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This reminds me of the whole "playing video games causes violent behavior" stream of thought. Like people, I do not think CounterStrike is real nor do I want to engage in gun battles to the death in real life.

I’m honestly amazed airlines have not outright banned power banks given the risks. Like the Samsung Note that had a propensity for fires, and power banks seem universally less rigorously engineered.

Who knows what the thing will actually look like, but aside from the privacy angle, a design like this could be exceptionally light on battery use.

The magic is that some of them will get some not-trivial fraction of that $6T. Feels like the .com boom all over again - most of these companies won’t make it, but the few that do are going to be FAANG level monsters. All the investors want a slice of that.

That’s wild to me. Where I went to college they’d be like “lol you’re expelled and we’re keeping your tuition. Being here is a privilege not a right.” Maybe, maybe you’d get one hearing if you were outright disruptive, but I honestly doubt it.

SpaceX has some absurd majority of the launch market. Because their rockets work.

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

I won’t comment on the finances, but their technical success is self-evident.

Also, heath care costs if you don’t have insurance through an employer are a huge drag on FIRE, especially since you’ll likely need more medical care going into your 40s and 50s before you can get Medicare.

Every time one of these threads comes up, the replies have the form “you’re not doing x right, or Linux would be fine.”

X is usually “pick hardware with good support in ToT kernel” or “use distribution Y” (where Y is somehow different in every post) or “do you really need feature Z that’s better on Mac? You’re making the wrong trade.”

To each their own but I’d rather not deal with XYZ and just get the thing that works.

p.s. I do hope they put a toggle back for Siri and their on device AI stuff

Most big tech companies let you pick Mac, Linux, or Windows. Whatever you’ll be the most productive with. Whatever you prefer. Most devs (75%?) seem to pick Macs. To each their own though.

I wish the stated goal of H-1B was "brain drain -> let's attract all the best talent in the world to the US, and keep the US (and US companies) the epicenter of the tech industry, medical industry, research universities, etc.".

The stated end-game should be getting the best people in the world to stay in the US and become citizens.

I feel like this could be a bulwark against offshoring, and in the big picture, protect US jobs overall.

I think the system as-is is fundamentally broken. First and foremost, it needs to include equity when comparing the salary to US persons - H-1Bs are supposed to require "equal pay" to US persons, but they only look at base salary.

I also think consultant firms need to be fixed. They need some cap such as "no more than 1 in 10 engineers in your teams may be H-1B. This should include consultants you use - e.x. if a company employs 20 engineers, and they have 10 active consultants, no more than 3 H1-bs across both in-company employees and consultants used.

The consulting farms are the biggest abusers by far, and the low hanging fruit to target and fix. If we can't figure some workable way to fix it, just ban consulting companies from having H-1Bs outright.

The system is also needlessly cruel to applicants. They should have some long buffer, say on the order of a tourist visa (6 months?) if they lose their job so they have time to try and find a new one before losing status. Can you imagine putting your kids in school and buying a house in an at-will state, on an H-1B? Yeesh.

Lawyers sure. Paralegals and assistants are cooked in the way typist and secretaries were back in the day.

Time Machine (to NAS) + iCloud (w/ ADP) + local copy is the lowest friction path I have found.

Don’t worry, your elected representatives won’t be bothered by trivialities such as facts either way.

The only non-Apple systems I’m on are headless Linux boxes authenticated with SSH key pairs, which I usually only use through zsh.

They have a way to use from Windows, have never tried it:

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/set-up-icloud...

Apple’s built in passwords app. It’s basic, but it’s fine. I trust Apple’s security team way more than I trust pretty much any other company on this.

I thought about self-hosting Bitwarden, but I honestly don’t trust myself to maintain something security-critical (stay on top of patches and also be aware of supply chain attacks to revert patches and all that fun).

I personally find it nicer to unlock my phone to decrypt (Face ID) then dealing with having to auth with my headless server. Is there a way to manage this without putting the keys for LUKS or similar somewhere risky? Main threat is someone stealing the NAS during a break in.

The value of the homelab for me is things I can’t pay money to get any other way. I would never recommend it for just replacing cloud storage, ROI is not good.

There’s nothing as nice as Plex for consuming media IMHO, and home assistant/homebridge glue a pile of cheap IoT stuff into a single, cohesive, useable setup.

I am a reluctant admin. I resent spending time on it. It feels like work, which after 10 hours of doing similar things for much better pay grinds on you. Luckily it doesn’t take much time to keep it going after the initial setup.

Thread and Matter give me hope one day the IoT stuff might be okay. I have no hope I will ever be able to get the single media portal any other way.

You can use https://www.photosync-app.com/home if all you want is a local backup. It has a killer feature Immich is still missing: encryption at rest of the photos.

I have to wonder how good a shepard Google will be long term for other things people build on. Looking at you, Bazel.

FIB is awesome but there’s nothing easy about it, and the success rates are not super great.

Last I looked (perhaps some have changed?)

- plex has some fancy remote access thing so it can figure out your home network IP without DNS. You need to use VPN/Tailscale or self host something that advertises your IP if you want remote access with Jellyfin.

This is lame if your use case is “my parents remote play from my server from their smart TV” - getting VPN working on a smart TV can be a lot of hassle.

- Jellyfin iOS did not support continuing to play on app switch last I looked (it must have focus or playback stops). Plex app does not have this issue.

I will also say the new pricing structure is a non starter to me, if I wasn’t grandfathered into a lifetime pass from when it was cheaper I would not use Plex anymore. But I do have the pass so I’m not super motivated to change (for now)

My sad guess: radio will make less and less money, until the point owners view the spectrum as more valuable than the revenue left to extract from it, and ATT or the like will buy them out (after buying out the FCC) and use it for something else.

If I, a human, exploited a zero-day for gain, I could go to jail. The owners of the models should be held to the same standard. They should be responsible for what their servers and software do, legally and criminally. If they can't make the safeguards strong enough where they feel comfortable to take that responsibility, they should not let a model free in the wild.

Google is pushing it in embedded (OpenTitan/Ibex).

It’s nice to have a story that makes me laugh and smile about politics. It’s been a long, long time.

This is true, but if you use a file system that does scrubs (and you should use such a file system for a NAS), and if you keep the NAS on 24*7, this won’t be an issue.

Not sure how this works for y’all. On my team, they would get blocked to merge on code review until they met quality bar, and if this happened enough they would be having a performance issue that would be dealt with (they would be given multiple chances to course correct - polite talk from team lead, polite talk from manager (doc trail begin), not polite talk from manger, bad perf review / no raise + no RSU year, PiP, fired)

I’m always struck by a bit of wonder at comments like this. It seems everyone’s experience is all over the place. Curious, what types of things are you working on where you see these results?

I’m at 90%+ code AI generated by stats. I work in embedded systems. It still goes off the rails all of the time and needs a heavy hand to guide it. It does not currently feel like it will ever be truly able to operate independently. It’s a very useful tool, but it’s just not there yet in my day-to-day.

Obviously, YMMV.

I like Amazon's service. Parking at Costco on a Saturday is absurd to the point there's memes about it. I really hate standing in lines. Delivery to my door is awesome and I'm willing to pay extra for it. I also see the Amazon truck going house-to-house and don't feel guilty: I'm just one more stop along the way, my marginal impact is nothing at this point.

Second all these points! No multitouch is such a bad experience on maps!