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> that's Popperian scientificism

I believe his criticisms would be very close to yours. For me, this is on the border between medicine, anthropology and in general social sciences. I wouldn't list hubris as a strength for anyone in these fields to underline popular prejudices.

But aside from that, even if statistics are vigorously checked for correctness, it still leaves a lot of room to get different interpretations.
They weren't talking about simply any other country, but China specifically. In terms of government interference and freedom of thought, at this point I think the US is still pretty clearly the better place. From the point of view of the EU, though, it is edging closer to China.
- GMail -> Protonmail

- GMaps -> Here Maps

- Google Search -> DuckDuckGo

- GCalendar -> Zoho

- GDocs -> Zoho, Microsoft

- GDrive -> OneDrive, Dropbox

- YouTube -> Vimeo, twitch

*with extra newlines :p
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The argument wasn't that people were smarter back in 70s. Instead, computers were rare, only the most motivated individuals could reach them. They were curious hackers as you say, and today's curious hackers are just as good. They form maybe 1% of programmer population.

Regarding abstractions, I feel you are talking about leaky abstractions - systems that offer a simplified interface but still manage to burden you with all the implementation details. It's hard to identify such poorly engineered building blocks until it's too late. Thus layers get built on top of them and it becomes too costly to go back and rework the stack. This is a problem with development processes favoring new features over paying the accumulated tech debt.

Still, good building blocks can exist. You can (and often must) have complexity if it's properly isolated and does not leak. I'd say JVM is great example of abstraction that is slower and internally more complex than SW done native, but brings much to the table as a platform to build on. Other examples: BeamVM, ZeroMQ, Lua (leaky, but at least very simple). Browsers unfortunately are too burdened with legacy and security issues.

I feel my formal education has failed to teach me how to design proper interfaces between systems. Instead we are taught pointer arithmetic and mainstream OOP ("cat IS an animal").
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Of course, while 8MB of PSRAM is really nice, it's not necessary for MicroPython which can operate without any PSRAM - the onboard 520KB RAM on the ESP32 is fine.
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Sickle cell trait works to protect from malaria.

It works but is broken.
A limited access road is absolutely easier to navigate than a city. Once you can stay in one lane with sufficient following distance, you're done. The problem space is tiny.
The most important rule is understanding the context of any design guideline, rule-of-thumb, "pattern" or "best practice".

Something like the Open/Closed-principle is a really great principle for the kinds of projects if was created for. It is just that for 90% of software development it is not appropriate and therefore leads to needless complexity.

Discussing whether SOLID is good or bad in itself does not make any sense IMHO.
That way we could really see females beat males for example in tennis.

Haven't there been enough "battle of the sexes" tennis matches already for us to know how this will go?
Google as best as I can tell just doesn't do customer support. At least not the human interaction kind
Norway has just landed some major deals for exporting fish to China. And nor the goverment or the majority of the population seem to bother what China is doing. Money talks, while human rights are censored.
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Three suggestions and reason why mate:

1)Do exercise: It will increase chemicals like serotonin, endorphins and dopamine making you feel way better.

2)Eat more healthy: If you reduce saturated fats and increase protein will impact your dopamine levels.

3)Book "a guide to the good life": The chapter #1 is very slow but the rest of the book is pure gold and I found it here in HN, I strongly recommend it.
Channel discovery feels like a feature here; safe intimacy is what the article is enjoying. Invitation only.
Indeed. I recommend weight lifting. Especially free weight exercises like squats and dead lift that are training mostly the biggest muscles have a very positive impact on confidence because they increase testosterone levels measurably.

Cardio had zero impact though, at least for me.
> Facilitating copyfraud could invalidate their DMCA protections.

[citation needed]

> If any other publisher were to give money owed to a creator

YT doesn't actually owe money to anyone. Legally, they could host the videos, put ads and keep all the money. They distribute money because they want to incentivize content creators to upload stuff, but they do it at their discretion.
I really can't write code other than a) experimental (when testing a new library that encompasses a totally new concept) or b) absolutely readable and SOLID. a) code never makes it to production before it became b) since when I understand the problem and my solution I can't leave dead or unreadable code.

I've seen people that write nice code by day check in horrible entangled vomit because they wanted to make a deadline. So the next time I pull it, "it has just a few issues" and it takes me two days to sort out their mess where just writing it cleanly myself might have cost me only one day.

