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The subway has tires for technical reasons. Stations in the Paris subway are close enough that better acceleration times have a significant impact on travel time and peak-hour capacity.
In most cases fiber running past a rural farm is long-haul fiber that you aren't going to able to lease to a nearby colocation point for buying transit. If you do get lucky though and it can be leased, you'll probably still have to pay to bury new fiber from the nearest vault or handhole because they aren't going to dig up the conduit and cut it open just for one guy buying a pair of fibers. That could be over a mile away. The good news is plowing/trenching fiber in a rural area is cheaper than urban/suburban.

Anyway would be interested in more details from that project owner, sounds interesting.
Give everyone a copy of why we sleep, and then have a chapter by chapter book club over a couple of weeks?

I applaud you for helping people with their sleep.
I'm enjoying all the comments here!

Thank you OP for demonstrating the effective use of Cunningham's law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
ESR is a person, Eric S Raymond. He wrote "the cathedral and the bazaar", maintains "the jargon file", and is generally involved in the open-source community. You could consider him an "influencer" like Stallman, although to a lesser extent. He also holds some unpopular right-wing views, like gun rights, freedom of speech, and "meritocracy".

He had this to say on the topic of women's advocacy groups.

>The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a 'women in tech' advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.

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He's a bit of a crank, and not very popular these days.

It looks like the the email was deriding a license that let projects decide certain companies were "unethical", and prevent those companies from using the "open source" code. Right now that list includes Amazon "for collaborating with ICE" and BP for "contributing to climate change".
That's awesome! Congrats! My comment was more directed at the GP than you.
Sure, history has definitely been useful for me. But I've been involved in a few version control system changes, and as long as the old system continues to be available for reading, cutovers are fine.
fair observation.
My understanding was always that tires produce a lot of particulates but they are fairly large and heavy; most of them fall out of the air very quickly.

If that's true it could be true that cars emit lots of PM from tyre wear but must of it never reaches detectors and can reasonably be ignored. That doesn't necessarily invalidate the overall point: that we reduced PM from exhaust enough that other still unregulated sources are better targets for future reduction efforts.
Excel.
In a very profound way it aligns with how humans naturally think. This is far beyond the concepts of UX/UI. It's like someone invents the pencil, and it becomes so ubiquitous you stop thinking about it as a tool that didn't exist all that long ago.

Having read most of Joel Spolsky's blog suggests this was not something that just happened. All the same, few have achieved what Microsoft has achieved with Excel.
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I also wonder about pollution from shoes with plastic soles - pretty much every pair I have ever owned, the sole just wears out gradually until there's nothing left. Where does this plastic go? It's just ground into fine powder and stays on our pavements? Is then washed with rainwater and goes into our soil? How come this isn't a problem yet? Or if it is - why isn't anyone talking about it?
Hey sdenton did you work on or publish that harmonic analysis of correlations that you had mentioned long time ago. I am still quite curious about that. If polishing it for ICML etc is too much of a downer, you can upload it to arxiv. I would love to read that.
It doesn’t. The author’s is a bizarrely outdated view.

Disciplined high-achievers -/ folks who somehow already learned excellent skills — might avail themselves of online education. Kids, in general, not so much.

http://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/...
Possible. There’s also another feature that several people have pointed out could be used for this purpose but as with so many things in git, it’s not seamless. Might still be worth using though, even if it only helps a few of us.
Dependencies are not always visible, especially transitive ones.

Illustrative anecdote: this Friday I copy-pasted a little snippet of HTML/CSS code from an existing (and shelved) project. I've noticed for some time an icon in it wasn't displaying anymore, but this time I really needed to fix it. Turned out that the glyph icon where from a font used by Bootstrap, which was not available freely anymore. Bootstrap (my direct dependency) had itself that third party dependency that I thought was part of it. When they pulled the plug, my code broke.

I'm more careful about dependencies than I was a few years before. Often, if a peripheral thing can be done in an "ugly" way but allows me to avoid an external dependency, I'll wrote code myself.
I come from Europe and moved to USA. After taxes and everything I get for my taxes back home, USA and EU are roughly the same in “things you have to pay for to have a normal life”

Except in Europe I’m not scared of getting sick.
And yet SpaceX still struggles to find launch volume.
Yes it is, see https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/07/mame-devs-are-crackin... or http://www.visual6502.org/

but next CPUs will have vertically stacked circuitry making reverse engineering much more harder (impossible?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_integrated_c...

