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I've got about the same members and attendees. This will drive the cost up about 3x but honestly, that wasn't the part we were concerned about most.

A couple of things:
1. At no point in this change did meetup suggest they were offering new things for subscribers that would justify a 3x cost increase.
2. Asking our members to start paying would now incur so many logistical costs on us: we'd now have to spend a bunch of time discussing with our members why they had to pay for something that was previously free. We'd also have to create email copy describing the change to them. We'd also have to deal with customer service issues where people thought we were charging them rather than meetup and they'd want a refund if they didn't show up. We'd also have to explain how charging met or didn't met our core values.
3. $2 isn't enough in the part of the world we're in to "prevent people from not showing due to cost". That's less than a cup of coffee so it's not much of a sunk cost to not show up. We could of course charge much more than $2 but that's a radical shift for something that was previously free.
4. Do we now charge or sponsors on an "on demand" basis based on how many members that show up? Or do we overcharge every sponsors based on the fear of how many people will show up? What used to be a $X per event cost has now added more unknowns that make logistics harder.

#1 is a small expense but #2 is a radical shift in the values and relationship between our group and our members. The logistical costs of changing how we interact with our members are MUCH higher than the added subscription fees per year. These kind of changes make almost no sense to us as we can't explain how meetup needs a 3x cost increase to deliver the same product it did yesterday.

In addition, the communications about this were terrible. A total of 0 times did they explain why this was happening and what our increased costs would bring us. They also tried to frame this as "lower subscription fees" but the total cost of the platform went up.

This degraded all trust we had in the platform and kicked off a search for alternatives immediately.

FYI, I told the Meetup focus group the same thing.
I’m pretty sure a lot of the “hard work” is figuring out how to pay the ever inflating golden parachutes for the executives. Pharmaceuticals are churning out bigger and bigger profits.

A lot of our health problems are solvable. We just don’t want to because there’s more money to be made when people’s lives are on the line.
Until they can't. https://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/06/23/how-marissa-mayer-fell-...
It doesn't matter how "white" the noise is, what matters is the volume. A jet engine is pretty close to white noise, it's just really fucking loud. We accept jets because they usually are 5+ miles above us. These flying cars are meant to fly a few hundred feet above the ground.

My hunch, although nobody can say definitively, is it is physically impossible to make these quiet enough to be acceptable for mass use. But aerodynamics has as much trial-and-error as it does theory so maybe a genius will come up with something novel.
I would say precompiled proc macros via wasm narrows that hole - since it can't access any outside source, it becomes deterministic and greatly simplifies testing it for malicous output.
I am supportive of delivering software through OS packages, and from the experience of working with computers for the past 35+ years, I'm absolutely convinced that the only way to correctly deliver software is through native operating system packages, on any platform.
Right, agreed that that’s a conflict; the latter point—primarily about aesthetic pleasure—isn’t quite right or is at least misleading. In my reading, Bloom values deep wisdom, formal excellence, and innovation—and these things are pleasurable, but also refract our deepest understandings of ourselves and others. He values these over more ‘politicized’ or culturally specific readings.

It’s a little—just a little—like the “art for art’s sake” movements, where the slogan says less about what art is for and mostly insists that art isn’t about its conventionally understood purposes (to morally educate, to record, etc.) and also not about the next dozen theories that might occur to you.
165 mega watt per Newton ? Is it theoretical or practical number ?
Procmacros are shared objects containing arbitrary code which run in ... keynote it struck me: we could compile procmacros to WebAssembly, and .... We could execute each proc macro in a separate process and just ...
see https://vshare.ninja
I’ve been using hyperswitch [0] for ages which does something like that. The killer feature for me is to hide windows that are not on my current desktop. I have virtual spaces for social and chats and really don’t want to ever see these windows when I’m on my programming space

0: http://www.bahoom.com/hyperswitch
They're also creating more opportunities for FB too.
Yes but utterly failed to capitalise on it
I don't think that's the problem per se.

Reducers are very useful and simple to understand, and are great even on smaller apps. It's possible to see that in things like useReducer.

IMO the problem with Redux is that you "need" all the boilerplate around it. I say "need" in quotes because you can easily get around it and not lose much (if anything). And if you do, you start to reap the benefits even in very small apps.
Giving out IPs is also bad, they can fingerprint users and track them by find correlations between what Apple gives them vs what ISPs give them
With ion engines, you need fuel to be ionized - usually xenon. The faster you want to go, the more of your energy just goes toward accelerating the fuel in your tank. The upper limit for speeds you can reach approaches the speed of the exhaust - which tops out around 50 km/s for current ion drives, about .0002C.
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I think what is missing here is the passion factor. Most devs will work on a project theyre passionate about for (insert reason here), but won't work on others unless theyre compensated for it.

