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>>200mg caffeine

I used to be a big caffeine drinker. In my experience the problem with caffeine is that your body's tolerance to it seems to increase and so you need to keep increasing the dosage in order to get the same effect. It ended up being a net negative for me.

I've noticed that the best way to wake up early is simply to go to sleep early. Takes a bit of work at the beginning if you've developed some bad habits but eventually you can get used to it. Seems to be more mental than physical.

Also, caffeine should really be used only for emergencies in my opinion. Like if you've had very little sleep but you still need to be productive. Other than that I would stay away from it. Your body really does not need daily doses of caffeine to function, just like it does not need nicotine nor alcohol nor any other drug (assuming no medical need). They are just net negatives.

Drink green tea if you really feel like having some mild stimulant every day.
Not arguing either or but a coin toss is a very low bar.
As a night owl, it's because often time by the time I get to work and am still ramping up my day, they're going at full speed and expect me to do the same.
This is the reason I switched from FreeBSD to Debian about 20 years ago. Sad that it's still not an option.
Fair to a degree. But posthumously their work and their lived life is what it was. Branding tends to imply a more conscious effort to actively create a contemporary following.
Running an extremely profitable cable news channel. Their content isn't free, their web content is free and is paid for by their cable channel.
(will update more when at a desktop)

Several backed builder solutions, no/low code, or outsource

Started a private beta for own solution, email is in profile if interested.
I meant backbone network provider. As to oppose to consumer ISP.
"to a Scandinavian country" Indeed. My error. My point remains that it appears to be past the time for a recommendation.

Is your goal to convince the OP to back out of the arrangement? Or is it to bad-mouth current life in Sweden? Or something else? Perhaps subtle advocacy for Vänsterpartiet and the Miljonärsskatt?

Because you aren't the type of person the OP was asking for a response from, your response don't seem to have addressed any of the OP's topics, and your list of complaints doesn't resonate with most Americans.

To give an example, you have a train system, and both your SEK millionaires and young ride it.

Immigrants are almost always in a less favored group.

You know what else has changed in the last 10 years? White supremacists who have decided it is proper to kill children in Norway and Sweden - including my adopted city - and the rise of white supremacist stickers and graffiti around town.
Cambridge 2, Google 2, Dictionary 5.

Having too little of quantity of something (money) to do X (go out, renovate, travel, etc).
Yep, it's a shame there aren't more services such as libretaxi to fill in the market.
> I am not alone in this, Formula E has more sponsors and the Formula 1 people that have jumped ship to it are not 'has beens'.

This is potentially a bit deceptive. The young Formula 1 guys who are driving in Formula E would rather have a seat in F1 and aspire to go back, and when it comes to money, sponsorship in Formula E costs approximately nothing compared to F1.

> I think that Formula E on 'proper circuits' rather than city streets would be the apex of technology in sport.

With some hypothetical, much faster, car that they haven't built yet. Is there some especially good technology that they're holding back from the sport?
Of course I can't prove that Google hasn't done anything wrong. I don't believe that. Google is criticized all the time for various things they did. Sometimes they change what they do in response to criticism.

They also have a lot of power that could be abused. I like to make a distinction between potential and actual harm, though. Almost everything you do in civilization involves trusting other people to do things for you. Including keeping secrets. Sometimes that trust is broken, but a trustless society isn't possible.
I think he means the organizers in addition to the raters. So instead of hand-selecting samples like Scott & I do, the organizers would just feed random samples of unknown quality & origin straight to the raters without any chance to bias selection in favor of one side or another.
"parties" as in stakeholders, or "parties" as in joyful celebrations?
Isn't green tea quite high in caffeine?
Is it reasonable for Apple to charge $89.95 for a switch?

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HJBD2LL/A/ablenet-plate-s...

Also, Apple doesn't have to factor in the cost of malpractice insurance.
Apparently facts don't work on the left when they contradict their belief. I tried it's not working. Just like pre-programmed NPC's.
This is not good advice. As a manager you represent the company to your reports. To say it isn’t your decision is not helpful.

If it wasn’t your decision, it tells me that you are impotent and don’t have the pull to get me the compensation I want and I still leave.

Even if it was your decision, I would still leave. Whether it was your decision or not is meaningless to me.
As a German software engineer that used to work in the USA, do I pay more taxes in Germany, yes. But, I don't have to worry about going bankrupt from medical issues. In Seattle where I used to live daycare is 30,000$ a year per kid. In Germany it's at most like 200-300 euros a month. Plus you get kindergeld too(200 euros per kid). We don't go into 10s of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for school. Even with my "good" benefits I had at my job in the US, I would never move back.
I've created a news aggregator based on Wikipedia references. While this might be comparing apples to oranges, here's the list of the most cited websites by Wikipedia:
https://cited.news/domains

It's still a bit buggy, so the "blank" domain is ranked #1, followed by NY Times, BBC and The Guardian.

