So much discussion of loneliness on this forum makes me think y'all are in the wrong country. Feeling lonely? Come to the Philippines! Sunnier, family-oriented, cheaper, everyone wants to have a relationship with foreigners (both men and women), waterfalls, sandbars, diving, cheap food and housing, and recently 200 Mbps internet. Been married to a Filipina for 14 years. So far so good. I came here from Silicon valley as a digital nomad and still here as a father and a husband. (Been back and forth though over the years.) Being a programmer and an introvert with a family of 3 children, creates the opposite problem of having too much social interaction and not enough alone time. Recently I've been able to negotiate more alone time with my children as my youngest is 8 years old, and they have lots of cousins to okay with. Overall, I think humans need to be with each other. Living in our little boxes by ourselves staring at screens is not natural.
I made a password manager in Rust. It just encrypts and decrypts a file from/to ~/passwords.txt <-> ~/passwords.ryp (the encrypted form). Because the the file names are fixed it's easy to use. Just type:
ryp
If ~/passwords.txt is there, it will be encrypted. If ~/passwords.ryp is there, it will be decrypted.
The cool feature is that it checks to make sure that the password you typed in the nth time you encrypt it is the same as the 1st time. This protects you from inadvertently encrypting it with a typo if you check/update your passwords many times.
I have been experimenting with different cell phone policies over the past few years with my kids and here is what we settled on.
At our house, we have 6 children ranging in ages from 7-12 (3 of them are mine). No cell phones allowed Mon-Fri, but on Saturday and Sunday, they can have their phones from 2pm-9pm. We sleep at 9pm everyday. Sometimes during the week I'll let them watch a movie. Also, if they want to use their phone for learning something new like oragami, a piano tune or how to draw, then I let them use it for an hour or however long they need it as long as they are responsible.
The result is lots of imaginative play time like fashion shows, disco parties and pretend school. There is a lot of time for studying and playing instruments. All the kids were "A" students this last quarter.
I wonder if a crypto-based email system would solve these problems. With crypto, you have cryptographically secure identities, and if you had to pay for sending emails, this would deter unlimited indiscriminate spam.
That's what crypto currency-based distributed media systems are for. Examples: STEEMIT, STORJ, TRX, etc. There is no central authority who has the power to censor content as they please. I don't know which of those (or if there exists one which) would be appropriate for porn, but there probably is one. If anybody knows please let me know.
Weak ass list for YC management to come up with. No mention of blockchain, self driving cars, quantum comptuers or AI..... Seriously, pepes.... It's your job to see in the future. That was only 9 years ago!
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Study physics, statistics, and computer science. Meditate every day. Read Seth Speaks and Law of one. Go to South America and find a shaman to give you Ayahuasca tea. Don't get married until you're 50.
Thoroughly enjoyed the tutorial, but why would one want to make a custom system call? What superpowers does this give you? Thanks in advance for your answers.
This is so 1984 it's disturbing. I'm a hardcore Google fan with tons of photos of my children saved to their cloud. All of my business-critical, financial, and personal messages are stored up there. Losing access to all that is like losing your basic human rights. It's scary how dependent I am on this one company for being able to participate in the modern world....