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All the old but happy people I know have children (and grand children). The more, the happier.

All the grumpy old people I know have no children, or just one.

On a day to day bases, it might feel like taking care of children is plenty stressful, but in the long run it's the ultimate form of joy/happiness.
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Coen boots off a CD and mounts itself into RAM as and when parts of it are loaded, but you still need the CD in the computer for it to load stuff not in RAM so we have a 2nd CD reader + writer for the material

You can tell if you're using a part of the OS that hasn't been used in a session yet because you can hear the CD drive with the OS CD in it physically spin up :)
> None of the outcomes listed are worse than the actual suicide.

This is 1000% missing the point. They've already decided that being dead is better than being alive with their current life situation. And you're saying they should voluntarily make their lives worse?

Can you imagine: You're at rock bottom, thinking about taking your life. Then someone comes along and says "Hey what if you don't and we lock you up and take your kids. Want to live now?"

Do you see how ridiculous that sounds?
This is what I think whenever someone tells me to sell something on Amazon or create an NFT. “Technically” I could figure it out and have the time to do it, but I wouldn’t because of the soul sucking nature or the pursuit.
As for why... it's complicated.

On the one hand, this is a change whose software engineering benefit is very small. (There is a small performance advantage, but it's not significant.) It has a large aesthetic benefit, though, in that it makes the standard library have one less ugly wart. But that wart wasn't really doing anything except being ugly. Some community members have a point of view that "ugly" shouldn't matter, and that in particular, the bar for breaking changes should be very high, and far higher than wart removal.

On the other hand, this particular change should affect extremely little actual code, because defining (/=) explicitly is dumb. When it does affect code, the solution is just to delete the lines of code that are doing the dumb thing. They don't even need to be replaced, because the only reasonable behavior is already provided by the default. Just deleting the dumb code is enough.

On the OTHER other hand, even a small amount of code change can add up to a lot of dependency management work. If just one library somewhere at the leaf of a dependency tree needs it's explicit (/=) deleted, then version bounds need to be added for all upstream bodies of code to ensure that they don't try to build against the old now-broken. Changing all those version bounds across perhaps dozens of packages is far, far more work than just deleting those few lines of code. You can look at this as a broken process, but I don't think anyone has a great answer to dependency management.

So I think it's in the end kind of a coin flip between (a) it's infuriating to some people not that this specific change is being made, but that it indicates the community values aesthetics above backward compatibility, and the absence of almost any practical software engineering benefit makes this a compelling test case upon which to direct their fury, and (b) despite the tiny amount of actual code change, it's quite possible it could lead to a non-trivial amount of coordination work between libraries, and THAT is a real (and not very fun) job.
There are large Arab communities in the north near Kunduz. Not all of them have retained their ancestral language but some have.
Fully-remote I couldn't say (I feel it'd be much harder for client acquisition to build the same level of trust), but pre-pandemic, and shortly after its start I was able to consistently make ~800EUR/day (100EUR/hr) on gigs where I was in the office 1 day/week in Berlin. ~75% of clients accepted that rate on the spot, so with a lot of inbound requests, you could probably even push for more.

That was mostly for full-stack (Node)JS jobs.
Tell the PM that we need to go slower to get faster.
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I once shared this outlook, but when one considers their own ideas about the lifestyle "wealthy" entails, and run some numbers, specifically determine the annual spend for that lifestyle, one will quickly realize the truth. A million can be blown in a year, or SWR'd (safe withdrawal rate) at $40k a year indefinitely. Can you retire on $40k a year? Would you want that level of income and lifestyle?

Of course this depends on location and cost of living. I am referring to someone in the US.

Edit: Specifically, does anyone (in the US) consider a $40k year income to qualify as "Wealthy"? Since that's what's being discussed here.
not really are there any scripts to install all this !
There are many other things you need other then hard work or luck. For example if you work very hard as an elementary school teacher no amount of luck will make you a millionaire. I think there is a lot of skill involved in getting into spots where you are even exposed to the opportunity and then you need luck but maybe less then you think as there are so many opportunities around it would be just very unlucky to not stumble into one after a while (that is assuming you're born in reasonably not poor country, healthy and to parents that care about you).
This statement doesn’t really make any sense. It’s like saying a car doesn’t have 4 doors because some cars don’t have four doors.

An NFT is a basic, fundamental piece of technology that represents unique digital tokens (token A is distinct from and not exchangeable with token B, unlike money and stocks and most tokens before them that are interchangeable with others of the same kind), usually on a public blockchain (though that’s not technically required).

