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Perhaps the most important book I've ever read is Difficult Conversations, by Douglas Stone. It's possible that my life is 10-20% easier since I read it, with zero hyperbole.

It's not a breezy quick read, but my favourite sci-fi is always likely to be Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
Depends on if the Java code is ahead of time compiled or not. The AOT compiler is included in the latest JDKs.
Memorising sequences is not the right way to look at it - it's simply a result of practice (or playing it too much): More like muscle memory where you see and act without consciously thinking about it. Watch speed solving Rubik's cubes to see how they do it on an instinctive level.

With Freecell, once you know what you're doing you know at a glance what your options are: how deep a stack you can move and which cards are key to clearing out and in which order.

As well as playing way too much Freecell back in the 90s I played Minesweeper to death. Probably a better example of how you can progress from needing to consciously work out where you could safely click, to knowing at a glance, to being able to click the one cell that would open up the area. If you were actually flagging bombs you were going too slow.
Software does not appear to be on a trajectory of increased security or reliabilty. It has always been hard to verify correctness, let alone measure how vulnerable and easy to exploit software is. Testing software has not been a suitable replacement to a large technical user base constantly tweaking and improving said software.

If software were to become reliable, I'm sure those pioneers in reliable software can pave the way to reasonable use in mission critical, high value espionage targets.

Until then, legislation like this will pave the way back to what has worked for centuries.
Last year a friend showed me trailer of a game called The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, I found its story so fascinating that I ended up reading all of its 8 books in a single month. If you like reading fantasy, do not miss it.
Can't pick one sorry.

Entertaining classic;
Gibson: Virtual Light, Idoru

Thinking ahead;
Marshall Brain: The Second Intelligent Species

Smart reply became reality but luckily it did not turn into SkyNet;
W. Hertling: Avogadro Corp.

Startup advice;
Fitzpatrick: The Mom Test

About "value";
Priceonomics: Everything is Bullshit

Entertaining;
Ramez Naam: Nexus
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What about the Bayesian has been fascinating?

I have a very rough idea about it and i wanted to learn more. Is this book based out on Baseball statistics any good when i don't know anything about baseball?
No, cold is 0 in Celsius. You risk your life in icy roads at 0.
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It is worth noting that a lot of the psychological studies that this book references have failed to reproduce. I don't have a list on me (and haven't read the book!), but I know that there was more than one.

Likely still worth reading, for at least forcing the reader to introspect on processes that will help them think better, and solve problems better.
I think that's the writer/Project Loom's technical lead's thing. I got into a discussion with him about how magical Quasar's docs make it seem here, but we didn't reach accord:

https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/7ulmwn/coroutines_in_...

It's quite possible to make non-magical coroutines in Java. It's about how you document them (and perhaps how you try to hide implementation details).
For any website:
* content (to confirm if the page is displaing properly)
* proper functioning of web forms
* domain expiration
* SSL certificate expiration
* presence on blacklists
* search engine robots blockade.

For more complex websites (ecommerce, web apps):
* proper functioning of particular processes (check-out, registration, log in, etc.)

P.S. All the above are available at https://www.supermonitoring.com/
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This reminds me of an old (communist-old) polish joke:

Why are all the houses in the village of Wąchock painted white? Because the mayor thereof heard that "no bomb shall ever fall on a white house"

There were a lot more, including: why are all the houses in Wąchock round? Because the fortuneteller told mayor that he'll get slapped in the face behind the corner.

Oh, fun times. But yes, it's amazingly decandent how all those companies build up their campuses. I have comparison with a german campus in Hamburg, where the feel that I got was more of a tired and forced one, even with all the new developments and efforts to keep it up to date.
Note however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Replic...
War and Peace by Tolstoy (I like the Volokhonsky and Pevear translation, though I first read a different one that I also liked and now can't remember). If you read it casually, it'll take you most of the summer; if you race through it, you might be done in a few weeks. It's funny, it's tragic, it's moving, it's educational.
There are a lot of medical startups looking for tech folks with medical domain knowledge.
It's a compiler plugin that generates bytecode for you, so there's no need for support from the runtime.
Laying at the side of the pool during my vacation in Turkey with a fresh smell of sunflower oil and the sound of an approaching tram.
Make stripping disclaimers illegal?
Like stripping copyright claims. Removing the disclaimers is in most cases breaking copyright anyway. It does not count as a remix. It does not count as a quotation and definitely not as archival.

That bit is easy to detect most of the time...
> If you want to tax profit throughout a supply chain, all you have to do is make sure that you only tax revenue exactly once and you're done. But that's still just VAT or sales tax. Pretending corporate income tax is something fundamentally different is just introducing exactly the sort of complexity that allows international corporations to avoid paying the same taxes that domestic corporations still have to pay.

You make an excellent point, and I agree fully. I wish more people understood it!

