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This is exactly it. The idea of a 10x engineer isn't one who codes a similar implementation 10x quicker, that's ridicules and clearly taking the idea too literally. There's a clear upper bound on implementation efficiency, and it's probably below 10x. There is, however, no upper bound on efficiencies gained through creative problem solving.

The real magic, as you noted, is in understanding the business and being an expert in creative problem solving. A 10xer might develop a tool that thousands of people in the company use and saves millions of hours of time. Or they might design a system with the absolute minimum of complexity, that is a joy to work on and reduces turnover and increases feature velocity. Or, they might just learn to say NO a lot and cut scope creep and allow the company to deliver what's actually important.

I imagine some people don't believe in 10x engineers, because they work really boring jobs where creative problem solving isn't that important. When the implementation is straightforward there's not going to be that much of a gap between the worst and the best. But even in a boring job there is ample room to be a 10xer, you just have to think outside of the box more, understand the business, and understand what's causing friction in implementation.
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Is this useful if it doesn’t include the cost of healthcare? Maybe for young people.
I should have probably mentioned that I'm working on static websites that are hosted on CDNs.
> Poor kids today face much greater challenges than those of the past.

To believe this requires a baffling degree of historical ignorance.
you stopped scrobbling on last.fm what happened?
> In the end its up to you what are you going do about it.

This is the ideology I was arguing against since it comes purely from a view of someone successful. It assumes everyone is equally capable of “doing something”. But if you struggle to find your next meal, you can’t do anything besides.. Try to find food. There is no “doing something about it” because you are so disadvantaged that regardless of your action it’s impossible to escape.

In some cases you didn’t eat enough as a child and your brain is literally incapable of escaping. And you’ve never seen someone escape, so it’s not a known possibility.

From my perspective op won the race because he/she makes 100k so objectively isn’t poor and doesn’t have comparable hurdles.
One upside to tools like the Garmin (and I _think_ the newest SPOT) is you get 2-way communication. This is good to describe your specific need (helicopter evac vs 2 people on foot to carry a stretcher) and location (are you stuck on the side of a cliff for example).
Its amazing how well they took it, laughing and all
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I broke my phone and have a new I cloud now but I never updated my instram email or number so now I need help getting that email or password
Well you could implement public key authentication in javascript with a password derived public key. But someone could still intercept your session cookie. You could take it even further and build out an encrypted channel, websocket, or just message based, to send all the data over and use client side rendering. Probably too complicated, but if implemented properly, it would work.
> “I get, He’s a perfectionist,” Fincher volunteered. “No. There’s just a difference between mediocre and acceptable.”

Ah, spoken like a true perfectionist :)
I'm still sore about Reader too. Fortunately Inoreader is about as good.

I'm surprised thumbing things down isn't helping you - it was the thing that fixed YTM for me. I wasn't thumbing things down enough, now anything I don't want to hear again I thumb down, and I mostly listen to the personalized and discovery mixes. You might need to switch/reload stations for it to take effect. And IIRC the discovery mix only updates on Wed.
What if I mixed all JavaScript proposals in one file
> You make yourself non-unique by looking like others. ... limited by the precautions that others take

Yes. This is why it would ideally be done by the browser, not by individuals. If Safari reported only its top-level version number (and only exposed the installed-by-default fonts, and so on) then millions of others would suddenly look like me.
It's not fixed, but neither is it unbounded.

> Excessive redistribution somehow leads to less cake production.

Indeed, but emphasis on excessive. I'd argue that we currently have an excessive lack of redistribution which is also leading to less cake production.
Have you tried a morning ritual?

I mean something to prime your brain to "it's work" mode.

I've never had problems with working from home, but reading your post made me think of things which I'm perhaps doing differently. A morning ritual is something I've always done, not intentionally though, it developed organically.

So, I always start work in the same way: make coffee, connect VPN, hook up the tmuxes, start the web browser and start the mail program. (Those processes get purposefully killed every night)

It's just some silly busy work which takes very little time. It is also something I would not do outside of workdays. However, it mimics the things I'd do (and did) at the office.

