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As a person who recently wore contacts every day until dry eyes and an injury forced me to switch back to glasses, I have almost entirely the opposite experience. It bothers me to wear glasses again. My prescription is quite strong, so it creates a pretty significant distortion, stronger towards the edges of the lenses. It's hard to do sports, as I now have a background fear about losing/breaking them, and the distortion messes with my hand/eye coordination. I had an episode skiing where I actually got nauseous from disorientation. As a result I do far less sports and that leads to other things. Ultimately, it has kind of screwed up my sense of scale of things, too, because the glasses make everything appear a bit smaller.

When I take off my glasses the distortion goes away, of course, but I can't read street signs, see people's expressions, watch movies, and other things. Watching an incredible sunset or mountain scene with my own eyes...it's like looking at a 200x100 pixel image Gaussian blurred to fill the whole field of view.

I might agree with you if my prescription is less, but TBH I wish I could get rid of these damn spectacles.

On the other hand, it did teach me a bit about philosophy. E.g. now I realize that to see the world "clearly" I require lenses, I just never noticed before. All of my perception is actually through lenses, not just my eyes. Touch, taste, smell, feeling, all distorted by my senses. And it feeds into my mind, the biggest, most distorted lens of all :)
Same here... I'm doing my best to do Keto, not forever but just to change my relationship with carbs. Everything I was eating was potato's, pasta, rice and bread. I need to retrain myself to eat less of this shit. Two weeks in and I'm feeling pretty good (so good in fact that I took up running last week and I'm making good progress with that as well!)
That's not a system at all.
I stopped smoking cannabis a little over a month ago and now I feel all this energy surging through me that I had been missing since 2017.

I had been really down since my SO passed away in september but I hadn't smoked what you might consider excessively. The problem was that I smoked too regularly. Like a little pinch in a pipe twice a week. That's enough to keep my body affected by it. And it takes at least a month for it to purge.

I've been through this before but the older I get the more I notice the changes, the contrast in energy and behavior.

So this last time has me thinking of never smoking again. Or at least never getting into a smoking period longer than one week again. An occasional spliff with friends would be ok but no repeats.

Anyways, none of that is on the map for now, right now I'm feeling so great. I'm finishing off projects, I'm coding until the sun comes up, I'm exercising. God I love being clean!
That's not what the numbers there are saying though. They're saying that over half of scientists have failed to replicate a single study (either their own or someone else's). It says nothing about the replicability of most studies.
Interesting, will read up on these. There's ten years difference between early Apple and late Apple Jobs so maybe things were different for Carmack. In the end, Jobs must have been doing something right given his track record.
Fortran can give you much better speed at comparable code-complexity, as long as your problem is one which FORTRAN is optimized for, i.e. multidimensional array manipulation or numerical work.
Stop buying stuff.

I was a compulsive spender. Never bought on credit mind but I’d blow my entire paycheque after bills on stuff like cameras, hifi, the latest Apple doodad, etc.

I literally stopped buying anything not required for my day to day sustenance. No Netflix, started renting what I wanted to watch which forced me to be more picky with my expenditure and time.

No more eating out except for special occasions. Packed lunches and home made meals only.

No more buying books until I read the ones on my shelf.

No more buying a new Mac every time my old one got mildly slow.

No more video games or Blu-rays until I had finished the ones sitting in shrink wrap on the shelf.

Once you pare things down you start to become almost painfully aware of how the seemingly little expenditures add up fast.

With the surplus income I ended up with about 6-8 months living expenses saved which suddenly made me realize that I had the freedom to look around from my present job. Which so far is working out I think... (started my own company and launching our product this month :)
Fruit is okay, but fruit juice is another story. Without the fibre it's digested quite differently and is not very good for you.
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It’s not about you, it’s about aggregate housing costs. If everyone was earning $1mn and spending $750k on rent, the remaining $250k may not be a lot of money.

But of course you’re right, everything else being equal I would also be happy to earn $1bn and spend 99% on rent.
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How can you turn off all notifications except from one person?
Saying no.

To clients for uninteresting work.
To scope creep and stopping unbilled features.
To friends and family for social commitments when I know I’m spreading myself thin and may not be able to go through or not be fully present.

