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The ability to be true to yourself in social situations!

-> https://www.youtube.com/c/socialanimal

We are surrounded by opportunities for real human connections

Every day, we go through dozens of situations that encourage light, authentic interactions with the people around us.

All these moments when someone is next to you, and YOU feel like you want to interact… but you don’t

…you are working at coffee shop and there someone next to you. You share a smile, you look at each other a few times, you want to say something… but instead you convince yourself that you are too busy and leave wondering what if…

…you are standing in line, someone in front of you looks cool, you like their vibe, you could give them a compliment but you are not sure, what are they gonna think, whats the point anyway… whatever…

…you go out to a bar to meet people. They are people all around you, you feel tonight could be fun but instead you order a drink and talk to you friends all night…

Opportunities are all around us, but instead of diving into the moment, we hesitate…

We second guess ourselves and overthink our intentions until before we know it, the moment passes us by.

Maybe we make up an excuse why it didn’t happen, or maybe we just accept the fact that we are just not “that kind of person”

Either way, we censor ourselves, a moment here, a moment there, constantly moving further away from the connections we so desperately crave and building comfort on the sidelines of the life we could have.

These interactions could lead to our next friendship, job or romantic encounter but the most important realization is that its not about the outcome, it’s about you.

The real question is who would you be today if you had gone for it even half the time in the last few years? What you lose is not only the moment and the potential connection, but the personal evolution that this moment would have brought you.

We are so focused on the outcome that we forget the initial intent of expression, the desire to say something, we forget about the process…

I used to judge my interaction on the outcome, I made a friends, I got her number, I went on a date etc… until I realized all this is irrelevant.

The only question that matter is: “Did I express myself or did I censor myself”

Why?

Because overtime, being committed to expressing yourself will simply give you more experience.

You’ll be more comfortable expressing your truth, you’ll meet more people, you’ll just have so much more experience which will impact how you relate to people, how you express yourself… which in turn impact your new interactions.

I realized that I should be able to talk to anyone with the same ease and presence I have when I am with my best friends.

All the frictions you can experience are just opportunities to better understand yourself and your perception.

Interacting with people is first and foremost about you. It’s about expressing yourself, the rest takes care of itself.

The only thing you need is to let your true self shine through. That’s what people want to see, and it’s the only way find real people to share your life with.

-> https://www.youtube.com/c/socialanimal
Having less stuff both phisically as in stuff at home and mentally as in single down on fewer things to pursue.
The idea is roughly that the remaining resources (that purchasers save by paying half as much, and you save due to being more efficient) would be used to produce something else that previously didn't exist, so the total amount of "stuff"/"product" produced would be greater. Now, you might wonder if X was saved, but then X was spent on something else, doesn't GDP remain the same? No, because GDP is supposed to capture extra output, so GDP calculations would (try to) factor in the fact that you can now get more widgets per unit money. The is not easy to do, but is attempted, so GDP today for instance tries to capture the fact $1000 of computer buys way more "compute" than $1000 of computer did 30 years ago.

Now, what if you did nothing with the extra money saved from being more efficient, and the widget purchasers did nothing with the money saved from it being cheaper (maybe they put it under their bed, or burned it)? This will still (in theory) show up in GDP because it reduces the money supply, hence increases the value of money, essentially transferring purchasing power from the money burner to the other people in the economy, which they could then use to produce more things than previously.
I don't think shedding ones britches has anything to do with Brexit, honestly, but if it helps you feel free, go right ahead.
I used to work with a Musician Turned developer who had worked as a London session guitarist

One classic comment about a major uk star "97 FUKI*&G tracks in pro tools for his vocal"
In the Waymo video there are vector narrow lines added on top of the broken white line of the image view, there are also a vector boundary of the centered line and boundaries, and 3D box for cones. You are clearly not looking closely enough, or might not want to.
Does what you're saying imply that growth can be perpetual ?
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Learn a another human language. You don’t have to be good at it or even able to converse. Languages are systems of thinking as much as they are systems of communication. Some thoughts only make sense in a given language! The process of learning a language builds cognitive skills and perhaps fights cognitive decline. If you have absolutely no “ear” for human language start with Esperanto and work your way to additional languages from there.
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Failure to allow supply to meet demand. Zoning regulations constrain how much housing can be built to a very low amount on most residential land. No surprise that prices would rise in that environment, this is barely econ 101, it's like high school level economics.

Like, when demand goes straight up and supply can't go nearly as fast, what else would anyone expect? I don't understand why everyone always acts so shocked that the completely predictable happens over and over.

