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This really hit me.

Am I an Expert Beginner suffering from Dunning-Kruger and delusions of competence?

Or am I an actual Expert suffering from Imposter Syndrome?

I'm working as tech co-founder in a small team with junior devs, and I do some things "differently" for what seem to me to be good reasons.

How do I tell?
> I just want to encourage better ways of writing, thinking, and publishing.

You could use more encouraging language. Phrases like "I don't care" and "[don't] have time for bullshit" make it seem exactly like you're trying to be negative.

I'm not trying to say anything, I just want to make you do better.

Always consider people who are different to you. Maybe they have so little time for bullshit they won't even bother being negative about someone else's writings from 8 years ago.
A couple friends of mine published a paper several years ago covering a few approaches to detecting election fraud based on numerical analysis of the results. I wonder whether the election discussed in this article would pass their test.

PDF: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

EDIT: also, the posted article probably deserves a [2018], since it's a discussion of Putin's 2018 re-election, not the recent referendum on (among other things) term limits.
>Solution

>Get a top notch UX guy to fix it for you.

I don't think these "top notch UX guys" are easy to find, any hint on where to look for them?
Reminds me of an open source project a friend of mine made, with the same concepts. https://github.com/PaddiM8/Kolan

What is your tech stack? Open Source?
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> That means that there's some non-obstructive issue here going on.

Maybe you are not clear on what neurological and obstructive means, but non-obstructive is not the same as neurological.

> It's not gish gallop to post a time line of reports from March to June.

It is gish gallop if you say "reporting neurological loss of smell" and the first two things you cite to support that does not make any mention of a single report of neurological loss of smell.

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

> During a Gish gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, and misrepresentations in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate.

> reports on non obstructive loss of smell.

Gish gallop is not enough, have to move the goalposts also.

> You said it's the first you heard of it, which made me assume you didn't follow any news.

I never said this is the first I have heard of non-obstructive loss of smell.

> I have to assume you're just arguing in bad faith.

You gish-gallop and when I call you on it you lie and move the goal posts. Get a mirror.
yes, i think it is not used so much in other Asian cuisines
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No question it's an issue for the coming decades. China still respects the military capabilities of Russia and their ability to defend their territory. Russia is well ahead of India in capabilities. The question is when or will that respect change and what would change it. Arrogance inevitably gets the better of all superpowers, it can't be more than 10-20 years before China starts openly trying to take Russian border territory.

I also wouldn't want to be Mongolia. There's a potential that China will leave Mongolia intact as a buffer with the long Russian border. If China wants to expand its territory, there's no easier, larger target than Mongolia (17/18th largest nation by land with only 3m people and essentially no military ability to defend itself).
From the "Clever Hans" Wiki article [0]:

"Using a substantial number of trials, Pfungst found that the horse could get the correct answer even if von Osten himself did not ask the questions, ruling out the possibility of fraud. However, the horse gave the right answer only when the questioner knew what the answer was and the horse could see the questioner. He observed that when von Osten knew the answers to the questions, Hans got 89 percent of the answers correct, but when von Osten did not know the answers to the questions, Hans answered only six percent of the questions correctly."

Still pretty amazing capabilities, actually indicating advanced communication skills.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
I wouldn't do this as desktop app. That way you are fighting the existing ecosystem. Instead have a webservice that eats the RSS feed of an existing blog and mirrors it, also keeping track of uploaded images, and then when need be spins up a blog instance on digitalocean.

Wouldn't know how to price that, and with RSS often containing just a few items you'd need to think about that when setting up the blog. Though maybe blogspot supports range requests for RSS?
If you "view source", there's a JSON blob that has this:

,"datePublished":"2012-09-30T23:48:21+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-06T01:20:40+00:00",

Looking at raw html source isn't always a reliable indicator but the older date looks legit in this case.

[Can someone explain the downvotes? I'd like to know if my information is incorrect.]
But are we surprised?
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I like to go with a brief "what i've done and why". Maybe "BUG-123 (Broken profile page) - Fixed missing CSS".
FWIW Vietnam's youthful demographics are pretty much irrelevant; what's impressive about Vietnam is not its mortality rate but that they shut down viral transmission.

