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Congrats to you! Luck is where preparation meets opportunity, so some part of it is deff due to your work and plans.

My friends and I split the bill on a 30$ meal!

They deff don't have startup money.

The juxtaposition just threw me.
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I've recently been ready about the labor theory of value used in classical and Marxian economics. I haven't studied it very long, but I think it basically has to do with calculating the embodied labor time of commodities. This isn't just the labor time directly put into creating a commodity. It also takes into account the embodied labor time of machines used during production. For example, if a machine has an embodied labor time of 1000 hours and can produce 1000 widgets over its lifetime (a very small amount, but whatever,) each widget's embodied labor time will be 1 hour beyond the labor directly put into its production, accounting for the depletion of the machine.

The Wood Economy

I tried applying the theory to a hypothetical economy in Minetest. This economy involves wooden axes, sticks, wooden plank nodes, and tree trunk nodes. The economy can be represented by a system of equations:

A = 3W + 2S (An axe contains the embodied labor of 3 wooden plank nodes and 2 sticks)
S = W/4 (A stick is made from a quarter of a wooden plank node)
W = T/4 (A wooden plank node is made from a quarter of a tree trunk node)
T = 1.6 + A/30 (A tree trunk node takes 1.6 seconds of direct labor to break, and a wooden axe has 30 uses, meaning 1/30 is used per tree trunk node)

Solving this system of equations gave me these results:

A wooden axe has 1.442 seconds of embodied labor time.
A stick has 0.103 seconds of embodied labor time.
A wooden plank node has 0.412 seconds of embodied labor time.
A tree trunk node has 1.648 seconds of embodied labor time.

The Stone Economy

For comparison, I also calculated an economy where stone axes and picks are used. Here is the system of equations:

P = 3C + 2S (A stone pick takes 3 cobblestone and 2 sticks)
A = 3C + 2S (Same with the axe)
C = 1 + P/60 (Mining a cobblestone node takes 1 second and 1/60 of a stone pick)
S = W/4 (Same as in the previous economy)
W = T/4 (Same as in the previous economy)
T = 1.3 + A/60 (Mining a tree trunk node takes 1.3 seconds and 1/60 of a stone axe)

The results are as follows:

The stone pick and axe both have 3.336 seconds of embodied labor time.
A cobblestone node has 1.056 seconds of embodied labor time.
A stick has 0.084 seconds of embodied labor time.
A wooden plank node has 0.339 seconds of embodied labor time.
A tree trunk node has 1.356 seconds of embodied labor time.

As you can see from the embodied labor time of the tree trunk node, the more advanced stone economy is more efficient than the wood economy.

Conclusion

These calculations are hypothetical. For accuracy, you would need to measure the input and output of actual activities such as woodcutting. However, my results are still interesting to me.

Please tell me if I've made a mistake in my calculations.
Off-topic: Someone mentions in the Github comments that Rust has "self-imploded". I get it's a joke, but have there been significant bad events in the last couple of weeks?
Scaling Kafka Consumer for Billions of Events
You're presenting this as fact, but without reference, based on your own admitted foray into unhealthy supplementation. It's difficult to take this comment anything but impassioned anecdote, and not as sage advice, without reference.
Definitely start with a trainer. They can enforce good technique and give you the basics of nutrition and mesocycle planning. I personally regret not starting with a trainer, as I'm now fixing issues that I reinforced because I didn't have the proper external feedback.
> behave like your project is the Linux kernel or the Rust compiler

Yes, misleading claims about project importance would be a bad idea.

But decisions like

> This _should_ be exactly the type of project where people can get their first OSS programming

is up to maintainers, not up to random people not running this projects
"Accepting" a pull request means merging it, and broken code should not be merged. By all means feel free to propose improvements to the PR, then merge it. And if achieving a reasonably well-defined standard of correctness (i.e. avoiding complete and utter breakage) is not feasible, the PR should be scaled back until it becomes so. Start with the minimum useful change, then expand on it.
My understanding that, at least in the UK, vitamine D deficiency is relatively common.

