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This.

Sometimes I get more done in 15mins of my personal projects before work than a day of work, due to meetings or being blocked. Companies are usually not nearly as efficient as they could be.

I think 90% of work gets done in the first four hours for me.
Readwise.io user here, and I love it. Readwise helps me remember what I read (not just books, but articles too). I get sent a daily email with three excerpts/highlights and it quickly refreshes my memory. Books seem like a better investment for me now because I'm not just forgetting them.

BTW, you can choose as many or few excerpts as you want, and what books / articles as well.

If the good folks at Readwise are reading this comment: I'd love to see an Android app with OCR capability. I read "dead tree" versions of books from time-to-time and want to save those highlights.
I would say the biggest challenge of this kind of field is it is so big so no one actually know everything.
The rule also varies between countries. For example, the construction rule in England may be different from the rule in the US
Are more cops employed? In the UK at least police numbers were cut drastically. One of the many hilarious pledges of the newly elected Tory government of the UK is that they'd hire lots of extra police to fix problems that some might argue were caused by the er... Tory government which had cut police numbers...
Sure, they've led to lots of grants and work for grad students.
There are plenty of retrocomputing folks who would be heavily interested in ROM/firmware recovery from "hardened" chips, for entirely legal archival and/or interoperability purposes. $20k would be peanuts for this use case if success could be reasonably assured even in the "hardest" cases.
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At my work we considered removing the RSS functionality, a quick analysis showed it fed a whole bunch of apps both internal and external. It's definitely alive and heavily used just not as much by humans
That's what is stamped/printed on the pipe (in the images). Also punt guns would be mounted to a boat or use a the boat or earth as support for shooting them. A punt gun would also be loaded like muzzle loader. Here's video of someone loading a punt gun, and they are putting 1/4 pound of black powder in it. https://youtu.be/fg85k28b_dM

Putting the amount powder required to shoot the shot for a punt gun would just make the PVC a suicide device. So same result for anything that would fit in 43mm pvc like a grenade, mortar or cannon/artillery shell.

Edit:
Basically, my point is a punt gun never really had shells, they were muzzle loaders.
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-20...

3.7.7.3 Any Registered Name Holder that intends to license use of a domain name to a third party is nonetheless the Registered Name Holder of record and is responsible for providing its own full contact information and for providing and updating accurate technical and administrative contact information adequate to facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise in connection with the Registered Name. A Registered Name Holder licensing use of a Registered Name according to this provision shall accept liability for harm caused by wrongful use of the Registered Name, unless it discloses the current contact information provided by the licensee and the identity of the licensee within seven (7) days to a party providing the Registered Name Holder reasonable evidence of actionable harm.
Not sure what hw support adds here. While I prefer stacks that a megacorp doesn't own at the bottom, my point is it's the software. Current langs + frameworks are relegated to a tiny fragment of the coding population. So more about making it as easy to reach for GPU / data parallel stuff as folks do for say Spark or Pandas.

We tried working with AMD & Intel early on here but they didn't really get it (architects, investors, and a few other decision-maker-types). It's easy to put $10-20M into the ecosystem and just build it -- a16z finally has several years after we pitched it to them, and so did Nvidia with rapids.ai after we pushed them for a couple years ("what's a dataframe?"). Nothing stopping AMD/Intel and other opencl ecosystem players. But they still aren't.
Most law enforcement applications are the same : a monolithic crud .net client connecting to a version of sql server and each one is god awful. They need strong saas apps, Im tired of managing them.
There are at least five eyes in that group, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
For the avoidance of doubt: I think this is awesome! Keep up the good work!
> Additionally, it's typically a position with more responsibility as well as accountability which tends to reflect in higher pay.

Who has more responsibility for cooking your burger correctly, the cook or the manager? Who has more responsibility for measuring before cutting, the carpenter or the architect? Who has more responsibility for not leaving PII all over service logs, you or your team leader? I would politely suggest that there are different responsibilities for managers, but not that this somehow removes responsibilities from laborers.

> It's unfair to say managers work less because they do management tasks rather than the work their subordinates do. In virtually every job I've had, the more senior the manager, the more hours they worked. Retail especially.

My former CEOs have had enough spare time to show up in the tabloids because they can't stop having sex with their employees or making questionable business decisions with authoritarian governments. I don't have time for sex with my coworkers. Perhaps team leaders or low-level managers have to put in hours, but administrative management definitely does not.

> They don't just claim their positions optimize labour, it actually does optimize it.

