Yes I try not to drink coffee for more than 7 days in a row. If I do I know I have a "detox" day ahead of me. Which is basically me not drinking coffee on a Sunday and suffering through a big old headache, sleepiness and possibly a little bit of nausea and dizziness. The coffee ween off is real.
I had heard it was a bad headache, so I also tried weening myself off it with ever smaller scoops of grounds. Still, when I finally quit, it was a much stronger headache than I was anticipating. It really was one of the worst headaches I've had, and it lasted ~two days.
That said, my SO will never let me have caffeine again. My SO says that I am so much nicer to be around and that I sleep much better too.
I don't anticipate going back on the java, my life is much better. But everyone is different!
To me it seems to be more of a volume data point rather than storage. So, it might only be terabytes of data, but for instance in ML algorithms, you could be running that data through the algorithm many times every two minutes. So by the end of the day, you've processed "petabytes" of data. This is just my interpretation of it. I could be wrong to.
I've been thinking about this a bit lately. I think what we need more than anything is consensus among developers to not accept specific conditions. I think it's easy to get excited about opportunities; and especially in junior devs to want to "put in the work" to prove that you care and "go the extra mile" for "a stake in the company" .. Things I've heard far to often.
If their was more mentoring between senior and junior devs, and the junior devs we're enlightened to the all the employer bs, I think that would help solve alot of bad contracts; at least it would prevent juniors from accepting horrible deals.
Also, it seems to me that their could be something here beyond a standard union. Block chain / decentrailized union?... maybe. Let's not forget that we, the labor pool are selling our labor to the employees. And, tbh, devs are a hot commodity and with consensus among them, would have significant leverage as a group.
This could potentially cross borders too. Pulling up all devs from all nations.
Like any new thing there will be profiteers, scammers, spammers and the like. The true value, just like any other art, comes from the value you place on it. I could 100% imagine myself buying a digital frame, hang it on my wall and display some NFTS that I own. Those tweet spammers who are pumping tweets onto the chain every second automatically are stupid in my opinion. Often times it isn't about the art as much as it is about the artist. They're just muking up the seas.
1. Claus-Peter Schnorr, a well-established and reputable cryptographer, publishes a paper and claims he found a new algorithm for integer factorization, which is faster than the best known algorithm today (Number Field Sieve).
2. If it's all the paper says, it probably won't attract that much attention, at best it leads to a new wave of RSA keysize upgrade (or transition to ECC). But today, this paper appeared on the Cryptology ePrint Archive, and its abstract reads "This destroys the RSA cryptosystem", the use of strong language is extraordinary, a reader may interpret it as "the speedup is significant and all RSA keys can be broken." Researchers usually don't make such claims.
3. Meanwhile, it's also very suspicious for two reasons. First, this claim didn't appear in the actual paper, only the ePrint Archive web page, and it also includes an embarrassing typo. Also, the submitted paper wasn't even the latest version, which is available at Schnorr's web page, but an old version from 2019. Many people suspected that the paper was submitted by someone else, who happened to see an earlier version on the web and got too excited about it, and added the "destroys RSA" claim.
4. But now, personal communication with Schnorr confirmed the paper was indeed submitted by him, and he indeed makes the "destroys RSA" claim. Schnorr also said he uploaded the wrong file.
5. About 10 minutes ago, an updated preprint was published, that includes the sentence, "This destroys the RSA cryptosystem".
Beyond all the technical specification, this is just a cool looking drone. I remember as a kid thinking how cool it would be if I had a camera on an RC car. Now, we're flying first person through the sky. So cool.
Call option 101:
A call option is basically a right (not an obligation) to buy a specific stock at a specific price (strike price) some time in the future. Loss is limited to the premium paid for option and gains are basically unlimited.
If for instance I buy a 2-week NFLX Call option at a $2 premium with a strike price of $545, and in two weeks the price of NFLX is trading at $560 then I would exercise my option to buy 100 NFLX stock at $545 and could immediately sell it for a profit at the market price $560.
A lot of times also, speculators never exercise the option and just close the position by making the opposite bet. (i.e. sell the call option to another investor/speculator rather than buy 100 stock at the strike price)
Thoughts:
I think this guy is making a fight against times as well as believing a fallacy that the stock-market 100% correlates with fundamental analysis of the underlying company. Yes P/E is high for many companies, and I have heard of a current "tech-bubble" but who knows. How much is "too much"? No one really does. Bet on the total markets long term and you'll probably be ok. Also buy BTC
