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There is already a treasure trove of info in the comments. So let me try not to repeat and give only what I have learned recently.

I had lost weight sometime back (around 40 pounds, give to take). Life got in the way and got a bit lazy. A few years flash by and I am climbing back to where I was previously.

My lifestyle had been slowly slipping back to old unhealthy ways. So I had to relearn all the habits again. I am 2 months into the change. I am logging my learnings here as much for me as for the OP.

* One can't outrun a bad diet. So exercise by itself cannot help you lose weight.

* But, just calorific restriction makes me terribly miserable, obsessive and depressed.

* Exercise can boost your endorphins, make you feel good. It has a start and stop time. So everyday, you can feel satisfied that you have done atleast one thing that is healthy. It also helps preserve your muscles as you lose fat.

* So I hit upon a plan. Exercise is just for me to not feel depressed. While diet and calorie restriction can take care of the weight loss.

* With that in mind, I could choose the exercise that I like the most, walking. (Previously, I was more focused on the ones that will aid weight loss the most.)

* Walking (or any exercise) also helped regulate the sleep patterns. Then slowly I started weeding out foods that might not be helpful for me.

* A few weeks in, I added some strength exercises and HIIT.

* The scale is not moving as fast as I would have liked but I do see some changes in the mirror and everyday I could run a bit longer, feel a bit stronger and hopefully, the habits are getting ingrained enough to not fall off the wagon again.
Peer review is not about reaching consensus tho, is about verifying methodologies and reproducibility, a system like that could easily become a tyranny of the mediocre, see for example Wikipedia.
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45K tops and you decided to setup in the center of Madrid. That's either condemning the worker to a long commute or a low salary.
What's worse is that these false penicillin allergies have precluded the use of similar drugs such as cephalosporins, despite a very low cross reactivity, and worse drugs such as vancomycin were used as substitutes. Thankfully, increased attention will help to decrease overuse.
I have no doubt you're right.

The thing is, you can have development standards that require small iterations that are immediately deployable and this are immediately tested and deployed, without pulling all the overhead of some PMs interpretation of scrum.

I often find the power is generally with the wrong people and they promote the things that matter to them at the detriment of everything else.

I don't personally believe this is by design, it's just people in $foo management position tend to have the soft skills to make their job easier, when many of the developers often don't. And managers, who tend to control budgets and define departments, tend to give those departments to more managers and there's not a lot of people in the room telling them that a software person should probably run a software team.
I don't think it is so much any of those things that enable your best work, it is having a problem that requires innovation, in a company that allows innovation (probably because it will die without it, so a startup), and where the skills required are especially suited to you.

That said probably the companies that provoked my best work where ones that

1. I had a personal investment in

2. There were parts of what we worked on that I found intellectually interesting.

2. had small teams and we were not afraid to argue for days about how to do something, and arguments were clear.

3. technical people that worked together sat together.

The places I did my worst work

1. Hated the concept and what we were doing.

2. Just cashing a paycheck (I have also done good work just cashing a paycheck so not sure how important it is)

3. Even if the teams were small the tasks the team handled were split up in such a way that nobody really had any input on anybody else's area.

4. Argument just did not make any headway on anything. If someone had more power in an area you let them have their way because it was a waste of time saying anything.

5. if you sat with the people you worked with it was almost an afterthought.
The duckroll?
> On their first attempt of their papers got ejected, so they polished and resubmitted them.

That they found success with this process is damning. That you seem to think otherwise is probably also damning.
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> A free ISA is about more than saving a few pennies on each board in royalties, it's about having a chip you can truly trust. One that doesn't have some opaque binary blob running at ring -2. One where nothing is encrypted by a key only the manufacturer (and whomever they can strike a deal with) has. About hardware you truly own and control.

This has basically nothing to do with the ISA. It's not the ISA that hides secrets and requires binary blobs. A chip is much more than an instruction set, hence why dealing with the proprietary undocumented garbage to bring up a new ARM SoC is a pain in the ass even if you've memorized every ARM instruction down to its encoding...

If RISC-V gets picked up and used by mainstream chipmakers in the SBC & TV BOX & mobile space, there is no doubt we will end up with chips that have proprietary undocumented garbage interfaces. Just like they also now take something like the (open source) ATF or OP-TEE, implement support for their own chip, and then publish a binary blob without source code.
Call it "excitement" instead.

