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CS graduate from the US moving to the Middle East, what are my opportunities?
Im a CS graduate from the US. I’m in a situation where I can no longer stay in the US and have to move to the middle east. I'm comparing salaries with the US tech jobs its a bit upsetting. I'm looking into Dubai and Jordan. It seems that mostly web engineers are needed. I wish I can work with a US based company remotely from my home country, is that possible for an entry level? If someone can help guide me, I will appreciate it.
The fees are just so nuts on crypto exchanges, Binance charges 0.1%!

That means that if you buy, then sell 1 BTC (~42kUSD right now), it cost you 82 dollars for the privilege.
Kind of.

I’m genuinely interested in slowing down and easing into homestead kind of lifestyle but mostly because building sustainable systems is just an interesting engineering problem to me.

The debt free/prepper aspects just add to the fun a bit.
It is a big and notable event in the middle of antitrust investigations into Apple/Google by the US and the EU.
Something isn't right with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
SERVFAIL for far too many requests
Pretty confident in the US since at least 2002 - after aol, sprint and others got in big trouble it’s been super illegal to not allow people to cancel
What do you mean when you say that Gnome is the default in Debian? Every time I installed Debian in the last 10+ years, it showed a list of checkboxes with desktop environments to select in the installer. So you can install 0, 1 or more desktop environments during Debian installation. I'm asking, because I see it repeated in a couple places that Gnome is the default, and I feel that I'm missing something.
Pretty standard Google playbook these days.

Instead of building something and then cancelling it later when it doesn't gain traction to get their PR win, they decide to cash in on the PR win upfront with a big partnership announcement, then cancel the product before building it if it doesn't gain sufficient traction, thus saving on engineering costs and streamlining the typical Google technical offering lifecycle.

Behind the scenes, Google usually gives the partnering company some pretty nice discounts. Usually no one does any engineering until someone else sees the PR and also wants in on this "exciting new feature" and they're the one actually beta testing the product that they thought the announced companies already used.
If that means it won't be down every morning in my time zone then yes.
Magpie intelligence is literally legendary.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Folklore-of-Magpies
What if there was another payment system available on iphone with similar subscription centralisation service, with only 10% fee? Would you use that instead?

IMO the main problem is the lack of competition. If Apple were forced to accept other payment platforms, you'd soon find the same service for cheaper.
Teen Suspected by Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind
58 here. In my thirties, the first thing I did was blow off my research job and travel with my wife for a six-month trip around the world. If you are not sure that you married the right person, traveling will be a good test!

Of course, I had no money after that trip -- so we lived with my in-laws for six months to save for a house down payment. I would not recommend this!

But what I would recommend is living under your income in your thirties. It would be best if you did that forever, BTW.

And have kids. They take a lot of energy, time, and love.

Finally, invest in your career. Take new roles, try some things. Don't sweat not being the next Zuckerberg. You have three or four more decades to start a company, write your novel, or create the wondrous thing.

Load your backpack full of responsibilities in your thirties -- you are stronger than you think.
If you have a hard time believing in God, then why limit yourself to just Christianity? Islam is ideal for exploring spiritualism through structure and discipline, Hinduism and Buddhism are great to explore spirituality from a psychological plane. This might offend some but while self-studying these religions, I found Christianity to be quite underwhelming, spiritually. In fact, if it wasn't for the writings of Desmond Tutu, I would have no appreciation of it. The only religion I haven't been exposed to is Judaism, as Jewish community are quite rare in India.
You do see that everybody in this thread agrees that Henry Kissinger is a monster and a war criminal, correct? Nothing has been deflected; we are all on the same page.

There is no excuse for invoking the blood libel, barring the basic kind of ignorance that was presumed in my initial response. If you want to describe Kissinger’s monstrosity, you can do better than leaning on cheap antisemitic canards.
I always remember this fantastic obituary by The Economist for Osama Bin Laden whenever this subject comes up https://www.economist.com/newsbook/2011/05/07/reaction-to-th...
I try to avoid them. Many developers are a bit odd and I prefer to hang out with normal people after work.
Yeah, but you could have had an archipelago
I recently came across what Colin Powell wrote about her in his memoirs[1]:

> In his memoir My American Journey, Colin Powell recounts a discussion he had when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" she asked. "I thought I would have an aneurysm," Powell write. "American G.I.'s were not toy soldiers to be moved around on some sort of global game board."

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=TZU1SGMOx70C&pg=PA144#v=on...
"Also keep in mind Central CA in summer is not Massachusetts in November, weather makes all this 10x worse"

Important to keep in mind, but I would suspect(and hope), most solar farms will be installed, where it is sunny and dry.
As idlewords once described it, "AI cosplay" - a dumb person's idea of what a smart computer would do.

