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It might not be an easy way to avoid using coal electricity.

Not buying a game in game saturated market is not that hard or essential to quality of life
As others have mentioned, Boggleheads.

Personally I would recommend the following, especially if you're more concerned with retirement than investments:

1. The Simple Path to Wealth (or just listen to the author get interviewed on the following podcasts):

A. Afford Anything

B. Bigger Pockets Money Podcast

C. Radical Personal Finance

2. Mr. Money Mustache
The fact that this is on a pager app company's site immediately sets off some alarm bells.

"Systematically overcome your fear of failure" is a great principle, but why is PagerDuty of all companies promoting this? I can't help but think this is an attempt to market some kind of product, but I can't figure out what it is.
> When I was in college I really loved working on the console, I built great apps using the console, and I quite enjoyed what I was doing!

Having written programs for nearly 40 years, I have found that there is a balance to be found, and continuously re-found, between what you love and what will pay. The happiest and most productive programmers I know don't focus just on what will pay, but also on what keeps them interested. This usually involves compromises.

Admittedly I live in a very different place than Iraq, but perhaps that just means the details of those compromises will be different for you.

Also, I think it's a mistake to specialize too early, unless you find something that you really love and can make money with it. Don't be afraid to try things, put them down for awhile, and try them again a few months or years later. Follow your interests for your personal work, try to meet your clients' needs in your paid work, ignore the BS as much as you can, and it can be a satisfying career.

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50x50B=2,500B.
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Do you guys not have phones?
> When I was in college I really loved working on the console, I built great apps using the console, and I quite enjoyed what I was doing! We were learning C++ at the time, and working on the console made me think about my logic, my code, my idea, instead of sweating about the design, or how a button looks, or how to make text appear good on all screen sizes.

> I want to try out Native mobile development but I am not sure whether it would be the right choice for me or not.

You like writing native code? I am assuming, like most people in your country, you’ve got an Android phone. Become the master of native Android dev, which you’ll love because it allows you to leverage the stuff you used to enjoy. It’s totally free, just takes time. Once you’ve done this, you can build stuff that average people can use on a constant basis. That’s step 1.

Then, pick off ideas that are poorly translated for your local market or ignored, particularly in areas where foreign multinationals would either want to invest/buy what you made to add Iraq to their world domination map, or use the thing you made as an advertising channel into the young and growing population in your country. Consumer goods, financial services... there’s lots of categories. Test your apps and ideas on your dumbest relatives to get a sense for whether you’re building something “normal” people want.

Keep working those dead-end jobs while doing this. Get enough traction within your local area where foreign dollars can see how their added dollars would help you “capture the market in Iraq” for what you’re doing. Use that capital to grow and exit, then help others do the same, then keep doing it. Congratulations, you’ve become the Non-Evil version of the Samwer Brothers[1].

1: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-the-clone-factory
> Charles Moore was once criticized for this and he pointed out you could just use font instead I think.

I think that would be terrible too but people seem to love their fancy fonts, italics and ligatures, at least in the JS world, like here https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*hE_nLB776KUDXPERE_3cXw.pn.... I honestly don't see the point and find it harder to read but to each their own.

> Keep in mind he generally builds these things for himself based off of his own needs. I can't remember if this is default for the GreenArrays chips though, so perhaps that doesn't hold in all situations.

This was more of a general comment about the idea.
Styropyro has been making videos with high view counts for around ten years.
Unfortunately, for us as a profession we still haven't yet figured out what "practice" looks like.

The closest we've done is just "more game time". The closest we've found is when learning a new tech doing a small project. But that is learning a tech and distinctly different from "practicing" the craft of programming.
That seems like a little bit of a non sequitur to the topic in this particular thread chain.

Anyway, yes of course they happen. They happen in every power producing industry. It's hard to find good numbers of course as there's going to be some amount of error, but here's one [1].

The point isn't that in that report nuclear has fewer deaths than wind and solar as I'm sure that will cause an emotional reaction. The point is that it's so low and comparable. Even if it was 10x worse it would be worth the tradeoff of replacing coal.

Nuclear is our only choice for replacing industrial scale use of coal and oil. It's unfortunate that that's the case, but those are the facts on the ground currently and there's no sign of that ever changing. The way Wind and Solar generate energy are wholly incompatible with high temperature industrial uses where coal and natural gas are used let alone the problems of variability (batteries help, but there are limits and batter manufacturing at scale brings its own challenges).

