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> Can I ask how old your daughter is? Doing the nomad thing in cheaper, less developed countries seems a lot tougher to manage with kids, and even more so in the countryside. Gotta think about schools, pediatricians, dentists, finding play-mates for them, kid-friendly things to do, and so on. I'd be curious to hear about how you balance all that.

Our daughter is 4.5 years old now. Due to COVID the schools have been closed for the last month or so, but should be open again starting September. My daughter is half foreigner, half Thai and goes to a Thai private school in the area. Don't expect too much of these private schools on the country side, but it should beat government education (which is pretty much free). For the private school we pay about 700 USD per year.

I work from home and since our daughter has been home a lot lately, I've resorted to working during the nights when my daughter is asleep. I tend to sleep from the morning to the afternoon. From the afternoon until the evening I spend at least a few hours every day with my daughter, playing LEGO, looking the iPad together, drawing, etc...

She has a niece nearby that visits almost every day and is just a couple of years older. In daytime she often plays with her niece. We also have a neighbour with a son of about equal age as our daughter and sometimes they play together.

There's not too much kid friendly stuff around here I guess, but my girlfriend does occasionally take our daughter to a playground nearby, at a government school. There's a soccer field and such for children to play on.

I believe even here on the country side there's plenty of good dentists, but I have to admit I haven't tried any dentist here myself. Usually when I visit The Netherlands, once or twice a year, I visit my own dentist. Our daughter hasn't visited the dentist yet and my girlfriend doesn't either (she just takes good care of her teeth).

If our daughter is sick, usually we first visit the clinic of the doctor that delivered our daughter in the hospital (many doctors here in Thailand have their own clinic that they work at after finishing their work hours at the hospital). If there's a bigger problem, we drive to Chiang Mai (about 2-3 hours drive) to visit the private Ram hospital which offers better care. We had to visit the hospital in Chiang Mai two times in the past and stay there for a few days.

In the future I'd like to move again to a coastal area, perhaps Pattaya, perhaps Hua Hin, perhaps some other place. In those areas there's more stuff for kids to do, for example there's often an entertainment area for children in the larger shopping malls like Central, BluPort, etc... Also at these coastal areas there's entertainment like amusement parks, zoos, beaches, etc... Also there's better quality (but much more expensive) education available, like international schools.
Your definition of violence appears to equate things done to objects and things done to people.

Failing to differentiate between these things makes me wonder are you some sort of animist?
I had the exact same experience. It’s junk. Get a USRP if you can, or perhsps a bladerf if you’re a hobbiest.
AI algorithm solves structural biology challenges
Yes because those other 20 have been debugged...
Applying the same logic to the plaintiffs, you would conclude that Apple is offering developers MORE than what the developers could hope to obtain through the legal process.

In reality, for both sides there is a benefit in reducing the risk of an uncertain outcome and avoiding protracted litigation.
"The Texas grid is isolated from the rest of the U.S., so transmission of power from other states was not available to relieve those stuck in the cold."

Not quite true, as I understand it. We are able to buy from the eastern grid, but not from the western one. There is also a link to the Mexican grid.

https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-02-16/why-does-t...
Yeah! Why do people think this is acceptable? It boggles my mind.
"They pay out the amount that researchers find worthwhile for the time they spent."

How have you confirmed that this amount is accurate? Have there been bo zero-days on the black market, instead all hackers have gone to microsoft?

Would the number of hack on black market change is amount paid out increased 10x? It seems you have no basis for claiming that the amount paid is optimal
Ya, I agree with you 100%. But I think this is the problem with calling it "hard work". If working a lot on thing X is something I don't struggle with, and in fact I enjoy and find fun, and am really motivated to do, than it's actually pretty easy for me to put in a lot of time and effort into it. Isn't it weird then that I'd go and tell others I'm a "hard worker"?

