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Why do you seem them as a crutch/why do you see what they practice as "not meditation"?

For perspective, when trying meditation at first, I did it without the use of any technology- I read "Mindfulness in Plain English" and some other articles and books, and attempted meditating based on what I learned there (with mixed periods of success).

And then at some point later, I tried headspace to see what the hype was about. I found both paths helpful and effective- after all, the guided mediations in headspace largely just reflected the same things that the books had taught me. I don't have a headspace subscription and wouldn't get one, but I don't see it as significantly different than an audiobook version of some of the material I had read about in order to understand how to meditate. And maybe you could make the argument that people should just do that instead (listen to audiobooks, since the cost would be much lower). Do you see something fundamentally different?
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He didn't say, he's using AWS. Or did you mean something different?
If you have a good manager, yes, it can be. A good one will often have years more experience at navigating tricky social and political situations than you do and will be able to help you work through any difficulties you're having with coworkers.

Good managers are far rarer than good programmers, though.

A decent litmus test for whether your manager can help with these kinds of problems is whether they've been on lots of productive projects and whether everyone likes them.

If both things are true, they likely are quite good at navigating interpersonal conflicts and arriving at win-win outcomes. It's nigh-impossible to achieve both those outcomes in a large organization otherwise.
I realize it's not the focus of his test, but as someone who thinks often about how to take advantage of advanced vectorization techniques on modern processors, I was surprised by statements like this:

Moreover GCC -O2 defaults are (in my opinion unfortunately) still not enabling vectorization and unrolling which may have noticeable effects on benchmarks.

This led to enabling AVX and since the global constructor now gets some code auto-vectorized the binary crashed on invalid instruction during the build (my testing machine has no AVX).

No AVX? He wants to better take advantage of vectorization, but he's doing the testing on a processor that is 3 generations behind in vectorization support. AVX (128-bit) come out in 2011, and has been followed by AVX2 (256-bit) and (still limited release) AVX-512.

Clock speeds have been fairly flat, and most of the improvements to recent processors have been microarchitectural. A lot of the optimization done by compilers ends up being architecture specific. Seeing which brand-new compiler best targets old hardware seems like it might produce misleading results.

I realize that not everyone has (or can have) the most recent hardware, but this seems like a case where it would be strongly in AMD and Intel's interest to make sure that people like Jan have better access to the improvements made in the last few years.
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Thanks! Have no idea why banned and was never given any explanation why. But it is what it is. Guess I could just make a new account.
I've read articles about the supply chain impacts of being in China, very near all your suppliers, compared to being in the US. When you need the screws in your first production run to be 0.1 mm shorter, you can call the screw manufacturer, they'll make a new mold right away and get you screws in 3 hours. Your screw manufacturer is almost certainly more than a 3 hour drive if you're in the US. [1]

Looks like labor flexibility is another factor. In the US, culturally, you can't summon people from their sleep to start making phones urgently. Apparently this happened after the iPhone prototype Steve Jobs had got a scratched plastic screen 6 weeks before launch. [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-an...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyshih/2018/11/05/apple-only...
There is mmap for read/write (some of the most used syscalls).

There is also the vdso page [1] for things like gettimeofday etc.

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/vdso.7.html
I like Amiga, but you could probably do whatever that machine is doing with some Arduino-class hardware these days. I don't think the challenges are technical in nature.

Edit: And as the comment thread in the article explains they're probably renovating the whole HVAC system, not just replacing that single Amiga.
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It does run out when there's no wind.
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That's almost literally IOCPs.
It's very sad to see how normal people on the inside think this is. Even at the Master's level, for many people this is a bragging competition for who gets to sleep less and generally suffer more. That culture is completely toxic.

That being said there are still labs where you can enjoy your PhD. You just need to be very thorough when talking to PIs and people in each lab about what life there is like.
burp (https://burp.grke.org/) comes to mind, as well. Windows and UNIX-like only, no macOS.
Pretty standard, I think. I know of lots of software running business critical functions that are unmaintainable for want of lost knowledge.
Conclusion shows why its so important to understand how a study was performed:

> parachutes did not reduce death or major traumatic injury among people jumping from aircraft
I think you're looking more for the "scheduling, managing pull from different clients" than the ability to backup to S3, Dropbox, local folder etc.

There are plenty of software projects to choose from for the latter.
Borgbackup, Restic, Plain old NFSv3 and rsync, Tarsnap, Backblaze B2 etc.

I simply use a combination of Cron, rsync and Ansible to make backups to our central NAS, and that central NAS is mirrored to our off site NAS (with extensive snapshots and tape backups).

