rustyboy

I've worked remote for 2 years in an travel trailer with a 250w solar panel and 200kwh battery and have never needed shore power. I use my phone for hotspotting and use a mac book, they both charge in about 2 hours so I run for 2-3 hours, charge it, run 2-3 hours, and then charge it before logging off.

That said, yea - no second monitor, I close a lot of apps when i'm not using them (looking at you docker and chrome), and have a setup where I ssh onto a machine or use ci-cd agents to do a lot of my work.

edit: that said, this is a lot easier in sunnier places (you don't need to use electricity for heat) which I tend to prefer. I got close to needing a campground after a week or two in WY/MT near winter.

I worked as an analyst and was able to automate a job people in my shoes spent ~100 hours a year in doing. It was a huge success.

Until we needed a machine to run it, with good security controls, high availability... blah blah blah.

We're at the point where most people can find low hanging fruit by reading a Python blog in a weekend, but in my experience the IT infrastructure isn't setup to easily do everything else.

I'd love to track all this, but it feels like every few years some new technology comes out and I lose a weeks, months, or years worth of lists somewhere.

Where do you keep all this?

You know, I once read, or was told, that volunteering is a great way to get out of your head. In fact I spent a good amount of time before traveling doing so and really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to getting back to stationary life to get more involved in it again.

Have you had good experiences volunteering?

Your description here, and others, eerily match my own angst with 'being productive'. As someone who has spent covid traveling the States in an RV i've come to realize that I don't know what I really like doing that's not work (for example I enjoy, but have no deep passion for, outdoors recreation). Instead I spend hours aggressively reading and writing reviews on books because that feeling, 'being productive' is the only somewhat satisfying feeling in my life.

Have you had any luck adjusting your thinking or finding other joys in life?

Let me just clarify, sorry i'm from python, so not very familiar but this feels like a "circular reference". You're implementing a struct CartStore which has methods GetById, and Put. Because interfaces (or contracts) are implicit then it's automatically considered a Cart.

What I don't understand is the return types of these functions, a pointer to a cart's cart member? or an error.

Can you help me understand this code on interfaces? If you were calling (CartStore.GetById()) where does (*cart.Cart) come from? I don't see any logical connection between these two.

  type Cart interface {
      GetById(ID string) (*cart.Cart, error)
      Put(cart *cart.Cart) (*cart.Cart, error)
  }

  // A type that implements the interface :

  type CartStore struct{}

  func (c *CartStore) GetById(ID string) (*cart.Cart, error) {
      // implement me
  }

  func (c *CartStore) Put(cart *cart.Cart) (\*cart.Cart, error){
      // implement me
  }

Completely agree, and bought out all underwater mortages?! See HAMP program failure

I work for a fortune 100 company and GHE has been a nightmare. Not only do you need a team to maintain it, but then that team needs to be equipped enough to help support any other internal services (CI/CD pipelines) that integrate with it. Github.com is just an infinitely more enjoyable experience.

Unfortunately i'm in the USA, but thank you that gets me started!

Can you explain what to expect from a "system integrator" company or job? I did a quick google for those in my areas and they seem all over the place, not one mentions "PLC/SCADA"?

For someone with a MS CS what would you recommend for transitioning to such a field?

Are you a lawyer or are there jobs that you find stimulating without the overhead of getting accredited/years of school?

Can I ask what your job title is? This sounds like an area i'd be interested in but having only experience with tech i'm not sure of any tips or tricks to finding these hybrid jobs.

> develops their skill set in their own time

I don't see working on personal projects as doing personal development. What I do then is riddled with bugs, no unit-tests or documentation, and with no sense of project or time management.

Don't get me wrong if a personal project to you is production code, well then to me that is a hobby or maybe you are doing it to pad your resume, in which case sure it does seem like a good signal.

Overall though you have to have unproductive fun and that's what personal projects are for me, and this notion that anything tied to code equals resume is really insidious. Like when do we ever get away from work? Hustle culture seems to have made it's way into a white collar job, I need to tune out.

That's a false dichotomy. There is no reason that you can't have the opportunity to be a billionaire, while making sure that no one goes homeless or dies from a preventable disease.

People love to point to FANNG but the reality is America did this for the boomers, union membership was over 30% and we still had super wealthy people. CEO to average employee income was around 80:1, now it's closer to 250:1.

When 3 people own 50% of all wealth in America (1) it's not insane to say that we have a serious problem. I don't want everyone in America guaranteed a six figure salary but come on there's got to be a better balance.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-ric...

Why not then have lambda run the same container you can run and test locally?

I don't use lambda but we have our jenkins spin up the same ec2 to run tests that we would spin up to do development so that we never run into this problem.

