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Or just get an agent hired at your company. At lot of companies don't even limit source access to devs. If they got someone in QA or sales with network access they might have enough to grab your code.

Kratom has a long history of widespread use, so it's not really like anything you're trying to equate it to.

The two statements are not contradictory. Psychedelics helped a friend unbury himself from the cycle of opiates (and depression from a stage iv melanoma diagnosis) and kratom helped ease the withdrawals.

We all have our weaknesses I guess. For me, nothing was harder to quit than pot. I've regularly used opiates, kratom, and even tobacco and I can pick them up and put them down with ease and lack of noticable side effects (short of a few depressed days). Weed took weeks of dealing with lack of sleep, agression and obsessive thoughts before I broke free, and that was after many failed attempts.

I have personally seen several friends kick regular pill habits with kratom and they got off it OK. We should discuss the downsides but from what I've seen the folks with kratom problems just took way too much(as addicts will do, I guess).

Eh, just write a state machine.

I'm only slightly overweight and hike a lot. I'm 43 and not known as a snorer. Got my CPAP a few weeks ago. Snoring isn't always obvious and doesn't require being fat.

If you wake up tired and have low energy with daytime sleepiness try getting checked for sleep apnea. The home test is pretty easy (pulse oximeter followed by a slightly more involved test with a chest strap and a cannula).

Totally. It's the difficulties of putting lots of computing resources in space (heat, power, serviceability, radiation) that actually makes it attractive for selling compute time. Only one company needs to solve those problems and others can leverage that work for a fee. If it was easy, there wouldn't be a business opportunity.

Wondering how long it will be until we have cloud data centers in space... Seems like it could be useful to offer a flexible computing infrastructure to small sats and science missions without requiring ground comms.

Or another diode to put in-line with the DP circuitry. It's probably not ideal from a low-power perspective but if that's what you gotta do to make robust and compliant hardware, you do it.

I've been a contractor on and off for years (and I still do it on the side...$100/hr for Linux kernel/driver and systems programming with emphasis on digital video ). I know why you charge more as an IC.

$120/hr is on the high side of what I've seen fellow ICs make in this town. $120k/yr is on the low side of what I've seen senior devs make in this town. 2x is suprising.

2-3x?

I've been having this conversation with coworkers a lot lately. In San Diego, a senior sw guy can expect to pull $120-160k(there are outliers... I have a friend making $240k, but it's unsustainable) as an employee with benefits. As an independent contractor, you can make around $75-120 / hour. As a SW consulting company you can get $120-180 / hour. These are all rough numbers based on talking with people.

I don't know why there is a disparity between what ICs and consulting companies make but it seems to exist.

The amount you charge also depends on many factors (difficulty, on-site vs remote, total hours per week, ability of company to pay, etc).