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Autodidactic learning is not always ideal: you may miss some fundamentals of the trade that may be important when you're are setting the curriculum yourself. In some trades, this can potentially endanger people. The other thing autodidacts usually don't get is the unwritten oral part of apprentice training that is passed on informally and often even implicitly.
Next time vote for persons who are not working in USA and who are not voting in EU and other wealthy countries. The rest are not so well funded, so they should know better.
> Obesity is not an independent variable

Nothing is perfect, but most experts believe this has little to do with healthcare today because healthcare interventions tend not to be effective causes of long-run weight loss and most countries aren't doing enough of the stuff likely to have large effects (e.g., surgical interventions) to explain much of the variance. Even if you could argue it might explain something, say 0.5 mean BMI points, other factors are clearly highly important. Cultural * and genetic factors are likely to play a significant role amongst high-income countries. Further, obesity rates rise with time and income levels despite higher health spending.

https://i0.wp.com/randomcriticalanalysis.com/wp-content/uplo...

> socialized healthcare does a better job of controlling obesity with preventative health measures

evidence?

> As it is now in the U.S., patients only go to medical professionals when there is a problem

The US spends more on preventive medicine than almost any other country, though preventative medicine generally has very-small-to-modest effects on outcomes and rarely, if ever, saves money (usually quite the other way around)

~ RCA

note: * some of these "cultural" factors may be residual economic influences... the US escaped the malthusian trap long before almost all other high-income countries and this may have latent effects on attitudes towards food, diet, etc)
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I think that quote isn't about JS performance but maintaining software written in JS.
From the featured page: "At the Afsluitdijk we are using water currents and the confluence of fresh and salt water to produce energy."
What about it makes it sound like a keyboard model? As a Dutchman I'm having a hard time ignoring the real meaning and seeing what keyboard related thing it resembles in English.
Science fantasy is largely more popular because a lot of what humans want out of their stories is just that: fantasy.

It would be much more difficult for a hard sci-fi series to gain the kind of traction that Star Trek and Star Wars do, simply because the kinds of story it can tell are much more constrained...and it doesn’t allow for the same kind of wow factor.
I had to look this up. Marinships were the west coast Liberty Ships, built in Sausalito. Later they build fleet tankers & oilers there, probably to the same "get it done now" quality standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinship

My dad went to the European theater on a Liberty. He had the top bunk in the hold and spent the voyage looking at the truly awful welding that had been done in the shipyard. But they didn't have to last longer than a few years, so lots of corners were cut.
> Ubiquitilink (now called just Lynk) demonstrated the ability to communicate with existing, unmodified cellphones from orbit

I spent way too long picturing a Samsung Galaxy drifting out of the cargo bay of a launch vehicle before realising you meant a satellite in orbit could connect to a standard phone on the ground.
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With point 4) I don't think Apple intends to ignore the ruling of governments in that way. Much of Apple's business remains in the hardware market, and indeed this service would require hardware also (perhaps even be limited to iDevices). Such countries could just ban the sale of Apple devices.

Besides, there's much more profit in Apple co-operating with countries like China vs trying to ignore their will and do their own thing on their land anyway. Either way, it's hard to imagine that a country like China wouldn't be able to create some blockers for Apple's telecoms.

Apple stands up for citizens rights in accordance with the law. It does not generally stand up for circumventing the law in countries, even if it might disagree with that law.
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Still amazes me that Mike Pall was a pseudonym. I'd really love to understand what they do for a day job.

Luajit is a brilliant project.
> In every example given people died, more were maimed and even more had mental breakdowns.

I can't find any citations for deaths in many of these examples (Treasure Island, Disneyland, Pentagon). Where are you coming to this conclusion from?
I hope usd 4600 does not include labor costs of 10000 soldiers (salary, food, accommodation, etc.)
They could, though I think much of that can be mitigated with effort. I believe the textbook example is domestic abuse, but I worry that the scope also coincides with fallout from poisoned well attacks and tribalistic recruitment efforts.
Huh, interesting! I’ll have to try this out, thanks
Honestly, with the size of their cash pile, I wouldn't be surprised if they were secretly preparing to pivot into space exploration or something. Assume SpaceX will have the primary transport side of things out to Mars covered with Starship, and start designing space habitats or preparing for a Mars colony.
I agree, but in my eyes the design seems like an homage to what was common in mid-nineties.
Very well said, you nailed it! I think this is super interesting if they are looking this way, I'd go with Apple for the reasons you mentioned in a heartbeat.
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Or just use notion
I have a real lo-tech solution for that. I carry a bound memorandum book (field notes or the like) in my pocket and write down the everything I know about each kid. One kid per page.

