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From a career standpoint sysadmin is a pejorative term in 2019.

I'm the 'not feature code' director at a company that manufactures companies. Meaning 20% of my time is what you describe above.

This is along side security work, occasionally feature code for one aspect of our moonshot that I have more experience than everyone else on, architecture work for all the properties to make sure they can talk to each other (while still maintaining enough separation that we could sell any of them at any time), building out a small manufacturing facility, and managing their transition to docker (which they only pursued because I pushed it). I also manage 2 other people (one of whom is a remote contractor) who do bits and pieces of the same and yes, a little endpoint laptop crap.

If they had billed the position as a sysadmin I wouldn't have taken it. Sysadmin pigeonholes you into a very specific role in many peoples eyes, whether it's true or not. Labels matter.
Feynman was wrong about beauty and truth in science
Based on the way that cops have treated me, I will never give a dime to anyone supporting the police (legitimate or not). Respect is a two way street, to get respect you have to give respect. Trying to force respect with handcuffs and beat-downs really doesn't work.

I'm not sure who I hate more, cops or fraudsters. At least fraudsters are not trying to physically harm me.
You can force a particle state to 0 or 1, but this will break the entanglement with the other particle, and the other one will no longer be correlated with yours.

It has been proven mathematically that FTL communication of information using entanglement is impossible (under our current understanding of physics, of course). It's called a "no-go theorem":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
You saved your daughter from a life of debt slavery. Now she can have a life, children and maybe even become a painter.
Strong words. What do you learn in American university that you don't learn in, say, a German one?
I know I could have done without two years of basic education in the form of GenEds.
I'm people too, just not a in the middle if the bell curve people. I'm curious, why do you go to a in the middle of the bell curve type of service to find fringe material? It's not served from there.
Value is all about impact and companies are incentivized to reward and promote impact. It’s valuable to a company to have a really great IC, it’s even more valuable to have a manager that can grow their team into really great ICs - presumably like the manager was at one point.

If you are an amazing IC, but can’t/won’t help others grow to that level, you are only so valuable to the company - hence the IC ceiling.
This is incorrect, it is not a felony to record audio from a security camera in the US. Two party /all party consent only applies to confidential communications.
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There’s nobody making you choose to stop being an IC. If you want (and you stay up-to-date with the latest trends) you can continue doing it indefinitely. You just can’t do that and also demand that you be paid the salary of someone who is leading a team.

You are paid to produce value. If you continue to focus on producing value as an individual, you have to reasonably expect that your compensation will eventually reach a limit.
I used to do this as a kid. In my family everyone was watching a television at almost all times when we were home. Naturally it was there when we would go to bed.

I recognized this was a terrible pattern. I began shutting off the tv when I was going to bed. Eventually I moved the television out of my bedroom.

This is learned behavior and it can be unlearned. There's one simple solution to the problem posed in this article. Get the tv out of your room; it's not doing anything positive for you and I'm fairly certain you won't crave to have it back once it's gone.
Does art school make a person a better artist? I would argue not really -- especially in a day in age where so much advanced art instruction is available for free. When a company or person wants to commission you, do they look at your degree or your portfolio?

The only real benefit of art college is more contacts to sell on your personality. $300,000 for that $75,000/yr college is a huge marketing budget for someone not proven to be a success. That money would be much better spent establishing an art studio and working on a portfolio. At least if they aren't very successful, some of the loss can be recovered.

The same idea goes for most art degrees in one form or another.
Do you have any evidence to back up this rather broad claim?
It can be proven from the theory of quantum mechanics that communication via entanglement is impossible. No currently accepted physical theory allows communication faster than the speed of light.
we've mostly eliminated packaged food for years now, it is usually healthier and tastier to make it yourself. Some things make it past that filter for convenience.

On the flying one, it is hard for me to understand. I literally never flew anywhere until I was nearly 30, where I had a work trip. Outside of work, I've flown once.
That's the connotation, which is why I won't even consider a position billed as 'sysadmin' even if there is a component of it to the job.
AMC's The Walking Dead series presents many good examples of grey thinking (and the struggles that lead to it).
Netflix's UI is designed to:

1) obfuscate its surprisingly shallow library

2) encourage user interaction (more telemetry data)

3) promote Netflix original content

As a user, I don't want any of this. A small cottage industry of alternative Netflix UIs has popped up, because sometimes you just want some good old fashioned filters and sorts.