In my lifetime, Linux was born and became not just a serious competitor to proprietary kernels, but supplanted them. Thus, the FLOSS model of a massive global commune of public-domain information and tools is a viable contender, able to compete with any corporation.

When I contributed to Linux, I reported to one of the subsystem lieutenants, and my code was reviewed by them and other contributors to the subsystem. For no money whatsoever, they advised me on which parts of the subsystem were worth contributing to, which outstanding tasks were too hard to tackle, and which documentation to read.

Also in my lifetime, Wikipedia was born, supplanting many proprietary encyclopedias within only a few years, and today it is another shining example of the triumph of the FLOSS model.

When I contributed to Wikipedia, I just did whatever I wanted. Whenever something looked like it could be improved, and I had the time and energy to improve it, I did what had to be done to make things better. If people disagreed, they could undo what I did; if I disagreed with them, then there were community arbiters who could negotiate a solution.

So, like, do managers actually optimize labor to the point where they earn their keep? I can't tell, and I think that we ought to measure.

> I don't understand where this idea that managers are merely irrelevant middlemen who have no impact on the people they manage comes from.

Oh, it's worse than that; the typical manager has a net negative impact on their direct reports, from what I've seen.

> And, as with almost any other job, a manager that fails to contribute will be replaced much like any other underperforming employee.

I no longer believe that you have been gainfully employed in a corporate hierarchy. This line gave you away.
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We might say it if we met you...
There is a third option: xrandr lets you choose different resolutions per-screen. Nothing ends up too large or too small, you just don't get the benefit of the high-dpi screen.
I'm on the other side of the ledger. It's 40C (104F) and I barely blink. Part of living in Texas I suppose...
> So you can get into the situation where you've decrypted every volume that exists, under coercion, but your adversary believes there are more volumes remaining.

This is intentional.

If you could prove that there wasn't more hidden data, then the incentives would be to torture you until you did that.

Since you can't, there is no incentive to reveal a further hidden volume, since the attackers will either keep torturing you or not, and revealing more will most likely not help you.

This exact topic was discussed in the Rubber Hose documentation that I read 20 years ago. I think this is an archive of the document I'm thinking of: https://web.archive.org/web/20100820175505/http://iq.org/~pr...
Have you tried Polar?
https://getpolarized.io
Key and click logging?!?!?
NextDNS works well without setting up anything new, too. I use it instead of pi-hole.
Hmm, there are many companies where what you proposed make sense. But there are also many that I think it's hard to debate that SaaS doesn't offer value.

Running the mail server is simple enough, but then you need to set up storage. Emails are sensitive and often can't afford to lose. Then you need to set up backs, monitor and regularly test DR scenarios to see if your failovers, recovery plans are operational. Of course you need to maintain your data centers as well if you don't want subscriptions.

Then think of login. Employees don't want to log in to 15 different software. So they are going to ask for SSO. You are going to have to deploy and maintain something like active directory. Sometimes they need to be maintained across networks between different offices that are far from each other. After all this, you will still have to buy support packages from principle vendors for times when things go wrong (and they go wrong all the time when you host your own stuff). Shit escalates mate.
Weird! Didn't see any issues on our side.

BTW just booked a 45m call to see if an expert can help us get our 6 week old to sleep through the night!
someone could improve the scalability of windows by adding better scripting options. Like how can I open 10k windows , programatically change a form input and then click the submit button?

Selenium comes to mind..
No. My entire business is based on RSS. And it's doing great. I'm a podcaster. All podcasts are RSS feeds.
imho, it's just better to more or less part amicably - maybe you don't agree with management, that's fine, move on and do what you want to do at another company; but it's probably best not to flame them out on the public internet.
Why would they care at all? They are a domain registrar that's it. Not their place or responsibility to police domains.
This is really cool! I had something similar with a bunch of pearl scripts at work. Essentially I would call perldoc on them and parse the output to get the command line options. But the fzf addition is a nice touch.
> I like their TLI ideas, but I am honestly a bit alergic against designers who lack the phantasy of realizing that sometimes a UIs complexity is a reflection of the complexity of the problem it helps to solve in conjunction with the level of control you want to give to the user.

I think what's key here, and why I like the direction of the work in the linked post, is that none of the affordances of the UI they're augmenting -- the command line -- are being taken away,* merely made more visible based on context. I think that gets at a hole in the notion that UI complexity mirrors domain complexity -- in the case of Premiere, surely the entirety of what's on the screen doesn't mirror the complexity of the workflow you're executing right now, it's much closer to the sum total of everything you might ever do. Not that a UI based on progressive disclosure would be trivial or maybe even possible to implement effectively for something like a professional video-editing application, but it's worth considering whether something like that is merely a local maximum in the space of all possible UIs.

