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“The Idiot” Savant: On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Idiot
Dwell in this question while noticing the people around you. Approach the ones you truly admire (not the ones you envy).

One in n will be open to a conversation. Feed the relationships that give you the space to be yourself and seem to want from you the contributions you love giving. Being yourself means being vulnerably honest with the aspects of yourself which you don’t yet love. I think that’s most obvious with artists.

And please give it time. Took a decade to have some of my acquaintances get distilled in into friendships.
> Is there any immediate economic incentive to adding algae into feed?

You can charge more for it? Many consumers are willing to pay more for environmentally-friendlier options now.
The top export of every state in the US
I agree is does take a hustler kind of attitude to execute on some of these but others such as buying an existing Shopify app on their exchange just requires due diligence.
Holy farts, that’s amazing!
I think this opinion makes some sense from a pure-functional standpoint, but not from an imperative one. In imperative programming, where you're managing lots of state, it's important to be able to represent the concept of a slot with nothing in it.

That said, I think a large portion of the problems caused by null could have been avoided by making one small change to its behavior: accessing a member (or element) of a null should evaluate to null instead of throwing. This is deeply intuitive and is the biggest cause of null pointer exceptions. If you try to access a.b, and a is null, it makes perfect sense that b is also null. Many languages have recently started adding an "optional chaining" operator that works this way, but a lot of pain could've been avoided if things were this way from the start.
What's your definition of freedom?
Sure, send me a mail at the address in my profile. I'll dig up the code tomorrow.
The requirements to build it on new homes makes old homes more valuable because they have one less requirement. It makes already built homes relatively more valuable to new ones.

Its a drop in the bucket of NIMBYism tho.
I imagine businesses plan ahead and make deals for more than 7 years. It's already too late if your sentinel value is within the range of your real values.
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Ah, xearth! http://hewgill.com/xearth/original/

It inspired many clones. I used to run osxplanet but it seems long since defunct too: http://www.osxplanet.com
And there is the revived GPLv3 LibreDWG, which can read most DWG versions. And write support is pretty close.
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libredwg/
> Systemd was initially sold as providing faster boot times.

Systemd was not about speed. Speed is a side-effect of correctly handling ordering. See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.
That's an especially apt quote from 1911 by Alfred North Whitehead.

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
Everyone should be mandated to use facebook. This will drive the cost of data-mining down, including cost of elections, marketing and use of police force. This is required for all people born after 1990, older do not need to comply.
I have PTSD and practice mindfulness/buddhism and while it doesn't cure it, it certainly does help a lot. You can only act and change the circumstances when you have some new insights and there is where mindfulness/buddhism helps me. It is certainly not the case of I'm meditating and miraculously all my problems go away...

Personally I don't think that mindfulness/medition/... is overhyped but the tools/apps/courses are. There is really no need to spends hunderds of euro's to being mindfull or learn the practices.
Yes, this is why it's critical to adopt an output/outcome mentality. When you can't see if or when we're working the only signal of status is whether shit is getting done. This should be the only thing you care about, and it should be super obvious of you're project managing correctly.
> If a bottom-down approach was remotely effective, no one would bother teaching the basics.

This is a purist approach.

Sometimes, you sacrifice the details to broaden the audience. This has the result of getting more people interested.
That's probably why GP said "modern codecs", since MP3 has specific known flaws
The problem with phone trees is not that they suck at getting you to the right department, it's that the options required mostly aren't there. It's that it makes it soooo cheap for the company implementing the phone tree to waste your time just to improve the metrics of some low-level idiot manager at the company.

Voice will make this a LOT worse, not better.
Let's say that Q, W, and E are 1Ω, 2Ω, and 4Ω, respectively. I'll pretend they're wired in series to make the numbers work out nicely, but it should also work in parallel. If you measure 3Ω, then Q and W are pressed. 6Ω: W and E. 7Ω: all three.
I would extend on this idea. Whenever exception were to be thrown we could result in null instead. We would end up with error-free programs instantly. Good luck looking for root cause of strange results.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because right now the West coast from San Francisco North to at least Fort Bragg, has been suffering a kelp die off of great proportions.

No one is quite sure whats going on, but apparently due to climate change, or at least warmer ocean water from further South that we've had for the last 5 or more years, has caused the kelp to die off at a rapid rate, to the point of denuding whole sections of ocean bottom.

The whole sea urchin industry has been devastated, and those folks received Federal Disaster funds last year to make it through this year, but things are still bleak.

It's as big a catastrophe as the Australian coral die off, yet it's not getting much press here in the USA.
That is easier said than done for people who have been struggling with social isolation, ostracization, loneliness, mockery, anxiety, awkwardness, zero self-esteem, an inability to relate, and little or no contact with the opposite sex for their entire lives.

