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> DOGE is BS. Civilian bureaucrats - in fact pretty much all discretionary spending - are line noise in the federal budget.

It took me years to understand that this line of reasoning is why Trump won (twice). I noticed in my own job, that whenever someone would propose an moderate but still-obvious improvement, someone else would smack them down saying "that's not the highest priority!" In the end, nothing ever gets fixed.

I think people see Trump as that guy who steamrolls the naysayers and gets shit done.

Now, I disagree that Trump really gets any useful thing done, but I definitely recognize that constant naysaying against any improvement is a real actual problem.
That’s correct, thanks for clarifying.
Any complaints so far? I'm still on windows 10 LTSC.
He's not unhinged, just a right-wing politically.
If you believe it's a crime or that we should all ignore software based on political alignment of their creators, thats telling me more about you, than Nim's BDFL.

> all across the forum on a fairly regular basis.

Two times, more than 2 years ago is not "all across" and neither it's "regular". I am a regular user on the forum, and I haven't seen any rants apart from two you referenced here.

> and just a bit out-of-touch with reality.

*a bit out of touch with american politics
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Heya, I went through a sad time, and realized many people who want to help, either don't know how, or don't realize their eagerness may be the very thing that makes their help be experienced as something distressing.

So I made this little app that takes two inputs: trust they have with the person, and the person's current mood, and suggests a really open ended suggestion (besides the "stay away" ones -- those are pretty closed).

I might add some drawings to it since it looks pretty plain right now, but I have to (re)learn how to draw.
If your problem is that you're rich and have no idea what to do, why not just spice it up and give away _all_ of your money, with no way back? That's too difficult? Well, try it. If you're lost and can't figure out any other option...increase difficulty level in this game and start again. Good luck!
you're getting downvoted, but know that you are correct.
>I mean if you’ve ever bought enterprise software, you know that much of the sales pitch is for aspirational features. Ugh

Yup. Or if you've ever built enterprise software - after a sales engineer sold a featuee that doesn't exist l. Ugh
Sure, it's the canonical example of a Kubernetes client, but it's still not very good - even for modern Go.
do as I say not as I do is core of all parenting… :)
Been using GitHub since literally the year it started, and stars have always been bookmarks.
Ultimately you're on the Internet and you don't own the Internet. At that point, you're making decisions about the level of control you want to have and the types of events you may be subject to and the answer is almost certainly "it depends."
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It hasn't been great. Applying for jobs in this market while having the post-MSc burnout has been tough. I finished an MSC in AI back in June, but there are so few AI-relevant jobs where I live it's depressing. I've interview for data science and analyst roles, but barely get in the door.

I'm getting a good amount of interviews for developer and data engineering positions, but the competition is tough. Many positions have seen a 5x increase in candidates since the same time last year, according to my interviewers.

However, I'm hopefully getting an offer as a data platform engineer soon. The department leader has ranked me as their first choice, so unless the higher-ups complain... Knock on wood.
Isn't that true though? It's not like she wanted to break up, so it's him, not her, whatever the actual reasons he had.
You're right, all those users that switched to iterm2 because the default is such a steamer have NO IDEA what they are doing, and only you, some random on the internet are capable of seeing the flaw in their ways.
Not again. How long is this going to be happening back and forth. Opponents of net neutrality are monopoly freaks. Net neutrality should be enforced on competition law grounds.
I dunno, seems trivial to me.

Like if an arduino can reliably carry 1 wakeword, an iphone could carry what? 64 at minimum?

Instead of waking up recording the conversation and sending it to the stasi, it could just toggle a bool in your secret advertising profile, then sync that up at random intervals.

They dont need context, they just need "Biscuit" "Nappies" "Birthday".

Not to say it isn't all made up. It probably is. I just dont think its technically difficult to achieve. It is probably all psychology. But sitting there with a packet capture going as you talk about dogfood isnt necessarily a great test to confirm the negative.
Fuck that!
Honestly, I really like win11. But I'm using the pro version. The only thing I really really hate is the account requirement.

Other than that, I like the new clipboard, the much (much!), improved settings menus (I know a lot of people disagree but I couldn't stand the windows 10 settings mess), etc. The UI is also more pleasant and not as flat as windows 10 is.

