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A wonderful comedy. I presumed it was American literature, so I had avoided reading it because that isn’t a category that interests me by default, but decided to read it and I had a good laugh. Easy to pick up cheaply second hand.

I don’t really think the book is relevant to this discussion though.
If I did this I'd be finding a new job every 3-6 months.

Over time I've realized that I'm not going to be happy in any 9-5 position, so I might as well save as much money as I can until I can afford to do something else.
The fact that we have so many service members stationed in Germany that nobody ever thinks about makes the Afghanistan pull-out look so much more stupid in hindsight.
I question the appropriateness of @AmazonHelp jumping into a thread that it was not tagged in and that is not even asking for help with anything.
This is like when someone tweets "drank 6 oz of cold medication feeling lit" and the pharmaceutical corporate account responds with a generic pharmacovigilance statement that they're mandated by law to say and then someone screenshots it and it becomes a meme.
How do you get to the point of debating compensation for slaveholders without first seriously debating the abolishment of slavery? It’s a necessary first step.

There is a difference, obviously the slave states saw the direction things were going, but to the question at hand it’s a material distinction.
Both options have the potential to be right, but only accepting patch fixes is prone to being stuck in local minima.

I'm increasingly with Thomas Jefferson and the idea that the constitution should be rewritten fairly often, on the order of each generation. If there's consensus each 20 years for simple patch fixes (or even no changes), great! If there's consensus for a more radical restructuring then that's just democracy in action.
Ooh, just saw this, don't know why I never considered it. I'll definitely try it out.
I've always wondered why there aren't query languages that embrace algebraic data types and pattern matching. Seems like an obvious fit to me. There's many times where you'd want to model a table that has either this scheme or that schema.
They aren't way smarter, they are about as smart as you, you just were lucky enough to pick a more flexible, marketable, and evolving skill set. They probably are a bit more diligent than you though, but that can get you trapped in a local maximum.
"arguably" is doing a lot of work if you say that slavery was the reason for the E.C.
Beware - I know around a dozen people who have done the opposite - moved from mechanical/biomechanical/electrical/nuclear/chemical engineering to software. I don't know anyone whose done the opposite, I don't think it's very common.

For what I hear from these people, they unanimously say that there's many more (quantity) and better (quality) jobs in software compared to their original field. This is probably a biased sample, so take it with a grain of salt.

I think you need to investigate what exactly is causing the burnout issues. It could be a whole new career isn't the thing that will fix it. I don't know you, so I can't make a judgement either way - just be very careful before spending thousands of dollars and years of your working life on school. Doing so could make your problems worse.

A while ago a family member was suffering from extreme burnout at his job. That person's mother (a very naive person) strongly encouraged him to leave the field he works in entirely, whereas I could see the problem was entirely personal and changing careers wouldn't help and would likely hurt him. I encouraged him to work on some personal issues before making such a decision, he did, and almost an entire decade later he is in the same field and doing much better.
You have to scroll to the bottom to see what kind of studies they are performing with Rally.

For example tracking facebooks tracking pixels (https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/facebook-pixel-hun...).

I can't determine if this is "fighting big tech with their own weapon" or "adding more tracking to the problem of too much tracking".
In the end a lot of the specifics don't matter much to me. I'm very liberty minded. I'm simply not in favor of excess restrictive mandates from the government. And I have absolutely every reason to distrust large pharmaceutical companies that aren't even liable for damages.

Everyone else in my household is vaccinated. I've been advised to not get the vaccine for medical risks. A few weeks ago my fiance and I both got COVID. She had it worse than I did despite being vaccinated. 19yp daughter no apparent symptoms at all.

My own suggestion was to wear face cover of any kind in groups and close event centers and bars. If we would have done that alone from the beginning it would have been better.

But no, at first any mention of covid was racist fear mongering. Then anyone who didn't lock themselves inside was killing grandma.

Even now people are comparing being unvaccinated to drink driving despite the vaccinated being every bit as risky to others.

It's all political bullshit and I'm ready to be done with it.
This is a fantastic post. And if you have doubts ask another doctor. Second opinions are absolutely a good way to check if the doctor you have is giving bad advice, and they may also have other ideas to add.

Doctors are not out to get you, but they aren't perfect either.
> You can't expect to have it be indexed in search

Why not? This is just as entitled a thought as the original quote from GP. Search engines aren't a public service. Neither is The Financial Times.

There's nothing that explicitly requires every single page that a search engine displays to be accessible by the user. There isn't even an internal policy within Google and other engines that would uphold that expectation. It might be a shitty user experience, but that's on the search engine and the resulting site to deal with.

