andrewzah

I looked at rsync.net, but they are 2.5 cents/gb versus backblaze's $0.005/gb or glacier's $0.004/gb per month. I see rsync.net for active use, while b2/glacier are for set-and-forget backups.

I don't think sending info about filenames and sizes is acceptable, ever. It's a shame as backblaze has been a solid backup choice for a while.

edit: and enabling facebook tracking on customer pages...

Well, the idea with Backblaze/Glacier is cheap long term storage in exchange for high request costs, no?

For me anyways, this is a tertiary backup of data that is duplicated in a zfs raid 10 pool and in external drives at a different house. A high request cost isn't much to get back my family photos, documents, etc, in a situation where neither of the first two backups are available.

After https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019 I pulled off all my files from backblaze. Is there a good alternative for long term storage other than amazon glacier? For about ~6tb-8tb of data.

This strategy is referred to as theta gang in /r/WSB nomenclature, but I would argue this is different because it's meta-gaming other people who are foolish enough to buy those wild out of the money options.

This is my preferred strategy as well.

Of course they have a legitimate purpose.

That doesn't mean the market is rational, etc.

You can know all about risk management, etc, but there is no guaranteed winning strategy. Because options trading is gambling.

Options trading is literally gambling, so this would be unsurprising. Robinhood made it much easier for people to get into.

"it has forced english speakers to become so adept at vowel-reconstruction that one could pronounce words with completely arbitrary vowels and still be understood."

This was still occurring before people were able to widely hear other regions' speakers, though.

However things like cough, plough, although, thorough, etc having different, -correct- pronunciations are due to English taking in words from other languages.

Out of all things, one should take time to trust and verify about one's health and body. And at least some knowledge about car mechanics and home repair/contracting. The latter two are just a reality of life if you don't want to get scammed and/or have a really bad job done by contractors.

It's not really fair, but also we don't -make- time to understand our bodies. It's a total choice. Preventative care is so important, yet hardly anyone takes the time to do it, only going in once issues develop.

It's not about totally rejecting anything an expert says. It's more about trust, but verify, and take the lead yourself to be on top of things.

In my personal experience, I am the one who has had to try to figure out my diagnosis so far because my GP, Dermatologist, and Immunologist haven't been very helpful. Most of my sessions over the last year were about 10-15 minutes, I answer some questions, and here are some pills, come back in a month. There hasn't been much testing after the initial battery of tests in the first ~2 months. I'm the one who has had to take the lead and be aggressive about trying to figure out a diagnosis, and now, about getting a referral to a tertiary/quaternary center with better immunologist experts to hopefully figure out the cause of this damn thing.

It's not that I don't trust doctors- it's the opposite! But this whole situation has made me wary about blindly trusting anything or sticking to their timelines. My Immunologist emphatically stated that "it can't be gluten"- well guess what? So far, not eating gluten is appearing to help. It's only been ~1.5 weeks so we'll need to see. Of course I recognize that diagnosing skin issues/dermatitis is totally different than other types of issues.

Piping output to a file is much more preferable in my opinion, but you can access scrollback with ctrl-b [, then j/k for up down and ctrl-u/ctrl-d for jumping up/down.

Their point is those "bad apples" lead to people not trusting doctors as a whole. Over-prescribing opioids is one aspect. Not taking women seriously is another aspect. Does every doctor do this? Obviously not. But enough people have had bad experiences that overall I see people innately trusting doctors less and less.

And it's not "1 bad apple". America is in the middle of an opioid epidemic.

" everyone stops thinking they are so exceptional that they can become an expert in all fields"

People don't think they can become experts in all fields. This is different from not blindly trusting someone, due to reasons mentioned above, etc.

"These suffice to let the speaker know how exactly to say the word unlike in English where it has to be learned case by case based on whatever is popular or acceptable pronunciation."

