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But you don't "lose" or "spend" the equity portion of your mortgage bill.

That's the difference. If you have a $2500/month mortgage, by year 10 or so that's probably $1000 equity + $1500 interest.

The "interest" portion gets tax-deducted (so you get a portion of it back), while the $1000 equity is literally yours. When you sell the house, that's the portion you get back.

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So really, $2500/month mortgage (after a few years of living there) is really a $1000 cost + $1500 forced savings account. Then some maintenance / taxes on top of that.

Since you're building equity while living in a home, a $2500 mortgage is in fact far far cheaper than a $2500 rental.

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If this is confusing, then think about the "down payment" when you first get the mortgage. A $100,000 down payment may have cost you cash, but its not like the down payment disappears. When you sell the house and close the mortgage, that $100,000 comes back to you (plus all the equity you gained).
This question lines up with my experience:
"Which IDE / editor do you use the most for C++ development?"

I'm in gaming and I wish our codebase would reasonable work within VS Code but VS2019's tools just feel more "firm".

I use VS Code on smaller side projects though. It's much lighter.
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Only 57% of programmers surveyed say they write unit tests in any language (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/testing/). In Javascript only ~60% of developers test, and in Swift/ObjC only ~40%.

Surprisingly 93% of Java users surveyed write unit tests though. I thought Kotlin would be similar, but for some reason JetBrains doesn't show any responses for Kotlin users.
I should not be subjected to the smell of my neighbor's cooking, but here we are.

An important part of living in a civilized world is to put up with the merely annoying stuff our neighbors do. After all, the odds are good that you and I do at least one thing that annoys our neighbors as well.
I see the point of testing backups and it's good advice. But the real problem is that preparing for an emergency that never comes is very expensive in both productivity and costs. You can be 99.99% ready for a ransomware attack that would cost a lot but it would hit your organization's productivity hard. Yet there's a large possibility that the preparedness will go to waste because it will never be used.

We need to find solutions that are very inexpensive but effective. I can only think of it being a cloud based solution where it will be trivial to reset and start over. I suspect that disaster recovery as a service(RaaS) should be part of any cloud based service. I get that some companies are so large and complicated that it would be impossible to provide that service for them but there are plenty of small to mid-size companies for which the service would be possible. So it's possible to offer it as part of any service package.

RaaS has the great advantage that the costs can be shared among many companies so no one company needs to deal with the large costs that may never be used. It will also solve the problem associated with the constant up keep. It's hard to prepare for a disaster but it's even harder to keep it going for as long as it's needed. In addition, the increase in complexity for bad actors would decrease the incentives for ransomware in general.

This won't happen now but given time it would largely fix the current situation for all.
> They go trough completely different and extremely rigorous testing process where everything is documented carefully, documents are examined and double checked.

Rigorous testing is all well and good, but we do know how many errors crop up in scientific papers, right? A lot.

The gold standard of testing is double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled studies and this is only done sometimes for vaccines, as far as I aware.

I believe there are certain circumstances such as no safe and effective already existing vaccine, or where there's a certain kind of benefit to the injected population, where vaccines are generally allowed to go through this double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled studies (the gold standard of testing) and certain circumstances where they do not go through such rigorous testing.

I believe this ethic stems from Jonas Salk's decision during the development of the Polio vaccine where the ethical call was made to not do double-blind, placebo controlled testing due to the desire to prevent damage to human lives that could be prevented by not using a placebo.

I invite fact-checking on everything stated.
Time flies are utterly terrifying; avoid them at all costs.
Isn't that the trick where the price looks good initially and then it goes up wickedly after 12 months because they won't give you free months when you renew?
Or...you know....as with all technology, just make doing the _right thing_ easier and cheaper.

I don't want to hire the "hardcore nerds" that gatekeep expertise behind ridiculous rates and tribal knowledge, fwiw. I'd much rather pay for services, incrementally adoptable technology and clear roadmaps.
>esoteric softwares

Firefox is esoteric nowadays?
I've never lost a deposit or watched extra rent vanish by moving. I'm confused why anyone would let that happen.

Maybe it's a regional thing?
Last time when this quote was posted on HN, consens turned out to be that its is quite unclear if it was ever say. I remember this as i really wanted to belief that the story was was true but ended up thinking it rather no true.. Unlike in the article you linked to, last time the conclusion was that the source recalled overhearing Nixon two decades ago, and thus was deemed quite unreliable at best - Anyone know more than me about this?
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I am double checking.

- Full C++17 support requires GCC 7 or Visual Studio 2019 or Clang 5.

- Limited support available in GCC 5 and Visual Studio 2017 with update pack.