Clearly, the FT has enough subscribers to be able to "lose" customers behind the paywall. And clearly Google isn't interested in cleaning up results to not include paywalls. So it seems they've both weighed the pros and cons and chose to continue with it. Who are we to tell them otherwsie?
Maybe the Memes Are Over
I use OpenBSD on my laptop. Honestly it was a better experience than even Arch Linux or the like. More things worked out of box (ran on thinkpad) and there is love put into some simple commands - zzz and ZZZ alias built-ins are actually super useful and you can really tell the people building the OS use em themselves.
Of course it's subjective but I also find it hideous.
Like tobacco, sugar, whisky, and caffeine, brussel sprouts, cod liver oil, ...
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_realism
Ironically, this article immediately redirects to a very evil-ad-tech consent.yahoo.com domain, filled with exactly the sort of tech being discussed in the article.
I don't agree with this - even for businesses there is always a limit over which there is serious trouble for bottom line. I think cloud providers should allow one to set a hard cost limit over which everything shuts down. For personal projects the limit might be $100 and for small businesses $100k, but even rich companies have it (not the same reason, but Knight Capital comes to mind).
Yup, I posted that yesterday too. I think Malloy is really interesting — compile to SQL but give more integrations to the DB, like schema-during-development. It has a proper team, led by Lloyd Tabb.
It's a "skinwalker bill".
I'm now waiting for this to be installed by default, 'a la' Pocket. It is yet another feature the users are not asking for.

Give me privacy and, after that, speed. I don't want ANY data collection that is not opt-in. As it is I have to go out of my way to use a custom `user.js` to get this instead of it coming out of the box.
Maybe see a doctor. Vertigo can be caused by a whole lot of different things, with causes ranging from harmless to serious.
Tom Cruise didn't use to show up in the cast for 'Top Gun'. They did however list all other actors, including unnamed characters. It's since been corrected, although he currently isn't the first cast member listed.
That’s begging for some leaky abstraction to absolutely ruin your business.
We can potentially say that in hindsight but politicians at the time could not come to that conclusion. After 80+ years the US was still the only major democracy and it was teetering. Unionist politicians, embodied by Lincoln, were afraid that letting the US fall apart would deal a blow to democracy everywhere. Lincoln so eloquently voices this concern in the Gettysburg Address.

Historian Joseph Ellis said (I think in his book "Founding Brothers") that we now take democracy as the inevitable conclusion of liberalizing politics but that formed only after the US Civil War.

(This also doesn't address the moral horror of allowing slavery to continue for who knows how many years in the Confederacy.)
> politics is even more important in starting your own thing.

Dealing with people & their complicated emotions to build a high performance team certainly is more important. If you really found factionalism and office politics more important when building a company... that might be saying something about your experience (like perhaps you hadn't been a people manager before)
Major cities hit all-time homicide records
I find the costs and use cases take up time to try and figure out. I wanted to prototype a IOT device pushing data to the cloud. I used Google IOT Core. After reading a bunch of tutorials I streamed the data to Big Query. I used a device to send about 1000 readings and it cost me around $150 USD. I have no idea why it cost so much. It used 1000 hours of cpu time. I find that so confusing. Why was that much CPU required for so little data? It was 5 JSON fields into a table. Did I choose the wrong thing to ingest the data? Should I use functions?

So I am going back and seeing what else is possible. I tried setting up a PostgreSQL Compute VM but then I needed another specialized instance to act as a go between for allowing access for serverless vpc access. I get charged a bit for everything. I just want to build a product and see if people want it. I have no idea what to charge because I don't understand the costs. Do I spend time figuring out the costs of every little thing that is touched or do I install something on a hosted server?

I feel like there should be out of the box setups for this stuff in Google cloud. They have so much to offer, I think tying it together in easy to use and price packages would get a lot of people using it who need to rapidly get something made.
I'm curious if this would cause a noticeable change in the pH of those waters, and if that could be a good basis for estimating how much ash was captured.
I will never work in big tech again
I'm tired of everything being political.

I'm tired of constant political emails.

I'm tired of putting my pronouns everywhere.

I'm tired of diversity training.

I'm tired of being ostracized for not believing in wokeism.

I'm tired of social justice.

I'm tired of companies saying they want diversity of thought but disallowing employees to have diversity of thought.

The worst thing I ever did was waste my time to pursue a career in this industry. It is toxic from the top to the bottom.

So, I'm done. I will never work for big tech again. The money isn't worth it. I'd rather be paid half the salary at a normal company that doesn't feel like a neo-communist enclave.

Let the downvotes and societal sanctioned harassment begin.
Systemd should have never made it into desktop operating systems. It's clearly designed and tuned (and bugs are prioritized) for servers. But unfortunately, there's no such thing as a "desktop Linux". Every "desktop" distro is just a server distro with maybe LibreOffice thrown in (if you're lucky). The issues the author are experiencing with split-DNS configuration (a purely desktop concern, nobody in a server farm will have split-DNS) are hardly unusual.
Yep. I can figure out a way around charging hurdles on the rare occasions I drive outside the same ~80km range (and usually more like 10km range) I travel in a normal month.

