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Oh no I agree. It's far more painful than it needs to be.

I've found productivity boosts in shortening the feedback loop. A tighter feedback loop makes it easier to get into flow.

But days of effort to get a simple thing working defeats the purpose. My worst days are when I look over the day and I've spent it fixing a build process - there's no flow in that. I could just bite the bullet and still get into flow albeit less smoothly but still. That's how I worked for years.

I just wanted to point out it isn't as simple as eliminating a refresh. There is a gain behind that.
Here is an article from a couple of years ago about how one group of mathematicians were misled by (and had to spend some time tracking down) a bug in Mathematica determinant evaluation: http://www.ams.org/notices/201410/rnoti-p1249.pdf
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In France too, the paper is prefilled, and if there are no changes, you just scan the QR code and it's done.
You can get a Dell T20/HP gen8 for $200 on ebay, including new boxed ones.

A XU4 with PSU, case and 16gb eMMC will cost you $100 yes, but for storage you'll also need an external enclosure. The only (4 port) I found on amazon was $120 (and it has its own power brick)

So the price is very similar, but the former is server hardware that is more robust, powerful, extensible, and the latter is an android dev board with an unknown amount of "assembly required" time.
I'm not really getting into the standards thing here--just throwing some ammo to the underdog.

My only point is that there are only a handful of companies with the cash, the talent, and the inclination to tackle these things, and most of them are near if not total monopolies, so as long as what they put out there isn't a blatant kick-in-the-nuts, most of us will just accept it.

iPhone was a compelling product, didn't have flash, everyone migrated to Javascript ASAP. Google is practically a monopoly, and when webmaster tools tells people to jump, watch everyone piss away a weekend to add microformats and shave 5% off of a few 40k images.

Serfs. We are all serfs.
Engineering - There is always room for improvement and invention

Medicine - People always need care

Education - People always need to learn

Government - There's always government

Law Enforcement - Crime isn't likely to disappear in the foreseeable future

While the amount of jobs may vary, there are lots of areas of society that are not going to just disappear.
Not just “alt-right” people. Quite a lot of groups have expressed their dislike lately. Personally, I find her incredibly bland, and I can’t say for sure that I didn’t leave one star for The Leather Special.
I found the author to be slightly irritating on several occasions, dropping veiled references to Valleywag-style anti Silicon Valley memes, and then I got to the part where he regurgitates that idiotic article about the brain not processing information, and there being something magical about human brains that cannot be simulated [0].

He is right about his claim of having no right to be called a “director of research", as it seems to me his skills center on cribbing thoughts pulled from other people's thinkpieces. It's clear that he doesn't have a deep background in either neuroscience or engineering and that he was brought to the company from a background in business journalism.

In his condemnation of the state of AI research, there is no mention of AlphaGo, or a description of the teachable pattern recognition techniques that have swept the deep learning scene over the last 6 years.

I'm sorry to be so harsh, but there is a certain tone to this piece, "let's hate all those startup a*holes", "Mark Zuckerberg can't write like F Scott Fitzgerald because his knowledge of liberal arts is too limited, unlike mine" that seems like a snooty class signaler among a certain hipster set.

There is a compelling story in here, but to me the general attitude is just condescending to everyone around him.

[0] https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Interesting idea; it strikes me there's a kinda mutualism.

If outsiders are often hostile, as interlopers won't have immunities the local group have, the incomers will potentially suffer a degree of debilitation - that is perhaps sufficient to give the local group the edge in battle, or to cement friendship through nurturing the non-fatally sick.
Right, Jupyter is nice to have, but this is really over the top nonsense:

Jupyter encourages individual integrity; Mathematica lets individuals hide behind corporate evasion

I have no idea what he's talking about re PDF export either. I print to PDF all the time, to email people a static document to look at, etc. It works just fine. (Whether you can you make book-quality formatted text easily, I've no idea, never been tempted to try.)
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Technically speaking there isn't any country that is a democracy. Trump just declared war on Syria, even though it's congress's job to do so, President's go above their power all the time or do things outside their role capacities via Executive actions.

America is a Republic, as is most so-called 'Democracies'. I can't wait for the first true democracy to emerge, where we use technology to cast votes.

I like the idea of where you can vote on all bills/issues/etc, or you can lend your vote to someone you trust for specific issues - like Bill Gates or Elon Musk.

See Liquid Democracy: https://medium.com/organizer-sandbox/liquid-democracy-true-d...
Yes - this sort of thing. I find it especially difficult with e.g. TV series where the main actress changes her hair halfway through - I almost always need to ask if it’s the same person.

