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Finally someone with some perspective. Is it just me or is it just baffling at the amount of hubris there is in this thread? Its like there are two worlds, this small group of people who have no perspective whatsoever and the rest of the country having to deal with reality.

How do you even end up in a situation where recruiters are banging down your door with such offers? I know developers who have reverse engineered applications, fixed unbelievable bugs deep an application stacks, written top tier code that make them the go to people in teams for all the tough problems and yet they barely get any call backs much less for companies like Facebook. They have to grind leetcode for 1 year just to get interviews at no name companies in the mid-west(despite willing to relocate anywhere). Its like there is this "in" group of developers and if you are "in" you can act like how you do and if you are not, then you are in starvation mode with all the other starving fish in the sea.

Likewise it just seems so selfish to talk like this during a pandemic situation where so many people (including people in tech) are out of a job.

How do you end up with a network of the good ones? I have gotten my last job through a recruiter but the process sucked. He took me and my boss for a ride financially. This was in part me not getting many callbacks from any decent companies(Im in the NJ/NYC area) so I was desperate to accept and part my current manager not knowing what he should be paying for this and that type of developer. While I love my job and my team, they won't last forever and I have wanted to escape the dreaded cycle of dealing with these terrible recruiters. Can it really be done with just getting really good in your craft or do you really have to be the well known developer that has worked at a million top tier companies? How do you find these recruiters?

>I'm worried that insurgent candidate like those in 'the squad' were only allowed to succeed as an olive branch to the left-populists for the purposes of maintaining a coherent anti-trump coalition.

I don't buy that but happy to be proven wrong. I was following AOC's race closely before she won her election (any before anyone had heard of her). They went out of their way to work with and endorse her competitor. It was AOC's hustle and innovative techniques that made up for her huge money disadvantage (~300k at the end of the election vs ~3mil) as well as the fact that her rival was appointed the seat through a loophole (and so never really learned how to run a campaign) that resulted in her win.

The opposition spent 10+ million trying to unseat her since then.

I'd like to learn more about how to understand all of this. Is there some resource you can point me to so I can begin the journey to have this intuition?

Really? What function did it serve the iPhone?

Are you referring to the WIndows 10 image viewer? Yes it is now a "Metro" app I think. The good news is that you can restore the old Windows 7 picture viewer. There are instructions on how to restore this if you Google. Think its a registry change.

I was actually dreaming about this the other day! I dreamed of a dress a dancer would wear that would have ultra efficient LEDs embedded every inch along with a power harvesting component and as the person danced, the LEDs that moved fast enough would harvest enough power to light up! I also wanted to add basic communication between LEDs so they could somehow be aware of their surrounding LEDs. Probably too futuristic for today's tech.

It was originally inspired by this talk[1] that Tesla's AI chip team referenced regarding the minimum amount of energy needed to perform a calculation.

[1]:https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=5197

Ah yes I remember AltStore when it came out. Left it on my phone for a while but all that was ever published was his emulator(which kept crashing btw). I wonder if the store has improved since.

I'm looking forward to my final perfect iPad being just a slab of aluminum. It will be perfection.

Unplug the modems. They connect to internal antennas don't they?

Is a there a good collection of Idevice apps somewhere that we can take and compile and use for this purpose? I am starting to go down the path of making my own simple versions of popular apps like Twitter or pulling the backend apis of other apps for stores all in an effort to remove as much tracking as I can while still keeping functionality.

For example, there is a popular convenience store app that gives discounts on items such as coffee but in addition to the standard tracking, I also discovered code that indicates they are using bluetooth beacons to do in store tracking. Instead I am pulling their api to fetch the deals so I can ditch the app. Would be great if there is an existing collection so I can ditch more official apps more easily.

There is no reason to build them for Windows. I just use the ones already available for Windows. I want to build it for Mac so I can get the great simple tools on Windows but on the stability of Mac. For Paint I have resorted to buying a Mac Store app called Paint2 made by some Chinese developer. It is still too complex but is the best I can do now.

