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Howdy Tina.
I'll send a resume your way. I've got 10+ years experience doing devops/sysad.
Just finished performing a migration of a large Rails monolith from a legacy EC2 based setup to an ECS based setup.
I put in an application a a week or two back but haven't heard from you folks.
Do you typically respond to candidates with an "interested or not interested" email?
Thought this was a really interesting example of DIY spirit and might be well liked here. Couldn't fit everything into the title but it's also using an atypical key layout (Wiki-Hayden)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki%E2%80%93Hayden_note_layo...
I know HN tends to run a bit more technical and this article is more for the business minded/technically challenged but I'd love to hear any thoughts from my peers on this.
1. Did I oversimplify the concepts too much?
2. Could I improve the language or clarity in anyway?
3. Should I put more pictures with funny captions?
Whatever you have to say, I'd love to hear it!
Today? The laptop
The laptop is really just a tool to host different virtual instruments.
The "instrument" most easily associated with the past 15-20 years of electronic/pop music making have been Wave Table synthesizers like NI Massive and Serum.
Remember Skrillex? Those screeching sounds and basses are using Wavetable synthesis (from NI Massive in particular).
A big part of the reason it's harder to associate a particular instrument with newer electronic genres is because it's FAR easier (and more common) now to program your own patches (essentially a preset instrument) for your songs.
The DX-80 mentioned in the next section was VERY difficult to create patches for (even for it's time) so when you hear it in a song, it's almost always the included stock patches.
The 80's was the electric keyboard and synths, kinda.
You'd associate a few types of instruments (and synthesis types) with the 80s but the reigning one was FM Synthesis, in particular the Yamaha DX-80.
Give a listen to some stick DX-80 patches and you'll immediately go "Yep, that's the 80's"
Can't reply directly to SirSourdough because of thread limits.
I don't think this really address the point though. Alcohol is sold with known purity, quality, and quantity. You aren't going to overdose due to an impurity.
Their argument was never that it would stop everything, only that it would help (and I agree).
How many people have you met that have gone blind from drinking "bad" alcohol? During the prohibition era, this was an actual issue people faced.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/prohibit...
A major decline in the risk per use massively outweighed by a huge increase in use over time due to legalization.
There is evidence that decriminalization when paired with other policies can potentially cause decreases in usage as well as a decrease in negative outcomes such as HIV transmission rates and drug deaths.
https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portuga....
This was relevant to the parent post as well as your own comment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210
A UK study led by a panel of experts analyzed a number of recreational drugs and evaluated them across 16 different criteria.
Alcohol was one of the most dangerous drugs and was unique in that it was the only drug that posed more risk to society than it did for the actual user.
This is of course, not definitive proof of the parents assertions but the findings do lend evidence to it.
That's likely less to do with alcohol and more to do with the fact that it's pretty easy to "make" other psychoactive substances using it.
In particular, you can spin robitussin rapidly to separate the dextromethorphan.
Nifty!
I just placed in a beta request.
A business partner and I heavily prefer to utilize markdown for note taking (we generally use Typora) but this poses problems when we are trying to colaborate on a document together.
Does Obsidian support real time collaborative editing?
Hey everyone! I wrote this up and felt it might be of interest to both the technical peeps here (Scroll down midway for some EBS & Instance Store benchmarks) as well as the less technical peeps (Stuff near the top for you folks).
Would love to hear any thoughts about the article, my benchmarking methodology, or anything else really!
Happy to answer any questions you might have as well :)
Currently on mobile so won't be able to post much.
To focus on one particular subset of this, recent research seems to indicate pretty conclusively that there is greater variability of (certain aspects of) intelligence among men than among women.
The reasons for this are poorly understood.
Is it genetic differences? Are boys and girls encouraged to investigate different things? Is it a limitation of our testing methods?
We aren't entirely sure yet so it's hard for people on either side to claim any complete understanding or provide a definitive answer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis
While it's difficult, I feel all sides should be willing to research and discuss these differences without resulting to pearl clutching.
