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I have not 1 but 5 blogs/sites:

1. Professional blog where I showcase my different approach to my profession (operations for high tech companies), thoughts on tools, and commentary on industry news. It's kind of boring, but it's for me.

2. Portfolio site. This is where I showcase processes, systems, and tools that I have developed for the companies I have worked for or consulted for.

3. Self-therapy secret blog under a pen name that I use to vent to myself and to the world about my challenges (main is that I have anxiety). I need an outlet where I can be unfiltered.

4. Passion blog for one of my hobbies.

5. Passion blog for one of my projects related to my hobby above.

WHY I BLOZg:

Main reason: Writing makes people think better, and better thinking is the secret sauce for better life and better professional performance.

Secondary reason: Yesterday I received a job offer for my next job. It has been a long journey that took me >6 months. Very few of my peers have an online presence and nobody has a portfolio. Having those put me on a different plane than everyone else. Interestingly enough, while I target exclusively Innovative companies, most people (CEOs and CXO) had mixed feelings about my online presence, but a few really liked it and appreciated my commitment to my craft, and my technical knowledge when it comes to web publishing.

So, there's that.

TL;DR: writing will make you think better, and will give you an advantage in your career. And it's self-therapy.
Is this not how lions spend their days? Or jackals. Or wolves, or foxes: pack predators have good fight/flight/feed balance and just hang around, minimising energy cost. Dogs just do it more.. urbanely.
I'm a cyclist in Stockholm and I hate electric scooters. They are commonly dumped in the bike lanes, sometimes standing up across them and, worse, on the ground right on the bike path.

I have to constantly get off my bike during summer months to move them away from the bike lanes, not only for myself but due to the danger to others less agile than I am. I even had a close encounter to one strewn across the ground right after a blind turn (due to summer vegetation) on a bridge crossing, if I didn't react quickly I'd have simply blasted over it going 20+ km/h... It'd be dangerous to any old person going downhill from the bridge.

It's a fucking disgrace that people feel they can just dump them on bike lanes, I can't educate everyone to set them in a proper place and I never had issues with bikes strewn across the pavement before, so electric scooters are a new danger on the road for me.

And I hate cars.
You don't have to blacklist or delete anything if it is not there to begin with, which is the point of OP.
> systemd starts services in dependency order.

I'm not sure if this is still the case, because I no longer use Linux, and I may be misremembering it. But IIRC a good while back, there was no way to guarantee service start order at boot.

You could specify dependencies for some services, but even then, if there was more than one choice of dependency order that satisfied the requirements, systemd did not guarantee that the same one would be used on each startup. Otherwise, services with no dependency specs (or groups of services at the end of the same dependency chain) would get started in parallel. If you really wanted to start a sequence of services in order, doing so by specifying dependencies in separate unit files was really painful and basically impossible to debug, especially since dependencies weren't exactly easily described (various combinations of After=, Requires=, Wants=, BindsTo= that went both ways between targets and service links in the dependency chain).

Please note the "I may be misremembering it" part. My life is a lot happier now that I no longer need to care about Linux userspace stuff so I may be repressing some memories :-D.

Edit:

> Why do I need to rebuild without Bluetooth support?

The author chose a lazy example. Yeah, you don't usually need it. A better example: rebuild with `CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y` to enable proportional weight division of disk bandwidth in CFQ.
Cars rarely park in the middle of the sidewalk, in front of your entrance door, in the middle of the bicycle lane. Cars are also rarely driven by 10-15 years old who have no respect for others.

Both are a pain but cars are much more regulated. Parking a car on the sidewalk or in front of a door of any major city -> you're towed in the next 30 min. Park 5+ escooters in the middle of a busy sidewalk and you'll have to wait until someone decides to throw them away, nobody will get fines, nobody will lose his vehicle for XX hours, &c.

People who use vehicles they don't own are extra reckless and less careful about what they do and where they park, it reveals how many people actually don't give a single fuck about living in organised communities and have absolutely no regards for their neighbours

E scooters would be a dream if every Nth car parking spot was reserved for them and people were forced to park on these spots. You could even have them part of the city transportation subscription that way you wouldn't give money to tax dodging US companies.
Exactly - in the Netherlands we have the reverse problem - if a generic drug exists, some insurance companies will only reimburse that drug. In some cases that leads to problems. One example was a generic drug where some patients were allergic to the excipients in the generic drug.
Is that what the tube in youtube refers to? I've grown up with CRT's but never made the connection.
This happened to me About eight years ago I think, and I was finally able to get someone on chat at the time who escalated it and was able to get it resolved. I think I needed to re-open the account in order to get the chat though.
> Scooters would be a great solution for the last mile in the suburbs where you have to walk 1.5km from the subway to home

Absolutely, but that is contradictory to those companies' business model. They try to maximize use, a single commuter taking the scooter from their home to the train/subway station 2 times a day is very little use. Owning or long term renting makes more sense for that use case, and there's little a startup could bring there.
This is illegal in the UK. You cannot legally drive a privately owned scooter in public. They are classed as vehicles and you need to be insured to drive them, you cannot insure a private scooter. When you rent a scooter from one of the apps they come with insurance built in.

