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This question asks exactly what I wanted to talk about regarding the team, and what people may not realize reading this article.

This may sound like a stretch, but the Buchholz math team and Mr Frazer are probably the single biggest life-changing factor in my life so far, and in a lot of my teammates' as well. The effect that Frazer's culture puts on his students over their (potentially) 7-year career with him through middle and high school just dominos throughout college and your career. The team shaped who I am, where I went to school, and what I studied greatly, which I am so unbelievably thankful for (which I will get into at the end).

Most of the smartest people I know are friends I made on the team. To put it simply, these kids are so driven that being able to pursue a talent outside of the math team is certainly feasible. Now, almost everyone on the math team is taking the hardest classes they can at the school, a lot of which doing so with almost perfect GPAs. But the math team is very time consuming, and I think a lot of the team members share the ideology that there isn't a more valuable talent to expand upon in high school than math.

I was unfortunately only on the team for 2 short years, because I moved to a different state (and the year we lost both state and nationals is the year I went to both competitions, unfortunate correlation). As smart as the kids are on the team, Frazer's game plan is so well made at this point, it teaches you how to win. This means success is more correlated to hard work than intelligence in most cases.

My biggest regret about being the team is not working harder. I really feel like I was lazy and didn't take it as seriously as I should have, but looking back I don't think it affected my trajectory much. Fortunately, after I moved I tried to keep the Frazer culture with me, made friends with the smartest people at my new school, and I matured and worked harder. Absolutely none of which would have happened without the math team.

I am now doing computer science at a top 10 school and interning at a large tech company this summer. I am extremely thankful for where I am, much of which I attribute to Mr. Frazer. Plenty other students have far more inspiring stories than I have, come from lower socioeconomic statuses than I come from, or ended up in a better school than where I ended up. Thanks for letting me write that.
Not OP, but modern screws, bought from reputable suppliers, are absolutely fine. SPAX and GRK are extremely strong in both dimensions; they won't snap when you haul on them with an impact drill and the holding force is extremely...hold-y.

If you buy wood screws on Amazon, maybe they have thinner-than-spec threads and get weird. Maybe. I've done it (I can't get, say, oval-head slotted brass screws here too easily, so the internet's the option) and never had problems when I've drilled pilot holes and countersunk them correctly, even on fairly large pieces.
I've tried and tried to experience the flavor notes you mention across many different coffees from many different roasters, all sorts of brewing methods and settings, but cannot.

I can taste sour, burnt, and something in the middle that I really like, and that's about it.

Not a scientific experiment by any means, but there seems to be more people like me who cannot taste these flavors in coffee than you.
That's an interesting hack. I typically use brad-point bits instead because I've got multiple indexes of them.
Probably, yes :) But you'd have to find/build the integration.
At least one person in this thread alone mentioned reapplying the firmware update fixed it for them. "Try it again" is a common troubleshooting step for a good reason. There's no reason to assume malice from the presence of such a suggestion.
Their subscriptions couldn't possibly be fairer. An annual individual license costs what, two hours of wages? And you get a perpetual fallback, and a 40% continuity discount. It's incredibly reasonable.
There is empirical evidence for that? Where? Where are the 170+ IQ employees churning out magnificent solution after magnificent solution, rather than being stuck in the same rut as everyone else?
You can also use an EV as a residential battery - we just need better control systems/integration to make it easier for normal people.
That reminds me of a joke, "The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from." The joke being the point of a standard is everyone does things a certain way; if there are multiple standards, that completely defeats the purpose of having a standard.
Because it's not about starting out with a sustainable business model.

It's about taking a massive wad of cash and using it to block other entrants into your marketplace. Keep out competition as long as possible, and then once no one is looking, raise prices.

(Honestly, it seems kind of short-signed to me.)
The phrase describes a model. "All models are wrong, but some are useful".

