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I got started in tech when I found a book about making your own computer games in my elementary school library. It was a little old even then: we had a 486 running DOS 6 and the book was, I would guess, 10 years old. It detailed how to save your work to what appeared to be an audio cassette and I'm quite sure it wasn't written in a DOS-dominated world! I figured out how to use QBasic and I started building things from what I had learned in the book. My Dad (mainframe engineer) and older brothers (who had done it in high school) saw, and started chiming in with tips and help, and showing me new things that weren't in the book. I got Turbo C++ for my 12th birthday, and in high school we finally got the Internet, I discovered forums, and Java and PHP and many others, and the rest is history. I got a job in tech out of high school and paid for college in a few years.

I had tried to get into Linux all through high school but my family was completely unsupportive of that (still are, weirdly). I bought an old machine (wiped) and a book about Mandrake Linux at a garage sale, but I couldn't figure out how to get Linux on there. I had a copy of Fedora on CD, but didn't know enough to get a CD drive working successfully. I tried Linux From Scratch on floppy disks, and the PDF was an interesting read, but I never got that computer very far. When I could afford my own laptop I had a problem within weeks and Microsoft support managed to brick the system remotely. I decided to go all-in. I spent a few weeks trying various free *nixes. Ubuntu was brand new, but it worked well enough to get me to never go back (though I have often explored BSDs and other distros). By my senior year I was working exclusively on back-end Linux stuff. Now I would say I have an exceptionally successful career and I haven't touched a proprietary OS in 9 years!
Such things are called "syntactic sugar". They are common in other languages. Quote: «A construct in a language is called "syntactic sugar" if it can be removed from the language without any effect on what the language can do: functionality and expressive power will remain the same.»[0]

Another quote: «Data types with core syntactic support are said to be "sugared types." Common examples include quote-delimited strings, curly braces for object and record types, and square brackets for Arrays.»

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
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It was around 2014, and I had just started secondary school (k-7 for primary, 8-12 for secondary) and I had no friends, I decided I wanted to build a computer and I ended up deciding to install linux on it (I had some previous experience running minecraft servers) and from there on out I was in. I never had many friends in secondary school and my mom was always working, and I didn't want to wander around town getting into trouble so I spent my teenage years alone working at the computer learning to sysadmin stuff. I'm in uni now doing a compsci degree so I guess it all worked out right? Still don't know what there is for me in the fog of the future but hopefully when it clears I will bask in the light of the sun.
How can you say that coronavirus has unkown side effects lasting years when the virus has been around for less than a year? You are obviously being hyperbolic.
Affects similar to the "relative age effect"[0] are really important. Kids that just so happen to get ahead early (whether by a slight age advantage, or any other) often end up being put into some sort of "gifted" track where they have access to better teachers/resources, which compounds until they are well ahead of the others. Even without any sort of gifted program, the self-confidence that gets built around being "the smart kid" is a powerful motivator. The fight for self-confidence in school classrooms is zero-sum.

What surprises me is that, from what I've read, the IQ literature doesn't seem to take this basic compounding affect into account. So it seems like some skepticism should be held for the idea that IQ is ~50% genetics and ~50% environment. It could be 5% genetics that compounds into 50%. That would seem to be in line with the observation that the measured heritability of intelligence increases with age.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect
"But no one really wants to read that and I don't want to write it again."

I have this same issue but with severe chronic pain that impacts my executive function greatly, worsened by physical activity further sensitizing my nervous system - so I depend on low activity routine to not make life even more intolerable for 2-3+ days it takes to recover to getting clear thought and mental function again - to be able to orient myself again; it doesn't make a difference if I do share it though either, even though there are still options I could try to reduce the pain - it's been difficult to find a doctor who's actually willing to work with me and so much time between appointments when exploring new potential avenues. The challenge I've found is mostly running into indoctrination, lack of critical thinking, lack of willingness to accommodate to read long-form explanations of what I write out for my experience to get doctors or professionals on the same page of understanding. I have mostly given up and am winding down my hopes or fantasy of a capable, productive, rewarding future now though - planning to return "home" to an unfinished, untidy, cluttered house that no one should live in, where my mother has been mostly alone the past 5 years since my father passed away horrifically - so I'm no longer paying rent anywhere nor have any obligations and will quietly disappear from the universe as barely anyone will know that I will be gone.
Just to be clear, I'm saying you use Cap'n'Proto constants to store your schema: https://capnproto.org/language.html#constants

You can then compile it into whatever format (JSON, plain text, binary) that you want for actually reading it from disk.
I'm torn because I think the sales/survival pressure also avoids slacking off you see.