I know this is true for myself. I will happily contribute to a project if I need it for work and my employer compensates me for it. I only work on a project if it is personally rewarding outside of work
I have done one of the few respectable IQ tests many times (wife is a psychologist working with the tests in question). Regardless of mental form (hung over,sick, high on life) I have scored in the same ballpark.

Most IQ tests (especially self admi istered ones) are BS.

The proper ones are probably the most studied aspects of psychology there are and correlate with a whole lot of things in significant ways.
In a way, it’s a type of “first world privilege.”

It’s often inconceivable for them to understand because their life experiences are just so different. Ask anyone from a poor nation about China, and while they may dislike the government, they also talk with admiration at how many people were lifted out of poverty.
It's subjective but the bias is that you're allowed to criticize the American lifestyle but not the lifestyle of Scandinavians without being severely downvoted.
Agree. Not sustainable long term. Often wondered if such reports were exaggerated as well.
By the definition in this article, Italian cooking would be the most boring thing you could possibly eat.
We are living in a more and more defined, secure, safe world ( and part of the world where this is not the case, they are getting there sooner or later ). In defined world, characteristics other than intelligence play a much heavier role and since intelligence doesn't rewarded enough becomes secondary. I hope it's cycle that comes and goes.
If this NBA player thing is important, which is the life of about 400 players who travel for work seldom much over 100 days per year, how many road warrior consultants and salesmen are in the same trap with the same or worse consequences?
You were right about the matpakke, except for the peanut butter.

And also it is not customary to eat the lunch in front of the computer. Even in the blandest of work environments, there is a welld defined lunch room and time, and expectation, where people have their lunches.
Mostly because I don't want to be up at 3am on a Saturday night debugging production code...
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I’m sorry to hear about some of the difficulties you’ve been through. If you ever want someone to talk to, my email is in my profile. I’m not a therapist and I’m totally not qualified to help people with their problems but I can be a good listener and friend.
Because IQ tests are standardised rigorous tests. 145 are three effin standard deviations up, where 130 means 99th percentile. 145 is 99.9. There simply are not enough people up there to make reliable tests. WAIS (the most used one) breaks down around 135.
IQ is a model. Models never perfectly match the thing they are modelling. In the case of IQ people seem to have forgotten whatever it was that they were trying to model in the first place and it has been promoted way beyond its station to the very definition of intelligence. The result of this is organisations such as Mensa.

To me, intelligence means one's capability to contribute to human endeavour, whether it be in mathematics, music, art, writing, or anything else that you can apply your mind to.

For example, most people agree that Mozart was a very intelligent individual by virtue of his contributions to music.

Sure, IQ means something, it's just that the thing it means is not intelligence. It doesn't capture the amazing breadth of human capability, and intelligence is not an objective measurable property.
It has been a while since I've looked at the implementation details. How does locals() work, then? It does return a dict. Slots are definitely an edge case I did not address. I honestly dont know how name lookup works in any version of Python.

Edit: I realize that local name lookup doesn't need to follow the result of the locals() built-in function.
To be fair, Solaris always required very little memory, which was both ironic and cool given that it ran on some of the largest supercomputers at the time. Even to this day, Solaris still requires liliputian amounts of memory: once booted and with unnecessary services turned off, there are only about 13 processes running in less than 64 MB of memory.
Requiring something like 'intent' makes the picture impossibly murky. Intent can never be established with total certainty. Establishing intent requires mind-reading (ie, is impossible) or a confession that might itself be false.

So intent can only ever be established to some standard of evidence (possible, probable, likely or no plausible alternative interpretation). This introduces a huge amount of uncertainty which starts to dominate the moral situation. The lie cannot be disentangled from what the evidence is that it is a lie; because intent is always a fuzzy concept that cannot be measured or uncovered.

This is where the issues discussed here start to spring from - people imagine different standards of evidence then ask what the moral interpretation of that standard of evidence should be.
Lots of intranet stuff used it, or anywhere they could mandate IE.
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Speaking from my rear, epigenetic influence on growth and development is too fundamental a force to be a random error heretofore untouched by selection. With humans being a social, communal species, adverse conditions tend to hit populations en masse. That means that, for much of our (and our close relative's) evolutionary history, it was relatively certain that, say, all of your neighbors were suffering from the same drought you were. It would thus be "okay" for your children to grow to a smaller, more nutritionally manageable size, because the people they'd be competing with for food, territory and mates would also be smaller. Remember, if genetics are physical destiny, and they say you're going to be big, your body is going to have a go at it, and incur whatever performative costs that come from trying to nourish a 6ft body with a 5'6" diet. Who's more fit: the latter, starving, or the former, relatively well-fed? This model gives the body a mechanism for titrating aspects of development according to local conditions, across the handful or less generations it used to take for those conditions to change.