As someone born and raised in sunny southern Europe, my GP prescribed Vitamin D supplements to take indefinitely because I had a deficiency after ten years in the UK.

Anecdotally they seemed to improve both my mood and my general health.
What is Human-in-the-Loop AI?
The impact of COVID is very different among states and districts. So it’s not equally sucked.
Honestly, I don't think pmOS is any better than any other Linux on the Pinephone.

However, pmOS is pretty unique in their quest to mainline other, closed, Android smartphones by making shitty code vendors put out good enough to be merged and by making their own drivers and shims to get hardware to work.

I don't see why you'd need a Pinephone to work on pmOS, unless you want to develop a pmOS application or feature for an ARM device that has all the features up and running. It's more lightweight than some of its competition, for sure, but honestly it's not really better or worse in terms of hackability.
I'm assuming you're in the USA.

The most important thing you can do too prevent things like Bank Accounts, Credit cards, etc opened in your name is to lock your Credit History. Without access no one can open up any kind of account. You might also want to lock down your SS Account.

Here are some links to get you started.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/topics/identity-theft

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-credit...

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail
Crypto-trading hamster Mr. Goxx has died
just fork and change whatever you need and build it. that's the magic of open source.

if someday your own personal fork gets enough attention and the use case you implemented is solid enough, it'll pick up steam and will possibly get merged (or not) into upstream.

but still, you are free to change and peruse whatever you see fit. you got a lot of work done for yourself for no effort at all. time to put in your own.
Spotify is the problem - they're owned by the industry.
Vaccines are a band-aid fix for a much deeper systemic issue. The real fix is to sever the codependency of peoples separated by thousands of miles. Why should a disease outbreak in some far away Mongolian village affect me here in my village? Why are we moving to and through everyone else's villages so frequently? Coupled with a too-efficient and codependent (fragile) logistics system, look at how damaging the outbreak of a relatively minor [1] disease has proven to be. What happens when an actual black swan strikes at our codependent little global village? What then?

"The wise person reduces the importance of governments
And simplifies the modes of living,
So that people use fewer tools and wares
And treasure simplicity in their lives,
So that, though there are vehicles,
People do not take them.
And, though there are weapons,
People do not carry them.
And, though there are records,
Tying knots will serve the record-keeping purpose.
Thus, the highest political achievement is one
In which people savor their food,
Like the beauty of their clothes,
Appreciate their safe and peaceful homes,
Enjoy their social customs;
And in which roosters and dogs
Can be heard between countries;
But people, all their lives,
Have no need to go across the borders."
- Translated by Liu Qixuan, Chapter 80 of the Tao Te Ching by Laozi

[1] relative to bubonic plague, smallpox, polio, etc.
I think open source should be like genetics: if you want a mutation that’s not going to be part of a project, fork it.

If it’s important enough of a feature people will adopt it and it will coexist with the original project.

If that convinces the original authors of the importance of a feature, you can merge and make the world beautiful again.

If something is important to me but I have requirements that differ from the maintainers I usually maintain a fork even if I’m the only user of it.

Sometimes it attracts people with similar needs and they build on top of my changes.

Discussions in open source are a lot more discursive and mutually respecting when you’re offering to donate your work to the project because it helped fulfill a need that you had yourself, not only because it gave you a reason to invest time into it but also because you don’t usually invest time into things without a clear reason you needed that feature.
Erm ... NPR have coverage, though it's not that January 2021 Goats and Soda piece I linked here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845 "Rust Moderation Team Resigns" ?
Because he's been in the health battleground called Africa since 2000.
New Coronavirus Variant Arrives in Europe, Sets Off Global Fears of Restrictions
> PHP enables this type of underestimation in your own abilities. You don't need to distrust yourself so much.