Fox News is ranked at #93 at that list: https://cited.news/domains/show/www.foxnews.com/citations
Instead of focussing of being externally useful / abused - please consider: internal, subjective rules to obey.
You are more than an experiment on short-living, abandoned batteries for the society you feel to be living a standard for.
For me, OpenBSD is easier to deal with. I use FreeBSD for boxes where we need larger storage, and FreeBSD is just harder. I've had problems with upgrades and FreeBSD really doesn't document some stuff thoroughly (zfs upgrade for instance).

OpenBSD does almost require you do the every 6 month upgrade, but it really isn't that much of a bother. The syspatch utility has made patches a lot easier. Packages are often delayed, but if it has what you need its pretty simple.
Oh, I'm not saying that it wasn't, but in the early Clarkson years it was....less flagrant.. and the show was mostly (obviously scripted) studio segments. I have nothing against scripted television, I just don't like it when they pretend they're on some grand adventure when in reality everything was probably planned shot for shot in advance.

Everything became "oh, look how witty and clever and snarky we are" rather than humor developing organically.
A “true free market” doesn’t have no patents any more than it has no rights in land. Patents prevent what would othwrwise be a market failure (free riding) just as property rights in land prevent tragedy of the commons. Put differently, you can’t have markets where you can just take things instead of entering into transactions. Because you can do that in the state of nature, markets are inherently artificial constructs.
That cost money either way. The best non monetary compensation you can give is comp days.
Sure, the overhead charges are spread proportionally according to usage, not equally among all patients. I see nothing wrong with that.
As an aside, back in the good ol' days, students paid their instructors directly, out of pocket. You can damn well bet more than "near-zero" effort would be applied in that case.

Anyway, society spends a lot of effort supporting students, from scholarships and tax exemptions to the social beliefs that allow the random person to spend several years doing nothing apparently productive without censure. But all that only applies to students actually enrolled---non-guerrilla students. Guerrilla studenting, as it was in the past, would only be the province of the idly wealthy. That, I think, is why no one tries that route.
Yeah, I don't understand.
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Branding tends to imply a more conscious effort to actively create a contemporary following.

I often see artists "discovered" by some curator or some other artist, then brought to the attention of the art world. The ones I'm aware of have traveling exhibits hitting major museums. There is money involved in this. There is a "conscious effort to actively create a contemporary following," in this as well. In a way, much of human culture, period, is tied up in branding and marketing. Even politics, which is a scary thought.
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I get the feeling that HAMMER2 will show up first.
Please go back and re-read what I wrote, paying particular attention to "might have needed under different circumstances but happened not to need that day".
“Mental overhead is greatly reduced when you can assume that your data structures are immutable”.
I’ve been reading lots of articles claiming that but I still haven’t understand how that’s so. If you have fifty functions all acting on the same piece of state, why would returning new objects instead of mutating would greatly reduce mental overhead? Isn’t there still mental overhead in tracking which of the fifty functions made some transformation?
Maybe this is something I would understand better with more practice in functional programming (which I don’t have yet), but if anyone could provide an example of this in practice I’d really appreciate.
It does that, it's possible it just broke on the page he tried. It doesn't work perfectly on 100% of pages which is why it saves as PDF, screenshot, and other methods as a fallback.
For how many years did you work in the USA?
Lots of operators are non-commutative. You can't "break" a commutative property that doesn't exist because the operator is not yet defined.
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Once I widget-chatted with an Amazon help person when I thought the thing I was expecting had somehow been mis-registered at the pick up locker (my unlock code didn't work).

We eventually worked out that I was an idiot and had sent it to another locker, a short hike across town. Oops!

Embarrassing, but helpful.
ArchiveBox is going to save all requests and responses with pywb in proxy mode, so it includes any data from the database that was needed to render the page.
It is a fact that as we age we prefer to go to bed earlier. There is a good evolutionary explanation for this. It makes sense that teenagers with better eye sight would stay up late to watch over the tribe / livestock at night, this predisposition for younger people to be night owls benefited the survival of the species.
> 200mg modafinil

The wide use of drugs as performance enhancers in our industry really makes me unhappy and uncomfortable. (I guess it probably exists in other industries too?)

