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I wonder if it is a good approach to force children to finish their plates?

Seems like not. There are some studies [0][1][2] that show parental control over food intake may result in children's (mostly girls') obesity since it teaches children to ignore their satiety/hunger mechanism and thus overeat.

It may lead to the situation that once grown up, they could keep this habit of leaving the plate empty no matter how full they feel.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2045650/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11358344

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2384361/Leading-nu...
You are a human being, not a machine. Some down time after you complete something is perfectly ok, the only thing that you will end up achieving if you want to perform at 100% all the time is an early brush with burn-out.

Nobody, not even the most vocal proponents of maximizing productivity can be productive all the time.
I had actual part time coding jobs for the majority of the time I was in undergrad. My family didn’t have much so I had to work.

Even though I was forced to work out of necessity, it turned out to be the best move. Learning how to balance theory with “we need this done in a couple hours to try and land the next client”, has been so valuable to my career (even through grad school). Engineering at every level is about trade offs, and nothing makes that more apparent then working a job.
I cannot recall people making fun of new tech, mostly complaining about either ignorance, bad business ethics, risky behaviour or flaws that needs to be addressed.

The current state of crypto businesses is quite horrible, too many sell "Get 10000% returns in 1y" crap to naive people. Will be interesting how the this crypto craze will look when looking back at it after it has cooled down.
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I take a small break (15 mins) and then either find the motivation to continue onto another big task or work on polishing the "small things" that always pile up.

While the break does it for me, the important part is that you reward yourself in some way immediately after to engage the "work-reward" cycle.
One step is to acknowledge that you're not supposed to be good at task switching. It takes a negative toll on everybody. Our brains just aren't very good at it. Because of this, your employer, if you have one, should take steps to minimize the amount of task switching required, or at least try to give you blocks of time you can dedicate to focused tasks.

That said, task switching is a practical reality, so coping strategies are important, too.

For help with that, check out Cal Newport's "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World" (https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/...). Full disclosure: He and I share a literary agent.
Taking from the other answers, you're not a robot but maybe you could use robots/scripts to make the task switching easier?
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And here are some source files and setup notes for the underlying SICM scheme library pertinent to macOS: https://github.com/hnarayanan/sicm
This perhaps says a lot more about the state of the Hawaii power grid than the benefits of the Powerwall.

Due to economies of scale, unless your grid infrastructure is really poor, grid attached energy storage is going to be cheaper than distributed energy storage. Tesla just wants to sell batteries, and consumers are easier to target than utilities.
> There was an article lately about how electrical consumption for city lights increased despite the switch to LEDs.

Its something like a 6x reduction in electric usage vs incandescent, how would people manage to use 6x more light?

OR was this a switch from CFL to LED that led to more usage?
I live in Canada and its quite upsetting to see salaries just a skip over the border that are 120K USD for remote positions but they won't even entertain hiring a Canadian, meaning in Canada the remoting range is 55-70 CAD USD. Going above 70K is possible but in my experience those jobs can only be acquired through personal networking in the GTA which is self-defeating because it keeps you tethered to the GTA.

Imagine if I could live somewhere like Thunder Bay and make a 120K remote. The only possibility has been freelancing and I was successful for a while remoting though running your own company came with downsides which led to my eventual decision to work back full time for a company.
Especially since a 3-star restaurant is a $30 chocolate bar, not a $300 bar.

Maybe there are some restaurants for russian oligarchs and other people with bad taste and too much money, but unless you go crazy on the wine (which they keep around for just such guests) all the 2 and 3-star restaurants I've been to have been 10-25 times more expensive than mcDonalds,not 100-250 times.

Wine is tricky, the taste is complex,the experience depends so much on what you are or have been eating, temperature, the glass, and I suppose the ambience, and is a rather strong (upper-middle) class marker,so even so-so expensive wines are given much benefit of a doubt.
Yes a change of pace is great to do a few small things before a push into something bigger!
Quick note that gopass (which is 98% drop-in API compatible with pass) does this out of the box:

https://github.com/justwatchcom/gopass/blob/master/docs/feat...
Super exciting that you could solve the issue of intermittency of renewables and increase the stability of the US grid all while getting a 250% return. What's not to like?
I am curious if anyone is cheering you on. If someone completes a task, a manager (project or product) should get excited and congratulate you. Even just a thumbs up or a hi five on slack and cheer a bit with public recognition. This will give you a shot of dopamine and create an addiction cycle. If this isn't happening, you finish something and no one cares (bad management) your brain will not connect finishing something to good -- thus the struggle to care about the next task.
For me the worst offender is

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Dutch makes this distinction as well: "ja" and "jawel".

