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Why haven't we evolved photosynthetic skin? Why haven't we evolved the ability to regrow lost limbs and organs? Why haven't we evolved a better defensive system, delivering us from sickness and cancer?

The answers to all those questions are the same: evolution doesn't "care" about you being comfortable, or optimized. I quoted "care" because evolution is a process; it lacks a conscience and thus it cannot "care". But it has drives. Regarding you, evolution's drives are that you pass your genetic material down to your offspring, that you have as many offspring as possible, and that they repeat the cycle after you are gone.

All the benefits that you as an individual get from are either a direct consequence those drives, or a happy random accident, because there's a high degree of randomness involved.

The fact that there's randomness, plus the fact that individual comfort or productivity is not a drive, means that there could be places where us humans can "supplement" evolution - that's one of the roles of modern medicine. I'm not saying this particular compound will work as advertised; just that the room for improvement exists.
You're on a website called "hacker news." Are you really surprised that there are people interested in hacking their bodies?
Maybe something went via the numerous landers that have visited Mars over past 4 decades?
Isn't this purely about their internal incentives? No one gets promoted or advances their career by doing boring upkeep tasks on an existing product.

The only way to really advance your career inside Google is to launch a new product. (And then let it slowly rot as you and your team are promoted and moved to launch a new product)
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To my mind, Gmail has always been broken because it utterly fails at being able to delete messages when acting as an IMAP backend.

On iOS, this problem has generally been solved, but on the Mac, it remains a clusterfuck. I have no hope it will ever be fixed.

While my primary account is still there, I moved my personal domain address to Fastmail.
Can't remember the exact name, but yeah, I've seen that game before in the 80s, either on a C-64 or MSX.
Just because countries tend to act like sociopaths doesn’t make that sort of behaviour acceptable.

And if we leave behind the bomb analogy, this was an action with global consequences. Not only potentially harming the ISS but risking escalating an arms race that could jeopardise all future satellites and space missions.
>how pristine and beautiful it really is here. The

Keep talking like that on the internet and it will rapidly take a turn for the worse.

Colorado used to be a lot like Idaho then it achieved a "brand image" as a vacation spot, after about a generation of people retiring to their vacation spot and people moving there because they can and the state is in a tailspin (being an early adopter on weed probably didn't help but that's beside the point). Now the cost of living is skyrocketing and Denver/Boulder seem to be hell bent on recreating all the bad (bad for people who aren't wealthy, that is) decisions of a certain west coast state.

Economy, people, natural environment, no place can be highly favorable to all three. You can make big bucks and enjoy nature all you want in CA but the rest of your life will be a rat race. You can live a nice life and make good money in some places on the east coast but god help you if you want to get outdoors once in awhile. There are still many highly rural states where you can enjoy nature and have a nice life but you won't be making big bucks there.
>anyone seeking treatment because they read too many books or spend too much time with their friends.

I do find it disingenuous that you happened to leave off many of the negative interactions that have also dropped in occurrences when people don't 'hang out with friends'. Young men in particular, when hanging out in groups, have a penchant to find trouble or commit crimes. People don't seek treatment for hanging out with their friends, they seek treatment because they hang out and drink/do drugs with their friends, etc.

Almost any behavior can become negative. People also tend to min/max.
Lack of exercise causes me a mixture of depression and anxiety. In a society in which we engineered physical challenge out of our lives, it's no wonder a segment of the population experiences depression.
It is quite difficult to "make friends". Real friends, who will "jump in", and not just mock you when you say one emotional thing like "I am sad". It is nearly impossible to make friends when you are starting to get older (like 40+)... I can not imagine what it is like if you are depressed and have no friends. How do those people get help?
Last I checked, YouTube was/is kind of a big deal.
Nature has been full of fatty meat until we killed it all and had to invent agriculture.
Warning: Personal opinion ahead

To understand why this keeps happening, you need to understand the product and engineering culture at Google. As a group, Google engineers and PMs are obsessed with promotion. At the heart of every conversation about system design or product proposal lies an unspoken (and sometimes spoken) question: will working on this get me promoted?

The criteria for promotion at Google, especially at the higher levels like SWE III -> Senior and especially at Senior -> Staff and above, explicitly talk about impact on the organization and the business. This has consequences for the kind of teams people try to join and kind of work they choose to do. Maintenance engineering is so not-rewarded that it's become an inside joke. Any team that isn't launching products starts bleeding staff, any project that isn't going to make a big splash is going to be neglected, and any design that doesn't "demonstrate technical complexity" will be either rejected or trumped up.

