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How to Measure Anything, by Douglas W. Hubbard.

When he says anything, he means anything. How to measure the value of a human life, how to estimate things you know nothing about (like the gestation period of an African elephant), and how to get better at measuring things with limited information.
Check out https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp
I find the bottom left to be a very inconvenient spot due to the palm creating false touch events.

Logically, it makes sense to be on either of the left corners because obviously having it in the middle of the screen (even on the side) takes up valuable content real estate. Between the top and the bottom, I'd pick the top every time.

As for ACTUALLY going back a screen, the gesture to swipe from the left is the real UX default. The top left button is for newbies/redundancy.
When I initially read this thread I had precisely the same reaction.

Emerson and Thoreau weren’t just naturalists preaching justice. Their Nature is the same Nature Marcus Aurelius refers to in Meditations. Once you put their work in the context of the Trinitarian/Unitarian debate of the early 19th century, you see how deeply they thought about not just civilization, but science and philosophy together.

I’d add to Walden, Emerson’s Nature, and especially his essay Man, the Reformer. In today’s ultra-specialized and mostly-capitalist society, this piece has the power to simultaneously shatter and solidify your identity and sense of worth.

The Transcendentalist practically gave young America its voice following independence. They’re certainly worth revisiting if you only remember Walden as a reclusive pond.
Very cool. Is there no way around the need for a boot disk? A boot disk implies also bringing the USB-C to USB adapter everywhere, and it's a bit cumbersome.

Surely some of the http://refit.sourceforge.net/ stuff could be used for this?
In standard Beijing Mandarin pronunciation? If you have a dialect then you might have stronger "sh" sound when trying to pronounce "si" "ci" "zi" "xi", so it's hard do differentiate between "si" and "shi", "ci" and "chi" or "zi" and "zhi". 四是四，十是十，十四是十四，四十是四十。
Ok, I think I see what you mean. Thanks.
Don’t trust a word Gould writes unless you have the time to check each individual reference.

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/evolute.html

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What I encountered were quite a few references to Stephen Jay Gould, hardly any to other evolutionary theorists. Now it is not very hard to find out, if you spend a little while reading in evolution, that Gould is the John Kenneth Galbraith of his subject. That is, he is a wonderful writer who is bevolved by literary intellectuals and lionized by the media because he does not use algebra or difficult jargon. Unfortunately, it appears that he avoids these sins not because he has transcended his colleagues but because he does does not seem to understand what they have to say; and his own descriptions of what the field is about - not just the answers, but even the questions - are consistently misleading. His impressive literary and historical erudition makes his work seem profound to most readers, but informed readers eventually conclude that there's no there there.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BahoNzY2pzSeM2Dtk/beware-of-...

> If you've read anything Stephen J. Gould has ever said about evolutionary biology, I have some bad news for you. In the field of evolutionary biology at large, Gould's reputation is mud. Not because he was wrong. Many honest scientists have made honest mistakes. What Gould did was much worse, involving deliberate misrepresentation of science.
It ensures batters cannot tell if their account has been shadow banned.
People always forget one of the craziest blows to Russians: sometime around 1648 tsar Alexei, under the influence of the Orthodox church, banned all secular music. I guess “music is of the devil” was named as the motive, but the actual cause likely were skomorokhs, or folk jokester-singers ― satire was always the strong suite in folk entertainment. So, in the 18th century Russian music had to start again, beginning with the ‘classical’ genre this time. I also suppose this is why folk singing is much better known than really old folk music (though a lot of songs too are late inventions by individual composers). Meanwhile, the church itself didn't have a tradition of music afaik, again preferring singing (rather monotonous, at that).

I myself have seen only brief mentions of this, and thus far couldn't find a definite source detailing this mess.
I heard that Lathe of Heaven was written with her friend and fellow author (Philip K Dick) in mind.

One of my favorite books, period. I wish more authors made a try of the themes of a fellow author.
Aren't these types of availability/scaling problems what AWS/Azure/etc are intended to solve?
Likely his software. I’m also on a 1080GTX and it works perfectly (though I also have a 8700k)
My (mainland) experience is that on cell phones younger people tend to use pinyin base keyboard input while older people tend to use character recognition software
That works if your target audience is English speakers. However, the main consumer of pinyin is Chinese in China, where it's ubiquitous for glossing the readings of Chinese characters, either because some people can't read them, because some characters are obscure, or just for stylistic reasons.

Some thoughts on the topic: https://driftingclouds.net/2018/07/17/from-siberia-to-tibet-...
Thanks for writing it!

I think it is a great way for long-time "car camping". I don't think it is a good idea to live like that (but everybody is different, of course), but it is definitely interesting.