My point is that many countries with wildly different conditions have successfully suppressed the virus, which I think suggests that just about any country could have suppressed the virus with the right policies. At least, one should not confidently assert that there is no way the USA, western Europe, etc could have successfully suppressed the virus.
https://github.com/FluxML/Torch.jl
I think this approach was also suggested in Andy Grove's High Output Management.
Here's a couple links. I glossed over them, and they seem like decent resources.

https://www.tripsavvy.com/setting-up-a-campsite-498429 - Setting up camp 101. Doesn't go over how to pitch a tent, but that'll get covered with the tents documentation.

https://veggievagabonds.com/camping-for-beginners/ - Camping 102, bit more in depth.

https://thebackpackinghiker.com/hiking-and-wild-camping-in-s... - Assumes experience, but covers Switzerland specifically, so you may find it useful.

https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/destinations/swiss-natio... - The Swiss National Park appears to have campsites and hiking trails. I've had good experiences with the US National Parks, but haven't been out of the states (yet).
That's right. That's where I live. Auckland is not super dense, but then neither is LA and look at that now.
The only time I use it is when I'm making a small fix or tweak and will be `rebase -i`ing immediately afterwards. It probably saves me several keystrokes per year.
Just like nuclear energy or genetic engineering, once the technology is there you can't put it back. The problem the chinese people have is not with CV, it's with their government. The way to go is having strong regulations a la GDPR, otherwise a black technology market will appear is there is enough incentive.
Trump is un-necessarily provocative towards China, or is weak on China? Which is it?
> FWIW Vietnam's youthful demographics are pretty much irrelevant; what's impressive about Vietnam is not its mortality rate but that they shut down viral transmission

The young are less likely to get sick, those who don't get sick are less likely to spread the virus. Youthful demographics are not irrelevant to shutting down viral transmission.
... curry leaf gets a mention. So let's talk about curry leaf in the context of curry not being a 'thing' ... I have a curry leaf plant and we use it in our dal, and in rogan josh (a curry but also not a curry) and spinach and potato diahes
They have only stabilized at that level if you are willing to permanently keep things the way they are. Are you comfortable with the restrictions currently in place being permanent?

Hopefully a vaccine is discovered.
Did you try NDI?

Where do you see low quality, on the local monitor, or remotely? It's true that the processing and compression means the remote site gets a low quality picture regardless of a good input. But a good input is a good starting point, and if you have good bandwidth, and low latecy (no wifi) then you can get a good quality video stream.
If you have less than 5 years experience doing anything, it's safe to conclude you are not an expert.

If you can't identify a single person who is better than you at something important you need to do, then you are a probably a terrible judge of competency and therefore not an expert.

If you haven't failed, you're not an expert.
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Google Sankey diagrams Budgets. There are lots of tools - eg - https://github.com/ricklupton/floweaver, sankeymatic.com etc

Not my area but complications in visualizing flows dramatically increase when the flows criss cross. Even small budgets start looking like chaotic weaving.

Which I think is why we still have buildings full of accountants and analysts to make sense of what is going on even though lots of people have access to the data.
Yes!

Do you know the tool "git blame"? (You can also use it with "git gui blame", from Github, or from many text editors). It tells you which commit last changed each line of code. Then you can click and see the surrounding history and context.

If the git history is "well written" this is an invaluable tool for understanding the code and how it came to be the way it is! Super useful when working on large code-bases where lots of different people collaborate.
You can be both unnecessarily provocative and weak in the same domain. Provocation and effective use of strength aren’t the same thing; just as you can “speak softly and carry a big stick”, so can you do the opposite.
Is this a fact or your presumption?
The other day I followed an HN link and downloaded https://www.zettlr.com/ . It's "basically" a manager of Markdown files, and its syntax highlighting was compatible with the Hugo Markdown syntax. For a minute I wondered if I could take the source code of the editor and make it understand my Hugo-specific shortcodes (I put up a lot of pictures so I have homebrew {{ <gallery> }} and {{ <figure> }} shortcodes), but that's in my ever-extending "To Do Someday" list.

The idea would be: it would read the Markdown as I write it, let Hugo render it, and return the HTML to be rendered in the editor window.

Looking at your editor, it really looks like Zettlr (I'm guessing they're both Electron apps).

I guess you have 2 almost separate problems: the editor and the hosting. On the topic of hosting, I guess if a "blogger" can get his own domain name, the actual infrastructure can be swapped under it (and the data republished from the local machine), as long as the reader can load the blog using the known URL, it's fine.
Brilliant, eye opening explanation. Thanks! Would the Hymalaian chain be considered a southern border with India, in the archeological sense?
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Good ideas though, we've come across the multiple MEMs approach (someone put I think 16 on a single PCB to get 4 times the resolution). The CRM100 [0] we're currently using is the best we've found so far for our application.

We're been using liquid-level inclinometers for calibration and lab testing, unfortunately they are too slow for use on the road.

LVDT's and similar would be great, however the engineering cost (at bicycle scale) puts them out of reach, which is the same for precision optics for IR solutions. Plenty of $1k+ encoders out there but way over budget for us!