A few examples:

https://flixable.com/

https://www.justwatch.com/

https://instantwatcher.com/
This is a poor example for two reasons. The reasonable expectation of privacy standard is for audio, not images. And you do have an expectation of privacy in your own hotel room
One of the worst offenders is statvfs with its use of __USE_FILE_OFFSET64...
We are in this now. First year in college, still undecided what to do, but interested in something design/art/writing.

Our suggestions to choose something that might be profitable was a huge stress factor that pushed her towards depression and we decided to back off.

She had always surprised us in a good way, and she has proven to be very good a connecting with people, organizing, making things work.

I think she’ll be fine eventually.

We are not generationally wealthy, but tech has made us rich enough afford the college tuition without too much pain.

Not everyone can or wants to be an engineer.
Main suggestion - do not drastically underbid projects. It is usually a bad trust indicator. If you do not have confidence in your own abilities, how can I? Bidding 250 for a 300 project is okay, but 100 is too less.

I will also not mention the part about being a student. A it is irrelevant and makes me doubt your focus.

Have you verified buyers history? Have they spent money on the platform, substantial money?
Fasting is done by religious people (not renowned for their rational thought) to appease a god, not because they think it's supposedly healthy. And sure, replace my "three meals a day" with "regular eating throughout the day" if it makes you feel better. My point is, our ancient ancestors were foragers and would have grazed on plants throughout the day. It's what our bodies have evolved to do. As for keto, you said it yourself. It was used as a way to reduce epileptic seizures, not because it was thought of as the optimal way for humans to eat.
Someone once pointed out to me how "engagement" is often misread by companies. The product team makes a change to their website or app and suddenly engagement skyrockets. They think, "Wow! That change really got people to use our product. Let's do more!" when, in reality, the change they made is initially so confusing that their users spend more time than they would otherwise just trying to find their way around all the new changes. This, coupled with new product owners, product managers, and executives who feel like they need to justify their positions and the easiest way to do that is to "improve" the product and we have a negative feedback loop that is perceived by everyone within the company as a virtuous cycle. All the while they're just pissing their customers off.
They might prefer that, but it's misleading. "SRE" is closely associated with Google's approach, where SREs are supposed to spend the majority of their time writing high quality code. If you aren't doing that, you shouldn't call yourself an SRE.
As I understand it, the difference here is that the root is removed during extraction and immediately replaced with the CNC-milled/"3-D printed" tooth.

I'm not entirely sure why the root needs to be in place before – perhaps the chances of the implant integrating with bone is better immediately after extraction?
That generally is not why US born doctors go to medical school outside of the US.
It's a pregnancy reference. I hope.
> If they want to live in a 6000 sq ft house in Malibu, then they shouldn't get a degree in 5th Century Aerobics.

I mean if that's what they want, you might as well tell them to be born into another family because you'll never enough for that as a wage worker regardless of the degree.
A neighbor's kid is at St. Andrew's in Scotland. But I don't know of many who have chosen that route.
Oh, come on. Visigothercize is the hottest thing right now: "burn! and loot! and turn! and burn!".

Seriously, this is good advice. A lot of young-uns have amazingly naive ideas about both how much money they will make but also how much money they get to keep. Like they will hear about making $70K and imagine that somehow that means that they could pay off, say, a $350K debt "in the order of 5 years" (obviously not thinking exactly 5). As opposed to the reality which is that they will be challenged to even service the interest on a $350K debt at that income level after their other expenses.
It also helps to think as a bayesian..

https://youtu.be/HZGCoVF3YvM
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It's technically correct, but they tend to come attached to a baby :)
This seems to be how many people feel about Lenovo now. Great if it works, but seems to need multiple replacements before getting a properly working system.

I just got the Extreme 2, and immediately ran into the keyboard issue. The matte screen has some light bleeding in the corner too.

It's a bit aggravating that laptops with a high price point can have bad design or quality control issues.
Another reference to teratomas, which are often found during ultrasounds during pregnancy[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma
What I find surprising is that despite their shallow catalog of content (my opinion), they fail to promote their shows to me that I’m actually interested in. When Stranger Things Season 3 was released and when The Witcher was recently released, it was no where on my home menus. Despite these shows being the exact genre I typically watch, I had to search for these shows. ?????!
I agree with the article in general, but that said, I do think a lot of successful people are successful because they are highly opinionated in black-and-white ways. Coming across people like this in life can be frustrating whether they tend to be right or wrong. I've definitely known and worked with a few people who were black-and-white thinkers and abstracted away and ignored a lot of second order effects that could negate their opinion, but had such good intuition that they tended to be right anyway.

