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What do you think students do all day?
I went from working as a programmer to going to university because I wanted to. I've found the world of university far more taxing and difficult than I ever found working.

Many, many people on my course dropped out in the first year. Over half! I really do feel like it's 'hard-nosed', as you say. Not only that, but I feel like it's not even uncommon.

Some people have suggested, and it might be true, that this is related to studying STEM subjects at uni, with a much easier sense of right or wrong. However, anecdotally, I know many people who are spending many many late nights and long weeks working on art or writing reports in other subjects as well.

In universities, you are encouraged to take work home, to practically be working all the time. Leisure time of course exists, but fully expect to feel or be made to feel guilty for taking that friday evening off to enjoy yourself, even far from any important deadline.

This isn't to say that you're wrong, but "one day, you get an A. And that grade MEANS something. And after four years, the students walk out into the wide world and kick ass up and down the street."
seems like a pretty apt description of the way higher education works. I haven't seen anybody just cruising through life getting good grades in university in the way one might at high school, because unlike high school you literally don't get handed the majority of the learning required. You actually have to put in the hours for success, right now.
The "rats" will come, be assured.
It'll be tough, most gas stations don't have a lot of space for a lot of charging stations and nothing to do while you wait for the charge. The large truck stop style ones might be able to convert more easily because they already have the larger lots and buildings with spaces to sit inside while you wait.

I have heard anecdotally that gas stations make terrible money on their actual fuel sales and the real margins are on food inside so it may work out in the end but that low but broad base flow may be an important part of the business.

In the end though they'll probably largely die out inside cities with charging mostly happening at home, at work, or in parking decks/lots. There will definitely be a need for them along highways and stuff though to service long drives. In the end that's a looooong ways off, even if you completely ban the new sale and import of ICE vehicles there's going to be a long tail for used cars until electric vehicles become 100x less expensive.
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The problem with that line of reasoning is you're assuming the brain is a computer, or that it merely computes.

But that's just an assumption and there are many reasons a person, let alone a brain, is not a machine or a computer or an algorithm. That it is like it? Sure, in some insignificant ways, we have the ability to compute things. But is it an algorithm? No.

The idea that consciousness is an algorithm or a computer or a machine is an assumption that is extremely popular among people in the tech industry because it confirms their assumptions, and it makes them feel like they have extremely transferable knowledge. "I know about computers. Let's assume the brain is a computer and consciousness is an algorithm. I can now comment on the brain and consciousness."

But there is very little reason to accept that assumption. This review of Harai's Homo Deus does a great job of pointing out the dead-ends that assumption leads you to. [review](https://inference-review.com/article/godzooks#When:00:35:00Z)
GDP per capita is not average free cash, and average free cash is spending and saving. It's behaviourally driven, not economically.
> There are no worries about conflicting keybindings when you use super

Aren't there conflicts on most desktops?

- Windows, off the top of my head, has Win+R, Win+C, Win+V, Win+x, Win+D, Win+L, Win+E, Win+Directions
- Linux (well Ubuntu/Gnome3) has Win+L, Win+R, Win+Mouse, Win+Directions
- macOS (considering Ctrl to be super here) has Ctrl+Arrows, along with many common Ctrl+Letters from the unix world
I don't think I explained myself very well (edit: and I am typically oversensitive to suggestions that enterprise software isn't a genuinely difficult and important undertaking). My point was that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to make software usable in an enterprise environment that is orthogonal to the license. A lot of that work is simply not a problem for most individuals.

It's demonstrable that these features are orthogonal to license, because they were expected before OSS became a norm.

LDAP/SAML/OAuth/OIDC/whatever integrations, online backups, auditing, accounting and usage, multi-tenancy, credential management, file integrity, mandatory access control, etc etc. There are thousands -- literally thousands -- of things that enterprises collectively want that individuals and small teams don't even think about.

A lot of OSS efforts acquire these capabilities because an enterprise vendor sponsored their development. Hence my point that "a single throat to choke" is only a slice of the value we and our competitors add.
Thinking of your brain as a story-fitting machine also explains a lot. Everything we perceive our brain tries to fit into a narrative structure
I would def look into the track record of the new CEO, who started in JUL'18. Stock has under performed since his appointment.
...Where is this notion that a picture isn't personally identifiable information coming from?

I get it in the sense it's just a picture, but when you run credit cards in a store, and can temporally associate cards to faces via temporal proximity, you're just elevating the "not that personally identifiable" to "definitely so".
Yet in the last couple decades we've seen this jump up an order of magnitude. Don't think those board members aren't writing checks to one another, in that company or a different one.

