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I've had recurring dreams that were entirely in math. And by that I don't mean a dream where I was sitting in math class or something. I mean the actual substance of the dreams were equations that I was trying to make sense of.

In my awake life I like math a lot and am comfortable solving equations. The dreams themselves, though, were terrifying in ways no other dream has ever matched.

I agree, it is a beautiful laptop! I need to remove the write-protect screw from the motherboard to fix the update problems. I haven't gotten around to it yet. When I do that I will also replace the battery, as mine now has a 2 hour battery life and requires 10 hours to charge.

Were you able to get the touch screen working under Linux? How did you install a normal BIOS?

I use Neverware's Chrome OS on an old Google Pixel Chromebook. Google stopped supporting that Chromebook so I needed to switch to Neverware's version of the Chrome OS if I wanted to keep getting updates.

Neverware's Chrome OS is a downstream version of the Chrome OS that you get on new Chromebooks.

I do hope that with this acquisition, Neverware's product improves. One chronic problem I have with my pixel chromebook is that I had to disable some security settings to install Neverware's Chrome OS, which causes some problems every time they do an update.

Wait, what? Alcohol is a carcinogen? I didn't know this.

Here's link to the CDC's website, referenced in that article:

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/moderate-drinking.ht...

This part from the CDC's website is also interesting:

  Although past studies have indicated that moderate alcohol consumption has protective health benefits (e.g., reducing risk of heart disease), recent studies show this may not be true.

I didn't know that either. I always thought a glass of wine was healthy.

There was a relevant conversation on HN about this over a year ago that you might be interested in:

How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48859333

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20874912

Bottom line, it is trial and error, an evolution of ideas and culture over many generations.

This is good advice but doesn't work for people with sleep apnea.

When I had sleep apnea I could fall asleep at any time of day, no matter how much sleep I got (or thought I was getting) each night. The alarm was necessary because I never felt well rested and couldn't get up without it.

Then I went for a sleep study and was told that during a night of 6-7 hours of what I thought was continuous sleep, I actually woke up 120 times. Eek! Of course everyone normally wakes up at least a few times and doesn't remember it the next day, but most people don't choke and stop breathing 120 times a night. I rarely got any real deep sleep.

I had sleep apnea surgery, which changed my life. Almost right away I got better sleep and was more alert during the day. It was like getting an extra 2-3 hours a day, every day.

Now I get up without an alarm every day and never need caffeine. It's a great way to live.

How well does Migadu handle spam filtering? I recently switched from Google to AWS Workmail and get spam and junk I never saw before.

Since the pandemic I started getting up around 6 am without an alarm clock. I never did that before. A big part of that is I go to bed earlier, as there is nothing worth staying up late for.

I've found I can focus so much more if I get up early and have been super productive these past few months. I am going to keep doing this when the pandemic is over.

> So, I’m able to do something new.

What are you doing now? Where do you see good opportunities for people with good tech skills that don't fit the mold of what FAANG recruiters are looking for?

I'm currently reading "tmux 2" by Brian Hogan. It's a great intro to what tmux can do and how to use it well.

https://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux2/tmux-2

It's a quick read and worth the effort. Available through O'Reilly learning online.

I put Cloudready on a Google Pixel laptop because the original Chromebook OS stopped getting updates. I like it a lot except there are issues related to the laptop when it attempts to upgrade.

I'm considering quitting Facebook, and am currently using their feature that lets you temporarily deactivate your account. I'm trying it out for a few days to see how comfortable I am living without it. So far, no downsides. I'm going to keep using this feature until I am ready to pull the plug for good.

Earlier today I was sitting in a presentation by a faculty member who included a slide with an email quote from a former student who did exactly what you said right before the presentation. It absolutely made his day. And I know the former student and have a hunch he reads HackerNews.

This also made my day because I saw the real-world impact of something on HackerNews. And perhaps it will make your day to know your comment has influenced more people than the poster you were replying to.

Bryan Cantrill recently interviewed Arthur Whitney, as discussed in another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671918

> She also sometimes see colors in her dreams that are outside of a pallet humans see in real life, but after she wakes up she can't describe them. It's not one color or one hue, there are several colors that she can only experience in her dreams.

Sounds like she is describing imaginary or impossible colors.

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

Using this website:

https://www.angio.net/pi/digits.html

I can search for the sequence 0123456789. It is not found in the first 200M digits.

I love how Wikipedia contains these weird little nuggets of knowledge, and I love how they keep showing up on Hacker News.

I really like this. I never thought about it this way before and am glad you wrote this. I can't think of a single habitual drug user who is an emotionally mature adult.

I'm going to save this and say something similar in the future when I have kids.

> If anyone needs to start even earlier than this, I've actually found "3D Math Basics for Graphics and Game Development" to be a good true intro for linear algebra-related stuff.

Did you mean to write "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development" [1]? If you did, I agree 100%. I got a lot out of this book and was able to put it to good use for several projects.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Math-Primer-Graphics-Game-Development...

I agree with this, and believe the positive changes will continue the longer people go without tv. I've been without cable for 8 years and I'm so much happier.

When I visit my parents they always watch tv after dinner, and while sitting with them I've noticed how terrible tv shows are. It's strange, but it's like once the spell was broken I could see it for what it is: contrived and unoriginal narratives designed to keep people's attention and get them to sit through commercials.

Is this it? Biologizing the Machine (terra incognita) by artist Anicka Yi?

https://bagrifoundation.org/anicka-yi-la-biennale-di-venezia...

If this is what you are talking about, I'm disappointed that the work is crap. She also won the Hugo Boss prize in 2016. This is a highly respected award in the art world.

The art world isn't doing a good job understanding AI. Part of this is media hype causing people to be misled. Another part is the cognitive tools artists have developed to understand the world are inappropriate for understanding these technologies. For this work to be believable by technologists there would need to be some kind of demonstrable scientific rigor involved. There is none here, but people from the art world who are evaluating these things don't notice it is missing.

Shielding would also add weight to the drone, which would limit their range and capabilities.

A swarm of advancing drones could collectively take evasive maneuvers to increase their probability of success. As individual drones drop out of the sky the remaining drones could reposition themselves, much like a split frame in bowling, making it harder for one of these devices to rotate back and forth and hit all of them.

I like how SQL syntax is integrated into the language. That is very convenient.

Can you compare/contrast this language with q? Can I write complex queries as I can do in q? How about performance?

You mean like the purple finger thing?

I've always wondered why nobody suggests doing that in the US to help prevent or ease people's concerns about potential voter fraud. It's simple, low-tech, and hard to screw up.

Unless if I'm missing something, which of course is possible. Can someone tell me what the downsides are to an idea like that?

I live in NYC and see the same thing. Many people seem to be reading emails in addition to the other stuff.

For me being on the subway is quiet time for me to think about software projects. When I give my mind a chance to wander I come up with good solutions to problems or new ideas to try. I have no interest in taking out my phone and ruining that.

Cool. I will give this a try in the near future.

Cool, thanks for your reply.

What does by hand mean in this case? Entering all of the data myself? Is there a way to import CSV data of portfolio and transaction information?

Firefly looks like a better choice. The mint clone uses Plaid, a financial intermediary that has been heavily criticized on this forum.

Firefly uses Spectre. Anyone know of security or privacy issues with using that?

The artist Walead Beshty used the hazards of the shipping system to create art. He would ship glass boxes through Fedex and the damaged result would become art.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/walead-beshty-fedex-large-kraf...

I finished the 2018 edition of the class two weeks ago but I am happy to go through the latest version now. The class was so thought provoking. I came up with a lot of good ideas for my thesis project while watching the videos.