I can't work out how to properly put into words how or why it makes me uncomfortable. But it seems like instead of drawing lines and saying people shouldn't need to take ADHD medication to focus, or modafinil to work unnatural hours, or ambien to sleep on planes, we're just going along with it. Like the work should come first, and of course we should take drugs to allow us to meet work expectations, or to get the upper hand in intra-employee competition, etc.
I think that would be hard to pull off in the US, where I live. There are enough paranoid infosec people that would spot the data transmission or CPU usage.

But certainly no harm done in muffling or ripping out a mic if you're concerned!
Aren't Windrush citizens still being deported? Have any of the deportees been allowed to return yet?
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Same here, but I would rather go on unemployment benefits than hurting my body to become a more efficient work machine. Life is too short.
Fuck this. I'm a night time person and I feel like I'm constantly punished by a society that places a moral value on waking up early.

In all seriousness, I'm thinking about starting a "night company" for night time people. Come in at 2, work until 10. Is there anybody out there who'd be interested in something like that?
The spending is due to research and development, not because more people are sick.
Not who you asked this from, but in my opinion it has a huge problem of any mistakes being unfixable - either you mistransact or get scammed - taler provides no way to fix that.
If you had pushed it just a little bit farther to 11am you would have been commuting in the daytime lull and had the same benefits.
The advice in the article is very universal and not specific to early morning people. A night owl too can prepare his breakfast or lunch, make a plan or meditate before sleep and benefit from that. It takes just a few changes and the title becomes The Secret To Becoming an Annoyingly Productive Night Owl. So what, you wake up early?
Yeah, Africans are also complaining that there are too many Africans among the prosecuted. But it's not like there's an alternative. Either we have ICC and at least some war criminals get prosecuted or we have nothing. Take your pick :/
I'm not sure why ASN.1 isn't more popular for a zero-copy encoding system
I'm using vi (not even vim) for Scheme and some obscure LISP dialects and I indent my code manually. The magic is in LISP itself, no plugins required! :)
Charged only for on-call persons. So should be less comparing to other tools.

Example: if you have 50 engineers and only 2 of them are on-call per sliding week, you'll be charged for 2.
You must mean someone not JS. Minimalism in music is a 20th century phenomenon.
NVIDIA's marketing is working superbly!

Not to discount that RTX is a big improvement - acutally it seems to be msotly deep learning based denoising that makes RTX possible.
Easily, I haven't lived in London in a while but I can name three: Japanese Canteen, Browns, Shrimpy's.
Serious question: Is it really worth the trade off? My biggest fear is to start needing prescription drugs for anything.
There are two sides to this:

On one hand, good management should realize that automating repetitive tasks and paying down technical debt is how you add to a tech company's capital stock, and is the only reason why tech company valuations tend to go parabolic. If you're just trading money for labor and labor for customer's money, you have a consulting service business. These can be profitable, but you don't build an enduring asset this way, and the valuations that business owners usually think about when they decide to start a tech company are those that come from owning a monopoly asset that you can sell to multiple customers for virtually no additional cost.

On the other hand, the part that engineers are usually blind to is the business context that the company operates in. Tech moves fast. It's not uncommon for basically all of a company's founding assumptions to be obsolete 3 years later. New tech platforms are available; customers want different things; a new competitor has just demoed a killer feature. All of these have the possibility to render large swaths of a product's feature set obsolete. There's no sense investing engineering time in a codebase that's about to be killed anyway; just rack up the technical debt and declare bankruptcy. Worse, management often can't tell engineering about many of these external realities without killing the product: would you continue working for a company that said "Our competitive position is untenable. Pump out as many features before anyone external notices so we can sell the company" or "We need you to keep the lights on for our existing customers while this secret division over there builds the next generation of the product"?

It's often good to ask questions about the company's overall strategy and competitive position (and to do research on this yourself) before joining. While the owners usually won't tell you everything, it'll build trust if they can tell you some things. They should be able to think of these issues in terms of trade-offs: "What's technical debt?" is the wrong answer, but so is "We care deeply about technical debt and give our engineers as much time as they want for code cleanup" (the latter is a bullshit answer, designed to make the hire). Similarly, it builds trust if engineers can also recognize the business tradeoffs and accept that sometimes the right answer is to hack something together and ship it so the customers can get value while management figures out the next strategic move.
> Actually, their iProducts are not even yours after you buy them. If you want to build an app for your own device you have to give Apple $100 every year just to be able to install it. So that puts them into a malignant category of their own.

FYI this has not been true for years.
And your feelings toward a purpose in life aren't objectively right either.

If I want to spend my short time on this planet in a more productive way so I can do more in my life, that's my choice and I'm not making a mistake or doing it wrong.

