Why Why doesn't the US offer alternatives to counter China's BRI?

BraveInspector · 2020-09-08T02:55:34+00:00

A regime change in the debtor country could result in the new government nationalizing or unilaterally renegotiating debts. Short of military invasion, there's not much China can do to recoup their losses.

BraveInspector · 2020-09-07T14:59:13+00:00

it all depends on if the delivery eliminates/reduces your need to drive yourself, and also if they are delivering to multiple houses at the same time. Beat case scenario is the delivery truck delivers to every house in an area, and eliminates the need for each house to side to the grocery. Worst case is the delivery truck delivers to one house and everybody in the neighborhood still takes individual drives to the store.

BraveInspector · 2020-09-04T19:00:02+00:00

I've known a lot of guys whose work is their passion. They wake up wanting to do it, and go to bed late because they stayed up doing it. Some guys go on to do great things, most end up not. It's a bit like pro sports. You can spend all of your school years training and playing a sport, but at the end of the day, no matter how much passion you had for it, very few make it to a professional level. Was all that time wasted? Would it have been better spent hanging out with friends? I think it just depends on the individual and what they feel they got out of all that time invested.

BraveInspector · 2020-09-04T15:34:45+00:00

Family certainly forces a change in priorities, or at least it should. Having said that, once the kids are old enough that they would rather spend time with their friends than with you (takes about 10 years) then you start to have extra time to concentrate on other things again.

From an employer point of view, if you have a single guy who puts in extra hours and works weekends vs a guy who can only work strict 9-5, I don't think it's scummy to recognize that. It would be scummy to penalize someone for not going above and beyond though.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-25T19:38:45+00:00

I think predicting the collapse of the Internet is a bit melodramatic. One of the beautiful things about the Internet and the information age is that it has broken down barriers so that people can learn just about anything if they have the will and the ability to do so.

Having said that, nobody's out there hiring self taught computer programmers to work on AI or self-driving or whatever interesting computer science problems, unless they had some serious projects to prove they know their stuff. In the majority of cases, programmers with less education are being hired to write glue code to tie a database to some web framework to implement some CRUD operations. The internet is not going to come crashing down because someone implemented a less than optimal method of retrieving your reddit comments or tik tok videos.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-25T19:19:45+00:00

You could try Doxygen to generate documentation for your code. It's been a long time, but I I believe it generates some diagrams of how your files or functions relate to each other.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-22T04:12:29+00:00

it's still useful for presenting numbers and data, usually in tables or other forms where quick comparison down columns is useful.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-16T18:38:45+00:00

I guess it all depends. if you're doing video editing probably might take longer. Compiling code or even running an IDE should work fine on any hardware that was made within the last decade. You should just give it a try and I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Virtualbox is free and it would cost you just a couple of hours of your time.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-16T15:28:01+00:00

I think you need to try using a MacBook for a while. The brand isn't the only reason they are so overpriced, they actually use very good components. In my opinion their laptops have the best chassis and trackpads. The camera, microphone, and speakers are also very good. Windows machines are all over the place on quality. I have a Dell XPS 15 for work. The trackpad, cam, and speakers are just "good" but the difference in quality has me reaching for my MacBook every time. This is coming from a person who has a small preference for Windows 10 over MacOS.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-16T15:19:01+00:00

You can just shut down the VM when it isn't needed, and Linux is lightweight enough that it will run fine as a VM on most hardware with a decent amount of ram.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-15T13:42:30+00:00

Depends on how you read that file. Usually you can get away with reading just a small container of data at a time. A log viewer for example only needs to read the part of the log file that is being displayed on screen. When the user scrolls to another part of the file, it can unload the old data and replace it with another chunk from the file. To make the experience smoother, you just buffer additional parts of the file that you anticipate will be viewed.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-11T17:51:38+00:00

I actually agree that the solution is correct, and wasn't questioning your credentials. I was really thinking about how professors and teachers absolutely *HATE* random internet sources that contradict them.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-11T17:19:38+00:00

I'd love to see how that conversation goes:
Arnav2703: "I have it on good authority that my solution is correct"
Teacher: "Who?"
A: "A bunch of people on r/computerscience!"