What I think is useful from this quote is that across generations, people forget the horror of war. They forget what it actually means to push through hard work & living with mass dysfunction. They feel entitled to much and unwilling to take on dirty, unglorified but necessary work.
You don't have to tell people what the lowest number is, and most people won't care if it is something random like 1072.
Art is crime [NFT artist funds seized]
I don't understand how neither of them can make money anymore. When they were offering rides at a loss to build market share I understood how Uber could lose money. But now how can the cut they take from every ride not cover expenses?
Just anecdotally I can only speak for myself but I have stayed clear of vaccines for 29 years after the military used experimental vaccines on me and I never doubted or regretted my decision. I instead focus on keeping my innate and adaptive immune systems incredibly strong. This requires discipline and dedication to a strict diet and moderate exercise and is why I suspect that many people are opposed to this way of life. There are a million rabbit hole arguments for and against what I am doing but I am happy with the path I am on.
I think by "birch" they mean the Icelandic birch[1], which is the only tree that's actually native to Iceland. The others (Siberian larch, Alder variants) were probably previously endemic, even if they aren't "truly" native.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betula_pubescens
Another factor to consider is that the economics make more sense in a dense environment. Most Americans are 10~20 minutes (by car) from the nearest pizza, whereas most Koreans are only 5 minutes from the restaurant (by motorbike). The difference in delivery prices is a full order of magnitude. (Food delivery in Seoul adds about $2 to the bill at current exchange rates.)
Cool, I just signed up. Is there no way to change your site's URL once you've picked it in settings? Can you use a custom domain or will it always be x.montaigne.io? The help page is empty - this would be a good place to put FAQs. FYI I'd be willing to pay for something like this as it tears down all excuses for me not to have a blog, and I'm sure many Apple users would share that sentiment.
I have my own mailserver with sieve filtering. It would be possible to create that with sieve, but it requires constant updates to add an domain.
> Warmongering leaders (whether we are discussing economic or open war), especially ones leading currently weak countries, tend to create even worse times for their people. Just look at Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, or, perhaps more arguably, Putin right now.

Yeah - if they fail (or are arguably failing, in Putin's case). Not really the case of, say, Charlemagne or Alexander The Great.
Thinking on it a bit more, I think that it will become my liquor storage cabinet.

For the "correctly formatted tool chest" my current plan is to see what will fit into fittings connected to an Apache 5800 (from Harbor Freight) --- if that doesn't work out, I'll probably break down and go full-on Systainer w/ a Tanos MW-1000.
They're still common in Chick-Fil-A, and they complement the playgrounds with family night activities for kids on certain days of the week. Chick-fil-A prob doing better than ever too.
I stopped trying to be a comedian professionally when I found out Second City main stage performers made about 35K per year. The most prestigious comedy job in Chicago paid less than my entry level office job.

I don't regret it but at the time it was fairly depressing. You don't have to love it enough to do it as a career, you have to love it enough to do it as a career while understanding you will very likely never be able to support yourself by doing it. That is a pretty tough reality.
You're whining.

I agree that organizations that have endless meetings are organizations with too many unintelligent people: don't work for them.

But wtf? You "love building and working" and you're "forever building my own side projects as I love it" so who are you to criticize "devs that go out of their way to work weekends without being asked"? Have you considered that they might love their job also?

Stop whining. Apply to higher quality teams. (And watch out for your written communication giving a bad impression -- I think you're a native English speaker but you're confusing "bear" and "bare".)
I've never understood this line of reasoning. Governments can fight wars regardless or not of whether they can print money. In WW2 much of the allied economies were command economies that ran on forced credit.
Carbide alloy quality is probably hard to tell by eye. Also hard to tell by eye, and a little scarier, is how well they're adhered to the bit head.

I also use cheap router bits on occasion, but the second one misbehaves even slightly I go ahead and buy an Amana or similarly high-end one, because obviously I've used it enough for it to be worth it.
CA is actually facing rolling blackouts for exactly the same reasons, yet it's always amusing that TX only ever seems to get talked about here :p
Ask HN: Where do you host your public side projects?
I was curious to know where you guys host your personal projects that you want to make public.

I've been using AWS because I had credits for a year but they will soon expire and I'm now looking for simpler and cheap options. Do you use one of the big clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) or something else?
While this article is pretty hand-wavy, there are some interesting trends that do arise in fraud during a downturn. I do not fully know what drives it but I suspect the following:

* With more people being laid off, taking pay cuts etc. and with their sources of income drying up, they may be forced to find easier avenues to making money - especially if they have nothing to lose.

* Credit companies begin to tighten the lending limits, again forcing people who may have been on the fence, to look into committing fraud.

* Someone who genuinely is unable to pay off their credit card/loan or is worried about their job in a recession, might be tempted to claim unauthorized charges in order to not impact their credit scores - this would be first party fraud.

Insiders would absolutely know the lay of the land and how to perpetrate fraud without being caught. There will definitely be more disgruntled employees during a recession but I am skeptical of the scale of fraud being mentioned in the article. I am unconvinced that they would put their reputation and future employment on the line for short-term illicit gains.

In a strange way, we also do see a lot of fraud during a booming economy (something that another comment mentioned as being contradictory). The economy is flush with money -> companies are in growth mode and are rarely checking to see how many of their signups are from compromised identities -> the situation is ripe for third-party fraud and referral abuse.

