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I would like to discuss this subthread at length, this specific pathology is playing out at my current engagement right now.

For context, I have been in consulting roles for most of my career, probably because of my proclivity to be "unsolicited advice guy". I see something amiss and I tell people about it. My delivery has changed and matured over the years, but I still cannot correct flaw.

An epiphany I had a couple months ago, and this is after 20+ years of this work, is that consultants are primarily organizational psychologists. They bring a lot to the project and the org, but it isn't the technical that takes the highest position. And in the case of the repeat-help-desk-can't-fish customer there are a lot of different issues at play. Some of the charitable ones are

- lack of confidence

- risk of getting blamed

- over worked, too much responsibility compared to the skills

- unrealistic deadlines by their managers

- personal issues prevent a lack of focus and inability to do deep work

If you deliver the n-th answer like you delivered the zeroth answer, they will think you have an infinite capacity for taking their burden. There are signals you can use to push back, explain how busy you are, frame you answer relative to a previous answer, answer the question with 3 questions and some tasks that if completed will solve their problem (Socratic help desk).

Consultants should make their customers and all of their customers look like rock stars, but we shouldn't let folks within the org use your knowledge and skills to make themselves look better. This particular pattern is damaging because while to the rest of the org they look amazing, their ego erodes and they keep coming back to the oracle for more answers and at some point they are only a mindless conduit.

In the case of an employee who is using you as a 2nd brain, one technique is do a pomo of the issue, give them mad props for the debugging, development, patience, etc while outlining the problem and how it solved. Make a group effort while giving them some praise but don't allow them to consistently take center stage.

On the flip side, one can find the staff members how share knowledge within the org, and synthesize new solutions from previous ones. These folks need to be protected, cultivated and propped up, they will save projects and your ass if handled with care.
People has been saying that for twenty years. Yes, some jobs are now done in India, Romania, etc. At the same time the pie has expanded.
In the blue sky, the sun will be perceived as yellow, not white. Painting it as white would be just as wrong as painting grass hot pink. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/what-color-sun
We've known this for years. Ugly people are less apt to become successful or form relationships, so they will tend toward the socialist, big government type of beliefs looking to solve problems which they can't solve themselves. And it's now a trope, and a true one, that the radical leftist terrorist types like Antifa are by in large horrifically ugly people, inside and out.
I'm not sure “this person routinely trolls” implies that he is going to have particularly valuable insight either. Are you sure his 5G ideas aren't just trolling too? I can't see how what he suggests requires 5G really.
I’m hopeful many people will wake up to the misery that cars and commuting inflicts on themselves.

The United States has been consumed with car culture which has bled time and resources from individuals like yourself. But it also is responsible for endless tragedy in the form of accidents and financial overextension.

Car culture, partly driven by commuting, has inflated the need for some systems and created entire rent-seeking businesses that could be any number of more useful and interesting investments of human time and capital.

I believe a silver lining of the Coronavirus and the actions of political representatives and appointees that have allowed covid to foster will ultimately result in progression in many outdated norms we experienced up through 2020.
Ah, yes. The "split half" is the common term for troubleshooting electronics, and as you say, similar to a binary search.
I have occasionally switched to US English but this is not quite right.

You might try Canadian English. It mostly uses -ize, but still retains -our in colour, honour, et cetera. There remain a few things that are more American than British (such as tire and aluminum), but it is probably a lot closer to what you are looking for.
Which 3 gens? Intel CPU performance has been flat-ish for 5 years or so, so that might not be super-suprising
So I searched up "fusion splicers" and apparently there are machines that automatically align the fiber and fuses them together, with only ~0.02db of loss. Does a human doing it manually with a microscope get significantly better results?
Is the US government so impotent that it can't ask retailers to ship their supplies of masks to a commandeered warehouse? Of course some would go missing, but substantially all would arrive.
I'm honestly not sure on that one. I suspect they used NOAA data, as well as had partnerships with different weather stations. Based on their size, they were probably doing their own weather models and predictions, or may be had meteorologist on staff.
Why can’t you simply leave the meeting? Put a chat message gotta go bye (or equivalent) and turn off.
Iron supplements. “Flora fix liquid iron” was the best I tried. I tried pills, but they made me feel so sick. Slow release iron pills were fine though. I also try to be mindful and try to get iron from my food. Meat, spinach, dried apricots.
People might bring up that the only ABI that is "stable" is Itanium, while MSVC has historically broken ABI stability quite regularly until fairly recently (2017, iirc?).

That said, so much software on Windows relies on vtable layout that breaking their particular implementation in the ABI would be a massive breaking change, so it's unlikely that it will happen.
Static typing — yet higher lever abstractions that you mention (like SQL or markup languages) are dynamically typed.
My point is that anyone who is ok with a deployed military is also ok with this. There's no way to differentiate the two behaviors. America has an addiction to violent domination.