This helps me cut out FOMO and makes me a bit more sane

It is still scary to do it everytime but it also makes my Yeses a more conscious choice instead of being the de-facto option.
Shutdown all computers including cell phones after sunset and in w-ends. Constant struggle, well worth it.
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I see the attraction of stack-based languages. Composing functions by concatenation is simple and expressive, but at some point it hits a limit and turns into stack juggling, where you have to keep track of a lot of state on the stack (or stacks). This is even worse in low-level FORTH, but still noticeable in higher-level stack languages, like Joy and, probably, lang5.

Klong (http://t3x.org/klong/) also started as a stack language, but I soon grew tired of keeping track of the stack, so I wrote a compiler that translates K-like syntax to a stack machine program. You can still see the underlying stack language when you start the interpreter withe the -d command line option.
"the manager", personified. Sheesh.

"Code doesn't sell itself" is almost managerial/ceo self-parody -- especially when it's a two-person show (not to mention the score of successful open/open-ish projects that totally and utterly lack a marketer/salesman.)

I think he meant "Code doesn't skim its' own profit."
I think they're working on servo for that. It'll be able to be dropped in place of Chromium: it'll support the same API.

Or so I remember.
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Since when you need to be married to have kids? Sounds like correlation, but likely not causation.
This is the future. Silicon valley rent problems are a network optimization problem best solved by pushing resources to the edge of the graph.
Switching from measuring productivity to measuring sleep, including nap-taking and night sleeping, has really helped me. I wrote about the sleep part a bit here[0].

I originally started (I think 3 years ago) measuring my satisfaction with how each day went and soon found that "getting all the things done" and all the productivity focus simply wasn't _that_ important to my happiness, contrary to what I had believed in the past. I clearly enjoy life much more when I'm well-rested and can _also_ get more done under those circumstances.

[0] https://www.friendlyskies.net/intj/managing-effective-sleep-...
How can I encourage my team (and boss) to improve their documentation habits?
I've worked for my current employer for a few years, both on-site, and remotely in the same timezone. This year I've been working for remotely with a 12 hour time difference.

It generally works out ok as I have about a 2-hour overlap with my team at the end of my day. However, a new problem has arisen that I don't know how to deal with and it's becoming more frequent.

I'll start my day and notice a JIRA story has been assigned to me. Often it's labeled high priority. The subject and description are vague. I'm lucky if it has acceptance criteria. Everyone is asleep, and I can't make any progress.

I can imagine the discussion:
"Oh, that story we forgot about needs to get done soon, let's have him work on it tonight."

They forget that I wasn't in the room when they were talking about it, they forget that one person worked on it and didn't create any documentation. The story is so vague I may not even know what repo(s) it involves. I've had stories like this that have been written by other developers, the SCRUM master, and my boss.

Having worked with geographically distributed developers in the past, where you can't rely on tribal knowledge or hallway conversation I try to lead by example by adding notes and documentation everywhere. The feedback I get is that it is appreciated, and they'll say that they "should really start doing that too" but it has not caught on. The QA team has been the most appreciative as they're accustomed to writing bug reports and don't usually work with the developers directly.

I'm not sure how I can improve this situation. It makes me feel unproductive. Some days I am so discouraged that I have considering looking for a new job. There are plenty of other things I like about the company, and I'd prefer to stay and make things better, but I am out of ideas and looking for some new ones.
It has been for a while now. In particular, it has been since they started going all-in on Quantum from FF 57.
In the thread, he says he owns the vast majority of the code, so he should be able to use it freely and distribute it under any license; at most he'll have to request new licenses from other contributors or rewrite their code.
there's no reason to consume bottled mayonnaise at all.
Don't be extremely strict, food with reasonable % of sugar will not harm you if you will be below daily limit with sugar...
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Seq2Seq DNC looks interesting.. any implementation on github yet?
It may not be novel, but then why do you we still have commercial APIs (Microsoft, Google, IBM Watson, etc.) where there is pretty much no way to "fine tune" them to your domain with a small set of supervised examples? We all know domain adaptation is a real problem.

Instead you either have to roll-your-own models in-house (which defeats the whole point of using a ready made cloud solution) or deal with whatever accuracy you happen to get from those APIs.

IMHO this is an area where you can make some serious competitive headway in commoditised AI/ML. Do all the heavy lifting of pretraining and give your customers an API to "fine-tune" with. Who is currently doing this?
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Started working out, started vaping (and stopped smoking). Noticeable quality of life increase in just a few weeks
Squash/Ribena/'Juice' is heavily sweetened with chemical sweeteners.
It still could be leprechauns, though. A null hypothesis is not the same as the inverse of the H1.
Hiring a personal trainer and work out 5 times a week (only 2 with a trainer though, soon 1).