Source: I work in Fraud risk management
We did take those, but the main focus of the math team is Mu Alpha Theta. I'm guessing it's a bit of a positive feedback loop of "we have the best material for MAO tests, and we place the highest in MAO competitions". Also, Frazer even writes tests for some regional MAO competitions that Buchholz competes in.
This is what I meant exactly.
So was XTC, although they were never anywhere as big as Rush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvO6lrZSxo
Agreed. The article fails to provide evidence that the increase in fraud is significantly changed by layoffs.

There are always people who are going to attempt to game systems.

There are people who work for business and that learn about systemic loop holes.

And there are also a percentage of people who when laid off with go on to exploit those systemic loop holes.

But at what percentage? How many frauds per million layoffs?

I cannot imagine how this would be a concern when determine the cost of a layoff.
The reason people have been doing this for decades is because it is cheaper for some industries (plus some consumer applications).

And when those industries do it, it makes power both cheaper and more stable for everyone else. A win-win.
So much of the standard software in the industry is beyond frustrating and needlessly complex. At this point I look for companies that don't have some sort of elastic stack monstrosity.
My dad just nailed them in place, which was fine until a jar broke.
Jean Sweeney is very new, and not completed yet either. Has a fun tower to climb (tight for those over 180cm) that wide slide and the zipline is pretty good. When the rest is finished it should be even cooler. Also, if you're around there check out the Pinball Museum on Webster (used to be the record store)
I've heard the story that the Nobel Prize in Economics was funded by certain people who wanted to legitimize the Chicago School of neoclassical economics.
This looks like every new playground I've been to in the US
The Twitter for Emergencies: Alarrt Is Giving Power to the People
From the hiring side, I always spend time reading people's blogs, Github, or social media if they make an effort to include it on their resume.

9 out of 10 times, blogs are extremely stale content from 5+ years back. A lot of people start blogging at the beginning of their careers and then just stop. This creates a weird frozen-in-time effect where what's shown on their blog doesn't match their current skillset at all.

I've read enough personal blogs that I know to look for timestamps and put it in context. If I see a "Ruby on Rails TODO app MVP" blog post or Github repo dated 8 years ago, I'm not going to use that for consideration in hiring them.

However, not every resume reader is going to be that considerate. If your blog isn't up to date, you may want to omit it from applications to avoid giving someone the wrong impression that you're still a beginner.
For all its flaws, this is why I still check the Wirecutter before I buy a lot of things. Although they seem to make their picks in part based on what will get them affiliate revenue, you can be sure someone on the staff has actually picked up the product and used it enough to understand how well it works.

I've also found user reviews on Home Depot to be more helpful than most. I'm not sure what they're doing to combat spam, but it seems to be working.
It was happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city#Russia
"UHF" connectors are very unfortunately named. They shouldn't be used for anything above 30 MHz (HF), but are often used on VHF (~150MHz) radios even though they have poor performance already at those frequencies:

https://www.hamradio.me/connectors/uhf-connector-test-result...

> The stunning result is all the UHF connectors in the test have worse performance than all the other connectors. One immediate conclusion concerning ‘UHF’ connectors is they will function at these higher frequencies, but one must decide if using the PL259 or SO239 is worth it in an age where its deficiencies have been made moot by ALL connector designs since WWII.

N connectors work excellent all the way up to ~1GHz and also have decent power ratings. Above that SMA/SMC is popular for low power applications, and waveguides for high power.

TNC connectors were popular in the 1980's for analog cell phones and 800MHz public safety radios.
Yeah, I entered the industry a decade after you but I share the same views. Back then teams were so much smaller and management actually took care of the bureaucracy.

I remember at one time I ended up as the sole developer at a university, serving about 30k students and >500 faculty. We needed to migrate to another software due to end of support in the previous, which would go down in a matter of weeks. I had to code an interim replacement by myself in the meantime. It ended up being simple looking, but it did only what was needed, and I was able to finish. Teachers added grades, students could see them and enroll on courses. No social features, notifications, no gamification, no material design, looked as simple as it could. Worked fine for 2 years until the permanent system was installed (and students had to suffer because the multi-million system that costed thousands of billable hours to setup was riddled with bugs).

Contrast with today: at my previous company we had 500 devs to make an e commerce website whose homepage “couldn’t” be changed for two years. With scrum we supposedly have “self managed teams” but there was so much micromanagement. Sometimes I felt as if I had 20 different bosses, controlling my time and my tasks: POs, PMs, designers, management, upper management, support. There was no time to dogfood the app, to do maintenance, to study, to have ideas.

