheads literally drive down costs so the rest of us knuckleheads can do a miserable family subby during the long summer years when Earth is scorching hot - literally on fire - due to climate change.
Except everywhere I see the media is reporting that 99% of infections are amongst the unvaccinated.

So they are all clearly reporting this. And the reality is that there are tens of millions of people who are not vaccinated who are extremely susceptible to the Delta variant.

It’s not clear to me what point you’re trying to make by insisting that it is significantly less dangerous to the vaccinated that isn’t being made by every news outlet and government agency that I have been following.
I appreciate how this blog entry puts the most important thing out first - the fact that prices are increasing. And only then goes to justify why customers should be still happy.
The supposed blanked "training ML is fair use, and the output of ML is not a derivative work" precedent is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,...

Maybe I can't read, but it's just not there. This ruling giving precedent to train generative ML systems with any source material seems to be nothing more than a shared fiction entertained by the ML industry.
This is akin to saying that people who are missing some toes, but still have some toes, should not be counted among people who are missing toes. Burnout, like malnutrition, is not desired in our society, and so even minor amounts of it should be measured and treated.
> However I also believe that fire is a symptom and not a solution. It seems to be mostly popular in countries with little or non existent pension security.

In the US, it's also largely a fantasy thanks to our uniquely-shitty healthcare system, unless you're actually rich. Most of the frugal-FIRE schemes will fall apart as soon as someone in your family gets sick.
There is probably just not enough of those types of users to really change the calculus for Backblaze.
Yeah AWS ES totally has value. I'm aware ES decided to go with an open licence but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that they did that to try to gain traction and cross-sell other services, such as managed hosting.

If you have a friend round to stay for the weekend and say "stay as long as you want", wouldn't you be annoyed if they were still there 10 years later? There is such a thing as the spirit vs the letter of the law.
Coming from a bit different of a situation, I am at a government systems center that runs off customer funding rather than tax money, so we take clients. My group is being run short of people just as you describe.

Almost every project I have been on has been understaffed. My project last year was one year of funding to research application of deep learning for a problem that had only some classical engineering algorithms applied before. Besides the r&d, we promised to deliver software that they could use to verify experiments and test models against their systems, basically everything up to but not including integration (with integration coming later if results were good). The team was a PM, domain expert, and me. That's one person to do all the research and experiments and provide basically two working and tested software deliverables. Good times.

My current project is one piece of a government effort run shared between two three letter orgs, a smaller contractor that's kind of PMing plus infrastructure, a large contractor handling modeling, and us handling correlation. We already had a correlator written in Java for portability--that is why we were brought on--so should be easy, right? A bit of data analysis, configure the software accordingly, pass off the jar and config and should be good. The effort was funded for about two people plus a PM but had had one full time and one partial for the past six months. Our part of the project ballooned to helm charts, four Kafka interconnected docker containers, security scans on all that plus a bunch more stuff required every release, lots of core rewrites to hit their scalability goals, constant data analysis because every week a performer comes in with a "hey why didn't this particular example get correlated as expected" question. Basically one person to cloudify + do data analysis on big data + rewrite Java software to scale better is just crazy. I am on it because the "half time person" left a year ago and wasn't replaced, and the full time person is now leaving also in August, so they're finally forced to restaff. I was told I'd do data analysis and algorithm work only, but over the first month I've only done security fixes and cloud infrastructure related tasking.

I bring this up to point out, yeah it's cool to learn new stuff, but the shortage of people also means double or triple role work that definitely accelerates burn out.
The subject is telemetry, but the article calls it "tracking code". I would be curious to know if the writer actually knows that the telemetry data is enough to track users, or whether they're just exploiting the recent FUD about telemetry.

Edit: To clarify, "tracking" means that you're following a particular user around. "Some user pressed the Audacity record button at 13:04:42 Sunday" is not tracking data (although with sufficiently granular data you could do fingerprinting (which is tracking), the countermeasures for which should be obvious) - "User #1934602 pressed the Audacity record button at 13:04:42 Sunday" is tracking, even if it's anonymized.