I have an old truck with a camper shell, and two people actually can fit into it sleeping. I am thinking about going camping in it for 1–2 nights in the summer, without renting cabins and stuff.
Calling out the pointlessness of status games is usually just mocking the now-low-status players for failing to realize that the scoring rubric has changed.

Your flashy BMW is pathetic and sad and destroying the environment, but wait till you hear about how tricky it was to stick to Keto on my 2nd trip to Thailand this year. Worth it, though. Man, people with their fancy cars and big houses are so tacky. Why doesn't everyone just take 20 minutes and walk to work like me?
> But none of the things you mentioned are different between men and women.

That's exactly the point: none of the serious risk factors are strongly correlated with gender. (And you're forgetting the argument that young men are slightly more likely to be able to find another competitive job than young women because people like you are more willing to hire them, therefore men are at slightly higher risk of leaving.)

If you want to construct an argument in the service of the conclusion "I don't want to hire young women" you certainly can, but please admit that's what you're doing.
>>I told my English teacher about it and all she told me in response was to go look up the Russian Revolution.

You have to only look at the management hierarchy in your company. Pigs in the Animal Farm novel eat apples.

We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.

Why do you think your bosses get business travel, no limit credit cards, RSU, big bonuses and neat double digit monthly pay check.

It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.
I recently went from a 6S to an XS (non Max). I am not a heavy phone user and have been disappointed with battery performance in comparison to the 6S. It doesn't seem to hold up as well, nor does it charge as quickly. From what I've read, the XS Max and XR do better.
If you like this tall tale you might like Baron Munchausen -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchausen
You, who do not have to bear the cost of the policy, should be less harsh with the people who do. For example, we might make a law saying mothers shouldn't leave their children alone at home. Then we could say "You horrible mother, you left your kids alone, you're going to jail". But we are not the ones who have to spend our whole day watching the kids, trapped and exhausted. We should recognize the higher contribution we're asking from the mothers by saying "Unfortunately, for the sake of the children, we have this penalty for having left them alone. We understand that one can be in a rush, so next time we encourage you to team up with other mothers to watch each other's children."

For one thing, the harsh reactions keep the people you're regulating from even being able to let you know how hard it is on them.
I agree, I view the Linux community the same way I view music. I like that every artist can make what they want, and I'm not owed anything from any of them - they aren't required to have their next album/distro be like their last one, and they aren't required to help me understand their work. Not everything needs to be catered to me. If I don't like an album or distro, that's my problem, not the musician's/developer's.
That would be very problematic for selling ads, though.
In the new modern version of Office Space, we'll take Jira into the field with a baseball bat...
I don't know if the decline is because people think it's a bunk rationalization of power, though I can see how some people might reason that way and lose interest. Frankly, I'm not convinced by that. I don't think most people think of history that way. Most people would probably accept whatever historical claims at face value without any reason for suspicion. You've have to make the case that the people who would have gone into history are now suddenly woke and see history as a collection of suffocating lies.

A much simpler explanation is that history doesn't get you a job that pays well, at least not in any obvious way that translates from major to job. And universities have been emphasizing the marketability of majors for a few decades now. So if there's a decline, it must reflect broader trends.
> plenty of programming jobs involve a significant amount of time spent on collaboration and communication with designers, other programmers, customers, and stakeholders.

Unless all of those people just happen to sit next to each other or they're shouting across the room then an open plan office does nothing to help that anyway, you'll have to organize meetings to collaborate or do it in other formats. For customers and stakeholders you'd be lucky if they worked in the same building at all.

Face to face communication is not the only form of collaborations and IMHO it's the worst and least scaleable one for technical fields. And when you're collaborating through a mailing list or something similar (that doesn't involve interrupting each other) that's just another wall of text.
Not true. Please cite.
I had the misfortune of eating here last week, with some colleagues visiting from mainland China at that, and unfortunately the food is Panda Express level crud. It's still very much American Chinese food for white people, just in flashy surroundings.
> Imagine you had a company that was trying to start a video service and the expert on ffmpeg goes on parental leave half way through. Good luck replacing somebody like that if you're not in a tech hotspot.

I don't know anything about ffmpeg and I am confident I can not only learn it but train someone in it in two months. Bad employers hire people for their current skills, and are caught unprepared when people leave for any reason (including realizing they're a bad employer). Good employers hire people with the expectation of training them and letting them grow into new roles. Bad employers rely on the brains of individuals. Good employers document their processes, enforce knowledge-sharing procedures (code reviews and runbooks and support rotations, in tech), and otherwise proactively mitigate business risk.
That's the intended meaning, but someone could always call someone else that just to dismiss their argument pretending that it was said for shock value instead of persuasion; and for what I have read that's how it is commonly used.
I agree with your points above.Having said that knowledge and experience is a critical factor and I am fine with using agile for MVPs and startup scenarios.

