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A jerk who was pissed about the editing rules started vandalizing content en mass. It seems Ward got tired of battling him/her/it and switched on some kind of serverless or distributed version of the wiki that he had been working on as an alleged alternative. Most find it baffling and/or unusable. That effectively killed the wiki, at least to new authoring. Maybe after Ward realizes it's a flop, he'll go back to something more familiar. (It might have other uses, just not as a public wiki or discussion board.)

Ward Cunningham is considered the inventor of wikis, by the way.
Genocide is supposed to mean something a bit different than the terrible things that this article describes.

I really object to its usage here, the situation is terrible but genocide is something else.
> Companies expect too much from their workers.

(The below will be assuming software developer since you followed up talking about coders).

In the US at least, there's an additional catch 22 because of salary. The average software engineer salary is super high, historically (at least in my experience) because it was compensating people for being oncall, for working off hours, for doing a mad dash to make deadlines in waterfall projects, for being understaffed, for needing to do continual education in your own time, etc.

Now that these super high salaries are the norm and you can't hire anyone with experience without such salaries, companies end up expecting the world from them. Other professions that have similar salary ranges (certain part of finance, law, health, etc) also do.

If salaries were more in line with other type of work (at least in the low end. Nothing wrong with having a wide range), it would be a bit less crazy for someone to work 9/5 and call it a day.
This is a great point -- how are cycles different as capital costs plummet, the velocity of information approaches infinity, saleable goods de-materialize, labor pools globalize, and addressable markets approach all the people on earth?

From my non-expert view, most of macro econ is practically religion anyways, and their predictions are basically non-falsifiable. Even so, I'm sure some informed folks have been thinking about these very issues, I just have no idea who. Would love any pointers.
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I would guess 25 cups translates to an excessive amount anywhere in the world.
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If you have a scrapped Kinect and a laptop with CUDA capabilities (even 4/5 years old), you can run the KinectFusion and perform live 3D reconstruction
Good point. I would say that modern day distractions have an extra oomph however. I've never developed an addiction to books, crossword puzzles, or television whereas I've come to the point where I can't have a healthy relationship with video games.
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"Users do not need to look for videos of children to end up watching them. The platform can lead them there through a progression of recommendations.

So a user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of women who become conspicuously younger, and then women who pose provocatively in children’s clothes. Eventually, some users might be presented with videos of girls as young as 5 or 6 wearing bathing suits, or getting dressed or doing a split."

Holy shit, just burn it down at this point. This is what happens when you just mindlessly optimize.
I'll add to this cargo-edit [0] which lets you add, remove and update dependencies from terminal. Small additions to cargo but huge timesavers.

[0] https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit
no... there are just more people and we are more connected than ever.
The point here is that even this 'pure' critical thinking isn't somehow existing in a realm of our intellectual away from our emotionality; not only does emotionality dictate its course, but (as feminist scholars have pointed out since the 80s), the course of emotionality is dictated by rationality - we often become emotionally invested in theories which we really do believe quite 'rationally'. At its most crude level, I'd frame it as a bi-directional movement each influences the other and it makes no sense to talk about one without the other, though that seems closer to the point you were making than when I made my first comment.
I don't see the drainage; 70 years after the October revolution, the USSR was still being first on important space exploration milestones, including the first permanently manned space station, in 1986.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program#Notable_f...
> If I drink too much I start to feel what I can only describe as existential dread (I know it's weird).

Not weird at all. It’s that free-form, nameless, unspecified anxiety.
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With no noxious TSA checkpoint and a streamlined boarding process, it's amazing how much more pleasant travel by train is. I often arrive an hour early, if not more, to an airport. Between unpredictable TSA wait times and the lengthy boarding process of airplanes, it's a huge waste of time. When I'm traveling by train, I often arive at the train station no more than 5 minutes before I am sitting on the train. There are no lines to enter the train station and the line to board the train moves quickly because the train has more space to move around on and because the train has multiple entrances and exits. It's totally feasible to walk into a train station then without stopping walk straight onto a train.

That's an experience I'm generally willing to pay extra for vs flying, but unfortunately in America the opportunities to take advantage of trains are lacking if you live outside the Northeast Corridor, as I now do.
Try the thing where you turn your calculator upside down and it says "HELL".
I've had great fun with a webcam showing the difference between consecutive frames.