Then the question is what packages are available in Debian/RedHat? especially the previous major version of the OS (Companies are always slow to upgrade and libraries in particular need to work on active OS until EOL).

RedHat 7 is stuck on GCC 4.8 so anybody working in that type of environment is stuck there. Debian looks fine. For Visual Studio it probably depends on whether you can get the license (have to convince procurement to pay?)

Aside of the tooling, you have to take time and be willing to upgrade the toolchain. I'd expect C++ to be the language with trillion of lines of barely maintained legacy code. (We can define "legacy" as any existing code :D)
not sure about wireless power efficiency but I'd guess it's a pretty huge loss. this feels like a good way to take new efficient green cars & make them radically less efficient.
The replies to my comment generally simply serve to remind me of the quality of humans in this community, I'm certainly not sure why I waste my time contributing to it.
>5.51 letters per minute, not words

Again, it is misleading at best to user a measure of "words per second" when you're restricted to a set of 50 of them. A keyboard that had both English and Cyrillic characters in it would have 59 unique symbols.

>It seems you are measuring performance in terms of bit-rate (i.e. based on how many symbols per minute), which makes sense when you are using a cursor-based speller.

I genuinely fail to see what the cursor has to do with anything. Communication speed is communication speed.

>This approach is not a correct measurement of bitrate with this speech-motor decoder, however, as words are being decoded based on the syllables contained within it.

Just as symbols in cursor tasks are decoded based on relative position?
The market around me is the opposite. The single family home I bought was just remodeled with modern amenities and the house is in a nice walkable neighborhood. The rentals around me costs less than my mortgage but they're not nearly as nice. I'd be willing to rent a place like mine, but there simply isn't any rental inventory like it. Maybe above a certain price people would rather spend that on a mortgage than rent.
What is the procedure when someone accidentally hijacks one of those trucks? If I understood correctly sometimes those trucks will not have an escort.
I may have mixed up the two, but one of Allegro or Lispworks mentioned additional licensing. Or I might have mistook the required license upgrade if you distribute, for a run-time license.
It definitely adds to the bundle size, but how much it adds depends on your implementation. This discussion on the topic is pretty interesting [0]. One comment from that discussion says “it is possible to double to the size of your source code”.

[0] https://dev.to/haruanm/does-typescript-increase-the-bundle-s...
> I feel like that doesn't happen very often.

It has been the plot of several movies/books/etc.
I like to download the image sets from these "x does not exist" sites. Most only have a few thousand images with sequential filenames (one notable exception being thispersondoesnotexist, which has no filenames, so I made a script that hashed the files and discarded duplicates. I stopped at 50,000 images without finding a single duplicate).

Anyway, to grab all these beach images, I used this command:

wget -w 3 --random-wait https://thisbeachdoesnotexist.com/data/seeds-075/{1..9999}.jpg

Average file size is 130KB, total 1.3GB.
I feel like you could address that by whatever retailer collected the phone being both required to collect it, but then also required to send the bill to the manufacturer.

Aka, you buy an Apple phone at your carrier, you turn in your Samsung phone, and Samsung gets sent the bill for the phone's collection and recycling. This would work even if someone just wanted to drop an old phone off at the store: Samsung's still responsible for footing the bill, so stores have no reason not to collect.
It's usually next to impossible to read the real source material, as it's in literally ancient language and written in context and for purposes that are hard to understand.

For most things it probably doesn't matter that much. For example classical philosophy (or its common translations/interpretations) provides a sort of "shared language" for academia, regardless of how historical it is. That's why I tend to think it more as a myth unless there's something specifically historically intetesting.

Most of the classical stories, e.g. the Cave, have "transcended" the original context anyway, and are in a sense richer nowadays.
I don't know anything that's not public, but it certainly seem there's something going on at Google as of recently. At least in my bubble, I'm seeing people leaving (or generally more dissatisfied than ever) left and right. I wonder what kind of threshold was passed.
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You're right, standard CAFO-raised beef requires lots of corn. Grass-fed not so much.
The writer had some expectations and was used to things being a certain way in his native Poland, but was disheartened to find that they were different in CA. Ultimately, he could not / did not adjust, and decided to move to NY. Main complaints:

- Weather: The Bay Area has none. The changing seasons and large variations in weather they brought was something the writer missed.

- Culture (or lack thereof): The Bay Area has none. The main leisure activities in the Bay Area are centered around enjoying nature and food . There is no music, or art scene of any sort.

- Public Transport (or lack thereof): The Bay Area has none. This means that many weekend hours are spent getting to a particular place where the leisure activity (which is already not to the taste of the writer) will occur, and this also entails advance planning!

