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TLDR: Start with some CLI text games in Node.js :)

Three viable options:

* Work in tech until you're financially independent (you should be able to pull this off in a decade or 15 years at most), then retire from tech and start working in writing/journalism full time without needing to worry about the fact that you could be making $40k at best for the rest of your life. You'd have plenty of time. After leaving a youthful interest in writing for a career in insurance, Chandler didn't come back to writing until he was in his 40s. It was then that he wrote his best (and best known) work

* Write on the side. You can make a good income and still comfortably fit in 15-20 hours a week of writing. WCW was a doctor and wrote poetry on the side. Many other role models here of course. The trick is to find a job that respects WLB and to avoid positions of time-consuming responsibility, but this is not difficult in tech if you're not trying to maximize income

* Broaden your understanding of the arts to include games (this one makes good sense to me as someone with an MFA in game design). Then, you can get a programming job at a game studio. From there, if you like, you can move towards/into design through "gameplay programmer" and "technical designer" roles. The upside here is that you can use many of your existing math/CS skills, and the money is ok (only in commercial gamedev, though. Solo gamedev artists starve like all other artists everywhere and forever). Another upside is that you can get started making games today using the skills you have and a tool like Godot. You can get a feel for whether you like it while practicing skills relevant to your current career

If I was you, I'd go with gamedev on the side and start working on some small story-driven (or even text-only) games using some tool that's tailored for those genres, like Twine or Ren'Py. Or honestly, just a CLI Node.js text game, why not

Good luck. Most programming jobs at medium/large orgs are boring as shit so I get wanting out
You could accurately scare-quote any word in that sentence.
10 Productivity Boosters with the GitHub CLI [video]
In Germany it's either the voting papers sent to your primary residency (same database used to issue ID cards and passports) or your passport / ID card in case you forgot / lost your voting papers. Easy enough, even if the voting papers are a lot easier in practical terms.
Absurdly, I've done it multiple times. It runs over SMS, literally any phone that can receive SMS' is already compatible.

I believe many of the messaging apps on Android also support exporting your messages as an archive, but no idea whether iMessage has any support for importing message history.
Just want to make sure you're aware of the possible liver damage from metabolizing adrafinil into modafinil as something to look into. Most take modafinil or armodafinil instead.
FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis
Technically that would be a different thermodynamic cycle. For a true jet engine, you need compression, heating, and then expansion. Using the heat of compression doesn't count; it's thermodynamically equivalent to a propeller (just less efficient because not all of the work is being converted directly into kinetic energy, but rather a bunch is converted into heat).

One could however make an electric jet engine. You "just" need to replace the fuel-based heating element with an electric-based one. Then the front compressor would be electric, and you'd have no use for the turbine, since its sole purpose in conventional jet engines is to extract energy from the combustion to power the compressor.

I have this recurring daydream of an electrodynamic jet engine. The inlet ionizes the airflow, the compressor is electromagnetic, the heating element inductive. Just one fancy-shaped tube with a bunch of complicated electronics around it. That would be really interesting from a whole lot of perspectives -- for example, noise reduction. It also would open up a lot more flexibility in terms of power density (which is more or less determined by the amount of heat you can dump into the engine, which is more or less limited by the melting point of the turbine blades).

Something else that's interesting about that idea is that it doesn't depend on oxygen in the air, which means you could use it on Mars and Venus. I've never looked into the numbers for Venus, but as I remember, the local speed of sound is a significant challenge for rotorcraft on Mars, so having a rotorless, purely-electric jet engine there could open up a lot of flexibility in terms of aircraft performance.
> benefit is still tangible and real in that it confers better outcomes to those that do contract the disease

The thing is that a treatment having real and tangible benefits is not an adequate justification for the state imposing that treatment by force.

And yes, laws requiring vaccine passports for participation in public life are a use of state force. If the police stop you doing something, that means the state is using force to stop you doing that thing. If the state mandates that businesses require papers under the threat of fines or losing their business license, that's also an application of force on the part of the state.

Informed consent has been the bedrock of medical ethics for the past 70 years and it would be unwise to throw away this principle just to impose a preventative treatment that might be mildly good for people.

People are right to point out that the push for vaccine passports --- because the vaccines are merely preventative individual therapies --- is a gravely concerning break with nearly a century of tradition and law. In general, we don't mandate things merely because they're good for people, and it would be extremely dangerous to start doing that in general.

Look: elsewhere, people have suggested that I'm claiming that because the vaccines can't stop the spread, they have no benefit. That's not true. They do seem beneficial. Lots of things are beneficial. Vitamin D deficiency, for example, is common and vitamin D supplementation would benefit most people. Do we require that people present evidence of vitamin D supplementation to eat at restaurants? No, of course not! That's an individual medical decision.

