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Hey man, I admire your willingness to ask for help here, that takes courage.

I hear you on the difficulty of isolation and feeling disconnected, it’s tough. You’re definitely not alone there, I know lots of guys in the same boat.

I’ve been where you are. I’m also an engineer in my 30s. I’ve been frustrated, apathetic, and lonely too. But most days I don’t feel like that anymore. I turned it around for myself, I know you can too. You can definitely get reenergized and get back to the fun and connected life you had in college. It’ll take some work, but from your post my impression is that you’re pretty good at learning new skills.

A lot of people have made great suggestions on how to meet people. Save those for a month from now. The key thing in my experience is getting your energy up. If you’re low energy when you meet someone new, neither of you is going to have much fun and it won’t lead anywhere.

Here’s how to get your energy up:

1. Exercise every day - if you’ve forgotten where to start, walk/run a mile and do 25 pushups. Adjust based on your current fitness level. Keep it simple.
2. Drink 64oz of water every day. No, really, this is important.
3. Get outside first thing in the morning for 10 minutes to get natural light - this can be when you get your exercise or it can just be to sit and drink a cup of coffee.

That’s it. Start with those three. You got this - friends, fun, connection and a fulfilling life are closer than you think.
> The alternative is to use intermediate variables

That's one alternative.

Another alternative is to use a function to apply functions in readable order (which effectively creates a context where “,” is the pipe operator.)

const pipe = (x, ...fns) => funs.reduce((acc, fn) => fn(acc), x);
Lesser of two evils applies when there is a dichotomy of two likely outcomes both of which you see as evil.

In this case, the United States can simply not invade. Then there will be no problem.

The problem is that Jen Psaki is going on television and telling the country a bold-faced lie. It is just a lie, that is all there is to it. Russia is not the aggressor. The United State is the aggressor.

No US invasion, no evil.
Hey a note on travelling. I met (via reddit chat) a guy who seemed quite depressed to me. He is a nomad who got out of the US 10+ years ago and has lived in several countries. I met him because he was having a rough time in my country and I thought I could help him. However after talking a bit with him it was evident that the problem was himself and not the places he had been (he basically whined about how he had been mistreated at every country he had been. He is some kind of remote web dev nomad).

The point is, you have to be good with yourself before you "escape" to a different country. Otherwise you may only find more trouble in a different language.
More than eliminating stimulant's (caffeine) and getting in a brisk walk every day would? I doubt it.
Great idea. Here is something that could be similar but more niche (sorry if too niche): join a meetup group for that does indoor rock climbing. If, say, meetup is a big thing where you are. Otherwise, check for, e.g. facebook groups that partner up climbers -- meet and learn! (likely need to take a class to learn the very basics first, assuming you know absolutely nobody and there is no meetup for it.)

More laid back: join a weekly bikes-with-lights social biking group. Weekly trivia, meetups at bars for tech people, new people to the area, karaoke, etc. Play to your strengths/likes. Run and hit the gym to boost social confidence (now I am back at crossfit ;). Learn how to dress up just slightly more than standard for any occasion (non exercise that is) if you don't already know.

It's easier to make friends outside of work if you build some structure or drive into your life beyond work. Become interesting by having interests. Whatever you choose to do, keep doing it and eventually you will meet like minded souls.

I wonder where OP is. Location might have a say in what's popular and help find a matching interest.
Dang the federal government is really trying on those “1984” clichés like a nice pair of well-worn blue jeans. Jesus Christ when will they ever stop?
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You only have to go back to Obama to find a president that didn’t “start a war”.

As Obama only interceded in Libya and other ongoing conflicts.
It’s really a numbers game. If you’re in the Bay Area, I would recommend moving to another region, or to move to SF or Oakland proper (not the suburbs). The Bay Area is very male heavy because tech is so male heavy and tech dominates the economy. Austin, Denver or any of the East Coast cities (+Chicago) have lots of single adults and a more balanced mix of genders. I’m not talking just about dating either; having a good friends group requires a little bit of diversity of interests and experiences.

After you leave college, you’re transitioning out from a life in which you always had people around you who you went to classes with and had some shared context to form bonds.
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> Where can one vote against it?

TC39, as the article notes, and where the F#-style pipe has been shot down enough that it's been abandoned in favor of the Hack-style one by those championing a pipe operator.
They only stopped refunding you? They completely banned my account and my wife's account. We're still not sure what we did and they won't explain to us. Even escalated on Twitter and communicated by email. All we were told is that they have a zero tolerance policy for fraudulent behaviour and that the decision was final. WTH?
It's a little hard to find, however. In the US, you can probably find a copy at Harvard and of course Miskatonic University.
You have a very odd reading of my comment Dang, how is criticizing the FBI's abuse of power nationalistic?
> Currency was made because barter sucks.

