I like how your example still involves moving carbon around.
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I asked where he got my information, and he claimed he pulled it from Github and cross-referenced it with a large public dump.
Gartic Phone (garticphone.com) is a telephone-like game, suited for online play. Each player comes up with a phrase (e.g. "cat on a hot tin roof"). The phrase goes to the next player who is tasked with drawing that. Then that drawing is sent to the next player who has to describe the drawing. Then the description is sent to the next player who draws it. Repeat until you get back to the first player or to a certain number of rounds. At the end replay all of the transitions to great amusement.
The second that I think would work well is Liar's Dice. Each player is given 5 dice. Roll the dice and each player can only see their own dice. Players then take turns bidding on how many dice are on the table (collectively across all players). Bids must either increase in count, or keep the count and increase in number. e.g. if I bid five 4's, the next player could bid six 2's, or five 6's, but not five 2's. Any player may challenge the last bid at any time. Once challenged, all dice are shown, and whoever is wrong (the challenger or the bidder) loses a die. Losing becomes a vicious cycle; the more you lose the less information you have, making it more likely for you to lose. As an option (but one that I think makes the game better), any die rolled as a 1 is wild and counts as all other dice.
If anyone has access to your encrypted data other than your intended recipients, that is a back door.
We teach people Liar's Dice. It's a very simple game, especially if you build it up like this. Everyone gets five Dice. You roll them and look at your own, and then take turns guessing how many of a given number are on the table. Guesses have to "go up" (either the number of dice stays the same and the number of pips goes up, or the number of dice goes up). Instead of guessing you can challenge the person before you. Whoever is wrong loses a die and game play repeats.
After a few rounds, dice showing a one are wild.
After a few more rounds, if anyone in a round bids 1's, then ones are not wild for that round.
After a few more rounds we start discussing the probabilities and strategies.
The challenge is not breaking the game fundamentally while you add rules.
Gas in Vallejo is about $4.09 / gal, versus $3.49 (according to GasBuddy.com).
The average house in Vallejo is about $539,000, versus Wheeling at about $307,000 (according to Zillow)
The "minimum annual income to live comfortably" in Vallejo is $96,120, versus $46,080 in Wheeling (according to BestPlaces.net). Side note: crime in Wheeling is significantly lower than Vallejo.
These places were chosen essentially at random, but meant to be comparable, and the differences are pretty stark. Houses are slightly less than twice as expensive in Vallejo, but the cost of living is more than twice as expensive by a comfortable margin. In terms of living costs, for them to be comparable, Vallejo's gas would need to be a little over $7 / gal, just for you to start seeing meaningful effects.
TL;DR - California's gas taxes are basically meaningless when it comes to guiding buyers' decisions.
If it turns out that Obama is in the Epstein files, my friends won't have to get rid of their Obama hat, or their Obama sneakers, or their Obama cologne, or their Obama watch, or their Obama bible, or take down their Obama flag, or delete their Obama NFT trading cards.
Both parties are alien and hostile to me, but for very different reasons.
One of the interesting takeaways was about dating compatibility (they are a dating site after all). They found that republicans tended to pair well with other republicans, more than any other group paired with itself, and far better than democrats paired with other democrats.
https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-...
You want your pay to be higher? Work to raise the median salary in your state.
The first couple years were easy. It was before the dot-com bubble burst and I lived in the bay area, so finding jobs was trivial. I worked at Adobe for a while, then Ask Jeeves (a household name from that era, for you young'uns).
After the bubble burst it was a bit harder. I moved cross-country to a rural area and took tech-related jobs to make ends meet. Eventually I started working remotely for a bottom-scraping company on Long Island.
There I started dating a coworker. Her father was the facilities manager for a major financial institution in Manhattan and got me an interview. I was 100% a nepotistic hire, but I worked hard and did skunkswork projects for the CTO. This was circa 2006, and once you've worked at one finance company it's easy to find related jobs. So I bounced around finance for a bit. Banks, hedge funds, etc. I worked right across the street from Lehman Brothers and watched their crash from the windows.
Eventually I got married and decided I didn't want NYC kids. We decided to move back to the bay area around 2010. I found a small company I could work for while I looked for something else. I was referred into Google and started at L4. Promo'd to L5 and stayed there for a bit.
In 2022 I left and did a bunch of odd stuff. The timing was really bad, and I got laid off twice, but I was lucky enough to be working again before severance ran out both times. On the whole it was probably better for me in terms of TC, but who knows. I just returned to Google last month. We'll see how this run does.
