muznar's comments

Got me surprised when I realized it is a browser game. Driving off-road in Hills gives Just Cause 3 wingsuit over fields vibes.

Feedback, Off-World was incredibly laggy.

Enforceable where? How? An agreement with an exchange of value is not always enforceable either. So, although I too hope exchange of value would add more legitimacy to an agreement, it is not always the case.

I literally had to reinstall this to a new free instance on Saturday after getting my instance deleted accidentally.

I have been tracking and exporting backups of my finances using Firefly since 2020. I am young, my finances are nothing fancy, they are mostly credit card purchases, my salary, and my rent.

I love the flexibility of personally serving this on a dedicated server. Similar to the other commenter it consumes a lot of my time too. I tried to automate by writing small custom shortcuts in Apple Shortcuts for repeated things like posting a grocery purchase. Firefly has a comprehensive API, I have widgets on my homescreen showing my credit card balances at all times etc.

I like knowing how much I spend on grocery each month, how much I spent clothing last year vs this year, the effect of having a Costco membership. It is fun and I am sure in the next 10 years it will be so much more interesting looking at data from early years.

Exactly what I felt. I got to learn about Flipper Zero a couple days ago and since then I see it online everywhere.

I always wanted to "jailbreak" the NFC cards and key fobs I get from work and apartments. This minimal device seems fun and functional.

Probably thats why if you search on eBay there are a lot of scalpers.

I wrote my graduate school thesis on Intel SGX. I was not a good student in grad school, my thesis was not some innovative thing but now it is completely useless.

Edit: There is another comment linking an article from Intel saying SGX is full steam ahead in Xeon. Yay my thesis is not useless!

Does the article mention this? Sorry I have been looking for this information and did not see it. Regardless I am a Mint Mobile user and I don’t think I gave my SSN to Mint. Hell I don’t even think they have my DOB.

I've yet to see a useful master's degree. Especially in the US and in STEM it seems like master's has just been a gate to the next thing.

I have a master's and one of the biggest reasons behind my education was the opportunity in the US after the master's. Sole benefit of it has been the OPT (~3 years work visa). I learned small things here and there during my education but as an SWE I don't use them at all and I forgot the rest of my classes. I wrote a thesis but it was nowhere near a PhD level research.

Additionally higher entry level areas such as ML and AI often require PhD so getting a master's is not getting your foot in the door.

Interesting, considering gaming, do you completely give up gaming? Or reduce it to moderate levels?

I am a non-native English speaker. “Even I” would come to my mind first and then that.

For some reason it means “I also” in Indian English and it sounds weird to non Indian dialect.

Like “Even I don’t understand this” sounds obnoxious to me because in my mind it means “Even I, an almighty being, don’t understand this, who are you to think you can understand it” but it means “I also don’t understand” in Indian English.

According to google “Even” as adverb: used to emphasize something surprising or extreme. So I assume what I think at first is what native English speakers also think.

I hear this daily and I know what it meant to mean now, I had a friend who did not know this and thought her Indian colleague was talking down to her.

I feel exactly the same. I loved JavaFX and I sometimes dream of an alternative universe where software never went to browser and always stayed on the desktop. JavaFX might have been the king.

While I get what you mean, data has the profile links too. Matching the data to real facebook profiles would be near? impossible if the source was not Facebook.

This idea assumes that one I am familiar with grep and vim or nano and two that I was using my terminal already. Which can be true or wrong. But, the discussion is not about whats the best way for searching for text in a file set. I am just talking about whats the use case in which I prefer VSCode over IntelliJ.

This is great but it has a lot of limitations. I will give it a try thanks.

Sometimes I just want to read code with highlighting. I want to open the project and search for some text in all the files. I don't want to wait for IntelliJ to take 30 seconds to open.

This is a cool project. As a user entering information in a pdf file with hundreds of input boxes stresses me. Hiding the document until after I enter all the information makes it easier to file tax.

But it would not be feasible to use this for most of the people. Tax is often vastly complex and it ignores all those parts. I don't have any capital gain, any properties or any uncommon income such as from rent but even for me this would not work because I get 1099-INT forms from bank (for 1.25$) and there is only W2 option under income.

I am also a nonresident so I need to use 1040NR another block there but I am not even talking about that.

Not exactly a big deal I just did not think it was feasible but the exclusion is reasonable.

Kind of off point but I actually do have a compulsory military service in my country of birth as well.

This makes sense you are right. Voting rights never even came to my mind.

I am a green card applicant basically waiting to become a US citizen in the next 5 - 10 years. Comments are mostly blaming the person for not renouncing it but is renouncing really necessary?

If I end up going back to the country I was born in and leave the US what benefit do I have as a US citizen? This has been a scary scenario for a long time for me and I don't think I would be able to pay tax to the US with my income in that country.

If I basically stop being a citizen of the US by moving to another country why do I need to continue paying for it?

Is there any other country that does this?

Edit: This post made me finally read about this scenario. FEIE [1] exclusion for about $105,000 as of 2020. Is a relief because I can never earn that amount with the exchange rate in my country of birth.

1. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

I wonder what it takes to take down Uber and alike. These companies keep losing money but still going on.

Is it possible that they pivot the whole business to Uber Eats only?

I've read only the The Mythical Man-Month from this list. It is amazing how the project management really did not change much. Similar ideas (sometimes same) to similar problems.

I would recommend watching this talk [0] from Kevlin Henney to anyone who likes that book.

[0]: https://youtu.be/AbgsfeGvg3E