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> Lesson #3) Anyone can sign up for Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) to search and retrieve your own legal documents [...] getting them yourself at $0.10 a page.

It sounds cheap, but one bad search and you may be fetching 100s of pages (IIRC, the number of pages returned by your search is what counts - https://pacer.uscourts.gov/pacer-pricing-how-fees-work).

If you do so, you can also use RECAP: https://free.law/recap. It's like the internet archive for PACER documents.

It's a browser extension that helps create a crowdsourced archive of the PACER content. You can then search that archive (this time for free) in https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/

For stuff not on RECAP, then PACER can be used, and fee is waived if less than $30 that quarter according to https://free.law/pacer-facts
> The median bachelor’s degree is worth $306,000 for students who graduate on time. But the median conceals enormous variation. Some fields of study, including engineering, computer science, nursing, and economics, can produce returns of $1 million or more. Others, including art, music, religion, and psychology, often have a zero or even negative net financial value.

So:

1. Make sure you graduate
2. Be aware that certain majors have "zero or negative net financial value"

But I wonder what happens if we apply the article's policy of optimizing for ROI? Do we eliminate art and music programs (and art and music schools?) Eliminate psychology as a major? Shut down film studies departments in the Ivy League (though philosophy is OK apparently?)

Or should "low-value" majors only be permitted as double majors and minors?
Or, you know, just work with the ISPs to make it illegal, like with BitTorrent.

Also, what you want already exists - you're free to go use Mastodon and run your own node. You can't possibly think that's a reasonable product your grandparents would be able to use.
in NJ kindergarten isn't mandated. so they can just nope you out of it. you would then either pay for private, get diagnosed with X to go into special needs kindergarten, or wait it out until 1st grade. i was put in special needs and was integrated the beginning of 4th grade.

as far as the test i don't remember what they did for me. my daughter breezed through it like it was nothing and obviously it seemed very basic to me lol!
VSCode is also a great SSH tool, you can even debug remotely. I rarely touch system terminal anymore.
Flood/Hurricanes are a great example of regional disasters where large numbers have to leave their homes. Your region may not be susceptible to these events, though.

Civil Unrest/War can also lead to folks fleeing their homes- see the massive numbers of refugees fleeing warzones. Staying in your home in such a situation may not be the wisest course of action.

Earthquakes as you mentioned can be another cause- also, tornados- but tornadoes are usually fairly localized.
How does it compare to esbuild? Seems they both want to achieve exactly the same thing, but somehow it's two different efforts.
Also excited about the Rust compiler! Apologies if this is far from reality, but by looking at recent commits in GH[1] it looks as though this has been rushed for a v12 release, so I was wondering how much of internal testing has this been going through before pushing it to the broader public.

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/commits/canary
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I was pretty lucky that the Internet came about right when I was attending college. Prior to that, mostly Lawyers and Doctors were the only college grads regularly breaking past 6 figures in jobs. I was also lucky to get through without 6 figure debt, and at low interest rates on Federal loans.

Private loans preyed on so many of my peers and other family members. Also schools quickly raised charges, while underpaying staff. It's really the influence of comerical industry that screws a lot of the benefeits of a college education up nowadays.

The student needs to be a special type of person to get through it, solve all the problems that arise, work out how to maximize their potential, and then quickly get to work on their future.

College is not only a learning process, it's also a huge personal test of character, dedication, and analytical skill. The GPA though really does not determine a person's full capacity though, and the classes are often not what teaches you the most important things.

Many people from non-ivy-league schools also go far beyond many other ivy league students in terms of lifetime accomplishment -- usually because of the type of character they have and people they are (and sometimes because they cheat), but for certain jobs in this world, Ivy League is often an unwritten "pre-requisite".
They have so much money and influence, I trust them to find a way :)
> I guess replacing configuration with code is one way of achieving "zero-configuration".

That's a weird thing to have beef with since this approach to middleware is completely inline with Next's zero-config philosophy.

They take common patterns in the industry and make them dead simple to use out-of-the-box.

In an alternate framework that uses middleware, you would have to manually configure the middleware on whatever server you are using and then attach all the middleware in a single place.

Their approach IS zero-config. You just add a file with your middleware function in the corresponding directory and you're done.
I just went without seeing the Internet for 8 years, being held in a county jail. The worst bit was not being able to settle an argument by calling up Wikipedia.
$15/hour federal minimum wage to start, combined with Medicare for all, funded via cuts to the military budget.
> Do people allocate a certain amount of time just to upgrade Rails?

