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About 99% of the graduates of "coding bootcamps" won't ever have heard what a "port" even is.
> locally made, locally owned

Why exactly? Can you elucidate on this viewpoint. Australia has a huge proportion of dirty coalfired power so anything energy intensive would be better produced elsewhere, Australian emissions per capita are among the highest in the world, so supporting more workers is again a bad argument, the world needs far less Australians given their rate of consumption.

Does it simply just boil down to stonecold nationalism?
I left my job in July, and took a bit of break to introspect, focus on my health, spend time taking care of my family members, did a few investments, read up a lot and figuring out what I want to do next.

I have just started to talk to people wrt to different jobs, although I am not sure I want to take up another job. will figure it out in due time.
Are you sure you want to make the argument that because words can be interpreted in their least charitable way that that’s what the intention really was?

Reading that proposal is _clear_ to me that it’s for internal use only and that the impact to the global internet is that “it does not exist”. (And even hinting that it’s a good thing).

Obviously they never _comitted_ to never using it, but it is absolutely apparent that their intent was “internal to google, unused outside” and given how poisoned the .dev namespace was already at that time: it was met with somewhat apprehensive open arms.

Google then went and opened it and made it impossible to use locally by pinning HSTS on the TLD level. Which is basically the worst thing they could have done with it, given that people were using it locally already.. and some popular frameworks even recommended it as an option when running locally.

(Though, there is an argument to be made there that they made sure things worked as expected by forcing the public use of .dev)

Obviously it’s fine now. But don’t pretend this was obvious.
Overlays are very hit and miss for this. It's important for non-nix people to understand that with an overlay you typically only change the version of the source of the program. Essentially think of it like downloading an older git commit. But quite often the Nix build instructions won't work with arbitrary commits. A file that's being patched in the current Nixpkgs checkout might not exist in the version of the source you check out. Then you start playing whack a mole where you override more and more of the derivation.

Using an older Nixpkgs checkout might have a higher rate of success but if Nixpkgs never included the version you need in the first place that also doesn't work.

So the mechanisms you describe are in my experience very good in theory but often lacking in practice.
It's actually called "Triplex", Commplex and Seeplex are part of Triplex.

> The Commplex is a
communications package for communication with the NCUBE from Sun workstations.

Wait, all roads lead to Oracle?

So, uhm, this reminds me of STMPS and port 465. Read about it, and it's a sad state of affairs because of a blunder in managing that list. Funnily, mail providers and Cisco share that port (and no, not a TCP/UDP split, both are for TCP connections).

So who suggested to use port 5000 then way back? That's a serious question that is now my homework for this conversation.
I write, because it makes my arguments reusable for like-minded people, with sources, quotes etc.
Maybe I'm very lucky, but that's not my experience in the corporate world. I think there's a lot of 2nd effects and feedback loops that favor cooperative behaviors and strongly penalize jerks, at least in the medium/long term.
What you’re likely to find (and what Intel and others are doing) is they’ll (try to) find a way to sell 100 doses at $100, 100 at $75, 500 at $20, and have some other hardship programs to sell doses at $10 or $0.

That way, they make even more money, which in the scope of saving 1000 lives per year, I’m totally cool with as it tends to support those drugs getting developed and produced.
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I did this. Started a drop shipping business with friends. That didn’t pan out. Then tried to build a startup. That didn’t pan out either, so I started consulting. It was fine, but consulting and full time employment are really two sides of the same coin. I figured I might as well get the benefits and equity that come with full time roles. Since quitting I have more than doubled my previous salary, and gained a ton of front end knowledge I never would have learned just by working at my old job.
People on average need to do some work, but we do a lot more than the minimums.

We live in a world of practical abundance relative to any other time in human history. The reason everyone doesn’t work a 10 hour week is we want a higher living standards which is an endless cycle. In the 1400’s we didn’t grow enough food for everyone to be fat, let alone the extravagance of modern healthcare etc which is part of the minimum standards everyone wants. Yet compared to the entirety of human history things where generally going well back then.

The total life savings to live like a 1920’s hobo is shockingly low. Save up ~20k and retire to a life as a homeless vagabond simply isn’t appealing. Even extreme FIRE devotees generally aim for not just a shack somewhere but all the amenities of a modern lifestyle.
>one thing is for sure, is that we can't keep building McMansions

Why not? They're surprisingly low on resources for their size. They seem to be mostly wood beams and sheet rock, with a thin concrete foundation.
I feel like Intel tries this about once every five years, everyone is unhappy, and it's abandoned for a bit.