I just find it a bit deceiving. Like people can hear that and think, damn, this person is able to work through something they hate doing, have no motivation to work on, and where there are other things they'd rather do, yet somehow they can power through using raw will and focus on putting tons of time and effort into it? Well damn, I must be a weak minded person then.

Personally, I think that second interpretation is common, and it does more harm than good in my opinion. Every time I have put a lot of time and effort into something, I either really enjoyed the thing, or I was really motivated by the outcome. In both cases, that made it pretty easy for me to put in a lot of work.
Former Headspin CEO arrested, charged for allegedly misstating financials
We decide as a group what we owe people. You could just as easily declare that no one owes you the respect of your property rights.
Insulation additive drastically boosts performance of power lines
They blocked everyones forks at the same time as the original.
> Developers can communicate directly with customers about alternative payment options. Customers have to consent and be given the right to opt-out.

This is a huge step forward (though it falls well short of the ideal case) for iOS development. Having the ability to tell customers about other, often cheaper, payment methods removes a substantial barrier for some apps that have high-priced subscriptions.

Positive as this change is, there is still a lot of ground to be won here. I'm fearful concessions like this will work as legal currency in the Epic case, instead of momentum pushing ongoing shifts in app store policy. Can someone with more legal understanding weigh in on that?
> One grocery store every 5 miles costs far less to maintain than 100 corner stores distributed evenly throughout the city.

I'm not at all convinced that this is true. It would make sense in a vacuum, but there are a lot of negatives from the road infrastructure necessary for large driving-only grocery stores.

Dense cities have lots of smaller grocery stores rather than a few large ones. I'm sure there's a reason for that.
Explainer: How a lightning strike can lead to a manhole explosion
> I'm not at all clear on why a standard line chart isn't better.

> ... well enough.
You are confusing language and its written representation. Sure languages change, that doesn't mean its writing system shouldn't be standardized, as there is a lot of benefits (efficiency) when it's the case. There isn't much discussion about language usage anyway save for a few points.
Do you have some kind of work chat room(s)? Just share pics or videos there. No it's not really as satisfying, but it's still fun.
That's my point. Gold changes shape in a fire, but it's not lost.
Misattributions could be referring to two possible things:

A) Uncertainty about how deaths are effectively false positives, and how many "deaths due to COVID" weren't counted. This is a combination of plain uncertainty, not having testing available for everything, all the way up to people fudging numbers (perhaps by choosing not to test categories of deaths).

B) It's unclear (as in people will argue, on both sides) if "deaths with COVID" vs "deaths due to COVID (with some definition of 'due')" is the right measure.

The failures is just shit talking (shit talk can be both deserved and undeserved) the government responses. The basis of the shit talking is that the red and green lines should be far closer to the previous baselines.
Right! The implication of the parent is that property tax bureaus all across France are constantly being screwed around with? Surely a law in France that undermines the taxation system would be changed quickly? Unless there is some mechanism to force the owners to pay tax for a house being squatted in?
The world is too dynamic, complex, contextual, and varied to really nail down any facet of it as problematic and then resolve that problem. The world largely is what it is and it’s more my job to find a way to thrive in it than it is the world’s job to accommodate me. That’s how I see it.

I don’t blame myself - I don’t even blame myself for blaming the world in the past either. I suppose there really is no blame to place by any practical means to any practical effect.
U.S. Supreme Court ends Biden's eviction moratorium
Easy enough to cut the finger off and reattach later. Seriously that's what they do.
> If I'm Apple, shouldn't it be obvious at this point that losing the App Store monopoly is inevitable?

I think Apple believes their own PR story here. They really do believe that the App Store is great for everyone, not just them. They really do believe that they're entitled to a generous cut of all transactions that happen on their devices.

