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I have worked 0 hours the last 3 days, but I did 90h/week stakes for 2 months continuously from December to January.

Have you ever been burned out? I wouldn't work 90 hours per week these days unless someone was paying me a really serious amount of money. For my current rates, I find it not unethical to work at a more relaxed pace, procrastinating, really maybe working for about 3 hours per day.

You might be unsure of the resulting reward from doing something. When I was an undergraduate, I've experienced poverty and hunger multiple times, which was proved to be (ironically) a great motivator. Unless off course I couldn't find a client to do a project for so I'd find myself in some serious depression instead.

I was (am?) a Matrix fan myself, but I wouldn't find it rewarding to rewatch the films or the anime again. I like re-reading the interpretations once in 2 or 3 years or so (<spoilers>I believe Neo is a program himself and Zion is also a simulation</spoilers>).

On the other hand, I binge-watched the two seasons of Stranger Things when the second one came out. Did I like it? Yes. Would I rewatch it, no. There's no reward in doing so.

I hate to give advice on the internet, as the variables that define each of us are haotic, but try to get along with yourself. Boredom might be a coping/survival mechanism of our bodies to not burn out (the reward must be greater than the energy/time you dedicated to a project).

I certainly don't mind being an average 1x programmer, if I don't have to take drugs to better my performance.

I don't like coffee, nor alcohol, and I never put any smoke in my mouth. When my diet is OK and my body gets the required exercise, the mind works best.

That shift probably would already have happened if Facebook didn't buy WhatsApp and Instagram.

My ISP provides an online user interface where I can remotely change my Wi-Fi password even if I haven't explicitly enabled port forwarding. If they have access to that, I don't see why they can't easily see my network shares and its contents (I don't password protect the directories for convenience reasons).

I've long ago lost the PPPoE password and this same router gets it automatically somehow. When I install another router, it won't do that.

Advertisers want more targeting control on which exact content their ads are displayed on. Why doesn't facebook grant them the ability to run callbacks based on that data so they can effectively moderate the demonetization themselves?

I don't see how the spelling errors in the spec can possibly discredit the technical merits of it.

There are some parts of the project that I don't like or maybe simply don't understand. For example, its user stories include an utterly simplistic privacy system [1].

[1] https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/master/UserStories/...

What if Ian starts spamming everyone on the entire web (let's call this 'root node') with his "you've got a file from Ian" notices? Some kind of rate limiting system is required in this case, but is it really possible to decentralize such a system?

I imagine a system of many communities that can be subscribed to, think of subreddits, with their own behavioral rules (code of conduct?) requirements, groups, permissions, blacklists etc. So if Ian and Jane both are subscribed to the same community that grants them the permission to do the described actions (thus Ian is not banned nor is over his rate limit to send his notice to Jane, and Jane's privacy settings permit people like Ian to send their notices to her), they can be performed. I'd call that a 'third party node'.

Such a system would also solve the problem of discoverability. I expect the rise of the githubs and gitlabs of Solid if this problem is not accounted for early on.

Let's say these two users already got to know each other and they want to decouple from the restrictions of the third party node they were met at, how can they pair their 'profile nodes' so that there's no more third party constrains to limit their interactions? Let's say the profile nodes include a social, facebook-y, functionality in them. Ian sends a direct pairing request to Jane. She accepts, by including him to a personal custom group named 'new friends' that will restrict him to be able to see only a few of her photos (maybe based on the tags that were used on the photos, maybe based on creation timestamp ranges so he is able to see only her most recent/ probably less embarrassing ones, who knows, she's the one to decide). On her personal node, it's her rules. Much better control than the current social media sites provide.

This calls for a really privilege-centered system. Can Solid provide it?

There are many variables to this. I believe politics/economics, culture and religion do have their fair share of weight. For example communist countries, which have been ideologically opposite to religion, provided higher education to women, compulsory even. On the other hand I've read that in Nazi Germany women were also given quite a lot of rights and work responsibilities.

I just yesterday searched github to investigate female employers of the likes of google and microsoft. A significant amount of them were Chinese or Indian. It's really about how much resources a country invests in free (university level) education.

Probably US only. The cheapest EU prices I'm used to are normally around x5 more expensive for SMS.

I've seen a few young adult females wearing some 90s style retro sportswear alongside with modern clothes (e.g. a Nike retro windbreaker) and I remember I found them (the persons) quite pretty.

I long for the day Google asks you to disable your adblocker (uBlock, ABP, etc.) to be able to search.

xyzzy + shift + enter made me look quite smart back in the day.

The referee that decided most of the scores in prison for 30 years, he was a very close friend to the cheater [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-H4sEHB54

I doubt some the best/most popular players of the USA-tech-industry dream team will get any real punishment at their own soil. Any fines will give a sense of justice to the public but it will just be peanuts.

Flash wasn't open, they should had made their own browser when they still had the chance. One can still do some aggressive fingerprinting using new browser technologies.

Even though CPUs have been made more power efficient the last decade, I've read that there'll be a performance reduction of 30-50% on the intel ones.

Ethically earned money and positive popularity among peers would be my main driver. I'd defintely like to create a few inventions here and there related in my niche for the betterment of society.

PHP is the backend language that currently pays my bills. PhpStorm and Xdebug are mature enough, so are the frameworks such as Laravel.

I'm currently reading this during a meeting. Hell of a coincidence!

I used to do just that, but then I found myself always appending !g to the queries.

I really hope justice is served one way or another. This action by Uber feels really shady to me (much worse than Google's tax evasion loopholes). What would be the consequences if something like this happened in a European country such as Germany?

Какаю would the translated to "I poo" (hence Кака would be "poo"). Срач would be the stronger word in Russian [1].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87

Thank you, I'd also tested that but it seems to simply remove the mangled string part. Maybe it's impossible to recover it automatically after all :/

Reminds me of the Universal Cyrillic decoder [1]

And old MySQL db dump I have has some values such as: !¡!HONDA POW

Does anyone here have an idea if/how I can recover the mangled text?

[1] https://2cyr.com/decode/?lang=en

I can't even imagine how large the bug bounty can be for the researcher who created the PoC.

They've got the best programmers, the best lawyers and the best accountants apparently.

Having a dumb search functionality results in tons of blogs and forums discussing software that relates to their niches.

The Netflix homepage for guests doesn't provide much information either. Anytime I search for the newest titles on google, I get the most updated top 10's. Good for SEO and keeps the people talking about stuff related to the platform.

The mindmap file formats are usually zip archives that contain xml files. These can include relations between the data you might want to export.

I've found mindmaps to be better tools for saving notes than syntax highlighted text. I currently use the freemium version of XMind, which lacks search and many other features unless you pay. Still a better deal than just text IMO.

UX trends that become popular tend to get overused, e.g. done badly.

Animations, such as in facebook reactions, can definitely look pretty but are also quite hard to design.