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What can I do if I don't like web development?
Note: I can't do university because I lack money. Please don't start saying only "don't do web development" or "university make you". TL:DR; at the end.

Schools in Italy are a disaster, they use bad practices -- I am obsessed with best practices -- and languages that I don't like PHP (widely used in Italy), for the language design, crap salary and less jobs. So in my free time I try to learn to be a full stack developer (they -- the school -- learn you to become this) and the most part I hate is the front-end one, nothing wrong with HTML, CSS is easy but hard to master with it; and I lose interest in the back-end part, web frameworks, React, Ember, Vue [...], I know they made the work more easier, it's not for me. What I like? I like developing, working with Software, Deep Learning / ML, AI, Game Dev, Low Level Things, I use Linux, I like do things with Computers, Reverse engineering, break things and understand why, fix it; Cybersecurity, Ethical Hacking, working with servers, network, sysadmin, use enterprise equipment and software (Java is popular on this), embedded, Simulation / modeling (I have difficult in math), really interesting stuff. I'm asking some keyword in what can I start to learn at what I like and have a good life balance with money.

TL:DR: I can't do university and I don't like web development, instead I like working with computers, software, low level things.

FAQ:

So what’s stopping you from doing what you rather be doing? If you’re not in university, then you’re pretty much free to learn whatever is that you want to do.

Resource limitations. I have a Computer that has a Intel Celereon J4105, Integrated Graphics with 8GB Ram DDR4, so Major of things I like, I can't do them. As far I know, be a Game Dev sucks since (what I read) is a underpaid job, also gaming lately follow a single business model, and I don't like it. I am planning in a new PC but is suspended cause there is a lack of funds. So doing deep learning, Machine Learning, things that require (I THINK) newer hardware I can't do them.

Try Cybersecurity/Ethical hacking, your knowledge of Linux gives you a bit of a head start.
Cybersecurity / Ethical hacking always interested me, I also bought Hacking, 2nd Edition, The Art of Exploitation and do something with that, but I stop thinking, "I am losing time?" or whatever. That's why I started to learn a full stuck developer, but now, I don't like it. Should I continue?
> We shoot the arrows with a bow

while standing on the bow (of a boat).
I'm a bit skeptical of the so-called meta-verse. Even if you can talk to avatars is that really much different from a zoom-meeting? In fact it would seem that in zoom-meeting we are more present with others because we can see their faces exactly, how they react to what we are saying. While avatars may be able to mimic facial expressions I don't see how they could do that better than real actual facial expressions.

And how would the communication actually happen? By texting? Same thing, hearing people's real voice gives us important clues about their emotional state as well what are they actually trying to say, is it sarcasm perhaps?

So it would seem that communicating by transmitting audio is better than texting. But if so then surely visual communication by real video is also better than some kind of computer generated animated image.

Avatars have their place when you want to protect your identity such as in a multi-player game. Avatars are good for games. To get real work done I don't see many if any benefits to them.

So the article poses a good question, Zuckerberg why are you building meta-verse?
Thanks! And what about using a Fastmail calendar?
For example, can I receive a calendar invite from someone, accept the invitation in my email, and have it automatically show up in my calendar app of choice (e.g. iOS calendar)?

That's another thing where Proton makes me use their app, which can be annoying.
> not place as much pressure on pursuing a more valuable degrees

> like chemistry, math, computer engineering, manufacturing, etc.

Good.

Some of us would prefer that the point of college is a better educated populace, not a better educated avarice. Let's keep the greed at bay.
I don’t see how population size would affect it. You’d need more capacity to print them, but that’s just throughput. I don’t see why it should affect latency.

They basically need to print it and bind it into a booklet. When you order one you have to provide a new photo and fingerprint scan, but that is sent digitally. All the other data they need they just take from the citizen registry database.
The 'advanced' nuclear industry has dozens of big players and is raising money like crazy. Everyone wants to mess around with exotic fuel and coolants. But no one cares about the real workhorse reactors anymore like ABWRs, APR-1400, etc. We should be more focused on those imho.
Can’t wait to see what kinds of unredacted metadata people start uploading without a thought.
Startup equity can be completely worthless, but shares of Apple/Google? Seems pretty solid...
At least, there are a couple of words that aren't completely blacked out. However, I'm not sure how you could get any meaning from these words when context is missing.
Emmanuel Freund (Shadow - gaming pc in the cloud - founder) in France is working on PowerZ (https://powerz.tech/) and has raised more than $10M.
Stumbling upon this felt like a bit of the old internet's magic. Thanks.
It's a rebuttal because it reduces local/regional pressure on fast chargers. If the average driver charges at home, fast chargers mostly only need to see the traffic of long distance drives. It's a move from strong centralization (gas stations are the only place to refuel a gas car) to much larger decentralization (in theory an EV can charge anywhere the electric grid touches and especially in the US the electric grid sure touches a large amount of the country, even "wilderness areas").