A good read on this is “The Cognitive Distortions of Founders” by Michael Dearing https://link.medium.com/Ri20AKKuL2.
> I’m tired of posts implying it’s completely unusable like this.

I didn't say it was unusable. I just said it was atrocious and really bad. If it was literally unusable, I wouldn't even consider it an option to try and navigate it or even consider it part of the offering, I'd just use the CLI instead.

> or is it just FUD to relieve your own stress on something likely unrelated?

No. My pain point of AWS is the UI. When I do use the CLI, I find it quite reliable. However, I occasionally like to use the UI to confirm a deployment occurred, or inspect when ECS containers are unhealthy, etc. I primarily use it in a "read-only" way.

I really dislike that your comment suggests that I don't understand what my own problems are. Try not to de-legitimize the experiences of others.
It's not a simple binary choice between going to college on a loan or not going because the parents can't afford it or don't want a loan. I worked my way through college over 5 years with only a small loan. One can spend the first two years at a community college for very low tuition then transfer to a university. Large state universities have lower tuition than small private universities. There are other means of financial aid besides loans, like grants and scholarships.

But, not everyone needs to go to a university. Society needs to encourage more vocational education for the trades, and encourage apprenticeships.
It looks like Namco obtained licenses directly from the manufacturers. The title screen has a big, dense list of licensing information regarding the planes from Dassault, Boeing, and seemingly a million other manufacturers.

I'm not sure exactly what parts of the planes require licensing. Do you need to pay to use their names? Their likenesses? Both? Neither? Maybe it's just a courtesy? It's a good question. I'd love to know more myself.
I wish the headline was: "I Helped My Teenager Grow Up. You Should, Too."

Student debt sucks. But the myth that these institutions are somehow kidnapping high school students and forcing them to take on massive loans is a myth that needs to be crushed.

The market has been flood with cheap easy to get money. Families are lining up to bite off more than they should or could. This (i.e., demand) drives up cost. The cycle continues.
I’m pretty sympathetic to the perspective that the solution is not dealing with it. “I want to go to art school” is at the same level as “I want a pony” or “I’m gonna marry a rich girl”; it’s not originally intended as a serious life plan, and you’ll only start to see it as one if the people around you encourage it.
Why do you disable webfont downloading?
What advantages would it give them though?

It's no faster than any existing means of communication since you still need to send classical information along with the quantum, though I guess it's nice that it can be used for almost completely unbreakable encryption.

It feels like complete overkill for no practical advantage that I can see.
Sorry about that. It should be operating normally now, though by the time I'd finished bouncing the server HN seemed to have stuffed the submission down the memory hole (sigh).
What does this mean for DARPA / the state of DARPA? I just searched and see that Walker was head of DARPA for about 2 years, which seems like a short time.

Previous heads' tenures:

1. A. Prabhakar: ~5 years

2. R. Dugan: ~3 years

3. A. Tether: ~8 years
Interesting because to me, “Grey Thinking” is the norm in governments. That’s how they get away with being so wasteful.
I get all that. It’s the autoplay while browsing feature I hate and strongly think is a discouraging thing for viewers like me. I am already there in the app, paid for it, opened the app, looking for content to watch. At that point they don’t have to sell me shit. I am already there. Auto play doesn’t make sense to me. You can make great UX without that feature which Netflix already has. In fact the auto play does the exact opposite of what they think it achieves.
Yes - but I didn't mention that one as it's well known (referenced in the OP article) and contentious; part of a history of arguments which - whatever the priority truth - seem as much about big name egos and power cliques (on all sides) than a furtherance of knowledge.
Same here. I don't get it: if Netflix UI causes me to go through all the episodes of a show faster, that's one less show available for me to watch on Netflix, making the service less valuable.
> DevOps is an Organizational Structure, no one should be a "DevOps Engineer" or anything like it.

Why not? What should you call someone who spends most of their time writing code to do with CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, logging/alerting etc.?
Marvel movies are all a prime example of the “all filler” garbage remake movies with sequel after sequel, advertising to you and fulfilling the lowest common denominator. Marvel movies are trash. All the phony superhero movies are made distractions for grown men to act like kids with superhero figures. They all are getting political, I can’t believe how duped they have “critical thinking” “hackers.”
The thing about 'natural remedies'... is that if they're effective, there is some kind of active ingredient that does something. With proper research, you can figure out what it is, what it does, and hopefully how and why, and how to most effectively make use of it. That's what science and medicine are for.