Once they understand the idea, you show them the three-line code that does the computation (using opencv for python), and you let them change the math formula in whatever crazy way they want.
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Are you sure about that? I've gone through aero and mechanical engineering interviews that were extremely rigorous and long.
I can tell you all about how the propaganda campaign to justify the Iraq invasion was pulled off. They had agents on message boards and all over the Internet even back then. They even drafted the comedian, Dennis Miller, to go on late night tv shows multiple times and push the propaganda there. I was astounded that very few people were talking about what a sell job it all was.

Just to refresh everyone's memory: Saddam didn't have WMDs. It was a total put up.

We need to somehow get these intelligence agencies and their deep state buddies put back in a box.
Yes. Part of the job interview will be selling your knowledge through past work. Spending the time to tutorialize content will make it easy and stress free to talk about it to a general audience. Being able to communicate your point clearly is fairly essential IMO.

As per if they'll look at it themselves, I'm much more skeptical. The same issue is present (checking at the resume stage or at the first filter stage) with other portfolio pieces though.
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This is one of those subthreads that show how offtopicness is preserved under negation.
ADHD exists on a continuum, much like many other behavioral/mental disorders. The near side is probably what you describe--something that would be normal in the right circumstances, but is maladaptive in the real ones. That phenomenon probably partially explains people whose ADHD "disappears" in adulthood. As an adult you can choose your environment better. However, that's by no means the whole of it, and the farther sides are potentially quite disabling. Executive function covers an awful lot of your everyday behavior, and it's all potentially affected.

The diagnosis for ADHD specifies multiple areas impaired. Just flunking class or getting fired won't do it. Unless we think maintaining basic friendships or relationships, suppressing destructive impulses, defeating procrastination, avoiding chronic disorganization (extreme clutter), staying away from addictive substances, etc., has also become significantly more sophisticated, I'd think the aspects that affect those types of activities would stand alone as an indicator.

There have been epithets/cliches for many, many years that come down to pathologically spaced out, lazy, foolish to the point of not being "normal"; and we've had "minimal brain damage" and other pre-ADHD executive function impairment diagnoses for a long time as well. It's not just a modern thing.
headless RaspPi Nano running OpenCV face detection script: Light an LED when the camera detects a face.

Now plug it into a monitor and show the bounding box around each face. They'll love this!

Show them the code. GIve them a really high level overview : "Here we tell it to get a picture from the camera. Next we look for faces. If we find one we tell it send power to the LED to light it up."

Now, another interactive moment:

Plug in a USB keyboard and Ask a student to change the color of the bounding box. Of course they won't know anything about the code. Tell them to find the word "green" (or whatever) and change it to another color name. Run it again.

Little low-risk changes like that is how most of us learned to code. Maybe it will spark interest.
Oh, shut the fuck up. Why are we still fucking blubbering about pedophiles?

It's 2019. They basically don't exist. Law enforcement is so overmatched to hunt them to the ends of the earth, that what few there are, represent a hazard lower than lightning strikes. Regular people playing games as vigilantes only serves to introduce complications into an otherwise predictable cat and mouse game between professional hunters and the hunted, so stay out of the way.

So why? Why do I need to know? Why do I need to care? Why does it matter?

Maybe the goal is to harm a brand, and NYT is getting paid to smear a name.

What the fuck do I care about how YouTube administers and moderates their platform? I'm not a moderator. I can't moderate YouTube. I'm not enforcing and prosecuting laws on the internet. I, the powerless reader, simply get to read a yet another guilt trip from The New York Times. Maybe I should pay money for a subscription! Wow! Yay! Paying to read about child molesters! Great!

Thanks NYT!
I have worked remotely and also managed a remote team. There are causes of remote work that I consider positive, and causes I consider negative. The positive causes are that companies have access to a much wider pool of talent all over the world, and remote workers have more jobs to choose from. The negative causes are: 1) many cities are failing to provide affordable housing, so it doesn't make financial sense for people on the same team to work in physical proximity to each other. 2) there has been a wave of xenophobia in the Western liberal economies that has made it more difficult for talent outside those economies to migrate.
The YouTube recommendation algorithm strikes again :)

(As of this comment, the video nkoren linked of this project has 650k views vs. ~1k to 4k for the rest of Yusuke Endoh's videos)
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Imagine... a program that could automate this for you. We could call it an "Application."
how about lego mindstorm?
About this:

"This is a result of double-blind studies and statistical analysis."

First of all, if you want to shrink all of medical research to seeing a doctor, do you have any evidence that your statement is true?

Second of all, most of the big breakthroughs in life extension were thanks to medical research that was neither double blind nor statistical, including:

1.) In the late 1700s, Edward Jennings invents the vaccine for smallpox.