- Variety (or lack thereof): There is a lack of variety, whether it be in the type of people encountered, the conversations, the cities/suburbs, or the scenery.

- Affordability (or lack thereof): Flimsy, modest houses cost north of a million bucks minimum. Everything that requires human labor is stratospherically expensive.

- Politics: Even though the writer is ostensibly of a similar persuasion as most Bay Area residents (left-leaning liberal), the actual policies and attitudes of Bay Area residents are heavily arrogant, technocratic, plutocratic and short-sighted.

All of the observations ring true. But the overall impression I got was that the author really did not or could not change himself, and expected something the Bay Area never offered in reality.
Except for unusually complex logic, almost every bug I’ve ever seen has been configuration or integration related. I do unit tests in safety critical software, but if I actually need to catch a bug I usually worry more about integration or end to end tests
You don't even need system images. Just the data. So SQL backups and just file directories.

However for a company of our size, it's not really possible. I was talking to my lead about this last year and we have about 50TB of our entire system I believe stored in our databases. All he said was "we have one, but hopefully I'm retired before needing to find out how to restore from it."
It resulted in a spyware/telemetry free fork. Which is how free software spyware will generally go.

>Curious what part of the above statement is unhelpful or inaccurate…

I have no idea how you think the incident played out. Your post is basically "something like that happened, there were results."
> Yet there's a large possibility that the preparedness will go to waste because it will never be used.

Is this something companies want to gamble their future on?
Some of the first "problems" have multiple answers. I don't think that is how anything should be taught.
First problem depends on whether or not smaller coins exist, fourth problem depends on the actual fill volume of glass and barrel.
Those questions do not have an answer.
Didn't read further than that.
I think this is not going to make sense if your only point of reference is residential rentals in a typical American city, but this is how it is done in at least some places in Europe. People tend to stay in one place for much longer than Americans. If you're on a budget you can go to Ikea and buy a kitchen...based on my friends' places I'd say that's the norm.
I think that's more about the content than the writing. This is an incredibly esoteric topic which is only really of professional relevance to maybe a couple of hundred people in the world.

Given that, I think the writing did an excellent job of making it sound interesting and almost accessible.

In comparison quintics are a two hundred year old puzzle and not a two year old puzzle, so it's easy to find explanations elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter

> When traveling, the tractor and trailer are typically escorted by three dark colored Chevrolet Suburbans, each containing four armed crew members. Additionally, all missions include heavily armed aerial support. The semi-tractor(STG) itself is heavily armored, and equipped with a Caterpillar diesel engine coupled to an automatic transmission. The cab-over tractor is a sleeper design, but instead of a bed, it has two seats containing additional armed support crew. The tractor also contains firing ports, run flat tires, and automatic sanders for slick roads.

You're not going to accidentally hijack one.
In some areas, tenants pay a broker placement fee of a month's rent, plus an application and credit check fee. In all regions, tenants pay for the move costs itself. Many times you discover that your furniture isn't quite right, your Ikea-grade knockdown furniture didn't all survive the move intact, you "need" to buy a different rug for one of the rooms, you might want to have more than 0 days of overlap between the places to make the move easier (or you might be forced to take a month overlap to secure the place you want), and add some custom-sized blackout window shades to sleep, etc...

I read the above as "[an amount of extra expenses equal to] a couple months' rent" rather than literally "an extra two months' of rent checks to the landlord".
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I would be shocked if higher levels of gov't job positions don't start to include minimum requirements of X years in job, education levels, etc just as any private sector job would.
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British Nuclear Fuels has posted some YouTube videos of how they move nuclear fuel by train. Manpads don't quite cut it:

"The flasks are very robust - they weigh around 50 tons and have walls 35cm thick. 16 bolts, each able to take a load of 150 tons without breaking, secure the lid. The flasks are forged out of two block of steel."

I'm not sure the kinetic and explosive energy of a manpad, but they have done tests with three locomotive engines smashing into a flask at 100mph, and the flask remaining intact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzugX2NMnk

Edit: having wrote all this, I realize you may have meant that the defense crew have manpads...

That being said, I think the above is good knowledge.
Yeah, pretty much anywhere California money is cashing out and fleeing too is way more insane than California itself.
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Hot segregated onsite backup with a different authentication mechanism
This basically just says you have to know which lane will usually be faster and why.

