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I had this dilemma not too long ago. You need to find your purpose in life. You're starting to feel that working for someone else just isn't giving you that satisfaction. I'm still in my early 20s, but I feel like I can relate and provide some insight. I was working at a decent job, enjoyed working with my coworkers, days went by without too much stress. I would come home everyday and wouldn't have any serious motivation to do anything productive for some reason, despite having a burning desire. I would go to sleep, wake up, and go back to work. Before I knew it, 2 years went by as I worked at that company and I was getting let go. I started looking back and began to notice that outside of work, I haven't really accomplished too much with my life. I spent about a week sitting in my apartment thinking what I was going to do with my life. Those were dark times. One day it just snapped, I decided to take a very serious plunge into the music business. Me, being in my early 20s, I made a very rash decision and drove to Atlanta and met a lot of new friends and that really broke the ice for me getting into music. I ended up staying there for a few months, and I have a finished product that I can market from that escapade. The issue was now that I was completely broke after that venture, so I ended up coming back home and got a new programming job fairly quickly and that's where I'm at right now. Nowadays, I DON'T go home immediately after work to help remedy the problem of losing all motivation to be productive. I go to the gym for about an hour every other day and then take a shower. Afterwards, I hop into a coffee shop, open my laptop and start reading like there's no tomorrow for a few hours, and then go home. The books I read are books that I know will help my business so I see it as a good investment of my time while I save money to pursue my goals outside of work.
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What I would love to see is an option for reverse ranking with thresholds: sites and pages listed in order reverse to their popularity, within custom limits.

For example, I'd love to be able to search for "what to do in <city of my choice>" among sites, say, in the middle 50% of popularity, sorted top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top. My intention would be to find more personal pages and websites with sincere, non-manufactured recommendations.

That would be real search.
The entity list program against Chinese companies, the pressure on Europe to reject Huawei infrastructure (and accompanying threats in particular when it comes to natsec data sharing), the attack on the German car industry, on French agriculture, the list has been getting pretty long.

And while it's true that this has been the state of affairs for most of civilisation, it wasn't for the last ~70 years. Up until recently, the US was willing to underpin global free-trade without using economic politics as leverage for short-term or one-sided political goals. Which is precisely why US tech companies have become the first choice in much of Europe and indeed around the world.

Now the question is being posed if that is still a good decision. Without this interference, Europe would not think about investing billions and billions into its own cloud infrastructure, and China would not be ditching Android. It could have been smooth sailing for US companies for a long time. If this continues I'll give it 10-20 years before there's a major decoupling even between the US and Europe.
> What vision do you hold in your heart for a psychedelic future?

"Psychedelic" is mind-manifesting and I see freedom of self expression, freedom of speech as a roadmap into the future, not only the narrow medical/therapeutic context. Healing is important but it excludes people that would self-assess themselves as healthy - so, most people.

While flying up to space to see Earth rotating under could be therapeutic and heal your depression, awaken a completely different borderless understanding of Earth as one whole - becoming an astronaut is not an adequate medical practice at this point, it involves a number of risks, depending where every person is to begin with.

Statistical prevalence of schizophrenia is 1.2% and it's often not diagnosed - so every 1 out of 100 people is a very high risk case that even best, most experienced professionals sometimes can't handle (check out what went on with Olivia Arevalo).

Like diving, rock climbing, base jumping, surfing - most safe psychedelic sessions will rely on other people who are more experienced and can help beginners in person. There is no app that could replace a PADI instructor 10m below water surface.

I think all business models of the future should factor high risk in and model scuba diving or rock climbing - our consciousness is very fragile and psychedelic trauma is real.
> Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want to sell older Nintendo gear on Amazon anyway. This is exactly what eBay is for.

