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The parent's comment is entirely wrong.

It's not thinking too much, in that specific instance, that is the source of the problem at all.

The point (value or reason for) to the things they're claiming have no point, are provided by us, not the universe via magic assignment. That is the source of the mistake.

Pretending the value is externally assigned or innate is the source of the premise that there's no point to the big thing (existence, life, work and so on). In the process of being disappointed in the lack of innate value, they're actually mentally assigning low value to the thing in question (which is psychologically the entire point: it's about debasing the value of the thing, it's most likely a revealing indicator about the present state of mind).

For example: smart person thinks too much, they realize there's no point to life because we're going to die (or similar setup). The problem with that is, the point of life is decided by the smart person. They're in fact deciding to assign life less or little value in the act of saying there's no point, in that action they are actively determining the point: they're deciding there isn't much of one. They made a choice (with it being understood of course that a person may be in a mental place where for any number of reasons they can't clearly recognize a positive value to existence).

The old question: what is the point of life? Does in fact have a very obvious and very simple answer: you decide (which simultaneously does not guarantee good results, even if you decide what it means to you or what the point of your life is to be).
I think you misunderstand my point. if all this stuff is important for a woman who's going to be the primary caregiver to the children, it should be codified regardless of whether the parents are actually married.
Doesn't ring true to my experience at all. I recently polished off a ~50k LoC application that runs blazingly fast even on IE10.

My experience is when people complain about slowness it's usually because the application architecture/design is poor and not because of any particular technical choice.
And the two things that can generally best help combat biologically-based depression, therapy and medication, also happen to be extremely expensive and probably haven't been readily available as an option for someone who is just now reaching a middle class income.
I always assumed that this was the case but what I find more remarkable is that even what your past generations eat will effect your health.

Nova did an episode a few years back on Epigenetics that gave a pretty good explanation of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNYnBtqYv_U
The f-strings from 3.6 are a (relatively) recent feature that I have absolutely loved. I'd go so far as to say they are my favorite feature introduced by Python 3.

I'm also looking forward to PEP-554 [0], which allows for "subinterpreters" for running concurrent code without removing the GIL or incurring the overhead of subprocesses.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/
Actually, american english is "en-US", "en_US" means english with the region set to the US, at least on iOS. But yes, it is checking that their region is set to mainland china.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...
Information overload in group communication
Good luck getting dependent visas for a unmarried spouse...
If the signal is less than the noise floor how is it discernible from noise? Any references ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso...

My favourite cautionary tale of the programming industry. His concerns in 1976 of programmers spiralling into ever deepening efforts to solve their self-made problems guides my work today.
Life without purpose is... usually not great. I'm sure there's a more poignant way to put that. An intelligent person may even spot the hedonic treadmill more quickly than the norm.
It's only a matter of time. When LPL gets ousted, I'm going wherever he's going.
No offense, but honestly your lunch sounds depressing as hell.

I never understood this nordic lifestyle I saw in Scandinavia, Benelux and Northern Germany where people refuse to take a proper lunch break and just eat some random cold food in front of their computer for the sake of productivity for their employer. It's just depressing to see and unhealthy in the long term.

In southern Europe(Austria) having a walk to the bistro for a warm lunch with freshly cooked quality food, away form my desk is not only healthy but also gives me a refreshing physical, mental and morale boost.

Sitting glued to my chair in front of the computer for 8 hours straight is not only unhealthy but would just burn me out quickly.
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I always thought that high IQ is correlated with high anxiety, because the smarter a person is, the better he can imagine all possible things to go wrong. On the other end of spectrum are people with IQ comparable to children, who presumably don't worry about too many things - ignorance is bliss.
I can see that happening. And then what next? Rossmann mac repair?
I also took an IQ test as a child, but I have no recollection of it and my mother never told me my score. I'm grateful for this---I did identify with my intelligence for a long period in adolescence, but I never had any institutional or scientific authority behind it, merely a vague sense that "you're smart."

Now I'm a comfy SWE. I've been spending a lot of time reading to try and give myself the tools to resolve the various neuroses I developed as a teen, and it's going well. I still don't know what my score on that test was and I don't really care.
When was the last time you tried to seriously use linux? Server linux and linux on personal computing devices are not the same thing at all so not sure why you brought that up. In reality most of the hardware related pain points disappeared in 2012'ish and now there are many user friendly distros that just work out of the box. My grandma uses linux.
The person is just listing tools which Uber could have not implemented because something similar exists. Schemaless was widely criticized, yet I don't think the public understands all the use-cases.