I'm not sure if it's specific to windows 11, but compared to the version of Windows 10 I used before, it has a lot of multi-screen QOL improvements like making different screens of different sizes and resolutions seamlessly work together.
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So Sudo password for example seem to be up there.
The Information coverage: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fintech-startup-leve... (paywall)

Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/level-0ef1
Been there, done that.

General comments:

- Most people who make a lot of money all at once blow it within seven years. Check out what happens to lottery winners, jocks, and rappers. As a rule of thumb, you can safely spend 4% of your net worth per year. Pay yourself some fixed amount each quarter.

- You don't have to get into complex investments. Half in some bond funds, half in some diversified stock funds will work out OK.

- Any investment where they call you is probably not very good.

Useful reading, although dated: "The Challenges of Wealth", by Domini et. al.

What to do with your life? No idea. What are you good at?

- I was a visiting scholar at Stanford for a while. But it was the "AI Winter" and not much was happening. Did robotics in the 1990s. Held patents on legged running on rough terrain, ragdoll physics. Ran a DARPA Grand Challenge team. Didn't really lead anywhere. Too early. Still programming. A metaverse client I'm writing in Rust is running on another screen.

- Horses have been good for me. Every day, I go out and spend time with a pushy alpha mare who keeps me in shape.
"Riding is the only art which princes learn truly". Horses are not impressed by money. Neither are most riders.

- I've known a few ex-CEOs. One did a lot of reasonable little stuff but never did anything with much impact again.
One founded a charity. Another was really into sailboats, and he just kept on with sailboats, crossing the Atlantic and such. He's lucky in having a wife who is also very into sailboats. One guy bought a nightclub, but it loses money year after year.
If you had told people when SS was passed that "granny doesn't die of hunger" is "zero sum", you might have needed martial arts skills to avoid the pitchforks coming your way.

And that's not "way down into the details of the economic effects" - it's the raison d'etre of SS.
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Let me present a more charitable phrasing of what OP wrote:

He is going through an unanticipated personal crisis, and decided he needed to be alone at this point in his life.

Should he have kept the relationship going because he has money now?
I actually believe the alternative theories are scarier than the phone actually listening to you. The one thing I keep hearing over and over again from people is that “I talked to so-and-so about this“ and now I’m getting a bunch of ads about it. What’s scary is that it knew you two were in the same room that one of you had a recent interest and that there was a likelihood you discussed it. That seems worse to me than just listening the conversations.
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They want access to US consumers, but don't want to pay US wages or taxes. Just another death by 1000 paper cuts for the American middle class.
Probably somewhere between bull riding and wingsuit proximity flying.
The author admits the fine for breaking this rule is basically a non-issue compared to the potential earnings. Why wouldn’t the most valuable company on earth see this as a huge, easy win to record and advertise based on those recordings?
I find it completely plausible that either Google, Facebook or some other installed app is listening to your conversations to develop marketing profiles.

What I find amazing is that people don't use ad blockers! I wouldn't be able to tell you if they are harvesting my voice data, because I haven't seen an ad in years! It is trivial to block ads, why do so many people choose to see them?
On the other hand, you need empathy and common sense. And a good understanding of humanity.

Which I doubt many politicians have it.
Sure, why don't I pop down to the spouse shop and pick one out from their extensive range?

There are almost no marriageable women around these days. Having $ does make getting laid very easy, but I'm not interested in that. Unfortunately it doesn't help at all in finding one of the good ones (perhaps it makes it even harder).
> FTC either through legislation or potentially through existing powers they might already have in this domain.

Yeah, I always felt that ideas of net neutrality can be generalized by properly applying competition law. But the latter became so toothless, that it's not applied in practice. That's why all these kind of secondary efforts pop up, since FTC is useless a lot of the time.
You're making a strong implication that the companies that make money are the things that people need. The correlation seems to be growing weaker every year as far as I've seen.
I realize TFA is trying for object code, but for source code, QuickBASIC (and its successors) isn't bad:

? "hello, world!"

PILOT eliminates the quotes:

T:hello, world!

Of course a typical REPL (Python, JavaScript, Lisp, etc.) will print out something similar (but often quoted) if you just type the quoted string.

And I'm sure there is already some language (call it HELLO) which simply prints "hello, world!" for an empty program.
it is, just like everything else, a manufactured purpose used to paper over the normal state of existential dread. just happens to be the one that most people default on.
Could you maybe talk a little about maximizing that hour for personal projects? If I have an hour to do something, I really have about 30 minutes because I have to mentally organize myself to the task at hand.
> "Zildji" (zilci) means "cymbalist"/"cymbal-maker", or more generically, "bell-maker" in Turkish.