For example, there is no stage fright. It's stage excitement. All those feelings some people get before speaking in front of a large crowd? That's all excitement. Wow, I'm looking forwards to this! This is going to be great! Surprisingly effective. Apply the same self-psychology here.

Being excited about it makes more sense; maybe it really is excitement you're feeling. Easy to confuse the two.
I used to pay for spotify, but they kept changing the interface and fucking up in other ways.

Seriously, I would have continued to pay them, if I could have used the same software I originally got with it.

Of course I am also the sole user who ever paid for groveshark premium, and none of the current efforts are even a tiny bit remotely close to its interface, much less its music selection.
> There is a countless amount of data, settings, computer code, etc, that is not included with a scientific paper.

And that, in itself, is a problem. How can others identify flaws in the paper if they can't see the data you used?

Open Source software includes all the code you need, not just the final binary executable. Any proposed "Github for Science" needs to do the same.

And any arguments that "the data is expensive to collect and proprietary" can be countered with "code is expensive to write and proprietary, yet open source still works".
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In case you’re wondering how people get falsely labeled as having a penicillin allergy, I have an anecdote: My grandad with a “penicillin allergy” was recently treated with a high dose of penicillin for 4 days without any problem. The hospital didn’t have access to his medical records and also overlooked what we wrote on the admission forms, and went ahead with penicillin as the best treatment. I asked my grandad about this allergy. He said that 40 years ago he had an upset stomach after taking penicillin and the doctor told him he was allergic. He’s been repeating that information to doctors and pharmacists for 40 years.
What you describe looks how agile was supposed to be. What the op described looks like a perversion of agile perpetrated by managers who either don't understand why agile was born, or do understand it, but only care about increasing their power instead of getting things done.
I seem to recall reading in either Kahn's or Sebag-Montefiore's book on Bletchley Park that one early failure mode of the tape was that it was run through the reader at a fast enough pace to occasionally catch fire.

Oops.
Still no proof here. He's on the list of potential Nakamotos, but the closest anyone came to proving it was Wired, and they later retracted the story. It'd be easy to prove if he just spent some of the early coins. Wright is clearly a nutjob and a publicity hound, which doesn't disprove that he's Nakamoto, but it does mean no one is going to take him at his word.
The precursor to Rick-Rolling: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/duckroll
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I've been working for about 2.5 years at a tech company - my first non-internship job. I was by no means an expert in any field (studied an engineering degree before joining but then my internships were all programming related) but I did have a lot of experience writing and reading complex code having been involved in competitive programming since I was eleven.
So I did what I felt I needed to do - spent more time in the office learning about the technology stack, digging in our codebases, spent weekends going through tutorials, books, writing and reading code that would help me be better at what I was supposed to do. And it certainly helped, I'd say I am at the moment one of the most experienced software engineers in my team (we're all rather young) - A LOT of my time these days is spent helping others understand or work with our code.

But along the way, the company did almost nothing to support my growth. All the opportunities that I got and I can think of now were to make use of my knowledge, but not to enhance it. At the same time, engineers around me in the team who joined at the same time or later, at the same point in their careers, got sent to specialist courses, conferences, were given tasks to boost their experience and visibility in the company. The same engineers, over and over.

What should I do in such circumstances? I feel like I can't move to another company because having only 2.5 years """experience""" under belt means almost no credibility.

Apologies for the wall of text.
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Seems like a very complicated and expensive way of administering poison.

The real question here isn't the delivery mechanism, but the properties of this magical compound - whether it leaves any traces in the body, and what symptoms it causes.
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So much delusion in one page, think the guy needs help!
Second this: there are a thousand things that can go wrong and irrevokably cost money. You need to get that production expertise in somehow, either by hiring or consultancy.

It's possible to learn a lot from people like Bunnie Huang, such as his "Chumby" product which he blogged the development of.
It may be the stronger smell or the faster delivery of particulates of burnt fat through the air.

Dogs, wolves, and bears can’t cook or start fires but all of them are attracted to the smell of cooked food as well. You could argue that dogs and maybe wolves co-evolved that preference alongside ours, but that doesn’t hold up for bears.
Here's Wikipedia on ZKPs, to give people context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof It's unclear that this is yet possible to execute satisfactorily for internet use, and smart observers I've spoken to think it's at least a couple of years away, if not more. But here's a link from the wikipedia article suggesting something's up. https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-upgrade-byzantium-is...
It is hard to make happen in competitive fields because good data is an expensive advantage over other labs.
> Don't be flippant.