That said, Schemaless isn't going anywhere. Cassandra doesn't cover all the use-cases.
The Paris Review interview with him: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/harold-bloom-...
>iSpooge

That is a really unfortunate name. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spooge
> That means the number of senior engineers will be increasing very rapidly over the next 5 years

"Years since graduating" != "progress to senior engineer"

Plenty of people who graduated a few decades ago never reach a senior level. It is not about simply about whiling the time away until you have "10 years of job experience"
Yes I know, but the size is not meaningfully constrained by the physical cost of producing or transporting the magazine. The scarce resource is the readers attention. There may also be value in creating artificial scarcity, given that they have something like a status monopoly.
You could, if you were dealing with a new chemical entity and were so inclined, file a new application with human pharmacokinetics claims, and then elect the PK patent for your FDA-assisted patent term extension. An excellent choice, since the PK claim patent will likely have the most recent priority date.
> Lighting intensity decreases with the square of distance, so if you have 1000 lux right next to the bulb, you're going to have considerably less 5' - 7' away.

But you're in the range of square-of-distance bulbs. An array of lights on a ceiling gives approximately the same lighting as if you had a uniformly glowing ceiling and all the light went exactly down.

You'd be outputting a good amount more than 1000 lumens per square meter of ceiling. Most of that hits the work surface of the same size, so you get 1000 lumens per square meter, which is 1000 lux.

> some sort of lens that is going to reduce the light output somewhat

A lens shouldn't reduce it by much if it's doing its job.

> Even 1000 lux is nowhere close to being outside on a sunny day which is more like 100,000 lux.

Yeah but it's a lot more than 300! If there's a problem it's probably not caused by energy rules.
> strip the urgency from your goals

Exactly. I personally know people who have become despondent and given up on life. Maybe a few people will take advantage of total freedom to learn and do, but if we're being honest here, most will watch net flicks and eat potato chips. It is still a net positive for _most_ people.
In short: the system should log every operation performed within, and that log should be readily accessible to (authorized) end-users.

For example: let's say you have a warehouse management system, which tracks inventory movements in a warehouse / fulfillment center that ships, say, toothbrushes to customers. Multiple customers call in with complaints about getting blue toothbrushes when they ordered red toothbrushes. Seeing as how this is clearly not an isolated incident (multiple people are upset about not getting the right toothbrush!), it's up to you to find out where in the whole lifecycle of that toothbrush in your warehouse - all the way from when it was received to when it was shipped - that error might be happening. If your warehouse management system is completely auditable, then you'll be able query the transaction log (given perhaps the affected order and item numbers) to work backwards to investigate where the fault occurred, be it in shipping, picking, replenishment, receiving, the vendor, or what have you.

The "incumbent" off-the-shelf ERP and WMS vendors tend to support this sort of comprehensive audit trail much more thoroughly than those writing new ones (whether as an in-house project or as a startup attempting to disrupt the space), simply because those incumbents have already had their hard-earned lessons on why literally every transaction must be thoroughly logged (whereas the newcomers and DIYers typically have not, or are in the process of learning as they encounter more and more situations where that audit trail is necessary).
What is the limit? I’ve heard a ton of different opinions on what it might be.
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I agree but we are breathing rarefied air - the middle class has been pouring its children into the universities for decades - they have bought into the belief information work is more valuable than - as they like to describe it - "digging ditches".

The middle class is correct that information work is valuable and wrong that it has a high future price. Growing food was and is valuable.

I have fun imagining what happens if everybody found out about MP at the same time. Real trends are slow but the social world could overreact.

Will the herds of goats - former lawnmowers - take over the buildings at Google and Apple? Who will write the book of Exodus when the students flee the universities? Headline: Was Ted Right? Do Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page escape the Seal Teams from the NeoFeudalist government?

One of us must write this post-apocalyptic novel - and you have experience with goats - a future lifeskill.
You might want to reconsider the project name if you expect anyone to take it seriously. Especially with how you add "Powered by FreshSpooge" to the sites.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spooge
from the article : "Once we realize that oikophobia is a sort of pathology that develops under distinct socio-historical circumstances and does not involve any particularly interesting independent thought, but rather is more of a knee-jerk reaction, we are better equipped to face it in our everyday lives"
I put together this website over the past three or four days partly as a response to the same feeling.

https://stumblingon.com

But also because I was bored and googled for the old StumbleUpon and was surprised to discover it no longer seems to exist.

Basically my goal here is to find a bunch of weird, random, and unique sites and give people a way to randomly explore or adventure through them.
To be pedantic, it clicks on elements that are a button element that is the child (at any depth) of an element (of any type) that has at least the class of "grid-coupon-clip-button"
I'm in a similar situation to the OP. For me personally it's really difficult to "think my way out" of these sorts of problems. First they're large intertwined problems, second they're existential in nature, and third as you get older time becomes a huge factor.