Mandatory note: currency was made because debt requires trust (or at least repeated interactions), there was never a “barter world before currency”. (And it's not about whether you like Graeber or not, the “barter myth” was known to be false even in the early 20th century, see Allyn Young)
I’m not really sure what the purpose of this article is except to escalate a long-running feud between DJB and Peikert in a totally inappropriate way. For context: Dan has a submission to NIST’s PQC competition that has been criticized by Chris (who has a much deeper background in lattice crypto.) This kind of critical back and forth is normally a good thing, as long as it stays within the bounds of polite academic discourse. Unfortunately it has become extremely hostile and personal. To see this escalate further with Dan writing a long blog post making tenuous plagiarism accusations is just incredibly dismaying.

TL;DR: people frequently miss works that are published only on ePrint servers. It appears that Peikert cited the work in a later draft and Dan disagrees with the citation. I can’t tell you whether the techniques are different: this isn’t my research area. However Dan even acknowledges that the distributions of the shared secret are different (as Peikert acknowledges in his work), but then claims this doesn’t matter in common applications. I’m not here to adjudicate what seems to be a minor question of presentation, but I would like to see much more care around something as serious as a plagiarism accusation, particularly given the personal rancor between these two.
I’m just stating facts and providing references not making a point.
Domino's web app is the one to beat here. Superior to phone - it remembers my past custom orders, remembers multiple addresses, gives me a free pizza every once in a while, my kids get to watch the gps of the delivery driver (creepy imo but hey it sells)
Why are they still called phones though ? that's my point .. essentially you have a computer in your hands that happens to have an ability to make voice calls .. I was looking for stats on how people use their devices but can't find much actual data
I've seen this in the wild and have been meaning to ask:

With the availabily of syntax highlighting including color, has anyone seen merit in skipping indentation altogether?

For that matter, what if block color or font size took the place of indentation (under control of syntax highlighting). I'll have to try it by hand.
Sure when I will travel I meet people interested in travel. I've gotten some cool info for futures trips from people. When I get back home, no one really cares. They're busy being broke or working high stress jobs. 40% of Americans never left the country. Of that how many do you think are just going on a cruise or a carribean resort?

I'm pretty sure you live in a bubble. None of my friends are taking more then a trip a year.

Hostels and volunteering are not for everyone. A vacation that is hard when life is hard is not appealing.
That's sad. Yeah racism is terrible in that part of Germany. I think magdeburg is horrible.

I'm pretty far from white haha. I'm a Mexican living in Mexico. I'm not dark brown, but deeefinitely look Latino. My wife is dark brown though.

We had an ok time while we lived in Germany. But we deffo got our share of racism . Nothing violent fortunately.

I'd exchange that with the sad/crazy violence state that my country is at though. Constant fear...
You start with the hobby activity, stick with it, and add other things! The hobby is the first glue, but then add dinner, movies, games, conversations. Conversational skill is also a developed one, not innate. IMO, talking about things and ideas is best. Conversation works best when both people Learn and teach, but nobody is trying to be right.
Having contributed for many years now, IME there's probably less drama on SO (on average) than on HN. Sure, some people get disproportionately defensive when other people demand more information to solve their problem, or when people point out that (given the context available to the reader) there is probably an X-Y problem at work. OTOH, some people have seen the exact same question in so many guises that they crack, sometimes to hilarious effect[1], but often resulting in being curt. Overt rudeness, though, is less common than almost any other website I frequent, including many popular FOSS bug trackers, forums, and the like.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/96588
You sound like a person who envisions a life they should have, feels they deserve that life, and are frustrated they don't have it - then judge everyone you wind up interacting with as you try to fix it.

My advice: get over yourself, you're your own worst enemy.

You might not love the people you meet at those meetups, for instance, but if you auto-reject everyone you meet you'll never wind up meeting people via those second or third tier connections. Nothing is saying you have to want to be best friends or date those people you decry, but you're cutting yourself off from potential groups of people that you could be introduced to. You're your own worst enemy here.

Getting a dog or traveling, as others here have said, probably won't fix it - a dog can't help you better yourself, and traveling might hide the issue but you'll still be the same ineffective blocked off "you" wherever you go. Work on yourself more.
> How do you go from talking to someone during some hobby activity to a friendship outside of that activity

Ask them for their phone number and text them to invite them to things, even if just to lunch
> Sanity at last. Default access to a filesystem is the single biggest sin of Unix. It was a reasonable thing to do in the 1970s, but not since.

Novell Netware had what seemed to be a reasonable compromise some 30 years ago, called "Trustees" - it had a permission system (ACLs, if I remember correctly), but it was magical in the sense that you only needed to manage the ACLs of the leaf nodes; If you had access to a file in a path 7-directories deep, then you would automagically see the entire path (but only files you had access to in each directory); and if you didn't, neither the leaf not the 7 directories leading to it existed for you.