There are different levels of privacy that people care about (e.g. some people are ok with anonymized tracking, while others don't want tracking at all). Conflating them is an underhanded tactic used by people to emotionally manipulate others. Furthermore, "non-tracking statistics" is a category of things that few people care about, versus "anonymous tracking", so conflating these two is particularly egregious.
Lockdowns aren't meant to end the spread of COVID, only to limit it until people can get vaccinated. Vaccine's are the end game. As discussed in the article, if people aren't willing to get vaccinated and gov't unwilling to force, then letting it spread (not lockdowns) is the other option. Assuming people want to get vaccinated in places where the vaccine is not yet abundant (most countries), then lockdown's until supply rises could make sense. Nobody is advocating for permanent lockdowns with no end game. The more general concern of Delta (or any variant) is that the existing vaccine won't work against it, and / or the continued spread will lead to _more_ variants. Its unfortunately an artifical problem in the US, since there's plenty of vaccine supply.
I'd like music metadata that is universally compatible across systems and across time (e.g., 50 years from now). Is there any such standard? Apple's Style Guide is the most complete I've seen, which makes it useful - how closely does it match my needs?

In limited experience, just about the only standard metadata was album, track title, and artist (I forget the names of the exact fields). Not only do I want more, that works terribly for classical music where the artist could be the composer Wagner, the Chicago Symphony, conductor Solti, various soloists, etc.
I think Europe’s lower fertility rate is better explained through infant and maternal mortality, two factors that are well studied in how they affect fertility rates. America has a higher infant mortality rate (5.7 vs. 3.3) and maternal death rate (17.6 vs. 6.0) as compared to Europe. These seem like much more plausible reasons for a lower birth rate than average parental leave.

And that’s before we even begin analyzing the squishy factors of norms and expectations. All of our preferences are subtly changed by the society in which we live. If you live in a country with low fertility rates, having only one child seems more normal than it might in a region with medium to high fertility. These trends have a tendency to become self reinforcing, as well as drive social programs too. If the norm is that most women will have a single child, society can afford to invest more in that child than they could if she was going to have six on average.

Frankly, longer paternal leave strikes me as more of a result rather than a cause of lower fertility rates.
+1 for Miller Puckette’s book (and Pd) - might be a bit hardcore as an intro. for some, but if you’re technically inclined it’d be a great overview… If the second option is more important, there’s no substitute for messing about starting to get familiar with how different primitive oscillators/filters sound in subtractive synthesis maybe first, then moving on to explore other types from there… (FM for example is less intuitive) …recreating/ researching your favourite sounds from records, synth internals, or just trying to make whatever you’ve dreamt of/heard in your head/twiddling ‘til you find something you like and then trying to work out what makes it sound cool… (‘The Computer Music Tutorial’ is a beast of a book, if you wanted an all-in-one reference: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-music-tutorial )
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Yeah it really helps. I rotate through a few different spots throughout the week (3 coffee shops, 2 workspaces and my gym clubhouse) I find it helpful to change scenery and be around other people, albeit the majority of them I don't know.

For me there's something about being in a place with others that keeps me concentrated and focused on the tasks at hand, breaking up the monotony of working from the same room at home every day.

I try to have very regular calls with my team and arrange days to meet and work together from a location we can all get to with relative ease, along with full team meet ups at least every month.

RE lack of motivation, I think it's more of a company culture issue rather than WFH itself.
But how do you know that you need to send a message or what if you don’t send a message? How can you get a reply?

Everytime I think I get it, I don’t!
On my TV (Sony Bravia, from before the Android TV ones), Netflix is terribly slow and occasionally crashes. It used to be smooth and stable, but I don't know who to blame here; the problems could've been caused by Sony, but they could have just as easily been caused by Netflix.

