For some reason I parsed "fed" here as "fed[eral agent]". If anyone else was confused, the headline is referring to someone (possibly a lawyer on his side) feeding him answers through the glasses.
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Wow this looks really well done, congratulations!
One question: I was exploring the public spaces and I'm wondering are these your real finances, or is this just a mocked-up example? https://finfam.app/mahmoud/space
And if they are your real finances, are you manually entering in things like your credit card balances, or do you have integrations that automatically track that? If there aren't integrations already, is that on the road map?
> If you also sense the lips, tongue articulators, and jaw, then general English decoding becomes possible with high accuracy
A bit OT but I see this frequently and I'm curious. Why do you English speakers (or just a US phenomenon?) tend to use the word "English" instead of "language", "linguistic" or one of its related words to refer to a general concept?
Not OP, but as a native English speaker and former scientist (though not in this area), I would interpret "x does y on English tasks" to mean "we tested this in English and don't know if the effect generalizes to other languages".
x1798DE commented on It's cheaper to rent than buy in 95% of the US bizjournals.com/columbus/... · Posted by u/paulpauper
The article does not really explain what it means for it to be "cheaper" to rent than to buy here. Do they mean mortgage payment + taxes is higher than rent? Or do they mean that mortgage payment + taxes - equity is higher than rent?
It seems like accurately assessing the true cost of owning a home is complicated, to say the least, and it might not be terribly easy to compare it to rental costs across the whole country like this...
Must be lots of low-hanging fruit in biological treatments.
See, I went camping with the Scouts on Isle Royale, at the end of the week we were comparing mosquito bites, averaging about 100 per. Then a young man Luke said offhand "Mosquitoes don't bite me."
And sure enough, his skin was totally clear. I said "Luke, you bottle that, you're a millionaire."
I used to get mosquito bites but I stopped getting them as an adult. I realized after a while that my skin stopped reacting to them even though the mosquitos were still biting me.
I recently managed to coax one into biting me to test my hypothesis. I felt it go into my skin and watched it suck for a bit, but it didn't get particularly engorged on it. No mark the next day. My son had a bitemark from a non-deliberate bite, though.
It seems to be a known phenomenon (though I have no idea why it happened to me): https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/4310/is-it-poss...
x1798DE commented on A not so gentle intro to web3 kooslooijesteijn.net/blog... · Posted by u/BOOSTERHIDROGEN
How many land registries are currently on a public blockchain? Why would a corrupt one that wishes to mutate records be the first to switch?
I think the argument would be that formerly corrupt enforcement entities, or entities with no track record, would use a blockchain as proof of their commitment to impartial enforcement going forward. "We know you don't trust us, but here is a public record that you know we didn't manipulate, so if we are going to steal your land we have to do it openly."
That said, the same thing can be accomplished by outsourcing the public ledger to a third party with a reputation for trustworthiness. The same way that countries that cannot make a credible commitment to not devalue their money will often peg their currency to the dollar or the euro.
So there are all these people in these threads who are like "I only make $175K/200K/150K, I feel like I'm grossly underpaid when I read these things."
I got you all beat.
I have 15+ experience. I am a really good coder. I can be very not humble because this is a throwaway, but everyone who has ever worked with me or gone to school with me or worked on open source with me would agree, I am very good at designing and writing and maintaining software, including understanding what software should be written, let's just accept that for the sake of discussion.
I only make around $90K.
Now, I work in the non-profit/academic sector, and have my whole career. That's what I wanted to do, and I make more than most people in my social circles even at $90K, but the work is getting old, it's not actually that "meaningful" in the end, and especially when people keep saying that I could be making literally 4-5x what I'm making.
I also these days mostly only know ruby and Rails (but that's not un-marketable right? And I certainly can learn other things, I have before. And I know ruby really well).
People here are like "Sure, but don't you want good work/life balance, maybe $175K is just fine for that." Yes, and $175K would be a fortune to me!
I literally don't understand how I get into that market. Because I have worked in academic/non-profit industry my whole career. (which I don't know if that leaves me out now. And I'm in my mid-40s, does that doom me?). I know how to get more jobs in the industries I'm in at about what I'm already getting paid, and have several times...
But I don't understand even the first step to this world where $175K is considered low-paying. I believe I have the engineering skills of anyone at that level. I don't know how to get into it. Help me out?
I don't know if it's right for everyone, but the way I did it was to practice a bunch of leetcode style questions and send out resumes go for job postings at big companies.
That was for my first tech job. Once I had that one advertised on LinkedIn (and some open source participation, and some talks at conferences - not sure what generated interest), I started getting a steady stream of unsolicited emails from recruiters. Next time I was ready to switch jobs I just responded to the ones from FAANG companies and went back to practicing leetcode.
You can probably also just reach out directly to recruiters at big companies, or ask someone you know who works at a big company to put you in touch with a recruiter or recommend you.
x1798DE commented on It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says lite.cnn.com/en/article/h... · Posted by u/Bender
I hear a lot of people blame a "slow metabolism" for difficulty losing weight, but most of them have normal metabolism. It's useful to get an occasional resting metabolic rate test just to know your baseline. Costs about $50 and totally painless.
Where can you get this test for $50? From a cursory Google search in NYC the only place I'm seeing with prices costs more like $200: https://www.fitnescity.com/resting-metabolic-rate-test
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x1798DE commented on Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API 2ality.com/2021/06/tempor... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
“ “Time Difference” (“Zeitverschiebung”) lists time zones for cities etc. – for example, the time zone for San Francisco is America/Los_Angeles.”
Does anyone know how the canonical cities/regions associated with a time zone were determined? It seems kind of arbitrary. Wouldn’t “America/California” or “America/Sacramento, CA” make more sense?
The full theory on how the names are selected is here: https://www.ietf.org/timezones/tzdb-2021a/theory.html#naming
For most zones, it's the largest city in a region where the timekeeping has been the same since 1970. This can cross state or national boundaries.