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What the other aphantasiac said.

I can enjoy good visuals in a movie, it's just that I can't "replay" them.

I think a good analogy may be food. I suppose most people don't have the ability to re-experience taste at will (I hope I'm not weird in that too)! If I ask you what is your favorite dish, you will perfectly know what it is, you will be able to describe the taste to me in a vague, conceptual way (using adjectives like "strong", "sweet", etc.) but you probably won't be able to just think about it and have its taste come to your mouth.

It's not even that the memory of the taste isn't detailed enough. It probably is, because if one day the dish is too cooked, too salty, etc. you can probably notice. So you do know how it tastes exactly, it's stored in your memory. It's just that you can't re-experience it in your mind. And of course, this doesn't mean that you can't enjoy food!

For me, the experience with movie scenes (or anything visual) is very similar to that. The Mona Lisa is stored in my memory, if you show me a copy of the real Mona Lisa and a copy with something changed (the hair, expression of her face, etc.) I can probably tell one from the other if it's not too subtle as well as anyone else, but there's just no explicit mind images involved in that, just like in the case with the food being too cooked.

As for books, I enjoy them a lot, I have always been a book lover. But I do notice that I enjoy more the story, facts, events going on, than the imagery. Those books that have more than 2-3 consecutive pages of descriptions tend to bore me, I long for more action, more events.

That's maybe the only consequence of aphantasia that I can think of in the "outer world", preference for one kinds of books over others. Because the funny thing is that, while it seems like a huge different internally, it really doesn't seem to affect skills or interactions with other people at all. In fact, the only tests of aphantasia I've seen are all subjective (they ask you about your mind images, or lack thereof). It's not like "try to solve this task, and if you can't, you have aphantasia". There don't seem to be real-world things that one can't do with aphantasia - in other conversations about this, people have mentioned the kind of puzzles with unfolded cubes where you have to know if they will be equal or not when you actually build the cube. But I can still solve them, I just don't have an image of the cubes rotating in my head with colors, drawings, etc. but I have the concept of "if I rotate the cube this way, this side will be rotated in such and such way" that allows me to solve the puzzle.
Problem with that is that unlocking the bootloader voids the warranty where I live... I think I'll still try to go down that road if I can't find any other solution...
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But as the article points out, knowing daily where everyone was with their tasks isn't something that needs a formal meeting. I've worked in highly integrated teams, too, and easily got by with one team meeting a week.
I didn't expect a post to be like this on HN but I'm of the same opinion - the guilt is real and I feel unfair.
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Do you want pictures?
> I've been on both sides of them: to give information to managers and to get information from people I delegated.

This is horrific. It looks like you don't have a team which is self regulating, autonomous and where team members support each other. You've got a military style command and control structure where subordinates report to their commanding officer/manager. It is everyone for themselves.

You've got far bigger problems than stand ups. There is no trust and people are treated like children.
I wonder if an end-of day stand-up might have benefits.

A chance to briefly set out any blockers you anticipate for tomorrow/stuff you will need from other people.

But just as important; an end of day marker 'we're done - piss off home now - no working late'.
The problem is isolation.
Usually those are isolated, which means that it won't get neither exposure if it's actual a good thing, nor backlash if it's bad.
That's the problem with "infinite" divisions, you get those very little bubbles.
The problem isn't with angering dictatorships, it's about angering a lot of ordinary Chinese mainlanders who have been convinced that the HK protesters are traitors.

This is a serious problem, because it's simply not possible to persuade them otherwise, because the channels to do so are censored by the Chinese government. It's a crazily scary issue. My family is half Chinese and my niece came over from China this summer. The only things she knew about the HK protests was that some violent anti-mainlander anarchists had protested against the use of the Chinese flag on some buildings. The vast majority of mainlanders have never even heard of the extradition law.

As a result mainland Chinese see any support for the HK protesters as being a direct attack against the identity, nationality and integrity of China and Chinese people. Foreigners being seen as interfering is seen as further proof that the HK protests are incited by foreigners and are an anti-Chinese plot so unless it's handled very carefully it can make the situation worse, not better.

It's tough, but I think the best approach, if you do want to express support for HK, is instead to focus on the Censorship of the issues by the Chinese government.
I can't find any other source for that definition besides that picture.

Where does it originate if I may ask?
To be clear I was referring to shared parking with multiple spots. Where I live one underground parking is spanning multiple houses (I go from the parking directly inside), and there are maybe 3 or 4 in total. The provider would do the work "once and for all", considering everything from replacing the transformers for the additional power, to digging up the trenches and installing the upgraded cabling everywhere, and to every parking spot 11KW charger. The assumption behind this is that all the vehicles in the parking might end up charging at the same time (over night) so everything has to be sized for that.