My issue is with the way agile is evangelized and implemented in the Enterprise. These Enterprise people simply rationalize that if Toyota can do it then why we can't without realizing where it fit and where it does not.

Personally I think it does not fit with the culture of thousand approvals and beating the dead horse i.e. endlessly cross examining any design or implementation failures.

This happens because Enterprise people love the buzzwords. Agile and cloud are the latest buzz in Enterprise so they watch a ppt or two somewhere starts pushing agile into a culture where it does not fit at all. This results in sufferings and frustration.
Where did you see written in the report that "The level of confidence is near zero"?
I could see it working as a Silicon Valley crossover
Ten years ago everyone criticized Facebook for being a walled garden. Today everyone is criticizing Facebook because the walls around its garden aren't high enough. Go figure.
What's not solved with manual memory management? The point is not that you can't solve it, the point is that reference counting isn't the whole solution for garbage collection unlike a tracing gc for instance.
恭喜发财 (Gong Xi Fa Cai) was never a common greeting phrase in Mandarin speaking regions. It was more commonly used in Cantonese (thus it was more commonly written as Gong Hey Fat Choi).

In Mandarin speaking regions of China it's common to say 恭贺新禧 or 新春愉快 or simply 新年好.
This is a pretty extensive list. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Was about to open another tab to search for that!
"Living Big in a Tiny House" is a great Youtube channel produced by Bryce Langston which takes viewers on tours of tiny houses around the world. I watch it weekly with the kids, to normalize, and even romanticize the idea of small space living in them, so that in case is the reality of their future, they look at it in a positive, productive way.

https://www.youtube.com/user/livingbigtinyhouse
Do you have any pictures or plans of the layout? Most of the pictures I've seen of vans people have built barely have enough room for a kitchen.
I knew it! Patrick Bateman wasn't hallucinating; he was a victim of a curl attack on his ATM!
that was exactly my point - her books are great theoretical discourses that don't bring the message home because there is no real ending
It seems that the author is only aware of the existence of general-purpose distributions. They did not list any distribution with, say, different approach to packaging, or for use in HPC, security, NAS, embedded, you name it. Also, for some reason they cannot avoid listing more or less all well established general-purpose distributions, while that is really the list between which you are supposed to choose one or two if you care about not trying many similar things. It seems that the only criterion to be on this list is to be well known. Same for the DEs.
That can be a side-effect, especially with bilateral lead placement. With unilateral placement, it's pretty occasional. I wonder if knowing two people with the same problem indicates a local psychiatrist using bilateral approaches more than usual?
I guess that's why the US revolution worked. They were going into the war with a full fledged constitution ready to go.
I'm fascinated by the lifestyle/community and follow it pretty closely. Even built https://vanspiration.com to catalogue some builds, though I'm behind on updating a few.

From what I can tell, this was the original vanlife-manual: https://thevanual.com/ The guy built out that site with Ryobi branding and then pitched it to Ryobi as a marketing thing. They gave him $15k or whatever it was, and it covered the costs of his vehicle and build. Modestly brilliant.
So true! The worst was when the "New Reddit" interface was launched. The site was almost unusable and I often had to refresh the page multiple times for the message thread to maybe load.

I just experienced a site overload/offline error a few days ago (not Super Bowl). It's really unacceptable for a site of its age and presence on the Internet.
I did it for about 8 months. Wouldn't want to live that way permanently. Everything in moderation. :)

A few more things to add:

- Get used to constantly keeping your stuff in order. It takes about 5 minutes to turn your tiny little living area into a mess. And the day after that you are living in a dumpster.

- Don't leave anything visible from outside the vehicle. I mean absolutely nothing can be seen if you look in a window. I have no proof on this one, but nobody stole anything from me or messed with the vehicle while I was away (sometimes for a few days in the backcountry), and I attribute it to not looking like somebody was living in the vehicle and nothing valuable might be inside.

- Make sure your head is pointed uphill when you park and make sure your mattress is comfortable. No sense in getting long term bad sleep.
Heh, recently 4chan moved their SFW boards to a different domain. I imagine it was so they could have advertisers happy in there while keeping the other one intact.
Casper+Coupon
This seems like you could copy and paste it in response to just about any comment. His post seems like a relatively straightforward one: "I don't like this policy. Look at all these things this policy does that are dumb." Does your post concede a single merit to the counterargument? Posts aren't required to do that.
how is this flamey and unsubstantive? i'm just discussing WHY guin is being given more prominence in recent years over her contemporaries. everything i said is relevant in our current social context and doesn't active "dogwhistle" or promote sexism or racism. she is being promoted heavily on almost every forum for an agenda and the agenda must be brought to light(even if it is a positive agenda)
what if jira bring the grasshopper plugin? grasshopper? field? grass? hopper? you’re kind of f’d
> and the President is elected by the electoral college, limiting the ability of large population centers to overwhelm the rest of the country

Instead a mere 30% of the US can vote on who is president and the rest doesn't get a say. [The electoral system for voting the president is so weighed that if you were to win the right states, getting about ~30% votes would be sufficient to become president].