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/foveros
I don’t. I also don’t consider other anonymous post-comment sites like Reddit to be social media. It’s only social if there are actual connections, relationships, friendships, etc. being formed or perpetuated. That doesn’t happen on here or on Reddit or on other similar anonymous sites. There is a particular sub-reddit for a hobby that I spend a ton of time on. I honestly don’t know if any of the comments I have ever read on there are from people I’ve previously read comments from. I never read usernames and wouldn’t remember them anyway. For all I know, every comment was left by a bot. There is no community, no relationships, no friendships, etc. Just like HN. That’s not social media.
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I suspect this is a broadly shared feeling (I certainly share it) -- the downvoters could perhaps engage the point made instead of acting in a way that proves it.
I've had them now and then. Maybe once a year now, but when I was working nights at a casino and studying during the day I would have them very often. Sleep deprivation and stress.
Permabear/crisis geek complains that people not panicking just don't understand that we are all gonna die again. News at 11.
I think I understand the difference between gevent and asyncio pretty well. Moreover, it sounds like you understand the difference between community adoption and not, but you're fighting against community adoption with your own opinion of what is a "garbage laundry list" -- okay. You can say that. But, there's a reason the gevent approach is not what the community settled on.

What you call "special" asyncio implementations others would merely call obviously explicit code. Async/await is a powerful syntactic construct. I would never go back to gevent hell after using it.
Yep. I know someone that has this almost everyday of his life and he hears a gunshot or a cannon that doesn't exist. It maybe related to spinal cord compression from a genetic anatomical abnormality in the skull or cervical region between the skull and thorax.

Oddly enough, I accidentally induced this effect on myself by falling asleep laying my neck on the corner of a hard surface. It sounded like someone beating hard once on the wall, but as I woke up, I realized no one was around and no sound had actually happened (no echo).
Reminds me of an Applied Science video on cleaning in general (appropriate solvents, rinsing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiL6uPNlqRw
Ah, thanks for the explanation. He does seem like a toxic person.
Taxing by fourth power axel weight per mile sounds good

$10 for a bike doing 1000 miles a year, so 1 cent a mile. Gross axel weight about 100lb.

So axel weight of 1000lb would be $100 a mile.

F150 at 2500lb would be $4,000 a mile.

I suggest putting the first year on the sale price, so that $200 bike costs $210, and the $60k f150 costs $60 million.
When I was very little, I used to have nightmares that consisted of this bang and flash, repeated, indefinitely. They didn't happen every night, thankfully, and eventually they stopped but I don't know why.

In the last twenty years, it's come back exactly once.
I had one of the most incredible dreams ever last week. I was laying on the couch watching something, not feeling too great, and I fell asleep, I think. Thinking I was still awake, I began to see this city by the sea/ocean, and I remarked to myself how incredible it was that I was able to visualize this city so well because I've never hallucinated before. Then I wondered if I could manipulate it like a 3D level, and I could, so I spent some time moving my mental camera around this space, flying like superman kinda but at low speed. Then a Telsa rocketship took off from the city and crashed into the sea, but it didn't explode, it burrowed like a torpedo and turned back towards land. A woman was on a bench by the ocean and it should have hit and hurt/killed her but the rocket just disappeared. Then I realized this must be a dream and woke up. It was so bizarre, I thought I had been awake the whole time.
Similarly, ‘git log -S needle’ will surface all commits with ‘needle’ in the diff.
If it’s the same then...it’s the same. One is not better than the other.

What country in Europe are you coming from and what makes you afraid of getting sick in the US?
Parent's comment is getting downvoted to all heck, but it is completely, obviously true in the Javascript ecosystem. If you're a competent-to-expert Javascript programmer, you will regularly run into libraries that are not coded to your standards.

And honestly, even throwing those libraries out, it's sometimes not even a question of doing a "better" job than the library. The library is designed for general-use, but my needs aren't always general-use. Sometimes libraries are good, but they're wasting time on stuff that I don't need.

This is the reason why every Unity game on the web takes 4-5 seconds to load, and my custom engine takes on the order of milliseconds to load. It's not because I'm a better programmer, it's not because Unity devs are crap, it's purely because I know exactly what my engine needs to do, and I don't waste time on anything that it doesn't need to do.

I can think of tons of examples where I've started out using an existing library and then realized that getting rid of abstraction made my code faster and easier to debug. Heck, I can think of tons of times where I've privately forked libraries and deleted codepaths or rewritten algorithms to make them more efficient for my use-cases. There are very few JS libraries that I regularly use where I have not at some point needed to care about their internals.

And I am definitely not a crazy, insane, masterful programmer. If I'm occasionally circumventing d3 internals or doing stuff manually, it's not because I'm special. People have this assumption that if something has a bunch of stars on Github, there's no way they could possibly code something more appropriate or efficient, and for a lot of people, that just isn't true.
I've heard people have them when stepping down ssris as well.
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I also have photic sneeze reflex but it only happens once per day when I expose myself to direct sunlight. Though typically I sneeze twice in a row and then it stops.
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I didn’t see it as trying I be helpful in the way you’re thinking, just illustrative.