2.) John Snow's theory of cholera in London 1854

3.) In the late 1800s Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister develop the Germ Theory Of Illness, including such practical ideas as:

3.a) Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization.

3.b) Lister uses antiseptics to sterilize surgical instruments and clean wounds

4.) Alexander Fleming invents penicillin
I actually think there's an opportunity in the opposite direction: convert your SaaS apps to spreadsheets.

Instead of having to log into 10 different SaaS apps, you simply make a few menu selections from within Excel / GSheets and your data is pulled in, ready to be analyzed.

The spreadsheet becomes the UI, and the SaaS "apps" are basically databases accessed via an API.
Don't disincentivize defect reporting?

Don't restrict your definition of "actionable" to only pertain to fixes that don't come with a monetary cost?

Don't get rid of your Quality people. Definitely don't get rid of them for raising too many defects.

Don't stop focusing on "the box" (I.e. the plane) because customers already assume it will be "high quality", and reengineer a physical engineering/design firm into some ungodly act of "financial innovation".

Don't treat regulations as something to be worked around.

Don't skimp on Acceptance Testing of outsourced software deliverables.

Make sure your CEO and Sales staff understand there are things you can not (and should not) sell.

Listen to your Unions. Don't try to work around them.

These aren't hard. They are all also things that by not doing them, Boeing set the stage for this cascaded failure of epic proportions.

Pity that American manufacturing and Engineering firms never (in my experience) took Edward W. Demmings seriously. His 14 points are a hell of a good start.
f.lux is super helpful. I'd rather look at black text on a configurably-dark red-tinted background than have to invert everything. Especially because I don't only look at a text editor all day. Not every program has dark mode for all its text, and f.lux is a global solution. It's also great that it has a timer built in so you can go darker as evening approaches.
In my experience, oftentime Excel is also used out of desperation from not being able to install proper tools, it's not necessarily the only programming solution the users know, it's the only one IT let them have (in the case of technical users, e.g. engineers).

Restrictive IT policies are the root cause of some of the gnarliest Excel sheets I've seen.
> Value of software tends towards 0

Is there anything that can be produced of which the value doesn't "tends towards 0"?
Yeah, but if only 1% of those 500 survive and if 10% of those 500 companies ever came up with a good idea or design, China is set for world domination.

(Tesla was on front page the other day for burning cars, so move fast and break things is a thing here too)
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There's a happy size for subreddits, ballpark less than 200k subs. Otherwise, like you said, its overwhelming. Any less than 30k subs and the subreddit is pretty desolate though, which might be good for some topics.
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Heh, you beat me to publishing my own simple HTTP server. Though the one I'm working on is even more dumbed down, only supporting GET to serve prepared HTTP messages from a hash table (this requires a creative interpretation of RFC 7230 to avoid including the Date header which would have to be updated each time).

I very much approve of this tutorial, I remember when long time ago I tried to understand how a web server works, and learned that I need to install Apache, then put stuff in CGI directory, or maybe just use a framework and not have a separate server at all... It was quite confusing for me back then. But the core functionality of a HTTP server is just listen on a port, accept connections, read text, write text.

For anyone interested, I also recommend to read "Unix Network Programming" books; the first part is about actual network programming, the second about inter-process communication on a single computer. For example, the old art of using Unix-domain sockets for TCP or UDP on a single computer (harder to hack by shady javascript in your browser!) seems unjustly forgotten.
I think the value of his work is in helping folk become aware of how much time they waste. You sound like you have a good grip on that already, so probably aren't the target audience.
I think the whole point is to test the assumptions on governance. Countries don't start with answers to those questions because they aren't problems yet and they may never be problems for them. And to assume those are solved problems anywhere else is myopic. Existing countries don't even agree how those issues should be handled.
I have held many such sessions for kids. Instead of showing them the latest and the greatest:

- I point them to the technology already around them, in their daily use, that they see as too obvious by now. And then share stories of how all that had come about to be. Simple things like soap, door handles, stairs, pencils, clocks, ...

- Ask them simple questions that they never asked. How does an eraser erase pencil marks? How is mass conserved as a tree grows out of a seed? Why do women typically keep long hair while men keep short? Why don't animals do their own photosynthesis instead of depending on plants (or why don't plants also move around like animals)?

- Another session I am planning will share bios of many famous people, showing them how extraordinary came out of the ordinary.

It seems surprising to me that we teach them about planets, exotic natural phenomenon like chemical reactions, magnets, etc., without first talking about much more relevant things like why does matter occupy space (or why don't we just fall through the floor below us). The result is kids (and adults) who commonly talk about voltage without having slighest idea of what it actually is.
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