In terms of real world charging times added to travel the same distance, the raw numbers are generally for the same distance where you need one gas stop you need one charging stop. The charging stop is 15-30 minutes, which seems like a clear "loss" if you see gas stops as only 5 minutes. But gas refueling is a necessary serial task and you should not do anything else while waiting for your car to refuel. (technically, there are even laws that it is illegal to not watch your car the entire time), while charging is a parallel task and you can eat/hit the restrooms/do any number of other things while you wait. Experientially you may not notice any "lost time" in comparison of the two approaches depending on how you use refueling stops today. It sounds like a lot of lost time on paper, but you make up for it in parallel tasking.
>But it doesn't really say why they chose to build on docx.

Is requiring the DOCX format just adding another step in the process for applicants?
Actually, it's the opposite. The USPTO conducted a study and found that over 80% of applicants are authoring their applications in DOCX format (through writing tools such as Microsoft Word). Because the files are originally in a DOCX format, uploading the original file eliminates the step for the applicant to convert the document to PDF prior to submission. Instead, the applicant is able to save the step of converting because our system will do that automatically.
Neither Finnish or English is my mother tongue. I spent 8 years in Finland and the rest in the US as an adult. It’s really hard to learn both languages at the same time because of little similarity. My English suffers while I can start conversation in Finnish. Now English is my main language and I couldn’t remember much Finnish.

Overall it’s all about where I call home
I credit a huge portion of my current career and general math and reading skills to having a couple CDs of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart games early in my childhood. It's a pity I can't think of very many things that I would be comfortable pointing my own kids to and hope for the same effect.
I use nix-darwin to automate that.
It is just an additional authentication mechanism to a list of various ones. If the client (COM port terminal, KVM terminal, SSH client, bare /dev/tty or any other client you can think of) does not support this mechanism, it will go for another one.

UPD: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_PAM
I love how the narrator pluralizes shaman as shamen. Subtle way to cast the unreliable narrator, but I’ll probably start using this construction now.
It sounds like you're saying you'd consciously be a better parent to a clone because you know it is a clone.
Ask HN: What are modern alternatives for cURL?
I am handcrafting increasingly more adhoc HTTP requests that I need to sometimes re-use.

The way I do it now is just by writing cURL that I keep in a notebook. However, I was wondering if there are more advanced CLI based HTTP clients I should consider that make it easier to inspect request/response?
That's a gross oversimplification. From the video the poster provided:

* V16 of the Epsilon OS by Numworks removed the ability to install custom operating systems to the device in response to pressure from the Dutch education department, who had adopted the calculator as the standard for their education system. This was due to information provided by a different Youtuber accusing the platform of being used for cheating, and then provided modified versions of the OS that enabled cheating support by working around the Exam Mode functions.

A fair and true statement would be that the NumWorks calculator was originally marketed as open hardware, and that functionality was removed (similar to Sony removing OtherOS from PS3's).
reminds me of Doc building that ice maker in Back to the Future III.
What no one will say is that even if most scientists oppose this, few will speak out for fear of professional repercussions.
Just tried this. It asks for your password via the terminal as usual.
Except this doesn't have custom text. All the IP addresses correspond to real domain names
I don't believe at all in gamification in education. The kick that inspires new scientists and engineers comes from the gratification of learning or figuring out something as nothing feels better than figuring out how/why something is happening and how to push it to it's edge cases. Even chasing grades is a perverse incentive IMHO.
Thinkpad, if you don't need the latest spec then you can buy refurbished business class machines almost as good as new for a third of the cost.

Not a 'cool' choice but for spec and performance per $ you're not going to get any better.
Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
> As a fluent speaker for more than 20 years, I still have to look up how to pronounce different words multiple times a week.

And even more tellingly, there's so many words in english where native speakers don't even agree how it's pronounced since there's no consistent pattern. Just depends how each person first heard it and got used to it.

In finnish pronounciation and spelling are 1:1, competely predictable with no exceptions. The english language game of a spelling bee would be extremely boring in finnish as there are no trick spellings. It's always written the way it is said.
It's very informal and I'm not sure how widely spread it is outside of the Helsinki region, but at least least here in the Helsinki region, you can also use demonstrative pronouns (tää (= this), toi (= that)) as third person pronouns in certain specific circumstances to further specify how the people referred to in the conversation relate to you, the speaker, and whoever the listener happens to be. So you can have people A,B,C conversing, with D present but not participating in the conversation, and E not present but being discussed, and A can tell B "this told that that it/he/she did something" and it will be understood as "C told D that E did something". Not the exact distinction you were asking about, but it's another related axis of distinction in pronouns that I thought might be interesting enough to mention here.
Like all budgets it’s wildly optimistic. I’m pretty sure precisely zero games Epic have made fit.
I wouldn't know about the situation in Sweden, but in other Nordic countries, you can get a little hardware TOTP device for bank and government authentication since they're not comfortable requiring everyone to have a computerized phone. You press a button and it spits out a 6 digit key that you enter.