That would also have been me, to some extent. Many things that are worth doing have an element of challenge. Easier said than done.

They don't know how to dress in a fashionable or appealing way. They probably don't know proper grooming beyond the basics.

Those are big ones, and they are fairly easily fixed if you have the resources of a white collar worker. Isn't that what happens in those 80's movies? The awkward one gets cleaned up and turns out to be a hottie?

You say "genuinely be yourself", but many people are unable to be themselves without unintentionally and unknowingly creating aversion and discomfort in others.

This, too goes for just about everyone, to some extent. Dancing or some other kind of physical activity can help. The point isn't to let all of your guts spill out. The point is to get you out of yourself, without being artificially impaired. Being artificially impaired actually never actually helped me one iota. Not even Ecstasy, at least not in the long run. In terms of good relations between men and women, I think it largely hurts on US campuses.

Many women also struggle with anxiety, awkwardness, isolation, and the other issues listed

I dated one for most of a decade and asked her to marry me. She said no. Didn't end well. I would say, that finding a partner who is well adjusted pretty much trumps every other concern. The first well adjusted partner who you'd trust to save your life: I'd say one should marry her/him.

One last thing I'd say: Don't be a nihilist. I'm an atheist, but I would also say that I have a purpose driven life. Go and see enough of the world, so you know how both ugly and beautiful it can be -- until it brings you to tears. Then you will be able to find and live for some meaningful goal. Getting past nihilism can be a huge leg up on finding good relationships. (College aged women can sometimes mistake nihilism for depth, but for me, I was too psychically beat up to "benefit" from that.)
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That is because you are too focused on doing it "right". That was something that I also had problems with in the beginning.

Anxiety went away from the moment that I've read and accepted that there is no right or bad way to being mindful or meditate. Also not being negative against bad feelings that could arise when practicing and just observe was a big step for me and made it easier to make it go away or make it less powerfull.
But the apparatus only produces 1µL/cm^2.
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> The rough edges I’ve hit can all be attributed to systemd brain damage (like the fact that the linux kernel no longer has a working, synchronous, “probe the network cards and create a logical interface for each one” primitive).

Multithreaded device probing exists far before systemd. It was introduced around Linux 2.6.18.
That's concerning. One of the reasons I bought a Librem 5 is that I thought this would fund development of Matrix.

The Librem 5 page says “partnering with Matrix” but it now sounds like that has no meaning.
Note that I didn't suggest this for method calls, only for property access. Again, it's extremely intuitive that a nothing's property is nothing. Making that logical extension is not sweeping errors under the rug, it's dovetailing them into a format where they can be implicitly handled by logic that already exists. I.e., if(a != null && a.b != null && a.b.c != null) becomes if(a.b.c != null). It doesn't make the problem go away, but it certainly mitigates it.
The future of AutoCAD is certainly not web, but BIM. Their biggest problem is that BIM standards are national, so have to be provided by third party devs. Which does not allow coming up with proper general solutions for the more technical challenges of working with large BIM projects. Web is only a toy, like the first internet connected AutoCAD versions 2000.
I remember that some system crashes would cause it to disable itself, with a hyperlink to reenable it. I also remember being obsessed with converting movie clips into animated gifs, and setting those as my background.
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Crimney... it's a good song.
Guess I should have posted a link to fart song, eh
How is internet traffic meaningfully different from phone network traffic? It's all signals carrying data over transmission cables...
Out of curiosity, to start nginx and sshd you need like 2 lines of shell code in a BSDish rc.conf - one for starting each service. Why do you think systemd bringing in 10s and 100s of megabytes of black magic binary code is a trade-off worth making, especially on a non-desktop without a need for reacting on up/down events of network interfaces?
My best productivity hack is: don't try to be productive without a clearly defined goal.
It's not a theory, it's a description of my observations.

I've presented my sources. Why not go find counter-examples? I bet you'll find it's harder than you expect. But OK, I'll make my case more strongly.

Here's a simple exercise. Pick a buzzword, say blockchain, search for "women in X" and let's look at some of the top results.

https://www.womenontheblock.io/ - check out the speakers. The first is a PhD student in cryptography, not a bad start. But then there's a co-founder, another co-founder, another founder (of "Investing in Women" i.e. an activist), a lawyer, an actual software engineer! Sort of - in 2011 she was an intern, she spent two years doing support tickets and is now a PM, but hey, that's at least something. Then we're back to a lobbyist, another founder (of a foundation), another lawyer, "Chief Discovery Officer" whatever that is, lawyer, digital content lead, shareholder (?), co-founder, business development executive, CFO, lawyer, CTO of the World Bank Group whose background is actually management consulting and "thought leadership", sales, "human capital officer" etc etc.