IMO, the best way to write the code (pulling in a lib vs doing it yourself) is to consider the context in which it’s going to be read, maintained, and used. If that’s by a bunch of applied scientists or linalg experts who can read a formula more easily than debugging and maintaining integrated libraries, then roll it yourself.
It’s really both... it does Trump, like no other self-respecting country would. But it also had Obama, who would arguably had had a more difficult time in Europe.

And that goes through everything: people dying from deceases of despair, yet medical research is still top of the field.

Obese people on these scooters everywhere, but also a far larger number of people that are incredibly fit.

A fast food culture that as hedonistic and short-sighted as a late Roman dictator, but also the most elaborate selection of fresh organic vegetables I’ve ever seen in supermarkets.

A tradition of values-based jurisprudence that is far ahead of anything Europe has, but suddenly deciding to try corruption for a bit—and then dominating that particular field again in no time flat.

It’s really quite impressive. I’m somewhat certain it causes Americans more pain than it is worth. But I’m not quite as firm on judging if the rest of the world isn’t sometimes getting a pretty good deal out it.
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This one isn't bad at all. Would you mind pointing me to one that actually is?
That's not reasonable. 1% risk of death vs (1+4.6)% risk of death (a) is closer to 1 order of magnitude higher (log_10(5.6)=0.75), and (b) 1%/year and 5.6%/year are nowhere near the same the way most normal people think about the risk of dying.

A 1 order of magnitude lower risk (0.1%) is basically negligible, like a regular flu. On the other hand, a 1 order of magnitude increase, i.e., around 10% risk of dying would already rate among the deadliest epidemics in history, and far above things like the Spanish flu, so comparing orders of magnitude is just not the right way to think about this number.
I think you're focusing too much on the strict semantics of "generalist" - whether the word is accurate or not will largely depend on context and how much you "zoom out".

I could argue with you that someone who does development, project management and implementation is still a software specialist, and that a real generalist is someone who can sell, or someone who can play piano, as well as do the aforementioned.

I am a freelance tech consultant or run what you could call a microagency... Sometimes I design or code my own projects, whereas others I outsource them and act as a project manager. I deal with my own marketing and sales, successfully so, as I've gotten projects at really big companies by pitching against agencies orders of magnitude my size.

In my case, being a generalist pays well, and it's actually the only way forward in terms of growth. The scenario where I could see myself being useful to others is as a co-founder or as others have said, in certain small or medium businesses.

But I otherwise generally agree that companies of a certain size only think they want generalists but they don't put their money where their mouth is.

I was interviewing for product manager positions some time ago, and I got the impression that interviewers didn't care about my generalist skills (designing, coding, marketing) - they just wanted someone who had done... exactly product management, with very similar responsibilities to the position at stake. I have "Product Manager" in my CV, but some time in the past and often in somewhat different scopes (the role's definition is quite loose) to the hiring companies, putting me at a severe disadvantage in the hiring game.

I always think that being a generalist is entirely possible, but you have to be ready to carve out your place in a world that is mostly built for specialists.
Janet Reno used to refer to herself as an awkward old maid to acknowledge her lack of smoothness and more or less dismiss such criticisms. Depending on your age, that might be before your time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno

I'm short of sleep. I really don't desire to continue this discussion. I only spoke up because you seemed really frustrated and I wanted you to feel okay about how things went and that's apparently not your takeaway at all from my comment.
Fall out of the air. Into the sewers. Then into the rivers, and then the sea, where they are broken up into microplastics and return in the food chain.
What I understood is this author's definition of a generalist is someone who expands his scope beyond just programming. To things like design, business development, hr management, recruiting, raising funds etc.

Generally, it may not be so common to find an individual who's almost equally as passionate about all of these things. In the end we got limited time on this planet and can't learn everything.
It’s thinking like yours on the “uneducated” politicians part that leads to polices like the US has today. Income and money are not everything. But alas, untraveled and relatively speaking closed minded citizenry sees their way as righteous as they are honest and hard working people. It’s a pretty bad side effect of being honest, law abiding and hardworking that you feel your way is the right way and perhaps even justified because of ones struggles. It’s a cycle the promotes more of the same - status quo.
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Once upon a time there was a systems programmer who wanted to use a readymade 3rd party solution to an specific problem.

He evaluated 3 options, then downloaded, compiled, configured and integrated the best choice into the project over the course of a full day. Its limited database integration configuration necessitated some odd quirks like duplicating a db column, but oh well.