Example:
Julian, blonde, in same class, 3rd and 4th grade
Sister: Kiera, two years younger, big hello kitty fan
Mother: Monica, red hair, glasses.
Dad: ??, looks like Ron Swanson.

I just fill in the blanks when I learn them. By the time I'm exchanging phone numbers, I usually have the names down.

Families move and friendships change, so I don't invest a lot of time memorizing details.
I don't remember being done explicitely for estranged people, but World of Warcraft has a Christmas event every year, with decorations, special items and thematic quests that you would do alongside other players. You probably can find similar things in other popular MMOs. In a similar way, I'm sure online virtual worlds like Second Life or VRChat have players organizing themed parties and such.
Then you also have streamers who do a special stream on Christmas Eve, so in a way their communities are also together during the Holidays.
He also did a 4 part interview on Retrobits (#123, 125, 127, and 128)
> it's a completely different beast, a highly complex "scripting" language

I learned long ago to not call my programs scripts, because many people interpreted (sorry) this negatively.
Americans who have cell phones :)? Anyone on GoogleFi? People who travel and don't want to switch phones?

If Apple can deliver something at $25 to $80 a month like carriers who wouldn't want it?
I think the best example of a middle-class modern apprenticeship that people will be able to relate to here is the PhD. It’s an apprenticeship in research where you’re paired with someone who has mastered the craft and passes it on 1-1 to you by helping you do practical work (actual research with research outputs) outside of the classroom.
Musk's playbook is actually much more likely based on Apple's than vice versa. Apple doesn't make entirely new things, they spot emerging fields and finesse the state of the art until it looks like an entirely new product. The original (Apple / Macintosh / MacBook / iPod / iPhone) didn't do anything that other X couldn't do, it was just better integrated and slicker.
Again, that goes to the quality of product/people in a given instance. I have done this long enough to fully appreciate that when it comes to fucking up software on the web people will find a way whether it’s for some poorly conceived developer motivation or media/marketing motivation.
Less commonly known facts about the Afsluitdijk:

The plans for the dyke originally included a railway line. This never happened, but the idea has resurfaced frequently in the past century.

The Afsluitdijk was also a defensive structure, part of the defence of Holland (the collective name of the two provinces that are home to the government and a large part of the population). When the Germans invaded, the Afsluitdijk fortress with its concrete fortifications (called kazematten) and strategically advantageous position actually held, i.e., it never fell under combat, despite attempts to overtake it. The Germans went round the other side of the IJsselmeer and the Netherlands capitulated before the Wehrmacht could take the position.

The Kazematten museum on the dyke can be visited, and should appeal to all military aficionados.
> must refer to coordinates that appear in a set of printed manuals

Why weren't they equipped with a twenty-inch deci-trig duplex slide rule, like Seaton, in the Skylark of Space [0]?

"All right—let's see. Radius of rotation here in Washington would be cosine latitude times equatorial radius, approximately—call it thirty-two hundred miles. Angular velocity, fifteen degrees an hour. I want secant fifteen less one times thirty-two hundred. Right? Secant equals one over cosine—um——m—one point oh three five. Then point oh three five times thirty-two hundred. Hundred and twelve miles first hour. Velocity constant with respect to sun, accelerated respecting point of departure. Ouch! You win, Mart—I'd step out! Well, how about this, then? I'll put on a suit and carry rations. Harness outside, with the same equipment I used in the test flights before we built Skylark One—plus the new stuff. Then throw on the zone, and see what happens. There can't be any jar in taking off, and with that outfit I can get back U.K. if I go clear to Jupiter!"

[0] http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/astrodeck.php
Thanks for a real insight into this, this all sounds wonderful and all, can I ask what you would honestly miss if you were working at a smaller company or a high growth startup?

Why are there people working at large tech companies looking to leave their positions? Is it because it’s so boring? Is it because they’re not getting promoted fast enough? Do they not like the people they’re working with? Can you transfer to another team easily?
I'm doing an apprenticeship at a FAANG company; it's been an amazing experience so far. I feel like I've learned a hell of a lot more about software engineering from a few code reviews than sitting in lectures and reading textbooks (which don't work as well for me).

The value in university seems to be the brand, the networking opportunities and the environment, not the education.
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Elon may not, but his followers do. And Elon takes advantage of his Tony Stark persona people have made for him greatly. I don't blame him for that, of course.