The whole point of mandating traditional vaccines is that eradicating a disease has huge positive externalities, ones large enough to justify public health measures --- like vaccine requirements for admission into schools --- that would ordinarily fail on civil liberties grounds. COVID vaccines simply do not have the same large positive externalities. Yes, they might be good for you, but this fact alone does not justify coercive state action.

COVID vaccines are not like the vaccines that have been mandated for a long time in public schools and at border crossings. COVID vaccines are non-sterilizing. The previous vaccines were sterilizing. These are two completely different categories of medical tools, and pointing out that we've done thing X with previous vaccines is not an argument that we should do thing X with respect to COVID vaccines.
This is close to what happened to me. I went back to study sculpture in my 30s, and although I loved it, and still have creative projects, I realised pretty quickly that I wasn't ready to go back to a hand-to-mouth lifestyle, living in shabby digs in the cheap part of town. Now I have a family and there's absolutely no way I'd want to go back to that kind of financial insecurity. For every Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of struggling artists. I met quite a few fine artists who were full-time professionals making genuinely wonderful work, represented by well-regarded galleries, who despite being able to occasionally sell pieces in the tens of thousands of pounds were still scraping a living teaching at art college. (Not helped by the fact that galleries generally take at least 50% of any sale price).
An article about the oldest torrent and nary a magnet link in sight? Sure, there's the hash in the picture, but that's weak.

What's the second oldest torrent? That's probably a better measure of the network health, because it doesn't get attention from articles about the oldest active torrent.
> Being able to use programming to create art is fantastic.

What do you think about the demoscene?
I was also not able to sleep properly after taking modafinil. Which in turns affected my concentration. In my opinion, the best drug is good sleep and less stress.
> Perhaps the only widespread misconception is that there's a tier of artists below the superstar level, who can earn a living at it. There isn't.

I'd put one minor twist on that, in that it depends on how "commercial" the art field is that you're getting into. For example, for anyone in a pure entertainment field (musician, actor, comedian, etc.), I'd agree. But I have some artistic friends who got into other fields like carpentry and painting who actually make a good living at it.

The carpentry example is a guy who studied traditional Japanese woodworking in Japan, and now has a pretty thriving business designing and making high-end furniture for interior design clients. Same with the painter, he's a pretty incredible portrait painter so he gets a lot of commissions from rich clients to do portraits and other interior painting for big remodel or new build projects.
The key is that this research (which includes creating mutations of sars-cov viruses) was indeed funded by the NIH.
Practical DDD in Golang: Module
I love that the photo they chose for their fear-mongering article was of inmates praying. Scary.
> my other comment for reasons why this would be in breach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28501088

It's a decent attempt at an argument, but far from convincing. One could argue it's to dissuade opting out. One could also argue it's being presented to show the opt out has teeth. (Non-technical people ascribe meaning to fantasy progress meters. A number of UI studies have shown that.)

As for opt out needing to be instant in comparison to opt in, the argument holds no water. If a legacy system were patched for GDPR, it's reasonable for the opt-out to involve more code, not less, as an extra routine undoes the defaults. That or making a record of the opt out is done tediously. (In this case, the argument is moot since the delay is fake.)

The toughest argument one could make from the ICO checklist [1] is that a one and a half second spinner delay constitutes a material "detriment" or penalization of withdrawal of consent. Those are technically true to a trivial degree, but immaterial. Far from meriting a 1% fine per the original comment.

These kinds of arguments hurt everyone working for privacy by trivializing it to a sympathetically mockable degree.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Software Eng- Daily drops a disstrack about the Zuck ruining his life
Or we could just call it what it is - fascism.
If energy is consumed uniformly over time, and all fuel is consumed during a flight, it would mean a factor of 2. Using a lot of fuel during takeoff would mean a slightly higher factor, but keeping a fuel reserve would decrease the factor, so it would probably come out even?
The article also says they revived it in 1988 until 1990
I'm not sure that's the case: the iceland, malta, and israel results (very highly vaccinated population) are worrying in the extreme; take a look and see if you agree that transmission might actually be worse. As to why that is, perhaps because they think they're not a spreader? Are we actually typhoid mary/joe when we go out thinking that we're not putting people at risk? I think this means wearing masks for the entire population is a good idea.

Either way, everyone should get the vaccine for the health benefit when they actually acquire covid (when not if). The better outcomes are without question, but what is questionable is the rate of spread, especially of delta and the new... is it called lambda(?) variant.