Seattle has actually been much better about allowing more housing than some peer cities, like SF. But compared to cities in most other developed countries, the situation is still awful. For example, the kind of very low density zoning that is commonplace in Seattle literally doesn't exist anywhere in Japan or Germany.

I don't think you'll find many urbanists or YIMBYs pushing to demolish greenspace like parks or trails. I'm certainly not; if anything, I'd prefer to push to acquire more greenspace, perhaps by redeveloping surface parking lots. As for housing needs, there's plenty of space where things are already developed.
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> 1000% learning experience for me, having to seek into the darkest corners of the language to find solutions to problems I didn't even know existed.

Sounds like the experience has been beneficial for you, but this excerpt reads like a cautionary tale for using "ValillaJS" for real projects. :-)
That’s why I’d say to get trained. Trainers are worth the money.

There are also more economical options like small group training classes.
Ya, I should have explained that more clearly.

Basically my thinking is:

- There are going to be certain luxury goods whose supply is limited.

- I framed it in terms of hobbies in order to point out that in many cases "luxury goods" aren't just frivolous comforts but are instead things that people need to achieve meaningful personal goals.

(Also, on a completely off topic note: that's really interesting to hear about sailboats. I'm going to have look into how much they would cost to own and maintain in my area!)
I guess the gist of it is there's a difference between a Party's Primary election process and a National or State election. The Party is treated like a private club that can do whatever it wants in its Primars to select its candidate for the general election.
Learn some scheme and go through SICP. Real eye opener!
Of course there are creative ways to present that as a sabbatical too, but that might be putting a bit too much spin on things. The big question is: what did you do in that time apart from job hunting. Did you study new skills in order to put them on your CV and improve your chances? Then focus on the new skills you learned.

In my experience, though, it's not that big of a deal. I've been unemployed for over a year in the wake of the dotcom crash, from 2003 to 2004 in my case. I still regret not using that year more productively, and mostly spent it playing Morrowind. Applied for tons of jobs in the mean time, but couldn't even get invited to an interview. Once I did find a job, I found 3 of them. 3 employers were suddenly eager to hire me, and none of them cared that I spent that year mostly playing Morrowind. Sometimes the job market just sucks, and many employers understand that. But your story certainly looks better if you spent that year working on some interesting private or open source project, instead of playing a game.
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It depends. If it generate any kind of money exchange it counts to GDP. But there are many solutions that don't generate growth (like walking to work instead of using other means of transportation)

The way we measure growth is nuts. the best way to acknowledge that is to watch this speech from Robert F Kennedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IdKFqXbUY
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You still need energy inputs, so I'm not sure it does.
And if you have a working Yamaha CS 80 even more so ( one of the synths used on blade runner)
Probably not before AMD can beat Intel on the mobile chips single core performance and power consumption, as I assume they sell much more laptops than desktops, and in addition to that not before AMD erodes the vague notion of 'Intel being best you can get' in consumers minds.
Kind of - you don't need it separately.
>A once-every-three-years study by the Federal Reserve Board found that in 2016, 51.9 percent of families owned stocks, either directly or as part of a fund.

https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/sep/18...

I would add that there is so much total stock wealth, even though the top 10% own 84% of said wealth, the remaining amount is very very large.
You need infrastructure. You need petrol/oil to power the machines to build the roads so you can build the electricity to be able to build the internet connectivity that you need.

The nations are wealthy but if the profits are siphoned off by both corruption and the international companies that own the mines, then the citizens don't see any of that money trickle down to them.

In these countries the educated leave very quickly unless they're employed by any of the above.
Understanding statistics (and how to cheat with them).
I bought a dress, a cookie, and a book yesterday from a mall in India.

All 3 asked me for my phone number. It’s getting ridiculous
But we have a lot of statistical information and can use reasonable priors about the world.

Ie objects don't spring into existence or disappear or fly around at 400 mph or change direction at 2000 gees.
I like Docker, I like microservices, but I feel like I'm just not excited about Kubernetes itself. There seems to be a "bullshit complexity" that people add to it that I really don't think is going to stick. But, I really do like the "GitOps" experience. A merge to a master branch is a deploy. Should I just get over this perception and learn Kubernetes, or could I find joy and professional usefulness out of another tool?
McKinsey and their peers represent modern management theory and practice. The answers they provide are never a surprise.

The core guiding principle is that shareholders are the only stakeholders that matter, which wasn’t the case in earlier times.

Unionism can’t function in that mindset because for a union to be productive, it is a stakeholder at the table.
Even if you disconnect the number, they still keep it on file.