If the artist signs a contract assigning all rights to the artwork to whoever holds the NFT they minted (and some do), sure they own the artwork!

If a domain name system is programmed to let whoever owns an NFT device where it points to, then the NFT holder owns that domain as much as you own any domain you purchase in the traditional way (especially if that system itself is verifiably immutable).

On the other hand if all the NFT signals is that you bought a limited edition token linked to a piece of art from its creator and that you donated a lot of money to a certain charity, some people want to be known for that kind of thing and see value there too, that’s ok!

And yes, if you buy something with no rights, perhaps not even from the creator of the art because you didn’t check, because you think it might go up in value… maybe you got scammed.

Technology helps people do more, and that includes scammers. The presence of scammers is irrelevant and unrelated to the presence and possibility of interesting, useful, or fun use cases. The fact you don’t find them interesting, useful, or fun doesn’t make the technology itself a scam or everyone involved a scammer, it just means your preferences lie elsewhere.
Those people make significantly more too. 2x-10000x
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So, the idea is that you save and invest, you don't have free standing cash - you put a majority of your liquidity into investment vehicles.
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I think the point is if you're a contractor and you're not getting the same rates as an equivalent company would for that contract/position you're under-selling yourself. As for the "tax trick" you still don't get out of paying income taxes on the entire revenue you generate. You just pay employment taxes on the portion that is salary. Whether that's "fair" or not is open to debate of course.
Yeah, was gonna add this too. This swaggering “jump ship” attitude and taking 2 month holidays is only possible during the unprecedented economic stimulus we’ve seen with Covid. In a tighter job market, even luck would be hard pressed to make this advisable.
> One does feel very watched in Singapore, though. I remember finding it interesting that there were cameras even inside the buses for public transport.

Same thing in America, this has been the case for a long time.

Helps two fold, with lawsuits against the bus company/ accusations against drivers, and of course with catching criminals.
You can on any Android tablet that allows root. You can run an X server via Termux and get a full graphical Linux environment. That will be necessary for Rust.

R, JupyterNotebooks and LaTeX can be done without root.
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I spend on business travels around Europe 1/4 of the year, 2 years ago we were moved from Visa to Amex and the company reversed the move after 1 month back to Visa.
Couple of major hotel chains didn't accept the Amex.
In Dublin specifically I had huge issues with Amex, not to mention Germany and Scandinavia.
It was just bad experience all together
>* Freedom is the limitation of choice

Assuming you meant the literal opposite, I can agree there's a bit of nuance but it's true in the "spirit of the law" sense. I really don't understand why you're still trying to take it so literally.

>This type of contradiction usually means a definition is incomplete

Words aren't perfect nor immutable, no definition is complete, but it's relatively easy to see what it's trying to say. It does not follow an absolute implication that punishment is not a restriction of freedom. There are less ambiguous definitions but this one is acceptable and beautifully simple.

If it were code it'd be a single-liner that works for 99.9% of users. But the "best" implementation works for 99.91%, is slow, 200 lines, no one understands and inexplicably broke for someone.
Which service to use for billing will depend on how you plan to charge your customers (flat monthly rate, usage based, etc.), so it's worth thinking about pricing first and then exploring the options available on the market. Even though they don't have a specific usage based billing product, my default recommendation is Stripe because it's so easy to setup and manage, and they really have the best product/experience.

Rate limiting is something that's not too difficult to implement and would probably make sense to build yourself. However, it's probably not something worth spending time on until it becomes a necessity (i.e. when you have enough customers that it becomes an issue). Don't waste time on it this early.

For authentication, there are several open and closed source options like Auth0, supertokens, etc. Any of them should work really well depending on how well they integrate with your programming language of choice. Some newer ones like Stytch offer more modern authentication flows (passwordless, magic link, etc). As an API product, you might want to look into a service that helps with generating and managing API keys for API authentication instead.

Depending on the complexity of your product's access control, I would recommend using an authorization-as-a-service product to handle authorization. Warrant (https://warrant.dev/ -- disclaimer: I'm the founder) is an end-to-end authorization service that helps you add authorization at any layer of your stack (API, UI, etc.) without much code and provides a dashboard for managing your access model/access rules.

Aside from these problems, I would recommend spending some time thinking about how you'll manage API versioning and infrastructure/deployments. These are really important for giving your customers a seamless experience as API consumers.

I hope this helps!
Eh, from what I know, it was very much ideological, at least that's what I heard from people I knew working with it.

