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How to improve team's learning presentations
Hi

We have internal presentation where people will present what they're working on, or new technology that people know. Its a great idea, but the quality has been really bad. People doing demos where no one is following, pages and pages of notes which are difficult to understand, either too simple or too complicated. Usually they go way too long.

Usually everyone politely says thanks that's useful, but usually no one is learning anything.

Has anyone done similar and got useful content? or even found a way to produce positive feedback.
I mean, at least he kept it real.
Yes. But wait, it gets worse! Here in the US, the theatrical run was exactly one day long, and they didn't spend any money to promote it. So I, a huge Gilliam fan, didn't even know it was happening until days later when stories like this showed up.

Sigh.
that is my understanding as well.

it feels almost meme like that from an observer’s point of view, a black hole will have a bunch of stuff “stuck” on its horizon. i haven’t ever seen elaborations of how it would actually look though.
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rWqJhDv7M

I myself lean to the Aristotelian definition: count of change.

After all, all our clocks are built on this definition. If there were a lone particle traveling in an infinite universe, it'd be nonsensical to talk about its speed because there'd be nothing to relate the distance traveled to (and no observer). Indeed, whenever we talk about "time" and related quantities like "speed", we always compare the observed object to some other, existing reference.

So I think of the interaction of particles/matter as being something fundamental, whereas "time" is a synthetic human notion.
That's right. When you have a mathematical theory, there are often extremal cases that predict strange things that have never been observed. At this point you have a choice to make:

1) Assume the mathematical theory is too permissive, and rule out the things you have no reason to exist, and hope to find a more elegant theory (on the controversial metaphysical assumption that simpler/elegant theories are more likely to be correct)

2) Assume that the mathematical theory is pointing you in a direction to search for a new phenomenon, and build things like superconducting supercolliders to search for empirical evidence.

With wormholes, we're a bit stuck in that we are decades to centuries away from empirically testing the theories, so physically the Average Null Energy Condition is moot -- it's fine math to do, as groundwork/scaffolding for future physics, but it doesn't say anything physically until we get empirical evidence for or against it.
It's also frightening how quickly a philosophy professor can get stymied by a really confident or particularly stupid undergrad. I don't think science or philosophy should claim to answer all questions. Many questions are ambiguous, badly formed, misleading, nonsensical, and I don't think a robust account of knowledge is one that ends with a stack of turtles.
> Users may also switch to uBlock Origin. It does not support the $rewrite filter option

Support for this filter option was discussed (and declined) in uBlock Origin's issue tracker:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/46
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That's a shortsighted view. If China is ever going to war with the US they sure as hell are going to use every bit of your data against your and other US citizens.
You wouldn't believe the lengths people go to in order to get the best shot for IG.
I wish they were doing a wider release in the USA. It only played for one night in LA last week and it's going to play again for one night this week in a tiny theater. I'm a big Gilliam fan and have been waiting to watch this film, but it's difficult to see.
I think of it as a geodesic. Normally it's difficult to slow down your clock and speed it up, and the geodesic looks like a sphere.

In some cases it's flat or even inverted, and it's easier to stop your clock, do what you want and start it again than it is to move around. When it's inverted, it just needs some special code, like the natural pair production from all the light in the universe, to spring it back.
Well, we are able to research FTL for only a few decades. Give it a few more due to complexity. Few ages ago people thought that the world is flat...

Also, there are theories of FTL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
Write like you talk: A lesson from NASA
Ask HN: What books are must reads for new parents?
I'm assembling a reading list as I prepare to catapult myself into parenthood. I'm particularly looking more for philosophical and behavioral science type literature so that I can pre-empt some of the tough parenting situations. (exe: what is the proper response when your toddler starts screaming in the grocery store.)
I don't know how this is still a super secret unknown to the public at large. This has been reported for years. What am I missing?
Sure, but the ones who aren't doing that are also getting paid really well.

In your scheme they would not :)
But which half?
You don't have to change your behavior. And if you're busy and making good money you may find it's worth it to just eat the tariff cost. In some respects this is the same scenario as toll roads, there is always a free way to get there - how much is your time worth?

There are already a lot of areas that have peak power pricing and, in fact, a lake I went to as a kid[1] actually took advantage of this by (at a scarily low efficiency) pumping water into the lake during off hours and running the turbines during peak usage - it's basically a giant battery (but, again, super inefficient in terms of the energy required to pump the water into the lake, still efficient enough to be profitable though).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Mountain_Dam
I hate to cast aspersions on the source, but... "IHL Group is a global research and advisory firm specializing in technologies for the retail and hospitality industries. The company, based in Franklin, Tenn., generates timely data reports, offers advisory services and serves as the leading retail technology spokesperson for industry and vendor events."