A billion times easier to manage/reason about than the NT or Unix mess.
You order toppings for all pizzas? We usually just order by number/names (via menu). Toppings are very rarely adjusted, and NEVER "built" from scratch. At least I've never seen anyone do that.
No, it only works on web apps and you have to use Chrome :(
Alias that to

-f 720ish

and we’re getting somewhere
It’s not immediately obvious to me that diversity is better. A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link. If a foreign state has access to two phones with a secret on it and each has a different OS with different vulnerabilities, that just gives them a bigger attack surface.

Similarly if there are 5 sophisticated attackers after your secrets, some may have cracked your phone security, but not others. If you use more different phone OSes you increase the chance that more attackers have exploits for at least some of your phones.

Also using more phone types complicates training, increases the work you must do checking for vulnerabilities, diluting your efforts.
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This exactly. In a 52% tax bracket in Canada. Factor in sales tax. That's a 65% tax on new income. No point in getting a raise.

Particularly, because the employer is going to expect >$100k in value from the employee to make up for the raise and the employee barely receives half.

The middle class is being destroyed through taxes and inflation, while wealthy asset holders see their assets outpace inflation while taxed at much lower rates.
I'll start by saying it doesn't matter whether you get it. The GP made a claim that there is no use for the technology which is not a scam. But people, today, are using filecoin to store files and are not being scammed. It doesn't matter whether you personally would want to use Filecoin; the point I'm trying to make is that claims of the form "the entire space is a giant scam" are simply false.

But I'll also try to answer your new question: You're right that it's just an auction to provide a service, but crypto enables the auction!

S3 can charge such high margins because they're a trusted brand, the chance they'll lose my data is much lower than the chance I'll lose my own data, but this makes it hard for anyone else to enter the market without spending a lot of time proving themselves. Filecoin includes fancy cryptography and incentive schemes which, if you trust them, allow you to trust any storage provider using Filecoin.

Crypto payments means that anybody, anywhere in the world, can participate in the auction without spending any time negotiating contracts or setting payment rails. They can turn their computer on and start storing files.

This turns file storage into a commodity service and allows you to store your files for commodity prices, that's an incredible win!
That's not an unusual business position. You see it everyday with places that sell coke or Pepsi but not both.

That the choice for retailers is an obvious one is neither here nor there. They had a choice and clearly they wanted to sell Windows, so the choice is obvious.

You might not like their choice, you might not like Windows, but this is bog standard business stuff.
I assume they were referring to diversity of cell phones/mobile OSes, rather than the duopoly of Android and iOS.
money laundering at bigger scale... tax -> war -> defense budget -> military complex manufacturers
Referred to as "dorvay" in the novel, Harlem Shuffle. I can see certain productivity wonks on HN getting into this ;)
Being a white cis man in tech is exhausting, because black, gay, asians and women think that you don't like them because they're black, gay, asians and women, while they don't understand that you don't really like anyone and you don't really care about white cis men either and would like to be left alone in your journey to retirement, but need to play it cool because otherwise HR explodes
I know a guy who worked on Login.gov, and I'm all for the government continuing to invest in 18F, the US Digital Service, etc. They've successfully recruited top talent in the past decade, although it's still not nearly as much as it could be. A couple decades ago I was reading horror stories on Slashdot about how the government pays employees peanuts and all the contractors get crazy high rates. Knowing about some of the improvements with in-house software projects in recent years, I was seriously miffed when I had to use ID.me since I knew it was a private company.
Take some holidays
> The money spent is not destroyed, it re-enters the economy when the workers you gave it to immediately spend it, and comes back to the government when they pay income or sales tax.

Be careful to keep the nominal and the real separate.

Destroying money is great! The Fed can just print more to make up the difference.

Equivalently buying stuff from China, and China hoarding the money they got forever is great, too. You got stuff, and the Chinese only got some database entries.

> If someone's unemployed, their labor is wasted, and you can't get it back.

Yes. (Though the leisure they enjoy isn't necessarily completely worthless. But let's ignore that for now.)

And we find that in general the private sector makes more productive use of people's labour (in real terms). Especially when compared not to the day-to-day running of existing civil servants, but to make-work schemes.

The Fed 'printing' money increases private sector spending and private sector employment.

> You can reverse fiscal stimulus by putting up taxes.

Taxes don't remove the money from the hands of the people you paid to dig the holes and cover them up again.

More importantly: taxes have substantial deadweight losses. Taxes cause real productivity losses.

(Just to be clear: I'm all in favour of financing the government from taxes that have low or zero deadweight losses, like property taxes or land value taxes.)