Edit: comparing a military to a doctor is some sociopathic bullshit. Fuck that, fuck you, fuck the troops, and fuck anyone who tries to say that our military has any positive effect on the world. This is what you're responsible for: https://mobile.twitter.com/fdefects
China is a revisionist power whose values are antithetical to the US. Its rise almost assures instability.

And more generally, no incumbent superpower is going to make it easy for another to challenge it.

Made in China 2025 is an explicit blueprint for how China will supplant America in high technology. Why would you expect America to aid and abet them in this undertaking?
Did you test positive for covid in Jan?

If not, it's not proven you had it but you supremely confident.
Interesting service.
Amazon also has a disproportionate number of MacBooks even though we can choose either a MacBook or a Windows PC.

As far as Surface sells.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/24/editorial-why-mic...
Not necessarily undo MS, but rather that the deal looks attractive but may actually not be any good. In other words, it could end up being one of those deals where a few years down the road MS has to write the purchase price off as a loss.
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> And I doubt QAnon conspiracy theory is as simple as "Hillary Clinton operated a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza place".

> I don't know many details about QAnon, and I don't care much to research it and come to an understanding myself.

Cool.

> Isn't Jeffrey Epstein and "pedo island" considered to be part of QAnon?

No. They falsely took credit for bringing him down, when it was journalists in the "mainstream media" (specifically one reporter for the Miami Herald named Julie Brown) that broke the story and brought him down. To be clear, they had nothing to do with his downfall.
The article mentions modulation techniques but doesn't really explain the one actually used by these classic computers: pretty much they all used FSK- frequency shift keying. One tone is a 1 and another tone is a 0.

The playback usually has a limiter such that the software gets no amplitude information. It really just gets zero-crossings, and has to time successive crossings to determine the frequency.

The cassette recorders used for this were basically the cheapest, lowest fidelity ones. Their frequency response was around 200 - 8000 Hz. Even so, this was good enough for 1200 - 2400 Baud FSK. It's interesting to consider what data rate you could get from these tape recorders using the best possible techniques available in the 90s- QAM from modems, or even OFDM used in Telebit Trailblazer modems (now used in LTE cell phones). Of course the problem is that the modem would have more CPU power than the home computer itself..
I wonder if it would be possible to make a youtube competitor supported entirely by issuing fines for invalid copyright claims.
No I'm sure I'm reading it right: the 8 ports on the side are the interesting ones which you can connect your regular wired devices to, as 99.99% of wired consumer networking is on 8P8C Ethernet, not SFP+.
The link should be updated to:

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/06/16/...
> why is the creator not entitled to protect it as an asset for as long as people value it?

That masks the fact that IP laws are a form of regulatory capture. The original deal was to gain exclusive ownership _for a limited time_ at the cost of disclosure and understanding that it would eventually enter the public domain.

Fun fact, before trademark laws were enforced, baggage makers like Louis Vuitton just increased the quality of their stitching / logograms in order to differentiate themselves. In fact the modern LV prints are a result of this process of trying to make his goods too expensive to counterfeit. Now luxury brands can stamp on inferior quality materials and sell just as well. There's no competitive force to increase quality anymore, these brands can just put their logos on decent-but-not-top-end materials.
> Both systems ran Z3 4.8.1, compiled by me using Clang with the same optimization settings.

Hypothesis: LLVM's AArch64 backend has had more work put into it (by Apple, at least) than LLVM's x86_64 backend has, specifically for "finishing one-off tasks quickly" (as opposed to "achieving high throughput on long-running tasks.")

To me, this would make sense—until recently, AArch64 devices were mostly always-mobile, and so needed to be optimized for performing compute-intensive workloads on battery, and so have had more thought into the efficiency of their single-threaded burst performance (the whole "race to sleep" thing.) I'd expect, for example, AArch64-optimized code-gen to favor low-code-size serial loops over large-code-size SIMD vector ops, ala GCC -Os, in order to both 1. keep the vector units powered down, and 2. keep cache-line contention lower and thereby keep now-unneeded DMA channels powered down; both keeping the chip further from the TDP ceiling; and thus keeping the rest of the core that is powered on able to burst-clock longer. In such a setup, the simple serial-processing loop may potentially outperform the SIMD ops. (Presuming the loop has a variable number of executions that may be long or short, and is itself run frequently.)

x86_64 devices, meanwhile, generally are only expected to perform compute-intensive tasks while connected to power, and so the optimizations contributed to compilers like LLVM that specifically impact x86_64, are likely more from the HPC and OLTP crowds, who favor squeezing out continuous aggregate throughput, at the expense of per-task time-to-completion (i.e. holding onto Turbo Boost-like features at maximum duty cycle, to increase mean throughput, even as the overheat conditions and license-switching overhead lower modal task performance.)
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Who does "they"refer to?