In “Orphan Black”, It wasn’t until very far in that I realised Rachel was also a clone; without the narrative clue, I just had no idea.
Not necessarily personally - all sorts of exchanges here should be banned, including contributions to the election campaigns, which in true democracy should be funded solely from public money. Being allowed to bring the case does not mean that you have to or should be allowed to pay for that.
You should have read more than the headline before commenting.
> On the other hand, open source tools are catching up.

SymPy is doing nicely, but it's decades behind Mathematica when it comes to symbolic computation.

By the way, if you want to invert a symbolic matrix, chances are that generic Gaussian elimination working with symbolic expressions isn't the best algorithm (it might even give wrong answers if zero testing is done incorrectly), and compiled code isn't going to change that. The state of the art in symbolic linear algebra uses specialized algorithms like evaluation-interpolation, modular computation, and all kinds of low level optimizations.
>Same in the UK. I think it's probably like that in most countries.

I can confirm for Italy, it is the same, for very, very simple situations (employee or retired) the government provides a pre-filled tax form, with the addition, since a couple years that some (not always correct though, yet) medical expenses (that can be subtracted) are already filled in.

As soon as you have some other source of income (or some extraordinary expenses) you actually need an accountant/consultant.
Tesla battery degradation at less than 10% after over 160,000 miles
This may change when the viruses are made to deliver engineered payloads.
The world’s only handwritten newspaper is 91 and sells at 75 paise
IANAB, but perhaps the concentration is too low to cause any harm?
Eh ... right this moment, I'm watching Firefox auto-reload the stuff I'm working on, by the sheer magic of me saving files in my editor. This is pug, scss, assorted js, svg, you name it. Am I missing out on man-years of productivity for never really having taken to the brontosaurus model?
Path may have been a case of timing. They arrived right during peak Facebook buzzsaw growth, where Facebook was taking over. They stepped in front of that. It would be interesting to see how it - or something equivalent - would fair were it starting out today.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that there is no future market for an all-encompassing social network. That Facebook will stick around perpetually, like a moss. It's primary purpose will be to act as that one giant connection point with three billion users. The future growth markets are in the specialized segments that splinter off, of which there will be hundreds. They'll be targeted social networks, that do specific things dramatically better than Facebook ever can (and things that FB will never bother with). The early examples are well known: LinkedIn, Reddit, HN, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Stack Exchange, Genius, Yelp. Over time there will be one for everything imaginable that has at least a modest audience.
Science publication is moving (very, very, very slowly) towards a model where instead of a final, polished traditional paper, the raw data along with the software tools and interpretation is published. In principle this should allow readers to completely understand and reproduce the processing of the raw data, rather than reading a few paragraphs summarizing the processing done by the authors. Using a closed source tool for processing the data limits how deeply a reader can delve into the processing that the authors did, because the functions in the proprietary package are black boxes. Jupyter has no black boxes.
No, it's supply-side controlled like the Federal Reserve.
Sorry I don’t know how to word this but why would it be upsetting if people asked her questions about living with this?

I’d like to know just so I can be more sensitive in the future. I’d have never thought it would be a problem and would have asked way too many questions. Is this unique to this case or something I should avoid in general?
So, you're saying that being first in space wasn't moving forward?

> Especially on electronics and computers.

I strongly suspect that was due to lack of resources for research, rather than lack of ability, as by the time there was a serious focus on these areas, the economy wasn't doing so well.
I'd call it a hybrid system... True socialism is where the government decides how much toilet paper to produce, say 100k units per month..while the public uses 200k or 50k... -- so there's either a surplus or not enough.

Supply and demand are null/void, the government might then decide lets up tp production as it's needed. Capitalism is the market decides based on indicators from 'votes' --everytime you spend money you're voting on what that item is worth, how much supply/demand is given to it, etc...

Giving people who live in a country benefits and providing social well-being is NOT true-socialism, it's just love/respect for fell human beings. Ensuring everyone in a country lives above poverty shouldn't be debated about it should be something people take a sense in pride about and something they focus on eradicating.

It's not true-socialism in you still have a market, market conditions still predicate what's bought/sold/manufactured. The only difference is tax dollars are spent a little more on helping people. I think America is a horrible manager of money we could easily implement universal healthcare or guaranteed basic income and change some of the tax code to afford it all.

There's plenty of things we waste money on. The defense department has gatherings where they pay around $5 per ounce for coffee, $15 for donuts or pastries, etc.. private contractors can somehow get away with gouging the government and basically stealing tax-dollars.

We spend a trillion a year on a huge military, we don't need to be the police of the entire world. We need to close all bases, we have enough nukes/etc to dispel threats to our own borders, let's stay neutral again until we're called into another world war, but let's stop all the wars we're currently in.

