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Well done for going off-grid. But what do you do if you've got a whole week of rain?

A lot of people here in South Africa are keen on off grid but it's unreasonably expensive since you'll have to cater for those rainy days, and that means you'll need to build a very large system.

BTW kWh/day consumption here in the winter (which is probably typical) is around 25kWh per day.
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The person you're replying to also said that.
> sometimes the window doesn’t seem so bad.

No, the window still seems awful but it’s the choice you make.

From David Foster Wallace:

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
Jason from Rooms.xyz here! We haven't figured out the business model yet, but we figure if this catches on there's probably a way to responsibly make money :-)
Nothing related to NFTs or crypto in the product or in the plans
The TechCrunch article mentions that they downsized (i.e. fired all non-founder employees) to just the three co-founders, before launch.

That seems kinda shady to me.
> Don't surprise me. Blend in. Look and behave like other programs.

There is hardly anything in the world that blends in better with everythign else, then a terminal application between other terminal applications.
Do you have a list of companies where employees code for a paycheck? Is it broadly, any company where technology is the main driver of revenue. I imagine coding for lifestyle values penetrate in these companies too.
No it’s not like that. It’s like gambling.

Gambling has been an extraordinarily popular human pastime since we came down from the trees.

Literally nothing about the human response to crypto is interesting or novel.
Keeping in line with the style of that comment:
No, they're not.
What took Intel so long?

I have always wondered why modern CPUs are lumbered with cruft going back to the 1980s. IBM & Apple has shown that legacy support can be accomplished by emulation, even when changing CPU architectures and instruction sets.
Wow, they completely left out one reason/demographic. For some people it's not about the suffering, but about their impact. The people who I know who committed suicide were diagnosed with alzhiemers or other dementia. They specifically wrote that they did not want to be a burden on their family. There's relatively little suffering due to the altered mental state (you don't really see people who want to commit suicide with these diseases once they progress, except in brief moments of clarity).
Yeah, I mean bad by comparison. The point is that no human wants to jump out a window, ever.

It’s also worth pointing out that depression can warp your sense of reality and make you believe you’re in a burning building when you’re not, so to speak.

I love your quote and it likely inspired my comment subconsciously
I'm sure that holds for most people. However I'm not exactly attached to the idea of being alive. If I'm dead I naturally wouldn't have any thoughts on the matter. Dying however does scare me.
Haha, you are so on point!

I was born in Eastern Europe and raised in Canada.

Recently I moved to Southern Europe and had the audacity to criticize some practices. I was almost nuked from the orbit and all of the perceived faults were vehemently defended. That was quite a culture shock to me.
Maybe multi-part series would fit it better ? Probably better SEO for one-subtopic-per-article if you care about that.
They are not a threat anymore. It is there on the other side of the Moon. Since they stopped receiving orders from Oberkommando, they spend most of their time polishing their Swastikas, and discussing how, based on moon time, really is time for Oktoberfest...
QNX is the canonical example of this kind of OS kernel. Everything happens by calling MsgSend().

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX

It’s quite successful in the embedded space.
This fits the saying very well:

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I’m an American, but I certainly think my life is better for my tendency to bias myself toward a belief in my own capability. If I’m wrong, I fall short of my goal and learn some valuable lessons, but I’m always better off than if I hadn’t tried.

I try a lot more things than I would if I believed I weren’t capable, which means I learn more than I otherwise would (including learning from failure), and all of this extra knowledge makes me more capable than I would be if I settled for a pessimistic view of my capability.

Whatever your attitude toward Americans, I think you would be doing yourself a disservice by settling for a small view of your potential.
This is only tangentially relevant: what should I search for to understand whether “everything” is survivorship bias and whether or not causality “actually exists”?
That's one of the reasons why I started journaling back in 2018. I started trading with stocks in 2014, made some good gains but forgot how or why I initially invested in a specific stock.