I'd also suggest an alternative way of looking at it: Rather than, as you suggest, taxing every dollar that is spent exactly once (thereby ending up with a VAT), you could instead tax every dollar that is earned (by a real person) exactly once. In this model all income would of course be treated the same. The current scheme where investment income receives a lower rate is required in order to make up for the cut already taken via corporate taxes, and once again, the second you start allowing different rates for different dollars earned by the same person, you end up with complex shenanigans whereby people find ways to shuffle dollars into the more favoured category. If you abolish corporate taxes, you can abandon special rates for investment income and capital gains, which removes the need for a ton of tax planning and structuring.

I'm not suggesting that as a good policy, I just find the logic interesting. Either way you look at it, corporate taxes create enormous scope for distortions and games that make us all worse off on net.
Why not create a closed government only internet or intranet where all grids connect to each other but none have access to the main internet. No computer in the network can connect to the internet and the govnet, maybe even have a different protocol and other unique features. They could also use ai to determine if a command to say shut something important off makes sense if not notify someone in charge before following through on suspect actions.
Indeed. There's also the scale to consider.

I remember flying over the Amazon, watching this endless sea of empty green drifting past for hours on end. Thinking about these "football pitch per minute" logging numbers and thinking to myself "they're really going to need to step things up if they want to make a dent in this thing".

Sure, it's ugly near big habitations. But even those are few and far between. Still, it's nice to hear that the logging rate is dropping that sharply.

I agree with your sentiment. I guess "Things Aren't All That Bad After All" doesn't get as many clicks.
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There is no JVM part of Kotlin coroutines, it just uses plain JVM features as every other Java program.
Ryzen 7 3700X – benchmark on cpunenchmark.net / passmark
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

the new Ryzen 7 3700X with a target price of $329.00 with 40% more performance than the previous ryzen 7 2700X

single thread performance seems not bad too :
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

consider also in the ryzen3 series there are other models such the 3800x 3900x and 3950x which probably will place themselves in the top of all benchmark charts.. with an absurd price! ( plus the new Threadrippers + new ryzen )

wellcome back AMD :)

can't wait the 7/7 ( the release date :) )
Suggestion to author: allow pasting and downloading more than one link at a time, and selecting audio/video + desired formats.

Suggestion to everyone else: learn the CLI. Then you can do things like me last night. My wife collected a list of classical music videos she wants to play to our kid, and all I did was:

youtube-dl -x --audio-format "mp3" --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" -a music.txt

to get the whole list turned into neat and nicely-named MP3s (like "Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K 525 Allegro.mp3"). Followed by:

mp3splt -r *.mp3

to trim the silence from both ends.

I do batch downloads like these rarely, roughly once a year (though I expect it to happen more frequently in the near future). Because of that, I had both of the above commands stored in my snippets.org file. It's something I strongly recommend: store off-used CLI calls in your notes/personal wiki. It beats reinventing the commands a year down the line, or even trying to remember what tools did you use for that off job.

To preempt comments saying CLI is too hard for regular people: no, it isn't; they can learn[0], especially if you make them interested by e.g. showing them how to do batch jobs. But for the sake of the resistant, maybe the author of this GUI will upgrade it with option for batch downloads and format selection.

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[0] - https://digitalsuperpowers.com/ is a nice book I read and can recommend. No affiliation, just curiosity, because the author is a regular HNer.
I’m not sure if it helps so much as allows you to perpetuate a cycle by providing occasional positive feedback.

I should have left my business years before I did, but it was the winning (contracts, technical coups) that kept me on. You end up like an addict, stumbling through the nightmarish days until the next dopamine rush (and crash) comes along.

Stress and burnout don’t just have mental impacts - they can have severe physiological impacts. I didn’t realise, acknowledge, or recognise this until my third hospitalisation, and years of increasing illness, made it impossible to continue writing off as “just food poisoning, again”.

It’s been nearly three years since I left, and while I’m physically better, and no longer spending half my life puking and delirious (it took six months for that to subside), I still have occasional anxiety attacks. My mother asked me about what I plan on doing for a career over dinner a few weeks back and I out and out fainted.

Never used to have any of this. I was the resilient one, the one who could carry the world on his shoulders - or thought he could. Broke me.
Yes, the standard library has many methods for splitting up a single mutable slice into multiple non-overlapping mutable slices. There's split_at_mut() which just splits at an index, or split_mut() which splits using a predicate, or chunks() which gives you an iterator over non-overlapping subslices of a given length, and more.
While I think it's good for pedagogical purposes to have a catalogue of many examples of where our thinking goes wrong, I worry that these lists can give off the wrong idea that our thinking is broken in so many "different" ways.

In some sense, many of these biases seem like specific instances of a more general phenomenon. For example, illusion of control and pareidolia both seem like they'd arise if you buy into the brain as doing [predictive processing](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un...). So it's not exactly that we have over 100 ways that our thinking goes wrong, but that the same types of mistakes occur in different ways.