You're in a perfectly soundproof room with one other person.
Whatever you talk about with this person can't be heard by anyone outside the room.
This room can only help guarantee that no one outside can hear you, not that the person you're talking to is trustworthy.
If the other person is a thief and you tell them where your valuables are, they could be stolen.
If the other person is trustworthy, you can be sure no one else will hear what you tell them and your secrets are safe.
The soundproof room is HTTPS. The other person is a server.
You could tell someone something like this and provide a lay person with a basic understanding of many fundamental building blocks of the web rather quickly (DNS can be explained as a phone book for example).
Going to guess you're a programmer?
If you're like many others, you very likely teach yourself things often by investigating and experimentation :)
No reason you can't do that here.
These are (relatively) safe low voltage parts, a bit of googling and you'd be on your way :).
Insufficient knowledge of tax law leading to an incorrect assignment of value to each position.
Insufficient knowledge of the wear and tear on ones car.
Desire to "work for themselves" (despite the fact it really isn't).
TL;DR actors in an economic system are often not fully informed.
A major idea behind the software is that you can automatically tip websites or creators that you frequently consume.
These amounts are pretty small.
If PayPal or credit card were used (without prefunding things) you'd have most of that money eaten up by transaction costs.
As others have mentioned, this does seem to be a "real" use for crypto currency to achieve microtransactions.
That's the way it's always been. That's the way it has to be.
My sarcasm detector may be off so if it was, please forgive me.
Why must it continue to be that way?
It's possible we must expect and accept that children from broken, impoverished, or abusive homes will just be, well, screwed in comparison to their better off peers.
Can't we instead look for a better way?
- Improve the funding and education of our public schools (particularly by the decoupling of property taxes being the primary source of school funding).
- Take a hard look at our current minimum wage and find a way to make it easier for hard working people to make ends meet, allowing them more time to nurture and teach their children.
Giving up on hard luck children is by extension giving up on our societies future. To me at least, thats simply untenable.
How was the latency?
I'd like to achieve sub 10ms latency and I feel running in a VM would make that very difficult?
Did USB passthrough for MIDI devices work well?
Producer here as well. I currently dual boot.
I've considered bitwig for Linux production but a big issue is you end up losing a lot of VSTs that aren't native to Linux (Serum and Massive, both wavetable synths, are a good example).
Your game is great!
You should definitely give CCDA a look if for no other reason than to oggle at the sheer breadth of the project.
Few notes about CDDA:
CDDA also shares the classless aspect with Cogmind.
All items (including your own limbs) are destroyable.
While it doesn't offer the ability to fully swap body parts (that'd be a great feature suggestion. Hmmm..) it does offer mutations and bionics.
It offers a solid mixture of both melee and ranged combat along with vehicular combat.
All that being said Cogmind was a definite standout title. 10/10 on the UI/UX.
I've played both (even contributed to the CDDA project).
Both games:
- Are what I'd consider traditional roguelikes
- are hella fun and 150% worth playing. 10/10, would suggest to a friend.
CDDA:
- has significantly more to do, more items, and more overall depth
- Has better "role playability"
- Is incredibly open ended.
- is under heavy development (just had a HUGE update drop. Be sure to check it out!)
- is fully open source
- can be somewhat confusing for a newcomer (though less than something like Nethack)
- Performance can sometimes be rather meh due to the complexity of the models, particularly in locations with many mobs.
- many systems are not yet fully fleshed out (looking at you NPCs) though many issues have been resolved in the latest release and the experimentals.
Cogmind:
- Has arguably some of the best UI/UX you'll find in a rogue like. Take a look at Caves of Qud and TOME as other great examples of proper UI/UX in rogue likes.
- provides a much better tutorial
- has a more fully fleshed out story
- offers a more guided and less open ended experience
- is more "complete".
- excellent performance
- is not open source (to my knowledge)
- is definitely worth the purchase price if you're a rogue like fan.
I hope you see the irony in this.
Not the OP.