It's honestly a little heartening that comments on HN don't immediately recognize the movement anymore.
>> and nobody bats an eye.

Because most people in crypto are utterly convinced that their "investment" of $1000 in crypto will become $100k or even $1M in no time.. so the 0.5% seems negligible.
No, not if you don't have the downpayment.
Nobody has the right but there are obvious ways to differentiate them. You pool a set of majority features together that did not exist in a previous iteration. Really its hard to do before the implementation is complete. basically its hard to define web3 before there is a web3. What is happening is that there are parties who are actively trying to make major changes to how majority of the internet is used, that new version is therefore web3.

Its like how we different between epochs or periods of time. They are just abstractions of ideas/things/beings put into a bucket.

Web1.0 was essentially a static web with static pages. Its just how the internet was mostly used during that time period. Web2.0 essentially transformed HTTP + javascript to the standard OS used to run programs. No more installing software locally... well guess what in web1.0 days people still had dynamic websites (php, cgi, flash, java applet) and in the web2.0 days I still have to install video games from steam. They are just general buckets to help our brains more easily categorize time periods and the major differences between them.
Not a prepper in the prepper-you-see-on-youtube sense, not at all.

I do however get a few weeks to few months supply of things like TP, water, canned foods.

Not because I'm afraid of war, at this point I'm more afraid of shortages.
With regard to all the civilians she has publically admitted as collateral damage, I think that is worse than a basketball.
You're going to have to compromise on something. Climate wise you described Seattle but housing there is insane. Take out climate and you have Charlotte North Carolina. If you can compromise on the rainfall you should check out Pueblo Colorado
it's profoundly strange that github has not properly sharded yet. essentially all large social networks are or have used sharded mysql successfully, this is not rocket science

livejournal, facebook, twitter, linkedin, tumblr, pinterest all use (or formerly used) sharded mysql and most of these are at larger db size than github

i will also repeat my comment from another recent thread: i just cannot understand how 20+ former github db and infra people recently left to join a db sharding company. this makes no sense whatsoever in light of github's lack of successful sharding. wtf is going on in the tech world these days
Outage checklist

- Was it DNS?

- Was it a bad config update?

- Was it an overloaded single point of failure?

There's rarely a #4
"Europe" doesn't exist for these purposes, the countries vary wildly, with the only thing that stays constant being that it won't by default saddle you with crushing student debt like the US. The UK has been steadily increasing fees, while e.g. Germany, Norway and Denmark pay you for studying, with the German voters successfully lobbying against attempts to introduce fees while I was studying. The German university system at least is also quite robust and egalitarian in the sense that there are many avenues into university and it is truly free - whole also being high quality (in my opinion). Where Germany is comparatively behind I'd secondary education - the three tier system sucks and I can't wait until the Finnish system properly takes over this continent.

Health care and university education are things that Europe just does systematically more efficient than the US in the sense of cheaply providing high quality to lots of people. Research I'd be open to debate and business it has to be said the US is miles ahead of e.g. Germany (I'm so jealous of California's NDA and employee IP laws)
Agreed. I mostly use Spotify on a Raspberry Pi using Spotifyd and a display driver I wrote myself, on Linux. Now who should get a cut of my subscription? Do I get any of it?

For services which exist and function perfectly well outside of the Google/Apple binary, why should they get any more than a nominal fee for hosting the app download?
There's no evidence that anyone here was invoking a blood libel. That would require anti-semitic intent on the part of the speaker, of which none has been demonstrated.
I assumed this would be an automatic consequence of banning news in general.
I wish I had known the truth about romantic relationships. Would have saved me a lot of trouble:

- Women are not all the same. Men are not all the same. There is no single approach. What works for your friend won't necessarily work for you, because you're different people and thus after different things.

- "pick up lines" and pick-up-artist techniques and all that kind of bullshit are just that: bullshit. At best you get a roll in the hay, and not a relationship that lasts (because you're lying).

- You really really REALLY need to be yourself. Any potential SO will discover who you really are as they get closer, and if you're putting on a front, you're attracting people to a person who doesn't exist, and won't like the person who really does exist. Look for people who are attracted to the kind of person you actually are.

- There is a certain amount of marketing involved in presenting yourself, but never go so far as to deceive.

- Don't try to change for people. You can't change who you are, and anyone who tries to change you is selfish. Don't waste your time with them.

- Accept people as they are. They're not going to change.

- The most important personality trait that MUST be compatible is dominance and submission. Two dominant people will fight all the time, have great sex probably, and a terrible relationship that's more off than on. Two submissive people will suffer in silence as their relationship gives no fulfillment or direction. You need to be compatible in who leads on what (and communicate that!).