We need to be honest about this: the benefit of the vaccine is clear due to the milder outcomes across even low risk groups. That itself makes it worth it.
We need to let all these guys out as soon as possible so they can take up the reigns in the fledgling new Afghan government.
Okay, I buy that, you can have a justified belief that isn't true, if justification is itself subjective/probabilistic rather than deductive.

Then this paper argues that you can have a justified belief that is true, but still isn't knowledge. Why? Because the justification is faulty. Well sure, since we've admitted in the first place that justifications can be faulty. So why would you ever assume that they invariably lead to knowledge? Had the concept of believing right thing for the wrong reasons not been invented in the 1960s?

I just can't get myself into a mindset where this is a revelatory finding, but maybe I'm too steeped in a bayesian worldview.
I don’t get how ”docker-compose up” is complicated? Sure, if one needs to take a look at logs or something, maybe the UI can be clearer than looking up a container by its name.
Hacking old Galaxy Tabs for better living: I helped neighbors own smart homes
>Movie theaters don't make much of their money from the actual tickets, but if they stopped showing movies no one is going to pay them $20 for a popcorn.

The more common version of the fallacy is, "Pharmaceutical companies produce nothing of value because look, most of their money is spent on marketing, not on discovering miracle cures."

Yes, they spend on a ton of money on marketing to eke out whatever they can from a given discovery ... but that all depends on having a legit discovery to begin with.
> Broaden your understanding of the arts to include games

I came here to post this. I only worked in the game dev industry for ~6 months, but it was clear to me this is how I would break into any form of "art" myself. All manner of creative things exist in the space of game development too. Writing, painting, music, cinema, modeling, etc. It's all there.
How to Stop Functional Programming
I would say the hotel stay situation is more like a "papers please" than a "situation where I wish to identify myself".

Last time I booked a hotel via an app at the last minute for an overnight stay after going to the pub in a city away from home, the booking process didn't mention we needed to show our passports at reception. It was a new policy for that hotel.

When we went to the hotel, about midnight, of course we didn't have passports with us, why would we? It's not normal to take your passport when visiting a neighbouring city for a night out.

I've stayed at countless hotels, and never had this problem before. But I understand the UK is becoming more draconian so perhaps a rule had kicked in since the previous time I went to a hotel. But I had the impression, it was a recent policy change by this hotel, and "oh, we should update our website".

It was pouring with rain, there were no other hotels accepting bookings by then, and the last train home would be in a few hours. Our Uber had dropped us off, and hotel reception was telling us we had to go outside into to the pouring rain as we couldn't stay despite having paid.

They knew perfectly well who we were. It wasn't an identity thing. We were able to show booking numbers, credit cards, confirm emails, and other forms of identity. But not the type their new policy required.

They required every guest's passport, not just one person. As luck would have it, we each spent about an hour trawling through the contents on our electronic devices and online, and we each found images of our passports in some location or other because of the ubiquitous requests for photos of passports these days, and those photos were accepted by the hotel.
They voluntarily withdrew their bid, because all 29 of the remaining Atlas 5 rockets (not built afaik, just planned and have engines ready in storage somewhere in Alabama) are already assigned to customers.
No, they are equation that previously both items were socially acceptable until society demanded change and made both illegal and provided services to enforce such laws.

The impact of violating privacy is neither increased nor decreased by the impact of theft and/or murder. If we compare theft and murder, theft «in general» is less impactful than murder, as I'm deprived of property and potentially physically injured with theft, with murder I am deprived of life itself.

That murder is generally more impactful doesn't make theft more acceptable/less bad; we should have laws for both.
How does this work out on Windows?
Patents, but also copyright on software. We gain nothing by rewriting the software every time, OSS should be the default. Same for music. It’s more controversial but Spotify is monetizing convenience, not music, which itself is available for free on P2P.
I guess they’ll get to test out their new neural hash scanning tech with the Quran as soon as their delayed rollout is done. Early 2022 maybe?
"it takes every kinda people
To make what life's about" - Robert Palmer.

Sure, it's in poor taste while there are more humane ways to spend one's capital. I don't know, maybe cleaning up the oil-polluted shores of Nigeria [1] (which if you drive a car or take a bus is all of our fault). However, while I don't care for the imbalance, I do find these eccentric expenditures by billionaires as having value for human kind - I view it as a form of art.

If you think the Hearst estate is crazy nonsense - get a load of the Winchester house (2), which percolates my imagination while at the same time makes me shake my head.