Rails spits a bunch of deprecation warnings when stuff is changing. Usually it's just a matter of playing whack-a-mole with the deprecation warnings and walking through the upgrade instructions. It's a chore but it's not especially difficult, even if you're multiple versions behind (in which case you go should upgrade through the intermediate versions one at a time).

The thing that will save your bacon here is having decent test coverage, so you actually see those deprecation warnings :)
Nah, I think they genuinely mean "trolls" who happen to be parents and have to explain to their kids what they do for a living.
Native applications already have subscription models so I don’t get this.

And are mobile apps running in locked down OSes truly “native” either? Whether they’re written in WASM or Swift, if they are locked behind an App Store subscription, whether they’re downloaded and stored on the device filesystem permanently or downloaded on the fly and cached as needed is irrelevant as the end user still lacks control and you still end up with an uncrackable walled garden.

There some bizarre notions associated with “native” here which I don’t think have anything to do with control over how people run stuff.

Likewise, why is a world where most people learn JavaScript any better or worse than a world where most people learn Swift?

There’s never going to be a world where no minority languages exist and frankly, the more “pro” languages which have fewer users end up paying more $$$ as they are perceived to require more expertise than scripting languages. Seems like a win/win if concerned.

We once celebrated the Web and the idea of ephemerality, portability, “view source” and inspect, etc and now somehow we’re back to people wanting installable binary blobs locked into app stores as somehow superior.
It was a container full of scrap metal but a piece of radioactive cobalt...

> the box was stuffed at a metal yard in Saudi Arabia under the auspices of Sun Metal Casting, a scrap-metal dealer in the tiny Arab emirate of Ajman.

> Whatever was in the box was giving off gamma rays at 1,173 and 1,332 kiloelectron volts. It could be only one thing: cobalt-60 slowly alchemizing itself into nickel.
An important thing to note is that college is often a positional good. A large part of the value of a college degree is that it gets you hired at the expense of people with a worse educational background. This is necessarily something that does not scale as total investment in higher education increases.

In other words, this is very much the value to the student, not the value to society. The ROI values should be used for personal decision-making, and not for funding of institutions and subsidies for college attendance.
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> if I had it to do again I think I would have paid a company to intern for a few months until my output exceeded any "drain" my lack of knowledge incurred.

As a biology major who later had to turn to tech (sadly quite common as it turns out), I can sincerely empathize with this. Unfortunately, in the health sciences you cannot do this, even taking a low level lab position requires some level of college/university credit because of the samples you are dealing with (blood, tissue) and the requirements imposed by Law to ensure they gate-keep even though errors occur regardless of degree level in labs, which is why you take such large samples to begin with.

In my foray with tech I've made a career in fintech (co-founder then went to a Megacorp), after spending time in Supply Chain roles the auto Industry. In both of those fields you are encouraged to not follow the predecessor if you want to be successful and move up; it rewards you if can pull it off and bring something novel and add value to the Team/Operation. And that, more than anything I learned in University, stuck with me for reasons that I think you could understand.

After COVID derailed my Life, as it did others, I asked myself what I wanted to do and I decided to enroll into a BSc program in AI and Machine Learning, with the aspiration of doing what you just mentioned--getting a role before graduating by leveraging my existing skills and the new skills I'd learn with the brand of a University to back it up.

My entrepreneurial habits kicked in during the on-boarding process and I saw a need to create a payment processing system to pay for tuition as so many students (mainly international) at the University in question were forced to pay via a system which resulted in delays, missing deadlines and large fees to process if it were possible. Some students even had to resort to using Western Union to make the deadline!

This was at the time that Twitter had launched its Bitcoin tipping feature via iOS on it's platform, so a proof of concept/MVP could have been spun in short order.

Eventually the faculty sent out a memo condemning using any alternatives (they became aware of the conversations happeing in Slack chat) saying it would result in further delays (or inability to register at all) if they did, thus making it entirely moot to try and flesh anything out. It wouldn't be anything but a MVP, as being a middleman/clearing house doesn't serve any of my long term goals.

But what it could have done is disrupt the model and force progress to be made where it would otherwise remain stagnant.

With all that said, now that you're established in the Industry and you likely have Senior Dev status, how would you go about this: how could one pitch this in order to take you on for X sum of money and not have it fall on deaf ears?