I would not be surprised if this ultimately explains the global growth spurt that took place in the 20th century.
Tools of the trade:

- Logitech BRIO

- Spend a lot of money on a good monitor (whatever you think is the limit, double it)

- Spend even more money on an awesome desk chair (Herman Miller Aereon for me)

- If you don't already have one, get a big big desk. Simple, no drawers, but one that you can have a little bit of clutter without it becoming impossible to work on. A simple $50 ikea desk will do.

- Decent over-ear headphones (I'm rocking some Audio Technica whatever whatevers)

Audio recording is good through the Brio, visual quality is great. Decent over-ears means you aren't disturbing people around you (if they exist).
Overall I would recommend developing the mental discipline to work out of your own place. Its just so much better than awkwardly sitting at some random coffee shop with some horrible little seat that hurts after 45 minutes.

Social/behavior:

- Always be online/available during your hours of work, i.e. don't fuck around. Seriously. Don't necessarily always be online on chat things (Slack, Rocket.Chat, whatever...) but actually be doing work most of the time when you're either working from home/working remotely.

- Early on, develop a reputation for being very quick at 1) building new stuff, 2) debugging problems, and 3) iterating on existing code. Usually people have some kind of niche, and unusually people are good at all 3. Be that unusual person that is good at everything, if possible.

- Raise concerns early on, don't feel shy because you're behind a monitor. This will earn you respect of your higher-ups that kind of expect to be informed of whats going on.

Just for fun:
Here's 2 pics that show my setup. Works for me, might not work for you: https://imgur.com/a/vD8Toge

Anyways have fun & get work done! :)
Stop naming your product to a common word, you babies.
I've been around too many high IQ/high anxiety folks. My read is that many of these people constantly obsess over everything that can possibly go wrong and try to think about work arounds, literally ALL their waking hours. They are master at finding things to worry about far in future whether its job, work, house, relationship, friends, family. It's like you are playing a big game of chess but you compulsively think about 8 moves deep instead of just 3 or 4. As you will totally overload yourself and always keep encountering pretty bad scenarios, it keeps you tremendously stressed all the time. Like your overclocked laptop is running very hot and built-in fans aren't able to keep up. The people who I thought had normal or even slightly below normal IQs live rather chill lifestyle and assume things will just take care of itself. I think the amount of average stress you experience after adjusting to direct causes is a pretty good signal of IQ you have.
Yeah but you dont need all those engineers if you're not re inventing every wheel.
Sounds true to me (though based on a sample of one), My daughter of 16 with an IQ of 152 was diagnosed with autism and social anxiety.
UberEATS just shut down their entire operation in South Korea.
Not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that the idea isn't just to have a penalty for breaking the contract, it's to provide a basis for resolving the dispute. So it seems like a messy lawsuit means the contract wasn't well written?
Same in Germany. We have (at least) two words for dinner: Abendbrot (evening bread) and Abendessen (evening meal). They are used interchangeably regardless of what you actually eat.

Traditionally, breakfast is also just slices of bread or bread roll? (Brötchen, Semmel, etc) topped with butter and a slice of cheese or meat, or jam or honey.
On a recent story (perhaps the most recent popular one on this topic), a former Microsoft employee said they maintained an internal database to keep track of what was necessary for each country. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
Well, to start with you can actually compute the optimal number of packets per second, if you know the bit rate and the packet size.

https://packet.company/ethernet-statistics

So the theoretical optimum is 14.88 Mpps (millions of packets per second). That's with the smallest possible payload. You need to divide that by two because the test involves both a request and a response, which gives you 7.44 million requests per second as the theoretical maximum.

The best tests max out around 7 M rps. This gives an implied overhead of about 6%, which corresponds to the HTTP overhead.
I didn't lose any reminders after upgrading to iOS13, but instead I got the same reminders announced multiple times on each of my devices. Had to delete them all and remake them. Bloody annoying for such a simple piece of software.
I got the idea for power-to-gas as energy storage from Prof. Quaschning, who is a leading figure in Germany's Scientists for Future movement and an expert for energy systems, so I assumed as a layman that it is in fact at least somewhat practical. I'm open to hearing refutations though.
Preferring flavorful food is definitely not a US thing, it's probably a human thing. Humans in general prefer more flavorful food to less flavorful food.