"jawel" is a contraction of "ja" and "wel", which both mean "yes", but are used differently. "Ja" would be the opposite of "no" and "wel" the opposite of "not".
It's surprising that San Francisco isn't doing a laundry assessment evaluating whether anyone became dependent on the historic launderette.
I find that these are occasionally very inaccurate. If possible put a prototypical server on a watt meter and artificially load cpu, disk and ram to determine its real world max wattage and thermal values. Then compare to what its wattage is while idle.
> You can't run air conditioners directly off solar. PV panels natively produce DC. There are units with microinverters built into the back of the panel that produce AC.

Why can't an air conditioner run off of DC? Just lack of availability?
Sorry, no. Tesla ist not producing 4000 cars per week (S+X+3) completely manually. Not unless they have 500.000 employees like Foxcon. And I would ask you to provide links for your claims. Following Tesla buying Grohmann, I saw no reports of 100h weeks asked (which would be illegal by labor laws), nor of large parts of the employees leaving.

Currently, a complete automated battery poduction line designed and built by the former Grohmann company, is being shipped to Nevada, after installation in March it is expected to double the battery output to 5000 per week.
Thanks for the post @jajoosam.
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If you're already using a password manager, shouldn't you be using different (random) passwords for every service anyway? What's the point then?

I guess it makes sense to use this if you've begun using a password manager without changing your old passwords. But if possible you should really be doing that instead.

Also, I still don't understand why Troy doesn't use a cryptographically secure hash function instead of SHA1.
Say I send the (truncated) hash of one of my passwords to his service and it returns no match in his database. I then consider it secure because it's supposedly not leaked. But shouldn't I really do consider it leaked because I've revealed an insecure hash of it to a third party?
What's there to lose with using a secure hash function over SHA1? Surely the one-time cost of hashing the database of passwords is negligible?
Hanlon's razor is an intellectually dishonest way to prematurely end a discussion and claim you're right without any evidence. The next time I steal 10,000 BTC from a bitcoin exchange I'm hired to code for, remind me to crawl sites for discussions about the incident so I can throw the term "Hanlon's razor" around and demoralize the seeds of investigation before they sprout.

Why would you ever feel compelled to invoke Hanlon's razor? Are you not intrigued by the possibility of malice? Is it so painful to speculate? Does it frighten you to think you might live in a world where bad things happen because people actually do them on purpose most of the time and lie to cover it up? What bothers you about this so much that you don't even want to begin to talk about it? Other than that, I see no reason to suffocate a discussion with Hanlon's razor unless you are affiliated with or secretly rooting for the possibly guilty party.
git-annex (+assistant) supports 1, 2 (probably requiring some manual setup) and 4.

I've used it across a local NAS, a remote server (both containing the full 2TB contents and syncing automatically), one laptop (manually fetching and pushing files), one Android tablet (automatically pushing photos to the server), and S3 (extra encrypted copy of just a subset).

No problems over the couple of years I've been using it.
My impression is that the Brazilians use "sim" a bit the same way the french use "si".

"Você vai?" "Vou" ("are you going?" "I am going")
"Você não vai?" "Sim" ("Aren't you going?" "yes I am")
If we're talking about efficiency from the customer point of view, I can pay full price for American goods on Amazon but receive garbage-cheap Chinese knock-offs in the mail.
You could use a combination of syncthing and NextCloud.

NextCloud checks some of your boxes, and is a nice front-end that could run on top of a syncthing synchronized folder.
Where are you looking? I think most remote posts I see now are open to people in North America, or one of its time zones.
I've been a fan of the Scandinavian model for government for a while, and I used to be one of those guys who would say something like "in NORWAY they blah blah blah" when discussing some social/governmental in a small group.

But later on I realized more deeply that Norway is a tiny fraction of the population of the USA as well as a very culturally (and let's face it, racially) homogeneous population.

Similar arguments can be made about Denmark, of course.
Well, obviously people who already own apartments nearby don't want values of their own ones - mostly purchased on mortgage - to fall, because it could ruin their retirement.

Within the democratic society, there is no fix for this problem.
Second that. I have lived on Overtoom in Amsterdam, one of the main avenues in and out of the city center. On any given night there would be 1000s of vehicles using that road. But for some reason the hey look at me motorcycle crowd would love to open up their throttles at 3am, you never heard anybody else except for the occasional ambulance.
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A related concept in microeconomics: The Giffen Good [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
I was under the impression that motorcycles were made to be artificially loud, as just like the existence of the engine, the bike being loud is a major selling point. Is this true?

