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I'm definitely a procrastinator. I've noticed three things. First, I get bored with tasks, so I make things exciting by putting them off until the pressure mounts. Second, I have a hard time actually finishing something and being content with it. Papers in school, for example, where I could easily turn an essay into a life-long project, constantly tweaking it, or of course in software with feature creep. Third, I dread the frustration that will come from inevitable disappointment in the outcome.

The only thing that has helped me is to break tasks down and use Pomodoros to track time. It creates some accountability and sense of progress that, I guess, provides enough pressure to motivate me. For the disappointment, I just have to remind myself that it almost always takes three tries to get something really right and try to focus on taking satisfaction in learning from errors rather than focusing on the sense of disappointment.

Some amphetamines would probably help, though. ;)
Sometimes the results of science map to our intuition. Sometimes they don't. Both outcomes are interesting, and neither should be assumed.
Everyone wants to abolish DST; fine. But they want to "abolish" it by making it permanent. They want that evening light in the summer far too much to give it up. Now, in the winter, the already short day will start an hour later; you will wake up at night. Sunrise is 8:13am, for example, in Boston, at its extreme, under such a scheme.

And as an engineer, it is just so arbitrarily decoupled from anything natural, like the sun. Sure, standard time was already based on mean time which was based on solar time … it's already quite removed. But the reasons for those steps were much more sound, IMO.

I look forward to the day in the far future when the malcontents, dissatisfied with waking up at night, create a system to shift an hour from the evening to the morning in the winter, and establish Winter Saving Time, or WST…
> some think a recession might clear out some badly run companies and lower costs for the fitter survivors.

I hope it doesn't strengthen AAGMF further by making acquisitions cheaper.
That’s a good point, and not too pedantic I think. There have been concerns about leaching from pressure treated woods, conservation of paper products which leach acidic compounds are an issue, and I may have given the impression that plastic was somehow unusually ephemeral when it’s far from unique. Thanks for the kind correction.
Really I can say that most frameworks are being misused by people who just learn X because it’s cool/new/trendy and everything else is automatically “bad” relative to that framework they learned. So don’t put much credence in claims of X being the best (chances are people didn’t look at Y and Z).

There are certain things react emphasizes which people think is the best thing since sliced bread, namely component based architecture and automagically updating views when there’s a change to state.

Only use it if you find jquery etc to be too painful. If you are fine as is, it’s a nice learning exercise but probably will cause more headache than anything else.
i read the example as alice being an employee of bob, not a spouse
Changing className -> class and onChange -> onInput is going to affect practically every React component ever written.

They seem to have opposite rationales (class is less pedantic and onInput is more pedantic) and I expect at least one of them will get dropped along the way but we'll see.
I'm only vaguely aware of the de-proprietary-ization of PDF; I remember at some point the market was flooded with print-to-PDF software, and commentary that this was happening because of something had somehow changed.

What happened?
If Apple can take over transport and wall it off for somebody then it just further cements their high ground

I fully expect that you won't be able to tether an Android (or any open specced) phone to an Apple car, like iMessage and Apple TV, and they'll use further cement their grip on existing customers
Upgrade on JAL for SFO to HND is 25K miles and sometimes they have promos at 15K. This is from Premium Economy to Business.
I echo this sentiment!
This is a common scenario for human-on-human crashes too. The second person in line starts scanning the oncoming traffic early, assumes the first driver has gone, and accelerates into them.
"Uber" in English has the meaning of "superior" but somehow it didn't take on the negative connotation. Same with "blitz". It comes from "Blitzkrieg" but somehow it's ok to use it in other contexts.
Curiosity motivates me
> How would such "explicit risk mitigation" look like? Passing legislation that indemnifies the manufacturers?

How are car risks currently expressed and addressed? How many risks are currently accepted instead of mitigated?
Kansan here. Gun control is a big part of the Democrats failure in KS. Several years ago, over 90% of the voters supported the RKBA amendment to the KS constitution.
Why would one try to fit a line to this?
40 GPUs Mining on Honeyminer vs. NiceHash
How can I watch this YouTube video using just my terminal?
Note that most big passenger jets and such use kerosene, which is unleaded. In terms of leaded avgas, it's the smaller planes you've got to worry about.
... so Flettner’s a bad guy? (I’ve ancestors who perished there too, you can’t lump everyone, including those involuntarially held, as this situation seems, in the same bag)
I was talking about the people in the plane exposing themselves to risk by flying, not ground fatalities, so uh? I wonder how "high personal risks" would lead to the misunderstanding.