I have a small network of legitimate accounts that they've suspended a few times. In this last round of suspensions, I can't reset any of them with my phone numbers any more.
I was born in Dhahran in 1986, left in 2002. My dad worked in Aramco’s drilling department and was not insignificantly involved in introducing PCs to the organization. From his telling it was mostly for selfish motivations to improve inventory, logistics, and accounting workflows to be more manageable for his own teams. He was getting the Aramco library signed up for computer magazines before I was born. He has some interesting stories about the early days of computing, from inside the bowels of this company.

I learned to build PCs from parts I purchased from Philippino merchants at al Shula mall in the mentioned Khobar. I attended LAN parties on the initially mentioned street in the article in Dhahran proper, Prairie View. I taught myself to program on a TI-83 calculator at Dhahran school.

I transitioned into the tech industry pretty quickly out of college after studying poli-sci related curriculum w focus on Middle East, and have worked in O&G related tech for a good part of my career. I’m a product manager for an O&G portfolio product now. I have friends working in Aramco still, many Aramco friends in the town I live, and family in the region in similar arrangements. Happy to answer questions regarding any of the above.

There are quite a few resources available for those curious about the country, company, and history of expatriate workers in the region. “The Prize” mentioned in another few comments is an excellent primer, a lesser know resource I’ve come to like are “Out In The Blue”, by Tom Barger who retired from Aramco as CEO in 69. The book is a collection of letters from himself and other expatriate workers to their families about the establishment of exploration activity in the country. It’s got a bit of “the party line”, rosy-towards-the-Saudis feel but is some excellent and generally unknown primary documentation of the company’s early years. Another book less charitable to Saudi, American, or even my own role in the country’s history is “Cities of Salt” by Abdelrahman Munif. That was a multi part fiction giving a semi-historical recounting of the establishment of a Dhahran-like town in a Saudi-like country from the perspectives of different local people living there already. It is phenomenally authentic, and has a spirit of understanding of the sentiment there that is not common. The work has been banned in kingdom.
I'll quote another comment on this discussion:

Take a look at http://www.androwish.org/index.html/wiki?name=jsmpeg+SDL+Vid... for an experimental approach to displaying Tcl/Tk applications in a web browser.
The real question is cameras + ML + tons of data vs LIDAR + cameras + ML + tons of data
How do you deal with companies just opening random small companies who's main/only job is holding patents?
At this point this is just vacuous propaganda being repeated while adding very little of value. Give us some examples, why do you think this? While you are reconsidering your message, perhaps you can recognise why repeating the ideological messages of your own government overseas might not be the right move for humanity as a whole.
Problematic software used in Iowa caucuses also set to be used in Nevada
Some people have the maturity and wisdom to be able to enjoy dark humor. Whenever I hear someone so vehemently against jokes I assume they're covering something worse, like a bible-thumping politician who gets caught soliciting sex in a bathroom.
Honesty is not a skill, lying successfully is.

Neither is kindness. (And forced kindness can be patronizing.)
A lot of folks in third world nations focus on academics to escape corrupt and dysfunctional governments. Also working hard at academics ensures you have a better chance of getting a job and providing for yourself somehow. There is no social support as a safety line.

The first time I heard about a concept called "unemployment insurance", I was utterly flabbergasted! I thought it was a joke!
Historic risk aversion. The two wars, the DDR, the Eurozone.

Germans have experienced over and over again that they can't count on the government to make good decisions for their money. I know quite a few who try to keep their bank balance always around a zero and invest the money they have in other forms of storage they feel more ownership about (i.e. real estate).
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WHY does anyone need electronic voting in the first place? How much of an inconvenience is it to make a mark next to your choice on a piece of paper? I feel like there is some insane American reason to make voting machines but I can't comprehend it.
>I reckon it is only feasible if the RAM crawls into the CPU.
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And God said, "Let there be Cache." And there was Cache.
It's worth noting that the caucus is supposed to be much more than just registering your presidential preference. The idea is that you have a regular gathering with your neighbors to discuss political concerns. That most people view it as an elaborate and slow version of a primary is an indictment of how sad the state of political participation in our country is.