I get sinus infections with depressing regularity too, and it's awful... I feel very draggy, like I do the bare minimum just to get by, and they go on and on and on, and then presto, antibiotics and it's gone in a day or two, and I wonder why I waited so long.

I really wish there were some advances in detecting (so you're not taking antibiotics for a cold) and treating them.
Yes, of course, enumerating all symbol strings is computable.

What I mean is the novels as a whole correctly label the halting machines, an unreasonable assumption to be sure. That would prevent the novels from being computable.

If real novels somehow exhibit an equivalent characteristic, then that would prevent real novels from being computable. Perhaps the logical consistency of good novels would be such a characteristic. We probably cannot depend on novels being perfectly consistent, but still consistent to a greater degree than we can achieve by randomly generating bitstrings.

The objection would be that a finite set of axioms can generate consistent novels, so there is also some other criterion that is necessary to make the novels uncomputable. I would say this second criterion is novelty, defined as an increase in Kolmogorov complexity.

Using a single set of axioms to enumerate an infinite set of novels will hit a novelty plateau, as per the proof of uncomputability of Kolmogorov complexity.

So, based on these two criteria, one can derive a hand wavy argument that novels in general are uncomputable.
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Contact your local HAM group.

They do this kind of thing - it's called a "fox hunt".
Tuition for EU residents is usually not the same as tuition for American students. It's still cheaper than school in the US, but not by nearly as much
While playing this, I had an idea. What if marking the mine reduced the number of any number tiles adjacent to the mine? So the number tile would show the number of adjacent mines, minus the number of adjacent flags. Then you could work through the puzzle by bringing all the number tiles to 0, which might make certain situations more readily soluble.
Most companies have no use for very senior ICs. They don’t have much difficult work and a lot of managers want to involve themselves in technical decisions so once you have reached a certain level there is no room to grow. Either go into management or stagnate.
i've had similar complaints in the past, though my real pain point has been Hulu on AppleTv. i cannot stand the UX, despite actively training myself on how to navigate the UI. the UX of many AppleTv app implementations has been less than stellar in my opinion. i will say this has driven me straight into the "just talk at it" workflow...which for brings its own set of struggles.
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Doctors and lawyers could afford a house in Malibu and they are wage workers.
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This is so true. Even the guidrstar seals of transparency aren't that trustworthy. I filled one out for an nonprofit I volunteer with, and trust me, you can say the most random stuff to get your Platinum seal (their highest rating). They don't check at all.
Agreed, the article is grossly inaccurate and sensationalized.
Kids of that age are usually wise enough to understand probability, the relative importance of money, and where their family’s relative position is in the financial sense.

With a solid grip on those parameters, I’d say that most well-adjusted teenagers are reasonably equipped to make that decision on their own. If you feel like they’re still making the “wrong” decision, I’d personally apply anecdotes and statistics to add emphasis to the parameters you feel they’re undervaluing.

Reflecting on my own situation, having recently come through the higher education system miraculously in-tact, the biggest issues I’ve observed are:

(1) most teenagers don’t know the financial situation of their parents (very few did when I was in High School, anyway). Their parents could be bona fide millionaires, but they make choices ignorant of that fact. Or, their parents could be penniless, and they don’t apply to schools that give needs-based full rides, because they think they can’t afford it.

(2) most teenagers do not have an appreciation for how quality of life varies substantially with seemingly small variations (say, 60k vs 90k living in NYC) in salary. This makes the “worst case” of having a minimum wage job seem not too bad.

(3) most teenagers don’t understand the “life impact” and psychological burden of having a mortgage-sized loan at 22: how much of a new grad paycheck is “left” after taxes, rent, loans; how the size of the loan correlates to the amount you take out of your paycheck; how much the loan costs over it’s lifetime; and how much this all impacts your decision to buy a house, start a business, marry, etc. This obviously impacts you terribly when your college adventure is unsuccessful, but it is a burden you’ll bear regardless of your success.

I feel similar to the author of this article, that it’s the responsibility of the parent to not sugar coat those issues with aphorisms like “just follow your dreams” or “the issue of money always solves itself”. It might feel embarrassing to tell your children your situation in life, but it’s a big life decision and it ought to be an informed one.
Whereas we can’t send specific information between two entangled qubits would we not be able to use it synchronize state (read seed) FTL? That state would for instance allow the two systems to instantly be in sync with a newly generated random seed?
This myth you've created is a strawman. No one is suggesting colleges physically hold students ransom. The argument is that society is increasingly forcing people to get degrees to keep up with the job climate and it is effectively the same as forcing people into debt.