Open source is not immune to false roads and mud.
I like that you can easily share a private board between people, unfortunately it didn't seem to work well with my mouse. Something about the postprocessing messed up every single line I was trying to draw, which made it impossible to write anything legible.

Edit: it's quite a bit better in chrome, but still not perfect.
Also, to modern feminism equality doesn't mean treating everyone the same but rather to give advantages to what they consider "historically oppressed minorities".
Can we call this democracy? Amnesty's M.Mahmoudi on Why Privacy Matters
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I was not going for anything as high brow as Gengis, just rewriting Arnie for the Ant generation :-)
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Given that HTTPS is required for HTTP2 to work in current browsers and it's easy to get a letsencrypt certificate this is a reasonable question. On the other hand, I guess it doesn't really matter for his simple purpose of distributing public information.
That returns an iterator the max element, not the value. I'm not sure which part makes this so difficult that everyone fails on the first try.
The only idea conveyed in your message that has any factual basis is that psychedelics should be taken with a lot of care, preparation, and consideration, including pre existing susceptibilities.

Everything else you said builds on top of this idea as if they are also fact based, but they are not. Let’s not make the social acceptance of psychedelics even harder than they already have been made to be.
Yeah the main difference is wireless devices use Collision Avoidance rather than Collision Detection.
You might want to look into the Archimedean oath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_Oath
Do not harm any software.
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Yes, same as psilocybin. When you microdose you are not supposed to get psychedelic effects. The supposed benefits come from prolonged presence of the molecule in the body. Similar how antidepressants work, the point is not to take one tablet once.
Probably wherever you arbitrarily draw the line of substantial or minimal effect.

If you plotted the "effects" of every single consumeable thing on a graph. There would prob be a noticeable trough in the middle, and that would be your threshold for food vs drug.

But for example, adding a lot of little things together can make a big change on your body composition and mindset...
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Yes but recruiting becomes harder. There is practically no way to recruit a motivated person today for classic Atlassian SDK plugins (jQuery, Velocity/Soy templates, and then classic Java. Spring is handled for you as Atlassian set it up, so not much to learn technically). I’m having the time of my life on these tools, creating plugins that customers around the earth hear about and come to Confluence for, but I can’t expand.
This by the same guy who made diep.io? Looks like very similar style.
Oh thank you !
FWIW I can’t for the life of me get WebGL to work on Firefox anywhere near as good as it works on Chrome. GTS 1050 on Ubuntu.
None at all, sorry. I haven't had to deal directly with farming/ranching in 30 years. :-)

I just grew up in the middle of nowhere rural Tennessee and I used to run a website for farmers.

My suggestion would to talk to the folks at your local co-op, or even talk to your Kubota dealer.
I thought it was suppose to be transparent aluminum we got in the future. Scottie!
Saying the problem isn't related to consumption is just willfully obtuse and wrong.
Maybe there should be a "butts was here" sticker.
Now we only need to figure out a way of making bias free AI.
The paper Prey specialization and chemical mimicry between Formica archboldi and Odontomachus ants [1]

> Beyond providing natural history insights into the relationship between these species, this study expands our knowledge of an important insect chemical phenotype. The intraspecific variability in F. archboldi cuticular hydrocarbon profiles is among the greatest reported for social insects and provides a unique case of how non-parasitic species can generate parasite-like chemical-mimic phenotypes.

Formica archboldi (headhunter) ants [2]:

> ...are known for their abnormal behavior, which includes the collection and storage of Odontomachus (trap-jaw) ant skulls.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-018-0675-y

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formica_archboldi
I received some very helpful wisdom on this topic, many years ago in my early teens, from a random guy I met on a beach.

He said "if you are interested in tripping, you'll almost surely do it. Just be sure to never feel pressured to do it at any one time - it'll always be there. When you do, just be sure you feel comfortable, not tense, and are in a good situation, among friends, and so on. ", basically how to avoid bad trips.

Only did a handful of times, but every time was totally worth it, mind expanding, and enjoyable. Definite thanks in no small part to the wisdom from a random stranger.
Well, good, evil and sad are human concepts that probably do not apply to the mental life of ants. We tend to ascribe deeper meaning to things, even when that is not reasonable.
Another reason is that American society today often assumes there is something wrong or creepy with men who choose to spend their time with children. I don't think this is a valid assumption, but it is a common one, at least in my experience as a father.
I'm pretty sure then that if you actually knew what was inside your C compiler, you might lose your mind. There is something akin to an entire LISP inside gcc. And it uses its own host of deps, which themselves have deps... https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-devel/gcc/dependenc.... It's not like these compilers are large for no reason, there's definitely code in them.

