nealmueller

Codex is back

Price change is ChatGPT not Codex, you may be mixing them up, Codex (for coding) remains $200

I really enjoyed my first few Sols. Good work! How did you build it? How long did it take? Will it make money?

The World Conker Championships is an annual event held in England, where competitors from around the world play the traditional game of conkers using chestnuts. Each player threads a chestnut, known as a conker, onto a string and takes turns striking their opponent’s conker, aiming to break it. The tournament follows a knockout format, with players advancing until a world champion is declared. The event has been running since 1965 and has grown in popularity, drawing international participants and spectators.

Answer to headline: They rise so high to save some space, while keeping traffic flowing at a steady pace.

The author says in the first paragraph that he used to play a lot of D&D (dndbeyond.com) and now prefers Dungeon World (dungeon-world.com; PDF is $6). Does anyone know why he might prefer the latter? As context, I play D&D weekly, love it, and am always interested in learning more. Dungeon World is designed to focus on creativity and shared storytelling with simpler mechanics to make the game more fluid. However, there's nothing simpler than having a clear D&D rule for something like fall damage, instead of having the party debate if a player survived the fall. Dungeon World doesn't have fall damage calculator and instead relies in the narrative, presumably from the pre-written story or DM.

Malcolm X, X-Ray, AMEX, Timex, Xerox, X-Men, X Files, X-Factor, X Games, X Prize, Direct-X, ActiveX, Mac OS X, Xbox, SpaceX, Google X, S3XY, X.com

What banks offer low interest lines of credit now that Chase ended FRB’s incentive

On the go: AirPod Pro. On plane: AirPod Max and foam ear plugs. Sleeping: foam ear plugs For me, it’s critical that foam ear plugs be full size and cylindrical. The kind Tim Ferris recommended in his book work poorly for people with larger ear canals. Cylindrical foam ear plugs: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001J4HB1C

I'm told this is the first NLP dataset released by Apple. It translates a portion of the Google Natural Questions data set into 26 languages, https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions.

Google Cloud does not use customer data for Google's search graph. No cloud does this.

From Google: "At Google Cloud, we do not access customer data for any reason other than those necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you. Technical controls require valid business justifications for any access by support or engineering personnel to your content. Google also performs regular audits of accesses by administrators as a check on the effectiveness of our controls."

Justification reason codes for data access https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/reading-access-t...

That said, I agree with what you've said here: "Laws enshrining natural rights of privacy of personal data can't come soon enough." Nicely put.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Man on Wire

Both redefined for me what it means to be mission oriented and committed. And I have a Guinness Record, so I thought I was obsessive already, but I’m nothing compared to the commitment of the two men in these documentaries.

Does a noise abatement complaint service like this exist for garbage trucks that come in the middle of the night?

The author is a middlebox employee (IPS, IDS, Firewall, NAT, WAN optimizers, LBs). Middlebox people want unencrypted transport headers, because they literally profit from unencrypted headers. :) Everyone else, including users, site operators, and software engineers writing network software prefer that middleboxes not be able to see or tamper with transport headers (both for privacy, avoiding bugs, and being able to evolve software).

From the original article: "What's wrong with encrypted transport headers? One possible argument is that middleboxes actually serve a critical function in the network, and crippling them isn't a great idea. Do you really want a world where firewalls are unviable? But I work on middleboxes, so of course I'd say that. (Disclaimer: these are my own opinions, not my employer's)."

(Credit for this observation goes to my friend NC.)

Related article by Krebs on Gooogle's security key deployment. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/google-security-keys-neu...

Related video by me and another googler about anti-phishing work by Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu6VkVmRMow

Correction, ~$60k/year. Your point is valid that I could buy an old Prius, and I've considered it, or one of those plug-in cars that you can get for basically free after the California rebate, but it won't drive itself sadly. The M3 thing was a bit of a phase. I liked the way it sounded and drove, but I found myself wishing it had better self-driving features and that it was less easily nicked, dinged, and scuffed. One point of clarification; I don't self describe as wealthy or /very/ wealthy. The housing market in SF supports a healthy airbnb market.

