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by ronnier 7y ago
The WireGuard app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wireguard/id1441195209
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by ronnier 7y ago
I’ve been nothing but happy with WireGuard. Connecting from my iPhone to my home and it works great, it’s fast and reliable. I’m never waiting to connect. Switching between WiFi, mobile, and sleeping go unnoticed.
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by ronnier 7y ago
If you are in tech and play your cards right, you can start to pull away and get yourself into a position where you can live off of investments and your net worth. The key is to work hard when you start out, save, invest, and live cheaply.
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by ronnier 7y ago
Here it is: > The analogy with technical debt is that each new fix or development is like a new block coming in, which you need to integrate with the existing code. If you hack it in a quick and dirty way, it’s like leaving holes in the
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by ronnier 7y ago
The state of men in the US is really deteriorating. Men are drugging, drinking, and smoking theirselves to death. And sometimes the death is very explicit, being by suicide which is climbing to rates higher than ever. Prisons are filled wit
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by ronnier 7y ago
Administrators. Just like with most charities. I just looked at open jobs at Harvard. Here are some: Donor relations. Portfolio managers. Property operations. Director of student activities. Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. Chi
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by ronnier 7y ago
Not for things like ints and strings.
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> Fields with scalar types are always present. Even if you don’t set them. Did I mention that (at least in proto31) all protobuffers can be zero-initialized with absolutely no data in them? Scalar fields get false-y values—uint32 is init
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by ronnier 7y ago
If they were forced to tell, why would anyone pay for the service? Why would Honda keep the service around if Honda had to foot the bill and not be compensated for it?
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nobody does that though. And that was the simplest example. Once you get into more complicated types things get even harder to understand.
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Go: value := getValue() Java: int value = getValue()
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by ronnier 7y ago
I write lots of Java and Go. I much prefer writing Java where I have things like "sets" and lambdas. I also find the type system to be a lot better in Java. In Go I'm often left wondering what I'm looking at and don&#x27
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by ronnier 7y ago
> We define the UserProvider interface I'm strongly against creating interfaces for non-library (not shared) code, that will only ever have one concrete implementation. I see it all the time in internal service code, code that will
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How is that related to what I was asking about by the OP comment? Which was: > Without tackling the obesity/sedentary/nutrition problems the healthcare issue will persist. > Similarly the opioid/meth epidemics of the l
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What kind of improvements?
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How?
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Are there any studies to see what percentage of these are intentionally started, if any?
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Do digital copies exist?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
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The data was so damning the purged it, basically it said there’s no reason for most men to be on dating sites, which works against Okcupids best interest. There are mirrors.
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It’s a generality, not a solid rule. The statics show this.
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Study after study show that women rate the majority of men as unattractive whereas the scale is pretty balanced for men’s views of women attractiveness. In general, there’s no longer social or religious pressure for people to pair off so wo
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It’s not by choice that they are not in the dating market. Nobody buys what they have to offer.
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by ronnier 7y ago
The world is changing rapidly. The magic year of 2012 is when Tinder was release and then grew rapidly. Move forward to today: a large percentage of men are totally removed from the dating market (not by choice), they do not have sex, they
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by ronnier 7y ago
The GRE is increasingly being dropped as well. The motivation is racial diversity. For example at Brown: https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-10-03/gre The GRE is no longer needed for... American Studies Biotechnology
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by ronnier 7y ago
Java got a lot better since 2010. I really enjoy writing Java though I'm writing mostly Go lately it seems.
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by ronnier 7y ago
Politics have crept into every aspect of life unfortunately.
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> A pillars in a place in most cars that eliminates huge swaths of my peripheral vision Yes! There's a large area to the left and right of me where I can't see anyone which makes it particularly dangerous when turning a corner.
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I’m extremely lucky, I was raised in projects at an early age in an absolutely horrible area and went through middle school and high school there (mother eventually moved out of the projects but in the same city). Random beatings were commo
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by ronnier 7y ago
I strictly use my iPhone to tether. I keep it updated with the latest updates but I still worry about it being remotely exploitable but I feel a lot more safe with it than these other devices.

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