I've even had IDE refactoring tools fail on me whilst doing this, in type checked Java codebases, with reflection in place and annotations, which predictably caused problems down the road. At this point, i'll take any and every method that can help me in development, especially in the face of meaningless cruft and unreasonable complexity.

I'm actually writing this in my 5 minute break after being stuck at work 1 hour past my official work hours, due to some stupid bug where one service ignores a client certificate from service A, but not from service B on the server in containers.

The opposite end of this spectrum (my current circumstances) is completely unreasonable IMO - a change in code needs an app recompilation and a push to the container registry before it's deployed on the server (cannot reproduce locally, possibly proxy configuration is to blame, but it's so simple it should not be possible), whereas configuration changes need the Ansible playbook to run to the end, which also takes time.

Thus, my feedback loop is ~10 minutes for seeing a new way in which the app will fail to do something supposedly simple. Even in normal circumstances, local app reboots still take at least a minute or so, since JRebel and code hotswapping just doesn't work a lot of the time with the frameworks we're using. I'd take being able to see the changes in my code every X seconds over every X minutes any day of the week.

Even if i trust myself, i still want that freedom and speed of development and checking why everything breaks.
Interesting. For me the amazon-linux-extras part was the most annoying part. Using automation tooling (Terraform for instance deployment and Ansible in User Data of instances) it was so annoying to work with. Fallback to the shell executor in Ansible to get something installed is a pita.

Also good that they finally get out of a python2 default Amazon Linux - only 2.5 years after it's EOL.
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1464085611577438213
Spatchcocked my first turkey yesterday, which I cooked in a pellet grill; came out great.

I usually do that with my chicken, which also comes out nicely, so I guess I was pretty used to it. But it's honestly pretty easy, and I agree, much faster to cook well.

My other real tip is to just spatchcock and season the skin night before and let the skin dry out in the fridge. Makes for nice, crispy skin. I drizzled butter over the skin twice during the cook, and the color came out beautifully

I also used an injection for the first time instead of brining, which was easy.

I suspect I could have cranked up the heat and got this 14 1/2 lb bird cooked in 3 1/2 hours, no problem. It actually feels quite forgiving.
Title is a little misleading.

Article is basically saying that, through a combination of too many streaming services, fragmented content, and premium pricing, the tv/movie industry is recreating a demand for piracy.
Disney is the main culprit here. They are making a few significant missteps with their otherwise very well executed streaming offering.

Initially they offered their streaming service at a very competitive price, but I think they have gotten some of the sequencing wrong after that. Initially early subscribers were hit with these up charges for new films. I think Mulan might have been the first one?

It was mid pandemic and they didn't get a chance to release it in theatres, so I think it felt like it made sense at the time and I am guessing they saw it as pretty successful. They quickly started doing it with far less interesting films, and ones that I could see at release time in the theatre.

At home streaming just isn't a "special occasion" like going to the theatre is, and while I was happy to make it a special occasion during the depths of stay-at-home lockdowns, there are a lot of competitive forces now. An extra $20 or $30 might seem to Disney like an amount people will happily pay for every new release, but I think the appetite for that will be pretty low going forward.

Disney also offered an attractive discount for a 1-year subscription initially, so it was pretty easy to do. I've been happy with it, but I notice my kids are on Netflix much much more. That really surprised me.

Now, my subscription renews in April of 2022, but Disney has already started emailing me that it is going to increase almost 50% in cost at renewal time. I don't know why they feel the need to start telling me that so far in advance, or so many times (3 emails now). All it's done is make me thing "ok, that's a lot, let's see if we really use it" and also "hmm, I've spent some $ on these new releases".

They don't seem patient or that they are thinking through this messaging/experience nearly as well as Netflix. Netflix does increase their prices but they do it rarely and they always pummel you with new content around the time they are doing it. They also packaged in lower resolution options, etc so you can keep your costs down if you really want to. Disney hasn't done any of that.
> But, of course, who cares about me, I should just buy a new computer, right?