Do what you feel you need to do, but don't pretend like I'm living life wrong just because I'm different.
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Like with any medical test: if you do more tests you will find more incidence.

The same thing happened with various forms of cancer screening. If we were to test everybody for everything very few people would be found to be 100% and a lot of unnecessary procedures would be the result.

Given the obesity problem this result should not be a surprising finding anyway.
There definitely wasn't an executive order, as is made crystal clear if you actually click through on a few of those hits.
I'm surprised that you're commenting about the caffeine and not the modafinil!

Caffeine has lots of wonderful effects on the mind and the body. It was essential in helping me switch to an earlier routine: can't go to bed at 10pm if you're not tired because you woke up at noon; best way to be tired at 10pm is to get up at 6am; caffeine helped me get up at 6am.

Cycling your caffeine intake is a great way to still reap the benefits of caffeine without building up a tolerance.
They were being sarcastic I believe.
Not really, it's Medicaid and Medicare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_S...
I built tools to parse the compressed XML dumps. My computer was pretty underpowered at the time (MacBook air) so I had to very careful to make everything a streaming algorithm. Looking back I basically recreated a shitty map reduce in Python.
I think we should have universal healthcare, but I don’t know how I feel about the “medical bankruptcy” angle. It strikes a chord with the middle/upper middle class readers of the Atlantic because those people fear losing their financial status. But to me, protecting the financial status of middle class people seems like a particularly poor justification for universal health care.

Why should the government use tax dollars to keep a middle class person from going bankrupt, instead of giving that money to someone who started at $0 and stayed at $0? You’re a middle class professional and you get unlucky and get cancer, the government will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for your treatment. But if you’re unlucky in a different way, say you are born in the ghetto to poor parents, the government won’t give you hundreds of thousands of dollars. That seems completely backward.

Say you raise taxes hundreds of billions of dollars. Is protecting middle class people from being wiped out financially if they have a medical catestrophe really the highest and best use of that money? For about $100 billion you could give every child born into poverty an “inheritance” of $100,000. Wouldn’t that be a better use of the money?
Many (Some?) schools operate that way---the first step in a PhD is a qualifying exam. Some students may be able to pass it immediately after their undergraduate studies, while others (most?) require some remediate studying---undergrad classes, I guess.

UT Austin, at the time I was there, used the other (and better, I think) method: breadth and depth graduate classes, typically more advanced versions of advanced undergrad classes. The breadth classes covered most of CS, while the depth classes were more introductions to specific areas of research.

Edit: Oral quals are just hazing, in my opinion.
I always thought it to be a bit anthropocentric to assume that art is a harder problem than say, exploring meaningful theorems in math. Art is basically learning what the human brain and sensory processing find pleasant, in certain ways. Sure, I believe that creating very fine art with deep meanings might be hard, but consumer-grade stuff? I can readily believe that that is pretty automatable given enough training data. Journalists in my country already mostly copy-and-paste from a central agency...
It is, but it also has L-Theanine, which moderates some of the effects of the caffeine you're consuming in green tea.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18681988 (The combined effects of L-theanine and caffeine on cognitive performance and mood)
No, it doesn't. Your post does display a great facility for redefining what "management" means, in bad faith, though.
Counterpoint: Coffee is delicious, and may have some health benefits. But, mostly, it's delicious.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-latest-scoop-on-the-...
I don't think it's too much to claim that if you can develop a routine that makes you perform great mentally that early in the morning, you probably aren't a "night person".
I'm deeply uncomfortable with it too, and that's why I'm probably going to taper down to a complete stop. It's just hard to want to do that when I'm much more focused and productive when I'm on strong stimulants. All of my most effective coworkers are medicated.
"Green tea. usually contains around 25 milligrams of caffeine per 8-ounce serving. It's about half of the amount of caffeine found in a typical cup of black tea and one-quarter of the amount found in a typical cup of coffee."

From: https://www.thespruceeats.com/caffeine-in-coffee-tea-cola-76...
While that's true, that's also true for all other countries where hospitals don't bill you $2,600 for glue and five minutes. So now the question merely shifts to why America needs that much money for stocking supplies and keeping doctors sitting at hospital.
Just because you are doing work does not mean that you are a cog. Many people do work that is meaningful for them. There is no shame in being productive.
Yes, but they're all single or otherwise have no family obligations. Once you have a family and have to deal with school and other activities it's pretty hard to deviate much from the normal 9-5 workday.
I'll happily join :)

With me it comes and goes. I have nocturnal periods, mostly when I'm working on some project and 'normal' periods when doing a lot of customer work. But as soon as I'm on my own the night habit kicks in. I just love it when the whole world is quiet.
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