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One thing I wish Cal Newport's book had done better was to explain ways to be better at managing Shallow Work. Deep Work competes for time with Shallow Work. Therefore, if you want to have time for Deep Work, you need to either

A) Do less shallow work.

B) Do shallow work more effectively. Or schedule it more effectively.

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How possible is option A? Well, what is Shallow Work and why does it matter. Some examples of Shallow Work off the top of my head:

1) Phone-Interviewing people to work for your employer.

2) Looking at Sentry and Dead Mans Snitch and seeing if any of the exceptions reported from your backend this week are actually real problems that should be investigated.

3) Editing the notes you took at a meeting so that you can send them out to attendees.

4) Writing a response to a well-structured question which a junior engineer emailed you about a task which you delegated to them.

5) Creating and sending out a doodle poll to pick a restaurant to eat at before contra dance.

6) Scheduling a time to talk to your father who lives 5 time zones away.

7) Filling in a PDF listing your bank accounts to report to the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network by April 15th.

Each of these is backed by a responsibility -- either you're being paid to maintain a system or relationship for your employer or you are doing something to keep your social life running. You can dial back that responsibility, but that does have consequences. If nobody organizes pizza night, then you don't see your friends in real life and you end up scrolling through facebook out of a vague sense of loneliness.

So there is a certain amount of Shallow Work that needs to get done if you have certain goals or want to avoid particular sadnesses.

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How possible is option B? How possible is it to do Shallow Work so that it interferes less with Deep Work?

For #1, you can push phone interviews to the beginning or end of the day...when the currently-employed will find it easier to get time to interview.

For #2, you can establish a team habit to triage your Sentry and Dead Mans Snitch dashboards to Inbox Zero, that way you only need to glance at them and you don't need to load anything into your working memory.

For #3... actually I'm not sure what is a good way to be more effective at this. Any tips?

For #4... also not sure.

For #5, you can establish a default restaurant and go there every time.

For #6, you can have a default time every week.

For #7, there's nothing to be done. It is annoying and Adobe Acrobat is the worst.

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What techniques do you use to be skilled at Shallow Work or to at least get it out of the way of Deep Work?
Actually someone has to be latest, and rather each civilization for some time t will have its turn at being the latest.
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> "The .rest gTLD will provide an online zone for restaurants and corollary entities..." [1]

As interesting and useful as this may be, it seems to be a misuse of the chosen TLD.

[1] https://icannwiki.org/.rest

Edit: looks like I was wrong about this one!
If you’re making custom laws to deliberately target specific businesses you don’t like then that’s a red flag your new law is abusive.
An interesting spin would be a site or grease monkey script to hide any posts to high traffic domains, leaving you with all the small bloggers etc. GitHub could be excepted.
Ah, the Americans have not forced Aldi on their knees and have them change the checkouts.

Finland used to have a oligopoly of pretty expensive grocery chains and no price competition. Until Lidl (another German chain very similar to the Aldis) entered some 16 years ago and started real price competition. Of course with their efficient checkouts.

The first years Lidl didn't do so well. Then they changed the checkouts to the less efficient local models (and some other adaptations) and started doing pretty well. They just learned their lesson that in Finland you can sell the same product with a 30% premium compared to Germany and accept some inefficiency. Of course they are still a bit cheaper than the incumbants.

Finns are very proud of having defeated a multinational giant (and don't see that they have to pay for it). Like Germans have defeated Google when it comes to street view, although that price if there is any is more difficult to measure.
What's so weird is that all those sound rudimentary rather than innovative to my european ears.
My SO gets these also. One of the people with the same first and last name as her is a government official and has inadvertently forwarded confidential information once or twice.
My name is unusual enough that this doesn't happen with Gmail, but I do own a domain that's one letter different from an American local government domain, so I receive emails with misspelled addresses from them every few months.
A guess: They build a model of you as a customer. If you delete some information step by step then you possibly start with what bothers you most. So you do the data cleaning for them and train their algorithms. Not to mention that deletion is most likely just "hide this".
How is Core Image superfluous or an outright bug?
Indeed who's to say if the current worldview we share is a knowledge maximizing one.
Also when the packaging is the same, manufacturers will put different quality stuff in it. Same ingredients but different quality so they can sell it cheaper. Happens for many products although I don't know of it happens for food.
Being blocked on one out of hundreds of platforms is hardly equivalent to being killed, more like being banned from a mall after defecating on a bench. Being blocked by an individual user is an equivalent of stern stare, disapproving shake of a head and never getting any party invitations again. All justifiable for intentional trolling.
I think the take-away is that the Web (with a capital W), even though it's what all the cool kids are doing these days, is really just a collection of real actual standards established by real actual standards bodies, run by real actual Engineers. There are plenty of folks out there who don't give the Web much credence, and would rather shout at those kids to just get off their lawn.