The electricity provider normally sells the charger with installation for ~2500E. But that is assuming the end-to-end wiring already supports this. With dozens of chargers to install in the same parking the chances that the rest of the network was already so overspeced and up to the task are slim.

The manpower to dig a trench, replace cables and transformers is more or less the same whether you do do it for 10 parking spots or 100. So there's probably a sweet spot between having enough demand to split this between more people but not that much that you need the next level in transformers.
The point I was trying to make is that when a person is [inexperienced/shy/too aggressive/doesn't get along with somebody/lazy/does not like the current task/does not understand the motivation/etc] I need, as a manager, opportunity to notice it.

some of those are not necessarily "bad" or require intervention, just awareness.

some of those can change over time (and on daily basis).

(and in the case of bad behavior, in order to prevent "management fail", I want to take them aside for that short talk before things get spiraling)

(that being said, it's not the only reason for standups)

(if in my team everybody is in the same place, actually interacting in-person does give some added value)
FIFA is mostly a bribe-laundering organisation for the profit of individual staff. Certainly in the UK the top teams are for-profit competing in the for-profit Premier League, and as a result there's a lot of money from either oligarchs or gulf state monarchs. The huge "Emirates" stadium, for example.
Again, this is about different ways of learning which ties into what is even the purpose of programming in the first place.

For academics, the purpose of a program is to exhibit some clever abstraction. So a quicksort which can't take any input to sort and can't produce any output is a perfectly fine program - almost the platonic ideal of a program.

But for developers, the purpose of programs is to do something useful. So learning how to read input and produce output is basically the first thing I want to learn when learning a new language or platform. Because then I can start building small toy programs, gradually doing more and more stuff and learning by tackling the challenges along the way. And implementing quicksort comes way down the line of things I need to learn to write a useful application.
I would also love to see it ! Please make it opensource if you can, thanks
I believe it is.

https://memberapp.github.io/

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>> Except for management, as standups are a simple way of keeping psychological pressure on developers and squeezing every last bit out of them.

So true. At the last company I worked, the daily standups became absurd. We were forced to use a physical board which was always out of synch with GitHub and we were just repeating the same stuff that we already knew everything about.

Also, we had scrum retrospectives in which the new scrum master was throwing a yellow ball at someone when it was their turn to talk. WTF?! Does management think our brains stopped growing after the age of 5? You have a room filled with potentially brilliant engineers and you're treating them like toddlers. Do they seriously think that this is the right way to build a company which will make an impact on society?

What the hell is wrong with managers these days? Is there some kind of virus going around which is turning them into idiots or is there a global conspiracy to only promote idiots into positions of power?
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Serious question. In what ways does your "Mac Plus from 1986 feel snappier than a modern Mac"?
> It's not as if American sport has covered itself in glory in its response to athletes making the smallest, most respectful domestic protest possible about police violence.

What stands on the other side of the equation here aren't the villains and misdeeds elsewhere, it's the protesters in Hong Kong, and the reasons why they protest. Not all of them saints, all the time, but generally, I would very much sum them up as both innocent and correct in their demands, which so far have only been met with violence, in some cases extreme violence. In the last weeks I've seen so many videos of police attacking people basically for "fun" e.g. police throwing a garbage bin onto protesters from a bridge, just throwing tear gas at idle and unsuspecting journalists with no protesters in sight, and so on. Even American cops wouldn't remotely dream of acting like that, not sustainedly and while being surrounded by journalists.
If they are at the same time every day, surely you can plan your work around that?
Reddit is already at the tipping point. I don't know if u ve checked out Mastodon or Riot but they look pretty good already. Basically everything non-heavily-leftist is looking for alternatives. My use of it is limited to some technical and well-moderated subreddits, the rest is just an endless parade of juvenile leftisness. Twitter has become more conductive for serendipitous discovery and lols these days, and they re getting better at helping ignore idiots.
My guess is that it has to do with the poor state of democracy in the United States. Local elections are dominated by moneyed special interest groups, many people don't vote in them, and those that do, often vote down the party line.

Result: It's difficult to run government services well, when we do such a poor job of picking good people to run the government.
I think that's absolutely horrible when people intentionally call others names they don't want to be called by. Even worse if it's done in hostility and if it escalates to violence.