For everything he does deliver, there's 5 promises that he didn't. Humans on Mars by 2024, infrastructure on Mars by 2022? Model 3 was greatly delayed. $35k price point promise?

I'm not anti-Elon, the opposite actually; he does great work and his companies have contributed a lot and indeed solved many problems. But I really do wish people would tone down the hype over him sometimes. Half of what he says isn't even in realistic development, it just sees a trailer, and the next thing you know there's another product announced and people have forgotten all about that one.
I remember a project with a similar philosophy:`
https://github.com/raptorjit/raptorjit
The middle row of a Qwerty keyboard starts asdfghjkl, and I think that to people who aren't used to it that looks similar.
>”LinkedIn that keeps sending dozens of emails despite unsubscribing multiple times; and somehow evades the Spam filter“

MLB is also guilty of this. Tantamount to cyber stalking
So - why does everything take so long and end up so much more expensive these days?
As someone married to a genetic counselor, thanks for making this distinction. There's a world of difference between 23andme and actual genetic testing.
It’s the first part that’s hard! Dijkstra is easy and a pretty common name—at least in Ontario, spelled Dykstra.
Nothing to suggest that Apple is not in favour of net neutrality.

> "We work hard to build great products, and what consumers do with those tools is up to them — not Apple, and not broadband providers," Cynthia Hogan, VP of public policy at Apple, said in a comment filed to the FCC.

Yes, Apple regulate their App Store, they control what goes on and they have a licensing fee. That's also why the App Store is not like the Play Store. Apps are generally of a higher quality and better designed. They keep a tight lock on what is on that store. But that's for a specific purpose.

There's nothing to suggest that they would plan to do the same in the browser.
Both! Python will probably help you build concepts faster and iterate quickly, but golang has much better performance (given you understand how to do this).

I would pick your battles and do things that are actually relevant. For example if you need something that requires high performance because of a bottleneck, do it in Go. If you need a simple server to test if something you’re thinking would work or if Python has better packages use that.

If you really have to pick one to focus on, I would understand the trade offs then pick. A lot of infrastructure code nowadays like kubernetes are written in go, but are you looking to contribute to that ecosystem? Or are you looking to be an automation master connection a whole lotta pipes together?
i think the original post just mentionned « costly ». It didn’t say it was impossible to mess things up even with rust. Just that it removes the cost of checking types are still matching after a refactoring or a dependency update.
For better or worse, NNTP and Gopher are effectively dead in the mainstream—and probably outside of extremely narrow niches. Wanting people to use them more is going to be an exercise in frustration.

IRC, of course, will never die.
Really?? Why all the data recording? I'm not criticizing, I've just never paid that much attention to the families of my kid's friends. Get togethers just sort of naturally happen, and pertenent details of families of kids who my kid likes enough to hang out with a lot aren't that hard to remember.
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The defensive position at Kornwerderzand can still be seen clearly on satellite imagery and maps:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0706/5.3351

The bunkers covered the approaches by sea and dyke quite well from the piers extending into the sea and lake.
That's the reason why PHP became popular and still is but does it make PHP special for CMSes? I believe that the reason is that people started creating CMSes in the mid 90s when the only viable choices were Java, Perl and PHP. There was a wave of big and expensive CMS focused on companies and there were the open source ones we're using still now. Open source went PHP and my guess is that people thinking about CMSes now is heavily influenced by that culture, which is mostly based on PHP.
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I guess it's not so secret if it's on HN
I think 'hard SF' is usually afforded a couple of 'gimmes' in the sense of rule breaking. I imagine most people would place Rendezvous With Rama, for instance, in this class despite (spoilers, hah) the reveal of Rama's voodoo propulsion mechanism. Niven's books, while fun, push this way beyond what I'd normally concede to be 'hard' but then maybe I'm out of touch.

Also just wanted to say I really enjoyed Accelerando, and the Laundry Files series is amazing so far (although I don't know how far I'll get if it keeps getting darker!) Thanks for all your good work.
Thanks.

Suggestion: put a screenshot of the regular theme in the read me as well.
One prerequisite thing the author is leaving out... you have a beautiful deck with beautiful scenery around. Yes, if I had those views, I would put my computer outside.
What hardware/software are you using? Was it expensive to get into?
“Mike Pall was a pseudonym”

Any source on this??
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This is a common thing to say because it's "cool" now but I don't think it's even a little bit true at all. The value of my University was almost entirely the education, I learned a massive amount and did crap tons of homework and projects (not just lectures and books). I was completely and entirely prepared for a good job in software development. I never even wrote "Hello World" before college.

