Southern Utah gives you a huge bang for buck. And you can spread a little further to add fantastic stuff in surrounding states. I'm not American but have flown from Australia several times to hike in Utah and its neighbours.
In 10-14 days, you can do an exceptional loop from Las Vegas taking in:
Bryce Canyon NP
Byway 12
Capitol Reef NP
Goblin Valley
Dead Horse Point SP
Arches NP
Canyonlands NP
Goosenecks SP
Horseshoe Bend
Antelope Canyon
Zion NP
Valley of Fire SP
That's all very accessible (besides The Maze in Canyonlands, which is superb but takes 4x4 and/or solid hiking to get into).
Then when you go back, you can do places requiring a bit more planning like Coyote Gulch (amazing), Buckskin Gulch (also amazing), and secondary spots like Natural Bridges, SR 95, etc. Hundreds of great places in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, etc, and all before you get to adding anything more remote or long distance.
Tip for San Francisco Bay Area Jazz fans: I just found out about https://bachddsoc.org/ in Half Moon Bay - an apparently legendary jazz venue that's been hosting world-class musicians since the 1950s. I went on Sunday and it was fantastic - a really quirky venue, great music.
I think it may be one of the Bay Area's best kept secrets.
Avenza (iOS/Android app) has done all the heavy lifting - you can download area maps and your position will be shown correctly on the map if you allow location services. Most of the BLM/USFS land I've been to recently produce compatible maps.
This stuff is present in a lot of hip-hop. The classic ("your favourite rapper's favourite rapper") is probably MF DOOM. Each line is so full to the brim with rhymes that it almost feels like each syllable matches with either the line before or the line after, and there are lyrics where he's rhyming against Icelandic volcanoes ("Catch a throatful from the fire vocal // With ash and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull") or scientific chemical names ("One for the money, two for the better green // 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine").
That said, while DOOM is the obvious example, I'd like to throw a personal recommendation out as well: Ivy Sole is criminally underrated as an artist, especially her lyricism. Lines like "No second coming of Lauryn I got bigger // Hills to climb, no disrespect but it's my time", or the election metaphor later on are clever, but also beautifully smooth and fit in so well with the music.
The conclusion I came to is that "intrinsic value" is fundamentally an extroverted (object-oriented) rather than introverted (subject-oriented) concept, to use Jungian terminology. In other words, the subject projects their psychological evaluation "into" the object. The path to reconciling the two usages of language is to scope the subject, e.g.:
- to human beings (subject), food (object) has "intrinsic" value
- to Americans, US dollars have "intrinsic" value
- to Redditors, karma has "intrinsic" value
etc
Interesting aside -- this is also how falling in love works (overvaluation of the object via the subject's projection of value).
Sounds like sci-fi movie "Under the Skin" with Scarlet Jojansson (based on book by Michel Faber). A beautiful girl is used to attract males to a masked alien slaughterhouse.
Is this a good thread to recommend the movie "The Man From Earth"? Awesome sci-fi about living forever, made with just a bunch of people talking in a small room.
Spotify is definitely not tuned for discovery. Thankfully, https://everynoise.com exists, which is what I use when I'm trying to find something different.
Buy Fastmail account (seriously, they should pay us money for advertising them so much).
In your DNS/registrar settings add Fastmail as a secondary MX, disable DKIM and SPF.
Customize it for your needs (necessary mailboxes/addresses/identities etc).
Switch over primary MX to FM (maybe keeping G as a secondary for a week).
Somewhat optional, but requires some effort - make G send any incoming email to some address not on your domain. You can buy some temp domain and slap it to FM too, it doesn't matter, except you would have two copies of mails for migration time.
After mails start to flow to FM reliably (not from Google) remove G. from MX records completely.
At this point you would know if something is wrong if some mail would be routed through G. instead of FM (by receiving them to that forwading address).
If everything is okay - remove your G. workplace so it has no chance to mess things up.
Before that move your mail from G to FM. If it's only thousands - even connecting Outlook (and maybe Thunderbird?) to both through IMAP and drag and drop mails from one account to another would work. If it's millions... clean up it first. You don't need news on newest sales from 2014.
PS I'm not moved out from my Gmail account but I culled things there HARD. I also moved everything worthy (notably - registrars and mail providers) to my personal domain mail addresses. If I lose it - it wouldn't be that painful anymore.
