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Like a slavery index?

What if you spent 10 years building a business abroad?

I remember early in my career being send by my employer on 'contract' assignments to other companies for 3 or 6 months. When I left that company and went interviewing, everyone was extremely concerned that I had been an independent contractor, some even saying they never employed such people. As though, once you've broken the chains, you're no longer employable.


Only passingly related, some fun rust stack-allocation insanity by my 17yo son:

https://ogghostjelly.github.io/slog/alloca.html


This is great. I'm learning Rust myself and your son's article contributed to my knowledge.

I'm also very impressed by part 2. I have my own lisp but I haven't managed to implement a compiler or code generation yet. Really enjoyed reading about the hashmap too. The textbook solution to collisions is probing and comparison. It never occurred to me that I could just resize the underlying array until the collisions disappear altogether.


It's perhaps the least-efficient method of dealing with collisions, in keeping with the rest of his project, lol, but less code.

He researched different methods. My favourite for elegance is to recursively hash the hash n times.


17? You should be very proud. This is good work for anyone, but especially at his age!

Very impressive for a 17yo!

Maybe the extra sex is the main benefit?

Monkey paw wish - you will live longer, but you will be constantly erect.


Can't rule out exercise.

I used to hear that sexually active couples lived longer, so there's that.

woah 4 years is considered obsolete?

My kids still using thinkpad 430 from 2013


> woah 4 years is considered obsolete?

No, this device was only discontinued this year, you can still buy accessories and it still receives software updates.

It just turns out their software has flaws that break the update process after a few years of sitting unused. Not great, but luckily there are workarounds, as this article walks you through.


LOL - agreed. I was a bit shocked by the title being the type that gets bonded with my devices. I still use my Windows laptop from 2017 and my M1 Macbook Pro from 2021 daily. Additionally, my Kindles are from 2010.


Where is is obsolete? It's still receiving software updates and likely to for at least 3-4 years. Even after that it's not going to magically brick itself


Next up, "reviving my paper notes from 40 years ago". Oh wait, there's nothing that I need to do, they still all work fine.


idk about that, there was water damage from that year everything flooded, and theyre scattered across 50-100 boxes


Luckily electronics is completely unaffected by water.


The big problem there is they keep wanting to float up to the surface.

~ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-30/nt-world-record-darwi...

I dream of a day when you don't have to fill the tyres of your EV with water just to cross the harbour.


Trump literally just paid money (taxpayer money) for nothing


I don’t understand what pot of money this is coming out of. Has Congress authorized taxpayer money be used for paying energy companies to halt projects?


Republicans in congress have decided that Trump should not be stopped. Ever.


Trump is exempt from congressional authorisation


Texae surely


"making solar energy economical"

judging by the amount being installed, it already is.


The FIFA-planned game schedule is also surprising. Argentina have not had to face a single 'big' contender through the tournament, until now.


It's not at all surprising: the seeded the winners and the three highest ranked teams to make it impossible for them to meet until this stage if they won their group in the group stage, with the group stage having its own seeding system to make it very winnable for them.

They also missed a potentially tricky first knockout round tie against local rivals Uruguay because Uruguay underperformed and Cape Verde unexpectedly overperformed.


The top 4 countries got seeded so they avoid each other.


We've got used to 'reasonable' society and politics in the last few centuries, but check out politics in developing nations or dictatorships, or woke, or Trump or places like pageantry. All fake news and gossip and performance, and AI just makes this potentially much much worse.

It already has a name in academia I think, post-truth, or post-reality or whatever, I think it all started with the French post-modernism thing, then critical theory, etc.

But I'm not sure it's a post- 'advance' at all, but more like a rejection of the enlightenment and a return to the tribal village.


post- means after, not better


By 'advance' I meant 'a further exploration', moving on to something new, not necessarily better.

But it seems like we're just going back to a previous time.


lol, this completely misses the point of analogue watches or clocks.

It should be called 'keypad data entry game' instead.

The point of an analogue clock is that it gives you an instant sense of the rough time at a glance. I can immediately see it's 'about half past' or 'only a few minutes left until the meeting at 11' or whatever.


That works great until somebody sees your watch and asks you for the exact time!


Then just show them the watch, or look at your phone or whatever.

How often do you need the exact time, and don't have a means to get it, like in tv broadcasting etc?


> or look at your phone or whatever

> have a means to get it ... in tv broadcasting etc

I think you're missing the point of wearing an analog watch, which is fine, but still missing the point nonetheless. :)

As an avid watch wearer, all analog, I built the game so I could improve my skills, because under pressure when somebody asks "what time is it?", I want to be able to tell them exactly, because I should be able to read it! I think it's good to want to improve your skills, whatever that may be. You shouldn't bar people from that because you disagree.


I don't disagree you should improve your skills. but I don't think your app is optimized for that.

But, ok you're the gamemaker, then well done building something, and I hope people enjoy it.

For me, an analogue watch is good for giving you an extremely glance-able approximate time. And potentially as exquisite mechanical jewellery. If you need to know the really exact time to the second and want to be able to tell it quickly, you might be better with a digital watch, especially vs a mechanical watch where a mickey-mouse digital is more accurate than even a COSC mechanical.

But my initial point is that your game is not so much about recognizing the time, even the exact time, but about entering it into the keypad.

Maybe add a multiple-choice mode - show the analogue clocks, pick the digital match.


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