But I got my used, low-mileage Fit for under $10k cash. While I understand even that sort of thing is harder to find these days, it'll still be a while before I can find a solid, cheap EV with roughly similar capabilities.

On top of that, people like me (live in an urban area, drive short distances) have it tough because we park on the street, not in a garage. Makes it a lot harder to justify If I can't just plug in every night. It's really a shame, because I'd be on board for just about every other aspect of an EV.

Hopefully down the line I'll see a decent used market emerge and/or we'll sort out some sort of way for city folks to charge easily. But I can't currently consider an EV as a mostly-drop-in replacement for a used, economy ICE car.
Aws doesn't, there are only alerts. Don't know about others.
We regulate trucks more heavily than we regulate guns in the US, and the cost/benefit analysis is substantially different.

Truck driving has a minimum age, a licensing requirement, registration of the vehicle, often annual inspections of it, etc., in part because we recognize their potential for danger in the wrong hands. Very much not the case for gun use.
Those are also fabricated by huge corporations. No guarantee they won't be compromised by industry or government interests.
Is there a way to use uBlock Origin in Safari on iPhone/Mac?
Microsofts' Superior Gaming Business
I will love an EV when it is affordable and convenient for me.
Take the part 2: Personal comments on Vitalik, an history of scams during the period Ethereum was created but not directly related, a 100k grant Vitalik got which I fails to see the relevance too, a broad critic that can apply to any entrepreneur/programmer having a dunning kruger thinking they can easily disrupt an industry with software. Conclusion:

> In terms of improvment over Bitcoin, Ethereum has many. It's not hard. Bitcoin sucks.
Ethereum solves none of them and introduce a whole new suite of problems driven by technofetishistic egotism of assuming that programmers are uniquely suited to solve society's problem.

It's nice prose but for me that part was really mostly appeal to emotions/ridicule and association/composition fallacies. To clarify the latter: scams and ridiculous marketing are a problem, but unfortunately that's not enough to make a logical point. Their proportion neither.

Again there are good points, but it's weirdly positioned. For me it's a rant, but instead it's presented as a calm scientific/neutral content which I don't find very honest (and quite ironic given the subject). But I'm not a native english speaker, so maybe it's just me misinterpreting the tone.
What many seem to use as argument for wind, solar, hydro and geothermal is its price. But to compare the price with nuclear is flawed. The price of wind, solar, hydro or geothermal doesn't include the price of planability. Wind and solar would need some sort of energy storage to produce continuous energy. Hydro and geothermal only works at places where it can be installed. A good example for need of planability can be submarines or spacecrafts. Many of these crafts use either fossil fuels or nuclear as main energy source. Stop compare apples and oranges, they have different use for different cases.
> 3) Install Tinder, drive near FB offices, set search radius to minimum. Try to convince your matches to fix things

3 b) Install Grind[e?]r, drive near FB offices, set search radius to minimum. Try to blackmail your matches to fix things

(Yeah, it's a good thing that's a lot less blackmail-worthy nowadays. About as serious as what I'm replying to.)
American culture and popular political sentiment is rarely about supporting the next generation and fostering new opportunities. It's almost always about shoring up the last of your resources as you live out the end of your life.

Think about it: financial support for elderly homeowners, overspending on end-of-life healthcare, political influence wielded by dead or dying industries, NIMBYism... People in the US firmly believe that government is for the old, holding back global changes so that old people can live the lives they are used to.
>This meme largely came about from ~10 years ago with the filesystem changes and migration to systemd. But it's been a pretty smooth ride since.

It's not a meme. Just this week I attempted to update an Arch system that had been left unattended for only a couple years. It got caught in some kind of cycle where it didn't have the GPG keys required to download the latest GPG keys. Then there was some package conflict issue. Finally after much wailing and gnashing of teeth I completed the update and rebooted... "kernel not found".

I gave up on it.

And lest I be accused of incompetence, here's another Arch user's 3-year update story, only a few weeks ago, on our very own HN:

"Somehow the upgrade didn't completely hose everything. It just took a bit of finagling in the form of looking through any packages that gave errors (errors like cyclic dependency stuff and conflicts from bad use of pip) and uninstalling those that I didn't see a need for or switching them to the package manager instead of pip. About an hour of babysitting it and I had a completely updated and working Arch setup." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872053

So I'm sorry, but "pretty smooth ride" my ass.
It might me. But in academia there is a lot pressure and many people decide to work on weekends, some have to work on weekends (e.g. long running experiments that require human input every 6 hours), and some are forced to work and only if there is an abundance of other forms of abuse it might get exposed.
Consider famous case of https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/technology-institute_prestigiou...
If you read the detailed postmortem it is clear people were working way beyond normal working week. And it's not even mentioned as one of problems about the work with this professor.
I guess it's just that deplorables and coal miners live in rural areas. The people in cities don't hate them, just want them unemployed, disarmed, disenfranchised and re-educated.
You can think of a capacitor as sort of like a rubber membrane stretched across the pipe. It allows some water to flow as it distends but then stops. When distended like that, it has some reverse pressure that wants to flow back.

