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> I fear I’ve been promoted beyond my competence.

The idea that the Peter Principle[1] happens as you simply grow older and society "promotes" you to a level beyond your competence is a novel one.

The Peter Principle states a promotion to incompetence happens because you are good at your current role and so you're promoted to the new role, but what the author is hinting at is that for some societal functions _it just happens_.

Is it real, or is it another example of imposter syndrome?

My Father has asked me to do some paperwork around a living trust for when the inevitable happens to him and his wife. It has prompted some reflection: I'm unfortunately going to be one of those people who has to make the arrangements for dying parents soon.

I find myself thinking about attics that will need clearing, paperwork that will need organising, distant family that must be contacted, and all at a time that I will want to curl up in a ball.

I question if I can do that competently. I am confident I can be "the guy" others look to in a work-based crisis - a P1 costing us thousands in lost revenue a minute? I can handle that.

But the societal living things that "adults" do that young adults never have to do is a little more onerous.

Can I go back to being a regularly drunk 25 year old please? Take this home contents insurance paperwork and blood pressure medication away, give me some Jaeger-bombs and no memory of getting home, thanks.

Good luck to us all...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Oooh, you mean hand-egg?
> Knowing that a private citizen can start a space programs is exciting enough for me.

While I agree with the feeling, I should point out that "private citizen" Jeff Bezos is worth more than 130 out of 190 or so countries out there. You and I are not in the same league as Bezos or his kind.

Actually, are you also a billionaire? :)
On the other hand I have found it immensely useful to form a habit of refusing to respond to accusations, demands and threats immediately. Instead I (try to) listen, maybe even ask some questions, retreat and then respond. This did not develop intuitively like mastery of computer UIs – it required retrospecting on certain situations many times over and promising myself on how I will act in similar situation in future.
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That an awful lot of wealth changes are through real estate not enterprise. I was in Delhi back when almost everyone was poor and now loads of them are millionaires and it's mostly through having owned land or properties. Similarly in many other places. In London where I'm from also there are probably 10x people who are millionaires through owning a house or two over owning businesses.
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I have seen a trend in people in CS/math who love prog and related types of metal. More so than other disciplines.

Another lover of metal, who only follows European football. Still in my 20s though.
Noted, thanks, and I'll take care. (My sister took up skateboarding and broke her arm the next week, so I'm aware of the risks. The fun is still worth it for me at the moment.)

Not using your body into old age also carries risks, of course, but I accept there are safer ways of staying active than skateboarding. (Am also a skier and snowboarder, so doing it for much the same reasons as you. Hope you heal up ok!)
This might be a reference to the mythology that has developed around cultures and languages that don't count above a certain low number, as in a counting system that goes 'one, two, many.'

https://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-ma...
It reminded me of the kind of writing I would read from friends on LiveJournal.
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From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs

As he got older and was less able to work his ability would diminish and his need would remain static.

So his pupils would need to work to feed him, but he showed willing to do what little he could, thus fulfilling a social contract / fairness need.
What's also sad is that after schools most kids are bundled into a car and driven off to their next appointment. There is little opportunity for spontaneity in life for Car Kids. Like play-dates, everything is rostered.

There are a few who walk home from my son's school and it's great to see them take 30 minutes to play or even just sit together throwing cut-grass in the air.
Thanks for that link, but it does note that this is also latency, i.e. transmission delay, and at 500KB/s Eshell has a very high latency for bulk transfer especially considering it's 10MB/s slower than the nearest comptitor. How much this affects your work varies, but you will adapt and change you behaviour because of that latency.
The ethical solution to human life critical systems is to make them 100% open. The user should have complete access, even to things we suspect are not necessary, like masks themselves. Our courts can handle this. Demanding it once you need it wont work.
I'm 33, love metal and what is that football thing you're talking about? Oh, we have something similar here in Europe, but I don't follow that either.

Do I have to grow 40 to realize that life is unfair and finite, happiness is a choice and that I may, in fact, have my own opinion?
Chattt is a simple command line chat tool that works with absolutely no configuration. Do check it out and let me know if you have any comments.

PS - I also launched it on PH today.
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100% agree (as a German). Being called the more formal "Sie" is sort-of standard when a stranger asks me for directions in the street - but being called Sie at work would be a huge turn-off. It immediately projects the statement "and please wear a tie during work hours".
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Does your multi-academy trust use surveys to collect stakeholder feedback?
As hilarious as this is as a statement, I'd really love to see some backup for this as I just cannot believe this is even close to true.
Reducing the budget and donating are two very different things and not even cross purpose. You may believe that we have to reign in spending -- we do spend more than we take in. It may make sense to cut programs you like to fund ones that are important, and then donate money to the one you just cut -- because you like it.