Naming the bill S.420 is unserious.

> Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short.

Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated?

> Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.

Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing?
I'm sure it's doable, just be aware that it will take a lot longer and cost a lot more money than you expect.

When your hardware project is "done" - that is, it works as you'd like, maybe you've made a handful of them - you're only really 30% of the way. First you need to test it - EMC testing can be painful and unless you really designed it carefully you'll probably need to redesign parts of it.

One you've got past that, you need to manufacture it. To get a project to volume manufacture means you need to work out all the little details - how will you program it, how will you test it, how much stock do you hold, who builds it. You'll probably find there's things you overlooked, or a part you can't buy any more, and you have to do a board respin.

When you see polished products on Kickstarter that manage to ship in the schedule they initially proposed, that's because they've already done all of this. They've probably spent 6 or 7 figures to get to that point.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do it (and there are paths you could take which aren't so onerous, like maybe making just a circuit board which you sell mainly to the hacker community) - I find the whole process really enjoyable. It's just that it's a lot of work and can be very, very capital intensive. Plan things carefully and be realistic, not optimistic about costs and schedule.
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I think Stardust Memories is his best work.
Direct link: https://risky.biz/RB522 for anyone wondering. (Agree super insightful)
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The hosting is not the hard part. Arxiv.org and SciHub do that on a shoestring budget. The hard part is changing the mindset of the scientists. Reputation is a very strong motivation factor for scientists to publish in prestigious journals. And journals (prestigious or not) like to charge a lot of money just because they can.

Fortunately things are changing. Most people in the machine learning community posts their papers directly on arxiv.org.
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Karakul means "Black Lake" in most of the local languages, except ironically, Tajik, although it is located in Tajikistan.
Do you truly believe they are the only country on Earth committing corporate espionage?

Everyone is doing it, but in Western democracies you have to hide the fact because voters on all sides frown upon such cheating. Especially stealing from your closest allies who send their troops to die in your pointless wars.

The reality is China doesn't care about getting caught. Just like India shrugs off rescinding billion dollar pharmaceutical patents and starts exporting the generics around the world for huge profits despite never contributing a cent to R&D.
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Lack of validation?
Some data cannot be shared due to patient confidentially.

In fact, almost all medical trials or epidemiological studies use data that can't be shared outside the study.
I know. When I first read the XP book by Kent Beck it was a revelation. That was the first time I saw a methodology that I felt worked and agreed with my own experience. Planning everything out in advance is hopeless.

There are two great quotes that I think capture this:

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.”
John Gall

“Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.”
David Kelley

It is really sad to read about how often the agile ideas have been misused!
I'm a similar situation. My current position has excellent work/life balance, excellent colleagues, interesting work in itself and I'm basically having fun most of the time. I would not switch under normal conditions. The salary though has been stagnant for years and it has been my main crux for some time now. Being handled by HR, I also know it's essentially non-negotiable, despite not being an economical limit for the company. If I had a family or some bigger expenses (like a house or a new car) I would have to quit.

I'm actively looking, but no other job was interesting enough for me to consider yet. I won't switch for a job I'm "forced" to do unless it was paid at least three times my current salary, which would only be possible if I would relocate too.

It's sad really. A 10% bump in my net salary would keep me glued here for several more years.
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Having a allergic reaction once - from a disrupted / suppressed immune system - and having an actual allergy are two different conditions.

When the majority of the masses falsely believe antibiotics are something you take for a flu or a cold, then educating them on fluctuations in immunity is probably too much to expect.
Yeah same here. My GP recently told me to check the symptoms with family (I was very young so I didn’t remember) and get administered a dose to test the allergy now if the symptoms were pretty mild. Haven’t got around to it yet but I’m thinking I will soon.
The US and Western Europe are extremely neurotic. All it takes is the mention that an allergy is possible to have for 20% of people to start claiming that they have it.
Sure, I honestly don't have any problem defining consciousness in terms of the human experience of it. After all to my mind that's what it is - an experience. We can use scientific processes and techniques to analyse it for sure, to trim away misconceptions and more precisely understand it's parameters but we're never going to identify a 'consciousness particle', or special quantum entanglement whatsit that Roger Penrose seems to believe is responsible for it. I'd rather just embrace the fact that this is a philosophical question. Science can illuminate philosophy, just as philosophy can illuminate science.
> The ID card is a critical document that impacts everyday life, without it, an individual cannot vote, purchase property, access higher education, obtain employment, access credit, or public health, among other fundamental rights.

