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> Like how can you even trust your senses if you're able to conjure up full sensual experiences in your imagination?

Wow, this is fascinating, and it's incredibly hard to describe something you've just taken for granted!

When I'm writing this down, I can "hear" my own voice narrating what I'm writing, sometimes talking ahead as my typing catches up, sometimes the other way around. But I have no difficulty separating "real" sounds that have gone through my ears, from the sound of my mind's voice, if that makes sense. If I were to open my mouth and talk along with my mind's voice, it would become quiet, because there's now real sounds taking its place.

Visualizing things work sort of the same way, if someone says "think about a dog playing fetch!", I start seeing fragments/glimpses/moving images of my memories of dogs playing fetch, but it's more like having a movie screen in front of your eyes, I don't see the dog in the world as I see it, the mind's eye "sees" things on top of/in parallel to existing visual input. And staring at something that is visually boring, or closing your eyes, helps you see your mind's eye more clearly, since there's no overlap. The more visually interesting the real world is, the harder it is to clearly picture something in your mind. And just like with the mind's voice, you just know that what you're imagining isn't real.

So to answer your question: Actual hallucinations are what happens when you're unable to distinguish between the two, normally you have absolutely no problem doing so.
Can confirm. I tried several libs in several languages to parse org there are always weird results.

Maybe Ruby's implementation is best for now since github is using it.
Was the VOC a branch of the Dutch government, or was the Dutch government a branch of the VOC? The Dutch government was extremely trade-oriented during the 17th century, and the army would be deployed to protect the trade interests of the VOC.
Can people with this condition dream? And if yes, then what is that like in comparison?
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Hello? Bitcoin? Is that you? Nah just a ghost of poor banking decisions past. Spooky.
The day jazz will reach the masses is when the reviews about it do not even mention the word "black".

It's created by emacs users, for emacs users, it should absolutely mention that word everywhere and stress its origins, it's already widely adopted and who really cares if somebody who is so superficial that he rejects a superior solution because it originated in a text editor he doesn't like doesn't use it?
I assume he meant to decry the use of inflation adjusting and similar shenanigans to be able to compare two groups in vastly different ages. It is similar to saying that a peasant in today's world eats/lives better then a king a thousand years ago.

For instance if you use percentage of world wealth as ameasure, then Adam controlled 50% of the world's wealth, arguably the richest person to ever live (or mythologically live at least).
From the paper...

> 7. GET THE FORK OUT OF MY OS!

Someone couldn't resist...
What's the benefit compared to what we have now?
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hmm you can randomise the time at which you next put something into the stream right? I am thinking you can sleep() until the next time, just by doing rand() * someMultiplier * aSecond
Yes, certainly. The paper covers many of those limitations.

The goal is not "remove", but "seek to remove". The relevant definition of "seek" here is "to make an attempt" says https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seek .

How many of those 1304 Ubuntu packages require fork()? Are there benefits to replacing (say) 1283 of them with posix_spawn()?
The symptom is tax filing. The cause is wreckless spending and near 0 efficiency. The enabling factor is the force of law to extract your money via tax.
It looks like slaves were more like merchandise for the VOC. And not really that significant for their trade. They were bought from existing slave markets. Slaves were mainly captured by local Africans (from other tribes).

> the Dutch had only a relatively insignificant share in the Atlantic slave trade—never averaging much more than 5–6 per cent of the total.

https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/545
You can find people using anything if you look hard enough.

That doesn't mean those people are representative of something that's (a) useful, (b) an unstoppable trend as opposed to a fad, (c) can't be done better in other ways, (d) not harmful.
The Dutch East India Company was the first company in the history of the world to issue shares to the public. They paid an 18% dividend for over 200 years.
Yes, you can train your vocabulary and improve your foreign language skills by listening to people talking it.

I am not a comedian, so I do not know how exactly you can make yourself funnier, but I have a very strong suspicion
that you do not become funnier yourself, by just listening to canned laughter, and that the fact that fake laughter is added to comedy shows is just to make the viewers like the show more. Listening to laughter causes most people to laugh too, even if they do not understand the cause for the laughter. For example https://youtu.be/wgzdb0txR_c?t=281 . It works with other emotions also - if someone watches or listens to an angry person, they will become somewhat angry too.
I have taken a few ND, and I feel that the React ND was the best and most practical one. I used it at work, where as none of the other ones applied.
PlantUML is a good alternative too and has a good jetbrains plug-in
We'll work on email signups.
It was just the wrong word choice. OP is just talking about very large companies in general.
Great suggestions! We'll look into that.
> and I can't really imagine any colours.