Now... I don't believe this is what's happening.
Wow love the lifting lesson. Subscribed. Telegram bot will be amazing as I use it a lot. I probably will make it myself if I can do something with that RSS Feed. Do you mind if I make it?
How many ads do you remember seeing yesterday?
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I agree very much that the question 'Is buying crypto assets "Investing"?' is quite unclear.

I would rather ask the questions 'Is buying crypto assets speculative?' (It depends on your intent and ideology.) or 'Is buying crypto assets risky?' (Yes. If you need to ask, your risk model is probably not very quantified.)
As severine found out, it's called GrailBag
(https://github.com/dozzie/grailbag). Docs and README are lacking, to put it
mildly, so I don't deem it ready for being published, but I don't exactly hide
it either.

From the features, GrailBag stores files along with key:value pairs as
metadata (not surprising), has a command line client to
list/modify/upload/download/delete the artifacts, and has a Python module for
doing the same from a more sophisticated script.

Additionally there is an interpreter of a simple language that describes
directory tree where artifacts will be deployed (which artifacts to download,
how to name the files, what directories and symlinks to create). This way you
can write a cron script that deploys whatever you have in the repository, e.g.
in a cold-standby server scenario (two servers having the same configuration,
but one shut down and only powered on when the first one fails; on the first
run of the cron task, the spare server downloads all the missing files,
including whatever got stored while the server was shut down).
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Thanks for the additional analysis. Overall, I agree your assumptions are probably more accurate, and the end total is less.

Still, it's within a factor of 2. She did beat the market, but it feels like it's within the realm of good decisions / luck, not insider trading.

On the other hand, the article does say it: she copied trading from her colleagues. It's certainly plausible that her colleagues' decisions were that shrewd and gave her a bump.

I wouldn't expect a bunch of lawyers in NYC in 2018 to consistently do much better than average in the market, but in the 60's in 70's the market was completely different. They could probably do much better back then, since information didn't spread as fast, and they were close to it. I mean, at that time I wouldn't be surprised if simply working physically near Wall St. led to better returns.

Though I still think the more remarkable thing here is the amount of time, not the investment strategy. The 31 years of working past retirement age multiplied the total by significant factor no matter how you look at it.
> local fake_clipboard=$(mktemp)

So every time you copy or paste a new clipboard will be created. That defeats the purpose of clipboard.
That means a car economy, the question of what is local is a good one, there is a reason the world population is spread out the way it is.
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> That's why Graylog requires you to load a log entry example when creating an extractor

So it still fails silently when the log format changes slightly, e.g. upstream
fixes spelling or grammar in one of the log messages produced.
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I don't think it's not worth anything. I think they fail to recognize the value of it because for them there was no opportunity cost. (Whereas for the parents or grandparents who earned the money, there was typically a cost in terms of, for instance, time spent with family.)
But is the densified fuel actually needed to fly the Dragon 2 to a LEO destination? Can SpaceX do their Falcon 9 HSF missions the old fashioned way, making the safety of load-and-go a moot point?
Oh and I thought climate change was a conspiracy theory perpetrated by the chinese to sell us more PlayStations or something. Turns out this stuff is more complicated.
I think both is true. Taking care while being the wild thing you are, is basically what coming of age is about. The more you know the world beyond your comfort zone, the more unlikely places where they are you can find, too.

With age you are also more able to let ambiguities be ambiguities, because you do no longer feel pressed in finding new insights all the time, except when you are.
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This chapter was funny.

"Cut the USB

With time running out and no better option in mind, I broke out the cutting disks and surgically removed one of the USB hub circuits from the 7-port hub."

Regarding his earlier rant about USB hub quality, I have to agree. It's getting harder to come by a robust USB hub nowadays. Bad connector and power supply quality (USB hub PSUs are electrically noisy and way under powered for the number of ports).
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It reminds me a bit of Feynman investigating the Challenger disaster:

>Engineers at marshal estimate it as 1/300, while NASA management, to whom these engineers report, claims it is 1/100,000. An independent engineer consulting for NASA thought 1 or 2 per 100 a reasonable estimate

The estimates seem to depend on who is estimating https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roge...