If you're comparing Nuclear to Wind and Solar power generation, you're comparing power sources that don't compete. Nuclear is about replacing the worst problems coal and oil present us and staving off global warming. It's an extremely critical and underdeveloped resource and only gets safer and better with time. It would be erroneous to state any risk in a vacuum - you have to compare it with what's happening today.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
Yes, if it's used in efforts to combat climate change, e.g. powering alternative energy research, or attending climate change conferences, etc.
The first game I remember having a story was The Legend of Zelda. The competition at the time was Mario, Duck Hunt, Excitebike, and all the arcade and Atari games.
Just read the section about temperament. Several errors just in that short section. Pretty much a mess of writing.
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I think maybe you don't follow the companies closely enough. The poster you are replying to mentioned AMZN and TSLA.

Amzn's core businesses are very profitable, but they are constantly reinvesting those profits into new areas where they are growing. It's like a conglomeration of start ups, each aiming at future profit. It's like you've invested in one profitable company, and instead of dividends, you are getting shares of new start ups.

TSLA has now been profitable for 9 quarters, recently massively profitable with billions in free cash flow. Analysts are projecting even more to come, with profit margins approaching that of Apple and a total addressable market 10x the size. (I feel like TSLA is one of the few exceptions to the problems the author identifies in the article.). The TSLA bulls that I follow are all talking about future profits and how to discount those to net present value.
What the story is, and how it's told, are both important aspects to varying degrees to different people. This is the case with novels, too. For example, I love a good mindbending plot, and barely care how it's told. I can tolerate / enjoy hard scifi or fantasy with detailed magic systems, even if the writing is considered not great. To me, the Ciuxin Liu Three Body Problem series is one of the greatest of all time because it has some absolutely wild ideas, even though it was translated from Chinese by different translators, and some people say not well.

On the other hand, a lot of people enjoy the art of literary composition. Grand scenes with precisely chosen words, "show don't tell" (which has little bearing on the underlying plot ideas, to me), and lots of rich description. I don't care for that sort of stuff, probably because I don't visualize things in my head much while reading, but I know a lot of people who judge books and authors on it.
I worked on meta.org for a year starting in 2017 soon after it was acquired by CZI. There was no sign that I saw that the domain was ever destined for Facebook.

Uninteresting as it may be, I take the reason for the shut down at face value. From what I saw, meta.org never did as well as was expected, and other competitive services were doing better, notably Semantic Scholar.

To be sure, the exact timing probably had something to do with FB’s announcement, and the shared ownership of the two organizations probably helped the domain sale go smoothly.
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Sites like that are the heart of the real potential of the internet. Not this meta crap.
That was only in The Witcher 1. They didn't have them in 2 or 3.

And it wasn't really well received at the time either, but it was a way of handling romance without the awkward cut-scenes that existed at the time. They only briefly showed on screen and IIRC weren't accessible later. It wasn't really collectable in the sense of collect-a-thon games like Mario Odyssey, either. Out of context it sounds horrible, in context it's a bit of a nonsensical addition.

They were going after a "french postcard" feel and it just didn't work that way. Possibly because people aren't as familiar with what they were referencing.
I don't disagree with any of that. People should pursue alternate energy sources. However world governments should not be putting their fingers on the scales in favor of green energy. Legislators who also just happen to have financial investments in these same new technologies. Yet another reason to be skeptical. Everyone points their fingers at the oil industry for the studies they fund, but Al Gore was a hair's width away from becoming the world's first green billionaire when he tried to pass a law forcing companies to exchange carbon credits and he was a 40% owner in carbon exchange network that would mediate it.

Green energy is making advancements. Unfortunately for them the fossil fuel industry continues to make advancements as well. Every year they get better at drilling, better at harvesting, better at converting from crude to fuel, better at burning, better at extracting energy from what is burned. At least a dozen different metrics get 2% better year over year which keeps fossil fuels competitive and makes it harder for other sources of energy to replace it.

Which is fine. It's all fine. I just want the best energy available. And the way our civilization has historically measured the "best" is through the free market. Green will win eventually. No need to rush it prematurely. It will happen.
> For capitalism to remain oriented toward growth and live up to its “Smithian” justifications, the private sector must be subordinate to and take direction from the state. In liberal capitalism or plutocracy, on the other hand, the oligarchs will use their power to resist development.

There’s some depth and valid points in this article, but the above sentence was my confirmation that the author is starting from a fixed ideological position.
Pills can be stopped. good luck removing an implant. There is also the fact that the implant itself, competes with natural neuronal development by taking up space, and increasing intercranial pressure which is a growth stop signal. Depending on the nature of said implant, it's mode of operation can be changed at the whimsy of an external party. See the story around "Chop jobs" in System Shock/System Shock 2, where cybernetic implants are posited to be capable of automating a person's physical behaviors even against their own will. The topic is toyed with quite effectively there. It's all a matter of splicing in a bit of biocompatible chip at the right nerve endings.