It looks like crashes result in about 300 annual deaths (of people on the planes) and dog bites 20 or 30.

It seems that flying in a small plane is only somewhat more dangerous than driving the similar distance. But driving isn't really safe in the US either.
Is psychologytoday considered an authority in the psychology space?

This isn't specifically about this article but I have read a number of psychologytoday articles recently and they feel like their are opinion pieces loosely backed by studies. This article seems like pretty sound advice, but sometimes I worry that some articles get presented as cold hard scientific facts when they are really just one model or theory.
It wasn't abundantly clear, but I'm often humorless.

Sorry for being so crusty. I just found out that about a third of my professional career was essentially waste because I was too thick to adopt Prolog twenty years ago. It almost physically hurts to think about it.

Anyway, I think OP's right about assertions being a code smell: an assertion is literally the place where you tell the machine you don't know exactly what you're doing, eh?

I've been working towards an error-free mode of development, a combination of Dr. Margaret Hamilton's "Higher Order Software" concept that developed out of the Apollo 11 project with mathematical derivation of programs. I'm just about ready to "productize" it but I'm not going to market it to other developers. I'm going to sell it directly to consumers. They won't know enough to argue with the method, they'll just be able to use the computer to solve problems, I won't tell them that they are programmers.

Bottom line: error-free software development methods have been available for decades but the industry tends to ignore them. In 2018 writing "assert", "throw" or "raise", etc. is a code smell: you are doing it worng. If I sound cranky it's because I am.
Consider for a second that we aren't making lots of incremental improvements though. We're making negligible improvements that are highly visible for marketing and feel good reasons. This is even worse than doing nothing at all because the people that would actually make sacrifices to help are placated by these charades.

This is just like the table water ban.

"Meaningful change is hard, let's max out virtue signaling points instead."
I think right now any way you cut that kind of carbon sequestration it's going to be more effective and less polluting to use the energy you'd put into that process another way.
I can imagine it being similar to medical stuff. You have to demonstrate that you have considered risks and took reasonable steps to avoid them. But you don't have to be perfect. Things can still happen.
It may be hard to come by, because 100LL(low lead avgas) is used only in piston engine aircraft and airports where these make the majority of traffic are usually in sparsely populated areas.
I actually think cars are a good fit for Apple's strengths. Apple is good at user interface and hardware engineering.

1. User Interface

You'd be hard pressed to find an object which most people own that has a more complicated UI than a car. Steering wheel, pedals, buttons everywhere. Probably well over 100 separate features. I think there's tons of room for Apple to create a better experience here.

2. Hardware Engineering

Cars, much more than personal computing devices, rely on hardware engineering. Granted, most of the big engineering issues in cars have been handled, but there will be plenty of new hardware to be engineered as cars transition to full autonomy.
ARM was founded by Acorn, Apple and VSLI, btw. Small world.
I'm very happy developing mobile solutions....
Somehow I don't think Tim Cook is the kind of guy who does shit just so he can brag about it.
But the question is: should developers outside of Apple applaud this trend? How about consumers? Or small startups? Will complete vertical integration eventually spoil the market?
There was a Show HN not too long ago with something like that

https://www.podscripter.co/?ref=hn
So far, Apple seems to be doing a good job of only doing their own hardware where they can turn that into a real advantage. They rightly gave up on the niche PowerPC architecture and switched to Intel CPUs. There are still tons of off-the-shelf components in Macs and even iOS devices, with lots of third-party IP in Apple's SoCs.

There aren't many examples of what looks like Apple doing their own hardware purely for the sake of being different and incompatible. Nothing stands out as a custom component that Apple would be better off replacing with a generic off-the-shelf part. And Apple isn't locking themselves into their own CPU architecture or anything like that; if they do end up falling behind with their mobile SoCs or something like that, it isn't hard for them to buy a different SoC with the same CPU instruction set.
LeBron’s size and body composition helps a hell of a lot, but good body mechanics—especially landing mechanics—get more important, not less, as a player gets bigger and stronger, because the amount of landing energy he has to dissipate grows in proportion to those factors.
I do not dispute, but it doesn't really change my point. The ARM architecture was designed, originally, by Acorn alone.
I would say the top guys have both. They can process a lot of information and convey it later. Schumacher had the reputation to drive at the limit while still discussing race strategy with this team.
They almost always provide codemods which can automatically convert a codebase for you, and they work pretty damn well.