Think of a red circle. A green triangle? A blue square? Do those objects have colour to you?
AsciiDoc! As nice as org-mode syntax, but with "=" instead of "*". Also, has code blocks so copy&paste is nicer. Also, has one giant document explaining everything.
My experience is similar to what others have mentioned so I will just add a bit not mentioned yet - the imagery I fantasize is sometimes erotic in nature. For example when I see an attractive woman on a bus, I can visualize her naked, taking shower or whatever - you get the point.
It was in fact the first company in the world that was publicly traded at the world's first stock exchange.
I don't have Aphantasia but I think the concept is wrongly described as the possibility of overlaying imaginary images on top of what you are seeing. If that was the case, then I have Aphantasia too.

In my case of not having Aphantasia is to be able to mentally reproduce an image with eyes open. If this image requires too much effort or has my interest for some reason, I still can see, but I am distracted by what I am visualizing at that moment.

That distraction is like when playing a videogame or watching a movie: you never see (or remember) what is around the monitor or TV because you are focused in playing/watching.
He never said it was a good definition of value.
Invading Iraq was easy, the problems all arose at the “okay, now what?” level.
>If you're developing a new system, you might as well throw in some faster hardware.

From my experience, this is not how the development of transportation systems work. They throw in faster hardware if they need it, as it is insanely expensive to do so. And I still believe glass cockpits and fly-by-wire need more computing power.
The VOC were indeed powerful, but the British East India Company was another level entirely.

And the reasons why are quite interesting. Here's Niall Ferguson's explanation -

Formally, the directors of the East India Company (EIC) in London controlled a substantial part of the trade between India and western Europe.

In reality, as the records of over 4,500 voyages by Company traders show, ship’s captains often made illicit side trips, buying and selling on their own account. By the late eighteenth century the number of ports in the resulting trade network was more than a hundred, ranging from open emporia such as Madras to regulated markets such as Canton (Guangzhou). In effect, private trading provided the weak links that knitted together otherwise disconnected regional clusters. This network had a life of its own that the Company’s directors in London simply did not control. Indeed, that was one of the keys to the success of the EIC: it was more a network than a hierarchy. Significantly, its Dutch rival banned private trade by its employees. This may explain why it ended up being superseded.
Not sure why you got down-voted, as I remember that as recently as the early 2010s some US agencies were still involved in industrial espionage on behalf of US companies. From a 2014 Snowden interview [1]:

> The U.S. National Security Agency is involved in industrial espionage and will grab any intelligence it can get its hands on regardless of its value to national security, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden told a German TV network. (...) “If there’s information at Siemens that’s beneficial to U.S. national interests - even if it doesn’t have anything to do with national security - then they’ll take that information nevertheless,” Snowden said, according to ARD, which recorded the interview in Russia where he has claimed asylum.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-snowden-germany/...
How is logging all the things to a log aggregator helping privacy? In the projects where I used Splunk they were logging credit card details, transaction details, and PII all over the place, totally loosing privacy and security context data. Moreover, since Splunk is very expensive, only few gatekeepers got licenses, thereby not only concentrating power, but also questioning the usefulness of Splunk and Elastic Search (it being easy access and analytics on log data).

I've come to see log analytics-heavy approaches and similar over-the-top event-driven astronaut architectures as an excuse for poor design.
I have to say that it is mind boggling to me that someone can be surprised to realize that visualizing things is normal for other people - it feels like someone surprisingly finding out in their thirties that the other people are not blind - that's how ever-present it feels for me. Living without it is as hard to imagine for me as hard it must be for people with aphantasia to imagine seeing things with the inner eye.

If I can ask people with aphantasia...

How do you remember things? When I remember the past I see the ephemeral image of what I was seeing then. And there is a thin line between memory and fantasy - I can play with my memories and let them play out some other way than they happened.

How do you read the books without imagining what is happening? How else do you convert letters into meaning?

What happens in your head when someone says "a car"? I see a vague image of a car - right now it's a red sports car but I have no idea why and I am not sure about the brand and it's kind of general car without specific features but if you ask me, I can immediately imagine the details of wheels or whatever - and some other day it might be a black BMW.

How do you imagine your future? I can see myself sitting in a place (inspired by a photo I saw and liked) with big wooden bookcase in a bright room lit by setting sun - and that image makes me feel something and motivates me to work towards it.

