My brother lives in Boise. It's a great city. The access to nature is fantastic and relatively unique. I can't say much about the rest of Idaho (I've heard there's not much to see outside the nature and the pockets of affluent little towns), but as someone who has only lived in liberal cities on the east coast their whole life, I can assure you Boise is very nice and pretty progressive.
Of course, the state, itself, is pretty conservative. So if you feel you'll be directly affected by things like abortion bans or poor education, then you'll want to be careful where you end up and how you navigate any of that. But if you're making decent money in a city like Boise and enjoy the amenities of the area and can get over the state-level politics (because, again, Boise is quite progressive and you can get weed easily, etc.), then you'd probably experience a nice quality of life.
One negative thing I’ve heard about Boise and some other smaller western cities is that they have awful air quality due to the geography settling all the exhausts and particles in a sort of bowl. Not sure how bad this is in practice though.
As you said, Boise is in a sort of bowl (more of a valley), in the winter, a cold air system can get trapped in the valley by warmer air in the mountain area. This can lead to some pretty bad air (not nearly as bad as wildfires, just not very fresh). To me, the bigger complaint is about not seeing the sun for days. Idaho has a lot of sun throughout the winter, so it's noticeable. It isn't all winter, just a week or so at a time a few times per winted, depending on weather.
Idaho has lots of guns but a homicide rate similar to Canada. Boise is one of the few substantially sized cities in the U.S. with a homicide rate in the same ballpark as European cities (around 1 per 100k). The combination of orderliness and freedom is how America is supposed to be.
Idaho has a ton of incredible outdoor activities. You list some negatives but my biggest negative is all of the white supremacist groups. I felt uncomfortable just stopping for gas and going into a grocery store with everyone staring at me.
People in blue areas of Oregon are like that too. (My wife is from there and people do stare.) That part of the country is just antisocial and not used to seeing brown people.
They certainly aren't politically progressive, but Boise is probably one of the cleanest, safest, nicest cities in the US. It is really quite pleasant, at least it was when I visited.
I’m not a political conservative and I personally wouldn’t move to Idaho, but Idaho has a lot of appeal. There are plenty of conservatives who used to live in California who moved to Idaho in the past decade due to a combination of California’s high housing prices and wanting to move to a more politically compatible state.
Additionally, Idaho has a lot of beautiful natural scenery.
The population of Idaho continuously increases by ~1.5% - 2.0% every year. Clearly many people exist with a very different world outlook than your own, and value different things than you do.
Compared to say, states like CA or NY, which seem more aligned with your ideology, but whose population levels are stagnating. Food for thought.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic but it's an incredibly beautiful state, full of mountains and sparsley populated with the exception of Boise. Further many people would love the things you said (I personally am not a weed fan and enjoy my human right to own guns). Boise is a beautiful place to live if you can afford it.
Probably some of those issues are not a big problem when you have a good salary (like child/healthcare). And a Silicon Valley salary in Idaho sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
NYS typically ranks 1-10 in states for education. NYC is a big portion of that ranking. Would not be so quick to call NYC education poor. There are pockets of badness but the overall picture isn't bad. I know plenty of people making 7 figures that send their kids to public school in NYC.
I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, where its completely legal, and I almost never smelled it. I smell it far more often in cities where its illegal.
An Introduction to Programming in EMacs Lisp is also good for the first few chapters even if you don’t use emacs because you are given fundamental concepts of lisp that can be applied to the understanding of other dialects. It’s also free.
Learn you a Haskell (despite Haskell being not a flavor of list, they share similar DNA ) is great at understanding functional programming with lisp like languages.
Terrible idea. The venues would taking on all the risk and could even cancel a show if there are not enough ticket purchases because its steepest discount is only the day before the show.
A person purchasing a ticket a month or two in advance prior to the show off loads the risk from the venue. They purchase the ticket thinking they can make the show in two months because the event is a long ways away. People know what they are going to do a week advanced most of the time and therefore might just forego purchasing the ticket a that point in time, because there it has instant depreciating value at the point of sale.
While agreeing with the consensus that Thiel is an absolute tool; pieces of wisdom can still be extracted from those that you do not like and a critical reader should be able to evaluate any piece of written text for new understandings.
While I do agree that the 0 -> 1 product is the Apple iPhone, the author of this piece does not acknowledge that the Airpods were the 0 -> 1 product under Tim Cook.
For typing “yes” or “y” automatically into command prompts without interacting, you could have utilized the command ‘yes’ and piped it into the process you’re running as a first attempt to solving the yes problem.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/yes.1.html
And here I was hoping OP was being sarcastic. Yet it‘s reasonable we‘re nearing an AI-fueled Homer drinking bird scenario.
Some concepts people try out using AI (for lack of a more specific word) are interesting. They will add to our collective understanding of when these tools, paired with meaningful methods can be used to effectively achieve what seemed out of reach before.
