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Color makes major compromises physically also, since it seems like the Red, Green and Blue channels are sampling from the same physical location but the actual sensor buckets are offset from each other.

1. Start <thread_count> connections to a server

2. Hold connections open

3. Do nothing else

Server

1. Incoming connection. assign a thread.

2. Wait for request <--- Attack causes us to get stuck here

3. Serve request

4. Close connection and thread / return to threadpool

Solution: Use a reverse proxy to handle the incoming connections. Typical reverse proxies such as nginx use event-based polling not a per-connection thread so they are immune to this issue.

Otherwise it might make sense to move out of the bay area to where there are lower costs of living and then lower your salary expectations to match.

Bear in mind that being a good corporate drone or middle manager requires different soft skills and attitude than being the CEO of your own company. You have to march to someone else's drum which can be hard.

You need to prove to yourself and others that you can be a regular developer now, you're in a position where you might need to sacrifice salary, job description and/or working conditions to get a foot back on the ladder.

Beyond salary, the culture of working hours in the bay area might be a bad fit for you. If you're looking for a boring (in a good way) salaryman programmer role you might need to see where those sort of companies are centred.

Note, I live and work outside the US so I can't give specific US advice.

I much prefer the alternative where it's written in a manner where you can almost prove it's bug free by comprehensively unit testing the parts.

Remember when debuggers were young?

Remember when OSes were young?

Remember when multi-tasking CPUs were young?

Etc...

When things are hard and you anticipate that you're going to struggle, it's perfectly natural that you're going to develop an anxiety response to those things. It's possible that you will describe the experience through the lens of anxiety even if there is more going on than merely anxiety.

> I'm not ASD just sound and light sensitive do to physical damage. Not a single person has bothered me about this even during conversation.

I'm glad that you have found a means to manage your difficulties and it does not cause you social issues. Bear in mind that someone who is very ASD is "manually" managing social situations which come automatically to "the rest of us." The same social disapproval you casually dismiss is likely a cause of anxiety for them.

> my kid has autism and anxiety and she has solutions for these problems.

I'm glad that she appears to be high functioning. Even those who are might want to avoid the shop because it's just a challenge they would rather avoid today. But for others I can imagine it being all too much.

I like the point you are making about being able to structure your own workplace and engage with the world on your own terms however.

- Go into a bright, commercial space

- All the packets are "shouting" at you with colorful labels

- There is noise of shoppers, a PA system, canned music and/or advertising

- Navigate lots of social interactions with other shoppers around navigating asiles, manouvering carts, who picks what

- Manage a shopping list and find a variety of goods

- Go to the check-out asile. Hopefully you can avoid interacting with a human

- Manage packing bags and paying

- Hopefully noone talks to you as you leave

And usually the efficiency is much worse than 98%.

Oh, and also batteries such as the tesla power wall can only be charged and discharged about 1000 times before they have lost a lot of capacity. So generating when you use also makes your batteries last much longer. You could think of this as a cost of battery depreciation per kWh stored.

Well, until the endless "look at this item I made" posts show up on Reddit and other sites.

(Driving a Tesla is subject to public scrutiny from others both while driving and when parking)

2. Still a huge reduction in price. A full StarShip launch is expected to be much cheaper than a full Falcon 9 launch (per launch) because the cost is just fuel (about $300k) and some maintenance.

3. Putting legs back on for the Mars landing vehicle (a small fraction of the # starships launched btw) is totally practical.

Testing-

Yes, there is a lot more testing to go. I personally prefer testing and data-driven approvals than the traditional Paperwork based approval methods.

Set up some desktops with code -> Declarative configuration management -> Ansible

This task seems easy to an expert. As someone who's been a professional learner (as a programmer) for 25 years, it's far far easier with ChatGPT to get a summary of a field and a starting point than it ever was with just Google and some random blogs bouncing around the internet. Now with modern o3 (Chat GPT Pro) models you can go from a vague question to a summary of suitable solutions and some code samples in one prompt.

Now obviously AI is not able to create complete solutions alone. It's just another tool. Sometimes ChatGPT makes glaring mistakes in how it approaches a problem. So (for now) it is still a collaboration requiring smart humans in the loop.

It also helps you to move away from familiar but hacky solutions towards much more standard and robust ones - the AI doesn't approach the problem with your many years of battle scars and baggage but instead sees your problem space with fresh eyes and recent data.

It sounds like your cool application of physics was interesting and harmless. Good on you and your DM for making it part of the fun at the table.

(The original link says "Page is Gone")

And here's some more quoting

Could a single-stage-to-orbit spaceship, something that could operate rather like an aeroplane, be built with just rocket engines? Well, actually, yes. In the 1980s, NASA and the US Air Force spent about $2 billion trying to build the X-30, a single-stage spaceship powered by scramjets (with help from rockets, of course). It never flew. At the same time, for comparison, NASA's Langley Research Center studied building a single-stage pure-rocket spaceship. The results were interesting.

The pure-rocket design was more than twice as heavy as X-30 at takeoff, because of all that LOX. On the other hand, its empty weight - the part you have to build and maintain - was 40% less than X-30's. It was about half the size. Its fuel and oxidiser together cost less than half as much per flight as X-30's fuel. And finally, because it quickly climbed out of the atmosphere and did its accelerating in vacuum, it had to endure rather lower stresses and less than 1% of X-30's friction heating. Which approach would be easier and cheaper to operate was pretty obvious.

The Langley group's conclusion: if you want a spaceship that operates like an aeroplane, power it with rockets and only rockets.

If you drive in the US, the contents of your car are somewhat protected by law. It's not trivial for authorities to obtain the right to search your car, though I understand it's common for some to flout the rules and search anyway.

But there are not gates on the highway which scan all cars and subject the contents of all the cars along with details of the drivers to government scrutiny. Not just the number plates, everything in and about the car.

However, it is the goal of several agencies to perform this level of searching to all data transmitted. Why do you claim that people have less right to privacy when transmitting data in the virtual vs the physical world?

It is highly likely that this is not confined to just software, I'm sure other engineering or complex disciplines feel the same way about their discipline.

How do we have experts inform these decisions without falling into the trap of lobbying where the rich control the political and legal sphere?

Anyway, I cede you the point that the US law does not match my "common sense" esp around this 3rd party rule mentioned in other comments. It kind of sucks that US "winning the internet" means that even non-US citizens are subject to US law in this regard.

Speed cameras only operate on public roads. The camera in the store is operated by the store owner. In both cases one of the parties involved in the transaction (driving, purchasing) is involved in enforcement. It is clear in both cases that these measures protect everyone and they have clear limits also.

Better examples would be police searching your home all the time, whenever they want (This maps to device encryption).

Or store owners surveilling competing stores / forcing people to wear cameras 24/7 "to improve the customer experience" (This maps to what Facebook / Google try to do, or what internet wire tapping does).

In the meantime, solar panels for massive generation also incur transmission costs to centralize that energy for any major energy usages. We might want to keep having high power generators next to super-high energy consumers. For instance our (theoretical) hyperspace communication and computation array. Right now those usages are things like Arc Furnaces, Aluminum smelters, data-centers, ...

Plus, we'll want to have figured out that fusion tech so we can build it into our spaceships travelling out beyond Mars as an energy source and hopefully also a thrust source. We want to master that tech on Earth's surface for sure.