It's the same in Belgium, France and I'd bet it's the same in any other European Union countries.
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Here's a video that offers an introduction to the "Algorave" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EZqikCIfY
Given the possibility of dopant-level backdoors (see https://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf ), you can't trust a chip you didn't fab yourself even if it passes optical inspection.

But maybe a simple FPGA design would be resistant to this technique if the attacker didn't know the intended bitstream in advance.
Thanks for pointing that out! Seems very interesting person.
I've been told to tell people I have a penicillin allergy.

I've never had penicillin in my life. My sister had a bad reaction when she was really young and the doctor decided it was safer to just declare I have one too.
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Is it recommended to use redux to share state across different components while you are using react-apollo client to sync remote data between client and server?

Looking forward to your views
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guy needs some help
For anyone (like OP) that's looking for help with a hardware project, I'm happy to advise. I have lots of experience bringing projects to market, both from an EE side and from the manufacturing side.
I’ve heard that a significant proportion of kickstarter projects do exactly this
In my previous job we went through the same process. A review involves two parties (the author and the reviewers) with different goals and obligations. Fast forward, we decided that the goal of a reviewer is to check

- readability/maintainability

- coding style

All other things (e.g. linting, formatting, simple error checks...) have to be automated, cause this is super anoying.

> As a general rule, keep the process lightweight, it should not be a burden, make it a fun activity.

Here are some more question that came up:

- Whats a good size for a review -- something up to 400 LOC, there are papers on that topic

- How long can the author wait, hence how often to reviewers have to review -- we tried to establish a habbit to do reviews twice a day

- How many people have to accept? -- this question is interesting, cause there is a correlation of number of reviewers and bad review quality.

- Who is reviewer -- opt-in, if knowledge sharing is your goal, keep it open. There are companies that mark branches in the source code with OWNER files to make this more explicit

- Are there mandatory reviewers -- yes, the owner should give his approval, unless he is on holiday

- How do you resolve discussions (and are they efficient)? -- IMO pairing on non-trivial comments was the most efficient approcah.

- If you are unhappy, can you decline a review? -- that would be brutal

- How do you communicate/notify people?

- How do you handle late comments? if you use pull requests, reviewers could still comment?
- To resolve a comment in the review you changed the code and revoke all approvals?

- Do you want to enforce behavior -- just make it a fun activity :)
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Thank you for your clarity. We need more of this.
I agree completely, that's my objection to the idea of consciousness being 'rich information processing'. It's way too vague. But similarly you can't (always) reduce a complex problem to a trivial one and then claim they are the same, when they are not.
Abstract: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09586...

Text of abstract: The production of Swiss-type cheeses with a typical number, size, and distribution of eyes is a difficult task, especially when bactofuged or microfiltrated milk is utilised. In this study, the potential of microparticles (plant origin) to influence eye formation in cheese, was assessed. Eight experimental Emmental cheeses were produced with one replicate from microfiltrated milk with addition of 0.0625–4.000 mg of powdered hay to the milk (90 L) and ripened for 130 days. Eye formation was quantified by means of X-ray computed tomography (between 30 and 130 days). The contents of fat, water, citric acid, lactic acid, and volatile carboxylic acids were determined at 130 days. The results demonstrate that microparticles of plant origin act as eye nuclei that control the number (P < 0.001) and size of the eyes in cheese in a dose-dependent manner. The findings also provide new insights into the formation of eye defects.
> In the worst case (e.g. the only alternative is death), there is still a price because the drug company can't demand a billion dollars if the customer doesn't have a billion dollars.

There's a much stricter limit than that. I keep seeing people say that you can charge as much money for lifesaving medical care as the patient has, and it's nonsense. That hypothetical patient is choosing between whatever remains of their life and leaving an inheritance of $1 billion. I guarantee you that the world is chock full of people who would kill themselves for $1 billion. Life insurance policies exclude suicide for a reason, and they pay tens of thousands of times less than that.