To quote the dev on this himself:

>And putting it in a DB table means someone could very easily remove it by deleting every row of that table, which isn't good. I want to make it very difficult for racist trolls to use the most updated version of Lemmy.
> still very good money for a single earner in most of the country

Not to mention the world, since we're not all in the same country.
That is certainly an interpretation that has been retrofitted onto the motto...
"at a minimum."
Well, they didn’t actually witness the author signing anything. They witnessed the numbered piece of paper on a table in a bookstore, and the author may or may not have been present.

To know if this piece of paper was actually touched by the author, we still need verification outside of the blockchain.

It’s not obvious to me that all this has any value. “The author probably blessed a number” certainly doesn’t have the emotional connection of an actual physical signature, for example.

In a way NFTs seem to resemble the medieval church practice of selling indulgences. If you believe in the authority of those mass-produced blessed pieces of paper, they have value.
Yea. I remember right around college all the grownups around me were telling me to go to medicine and not computer science. A friend of my father even told me "IT is in great decline, it has no future".

When I was still a student, a number of other adults were giving me advice to get into the oil business.

It might have been a bad decision financially, but I just could never bring myself to care about these things.
>No, the analogy is that censorship is criminal

No, that's not right. Above, you likened cops to Facebook and groups of users to Mafia families who tattle on the crime of other families in order to stymie them. The Mafia does crime, while groups of users do speech; the cops catch and punish crime, while Facebook censors speech. The "only criminals around" won't be in control of the censorship unless you're suggesting that a group of users is going to unilaterally take over Facebook.

...Are you? Which one?
You'd need to know what both languages are to know what it does, and with that knowledge you can just call it a compiler.
How about this edit:

Instead, people are given the illusion that they have equal opportunity to incite discussion

Doesn't change OP's point. It's just clearer.
The moderation would be one thing if there could be an argument that the platform generally acts in good faith, but they don't. They seem to both have the Google problem that you absolutely can not reach anyone if you get banned by accident (and bye bye to your social graph if that happens, which is made all the worse because they insist on integrating all their services into one like IG/WA) and they also don't ban things that are reported and which ought to be banned
Not likely. They'll do the same thing just with whatever version last had a license they like probably making the problem worse. They happily shipped years old versions of things like bash and emacs to keep using GPL2 versions. It took like a decade before they replaced them with something else or just removed them entirely.
Pretty cool! How do you manage multiple target languages with a single AST parser? Do you use an intermediate AST?
I'm note sure "freedom" is the same thing as "possible". If it where, only physicists would concerns themselves with its definition.

I think it more often means "permissible" or "practical".
It's true that, in theory, you can do it faster with crypto. But I don't see how that benefit is material. It's easy to set up an LLC in approx. 1 day. With crypto, I guess you could theoretically do it in seconds. But, as this project demonstrates, delay in setting up the entity isn't the limiting factor. Actually raising the funds takes much longer.

And it's not as though setting up a DAO is easier. Both require either a substantial amount of domain-specific knowledge, or trust in general purpose tools/forms.

Can we think of a a similar case where the crypto speed benefit would be meaningful?

Edit: Your question about who can buy shares raises an interesting issue. It may be true that, if you did this in the traditional way, you could only sell shares to accredited investors. (I'm not sure. But that's my hunch.) But I wouldn't be so sure that these same rules don't apply to DAOs. It may be a complex legal question, and I haven't researched it, but I would certainly not assume that these solicitation rules don't apply to soliciting contributions to DAO's. After all, the same regulatory goal applies: preventing amateur investors from getting scammed, or taking on more risk than they had intended, through private-placement style investments where there are fewer market signals to help people make informed decisions. (Of course, it's a separate question whether we should have laws like that in the first place.)
Indeed, it seems the first struggle should be to develop the ability to do the things we think are correct before even considering that the most correct thing is.

If you sit around developing elaborate ethical systems as to how to act in every situation, but fail to live that system, then it's ultimately a pointless waste of time. It's better to a decent guy all the time than a hypothetical saint acting like a practical asshole.
This certainly is true depending on the industry. In ad tech for example, countless companies claim they're using AI to optimize digital campaigns in real time or whatever, when it's just a "dump Google analytics into Google BQ and run regressions". Good companies do exist but you have do really look for them.

I have seen first hand a big old company buying for millions an "automl startup" which was just a simple web interface to pycaret.

Career progression comes naturally when you, at once, work with something you like and it has impact/meaning. You have to find both.
Not everything benefits from citation.
I agree that authentication is not sufficient on its own, but I argue that it's necessary as part of the solution.

A source package should meet the following criteria:

• Package contents match exactly the source tree at a PGP signed commit at a public repository URL. This must be verified before the package is made available through the package manager.