Thanks for the ideas and feedback!

[0] https://www.siliconsensing.com/products/gyroscopes/crm-pinpo...
I always use oneliners. Task ID + some short description. Used to use just `-m`, but nowadays I almost exclusively use lazygit to commit.

At work we squash PRs and that's where we can write more details if necessary, or just hope the associated PR with details will be available in the future.

For my personal projects, I don't care that much. When I realize a mistake, there's always amend.
Despite couching your comment in the trappings of polite language, it's anything but polite.

Go argue with Plato.

The problem is with your attention span, dude, and you'll do better if you can adapt yourself and demand less of others.
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And that's why you should own your own domain.
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2 other potential sources of the word "curry"

- kadhai (Indian wok)

- Kari patta: a spicy leaf, staple in South Indian cuisine (and very tasty)
Define significant :P

I'm currently into learning how computer audio works. Learning to program things like mono -> stereo conversion, panning the audio, normalizing, generating binary sound files,..

Currently going through a book (The Audio Programming Book) for all of this, doing it in C and then trying to make my own version in Go.

The reason I say "define significant" is because these are all new skills I am acquiring - but I'm doing so just for the fun of it. It's not something I had to learn for my job.
To be honest, you are not writing clearly, and this raises my crank/quack alarms. If you have a concrete text that discusses this plainly, even if it's a full book, I'd be glad to hear it.

Just saying that it's some mystery, some forbidden secret knowledge, which mere mortals don't understand, is not convincing.

I have never heard of the phrase "the inner side of things". If this has a meaning, surely someone has written about it.
That's a reasonable concern - I'd recommend searching for existing threads at https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues related to 'iOS' 'background' and any other terms, and raising an issue if none exists.

The Jitsi team is pretty responsive on GitHub, and this sounds like the kind of issue that might be a good self-contained task for someone to work on.
> the students forgot what they learned as soon as they finished a course

A lot of times this is enough to dissuade me from learning about anything I have only a passing interest in. One time I blocked out an entire two months out of free time after school in an attempt to learn electronics, by assembling a commonly produced headphone amp. A month passed after classes ramped up and I forgot almost all of it, and moreover no longer cared. I still just don't care about electronics since then, honestly, and don't know why. So in my book that was just two months I spent doing nothing that would ultimately contribute to my future knowledge. I mean, it was an attempt, but only an attempt. I never got the circuit to work in the end either. If I had known that was the result ahead of time I would have just worked on a programming project instead because I was better at programming and I wanted to finish it, and also was competent enough to actually finish it.

Unsurprisingly the majority of my college education turned out exactly like this also, but at least I got the paper in the end.

Nowadays it feels like all I care about are the things I care too much about to ever forget, like the skills necessary for my job. As in, not knowing what the point of learning all this is if I don't care enough to remember it after a month. I feel this is a horribly limiting mindset for me to have, but I don't see any way around the "not caring" part. If I know I don't care, nothing I do to sweeten the deal like gamification or dreaming of the finished project will ever work, because I know I'm only doing that because I don't care, so my mind will defeat itself.

I especially don't like it because all these people around me are learning about machine learning and all these bleeding edge technologies that are having a material impact on the world, and I just sit there unable to care, as if I'm somehow allergic to learning. It becomes a "so you're just going to deny the existence of the entire field of X because you don't care and sit around playing video games instead" kind of irrational thing. I don't know how to resolve this, or if I even should.

One thing I will never forget is me talking to someone I knew for a long time and asking what they were doing, and they said "learning about nuclear fusion." For some reason I never felt brave enough to talk to them again since then.
The article is from June. Those were flights she had booked in February/April for May/June. They got canceled because of the pandemic. Same for the next flight. And all others after that. The airline couldn't reschedule her for the next flight because it wasn't flying.
When it comes to representing geometric objects like lines and planes using CGA/PGA, is it not possible to think of the representations as exploiting fixed points? So in 3D, a line is the fixed point of some rotation, and a plane is the fixed point of some reflection. I was thinking this might be easier than using vectors, bivectors, trivectors and all that.

To make the idea concrete, one could do plane geometry with the dual quaternions. One could use dual quaternions to represent rotations and reflections in the plane. A point object can thus be represented as a 180-degree rotation about a point, and a line objects can be represented as a reflection about a line. There's therefore no need to think in terms of bivectors.
Concerns regarding potential neurological complications
!= reports of neurological loss of smell. But you know that.
Using NDI and connecting to an iPhone over USB, I found the latecy to be pretty low, but still there.