I mostly started journaling to analyse my own thought process in a later stage. I am now 27, started my own company last year and hope that my desendends one day can use my journal to see what things worked and which didn't - that way they may have it easier in their own life as they will know what to avoid and what can lead to success.

I see it as a way to accelerate the trial-and-error process and this thought that it can be helpful for future generations of my family is something which motivates me more than anything else.
quite different though.

The ban in china is a full Qing-dynasty-style suppression of free speech and the organizing of large-scale protest.

The ban here is due to concerns about data privacy because the users are not tech-savvy enough to consider that.

I don't think the later will force the users to resort to a progressive solution like vpn.
Outbreak of Extensively Drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa [in eye drops]
The hairdryer is the Fön without h.
"looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!"

Are there people who actually yell this? It seems pretty obvious why they're jumping.
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> tardigrades are from this world.

There are plenty of them here, but did they evolve on Earth or arrive from elsewhere...?
From the article:

> “On the 16th, Asus pushed a corrupted definition file for ASD, a built-in security daemon present in a wide range of their routers,” one person wrote. “As routers automatically updated and fetched the corrupted definition file, they started running out of filesystem space and memory and crashing.”

I'd say that resolves most of the overall mystery. It doesn't explain your specific question, but it certainly explains more than "nothing".

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I also think the answer to your specific question is relatively obvious, even if Asus didn't confirm it explicitly: Asus routers download new security definitions automatically, even when automatic updates are disabled. You're free to dislike that (I don't know how I feel about it), but it is clearly what's happening.

It's not like this is an uncommon practice. Windows Defender also downloads new malware definitions even when automatic Windows updates are disabled (which is hard to do, but possible on Pro editions of Windows via e.g. setting registry keys).
> s/he has been failing up until the previous day and is already giving public advice about how to do it better?

This was my thought exactly. The internet is full of articles along those lines: I've been doing this new routine for 2 days, here are 8 pieces of advice for you.

I recognize the enthusiasm for sharing new discoveries, and it can be inspiring, I just wish those who did would be generally less prescriptive about it.
Youglish [1] is a website that allow you to search video with timestamp by transcript text

[1] https://youglish.com/
Life is suffering. It's one of the 4 Noble truths of Buddhism. Ancient knowledge.
Are there any taxi-like systems anywhere in the world that pay drivers for idle waiting time?
So the children an entitled to living a rich man's life?
To kill yourself by getting skin cancer?
A pity we can't downvote a submission. I won't flag since it's not against the rules, nor has the submitter any fault - it's just that the article simply has contempt for the reader.
People like you are the absolute worst to deal with when struggling to lose weight. I managed to lose 150lbs, and it had very little to do with will power, at least the way people like you mean it.

I had to reconfigure my entire life around it. I kept barely enough food in the house to meet my calorie target for the week. I once fell asleep while driving home from work and ran off the road because my blood sugar was so low. I spent 9 hours a week doing intense exercise and pretty much any time I wasn't doing that or working I was just sleeping. I basically had to have no social life, because socialization around here pretty much mandates large quantities of food.

Is something physically wrong with me? Probably, but good luck getting an American doctor to give a flying fuck. My thyroid stopped working when I was a child and it went undiagnosed for two years because doctors just keep telling my mother I was lazy. Ultimately a toll booth attendant diagnosed it because her dog had similar symptoms and my mother had to go full Karen to get the simple blood test to happen. American physicians are fucking useless.

Even treated, to this day I have to eat well under the caloric requirement that I "should" be eating and constantly feel like shit in order to lose weight, which makes me perform worse at work and apparently require 3-4 hours extra sleep every day.