It's a vicious cycle really. Everyone has some idea of what they want out of life and whether or not they are "on track" to attain it. The further behind you are, the more this leads to increased depression, anxiety, anger, etc. At that point it's hard to effectively think or do anything at all, so the situation deteriorates further.

Sometimes something works out; you get a girlfriend, you get a good job, whatever it happens to be. You start to feel like you can make a come back, you start making progress turning your life into what you want it to be. The problem is if that initial pillar gets knocked out from under you (break-up, laid off, etc) things can go down hill really damn fast; I know this from experience.

You're right that largely speaking no one cares about a person having depression, or rather people say they care but their actions rarely line up with their words. That can be a very self-destructive realization though, because often times help is what you need.

Some people can push past these adversities seemingly without issue. Others like myself have a much more difficult time with it. Perhaps "thinking through" the problem is the problem, maybe that leads to analysis paralysis. Maybe that's why those with higher IQs have this problem. I honestly have no idea.
Well regression to the mean is a thing. Even on Hacker News.
>The most depressing thing about working for this employer is howe dimwitted majority of their tech employees are...

90% of everything is crap. You should see the shambling ape-men they had in physics grad school. Actually they weren't so bad compared to FAANG ding dongs, but they were still worse than I expected.

Taleb is being a weirdo, but a consistent weirdo. He doesn't believe in basic statistics, so of course he can't believe in the one fairly rigorous result we have from psychology of the last 120 years.
Automatic dark mode switching is also usually based on time, not lighting. And even if it is based on lighting, it usually has a very low temporal resolution -- if the user is in a dark room with occasional flashes of bright light (say, a disco), the UI isn't expected to flash in synchrony.
What is a "good enough" return experience? When I've tried to use it, I have to pay money and my own time to organise and ship things back to them. I only get that money back if they decide I was right to return the item. I can only return the item in a very short window after it is purchased.

People seem to talk about amazon as if it has some unprecedented customer service and that is why it's so successful. But this is the bare minimum for pretty much any shop. Is it different in America?
I think this is where intelligence gets you in trouble. You say this as if it was the whole story, and you trust your own beliefs too much to let them go.
High intelligence may not be as harmful if you use it as a tool where appropriate, and don’t use where it falls short.
Best not to conflate all bread in America with Wonder Bread. We have bakeries that actually choose to make a quality product, and it's available in (edit: grocery stores in) most cities. Many Americans simply choose to optimize for cost.

The bread in Copenhagen was fantastic, though.
The SEC generally doesn't like any unregulated financial products with a track record of fraud, ICO or not. The organization's job is to protect US investors from potential fraud or overly dangerous activities. Even if you're a cryptocurrency proponent, I hope you can see why ICOs might not be safe for the general public and thus are being hammered by the SEC. There's even https://deadcoins.com/ to track all the failed/outright scam coins.
Life can be meaningless and rewarding. Why does life need meaning in order to pursue life?
You should try a modern distribution like cinnamon. I too have a wacom tablet and it works out of the box without requiring any driver installation whatsoever.
It's much easier to leave off one = when you meant == than it is to accidentally type :=
Reader view worked for me! (FF/iOS)
A better example is the food pyramid, which was just, hilariously, hugely wrong advice for the entirety of my childhood and formative years.
A lot of my teachers... and one of my parents... made this mistake with me. "You're so smart, why are you unable to do X ??". Which only made me feel as if I was dumb.

Obviously, my teachers and parents were raising me the best they thought was possible, but I think they were mistaken with this strategy.

I read a blogpost that really spoke to me: NEVER tell a child that they are smart, or dumb. Frankly, it doesn't matter. If they are unable to do X, tell them "You are unable to do X", no if-and-or-buts about it. Tell them you expect them to be able to do X, but in a way that doesn't bring up "intelligence" or "general performance".

Its something I strive for with the next generation: my little cousins or nephews (no kids of my own yet) will be told what my expectations of them are, but I try to avoid the "intelligence trap" when talking with them.
Which isn't the right point of comparison. How does it compare with University CS departments?
Hey, do you have a place where I could contact you?
If you're on the fence, I would apply!

I went last year — didn't have an idea to work on nor anyone to work with.

Met some awesome people I still hang out with, hacked on some cool stuff, and later applied late to W19 with one of them (we got an interview).

Highly recommend.
Thanks for your detailed response.

I hope you're right about the inherent safety of modern reactors, even in the face of malevolence. I don't know enough to contradict you.

