jbronn · HackerTrans

5 лет назадdiscuss

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?

jbronn

6 лет назадdiscuss

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.

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8 лет назадdiscuss

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.

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8 лет назадdiscuss

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

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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.

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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-...

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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%.

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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.

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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

Don't be so glib about the necessity of unions -- the Fair Labor Standards Act was written with blood.

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

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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...

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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

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8 лет назадdiscuss

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

jbronn

8 лет назадdiscuss

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

jbronn

9 лет назадdiscuss

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.

jbronn

9 лет назадdiscuss

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.

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9 лет назадdiscuss

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.

jbronn

9 лет назадdiscuss

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

jbronn

9 лет назадdiscuss

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

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9 лет назадdiscuss

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

jbronn

9 лет назадdiscuss

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.

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