Zil actually comes the Persian word (زیر) that means (1) below, and (2) treble.
net neutrality laws giving the FCC broad powers, just isn't that important though.

Late nineties I remember one hot topic in society was prayer in school, and nowadays I hardly hear about that anymore, 9/11 had something to do with that though.

Seriously, government gets into these fads, The Next Big Thing, and, since usually a whole new group of young, idealistic, inexperienced humans comes of age, it seems like a hot button item.

It rarely is, certainly not enough for the government to "do something" about it. We as individuals can fix the problems ourselves, if allowed to.

The cycle repeats.
Aren’t TikTok and Huawei easy counterpoints to this?
> And suddenly wanting to "find yourself" when you don't need the support any more.

It's like you took away the literal opposite meaning of what OP wrote. The entire post is him sharing his personal crisis and total lack of purpose and motivation. He is literally saying he does not know what he needs to find his way out of that.

But he decided he needed to not be in a relationship (or in that specific relationship) at this time. How does that make him a shitty person?

Surely you're not suggesting he should stick with her so she can partake in the financial gains.
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The party Trump ran as a candidate for has spent at least 40 and perhaps 70 years insisting the government is your enemny and government cannot get things done.

The fact that is rather difficult to make changes to the government so that it runs more efficiently and gets better stuff done might - just might - be related to the fact that one of the two major political parties in the USA is absolutely bound to the "fact" that this is not possible.
DOGE is nothing more than a glorified advisory role. They can talk whatever they want, they have no real power.
As someone who kind of quasi temporarily retired early a few times this is the biggest problem I see. I learned foreign languages and programming languages out of pure necessity to survive and it was thrilling to succeed and make money with them.

So everyone (at least me) has this fantasy of how much better it would be to learn things on their own schedule for pleasure without undue pressure, but they don’t realize the pressure to survive was what made it feel so meaningful without that they soon fall into dilletantism.

For all his issues I think this is why Musk has gotten so much done, because he ups the ante enough to feel real risk if be fails.
Hmmm, I live alone and in a pretty remote area (on an island). I keep my wifi pretty secure, so, that seems pretty unlikely. But who knows, anything is possible I suppose. Maybe because I live on an island.
And they’re doing it while unironically shouting about the tyranny of unelected bureaucrats
A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog,DNS, mail. I have 3 Lenovo ThinkCentre Mini PCs running Proxmox VE in HA mode off my basement. Picture at https://devops.science/
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Here's what I don't understand: Vinay, if what you loved so much was the journey, why would you sell the company?

Loom was your life, clearly. It meant a huge amount to you. You cared about it and the work you did there, so you... sold it to a giant multibillion dollar corporation and let them absorb everything special about it so they could make another buck.

Was there just no way to continue on without being acquired? If there wasn't, then what was the value in what you were building? Did you just luck into a fortune?

I am one of those people who thinks capitalism is largely worthless as a personal ideology (though not as an economic system). I think that because, as the author of this post has discovered, money is inherently worthless. Success means something, but money doesn't. Loom could have been a going concern. So many companies could have been. They didn't need infinite growth. They needed to do a good job to help their customers and make the world better by doing so.

Nobody seems to understand or care about that anymore.

If I were in your position, Vinay, I would quit my own retirement. I would give away as much of my money as I could, leaving only just enough to act as a safety net if I failed or had a true emergency. I'd put that money into some form of trust where it was difficult enough for me to access that I had to live within some limited means. Then I'd start another company, and, if it succeeded, keep it. No more acquisitions.

There's no point in money except what it buys you, but you already had what you wanted. You made a mistake and lost it. You'll have to start over to get it back.

(I also personally don't love AI and don't want more companies doing AI, but I am trying to focus on the point of this post, not an ex post facto discussion of Loom itself.)
You think the people who "work" for/on DOGE will not be paid? Or you think that Musk is underwriting their paychecks?
Neovim is basically unusable due to the plugins I use having Unicode characters not supported properly (like telescope), so it does make a huge difference to me. Also, latency is an issue, and of the third-party terminals, only kitty is snappy enough to have nearly zero latency issues while typing. Drives me crazy when I’m chaining commands and there is a ~150ms delay.