I realize this may seem backwards to some people, but I think using a hardware key is actually on the forefront of future best security practices. More complicated devices are simply too easy to hack.
After a few decades as a technologist (across different roles from web dev. to tech lead to project/product mgr to architect, etc.)...now, the only thing i want to do is: "...be a pair of hands and left alone to deliver your your piece..." and "...be bought in as the experienced pair of hands to fix a problem..." And, nothing else. :-)
Why is it better than say ARM?
My gut reaction is to agree, but after a deeper thought I'm not sure. Let's say you wanted to weaponize this. How would you do it?

You could follow someone with a nice bike, throw an airtag on the roof and claim that the bike was stolen from you. Most people don't have specific enough proof of purchase to refute this.

You could actually commit a crime, as happened to the author, and then throw her keys on the roof of the house of someone you didn't like, framing them.

These both seem like inevitable outcomes if the policy was reversed.
I've personally been verbally reprimanded that I would not be allowed to enter the united states, by a sworn CBP officer, while at the border with a valid US passport in my name. Yes I was eventually allowed in, but CBP officers genuinely thought they could keep a US citizen out of the country. I'm sure there have been citizens denied. Keep in mind CBP is something like the lowest ranked federal LEO agency to work for.
Lol, just learned my laptop has a fingerprint reader.
I'm both a lawyer and a software engineer, so I have two different rates depending on the work I'm doing. My legal fee is $495 an hour, and my engineering fee is $395 an hour. I expect to increase both of those next year.

I offer a blended rate for companies that are in need of both legal and software services; these are usually early stage startups, non-profits, and small family offices.
Elsewhere in social media and gaming many accounts may have both manual and automated activities associated with it.

For example, in a WoW chat, that might be your friend typing "lol," or it could be an add-on putting out an automated raid warning.

Similarly, your Twitter account could be a manual post, or a scheduled one from Tweetdeck.

Are you now a "bot account?"

Discord does permit bots in its system. But it tries to limit "self-bots" on the platform. It wants humans to be humans and bots to be bots. "Self-bots" in Discord could result in termination. Read more here:

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002192352-A....
>To digress. I want a clone, more than anything. It's only thing I'd pay more than $100k+ for aside from housing.

Can you explain why you want a clone? Genetically identical twins can and do end up having very different lives and personalities.
I don't think Nick Polson is a bad or stupid person. I never said this. In fact, as I said above, I believe he is quite mathematically competent. But even competent people make mistakes.

Norms of scholarly communication are not a personal opinion.

You have also curiously avoided my question about whether it is improper to knowingly disseminate incorrect results.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WWNQLSF/
or any Asus Vivobook 15, but you should get at least 16GB of RAM.
I worry that the amount of money these countries needs is more than what charitable people can afford and the amount of time, skill and work that is needed.

The sheer amounts of investment needed are extremely high. What took the western world 100s of years needs to be invested (time and work) over many years to bring up these places to the level of the west.
This is great news! I tried to do something about this in Florida and Georgia. I couldn't believe that they insisted on using a company with international players to hijack student's computers and we were just expected to go along with it. These "proctors" have open access to student's computers, all of their personal information, and even worse, their cameras and microphones. Most students don't know to prepare their computer before downloading the app or to remove the app entirely after the exam. Without removing the app, the company's employees can still access student computers without the student's permission. There's no way to know exactly what the app is capable of and there's nobody to speak to about it. I ended up reaching out to the Deans at these universities, but they were dismissive and told me that students can opt out of the proctored exam if they had permission from their instructor. Well, the instructors were told to use the app exclusively, without exceptions so, no, students could NOT opt out. Since this was a brick wall, I spoke to the local news outlets to see if I could get help with shining a light on this mess, but nobody wanted to take it on. I had other pressing things going on in my life and at that point I finally gave up. It's nice to see it being taken seriously now.
Developer here: "not actively developed" might be a little strong---we currently don't have resources dedicated to quickly responding to issues, but we're not planning on abandoning it.
Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is that Twitter was a company at all
I haven't used Cassandra for about 3 years, and this is awakening memories. At a previous company I inherited a very badly assembled cluster that was used for a time series database. The guys who built it said (and no, I'm not kidding...) "we don't need to put a TTL on metrics because they're tiny and anyway we can just add more nodes and scale the cluster horizontally forever!". Well, forever was about 2 years, when the physical data center ran out of rack space, and teams abused the metrics system with TBs of bullshit data. That was when they handed the whole metrics system to yours truly. And I discover two things:

1. You can't just bulk delete a year of old stale data without breaking it

2. "Woops, did we really set replication factor to 1?"