In 1605 Guy Fawkes put enough gunpowder under the UK parliament to go through 7-foot concrete walls.

But if it's impossible to blow up a containment vessel, that's fantastic.

All I'd say is that I stand by the point that history to date is only weak evidence for future safety, and that as a general point, it's very hard to build something that survives dedicated adversaries.
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No sorry, I mostly make small games/interactive-stories/educational-things for my own kids. None of them have really been publish worthy yet.

I do hope to start publishing some children's games and educational interactive stories one day though, I just need to find an artist (or practice more myself).
If anyone here is familiar with the game factorio ... not using redux feels like conveior belts vs redux being flying robots. Suddenly everything seems easy and accessible. And writing spaghetti is nearly impossible.

If you ever intend to hire another person into a mature app using redux, he/she is gonna love you for presenting all state via dev toolbar on a silver platter.
On an unseasonably warm March day on the Mississippi between Minnesota and Wisconsin I went tubing and water skiing with some friends. They went skiing and wake boarding, with a wetsuit on. I went tubing with nothing but my trunks and a life jacket. The water was ice cold. I knew they were going to try and toss me so I dragged my knees in the water. They were numb in a minute. Eventually they got me off. As soon as I slipped into the water I experienced exactly what you did. I couldn't breathe or move. If I didn't have a life jacket on I'd have gone under before they ever turned the boat around. Life jackets save lives. Especially in cold water.
"Zuckerberg is reportedly engaged in this wide-ranging effort to reach out to conservatives as a way to calm right-wing calls to crack down on the company."

I think this is pretty key here. It's probably not because he's trying to get in bed with conservatives for whatever political ambitions he might have. It's that he's trying to keep FB from getting even more hammered by legal action for not controlling its platform in a way that keeps everyone happy.
A "procedrual macro" in Rust takes in some Rust code, does some sort of transformation on it, and then produces some Rust code. (Technically its a stream of tokens, but same thing.)

These are written in Rust, and so can do arbitrary things. That's what makes them so powerful. But it also can be dangerous. Additionally, they're written in Rust, so they need to be compiled, and they need to be compiled before other code that uses them can be compiled; otherwise, you don't know how to perform the transformation. They're kinda almost like plugins to the compiler.

So, how should these plugins execute? We could just compile them and run them, and that's indeed what Rust does today. However, since they're used as part of the compilation process, you want them to be fast. But when you're doing a debug build, they'll also be built in debug, which is slow. We could solve this particular issue by compiling dependencies in release mode, and your code in debug mode, but that has other problems and doesn't exist yet. Another concern is that they're arbitrary Rust programs: what happens if your plugin doesn't just implement some trait for your type, but also emails /etc/password to some bad guy? (you get what I mean, this is just an example)

So, ideally you want a sandbox to run your code in. This would let you limit the capabilities of plugins. You want it to be fast. You want it to be lightweight. You want it to be cross-platform.

All of these problems are solved by WebAssembly. You can compile the Rust code to wasm one time, for every platform, and ship it as a precompiled binary. Wasm will sandbox everything, so you can prevent a number of possible security issues. Additionally, for Rust, Rust already supports being compiled to wasm, and has a number of wasm runtimes to choose from.

I think a good way to think about this problem is to substitute "wasm" with "lua". When is lua a good idea? Wasm is also probably a good idea for those things. Only probably, of course...
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This reply ignores the very significant fact that Tesla's autopilot, and any other with similar capabilities, both enables and invites the driver to not pay attention to the extent that Tesla itself insists is necessary for the safe operation of the vehicle. If actually conforming to what Tesla says is necessary is too much of an annoyance, it is not ready to be on the road.
The conundrum I have with this is not just removing it from my personal resume but also from LinkedIn. In my experience, recruiters and companies pay for the premium version of LinkedIn so they can see my entire profile even though I limit viewing to just my connections. I would like to keep the CTO role on my LinkedIn because I have connections, colleagues endorsing my skillsets and recommendations from the former President and a VP.

If there is a discrepancy between a personal resume and LinkedIn, then that ends up being a "red flag" in the eyes of recruiters and HR.
The only exception to this is if your company actually is a different atmosphere from the parent company and the people coming in have some reason they'd fit better there than in the rest of the company. I had good luck collecting dissatisfied high performers from a parent company, but they always went through an interview process, and I always started by having them take two weeks of vacation and only then come back for on-boarding, as though they were new hires I had just successfully poached.
I went back to it after getting sick of the slowness/bloat of jetbrains and vscode.
For companies that might be worried about the third-party code ecosystem (did you know that npm packages can effectively run code as you on your system?), this drastically increases the confidence in the security of random Rust cargo crates.
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