You get the picture. I just worked down the list and of all the people listed, only two appeared to do anything actually related to writing software: a cryptography student and someone who spent a couple of years as a support engineer but then quickly moved into product management.

Notice the pre-ponderance of women calling themselves founders and co-founders. That's very common. They are not what HN readers would recognise as a startup founder. Often they've founded entities that don't do anything, or are just organising more "women in X" meetups, or in the rare case where they're making software, have partnered with men / outsourcing shops to do so.

Here's another example: https://www.blockchainbeach.com/live-2018-women-in-blockchai...

Look at the agenda. It starts with a basic intro to blockchain, ok, slightly technical but nothing you can't find on YouTube. But then we're right into a discussion of "her time in the middle east and dispelling misconceptions about women in that region" i.e. about general women's issues, not tech. Then a panel whose first listed topic is "social impact" and one of the members is a musician (at least two of the women do appear to be at least somewhat technical). Then a marketing pitch for some random alt-coin whose relevance appears to be mostly that the marketing person for NEM is a woman. Then a keynote on "diversity in blockchain" - women's issues/feminism again. Then a panel on "women empowerment and inclusion". Useful observations like "42% of all the women in the world do not have a bank account" (men's problems of course don't count). And so on.

Really, if you have never investigated these events before - don't bother. They are mostly just non-technical feminists complaining about men, engaging in outrageous sexism and generally making the whole feminist cause look bad.
You are assuming that Facebook is intrinsically negative, which is not always the case. It certainly has its pros and cons. For example, my parents use FB to find and connect with old friends from grade school. Some use it to know about local events. Some use it to promote their business or their fledgling indie band.

Aside from this, in my home country, the Philippines, SMS & telephone services are expensive. Being a 3rd world archipelago country, infrastructure in the provinces is so bad that cabled & optic internet is not available for a lot of people. Facebook is a gem in my country in that they provide free internet for anyone utilising FB's services with a smartphone (you can buy cheap 2nd hand android phones there for less than $20). The folks here use FB's services to keep themselves updated with the world as well as to call/chat. It's a great way to connect and recently people don't even memorise their phone numbers anymore and instead, people ask each other for their facebook.
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Something I did for a client fixed on Godaddy was clone their site to AWS and another local host. Then ran speed tests in front of them.

The difference was huge and they agreed to change.

While its not strictly fair, it offered a clear & tangible difference to the client to help them make that leap.
ok but that's always a risk, not just for remote people.
>Taking a coffee break is almost mandatory, even the boss will look funny at you if you skip it. This is where you talk about the day, plans ahead and other things connected to work or life in general.

Do those count as 'fika' coffee breaks, then? That's one of my favorite ideas from Swedish culture, even if I don't fully grok (understand) it yet. It feels like fika at work is a reminder that work isn't the end goal, it's the time you spend with others that is valuable.

https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/fika/
Try Vue.js then :)
Why PostgreSQL only? The mara-DB dependency [1] claims to support more.

[1] https://github.com/mara/mara-db
Clearly there's a place for null: most languages have it, most developers have no problem with it, it does represent something (lack of information). It is logical and mathematical--I suggest you read the GEB book for tons of more info on that.

That said, people are _also_ free to experiment with null-free languages, or to avoid null. If it works for their use case, fantastic!

Just the attitude of the post is terrible. For example the user creates a sock puppet and posts a trolling/edgy question to Stack Overflow... just to see if it's toxic.

Sorry, these posts are toxic, in my opinion.
Yes, We're GIVING AWAY $1000
What about the internet seems broken to you that loss of net neutrality will fix?
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Here are 25 concrete suggestions proffered by not just a YIMBY but a bone fide, for-profit housing developer: https://urbanize.la/post/25-solutions-builder%E2%80%99s-pers...

Which of those specific, concrete suggestions do you find objectionable? Like some other YIMBYs (myself included) he even admits that we may need to expand rent control.

NIMBYs can't shake their fingers at housing developers and will them into burning money on unprofitable projects. And even a city government as rich as San Francisco couldn't build a small fraction of the units necessary to relieve the pressure before it would bankrupt the city.

This is the cold, hard truth. Renters have exactly two choices: continue opposing (by action or inaction) new development while prices rise and the rent-controlled stock slowly disappears, or be part of the solution. But tacking on BMR requirements is not a solution--it's no different than saying, "you can build new housing, but you still need to jump through all the same hoops and, oh, yeah, you have to give it away". WTF!?