Hi, Neal here, author of this analysis. You are right, it was an accounting measurement, until I sold the car, then it became a real pocket expense because I sold the car for less than I bought it for, and in that moment it was a measurable cost. I sold the cars before doing this analysis, and included the sales price in the analysis.

Yes, offloading risk. I hope Uber pays drivers enough to justify the added risk.

Hi, Neal here, I authored this analysis. I totally get you. I love driving. M3 is the ultimate driving machine (tm). But sometimes I prefer to do other things. Selling my car let's me drive when I want to and ride when I want to. I've found my correct ratio is 1% driving, 99% other things. Each person will have their own ratio.

True. Same holds for buying car, with post-tax dollars.

Hi, I'm Neal, author of this analysis. I bumped up my GCP instances so it should work now. Thanks for sharing the static links.

Hi, I'm Neal. Author of this analysis. You're right about public transport. I would take public transport more if my hotspot worked underground and if it was reliably less disruptive (people bump too much to work with laptop open in socially acceptable way). This sounds strange, but lately I've enjoy taking these silly scooters around town and have been using them more than public transport or uber (in the city). Not sure if they've reached Philadelphia yet, but they are all the rage here in San Francisco.

Hi, I'm Neal, author of this analysis. Yes, you nailed it. I was just thinking today about what older car (2014 or earlier) I could buy for $10,000 or less that had adaptive cruise control and lane assist. That would allow me to disengage mentally a little from driving without suffering depreciation. Is there a way to search for what's the oldest car (e.g. Civic) that has these features?

Hi there. I'm Neal. The author of this analysis. As I recall, I included the cost of gas, and wear and tear in maintenance. The largest cost of cars is depreciation, and that's kept me from buying a car. The only car I would want (a nice car) is going to depreciate faster than I'm comfortable with. Since doing this analysis I've been carless for 2 years and have used Uber and google buses a lot to get from SF to Sunnyvale where I work and fly planes. Since writing I've used Getaround a few times and Turo never. There's a Getaround next door to me (a nice Volvo) and taking that is often less expensive than uber, but less desirable because I've gotten very addicted to the pleasure of not driving the car that I'm riding in.

I like your suggestions here. I've considered buying a car and renting it out like you suggest, but I currently make $100,000/year doing that with the extra room in my SF house, and that's enough work that I can't afford to extra time to do it with a car also. And I think I'll make more money on Airbnb vs. Turo/Getaround. Homes are easier to monetize than cars.

Again, thanks for digging in!

Hi there, Neal here. I authored this analysis. I like your analysis too. I suspect the Amex benefit will be a rounding error at most spend levels, but is a nice benefit. I suspect the "I do all of my emailing during my rides" is meaningful as it increases your productivity a lot or gives you time back to your friends a family a lot. You could add to your list the cost a burden of keeping a car clean. Uber forces you to not carry unnecessary things which makes your life, overall, simpler, which often leads to happiness.

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAvDASLehpY

Slides from our presentation: https://conferences.oreilly.com/security/sec-ny/public/sched...

Related, does anyone know how to listen to maritime channel 16 vessel traffic in any city, especially San Francisco?

City data is improving. Wilderness data is poor. Ocean data is worst. Satellite view is not what we think it is. Oceanic satellite view is not imagery, but just blue paint. If it were imagery it'd show the Arctic as white. It's been white for 700,000 years. It's melting fast, but none of the mapping technology shows that, which makes it hard for us to protect the earth. fixmaps.org (my site)

On the one hand, AWS Macie only scans S3. Google DLP API works on S3, Gmail, Drive, GCS, DynamoDB, Redshift, BigQuery, Slack, SQL, Oracle, Oracle RAC, Zendesk, Twilio, Salesforce, and everything you can point an API at. If you want to use the same engine to test all your repos then Google DLP API is the right solution for you.

On the other hand, Macie has a GUI wizard. DLP API is an API. So if you can't code and just want to scan S3 then Macie might be for you, until Google DLP builds a GUI, if there's demand for that.

Someone should do a comparison of how successful each engine is at picking up sensitive data. I suspect Google DLP will be tuned better, but someone should do the test on a dummy data set and release results. That would be the most interesting comparison.

I work for Google.