Maybe I'm over-stating the value, but it's good to remember that, as software and automation becomes more ubiquitous, good standards and good engineering are going to get more and more important.
They own up to this practice--albeit not the top link, at least for me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+purchase+history
Do they have scales?

One thing I've admired about Grocery Outlet is the lack of them.
Usually there are return bays spread throughout the carpark where you can theoretically return trolleys/carts and they'll be taken back en-masse by a store employee later.

Often this results in them being left all over the place or stolen though.
Why wouldn't you save a few bucks and get a full ARM board that can run mainline Linux? https://m.aliexpress.com/item/32603308880.html
> It's all here, and you can delete it

So they claim, but I don't know why anyone should trust them about that.

Aside from that, though, what about the data collected from me? I have no Google account, but they're collecting data from me anyway. Same as Facebook.
In the US I have never had to deposit any money to use a cart. I'm not sure how that would even work, is it some automated machine that spits out a cart?
There are a few corrals throughout the parking lot where customers are expected to deposit their carts. The store then has someone who goes around from time to time to retrieve a row of them and push it back to the front of the store. It's often a job given to somebody mentally handicapped who can't do a lot of other things at the store.
These are from a brand of "human & open luxury". In Silicon Valley, you're not supposed to be driving around a Ferrari or going on cruises like a rich boomer. Instead, you're supposed to have friends on every continent, cooking ingredients (not kitschy souvenirs) from your world-wide travels, a marathon-ready body, and an everything-is-okay smile, deriving from your material self-contentedness and awareness of your luck. It's about becoming a vessel for temporal and social experiences, not someone leashed to a big TV. It's about signifying that you're open to the "best" of what every culture has to offer without sharing any of the pain or trying to make it better, aside from minor improvements to buttons or trying your hand at a hair-brained get-rich-quick scheme couched under a messiah complex. The idea is that these experiences and contact with other cultures are "human", but they're also a shallow way to both show off material status.
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> You know people who take insulin are on it for the rest of their lives, but that doesn't make it the fault of their doctors.

The bet on diabetes has to happen before it is diagnosed to make actuarial analysis. If you want to guarantee that all diabetes patients get access to insulin, what you want is charity, not insurance.

Insurance is risk pooling.

> This is a very strange American perspective on health care. If it was suddenly available to everyone, there's a perception that we'd all be like kids in the candy store getting 1 of everything at the doctors office

The science has already shown that is true. Over and underutilization of healthcare are studied effects, ones insurance companies pay very close attention to because if they don't, they will go bust. That is also why countries with free healthcare also have copays.

> People go to doctors because they're sick, and they need treatment and would rather be literally anywhere else.

I think you are have an outsider's view on how healthcare provision works. No doctor i met would ever agree with this statement.
As I mentioned in the other comment, I am not equating the two, I am merely stating the case that punishments that are final/irreversible are bad news.

Also, in the comment you responded to, I had already stated that I am specifically _not_ referring to individual-to-individual interactions.

As for your mall analogy, maybe if said mall is the one that 1/6 of the human population shops at, the nearest competing malls only have 1/20th of the people/stores/stuff and there's only 1-2 competing malls where the shopkeepers speak the same language as you.
In the United States carts are free. You collect a cart at the entrance to the store, and return the cart to a cart corral in the parking lot next to your car. Then a worker from the store periodically goes out to the corral to collect the carts and return them to the store entrance.
This begs the question: Has anyone here seen .rest used in the restaurant industry?
At least in the US, one of the primary reasons job insecurity causes severe stress is that affordable health insurance that has reasonable coverage is usually only possible through employment. The moment you lose your job and your COBRA period runs out, you're at severe risk of financial catastrophe — the stress from which can lead to further health problems!

This is why I strongly support Medicare For All. Massive cost savings at the national level aside, it's a critical part of the equation for regaining our collective sanity. Where I come from we have a saying: good health is the greatest treasure. It's a prerequisite for achieving success and happiness. Therefore we need a system where people don't constantly worry about crazy medical bills, and don't forego basic practices like regular doctor visits because they can't afford the co-pays.
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At least in the part of the US I live in, Aldi is just a much better place to shop then Walmart and the other grocery stores. I can just unlock my cart (which are never just hanging out in the parking lot), grab the food I need (which is always in the same location), check out, bag my food in my reusable bags (which Aldi pretty heavily pushes), and be done with it. The only store that comes close is the Walmart Neighborhood Market but that still isn't as cheap and nice as Aldi is.
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I'm saving your and cjbprime's comments for future reference. You've both perfectly expressed the benefit and contextual benefit of code formatters.
tell that to all the .io domains that have nothing to do with the BIOT
Engineers are not the majority of Amazon's customers. Nor are they the ones that benefit most from buying there.