The wild political madness involved in the grand project to water the American West is detailed in Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" (1986), and is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the current situation. It was written before a climate-related megadrought was really on anyone's long-term radar, but it really explains a lot.
For example, dams are only part of the water storage picture, there's also groundwater, and the water projects often had the goal of protecting groundwater (keeping the water table closer to the surface), but then once they'd provided water via a dam or aquaduct, the farmers would just expand the areas they were farming and groundwater extraction would often increase as a side effect.
Humans really aren't that good at long-term planning, is one conclusion.
500mg magnesium, 450-900 mg ashwaganda, 400mg green tea extract (or 400mg L-theanine) about an hour before bed.
It took about two weeks of consistently taking it at the same time with the same bedtime (or as close as possible) to get the dreams going.
That being said, legit it is like living two lives, for me. You get the boring daytime life, then you can fly and turn into a horse and shoot lasers and just generally fuck shit up however you want at night. Super cool.
The only thing that bothers me about nootropics is that so much of the conversation is about productivity. What a weird thing to focus on, especially when we're talking about un-researched brain chemistry impacts.
The best combination I found was magnesium, ashwaganda, and green tea extract. It caused massively vivid, lucid dreams.
I've never had more fun sleeping, and my sleep health was never better. It had nothing to do with productivity, and was literally just so I could fly and shoot fire out of my hands in my dreams.
The parent's loyalty isn't to the company, it's to their direct reports (I assume). After you've been shielding people from the shitstorm for long enough, it can feel very difficult to fold up your umbrella and leave. Even if it's strictly better for you, it might violate your utilitarian instincts or personal ethics.
Of course, companies know this and use it as one of the many tools to suppress wages.
Heya. I own Microsoft Oauth2. We use JWTs for our access tokens. (the consumer service uses encrypted tokens, yes).
Auth0 just championed the RFC for a standard for JWTs as access tokens too, largely informed by the architect there working on our access token format.
CAEP and RISC are how we're tackling revocation. Encrypted JWTs handle PII.
Oauth is a fantastic way to scale complexity - the whole "first party" consideration here is a red herring. Do you think we want Outlook calling the Exchange backend via a different auth protocol from the one we tell 3p clients to use? That's a waste of time to go build.
We also just added support for the JWTs emitted by Google and AWS, so that you can token exchange their JWTs for an access token in our ecosystem.
Yeah, it was a marketing gimmick: I remember buying "tie sticks", which was marijuana tied to a stick.
Speaking of trained botanists, here is a wonderful episode of "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't" called "Tony Santoro's Trackside Botany/Ditchweed Tutorial".
It seems like a pure improvement if they're still preserving the microfilms. Any digital form can be copied indefinitely without degradation; microfilm can't. And a library of digital copies is enormously cheaper than a library of microfilm.
A reasonable source for film costs might be http://www.matthewwagenknecht.com/the-actual-costs-of-film/ which says 16mm (color) movie film is US$197 for a 400-foot roll. That would be enough for 12000-20000 A4-sized pages at typical microfilm linear reduction ratios of 20-25, so about 1¢-1.5¢ per page. Black-and-white or diazo film might be a little cheaper, but probably not more than a factor of 2. Microfilm stock might actually be more expensive (finer grain, lower-volume product?)—does anybody know?
By contrast, a page of ASCII text is about 4KB, or 1.2KB if gzipped (which, yes, could create risks to accessibility). A new 2TB disk costs US$45. So making a copy of the transcriptions these volunteers created costs 0.000003¢ per page. For the price of a single 400-foot roll of 16mm film, capable of holding tens of thousands of pages, you can buy five 2TB disks, which can hold 1.7 billion pages each, and put a copy of your corpus to be preserved on each one.
If we're looking at preserving scans of the pages, well, I have a PDF scan of Volume 3 of Dr. Dobb's Journal here from the Internet Archive. The pages are scanned at 2550×3300 (300 dpi) in grayscale, which is considerably better than any quality I've ever seen on library microfilm, and the 484 pages weigh in at 232MB, 500 kB per page. So a US$45 2TB disk can only hold 4 million pages scanned at this sort of archival quality, a cost of 0.001¢ per page. That's still literally a thousand times cheaper than microfilm.