- If you're looking to get noticed, find a way to stand out. Waiting for a potential SO to find you by pure chance is risking a life alone.

- If you find someone you like, at the very least greet them. The sooner you get the fear of rejection over with, the better.

- You'll have a bunch of failed relationships on the way to the successful one. These failed ones teach you about yourself and about what you need in a SO.

- Don't be in a hurry to get to the successful one. Slow and steady wins the race. Just make sure you STAY in the race!

- Communication is the single most important thing in a relationship. And trust. Without those, your relationship doesn't have a prayer.
Warning people away from accidental invocation of infamous bigoted myths is always worth doing. Just as it is worth warning people away from using ethnic slurs or telling racist jokes, even if explicitly targeted at someone horrible.
If you're comparing it to the MI250 you're comparing it to 2 separate chips on a single card. This is fundamentally different and unless you have an ideal workload or have optimized appropriately, it's not going to hit anywhere near the peak FLOPS if you have data movement between chips.
Just because race is part of a subject doesn't mean it's racebaiting. You can't just remove race when its inconvenient or makes you uncomfortable, any more than you can separate WWII from a discussion about the Germany economy during the Third Reich.
>Printing money greatly benefits the rich, who own all the assets.

I don't know why people use the phrase "printing money", when people use this word I honestly don't know what they mean. It could literally mean anything, this isn't sarcasm. The problem is that there is no such thing as "money printing" except printing of physical cash and that isn't what people are talking about. Nobody is worried that if people withdraw money or bank notes are damaged that the Fed must print physical bank notes.

This colloquial language really drives me nuts every time I see it. When you randomly choose the meaning of printing money there are surely some situations where it is obvious that it is benefiting the rich but is that really what people are talking about? I honestly don't know or can't know.

If you are really dense, you can consider lending to be money printing and lending definitively benefits the rich as the rich have most of the assets, including bonds and money in their bank account. Since interest is paid based on how much you own, paying more interest obviously benefits the rich because rich means more money which means more interest. So, if the rich save more, the bank must lower interest rates, or lend out more money to earn more interest. Once you reach 0% interest, the interest rate cannot be lowered anymore so the only option left is to lend out all money even when it is illogical and the economy doesn't need more debt. In that sense, you can argue that the government is borrowing money to keep interest rates above 0%. When you don't do that you get Germany where interest rates have become negative. Negative interest rates obviously don't benefit the rich because they are signaling that the rich have too much money and nothing to invest it on which means that money must disappear at some point. You lose more if you have more and there is a $100k exemption on most bank accounts.

By the way, there is no direct relationship between your dollars and the lent out dollars. Even when you get a certificate of deposit and your money is illiquid, the bank still doesn't move that money, your balance is the same no matter how much of it is lent out. The money that is being borrowed is always "fresh" money. The special case is when you keep that money in demand deposits, your money is metaphorically lent out yet you can also spend it at any time! So liquidity actually increases.
Yeah, it was from November(-ish) and it was Buttonwood, thanks for the find, I'll probably go and re-read it now.
"Experiments like large scale direct democracy"

Are there actually people that think this would work on a large scale in the US?

On the other side, isn't Switzerland sort of close to direct democracy, at least in the way they require referendums?
One thing the pandemic taught me was that when the disaster comes, it's going to be your local community that turns on you first. Given the mask hoarding/reselling, toilet paper hoarding, gasoline hoarding, store price gouging and general antisocial behavior that we saw during 2020, I have no doubt that it would be a mistake to rely on altruistic, cooperative, community action. When I lived in Florida, after every hurricane, you'd see dozens of guys driving around with 4 brand new generators in the back of their pickup trucks, looking to sell them to desperate homeowners for 10X their cost.

For every one person who participates in a helpful community disaster preparation program, there are 20 who will instead look for ways to profit from a disaster and screw everyone else.
Notably, this is the result of a failure in our (necessarily) centralized anti-trust system. In the past 30 years, the government has been reticent to pursue anti-trust cases against the growing number of monopolies/oligopolies.

Without the centralized regulation of decentralized system, they seem to consistently centralize around a few key players to the detriment of the system.
My country owes a lot to her. In years 90', there wasn't really much support from USA for Eastern Europe countries to join NATO. Her lobbying for Poland was one of the reasons we got into NATO. If not for that, we'd be already at war with Russia.
> Not speaking ill of the dead is morally wrong.

Maybe just me but I feel like this misses what Speaker For the Dead does. It isn't about speaking ill or not ill of people but understanding their life experience, to give context to who they were as a person. This moves past the superficial reading of a person that just listing their actions and classifying them as good or bad.
This is one of the best parts of having a chronic illness and not having more than a couple months of life-sustaining medication on hand. No need to prep!
It's not that we have too many mouths to feed, it's that we have too many selfish people in positions of leadership and authority who exploit the masses to line their own pockets.