Very "I have no mouth, yet I must scream."

And pills, for the record aren@t much better. Your mind and mental state are still largely dependent on access to the drug, and if you've ever tried to do anything remotely ambitious while contending with the extra restrictions placed on you w.r.t. Schedule 2 substances; good bloody luck. Though if you've got practices you@re willing to share , I'm all ears.
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Open source tractors and other agricultural equipment have been around for quite a while now, but don't really have much uptake. People still prefer to buy John Deere. Why do you think that might be?
I would not personally go that far. I may avoid parentheses for whatever is already commonly not put between parentheses in the code base I work on and would default to parentheses otherwise.

But another tool to work around this issue is to just give names to sub expressions by storing them into constants. Long expressions quickly get unreadable anyway.
I know everyone learns differently, but I gained most of my programming skills just from programming.

You will study other people's code on the job and code reviews provide coaching.

Chess is much harder for me because I don't have the discipline to study like that.

With coding, I can read a quick blog post or follow a tutorial, then immediately start incorporating ideas into my work.

In chess, if I study something, I might not encounter a situation where I can use that knowledge in game for a while. I don't get that immediate reinforcement so I forget things much easier.
> you just need a laptop and DAW to make tracks

You just need pen and paper to unify gravity and quantum mechanics.

You just need a laptop to write the next TikTok.

> less about making catchy beats and more about the marketing

That's a common complaint from unsuccessful artists. Michael Jackson spent a ton of money on marketing his last album and it was a total flop.
Thank (both of) you. I don't know why, I had always assumed Little Snitch was command-line. I'll play with it.

In my line of work I had used Charles (but no, that is not something I would consider was to use).
> Most awesome userscripts in my experience are made for personal consumption

Same with me. Some of my userscripts are very personal and you don't need to be compelled to share one just because you put a lot of time and effort into it.
The interactivity of the article is really nice!
There's ethics and there's legality. If a practice is truly abhorrent then it should be illegal and penalised as such, and ethics for consumers at that point is moot. What was going on at Blizzard was illegal and they go in trouble for it and that's all to the good.

I'm all for customers apply pressure through their buying habits, as you say that's entirely ethical. It's your right as a citizen. However most people don't know about any of this stuff and they shouldn't really have to.

Companies are huge organisations, many of them have many conscientious and ethical employees that do a lot that's great, but then some that are less ethical or are under a lot of pressure or have few options all shitty and bad things happen. Most of those things we never hear about. The chances that this one thing you hear about is truly representative and differentiating from the competition is probably actually pretty unlikely.

So sure, especially if you have a cause close to your heart that's fine. We should be holding companies to account, but laws and regulators exist for a reason. They represent us and are our primary tool for dealing with this sort of issue.
You can when Facebook + Snap call out Apple's change in their investor docs
The "Green Zone" at the COP26 conference, what the article is about, is described as: "Youth groups, civil society, academia, artists, business from across the UK and all over the world will be hosting events, exhibitions, cultural performances, workshops and talks." [1]

Nations deliberating on proposals and agreeing about climate actions is a whole other department.

[1] https://ukcop26.org/the-conference/green-zone-programme-of-e...
Or the person just wanted to write about pumpkin patches, did that, and getting statistics on them was impossible considering how informal they are.
>> making a site responsive really really is something I hate

You're probably frustrated because you think css or mastery in general should take less time. If a person thinks a journey will take 30 minutes and it takes 30 minutes, their mood is unchanged, but if they think a journey will take 10 minutes and it takes 30 minutes, they are enormously irritated.
The focusing of the public's attention with respect to the economy, the environment, each other, etc would make for an interesting and maybe even useful study.
I'm not sure I understand this explanation. Does the location of the furnace matter with respect to the direction the train is moving, i.e. the direction in which the wheels are turning? I mean, trains can go backwards, right?
I don't know Swift, but does this mean there are expressions in Swift where the compiler returns an error, because the expression is ambiguous without additional parentheses?

(My understanding of the article is that it mainly argues for _partial_ precedence, not so much that precedence/associativity can be defined in the program - the latter is also the case in other languages, e.g., Haskell.)
We have so many nuclear power plants running and the amount of waste so comparatively negligible (compared with coal, oil, natural gas) that it's moving the goal posts to require it to hit everything.