Plus, any terminal other than kitty is noticeably laggy when using other terminal programs and typing quickly, and 90%+ of my time is spent in the terminal: using custom commands and aliases, ruby shell, docker, on top of usually using vim for editing. And having great customizable hotkeys for different common functions.

Guess my point is that the terminal app you use can make a big productivity difference
It was a humor-joke.
> The code to write to log files in SSH integration
has been deleted

Seems like a good first step.
I agree that it's likely tortious interference, I just don't agree that they're being deceptive. I think it's reasonable to say that most of the target market would be considered tech-savvy enough to know how these purchase affiliate programs work and the influencers advertising it absolutely do.

If users are not aware of how this works then I have to question where they think the cashback comes from, and if they are aware that it comes from the business they are making a purchase from then I have to question why they think the business would give a commission to Honey on top of the existing commission to wherever a link was clicked from. I think a majority of users would have to be somewhat wilfully ignorant to not question why money is being given back to them whenever they make a purchase.
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Not in any election that I've seen in the last 35 years.
Japan has been at it for several decades. The US seems to have a debt of 120% of GDP, and Japan of 250% of GDP, so I guess you're still good for a few decades more?
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I mean the patch notes for this issue literally do this, so they seem to be off to a good start.
The original FCC mandate in the Communications Act of 1934 was:

For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire and radio communication, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the Federal Communications Commission, which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act.

It has always been for communications by wire and radio. I'd argue fiber optics are just a fancier kind of wire from the understandings of what the intentions were back then.
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I just use a plate for my cutting needs. No idea about this "cutting board" obsession. Plate just goes into the dishwasher. No wood or plastic particles to worry about and cleanup is easy.

Then again, I also exclusively use serrated knives and think people that use ultra-sharp knives in the kitchen to make food cut like butter, crazy.
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> people were less attached to their last names

More like people didn't have last names in the Ottoman empire, so they were usually called by their fathers' names, or nicknames. Surnames were officially started to be enforced in 1934, long after the Ottoman empire collapsed and the Rebublic of Turkey was founded.
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TN should help get the right Canadian talent into the US if it's something the companies need.
Well, if you are going to study physics somewhere, Hawaii seems like a great place to do it. It seems like a great place to do many things really. Hope new year's eve was just as fun for you as for me :)
There are probably some golfing languages out there where an empty program outputs Hello World.
I think you’re missing the point. Honey is stealing affiliate credits from influencers who don’t have any relationship with them.

If a YouTuber posts an link with their own affiliate code and during checkout the user uses the Honey extension to look for coupons Honey steals the affiliate credit even if they don’t have a coupon the YouTuber gets nothing.
Petitioners can write whatever they want to write. They can write 2+2=22 and I guess you'd believe it. What a dumb argument to parrot.

Do you choose your ISP based on how good their DNS services are? No? Doesn't seem like DNS is the thing people are signing up for but simply a way for the service to function.

Oh boy, I can't wait to get home to hop on my Comcast service so I can go query their DNS! It's what the family does on a Thursday evening. So riveting!

In the end DNS isn't really the information people care about and actually largely is used for managing telecommunications service.
CMG isn't small or little-known. It's just apparently not your industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox_Enterprises
It's not much but I guess a nutjob has to take what he can get.
Exactly. There was a time when the British pound was the world's reserve currency (coinciding of course with British global hegemony). Fast-forward to today and the UK's GDP per capita[1] is lower than the poorest US state's[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_Kingdom

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ....
A person in Alaska is fishing. A person in China is sleeping.

Those two people are the same person.

How does that work?

It doesn't
The OP's whole point is that he has money, not ideas. Plus, in your example, you could literally do both. Plus, money is not the same thing as IP or creativity. Plus, the post you were responding to was literally advocating giving the money to the people with ideas of how to do good for the world.

There may or may not be a moral imperative to give away excess wealth, but there damn sure isn't any moral imperative to keep it.
I couldn't agree more. Even tho I am in fact an NPC it is quite jarring to hear.
I have silly question to anyone here who is willing to answer

I truly understand it takes unreasonable amount of time and dedicated focused effort to get good at something. But why is there any explanation for it? I know about the traditional neuro-sci explanation of myelin[1].

So my question is, is there any research on how to reduce this time? Like we all know life is short and as human we have interest in many things and we should specialize and try to go deep in one craft.But is there any way of getting closed to that master level performance in short practice-perfomance cycle

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4261922/