If the economics were such that a slice of bread with cheese cost the exact same as a quick Michelin-star meal at a restaurant, I think you would see a shift of people changing their bread and cheese diet.
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>Gosling made millions at Sun Microsystems. That's a little more than needing "food on the table" and "a roof over one's head". Stallman also could have made similar money, but didn't because he thought other things were more important. That's everyone's choice to make, but putting down others because they approached something differently is just bad form.

Look where that got him. Homeless, disgraced and without a penny to show for it. Let this be a cautionary tale about martyrdom.
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Yes, indeed — I should have said "scalar element of the array var..." or something.
> Do you need to know if it’s 145 verse 155?

There are more than 10x as many people at 145 than 155, that ratio is larger than between 135 and 145, because the curve is exponential. If we’re talking about how to “best” educate someone who’s abnormally smart, and if we agree with you that someone at 145 needs to be taught differently than someone at 100, it certainly might matter to know if it’s 145 or 155.
Another version of this is "I struggle in school, much like Einstein, therefore etc..."
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Or it's in shallow water. I once fell through ice over a frozen creek and was close to hypothermia before I found another camp group after I'd been inadverntently left behind by my parents during a winter camping trip (each of my parents thought I was with the other). I was soaked in about 10F temps, but I was able to warm up, but not dry out, next to a fire. I was 9 or 10 at the time.
Maybe a more precise statement is the distribution of quality of bread in USA versus countries like France is skewed towards France.

Yes USA can have bread just as good as in France but it's considered in the tails of the distribution while in France it's considered near the mode.
I appreciate your sharing your experience and think it is valuable.
... unless he or she already has enough money and enjoys to give things away freely to help out. This type of rational human does exist.
Just looking at the chart, your article makes a case that minimum is much better than maximum, and in fact if you report one number, the minimum is the best number to report (in that particular example).

If we go into details - sure, 1 number is not ideal, but neither is the confidence interval, because people will assume normal distribution for them. If you report 2 numbers, perhaps instead of confidence interval (which falsely implies normal distribution) it's better to report the mode and the median.
Then why bother what Apple gives them?
Let’s not forget Tagged, which was a pretty big social network back when I was in Mexico a decade ago. Tagged was an interesting combination of a traditional social networking site as well as a Tinder-style dating site: You looked at someone’s photo. You clicked “Yes” or “No”. If you got a mutual “Yes”, you could connect and then see the person’s profile, photos, and friends. All of this half a decade before Tinder existed.

It was a great way to meet people. By the mid-2010s, the place was dead, infested with fake profile spam bots.
I think a flaw in this study is looking at people who joined a club for smart people rather than just smart people.
Yeah the fact that a new release is boring is a good thing.
> as they were not a wealthy country for hundreds of years before striking oil in the 60s.

I was surprised by that statement and had to look it up and it was, of course, false. Norway was a wealthy country back to the 1800s:
sources: https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/no-norway-was-not-a-poor-count... and https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-economic-history-of-norway/
In college I lived in a windowless room for a year. I would have to get a light on a timer to flick on when I wanted to wake up, or else I'd wake up completely delirious at like 1-2pm rather than around 9am. I eventually switched to a full spectrum bulb and that helped with waking up a lot.
Into a docker container as well? The package manager isn't really related to docker though?

Does your container expose ports or need volumes? Does it need gunicorn or uwsgi in front of it? What about system packages? None of those (except maybe the last one) are really in the scope of the package manager.
That's correct. It was on IE 4 I think
Reading the study, it's more like, people whose identity is tied up with being smart, (members of Mensa) spend a lot of time thinking about their mental health and are likely to think that they are not normal and are also like to respond to questionnaires about their mental health.
I'm as dumb as a rock, but perfectly happy, healthy, athletic, and gainfully employed as a PHP programmer.
Very highly recommend, I did the one in spring/summer of 2018 and it was an awesome experience :)
Several years ago, went sailing on a friend's dad's boat during the air and water show in mid-August. That's about when the water temp is going to hit its peak, and about 1/2 mile out from shore, it was cold enough that we could only stay in the water for 5-10 minutes at a time.
I want to apply, but I have an exam on the 22nd of November :(
Although YouTube's market position or "monopoly" as you'd like to call it certainly has drawn a crosshair on it's forehead; a more causal relationship between the take-downs proliferates to me as what people describe to be "cancel culture".
There's no zh_US (or zh_UK, etc.), so any mainlander living overseas and still use Chinese as the preferred language on their iPhones will get their IP address sent to Tencent. There's not much difference here.