This is more due to how widespread English is, and how vowels/pronunciation have shifted over time. For example, The Great Vowel Shift. [0]

Korean has exactly the same issues, albeit to a smaller degree. There are plenty of words that aren't pronounced like how they're spelled, due to grammatical rules. 종로 as an example. Or cases where words sound exactly the same and you just need to know the context/spelling- 쫗다, 쫒다, 쫃다, 쫏다, 쫓다.

Then there's regional slang/pronunciation/dialect. Busan dialect is fairly different from 표준어, or the "official" standard language. This phenomenon is not unique to English in any way. Any language scaled up will develop these issues over time.

At least you can try to pronounce "cough" or "종로", instead of not being able to pronounce "願" at all because you don't already know the pronunciation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

I don't disagree that some of these bootcamps teach some knowledge and lead to jobs afterwards. But what you're really paying for is networking. Even junior development work requires a fairly robust set of knowledge, that isn't going to be grokked within 6 weeks or even 3 months (unless they were already familiar with computing/unix etc). That model only works for companies that are willing to onboard -very- green junior developers and mentor them long-term.

You can accomplish the same thing by following courses/books online, making a handful of projects on github to show interviewers, and networking at conferences/meetups. That's how I landed my first part-time job with programming, and then my first full-time job.

This is the behavior that the open letter is referring to. [0]

My personal opinion is that about 85% of this is overblown, and comes from people not only not assuming good faith when reading RMS' writings, but purposefully looking for anything to nitpick and deem "controversial". That said, his comments regarding Epstein are a bit concerning.

It's not that I like RMS or anything, but I find this crusade to oust him from his own board a bit ridiculous. Clearly, RMS is very very particular about words (more specifically, the names of things) to the point of being obtuse and or insensitive in some cases. This is the guy who argues that one shouldn't use terminology like "pirating" or "content creators" for various reasons.

[0]: https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

"You might not be thinking about work, but your brain is."

This is definitely true after work sometimes, but a commute is not necessary for this. Walking helps similarly and is healthier, too. For me personally, I tune everything out and listen to music most of the time while commuting, or simply meditate (specifically not dwelling on any thoughts).

"Maybe I care about this more because I'm a designer so, creativity is what I'm judged on."

I'm not sure if you intended this, but this could be read that you're implying that programming is not a creative profession. Which is wholly false.

Part of tackling hard problems is coming up with creative solutions. One absolutely needs creativity and vision to architect larger applications and coordinated services.

I've met accountants that are more creative than some jazz musicians, but the creative work they do is much more abstract and not as intrinsically understandable as a musician that's improvising on a tune.

All bootcamps are a sham. They make lots of promises, but end up just churning out candidates who can barely reason about the material that was foisted upon them in rapid-fire succession.

I don't see bootcamp experience as being useful for a hiring metric. You can get the same exact results by independently studying yourself, and save yourself the stress and money. You're better off finding peers/mentors to talk to through programming meetups/conferences.

If this page was written in 2018, do you have examples from then until now of him not following these guidelines?

Regardless, these are good guidelines. We're all human and even if RMS doesn't always follow them, that doesn't mean they're not good guidelines anymore.

For meetup.com specifically, maybe, but there are plenty of facebook groups around hobbies that aren't specifically "meetup" oriented. You could look for organizations specifically in your area, and chances are they'll have a facebook group, facebook page for events, or a meetup account.

I also don't see this as an issue. If you want to meet people, that's a great way to do so. I've done it across America and in Korea, and I have made many friends from it.

"Your office is professionally designed and cost many millions of dollars. You are given high quality equipment to make you comfortable. Your office has amenities that make being there easier. "

My house is nice, and is custom-tailored to me. The amenities are exactly the amenities I want and use. The equipment is exactly what I want, not equipment that a distant person contracted out to a firm to mass produce for a general office.

I understand that not every person is in a situation like this, but if you're working at a FAANG you should be making enough money to set up your living situation nicely.

People should have the -option- to come into an office. Working at home gets lonely. But there is no reason that a FAANG is necessarily better or even good at providing an optimal work environment.