My code just looks the same no matter what pressure. I just don't believe I go faster by making code harder to understand and maintain.
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What to do in a class may not be entirely trivial but also not that complicated. What is trivial is noticing that a class is doing too many things. The problem is actually doing something about it. This seems in many case to be more of a discipline problem than it actually being that hard.

I also have seen that people are trying to do too much. When one sees a problem many have the inclination to want to refactor everything at once and also redesign an entire program. A more productive way is to do one small refactoring that solves just one code quality issue at a time. Before you know it you have done 5 or 10 small refactorings and things are starting to look much better. The big refactoring is very likely to make as many things worse as it makes better. The small refactoring has much more chance to have only or mainly positive effects.

Sometimes one also has to take a step back and think about in what direction to go with an application. That can be a bit hard, indeed. Even in that case it is much better to do small steps in the right direction that one has envisioned rather than some bing bang rewrite.
Yeah that seemed way over the top
What did you use to generate the documentation ?
> white people have a way of saying incredibly insulting, demeaning things about non-whites in a way that it is acceptable in common discourse

How do you even know he or she is white? Why racialize a comment in this manner?
If you can build the confidence - I’d recommend giving a talk about it at a local meetup group, something like a local devops / dev meetup group as long as the managers of the group think it’s appropriate for the audience.

You could go into what it makes hard for you, what situations you have experienced, what advice you’ve received (and if it worked or not if you tried it and how you did), then you could make the 2nd part of the talk taking questions from the audience.

It might make you feel uncomfortable and definitely vulnerable but in my experience if the audience is mostly respectful - I think they’ll naturally become empathetic or at least sympathetic and respond perhaps by opening up with some of their experiences and how they evolved from them.

Don’t get me wrong - I know this may well be very scary and if you have (mental) health issues I would suggest discussing it with your doctor first.
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A simple flip/slide phone.
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The problem is that confidence is rarely correlated to competence. Smart people are often in self doubt because they know what they don't know.
If you can strap them to a couple euro pallets it shouldn't be too expensive to ship.
He voices his opinion clearly and holds audience attention well. He provides quite a few interesting examples of lost knowledge and civilization decline. He goes against common assumption that tech is ever-evolving and shows how and why the software infrastructure is failing under our feet.

The day after I watched the talk I was compelled to watch the mentioned Apollo 11 documentary. For me this was a great talk, but feel free to disagree.
> but I guess we'll have to forget about writing small utility programs in Java.

Developers will continue using the JDK (for which no installation is necessary; just setting JAVA_HOME). A tool suite intended for users will share the same runtime. And when it comes to small, user-oriented, standalone utilities, Graal's native image makes that more compelling than ever.
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My usual usage is about 8GB a month. At this point streaming the episode is free.
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A German motorway without traffic is very easy to navigate, but a typical day to day situation involves several kinds of cars driving at different speed limits and engaging in various maneuvers like overtaking, exiting, merging, switching lanes. There's also traffic jams or heavy traffic situations.

If one wants to drive dynamically, one has to overtake and switch lanes quite a lot, which makes this challenging. If one is content with driving like a snail they can stick to the first lane, which is pretty simple and could be managed even by a so-called self-driving car.
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Oh great that this found a new home. I was concerned that it would be scrapped when I saw the ebay listing.
Content ID seems more like forced arbitrage clauses - essentially a way to preempt and prevent people from using the legal system.
I am a 4th semester CS student from Germany and still don't grasp recursion, even though I already took the data structures & algorithms courses.
If you did have something like a magic moment where it made sense to you, please enlighten me as I would really like to truly gain an intuition (and implement a parallelized msd-radixsort for learning-purposes because I failed to do this assignment yesterday).
> a carefully bred strain cultured over hundreds or thousands of years is nationalized IP

Is that just your opinion, or is there an internationally accepted legal framework around that? Could you perhaps post a link where I might learn more?
This is the natural consequence of unrestrained usury in a market for things everyone needs one of. See also - housing. Only the bankers benefit in the end.
As many others here, I have been (and in some ways still am) in the same situation myself.

My advice, find something else to do in your spare time. Many people recommend excersise. Remember, excersise doesn't have too be going to a gym, or going jogging. There are plenty of activities that will give you a good workout as a bonus. Personally, I like chopping wood.

Also, if you are able to, try to take a little longer lunch breaks and spend the extra time doing non-work related stuff. Outside if you can.
I don’t think the general public is aware on what’s going on in china in details. They think it’s still pretty ok. But the direction the country is taking is pretty clear, and we soon should hear about nightmarish events more and more. Once one major western country starts taking a public stance and back it up with actions, the others will follow.
I would not agree with the statement you've quoted either, but can you see that you've posted a comment shot through with the same attitudes that you believe tainted his comment?