Your colleague, and others, breaking the law and driving dangerously does not mean we should get rid of a means of transportation that is legally and safely used by others.
I apologize for that. It was really an impulsive, useless comment.
I can't find a good reference, but there was a "standard" process for being creative:

Step 0: Get yourself in front of a paper or whiteboard. Eliminate distractions.

Step 1: Get all of the BS out of your head. Whatever comes out. Do not try to discuss, assess, etc., just get it out of your head.

Step 2: Take a step back and start assessing. Is there anything valuable? What if you pair things together?

I heard people applying this to ideate on a new start-up, brand, domain name, etc.
Good.
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> Making it paid creates an inconvenience even if the price extremely low, ...

Buying ... isn't it always "inconvenient"?

Shopping for groceries, what an inconvenience.

I get your point: not having to do something to get something is always easier. But when you're literally paying for soooo many other things every day .. where's the proportionality? When in this case of instant messaging app you'd have to buy it once.

> If your target group is worldwide you need regional pricing (and payment methods) to not exclude economically disadvantaged regions.

Yes, valid. Like with most other services/products all over the world, of course the messaging app as well would be priced according to the usual standards in the respective country. Food prices and all other prices vary from region to region, country to country.

So I didn't mean it should be priced the same in every country. Just that there better not be two different service levels.
As I wrote, IMO this differentiation just enables gamification/maximisation of revenue.

> For a case study of a paid messenger see Threema, ...

Yes, Threema appears to move rather slowly. Of course they are, when all other apps offer even more shiny features and are free. That's just how most people decide: nice features, friends are there, free .. yep, I'll go with that.

My impression is that Threema is doing ok, considering the fact that it costs a few bucks.
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I usually use head or less for that.

Using cat for first look is usually looking for trouble if the file is huge or some binary file.
> Interestingly, casinos _are_ allowed here, unlike in much of the US.

But casino's and other forms of gambling are licensed, and they are held to strict rules. For example: casino's will refuse entry to people when their gambling habit becomes problematic. They also don't allow in minors.

I bet Blizzard doesn't do any of those things. If they wanted, they could simply apply for a license and play by the rules.
It's entirely possible, even likely, the lack of difference is due to age-related efficiency losses at lower speeds rather than not losing efficiency between 70 and 80. There's also the fact I'm running AC on max in very hot weather, which maximizes the loss due to AC and increases the amount I save by shortening the trip and thus reducing the amount of time the AC is running.

My overall trip efficiency maxing out at 70 was 31mpg, and 80 was 27.9mpg.
This is what I do (I tend to write software that I like to use). Enjoyment and positive feelings are important components of my work.

But I doubt my stuff would be considered "commercially feasible," and I probably wouldn't get VCs interested.

I don't care. I'm grumpy, battle-scarred, and quite good at what I do. I'm in the enviable position (although I suspect many here would not "envy" me) of not needing to beg others to validate my work (or pay for it), so I'm fairly free to do what I want to do, as opposed to what I have to do. This won't get me fame and riches, but does make me happy.

When optimizing for emotions, we need to be very, very sensitive to our audience. One simple example, is high-key, vs. low-key. High-key stuff is usually against a white background, and low-key stuff is usually against a black background.

White and black trigger all sorts of emotions, and one's culture plays a big part of that (like, black is the sign of mourning, in the US, but white is the sign of mourning, in Japan).

One way that I deal with this, is respecting Dark Mode.

Purple is also another color that can trigger different emotional responses, based on culture (and what it is paired with).

Americans tend to like simple, uncluttered, design-heavy interfaces, while Japanese tend to like busy, colorful interfaces, without as much attention paid to design.

etc., ad nauseam.
Argueably tractors back the day were a lot closer to cars then they are now.
Porque no los dos?

(Why can’t it be both?)
I read the previous comment as a figure of speech, not making fun of anyone.

It's a writing style (mannerism?) but not necessarily ill-intentioned.
You can skip all the school and college stuff though. People get MAGMA jobs off of bad tech jobs and grinding leetcode and nothing else.

> My bonafides: I’m a college drop-out with a background in mathematics who went from teaching and having almost no coding experience to working at a big tech company in SV in ~3 years. The result is not typical, but I’ve seen it repeated enough to know that I’m not just a fluke. I recently saw another college drop-out make the jump in 18 months.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385015
Except I hate TV and radio and cannot think straight when that NOISE is running yammering and ego tripping away…

The grunts are real, however… but I’m only 47 so what do I know
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy... so he quits.