And while I'm not sure if I'm on board with all of the changes, I'm in no way worried about having to do anything instantly.
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After years of debating, I still fail to see how the statements "Bitcoin is useless" and "blockchains have potential" can both hold true.

For a blockchain to be a blockchain, there must be a token to keep the incentive structure. Otherwise it's no longer a blockchain it's a simple database that will naturally be centralized due to economies of scale.
> and they did a pretty good job of it over the years.

It's impressive how many traditional desktop programs continue to work in Windows 10. Sadly, a lot of games no longer work, and are dependent on having a solid community to re-port the game. One example is Starsiege:Tribes, whose community is still active: http://www.playt1.com/
What helps me from procrastinating is writing excruciating detailed notes on tasks breaking them down to the smallest detail. Then all I have to do is sit down and start coding. It helps me a lot because my mind stays focused on the task at hand without the need to start analyzing things which most times means I lose focus. Furthermore, nothing seems daunting when you compartmentalize it, which I guess is the reason most of us procrastinate in the first place.

The one thing that really does the trick though is to get something out there and start having paying customers. Then you know that if you procrastinate you'll lose them and that the best motive to do the work that anyone can find.
>We burn about all the oil we want for the price right now so anything not used in plastic would just not be extracted.

That's simply not the case. If you have two consumers competing for the same resource, the price is kept high and the supplier works to produce more while both consumers work to consume less. If one of the consumers is removed, the other has less of an incentive to conserve and the supplier has less of an incentive to produce. If the demand for oil to be used in the chemical industry went down, slightly more oil would be burnt and slightly less would be produced.

If the price of oil fell due to a weakening chemical industry demand, oil-burning enterprises would become more proftable. The lower the price of oil, the cheaper renewables must be to compete. Further, if it was true that the demand for oil to burn was totally inelastic, carbon taxes would be pointless from the outset because raising the price of consumption wouldn't reduce it.
Is this how it works with medicines? When you say that things can still happen, you mean that people will die - right?
#CrashNotAccident

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/03/19/crashes-not-acc...
And everybody clapped, and all the chairs clapped, and the projector flickered in a clap-like way.

This is so sad. I am a woman-- a real woman-- and I constantly wonder if I am where I am because of shit like this. And now I can't even have womanhood because it's being claimed by men who claim to be women.

What the FUCK is going on???
> and I'm sure there must be some other very senior FB developers who created React before he arrived who might not be so happy.

From the very little I know about some of the developers at FB working on React, but I would be very surprised if this was the case. Just because you might feel bothered by Dan Abramov talking on your behalf, doesn't mean those that worked with him do.
Yeah, but they are motor driven. So how much of the propulsion comes from the motors, and how much from the wind? Given the relatively small reduction in fuel cost, I'm guessing that most comes from the motors.
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Hang out with friends, goto the mall or other hangouts, play Minecraft, watch Youtube and Twitch and Vine and try to make their own videos, ride bicycles, and argue with their parents.

A few things have changed, but teen-age is largely the same as it was for us.
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Kinetic stability vs. Thermodynamic stability is one of the reasons why it’s so difficult to make a chemistry lab simulator without just handcoding thousands of reactions.

Books like The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics have all the information needed to simulate a reaction thermodynamically, but not realistically. For example, thermodynamically hydrogen gas should explode on contact with oxygen, but that doesn’t generally happen in real life without something like a spark. You need the rate constant for a reaction and you can only get that through bench research or really advanced quantum chemistry simulations. That rate constant only applies to that reaction so you need a different one for methane and oxygen for example. By that point your back to just handcoding individual reactions.
I first read this as a condemnation of phone use, but that may just have been a bias. On a second reading, I found that it was very careful in specifying that all observations were correlations:

>Because this analysis is correlational, we can’t tell if these activities cause happiness, happiness causes teens to engage in these activities more, or if the same type of teens do both.