I think that people taking strong offence from a racial slur or any other slur made the mistake of making "I'm a universally respectable person" part of their identity. Then any display of disrespect becomes attack on identity. Making race part of your identity would backfire not when people recognize your race even with a racial slur but when your race is doubted ("you are not that black") or misrecognized, like hearing n-word when you had some black ancestors but you think of yourself as white and made it a part of your identity.

'n-word' rose in popularity immensely over last two decades. Earlier either people said it or didn't say it but never people made the mental gymnastic of saying a lot 'that word that we do not say'. It could be made taboo because it's fairly useless and there are fairly good alternatives. People born in the fifties in the US might disagree but this never bothered me much, being born in 99,99% white country that never had any expeirience of exploiting people of other races. Also any reflexive negative feeling you get when hearing specific words is self inflicted harm. You trained yourself to react that way to those words. It's not innate. Getting mad at people is punishing yourself for their stupidity and you should try to do as little of that as you can.

Unfortunately you can't convince people who despise you especially when you don't know who are those people. And they will not stop despising you.

By trying to convince everyone what you might get is a lot of people despising your actions when you try to turn a common word like 'he' or 'she' into a contextual slur.

A lot of people care how their actions affect other people and don't like when they affect other people negatively. Telling them that your plain speech affects you negatively and possibly intentionally, affects them negatively. I think striving to not harming people is important part of a lot of people's identity as is gender for some and telling them they are harming you is attacking their identity.

I guess I just figured out why this is a thing.

There are just two fractions of offended people. One fraction suspects other of intentionally attacking their identity by using improper gender pronouns. The other feels like the first one intentionally attacks their identity of being a good person by insinuating that there's harmful intent in their use of common words. Words they use every day. Words they learned around age 3.

While the despicable people grab popcorn, fuel the fire, and watch from the sidelines as vulerable people and good people hurt each other.

I see no resolution of that conflict. It will just gradually die down by a lot of people removing gender out of their identity and a lot more removing 'being good' from their identity to remove themselves from the conflict. This is all sad.

I guess lesson for me is, be ready to shed parts of your identity when they become source of harm for you.
For me daily scrum meetings were valuable when the team remains small and work on related stuff in a fast pace.

But for the last few years, it has not been the case for me. Standups have been organized for managers and scrum masters so that they attend only 1 meeting and participants were not working on directly related topics. Most did not care about what others were doing and issues they faced. We reduced them to bi-weekly or 3 times a week and re-focused them on synchronization topics...

Also my general feeling (maybe because I am an old developer) is that it is infantilizing,
and a way to maintain peer pressure.
Yes, they're most successful at it online. And from what I read, on many university campuses. But notwithstanding the historic election of President Obama, things aren't looking at all well for them in meatspace.

I get what you say about the ease of community building online. But online, all you can do is talk. And yes, frighten people who are managing online communities.

In meatspace, however, you can vote. Without otherwise revealing what you support. And you can also game the process through gerrymandering, challenging voters, and so on.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next couple decades. Especially in light of the surprises that climate change may bring. Such as perhaps millions of immigrants coming north as drought reduces agricultural productivity.
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I wasn’t as impressed by the remake, thought it was pretty obvious the writers ran out of source material after the first season. It’s one of those stories that would have worked as an episode of Black Mirror, and you could stretch it out to a movie format, but don’t think it lends itself multiple seasons of hour long episodes. Remember the 70s tv spinoff Beyond Westworld? Don’t feel bad if you don’t.
It’s not chemistry. It’s alchemy.

Video game cartoon alchemy, but still: not video game cartoon chemistry. There is a difference.
I recently upgraded to an 8 core mbp with 32 gigs of ram. Makes for a much smoother system when I'm running a virtualized guest OS (I can give the virtual OS 8 gigs of ram and 2 dedicated cores) or both an android and ios emulator without any slowdown on my machine.

most people don't do anything that would warrant these specs though
Using, not speaking. What kind of excellnce is this when you print a sign for your shop and cant even spend 5 seconds using a spell checker already installed on your computer?
Money is just a form of social credit. When governments, monopolies and
all other forms of violent coercion are out of the equation, money is just something people voluntarily give to each other in exchange for goods or services.

What I mean is, your comment reads like you are writing an indictment about our "system," with its problems being money, markets; but then you go on to support this with problems of slave labor, tyrannical regimes.

I see this pattern in comments every day on social media all the time. Criticisizing money, voluntary exchange, markets--what is economic liberalism--but then supporting their criticism with problems of the exact opposite, authoritarianism.
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Does anybody know if there is a app (or script/scripts) that let me search my local/on-premise photos for specific objects (in a natural language). Let's say I want to search all photos that contain some kind of shoes or skirts and I can give the app the generic information "shoe" or "shirt" and it searches and presents me a list with the photos that contain those objects.