For example, consider single mothers working two jobs, ordering from Amazon.com to save time & money. And depending on where they live, they might even get the order within a couple hours. That's a new kind of efficiency that many benefit from.
Substitute "better" for "cleaner".

The point is nuclear is not competing (just) with coal, it's competing with every other alternative and combinations of alternatives. For nuclear to be preferable it has to beat all of them, not just one of them. Comparing it to just coal is a species of strawman argument.
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That's true.

I attended a somewhat notable music festival this year and I noticed that the bands on the line-up had all the other bands from the same festival in the "similar" section, despite not being similar at all - (I'm assuming) just because other people interested in the festival were checking them out.
the problem is this guy wants to live in an area where you need a large stable source of income and he doesn’t have it. he should move.
I've had experiences like that with a crying newborn in the middle of the night. I visualized a terminal full of log messages and considered what commands to run or if I should just reboot and see if that fixed the problem. Started laughing when I woke up a little more, haha.
It's similar to the "SmartECart" luggage cart kiosks you may have seen at airports. Sliding a cart in locks it in place on a set of rails, depositing the money releases a mechanical catch on the end, allowing you to pull one cart out.
They are already "in" it doing it for themselves, like cloud, why not try to sell it to others, like cloud.
Japan has almost negligible immigration. I don't think they even record statistics on it - last time they did a few years ago it was a total of 8000 people for a population of 125 million, compared to sweden which took 180,000 with a population of 10 million.

Japan is probably the closest the world has to an ethnostate and could well be described as ethno-supremacists. They don't cop any flack for this because they're not westerners and only white people can be guilty of racism and xenophobia because colonialism (which ignores the fact that japan was a brutal colonial overlord to korea and taiwan).
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I read the PDF version and donated 10 dollars a few months ago. The book is worth more than that, but given the numbers he expose I didn't even feel guilty.
In most supermarkets in the US you just leave your cart in the parking lot after you load up your trunk. They have people who then come and collect the carts.
Please don’t make posts like this. Additionally, what you describe in your parody is actually how tolerance for state public smoking bans became large enough to make it viable.
Yup. I can't think of last email that was sent within my startup. Only clients and partners. Though some partners we have shared slack rooms, so even that may be going down.
> -they combine varieties (like flavors of granola bars) of product in the same box. This greatly reduces the shelf space required.

This is the only thing that fails about Aldi. Let's say you want their Chicken Tikka sauce. The mixed boxes mean good chance you won't see it as Tikka always goes first. You go through the whole 6 boxes of inventory, and yep, all sold - the three spaces in every box. Same for pizza - one always goes first. They don't restock until there's space for another combined box.
A valid defense of the metric prefixes (I mean, I still think they're on the balance a mistake, but you do have a point), but ironically, electron-volts are not an SI unit.

Why 1 GeV instead of 160 picojoules?
Much of the substance depends on OS-provided convenience APIs that, if you use certain aspects thereof, can’t be replicated on Windows without developing them from scratch.
It's its own case because of the subjectivity of the diagnosis and the effectiveness and length of treatment. I'm sure that a bunch of other healthcare services have the same issue, like acupuncture or physical therapy.

Also, mental health is not particularly expensive to treat itself: why put the insurance company in the middle. Pay the provider directly..
I did a little bit of fuzzing and in general I agree with you about the right approach being to build off of existing unit/integration tests.

But in practical terms, that's still a lot more than "add this compiler flag" or "swap out this library".
A remix of the tag line: "imagine and design", perhaps?

Either way, it'll have little overlap with unrelated stuff when you type it into a search engine, which is not unimportant.
You insert a coin into a slot in the cart, and a chained key releases the cart from the next cart it's chained to. When you want your coin back, you return it to the line of carts, stack it and then insert the key from the next cart into yours. Your coin is released and the store doesn't have to pay someone to collect them.
But it's clearly not a "paltry amount" if it's enough to fund the work and ensure that it gets made. Isn't that ultimately what matters?
It is probably overhyped, but it is good.

It (and the whole trilogy) have a handful of really good ideas. The translation at times seemed clunky, the pacing was, uneven and the plotting was not quite as tight as I would have liked. But the handful fo good ideas were good enough that the book stayed with me for a while.
n=1, and starts with a definitely losing team, so it wouldn’t surprise me if regression to the mean explains a large part of the success.