(Hey, Franklin, TN!)

Anyway, here's some more:

https://www.cashmatters.org/blog/paying-with-cash-costs-less...

"Key findings

"Cash payments are about 7 seconds faster than card payments with PIN entry.

"Cash payments are about 16 seconds faster than card payments with with signature.

"Cash payments up to €50 are cheaper, since the fixed costs for cash payments are on average lower."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321386231_Costs_and...

"The assertion that cash is inefficient is often based exclusively on cost considerations and a
purely partial-analytical or business perspective (eg Bloching, 2007; Guibourg & Segendorf,
2007). Benefit aspects are not taken into consideration. Moreover, the empirical evidence is by
no means clear-cut. Even in the more business-oriented approaches with regard to costs, cash
payments are not necessarily more expensive than cashless alternatives. In Germany, the cost
per transaction of cash is even lower than that of debit and credit cards. In terms of cost per
turnover, debit cards are cheaper than cash, whereas credit cards are more expensive (Krueger
& Seitz, 2014, Chapter 3; Thiele, 2016). In a study commissioned by the ECB covering several
countries (Schmiedel et al, 2012), the findings did not reveal a uniform picture: in some
countries, cash is the cheapest means of payment, whereas in other countries, cashless payment
instruments are the cheapest."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265496400_The_Econo...

"We present three case studies that illustrate the welfare implications of substituting one
kind of payment method for another. We find that when all key parties to a transaction are
considered and benefits are added, cash and checks are more costly than many earlier studies
suggest. In general, the shift toward a cashless society appears to be a beneficial one."

https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/710096/4f27e9114ce3a...

[Ok, so I can't find a good summary quote. But it looks interesting. I think it's module 1 of the first link above.]
this man speaks a good point
Work culture? Im not talking about work, and just in general. And people don't do it as a joke, thats how they talk. Annoying as hell.
Five years on, truth of Sewol disaster still shrouded in mystery
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To add another n=1, I have severe allergies, not quite life threatening but almost (partial but significant throat constriction upon exposure), and I've never had a cavity and seem almost incapable of getting one. I only brush one time, at night, and don't use toothpaste (couldn't find one I wasn't mildly sensitive to).

It is established that immune cells are modulated by microbiota - and yes, there are oral microbiota, and there are even oral probiotic supplements one can take which seem to be effective for certain conditions. If you are interested in this topic, I'd recommend paying close attention to how the 2 main strains were discovered (S. Salivarius K12 and M18) - iirc. at least one of the two was first extracted from a child who had no cavities.
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Are we not looking at a mathematical result that constraints what the universe "can do"?
You can't currently change supplier every half an hour. But with the right technology your supplier can change price every half an hour.

The only UK supplier with a half-hourly tariff is Octopus Energy.

- https://octopus.energy/agile/ changes price every half an hour, tracking wholesale prices.

- https://octopus.energy/outgoing/ works like Agile but also gives you half hourly export pricing. So you can sell excess energy from solar or battery storage back to the grid when the price is highest.

(Disclamer: I work for Octopus Energy)
Wow that's one limited release. Which is strange for a well known director. It didn't even reach Canada.
Extending the study, spent my childhood suffering similarly and have had problems with cavities from 1st grade through adulthood.
Somebodies bowel movements are set to hard mode.
Yeah, until you compare how much they spend on wages to their market cap, which is just insanely low relative to most other industries.
Notice the difference:
"Top executives of leading tech companies secretly agreed among themselves not to hire each other’s employees"

"...brought charges against the companies"

They should have been indicting both, or just the executives for their explicit role in this criminal behavior. I really detest the lack of individual accountability in all these cases when we deal with large companies. If this was a couple of small, local competitors who were the only two [whatever] in the area and they did this, I guarantee you the owners would be individually indicted.
They aren't spying on "undersea cables". They aren't sending subs down to split fibers or plant taps. Those days are long gone.

They are perhaps tapping at point where cables leave the shore, but even that is old hat. With everything being encrypted, and the sheer volume of traffic, intel agencies these days find it much easier to go to the source. If the NSA or China want to read your email, they don't tap undersea cables. They go directly to your email/text/cell service and siphon only the data they want. Or, for things like meta data/location tracking, they can just buy the data like any other company. That is the real future: the commoditization of espionage.
No, there's actually more space constantly being added to the fabric of spacetime. So if you take 1 cubic meter of space, eventually it will become 1.01 cubic meters, then 1.02, etc. This isn't noticeable at distances within the galaxy, but it is very noticeable when observing distant galaxies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space
Checks or electronic equivalent.

