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I live in a van in the Valley, have an engineering degree from a top school, bankruptcy, student loan debt over me I can never hope to repay but cannot hold a job. No drugs, no smoking, no drinking, no sanitation issues, and no hanging out in the daytime with the locals.

As the learning experience of life, I realize that much of what Americans believe is a lie and that they cling to ideas and beliefs that aren't helpful for them in their circumstances: aspirational "rich" people who take up attitudes and political fashions that hurt themselves and let themselves be divided-and-conquered with artificial divisions until we're atomized and estranged from one another into seemingly virtual isolation. Plus, there's American hyper-individualism and anomie of discontent and hopelessness that's degrading the society from a network of communities into a Kafkaesque Lord of the Flies, anarcho-vulture-capitalist nightmare. American "exceptionalism" now seems to mean "If I get mine, screw everyone else."

Gotcha crony vampiric cannibal capitalism at it's finest.

I'm surprised almost no one is also talking about the 2010 Boeing subcontractor Ducommun 737 NG (-600/700/800/900) critical structural elements deficiencies scandal and coverup Al Jazeera exposed. Several passengers have also already died from this on runway overruns and hard landings when the fuselage breaks up whereas it didn't used to happen on previous 737's.

I deleted all of my Stack accounts several months ago. Not all, but the vast majority of programmers on there exude too much ego, self-centeredness, know-it-allitry, unreasonableness, are too petty and/or are too unpleasant to make me either a. want to ask questions or b. want to answer them. It's not a community but a Twitter soundbite competitive résumé sausage factory. I'd rather struggle and figure out whatever the issue is myself.

For every lifestyle decision, there are always potential risks and potential benefits.

For example, people who run excessively tend to lose fast-twitch/bulk muscle mass and wear their hips, knees and ankles faster than most people. For example, one of the worst things you could do to your body would be to repeatedly run fast, downhill while letting your feet slap the ground.

And, you're never going to be able to measure all of the pluses and minuses intellectually or quantitively, which is why these choices tend to be primarily qualitatively-based with some quantified-self bits on the margins.

Fixing iron oxidation is great, my old VW would appreciate it, but I don't see how it helps much... and I'm sure marine coatings have a long history and a lot of technology invested. Wouldn't a systematically-better approach be to do as much local-to-customer, JIT manufacturing and stop shipping finished goods all over the world? If not just for climate-change but for reduced time-to-customer? (Caveat: Still must ship materials and specialized/complex goods that aren't available locally.)

Another dimension to consider is that some people perform well at some specific things, but not all nonspecific things. And also that performance varies with situation-to-situation and self-perception varies with mood/time.

In reality, DK is an overall impression tendency rather than a strict rule... such is the nature of squishy, fungible social "sciences;" reality is messier than a numeric IQ result.

Trump is off the left side of the graph where actual ability is epsilon (~0) while perceived ability is 100.

You know a platform doesn't care about security if either:

a. They don't do end-to-end integrity and non-repudiation (not signed hashes of files, not just https, not just hashes, but signed archives/files that can be verified as coming from the developer either with gpg, s/mime or x509 certs)

b. They allow packages to execute code or scripts on download or installation

And, they don't care about your time if they don't automatically offer a prebuilt, reproducible binary mechanism with a build-from-source install/verification option.

Where the heck is the link to the calculator?

Wasn't there a similar program long-ago in the US where the FBI/DOJ/USDC diverted first-time offenders into working with US-CERT instead of Aaron Swartzing them?

Boeing doesn't care much about what's ethical, it does what's cheapest/easiest (remember the Ducommun structural parts scandal of 2010?). That's the job of the regulator: to enforce protections and be another layer of sanity checks to prevent bad processes, bad designs, bad manufacturing, bad maintenance and bad operations from occurring. Capitalism is borderline anarchy, especially when all three branches of government are in the military-industrial complexes' pocket. The FAA dropped the ball because they got too cozy with those they're supposed to regulate because the political system is so damn corrupt. The political and apolitical parts of government MUST be firewalled from corporate influence, just like the separation between church and state... separation between church of money and state.