I'm pretty sure there were certain desktop chips for which virtualization instructions were an in-chip-purchase, for instance.
I think I have #1, #2 and #3 sorted out. I am not sure if another Big Tech job is an answer for me. Its either doing an indie business, starting a startup or joining one, but yeah #1, #2 and #3 help. Definitely need some time to decompress before I make the move to working hard again.
If we can toggle features on and off for money, then I would like to get a refund for the Intel Management Engine because I don't want that nonsense on my private computer.
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You can do the same with btrfs too. I think SuSE already integrates this, and I used to do that with Arch Linux before I started using NixOS.
From the original report [1]

There is no dramatic difference in the quality or
volume of evidence regarding cephalopods as
opposed to decapods. There is more evidence for
sentience in octopods than in true crabs, but the
difference is not vast, and the evidence for
sentience in true crabs is slightly more substantial
than the evidence for sentience in other, less-
studied cephalopods. This leads us to recommend
that, if cephalopods are to be included in the scope
of animal welfare laws, decapods should also be
included.

[1] https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/News-Assets/PDFs/2021/Sentience-i... (PDF)
...it boggles my mind that listening on port 0 and then reporting the actual bound port is not the default. It takes only a couple minutes more to properly write (and another couple of minutes to write the code to properly consume the reported port) but it offers tremendous convenience.
I think for beginners Django rocks. I dont do software at all in my career (Engineering), but I can pick-up a django project, look through the example project in the documentation and then throw (and I mean throw) together a working django project in a few evenings. With a very much an amateur knowledge of python. As in another thread, the css takes longer.

Are they any other beginner alternatives I should be looking at ?
I think it’s important to have detailed plans (daily schedules etc) to keep yourself busy albeit at leisurely pace. More importantly have specific goals. It doesn’t have to be career-oriented goals. It can be something simple like “learning to play an instrument”. If you’re planning on going back to the same field, have a side project going (doesn’t even have to be successful) to keep up with the latest technologies (toolings, trends, etc). This is especially important now because things move rather fast.

Don’t burn any bridges and keep regular contacts with people from your prior work. Do not completely unplug. Lastly, do focus on your mental health. I am assuming people who do this are burnt out and have worked stupid hours for years on end. It takes longer than you think to recover from all the physical and mental stress. Focus on yourself!
Thanks - the page is very focused on the ESP32, and I missed the "Build for Linux" section in the middle.
Such differences can be called "academic", useful if you don't have a plan, not really useful for people without money. If you have money, you don't really need a plan, so whole discussion is then moot.
I don’t think there’s a fundamental need to “make the world a better place”, like in the Silicon Valley TV series.
Oh wow

> Brose describes an incident in which someone, likely a member of Russia's intelligence community, spuriously called the mother of a Ukrainian commander and told her that her son was dead. She then hurriedly called his unencrypted cell phone to try to confirm whether this was true. When he called her back to tell everything was okay, Russian troops geolocated his forces' positions from his cell phone signal and hit them with a rocket artillery barrage, killing him in the process.
And those organisations who _did_ own their own computers in the 60s and 70s often had to make this sort of in-chip-purchase. I gather that, on payment of a very large amount of money, IBM would send out an engineer to change some jumpers to remove artificial limits on some s360-era machines.
The unavoidable reason it’s not free is that it takes the labor and energy of others, neither of which is free. How many acres are you personally willing to farm every year so that I can eat for free?
I worked at agencies for about 8 years and always wanted to go freelance. I handed in my 1 month notice with nothing lined up, created a LinkedIn, made a CV, sent some emails. I started my first freelance contract a week after my last day at my old job.

Honestly I thought I was going to take a while to get the ball rolling but nah it was super easy. Best choice I ever made. My life is 10 times better now. If you're thinking about it make sure you've got a bit of money saved just in case but otherwise go for it. Life is short.
Not too bad, I'm still riding it a bit.

I went part-time at my coding job before the pandemic due to stress/anxiety from some unknown work-related source. I then quit during the pandemic from constant erosion of salary and quality of work life.

I ended up kinda floating undecided for a couple months. Tried a couple game jams and realized my dreams of game design were not my life-long calling.

Then needed money so ended up starting to freelance. I didn't really market myself, so I didn't have many clients, but I had one big one through a friend that paid well and I did a couple really big things for them.

I'm now doing a contract that's 3x my previous salary (but also 1099 so more taxes) and struggling to figure out if I'd ever want to be W2/full time employee again.