Objectively, you're right -- although I think I'd go farther and suggest that it actually wasn't inevitable from the start. If Apple had dropped their cut from 30% to 20% five years ago, had looser restrictions on third-party in-app purchases (say, allowing them for "cross-platform digital media" like ebooks), and treated streaming game apps the way they treat other streaming media, those alone might have been enough. Sure, they'd have lost some money that way, but objectively, probably not enough to be worth the risk of going through what they're facing now.
I also didn't get it, however I only trade options once in a while. I don't know whether they should put a tutorial/about section, but I'd love to know what this is for, if anyone would care to shed some light.
> Anecdotally, I've never experienced more rapid, clustered downvotes than in these threads. Certain keywords tend to be magnets for downvotes, regardless of how tame, well-written, or factual the comment is—to a degree that doesn't square with far more controversial opinions expressed in unrelated threads.

1. Downvotes shouldn't matter to you.

2. I doubt downvotes matter to the 50 cent parties and disinformation trolls of the world, either, if only because a downvote provides so little payoff.
Sounds like the start to an epic quest.
I looked into TimescaleDB, but didn't find a lot of support for monitoring agents that push data into Postgres. TimescaleDB is built on Postgres and uses the same mechanisms for ingesting data.

There's a plugin for Telegraf that looks promising, but it hasn't been merged yet.

Is anyone else using TimescaleDB? If so, what do you use to push monitoring data to it?
They could contact a three letter agency, that's totally legal.

Or they could release information publically, without informing M$
yes, but the fixed and variable parameters to "use" and "density" are different.

And luckily, except for outside Amsterdam Centraal and a couple of other places, it doesn't matter: The fixed and variable parameters of the model are far above where we want to be and far above where we would be, if we reduced single occupancy car-type vehicle use.

If we include the crazy, semi-fatal Dutch microcar, I think we might get to the worst of both worlds: thousands of people old and young driving microcars like they are in Legoland on a toy road, but the road isn't toy.
It's certainly esoteric if you're trying to diagnose entitlement issues. It's all poorly documented. Some of the documentation on the Apple website is flat out wrong, for example recommendations on signing multiple separate binaries, each requiring an entitlement (spoiler: there's exactly one app id per package (EDIT: per bundle), and exactly one executable that can use that app id for entitlements, so the documentation was recommending a method of accomplishing something that is simply impossible, which explains why it never worked).

Once you figure things out, it's not nearly as bad. The tools can work well. And that's hugely valuable. But documentation and consistency are significantly worse than common open source projects. And at least with open source you can also resort to looking at the code to figure things out. I find myself constantly doing that for Keychain, actually. Fortunately older versions of Apple's Security.framework are open source, which helps me diagnose and analyze API usage problems. Want to figure out how to retrieve the usage constraints (i.e. SecAccessControlCreateFlags) used to generate a T2 Secure Enclave private key? Or even simpler, want to figure out if its even possible to derive those constraints? Only the code is going to tell you.
"Using this kind of graph one can more easily see"
False, I cannot tell what is happening in this graph.

It's hard to go back and forth between the graph and the legend to tell what year it is. One way to improve the readability is to have the color shift uniformly between one PAST color and one PRESENT color so I can follow the line from the past to the present.

While animation rarely improves graphs, it really can if time is the 3rd dimension your 2d visualization (image) needs. Something like this
http://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/spirals/
(first gif)
So what? Let creators figure out their business model. That's their job.

We DO NOT want to look at ads. If their solution is ads, we'll block them. When are they gonna understand this?
Kids ask "ahh, gee, when will I ever need to use geometry?" and the answer is when you realize you got ripped off by paying the same price for a 1.5" diameter tungsten sphere as you would for a 1.5" tungsten cube.
Games generally don't "accumulate" in floats for extended periods, unlike typical scientific applications where they might be using iterative solvers, simulating processes, or inverting huge matrices.

Instead, games tend to take some input parameters, use those to transform a read-only data set, render a frame, and then throw everything away. The next frame starts from scratch. There's no accumulation.

In my experience, typically only the "player camera angle" is kept around and accumulated into. The precision errors here are negligible. Nobody cares if the viewport is 0.00001 degrees to the left or right of where it "should" be.