He had to fight publish that:

>Feynman was so critical of flaws in NASA's "safety culture" that he threatened to remove his name from the report unless it included his personal observations on the reliability of the shuttle, which appeared as Appendix F.
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As far as sun goes, Israel is comparable to California, and all data I was able to find is along the lines of "8% less energy production required, 3-5 years ROI".

To me that does make economic sense, both at the state level and at the individual level; why do you call it a "bad practice"?.

AFAIK, the laws do allow PV panels instead of solar thermal. I'm not aware of any innovation harmed by such a mandate in either Israel or Portugal. Do you?
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Sounds like the "classic" problem where someone wants to build a reinforcement-learning system (because "self-improving AI" sounds so cool) but don't actually have a suitable reward function that would describe their problem.

Nevertheless, they don't let themselves be caught up by this minor obstacle and use whatever random reward function they can implement with the data they have.

The resulting system won't actually learn to solve the original problem - but it will learn something, so, hey, it's self-improving!

See also: Probably every single recommender system in use. (At least that's my subjective impression)
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Only somewhat related: a video of Edmund Bacon, creator of LOVE park, at 92 years old, protesting the ban on skating in the park by skating himself:

https://vimeo.com/57981966
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Is this meant to be shocking? When I was a consultant at a big European telecom company the department got a new manager who started by saying that there should be no multi-year consulting contracts - within a few months of hiring a consultant the position should be either inhoused or outsourced. I remember thinking “about f-ing time” even though my job would probably be one of the first on the chopping block. The financial incentives are so screwed up I can't believe consulting is still such a big business.
One of those physics graduates.

If research paid above starvation wages I'd do it.

But crud pays 10x as much as working on the latest particle accelerator and I can plan more than 1 year in the future.
Right, I assume this is just another way TV and film distort your expectations. Of course everybody has snappy comebacks when it's all scripted.

It's also weird that people are deeply uncomfortable with silence, even introverts. Silence is golden.
It's interesting. It's either an optimistic view or a pessimistic view.

remember the concept of innocent childhood only really took off in the west in Victorian times - think of how much changes in the last generation, the last century, the last 300 years

But then compare the previous 2000 years. Would someone from Plato's era be that unrecognisable to someone from renaissance Florence? (or vice Versa)

What will the next 200 years bring? What about the next 500?
Is this really working? / Could be great for people living in China right?
Combining two ideas you heard from God-knows-where and juxtaposing them because you've categorized both as things you've heard "liberals" (or whatever group) believe is the lowest form of debate. Nobody finds it persuasive.
Yep. You might be able to configure Graylog to alert you when an extractor fails, but I didn't go this far (as I said, we switched to another solution since then).
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If the moat is that the established company can offer its products cheaper than the competition (for whatever reason) then that's not bad for the consumer in the way that "monopoly" often implies.
Without even factoring in work culture, the cost of a FT employee is really really high in a place like Australia where you basically can’t fire people. Want a 6 month project done, makes more sense to pay for a consultant team than try spin up new employees. They come in for a set period, fixed deliverables and accountability, then they go. Effect multiplies when it’s something like IT and the business is completely unrelated to IT.
Indeed. Apropos batch processing, I wrote about executing shell commands against marked files in Dired. It may tickle your fancy and help you out---assuming you're not familiar with it already of course!

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/dired-shell-commands-...
This sounds like (one component of) non-violent communication [1]. I myself found that reading about NVC quite enriched my perception of interaction with people. It provided me with some more concepts and framework to understand what is happening while also giving me more options for responding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
Um. I think it's worth mentioning that these aren't subscriptions (in the traditional sense). They're memberships.

If I subscribe to a print mag, once it's delivered I have access to that content until I decide to throw it out. If I bought Photoshop, I get to use that version (sans major OS up grades of my hardware) as long as I want.

Membership is binary, or has levels.
Growing old is painful, I agree. Some things get better though. I feel my wiser than younger colleagues and enjoy that people come asking me for advice so I can give back.

BTW: having Jäger-bombs from time to time (rarely!) is a very good way to keeping you young! ;)
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Weeelll... given that a modern car is a complex dynamic system I would presume it's not to trivial to state where exactly design constraints concerning build quality end and dynamics and handling start.

For the end user they both affect the 'feel' of the product - how it behaves on the detail level when in use. "I have a door I have a hard time closing" and "the dynamics feel a bit clumsy" deal with totally different things on the engineering level, but end users (generally) are not buying engineering but holistic products.