There's a scale at which more complex tools may make sense. That scale varies with the variation in the details of a company's operation. For a few contractors the overhead of learning and integrating a tool may outweigh the actual (not perceived) benefits.

Most of the work is reviewing invoices, not writing checks.
This documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/index-overv...

There are dozens of pages there. It may not be perfectly organized but saying you can't learn anything from it is silly. And regarding indexing, the 2nd sentence on the page says this: "By default, Azure Cosmos DB automatically indexes all items in your container without requiring schema or secondary indexes from developers."
That's bad luck.

I hope you can catch it this time !
I too subscribe to the idea of time as change, i.e. if all motion stops -- including the motion of subatomic particles -- it is the same as time stopping.
From my second link, above:

with researchers likening the performance of someone awake for at least 17 hours to that of a drunk person.

those who worked shifts 12.5 hours or longer were three times more likely than others to make an error in patient care.

From your comment:

My advice - stay healthy, just don't go to hospital unless you have to. At the end, just drop dead.

The natives in Africa put a stop to the Ebola epidemic with a few policies to limit the spread. For starters:

1. If you got sick, they quarantined you. You were not to leave your hut. They would leave food on your doorstep. If three days of food piled up, they burned the hut to the ground without going inside to check if you were really dead or not.

2. They told their people "Don't go to the white man's hospital." Because you would show up with something fixable, like a broken leg, and die of Ebola contracted at the hospital.

They also put up road blocks to control who could come into their territory. There may be a few other things I'm not remembering.

I have a serious medical condition. I haven't seen a doctor in years. When I was seeing a doctor for it, the waiting room was always full of sick people and it was one of the more hazardous things I did. I sometimes spoke with people online who told stories that (for example) their kid with the same condition as me had picked up MRSA in their last hospital stay.

We need some better models. The current system seems inherently flawed in important ways.
I'm not sure if this is the researchers' issue or is an issue with the scientific press, but it would help if the "discoveries" theorists made with their hitherto unestablished and untested theories like various string and QG based theories were not touted as discoveries about the real world.
As i realized, the difference between a website and a web app is that, a web app is also a state machine. A website is stateless.

So, if your state machine is complicated, the web app is also complicated. As it's so hard to modify even a small portion of a mess.
It should be possible to crunch through LinkedIn histories and determine where there's collusion between employers. If moves between employer A and employer B are lower than between A to C and C to B, something funny is going on.
The reason Boeing’s new plane crashed twice
Most of the working poor work one or more part time / shift jobs. If it is shift work, that means there are times when they aren't scheduled during banking hours. People that are poor that work 9-5, would have Saturday open to them, and many banks have friday hours till 7:00 pm.

Still not a good situation, but worse is trying to schedule things like doctors / dentist appointments. Especially if they have to be scheduled weeks / months in advance, before you know what your work schedule for that week would look like.
Hey, I'm the developer behind Grapevine, thanks for the mention! If anyone is interested in how the Grapevine web client works, it's all open source and written in Elixir with the front end being React/Redux.

The main application:
https://github.com/oestrich/grapevine

And the telnet connection pool node:
https://github.com/oestrich/grapevine-telnet
That's right.

In a very shallow, simplistic sense, we see all these other amazing phenomena out there. Our home seems like a little rural backwater, crossroads and a store kind of thing, by comparison.
I don't think there's a definitive answer there, nor any reason to believe Hawking radiation is produced inside an event horizon, rather than just outside it. The event horizon is pretty much defined by the boundary that radiation will not escape across, so I wouldn't assume Hawking radiation behaves any differently with respect to it.
If that condition didn’t hold, we would expect to see a lot of phenomena that we don’t see, which makes it a poor model for reality.
You seem to be assigning the capabilities of stealth aircraft to space launches. The energies involved are radically different. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that anyone has anything even approaching the technology needed to conduct an undetectable orbital launch. Again, I'd refer to the well-publicized launches of top secret NRO payloads. If the US government could launch those payloads without telling anyone, wouldn't they do it?

You've officially gone from leaning over the ledge to taking a flying leap into crazy land in my book.
Well, my personal opinion is that a better understanding of human nature will come from the traditional means (interacting with people, study of literature and history and human institutions, and, even more controversially, maybe even religion) than trying to analyze human behavior from the point of view of apes dominating each other. I don’t think anyone with any reasonably sound theory of human nature would hold the assumption of “people [behaving] rationally in pursuit of well defined goals”.
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> On one hand, how are insurers supposed to properly cost...