Interestingly on a zoom call a few weeks ago I ended up on a call twice, once from my iPhone, and once from the mac. I had a headphone from each in one ear. Sometimes the iPhone would be ahead by 0.5 or 1 second. But then within a minute the Mac would be ahead. So zoom is streaching out the audio to adapt to network latecy, I guess.
I (think I) remember a quote from that book, to the effect that Ron Graham was once asked how he could possibly be as productive as he was; his response was that there were 168 hours in the week.
Yes, it is excluding the mentioned opportunity cost because that cost is different for everyone. For me, and I am sure others the opportunity cost of not going could not have been higher. I quit my job, sold my car, ended my lease, dropped my insurance so it made those calculations a little simpler. I needed to "find myself" I guess. I'm also not factoring in the revenue gains I have received from just going through the experience. It taught me to embrace the impossible which has changed me enough to allow me to grow from an employee to an owner at the same company in a situation I never would have persisted had I not had that experience.
Note though that the Japanese call their curry カレー ("karee"), and adopted it via the British, so it's not appropriate to call its name a colonial viewpoint.
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Wouldn't this mean that you just become another blogging service to trust? Even if the users have their own domains, if you close up shop, their blogs will close since you have all the contracts with AWS/whatever. How will you manage the transfer of them to the users?

Or is the idea that the tool registers an account to a server provider for the user? So the user has to pay both you (for the tool) and the server provider (for the server).

Maybe I have misunderstood the aim? In any case, due to what you mentioned, I think it's a difficult niche, since technical people can set up their own and I'd guess most non-technical people don't really care enough.
Woah, I had no idea multiline strings were even a thing in Bash, I've been using heredocs for help messages since forever!

Do you know if these are portable?
And good graphical debuggers as well.
I really hate those "I'm going to pedantically take issue with somethng completely tangential" comments. I know it's a common Hacker News trope and "Just don't click the headlines you don't like" isn't quite so dramatic.

But it's so bloody annoying!

If "Everything" you knew about something as fundamentally simple as [for example] reading was wrong, then you would be one of the stupidest people on the planet. In which case why would you expect anyone to want to take notice of your opinions?
True. You can always learn more. Even after you break through many ceilings, you will keep finding more things that you don't know. Also, the incentive to improve gets smaller as you get better - Doesn't matter how many ceilings you already broke through, the incentives for continuing will always go down because beyond a certain point, there are no financial or even career benefits to getting better.

It's possible for a developer to be skilled beyond a level which their bosses, recruiters and colleagues are able to grasp. You're not going to get paid extra for that surplus skill. Your pay is limited by your boss' imagination. Even though those skills are extremely useful and deliver real returns.

Proving yourself as a developer to a non-technical person takes years because that's how long it takes to see the results. In a big company it may even be impossible to prove yourself because your work is mixed in with that of many other people and the results average out.
Having people with faces is a step before that.
But you make a good point that it is harder and harder to make it happen the more encumbered your life becomes. I'd suggest it as a sabbatical between high school and college. Maybe on a break? Once the career and family starts it gets hard to break away.
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> I’m 100% sure my extra pounds would disappear if I’d lived in a city like that

AFAIK it's common with students coming to Europe from more car-centric areas, and the reason why Europeans used to be skinny even when relying on fat diets (this is rapidly changing thanks to the standardization of city planning and diets, from what I can guess from obesity graphs)
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Nice concept!

A suggestion as a potential user:

I work across time zones, sometimes I’m overcommitted (eg early rise for a meeting and one at end of day).

In that example I’d think when that happens you could flag I should end the following day early (and block it out) to make up for lost personal time. Keep a balance in case I delete the entry because I need to stick around at work.
My favourite git shortcut is "git checkout -" it mean switch back to the previous branch, so without having to remember either branch you can switch between two pieces of work easily. This seems to come from "cd -" which does the same thing with the current and the previous directory.
I agree. The PS2 is great. It's the bare minimum needed to achieve a good 3D experience. PS3 and PS4 are good because they add more horse power but the controller is almost the same and the single player games that can be created on these consoles are not that different from what was possible on the PS2. The PS3's strong points mostly revolve around online multiplayer.
Yeah, these are both great ideas.

I was inspired to use web technologies for building the UI by this discussion (https://lobste.rs/s/vrb7qh/web_as_gui_toolkit). Ultimately, I want to port Fig to Linux and Windows, so having a UI layer that works cross platform is useful. But it would be very cool to enable access to native UI directly. (I'd love to chat with you about how this could work.)

Outputing to stdout and stderr doesn't happen right now, but is on the very near term roadmap. The ultimate goal is for web apps to slot in seamlessly to shell workflows, so getting this right is really important.

Thanks for your comments!