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Post by jaggederest »

foogazi wrote: post #458
jaggederest wrote: post #151

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Same but about 18 months out from purchase :) Want to have enough land to do some farming and forestry and hobbies that take up space, maybe be self-sufficient so far as that is possible. With Starlink being a thing, can work remotely in a truly remote location.

How much land do you need ?

It really depends, I'm shooting for >10 acres at the moment, but I'd prefer more like 40 with an even mix of timber and agricultural. Chickens, a couple of dairy cows, some grain crops and a substantial vegetable garden, hopefully some fruit trees and grapes.

As far as "need" goes for my goals, probably could get by with 5 acres of agricultural and 5 of timber to have a sustainable firewood and food supply, but that assumes no buffer from your neighbors, which is probably not a good plan.

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Post by giantg2 »

siva7 wrote: post #533
giantg2 wrote: post #275

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I think you can cross the military off your list. If you've made enough money to not work, I feel like you'll get tried/frustrated of the BS involved in a lot of it before your commission is up. I could be wrong though - just things I've seen.

I feel someone should see a therapist if thinking about joining the military out of boredom

There could be multiple meanings here. Do you mean because a big part of being in the military involves dealing with boredom, so it would be illogical?

Or do you mean you think they are joining to be violent? There are plenty of nonviolent MOS. For example, they might want to be a cargo pilot or join the cyberwarfare program.

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Post by scandox »

biased_coin wrote: post #334

Managing an apartment complex (pro-bono) alongside a tech job. In Bangalore, it is normal to have a committee of apartment owners who oversee the operations, set up rules for residents, take up mini-projects for efficiency / beautification /long term maintenance and also manage the finances. This committee operates for a year and then passes on the reins to the next committee. Our apartment complex has 850 apartments…

That's really interesting to me. How are the finances raised? I assume there is a service fee. Do you have to handle collection also? What legal body is the employer of the staff and how many are there?

In Ireland/UK there is a normally a management company either owned or originally established by the developer and they collect the service fee. They usually do not encourage a lot of tenant participation.

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Post by chalcolithic »

dcz_self wrote: post #532
chalcolithic wrote: post #529

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How much would you pay for a program that would help you do 2 way more effectively than just by querying it?

That depends on how easily I could compile it, and how much more effective it would be than querying. At the moment I can't come up with anything better than queries. I'm willing to part with some money to have someone implement it for me if I see there's demand.

Queries kind of suck when it comes hierarchy, do they? And you sure have some folder hierarchy, even if you're not happy about it?

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Post by dcz_self »

joshxyz wrote: post #581
dcz_self wrote: post #474

Too many ideas given the time, but now I'm focused on two: 1. Building an open source bicycle computer. It's been over 20 years since they arrived at the scene, and there still isn't one that you could hack! An outrage! No published sources yet, I'm getting stuck on not having much experience building physical things. 2. Getting rid of the directory hierarchy. I have 10K photos, 30K emails, 10000km of GPS tracks, and…

Maybe the answer is tags/attributes for filtering, instead of nested directories? Could be more tedious but given the image recognition ArTiFiCiAl iNtElLiGeNcE maybe it could be easier

That's what I'm thinking about too. Most directories are describing what's already available for the computer to extract: the place of something being created, the time of it, the source where it came from (e.g. who sent this as email attachment). Only a minority needs to be explicitly added, like emotional meaning ("my favorites"), or external organization ("experiment 1", "driver's licence"). While we can't use the computer for the latter, it's nonsense that we leverage computers so little for the former.

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Post by tralarpa »

I reverse engineer/decompile games (and sometimes applications) from the 80s/early 90s for fun. The more complex the program, the more fun it is. As an extra challenge, I try to avoid runtime monitoring (i.e. in an emulator) and try to rely as much as possible solely on what I see in the binary file.

Other people do sudokus, I stare for hours at disassembled code to figure out what complex data structure the game is using to handle its 3D graphics or game logic. It's a kind of archelogy... Rediscovering a piece of code no one has seen for 30 years.

I am wondering whether there is a way to earn money with that skill? I guess it is still illegal to sell unauthorized reverse engineered ports of games, even if they are 30 years old :)

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Post by dcz_self »

sideshowb wrote: post #574
dcz_self wrote: post #512

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Lightroom is closed and comes from Adobe, so it was never on my radar. Being able to modify the software is a must: photos are only part of the problem, so any solution must be open to integration with other sources of data. It would have been interesting to see how it organizes the UI, but there's no demo version for Linux :P

Fair enough on the closed source thing! My take is that we have specialist requirements for photos that are probably better served by a photo specific UI. Lightroom's doesn't inspire me to say it's great, but it's adequate. Can search by metadata like camera or capture date, save previous search results as 'smart folders' (e.g. I have one for all pictures since I last had a book printed). It indexes thumbnails for qu…

Thanks, that's a great summary. It does seem it's most of the way there already. How does it handle removable storage?

Ironically, the fact that a topic-specific UI is needed for topic-related tasks is another strike against closed software. Something open would have been a starting point for other sorts of views (email? PDFs?), but when there's no modification, there's no ability to do that.

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Post by tdstein »

mxwsn wrote: post #335
tdstein wrote: post #316

I didn't win the IPO lottery, but I won the life lottery and am fortunate to be living off my spouse's salary for the immediate future. I quit my full-time position a few months back. Since then, I've been exploring different "work" replacements. I tried freelancing and noodled on starting my own business. Finally, I've decided to apply for a Ph.D. program. But, the most important thing I've learned these past few mo…

Nice! What area are you aiming for a PhD in?

I'm interested in studying programming languages. Upon completion, I hope to teach at the university level.

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Post by joe__f »

taurath wrote: post #560
joe__f wrote: post #540

I'm healing from PTSD, I took two years off work and then the last nine months I just finished up my PhD in mathematical physics working part time. I'm still disabled in different ways, I get triggered by groups of people so I can't socialise very easily I'm kind of slowly reintroducing interacting with society. I had an interview for a postdoc in my field last week and I'm waiting on whether I got offered a job or n…

Similar situation here - I’m slowly starting to look to get up and do something other than focus on therapy and healing. I’ve taken a bit of time off, and I’m struggling still to change my mindset from survival towards more self actualization.

Good luck with it, I can attest to it being tough. I also struggle with survival/actualisation, one day I have a brief glimpse of enlightenment and the next two weeks I'm barely managing to get by
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