On top of all that, while NIMBYs complain about displacement and the depletion of rent-controlled housing, there's literally no organized movement on their part that I'm aware of that proposes mitigations as part of a grand bargain. All I hear is, "no, no, no; but, but but." Rather, it's the YIMBYs proposing comprehensive solutions, including expansion of rent control. The funny thing is, rent control and density go hand-in-hand. The more units in a building the greater the turnover and the less the burden on an individual landlord.
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Have you considered getting someone you trust (co founder) to try out or validate the new concept.

You would hold board position to start with.

Meanwhile look for your replacement Or Merge entities at a later date.
Totally agree: further to that, if you had int+bool to represent nullable values, you'd also have to sort the ridiculousness of having a null value with a value, also error prone.
No, your trading engine is on the other end, the link only sends prices. Let's assume you want to trade on a future in Chicago that's based on London prices (e.g. a world wide equity index). You know Chicago prices and NYC prices and what people in Chicago think London prices are. If you then get from London a price indication that this has changed, you can quickly trade against it to make money. The London link never needs to know what happened, they just send prices that could be interesting. All logic sits at the exchange where trades happen since that's dependent on local prices at time of execution.
Buses in Berlin are okay, but trains are usually twice as fast. Buses serve the last mile between the train station and your destination.
Where does the methane go? Does the hydrogen and carbon just move to the dung and meat? Genuinely curious.
I agree. When you learn React, small examples typically follow folder-by-type but, in larger apps, it becomes apparent this doesn't work.

If you take the recommended path, i.e add redux iff you need it, you've already settled away from folder-by-type. It's natural to organise by feature since you're generally doing it anyway by that point.

Instead of a rework, it might be easier to add a small page on folder structure.

Noticed you on Reactiflux too, hi!
maybe more like $4000 where you can get a low-end Rolex. The $1000-4000 price range seems to be dominated by nice looking watches that use swatch (ETA) movements. At least the sub-$1000 watches are honest about what they are, so you're mostly buying them for aesthetics anyway.
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Interestingly, I had the opposite experience. In my area the credit unions have fees equal to our greater than the big banks for personal accounts. However, one local credit union had the best stats for my small business account.

It's worth noting I did not travel internationally or do any international business. Also, their ATM was the old green screen style as late as 2015 and did not accept deposits.
Being unconstrained.
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Yeah, it was super weird how the subject migrated from programming theory to a rant about stack overflow.

On the actual topic, I think a good compromise is what typescript and I think rust do, which is, a value is only nullable if you explicitly declare it as such. It forces you to be judicious, while still allowing you the option when you need it.
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> For some reason lot of people are confused about these.

The reason being, their paycheck literally depends on being confused about this :). LLCs and copyrights may be intended for furthering public good, but people starting LLC or exploiting copyright protection are there for their personal profits. The public is, unfortunately, very bad at ensuring the tools created for public good are actually used for public good.
So he can pay to develop the platform needed so he can retire on Mars
I tend to hire off Freelancer. I haven't seen too much difference in people found. It seems more in the way of how you filter people as there is a bunch of poor performers.

I find Upwork seems to give people high summary ratings and when you look at their history and there is a bunch of bad reviews. There is something dodgy going on there which is a main reason I flipped to Freelancer. That and I thought it was good to support a company from my country.
I would assume they track anyone working with customer data or other sensitive data to ensure they don't misuse the access.
For the technical side of things, http://teachyourselfcs.com gives a nice curriculum.
$50k, plus taxes.

You bought a car for $2k, but it was a used car. The fair comparison might be a Nissan Versa S, the cheapest new car in America at $12,780. Or maybe your car has more features than that, I don't know. That still puts the Model 3 at a multiple of the cost of that car, but hardly to an insane extent. Hell, in California you can, today, with rebates (yes, you have to pay some money up front) buy a new BMW i3 for about $22k. Of course, that's a particularly limited electric car, but then again, it also has features a $12,780 Nissan Versa does not, so you could argue the Versa is also limited.

We're not there yet, but we're getting there.

Actually a better argument from your point would be that the mandatory reverse cameras, airbags, safety cells, safety belts, ABS, etc, make new cars more expensive than they SHOULD be. In many countries you can get a brand new car for way less than $12,780. Of course, it's less safe and pollutes more than the new car you buy in the US, but there's a tradeoff in price.

Then again, that tradeoff trickles down to the used market, and pretty soon you have a $2k used car that HN buyers can buy, which is safer, cleaner, and more fuel efficient than an equivalent used car in a 2nd world country.

Or at least, that's how it works in theory.
What exact need?
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I find it fine. Here, read my article, and links to my work. Fair trade.
It's not that 'zero' doesn't exist.

It's that in assembly Null's just a zero.
The Pixel 1 also only gets 1y of support from this point on.

I can't just throw 300€ every year at Google for the privilege of developing apps, even iOS is cheaper at 400€ every 4 years plus 99€ a year.
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