Generating value for the shareholders is a job, and can pay like any other job. The reasons compensation for that has jumped up an order of magnitude has more to do with tulips.
I think we're on the same page in our thought process. The opportunity cost of this strike is unclear to those who choose to take part. I'm not hopeful this will bring the change these drivers are seeking.
I really think this is best we got so far.
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Google publishes a lot of their work at https://rework.withgoogle.com/.

Also, Google's former head of people (Lazlo Block) founded a company that is focusing on that area: https://humu.com/.

While I wasn't always a fan of Google People/HR procedures while I was there, I did always appreciate the data-driven/research approach Lazlo and the People team took.
Because consciousness is unitary (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory), it would be intuitive if all consciously accessible information converged at a single physical location. In this theory, simple feed-forward networks aren't conscious.

From what I've read about ego-death, it doesn't seem necessary to consciously sense the self-concept, which would be self-awareness.
At only 7tps, how could Bitcoin ever be used as cash?
What more do drivers want?

Is this a rhetorical question? The drivers' demands are clearly listed in the article:

The drivers involved in the protests have four demands:

1. higher wages

2. clearer policies on wages, tips, how fares are shared and disciplinary action

3. employee benefits such as health care, disability payments and holiday pay

4. recognition and representation for drivers in Uber's management structure
Worth noting, in similar vein — https://protonvpn.com/support/macos-ikev2-vpn-setup/
> and probably use the service more

But that would lower their margin on the $10.

And you might not agree to inflation level increases over time which will just sort of happen wrt advertisers if they are industry-wide.
I get where they are coming from. I find the touch bar pretty neat and useful... But it's dynamic and I don't want that to interfere with pure muscle memory tasks like typing.
Exactly. Why take an unnecessary risk?
I don't doubt that there are many vulnerabilities. However, public perception so far is that it doesn't matter, as little in terms of major viruses have actually happened.
To be clear, are the "rats" those who believe it to be economically-sensible to continue working or those who choose to follow through with the strike?
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The map is not the territory.

To say something is an illusion means that something is a map that doesn’t match the territory.

But it assumes there IS a territory to map! While often simultaneously denying its existence. That’s the contradiction.
> I would cringe to see SBCL with terabytes of heap and hundreds of CPU cores running a serious workload

That's nothing SBCL can do, but one can save an executable and start that in a subsecond without the need for a terabyte of RAM.

Generally there is a lot of stuff in the JVM which makes it less attractive as runtime for Lisp: more complex code loading via 'class loaders', lack of support for memory representation of Lisp's data types (like CLOS objects, which are more dynamic than Java classes), lack of TCO, lack of easy AOT compilation, lack of easy image dumps, lack of resumeable exceptions, ...

And in 2019 something like Eclipse still is a bit clunky to run on my 8 core Xeon - part of the reason could be a less than great GUI implementation. In IntelliJ I need to restart my IDE for every simple plugin... probably features like live-updating haven't made it yet into popular apps.
Implying that the current economic conditions will remain as is forever is not a good bet. The current economic poison in the heart of the US could go away, or it could spread.

While I have no personal experience in these matters, I have the understanding that Europe's economic situation is becoming more American like faster than the US is becoming like anyone else.
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You can reproduce any algorithm with a sufficient group of people. For example, using a person as a node in a feed-forward neural network doing digit recognition. Suppose each person called the next layer in the network with the results of their calculation, until the last layer spit out a value of a digit between 1 and 9. At what point in that process does qualia arise? What is its shape and texture, and why?
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What good is a developer who can’t deliver outside of a debugging/development environment?

I mean, I get what you are saying, but who can afford people who are that specialised?
Of course the surveillance state is using YoloV2 for all their tracking needs ...
I do this and while I'm on my magic keyboard I sometimes forget and keep using the physical Esc key. I need to see if I can use something like BTT/Keyboard Maestro to respect the physical (or Touchbar) Esc key but send a notification of something like "You should use the Caps Lock Key instead" to help train myself better. I will say it's really nice that macOS makes it stupid easy to map Caps Lock to Esc and it work flawlessly for me.
AI is a much abused term but there are unresolved practically philosophical questions about the brain.

If there is no "special sauce" and our brains are just very large neural networks that have what we see as intelligence is an emergent property would we be truly "thinking" by those standards?

We also suffer from adversarial patterns - they are called camouflage and optical illusions. Different from the ones that affect machines of course.
don't buy it in the first place.
Well said!