YMMV, a trainer has allowed me to fix goals and get tailored exercises so I progress quickly.

I repeat the exercises I did with the trainers the other days of the week.

Since I am not a morning person, I go to the gym in the evening, so I often go there , have a shower and go to sleep.

It has tremendously improved both my sleep and my energy levels.
> Choosing to be an example of recovery is not evidence I have not recovered.

There's a huge difference, as I see it, between choosing to be an example of recovery and being,asyou previously described, a “brag and show off your scars person”, particularly in terms of the audience to which accounts of particular trauma are directed.
Wow... ${expletives}. It is all starting to make sense to me now.

Ref what I wrote on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17017920 :

"As a Norwegian, when I visited Boston in 1999 for an Allaire dev conference I saw more grossly fat / obese people in the _hour_ spent switching flights at Newark airport than I had in my (then) home country in the preceding year. I was really taken aback."

I never got my now 7y son into juices etc and Coke products are generally banned in our home. He has a very healthy body weight, so that's one fewer thing he has to worry about whilst growing up.
> soon found that "getting all the things done" and all the productivity focus simply wasn't _that_ important to my happiness

Then what was important to your happiness? Being well-rested?
If you live in an area where housing costs are high, most other cost is likely also higher (tax, food, daycare, school, etc.).
What's a 7 minute app? Only 7 minutes of working out?
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Nice effort!

And I will use that as my reason for picking up my next bottle of Single Malt.
Not sure how much its paying off but spending about half an hour every day doing Swedish lessons on Duolingo. No real aim, I don't expect to be able to speak it at all but its more about not being locked into just English. I have some Spanish so that will be next up. I've noticed it makes me feel more accomplished every day at least.
I disabled all social media accounts and now only get notifications when people call or text me.

Incidentally, very few do (siblings, girlfriend, the occasional friend making an appointment).
I've also used that link in the past, but in digging more into the data I think there may be some problems with those data - perhaps that they only consider hourly wages, and not compensation. These [1] data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and are just a cleaner representation of direct Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That is Nonfarm Business Sector: Real Compensation Per Hour. And you can see it has been consistently increasing - up about 50% since 1970.

Nonfarm business sector is defined as: The nonfarm business sector is a subset of the domestic economy and excludes the economic activities of the following: general government, private households, nonprofit organizations serving individuals, and farms. The nonfarm business sector accounted for about 77 percent of the value of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2000.

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Another important metric is that in the US there has been a sharp upward trend in wealth of society. I ran into this [2] when actually searching information on the chiseling out of the middle class. And that paper does describe that chiseling of the middle class. In 1979 the middle class controlled 46% of all income, and the upper/rich classes controlled 30%. Today (well at least today as of 2014) the rich and upper class control 63% with the middle class left with 26%. There's even been a chiseling out of the middle class as a whole declining from 38.8% of society to 32% of society.

But the eye opener is this. This is the change in the size of each economic group between 1979 and 2014 as a percent of the total population:

- Rich: 0.1% -> 1.8%

- Upper Middle Class: 12.9% -> 29.4%

- Middle Class: 38.8% -> 32%

- Lower Middle Class: 23.9% -> 17.1%

- Poor or Near-Poor: 24.3% -> 19.8%

These data are certainly not indicative of flat lining of real earnings. Statistics like this are certainly subject to biased interpretation and 'massaging'. If one is curious about the source, wiki has a section on the political stance of the Urban Institute [3]. Though the paper itself is very transparent in their methodology and extremely readable. I found it all eye opening to the point that it actually changed my worldview.

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I'm unsure what exactly what causes the biggest skewing of Pew's numbers. It could be that perhaps we have a greater relative ratio of workers that are excluded from their numbers (for e.g. occupying 'supervisory' roles), or it could be that compensation beyond wages itself has just become much more valuable. It's also possible that their numbers are reasonable but the labor force dynamics make them misleading. For instance imagine if a smaller chunk of society counts as part of the labor force or that the labor force participation rate declines. Still considering wages just within this segment of society would not really indicate the changes for society at large. In any case, and for whatever the reason, those those data are not really indicative of the economic direction of the nation.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB

[2] - https://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Institute#Political_stan...
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No doubt! It seems surprisingly difficult tease out exactly what it was, even if you trawl through all the anecdotes, histories and biographies. Perhaps it's simply that his proverbial reality distortion field held for long enough for his collaborators make the unreality reality.
Just ask the two Jessica Ishaks who live in Sydney how annoying it is [1] (on a side note, doesn't seem super clever to publish your name, area, and birthdate on the Daily Mail).