Because the customers are on Amazon, not eBay.
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I've always thought that open source developers devalue their work by giving it away for free.
I'm really sorry about that. I had full lab work done that indicated my pituitary was shot. I'm now getting hormone injections until we get my body functioning again. I'd recommend seeing your PCP; if they push a depression diagnosis on you, push back and ask to get full lab work. I was getting stuffed with SSRIs for more than 18 months until I couldn't take it any longer.
Tmux supports your local clients clipboard, so if you are in a tmux-session from your local client, you can copy your scrollback history (or window), into the clipboard, and just paste it locally. I do precisely that dozens of times a day.
so now my watch spies on my like nest? great
Some characters can be easily turned into others - c into o, C into D - by addition.
I think it would be a good idea to make priors have an additional pixel or two to the font glyphs to make this impossible. Maybe even touching the border instead of the character.
Freelance, find new recipes that you may enjoy and make interesting dinners. Also the obligatory third place - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
It looks pretty nice and the .Net part seems to be pretty good. However the Omega 2+ runs Linux, has twice the Mhz and 4x RAM for much less money... https://onion.io/store/omega2p/ . Perhaps that is why it seems to be sold out at the moment.
Maybe they will put Fuchsia on it?
I appreciate this thoughtful and detailed reply. I was thinking all those things in my head while reading as well, but couldn't bring myself to invest the time to address them all. I got the impression that the author wasn't someone who has a lot of experience building real-world predictive models otherwise they'd appreciate the trade-offs that need to be made sometimes to get something that works well and can be debugged/interpreted without too much trouble. Of course this isn't to say we shouldn't be striving to develop more interpretable solutions, but I don't think this paper is very helpful to due to its lack of rigor and straw-man tactics.
We have lived and evolved with human decision making since we've existed.

Taking a new system of machine decisions and adding it to the mix sounds problematic.
I'll check your link, thanks.

Could you explain what you mean by svn being super complicated inside? I presume you mean from a user's not a programmer's perspective; I never found it confusing, ever.

It has it's flaws (tags are writable, unless that's been cured) but it's really pretty good, and far better than git for a beginner IMO.
FYI buyers on are eBay too, esp. for vintage games.
Unfortunately Google is known for its terrible customer support and sunsetting services early. It could go either way.
Is there a way to send voice messages without using the phone? Does any of the bigger chat apps offer the "record voice" button?
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Are you blogging? What platform do you use? Static or Dynamic? Self-hosting or not?
Why for all, rather than available to all? It could just be marketing, but the details seem like her plan includes completely eliminating the private "insurance" industry.

But with the amount of money floating around at the private insurance companies, plus all their make-work jerbs, I just don't see them being possible to take on like that in one fell swoop. Rather, such a plan is sure to be jiu-jitsued by the insurance companies similar to how we ended up with Romney^h^h^h^h^h^hObamacare.

Simply provide a competing option based on allowing anyone to buy in to Medicare. People that have access to good private insurers can stick with them, so they lose nothing. The buy-in price could cover the true cost, while still being competitive with the current options for the self-employed, so no budget problem. Big Insurance will always throw up the standard "but we shouldn't have to compete" sob story (see also: Comcraps vs muni fiber), but would lack any real basis for objection rather than dealing with a mortal threat.

I guess this is ultimately just divisive politics. Preaching to a choir that sees coupling increased taxes on the rich as killing two birds with one stone - but dead on arrival to everyone else.
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My advice is hit the gym. It gets you out of the house, gets you healthier, and probably makes you better-looking too. Doesn't need to be a "gym" per se either--an athletic hobby like rock-climbing or basketball works as well.
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On the other hand, I can't help wondering what would have happened to Git had it been created by some low-profile programmer.
Just an FYI - Google Maps doesn't get traffic or user data from Waze. Maps gets it's data from Android and people who have Google Maps open on their phones.

https://fortune.com/2019/10/11/waze-google-maps-how-it-works...
The first and recent thing I can think of is Adobe disabling their software in a South America country and did not even offered refunds at that time.

This is important, some dude in White House can blackmail you or all your software will no longer work. You will say something military alias but we seen economic wars between US and Eu / Canada
This is why we've turned Facebook and Twitter into political machines. You are blaming the social media companies for enabling slavery. Slavery existed long before the internet, removing it from the internet just means it goes back to working the old fashioned way.
i thought the entire point of the cloud was to make stuff like this not cause your site to go down, or did someone realize that only had to be part of the marketing
1) use something like teeline shorthand, or just record the meeting. This will allow you to keep up with the meeting. I generally use short hand, recording makes people nervous and doesn't always get everyone anyways, unless you have a really nice mic. I try to keep a complete record of the meeting, instead of picking and choosing what to write down. After a while it becomes second nature and you can get away with barely paying attention to your note-taking.