What do you consider the preprocessor if not bloat? CMake or ninja or whatever Google's build system is, is that bloat?

Maybe you just haven't seen a fun enough pipeline. But the web is sufficiently complex that you need a sufficiently complex set of developer tools to build for it in an optimal way. You can try and skip steps there but you'll likely just end up reinventing what others have built.

If you know the leftpad class or issues is gone, why bring it up? Why not just start with the "other modes of attack"? Why do your priorities, whatever they are, matter?

I'm not the one giving others a hard time here, the people who maintain that it is fun and trendy to hate on a technology they think is "bloated" (whatever that means) are giving me the hard time.
You might describe an (ideal) food as something the cellular agents in our bodies take in to use as passive raw material for their own homeostatic processes. Most foods are not ideal in this way, though. But this still seems to be the ideal, as those things within foods that act on the body are almost always considered unwanted impurities in the food, not a desired “foodlike aspect” of the food.

You might equally look at the other end of the spectrum, and describe an ideal... something as a substance that actively comes in and affects the body, without the body’s active help.

The closest word for that “something” in English is “toxin.” But this is both imprecise (some toxins only act with the body’s assistance); and overspecific — “toxin” implies negative effect, but this “something” could be a positive thing (a chelating agent, for example.)

“Drugs” don’t really hew closer to one side or the other of the “food” / “toxin” spectrum. Many of them are just chemicals your body should be making anyway but isn’t. Many do act directly on the body. And many interact with the body through mechanisms the body has in place specifically to allow exogenous chemicals to do that.
Not really... but congrats on build on something you needed.
A critique from Bay Area planner Asher Kohn, also from 2017: https://www.asherjkohn.com/blog/2017/10/30/the-weak-logic-in...
We are a fairly small team but yeah we still have those sorts of conversations.

On a Tuesday morning we have a get together for the whole team, we have a chat about the current issues we're having and what we've been working on. Normally goes on for about 90 minutes and this seems to keep us generally on the same page. This is our only real 'scheduled' meeting, other ad-hoc ones can happen but its not all that often.

Beyond that we rely on slack. We have a channel for things we want to celebrate, where we can all share on the wins. We also have department specific channels for general updates on things others should probably know for that topic. Sales, Marketing, Engineering, etc. We try to keep the general chit chat out of those so there isnt too much noise. If something goes back and forth a bunch of times we just start a zoom chat and people who want to jump in will do.

Then we have the smaller group DMs that are just the people we'd normally chit chat with as the day goes on. As long as you get your notifications set right so its not bing bong-ing all day then it can be nice to chat sh*t with each other sporadically throughout the day.
1. No, I don't miss them. Quite the opposite: Having to handle people who constantly felt the need to provide "feedback" and "input" used to be a big distraction, which is now more manageable due to the slightly higher threshold for initiating communication. The ones who seem to miss these "spontaneous conversations" the most is management, who seem to have been told that we should be made to have them. As for the more enjoyable conversations, they may be less spontaneous now, but remote collaboration tools ensure that they're still possible.

At the office, we usually had such spontaneous conversations around lunchtime, and they were sometimes work-related and sometimes not.

2. From time to time.
When I want to talk to someone, I use one of our remote communication tools to have a text chat with them. Some prefer to use a voice chat or telephone call instead. Either way works fine.
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I think the idea is simply to give resources to those based on what they need rather than to give to everyone equally. It costs more to educate a kid from a poor/disadvantaged background.

It doesn't really make sense to "treat everyone the same", since different people have different needs. Not everyone needs a wheelchair, but some people do, for example.
Can I ask what ADA accommodations you were able to seek? My sister has type 1 and is currently in mania. She worked for me for the last 2 years because she is “unable to hold a regular job” but I won’t be able to continue employing her after this episode.
I was a web developer in 1999. It was my first job after school. The business owner was a diehard Windows enthusiast, but after a streak of problems with our customer-hosting IIS/ASP setup he asked me to "look into Linux, maybe it'll work for us".

We had a set of old unused Mac Quadras in the office that I were allowed to tinker with, and I came upon either Linux-m68k or Slackware for 680x0, cannot recall which. I had never been in direct contact with anything Unix or Unix-like. Despite having programmed computers since the early 1990s, and being very stubborn with getting things to work, my memory of installing and trying to use that Linux distribution was something along the lines of "created by mad scientist, for other mad scientists"; a complete lack of user-friendliness and severely deficient documentation. I gave up.