It would also be okay if I have to train some kind of neural network search, like passing in various kinds of shoes (not necessarily the exact version of shoes that are in the to be searched photos), marking/masking in the photo what a shoe is and the starting the search.

Any ideas?
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Obviously this is just my experience, but in my office of 13 (11 devs, 2 managers) our stand ups take 5-7 minutes (on exceptionally rare circumstances it’ll take 10 or 12, but that’s normally due to large production issues).

They are useful for knowledge spreading and understanding what everyone is working on - we switch projects quite regularly so it’s quite nice to have a birds eye view of where each project is.
> UTF8

I remember reading that the unicode-enhanced Computer Modern isn't exactly the same as the original (latin) Computer Modern that Knuth designed with the former having a few cosmetic issues. If that is indeed the case, is it possible to use the original Computer Modern with a UTF8 engine?
>and many which allow the people to hold the state accountable

The thing is, if you try to use your right to petition Beijing, for example, you will be harassed and may be arrested.

I followed the story on weibo of a parent who petitioned Beijing for better discipline in schools after bullies took out her son's eye. She was followed by agents, prevented from taking her son to hospital appointments in the city and forced to sign a "confession" that she was a dissident.

So yes, you have the right, but if you use it, you will be targeted. So stop spreading this "China is not so bad, it has the same freedoms as in the west!" bs.
You mean something not like EC2 Accelerated Computing Instances?

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#Accelerated_Compu...

Edit: I didn't see the parent meant a hardware accelerator created by Amazon itself. Thx to @jsty and @paol for pointing this out. An ASIC by Amazon was announced last year and is known as 'AWS Inferentia'

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/inferentia/

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2018/11/aws-inferentia-mac...
There's activist groups that target advertisers to "let them know" about a platform. They often work as mobs that basically blackmail both the advertisers and the platforms with bad publicity. Advertisers are all about publicity, and so far all of them have caved in (Not sure if they 've ever tried the alternative). Like everything in advertising, i doubt you can find a single decent study about performance.
What are those "big brands" willing to accept? If their ads appear on a different sub to those they consider objectionable content, would that be considered sufficiently "clean"? Is there a value placed on moderation, and if so, how much value is captured by individual moderators and how will it be allocated?

Perhaps the most important factor in these communities is that most content is junk anyway, requiring mental effort from the reader to remove and avoid. That's what the whole voting thing is for. An advert would be "superjunk" - unwanted content that also has editorial control. It might be an illusion that a community is full of value to be skimmed off, when reality is that the junk is at barely maintainable levels and a little more might push it over the brink.
> I find this ranking lines up pretty well with high privacy risk + low cost given the hardware.

Take it or leave it, that's my comment.
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If this is a library then locking those dependencies down is not great. Does it really need Pillow 6.0.0, and not Pillow 6.0.1?

As this is being consumed by larger applications that may have dependencies that conflict with these, they should be much more liberal.

https://github.com/idealo/imagededup/pull/36
Yes I was a unclear. I meant "our" to imply the language being used in this very conversation. I should have used "this".

My first language is Italian. Even though almost everything is gendered in that language, gender tends to fade into a purely grammatical role. Unless it relates to humans.

> tend to call everything 'he' in English

yes I've noticed this too. Like referring to a machine... "he" will encode the frame into mp4 and pass it to the database...

Your last comment reminds me of an interesting anecdote I observed. Mom and son, the son having new long hair. Mom asked regarding the hair, "aren't you worried people will mistake you for a girl?"

She was genuinely surprised and confused when the son replied that they didn't give a toss if someone does. The landscape is changing fast.
From the comments.. for anyone that didn't scroll all the way:

Before "apologizing", you need to come clean: did you lie?

Earlier, you (Stack Exchange) wrote:

>We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to change that behavior.

However, Monica disputed that she had received repeated requests to change her behavior.

Clearly one party here is lying, and much of the community believes that party is Stack Exchange.

So—did you lie, or not? Your "apology" is meaningless until you clean this up.
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I would sure like to advertise but (a) their ad manager is amateurish, and (b) they don't allow anything related to cryptocurrency.
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I feel that end of day is more variable than start of day, especially if end of day means "Go Home!". Some people have kids to pick up from school/day care and leave at 3, while others like to come in later and/or take a long lunch and work until 6-7. Saying everybody must be in by 9.30 is probably easier to coordinate that saying everybody must stay until 5 and then go home at 5.15.