The problem is that they are so fast. So if you call in a seriously scary and illegal noise at night the culprit could be a state over before anyone arrives. So it's obviously a non starter and nobody calls the police. But then there is a cultural of it being normal and so the problem never goes away and only gets worse.

Motorcycles are your right to ride if you have a license. Scaring the living daylights out of people every day is not.
Longer than lately. It's "assembly" (not the other one).
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Reflecting on my personal experience, I too have trouble switching from one task to the next when the next task is vague. I have brought down the 'down time' by planning next task ahead in time. Somehow that makes the switching easier for me, as I know what to expect from it and what struggles I might have.
You contradict yourself, I believe. Rider vs pedestrian can cause fatal injuries to both actually. Most likely to a pedestrian, of course, but it's still a human life, isn't it?
This argument is really weird. Somebody born in the US in 1980 certainly wasn't too old to have gaming consoles growing up. The Atari 2600 already was in millions of homes by then and the Nintendo NES would have been released when they were toddlers.
Yeah, I can google myself thank you very much.

Your inability to speak or to read properly makes me really doubt your general premises, because neither had anyone talked about ob and you didn't explain the relation to the thread either, nor did you notice my precaution to note that I the theory for oil from the article might still be valid. Instead you seem to have come panting and frothing from the mouth as soon as you had read the first few lines hardly being able to read the rest of my post. I know how it is, I do that too sometimes. No harm done.

> the eu- also has a different PIE etymology.

I know, why do you think I would have mentioned it otherwise?! If you had to guess in percent how certain a single PIE root is, and then take the combined probability for ll f the roots of the rather young PIE studies, which are very well known to have produced a metric shittonne of false results not even a hundred years ago that we are still wading through, how likely is it that the patient has cancer?

To repeat, what's "ob" have to do with this?
Personally, I embrace the downtime that I get after finishing a large task. I see it as a way to force myself to take healthy breaks, which are easy to forget when I'm "in the zone."

When I finish a large task, I take a few minutes to think about how I should spend the rest of the day, grab a coffee or snack, use the restroom, check the news, then jump back in.

I even find that, when I forget to take breaks, I'm more easily fatigued and discouraged by what can otherwise feel like an endless amount of work.
I happened to see a YouTube blind-test of a flute, and the next to cheapest flute won.

But blind testing is also hard, maybe you need to listen or taste for days,not just a few minutes.

I suspect a lot of sugar and artificial flavours are added to products as people are reacting favourably in 30 second blind tests, but given a chance they would appreciate the nuances of less engineered products. The sugar and the esters are getting old fast.
> This affects my career in a bad way

Can you enumerate this further? Are you getting measurable and actionable feedback from a superior, or do you just feel like you should have accomplished something with the additional half of a day?

I'm going to reaching a little as I don't know you're specifics, but I've found myself in this situation before and as a manager I've had to help my reports with the same issues. Typically when I hear this from my reports, their behavior falls into one of three categories:

1. They're still working on things, but they don't contribute to what they see as their primary goal. I.e. I ask them to rework something, they have to dig through documentation/emails/etc to answer someone's question, or they have some HR function they have to complete. In the first example it's often times expressed as "This took me all month!"

My suggestion in these situations is to realize you're being "alternatively productive." My ask that someone rework something or performing duties for another team is still part of being productive. Not all managers manage that way so if you're running into trouble here, I'd bring it up and discuss it further.

2. They're not being productive and legitimately are just taking some downtime and feel bad about it.

Assuming I've gotten 3.5 days of good productivity out of someone, I ask them to embrace their downtime. Take a walk, chat with folks, read some blogs, or just simply go home early. I'd rather someone come back refreshed the next day than waste four hours feeling bad at their desks and contribute to a future episode of burn out.

Some managers are driven to make sure butts are in seat coding 40+ hours per week. Thankfully my company doesn't work that way.

3. There is a performance issue. Sometimes that's on me (poor direction giving, unclear instruction or goals, being too busy doing my other duties, etc) and sometimes it's on them. For example their 3.5 days of productivity and I need to help mentor or drive them. That's where immediate, specific, actionable, and measurable feedback comes into play.

That's something a lot of managers are bad at. I'm aware that feedback itself has a quality component that should be met and still do a bad job at times.

I hope something here is helpful for your situation.
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The Damore memo was not a problem for daring to talk about gender and race and hiring. Google both wants and needs its employees to talk about that.

The Damore memo was a problem for the underlying assumptions about gender and race it used in trying to make its (vague) point.