On a related note, Michael Lewis has an excellent podcast called _Against the Rules_, and one of the episodes focuses on what happens when we can't trust the referee. In this case, the referees in question were scholars entrusted with deciding whether classic works of art were legitimately painted by the artists they claim to have been painted by (like a da Vinci).

I won't go on too much about it, other than to say in this discussion of podcasts and trusting journalists, there happens to be a great podcast about the challenge of trust. We have to trust SOMEONE, but so often that trust is abused.
When I was self-studying social psychology I came across social facilitation theory and found it applicable to understanding interviewing. People have a hard time performing complex tasks while other people are watching because their working memory is monitoring the social situation. This varies for each individual. For tasks that have been rehearsed, like a musical or dance routine, they perform better. Politeness theory is applicable as well, people want to be liked and at the same time do not want their autonomy challenged. My pet theory is that the whiteboarding epidemic is a status hierarchy game essentially communicating "if you want to work here, you are going to do what I say."
The percentage of US and China’s GDP based on concentrated natural resources is rather low. Historically the US’s eastern coal resources where hard to export but boosted local industries. Kind of the opposite example.
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Deforestation: This is a massive part of the problem and one that we need to fix:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48037913
a website quite literally is a remotely administered user input gatherer. I understand the concern about open microphones, but we've had this conversation about everything from laptop microphones to smart TVs before. I don't see how something like a new device changes the equation much compared to those things.
Is it not a little surprising that the patch just has to be roughly where the person's belly is? You'd think the NN identifies people by finding a face and maybe limbs. Or a head-and-shoulders. But maybe it doesn't.

What would happen to a gorilla wearing the patch?
I wonder how theme park maps [0] will be perceived in 700 years.

[0] https://www.freizeitpark-welt.de/freizeitparks/europa_park/f...
As a coworker of mine would say: "A watched pothead never toils." I have always found it amusing when people talk about time's existence. It has always seemed like a ruler or a measuring stick; t = d/v, to me. Some people disagree as to it's existence but I think perhaps the problem isn't with our concept of time but with our definitions of existence.
Probably because of the development and maintenance effort. It wouldn't actually take much such effort, but it might still be more costly than any benefit they'd get from the number of users who they think are likely to take part in such a scheme.
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Or they should go the "Windows way" with Android 10. Make it the last Android version forever and add security updates and features with small digestable patches.
Most cars at that speed will get significantly reduced range, due to engine inefficiency and drag. Even then, a battery with 220 mile range should still get well over 100 in reality .
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From the article that you allegedly read:

“But the sensitivity of this colony to shifting sea-ice trends does illustrate, says the team, the impact that future warming in Antarctica could have on emperor penguins in particular.”

“Research suggests the species might lose anywhere between 50% and 70% of its global population by the end of this century, if sea-ice is reduced to the extent that computer models envisage.“
It's a bit rich to be asking someone to be civil in the same post where you turn your non-point into a personal attack. If there's a point I'm missing then make that point. Don't just talk about "number of bibles" as though it means something.
Blood type personality theory [wikipedia]
Enlightened yogis can misunderstand the concept just as easily as Westerners.
No, definitely not but they have still made leaps from previous iterations. And I think that's a very positive development.

My subjective impression is it basically went from major annoyance to "quite usable". I recently used it on a trip from Northern Germany to Amsterdam and it worked really well.
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> In the last quarter, the global audience contributed $17 million to revenue compared to $273 million from the United States audience. Annually, this puts the global audience at $41 million in revenue and the United States at $715 million in revenue.

Ouch. $41 million revenue from non-US is .. not nothing, but it's a respectable medium sized national chain of shops kind of number, not a $10bn company number.

(Pinterest is also very vulnerable to Google one day deciding that they shouldn't let them clog up the top of the image search rankings...)
The whole point of the exercise is for the teacher to do it in an unexpected manner. The exercise is about established structures and constraints, isn't it?

The point being "I can't even tell someone how to make a sandwich without establishing the platform we're building on". If you start a python app writing in assembly or Fortran then (in general, you pedants!) it's not going to work.

If you do the same exercise with cooperative people then you don't normally emphasise the point because they do a lot that's not clearly defined, and that hides the point about defining the parameters and metrics you're working with.
I've had on multiple occasions gone into a dealership and had them tell me that they have the car i'm asking about, but that I don't want that car, and that I want this other car instead.

I went into nissan to look at the Juke a while back, the asshole wouldn't even let me look at it until I literally started leaving. He just kept pressing the Rogue saying that I'd like it a lot more... Then when he finally took me to it, it was still wrapped in plastic and they said they couldn't do a test drive.