Namely, concerning this comment: Are there compromises made on the design of the handling to facilitate the build quality? And if there are, then those are not two different things, but systems which interact - hence, it's relevant to offer commentary on one while discussing the other.
Thanks for this, I have read a couple books on deep learning but struggled to find anything on Reinforcement Learning. Maybe an Ask HN is in order.
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Maybe I am not the target group but I can not think of a single website with autoplay video w sound.

What am I missing?
Agree, cats are often misunderstood.
I find it easier to make meaningful relations now that I am past 30. Usually these start with doing something that really matters together and on top of that I have way better access to people who match my intelectual profile. Maybe it's simply because I am a person who goes out looking for good things to happen not wait for them to come.
A year is a year. It's crap, and shows the brand lacks class and respect. Who would renew for a bunch of a-holes?
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In incognito mode every time is the first time. No thank you very much, there are way too many "don't show this again" messages to go through already.
Is edible arrangements really a botulism risk? I would think E. coli if anything.
Also, I wonder where chrome stores the user’s autoplay history? Will it be cleared when wiping history? Cookies? Or is it never wiped, leaving a record of visited sites in its storage?
They’re not the same expression though. The first gets defaulted to Integer, the second is specialized to Int by the (!!) function. (Integer is unbounded, Int is bounded)

The rest of your argument is fairly vague and unspecific. But I would suggest trying to understand the underlying type theory instead of focusing on the affordances that the type system makes for practicality and usability concerns. In my experience that makes it a lot clearer why the type inference works the ways it does in some of the weird cases. (That’s not to say that Haskell doesn’t have it’s warts..)
> Usually you're doing I/O for some practical reason and want to do simple, well-defined, typically sequential processing on the results. Which is to say blocking is your friend and you shouldn't be mucking with parallel I/O paradigms if you can at all avoid it.

In principle yes, though it becomes annoying when your use-case evolves or you have to miss out on otherwise obvious optimization opportunities because they'd seriously complicate your program.

E.g., Your program is mostly sequential but in one step, you'd be able to do a bunch of requests in parallel.

I think paradigms like async/await are a step ahead to give you the best of both worlds here: You can write your programs as if your requests block, but it still uses async IO behind the scenes - and you can drop the pretense of blocking when it makes sense at any time.
>For at least 8 hours of your day, you are at work, interacting with people in an environment toxic for creating trusting friendships (You're competing for the same roles, titles, bonuses, etc.)

I... man, I hate working at places like that. And I don't very often; I suppose it's the privilege of having in-demand skills and living in a place with a wide choice of employers, but yeah, I've had jobs like that and I got out quick. The vast majority of places I've worked came with sort of built in friend groups. I mean, "work friends" are different from real friends, but it is a built in social group that pretty much has to be friendly to you unless you do thing that are outlandishly unacceptable. And sometimes 'work friends' turns in to real friends.

Friendship and competition can go together, and they usually do. I mean, look at normal people and sports, or academic high achievers and academics. If you can't compete without being friends, you either need to work on yourself or you need to compete with different people.

As technical individual contributors, I personally don't feel a strong sense of competition, for that matter. In my experience, you get more points by telling the boss something true and good about a co-worker than you do for telling the boss something true and bad about a co worker. I mean, we all know, if you want to really get ahead, you switch jobs, right? and yes, in the abstract, you are competing with your co-workers for those other jobs, but you rarely know who else is interviewing for a particular position.

But my own experience is that work is way better for meeting friends than high school.

(I mean, unless by friends, you mean dates... which is a different sort of thing, and yeah, I personally don't have the social skills to date people I work with, so I avoid that whole can of worms)
That's one very twisted way of computing the chance of dying on the shuttle. If you launched the same crew over and over again they would all have died. If you used 'fresh' people for every launch then the chance according to your computation would have been lower.

And yet, through all of that the underlying machinery would be identical and that is the thing we're trying to evaluate here.

So even though you can compute that particular number it is not a very useful number to calculate.

A better way would be to look at the 2/135 number to determine vehicle safety and to use the number of astronauts on board to get to a generic figure and for each individual astronaut to use the 2/135 multiplied by the number of flights they took to figure out their chances.

Of course these are still very low numbers and the error bars will therefore be large.
For me the sad part of "economics" and their number trickeries is the unsustainable usage of natural resources. I could argue all they really did is inflate current value and allow "loaning" from future resources to boost the current economy.
Global warming in this context is the (possibly too late) push back in this systems equilibrium.
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