Hard disks have some real problems with longevity: paper will last 1000 years if well-treated, microfilm will typically last a century (though it tends to get scratched if used, and nearly all microfilm is acetate rather than PET, so many microfilms succumb to vinegar syndrome in only a couple of decades), but disks tend to develop problem with stiction in only 10-20 years, and they wear out and fail catastrophically sooner than that if they're in use. Right now the strategy is to copy the digital data to new media every few years, and try to use archival file formats.
So we need to do much, much better. But the costs are now so low that a hobbyist can put ten thousand scanned books in their pocket; in an afternoon they can make a digitally-perfect, checksummed archival copy of a thousand books, using a couple of dollars of disk space and BitTorrent. In the microfilm age that would have been impossible for anyone but a librarian, and a nontrivial cost for the library.
You sound like you might be interested in https://dercuano.github.io/topics/archival.html, which discusses ways to improve archival, especially digital archival. I think there are some straightforward approaches to
i'm reading the book 'Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog' right now. it's about a man who befriends a wild dog and takes him home. he lets the dog live like a wild dog and gives the dog a door to his house so the dog can live as he pleases. the writer has a refreshing approach to caring for dogs. he also explores/refutes a lot of dog origin myths, while engaging with the scientific history of dog study.
> Deming is really a great thinking in the area of product development and agile methodologies.
“Agile methodologies” are basically Deming/Lean approaches reinvented with more reliance on subjectivity and just-so stories and less attention on coherent theory, measurement, statistical analysis, engineering rigor, etc.
I think we’re almost on the same page (heh). Pagination may still make sense for a variety of reasons. Even if there’s no meaningful sever optimization gain, clients may benefit from a reduced response size (mobile, expensive data plans, low power devices). That sort of thing is where ensuring consistency (for the sake of brevity I’ll repeat, at a point in time, but there are other ways to allow clients to negotiate this) at the request level over multiple requests is useful, even if the underlying data is changing much faster than the client is consuming it.
It’s worth noting here that this isn’t just applicable to paginated lists. It can also be used where you want to let the client optionally, concurrently access related resources. It can be used for client-side concurrent transactional writes. It’s a barrel of monkeys.
For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t assume their volume of traffic was necessarily the reason the data was in such flux. It could be (and I strongly suspect) that their popularity algorithm just stinks (eg weighting 100% of 1 view over 90% of 100 views). Even so, a snapshot in time is probably a much easier lift/gain for a flailing algorithm than really digging into the data and analytics to get an optimal stable sort without it:
1. Take a snapshot of the query and throw it in a dumb cache.
2. Rate limit cache key creation rather than cache hit requests.
3. Throw the caches out (and repopulate if reasonable) every [vaguely not gonna break the bank age duration].
4. Forget about any further optimization unless you reallllly need it.
5. Document the problems with the suboptimal solution, have a retro so your junior devs can develop better instincts, get them onto the next user story.
6. Put a “should we improve this” on the backlog of backlogs.
The portrait modes on these are getting really good. The blur is pretty convincing looking. The only open-source software I know that does similar stuff is body-pix which does matting, but I don't think it generates a smooth depth map like this thing. It would be cool because then you can do a clever background blur for your Zoom backgrounds with v4l2-loopback webcam.
By the way, I decided to also quick summarize the usual HN threads that have the trigger word iPhone in it:
- No headphone jack
--- Actually this is good because ecosystem built for it
----- Don't think ecosystem is good. Audio drops out
------- Doesn't happen to me. Maybe bad device.
----- Don't want to be locked in. Want to use own device.
------- That's not Apple philosophy. Don't know why surprised.
--------- I have right to my device
----------- cf. Right to Repair laws
------- Can use own device with dongle.
--------- Don't want dongle. Have to get dongle for everything. Annoying.
----------- Only need one dongle.
------------- If only audio, but now can't charge.
----------- Use dongle purse.
--- Apple quality have drop continuous. Last good Macbook was 2012.
----- Yes. Keyboard is useless now. Have fail. Recalled.
------- I have no problem with keyboard.
--------- Lucky.
------- Also touchpad have fail. Think because Foxconn.
------- Yes. Butterfly? More like butterfly effect. Press key, hurricane form on screen.
----- Yes. Yes. All Tim Cook. Bean Counter.
----- Yes. Many root security violation these days.
------- All programmers who make security violate must be fired.
--------- Need union so not fired if manager make security violation.