That being said, it is an excellent way to exclude people who have other responsibilities or difficulty making it out for several hours on a week night.
I've been boycotting The Weather Channel since they started naming storms.
That must take a lot of memory, Clang @ -j16 gets OOMed on my machine.
The US certainly has a shortage of desirable land (e.g. land in Manhattan and San Francisco). Even if the details of which land has more demand than supply changes over time, I don't think that changes the fact that at any given time there is a shortage.
Mac Pro was in the making long before AMD released a complete line of products that can compete with Intel on all fronts (not only price, but single core and multi core performance, clock speeds and so on) so quite possibly they'd have to delay Mac Pro even further, if they'd decide to stop and redesign it for AMD platform. Given how willing they been to switch GPU chips between Nvidia and AMD/ATI in past for their laptops, I still have a little hope for something like iMac or iMac Pro with a nice high cpu count AMD CPU in future. I don't hold my breath though.
- Speaking and writing skills

- Listening and soft skills

- how your business operates so you can have a bigger contribution

- learn to get to know your colleagues as people

- learn how to present technical topics to decision makers

- learn to let go (and empathize with the other POV) if a decision doesn’t go your way
Here is my personal list as an embedded developer:

Embedded Linux: seems to be a growing field in embedded engineering as single board Linux computers are getting smaller and cheeper

Amazon IoT core: there are a lot of capabilities to understand! Luckily Amazon does seem to have some training available.

Advanced C debugging and building: with embedded c it is pretty easy to let the IDE hold your hand when building and debugging, but I would like to learn more about makefiles, linker scripts, and scripting gdb for advanced debugging.
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We have continuously expanded our use of land and resources.

That fact that forests are expanding in e.g. Europe, a continent that has already been completely devoid of wilderness should not mask what is happening in continents that are 'behind' like Africa, South America, and Asia.

This is the key issue at hand and is driven by population growth coupled with less poverty, and what is causing current climate and environmental issues.

Ignoring this is what is fundamentally dangerous and we can see the effects on the planet right now.
The seed pod of this medicinal herb may have inspired the traditional heart shape in wide use today — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium#Connection_with_the_h...

You can see visit silphium fields in Assassin’s Creed: Origins.
It's also really easy to verify in parallel. Two or three separate reporters per jurisdiction phone in to physically separate tabulating centers, tabulating centers cross-check and verify at the end.
From what I heard, it means that the volunteer captains are old people who don’t know how to download apps, and they preferred dialing a phone number.
Stricter languages has been crucial for me. Static analysis and linting have limitations that compilers don't.
Coronavirus: Vaccines are probably not good final solution for mutating viruses
It depends on deliverables and execution. No one truly cares if someone's family took a small cut of the project expenses, if the project was executed and delivered according to spec on time.

In China, failing execution would result in head-chopping. Problem in most third-world nations is drinking down all the money and delivering little-to-nothing.
They literally had to cancel 50% of their plans and they likely would have gotten the incentives through the traditional route anyway. The stupid way they handled the negotiations not only ruined their plans for NY it also turned a huge number of people against them.
Also those joke RFCs are too thorough to the point they all work and that could strengthen impression that RFCs are “official”
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Maybe the final exam should be a closed-book test where each student is given questions about their own essay.
Yeah, an Amiga 500 with RRP £499 in 1987 is about £1440 today.
I recommend watching thefutur (Chris Do) youtube channel. A lot of useful info.
Right, which is fundamentally incompatible with a two-party democracy.
The Party is a private club, full stop.
Naturally all the machines support it, but it's up to the owner of the business whether to enable that feature or not.
A fun instance of security through obscurity.

They might already be hacked as well.
I stopped putting months on my resume. Nobody cares what month you joined or left. A gap of less than 2 years won't even be noticed.

"Job X, 2000-2003; Job Y, 2004-2008." I guarantee no interviewer is ever going to say "So you left Job X on December 31st, 2003, and started Job Y on January 1st, 2004? I don't believe it. How long was this gap, really?"

Job hunting often takes months, and software engineers make enough money that they have enough saved to not need to work every day to make rent. If they give it any thought at all, interviewers are going to assume you quit in the fall, spent a few months on vacation, spent a few months on job hunting, and started again in the spring.

It's become an industry joke in my circles that software engineers never 'take vacation'. They work hard for 6 to 18 months until their startup goes bust (or their consulting contract is up), take a few months off, and jump in again.
Yep. Grocery stores have to pay rent, too.

HQ2 is a great case study on why we ought to have the Land Value Tax. Under this regime, wherever Amazon chooses to put their HQ would have all the same market mechanics occur (prices would still rise with the market) but the increase in prices would be seized as tax revenues and not as a windfall for landlords who had nothing to do with why Amazon chose to put HQ2 there. The region could then use this to e.g. build public housing, improve infrastructure, create functional transit hubs to allow people to disperse a bit while still remaining part of the community, etc.
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Learn to accept death and read the myth of sysphus if you haven't read.
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