Unfortunately it is not only you. _A lot_ of my employer's customers complain about frontend performance and the fact that the UI is generally made with assumption of fairly large display (almost everyone in the company has got 27"+ monitor whilst our customers are often on 2-3 years old business-versions of Lenovo or something similar with 14 inch of screen and 8gb of RAM top).

And yes, that's right, who cares. People like you are minority (people on phones are majority), people in enterprise settings don't have a voice and choice, and economy drives everyone towards using web stacks.

Also I guess my expression wasn't exactly clear. What I'm trying to convey is that technical superiority doesn't matter and users don't care about technical superiority. They care that music plays right away when they tap "play". And it is way easier to deliver that experience using web stack than any kind of native stuff.
> Solar is already close to beating fossil fuels in pure cost terms, without subsidies.

Looking at the marginal cost to produce renewable energy today in a world doped with fossil fuel is meaningless. It's only cheap because we have ample cheap fossil fuel energy supply at our disposition to support production and logistics. Try to completely build, ship and install your solar panel and your wind turbines only using renewable energy and I bet you would see the cost increase by at least an order of magnitude.
+1. I just wrote a similar thing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29351147

I hope this is not a sign that someone here will disrupt today's web search using, for a change, older technology. :-)
Not really. Their income will soon overtake pre-widespread-internet peak.

https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/
From a quick skim of the PRs, it looks like OP was using CString everywhere, and messing with pointers in unsafe blocks, called from safe blocks of code.

Generally speaking, these 2 things alone are basic errors when coding proper Rust. There were also many minor issues with the PRs that it seems the maintainers attempted to work through with OP.

Unfortunately learning the basics of a language like Rust is hard. Learning how to write correct Rust is even harder (and sometimes impossible without the right background knowledge). Learning how a project expects PRs to be designed and formatted is less technical, but takes dedication and time.

These PRs are riddled with things that are just straight incorrect.

Also, generally you are right about beginners starting with easier projects like this, but as many others in these comments have stated, the general bar is not low. Projects decide how to manage PRs. Nobody is stopping you from creating a terminal emulator in Rust that caters to beginners in Open Source. My guess is that the project would not be as good as Alacritty.

Also, the maintainers of any open source project don't owe you or anyone (including contributors) anything.
Probably depends on the input parameters. Lots of calls for freedom days and such as well as a general removal of measures probably changed the model conditions considerably.
The industry most likely shot themselfs in the money maker?

Monday morning 2008, "Hay Joe-- I saw the new Hellraiser 2. It was great! I got it on Pirate Bay. The quality was just ok though, and I wish I saw it on a big screen."

Two weeks later Joe is planning his friday night. I'll call Ingrid, and take her to that new vegetetarian restaurant, and maybe she will be condusive to Hellmaker 2? On the big screen?

Hollywood just made money off free adverting.

(Lars Ulrich is in the front row of the theater crying. His date is a snare drum with two drumb sticks jabbed through the skin. He's nervously rubbing Minoxidill into his forehead. I--should--have--a--date? I'm but a famous rocktwat? "But Governor--they be taking my money? Cry, cry,cry. I couldn't let them take me money?"
Here, from one of the founders of Ordoliberalism, is a consideration that is useful to keep in mind when reflecting on intellectual property: "Anbieter und Nachfrager suchen stets - wo immer es möglich ist - Konkurrenz zu vermeiden und monopolistische Stellungen zu erwerben oder zu behaupten"....."Suppliers and buyers always seek - wherever possible - to avoid competition and to acquire or maintain monopoly positions" - Walter Eucken
Your argument here is again premised on the benefits of colonialism & post colonialism outweighing the costs of colonialism, but exceptions like South Korea and e.g. Singapore do not prove the rule. It's completely unrealistic to compare these success stories, and the idea of 'no contact'. The reality is far grimmer. The comparison is to be made between what could have happened, and what did. The 'net' benefit then becomes very clear.