The US voting system is broken at best and does not achieve what you think it does.
Facial Recognition is racist but how is IBM improving that?
Sometimes I wonder what the demographics are, really. Are 98% of hackers well-educated guys from MIT working for NASA or RedHat? Or is it the case that I've occasionally found myself in, romanticizing a culture & defending its ethos & values, until one day my eyes are opened and I realize 98% of are really just misfits, thugs, or crooks.

Fast & Furious comes to mind unbidden- lots of young men love cars, speed, driving. Here's a movie celebrating their earnest passion. Oh, by the way, in case you weren't paying attention the cast is a crime ring and fast cars are how they evade the law.

Same question goes for bitcoin- and lo, it seems these men were involved in that too.
Is this is the famous ouroboros growth model I've heard so much about?
That's not what I had in mind, but that is also a problem. What I meant by "questionable boundaries" is being more of a hired friend than a therapist, and talking about themselves and their own lives more than they should. Poorly trained therapists tend to take the side of the patient without exception, and rarely challenge the behaviors that can cause them problems. Therapy should feel challenging, and feel like work, at least most of the time. If it's someone telling you that you can do no wrong, that's not useful.
Hard to do deep packet inspection otherwise. Or DDoS protection to some degree. Etc. on a SoHo router though, I agree with you.
How many reddit users here hit the [-] to minimize discussions?
I mean you could do it, but then you have some different issues at the margins like the incentive to hire people off the books to not fall into a more regulated category.

And also there's a big ethical question here if you create an excemption for small business, because you create a two class workforce where parents in small companies lack what is arguably a very fundamental right.

So I guess it is a complicated issue, but on the specific matter on paternal leave I would argue that a universal protection at the cost of small business activity is preferable. Every parents should have the same rights when it comes to child care.
Sure, and it's good for society for those companies to fail.

That's one thing that I think is missing in many argument about business policy. Many times someone says, with this policy passed, my business will be less productive and might even fail. And we're too scared to say out loud that that's a good thing.

Markets works best when there is accurate and open communication of information, and it's generally very difficult to know how a prospective employer really approaches technical debt (or the equivalent for other disciplines) and business risk. I want to work for the company that's willing to confront past mistakes and not drowning in them, and, if possible, the company that made fewer past mistakes in the first place. This company is also more likely to be successful at delivering the very benefits for which society recognizes companies at all (producing goods and services, creating reliable jobs, advancing the state of knowledge, etc.). So, all other things being equal, it's in society's interest for me to find this company accurately, and with a limited labor pool it is almost certainly in society's interest for there to just be one competent company tackling a problem than two companies, one of which is incompetent.
FWIW, I grew up with such things in rural New England and the park an eighth of a mile of a subway stop here in Boston provides a similar value. I don't think this is just a European phenomenon--more of one where there is currently, or was recently, a sense of real community.
she wasn't black though?
FWIW I was an Apple store employee (specialist) and your assessment resonates very well with me.

I think the reason for the poor experience comes down to scale. Apple is too big now. There are just too many people. I remember when you used to be able to walk into the Genius Bar totally unannounced and you could usually get help in just a few minutes. Now you need to schedule your appointments a week in advance and you’ll only get an obscure 10:40am time slot.

Apple retail was an experience when the customer base was smaller but the iPhone completely changed that. I don’t think retail can scale that big and offer the same experience. If anything stores need to be more plentiful and smaller.
Yes, I was able to get Grub setup on my internal drive, so now I just boot directly into PureOS and hold down option to boot to macOS. I'll def have that info in my next entry, but you basically just copy the Grub config files I link to in the post to your internal drive's EFI partition (without deleting the Apple stuff that's there).
By what "standard". Many pinyin pronunciations are close to standard for many European languages expect English. On top of that Mandarin has multiple similar sounds (in pinyin presented as "x", "sh", "j" and "q") that would force you to get a little more creative.
I doubt the cost of an office, whether private or a 6-8 person bull pen style, is more than a rounding error compared to the cost of salaries + benefits for most tech employees. Another commenter put forth a figure of $300/month/person. That’s less than the cost of those shiny new MacBooks seemingly everyone in SF carries around.