I had to use Netbackup for the Tape system which does everything you listed - managing and scheduling backup procedure in "clients" and does fine-grained schedule, show backup status etc. But, I HATE that thing with all my gut. It is one complicated pile of crap that I have to fight all the time to make it write to the damn tapes. Nothing like plain old simple Unix tools.
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I agree it's a disappointing article, but your second point is answered:

“You can’t bring manufacturing back because of those webs, you would have to bring the entire community back,”
You'd think an NYT article about how Apple computers used to be built in the US would find it worthy of mention that Mac Pros are produced in the US today.
Maybe, but still irresponsible.
I was under the impression we aren't expecting by to see any new physics at CERN anymore anyway as it's too low energy to probe. Aren't physicists kind of waiting for the next scale of colliders?
My idea is to avoid context switching like in VDSO, but with a generalized solution that would allow this sort of behavior for all system calls. Could you point me to any write-ups about exception-less syscalls?
Interesting. Where could I read up on that?
If physics is just going to be a hobby, treat it like a hobby (and timebox it accordingly). Definitely don't let somebody else destroy your life for it.

I hated it at the time, but my lying, psychopathic "project advisor" where I got my Bachelor's in Physics did me a big favor by helping me realize the last thing I wanted was people like him in control of my life.

Related - "Don't Do For Money What Others Do For Love" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16792942

At the moment no matter how much you protest there's a stream of chumps happy to take your spot. We need to start examining the ROI of academia the way we would for anything else demanding such a huge chunk of your life and sanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output_completion_port
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My recommendation is to try to focus in topics you grock.

If you live/work/own a farm, try to use your unique knowledge about farm activities to give some insight in the books. Some topics (I hope some of them may be interesting.):

* artificial selection / selective breeding

* chemistry composition of the soil and fertilizers

* irrigation? (natural and artificial) (I'm not sure there is some interesting story here, but perhaps you can think one.)

* Lake freezing (Where is your farm?)

* solar/wind/gasoline electricity power generation.

* crop rotation?

* pollination (do you rent bees?)

* different kind of wood / material resistance
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Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18677508
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http://www.un.org/en/climatechange/
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Unfortunately, "you must not expect that they will enjoy your company" applies to lots more than "children and grandchildren". That is, I mean, age discrimination.
Even downside-less ideas bear some opportunity cost, no matter how trivial the change (or intangible the cost). I agree with everything else you said.
I am not dismissing anything or throwing my hands up. I am simply stating what the reality is. You are welcome to come up with better solutions for the poor countries but before it becomes anything but intentions I at least are not going to be supporting any attempts to keep them from getting access to those resources.

You are right I am not a native speaker however I meant what I said.

Nothing false about us being even close to being able to replace fossil fuels and I would challenge you to provide a single piece of evidence that proves otherwise.

Wind and solar provides around 1% of the world energy needs even with improvements we would not get much further than 5%.

If you don't see the absurdity in environmentalist yelling the sky is falling because of co2 and then turn around to fight nuclear then we just live in two very different worlds.

Neither wind nor sun is close. And to illustrate that point this summer Denmark had a heat wave. Denmark who runs mostly on wind had to buy energy from Germany who then in torn had to use coal because 1) they are closing down their nuclear powerplants and 2) they could provide it with solar.

This is the reality, not the one you read about in the media who are mostly keeping hysteria to a max while completely ignorning the actual reality of energy.

I didn't say we shouldn't do anything, but the solution is NOT wind and solar.
The article also doesn't mention that the Mac Pro line has been manufactured in Texas since 2013 (Admittedly a niche product compared to Apple's overall scale.)

Apple is also investing $390m in a chip plant in Texas to supply some of their custom silicon, and there are several suppliers of iPhone components in the area.
Here's a thing I've noticed about achievement, in sports and e-sports more so than in business, but I believe the same applies.

What separates the high achievers, apart from any basic talent and training, is a personality that doesn't experience the relevant kind of pain or discomfort that would discourage them from the task.

For a lot of sports, that means overcompetitive asshole. For a lot of businesses, the same. That personality gets a lot of leeway to optimize towards linear goals. But then you go looking at certain niches and there is nuance. Sometimes it's endurance - masochism. Someone who runs ultramarathons, or repeatedly starts over a speedrun of a classic video game. Sometimes it's a poker player or day trader who can't feel the weight of moving around big stakes. There are many roles where the successful personality isn't the competitive narcissist. But in the specific case of small companies that get very big very quickly, they are prolific.

