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Better than playing a record backwards to find the hidden messages. Instead you can find hidden images in recordings.

Working as a feeelance consultant means you have to do marketing AND sales. (and backend paperwork as well). You need to be able to float through stretches of no work, and you need to be able to deal with clients who won't pay you.

Your product is yourself, so you start with brand building. What are your differentiators? (human) Networking is the most common way to market your services, but some write books, speak at conferences, have a substack, and blog too.

Setting rates and closing sales is another challenge. There are whole schools of materials to help with this.

Lastly remember you are trading your time for money. Your time includes the marketing, sales, and finance/taxes/billing. You may need liability insurance as well. With all that said your time is finite and not scalable - even if you charge top dollar there is a ceiling on how much you can make. Don't expect to get rich in this line of work by itself. (Side note: "ownership" - real estate, stocks, intellectual property, etc - are the scalable wealth builders)

I went down this route for a while, but ultimately decided I would rather just do the technical work and leave the rest to others.

The human brain does not have perfect memory. It is not always logical. And more often than not it is motivated and influenced by "external" forces - health, hunger, sex drive, environmental conditions, luck, spiritual inspiration, or whatever. The perfect worker is purely logical and has perfect memory and no external influences - never gets hungry or sick or wants to be the boss themselves. The AI race is funded by folks interested in creating the perfect worker, not a human. I have to agree with the conclusions of this paper that they won't be able to make humans. (But they don't really want to.) The Vatican has also published interesting works on this idea. The question is - if you take out everything that makes it human, can you call it intelligent?

It's the old " I never used algebra in my job, but I did use things the football coach taught me" mindset.

For that matter, American Science is fighting for its life too.

Getting a sql query to optimal performance is still much more of an art than a specific science. Having the LLM generate a query that appears to work (correctness issues aside), is much more likely than the LLM generating an optimal performing query. While this may not matter for one-off queries common in analytics, when you start worrying about scalability, even the tiniest tweaks can make a huge difference.

I wonder how hard these would be to steal?

The new head of the FAA promises to make flying safe again by getting rid of minority and women pilots.

Don't worry, us taxpayers will cover the damage.

Several hotels I've stayed in recently charged an "amenities" fee. When I asked what amenities one said it was for the free wifi and use of the lounge.

Check out this guy's work: https://bleuje.com/animationsite/2023_1/

I'm another long time hackernews reader and banjo player. Back in the days when we used to work in data centers, I was pulling a long late night for some server maintenance with my banjo and I heard the night security guard come in on his routine patrol. I played a bit of dueling banjos (from behind a rack). He spun on his heels and got out of there. He didn't come back through again that night.

I use this one all the time to list the containers I currently have running:

    docker_names() { docker ps | awk '{print $NF}'; }

They have 41 services listed now.

I worked with a devops person who moved everything we had set up in other regions _to_ US-East-1 because that is where you are supposed to run stuff. According to him, the other regions were just for DR stuff.

Looks like it is a problem with lambdas.

I look forward to the AI enhanced SCOBY life forms taking over the world.

Even if another world war isn't starting, think of the data pollution from all those leaking bits!

The Project, not Intel. It is Intel Project motivating the improvements which are making it possible for AWS, the box stores, the fast food joints, Google, and others to move in too. Intel the focal point for the money from the local governments, the state government, and the federal government to help make this happen.

Food comes from farms. Every time we wipe out a few more farms, we have less land to produce food on.

New Albany is very affluent. My nearest 3 neighbors are all doctors.

Many of us are high tech remote workers who enjoy the peace and quiet and open space.

The opposite. It is those of us who live here who are paying for the new water and sewer lines and roads and street lights and law enforcement. Not the developers nor the big corporations who are getting abatements.

I have no idea, but you'll get corrected right fast if you forget to include the "The".

No, New Albany-Johnstown. Delaware is 40 - 45 minute drive.

Oh, I think they already started construction on a second AWS ohio-east availability zone in this development area. The new acquisition raises the possibility of a third one here.

I live next to where this is going in (walking distance). We already have a huge Google Data Center, One of the Ohio-east region availability zones. A Meta data center and office park, and a dbt data center under construction all within a short radius. We also have a vitamin factory being built, we have a large Amazon Fulfillment center, an R&D lab for a perfume company, and an R&D lab for plastics packaging. All of this has been built over the last 3 or 4 years.

This particular spot has electricity and water available from multiple service providers. It has one of the lowest seismic activity ratings in the US. We don't get hurricanes and very rarely get tornados. It is very flat and has great access to highways. We are within a 12 hour drive of something like 60% of the population of the US.

There are huge tax incentives to support Intel's Ohio One, which may have 6-10 fabs built within the next few years. The Intel project is paying for highway development the power and sewer extensions and more.

Spin off development is adding a slew of hotels, big box stores and other development all happening at the same time.

The local schools are rated very highly, and we are only a short drive from The Ohio State University, which is one of the largest universities in the country.

Columbus has a vibrant startup scene with several unicorns in the last couple of years.

They are taking our quiet country town on the outskirts of Columbus, of about 15K people to 100K people over the course of the next 7 years. They are taking many square miles of farmland to make this happen. They are bulldozing over everyone and anything that gets in their way. The developers are making money hand-over-fist. In particular Les Wexner's development company "The New Albany Company". Wexner is one of the key players behind all of this development.

I live on land that goes back in my wife's family to a Revolutionary war grant. I'm pretty sure we will be pushed out within the next year or two as well. The only thing that has stopped them so far is that we have most of the land set as conservation land, which is hard to undo and just pave over.

That doesn't stop the bulldozers from pushing things around next door to us and right up to our property line.

They cut down huge swaths of forest with 100, 150+ year old trees. They got permission to wipe out acres and acres of wetlands without having to worry about mitigation by donating the money to some wildlife fund instead.

We have a pair of displaced bald eagles that have been spotted flying around the area now trying to find a new home.

Yes, it has amongst the highest BTU of any wood native to the US.

Because they pick and choose the science they want to believe. Teenagers should start school later too. And Open Offices reduce productivity for a large segment of the workforce. Vacations are a good thing, not a weakness.

I guess they'll hop in their private jets and head on over.