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I always go back to this list every year or so to look through the major ones. At least for my relatively unpublic life, I have never gotten readded after the initial time I went through to delete everything. YMMV if you are more prolific with your public persona than I am, but like other comments have said, don't trust those 3rd-party services to do this for you because many use Mechanical Turk type of labor with your personal info to basically walk through this list themselves (i.e. people that might keep your PII for nefarious identity theft purposes).
Edit: one thing I have that helps a lot that is unique is that my name is a slight misspelling of a famous athlete in a sport that is not at all popular where I live. When people search "_huayra_", they usually get results for "_huayrack_ the legendary athlete in some far-flung non-mainstream sport", in a sense.
If you're in a country that uses steel / concrete to build, unfortunately physics is not so kind towards any signal propagation through that :(
This hits me hard now. I was considering whether I should hit the gas at work trying to meet some completely unrealistic metrics, only to be in a conference call where some guy from another team basically did the same (missing a lot of events with his family), only to get a bunch of those stupid animated emoji things in Teams as his only compensation (I asked him offline if he got any bonus from it).
I'm leaving work early to hit the ski slopes tomorrow. Life is too short to be rewarded by digital clapping hands and hearts.
It really helped to basically make the dust small enough for the roaches to scurry through (instead of avoid like a pile). They don't really want to eat it (like bait), so they need to accidentally walk through it and then clean themselves (and incidentally ingest it).
Hold some dry powder now and those riparian dreams may be fulfilled at firesale prices in the not-too-distant future :D
Looking at things like housing and cars directly can hide things because of can-kicking shenanigans. Melody Wright has a great substack that goes over what the homebuilders are doing to make it seem like sales are strong [0], going well beyond the "have the construction workers park in the driveway of unsold units" stuff.
This comes down to the same reason why when you click "buy" on some website, they can't say "oh look we added a secret X% f** you fee!". Similarly, this is the reason why when you negotiate a rate with a lawyer, accountant, gardener, or other professional, they can't add random fees that weren't discussed. My climbing gym has had big signs up and has sent myriad emails over the past few months leading up to a new credit card processing fee for this very reason.
If you had great service, I would still recommend fighting this and then tipping the server directly with cash. These "mandatory tips" don't go to the server, but are usually pooled and mostly taken by management. If the restaurant is one of the few ones that is equitable between the staff members (e.g. if the tip gets automatically split between front and back of house), then that might be the one exception where paying a surprise mandatory fee would be okay.
Even if you go with "muh flow batteries" or "muh hydrogen", we would require far more land with wind/solar to fill up those storage technologies than just use nuclear plants.
Even if I were to concede that covering every last surface with solar cells is a good idea (or what to do when recycling them), this doesn't take into account the enormous amount of energy currently used to make process heat. Neither wind nor solar are able to generate the hundreds of degrees necessary for so many chemical and manufacturing processes.
Don't let yourself get bamboozled by shiny futuristic graphics of storage or generation solutions without at least doing some basic napkin math about feasibility.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_... [1] https://ambri.com/
Simon Michaux has already done this. It's worth a read through his reports [0].
Also, it's quite possible to reprocess spent fuel. France has been doing it for decades. [1] The price has not been enough to justify it, but eventually it will (or if other costs are imposed, like a tax on the mineral rights that would favor reprocessing fuel).
[0] https://www.simonmichaux.com/gtk-reports [1] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...
If you take the approach of "watch what they do, not what they say", Google is one of the clearest examples of pro-RTO: they invest in so many perks because they want to make the panopticon feel comfy.
There are other companies that don't give you a darn thing and just dangle the loss of one's job as a threat (Amazon), but I think top performers are more swayed by the "free food" approach than the "let's have a big public dashboard with the entire team's attendance" approach (again, Amazon).
Another key thing for the Chargie is that it will cut power after reaching its requested charge, and only resume charging again if power falls to a certain level. This prevents the "trickle charge to maintain the precise percentage" thing that is a real killer for batteries.
At my current and prior jobs, I've had to do the "C++ cleanup" job while porting some x86_64 code to ARM. The TSO model from x86 is just something I think a lot of people have assumed and haven't been hurt by (again because it's TSO). Most of the work I had to do is basically using all the SA and sanitizers I could, staring hard at the code to convince myself there wasn't some secret data dependency on some relaxed atomic.
"It's just a simple flag, so I'll use a relaxed atomic, nbd", meanwhile the same person is assuming another structure they've "published" (e.g. to a shared queue) will be visible is alarming.
Bottom line is that the n100 is a way better choice than pretty much any overpriced and under-supported ARM SBC these days.
edit: linking to Google's blog directly
After years of procrastinating, I'm finally gonna get around to setting up a basic homelab to run pihole. Thanks, youtube execs and bean counters, for kicking my lazy ass into gear on this!
In a way, I kinda wish that ads worked as well as youtube suggestions. If one has good enough willpower / mental health to not use youtube as a coping device, suggestions are really amazing. I've seen so many great conference talks and other videos that have O(100) views that I would have never heard about otherwise. Ads, however, still think I'm gonna overpay for aliexpress drop-shipped items, or that I need to make a basic purchase into a way of life (e.g. that cooler company that now is somehow a lifestyle brand).
The rental market is decoupled from the ownership market. This hasn't been an issue for a while because multi-family had not been built up enough (i.e. there had always been an apartment shortage, especially after the GFC), but given that the US is building these more than ever [0], this is going to become clear in the very near future. There is a carrying cost to an empty unit, and price will likely reduce to get someone into a unit. Unless there are significant job losses that push people out of their ~3% mortgages and into the rental market, this may persist for quite a while. Anecdotally, in my VHCOL city that built out these ugly 5-over-1s like crazy in the past couple of years, most are offering multiple months of free rent just to get units to be occupied.
Also, while it is true that these irrecoverable costs are "included" in the rent, what is not included in the rent is the time machine to go back in time to purchase a property before the pandemic. This means one's landlord can cover these irrecoverable costs with the rent, plus the mortgage (if any), and still make a profit, all while having the total rent be less than the total irrecoverable cost if one were to buy the same thing today. Anecdotally, this is the exact dynamic I've observed in colleagues and friends who have bought houses in the usual VHCOL tech cities (Seattle, Austin, Bay Area); it's possible to rent a similar house for vastly less money per month.
But yes, as a renter, one always has to be ready to make good on the "threat" to move out at the end of a lease, which is difficult to time and tiring to have to execute upon :(
This would usually come up during one's due diligence of the company when evaluating a job prospect, but it would be nice to have a list of flagrant violators of norms (i.e. of at least doing right by employees, even if the business is not doing the best).
Some of the "expat threads" I've seen on Reddit where people yeet themselves to the other side of the world and hope it works out only to fall flat on their face are pretty eye opening. By testing the waters with "proto-contracting" like this, you can at least give yourself some idea of what you could get were you to move.
edit: grammar