This is regulatory capture that corporate-political plutocracy brings. I hope Nader sues the pants off them in his goddaughter's memory.

Makes you wonder if some rogue device/adapter/charger could deliver malware (sploit/trickery) to it before or after it's booted from the host.

That's some cool enginerding discovered by gindrenigne. AvE, bigclivedotcom and EEVblog would be proud!

Interesting. I was in the Paradise Camp Fire, and tens of thousands of trees have since been cutdown. Most of the trees (pines) survived because they evolved with fire, but I doubt any are still alive because they're rarely allowed to grow next to other trees in urban-rural interface areas. Maybe some would survive, which might be cool in some situations.

The House of Commons could use this tech, a barber and a tailor.

We also studied the War of 1812. It was a crushing, symbolic defeat in battle for the fledgling nation, although it didn't make much difference in total.

It is because they aren't subscribed to The History Guy on YT. ;)

Try looking it up in search engines first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Effect_on_electroni...

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

Four decades Bay Area native here. Yes, unless the salary more than makes up for the extremely-unbalanced cost of living. Housing and everything in SF is obscenely expensive. It's been this way for many years, but still people try to migrate there like lemmings because "everyone else is doing it," only to later realize either they're stuck and can never retire except into poverty OR are forced to leave and find somewhere else more suitable for saving money, raising a family and/or maintaining one's sanity. Don't move there lightly without a definite plan and budget, or you may likely find yourself either wasting time and money, or in ruins.

Modern music has no memory, therefore there's no nostalgia. I look at it not as a problem of elitism, ranking or "good ol days" of genres, which would be comparing apples and oranges, but a matter of having good taste applies equally to every genre. Sentimentality is one thing, religious "purity" of certain artists, songs or genres is meaningless fetishization.

1. Playola

2. Most people don't have good taste

3. A bewildering abundance of platforms, delivery methods, genres and performers

As nonprofit stations go, KCSM 91.1 FM ain't bad.

I remember Amigas were still sold in specialty independent stores in the late 90's.

"Jerk" isn't a quality of people, but a maladaptive pattern of negative behavior that often harms the morale and well-being of others. It's a choice of interaction patterns. It's possible to be brilliant, honestly call out deficiencies without making it personal and seek excellence without being a dick... often, it's just a shortcut that leaves much trauma and bitterness along the way.

At workplaces without civility, jerks are often rewarded if they deliver results, and management tolerates them because they make them look good. OTOH, not separating out punishment of the brilliance from the jerk is an equally-damaging lack of nuance.

Dunning-Kruger

Yep. The incompetents can now use "jerk" to paint anyone who GTD, while the second-stringers can ease-back and do a whole lot of nothing.

If you're an engineer, the best way IMHO is to work with other engineers on a trial basis or tiny project if you can. Interviews are usually of low utility, especially non-engineers doing the hiring or interviews that don't delve into real engineering problem-solving. You will develop a better gut sense and know good engineers when you see them: relentlessly resourceful, picks-up concepts fast, asks good questions, cleverly pragmatic, anticipating "gotchas" and hopefully bearable/approachable.

PS: "10x" seems like a buzzword blogger fashion than anything useful.

There's two double-standards at play:

- victimhood hierarchy - prioritizing obscure identity attributes over the person.

- elite apartheid - celebrities, rich, popular, beautiful don't have to play by the same rules or receive the same punishments as everyone else. Also, the very bottom of society receives far more punishment than the middle.

Furthermore, there are several ambiguous, likely unknowable by anyone else, situations in the case of rape, because it's often a s/he-said situation due often to a lack of unbiased witnesses or solid evidence:

- Whether there was force or not

- Whether there was explicit, implicit or no consent

- If there was consent, was it later revoked or not, explicitly or weakly

- Is the allegation for actual harm or ego-/guilt-/remorse/-alleviation/revenge/enjoyment/attention

Actual rape isn't good, but an unfair/unnecessarily unpleasant process to suss-out what may/may not be possible to discover doesn't help either. It's very tricky.