There's also the two Lisa S Davis' in NYC [2].

And we can't forget the two Emily Hughes' in England [3].

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4445950/Women-birthd...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-the...

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/student-universit...
Others take the example of the Irish bank strike as evidence that much of what banks do is a “socially useless activity”.

Presumably the author of this piece also feels that since newspapers could be replaced by bloggers they are also socially useless ...?
Scheduling every minute of the next day the previous night. I got this idea from Deep Work and it's, I think, the most valuable piece of advice from the book. It helps me structure the day and not feel like it's wasted at the end before I go to bed.
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Yes, I know this article too, and I apologize for the collateral annoying-ness of my comment. I knew I was stepping in one of those, but it’s not what I came in here for.

The downside of being ill-advised in this way is exceptionally, asymmetrically, high for certain people (and maybe anyone standing next to them). That’s who I was talking to. If you had seen what I've seen you might regretfully do the same. Best regards, sorry for the inconvenience.
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We can't escape that behavior because we are extremely encouraged to care what others think about us.

The entire western culture is about ego, and ego loves to feel part of some team or group. Standing alone is very hard for most people.
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1. Stopped drinking diet coke at home.

I had a relapse on this but now I'm back to not drinking it anymore. I'll drink one with pizza but won't stock it ever again. Glass bottles of Pellegrino sparkling water is my replacement.

2. Stopped eating after 8PM entirely.

Never done this before and it's excellent. Lost some weight and I feel better. Chewing Xytol gum when I feel the urge to eat but mostly don't need it.

3. Turned the brightness down on my monitors.

I try to get it closer to the ambient brightness of my room. Much easier on the eyes.
Note that you shall never assume that the birth numbers or SSNs are unique: they are often NOT.

I've heard that they are not unique in the US and a few stories from my Databases course professor about how you should always assign your own unique IDs to users. Birth numbers change.
Soon Yahoo mail will be shutting down too. Marissa Mayer did a great job.
Having predictable email addresses of a set format is both a boon and a bane.

It's a great way to ensure that you get a bunch of spam from random people looking for jobs etc. landing in your inbox after guessing your email address.
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Would like to add "habit of drinking water" to this list. ANY beverage whether its coffee, soda, tea - is easily 4 to 6 dollars and is an entirely made up requirement.
According to the README of that project, it does not support snippets nor auto-complete yet. Seems to be very alphaish..
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300k a year post tax, 50 weeks a year, 50 hours a week, that's $120 an hour.

If it takes an extra hour a day and $500 a month that's $3000 to save a month in housing costs
Agreed Norwegian water was great. I recall when I grew up in Fredrikstad, Coca Cola was always the go-to drink #1 at parties etc. They did a stellar job inserting themselves.

Fortunately those were the only occasions when we'd have it, and as kids we were far more active back then - roaming the streets and forests, so we had more than enough activity to offset.

My son's grown up on water after the breast and has very little interest in soft drinks now, not that we encourage him to try them out.
It comes from the 2016 Democrat Party Platform, the pamphlet they publish with their stated positions on a range of topics.

I'll admit I had missed the 2016 ruling on the issue. I may be overly cynical on it, but as I skimmed the briefing it seemed the ISPs still had some court options available. Even if I'm wrong there, they still had the chance to prevent the current situation and ignored it.
Aim to do it 3x in a row (~30 minutes). When I started I was barely able to do a single set, then once 1 set was too little I was ramping up intensity more and more (like to 60 pushups per 30 seconds), then added one more run etc. Now I do the first one as a warm up (knees etc.) and second/third run are getting progressively more crazy. It helped me going from nerdy to very athletic in 2 years. Also, combine with up to 100 decline wide pushups for chest improvement; in 2 months you'll see massive improvements. Then of course good diet, sleep, etc. I actually start my day with it; 6am wake up, some drink/hygiene, then 6:15 HIIT with 7-minute workout sets, 6:45 breakfast, 7:00 work (from home), 3pm end of work and fun begins.