* I guess in the case where you know exactly what you want to do and the added context might distract or slow you down, that's an affordance being removed, but I think it's outside the scope of what we're talking about here -- especially because, given the scope of the command line, you will inevitably have to do something with it that involves an invocation that isn't right at the tip of your fingers.
CATIA is a beast of a bill!
Yes, but these items (camshaft, gearbox etc) are not made "by hand".
The article has a very narrow definition of a computer. The author should read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsupervised_learning and perhaps a few more articles of the last 20 years of computer science.
You don’t agree with Google’s November paper then I guess?

You KNOW what quantum supremacy means. Please don’t nit pick my layman’s description we are all adults here. You know what I meant.
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No google built a physical machine.
The legacy has to be really bad for an abandoned mid-flight migration to be any better. Usually the intermediate state is at least a little worse (but worth it because you eventually get through). Strangler pattern only helps bound the damage.
> * Key and click logging

What kind of dystopian Corporate hellscapes have you worked in?

This is totally unacceptable. I would not submit myself to that kind of scrutiny or micromanagement, no matter how benign the intentions of it's implementor. Nothing good can come of it.
Also worth mentioning: they are lying when they say it’s anonymous. It includes your IP address, which is a globally unique identifier. I believe it also transmits an installation ID, which persists on the machine.

It is absolutely not anonymous.
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Sure but you will still be paying property taxes, utilities bills, food and so on.
It is not clear just how one would just "stop spending". Unless you want to spend your retirement foraging for food, sleeping under the bridge etc.
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This idea conflicts heavily with GDPR first of all. Secondly, why should that information be public? Does car ownership need to be publicly disclosed even though tons of car crashes happen every day? No, because the driver is liable, not the manufacturer, and the driver carries insurance to reduce cost of liability.

The real issue is enforcement. Namecheap should not be there as an arm of the law. Instead, the people BUYING the domains should be held accountable for their fraud.

This gets messy quick. How does Namecheap verify the validity of an individual? What constitutes a valid individual? What evidence is required to prove this to a registrar? How does Namecheap verify the legitimacy of intent for that domain? How does Namecheap keep up with every possible brand that may be subject to abuse? At what point does a brand become protected in a way that restricts the selling of similar domains?

For KYC in the financial world, answers exist to ALL of these questions. There is some inherent level of identity tied to your personal finances. These systems are built around a real identity that can be validated, so it's easy to apply. The same is not true for any internet service.
As someone creating software in that industry, I agree. Although my team recently made a large dent via a selling a chunk of our software to an industry leader.
I don’t suffer from insomnia but I imagine it to be torturous. I have to say I find it shocking that cutting out stimulants like coffee isn’t one of the first things people try when suffering insomnia with or without a doctor telling them too.
Interesting idea. I expect it would be a hell of a lot more impactful if the demo used some well-known commands like `tar`, `find` or `grep`, though, all of which have absolutely heaps of options and complex command structures.
Upvote for reasonable, pragmatic process.

Maybe typo on step four to "if choose to fight".
> Since CRDs are installed on the cluster level, it is not possible to namespace resource versions (and that’s unlikely to happen soon)

This is misleading, the object _instances_ of a CRD belong to a namespace, unless they are cluster wide
I'm not taking issue with your definition of quantum supremacy, I'm taking issue with your (implied) definition of "almost useful". Personally, I don't consider the demonstration of quantum supremacy in and of itself to be useful. It is very interesting, but IMHO it is not (yet) fair to say that QCs have done anything useful, even if you hedge with "almost".
Yet they still jailed this poor guy. I amazed a judge, or jury member did not notice the insanity of the claim. The guy is homeless so not like he could afford a decent lawyer. He really needs legal help in my opinion.
I still don’t know why the bitcoin p2p protocol doesn’t opportunistically encrypt, even unauthenticated. Bittorrent has been doing this for ages.

It would be a huge privacy benefit, both for those running a p2p node, as well as to those broadcasting transactions (the government snoops passively monitoring would not know the location/ip from which a given new transaction originated).

Raising the stakes from a passive splitter to active MITM has value.
Why does any reasonable function need to exclude D-Wave by default? Aren't they the only company with an actual, publicly-accessible, realtime production system you can use?