I mean, I'm guessing YOU would be open to this given what you've said but how would your project managers react to this? I've held developer and consultant status at the aforementioned Megacorp and I had way more friction for more insipid things.
First, even if that were true, it would not be a fatal flaw. Second the report makes no causal inference and even points out that such an inference is very difficult to make. Instead the study controls for a variety of factors such as family background, geographic location, demographics, health and age.
Do you realize that I am advocating for Assange, who exposed the Bush administration. Why is it only a political dig if it's aimed at Clinton?
I don't get it. It's still not possible to use next/image (without some fancy loader or 3rd party service) when exporting a SSG build.

Are people really not using responsive images when exporting a static site? Seems quite ridiculous to rely on some 3rd party service for image optimization when the images could be generated locally when exporting the site...
Yea, this time is different. It's just about selling newspapers.

Cambridge Analytica was a scandal that boiled down to: FB gave your data to other people without asking you. The EU, state of CA, other states passed privacy laws that companies will get in trouble for misusing data. Newspapers made a bunch of money, meaningful change happened.

In this case, what's the core issue? FB sometimes makes people feel bad? Spreads misinformation? How are we going to fix that? Fox News spreads misinfo. Cosmo magazine makes people feel bad about their bodies. Are we going to start running sentiment surveys for every news or entertainment product so we can shut down the ones that are above X%?

Common theme of the articles coming out now just seems to be "We got some inside dirt, it's going to make you angry, come take a look." Gonna sell some papers, but I don't see what the meaningful change will be.

I know some want to shut down or break up FB, maybe that's the endgame of all this. I don't see a world where driving kids further onto Snap, TikTok, Reddit, Discord, whatever is gonna change anything about misinfo or how they feel.
The challenge in single-core timing-important ESP development is using the wireless peripherals effectively while maintaining I/O scheduling. Even with "zero-cost async" at the application layer, the WiFi and Bluetooth implementations are mostly software and will be getting scheduled on that same single CPU. You don't really get to control their scheduling in a granular manner, so meeting timing is pretty hard in many situations.

This is probably the most annoying thing about ESP development, but mostly goes away when you can just dedicate a core to the "ESP stuff" and then run your application on the other core.
I've been working in games for the better part of a decade, at AAA scale for the last three years, and this is pure fantasy. It is extremely difficult to develop high-quality games for a console, which has fixed hardware specs and a single vendor for the SDK. Any layer of emulation on top of that creates new problems and dilutes every single aspect of performance, sometimes in unpredictable ways.

On top of that, building things that work consistently across browsers and across time is an extremely cursed problem.

Insomniac Games, makers of the new Spider-Man games, spent several years trying to port all of their development tools and workflows to be web-based and work in Chrome. And then, when they got there, it turned out to be terrible. Google would update the browser and key tools would break and nobody would know why. The tools folks had to work in Javascript, while the majority of the engine was still in C++.

The call was eventually made to migrate the tools back to native exes, which was another multi-year process, but nobody missed the Chrome tools. Clicking a bookmark in a browser turns out to be about as difficult as clicking a desktop icon, and the stability is significantly improved.
Hey Lee. I am not entirely sure how server-side components replace the dynamic/static balance next.js is now the market standard for.

1) Do the .server files require any special infrastructure for self hosted solutions?

2) If we move to ISR to a component level, would that mean that a page with multiple components will generate a backend-process thrash of multiple refreshes? (say 10 components, each with a revalidate 1 s)

3) Is there a good mapping to translate ISR to server side components from both UX and infrastructure/implementation?
How bad is the supply chain crisis?
This insanity stems from the media misleading the public into thinking people like Musk (for example) actually have hundreds of billions in cash. He doesn't. What he has is Tesla stock, which the public is welcome to buy as well.

If you bought say $5000 of TSLA 3 years ago, that would now be worth nearly $100,000. The media will try to tell the uninformed that you've made a ton of money, and "have paid no taxes". But you haven't made a ton of money, you still just have TSLA shares. As soon as you convert them to USD you have to pay tax on the gains like everyone else.
It's an excellent book, FWIW.

I get not wanting to support him, but I think the overall gain from having the book available to any interested party trumps the minuscule impact one book sale has on Myhrvold or his businesses. I would encourage your library to buy a used copy if it's that important to you, because in that case no new revenue is generated for the authors.
> in a future where most build tooling is written in languages like rust/go

You really think most of the build tooling will be written in other languages than JS? Compilers make sense, they are very CPU bound, but otherwise build tooling should also be accessible to modify to the developers working in the project, not just those who use Rust/Golang. And I'm sure we'll still use JS projects for some of the tooling.
Yes that is also one additional point - people will pick pin like 0000 or 12345 not to forget them which makes pins in general less secure.