Also, maybe your dedicated room is too quiet? If you were a cubicle/open landscape worker prior to the pandemic, you surely now lack all kinds of uninteresting and annoying ambient noises, so could it be this silence makes things feel "wrong"? Perhaps a radio on an uninteresting channel might work?
Long-time Mac developers are familiar with these transitions, and everyone had the opportunity to pick up development hardware this summer, so while it’s certainly not something to treat lightly, everyone with customers should have known what they were up against by now.
I don’t think that’s the point being made by the parent comment. If the information being sent is some identifying information + the extra information information in the http requests you send, then both users may be identifiable however one user may still send more information than the other. The parent comment suggests that reducing this extra information should be a goal.
Applying BJ Fogg's Model for Behaviour Change
Right now the cards are mixed with wildflower seeds only. You can plant these indoor or outdoors. I just started this business so I will definitely keep your suggestions in mind because they are great! You can request a custom message and it will be printed on a card.
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Some organizations using BigFix endpoint manager have TinyCore Linux VMware images that are pre-configured to act as a "relay" for their deployment. https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/9.5/platform/Platform/Inst...
Yeah, the risk premium is surprisingly low: http://www.untether.space/

My guess would be that the Usdt is somewhat backed, so you can exchange some amount of it for usd and as long as no one questions any of that arbitraging it across exchanges is basically free money. Once tether gets a bank run and it becomes obvious it's not fully backed, that spread will shoot up
"Political correctness" is just what you call it when you notice it. You probably don't think of it as political correctness when there are no black cowboys, but that is just political correctness of another time.
You can always describe what has been done with the string by boxing it into an expressive type. Your other example is that when dealing with bad external code you need to do additional checks. That's a specific scenario and every language which exists has to deal with it in the same way. In more powerful languages you could infer which checks need to be done from the type and do the automatically for external code
It’s next to impossible to stop a website from fingerprinting your browser and/or device.

I found a heavily obfuscated script on the webpage of my cellphone data provider which I initially thought was a credit-card skimmer.

After several rounds of de-obfuscation and beautification it turned out to be some really intensive tracking and fingerprinting script from Akamai.

It used every single fingerprinting technique imaginable from pixels, cookies, webgl, webrtc, flash, vector drawings etc etc.
I avoided those books for a long time as I thought they were going to be made up explanations for how things worked in the Discworld. They're actually a wonderful set of stories and jumping off point for discussing a variety of topics. Heavily recommend them to people who may have been in the same position as me.
The depressing part of all of this is performance optimization is really fun! I love sitting down with flamegraphs and other profiler output and making things faster.
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Everytime a tax is proposed, people like me suggest to look at the German Energiewende. Small businesses and private homes are taxed to hell and back on electricity, to keep prices for large businesses internationally competitive, because those bussineses can just pack up and go elsewhere. Or cause a revolution when going bancrupt. Taxing large consumers more also doesn't work. Taxes are never the single answer, you always need to combine them with import duties, ending trade agreements, leaving the WTO, maybe even leaving the EU to be able to levy duties on other European countries with a lesser energy tax. Because that is what it takes to create a fair tax regime on energy.

I guess only the very radical greens would want to stomach that backlash...
Apple has the advantage of a long track record of pulling the plug on old tech. No one thinks for a moment that they’re going to try to straddle the middle of the road by offering both platforms any longer than they have to.

Being a decisive, opinionated company means that you anger a lot of people, but it also means you’re predictable once you’ve announced something like this.
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The conference chair couldn't help giggling. What was it he said? "Hey you better hang up before the police arrives"?
There are a few things intermingled in this election example.

1. The outcome of the election here is not a probability. It is the population value - the ratio of people voting for candidate X on the election date. It doesn't have to be repeated in the same way measurements of height for all people in United States would not have to be repeated, if instead of vote we were measuring heights.

2. Frequentist probability doesn't require to physically repeat things. It can reason about what would happen in the repeated sampling under certain conditions, and then draw inferences about those assumed conditions. With the election example: if you get a survey of 100 people with 70% voting for candidate "A" we don't need to repeat this survey in order to know the likelihood (frequency) of this result happening if the real proportion of people voting for candidate "A" across the US is 50%.
This I will give to DevOps - it's hyper focus on automation, change management and repeatability are all good things. As someone with a leg in each domain (software developer by day, system administrator by night), I've really felt that both areas could learn a lot from each other. These days with version control being as quick and easy as it is, there's no reason not to use it for everything. Configuration as code is immensely powerful. And repeatability to eliminate "well, it works on my machine" is fucking brilliant.