I hope the predictions are true for 2030 that 40% of jobs will disappear forever, as it'll force us to really consider guaranteed basic income or end up just as Venezuela is now.
I think your estimate of 99% is a wee bit high. At least in the field I'm familiar with, astronomy, the idea of using Excel for any serious computation or design would be met with laughter.
I think learning just the SOS distress signal (...---...) has a decent bang-for-buck ratio. And because of its frequent use in films there's usually not even much learning involved.
> How is the productivity benefits from not having to press F5 after I'm updating the code is worth a few days of setting up Webpack?

It doesn't take a few days, it's more like a few hours, and it's completely worth it. It makes development much less frustrating, it reduces cognitive load (no switching back and fourth between windows) and it's faster (includes not having to get the app back into the state it was in before with hot reloading).

When compiling and reloading is something you're doing hundreds of times a week, a seemingly small improvement makes a huge difference to how enjoyable it is to work on a codebase which makes you more productive. I'd say the same thing about reducing a test suite run from 10 seconds to 1 second; it might only be saving you a few seconds each time but it makes you more productive because tightening the feedback loop reduces frustration which increases productivity.

There's nothing worse than attempting a fix, waiting 60 seconds in anticipation it worked, seeing the same error message as last time and then having to try again for instance.
> we have our own tiny state where we can choose whatever system we want

Agreed, surveillance, oppression are all terrible, but I highly doubt you can really choose any system you may want now, (see Confessions of an Economic Hit Man).
You forgot the NRA :)
Anecdote time.

I'm not going to write a lengthy comment (that nobody reads anyway), suffice it to say I suffered from (clinically tested) chronic heavy metal poisoning and got chelation therapy (chelators DMPS and DMSA) with success far exceeding what the doctors expected (pretty much all problems I had that were attributed - including by myself - to age, computer/desk work, "that's life" - went away.

Towards the point when it all got too much, forcing me to acknowledge something was wrong (after suffering a tiny bit more and more over decades), I had ended up in a situation that when I got a cold (in winter) it just would not stop until May.

Up to this point one might just suspect that well, the immune system suffers so of course you get more sick. However, during the years of therapy I found that each time I still got a cold A LOT of "stuff" was happening and the symptoms that I associated with the removal of the heavy metals would increase significantly during that time. Also, I found that when it got really bad when I injected DMPS I got much better! Which (sane) doctor would recommend injecting a chelator when you got a cold or stomach flu??? (Disclaimer: Of course, the chelator only worked because of the underlying condition, obviously I'm not saying that it is an antidote against flu symptoms.)

Note that in my case the area of the upper jaw and around the nose was heavily impacted, unseen even in panorama x-ray the bone matrix up there was in such a bad state that when a doctor wanted to inject something into the buccal mucosa the needle went straight into the jaw bone in several places. He injected chelator and a lot of stuff started happening (positive, self-repair), a year later the needle could not penetrate the bone anywhere. Each time I got a cold the entire upper jaw bone area hurt, that's why I suspected a connection and at some point, when it got pretty bad (overall symptoms) tried the chelator during a stomach flu, with immediate success.

I (now) have a basic background (I'd say two years university study equivalent) in biology, anatomy, physiology, chemistry, org. chemistry, bio chemistry, statistics (medical studies and biology focus), neuroscience. While that does not help me to say anything with any level of authority at all, especially since I'm my only subject of "research", it sets a lower threshold for the kinds of stuff I'm willing/able to believe I'd say. I see no contradiction to what I learned in these "esoteric" theories.

Still, my conclusion based on (kind of extreme) personal experience is that infections play a role that goes far beyond "I'm sick". I stopped taking cold medicine as far as I could bear it because I felt (without prove, purely subjective) that this removed harmful stuff (other than the bacteria/viruses).

I would not be surprised to see negative long-term effects after we really "cure" the common cold and nobody gets sick any more. "Can't we just core the cold for good?" -- in the past I would have agreed wholeheartedly, but now I say let's be very cautious about seemingly "simple" interventions. There is much much more going on that we have not even started to grasp.
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What do you mean by "custom sources"? Hugo can load JSON from external APIs during build: https://gohugo.io/templates/data-templates/
Like I said, stretching and centering. The justify-content property works on each row of a flexbox, so you can have a flexbox full of items with different initial sizes, automatically wrap the items that don't fit to multiple rows, and distribute the space around each item evenly. You can't do this with flow layout.
Webtail is a web-server based remote logging tool, that tails server logs onto the web-browser using websockets. It can have PAM based authentication which allows to restrict access to logs based on whatever authentication method the OS has which makes is more flexible.

