cpascal's comments

I'm glad that there is much more awareness and consideration around cost.

When I was in high school and applying to colleges around 2011, the advice given to us was to not take cost too seriously. Many authority figures (like high school counselors) told my peers and I to, "follow your heart" or "go where you think you'll fit in best".

On top of that, student loans and interest rates where not explained to us very well. Very few of us understood that borrowing 160k-200k to go to an out-of-state/private school could very well mean you were signing up for a lifelong debt.

Looking back, its insane we could make such a life altering/hindering decision with so little oversight from the "adults".

Yes, the live-stream showed a MacBook Pro connected to many monitors

It seems the era of few ports, gimmicky keyboards, and thinness over function in MacBooks is over.

> DNS: Run trick DNS servers that return specific server addresses based on IP geolocation. Downside: the Internet is moving away from geolocatable DNS source addresses. Upside: you can deploy it anywhere without help.

Can anyone expand on how/why "the Internet is moving away from geolocatable DNS source addresses"?

I'm interested what would cause underground cables to break more often. Is it people not "calling before you dig" and accidentally severing them or is it something else?

Depending on where you placed that drop in Colorado it also could've ended up in the Pacific. The continental divide is in Colorado and all water west of the divide will eventually drain into the Pacific and all water east will drain to the Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Divide_of_the_Amer...

It's the "frunk".

Here's a picture: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dTXcXTNslbGIJam0Wy9BRhk_I80=...

This is unrelated to the actual content of Thiel's remarks, and perhaps I'm just oblivious/ignorant.

Why would anyone want to associate themselves with anything to do with Nixon? It's surprising prominent figures would want any association to Nixon and his disgraced legacy. I think overall its peculiar how much influence and esteem Nixon managed to retain after his resignation.

I have a NUC10 that experiences very similar Bluetooth issues, but it has the AX201. I wonder if this isn’t just contained to the AX200.

Pascal was the first language where programming clicked for me. Pascal also happens to be my given last name, which makes it just a bit more special to me.

Funnily enough I learned Pascal using Turbo Pascal which makes me sound older than I am, because I learned Pascal around 2010 and my high school's CS department was just way behind the times. By that point we were using a nearly 20 year-old 16 bit compiler in Windows XP.

This reminds me of a metaphor made by Burton G. Malkiel in “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”. He attempts to give a possible explanation to why there are star traders or funds that greatly outperform the market. It’s something I like to remind myself of from time-to-time.

The metaphor was a coin flipping tournament. You have a bracket of players who flip a coin against an opponent. In each matchup, the player that flips a heads advances to the next round to face another opponent who won a parallel matchup in the previous round. Suppose this is a 100 round tournament, that would mean the eventual winner would have had to flip a heads 100 times to win. You might look at this coin flipper and think they are an extraordinary coin flipper. That they have some innate ability to flip a coin and make sure it lands with the head sides up. In reality, it was just random chance that they flipped the coin correctly, they do not posses any more coin flipping talent than anyone else. They just got really lucky. You can potentially look at a successful hedge fund or trader through this same lens. They have survived the proverbial coin flipping tournament and random chance was on their side.

Can Citadel exercise any sort of discretion on what order-flow they'll fill? Can they legally tell Robinhood that they will no longer fill orders for GME?

You just run the previous version of the production stack in your "dogfood/operations" stack. Once you've fully rolled out production and have vetted it, you can upgrade the other one to match production.

At the risk of starting a language flame-war: if I were starting a new company or effort, my default choice would be .NET Core.

Performance is generally great and if you need to, there are lots of features in the language to allow you to further squeeze performance. C# is easy to pick up and has best-of-breed IDE support- you will get productive quickly. Also, you have an extremely large standard library at your disposal that is supported and dogfooded by Microsoft. Which is great because generally you do not need to install third party packages, but if you do NuGet is really easy to use.

Edit: Forgot to mention the stellar documentation provided by Microsoft.

I'm taking my second crack at learning Rust and I have to say I've made a lot more progress this second attempt. It could be just giving things time to stew in my head, but I really think it's because I'm using rust-analyzer with vscode and before I was using RLS. Rust-analyzer is a much richer experience and its informative error messages and suggestions lessens the learning-curve drastically.

Interesting. This combined with the H2+ could make a nice wireguard VPN gateway for a home network.

The H2+ is a quad-core 2.3 GHz intel board. Anyone know if that would be enough juice to handle a gigabit wireguard link?

The title of this submission is hyperbolic.

Merkel did not "blast" Twitter's decision. According to the article, her spokesperson said Merkel "considers it problematic that the president’s accounts have been permanently suspended".

Seconding this. Barkeeper’s friend is like magic on aluminum. If you use it regularly you can keep your aluminum pots and pans looking like they’re factory new.

The author of the Twitter thread links to another thread towards the end that notes the risk of a classified information breach isn't too high.

https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1347226499930230785

Obviously that doesn't change the fact that the entire building should be considered compromised and scrubbed.

A online bank with IMO great savings and money management features. They also had a fairly competitive high-yield interest rate on their savings accounts.