Fun.
> Reminds me of Peter the Great's influence on Russian Cyrillic. Among other contributions, he happened to like the shape of the Latin letter R, so he just bunged a backwards one into the alphabet where it represents the sound 'ya'

Do you have a source on that? As a Bulgarian (where Cyrillic comes from) i had never heard anything of the like, and a short Google, in Bulgarian or Russian, found nothing.
Everyone does this, right? It's super convenient except that macOS nukes the pam.d config file every update.
As a guy who loves assblaster sauce, it’s just so good.

Not entirely sure I can communicate why I love super spicy stuff, but I do love the flavor of most chilis, and the intensity of the experience borders on the euphoric when the fumes are causing nearby people to react like they’ve been tear gassed.

I guess it’s a delicious way to get high?

Unfortunately after all this time my colon has not gotten nearly as desensitized to the heat as the other side of my GI tract.
> But an outdated article doesn't guarantee this to be true.

Nor does a new article on a "review" site monetized with affiliate links guarantee it. So who do you trust more? Older but honest review from an expert or a new affilate driven review? Kagi choses the former as likelier to be more valuable to the user in this case.
Here's a single line you can run that'll add the needed line to the file in the correct place for you:

sudo perl -pi -e 's/(pam_smartcard.so)/$1\nauth sufficient pam_tid.so/' /etc/pam.d/sudo
Railroads. Specifically freight rail.

There is stunningly little literature on any R&D in conventional freight rail transport, something I discovered when looking for any published research some months back.

High-speed rail, yes. Regular old freight, no.

Contrast this with autonomous and electrified trucking as alternatives, with which rail could offer considerable synergies.

I'd suspect that break-bulk, trainset assembly and disassembly, and routing might all offer opportunities.

But ... nada.

I suspect other modalities within the transport sector might be similar, notably ocean shipping.
Hey good questions, I updated the post. Shipping for linux via Unity and Steam is surprisingly simple.
Cloud Functions 2nd generation now generally available
There's a legend that no Finnish ever says what the current year is; by the time they… finish, they're wrong.
Some people say writing and computers and law have frozen English as well. At least relatively. It really depends on your own goals and opinions of language and what kind of world-wide-web of communication you'd be wanting. I'm thinking in terms of world-wide cyberspace where word-language is just a tiny fraction of the total universal mediums people can communicate it.
Ask HN: Go deep Rust or C++ or Golang?
If your goal is to get maximum financial payoff by getting expertise in one of the above mentioned languages which one would you choose? I know languages matter less. But still I would like to see what you guys think.
I love it! Pretty funny story as no one was hurt and there was no material damage. This is also a great example of why your code will inevitably end up with a bunch of if-else blocks if it is popular and used for a long enough time XD. I would like to see how this is coded into Delta's flight logistics software.
Large scale use of coal predates electrification and railroads.

1712: Newcomen's steam engine.

1765: Watt's first engine.

1800: First battery.

1804: First steam locomotive.

1832: First DC generator.

The book (https://archive.org/details/ahistorycoalmin00gallgoog/page/n...) referenced by wikipedia claims that the change from wood to coal for domestic use occurred during the reign of the first Elizabeth.
> The only ”weird” parts are tonality and those darned counting words.

Tonality, which is famously hard for speakers of non-tonal languages to pick up?
Industrial automation and manufacturing:

- Need a dedicated degree (2 year as well as 4 year) in Manufacturing

- Trade schools and apprenticeship programs that do not sound like scam

- Automated material movement and handling

- Machine vision, automation of quality assurance

- Automated mold making and plastic injection molding optimization (still done by humans and takes 4 months)

- Factory software (ERP, MRP, MES, SPC, etc.)
There are hundred million dollar manufacturing companies out there tracking whole processes with pen and paper. Just sayin'.
I was similarly attacked by a patent troll and was able to defeat them. My experience is chronicled here:https://joelx.com/how-to-beat-a-patent-troll-in-east-texas/1...

The fundamental problem here is not patent trolls... It is the patent system itself. We either need a constitutional amendment limiting patent time periods to 3 or 7 years or just simply dissolve the patent system itself. The free market needs to be truly free to actually function... Otherwise it's just a bunch of oligarchs using artificial monopolies to prevent competition and harm consumers.
English is the world language. Time to formalize that and move on.