Really looking to build a tool with the same look and feel. Launches fast, can just paste text stripping formatting and then allow you to save it as txt or copy it as is to other apps. A typical Ubuntu install gives you something like gedit2 or pluma. Too much for a text editor. Same goes for Paint. I can't believe that I have to install a heavy app like Gimp, Pinta or Krita. They are significantly more heavy and less stable in my experience. The simplicity of these tools make their brilliance.

The same goes for Mac. Mac has "textEdit" and "Notes" apps but it handles formatting, is slower to launch and is more of a Wordpad clone. For Paint, their Preview tool is terrible. I just want to take a screenshot, paste it in a file, maybe add a red circle or square and save it as png. Quick and fast.

Do you know if there is source code for classic Windows apps like the Calculator, Notepad or Paint? Would love to recreate those simple apps and chuck the lousy Linux/Mac equivalents.

Windows 10 telemetry, secretly turning on auto updates even after you turn it off and correct me if I am wrong, even if you disable the update service or add the urls to the hosts file it now "mysteriously" undoes that stuff over time.

Windows 10X will probably have some more goodies.

Is there a good brand of enclosures that I could rely on? I am not sure if this is a typical use case such that the big guys would manufacture an enclosure that's compatible.

>When you're using the USB interface, there is some chip in between the actual SSD and your computer. USB doesn't directly handle reading and writing to SATA or NVMe drives, so software on your computer encodes it to go out USB, and then some chip takes that USB signaling and converts it to read/write to the SSD, and vice-versa. If the controller on the USB interface is poor quality, it may reduce the performance of the overall set up. I've had external regular SATA/USB enclosures have varying performance despite being the same underlying drives inside.

Yes, I understand this. What I am thinking of is the overhead of reading and constructing each block from flash. Is this really limited by the USB controller capability(I guess theoretically yes since its in the chain?) or is it just limited by the Flash controller and typical USB controllers. I guess we can test a theoretical bottleneck by running an IOPS test and comparing it to official Benchmark numbers of that Optaine model. That way we can eliminate the USB controller if the numbers match up.

This is the structure from what I understand. PC Host Controller<--->USB Controller(in the enclosure)<--->Flash Controller(On the SSD)<--->Flash chip(On the SSD). Is this wrong?

So here with Optane we have a massively high throughput of small files but a lower throughput of large files.

Is this scenario something that a USB controller would noticeably slow down? I have never tested this before.

A regular SSD has lower throughput of small files in exchange for high throughput of large files(slower throughput but higher bulk transfer) which is noticeable if the USB controller was not up to the task (See most USB Drives which have this + flash controller on the same board)

Basically the whole reason this idea came up in my head is that I notice that despite using high bandwidth drives to install clean Windows and Linux copies, I notice certain bottlenecks in the install process that I suspect are a result of many small files being copied/unpacked(either copying package files in Linux or unpacking the WIM in Windows).

So that led to me wanting to benchmark a High IOPS drive and comparing it to low IOPS to see once and for all if the install process is choking on the drive vs something else (ie. the CPU capability for decompressing). Its just a weirdo side project that I wanted to try.

Eventually I even wanted to somehow try a ramdisk type scenario although I don't think that sort of hardware exists.

This is also motivated by the fact that I don't have a way to intercept the file reading process on the drive as they are being read to see if the drive really is the source of any bottlenecks or if its the installer code.

Hmm interesting. So even though the physical connector with the two notches fits, the electrical signaling is wrong. Thats seems like a bad design no? All my desktops are on SATA so I am used to a situation where as long as the connector matches (ie, SATA or DDR notches) then I am good.

I wonder if I have burned my SSD by plugging it in...i'll have to find a adequate enclosure to find out. Although if I have burned it, then maybe it could then damage the new enclosure...hmm

>I wonder what the impact of it going over USB and the additional USB to PCI-E controller. You should probably see about getting a Thunderbolt enclosure so theoretically the PCI-E interface doesn't have to go through yet another translation, otherwise you'll probably just kill the performance you'd hope to get out of the SSD.