I know it's not gate model, but it does compute using quantum effects, and so any reasonable model of performance has to include for this sort of system.

IIRC D-Wave doesn't like single digit performance indicators, so they're aligned with Aaronson on this for once.
Some people do. I still blame the human for the software we have today.
> Education does not equate to a successful job

> The only thing that betters society is the positive application of knowledge

To apply knowledge, you have to first acquire it. How do you propose to do so without education?
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It would be great if you share your experience here as well. Cheers!
https://www.dwavesys.com/applications is worth looking at, they quote 200 different applications for their system.

Truly useful as in profitable, maybe not yet, but it's still early days - it would be like asking Von Neumann how he plans to handle microtransactions
Google Reader literally killed all Web and Clients side RSS development. It make sense it lives on the web rather than an App. And it was one of the best RSS Reader.

I am not sure what RSS Reader people are using these days, but I have been using Feedly since Reader discontinued. And as long as they keep their free tier I dont see myself stop using them.

I think most people who use RSS are nerds or geeks anyway. So in terms of usage it is very small in the world where we have 4 billion Smartphone users. And I dont even look for RSS icon in website. I just search it inside Feedly to see if they have it listed. And most of the time they do.

The problem with RSS is no one has figure out a sustainable business model or UX for the majority of the market.

Is Something "Dead" in tech often means something entirely different to its literal sense. What the precise word you are / may be looking for is declining.
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Google's quantum supremacy is BS, does anyone believe it? It can't do anything besides "not be simulated well".
It's been really cool to see tools such as tmux, FZF, or Fish make waves on our interactions with the terminal. CLI is such a mature space, tools have to be really great to gain any traction.
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"Cards to catch up to" is just "cards Anki predicts you're in danger of forgetting". As long as you can recall a reasonable % of the cards you're reviewing, you aren't "falling behind" at all! Indeed, Anki will give you "extra credit" for recalling a card that you didn't review on schedule, so the "catch up" process is a lot more effective than it appears st first glance.
> So you could just `git checkout v1.0.0; git checkout -b v1.0`,

git checkout can take an optional tag/branch argument so

`git checkout -b v1.0 v1.0.0` works just as well for creating branch `v1.0` off of tag `v1.0.0`
Maybe I can try :). I think there is a distinction between philosophy and evidence-based advice and information. For example, there is evidence from research that spanking has negative consequences on development - so we would lead with that evidence.

As a different example, let's take sleep - lots of different philosophies, and the research isn't clear on impact on development regarding which sleep approach is used. So, our professionals can help parents develop a plan based on the science of sleep, and how children learn to support the parent in forming a plan based on their philosophy.

This isn't different than what any evidence-based behavioral professional or a psychologist that a parent would seek out would do. And, it's an iterative process. We work with families over time to track change, iterate on plans, discuss snags, etc.

The balance and check is that its' evidence-based advice, not opinion. Does this help?
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I wonder why the body needs to move to stay warm. Seems like a waste of energy. If I were to "design" the body, I'd make automatic heat generation one of my MVP features.
You have to commit to managing your own time effectively and efficiently because nobody else is going to do that and there's no social pressure/encouragement of your co-workers around you.

You have to reach out and communicate when you're struggling or blocked because nobody will know by your body language.

You have to step away when you need to because it's easy to get sucked into non-stop work which isn't always productive work. This is even better if you're allowed to have a truly flexible schedule (e.g. you could work a few hours in the morning, take the midday to yourself, and work the rest of your day in the late afternoon/evening or switch it up and take the morning to yourself and work the afternoon/evening).
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The reason RSS is not dead is because it is relatively free. The people who don't want it on their website remove the RSS button from their list of share-buttons. They have no clue that their website still supports it.

Example: Vice wrote an article titled "The rise and demise of RSS" (you can google it). Now go to their homepage, look at the page source, and there you go:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="vice" href="http..redacted..."/>
Interesting. How would IPFS handle updates to a page? I assume that the updated page would have to be hosted separately.
Facebook could pay NameCheap a few bucks to attach an observer pattern to some registration watch filter and get real-time notification from some narrow scope of name patterns.

In the olden days one would make a 20 line Perl script w/a nasty regex that's forked off for every registration -- and bill on the value not time to code.

Is a more modern pattern to egregious? FB just send NC a filter table.

Other name sensitive watchers could be added too.
I’m not sure what you mean- it’s probably one of the smallest pickups I have seen in the US in my 30 years on this planet.