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I wonder why it isn't "Do librarians lose more ethics books?" After all, we don't know if it's ethicists stealing the books, or punk kids stealing the books, or books getting disproportionately misplaced, or library assistants misfiling the books because they can't spell Nietzsche.

Maybe the works of John Stuart Mill (off the charts in terms of missing) are tastiest to vermin.

I don't think ethicists get paid on par with physicians or attorneys, and ethicists-in-training are likely disproportionately poor as a church mouse. An antique calculus text would not be in use in a modern college setting but ethics still likely uses the original editions. They can have their $250 copy of an ethics text back when the term is over. Or maybe I'll just hold on to it, since it looks so nice on the shelf, and why take the risk of getting busted returning it?

Finally, the fact they're disproportionately missing to overdue suggests that some are being stolen then resold to ethicists, who perhaps are too ethical to borrow a book without returning it but not too ethical to buy a stolen version of same.
> She was a product manager not an engineer

This is false.

She completed a master's in computer science and had built machine learning systems in her studies and internships in the late 90s. She was in the first 20 employees at Google and started out as an engineer, building the first version of what would become Adwords.

Then she went into product management and engineering management. Perhaps she wasn't a good enough engineer; I don't know or care really. She was hired for her engineering talent, made a solid contribution as an engineer, then made an even bigger contribution as a product manager then as an executive - all for one of the most successful and internally-competitive companies of our generation.

You don't achieve that by accident or by dating the boss.

Your comment is pure armchair quarterbacking. People who have actually built or managed hugely successful companies don't make those kinds of dismissals.
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It seems to me that a lot of contemporary burnout stems from the extremely abstract nature of the modern economy.

During and after college, I spent 4-5 years working at a bakery. The pay was poor, the hours worse, customers irritating, and career advancement non-existent. And yet, I got to make hundreds of real, physical objects every day, entirely from scratch, and then see people enjoy them. That sort of instant feedback made all the scrubbing, mopping, and change-counting bearable, at least in an obvious cause-effect sense. This counter is covered in flour because I was baking these loaves of bread all day.

Compare this to the average office job. For the most part, the end product of a week's or month's work is essentially a bunch of text on a screen. Take a writer, for example. In the past, a journalist or writer would have some physical remnants and products of their work - the notes and manuscripts for their articles and then the final published piece in a newspaper or physical book. Today, they have...a collection of blog posts and internet articles. The physicality of the work has evaporated entirely.

I don't really know if this is a solvable problem in the near future, but I hope that the digital economy takes a turn back towards some sense of physicality.
Many of those depend on all of your neighbours doing the same thing. They won't, so you'll be the loser. I don't want to be the loser.
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>I think that discrimination is ok as long as it is not me, or my group being discriminated.
FTFY
> I am not a psych(atr|olog)ist

I think psychiatrologist is my new favourite word.

Edit: Or maybe psycologiatrist.
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They are selling a brand, not kerning.
Yes, spatial reasoning and visualisation seem like two separate unconnected subsystems, even though it seems like they should be related.

I seem able to do the spatial just fine, and the visualisation not at all.

> it's like sensing the position of your arm

Very good, yes it's exactly like this. I know, but I don't need to see. I can explore the model or plan, and know how the result will be, and still don't need to see!
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There's a well-recognized trend in car collecting: the value follows the age of people who can afford what they dreamed about in high school.

Following this trend, Model As and Ts have gone way down, as the dreamers are now past the age or dead.

57 Chevys are on the downside, too. Too old.

90s Japanese sports cars are on the upswing now.

But stamps? I don't see it recovering. It was popular in the 70s/80s, like Professional Bowling. Both are still with us, but not the same as they were.
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A question for anyone who does collecting of stamps/coins/baseball cards, etc.: How do you deal with / feel about the trend of the creators of the collected items making things specifically to be collected?

A while back I picked up a few cheap pre-WW1 German coins -- fun to have a bit of history for not that much money. I haven't pursued coin collecting because I could imagine going down a rabbit hole of spending way too much money on it. But when I see, say, the US Mint releasing special commemorative coins specifically for collectors, my whole interest in the field dries up. It takes a hobby that, in my opinion, would be about discovery and the individual search for something and turns it into merely another consumer product to consume. Same with so many stamps nowadays, being designed and released specifically for collectors to gobble up. And then there's baseball cards and Magic cards and "colllector's editions" of video game boxes that are all designed as these mass-market products that satisfy the collecting urge in a cynical way.