Now, if I am whitelisting PGP keys, an attacker needs to steal creds to get something by me.

Ideally you want multiple signatures by trusted keys prior to publication. Each additional signature makes it significantly less likely that a package is provided by a malicious attacker.

EDIT: Hmm, how about package signing parties held over videochat? If we already know each other and you tell me that a particular package was created by you, I sign it.
I don’t really think HN would have taken off if there were such heavy handed approaches to moderation in the first place. Further, I don’t believe a lack of this filter would result in “the same word over and over”. What?

One of the things that makes F/OSS great is user freedom. Why would I want to use F/OSS from someone that had such “my way or the highway” opinions about subjective things like how to handle people using bad words?

Edit: wording
most of the engineering complexity occurs beyond the obvious product surface. moreover , most scenarios and use cases exist outside of a typical consumer experience . if you limit yourself to certain products that you are familiar with, you will eliminate 80+ % of the engineering opportunities out there
They live in the UK. Health insurance is literally a non factor in the developed world other than the US.
Updating the source code of your software goes agains the spirit of a decentralized network? How? The whole point of decentralized networks is that people with different source code/implementations can communicate with each other.
I think this is the real answer. People are just having more fun doing it this way. That's OK. But I worry they're getting scammed as a result, and that's not going to convince anyone else to use a DAO for anything important.
> Sites like Reddit, HN, and Stack Overflow do a much better job with [...], community-appointed moderators [...]

Reddit doesn't have community-appointed moderators. That's just factually not true.

What Reddit has is a bunch of little kingdoms run by whichever moderator happened to stake a claim on it first. Those moderators then add more moderators below them according to their personal whims... usually, they appoint some people who are invested in the community somewhat, but their appointment is completely arbitrary.

Going to call these "top moderators" (who staked out their claim) and "local moderators" (who are involved in the community).

The top moderators are, as far as I can tell, 100% invested in becoming moderators for as many little territories as they can, and amassing as much power as they can. They have absolute authority to add or remove other moderators in their little kingdoms, and they can make whatever decisions they want about removing posts in their territories. By and large, they do not interact with the communities they moderate... they don't care, they just want territory. What do they do with that power? Who knows!

The local moderators are appointed by the top mods, and they may have a limited set of permissions.

I'll just come out and say that Reddit is poorly moderated. That's my opinion. There are a few subreddits which are exceptions to this, but most subreddits are poorly moderated. Active mods spend most of their time just fighting spam posts and troll posts, and doing very little to figure out what moderation policies make sense. That's just the nature of the game. Nobody really wants to do the job of being an active mod, because it sucks, because you're playing a little cat and mouse game with users all the time.

Take, for example, one of the NYC subreddits (either NYC or NewYorkCity, I forget). Most of the posts are created by a single guy who spams a few low-effort memes in a Jordan Peterson subreddit, builds karma and history for their user profile, and then posts every news article about crime to the NYC subreddit. That user eventually gets banned and creates a new account. Seems like that user is on a mission to portray NYC as some crime-ridden shithole. The same user might be posting similar articles to the Seattle subreddit, or something. It makes the local subreddits a bit useless.

There are a plenty of decent subreddits but they tend to be very small and very specialized.
If your friend can reliably generate 10% (not just in the current insane bull market) he should open a hedge fund.
AI text content generation is indeed a legit industry that's still in its nascent stages. It's why I myself have spent a lot of time working with it, and working on tools for fully custom text generation models (https://github.com/minimaxir/aitextgen).

However, there are tradeoffs currently. In the case of GPT-3, it's cost and risk of brushing against the Content Guidelines.

There's also the surprisingly underdiscussed risk of copyright of generated content. OpenAI won't enforce their own copyright, but it's possible for GPT-3 to output existing content verbatim which is a massive legal liability. (it's half the reason I'm researching custom models fully trained with copyright-safe content)
There are cameras inside the buses in San Francisco too.

I certainly agree with your assessment, cameras are obscenely obvious in Singapore, which leads to the feeling of being watched. The difference, I suspect, is that more money is spent to make the cameras an obvious fixture, and you can be sure that the well-connected government is tracking you through them. In Singapore, little brother and big brother are one and the same.
> Really, don't spend your life getting fitter, healthier, ?more productive. We are all going to die

> looking at the sea from an hammock and drinking too much beer with friends three times a week

I get the point he's trying to make but "relaxing" is not for everyone, some people find meaning in bettering themselves.

From a personal point of view, sitting on a beach and drinking beer for more than a weekend sounds boring to say the least.
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