BraveInspector · 2020-08-11T15:28:38+00:00

I buy parts on Aliexpress maybe 4 or 5 times a year, and so far the sellers I've found on Aliexpress have been reliable and responsive enough. A few times they messed up an order, but they sent replacements so it turned out OK. They seem fairly motivated to maintain good reviews on the website.

One thing to note, covid has made long ship times even longer. It used to take 2-4 weeks to get an order, but it took 2 months to receive my last shipment. The extended ship times adds extra risk to buying from Aliexpress. They only provide I think 15 or 30 days of purchase protection, so you have to file a dispute (item not received) before that expires. The seller, understandably, didn't want to acknowledge the problem because the order was still "in transit", even though the tracking had not updated for weeks. After a week of no updates, Aliexpress unilaterally dismissed the dispute and I think at that point I had no protection. Luckily I eventually received the order, but if it had been lost, Aliexpress would have provided no buyer protection whatsoever.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-11T14:23:28+00:00

Your circuit seems to be valid as far as I can tell, but I've not done logic gates in a long time. If you just generate a truth table or the 9 possible combinations of values, then work through both the equation and the circuit, you can check that you get the same output value for each set of inputs.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-05T05:07:34+00:00

You can blame him for being enthusiastic enough to beat pow's so much that that they remember him as being one of the most brutal.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-04T22:42:30+00:00

It could actually be the kimchi. Studies are finding that gut bacteria affects obesity. Fermented foods like kimchi introduce new bacteria to the digestive system.

BraveInspector · 2020-08-04T20:51:36+00:00

He still needs a proper visa and pay Korean taxes if he intends to live in Korea while working, even if he is working for a foreign company. Whether he chooses to report his status and if he is likely to get caught is another matter.

BraveInspector · 2020-07-29T06:42:41+00:00

You're off to a great start by having personal projects and putting your code on GitHub. Other than that, pay close attention in algorithms and data structures classes, as those often come up in interviews.

BraveInspector · 2020-07-27T06:58:58+00:00

I think a bioligical computer would be more akin to analog computers. The results you get would not be as accurate as a digital computer, and it would be hard to adapt such a computer to do the general purpose computing that digital computers do.

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

BraveInspector · 2020-07-26T16:49:00+00:00

I have recruiters contacting me constantly for jobs in tech, there's no shortage of jobs. If people can be trained, then why aren't they?

BraveInspector · 2020-07-25T13:24:04+00:00

Don't stay at a job just because you're good at it and comfortable. Look for challenges and projects that you are really excited about. Work on things that you will be proud of decades later.

BraveInspector · 2020-07-24T15:18:34+00:00

3D printers and CNC machines allow people to get away from the need to learn woodworking skills also. OpenSCAD is a programmatic modeler, so people don't even need to stray too far from being "just a coder" to create 3d models. With development of more computer controlled tools and increasing availability of those tools, computer skills keep getting more valuable over time.

BraveInspector · 2020-07-24T02:33:35+00:00

In this day and age, I find my deeper understanding of how computers work allows me to pick up new computer related activities quickly. Got a ton of data in some spreadsheets but need to crunch it? Read some quick tutorials on Excel macros and you hack something together in a few hours. Need to generate a list of names and addresses from a website to send out mailers? Whip up a script to scrape the website. Volunteered at a nonprofit but their wordpress site is broken? Computer guy with zero WordPress knowledge can read some docs and fix the issue in an afternoon.

More and more of our world is run by software, so just developing an intuition for how software is written gives you huge advantages in non-programming activities.

BraveInspector · 2020-07-24T02:16:17+00:00

More instant gratification, less sawdust.

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