If I did end up really getting into collecting, I'd think it would be more enjoyable to collect interesting rocks found during travel, or historical items like coins/stamps that were all made before the trend of marketing to collectors.
I thought marshmallow was replicated but clarified -- that it showed how children react to un/trusted adults, not uncover some genetic propensity to deferred rewards.
Gotcha! So, things like adding Knative eventing which uses serving should be fine while using Cloud Run?
Seems like a very naive point of view.

At that time and place almost all societies had slaves or similar. The VOC was part of a cultural change in the world that ultimately led to the abolishment of slavery.

Slavery was certainly not the reason why they were successful.
Interesting. Maybe they feel less shame about stealing a book with a narrow scope and with few potential readers, when the book is very useful to them.

In my work experience are law students the most thievish patrons at academic libraries. A sentiment I have heard echoed by several colleagues.
If Org-mode became widespread, it too would suffer from different implementations.
The dutch tax service even has a great slogan for this ideology: "Leuker kunnen we het niet maken. Wel makkelijker". Roughly translated, this means: "We can't make it nicer. But we can make it easier.".

Every year, they add some improvements to the entire system. They basically prefill your entire income and capital. Including stocks, dividends and other things. The only things you need to fill in yourself are some of your deductions (there are some which are prefilled as well).

They open the filing of taxes every year on march first. And every year there are lots of people who fill it in on the first day. This year there was even someone who handed their taxes in 18 seconds past midnight.
Sounds are the easiest to reproduce for me, perhaps even more so than images.

But I have experienced other things as well. Since I was a kid I play this game when I'm bored... let's call it "visualising". But not for images, for other sensory input. For example, I try to imagine really hard the taste and texture of a cake, the smell of coffee or a perfume, touching something fluffy with my hand, feeling hot or cold... It works, although I don't feel it physically in my body per se, it's just like... a very vivid memory of it. As if an invisible limb was experiencing this feeling again.
The several competing implementations of HTML are not a feature, they are a complication we have to deal with. This has not hurt adoption because of the nature of the marketplace.

The 'number of implementations' issue with org-mode is that there are almost no implementations outside of Emacs. Standardization by obscurity is not a very compelling virtue, and the opportunity for widespread adoption has passed.
To think about something i don't use images, i use words. When I want I can imagine how things look and can even draw the simple things, but the process is nothing like seeing, it's more like analytically reconstructing the image from memory thinking about the 3d model and how it would look from different angles what details would it have. But sometimes, after seeing something new and visually impressive (first time being in a forest, playing a beautiful game for whole day) for several days i can see that thing whenever i close my eyes.

I am not sure if my "analytical visualization" is weird, and other people can visualize things more vividly by simply thinking about that, or the dream like visualization i sometimes see is weird, and it changes the bar i put on calling something visualization.
This is a great example of a prisoner's dilemma problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
When I had my couple of acid experiments a few decades ago, yes, I saw hallucinations just fine.

This opens an interesting can of worms. :)
Not the person you were responding to, but I've noticed that in certain circles (and here more than most) meditation and mindfulness are seen as some kind of magic bullet which work for anyone and can solve any kind of mental unease.

(I grew up with mediation, have tried many kinds many times and it does nothing for me so this kind of irks me. It's one of those real "if it doesn't work for you you're doing it wrong / not using enough of it" things.)
Yeah, in my view, it's nice that they're supporting a published way of anonymously vouching for myself. Maybe it's less than awesome that every visitor from Romania (as an arbitrary example) is considered a criminal, but supporting PrivacyPass is a nice move.
My company uses Zendesk Sell (formerly Base). My business partner loves it and uses it religiously. I haven't used it quite as much but I really like the UI and I've done a few API integrations with our internal systems. The mobile app is also really impressive, at least from a technical point of view.

Salesforce is a very different kind of product however, I don't think ZS offers anywhere near the level of customisation, or at least it doesn't at the level we pay for. For a small business like ours ZS is perfect.
I believe the criticism was fair here. The author specifically used "339 bytes" on the headline which implies a certain level of precision. Being orders of magnitude away from the claimed file size is not excusable. It just feels like click bait. Not counting imported CSS is simply wrong here. I can have a full-featured responsive CSS framework in <50 bytes if I @import bootstrap.css
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Optimistic answer: working on ads doesn't mean you agree with the level of privacy violations analytics involve these days, making those invasions of privacy technically impossible or illegal means you can avoid them without having to defend your stance against business interests (e.g. "but our competitors are already doing this and not doing it puts us at a disadvantage").