You shouldn't have to buy yourself out of slavery if the situation could be solved with thursday afternoons at home.

People are sensing a coming economic collapse and are clamping down on employee's lives and the employees leave, which makes the management clamp down even harder on the next guy for fear of a collapse and the cycle brings about what they are trying to avoid.

Just give people time off to be homo sapiens and you might have employees you can call on when things get really bad.
Unless you absolutely need BSD in production, there's a lot to be said to just use something more common/mainstream instead. I.e. Linux. It's probably going to be a lot cheaper and there's not a lot it can't do.

I'm sure BSD has some unique features and properties that make it very appealing to use for certain things. However, what makes it very unappealing is the fact that there just aren't a lot of people with relevant skills and that the ones that do exist are probably on the expensive side. Many Linux users could probably train up, if they wanted or needed to. But the reality is that most never do that. Either way, hiring people with BSD skills is probably harder than finding people with Linux skills.

The price of running BSD in production in a responsible way is that you need a fairly sizable team of >4-6 people. Probably salary cost alone would run close to a million per year. That's a big commitment to run anything and hiring is going to be tough.

Bare metal linux has the same problem but with the difference that a lot of people have experience using it and there are all sorts of companies that can support you with this. And people tend to start using linux in cloud based environments where they can outsource the business of keeping the environment up and running. So Linux allows you to start very cheaply, relying on skills most devops people and developers already have, and then later transition to a bare metal setup with some standardized thing from a company that can offer you lots of support.

No reason BSD could not work like that but of course it has been historically been like that at all and is mostly a thing that shows up on bare metal instead in a few companies that for whatever reason decided that was a good idea; maybe a very long time ago.

Running BSD on a vm hosted on linux is of course possible but probably does not make a lot of sense. Doing it the other way around might make sense if you are in the PAAS/IAAS business but it seems most of that industry has long standardized on Linux. Would there be any benefit for them to switch?
I went to a multi-day Elm workshop a number of years ago, I had no experience with the language.

While I didn’t particularly enjoy the language and found the syntaxes implicit context tiring (I’d rather have a mountain of parens), the process opened my eyes to the value of immutability in a way months of LISP / Scheme in college never had.
That roughly follows some proposed applications of stem cell therapy. Why invent a nanomachine swarm when we are all nanomachine swarms?
I didn’t get a sense from the article or post you’re replying to that acting on emotion unconditionally was desirable.
Talking to yourself now?
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We had to leave to EU to get those much safer 3 pin plugs we had since 1911.

https://inews.co.uk/video/lbc-caller-three-pin-plugs-236449
One time pad on tape. Not bad. Like all one time pads, it has a pad renewal requirement and an absolute no reuse requirement.

2400 baud probably meant lpc, linear predictive encoding, I was told designed for VLF comms to submarines and also sent everywhere worldwide as a very strongly penetrative wave, but slow slow slow. So..also one time pad. More room on a sub for boxes but same one time key distribution problem.

Lpc used a speech model. Probably, the model lacked female voices so encoded for a lower male voice register.

Thatcher famously had voice coaching. To lower her shrill tones. I doubt it was to optimise for this device.

I hated Thatcher, always voted against her. She was (in my biassed opinion) a highly effective unloveable divisive leader.
According to Lamborghini themselves:

https://www.lamborghini.com/it-en/news/marcello-gandini-racc...

it was just a (most probably very local) common interjection/expletive by a mechanic (from Piedmont) that was chosen half way between a joke and because it sounded not-so-bad in English as well.

The literal meaning is "peste o contagio" (pox or contagion or disease) but it is actually used essentially in what would be "perbacco" o "accidenti" (which I believe would be in English "by jove!" or "damn!").
The simplest I saw, install Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.com/ - open source, free) encrypted notes app, write something, then publish it via the interface.
It will create you a blog on their https://listed.to/ webpage
I wonder whether they have an external broker, or just self insure? With so many staff, it seems they could quite sensibly operate this internally.
Ah yes, the world paid Pfizer about $70 billion for vaccines in the last couple years, and in return those vaccines saved about 1 million lives. $70k/life sounds like we got a pretty good deal to me. Much cheaper per life saved than nearly any other new medical intervention nowadays.

So yes, you're a far right science denier.
I like working with metal, and cost wise a steel kitchen would be comparable to marble or high quality wood. But apparently people don't like them! I suggested it to a few people and they were like "eww no, I don't want some industrial kitchen in my home". Oh, well...
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Mostly I'm more experienced with C++.