This is as important in the product management, people management, and general leadership roles as in engineering. The incentive throughout is to create a product, launch it, apply for promotion, and move on to bigger and better things as soon as possible. In my time at Google I saw organization after organization pay lip service to rewarding maintenance and "preferring landings over launches" and “improving product excellence” but (at least in my experience) nothing stuck.

Usually an organization starts with a top-down direction and the rest of the company is compensated for executing it. Not at Google. The "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach that developed from the early days of twenty percent time and total engineering independence has created a disorganized mess of a company. Multiply the individual incentives fifty thousand times and you get a company that throws stuff at the wall to see if it sticks, and if it doesn't kills it immediately.

Edit/Addendum:

This is also why GMail, YouTube, Search, GCP, Android, and others aren’t going anywhere. They’re making money, they’re core to the business, and there’s plenty of opportunity to work on them and get promoted. They all also share one thing in common: deep down they’re frontends for search or advertising (GCP and Apps are an exception because they make money on their own). Measuring and proving impact on search numbers is a well-known promo narrative at Google, so those products are a safe bet for employees and users. Streaming game services, not so much.
Yes, take hydro away and the entire conversation changes. Now... how many people actually understand the effect hydro has on the environment?

There is a reason that the big sandy beaches seen around highway 12 around McCall and Riggins are fairly rare in Idaho now.
"remember that all the non-tech people ask the tech people they know what to use. And tech people are who set up their family's computers, deploy software widely on business networks, etc."

As a techie who has set up and/or fixed many non-techie family & friends' computers and devices, I hear ya. 110%, loud and clear. :-)

However... I wonder how long this will remain true. More and more devices are ready to go out of the box and kids are being taught to use Google products in school.

It's not hard to buy a phone or Chromebook online, log into your Google account and be ready to go.

It's not like the old days when you would have to go to your grandma's house and install a better web browser, antivirus, etc. Most things just work now, for most people.
I disagree. I know a lot of "non-techies" that switched to using iPhones just for iMessage because Google's messaging ecosystem is confusing and seems to change every 12 months. I also know a lot of non-techies that use Google Play Music to upload and manage their own music libraries. It's rumored that Play Music is going to be killed in the next few months as Google pushes YouTube music subscriptions instead. The problem is, just like with Inbox and Gmail, Google rarely ever makes good on promises to port features from old products to new ones. I highly doubt the Play Music users that specifically use it because they can upload 50,000 of their own songs are going to opt into a worse version of Spotify when it's killed off.
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"If you believe the national news"... there in lies the crux of the issue.

Have we not all learned by now that large media is merely playing for click-bait and sensationalism at this point and can not be trusted?

Aside from 3 years I have lived in various conservative states. The push for coal is not by the populace but by the $$$ being donated by various groups. Please note I have not lived in a coal producing state. I am sure in those states the desire is for coal as it equals jobs. Yet they are a minority.
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Use this for the cookie permission popup nonsense: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
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Why would you need yet another STUN/TURN server?
> Overall the flow management (at least with our dams in the Cascades) is more about making sure the reservoir doesn't overflow or dry up than it is about making sure that the river doesn't run dry.

So what? I didn't say anything about the river running dry. What are you responding to?
The issue is that people will overlook it on IM sites now and then complain that there is no way to get notifications without an app.

So, the browser vendors worked around this by making it prominent. I think the interface was actually pretty reasonable for these legitimate use cases.

Unfortunately, reasonable tools that capture traffic will always be abused.
Ah, I'll check to see if that's in the API, although it's not super helpful if I still need to keep the connection open.
Still, as you say, better than nothing!
You want to CRISPR yourself to gain a few IQ points?

Anyways that's at the least two decades away if even that, for what can at best be defined as recreational gene therapy.
I always think I'm doing a shit job and not getting anywhere near enough done. However, I always seem to get rated as a top contributor (which surprises me). In this example, my manager told me that he had obtained information that a team of sixteen people had accomplished the same work as I had in twice the time. I believed him, even though it seemed insane, particularly given that I felt like I was doing a crap job. I don't see why he would lie to me about that.