Most other parameters that are kept frame-to-frame tend to be "world simulation" stuff. In that case, consistency is so important for network codes that most games use fixed point or integers only. This avoids any kind of discrepancies when using delta compression or multiplayer where people have different CPUs.
Well, you can get an M1 Mac Mini for about the same price.

A 4-core VM running on my M1 MBP builds stuff nearly as fast as a bare-metal 64-core Ampere EMAG. So I'm guessing the M1 would run circles around 16 A72s..
I agree in principle, but I find the program extremely useful and the performance is totally acceptable for my use-case.

I want a chat program that is:
- Tolerable to use
- Does not require, incessant fiddling to get to work right (it's OK if it could allow so to get it to work even better)
- Has some sort of rich-text formatting
- Good, low-latency voice
- Tolerable video or screen sharing
- I can onboard people easily
- Is group-oriented, not 1-to-1-oriented
- Bonus points if it has reasonable moderation tools for guests or similar

If not for Discord, I would be using something like Slack (which somehow manages to have concurrency issues when typing and some jank occurs, uses 3x the memory, and does not scale nearly as well for multiple workspaces), TeamSpeak (which has very obscure UX, requires self-hosting, and doesn't provide a reasonable rich-text-chat), Matrix (I have to either pick an equally-bloated Electron client or one of the many incomplete native clients), or something else.

The fact is that raw performance itself is rather low in my list of priorities, as long as it a) doesn't stop my train of thought and b) does not overburden my system unnecessarily when idle.

As you can see all of that is very much subjective, I'm not saying you are wrong to demand utmost performance. I also try to strive for it in the programs I write, but when consuming I prioritize stability and features.
I think the problem with commercial apps on Linux is just that the standard Linux security model is too loose for it. Android and IOS have the right idea that apps should be denied permission to do things unless the users says it's okay. I don't want random inscrutable binaries from various companies reading my passwords or email just because all my files are wide open to any software I run on the same user ID.

So far desktop Linux has successfully repelled most commercial software simply by being very difficult to package software for.
I've been using manjaro and really like it's package manager. The cli stuff is a pain at first, but worth being able to trivially install two parallel python versions. YaST is my second favorite.

The manjaro gui tool also to you do snap/ flatpak. Those two are about as close as you'll get to a district independent package manager.
Completely agree, especially due to the incredible expenses involved with going to court.
Tangential, but fascinating to me: I realized a few years ago that you cannot play duck hunt with an original light gun and original NES connected to a flatscreen TV. I’m sure there are people on HN who can explain this more eloquently than I can, but basically the flatscreen TVs have some latency that the original NES hardware cannot handle. You pull the trigger and the gun looks for the white square immediately, but the TV has some digital processing going on that takes some fraction of a second before the image is rendered, and it’s enough that the NES doesn’t think you hit the target. I seem to recall some thing about the CRT refresh rate as well but I don’t remember what that had to do with it.

There are apparently after market mods and stuff that people have come up with to work around this, but it takes some effort.

As you can imagine I discovered this by trying to play duck hunt and being perplexed when I was literally unable to hit any target, which made a very poor demo for my kids haha.
I had to look at this for an unrelated project, and its clear that chipset is for router/firewall use. The endstation features of the chip don't include very basic offloads like TSO.
I had been paying a little over $1,000 USD per month in Tomsk, Russia.

I had about 125 square meters in the center of the city, right across from the main university campus, 600/600Mbps unmetered symmetrical fiber with a static ipv4 address ($10 a month from domru), unlimited 4g (a little over $10 from megafon), ordered delivery for literally every meal, and used taxi apps for all my travel.

The bureaucracy and paperwork for existing is probably a fair bit more than what you’d be used to in the US - e.g., needing to register your residence every time you go to a hotel, go back to your apartment, etc. But, the process for actually getting stuff done, like getting an apartment or getting bank account, is actually pretty simple and something you can navigate easily on your own or with any Russian speaking friend.