Some very amazing games that are largely one man projects
On steam:
Kenshi: amazing game and about to hit 1.0
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/30/kenshis-eight-year-deve...
Off steam:
Dwarf Fortress
Those are just two that immediately come to mind
After wanting an OP-1 for years I finally got ahold of an OP-1 used for a decent price.
It’s an absolutely amazing device but I probably wouldn’t suggest it so someone as a first synth purchase.
Prior to buying it I got a Novation Circuit and then a Digitakt.
The Circuit is a far less expensive device (can be had for 200-300) and is very flexible.
It fits into a similar realm as an OP-1 (jambox)
Hey everyone. This is a follow up on my past article where I outline why doing this is often a bad idea™.
https://roberttisdale.com/you-shouldnt-host-wordpress-on-aws...
I wrote this article for the cases where it's been decided that AWS is actually the best option.
Would love to hear from anyone who has been working with Wordpress on AWS (Or other cloud providers) and the challenges you've faced.
Link?
How many players are supported at a time?
I frequently get together with friends and chill on some Discord’s and Slack Channels for gaming.
I can probably scrounge a few people together to give it a go.
Also: shoutout to FOSS game dev. I help out on Cataclysm:DDA, which is also rather large in scope
It's about what each of these statistics measure.
As another user mentioned, the U3 is a very narrow definition that is largely useful for measuring the cost of unemployment benefits, it does not give a true idea of the real unemployment rate.
This article goes into the differences and their relevance
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080415/true-...
The U-3 unemployment rate is a comparatively narrow technical measure that leaves out a whole swath of out-of-work people who are willing and able to take a job but who don't fit the narrow BLS definition of "unemployed." For example, a stonemason who wants to work but who has become discouraged by a lack of opportunity in the midst of a deep economic recession would not be included in U-3 unemployment. A marketing executive who is laid off at age 57 and stops scheduling new job interviews due to her experience of age discrimination would not be included in U-3 unemployment. A person who only works one six-hour shift per week because no full-time jobs are available in his area would not be included in U-3 unemployment.
No, U-3 is not misleading.
The U-3 is exactly what it's defined as. In that sense, it isn't misleading.
It is misleading in the sense that it does not capture what unemployment actually is as it's a very narrow definition of unemployment.
Given that EU wages have increased much more than US wages we can conclude that unemployment has very little to do with wage increases.
We can conclude from this that it may not be the only factor affecting wages, though I never made that claim to begin with.
These articles are almost always based off the wonderfully misleading U-3 statistic instead of the U-6.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080415/true-...
The U-6 unemployment rate is nearly double that of the U-3 and is currently at 7.4 percent
https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate
There haven't been any major gains to wages since the 80's except for high wage workers, who have seen a nearly 35% increase.
Page 4 for table.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45090.pdf
If the unemployment rate is so low why have we seen so little gain to our wages in the past 40 years?
The issues are greater than just faffing about with the unemployment rate but learning to spot this sort of trickery and call it out is important.
Here is a great article on Forbes that goes into some of the reasons why this is the case.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/07/18/wh...
He says he tried to work within the system and was ignored, but he's provided 0 evidence to back it up.
Thanks to another one of the cornerstones of our democracy, Freedom of the Press, here is an article to refute your point.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mb9mza/exclusive-snowden...
Five days later, another email was sent — this one addressed to NSA director Mike Rogers and copied to 31 other people and one listserv. In it, a senior NSA official apologized to Rogers for not providing him and others with all the details about Snowden’s communications with NSA officials regarding his concerns over surveillance.
The trove of more than 800 pages [see the pdf at the end of this story], along with several interviews conducted by VICE News, offer unprecedented insight into the NSA during this crisis within the agency. And they call into question aspects of the U.S. government’s long-running narrative about Snowden’s time at the NSA.
In short, it would seem that there is pretty ample evidence that some significant conversations took place between Snowden and the NSA.
You can even view the FOIA requests that revealed this information at the end of the above article.