But there still needs to be documentation. The why must always be explained, even with the most readable of code, that can only layout the what and the how.
This is why I now work from my own coworking space, while the rest of my company work from home. It's a nice middle ground.
They're laughing right now, but really these kinds of mistakes are telling how weak the security of various agencies are.
AFAIK Surfinkeys was developped as a step-up from Vimium and cVim. In any case the specific software you enjoy is unimportant, as long as you can enjoy keyboard-centric browsing.
You're missing one of the very important aspects of a RPI is that it's cheap and accessible. Many countries around the world, particularly the poorer ones, don't have Amazon or ready cheap access to SSDs. What they do have access to is phone micro SD cards in adaptors. An 8 or 16GB card is plenty for a computer lab and is affordable and accessible.
> But what caused me to switch to a mac was the constant CPU and memory problems I was having with ubuntu.

Chances are that problem would have been gone too if you had switched to another device that isn't a Mac. If "kill the machine" means the machine getting incredibly slow then the problem might have been that the RAM was exhausted and your laptop began to swap - which could have been solved by upgrading the RAM or getting a device with more RAM.
You could add a queue and execute the queries one at a time. Probably SQLite or at least popular wrappers for it already do this? But it will be slower than a DBMS that allows you to make hundreds of queries in parallel.
From the “manifesto”:

> In today's world of capitalism and fascism

Today’s world is run by neoliberal planned economies, what some Communists might call “state-run capitalism” (usually in reference to China). Fascism and capitalism is so far away from an accurate description of how today’s world operates. When you’re that far on the left, you lose the ability to distinguish between Fascism and Liberalism.
Every point you mention is spot-on. Even simple routines like going to the bathroom and eating have so much time shaved off of them. I didn't even realize that 3a was true until you articulated it -- town halls, all-hands, brown-bags, et al., are now a great place to listen in casually but do email hygiene or even some light "real work" without getting judged.
The geologic evidence for Snowball Earth (multiple ones, actually) is extremely strong. It is almost impossible to explain the re-emergence of banded iron formations without it.

The hard part is explain is how photosynthetic life survived. The Slushball Earth hypothesis holds that there was a band of thin ice near the equator. This has some severe problems though. For one, it isn't climatologically stable. The oceans in SE were covered by "sea glaciers," which were floating glaciers thicker near the poles, which flowed to the equator. These flowed due to the weak hydrologic cycle, with ice experience net sublimation near the equator. These would have overridden any areas of thin or nonexistent ice.

A hypothesis that is getting more traction is that narrow equatorial rift seas (like the Red Sea) would have prevented inflow of the sea glaciers enough for thin-ice refuges to exist. These kind of seas probably existed, because this was occurring as the supercontinent Rodinia was beginning to break up.
Aren’t both at the same level ? Amazon is horrible in many many ways.

You’d think a bookstore would have a good way to show books of the same series in order, and make it easy to find any specific issue. Or help you follow random authors, and not just some handpicked ones, or notify you of a new book coming out in the future. All of these use cases are mildly (wildly) broken and it was the core of their business for a long time.

When I say they are similar, I’m thinking mostly about how they’re ignoring “pretty” and “logical” design trends and stick to very basic while chaotic page designs.
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IRS doubles down on nondeductibility of PPP-funded expenses
> Is it unfair? Fuck yea it is, but what are you going to do? Stay there and complain? Or are you gonna get busy running.

Keep in mind this study was talking about mental disorders. Many of those mental disorders will interfere will inhibit a person's ability to "get busy running."

It is also worth considering that this paper is not about a race with a meaningful measure of success, regardless of how you define success. There are measured outcomes, whether a person ends up with a mental disorder or not, based upon preconditions. It is not even clear whether training more and running faster will even help a person reach the finish line (which is presumably good mental health throughout life).
This reminds me of the scene in Shutter Island where Teddy interrogates a female patient and the glass of water is absent in subsequent frame.
Many of us wonder if it was deliberate or not. I was leaning towards deliberate but now reading this I am wondering if I gave them too much credit.
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It's very serious stuff, it's not funny.