I have a family member who signed up for an apprenticeship, but the waiting list was many years long. He was told that he could get higher on the list (or maybe skip the list entirely, can't recall exactly) by getting an associates degree. So he went to a community college to get the associates degree. Once he got the associates degree, however, he no longer needed the internship and went right into the workforce. I never asked him directly how much he makes, but I suspect it's more than I do because he's in a specialist field.
There are actually even more unfortunate incentives. When people die from badly cut heroin (especially if from overdosing due to the presence of fentanyl), the bad batch is often incorrectly assumed to be more potent and pure and as such is sought after, causing more deaths.
"A Lisp programmer" ... Sheesh, I am a lisp programmer, man, and I assure you I know what trees of code independent of visual notation is. You're making a point that doesn't need to be made here. It's this kind of phrasing that really turns off people from the lisp community.

I wrote it that way so it's easier for non-lisp programmers to compare with what they're more used to as well.
In those days "real programmers" were doing C and ASM, and they anyway considered all other languages as a joke :P
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Came to the thread to post this. It's a hacker classic. There is also this German movie, telling the same story from the side of the hacker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYD_lmK-KE
Sometimes I wonder... should all the AI builders of today read this book?
One of the tricks you should try is adding Swarm Testing. It tends to make this sort of fuzzing more effective at finding bugs, and I would not be surprised if it improves your coverage also.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2336763

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/591
> to a self-described expert, who unfortunately didn't provide a ton of context),

Are you questioning the expertise of Tim Farrar? If that is the case, you couldn't be more wrong. Check his blog and you will see he has been doing this thing for more than 20 years...

Also, lynk will never be able to provide enough bandwidth to deliver internet connectivity. It is envisioned to be used for short messages.
It was surprising to me that disabling JS not only keeps most sites usable, but significantly improves the experience on most "modern" sites.
I tend to agree, vagrant offers way better configuration possibilities and flexibility. However, there is one significant benefit: on macOS multipass uses hyperkit/xhyve to run the VM, which in my experience performs _much_ better than virtualbox ("docker for mac" also uses hyperkit). I'd love to see a vagrant hyperkit provider (or even a multipass provider! :-), but sadly have found nothing beyond a few alpha-level sketches so far.
getrandom should be used:

https://lwn.net/Articles/606141/

for most user code it's already good enough, the breakage happened in some early use cases:

https://lwn.net/Articles/800509/
You could make similar vague criticisms about academically trained people though. They may enter the work force with little practical skills, their academic sensibilities may interfere with pragmatic decision making... That’s no more of a strawman than your comment.

Personally every time I’ve taught myself something, I’ve started with the fundamentals. I taught myself databases from the ground up. I started with learning query optimizers, data normalization and MVCC.

I think your criticism is much more dependent on the individual than it is how they were trained.
Is there any comparable list of organisations which have supported this measure?

Though the list of signatories to this particular letter is extraordinarily disheartening.

I'd written a brief bit a few years ago, "What the academic publishing industry calls "theft" the world calls 'research': Why Sci-Hub is so popular"

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4p2rwk/what_th...

Among other points, it includes cites from notable academics (NYU's Graduate Center president Chase Robinson, and Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz) making the case for information as a public good.
I recently had to go into the web-inspector and un-blur a website (I think Quora?)
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I wonder how much of the wrist pain has to do with diet and exercise. In my teens and early twenties I had chronic wrist pain. Now in my mid twenties I've been doing weight training that includes wrist/grip strength exercises (wrist curls, dead hangs, plate pinches) and making sure I get enough protein. The wrist pain is gone and hasn't come back for years.

The reason I'm mentioning protein is that apparently joints are the first place the body looks when we don't get enough protein. I didn't really watch what I ate when I was younger and realize now that I definitely wasn't eating enough protein.

I'm not advocating for some extreme weight training regimen, but maybe it's worth seeing a physical therapist and telling them about the wrist problems you were having and asking them for exercises to help strengthen your wrists.
Textbooks and research papers are an entirely separate topics, imho.

While it's easy to argue for textbooks to be openly available (just like education should be), there is no single reason for research papers not to be, since they purportedly advance science and human kind itself, and there is the demand of originality (if I can't access it, I can't establish if someone has not done it already).
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That actually works really well. When I found out that Notion is completely free for students, I moved from every notes site apart from Google Keep and manage almost everything on it.