2) after the meeting convert your shorthand into some organized, clean notes. This helps you solidify your understanding and allows you to make decisions after you have all the information. You might want to keep your shorthand around for your record, at least for a bit.

3) decide, immediately after 2, what you're going to do about those notes, and when. I use an app that shows me specific notes at specific times. If something is priority I do it immediately, or have an app remind me in an hour/day. If I'm waiting on someone, I note that, and set a reminder to check back in. If I need to keep an eye on something I set a reminder to check on it.

4) When notes expire (and they always do eventually), they get emailed to me at home. Once a day a script zips them and sticks them out of the way. I manually move them onto a flash stick once a month.

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A detention facility is not a “cage”. These are people that entered the country illegally so yes, they will be detained in some fashion. Do you expect them to be kept in single family homes?
The Dotnet Micro Framework appears to be no longer developed by microsoft, with the official repository being archived [1]. However the Nanoframework[2] fork appears to be alive. Does anyone know which one this project is using? It's unclear from both the OP and the Kickstarter link as well.

[1] https://github.com/NETMF/netmf-interpreter
[2] https://nanoframework.net/
This point is really about incentives: since we know that our fellow humans are held accountable, we know they have the incentive to make high-quality decisions that will not impact the world negatively. Therefore, it's easier to trust them, even when they go with their gut.

We can't project the same incentive structure onto software companies. They are a different scale than humans, and might be able to tolerate the possible hit to their reputation better than a human can. Their incentives are usually money-based rather than social-based.

And for the models themselves, they have no incentives, unless you count "reduce their error rate" or "be interesting enough for researchers to continue to research them". We barely know why they work. Our basis for trust is rather tenuous.
> For #4, what do you mean?

I mean that one process can have COLOR=blue and another can have COLOR=red with no conflict.

PORT=123 COLOR=blue ./myapp
PORT=456 COLOR=red ./myapp

Yes you can chroot, run in containers, use only relative file paths, etc.

There aren't any irremovable differences between env vars and files; env vars are basically /proc/ files with widespread runtime support.
Fitbit also comes with users, brand recognition and goodwill.
Do you have a source for that? Are you talking about accessing internal SRAM, internal Flash, or external memory?
Those were some very good points!

IMO, we're on the cusp of a level of individual freedoms that were not available in the past (in the western world) and are seeing those that are desparate for relevance, those unable to compete/comprehend or those not involved/behind doing their darndest to stifle the growth and progress.

Most of the privacy exploitation sounds like that saying about "C managers" firing "A and B employees" due to their insecurities or more likely, job security/relevance.

My only question at this point is...

Does chasing the boogie{man,woman,trans} count as exercise?
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I emailed the author concurrently with this post. :)
/u/samatman is definitely mistaken, and I think you are correct (although I'm not sure about "the set of changes since that commit"). As far as I can tell, `git diff <commit>` and `git diff <branch>` both just diff your current workspace against the commit/branch respectively.

In the case of the branch, the correct result is something like "what has changed since my branch diverged from its parent"--basically what you see in a PR. I think this is unnecessarily obscure in Git because a "branch" isn't really a branch in the git data model; rather it's something like "the tip of the branch".

I don't think I've ever wanted to compare my workspace against a branch, but clearly diffing the branch is useful (as evidenced by PRs). Similarly, I'm much less inclined to diff my workspace against a particular commit, but I often want to see the contents of an individual commit (another common operation in the Github UI).

In essence, if Github is any indicator, Git's data model is a subpar fit for the VCS use case.
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Really love your products. I've done the Chromecast, the dongles, and everything else. Then I stumbled across Airtame, at a customer's site, then again with a friend. After using them a few times, I'm sold.

You're on my to-buy list for the new company!
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