This stuff adds a level of whimsical fantasy to life that is tangible, and it stretches the bounds of what we previously (as a species) deemed imrpobable if not impossible. I'm not asshamed to say I enjoy this facet of the stained glass window of life. I'm not saying your feelings are right or wrong, I'm just posing another perspective that may help find the silver lining. For better or worse, the fabric of life takes every kind of people, and I happen to tend to think there is a little more good in this stuff than bad.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/06/t...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House
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Jet fuel has the advantage that it is consumed as you fly. Some planes can start with full tanks, but not land. If they need to do an emergency landing, they have to dump the fuel. I imagine that would be difficult with batteries.
Vaccinations are already forced on e.g. school-going kids in the name of the public good, for very good reasons!
I think your first challenge is to define what you mean by "successful". I no longer build software, and instead build wooden furniture. Setting aside the question of whether or not that's the arts (I don't care one way or the other), my partner and I went into that career change knowing full well it would never pay the way software did.

We've also structured our lives such that we can live with the fluctuations in income that result from that career change. We live in modest places, drive older cars (verging on shitbox in my case, but I do most of my own work and can keep an older car running. Her car is newer), don't eat out much (even in normal times) and vacation inexpensively (we're both hikers). I suspect you know this, at least abstractly, but it bears pointing out.

Given our current goals, our working version of success is that my income will help us cut into the principal of a mortgage much more rapidly than we could on hers alone. Mind you we need to find a house to buy first, but details. Point being, we're looking in a price range that we can afford on her income indefinitely. Success for us looks like owning it outright faster than we would without my income.

Less tangibly, success has included me being excited about my work. I was not excited about going and writing code for pretty much the whole time we were together before I made that career change.
> There is no money in the market at all. When you buy a share of stock, someone else is selling it to you. Your $100 becomes their $100.

for someone to have $100 to buy a share of stock they have to send that $100 to their broker first
Rapid growth means absolutely nothing on Reddit when it's possibly the most the most astro-turfed platform on the internet. I came across a thread from that subreddit and it resembled a grotesque celebration that a 4-year old had died due to an anti-vax family member.
I’ve done it and had well-known ESPs write personal responses (not templates) saying they’ve contacted the customer about the problem. They could be outright lying, but that probably wouldn’t scale well beyond a small support group.

I believe the incentives are more aligned than you might think. An ESP isn’t risking revenue by telling a customer that something’s not working and making them fix it. All parties know that ignoring it manifests in poor deliverability, often quickly (thanks, Gmail “Spam” button!). In my experience, your skepticism is justified about ESPs permanently shutting off a customer, but they’re comfortable doing anything short of that.
https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/files/gyromic.pdf

So on this paper looking at it, the experiment is done where the speakers are at 75 dB and the phone is one foot away (See Section 3.4). 75 dB looks to be about as loud as a vacuum cleaner. The phone is also completely still, so there is no other data that is being recorded besides (very loud) audio.

Good to know about the various phones though. I'm honestly not sure why such a high sample rate is even needed/wanted (though in the paper, it is mentioned that there are ones with much lower sampling rates, so if this is a real concern, populate you device with a chip with a lower sampling rate).
I certainly hope you’re finished communicating your blatant lies to other people as well - it would in fact save lives.
If we behaved like ants we'd have no more interest in going to Mars than ants do.
Canada has acknowledged it's own complicity in the Guantanamo detention of it's own citizen and paid that citizen millions of dollars in settlement.

This isn't to say that Guantanamo was actually useful for the national security of the US or Canada or that their complicity is equal.
Anyone knows how much more efficiency is gained (due to reduced weight) once a jetliner consumes 50% of its fuel?

Curious if for flying it’ll be more practical to use electricity for some kind of direct or indirect carbon sequestration (to be carbon neutral) fuel generation and continue to fly with some type of combustion based fuel.
If they actually was war prisoners US wouldn't have been able to treat them like this. The 'enemy combatant' swindle made it possible to treat them with no rights.
I've had many conversations with people with anxiety. I think you're attributing more intentionality than existed here.

Scared people make stupid choices.
Not a book, but I found the logic courses on brilliant.org to really stretch the brain muscle

https://brilliant.org/courses/logic-deduction/
If they had similar symptoms then there would be no point to the vaccination at all because it’s symptoms why people get hospitalized.

By now that’s even become the main argument for vaccinations: Less hospitalizations due to less severe symptoms. While all the talk about “herd immunity”, the original most pushed reason for mass vaccinations, has turned out to be not realistic.
A standalone DPI circumvention tool
Whatever the truth of the matter is, what I was getting at was the tone of the article, which seems happy with innuendo and partisan talking points. I have an open mind on whether or not it was a lab leak, but not being an epidemiologist I'm left with trying to gauge the tone as a proxy for whether to trust the author, and this article doesn't pass the smell test for me.
My understanding is that the basket is based on what consumers actually spend their dollars on. Maybe there's a better way to do it, but I'm not sure what that would be.
...and they're fed it in a feedlot. The entire point of 'making hay'