I think that the team kept using the system is a bit of a win for IBM, though, even if it doesn’t really helps.
No, I don't think that's true at all. Renewables are pulling away from nuclear. The cost advantage of renewables, and the continuing cost declines of renewables and of storage, have put nuclear into an almost impossible position. Everything is going to have break just right for nuclear to not go extinct as a practical technology for power generation.
In Glebe a small district in Sydney, Australia, there is a shop called "Lentils as Anything" and it operates under the "pay what you can" scheme. It is highly successful, and that's because their branding, signage, store layout, and all is on point and clearly indicative of what it is. There's no cashier, just a big metal box with a hole in the top for donations, and the staff are all volunteer. Making a non-profit model out of a business that looks like a normal over-the-counter coffee place was the first egregious error in this plan by big P. It needs to look completely different. Why? because it is completely different in principle.
Equifax is a consumer product with uninformed customers, wherein the 'blowback' can't really be had by individual customers, rather, it has to pick up as a media storm.

Slack contains a world of sensitive corporate information.

Oddly though I don't recall any major email company losing gazillions of emails to a hacker either, but I could be wrong.

It's an existential risk for Slack, but not unlike most other SaaS companies as well, so it's just part of the cost of doing business a per the industry.
I had nothing except Elon's PR to go on. Well, I didn't really have any expectations. I don't spend my days thinking "Oh, Tesla Autopilot's such an amazing self-driving function". I've seen plenty of discussions about how limited it is and I'm quite aware that it's far from any sort of self-driving solution. It's not like discussions about it are rare on HN. But still, seeing it is much much much more different from observing discussions about it.
I thought about it, and AFAICT it only widens the gap between ideal weather for a homeless person and ideal weather for a non-homeless person. For a homeless person, Walnut Creek is going to be worse during the winter because it's cold, and worse during the summer because it's hot. For a non-homeless person, San Francisco is going to be worse during the June Gloom because they might be stuck in an office during the times that the sun comes out.
They are linked by chains: every cart has a coin-operated lock accepting a chain and a chain for the next cart to connect.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Pf...

Put a coin in the drawer and close it, the chain of the next cart pops out the back and you can take it. On return, you push the chain back in, the drawer pops open and you get your coin back.

Store employees just occasionally balance cart numbers between the corrals, if there's multiple.
the program will work on fastq files. The sequencing technology makes long reads.

As another commenter said, I don't need superdeep sequencing knowledge because my work will mostly be on the programming side (enhance performance, not adding new functionalities) but anyways it could be useful to have a clear picture of the process.

Thanks for your help
This has nothing to do with specific businesses, just the size and scale that businesses are reaching now. This has nothing to do with Amazon, they are just an elegant example of a broken system.

Corporations that have serious soft power but have broken no laws should cause us to ask deep questions about what it means to be "anti trust" in the 21st century. The consumer welfare framework is a weak and ineffective framework for today's modern corporations.
Some incredibly skeptical hiring manager asked me once, "Tell me about a time you had to deal with a deadline."
I'll step in quickly to say this is probably good advice, even if it's in the spirit of tough love. You described a feeling of destitution and no doubt that is being reflected in your online presence, and it may be best to refrain from tweeting until you feel in a better place mentally. I wish you the best of luck.
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1. The numerals are actually Indian [1], that Arabic traders picked up and propagated elsewhere. I don't think it changes the findings as I expect the respondents to have answered in a similar fashion.

2. I don't believe this is evidence of bigotry. If a similar survey were to be taken in say Saudi Arabia, asking if American Numerals need to be taught in madrasass, it'd likely have a similar response.

I think this entire exercise is setup with an agenda to apparently uncover bigotry in the US, when the actual science behind it is questionable. Specious sounding, misleading questions are often answered inaccurately. Clearly, the question never educated the audience on the fact that Arabic Numerals are in fact regular numbers in general use. The whole survey is intending to exploit unawareness on the definition of "Arabic Numerals"

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system
Please take this comment from a quadriplegic with spina bifida in a positive sense it was made.

No, you're not alone and that is a very very common opinion.

It's an opinion that very quickly evaporates in my experience when somebody becomes quadriplegic, is about to have a child with a potentially debilitating disease, or is otherwise confronted with the reality of severe disability. Not the intellectual realities of disability that I think anybody reading this on HN can imagine what the difficulties might be for a quadriplegic, no I mean the actual pain filled, shit covered, fear inducing, inconvenient and potentially crappy reality a severe disability. You have to be alive to realise how bad things are, which is kind of a wonderful thing I think.

To be honest, it's something I hope you never have to confront. I really do my Friend. Be well. :-)

Edited to Add: You lot should stop down voting him in my really not very humble opinion, that's a super common opinion that I don't feel has an ounce of malice behind. But rather curiosity.