I'd be very interested in seeing a randomized trial to find causations, but the ethical implications get in the way one again.
Actually, most Australian flat-earthers don't think Western Australia exists and you are all actors...
The rationale seems to be "default to plain html/dom" where possible.
Well, not so ridiculous. Queensland extends for almost 3,000 km north to south, and they really don't need DST up in the tropics. (Although the vast bulk of the population is concentrated at the non-tropical end.)

That said, I live in NSW and run a team that needs to maintain a 24/7 rotation, and dearly wish they would nuke DST once and for all worldwide: Oct/Nov and Mar/Apr are a sequence of steady pain as various offices move by an hour in one direction or another, each on different weeks of course.
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Chasing quakes with machine learning
>... as useless as baptizing a rattlesnake

Says someone who clearly doesn't have to worry about the threat of demonic rattlesnakes.
Last week, I went to my childhood home in France and found a perfectly preserved 40 year old set of Lego Technic from my childhood, and gave them to my daughter to play with. It's going to be well-nigh impossible for Lego to test the longevity of a plant-based replacement, accelerated simulated testing only provides an upper bound.

The only viable option for them would be to find a process to produce ABS using plant-based feedstocks, a process that will likely be an order of magnitude more expensive than petroleum-based ABS, at least to start with.

The article mentions PLA (shudder). It's well known filament material for low-end 3D printing hobbyists, and far inferior to ABS in its physical properties, not to mention that little problem of being water-soluble. The fact they even considered that garbage does not augur well of the judgment of whoever is responsible for the project.
I think especially between same brand. The legal acrobatics by the manufacturer will be interesting to watch.
Construct a real number by gluing BB(i) where BB is the busy beaver function.
Blockchains can be run without incentives. They can be run internally by a large organization. Take the US military. I could see each service running a server to verify changes to a ledger of national orders. An effort to change the ledger would be possible but very difficult, demanding cross-branch conspiracy. Such a scheme could exist without incentives.
I could create a long list, but to start, it's not directly controlled by a single individual or organization. The mechanism used to assert leverage is different than typical centralized systems. It's not a contract or a special governmentally assigned right or physical intimidation that "centralizes" the network. It's simply computing resources. But unlike other centralized systems, anyone anywhere with enough of those resources could assert the same leverage on the network as anyone else. Furthermore, because of its distributed nature, even if someone had a majority of computing resources mining the network, the protocol is designed to disincentivize participants from cheating as it would destroy the value of the network. And they couldn't even tamper with the ledger, as public key cryptography is used to sign transactions, so they could only stop transactions from happening. It is also fully visible and transparent.

This is fundamentally different from your typical centralized database sitting behind physical walls with physical security and governmental protection that a single entity could mutate and obfuscate at will.
And not a word about sex or masturbation, because of course no teen ever has spent any time at all thinking about the first or doing the second.

I wonder how much happier the world would be if we just let teens fuck each other once they puberty.
> Some amphetamines would probably help, though. ;)

Amphetamines can help. What they actually do, at least for me, is raise the stakes. Imagine hyper-focusing on procrastinating.
Time. Training time is limited, nonfungible, and rivalrous. Adding material at one end sacrifices it at another, ssomething has to give: other parts of the curriculum, or prodctive time.

There's a similar problem, at scale, for civilisation as a whole. Given a lifespan of 85 years, and working span of 65, we spend 18 years on basic education. The managing/professional class need another 4-6 for undergraduate education, plus 2 for professional degrees, 6-12 for engineering and some medical specialties. We're drawing people into the workforce in their late 20s, early 30s, and hope to get 30-40 years contribution.

At the same time, technology, or practices, or standards, obsolete much that information in 10-15 years.

How many times do you, and can you, effectively retrain someone before their prior knowledge is an inescapable impediment, and there's no useful retraining benefit regardless. Confound further with the distiction between explicit (book-learned) and taxit (experiential) knowwledge. The first can be effectvely taught through technical reproduction: lectures, books, A/V, computer-distributed or aaided materials. The latter requires small-ratio master-student raatios for transmission. Skills lacking sufficient masters (or those effective at training) die out.
Why waste an opportune situation?
I'd recommend limiting it to two by default: the keybase icon, and the site icon.
It's not the production of oil that sends CO2 into the atmosphere, it's the burning of it. Thus even though less oil would be produced, more CO2 would still be sent into the atmosphere.
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I was rearended in this same situation as well, seems like a common error in human drivers too.
Is NordVPN a Honeypot?