When finally done, integration tests revealed that it didn't actually solve the entire problem. It only solved 90% of the problem. Not only that, it had a significant but elusive bug that only occurred in 5% of situations. He filed a bug report, but the project hadn't received any updates in over a year. Damn.

When it became clear neither of the other two readymade libraries would solve 100% of the problem either, the programmer wrote his own solution. It took 3 days of work but he learned a LOT about exactly how it works, and the result solved 100% of the problem with no major bugs.

All of the quirks disappeared. The solution fit the problem exactly, and remained flexible and maintainable. It eventually served as a solid foundation for future developments which had no readymade solution.
> epigenetic markers .. You influence .. and pass on to .. grandchildren (as women..)

AFAICT, a woman significantly influences markers on the eggs (future grandchild) developing in her child (fetus/embrio) in her womb, but at the same time, she influences all the other cells (child). Some (even critical) processes are probably more influenced by the grandmother, but I wouldn't minimize the mother's effect.
Right but people buying F-150s are not buying Teslas. The use case is quite different. My Subaru Outback (a rather large car in comparison to the Tesla) is 3,600 lbs. But I doubt the increase in weight is a huge factor in environmental concerns.
Its hilarious because all sorts of highly politicized articles which bring out the worst and promote ignorance/ psuedo-intelleculism in people get front paged all the time and are justified under some vague rule, but this, which is probably a little more relevant to HN is flagged.
Yes, definitely. I kind of see it like a hobby subreddit from 5 years ago or a niche forum from 15 years ago.

It is well-moderated (thanks dang!), it doesn't have the critical mass of users which leads to wider adoption, it has a narrow focus on thought-provoking material, it is pseudonymous, and you don't need to download an app to use it.

But even though I occasionally learn useful things from HN, I still think it fits the definition of "social media": it is a way to waste time when you are otherwise lonely and bored, and it involves interacting with other people.
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I was tending to go in your direction, but then the formula contains a division and we could be faced with a division by zero error. Which makes me a bit uncertain whether it is so simple. If we are guaranteed the matrix is invertible then doing it by hand is something I would prefer. And likely if it is not then as well since...

The invertibility issue also plagues any library and while it may not blow up by a division by zero we likely still would need to handle that case. This requires to understand the libraries handling of corner cases and how it affects the results.
My skills are more on the developer side, this seems more like a devops tool, right?

As such, I'm never really sure if this is something worth playing with. I've played with docker and k8s, and generally understand how those tools help me, but I'm unsure about how firecracker would help unless I'm building a PaaS like fly.io.

It would be really cool if someone wrote a blog post which compared running a service on the different comparable options. Developers have the Todo apps written in dozens of frameworks to compare against. Is a similar type of exploration not feasible here?
Ah. OTOH, EHS is "hearing" an extremely realistic-sounding loud "noise" that wakes you up, but then realizing the "noise" never happen. It's like your body is gaslighting yourself.
Or a front-end generalist?

The use of one word or another indeed seems to depend on the optics.
But compared to freight trucks, the F-150, the EV, and the Outback are all inconsequential.
right. the other side of that learning curve is that if you implement some X instead of integrating a third party library..even if you didn't before, you now know a lot more about X. enough that you might be able to debug issues with X, or have an informed opinion as to the quality of other implementations of X
And a breakdown into specific medical factors. Diabetes, Smoker, AIDS, cancer, flu.
I get migraines when I have the sun on my head and bright lights around and where I work has recently moved offices. Now next to a river in an office seemingly made entirely of glass. It’s impossible to see anything so now everyone just shuts the blinds.

I now spend about an hour a week with a crazy swirly pattern obscuring most of my vision. A dark room where I could sit and recover when this happens would be incredibly helpful.

The architect seems to have tried to create an Ikea showroom rather than an office where people will be staring at screens all day.
I think being a generalist is definitely a value. In a near future, specialists will be substituted by artificial intelligence (AI). Generalists, instead, will stay at their place, since they do what AI (currently) can't: making connections.
Imagine you have a project where you need to draw a fairly complex object. You have found a file in a standard format that you can use.

However, there are 10 dependencies, some of which are non-trivial. You spend 4 hours changing versions of libraries, downloading a newer compiler than the one you are using, and never get the thing running.

You could have slapped some code together to read the file, and then draw it yourself. It would have taken a half hour.

However, later on you are tasked with with representing many more objects, which have corner cases you didn't account for. This eats up hours and hours of development. Also, you're then tasked with drawing those objects in many different ways, more and more development has been added.

The two take aways are choose based on what you have to do, and make that choice based on knowing 100% what you have to do. If a customer can't make up their mind, they're hurting development whether they know it or not.

BTW, the objects were GIS shapefiles.