Not having a degree probably hurt me in the beginning. I had to tune and A/B test my resume to get past hiring managers. I list the years I went to colleges and what I studied. I had gone to a separate university for summer extension classes while in high school, so on paper it looks like I went for 4 years, but I'm cautious to say I don't have a degree. I'm honest about it, but not forthcoming.
I've had managers tell me that if they had realized, they wouldn't have hired me, but they're glad they did. I've had interviewers ask for transcripts and then take me over the coals about why I failed Intro to Viticulture and Enology 20 years ago. I've had hiring managers who needed to get creative about my title, because they didn't allow a title with "Engineer" in it without a degree. I've had managers throw it in my face and use it as a reason to cut me. But most of my managers never knew.
I'm 25 years into my career at this point, and nobody cares. I bring it up occasionally, but with many years at multiple FAANGs, it's just not a concern.
My kids know the full history and are in high school. I'm advocating for them to take a better path, but I'm aware it's their choice. The elder has severe ADHD, and my suggestion for him is to do a two year stint in the military between high school and college. I know he'll test high on the ASVAB, which means he probably won't be in a combat MOS. And I think the service will be good for him, and give him a leg up in a variety of areas. He's considering it, leaning towards air force.
My younger wants to be a teacher, but isn't certain and wants to do something more creative. She's good at STEM, so we're exploring alternatives like architecture, civil engineering.
1.) Cuts that are not easy on a gantry. It would be very difficult to do a tenon on a gantry. You could do one side and then flip the piece. Or maybe you could have a special bed with a void for putting stock in that direction. Either way would be difficult to get just right. With the Shaper and their workstation this is a 60 second operation.
2.) Cuts in the real world. If your stock fits into a gantry, great. But if it doesn't then you're going to have to dismantle the thing to get it into your CNC. With the Shaper I've done inlays on-site, in hardwood floors, kitchen counters, on walls, and on a rough surface picnic table.
3.) Sneaking up on tolerances. Again, if you're batching out a ton of stuff you'll get your tolerances once and everything will be set. But when I use a gantry getting the tolerances just right takes a ton of time. On the Shaper you cut a pocket, test fit, bump the tolerance by a thou or two, recut, and re-fit. This is fast on the Shaper.
4.) Storage space. I don't have a ton of space. I have a small CNC (~15" x 15") for small stuff that I want to batch out, but I work out of my garage. I'd love to drop a 4' x 8' CNC in there, but it isn't going to happen. With the Shaper it all goes into a systainer box and sits on a shelf. When I want to do something big I lay some foam down on the driveway to use as a backer, drop the wood, lay out the tape, and go.
It's crazy pricey. But that's more because it's owned by Festool than any inherent reason. If you're the kind of prosumer who goes for Festool-grade tools then it's probably a decent fit.
Is this one of the repos that uses Gerrit? Does JJ play well with Gerrit?
IIRC Gerrit was super picky about amending commits and I was worried JJ's laissez faire attitude about creating git commits on demand wouldn't jive well.
They *were* able to, because they *were* able to offset the cost of developers instead of having to amortize it out over 5 years.
Case in point, the largest screen in the lead image in the linked article does nothing to showcase this new UI, but it does promote Fountain of Youth, a show on Apple TV.
I was on the original SVG team at Adobe back in '00 and built some of the first public demos that used the technology. This kind of 3d work was some of the first stuff I tried to do and found it similarly lacking due to the lack of possible transforms. I had some workarounds of my own.
One demo had a 3d stack of floors in a building for a map. It used an isometric perspective (one where parallel lines never converge) and worked pretty well. That is pretty easy and can be accomplished with rotation and scaling transforms.
The other was a 3d molecule viewer where you could click and drag around to view the structure. This one basically used SVG as a canvas with x and y coordinates for drawing. All of the 3d movement was done in Javascript, computing x and y coordinates and updating shapes in the SVG DOM. Styles were used to handle single / double / triple bonds, and separate groups were used to layer everything for legibility.
I don't discuss my political views at the office. I don't discuss my religion. I don't discuss how I'm raising my kids. I don't discuss anything that could come back to bite me in the ass.
So ideally I would never know his views and he would never know mine.
Algeria is more than 80% desert and has a population of ~46 million. Non-desert area accounts for ~480k km^2 out of their ~2400k km^2 land . Europe has far more livable space than Algeria does. Spain is pretty comparable with a population of ~48 million in 505k km^2.
I get that there are political reasons, but "Algeria is big so Algerians shouldn't need to leave" is a pretty surface-level observation.