And that's a point which helps me personally, since I know some things about my comfort zone by now and where the standard advice is going to fail. Only some people are numbed enough to simply "hustle" and succeed. For the rest it's more like a quest to find the right kinds of challenges, the ones that they are most likely to engage with at a high level. When they can do that, people call them a genius. But from their own perspective, it's ordinary, or only somewhat more painful than doing nothing. And this quality of personality matching a high level skillset runs throughout our fictional characters, despite Western society nominally engaging with beliefs of anyone being equally able to learn to do anything. I think we know this and turn our back on it because it uproots several of our major founding myths about society and its potential and whom we should support and how.
> By the 1950s, the average company lifespan was down to 60 years. Today, it is a mere 17 years

[citation needed]
tldr:

The house was originally built by a now famous architect. Over the years it had been extensively remodeled and was in poor shape. The city is using a dispute to force a private citizen to restore the building to its original state, even though it was far from that and not in good shape when he bought it.
There is also a JavaScript port of this library, by the same author: https://github.com/santinic/pampy.js
I use it also and always recommend it, at worse you get a good timer for free. I probably do guided about 25% of the time mostly because I'm looking to learn a new meditation style. Also it has free yoga nidra courses, which to me is maybe more powerful than meditation. But no one talks about it the same.
Remembering this is important: Trust is earned.

Test people in different ways to see if they can be trusted. Share inconsequential secrets and see who else hears it. Once had a boss who'd let cash drop while walking to see what you'd do.

If you can't trust em, update your CV and get busy getting a new job you become desperate.

Edit:

https://www.inc.com/wanda-thibodeaux/want-to-know-if-someone...

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A goal that is being worked towards is making LLVM thinLTO not just consider clang output but to consider clang-generated LLVM IR together with rustc-generated LLVM IR. This is expected to lead to inlining between C++ and Rust making the FFI layer of C-linkage function calls melt away between C++ and Rust.
You could think of "untrusted library" as of a wrapper around an HTTP API. The code you don't run, but depend upon it's results.
Yeah I have also got a copy of Bhagavad_Gita[1] and started reading a few verses daily. Although it comes from Hinduism, text itself is pure philosophy and focuses on living a life of detached action.

Hinduism doesn't have a concept of universal commandments. Everyone is free to follow their own virtuous path called Swa Dharma which roughly translated to Personal Duties. Central message of Gita is to take actions inline with your Swa Dharma without caring for the outcome because you don't control it anyways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
It's a combination of two things:

1) Training facility for new engineers and scientists, most of whom will eventually leave academia for jobs (it is hoped) in the tax-paying sector.

2) Boondoggle to economically support contractors (because they hire large numbers of voters and/or fill an important function but suffer from uneven demand).
I'm relatively sure ICOP still requires two syscalls per IO.
Rust 1.31 shipped a specific feature that was proposed right from the start of the lexical lifetimes, since well before 1.0. People have wanted it since first hearing about it, but it just turned out to be much more difficult to implement correctly than first estimated.

> Were all rust users really naive/dumb to think that rust 1.29 was any good at all? Only 2 months later they never want to write Rust 1.29 ever again!

Rust 1.29 was fast and secure, but it also was annoying to write. Lexical lifetimes forced the structure of your code into a shape that sometimes required unnatural contortions. Basically everyone who wrote code in it could tell that something was definitely wrong. We still used it, because the other things Rust provided was worth the contortions. It was just a tradeoff you had to make. NLL, provided in 1.31, essentially removes the problem, making the other side of the tradeoff free. While previous versions of the Rust weren't horrible, 1.31 is massively better than them.
1. Do they still make them? I know they still sell them, but given that they have been unchanged for 5 years...

2. I would say assembled rather than produced (if I buy components and assemble a PC at home is it produced in Italy?)
Firefox still treats SSE2 as its SIMD assumed-present baseline. Does GCC introduce multiversioned AVX functions on its own initiative?
This is basically how the entirety of DPDK using a poll-mode driver works. Each worker thread is doing busy polling on a shared memory segment, ensuring minimal packet processing latency.
Institutions like to exercise strict central control over setpoints to manage energy costs. Remote access also saves a lot of time and driving for the handful of maintenance staff who manage dozens of sites.
See the FlexSC paper at the bottom here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi10/flexsc-flexible-sys... or more recently SCONE in the context of Intel SGX: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/...
I've been curious about the Muse device. Do you still use your every practice?
Performance improvements have diminishing returns though, and for a consumer product like Firefox, a large number of users will be on older hardware. Ceteris paribus, it would be much better to get say a 10% improvement for the users on below-median hardware than for the users on above-median hardware since it will matter a good deal more for the former group.
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I like using syncthing to sync to file to another (sometimes multiple) location and the use restic (https://restic.net/ :)
Do what you like. You’re the one who started with describing themselves as "extremely pissed" over the subtitle. I know you might not believe this, but women in some parts of the world are still treated as minorities in 2018. Pointing that out, doesn’t damage their position.