If you know the area and traffic patterns you can do that and basically stick to your lane for long periods and just switch a few times. I have something like that on my pre-covid commute for example, where you have to be in the right most lane until between a certain off ramp and the corresponding on ramp. There's always lots of traffic and you go between 10 and maaaybe 40 km/h. There you switch to the leftmost land so that you don't get bogged down by the regular mergers from the on ramp in the right lane and the 'middle lane drivers' who merge into the middle lane right about there too. Then until the next on ramp you stay on the left lane but have to switch over to the right lane again because no trucks allowed on it and most people try to pass on the left lane while everyone else is stuck with middle lane drivers and trucks.

If you know the area in the above example, just choose lane 1 for sanity. If you don't know the area and happen to stick to lane 4,id rather try weaving to be honest.
> I flat-out do not use mocks for this very reason. They are intricate, involved, and take huge amounts of time to load context when they fail. Don't write such tests.

This is why I prefer integration tests. Most of my projects interact heavily with a database. Making it an integration test unless I mock it out. Which I don't do, because in my experience, doing so tends to hide lots of bugs.
Even Sublime Text 4 is pretty good, if you install the LSP plugin.
Good point. I was thinking of changing styles via DOM, like CSS-in-JS, but you’re right that “y to CSS” would still be there.
> I don't want to hire the "hardcore nerds" that gatekeep expertise behind ridiculous rates and tribal knowledge, fwiw.

Seriously? Most of the Archlinux/Linux (where nerds congregate) automation and customization stuff is open source. Lots of people sharing their configs, and you can copy from them.

Also, why is it not okay for nerds to command high rates? Doctors do it. Lawyers do it. Politicians do it. And most of them suck at their job, by the way. So if a "hacker" could deliver on his promise, I think paying him a high white-collar rate is quite fair.
>"Is this "mostly" qualifier not the dangerous front end of misinformation and vaccine hesitancy? "

I do not understand. HN forum are places where "question everything" should be the norm, especially about science, and more especially about health when so much money is at stake.

It seems we are in a religious quest, with virtue signaling signs everywhere, to laudate the vaccine COVID-19 miracle. Everything is "magic". Somehow one could make a parallel with the state of the economy and the stock market. We are printing our way to prosperity as we are saving the world with "methode Coué" and of course brutal coercition (mandatory vaccination at state level).

What part of "you can not buy time" don't you understand ?

You may throw billions, no, trillions, quadrillons, bazillions to all the Silicon Valleys startups and brains to developp a vaccine in a matter of months ; but you can not buy a 3, 5, 10 years study with this money. You can't even buy one month or one second, you just have to wait, this is life and bio-trans-human thinking still can't and never will overcome nature, space and time.

So you might be "mostly" confident about the vaccine, I would say that this is the absolute maximum optimism best case scenario adjective you can use. Moderna, Pfizer sure are, "risk big, win big".

But we'll have to wait a few years more to completely assert something like "safe and effective" for the COVID vaccines, that is not a fact anybody can deny.
I very much identify with this. During COVID, we wanted to get a trampoline for our youngest kid who really enjoyed using a friend's.

How much aggravation was it? We own our house, so it was: Order it on Amazon, wait a couple days, then spend 90 minutes putting it together. The hardest part was finding one with fully enclosed springs that was in-stock.

He's jumped on it an average of at least 5 days a week, including sometimes in a light rain if he had excess energy to burn off. If we had a rented place or a shared yard or an HOA, who knows whether we'd have ever gotten it done?
We just need a 'Yelp for research institutions'. Perhaps there already exists a global register tracking reputation like this? If so it needs to be visible (particularly to the press) and be properly vetted to have real consequence
This page loads fine for me the first time I access it on any particular device. But if I reload it later, it blocks the content with a non-closable subscription popup.

One way to fix that is to tap the padlock icon next to the site URL and clear the site's cookies. Or you can open the link in an incognito/private browsing tab or window, or view it here: https://archive.is/8ipwc
Not surprised it's the finance industry. Finance in particular seems to be super gung-ho about getting everyone back in the office. I was switching industries this job search and I decided to steer clear of the finance industry for that reason.
Why would some companies be so diligent while others get caught with their pants down? Can we tell which is which? Might be a good etf to invest in.
Here's the paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351475502_A_polynom...
Seems like a combination of mismanagement and the curse of raising too much money. Shame, since my brother had their product and it was pretty good.
> If you look at the home as a long-term investment, it's almost always cheaper than renting since your mortgage stays the same, while rents almost always rise.

We had our monthly house payment more than double due to hurricane insurance increases. This even tho our particular area hasn't had a landfall in 100 years & gets hit less than DC, NYC, etc.
Even though they are super cool I'd assume that if they didn't have air superiority they wouldn't transport the nuke!