And fear is also visual - like when I see myself getting hit by a car when I am on a bike, with the blood and dirt in wounds... I could continue like this for long time - it feels like seeing things inside my head is so "normal" that I cannot imagine functioning without it. It is fascinating though.
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I see. Discords fault then. Why allow this? But I probably know the answer. They have an Electron interface and no real way of detecting this.
There were other private colonial enterprises - British India Company, Kingdom of Sarawak, Kongo Abir Company.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abir_Congo_Company

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sarawak
If I remember correctly, I got a tax deduction for 30% of its value per year through depreciation.
This simple use case was actually the norm back when apt was created and most people installed from CD. In fact, if downloading the whole repo is too much you can still order a DVD set: https://www.osdisc.com/products/linux/debian?affiliate=about... .
Aldi (or Lidl) every year sell a Tax Prep software for 5 euros. Our in-laws buy a copy, install it, then pass it on to us (same key works on multiple PCs). The software's UI could use some...clarity in certain places but it is incredibly full-featured.

We've been happily using it to file our German taxes for years.
I keep seeing that Borgmon is deprecated but no references to what the replacement is like.

Can someone please share even a high level summary?

Is the replacement a high cardinality event store like Facebook’s Scuba [0]?

[0] https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/scuba-div...
Those lobbyists will find ways how to force you into using their services. Not necessarily by eliminating all the different competing companies, but possibly through splitting the rewards through some kind of association, commission, self-regulator etc. If somebody is lobbying against you, fight them, don't just wave your hand, or you might lose your chance to "vote with your dollar" soon
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Others have mentioned about DLLs being pulled in, following post might be interesting:

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/12/03/a-not-called-fu...
I can't edit, but it seems my reasons for thinking 32-bit can be faster aren't entirely daft - but the gains of 64-bit x64 include it having simply more registers, having smaller faster floating point precision, being able to request more memory at once, and the hits to pointer size overheads or processor cache holding less real data are rare and mostly from buggy or odd conditions, and that for a lot of normal programs there'll be no difference either way:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2378399/are-64-bit-progr...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/324015/supplying-64-bit-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2334148/is-there-any-rea...

interesting.
you should try some of the exercises by Jan Fries in visual Magick. he gets you to use all senses and this actually helps to get to a very strong picture for me.
> Mining a bitcoin without doing "work"

yeah, that's why miners do work. They validate transactions, for which they are rewarded. Those who want their transactions validated see value in that, so they pay them. Therefore it's not like printing money. Therefore it's not a form of theft. Your simple logic breaks there.
Free food is what you make of it.

If your income as a Google engineer is so tight that you have to make sure you get the most out of breakfast and dinner, go for it (but also maybe have a long hard think). The culture may well vary between sites, but this idea that Google (and others) exclusively employ fresh college grads and try to embrace then 24x7 just isn't true. We have families just like anyone else, and they matter to us every bit as much as everyone else's families matter to them.

I for my part am happy that I get a healthy, hot meal for lunch so dinner can be a quick snack when I get home, so I have more time with the kids. The alternative is more time spent on chores.

Please stop spreading these tired tropes.
> The problem with spending literally thousands of hours in a game is most of what you experience and learn is not transferable to real life.
It's just as likely that you are the "brain damaged" one and he is the normal one. ;)
For me, it's because it combines the perfomance of a low-level langauge with convenience of high-level statically typed functionally-oriented language.
> Yes, they do. All the time.

Can you point us to some documented examples?
This page is incompatible with mobile devices. I think it is causing relayouts on chrome mobile that make it unusable or it is just too long.
Maybe you'd find more role models if you didn't segregate by gender (that's sexist, after all). If you can only look up to people who share your genitalia then I think that's pretty limiting.
And so soon we'll get org-mode to markdown transpilers.
Cleaning up your own process between fork and exec is hard. Several programs resort to terrible hacks like force-closing everything except file IDs 0,1,2 in a loop. Or they look into their /proc directory to discover whichnfile IDs exist, which is only marginally better. But when your process is a house of cards built on third party libraries with their own minds, there are not a lot of other options.
>VOC was an incredible enterprise

It's easy to be incredible on the backs and dead bodies of slaves...
Github Pages or Amazon S3 are good tools, with a few features that may or may not suit your use-case, but in practice it's pretty easy to find one small detail that ends up being a dealbreaker (eg. you want to use Jekyll but you can't run custom plugins).

Netlify by contrast has the vibe of a swiss army knife or maybe a unix shell: a lot of very sharp tools that you can use to set up static sites in a lot of different ways and that compose nicely. I haven't done a ton with it, but you just get the feeling of a high power to weight ratio.
Bitcoin is censorship-free, permissionless money. It is sound money (the single soundest money ever conceived) and this allows for an age of monetary freedom where citizens are no longer forced to fight an uphill battle against centrally planned 2% inflation that is gradually transforming the working class into a position reminiscent of indentured servant.
if you look at the price they paid, compare to the students enrolled in real university, you got what you paid for.