Hmm, the machines I am testing on don't have USB-C thunderbolt. I'll have to look into this. So I can see raw bulk performance being limited by the USB bus but would 4k performance be limited as well? I thought this was a limitation of the Flash memory and SSD controller.

Hey maybe you or someone here can help me with this interesting problem I have. You see I wanted to put an Intel Optane SSD into an external enclosure to benchmark the absolute fastest Windows and Linux install and compare it to install times on other media(yeah I know i'm weird).

So I bought one of these SSDs off of ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Optane-Memory-M10-SSD-M-2-228...

And put it in this enclosure:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MKCG5ZG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Instead of being recognized, one of the chips on the Optane ssd started to get very hot. Was wondering if anyone knowledgeable in Optane could explain where I went wrong here? Is it even possible to put Optane in an external enclosure and write to it like an SSD/external drive?

I am excited about Optane because it just seems like such an exotic technology given the interesting performance gains you get in terms of small file throughput.

Why is that? Isn't the taptic engine just a miniaturized vibrating unit?

This is fair. I have thought of this as well. As a response, I spent the last year and a half volunteering for multiple progressive challengers to established candidates. After a massive amount of effort: we won some races, lost many, and came close in others. This is a way to overcome some of the negativity caused by external forces influenced by my company.

The thing that that depressed me the most is how little the population cares about improving the country. They are checked out and don't see all the problems that they can fix. So it has led me to also question, why I am wasting my time instead of working on myself and what I can do to better my own self. But I guess that's a separate discussion.

With all due respect: I think this thinking comes from a massive place of privilege. With the sea of unemployed entry level developers who would kill for a job with FAANG, getting into Facebook for the chance to earn that kind of money and work with such experienced people would probably be a dream come true for many of them. I have even met so many people with years of experience that are on the outside of the FAANG wall looking in with jealousy and longing. You can only act this entitled when you have met your needs career wise. It just seems wrong to cause trouble to others because they may have had this only chance to join the elite FAANG crowd and now they pay for it because of people with your line of thinking.

>as a tech person, that makes me extremely uncomfortable, and someone who hasn’t figured out even a personal route around the problem, much less a societal one. god bless us all.

Work for a boring company that provides a core service and does not ruffle feathers or cause trouble to society. I write Angular/Python apps for a company that sells payroll products. Its not the sexiest job in the world but the company needs tech people, it operates pretty ethically, I am paid reasonably well, and the team does not cause unnecessary stress day to day.

Government tech jobs are probably similar depending on department. You probably won't be contributing to the downfall of society in many govt branches but instead providing a reasonable service to society. The pay is probably less though.

Technology can be understood and reasoned from first principles. Can you really say the same about human relationships, especially the complex kinds that can result in such a logical mismatch? There is a lot of irrationality in the real world.

Was there a particular reason?

You should set up youtube-dl on your machine so you can at least download the videos before they disappear. This tool can handle hundreds of websites and has come in handy so many times. One of the many projects I started and never finished was an auto Youtube downloader that you automatically detect when I watch a new Youtube video and archive it to a local NAS. I got tired of going back to an old bookmarked video only to find that it has been deleted either by the author or due to a copyright claim.

Not sure if this relates but I was wondering if you heard of ASCI ActiveBatch? If so what are your thoughts on it?

I'd like to have some easy to set up orchestration/job scheduling engine in my team so we can help clean up the tangled mess that we are in but something like Ansible seems like too much work to setup and add more jobs over time. I tried Activebatch and I wish there was some free or cheap alternative of it.

They offer "anti-interdiction service"

https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/

From the site:

-Customized tamper-evident tape on the sealed plastic bag surrounding the laptop itself

-Customized tamper-evident tape on the internal, branded box

-Glitter nail polish covering the center (or all) screws on the bottom of the laptop

-Pictures of all of the above plus pictures of the inside of the laptop before sealing the bottom case

-All pictures sent to the customer out-of-band, signed by Purism and encrypted against the customer’s GPG key

-All coordination occurring over GPG-protected email

Phil Schiller needs to go back to awkwardly jumping off of heights to make a impact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MR4R5LdrJw

EDIT: Whoops, just saw someone posted the same clip below.