An inductor would be something like a propeller/impeller attached to a flywheel.
I dislike Rust the community but Rust the language was a good fit for an alternative browser, IMO Mozilla could afford to hire competent developers outside high paid cities and have them continue doing developer work then just putting more money in side-projects. A faster and safer browser would make a larger difference then some marketing and a giant difference then poor side projects.
I just tried that site and set it to "fewest stops", it dropped from 4 to 3 charges for a Tesla model 3, and reduced charging time to a little bit over an hour. That's not as bad as Tesla's planning site was showing me.

I also tried adjusting the car type to a Ford Mach-e, and I only have to stop twice as long as I drive a 5-hour stretch at 55 MPH max. The speed limit on this stretch is 75 MPH.

I do understand that different vehicles have different functionality and targeted use-cases. In this case, I'm not pulling a boat or a trailer. I'm "just driving" which is a pretty standard thing to want to do in a car. My point still stands, if I need to spend $160k to drive 500 miles in an electric vehicle, I'd rather go buy a $40k ICE vehicle that can do it with fewer stops.
I mean, that's a fair point. I just feel this sort of dialogue is disrespectful to the engineers who actually build the stuff the grandparent commenter is complaining about.

moot since the comment itself is dead/flagged but if you're calling people idiots, show me your credentials.
> HttpOnly doesn't make sense for most apps anymore, because so much of the logic in modern web apps happens on the client side in Javascript.

What is wrong with cookie authentication?
Probably need to call the Estonians
The streaming mess is absolutely not "a la carte".

A la carte would be having one or more places where you can go, select a show, pay for that show and then have access to that show.

What we have now is multiple competing subscription bundles. And for many people, there are only a few shows (not necessarily the same for all people) that are interesting out of a bundle. You do not get the choice to only pay for what you want to watch, you have to pay for the entire bundle. But now instead of there existing only one universal bundle for everyone, there are multiple competing bundles.
Add a note that the lines at risk have been marked!
The problem for me is price. I think the segment of the population that buys most of the new cars is pretty small and they dictate the cars that later show up on the market for the rest of us. Electric cars are not really hot with that demographic so they never really penetrate the rest of the segment. Electric trucks are cool though so I expect once volume of mfg picks up we will see good adoption
It is disingenuous when they, themselves, collect so much data about users by default.
Fcron can also do random timings, jitter, running if the time passed occured while system was off, timing based on runtime not elapsed time, delay until system is less loaded, avoid overlapping instances of the same job.

http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrontab.5.html

1.0 released 21 years ago.
This reads like a software engineer being happy work caters lunch so he/she didn’t have to cook for the whole team anymore. Didn’t anyone discuss maybe hiring a cook?
> A 45 degree turn by a fighter jet might mean only a few degrees turned by the sidewinder missile fired from behind.

This is true for some "classic" guidance laws (such as proportional guidance), but is it true for optimal guidance? Especially for point defense? Your "small vs. large turn" becomes an issue of transverse acceleration, and that makes the advantage of the hypersonic vehicle way lower, if not non-existent (since to my knowledge hypersonic lifting bodies don't exactly shine in the lift-to-drag ratio department, so it's far from clear that an interceptor would be unable to match transverse acceleration, and in any case it might be able to force enough velocity loss on the hypersonic vehicle that it may have to work way harder to hit the target even if it's not actually hit by the interceptor at all).
Same take for me as well. Screams of cherry picking. The stats in favor of vaccines take a sentence to explain (like “of the 1000 people with the vaccine 2 died, vs the 1000 people with placebo, 187 died”). This is a long term rambling wall of text.

Another part is how individual doctors mention individual patients who develop problems after the vaccine. Statistically, that is guaranteed to happen. There is a guarantee that someone will have their first heart attack today. The overlap between vaccine doses and heart problems is statistically guaranteed but does not imply causation.
To fix this, Google needs to stop relying on links as a search engine ranking factor--or at least not rely on it as much.
I am not sure if it's fair to say that China is small compared to the USA: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/chin...

Though that is using the Mercator projection, you can at least tell that the contiguous USA is damn similar to China in scale. Perhaps China is even more biased towards the one coastline, with sparse settlements to the West, but the USA essentially has a massive deserve/mountain range in the middle, too.
What is the indexed linked mutual fund of this analogy? Perhaps focusing on a specific technology or skillset such that you can be a contractor providing services to a range of other companies without having a commited relationship with any of them? (The index being your choice of technology / skills)