But it all depends of what you need to do with it. Like would I put python in something that someone can get hurt if it dosen't work ? Not. For things like just printing information in a OLED display? Sure, why not. Its easier to mess around with strings in python.
I was thinking more of areas like early stage cancer detection[1], Fraud Detection[2] or the energy sector[3]

As for the glorified chatbot is of course one of the applications of AI, but i refuse to believe it has a very complex model, and the computational power required to use the model is also modest enough that most smartphones can execute it without any noticeable impact on battery life.

On the smaller scale, most of Apple's AI stuff is running on-device[4]. From iOS 15 all of Siri's "voice to text" happens on-device as well. While it's probably still a glorified chatbot, i for one enjoy being able to enter "pet autumn 2019" into my photo search bar, and be shown pictures of pets taking during autumn 2019, regardless of location.

[1]: https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2021/08/using-machine-...

[2]: https://medium.com/mlearning-ai/machine-learning-in-fraud-de...

[3]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026840121...

[4]: https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/api/
"Meta" Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
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As far as I am aware, for every significant UI change we do at the medical device company I am working for, we bring a panel of final users (doctors and techs) to our facility and we have to do some validation tests, and finally show these validation results to the FDA before releasing the product.
It's kind of crazy, people always say bloat here bloat there, but then come up with blacklisting....ahhh the forgotten "art" of just having the code you need on your machine ;)
I’ve seen this stat many times and I believe it is very misleading.

I believe this isn’t compared to no intervention. It is compared to a perfect intervention.

This kind of claim pollutes reasonable discussion.
> You could make a similar case for audio

It wasn't really my intention to "make a case"; just an observation/lament/complaint.
Since I started working remote, I don’t feel as tired after work as I used to. It’s not just the prep/commute, I always felt there was this baseline mental overhead from working and attending meetings in an office compared to at home. I also feel more comfortable to take short breaks and move around. It only takes me ~2 hours to recover after work and get to my own projects.
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May was the worst month for startup layoffs since the start of the pandemic
that just means that you need to hire half disgruntled scientists and half disgruntled PR folks, journos, attack dogs, muckrakers, etc, doesn't it, then?
I never had to do something that could not be done with python. Probably some libs for more exotic hardware, but depending of how you program you can loose events like button presses if you do not consider the slow response time in python.
Yes but indirectly, and the nominal rate of borrow doesn't matter as long as the rate is less than the expect potential growth of the long-term value of Bird stock.

At its core, Bird creates hype by creating a product or a service, this hype has some value.

Investors believes they can increase and benefit from this hype so they decide to bring new cash.

This new cash is supposed to be used generate new revenue, which in turn is increasing the hype, and this hype helps to bring new cash.

At the end of the cycle, the point of fast growing private equity fund is to carry and grow hype until a potential IPO which is the time the retail investors or the general public are going to be left holding the bag (Airbnb, Uber, Coinbase)
or to the point where the company becomes profitable and distributes future earnings (e.g. Microsoft).

Which means, as long as there is hype, there is new money coming in.

The reason money comes so much is because investors are nudged to spend their cash (e.g. negative interest rates also means that people who have cash and not equities are punished, as they have to pay interests!).
Also, the retail investors have had this incentive but don't anymore.

Remember, during the corona, a lot of people didn't know what to do with their money because no restaurants, no travel, etc.
So playing with cryptos and stock market on Robinhood.

-> The expected inflows of cash are going to decrease because retail investors that will hold the bag eventually won't be so keen to invest as they need their money (higher inflation).

-> The cash is more expensive, so there is a mechanical reason for the decrease.

-> There is uncertainty

Overall:

-> We need the company to survive so the pyramid doesn't collapse.

-> Rationalizing by reducing our cost base is the most reasonable solution to protect all the investors and the employees who invested their time and sweat.

I hope it makes sense.
FreeBSD was the first *nix distro I used, and I used it for many years as both a server environment and a workstation.

I agree with every point I ever see (in this and similar articles) about why FreeBSD is awesome, but I don't use it because when I create a virtual machine on GCP the default is Debian, and when I download disk images from the Orange PI or Raspberry PI websites they're Debian.

I know that I can set up FreeBSD on both those platforms, but it's way easier to use the default because it's the thing that's most widely supported and has the most documentation.

Nowadays the internet is so well stocked with answers that I can find copy and paste ready configuration and/or commands for just about everything I need to do with Linux on StackOverflow so the fact that I don't particularly know a lot about Debian doesn't really matter.

I have no idea how or why Debian became so popular, and I have no idea how FreeBSD could replace it.

I hope someone figures it out though! There's a lot to love about FreeBSD.
> moved to Ghost this time-- its a better (simpler?) version of Wordpress

For clarity, Ghost is not a fork of Wordpress. They're written in different languages.