I do agree that the subtitle is a a mindless platitude. Of course the spread of a sexually transmitted disease through heterosexual populations in India couldn’t have been prevented without the participation of 50% of the sex at. But again, I can’t even muster an eye roll over it. It’s dumb, but there;s dumb shit everywhere. My position is to ignore it and move on.

The thought that someone is "extremely pissed" about a trite and trivial girl-power cliche is pretty silly to me. That’s so much energy to spend on something so dumb.

Who’s got the time for that?

But whatever, it’s a Sunday, you can spend it how you see fit. If being extremely pissed at a throwaway line vacuously giving credit to women is what you want to do today then go for it.

Have a happy Sunday fella! (You know, or not, depending on what you’re looking for)
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Thank you for the link. Here's the purpose of this, yet another, meeting:

"To support efforts to implement the Paris Agreement and to increase ambition and climate action, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will bring world leaders, from government, finance, business, and civil society to the Climate Summit on 23 September 2019. He has asked these leaders to bring bold announcements and actions to the Summit that will reduce emissions, strengthen climate resilience, and mobilize political will for an ambitious and meaningful agreement in Paris in December 2015."

Looks like success is guaranteed at this one. Nothing could possibly spoil the party. I'm sure organic, responsibly harvested vodka will be served.
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Your experience echoes mine almost exactly. Now I can't imagine a life without my daughter.

Her interests got me out of my comfort zone - I'm president of a girls basketball league - and develop aspects of myself that I may not have. I stepped into the position because she and her friends love the league and nobody else wanted to do it.
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Just noticed that the UN has adopted the North Korean proud and motivating writing style.
Sure, but that's simply a single point in favour of Dynamo in what should have been a comprehensive analysis of strengths and weaknesses with respect to the required use case.

If they chose DynamoDB simply due to this strength (ignoring for the moment that the same thing can be achieved with native functions in Aurora), while ignoring the other things that ultimately turned out to be more important, then this again points to a flawed analysis. It's hard to see how serverless is to blame for this.
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with culture i don't mean the words in the language but the culture of the speakers. english is dominated by speakers with western (american,british,australian) culture.

by comparison, the speakers of latin are all dead. so, while latin has a rich historic culture, it is not dominated by any living culture.

likewise, esperanto is not dominated by any living culture because its speakers come from all over the world.
This article is a year old. Certainly Wireguard setup / config has improved this past year, yes?
There's one correlation I find really interesting here. The time frame where physics started to "dry up" as the article puts it, corresponds extremely strongly with the transition away from a strong connection between experimental:theoretical physics. Instead theoretical physics began to more actively just build upon itself with extensive use of model driven tests.

The biggest issue with using models as a tool in science is that they start to become unfalsifiable. To avoid the hornet's nest of modern models consider geocentricism - the belief that Earth was uniquely at the center of the solar system, universe, and everything. In times before telescopes this belief was justified by models. If you assume this is true, then you get some really bizarre behavior from the planets that now orbit the Earth. In particular some planets will suddenly stop and start moving the other way, most planets will travel in 'swirly' patterns, and so on. But when you have a model none of this matters. Planets need to go backwards? Sure, why not. They travel in swirlies? Sure, why not.

So you get these increasingly convoluted and complex theories, but in spite of how irrational they seem - they are supported by what we see. But at some point you're going to reach a dead end when the model becomes so intractable that it becomes impossible to juryrig yet another observation into it. And it's only at that point that we start to scratch our head and wonder what's going on. And finding the problem there can be inconceivably difficult because it can be something far more fundamental than you'd ever look for. For instance in a geocentric universe you might search for why planets travel in swirlies. Yet you're at a much higher level than the actual problem - which is that they don't actually travel in swirlies. And in this toy example things are much better than they might be in our reality. There you're only a couple of 'fundamentals' separated from the real problem. With our rapid pace of publication and 'stair stepping', models advance and build upon themselves exponentially more rapidly.

Like a single cog in a clock breaking, all it takes is a single falsehood be assumed as truth in a model to begin to undermine the entire phenomenally complex system.
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