Pessimistic answer: technical countermeasures don't prevent these invasions of privacy but they make them significantly harder, putting companies with less technical skills at a disadvantage. Anti-fingerprinting protections hurt the bottom feeders while larger companies like Google can likely work around them.

Pragmatic answer: this wasn't really about the fingerprinting but the crypto miners. Ad networks don't like crypto miners either but blocking them is difficult so browser vendors are really just solving the ad networks' problem for them.
HTML inlined into markdown is easily my least favourite feature of markdown. In my opinion it breaks the very point of of MD (namely that it's formatting makes as much sense in a graphical render as it does in a plain text editor).
It would be hilariously unenforceable because people would just put off getting married on paper until the term of the payments is up. For couples with highly disparate incomes people already do this to take advantage of income caps for state provided healthcare.
In a case of great minds think alike (you, Eli Barzilay, and Matthew Flatt), this (especially the square brackets and curly braces purposes) is remarkably similar to what Racket ended up using, for the @-reader syntax that's used by Scribble document processing: https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/reader.html#%28part._....

I made an Emacs mode for it: https://www.neilvandyke.org/scribble-emacs/
> The bidirectional connection is symmetrical. It doesn’t matter if the AP has a better antenna or is located higher up. The antennas and amplifiers work symmetrically in both directions.

It does matter if antenna is located higher up. This will allow it to pickup weaker signal from clients. Better antenna is also probably more sensitive.
It doesn’t work like that. There are so many variables that go into compensation like experience and location that you can’t really look at the average for an entire country across all experience levels.
I'm currently updating myself with Vulkan (which is mostly based on modern OpenGL). The Vulkan clip range is 0.0 to 1.0.
Same thing here in Norway.
We get the tax return forms pre-filled and if we want to make changes it can be done on a government web page easily.
Capital gains, most deductions and assets/loans are also registered automatically.

If you have no changes then you don't need to do anything at all.
Since we're discussing particular courses. ..

Can anyone recommend a good online course for learning about lambda calculus and type theory?

I have some language design ideas, but I suspect I'm at risk of various type system blunders until I understand those basics better.

Edit: I really need it to be an online course, not just a text book. I find self-study to be particularly difficult for this topic.
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> Of course, all Windows APIs are terrible, but that doesn't make complaints about fork() any less legitimate. The concept of Establishing empty processes, instead of cloning yourself, is much more sane.

I like the ease with which you can pass resources and data to the forked child from the parent, though. Otherwise I'd have to do a lot of serialiation and deserialization, or use shared memory, or unix sockets to pass fds, all of which also has it's gotchas and is way more complicated and error prone.
This actually made me laugh.
Sure, but that's only easy if you choose to ignore the 1 in 10 users that it doesn't work for, which is too many for most real world use cases, especially for something as fundamental as the layout of the page.
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons ?
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More a tragedy of the commons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
> All the integration code is open source. Pocket is a web service that is currently not open source.

Why are you saying things that I've already said? I think it's because there's misdirection here that will deceive anyone who isn't paying close enough attention to realize that you _aren't_ saying anything different than what I've said.

> This is like saying that[...]

This is such an intellectually dishonest argument. Google Safe Browsing is not a Mozilla-owned and operated service, nor was it ever reported that it would be open sourced. It's also little more than a hashtable of URIs. The extent to which Google Safe Browsing is "integrated" into Firefox is trivial when compared to the level that Firefox is pushing Pocket and pushing out Pocket-related features.
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> C projects can make use of good, if labour-intensive tools for ensuring safety