An analogy I've made previously on this site is that it's like a memo about which tech stack to use. Saying "Why can't engineers learn not to talk about tech stack and just use what they're told to use" is misguided - it might work at some companies, but it won't work at Google, and moreover, Google specifically wants you to talk about such things. The Damore memo, however, responded by saying "Let's do a long study on whether Classic ASP on NT 4.0 is the right approach, let's try rewriting some core components in Classic ASP and moving some services to NT 4.0 and see if things get better," and making questionable citations to papers (which do exist, and aren't inherently non-credible) about projects developed in Classic ASP. An engineer who seriously advocates that position and wants the rest of the company to spend time evaluating that position is in the wrong, and is wasting the company's time. Saying that their mistake is daring to speak about programming languages - and saying that other employees who say "Actually, no, your technology suggestions are obviously wrong" in response are equally mistaken - is misunderstanding the mistake.
>AvaloniaUI is only in alpha right now

Beta was released a week ago, actually - http://avaloniaui.net/blog/2018-02-18-avalonia-beta1.html
> And while for example Cloudflare's free TLS certificates are not wildcard certificates

That's incorrect. They are all wildcard.
As mentioned by others, all of these companies have to spend on this regulation it seems, so it should be an even playing field.
They'd just have to use at least six times more lights. Or leave them on more often. That does not seem impossible to me.

That being said, I may just be misremembering it. Maybe it was just about light pollution, but I do think it was about electric consumption. I'm just not sure.
Can you run an electric motor on DC power?
Thanks to k-anonimity, you never send the full hash, only the first 20 bits.
Thanks! This is something we're subconsciously aware of, but it's helpful to hear it as explicit feedback. :)
The first steps towards that were indeed OS-specific install instructions on our new website. We currently have a user survey (there's no telemetry in mitmproxy) to see what we should focus on for a 5-minute tutorial.
The other democratic societies who have solved this problem seem to belie your claim. The issue here is that the unit of democracy for this problem is too local.
All the work has been done already by the suckers who joined 4 years ago but won't get the exec jobs because they're not part of the VC club.
Loud pipes just piss people off. And ruin your hearing. And most likely the person in the car is yacking on the phone anyone and not listening to your $500 chrome moly straight pipes.

Harley is dying and needs to do something to attract younger buyers into the fold. Hopefully this will do that.
Nor is waking up whole neighborhoods for your own gratification.
> Try paying attention to your respiration while running.

As I already tried to explain upthread (this seems to be a pattern), I have tried, and I don't know how to do those things at the same time. I can stop and count my breaths, but the sensation is so indistinct that it becomes difficult to keep track of when I'm doing anything else.
>“During the metabolic stresses of flight, some of the bat DNA is released into cells, where it doesn’t belong, and normally this would trigger a powerful immune response, however [the researchers] have shown that during evolution bats have mutated a key protein in this response called STING.”

This doesn't make sense to me. What is so special about the metabolic stress of flight? Is it different than the stress cheetah cells experience when it runs 100 kph?
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And the previous HN discussion on this exact topic had some good notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003898
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>do-expressions already have a proposal

For those who are curious, it's this one: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions.
This is so dumb
Yes, I know. It's certainly better to leak only the first eigth of your password than all of it, but it's still not something you should do.
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This is par for the course in trying to develop in many western cities, and it’s almost as though a system has been designed to exclude smaller developers in favour of vast multi-billion-dollar-portfolio landlords.

Whether deliberate or not, it’s sick to the core - as an example, in Bath in the UK, I’ve had a several year battle to simply carry out like-for-like repairs on a subterranean vault on my property - it’s going to collapse soon, and it’s directly under a major road - but even using 200 year old techniques with no external disruption they keep denying it. At this point I’m just going to let the arterial road through the city disappear into a hole.

Meanwhile, a neighbouring property owned by a large multinational landlord got planning permission to build an external lift on a Georgian property, and the same landlord recently won an application to evict 600 people (owners) from perfectly serviceable housing to build fewer, more expensive houses.
Somewhat related, does anyone have a reccomendation for learning Newtonian Physics? I took a semester as an undergrad, but I didn't understand it as well as I would like.
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Another possibility is selling data, primarily to advertisers
Stock exhausts are not terribly loud, though it's hard to make something that's automobile-level quiet in a motorcycle sized package.

I wouldn't be opposed to a noise restriction, provided it was implemented reasonably.
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GP only said "i think", GP is not suffocating any discussion. I doubt serious investigations care for what random people say on internet forums.

I think your accusations at the end are unfair and out of place, not to say ridiculous.