Someone leaves their doors unlocked it doesn't mean you should be entering.

More importantly, how on bloody earth are defence discussions happening in a situation that can so easily be defeated.

The officials themselves are to blame for blatantly terrible security protocols.
All requests except those for your pages could be blocked, so your CDN server is the only subject that can remember them.

Do you receive server logs from your CDN? If not, maybe you can serve something from your own servers to have some server logs under your control.
There’s an ambiguity in that GMT is a civil timezone that in the UK is BST when DST is in effect. UTC cannot be affected by DST.

I hear a lot of Brits calling their time “GMT” even when DST is in effect. It’s a shorthand for “current time in the UK”. Hence, ambiguous.
So yes, the spread of powerful computing certainly is to be lauded. I'm not denying that, but I feel it's more to do with a driving down of costs than anything. If (and I admit that's a big if) big iron vendors had paid attention and not rested on their laurels, I truly believe they could have easily morphed into "cloud" providers, and possibly even brought it on sooner, like a decade earlier.

But the activity of keeping secrets is still with us, even in this age of widespread FLOSS. Just look up how many software patents are still held. It's no good trumpeting your organization's advantages if everyone has the same advantages.
I'm not in the age demographic you mention, but also not far from it. I've picked up chess, German, and golf. I've found the key to getting better (so far) is simply to practice as often as possible, even a little per day. I also think being older I have the confidence that I can learn skills, and I know that I only need to apply myself. In my younger years I used to think you either had the ability or not, but now I know it really only takes practice.
I use Forest. It doesn’t actually lock you out, but I’m reminded not to look at my phone when I start a timer.

https://www.forestapp.cc/
No one is encouraging sick people to stop trying.

They're trying to explain to relatively healthy and privileged people that blaming sick people for trying and failing is extremely unlikely to help them.
Yes, but not Docker. (Also Podman is developed by Red Hat.) I think they have rather high hopes there, and are more likely to just shoot themselves in the foot by being one of a small number of distros that don't have Docker. In fact, rebuilders of RHEL (e.g. Oracle Linux) should maybe consider explicitly supporting Docker. "We are 100% compatible with RHEL but additionally also support Docker" definitely makes for better marketing copy than just "We are 100% compatible with RHEL".
I've always thought it's important to learn something significant in each decade of life. In my 20s I started teaching and doing long-distance bicycling trips. In my 30s I moved from NYC to Alaska, and started doing mountain rescue work. In my 40s I started writing and learned to drive a boat on the ocean. That was intimidating in a fishing town, where it feels like everyone else has known how to drive a boat since they were three years old.

In my 50s I hope to learn a musical instrument, although that's a couple years away so who knows what's in store then.

Learning something new keeps us young and humble, and engaged. It also connects us with people outside our current bubble. People talk about our minds becoming less elastic as we age, but that's offset by practice at learning new things. I do think it's good to learn things with some element of risk from time to time; it's part of what keeps us sharp, and forces us to evaluate our own competency level.

What are you interested in learning?
The startups I have worked at went out of their way to get top-end equipment for everyone, and especially developers or engineers. They knew they had to move fast.
Yeah but if I have a 10mb binary dependency on an x86 lib with no source code and the company that made it is long since gone, then deprecating x86 would make me sweat a bit.
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> If we live in a materialist deterministic world - which many would cite as an axiom for simplicity - then there really is no probability. Everything happens with 100% certainty.

I don't know who "the many" are - but I thought determinism had already been disproved.

I am not a physicist so I will not go into quantum mechanics - but I will take a simple example from Science Fiction, and that is the Temporal Paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox
Seconding ColdTurkey. I started using it when I began working from home a few years ago. It’s great for keeping me on track.
This just hit me hard with nostalgia. Learned to program with QBASIC.

Really love the examples - I learned so much by reading the source code of games like gorillas that came with QuickBASIC.
I can see this as a tool to create simple social media posts
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