Unfortunately it comes with many rediscovering insights I thought we already had, badly. Others use tools without giving consideration to what they were looking to accomplish, and how they would know if they did.
Which could mean that code was refactored and then built on top of. Or it could just mean that Claude had to correct itself multiple times over those 459 commits.
Does correcting your mistakes from yesterday’s ChatGPT binge episode count as progress…maybe?
If it doesn't revert the corrections, maybe it is progress?
I can easily imagine constant churn in the code because it switches between five different implementations when run five times, foing back to the first one on the sixth time and repeating the process.
I gotta ask, though, why exactly is that much code needed for what CC does?
How many lines of code are they allowed to use for it, and why have we put you in charge of deciding how much code they're allowed to use? There's probably a bit more to it than just:
> How many lines of code are they allowed to use for it, and why have we put you in charge of deciding how much code they're allowed to use?
That's an awfully presumptious tone to take :-)
I'm not deciding "This is how many lines they are allowed", I'm trying to get an idea of exactly what sort of functionality that CC provides requires that sort of volume.
I mean, it's a high-level language being used, it's pulling in a lot of dependencies, etc. It literally is glue code.
Bearing in mind that it appears to be (at this point anyway) purely vibe-coded, I am wondering just how much of the code is dead weight - generated by the LLM and never removed.
Your forget to insert the part where the President asks the convicted defendant if they want to finance their pardon with Klarna or Affirm in the Presidential Library's checkout page
Considering how popular the show was at its peak, the fact that there is still more content to come and how IPs are being rehashed all the time, it would a non zero chance that they redo the entire thing someday.
what's funny is that, from what i recall hearing, the creative forces behind the tv show essentially got bored with the show and crammed a ton of stuff into season 8 and kinda just phoned it in. iirc hbo was willing for one or two more seasons after 8
that's an insane amount of money if it's accurate. wonder why they couldn't just negotiate with hbo to let them free and have someone else do their part.
Telegram users spinning up their own honeypots and blindly trusting a client/server message encryption system is never not a great idea for new grass root criminal enterprises.
I find that some folks who know just a little about security are some of the worst at it. Their ability to confidently make terrible choices and inexplicably expose themselves to more risk than some rando citizen is amazing. It's like their strong enthusiasm / personal beliefs drive them head long into inexplicable choices and now their eggs are all in one insecure basket and they put a lot of foolish things there.
In contrast a more nervous / unknowing person might think "oh man I better not talk about this anywhere, I don't know who could be listening".
It's like that classic bell curve troll meme - "oh man I better not talk about this anywhere, I don't know who could be listening" is a correct instinct, especially in a western country. Doing anything on the web, whether it be crimes and ecommerce, is absolutely not anonymous. They re-use handles or emails that have personally identifying information, they don't use clean workstations, they brag (dumbest opsec thing ever, giving away information for absolutely no reason than your big ego), they taunt law enforcement. Osama bin Laden basically vanished off the face of the planet when much of the world's most powerful intelligence and militaries were hunting him, and he wasn't hiding in a cave, but he was not connected to the internet in any way whatsoever and communicated via courier, which still got got. The only reason you are anonymous or think you are anonymous is because no one powerful or determined enough has gone looking yet. This is a fact I am convinced of, and I am much more fearful of successful obfuscation tactics and red herrings left on purpose rather than a 20 year old kid engaging in a fantasy that he's so l33t he'll never get caught.
The other thing I'd say to any aspiring criminals out there is it's usually much less stressful and still profitable to get gainful employment if you are actually a talented hacker. Most of these guys seem like script kiddies, that do not understand the ramifications of what they are doing. Some of these breaches will be felt and cleaned up for decades, all so they could get a laugh and a few shekels and their e-peens stroked by other criminals.
To me it does, in terms of data privacy and isolation if your goal is to remain undetected by anyone you wish not to be - it's the wild west, even if you believe the GDPR has been effective. Even if you do believe it's just as bad in the rest of the world, we're heading into some sort of crisis when sufficiently powerful computing becomes commercially available (if it isn't already somewhere in a lab) and all the data these countries have been hoovering up and storing for who knows how long becomes decrypted, I would much rather be living in other parts of the world in terms of my privacy if/when that day comes.
Are you under the impression things are somehow better in e.g. Saudi Arabia or Russia or China? Maybe if the qualification was "developed countries", because developing ones might not have the budget, but "the west" is just wrong.
By grass root you mean not state sponsored? Agreed it’s not a good idea using Telegram as a server, people forget bots have chat history you can replay too
The state has an incredibly strict abortion ban.
One of the worst rates of education in the Nation.
A blanket ban on Marijuana
There is no tax on fire arms, and concealed carry is legal.
Some of the worst child healthcare in the nation.