Another time I went to go look at the Chevy Bolt when it first came out, they said they had a few in stock, but they would not stop trying to get me to test drive a Malibu instead. They kept pushing how it was a better car, how it was cheaper, how it would go further, how it looks better.

Eventually they let me test drive the Bolt, but the whole time the guy just kept pointing out how all the features in the car were also in the Malibu.

It just left such a shitty taste in my mouth. I literally went in there asking about a single model of car each time, and it seemed like they did everything they could to actively sabotage my ability to buy it.
Sorry to be blunt, but that's not a very good response to the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Unfeeling matter becomes feeling when its changes are related to the future? How does that work?
I'd guess those who prefer short term gain over medium term loss, but I agree with your, passive aggressive?, point of using the term "rats" to label anybody.
Who said our brains _needed_ consciousness to anticipate the future? The only claim I've seen is that it's (part of?) the particular mechanism our brains happen to use. This is akin to asking why birds need to flap their wings to fly when we have airplanes that can fly with fixed wings.
Niro has efficiency but it's fast charging and acceleration is considerably worse than Tesla's.

eTron has fast charging and acceleration but efficiency is considerably worse than Telsa's.
great news :) Flutter/Dart was a joy for me to code in. As a backend engineer I could pretty much skip all nonsense and just build a simple Android/iOS app in a matter of days. I didn't even have to use Android Studio, built and deploy my app straight from the terminal via CLI.

I have looked at multiple different solutions how to hack flutter to run on desktop but didn't want to invest my time in them as they would probably crash in weird scenarios.
This will make things so much easier! modern tooling + no electron = win for both developers and users.
Code reviews and more code reviews. In both directions. Walk him/her through your stuff, explaining "why" as much as "what" and "how". Also, give your trainee a small coding task (ideally, one both simple and also similar to something you've walked them through). Review their stuff together, line by line, providing feedback as you go. Strive for some small wins they can build on to generate confidence. If there's an opportunity to refactor, that can be very instructive too. Also, take the time to sit w/ them and ensure their dev env is in good shape so the tools don't get in the way. Linters and the like can provide solid guardrails. Also, provide guidance on how to look things up (e.g. "mdn" search prefix, and bookmarks for your preferred reference materials). Finally, since your novice developer as yet has no bad habits to unlearn, strive for best practices in everything you do together (eg TDD; in fact starting w/ tests might be the best 1st step after the dev env is set up). /$.02
All development effort is multiplied by number of customers though. Like, if you put that time and effort into developing a new useful feature, the value of that is multiplied by number of customers too.
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They’ve completely ghosted me on returning my model 3 reservation money as well. After they offered it to me. Never asked.
Well, just loading 120MB executable from an SD card to run it would take 6s in ideal case on the tablet that I use, before it even gets to execution. That's 10s+ startup times for Electron app. Meanwhile my 2MB static C app starts in fractions of a second right after boot.

Storage space is not the only consideration. Storage speed may also be limited.
I really want to like Flutter, but I someone really don't want to spend the time to learn Dart. I can't really quantify it--some mix of yet-another Proprietary Google Technology, yet another ecosystem, yet another X. I'm tired I just want to build stuff that solves problems.
Why not Google the term, it's a term of art and widely used.
Yes, it does - it captures file upload event and you can customize test files afterwords.
> Yes, war is complicated and slavery wasn't the only factor, but I understand it to have been the predominant one.

From Mississippi's declaration of secession:

> Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth.

* https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...

Doing a Ctrl-F and searching for "slavery" gives quite a few complaints (by most of the states) against the Federal government and the North on the subject.
Does this mean they will move more of their production out of the USA?
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(Also, now that the market is open the stock is going down. We’ll see if that lasts.)
Also while humans experience many optical illusions we are quite good at using temporal information and knowledge about how objects behave. We often flag our own observations as implausible and try to get a view from a different angle to defeat the illusion. Most AI can't do that, simply because it has no possibility to get a second perspective on the same situation.
The above was gained from reading forums. My personal judgement is the people saying the above know more about oil than me (they at least understand enough chemistry that my college chemistry doesn't see anything wrong, but I went into computer science so I didn't take more than the basic chemistry for engineers so it is possible that they are wrong on details.

One other point they brought up: every time you open the system to add or check oil dust gets in. Modern engines are generally sealed so this dust until it is filtered out (assuming it is) is doing wear as well. Long oil changes with no checking of the oil level are thus a good thing as well - so long as your oil level never gets low - low oil is far worse than any gain from not checking oil levels.