I can guarantee you "willpower" people aren't doing that. Your body isn't fucked up and constantly demanding more calories than you need, so it comes easy to you and you probably just take any excuse to feel like you are better than other people.
I’m pretty sure google uses the captions in search. As long as you search from within YouTube. I regularly search for keywords and find hourlong videos where it’s mentioned somewhere in the middle and nowhere in the description.
There was CAD in the 60s, but somewhere they have archives of paper plans for the moon landings. If it tried to use 60s cad I'd probably think it was just a drafting tool with some extras, not like modern cad with solvers, parametric modeling, and 3D views. I don't see how I could make a sketch with constraints on a face back then, modern CAD is slightly slow even on my laptop.

Deep learning voice recognition didn't exist in 1999, which is the critical tech that makes Assistant usable, along with the fact that there's now Keep to integrate with and IoT to control.

It's true that programmers hate users sometimes, but that's not an issue of tech or skill, that's an issue of programming culture is full of people who would like to go back to tech free simple living and mostly see computers as "bicycles for the mind" rather than "A UI layer for everything manmade we interact with" or "somewhat independent robots". They're in it for the exploration of thought, not because they want paying taxes to be fully automated.

But it's the managers and UI designers, and the small percent of programmers that don't hate tech, who actually direct a lot of the experience.

Bash is basically incapable of making anything I'd want as a user, because it's not good for managing insane amounts of complexity. It's a tool for directly controlling a computer and using it as a passive tool.

Modern languages are tools for essentially using the computer almost as a manager more than an employee, and for creating new models of interaction that the machine is better able to always have your back with.

If I want a block to be 35mm tall in total, but there's terraced layers and curves and stuff, I set a constraint.

I don't have to worry about the math. I'm not just virtually building stuff like a digital simulation of wood, I'm doing something completely synthetic, that was made up by someone who figured out a model for interacting that puts as much of the hard parts in the CPU instead of in the brain.
It can't just be one way "I tell the machine what to do" interaction or the whole thing is limited to my own ability just like paper.

It can't be text based or anything else that requires mental translation, or I'd just have an extra task in addition to doing the whole design myself.

Modern software's solution is to create a way to think about the task that is inherently something suited for both humans and machines, and then to teach the user that way. Bash is freeform, it says "think how you want then translate it to what machines know".

It's great if you want control, not great for computer-led experiences.

Sadly it doesn't seem like we are designing many new paradigms of interaction, but I blame lack of interest rather than lack of tech ability. Programmers think about the functionality first, rather than about the interaction model, because they like ideas and dislike software used in the real world when a pencil could have done instead.

We do have building codes. Unit tests, memory safe languages, design patterns, DRY, reuse... It's just that lots of devs don't like them.
We may have not experienced prolonged pain, but we all have experienced suffering. Life itself is synonymous with suffering, for all but those few master sages who have been successful in conquering all of their cravings and reaching the utmost of equanimity.

Suicide itself is virtually always a highly disordered act, that only demonstrates how deeply the person resorting to it is mired in her cravings. While some kinds of physical or spiritual pain might in fact be a real obstacle to attaining inner growth, this is quite rare and not what most people are dealing with.
Indeed. We need to drastically reduce air travel, as there is no technical fix in sight in the required timeframe.
Not any kind of chemist, but I'm seeing molybdenum disulfide plus (metal) coated on alumina support used as a catalyst, as well as magnetic Al/Fe composite nanoparticles used for same. Usually the metal is something more punk rock, like platinum, cobalt, or ruthenium, but copper is an obvious choice on the poisonous/cheap axis
This tool itself does works great.

This behavior is due to the YouTube cookies consent page.

I opened an issue about this specific issue: https://github.com/NotJoeMartinez/yt-fts/issues/1

Glad if you want to help.
Actual title: "People in the U.S. Think They Are Better Than They Actually Are. People in Asia Don’t"

It's still going to stir some shit
So too does Arc.
> FAANG jobs still require less schooling, less knowledge, pay more and don't require you live in awful places.

> Lots of us left the field or retired. Call us when semiconductor companies start paying real money.