Unlike most people I don’t really blame Scrum or Agile. The people making it suck are the ones not following it: designers have a “dual track” where they plan months ahead of work (aka waterfall). POs and PMs absolutely hate iterative work, so we gotta refine during PR reviews. Management is too worried about catering to them to listen to us. At least we make money to make terrible software.

Like a lot of people recommended above I also joined a smaller company where things are saner than anything else.
With proper srcset and sizes attributes, that serve compressed images in a modern image format you'll usually get below 1MB.
Yeah, in Iceland fences are for keeping the sheep out, not in :)
I'm really proud that two websites I designed and built are on that list, but especially proud of https://foodpartners.us/ which unlike a lot of the sites isn't a blog but is a full brochure style website for a business that would normally load many MB of crap if built by a normal agency.
I just wanted to say that when I had been alone at home recovering from a surgery, I thought it would be bloody fucking nice to have such a service, even at a premium.

I ended up paying a premium anyway — for taxi rides to the supermarket and back anyway. Not to mention how exhausted it had made me.
I went through the same thing, lost a bunch of weight, people around me noticed, but I still had my belly and love handles. Ended up gaining the weight back, maybe if I kept up with the healthy diet I would've eventually gotten the physique I wanted.
For those that don't want or can't watch a video: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashCon
Spoofing calls has literally nothing to do with swatting. The cops do not care which number the call comes from.
Which means that you should prioritize it relative to cycling instead of driving, not ignore it entirely.

(More concretely: individuals cycle, while household units generally compost together. A household of 4 produces a nontrivial amount of compostable waste and diverting it can be a significant ecological outcome, especially if it's replacing purchases of topsoil or artificial fertilizer. It also makes taking the trash out more pleasant, since it doesn't spend days rotting indoors before being tossed to the curb.)
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You linked to the old Corellium patch, here's proper one: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20211226153624.162281-1-m...
Active cooling tends to have the challenge of controlling condensation, and then of course now you are drawing even MORE power from the wall.
During pandemic I started up a YouTube channel (I'm sure I'm not alone...) just to document my side projects (https://www.youtube.com/c/atomic14) - for some reason I've found it much easier to publish videos than write blog posts.

The YouTube channel has done fairly well with around 24,000 subs and has led to a lot of interesting conversations and consulting work.

My original intention was to do blog posts in conjunction with the videos, but it's proved very hard.

I do occasionally make an effort and get something out the door, but soon slip behind: https://www.atomic14.com
I feel this is a problem in our entire mindset. People so often get confused with the difference between a plan and a goal. One is the what and one is the how. What most people call plans are really just goals. Plans require sufficient data to make a how. Or they need a whole set of contingency plans that would be the plan if and when sufficient data becomes available. This is why "long term plans" are so vague in general because they are just a goal. As time progresses, the long term becomes the short and the data becomes available to turn goals into plans that can be executed.
John Adams is stuck in Paris, writing a letter to his wife, lamenting that there is so much amazing culture and beauty and he would love to visit it all and write a description for his wife, but his duty prevents him from enjoying his surroundings. He recognizes that a nation needs stability, then prosperity, and finally culture and that (at that time) the United States doesn't even have stability.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258

> Since my Arrival this time I have driven about Paris, more than I did before. The rural Scenes around this Town are charming. The public Walks, Gardens, &c. are extreamly beautifull. The Gardens of the Palais Royal, the Gardens of the Tuilleries, are very fine. The Place de Louis 15, the Place Vendome or Place de Louis 14, the Place victoire, the Place royal, are fine Squares, ornamented with very magnificent statues. I wish I had time to describe these objects to you in a manner, that I should have done, 25 Years ago, but my Head is too full of Schemes and my Heart of Anxiety to use Expressions borrowed from you know whom.

>To take a Walk in the Gardens of the Palace of the Tuilleries, and describe the Statues there, all in marble, in which the ancient Divinities and Heroes are represented with exquisite Art, would be a very pleasant Amusement, and instructive Entertainment, improving in History, Mythology, Poetry, as well as in Statuary. Another Walk in the Gardens of Versailles, would be usefull and agreable.—But to observe these Objects with Taste and describe them so as to be understood, would require more time and thought than I can possibly Spare. It is not indeed the fine Arts, which our Country requires. The Usefull, the mechanic Arts, are those which We have occasion for in a young Country, as yet simple and not far advanced in Luxury, altho perhaps much too far for her Age and Character.

>I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples and Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestry, Porcelaine, &c. &c. &c.—if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty.—The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.—I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.
I want one that bounces spam emails instead of just deleting them.

If people use a deliverability service they get punished worse for having a high bounce rate than they do for having a high complaint rate. I want to see more punishment.