Selling assets from the central bank balance sheet on the open market has no deadweight losses.
Your concern should be that major corporations with considerable political interests control every major news organization and they have determined sensationalism /fear mongering/race baiting provide the best ROI
Find a non-technical hobby and go so fully into that (visibly) that you become a magnet for others just getting into the hobby.

Being there is like living midway down a river. Just stay there and “they” will come.
I mostly agree with zanzibar735 except I disagree with their depression prognosis — its loneliness imho and its a silent killer.

I firmly second their advice on seeing a therapist.

As you age “living your best life” will take different forms. You just have to stick with trying to “live your best life”.

Good luck and I hope this discussion here gives you some actionable advice that you can implement.
I remember. A part of the top shell could snap off and be replaced with a third-party shell that gave the mouse a more elongated shape. There were at least two such shells on the market, even.

While you could use any other USB mouse with Mac, MacOS had a mouse acceleration curve that felt odd. One thing special with the Microsoft optical mice is that they came with a driver for MacOS — with its own mouse acceleration code that fixed this issue.
I know you said advice outside of finding a hobby, but I'd say team-based sports or other game type clubs are a great way to be part of positive social groups that aren't full of sad, lonely people. Also, with sports, you're also doing something athletic which is probably good for your body and serotonin levels.
I was just thinking about this earlier today when I was searching for something specific and getting very irrelevant results. It used to be that the first page of results was very high quality and somewhat relevant at the bottom and page two+ was pretty much don’t even bother. Now it’s like if you are lucky the first 3-4 results might be relevant, middle is some spam with similar keywords that appear to match your search but it’ll have a funky domain e.g. .gg and either nonsense or doesn’t work due to malicious crap and being blocked. Anything after the middle is pretty much garbage.
Are the same legislators bringing in a private company to rectify also the ones who keep the IRS underfunded? Pretty sketchy.
You learn theory 10x more easily when it’s actually working for you. I think there’s a case for needing explicit instruction in mathematics and algorithms, but it only becomes intuitive when you’re solving your own problem with it.

Remember that Gauss didn’t just sit around inventing theories, he was trying to explain the world around him and his theories were the product of that.
I imagine there could be some sensory deprivation training (with instruments) that could help pilots learn to choose when they believe their feelings and when they can ignore them and instead more easily choose to believe the instruments.

This could be done safely and cheaply in a ground based facility.
The creator just isn't interested; but they've given the go-ahead to several other folks to sell it.
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Code formatting is all about matching the impedance of the source code to that of the human author/readers of the code. The development of literature suggest that innovation in this area will continue for a very long time.

I myself am a huge fan of Pascal, and limiting code to one function per line. I find that clever/terse code is unmaintainable code.

Here's some code I wrote back in 1991 for a TECO clone that reflects that style. Looking back, I think some things could have a few more comments, but it seems fairly easy to read the intent of the code.

https://github.com/mikewarot/teco
This book is a great example of how wrong it is to think that the concept of the state is evil and oppressing. When in reality the state acts in favor of those in power, and i don't mean politicians or the president. It's the capitalists. The ones who control production control society.

We don't have wars because of ideas or justice, we have war because of the hard economic incentives of the powerful. The states mass surveillance isn't based on a corrupt evil, they do it to secure the interests of the powerful.
We don't pay taxes solely because 'the states' or politicians want to take from us, they do it to pay subsidies and bailouts to industries.

This book is about capitalists, their state and how they use it to secure profit. To have capital is to have influence, so where are you when laws get written?
The common type 83 was a non-arc mercury rectifier used in old TVs and power supplies.

When warmed up under operating conditions the gaseous metal concentration from such a volatile element conducts quite a bit more current between the electrodes than can be beamed across similar sized structures through plain vacuum.

Arcs are to be avoided on type 83 since it can fry them and risk other components but here is a video, note it is not really arcing just the blue-violet glowing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBKbp7oxG-Q

This was a consumer tube so a hobbyist could use one to build a battery charger for something like an escooter. If you did it right you would be able to tell the amount of current draw from the glow.

Too bad it would take more energy to run the tube than it would to charge the battery.
> Unfortunately: There were some senators who contact form was broken. (One in texas and I think one in wyomey was another.. other than that I got responses of "we don't give responses to non-constituents)

Their contact forms aren't broken, they literally just don't represent you unless you live in their state.
I would be highly skeptical that most people in their 30s doing ballroom dancing and bird watching are normal. I know you're just making stuff up with the D&D inclusion.
> lonely developers and other socially awkward people - short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc. All the "normal" people I knew...

I never knew short guys and unattractive/aging women are not normal people. Is life a hollywood movie?
It’s the trashbat.co.ck of the 2020s