Check it out.
Nothing about what people were actually doing while they were sitting? Watching TV? Staring into space? I don't know how to take something like this seriously (after reading this article in its entirety, not the linked paper)
I agree on factories, but there are other cases, like rail lines or highways vs farms where it's not so black and white.
Yes, even with contracts that the client had designed, they wouldn't respect their own payment terms. A partial solution I found was to ask for payment 7 calendar days after completion of work instead of the standard 30 days. With a 30 days payment delay, clients tend to genuinely forget about you and sometimes they don't have the cash they had when they hired you.
They are rather tasty though.
Meta-comment regarding the videos posted on this thread:

It’s concerning to me that 90%+ of these videos are hosted by a single entity. The significance to me (and I assume many others here) is a cultural one. These videos relflect on our livelihoods and our day-to-day interests and pursuits.

My advice is to not get complacent about always having access to this content. Use youtube-dl and keep a local backup of what’s important to you.
Opioids work by inhibiting GABA release, which then releases dopamine into the nucleus accumbens and VTA. Dopamine is the key element.
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Has anyone seen the whole video?

To clarify/calm down my paranoid mind of a staged crab attack to a bird whose wing was broken earlier possibly by humans and so that we have full proof beyond social media cuts.
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ps: red footed boobies don't seem to avoid those islands: https://www.livingoceansfoundation.org/seabirds-chagos-islan...
I believe the NRA is largely funded by firearms corporations as opposed to its (very large) member base.
I actually find Facebook reasonable for that (though I am trying to quit). There are pages for relatively niche groups in your city or country.
If You’re really destroying your logs each week you’re not meeting a lot of regulatory requirements, such as PCI if you accept credit cards.

Most security-oriented regulations, and indeed so-called “best practice”, requires keeping logs for security auditing purposes for at least a year if not longer. They’re often the only tool you have to detect when and how a breach began.
In a way, that's pretty disappointing. Einstein's general theory of relativity is a theory that essentially only describes gravity. The standard model describes everything but gravity.

And there is zero common ground between them. The standard model says, in a way, that gravity cannot exist (because gravitons are impossible, nothing in the standard model could carry the gravity force), and the special theory of relativity says nothing about anything other than gravity and spacetime. Or we should say, it describes spacetime, but not what's in it.

And yet there are ridiculously obvious empirical links between both of them. There's many, such as the famous e=mc2 equation, or the speed of light that can be measured in both theories using vastly different theoretical underpinnings, yielding the same value. And yet, theory says they have nothing to do with eachother. The speed of light could very well be very different, it would not be a problem, so why does it match ?

But my favorite is that inertia only exists in the standard model. Gravitic attraction only exists in relativity. But they are determined by the same property. We know that to a factor of about 1e-50 there is no difference between inertial mass and gravitic mass ... and yet all our theories say that there is no link whatsoever between them, that that's just another amazing coincidence.

And half of the physics of the 20th century can be described as "ah ! problem with relativity. Oh wait no. But ! Problem found ! Nope. Found it ! No. Here there might be a flaw in relativity and that would explain all these ... nope, no flaw".

In many ways, if we had found a huge problem with general relativity, we could have been much further in our understanding of the universe than we are now.
When there is money involved, it's corruption. I can't see it any other way. It also exclude the people/corporations that don't have that kind of money.

I have nothing against the concept, as long as no money is involved and the playing field is levelled.
How viable "handing over the keys is" is depends a lot on the client and the project. Easy for a self-contained "build X" project, harder for maintenance/improvement projects, impossible for things like marketing campaigns.
> around 43

late 30s here.

> there's usually a good reason to be angry, just not _that_ angry

i experience extreme anxiety more than rage

> Friends, roommates, and noise generated by other people

i am similar. thankfully my wife is a very quiet person.

> Viibryd

was on it for over a year -- didn't end well (weaned myself off after running out of insurance)
> A compromise might be to loop over short sub-spans of the array, and do an exit early test at the end of each sub-span.

Another good use of Duff's device!
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If you want, just remember that groups of three of anything are a distress signal. It's why smoke detectors beep in groups of threes for example. Groups of three whistles indicate distress. Three flashes of light. Etc.

Although I don't know how true this is, I've tried to keep to this in other interfaces, avoiding three-blink patters on lights when someone is not in trouble.
The article describes me. Your comment too.

As to the article:
I found my cure with skydiving, the complete and utter helplessness and giving in to the powers that be made me loose my depressing desire to (believe that I can) exercise control over everything, which would never really work, which would make me feel inadequate, which fueled my depression, which let to less power to control, which... you get the idea.

While skydiving I know I've given up control (on a controlled moment) and that helps me deal with other moments where I observe that same loss.

As to your comment:
Since I have kids, I do not feel I can risk my own live as much since they somewhat depend on me and I owe them my presence. Thus I stopped doing it regularly (once a month) and now only do it when I need it (once a every year up to once every 5 years). That's "how long it lasts" for me.