You've assigned a race to another poster based on your own preconceptions of the attitudes and behaviors of members of that race (kicking off your reply to snaky with "white people have a way of [...]") and lumped all members of a race together (accusing all white people of making derogatory statements regarding other races).
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is evidence based and has reasonably good effectiveness - about 60% of people going through it experience good recovery.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-...

One good thing about it is that it only lasts about 12 to 16 weeks.

Find someone with qualifications, experience, and a registration. Check the pricing over 21 weeks (this is the maximum you'd possibly use, but you're likely to use fewer lessons.) Then book in. Don't be afraid to change therapist if the one you have is terrible.

The first session will talk about the CBT model, and ask you what you want to achieve, and talk about confidentiality and payment.

You'll need to be able to identify emotions and hot thoughts, but the therapy should help you with that.

EDIT: a lot of people are recommending exercise. It's important to exercise for your physical health. The evidence for benefits to mental health is somewhat weaker, and we've only recently started getting good quality evidence that it works. For you it may work, it may not, and it's probably not going to hurt to try unless the failure of exercise to lift your mood is going to feed into negative thinking.
> I'm not sure humans are designed to down this many cals before putting on their shoes in the morning

Do you have any evidence to separate this hypothesis from "I'm not designed to..." or "I'm not used to..."?
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Kettlebells + running or rowing. You can watch stuff if you do kettlebells and rowing at home (Water Rower rocks). Exercise 5 days a week. It’s hard at first, but after a couple of weeks it’s easy.
I'm shaking my head right now because I can't believe people at the top is still susceptible to sampling/survivorship bias.

I've tried searching but cannot find a good empirical study of privilege and entrepreneurship correlation. However, I've found an essay paper [0] that exactly predicted this twitter drama; that entrepreneurs simultaneously present and erase this conversation about class and entrepreneurship.

The paper also concluded:

> Whereas gender, together with race, have long been foregrounded in studies of entrepreneurial identity and difference, class may be a more powerful organizing discourse, though certainly one supported by discourses of gender and race.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/135050841246489...
If you watch the presentation at the Tesla Autonomy Day, the dude in charge of their deep neural network explained that they think basing the whole system upon cameras is necessary since HD maps and LIDAR are too limiting. Basically, the network needs to be able to see what people are doing to drive safely.

They've devised a method of upon training data for their network and is basically iterating through the problems, finding training data and counter-training data, as far as I understood the presentation.

Whether this is going to work or not, we shall see.
Can anyone elaborate on why the tool is named UXY? I couldn't find anything in the repo, and there is no wiki.
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> If Windows had shipped with the equivalent of GW-BASIC + extensions

Windows 98 shipped with Windows Scripting Host that could run .vbs scripts. I wrote a lengthy (10 page, IIRC) "introduction to programming" article for a gaming magazine years ago that only used VBScript since that was simple enough syntactically (no weird sigils) and available in every computer out of the box (i even got a couple of people thanking me for this :-P).

And of course Internet Explorer with JScript was in there since Win95 OSR.
Do remember that immigrants aren't usually trying to start the same kinds of businesses as the "natives", small businesses make a lot of sense if you want to be able to rely on yourself and not an employer who might not appreciate that you're just learning the language, and if you're willing to make use of the labour of your entire family rather than just a breadwinner.

If you're an immigrant there are small businesses that are closer to stable jobs and you can start immediately with your savings, whereas if you're a native the reason you'd start a business is because you're interested in that thing or you want to be an entrepreneur and grow that business into something bigger.
Sometime back I remember reading a paper where it was hypothesised that using hands is less hygienic than using toilet paper.

And to demonstrate this they used human stature (height) as a way to workout the effect of this practise on health and well being, and the results were constinent with the hypothesis.

Conclusion: People are taller in the countries where toilet paper is used.

Unfortunately, few minutes of googling didn't turn up any links now.

The problem with using hands is that the people often shortcut and do not wash hands properly now if you don't use hands, then this entire problem disappears.

What do you value more, then money spent on toilet paper or the time spent washing your hands properly?

The law of life is that people will often take shortcuts where it is possible to take one and along the way suffer consequences which weren't in their mind at that point because all they wanted to achieve then is to get through this fast enough to do something else later.