Healthcare was good too. I had a good experience at the state run hospitals when I, unfortunately, needed surgery; patient staff, quality work, and I didn’t even carry my wallet in and walked out paying nothing. Similarly, ambulances were another painless experience, not even asking for my insurance.

FWIW: I think the typical “nomad” is often quite a bit more right-wing and concerned about taxes and money than I am (don't take offense, just an observation!). The city is fairly liberal for Russia, it’s young, has a nice academic scene, etc. I’m not sure I’d stay forever, but I don’t regret the years I spent there. It was a lot of fun, people were nice, the experiences were wild, and university was great.

Downsides:

- Access to foreign products, electronics, or even things as simple as English books can be lacking.

- There's nothing anywhere near as convenient as Amazon, so be prepared for visits to actual stores when you need a cable or something and have fun navigating aliexpress, avito, and similar.

- Racism is still a thing and even though actually getting my apartment was easy, finding a landlord willing to rent to an "Omar" was a lot harder ("for slavs only" is an unfortunately common thing in realty listings). Similarly, my Chinese friends experienced a fair bit of serious discrimination when the pandemic first began. If you're light-skinned and have a white-sounding name, I don't imagine you'll face any trouble, though.

- Although Tomsk is significantly more liberal than many other areas, and I don't think anything particularly terrible would happen, it's probably not got the most vibrant of LGBT atmospheres on the planet.

- Weather is just brutal. From the windchill of -51 I experienced to the 30+ summers.

- Get an apartment with a boiler. Most people use city-provided hot water for showers, but that means every summer, you'll lose your hot water for a week or so while they do they annual maintenance otherwise.
Uhu. April is the cruelest month.
A cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment
> This settlement has that already.

It sounds like an extremely limited version of that. Email? How magnanimous of them. I'm surprised it was registered mail or carrier pigeon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88F3ceEKcqY&list=PLVAJkoGT9A...

Min 6:35

They may even doing him a favor: they're warning him he's breaking the law, and could face the consequences. And the things they're accusing him of are not just squatting.
> You can scare people but you can't intimidate red tape.

The history of Scientology versus the IRS suggests otherwise.
It is a scheme to keep Russian engineers from working for Iran and North Korea. Same as the foolish plan to build US rockets with Russian engines.
English spelling being standardized so early is one of the problems with it. The language has changed since the spelling was standardized (minus a few debates on the letter u).
> 212kB

Rust'll be ready for embedded when it is 512 bytes: https://gitlab.com/pmikkelsen/asm_snake
One thing I've wondered, exactly how easy would it be to find a gold puddle after a fire anyway? I mean it's not going to vaporize or walk off on its own, but is it just going to be a little solidified glob there to pick up or what?
Insane brigading/astroturfing battle happening on r/Ivermectin
At least all of those have reasonable lifespans and have high rates of recycling, can't say the same for mining rigs.
Not the exact thing you're looking for, but may be of interest.

https://www.insider.com/italy-town-maenza-selling-one-euro-h...
This article is a poor quality piece alluding to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
Isn’t the real value of things like OnlyFans the marketplace and discovery for consumers?
If you remove that component, then it’s just a personal content blog with a paywall, which is not exciting at all.

I don’t intend to be rude, I’m just genuinely curious to the motivation in creating stuff like this when it completely misses the value of the product it mimics.
I don’t buy a MacBook for the software (macOS) but for the hardware. Apple simple makes the best laptops. They are second to none.
Then a team forms up to fork and strip the ads, just like Devuan stripped systemd.
> Once your default distribution starts shipping with built in ads, and every other distribution follows suit because it makes them boatloads of money, your linux desktop will be well and truly dead.

Is there some idiom or trope to this that I'm missing that makes it obvious sarcasm? Because that's literally not possible without some inconceivable laws being passed, so I'm confused as to what you're trying to communicate.