Some weeks later a friend recommended me OpenBSD. It was a night and day difference. The installation was simple, clear and mostly intuitive, and documentation was top-notch. Within a single day I had both a working desktop environment and an Apache web host environment with Ms Access + ASP capabilities (through something called ChiliASP I think), and account-based FTP access.

I've been using OpenBSD ever since, and just a couple of years later I moved from Windows to Mac OS X as my primary desktop system because of growing so fond of the power and versatility of Unix-like environments.
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Infinite respect to you for facing and surviving your experience of life.

I wish that society had a meaningful role for people who have had this experience that could make full use of their emotional depth in a way that was valuable to us all and allowed you to not feel like you have to hide your interior world.

Someday we, as a broad group, will get to that point, rather than stigmatizing and hiding it to your and everyone’s detriment.

Your effort to speak openly about all of this is heroic.

Thank you.
Software engineers can’t be stripped of their ability to practice. Any oath would be teethless
In France, if I recall, isn't it usually a panel of judges? I don't think they use a jury.

Quick perusal indicates Cour d'assises is the only court with a jury analog, and it only deals with matters where the penalty would result in a >10 year sentence if I'm reading it correctly.
Cmd+J never worked for me system wide. Tough it looks like it may be working in the latest Catalina versions.
No they don't.

Just like iOS they use these randoms when scanning, NOT when connected (static IP's would otherwise not work anymore).
I think it's much more likely that "our capitalist world" will drive us off a cliff rather than into a bright future. We have absolutely zero precedent for the changes we are facing. However, I do believe individuals still have agency in the world. We have to try at least, I guess.
You might enjoy Jordan Peterson's take on the story.
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I have noticed that the “unstructured conversation” calls are super awkward and stall out after a few minutes, but playing online party games together (Among Us, Codenames, Skribbl, etc) has been a stronger background on which we have actually conversations.
> What surprises me is that, from what I've read, the IQ literature doesn't seem to take this basic compounding affect into account.

According to most of the IQ literature, a person's IQ does not significantly change over time, which means that any compounding effect you might find in academic or professional performance is completely unrelated to the person's IQ actually increasing because of that.
The "ethicality" of any given program is a non-trivial semantic property. It follows that any software engineering "Hippocratic Oath" is an undecidable concept.
I think you found a bug! I didn't build any special support for pens, and it sounds like something's wrong here.
Nice article, though the analysis is a bit simplistic (Facebook and Google's motivations for making Pytorch and Tensorflow open source are much more strategic than reduced training costs and revenue from hardware).

It's also strange that having made some effort to investigate the space of open-source licensing models, the OP speculates on creating a license that allows for dual licensing but doesn't have the GPL's virality, but is seemingly not aware of the LGPL, or of the relatively common practice of giving a blanket exception for add-ons through some specific interface (such as plugins) to a GPL'd application.
Sorry, you can’t compare warring factions in an already war torn and exploited country to the normal behavior of humanity.
Not the GP but regarding no references for map keys; I can imagine that this would be an issue when representing a list of maps with uniform keys. E.g. a list of 1000 points with the keys “latitude” and “longitude”.

I can think of various more compact ways of structuring the same data, but JSON + gzip encodes the naive structure in a very compact way with very little programmer effort.

In general, the design seems to miss a compact representation of an array of homogeneous records, which is a common use case IME.

Edit: Also I agree with GP regarding NUL and other comments about no optional stuff.
Aren't there like 10 million illegal immigrants in the US who serve similar function?
Yup, a huge fallacy used to push an agenda of "how it really was!"

Yes - the world was peaceful until the big bad West came into play. Very bad people!

Lol. The reality is as you lay above. Constantly clashes for resources and land, just as the lives of wild animals are in the present.

Even just watching the birds eating from a limitless supply of seeds this morning, they were fighting and establishing an order.
> What is true is teachers overrate girl's performance earlier in school compared to boys, then girls catch up and overtake, often approaching their teacher's predictions. This might well be a case of matching expectations. Another, to me reasonable, explanation for the results is that teacher's grading includes potential, based on their experience. It's hard to know, and would be very hard to ethically test.

Girls overtake boys in terms of grades assigned by teachers, but they don't in terms of scores on standardized tests. You can make the argument that the grades are just another method of overrating girls' performance.