Another example like this (from later) was when I designed a context-switchable HD MPEG-2 core with two other people. We had the CEO/CTO of a start-up come in to pitch their supposedly equivalent core to us. They had a company of dozens of people who had all been working on the project for a couple of years. We had been working on our project for six months and we were much further ahead in development than them.

It seems to me that the performance and quality bar is just really low in general. Execution is way lower than it could be. I can only imagine that it's a motivation problem.
From the FAQ (https://www.chef.io/bmc-faq/):

Q: What do I have to differently today than I had to do yesterday?

For our existing commercial customers there is no action required.

For existing customers using Chef for non-commercial purposes, experimentation, or individual use there is no change.

For contributors to Chef OSS projects, non-profits, and other special groups we are still working on how we will partner with those communities around licensing Chef products. Stay tuned for more info.

Everyone else can continue using our current releases in perpetuity – although they will be end-of-support in 12 months and no further bug fixes or security updates will be available for those versions without a commercial arrangement. Customers who choose to use our new software versions will be subject to the new license terms and will have an opportunity to create a commercial relationship with Chef, with all of the accompanying benefits that provides.

Q: How will this impact existing customers?

For existing customers this change will not impact their usage or contracts. Companies that already pay us for Chef Infra (formerly Chef), Chef Inspec, Chef Habitat and/or Chef Automate will continue to do so and we will continue to increase the value of their relationship with Chef.

Users who do not pay Chef today (use our free open source binaries), and net new users, will have three options going forward:

License our commercial software distribution.
Take our open source code and create a software development org to build and manage their own distro (create their own downstream fork) or leverage a public free distribution (which may or may not exist).
Stay on an older free distribution in perpetuity. For example, they could use Chef 14.7.17 forever but they would not receive security updates , bug fixes or support from Chef starting 1 year after Chef 15 is released.

We will make licensing accommodations for individuals and significant community contributors to continue to use Chef Infra, Chef Inspec and Chef Habitat in the same way that they have been. In addition, we want to make it equally easy to experiment and self-learn with our various products.

Finally, we will have a low cost “Essentials” suite of our commercial distributions that should satisfy the needs of smaller businesses.
>> Downgrading the prompt to a non-popup icon in the address bar unless it follows a user action sounds like the perfect balance.

I disagree. There should be no UI for these. A site should essentially say "click here to enable XXX" as part of the page. Anything else is essentially a pop-up. I don't want buttons or controls in my browser to be controlled by a web site. BTW that includes the back button - why browsers ever allowed sites to take control from the user is beyond me.
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It's weird you felt you needed to make a nerdy straw man to rail against when the comments here mostly agree with your general thesis. Why the acidic tone?
social, helping out, and encouraging the person in question to "get out of their bubble"

Interestingly, it's often exactly the opposite that's needed: just be there and listen.
If you allow illegal activity as a form of protest—when it is not the absolutely last option—, then you negate the legitimacy of the law in general. So even if you argue your illegal action was the best possible measure to move society forward, you still have to accept the consequences for breaking the law.

In this case it is the presence of a legal device allowing to censor copyright-infringing sources which is bad; that is, censorship is not even limited to (very) serious crimes anymore. As a result the government is building the legal and physical infrastructure to manipulate communication via the internet. This will only embolden more authoritarian regimes in their pursuit to isolate and nationalize their internet infrastructure.
Sounds good, I appreciate it I will do just that. Thanks
Copyright is not so easy to gain.

Sampling is at least nominally a creative act, where changing the resolution for example is not. You can gain copyright for a collection of say “Dog Photos” collected from public works. But, you don’t gain anything over individual photos in that collection only over that specific listing.
Maybe it is time Google thinks about decentralized products again. I mean, yes they are one of the biggest players in the cloud business, but decentralized doesn't mean you can't be a big cloud provider within an open ecosystem.

And if you build open systems, you can abandon those without letting anybody down (unless you didn't even release the complete reference implementation as it happen with Wave).

For example, with Stadia they could have opened up their platform for gaming marketplaces like Steam, GOG, etc. and let people play the games they already own via the Stadia streaming service. That way, nobody would have to be afraid of not being able to play their games when Stadia shuts down in 3 years.
If I am on the market for a high-quality skateboard, and I walk into Sam’s Club looking for one, I’m probably not really looking for high quality and just want a cheap price (even though it may cost me an up-front membership fee to shop there, instead of no membership fee at a place like Wal-Mart).