I also got about 6 or so months of near full-time work on a personal project, and it's been very enlightening to get that much effort behind something of my own for once. Also isolating socially
I say no grades, no tests, no degrees, free schooling, and government subsidizes the first month of every new hires salary and the first month of every layoff.

Who cares what happens before you hire someone. The only thing that matters is the results and that you can quickly fire and replace someone that doesn't fit without you or them suffering.

Motivated people will rise to their abilities either way.
In practice Adobe Photoshop was effectively a subscription long before the pivot to SaaS. If you used it professionally, the old versions couldn’t open files from the new versions, so if you were part of a creative pipeline that you didn’t fully control, you got pushed into upgrading within a few months every time a new version came out.

The switch to SaaS didn’t really end up costing it’s pro users much more since they were spending $600 every 2-3 years on it anyway. But I suspect it did convert at least some of the people who pirated a copy from work into paying customers.
Does it have distribution and fault tolerance like Nerves on Elixir aside from having an LGPL vs. Apache (Nerves) license?

It may be fast, but how does it compare to Nerves for highly-distributed, swarm or fault-tolerant networks using many IoT devices for distributed control and information and gathering?
> I change my opinions way too frequently for it.

That's interesting, though. I rarely change my opinions, but I noticed one thing - I often say "I don't know about this subject enough to have strong opinion".

I feel like if I change your opinions frequently, these opinions weren't built on good enough basis.
Oh sorry my brain skipped from SIM cards to other cards with NFC chips. I don't actually know if SIM cards do NFC.

In short, computers powered wirelessly over short distances. A larger, fixed device with ample power ("card reader") produces a radio field; The NFC chip is an antenna with a computer that gains enough power from the radio field itself to do computation on the signal and transmit a response. Since the NFC chip is obviously very low power, it has to be close enough to be heard.

But anyone with the right kind of portable card reader can attempt to communicate with your NFC cards in your wallet simply by passing you on the street.

Phones, of course, already communicate over long distances, so NFC would be somewhat pointless on a SIM card specifically :P
Induced demand is nonsense.

If people leave the bus to drive it indicates your bus system is providing bad service.

If more people drive it indicates that your city isn't filling its purpose as being a place where there are a lot of things to do.

Cities need to figure out how to get ahead of induced demand not how use it as an excuse to be a worse city.. sure, this is a hard problem, with many options that make something else work, but induced demand is still a terrible excuse to be a bad city.
From the title and URL I thought this was going to be something wacky, but it's fairly in depth nerdery on how best to achieve low carbon grids in both the sort and long term.

Glad there's a bunch of folk thinking hard about these things and wish more of the coverage was on this kind of thing.
I did this, with a passive income cushion from some investments. I live very simply. I found travel pretty boring after a few weeks. I found whatever I was doing outside of work (YouTube and mindless browsing) filled up all my free time after I quit.

I started learning web development but haven't had any ideas that stuck. I mean I had a lot of ideas before quitting but perhaps lack of motivation or discipline killed them all.
> I can't do the whole interview and switch thing while employed

Why not?
This will throw an error in runtime for bad types, which might or might not be your intention (unless of course you build the package, which only makes it all the more harder to debug if this is where your program fails at this step). So, just don’t use assert outside of tests?
I was really sick of where I was living, I quit my job, drove across the country. Took one week off to relax, unpack, etc. Put up my resume on the usual sites and started getting calls 9 am the next day. Had a job in a week.
The traditional environmental and green parties in Australia really can't handle the immigration issue, it's very taboo to talk about with these groups because they somehow associate it with racism (despite the UK and US making up a huge amount of Australian permanent migration). The Greens simply won't discuss it despite being the elephant in the room regarding habitat loss and increasing emissions.

Dick is easy to write off as just another "old racist white guy" but his arguments were all environmental based, the guy cares a lot about the natural world and conservation.
They haven't done much to defeat coronavirus so far.
I don't think this subscription service is the thing that prevents you from doing that?
How do you make sure you don't get survivor bias from the responses to this post?
I disagree. For example, my ownership of my toothbrush is NOT affected by a war; Therefore I have ownership of my CPU less than full, which, less than full ownership by definition is some degree of renting.

It's a lease protected by international agreements and peacetime, but a lease nontheless.

Actually I just realized all ownership is backed only by law. Hmm. I guess consumer protection affords me reimbursement if Intel bricks my CPU. If I'm at war with USA, who cares about consumer protection at that point? :D
How cute.. Even a trees can only grow where the gardener lets them.

The mRNA vaccines aren't a conspiracy to milk and control the population, some people are trying their very best to do good. ALSO, there are people that have a sole "job" of milking every cent possible and others that use this as an opportunity to gain influence and advance whatever political/business career they pursuit.