South Korea & Co are no longer intentionally oppressed. There are many other countries besides them that continue to be.

It's absurd to argue that because the developed countries could benefit more from Africa than they already do, that Africa is not oppressed. South America also.

> They could maybe argue that underdeveloped countries have been oppressed intentionally for the benefit of the military industrial complex, but that's very distinct to arguing that that happened in order to maintain our lifestyle

Every industrial complex besides that too. Raw materials are vitally important. Every act of Foreign Policy is done in order to maintain a lifestyle, to protect national interests. I don't know how you can argue that it is not.

> I believe the truth of that statement may have been different 100-200 years ago, where colonialism was done to pillage resources. No longer so in the modern globalized world.

I think you should really look at what resources are being exracted from Africa and South America, by whom and for what level of profit.
A deadly virus where the average age of death is higher than the average developed world life expectancy.
Was your crime skimping on safety resulting in deaths of people? That would be too spooky if it were.
I was just saying that installing supposedly "safe" apps gives a false sense of security if your hardware is compromised.
1. See if you are into exercising. Find something you love. Not everyone love weoghtlifting or jogging so try to find something you enjoy and better if you find a partner. The point is from my experience himan vitality does not decrease continuously buy drops sharply after certain age. On my side it was 28 and 35.

2. Take care of joints and teeth. Once they degenerate it's impossible to reverse the process.

3. Get financials straight. Know tricks to increase your credit score and keep it as high as you can. Also knows to invest a bit and make sure not to borrow money to invest because you are probably not that good.

4. Find something you can spend a life on. Something fundamental such as astronomy, mathematics, physics, geology, etc. The point is not to excel at these things, but to find consolence when you feel being ditched by the whole world. Reason I recommend those topics because not only you understand the world better after studying them but your mind will be sharper.

5. Stay away from gambling unless you are very disciplined. And if you do, don't play against the house and don't borrow money to gamble.

6. Stay away from drugs. Maybe stay away from smoking too. You don't need those for "artistic inspiration" or other enhancements. Exercising and reading get you much further. Enhancements through medication also bring side effects in the long run.

7. Build your personal brand. Be sound and reasonable. Knows how to communicate effectively. Learn to speak in public. Soft skills are tough to pick up and grow.
I recently watched Arcane using the Netflix Win10 app.
The A/V sync was off by enough to noticeably break lipsync, the episode listing was broken (only the first few were shown, but I could still watch the rest by allowing it to autoplay the next one), and the splash images shown while each steam started often served as spoilers for the episode that was about to play.

I would've had a much better experience if I'd just went to thepiratebay and sought out nine MKV files instead.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/public-records/
It increases complexity of future maintenance, no change is costless.
> In five years there will be three, maybe four winners, and everyone else will sell content to them.

In a few years the content industry will own all of the subscription streaming services.

Disney is well on its way to ensuring that.
but CCP is not, (which is easily check able), so speaks a lot about your inability to connect facts.

Besides, not a reason to look at Taiwan's future, while you can look at Honk Kong past two years.
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Look at it this way: Solar neutrinos carry away approximately 1% of the total fusion power output of the Sun. This works out to about 14 Watts per square meter at the distance of the Earth. The area of a human adult body front-on is about a square meter.

It's pretty easy to detect 14 W of typical forms of radiation at those scales! If it were light, it would be equivalent to the light put out by something like a laptop screen, spread out just a bit. You can see something like that with your eyes from a kilometer away!
What Is Proof?
Quite, and the $40-60 a year bracket for a VPS is quite normal, but the original message was "decent VPS for $10/yr". Linode certainly doesn't go that low - at least last time I checked.

I saw an VPS from Italy I think for in the region of $20/year some time back, Sephiroth87 was after a $10/year VPS recommendation, not a $60/year one that hvgk suggested.
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