----------- Don't understand why no union.
------------- Because Apple and Google have collude to not poach. See case.
------- Yes. Security violation is evidence of lack of certification in industry.
--------- Also UIKit no longer correctly propagate event.
--- Phone too big anyway. No one make any small phone anymore.
----- See here, small phone.
------- Too old. Want new small phone. Had iPhone 8. Pinnacle of small beauty.
------- That's Android. No support more than 2 months.
--------- Actually, support 4 months.
----------- Doesn't matter. iPhone support 24 centuries and still going. Queen have original.
--------- Yes, and battery on Android small.
--- Will buy this phone anyway. Support small phone.
----- No. This phone is also big. No one care about small hand.
------- Realistically, phone with no SSH shell dumb. I use N900 on Maemo.
--- Who care? This press release. Just advertisement.
----- Can dang remove clickbait. What is one-eye anyway? Meaningless. Phone no have eye.
--- Also, phone not available in Bielefeld.
--- Phone only have 128 GB? Not enough. Need 129 GB.
----- 64 GB enough for everyone.
------- "640 KB enough for everyone" - Bill Fence, 1923
JWTs and sessions are not in any way orthogonal in a system as a whole. We use JWTs primarily for scalable backends - if a session is setup or not in the front end is not a concern for the API backend services. In a microservice environment there could be many of these - that’s the whole point after all. And with JWTs being sent to these they can simply verify the integrity of the caller without asking a central authority. Coupled with OAuth2 and OIDC as protocols for delegation/federation and you have a system that scales extremely well. Of course, it might not be the first concern that needs to be addressed in a small startup but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a place.
Credential attenuation in Macaroons is cryptographic; it's in how the tokens are constructed. I don't see the opportunity for a DoS (that didn't exist without attenuation already).
Macaroons are a really lovely, tight, purpose-built design that happens to capture a lot of things you want out of an API token, including some things that JWTs don't express naturally despite their kitchen-sink design.
JWT is more popular because there are libraries for it in every language, and people don't think of tokens as a cryptographic design (or nobody would be using JWT!), they think of them as a library ecosystem. JWT is definitely the stronger library ecosystem!
This is also why I probably wouldn't ever bother recommending PASETO. If you're sophisticated enough to evaluate token formats based on their intrinsic design, then you should implement Macaroons if possible (it's almost always possible). If you're not, then you're going to use JWT.
I worked at a place which had local server in-memory cache talking to local Redis cache talking to shared Redis cache talking to MySQL session tables and the traffic to the actual session tables was still heavy enough that they had to sit on their own DB cluster. Switching to signed session cookies encoding a few bits of information (or JWTs if you prefer a mad complicated outsourcing) would have been a huge win on that point.
When I had a corporate job, they were overly controlling about schedules and how much you could earn in a way that was completely unnecessary and that I felt came back to bite them. People who wanted more money would take on part time jobs for evenings and weekends. Then, when management tried to put a gun to our head and insist we work overtime, these people had prior commitments and couldn't be there. Bonus points for the whole atmosphere of fear with the entire approach of trying to pressure people to work overtime on demand, at the convenience of the company.
None of this was really necessary. Every single year, they watched the backlog of work gradually climb over the course of the summer. Then, around September, they began insisting on overtime at psychological gun point to try to clear the backlog. It would have been entirely possible to allow people who met certain quality standards to work some overtime during the summer and cap how much could be worked. People could have competed for overtime slots instead of feeling forced into it. It would have worked vastly better for everyone.
Of course, an elegant solution like that takes a bit more planning on the end of management. Simply demanding extra hours at a certain point is a simpler, brute force method. But, I felt it had a lot of downside to it and was mostly avoidable for the company in question.
It makes me wonder how many companies basically create drama of this sort. Because this crisis was entirely created by management, IMO. There was zero reason they had to wait until it hit a certain volume and then force overtime on us.
In 10-14 days, you can do an exceptional loop from Las Vegas taking in:
That's all very accessible (besides The Maze in Canyonlands, which is superb but takes 4x4 and/or solid hiking to get into).Then when you go back, you can do places requiring a bit more planning like Coyote Gulch (amazing), Buckskin Gulch (also amazing), and secondary spots like Natural Bridges, SR 95, etc. Hundreds of great places in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, etc, and all before you get to adding anything more remote or long distance.