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by souprock 7y ago
It is far from being mendacious. I'm doing exactly that, with a family of 13 people (12th kid due soon!) on one income. Yes, it is expensive, but aren't these H-1B people supposed to have rare and special skills that are worth a l
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by souprock 7y ago
The best is a house near an airport. I just look out my back window. So far the interesting ones have been the An-225, the Piaggio P.180 Avanti, the E-4B, the F-35A, the F-22, the V-22, the CH-47, the A-10, the B-25, the B-2, powered parach
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by souprock 7y ago
Multiple reasons: Big companies are frequently composed of components with distinct culture, benefits, legal entity, and so on. People get to know one part, then assume that all parts are that way. I'm in a component with compensation
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by souprock 7y ago
I finally verified that yes, 30 hours is acceptable where I work. It's been done, along with 32, and possibly shorter. Most of the benefits are pro-rated, but we'd still cover the health insurance fully. You could still work more
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by souprock 7y ago
In some ways, like Johnny Long, who you drove past: https://www.hackersforcharity.org/johnny/about-johnny/
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by souprock 7y ago
That mistake has been fixed: ẞ It was terrible because you could get all 3 choices in a lowercase usage (s, ss, ß) and then lose that distinction when capitalizing. You couldn't reliably uncapitalize such words unless somebody disobeye
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by souprock 7y ago
Doing exactly that, and hiring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797601
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"People's" is a negation word, like "non" or "not".
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by souprock 7y ago
That parenthetical comment at the end is incorrect. https://checkyourfact.com/2018/12/16/fact-check-percent-repu... That ignores decades of prior history, including the 1956 act that was defeated, making &quo
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by souprock 7y ago
Although "Governments can hire experts to determine standards by doing research, and then can apply those standards over time to the schools they regulate.", those supposed experts can be pretty bad. Richard Feynman relates a fasc
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by souprock 7y ago
No matter which side of the climate politics your beliefs are on, you probably support the proposed solutions that apply to your choice. This is because the human mind works backwards from the solution to the problem, finding logic to justi
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by souprock 7y ago
A bit more detail on some Red Hat experiences: I had reserved -M for security labels, to be compatible with Trusted Irix, and I think this was clear in the source code at the time. I intended to avoid any additional library dependency if po
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by souprock 7y ago
There are indirect arguments that are pretty strong. Patented organisms let their owners extract economic rent. This covers nearly all GMO and many hybrids. Monoculture, which you'll get when the whole industry comes to rely on a parti
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by souprock 7y ago
It's 10 to 13 kids, depending on how you count. (adult dependent, unborn, miscarriage) It's just my wife and I, her staying home, without staff or personal time. We homeschool them until they can get a 3 or better for AP Chemistry
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by souprock 7y ago
I am, but I wrote that. Something like "ps -axu" will fail the UNIX/POSIX/SysV parsing, then restart in a pure BSD mode with the "-" ignored. Something like "ps -aux" will too, unless there is a user
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by souprock 7y ago
I don't know how to count. You try: 10 dependents who are legal minors (includes a set of twins) 1 adult dependent who ought to move out soon 1 miscarriage 1 unborn There are eight possible ways to count that up. The resulting sum is 1
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by souprock 7y ago
He missed a big one: you have no way to stop Linux distributions from hacking up your software, and you'll suffer the consequences of whatever they do. I hit this with procps. (a package with ps, top, vmstat, free, kill...) It was horr
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by souprock 7y ago
People also did that ~60 years ago right in the middle of San Francisco. There was plenty of cheap empty land. I have a relative there who bought her 4-bedroom house in 1963 for $9000. She likes her neighborhood. There is plenty of free par
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by souprock 7y ago
This is the real scandal. It is possible to convince a doctor to provide a disability. This gives advantages on the test, such as extra time. The abnormal testing is not reported to colleges. Probably the only solution here is to offer thos
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by souprock 7y ago
Well, I have a dozen kids, and I agree. Of course, part of the reason for so many kids is to minimize the percentage of my family that would be lost if one did die. My wife's uncle had the postcard family, one boy and one girl in a cut
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by souprock 7y ago
Yep. My "salary" is really just my hourly rate times the number of hours in the year if I work 40-hour weeks. I can get 50% more pay if I work 60-hour weeks.
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by souprock 7y ago
No, they favor the bay area if you are a software engineer who is willing to sacrifice quality of life. That article starts off with this horrific line: "rent a room and move in with some friends". OMG. That is the sad situation w
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by souprock 7y ago
I find it odd that so few seem to choose the perks of being a wealthy person in a cheaper part of the country. Depending on your idea of wealthy... You could get a tennis court, a dock with a boat, horses, and a shooting range. You could ge
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by souprock 7y ago
I don't see why we can't use the IMG tag for video and the VIDEO tag for images. They should be unified, with all the same media formats supported. IMG would autoplay, would not have sound, would loop, and would not have controls.
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by souprock 7y ago
No, like this: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/tech/graphing.shtml It is sort of like a flow chart, with the assembly shown for each chunk. I've loaded up functions with over 5000 blocks of code, i
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It is important to consider long-term effects. It is very easy to only look at the immediate survival of the baby or of the mother. Subsequent births are endangered by C section scars. Each scar is an area of uterus that is deficient in mul
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by souprock 7y ago
Uh, do you want to be doing low-level magic for a living? You appear to be capable of it. Here, my "Who is hiring?" comment from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797601
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by souprock 7y ago
What about graph view? IDA will let you use struct offsets in the assembly language, making the assembly much more readable. I'm hearing that Ghidra doesn't, and that you are forced to use the decompiler to make use of the structs
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by souprock 7y ago
Well, same here on the kids. I wrote /bin/ps for Linux and maintained the procps package for about a decade. I also did significant work on Tux Paint and a little Linux kernel work. I managed just fine with 3 tiny kids and a job,
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Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (Melbourne), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) and possibly other

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