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I personally enjoyed the challenge of setting up PTP at home. Why would a hacker scoff at nanosecond-level timekeeping —- isn’t the entire internet a “telco/enterprise” thing?

I’ve been using APU2 systems for several years. It can handle gigabit if you’re using Linux and your ISP doesn’t use PPPoE. On PPPoE it tops out around 500mbps for download and 800mbps for upload.

When you use encrypted backups on iOS, Google Authenticator maintains its state and there's no need to reset 2FA. I'm sure there are similar mechanisms for Android.

Another upside: after the bar, no one is going to make you whiteboard the rule against perpetuities.

You must be independently wealthy to not worry about a $150k+ outlay for school.

I obtained a CS degree, worked in tech for several years, and decided to attend law school to study IP like you’re intending. I attended one of best schools for IP, and worked writing patents. Despite a great law firm and clients, the work was not stimulating and a net drain on society. I left to start my own company in tech again.

My work as a core Django developer during school was more fulfilling intellectually and professionally.

Studying law will not bring the prestige you’re seeking. I didn’t listen to the lawyers who told me that either.

Do not go to law school unless it's a passion that you're willing to sacrifice financial and mental well-being for. It's only "worth it" if you're able to attend an elite (top 10) institution -- otherwise, in an industry obsessed with status and prestige, you'll end up on the wrong side of the bimodal salary curve¹ struggling to pay your six figure student debt. BigLaw, IP (patents), and tax attorneys are the only specialties that make decent money. Once laden with debt, 2000 billable hours is standard at most firms, meaning that 50+ hour weeks are the norm. Lawyers are unhappy: alcoholism² and depression³ are rampant in the profession.

Source: Lawyer that hated writing patents and went back to tech.

¹ https://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib

² 20+% of lawyers have alcohol problems: https://www.americanbar.org/publications/youraba/2016/march-...

³ 4x rate of depression and highest suicide rate among occupations: https://www.americanbar.org/publications/gp_solo/2015/march-...

Money market funds have significant yield compared to banks; the Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (VMFXX) has a current yield of 1.81% and is used as default settlement account on Vanguard brokerage accounts (easy to transfer in and out from).

If you can hold off on needing the funds for a year, then US I-Bonds can be purchased from TreasuryDirect. I-bond rates are adjusted semi-annually so they always yield more than inflation and currently at 2.52%. Treasury T-bills can be purchased in 4, 8, 13, 26, and 52-week terms. Current rate for 4-week bills is around 1.89%.

Since everyone is joining in with anecdotes, I’ll share mine. During second grade I had strep at least four consecutive times. One of those times I developed an ear infection with pain so intense my parents took me to the emergency room. On doctor’s orders, I had my tonsils removed. While the procedure was not pleasant (I had severe nausea from the anesthesia), the effects were immediate and permanent. In nearly three decades since I’ve yet to develop strep again.

Abuse of the workforce didn't start in 1940 and end in 1979. Some labor innovations you may enjoy:

  - Weekends (40 hour week)
  - Minimum wage
  - No child labor
  - Workers compensation
  - Not being massacred by your employer¹

¹ See, e.g., the Ludlow Massacre, the Thibodaux Massacre, Battle of Blair Mountain.

Because research has shown there’s an inverse correlation between CEO pay and company performance.¹

¹ https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/CEOperform...

Look closer and you’ll find a listing of their variable annuity funds, minimums are typically $5k:

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/annuities/variable

From operations experience, the risks of data loss with btrfs far outweigh volume shrinking capabilities on either XFS or ZFS.

I think it’s because RedHat has thrown its weight behind CRI-O instead of rkt:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-cri-o-10

Yes, I successfully run it two older MacBooks for server use. I haven’t tried WiFi or sound but everything else, including trackpad and X, worked fine for me. There were other tweaks to make suitable for a server, but OpenBSD has otherwise resurrected the laptops. Bonus: this hardware predates Intel ME.

While it's true you can't expand a vdev, you can always add another vdev to a pool at any redundancy level you desire to expand capacity. For example, you could add a trio of drives as a raidz vdev to a pool with an existing mirror vdev (`zpool add mypool raidz dev1 dev2 dev3`). However, the drawback is that the expanded pool won't be "balanced" unless its datasets are rewritten.

I think Amazon just stopped its collaboration with Coinstar, as it wasn't an option at the grocery store (HEB) machine I used last month.

See also: apparent authority, the agency law doctrine that deals with the situation you described.

Yes it stores locally, but on iOS the data will be kept in backups if they're encrypyted.

All that copy and they don't even mention the NRO, who design and operate satellite sources the NGA depends upon.

This morbid fact is actually taught in law school. Something like 10% of attorneys abuse substances, multiple times over the national average. To demonstrate the scope of the problem: a phone number for an assistance hotline is placed in bold on all Texas state bar cards.

Really? Alright I'll bite. They only promulgate the regulations that are enforced. And if you're being pedantic enough to insist it's the DoJ, then my point still stands under one led by Sessions.

While technically true, the enforcement is up to the Department of Labor. Do you honestly believe that Puzder (now Acosta) is really going to enforce these rules? It's the whole reason they were chosen for the position in the first place.

Let me add that I loved Kiev during my visit. The taxi incident was the only encounter of corruption on my entire trip.

It should be known that the US isn't immune to this graft either (e.g., my aunt passed her driving test in Chicago via a conveniently placed $20 bill).

My personal favorite SA enclaves: Olmos Park, Alamo Heights, and Terrell Hills.

Pulled over? No problem, just put a 50 in the passport and hand it over non-challantely.

I can personally vouch that this is true. I traveled to Kiev in 2010 to present at the local PyCon. On the way back home to the airport my taxi was pulled over for "speeding" (he was not). The situation was resolved by an exchange of cash, no ticket necessary.

Gee, wouldn't it be nice if Valleywag was still around for this type of news, but the Thiel free market has decided otherwise.

I was a major user of hg from 2007-2012, before I succumbed to network effects. The UX of hg was more intuitive for users coming from SVN and CVS.

Yes. Unless they said otherwise in their TOS.

Just don't think too much about the super volcano seething under the ground in neighboring Wyoming.

More realistically, Colorado gets severe thunderstorms and tornadoes all the time -- like the one that killed two in Limon in 1990.

See also the SysInternals junction utility, which has provided NTFS linking funtionality for years:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.as...