In which case, for preventative reasons, knowing the core mechanism at play seems much more important. Similarly, I feel that lists of mental models might also be missing the point; no one can really go through a list of 100+ items to figure out which one is at play. You're going to need a smaller, more general toolkit.
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How do you avoid being confused with Telus, the large Canadian telecom and ILEC in BC and AB? It's like having a company name phonetically identical to Verizon.
I work in a fully remote enabled team, and one thing we do to even the playing field is always join calls in separate rooms even if we're in the same building.

Works well!
Same experience here. Well off parents tend to move out of the city if conditions allow it (kids, house, multiple cars, etc).

Mainly because it is much better for kids to see a tree from time to time and that they can roam around freely, the air is much better, you don't have to deal with congested traffic, but for most noise was the most important factor.

In the 19th century people outside of cities were looked down as stupid and lacking any culture. Because they had no access to it of course. But it is questionable if that remains true in the age of universal global communication.

Given, this experience is from Europe, where living outside of the city means you can get back to it within about 20 Minutes.
Sofia: a 67-year-old widow who uses Pokémon Go to reconnect with her city
I don't agree with you - you're presenting the view which is the exact position people here are trying to put words to why doesn't work (and often hate about their jobs).

But downvoting you is just as counterproductive as burning the devil's advocate and you have my upvote. I hope people will get a hold of their emotions.

I've just spent a month doing a script I thought I could do in a weekend. I didn't realize several of the difficulties inherent in the data, I didn't realize I'd have to up my game with regard to techniques in shuffling data and I didn't know I'd run into so many quirks in the programming language.

I didn't know what I didn't know. That's why I guessed wrong.

In everything you haven't done before, you don't know what you don't know - and only a small portion of those things could have been realized by spending some hours researching the work I needed to do. Those didn't pop up on my radar until I had to solve them :(

But that knowledge isn't without value. Knowing that it is doing stuff you haven't done before that is risky (timewise) means you can underscore when you have a high-risk assignment.
The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa

It’s like the missing manual for your mind.
I might be wrong but I read that as suggesting Google could buy Gitlab.
I personally hate self improvement books/management, so here are some narrative books that I loved and got lost in

1) The tiger's wife - To me it has a brilliant full universe. Its comprised of a overarching narrative broken up with lots of short stories.

2) night watch/ making money / going postal - terry pratchett Fun stories with full characters.

3) THe pigeon tunnels - john le carre, Again composed of short stories, not overly spy-y just fascinating character studies, with a bit of history.

4) differently morphous - Yahtzee croshaw this one is a scifi comedy, 100% worth getting in audiobook form

5) rivers of london - ben aaronovich, policeman who was all set for a life of being a desk clerk accidentally becomes a wizard policemen.

6) harry potter, obviously :)
I mainly read SF to relax (biased towards hard space opera) and have accumulated a "best of the best" list of my own:

Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey (TV show The Expanse is loosely based on this, but IMO doesn't even come close)

Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds

Three Body Problem (all 3 books) - Liu Cixin

Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (your gateway drug into the Culture universe)

Genuinely wish I could experience all the above for the first time again. And looking forward to checking out some of the others mentioned here.
I've really enjoyed Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila by Robert M. Pirsig.

EDIT: Also, The Phoenix Project is very very good if you are into IT management: funny, and although a novel then the content will make you want to fix your company and perhaps even think bigger about your carrer. But this one won't last you a summer since if you read it that slow you'll forget what was going on. :)
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I'd like to use this in my .signature.
Just corrected somethings
I have worked in many overseas development projects run by Chinese companies. It's not that the Chinese companies only want to hire their own workers, but the fact that the local workforce do not have the skill/equipment/capital to handle large scale development projects.

Some countries require by law that the Chinese developers have a minimum number of local workers. This mitigates the problem somewhat and hopefully over time the locals will develop the skills to run their own projects.

In the long run, infrastructure investment benefits local communities and opens up more opportunities for the local workforce. It's almost always better to have the infrastructure built than not, earlier than later, and foreign money is a good source of capital for it.
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What does it mean to "own your job"?
Call it rose-colored glasses, maybe. In retrospect, it was a javascript monster before its time, and why those scrollbars!?

But I'm curious if you can recall specific reasons why it didn't work. As I recall, for me it was just a lack of network effect.
I recently decided to do all my presentations (work related) by drawing/sketching (No slides). People love the clarity and interactions.

A really good friend and business partner suggested me Dan Roam and his books. I'm loving it. Check out his books https://www.danroam.com
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Very strong hard sci-fi with mind-bending approach to the question of conscience. And vampires (not the Twilight kind, the scary kind).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight

Fair warning: it's kinda pessimistic on the future of humankind.

If you like it, proceed to Echopraxia. More hard sci-fi, more vampires, even worse news for humankind.
I always found that book shallow. I only read it because of Elon Musk being mentioned
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