(Anywhere where I can read about the outcome? The article doesn't seem to mention)
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Yeah I got the same feeling that this is an ad, or at least in part sponsored by fs.
I'm just speaking based on my interpretation. I think the "chalice" is a jeweled cup that seems valuable, but the poison is not what you would expect to drink. So, the deal seems like a big prize, but comes with hard-to-understand disadvantages that make it a poor choice. E.g. someone bought tumblr and tried to make it advertiser friendly by removing NSFW content. As soon as they did, the community that was still flourishing there abandoned it and they had no eyeballs to sell.
He's saying that managing TikTok might be more difficult than Microsoft can imagine. Here is the relevant part from the interview:

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As you are the technology adviser to Microsoft, I think you can look forward in a few months to fighting this battle yourself when the company owns TikTok.

Yeah, my critique of dance moves will be fantastically value-added for them.

TikTok is more than just dance moves. There’s political content.

I know, I’m kidding. You’re right. Who knows what’s going to happen with that deal. But yes, it’s a poison chalice. Being big in the social media business is no simple game, like the encryption issue.

So are you wary of Microsoft getting into that game?

I mean, this may sound self-serving, but I think that the game being more competitive is probably a good thing. But having Trump kill off the only competitor, it’s pretty bizarre.

Do you understand what rule or regulation the president is invoking to demand that TikTok sell to an American company and then take a cut of the sales price?

I agree that the principle this is proceeding on is singly strange. The cut thing, that’s doubly strange. Anyway, Microsoft will have to deal with all of that.

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Why not listen to them during the time you'd otherwise be commuting?
1) Never never never never use copper ethernet between buildings. If lightning hits a tree or anything even remotely close to a buried cable you could be easily looking at frying every single device on the entire network in all buildings -- not even kidding. This happened to a popular tech youtuber TWICE before he switched to fiber.

2) If you want to know what went wrong and where use switches with SFP slots instead of media converters. This also makes fixing problem cheaper and gives you flexibility in choosing optics. Even if you do go with media converters, use ones with modules.

3) Build intra-building topology with some form of path redundancy. Since the cost of doing anything like this is so heavily weighted in building the physical links, you may find that you can build a redundant ring topology (only one extra link) at a 10+gbps at a lower cost than a non-redundant hub and spoke topology at 1gbps if the latter requires longer runs. Well maintained UPS's at each node are more important in rings, so think about this too.
Here's a 40k member Facebook group dedicated to just that

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2110370665911902/?ref=share
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Intel has focused most on data center performance, where you are operating at scale and frequently using entirely different algorithms than people usually use on a PC or Phone. For instance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS

dominates the competition for ad-hoc analytics under "enterprise" conditions. There the point is to maximize the use of memory bandwidth and never stall the pipelines, to turn a commercial data processing job into something that looks like HPC to the memory bus.

(Actually columnar organization improves performance reliably for small data; video game programmers in the 1980s knew that it was better to put the x coordinates of all the spaceships together, then put the y coordinates together, then put the sprite id's together, ...)

Most muggles though go with the row-orientation that comes with structs, classes, record types, and don't care. Pythoners know their language is slow but they know enough to use 'pandas' which is an object-oriented interface to an in-memory column store.

Intel has sold it's performance on the basis of what a sophisticated organization could get out of complex programming. For instance, the AVX-512 instructions can nearly double performance for some workloads. If you are a cloud provider that will rack 1000s of identical machines that run the same software, it can be a big win. The average PC user runs software that has to run on a wide range of hardware and may be supported by lower-tier organizations. They will rightly privilege having a trouble-free product and low support costs vs giving every user the highest performance possible.)
> But they were hosting Russian (and other) bots. You’re premise seems to rely on the idea that there weren’t actually bots.

No. My premise relies on the idea that the Occupy accounts banned weren't bots, but were banned due to increased frenzy about banning everything non-mainstream as "Russian bots".

I am not saying that Russian bots don't exist. Merely that the increased frenzy around them has led to a bunch of accounts being banned that are in fact neither bots, nor Russian, for merely expressing some non-mainstream views. That's a bit different than just banning actual Russian bots.

I understand why they do it, in this environment, when unsure, proactively banning is the easiest way out, but that's exactly my problem with this.

And it's not just Twitter either[1].

> Correct. They didn’t do much to stop it before knowing it existed.

So in your view left-wing people who want to reform Wall Street or are anti-war should be banned?

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/16/facebook-...
I’d also recommend against the dark sunglasses. Almost as bad as the newspaper holes.