Humanity doesn't get better at doing something by doing it less. We need more power plants so that we build experience and costs go down. The market has to be there so that power plant design is invested in to drive down costs, improve efficiencies and reduce risks further.
> We really want to reduce this to a littering problem?

We really are pretending that if there’s an opiates epidemic in some areas of the USA, then the whole West has a severe drug problem?

The person I replied to claimed western cities are littered with needles, then another one came and told me that he had bad news re: public parks in big cities.
You're right. I shouldn't have said "walled garden" — a permissions system is a perfectly adequate solution.
I have fond memories playing with Garageband on the first iPad

now, imagine what could have happened if more operating systems came with a DAW pre-installed

i’d like to believe it would spawn generations of new artists
Pointless in what sense?

The very reason I'd like to see it updated is to see whether the conclusions change materially when we take into account technological progress.

As far as I understand it, whilst costs may be substantially lower that he envisaged, MacKay argued there are fundamental physical constraints on solar and wind that mean they still are unlikely to be able to provide all our energy needs (in the UK at least, without piping in energy from e.g. the Moroccan desert a la Xlinks).

(Yes, I realise solar can do an awful lot if you're willing to 'go big' and have huge batteries.
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Is it ethical to pay taxes to a government that does unethical things?
first learn from the GOATs: Warren Buffet, Peter Thiel, and my personal favorite Peter Lynch. (feel free to extend this list in the comments)

then for technical, how-to details, you just need to read & apply. for most people (ie. not someone who plans doing finance for a living, as a job) you don't need to learn a whole lot about every financial instrument. learn some info about what is out there, make your choice and let your investments sit as long as possible.

most no-brainer investment strategy is roughly 30% S&P 500, 30% in FAANG, 20% your choice (e.g. higher risk such as crypto, business, etc), <10% living expanses, remaining 10% - have fun. (house, car, vacation...)
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The usual argument is that the increase in the index since then is mostly due to increase of tech stock prices (valuations, market cap, etc), not that there were no big name IT companies back then in it.
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> Mankind does not have an energy generation problem.

No, humankind does not have an energy generation problem. The problem is the side effects of the methods used to generate the energy.

The existential risk is very real, but because it’s still far in the future, only very few people perceive it as such.

Covid is a great example of how incapable humans are to perceive dangers that are far in space and/or time.
They made him into a super-villian. Although my mind immediately included Gates on the list but his PR is top notch lately. Bizarre world though
This is not correct. China has built 24 1GW Gen III plants in 15 years.

No other solution can provide that much baseline power in 15 years. None.
Ah gotcha. I recalled someone getting upset about it being difficult for those reading code via braille (iirc) or maybe they weren't upset, but were just asking about it lol.
> We have a PROVEN solution ready to go that can be deployed in literally 10-15 years. We just need to end the ignorance.

No we don't. We don't have even one new Gen reactor running and even more important we don't have the people educated to build them in a massive scale.

It would take at least ten years to educate the nuclear engineers needed to build dozens or even hundreds of them.
And even then they don't have experience, they are juniors building very complex multi billion dollar installations.
If it's the Gwent mini game you are talking about afaik you have to defeat certain NPCs in a card game to get the cards that you are talking about. Also there are a lot of charecter cards not just women. Not to mention the fact that playing Gwent is completely optional in the game
I assume that pointing google-analytics.com to 0.0.0.0 in the hosts file is enough to stop this BS right?
Cross-compiling and Static-linking with Nix
Books sales are sales of anything with an ISBN. This includes adult colouring books, which I’ve heard is responsible for possibly all the sales increases in the past few years.
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I wonder if they run into issues selling by weight. Customers are usually paying more for the visual size, not however much water a particular item has in it.

Does the weight increase linearly with size? If it’s especially hollow, probably not, while an especially large and hollow pumpkin may be uncommon and should be sold for a high price.

Edit: I guess a better question would be, can you predict desirable carving qualities and visual size accurately as a function of pumpkin weight?
This so much. One barrel per year per reactor means we can run the US on 100% nuclear and store all the waste for the next 1000 years in the one existing facility in Nevada.
In all but the most large scale example it’s only the company’s shareholders that are hurt which arguably is the perfect target as they ultimately control the company.
Have you seen the footage? It often can't turn left properly, and that is in easy to read american streets that are wider than European Highways.
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And sometimes even if you are an expert, you may still make a mistake if you aren't in an optimal frame of mind - for example, if you didn't sleep or eat properly or had an altercation with someone, or your normal routine got messed up ... sometimes it is just that - a shitty day in your life with nothing to learn but to just go through it.
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