If Indeed is like Wal-Mart, TripleByte is like Sam’s Club. A different branding of a cheap, commodity store.

If you’re truly willing to pay a high price for something, you don’t even walk in the door at Sam’s Club. You research a boutique seller that’s harder to find.
Thinking all conservatives are against green energy is a smear against conservatives. The debate is much more nuanced and to trivialize a complex issue conservatives generally think that the solution to the problem is through innovation and business investment rather than taxes and government action. As with most issues, I believe the solution is somewhere in the middle and after reading the news the other day where Florida is building the worlds biggest battery, it’s really great to see red states leading!
> If you believe the national news, all red states want to keep burning coal.

If you believed the national news for the last two years, you were presented with an unfounded conspiracy theory.

The U.S. is not the caricature. Republicans are human too. Nobody wants to rely on coal, but if you have a lot of it, you have a huge incentive to try to make it work.
I really want to like Chef, but their ecosystem around their Infra-suite is just such a mess of different offerings, all with different limitations and features, I hope maybe this will consolidate things.

Chef-solo, Chef-zero, Chef-server, little-chef and tooling like knife and knife-solo.
Interesting way could be using the approach suggested in the book "Slicing pie" by Mike Moyer

You can find in on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Slicing-Pie-Company-Without-Funds-ebo...
Any chance of getting a SFW version of that link? I can't click on a torrentfreak.com link, even if it probably is benign.
No sure about other brands/models but the Yamaha cx5 was intended as a music workstation from the beginning and did have midi in & out. Those were the days just after Yamaha almost monopolized the music industry with the sound of the DX7 and following synthesizers.
Could you share with us the "requirements" section of an average job you would feel confident applying to, one that is like the jobs you are not passing the interviews for?

You don't get repeat clients. What is your communication with the clients like? Do you have in person meetings? How long is the typical engagement? Do you work at their office or at your mom's place? Is there one client you had a good enough relationship with to ask them if you guys could get coffee together to have feedback on your operation? (Borrow from your mom money from aforementioned coffee if needed, I'm sure she wants you to have a career as much as you do)

Aside from your mom, do you have friends or romantic partners with stable office jobs to ask for advice on what could be the issue? (Don't ask the mom, moms are terrible advice givers in those situations.)
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There are places with Beyond Burger in Berlin and it's one of the best patties I tried, to the point were some non-vegetarians friends choose it when available.
It's an acute benefit though, isn't it? I've noticed that people coming down off of amphetamines are not as productive as they might otherwise be.
I went to buy one last week. Apparently discontinued Jan 2019. I just missed the boat, and I am sad.
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I stand my ground. Children have the most neuroplastic brains capable of learning multiple languages simultaneously and having them become instinctive.

Adults are largely screwed on that front.

Most masters of various practices started when they were children and people that got into the practices later on often can never come close to the same level.

Age 18-23 or whatever where people say they are the sharpest is just like the point where you know the most before neuroplasticity starts degrading faster.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/28/5/764

This somewhat suggests that the episodic physiologic consequences of diabetics are linked with iq differences, which makes sense considering hypoglycemia and acidosis are direct hindrances to metabolic output and integrity.

Why would running make you smarter? It is known it does 100%. Well running improves the efficiency of mitochondria and at a larger scale the blood flow to the brain. But of course that won't endlessly improve your intelligence. It'll hit a cap at your systems maximal efficient output. Similar to genetic muscular strength.

Energy consumption and heat production are directly related to metabolism.
Colors are not purely spectral. Pink and brown are colors that must be mixtures. Black is no color. Normally I wouldn't care, but the point of article is the difference between mixtures and wavelength. The point of the post is semantics.

Some child just learning the colors gets a free pass, but if you put up a website to explain something and its wrong, I think its reasonable to "aggressively" say so.
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Yeah I get the same impression, it's just that I don't think I could recognise those as Purple and Violet even in non-oversaturated form, to me it's all just different nameless hues of blue.
Wow, very different menus on mobile based on orientation. Vertical has “Pricing” and no open source mention. Horizontal gives a GitHub link and no mention of pricing.

I assume there was a time when this was meant to be a non-open source project.
Mooi! Thank you for that link.
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