It's not about economics, it's about private capital.

Nations and International Institutions loan out money to small countries which seem reasonable, however when they start to slip on payments they're offered relief in exchange for privatizing their resources and government services so capital around the world can extract rent. See Latin America in the last 30 years, and Africa for the last 50.

You're right though - it's just as insulting to say that these countries can't spot the trap. However some of these deals take literal armies of lawyers and economists to understand, and even when they understand, geo-politics can change around a country a lot more than a "first-world" nation.

Sure can, just not on open Battle.net https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2

Can someone explain what is different between containers and Open Containers, and why it matters?

To you that's great, the article the parent was referencing is from a marketing perspective. He gives the example of quants, they solve financial problems with code. The same is true with data scientist, they just solve analytical problems with code.

In both of these situations they're a programmer, but they sound cooler and will go a lot farther when applying for jobs or moving up in a company than the person who labels themselves as "a programmer".

That statistically the fringe wing's candidates don't win?

> "illegal"

because Amazon uses their non-retail business profits to identify high selling items, produce them themselves, sell them at a lower price (because they have all the data also), and finally steer customers to those products. They're the market place and a player. This new idea isn't well defined in law, but using your profits from one company to undercut another area is illegal.

> "by the rules"

is the same idea as "illegal", and even if they're not, the point she's trying to make is the fact they are not breaking rules should be setting off alarm bells because...

> "but why is that a concern of the government?"

because America loves the free market, and big business is the enemy of it.

>The secret is to go out and make friends who work in different industries that are totally unrelated to your experience.

Great advice, my SO works outdoors doing field studies and the amount of shit they talk about doing manually is astounding. They pay people (or sometimes unpaid interns) to go through hours of videos documenting everything they see! Almost all cataloging and measurements are done with little to no technology. Another example; I volunteer for a program that does some human intake and processing, before I got there everyone used a series of paper forms that got updated by work of mouth. Now? Google Spreadsheets.

There's hundreds of industries, organizations, and groups that do extremely manual labor intensive work because it hasn't even occurred to them it can be automated or turned in to a service, but you'll never meet them if you hang around tech people all the time because the solution is always on their mind.

I've always wondered why grant funded projects are allowed to be patented, do you think just preventing the IP is enough?

I've seen Mariana Mazzucato suggest the government as VC in that they get a portion of the profits from their grant projects, but then I wonder how they could safely regulate their own funding revenue?

I agree that it's not the will of the people on face, however I think a re-do is okay in this situation. The UK is a representative democracy and their elected officials cannot arrive at a deal on something a majority of voters wanted, so what do you do then?

If you just default to force something through would violate the rights of those who voted for members who are voting "No" to the deal.

I havn't read the books, thanks for the recommendations i'll check them out.

Crimethinc/AdBusters has seem to be more about fostering counter culture rather than interesting leftist thought not to say one's more important than the other, but seeing even the most radical members of our party still consumed by selfies and starbucks makes me really dissapointed. Crimethinc taught me to about Buy Nothing Day, how to make my own soap, and go vegan/local.

While I agree with Crimethinc and that quote, I can't seem to get into their writing anymore. Most of their writing comes across as defeatist or exhausting, but it's understandable because they've been promoting leftist ideals for decades now while the world slides into more and more authoritarianism.

Unfortunately for London property has become a massive asset. If you look at who owns most of the houses you'll see that it is foreign buyers, the wealthy with multiple houses, and extreme landlordism. This is artificially raising the price, even though there are plenty of empty lots sitting around, forcing crowd out without actually creating any better property.

Socialized/affordable housing might help, but typically once the market is so distorted not many people can afford to live there and thus even if their rent is cheap they're going to leave. This property is then bought by the wealthy and traded for an asset, repeating the cycle.

They're both the same issue, a lack of regulation creates an entire web that makes everything it touches super fragile.

When Lehman Brother's tanked they were one of the highest leveraged at 38:1, and current legislation allows 20:1 which many were originally operating at. If you look at any wealth asset, real-estate, wine, art, etc. these are all artificially high making the leverage crisis exponentially worse because when it comes time to shore up accounts these people don't actually have the value their writing in their books.

Most of these retirement funds have to prove some basic stress solvency, but they're doing it with leveraged funds and debt. Thus when a downturn happens and it comes time to pay back the middle class we will have to bail them back out. We're paying twice! Student loans almost certainly will be the next bubble, Wall Street already sells these as an asset backed security (see SLABS). At over a trillion in value with the rules written against students when mass defaulting happens the whole system will come down again with individuals having absolutely no protection, and no one willing to fight for them.