We met a celebrity once on a ferry. The only reason I even spotted her is because she was wearing a trench coat and ridiculous dark sunglasses like some sort of B movie operative. I happened to glance across the cabin just as she was walking past heading the same direction I was seated. Just a blink in full profile. After a moment of thinking, “no... she doesn’t live around here,” I turned to my wife and said, “was that?” And then looked at the woman across from us who had big eyes. When she passed outside the window it was definitely her. (Turns out her mother lived around there.)

Lady, you gotta work on your disguises. That outfit made you stick out like a sore thumb.
Every global power becomes one by exercising power, globally.

Claiming the existence of problems justifies these types of policies is an argument of convenience where the policy is fixed and someone is just fishing for reasons.

We ignore it when it's Saudi Arabia or the child slave driven mines of Central Africa and bring it up when there's a possibility of encroachment.

The world is terrible, we should do better. But carving out Chinese manufacturers of smartphones isn't how you'll get there.
Not to mention the inconsistent interfaces. You like Markdown? Sorry, won't work in that view. But in the other one, for sure.
There are definitely (at least) two schools of thought on this.

Personally, I'm in the preferring-two-monitors camp. If I can't have two, I'll have three, please. And large ones. Particularly when I'm doing web work, the convenience of having an editor with ample space to open many source files at once on a main screen, an auto-reloading browser with accompanying dev tools on one side monitor, and multiple pages of documentation on the other side is a huge win.

I know other people who are also in this camp, and others still who for similar reasons to others commenting here aren't a fan of lots of monitors. They typically have very consistent patterns in how they set up their working environments and often multiple desktops that they switch between frequently.

I suppose the conclusion is not so much "have multiple monitors" but rather "invest a bit of time and if necessary money in customising your work environment to work well for you".
Mouse support is quite good as of April.

iOS 13 supports local USB hard drives and network shares well enough.
Also a British English native speaker, and I'd generally use -t for both cases, though sometimes I'll use -ed. I seem to slightly bias away from "spelt" though, possibly due to it having another meaning. I suspect it's regional, and -ed feels slightly more passive to me (similar to 'it burned' vs 'I burnt it').
I’d be interested in seeing them test the CDC mask pattern for bandanas because that pattern has you make like 9 layers. I slip a piece of shop towel in the folds and put pipe cleaners at the nose bridge.
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> trying to fight misinformation by just telling anonymous strangers "facts"

It’s even worse when you realize that most mistruths are factual. You can very easily lie with facts.

The texas sharpshooter falaft is a great example.

You get 500 samples, take 10 good samples, and say “Look! An objective truth in 10 samples we have success!”. You omit the other 490

You never said a lie, facts only, but the interpretation you lead people towards is a lie.

Or a more common example: Thing Y increases your risk of X by up to ten times!!!

Risk goes from 0.0001% to 0.001%. It’s completely irrelevant and you got a nice scary clickbait with objective facts.
May I know what device are you using it on? I used to not using Pomodoro everyday too—just like you, I only used it when I was overwhelmed with my situation. Maybe I'm biased, but after using Session for the past 5 months, the analytics makes me more honest to myself. The days when I thought I was working hard, The data said I only spent 1 hours with many distractions in between. With that data, I can reflect back what went wrong and plan how to fix it.

When you said using a timer of Apple watch, it gave me an idea. Maybe Siri integration like "Start a Session 'working on X project'" (if it's possible) would make it easier for people to start a task.

Maybe you can try making an account and see if Session might be the right fit for you? It gave you 7 days of pro feature for free—no question asked.

Anyway, if you're still overwhelmed in some point of your life, feel free to still use Session. It'll always be free for the basic timer. :)
The challenge with algos like this is that they could be used to claim events that actually did happen didn't. So as an example credible/convincing footage of Jeffrey Epstein by a pool in Paraguay last week could be 'identified as a deep fake' and discredited, despite other supporting facts and information that lent credence to veracity.
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I’ve reverted to my natural sleep
cycle of 3:00am-11am or so. It has been great for my health.
I assure you that k8s etc. have not been requirements in any job that I have interviewed for or hired for. Including ones where k8s is in use.

Principles still matter more unless you are in an exclusively bolt-turning role.
Can a config mechanism where shell commands are embedded as strings still be considered as offering these additional guarantees?

Perhaps certain things are easier: it's easier to parse, to isolate the code portions, and to read data portions. But then validating what's inside those code portions is a challenge.

It seems like there's an opportunity for a programming language purpose built for the task of configuration. Its chief feature would be the ability to provide a lot of information when read in "inert data" mode, yet also provide full programming language power when read in "run" mode.

ETA: Perhaps embed Python inside something similar to YAML, and support active code via a "lambda" type. Use indentation for delimiting.

project: "Foo"
version: "1.0.1"
email: "me@example.com"
load:
lambda file_path:
pass
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