I've learned my lesson, though, and now I just pirate Netflix content I want to see on my TV so I can watch it on Kodi. I'm not planning on replacing my TV any time soon and getting Netflix integration into Kodi is too much of a bother. Unless Netflix comes out with an official Kodi addon, I'll just stick to this setup.
Reading this reminds me of Leibniz's formula for pi:

Although it computes the value correctly, it is almost completely useless on a computer. All the elements of the series are reciprocals of odd numbers, hence you will get errors on every term.
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I'm a software developer with 4 years experience, primarily backend. I'm very good at debugging, optimization, and working with under-documented or legacy code. For example, at the Kansas Department of Labor, I was tasked with fixing the quarterly wage report upload process (which is used by nearly every employer in Kansas) which was timing out for large datasets. It was written in VB.NET (which I had no prior experience with) without any documentation. I rewrote it using multithreading and eliminated the timeouts, reducing the time for the state employee dataset from 27 minutes to 2 minutes.
I am unvaccinated and probably will remain so for this particular vaccination. I don't truly believe that the risk of the vaccine outweighs the risk of the virus to me. It's more that I weigh the risk of covid at around zero, and the risk of vaccine at a question mark.

I cannot trust the institutions pushing this vaccine at all. At worst, I trust the opposite of what they say about anything politicized. But let's just say I don't trust them. In the absence of a trusted authority, I can only make this decision based on my own research. Unfortunately I am not qualified to interpret the data meaningfully, and I truly believe that if there was data suggesting that the vaccine was equally dangerous to the virus, it would be suppressed.

What remains is essentially a total vacuum of information. I then have to make decisions based on intuition and the error bars I perceive. What I expect is that the publicized covid numbers are better or equal to the reality, and the vaccine danger is worse or equal. The publicized numbers for covid give me essentially a zero risk of any problems, because I am young, fit and healthy. The real numbers are going to be even better. Meanwhile, the vaccine problems don't seem to be fewer for young people, but just kind of random. I also know what to expect from a respiratory virus, because I've had those a number of times. I have no idea what to expect from a MRNA vaccine, whether there could be problems that appear years later, etc, and I cannot trust any authority that says there is no risk.

There is also the aspect of direct action. If I get covid, darn that sucks but people get sick and that's life. If I get some bad side effects from an untrusted injection, I did that to myself and it will feel mentally much worse. All of this is to say, I don't care at all if I get covid, because I'll be fine. I won't inject myself with an untrusted medicine to avoid that.
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Does HN have something against Mega? It seems like it would fall more in line. It even has a CLI.
Fair fair, yeah perhaps "barely" is excessively dramatic— this is mostly just going from coverage like that in the Atlantic piece:

> But even against Delta, full vaccination—with a heavy emphasis on full—is effective. Two doses of Pfizer’s vaccine are still 88 percent effective at preventing symptomatic Delta infections, according to a U.K. study, and 96 percent effective at preventing hospitalization. (A single dose, however, is only 33 percent effective at stopping symptomatic infection.)

It's the "still" in there— basically that Pfizer effectiveness was 95% against OG COVID, and now thankfully it's "still" 88% against delta, but much lower than that and we're back to a place where the vaccine alone is not enough, it would only be able to work in conjunction with other measures like limiting contact.
It’s certainly not “impossible”. They could put some side channel communication in their player that YouTube-dl doesn’t implement. I can think of a bunch of ways you could do it.
I take it as a very strong signal that at least Branson and Musk have essentially decided that Earth is doomed and they're wanting to get off of it as soon as possible.
The first improved feature they tout as part of their rational for the price increase is "extended version history." I feel like this is quite a bit mis-leading, as you pay extra for this feature. I got a Backblaze price increase about 1.5 years ago, then I upgraded my version history, and now I get another price increase. I understand the need to increase prices, but I'm also starting to feel a bit nickel-and-dimed here.

Also, they claim that they have "optimized the app to be kinder to your computer." Am I the only one that find the opposite to be true? I've tuned my exclusion lists pretty heavily, but bzserv is constantly using more and more cpu on my machine.
Please, oh please, do not forward email.

https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2018/06/email-forwarding-is-...

^ I am the author of that article. If this is a different kind of mail forwarding, then please educate me as to how. Thanks :)