To get best of both, there can be a service where someone else washes you but then you lose privacy and you need to allow others to touch you but then it's also possible if that person's health suffers then you might also suffer on subsequent contact.
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Yeah, exactly. I've never been to China but I work in and visit the US frequently. I'd take China any day.
It was on the Win95 (and i also think 98) CD in an "DOSUTILS" folder or something like that.
It's not that trucks will have it first, per se. It's that trucks spend a much larger fraction of their time on freeways, so they can get a much bigger benefit from a system that only works there.

Specifically on freeways, the difference in difficulty is pretty minor. The lanes are wide and you don't need to accelerate very rapidly.

> It would be far better to focus on making autonomous cars first.

Mu. The same system's going to be on both types of vehicle.
They very well will not. I can currently go to any supermarket and pick up a whole range of horrible (but cheap) products. The free market isn't magic.
Maybe TomMarius means that autonomous vehicles could negotiate intersections without stopping. No traffic lights required, only rules of precedence. It's going to be a slow procession but maybe the average speed would increase.

I'm not sure how that would mix with pedestrian crossings. In some dense areas there would be a non stop flow of people walking across the street and cars wouldn't be able to move.
For me it was exercise + getting outside and interacting with different people more + not tying all of my esteem to work + doing some sort of challenge every day (exercise when I would rather not, go out and socialize when I would rather not, clean something, learn something, talk about something, etc.).
My self esteem has increased a lot, but I am still not there 100%.
In general you can use https://www.demoparty.net/. The only upcoming US parties I can see is Demosplash and @party
possibly a weak attempt at e-prime?
Well, everyone would have a telescreen in their pocket. China has a big surveillance playground in Xinjiang region (paywalled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twelve-days-in-xinjiang-how-chi...), including random microphone recordings.
Aren't they just correlating poverty?
As a headphone buff and snob, I respectfully disagree. I think they sound wonderful, and I own Sennheiser HD1s and HD820s. For as small and portable and convenient and affordable as they are, they are far higher audio quality than I would expect. I use them all of the time.
Entrypoint script for runtime config is a universal story for werf and docker. There is no difference between these two.

Werf uses Ansible as a declarative way to build images, not to configure them in runtime. Werf also supports shell scripts for builds.

The main advantages over usual docker build are:
- git history is used to determine what should be run to build image. This can be used to greatly speed up build process on changes.
- mounts of external directories to reduce image size without "apt-get update && rm -rf /var/lib/apt".
- templating in build configuration file (werf.yaml).
You also have to watch out for the degenerate cases of competition that arise when the sold products are not commodities. The less a product is substitutable by another from its category, the more meaningless the competition is. On the commodity end, you have grocery stores; for most products, you have true competition because all grocery stores sell mostly the same stuff (and from the same brands). On the "meaningless competition" end you have streaming services like Netflix and HBO. Movies, TV shows, videogames are mostly non-substitutable goods (if you want to watch Star Wars, being told to go watch Princess Bride instead isn't going to cut it). Streaming services are so full of exclusively licensed content that they don't compete - you have to subscribe to those that have content that interest you. This is kind of like a cartel, but arises organically, bottom-up, instead of from explicit collusion.
In Europe Huawei is pretty huge at around 29%
Maybe Average Joe won't care, but he's informed about what is actually happening, and he should care and take his decision based on that. The fact that he's proud of blaming the wrong party is not something to be applauded.
This guy is rambling. The key - just do it.
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When I discover that my beliefs have been shaped in part by a marketing message, I always have to restrain myself from overcompensating as I try to revise my worldview, as in:

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

"No, that's marketing! I refuse to be manipulated. Breakfast is a scam!"

When really, the truth is that breakfast is nice but everything is culturally relative and humans are capable of adapting to a surprisingly wide range of routines, provided you maintain them long enough to get through the rough patches. Sadly, that doesn't make for a very catchy slogan.

Sometimes I think I'd be better off never having heard this notion at all, but hey, the cost of living in society is being exposed to infectious ideas.
This is demonstrably untrue.

Looking at the official docs here: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/2018-Small-... for the US and here: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06... for the UK (both are PDFs)

In the USA for the first quarter of 2016, there were 240,000 new companies. So just million in a year, assuming that trend. Also, that is all companies, including those with no employees

in 2016 for the UK in the whole year, there fore 416,000 new businesses, all of which had at least one registered employee.

The USA, in 2016 only created twice as many companies compared to the UK.

Given the gulf between population _and_ economy, I would say the US is significantly underperforming compared to the UK