The future will rather be that FAANG jobs will pay much less, thus the salaries in the semiconductor industry will become somewhat competitive again.
> Growing up in Canada, I remember asking my parents why it was okay to make fun of Americans, but not people from any other country.

It's surprising to me how much the word "American" has been appropriated to just mean people from the U.S., when surely as a Canadian, you're also American (i.e. living in North America).

As a UK resident, it would be considered entirely incorrect to use the term "British" to refer to just the English and almost unthinkable for a Welsh person to also abide by that usage.
We only use it for badly designed software that uses mod_rewrite rules as integral part of the application and not just "set those 3 rules to direct it to the entry point".
"Do a flip!" might make them laugh enough to reconsider.
Show HN: Simple yet effective flash card generator (needs OpenAI key)
Today GPT4 & I built a small app in about 2 hrs to generate flash card content from short paragraphs
https://ninjaa.github.io/gen-flashcards/
You need an OpenAI API key to use it.

Hope someone else finds it useful too!
I think no one claims it is not possible. The problem is, if you live somewhere, where everyone is going the normal way - then all the normal kids socialising will happen in school and you stay the outsider. You won't even see them most of the time, depending on the area.

But when you are connected to a couple of families doing it close by and you do manage that the kids can actually learn and play together on a regular base, then there is no problem at all.
Related, is it difficult all over the US to find mental health resources? Wait times for counselors and therapists are months+. Additionally, insurance seems to not cover mental health stuff well if at all, if you're lucky to get an appointment it seems you're paying out of pocket.
Ah don’t sell yourself short, it’s a state of mind as much as anything
Establishing an apartheid state tends to do that, yes.
15 minutes in the sun is low risk.
Debian have it pre-packaged as nginx module.
Also, what's the threshold for Special Ed, and are any such students exempt from testing?

However, I don't doubt that extra time training teachers to teach phonics would help their students turn those letters on the page into sensible sounds, and I'm happy for the students that seem to be helped here. My mother was a middle (and then high) school Spanish teacher, and her favorite party trick for her new students was to promise them that within the first week, they'd be able to read out most Spanish text put in front of them (albeit with a horrible accent). English pronunciation is notoriously inconsistent; Spanish is particularly consistent.

I'd love to know how long schools in Spanish-speaking countries spend on basic "pronounce the words on the page" level literacy compared to English-speaking ones.
User stories makes total sense when you focus on their purpose.

A tenet of agile development is to quickly get functionality into the hands of the customer or product owner, so they can provide feedback and get a better understanding of what they want. The user story describes a unit of functionality with can be presented for the product owner. It is described in terms of what the user experience (rather than underlying implementation) because this is what the product owner will evaluate.

The article gets lost in definitions and classifications, which is the opposite of agile - that is, the agile which value people over process, not the Big Process agile.

User stories are not requirements, because you don't know the requirements before the software is finished, at which point formal requirements are rather useless anyway.
Honestly I kind of think there’s a feedback loop working in the other direction. If you believe that you are capable, you’re more likely to try new things and if you’re really lucky, you fail a lot and learn a ton, which incidentally makes you more capable than you would be if you had a small worldview. Maybe that sort of positivity at the scale of an entire society has made America a greater country than it would have been if Americans were as pessimistic as their critics (both foreign and native) try to make them feel?
Another relevant quote by David foster wallace :

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.
This feels like the same logic as "I had to pay off my student loans, so other people should have to suffer like that too." Suffering does not make you better later despite what millennia of Christian theology has told people about its supposed purgative effects. It seems pretty rad to me to be able to just not suffer through the bad part of getting over a major life problem, and I for one am happy that people will be able to skip that part and get on to the part where they live well.
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For those suffering, it isn’t always clear that the problem is temporary.

The problems pile up until the person feels they are insurmountable, permanent. It consumes their entire existence.

In their eyes it’s a fair trade: permanent solution to a permanent problem.

The trick is convincing them the issue is temporary, which basically amounts to solving the underlying problems.