I think this has been repeatedly proven false over the last several decades. There really is no way to make C programs safe in practice. It’s time to move on.
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Do you / have you ever played any instruments before? Maybe it's just case of associating something else with the sound the instrument makes - for example perhaps you need direct experience of producing say, a guitar sound, in order to associate the 'performance' of the act, with the actual sound it produces.
And Hakyll is a static site generator based on Pandoc, letting you leave your site source in whichever markup you choose.
For several years in grad school I had income that varied significantly in different parts of the year (I got a large scholarship check as a lump sum). So every year, I had to fill out some obnoxious, moderately complicated form detailing my month-by-month income and calculating the estimated tax that I needed to pay each quarter. Upshot: the tax system does allow for changing circumstances and won't penalize you for not foreseeing them in advance, but it does make your taxes a lot more complicated.
You can have an accountant do it for you. I don't file my taxes in The Netherlands. This makes sense if you own a business.
I have very weak visualization but I have some (4-5) images I can render in my head (stills I've seen plus one from imagination), which I think aphantasics can't do, and if I'm reading specific descriptions and take enough time, I can call up a still or part of a still as well. (It's never several frames and it doesn't feel like seeing from the eyes, but I can do it.)

My other senses are not as affected, I have perfect tactile recall, I can recall and imagine plenty of smells and tastes as well. I have elaborate tactile fantasies when I want to distract myself. No visuals.

I don't think it's actually different from aphantasics but I've had vivid dream-visuals (including being able to literally read in a dream, seeing every character, hearing every word in the low subvocalized reading-voice, being caught up in the story) and visual hallucinations.
Might be, but this is an official document. You don't usually find these type of statements in such documents, that's why I like it.
I want Udacity to succeed as a business. The amazing course content of Udacity especially in AI and Machine Learning has no parallels when it comes to actually accomplishing something novel(for the student). If you take self driving car nanodegree, you will at the end of course be able to code actual software for the car.
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If not, what is keeping you there?
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Facing north or east direction while working is very auspicious and you feel fresh.
If you are facing north, keep the left side of the table heavier.
If facing east keep the right hand side of the table heavy with files, folders and other electronic gadgets like computer etc.
You should work on a regular shaped table, like square or rectangle. The proportion of length and breadth should not be more than 1:2.
L shaped or unidentified shaped tables are not auspicious. The best table is which is carrying its four corners only.
If you have a cash drawer in your table it should always be slightly open whenever you are present.
Do not’s

Do not keep god idols or pictures on your desk. It is not respectful.
It is completely ridiculous that I need the entire repository to install a single package and its dependencies. End of story.
I’ve seen at least two car fires where the person was able to pull over to the side of the road, get out of the vehicle... and then watch it burn while they waited for the fire department.

I also one time had a minor fire in Jeep of mine due to a mouse nest.
That's weird because there used to be a safe harbor rule where you didn't owe the fine the first time it happened. So either you don't owe that $44 or something changed..

Perhaps you just didn't withhold enough on ordinary income (which requires overriding payroll defaults). There's probably no safe harbor for that.
You're shifting the goalposts. Original text contained mention of 650MB Slack making your 16GB system "grind to a halt".
Take a look here "Why Is AI Art Copyright So Complicated?":

https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/3/27/why-is-ai-art-copyrig...

> Claims that AI is creating art on its own and that machines are somehow entitled to copyright for this art are simply naive or overblown, and they cloud real concerns about authorship disputes between humans. The introduction of machine learning as an art tool is ironically increasing human involvement, not decreasing it. Specifically, the number of people who can potentially be credited as coauthors of an artwork has skyrocketed. This is because machine learning tools are typically built on a stack of software solutions, each layer having been designed by individual persons or groups of people, all of whom are potential candidates for authorial credit.
There is a small accessibility problem with the CSS presented on this page. The author set `text-decoration: none;` on the links, relying only on color to identify them. This should be avoided.

C.f. https://accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu/it-accessibility-at-nc-st...
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I feel like this might depend on the culture, and how late you usually eat dinner etc..

Because well, kids usually don't tend to cook for themselves so the parents end up cooking for them and eating with them.

That might be my bubble though, my friends / family have jobs that allow them to leave work around 5-ish and with school ending somewhere between 4-5, it's not that much after the kids are home. (or they pick up the kids after school).
It would be front page news for a day then people would forget and you'd never hear about it again.

Do it in the US and it's front page news on the day and then it's on the second and third pages January through April the following year.
That's for point 1. Point 2 is a completely different camp.
That is mostly the food part though. I don't think anyone is questioning whether having a quality cafeteria at work is a good idea. It is the incentive to stay at work, especially dinner which can make working late become not working late enough. I am not sure what you mean by the cost? I can't imagine people would care about that.
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Where is Salesforce? It was consistently ranking high on "Dreaded" platforms but seems to be gone altogether this year.