If it's not a necessity, it's hard for people to maintain habits, particularly physical ones. The reality is many people are just not very disciplined if there's not an outside factor forcing them into it.

There are many comments here about missing their commutes as they could meditate/reflect on things, etc. One can quite easily do this with meditation or walking/running/biking for ~30 mins. However it takes discipline to carve out that 30 mins and leave it specifically for meditation or whatever.

Tackling climate change is a step at a time. First, we support WFH. Then, we can move on to other things.

And yes- I would like to see a total ban on gas guzzling cars in my lifetime. I would like to see cities built around walkability, and ban all types of cars entirely in the city center. Etc. But it's a step by step process.

Hmm, and does this free market give us the option of quiet, small offices, with doors? Or do we overwhelmingly get the "option" of open offices?

There are a plethora of groups for adults. There are groups for tabletop/board games, music, movies, sports, hiking, etc. There's likely groups near you on meetup.com or facebook groups.

For music specifically there are local scenes. If you go to local places consistently, you'll see some of the same faces. Etc.

I like programming, but I would find it very boring to only be friends with people in the same industry as me.

"a commute is forced puts your brain into the mode where you solve creative problems in the background without thinking about them"

I don't think about work outside of work, which includes commuting. I may have an epiphany while showering or talking a walk, but in the car I listen to music or podcasts. That is Me Time, not Employer Time.

Have you tried getting better coworkers? /s

One possible solution is to see if there are independently-run stations in your area. I live near a university, so there is a student-run station that explicitly is not allowed to play top-charting songs. So I get some good music discovery, and awkward banter from new djs. If you have access to a computer, then you have access to basically any station. soma.fm is pretty good.

It definitely is frustrating to see the same songs on the radio over and over, but that's really an issue from iHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel) owning stations across the country. Boycott iHeartRadio if you can.

"A few decades ago, even the greatest talents in the world needed a recording contract to reach a large audience, and that went through a few large companies."

Ah yeah, this I do agree with. With today's tech it's relatively easy to get youtube/soundcloud-grade quality. It's not super cheap but one can get by with a decent camera, a decent usb interface like a scarlett 2i2, and a mic or two depending on the instrument.

It's never been easier to get discovered thanks to soundcloud, youtube, instagram, etc. Very different from having to play gigs at the right places (sometimes for a long time!) and hope one gets discovered by someone there. I was thinking more of professional studio albums.

"Now anyone can record high quality music at home."

Eh, to an extent. Audio production is a highly involved process. Few people have the equipment and knowledge to mic instruments & track sound properly, mix audio properly, apply professional-level production, master the tracks properly, master the album properly... It's not as easy as having a computer and some software.

You can get a pretty good sound at home now for sure but for professional albums you still need a decent professional studio. And even at home, getting good mics and hardware is still quite costly.

"A megastar can choose to record any of dozens of equally good songs."

There are famous or well-known (in the industry) songwriters that get chosen time and time again because they can consistently produce hits.

- Consistently coming up with good melodies/hooks along with lyrics is fairly difficult to do time and time again.

- Without writers/composers the artists would have nothing to perform. It goes both ways.

- They’re not asking for all the revenue. They’re asking to be fairly paid for their portion of the writing. The artists still get their portion, as does the label, etc. They’re also asking artists to not take credit for writing that they did not do.

This is a large reason behind why I switched to programming after receiving a bachelors in media arts. I’ve had bad experiences with people claiming work they didn’t do, and getting away with it because they knew people.

...and programming pays better, anyhow.

- This is an issue due to large corporations owning many radio stations across the US.

- This is an issue due to music labels being unable or unwilling to take risks.

- Regardless if you like the music or not, people need to be fairly paid for their work. Musicians/Labels should not be strong-arming/bullying songwriters into taking credit for their work (and thus receiving royalties for work they did not do).

2020 was a great year for music, but not if you only listen to the radio...