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Can someone point me to an explanation how CO2 is removed from the atmosphere ?

What's the process and what happens to it ?

The only ones really getting money in Sweden have been the major companies, to the benefit of the shareholders.

The bureaucrats that have been responsible for the questionable approach Sweden has followed are currently fighting like a cornered cat to avoid any and all accountability. So this 'message' fits the narrative well.

The prime minister has stepped down and left the reigns to someone else this week. The responsible for the health authorities has started his pension a week or two ago. Both conveniently around the same time that the Swedish investigative COVID commission has released a scathing report on the handling of the epidemic.

The state epidemiologist, Dr. Tengele, sorry, Dr. Tegnell, is still there but currently in full-on "blame others"-mode, as long as the buck doesn't stop with him. It's the regions, or the elder care facilities, or the immigrants, or anyone as long as it isn't him.

It's makes for a immensely sad and sorry sight, but not unexpected in a country with no opposition voices, neither in politics nor media. But that's nothing new under the sun as it was already known in 1971, and nothing has changed since. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Totalitarians

Additionally, Sweden has changed it's guidance since last week so people that have been vaccinated twice should no longer get COVID tests, so please take any and all official numbers with a serious grain of salt and consider them as 'absolute minimum' values

speculation.

their balance sheet is painful to look at (479M sales and marketing costs for 592M revenue, ouch)

Sneakers and Pirates of Silicon Valley

Citystrides looks great fun, I'll be trying that out !

The "So you want to study philosophy..." guide by Susan Fowler / Rigetti gives a good introduction to self-study of philosophy. It lists both courses (e.g. coursera) and books. But ... if you don't like reading books, maybe philosophy isn't the best subject for you depending how deep you want to go ? There's a LOT of reading you'll be doing.

https://www.susanrigetti.com/philosophy

I am curious how this works in the North during winter, where very low temperatures reduce battery capacity significantly. Also, not all roads are suitable for cars that are built for the city.

Well yes, back in the old days most of us were self thaught through articles such as Phrack, or connections on IRC, and lots and lots of experimentation.

I would say today it is both easier and harder. It is harder because the body of knowledge is so much larger, it is easier because so many more materials and exercises are available.

From my perspective, and I lead a team of these security researchers, it is an advanced career path, and still requires a lot of self-motivation. That said, there are more and more definitions of what "security researcher" means, in some cases it means being able to find web vulnerabilities without using Burp, so YMMV.

I would suggest to focus on fundamental skills such as reverse engineering, code review, low-level languages such as C and assembly, interfacing at a low-level with binaries through debuggers and instrumentation etc etc. Those are all broadly applicable. Playing CTF games is a good starting point too, as is auditing open source software.

But make no mistake, it will be a challenge, and it will require tenacity on your part. Good luck !

It is only crazy hours if you go for a start up with a goal of maximizing growth.

It is perfectly possible to start a sane business that focuses on providing its owners with a good life.

The nice thing about running your own business is that it is your own choice, as long as you don’t tie yourself up with large investments.

Mindjet Mindmanager, but quite expensive these days :/

Now I'm curious about the story behind the personal note.

In essence, discipline.

Motivation is fleeting, sometimes it's not there. And in those situations, discipline helps you continue doing what you do.

You don’t, you calculate it as part of your day rate. Bill in half day increments.

If you need to justify your presence to a boss, you’re not a contractor but an employee without benefits.

Any pointers on how to learn to do this would be much appreciated.

It would be interesting to see tarsnap added to the evaluation.

You eat a kilo worth of food in a single meal ?

Do you dig trenches for a living or what ?

There’s the fairphone

https://www.fairphone.com/en/

If everything is a priority, nothing is.

For me it's been helpful to understand who benefits from my actions in that particular moment, and then prioritized the ones where I benefit too.

In personal finance context they say to pay yourself first. I think this also applies when e.g. prioritizing health. And when paying yourself first, this also means doing things when most energy is available and leaving other things for when you're tired.

I think we can debate magnitude, but not direction.

I feel recently it's been a long time since I came across examples of where nature is increased or restored. Every time it's about nature disappearing.

Can you share a ballpark figure of the kind of income a website like this generates ? Thanks !

man bash

Good starting point

Sweden already is part of the EU.

This is brilliant. Kudos on a beautiful idea !

just use prepared statements instead of string concantenation to build your SQL statements.

Damn that SQL injection will get you owned in 3 seconds or less :D

> my resume gets no hits > Maybe someone will notice me there.

I'm not sure if expecting them to come to you is a winning strategy. But you could get someone to review your CV to see if the presentation of it can be improved ?

I also have more than 20 years of experience, and if anyone asks me more than a fleeting question on what I did in college, that would be a massive red flag for me. I feel that even if I'm new to a certain technology, my overall experience is helpful and valued. The grey beard perspective so to say.

And getting some experience with machine learning has never been easier. Play around with TensorFlow, or buy one of those Nvidia Jetson dev kits and follow the free Nvidia AI courses. And there's plenty of things on Coursera, fast.ai and the likes for more formal insights beyond experimenting.

Same with cloud, free tiers everywhere. But it takes effort to learn these new technologies, and that is not always easy at an age where more life has happened than for a recent graduate. So we need to be a bit smarter and efficient at it, but it can still be done.

Edit: I actually checked your Linkedin that you posted in another comment. I personally don't feel it's a bad CV, but I can see how it might not be a CV for FAANG companies. And you are already doing my suggestion of learning the newer stuff.

But I've experienced two things that might apply in your case as well. You're self-employed, which tends to reduce the people reaching for employee positions as they might think you're not interested at all. Secondly, you seem to be working remotely, which reduces opportunities even further.

I'm just wondering if recruiters commonly reach out to experienced developers that are self-employed in a remote capacity with a strong history of real world applications. Maybe a recruiter here can chime in ?

But it does seem you could use some more networking.

Anyway, best of luck !

Unfortunately I feel it is hard for me to disagree with the overall sentiment of what you are describing.

But I'd like to offer a little glimmer of hope from someone with too many gray hairs to count.

Computers are still machines, and we still tell them what to do by programming them. It is still possible to stay out of what you describe above, it is still possible to work on low-level code, on real products, on things that matter to people and companies.

The reality though is that the mundane things are where the money is though. While we all enjoy "cool" things, millions of companies need their accounting and payroll running, their truck drivers planned, their work schedules planned, ...

So you might find that more interesting things happen in e.g. industrial engineering companies or electronics companies, more so than in web companies. It's an entirely different world than what you describe above.

Hackaday might be a more interesting hangout than Hacker News for you ? So let's not lose our excitement and sense of wonder, after all it's all bits and bytes and we tell them how to behave.

Hold on. That’s the 40-year old advice ! :)

Learn breathing patterns (e.g. in yoga).

In essence, making your exhale longer than your inhale will calm you down. So take 10-20 deep breaths through your nose, focus on your breathing by following it, once you're breathing comfortably after the first few, try and make your exhale longer. It's OK to count in your mind if that helps.