Some people would set their pin the same as their debit card just to remember one number instead of multiple.

That is why finger print unlocking is quite great for day to day use.

Of course it is not enough for more complex security scenarios, but as someone else mentioned lock on my doors is quite easy to pick but still it is good enough for most of people.
As an app backend guy, it's always fun to dive into infrastructure stuff like this that I know little about. Naively, it looks like they pieced together some K8s alternatives. I saw they wrote about why they moved away from K8s here: https://www.koyeb.com/blog/the-koyeb-serverless-engine-from-....

Usually when blog posts like these come out other K8s practitioners say their K8s was just misconfigured.

Would love to see more opinions from K8s folks on the assumptions & design decisions.
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Colleges giving new graduates even 10% of this context would completely change the game. I went in with a ton of passion but absolutely 0 guidance, ended up 6 figures in debt with a degree I only kinda use today.
> Yes, I absolutely think that finding that balance is usually a case of finding the unhappy minimum and not about finding a spot where everyone is happy.

I'm glad we agree!

Here's where the hot take comes in: we're there now. Encryption is something we have access to. Law enforcement manages to work around it on a regular basis and has now for several decades.

> Yes, I think there probably are cases where something like this happens but I would assume those cases would be a little less debatable.

One would certainly hope so, but it's perhaps possible that this might not always be true. There are often people ready and willing to debate what should be undebateable. It shocks the conscience.

> If you are talking about the current case though, what is the false premise or what are the biases?

Some people have come to this conversation with the false premise that taking away encryption will substantially help law enforcement, improving safety and security for our vulnerable friends, neighbors, and community members. Their pain, suffering, and exploitation is very real, yet that perhaps does not always make functional what is done in the name of keeping them safe.

Some have come to this debate with the bias of assuming there is a useful policy medium to be found. Perhaps there is not, as we might be dealing with technical matters that are all-or-nothing in unavoidable ways.

Some may find these to be perhaps worthy of careful examination, as such things can perhaps lead to dangerously misguided policy - such as the Clipper chip or mass surveillance.

Thank you for being thoughtful and centering kindness, mercy, and compassion.
> I guess replacing configuration with code is one way of achieving "zero-configuration".

> Feels like all tooling starts out with "We're simple, no config or code needed!" and eventually ends up so extensible that it's hard to figure out how to even use it. Then another competitor appears and shouts "We're so simple compared to X, no config or code needed!", and the cycle repeats.

I think that is missing the point of middlewares. They are not a thing you _have to_ configure before you can even get going (which is what zero-config usually alludes to). Instead middleware is a mechanism for sharing code between different routes.

Now that code might contain functionality that can be eliminated through strong conventions (i.e. always parse JSON instead of having to configure a content-type aware body-parser middleware). But that is a very specific use case and middlewares do a whole lot more than that. So even with goodest faith, I think your point does not land.
They are two different efforts, started a little while ago, one in Go and one in Rust. I believe esbuild was started first, but they both seem to be maturing rather well lately.
More of the US budget already goes to medical care and social services than military. The problem is how inefficiently it's used.
This isn’t what I meant when I asked you for Linux support, Adobe!
The rough cut of Lynch's version clocked in at over 4 hours, and the intended cut (which never saw the light of day) was supposed to be almost 3 hours long.
I'm sick of the NIMBY card. This should not be in ANYONE'S backyard.

NIMBYism is Houston, Atlanta, etc. buying one-way bus tickets to Seattle and SF. Locals who want the problem solved are not NIMBY's.
Wait, are you saying that the stack I mentioned doesn't work well on mobile? Because I've coded and tested everything myself-- my sites are infinitely better on mobile compared to anything written in react
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So is there actually a distinction here? I think most people would be surprised if Google said they didn't track you but that "ads were personalized based on your searches" but I'm open to a good-faith interpretation where tracking is actually a more specific behavior.
Already passed that point for me. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Cable TV, Spotify? Nope.

I pay for larger iCloud storage and I have a library card.
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HALT.

System has detected that the product is running with a purpose.

Abort / Retry / Fail?
Well obviously you're not one of the .002% of people who are into aviation! /s