Having 50% less people would reduce the overall hunger numbers, but not the ratio.
58% of Dem Senators (the more senior controllers of the party), as well as the top brass (Clinton) supported the invasion.

Don't use numbers to repaint history.
It isn't. Just hacking things together rather than actually following the instructions will be harder.
well if you're making a synchronous call you have to wait for the response which is likely as bad as a pipe flush (or worse, because you likely flood the pipe with a tight loop waiting for the response, or a context switch to do something else while you wait)

Also note that stealing a cache line can be very expensive, if the CPUs are both SMT with each other it's in the same L1, almost 0 cost, if they are on the same die it will be a few (4-5?) clocks across the L2/cache coherency fabric but if they are on separate chiplets connected via a memory controller with L3/L4 in it then it's 4 chip boundary crossings - an order or 2 in magnitude in cost
I don't necessarily care that its Apple.

But the only reason that this works the way it does, is because a developer has to use it. If there really was a third party offering that was just as easy to use sure, why not. But I just don't see companies willingly making it easy to cancel a service without trying to send the customer through some retention workflow.
Who do you think they are making money from?
I think a solution would be to not make one's contact information public, or limit the channel that can be used to get in contact.
I don't think there is much fanfare. Obviously Google and Spotify want to make a big deal out of this for when regulators come knocking, but as a Spotify user who pays directly to Spotify outside of Play Store, this news is nothing more at a mild irritation at them both patting each other's backs over nothing.
If your framework enables you to kill million random civilians, I’d say it’s a shitty framework.
> most people

[citation needed]
> Together, we’ll work to innovate in how consumers make in-app purchases, deliver engaging experiences across multiple devices, and bring more consumers to the Android platform.

I wanna vomit. The fix is just deleting 3 lines of your policies. The world will innovate on its own. No need to limit innovation to a couple companies who are big enough to negotiate.
Having started my career in hosting, I would suggest that this world is unlikely to come back except for exceptionally small applications with minimal business impact. What does self-hosting provide which end-end encryption does not?

Self-hosting means:

- Needing to know how to configure your linux host across firewalls, upgrades, backups.

- Negotiating contracts with network service providers. While verifying that you have the right kind of optic on the network line drop.

- Thinking through the order of operations on every remote hands request, and idiot proofing them so that no one accidentally unplugs your DB.

- Making sure that you have sufficient cold spares that a server loss doesn't nuke your business for 6-12 weeks depending on how the hardware manufacturers view your business.

- Building your own monitoring, notifications, and deployment tools using both open source and in-house tools.

- Building expertise in all of your custom tools.

- A 6-20 week lead time to provision a build server.

- Paying for all of your hardware for 3-5 years, regardless of whether you will actually need it.

- Over-provisioning memory or CPU to make up for the fact that you can't get hardware fast enough.

- Getting paged in the middle of the night because the hardware is over-provisioned and something gets overwhelmed or a physical machine died.

- Dealing with the fact that an overworked systems engineer or developer is never making any component the best. And everything you touch will just passably work.

- Everyone will have their own opinions on how something should be done, and every decision will have long term consequences. Get ready for physical vs virtual debates till the heat death of the universe.
For the record, that is not at all what I was arguing.

I was arguing that completely unrestricted speech allows ideas that we really don't want (Nazism, etc) to become normalized.

This isn't even controversial; it's a well known phenomenon.

It's also very difficult to discuss this without talking about Trump and that instantly derails any conversation, but to address the elephant in the room, can you imagine even GW Bush saying "there were fine people on both sides"?

I also said that I don't know what the correct fix for that is.
from that article it sounds like they are mostly doing "functional partitioning" (moving tables off to other db primary/replica clusters) rather than true sharding (splitting up tables by ranges of data)

functional partitioning is a band-aid. you do it when your main cluster is exploding but you need to buy time. it ultimately is a very bad thing, because generally your whole site is depenedent on every single functional partition being up. it moves you from 1 single point of failure to N single points of failure!
This, and similar differences, seem to be completely forgotten about when people bring up the European model for college. It gets tiring pointing it out because the normal reaction is to ignore it entirely. Rarely is useful discussion produced on what purpose a college should serve and how the European model is in contradiction to some of the underlying philosophy advocating for it (specifically around the idea of who should college be for).
>"My issue is about whataboutism in general."

Whataboutism will disappear as soon as the perpetrators get punished. If a country does some awful things and walks away free and the world looks the other way it sets the example for others.