That's more or less the core competency of insurance providers...
Pasmo and Octopus(Hong Kong)-type systems only gained massive adoption because they were a valid form of payment on widely used transit networks. The US doesn't have very many of those.

Most US transit agencies these days want to get out of the payments business (Pasmo and Octopus have to be managed as debit card systems and transit agencies can't afford the overhead), so they're adopting London's second-generation system, where you can pay with contactless bank cards. So we might just skip that intermediate phase entirely.
Uncertainty principle says...probably not. It's impossible to make a complete copy of the pattern.

Even aside from that -- it's unlikely to be practical to scan something down to the smallest level level of matter, because the tools we use to manipulate things can't manipulate things smaller than their own finest details.
So there's a "glass wall" in that you can only replicate things less finely detailed than the replicator. That works fine for macroscopic things (that's why you can buy a 3D printer today), but is implausible for things that we believe to be as finely detailed as our machines.
The people that should know better are, I'm afraid, us. I recall many complaints a few months ago when the idea was floated for Chrome to not show the URL in the location bar but instead display the organization name from the SSL certificate.
The LMC is 160k light years away; 100 years ago 'we' didn't exist, the constituent matter that form us was there, but 'we'. Perhaps the twinkle in the eye, but no 'we' yet.

Since information and gravity movement is limited by the speed of light the effect of 'we' is by our age, so to a 100 light years for all but a very few people.
Well, theoretically they could load their civilization up on a giant ship and move their civilization there over the course of a million years. Likelihood of success? Probably not great, but possible.
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Now compare the wages against CEO and shareholder compensation.
There are devices that rotate the camera while it takes photos at intervals.
noprocrast is a nice setting
Huh? Can you please state your argument clearly?
I don't think it being in the cloud or not makes a difference. Applications that aren't in the cloud can still be broken into. Leaving things in source control just adds another surface for attackers to use to compromise your applications
How big of a team are you talking about? One company I was a remote contractor for had four people to pay and simply cut checks through QuickBooks after discussing with their accountant the proper tax implications.

I sent a weekly invoice through email and I received a check in the mail two to three business days after sending the email.
Myself and most full stack devs in my circle using React used to do html/css/jquery before. Nobody misses the jquery days.
As soon as you start fetching data from api and refreshing your UI you get into a mess. Let's not forget that most MVC frameworks from the era imply mixing server side rendering with some partial client-side rendering on UI updates. Re-rendering your html from templates client-side, re-binding your elements to its events... it's objectively worse both in runtime performance and development wise.
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To some degree, this is insanely ambiguous. I would argue in some respects that the EU's members are largely analogous to US states, for a variety of reasons. But the EU's members have the right to leave, maintain their own militaries, and have seats at the UN.

Whether or not a country is a country is inherently entirely determined by whether or not other countries agree it is a country, and any other distinction between what is and is not a country is largely meaningless.
There's no real reason that "recommended" can't also mean "curated." They could definitely limit recommendations to +1's by trusted users who are getting feeds by entropy.
I guess that effort is still not good enough.

"35C3 - Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSuRyLBrXgI

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
"Remember kids, profit is for capital, never labor. Know the difference!"
I seriously wish they would do a sequel to Time Bandits. That movie was a cult masterpiece.
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True...ish.

Many illegal workers don't have accounts and either can't get them or don't trust banks.

Many of the poor get paid directly in cash for various reasons; you'd have to convince some of them that they need an account.

Then there's the whole criminal enterprise thing, a not inconsequential chunk of the economy.
Shadows can move faster than light.
To force an analogy that I think is frankly stupid but may sort of work here, I believe that almost everyone who is an engineer or programmer or something is going to be much better served by thinking of intuitive notions of continuity, linear approximations, etc. when trying to do or apply calculus than by imagining infinite seas of power sets of the empty set and building up from ZFC axioms to dedekind cuts
So dumb. She restored the device as recommended by Apple, whom she didn't bother contacting... or even googling an answer.
You've just described a Stargate from the SG1 universe :)

Gates disintegrate objects that pass their event horizon, transmit the energy and "pattern" of the object to the exit gate which rebuilds them.

Essentially everyone in that universe that has stepped through a Stargate has "died" and it's their copies currently walking around.
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Yeah, giving money to beggars is like paying for rat tails or cobra heads. Superficially it helps with the problem, but it rearranges the incentives to make things even worse.
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> “I was, like, What else have they lied about?” he said.

Is this the New Yorker or Infowars? Hard to tell.
Hahaha, harsh. I like your coworker.

And I would tend to agree with your second point. We might occasionally borrow some formalism and organizational structure from our engineering cousins, but it's different in enough ways that it probably shouldn't bear the same moniker.