Knowledge always costs some money, for cheap things you should be ware of what really missing.
Yeah, I found out this evening that I have aphantasia, after a lifetime of thinking that counting sheep was a metaphor. My strong sense of spatial relations has adequately filled the gap in my life, apparently. I also don’t have an inner monologue and suspect that I’m on the autism spectrum.

Interesting that you put specifically “being aware of ones facial expressions when talking” as one of these quirks. I definitely have that, but thought it was related to the autism. I wonder how many of these quirks might just be effects of being just on the cusp of AS.

One of the things that nags me about such an inventory is how “good” it is in the sense of promoting happiness. I’m perfectly content with my quirks, in fact talking it over with my girlfriend I’m starting to think that it might explain my excellent explicit memory(fwiw I feel I have a weak implicit memory) But reading through the thread, there are a number of people who are upset, feeling like they have lost out on something precious. I guess without guidance as to how these things can be leveraged as a strength, I’m not sure I see the utility in highlighting these cognitive differences. In the same vein as studying the differences in race or gender. Not that I don’t find them extremely interesting to think about.
But you bought a pre-produced, mass-printed card that someone else designed. Not very personal. How is that much different from a clicky-greeting on Facebook, other than cost?
So, free advertising for Microsoft SQL Server, to a captive audience. BTW, MongoDB was be there, but everybody recommends avoiding Mongo as a realistic solution for production concerns.

And, oh yeah, five no-namers that no one has ever heard of, or used, ever.

Hey, notice there's no real competition against Microsoft?

Notice that the NoSQL option is kind of a non-option?

Microsoft probably planned to chat you up about Azure options, to lock you into their NoSQL solution, if that was your thing anyway (but that's not why they're really there).

And, what the fuck is with the Soviet leftist Rodchenko imagery? Is that supposed to be freakish a tip of the hat to college campus youth culture or something? Did they think that's what The Kids were into? Some kind of hackneyed Che Guevara version of Apple's "Think Different" campaign?
That comes from training - you spend enough time hearing clarinets and violas and timpanis, and after a while you can imagine what new combinations sounds like. Traditional orchestral composition involves developing this practice (I speak from experience, having been trained as a composer and sat through these classes).
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Exactly. As someone who has been asked to teach an IT technician friend how to program, it's absolutely not a trivial task. You would think the problem solving skillset of a technician would help, but nope.
I have a friend who I consider to be tech savvy and very smart. He couldn't get "coding". Dropped the class and switched major (I know this is anecdotal). It's not for everyone [0]. I agree that it has gotten simpler, but it depends on what you're doing. Some developers "glue together a bunch of Free Open Source offerings" and some need to do a lot more than that.

[0]https://blog.codinghorror.com/so-you-dont-want-to-be-a-progr...
The real problem for me as an investment in courses is Rate of return from Udacity. Their courses might be good but they are too expensive. In my country it is 100K. It is too expensive for most of the students and even professionals.

Also, most of the courses are comparable on other MOOC sites like Udemy and Coursera. Udemy is best you can get in $10 and it helps a lot.

I recently took AI course on Udemy for just $7 in sale and It is hands on course and I am really satisfied with it and the content. Even if it is not good I have not lost too much money. The value I got from that course far better than I would have got from udacity 100K ND courses.

Their Nano Degrees does not provide value in the industry and you can not expect a job after it. After spending 2term fee of college I expect something from the course but it way too expensive.

It's all hype you can do actually really good and get all the stuff and knowledge online. At the end for any job your knowledge will count.
I have several friends who used to work there -- there has been 3 other rounds of layoffs in the last few years (not including the ones you mentioned).
That's a fair point. My own blog runs a two-step process: I export org-mode posts to HTML with Emacs/Org-Mode exporter, and then rewrite the result in my static generator.
By writing in pseudocode you pretty much guarantee there will be bugs in the implementation because they've never been executed.
I think there is still a lot of room to disrupt education in the US, and the unfortunate lesson of Udacity is that there really isn't a market for sub-academic degree granted by for-profit institutions.

I agree that the educational platform is really the way to innovate: community based learning, interactive platforms, and social goal setting are all possibilities that could help people leverage internet connectivity to learn. We've yet to see a truly "mobile first" educational platform, which connects experts to the knowledge gaps of the population "on demand". Maybe someday I'll fix a flat tire by taking a quick course, or connecting directly with an expert to walk me through the process!
Although many can see Bitcoin as a scam, I think the South Sea bubble is in a different league altogether. Financial schemes such as introducing crazy loans, coupled with the (essentially) full backing of the government at the time lured in even people like Isaac Newton. Bitcoin in comparison does not even match the hype the South Sea had at the time (nor will it have the power to carry a nation in debt for more than 100 years)