This happens everywhere and every time.

Yes, this "they are in this to get us" get's tiring but let's not put the "scientists" in a pedestal, because they are people e many of them aren't even scientists.
Seems like mostly people that are not satisfied with their remarkable are trying to do the extra features (ssh, book reading, etc.). for me i 99% use it to keep notes, sketching, read articles and its perfect. for the first time in my life i do actually read my notes
> 3. Have a network of people who can hook you up

This is easier said than done. When I had my company I could hire people on the spot (and did once).

What I've found is that most other people are big hat but no cattle. So, many might be surprised to find that their network of people are quite less connected in practice. Plan accordingly.
VS Code with Pylance (which uses the Pyright type-checker) is really good. It even works well with Numpy and Pandas, which AFAIK mypy doesn't.
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It’s down or just not working well, I’m not getting anything from it.
You do not have the same level of access as a reMarkable. This is for sure.
But they are also very proactive with the end-users, listening a lot to the feedback (they have a dedicated subreddit). So you do not have an open device but a device where your needs are well cared of.

I hope that in the future we will get an SDK to create App which integrate nicely into the device to extend it. As it is for me a single task device, a bit like a cordless phone or my HiFi setup, I do not need it as open as my laptop which has been running Linux for the past 20 years.
Also, only 10 years of salary means you'll eventually have to start working again... so no plan means that you don't know what you'll do after 10 years
Great. I took three years off after the first three of my career, until my savings ran out. Easy enough on regular tech salary if you don't live extravagantly. I didn't use the time particularly well (I wish I had traveled a lot more, and for longer), but it was still good.

It's so strange that we expect adults to work continuously until they are too old to do so. Do whatever you feel like and can reasonably make work. If you don't want to work for a while, don't. Make it happen. Go make some art or start a band or hike across the country or live in the woods or make a video game or play sports or party a lot or get in great shape or read a lot of books or do a lot of volunteering or have a garden. Whatever. it's your life.
I did this about a decade ago. I spent a couple of years just helping other people with web things (sort of consulting / freelancing, but more from an advice perspective than writing any code), and then some friends and I founded our first startup. It didn't work out in the end, but I had a fun 5 years or so learning a lot and helping people take their businesses online in ways that would be better than if I'd not been there. The startup, raising a couple of rounds, and closing down was quite fun too. I'm back being a proper developer again now.

If you have the resources to do it without too much risk then I'd definitely recommend it. You'll get a lot from it in terms of personal development and skills, but you'll probably end up with less money than you went in with. You can always make more money though.
Why do you assume English? The word is not in the English vocabulary, so the default pronunciation should be Latin, as it's written using Latin alphabet.
It is eerie to see engineers so terrified of wrongthink that they clamor for censorship rather than engaging with the ideas presented.

Garbage in, garbage out.
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well. it cant defeat covid.. so. probably not. but u can try. who knows.
I saw burnout happen to a few guys around me, the work was pretty interesting but constantly moving goal posts caused a great deal of undue stress at work. I was also preparing to undergo a big change in my personal life too so decided to quit with a month’s notice. I’ve been off work since mid September and did a week long silent meditation retreat, walked/solo wild camped the Pennine Way for 16 days and spent some time in Rwanda exploring at my own pace.

In between i’ve been cycling, reading and working on things I neglected for the past few years. I feel much better for it

Today I’m going to polish my CV up and have started letting my network know I’m keen to work again. I have a better sense of what I want to do this time and tools to prevent as much stress in future
Also make the benchmark code open source, so that we can run it on our own hardware and judge it's relevancy.
I think sshd has been on the device since the initial launch in 2017, the company is publishing all source code they modify on their GitHub, the team seems very much pro open source and there is a relatively big hacking community around the devices already. It would take a lot for them to suddenly do a 180 on this when they are so deep into it already.

But it wouldn't be unheard of, but as a owner of one, I'm not really scared of it happening. Although if it would, the device would lose one of it's main buying point (for me at least) and I certainly wouldn't buy any more devices from them.
How did you know what to build?
Why are cross-country train tickets in EU still so complex?
Also my first thought though, reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The problem is usually not one of legality but of optimization, so it's hard to "fix" without using a heavy hand. You can't force companies to invest in cures rather than treatment, especially at the cost of profit. And many individual parties will reach the same conclusion independently, with no need for collusion [0]. In this case it's not hard to arrive at the conclusion that:

> While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.

> the success of [the cure] has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...
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