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> From walking around it, you could think it is several individual trees, because it's branches bend downward, touch the soil, grow new smaller roots there, and then go up again.

The same happens with some banyan trees, in a big way[1].

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

[1] See section "List of historical banyan trees" at above link, and link below.

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

Also, interestingly (from first link):

' Older banyan trees are characterized by aerial prop roots that mature into thick, woody trunks, which can become indistinguishable from the primary trunk with age. Old trees can spread laterally by using these prop roots to grow over a wide area. In some species, the prop roots develop over a considerable area that resembles a grove of trees, with every trunk connected directly or indirectly to the primary trunk. The topology of this massive root system inspired the name of the hierarchical computer network operating system "Banyan VINES" '. VINES had directory services before Novell Netware and Microsoft did, and was widely used (pun intended) for a while.
Social media hashtags exist for people to follow. By finding out the current trendy hashtags that recruiters themselves use/follow, your post pops up on their feed.
I don't think that there's a universal truth about what you should be making or doing. It's up to each person to decide that for themselves. Philosophy exposes you to different ideas and ways of thinking, showing that there isn't a single correct answer to the questions people have in life. What you make of that is up to the person on the receiving end of those ideas.
If by Pi-Hole you mean a host-based adblocking solution, NextDNS is perhaps the most consumer-friendly. I am a paying customer myself and highly recommend it.

But if you mean a _local_ host-based adblocking hardware solution for your entire network then I don't know, unfortunately.
If C++ had a stable defined API then you could just import a C++ library blob into python, or rust, or whatever and it would just work. That you can't is what keeps people developing projects in C++ instead of more productive and sane languages.
We recently switched to Discord from Slack after trying out Teams and some other solutions.

Despite the gaming community focus, Discord feels like a much better product. Maybe they should change their image or something.
Yes once a user leaves your site, it is pretty hard to know what happens on the affiliate site - you just have to trust the system they use. You can look at trends and your previous experience, but it is hard to have any proof.
Find something better to do.
I would like to second the recommendation for the referenced article by Patrick. Big kudos to patio11.
3 years back I had an issue go in my favor (for almost $2k) regarding a dispute with an auto body shop when I started asking them questions in a 'professional' manner (for documentation purposes) and questioning regarding their processes that they were following.
I used the article by Patrick as a template and and the auto body shop just folded on the case.
You can check the kcap layout diagram in the source code docs:

https://github.com/rabbitstack/fibratus/blob/ee26bbc73999895...
It was used in iOS and Android applications [1]. That was where I found it most confusing. Website headers would look exactly like those dragable items.

Windows previously used similar texturing in a few places, including for scrollbars in Windows XP through to Windows 7 [2]. I think it was also used in other contexts, but I can't find a screenshot.

[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/s9fSU.jpg [2]: https://cdn.evilmartians.com/front/posts/scroll-to-the-futur...
AirBnB used to be great, but I ended up deleting my account. It's my own anecdata and I'm sure others still have great experiences, but I got three places in a row that were being operated as something like short-term tenement housing with everything at the bare minimum quality and cleanliness. Charging hundred euro cleaning fees and then leaving a bad review that there were dirty dishes left in the sink, which apparently we were foolish to assume would be included in whatever expensive cleaning service they were using. An expensive apartment that was not cleaned between stays, that had no cleaning supplies in the apartment and the owner was out of the country, and then the owner complained that it was still dirty when we left.

Popularity has ruined it in my opinion.
Many projects place the demo link in the top right About box. Thats the first place I look at, demo first, readme second.
> the latest Samsung interface and remote is quite good

... at spying on you
Yes, I do have a home with ties and roots. We use it a few month per year, while travelling the rest of the time.
Actually I was talking about how to bundle C code with a Common Lisp library (or system), so that ASDF could also handle building it.

Guile has a C API in libguile, so you can create C that's directly callable from Scheme with little overhead. You can write Scheme procedures in C and you don't need to gobthrough FFI.

As far as I know both languages have FFI. CL has CFFI, Guile has it in its standard library.

But can I actually ship some C code with my CL system and have ASDF take care of building it? If I want to ship CL bindings for a C library, as far as I've understood I need to tell users to install the library first. Maybe something like Clasp offers a C++ API?

Then again in both languages you can always use FFI and if things get hairy you can use grovelling.

With Guile, it's really easy to have a C library and package its guile bindings in the same place. Not saying you can't do this in CL, just that I don't know what it would look like to ship both C and CL in the same package.

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I majored in philosophy and I think one of the biggest missteps in how I approached my degree was what I thought I would get out of learning philosophy.

I thought I'd learn about "truth" from my degree, and I was initially very disgruntled when learning about very incomplete philosophies. I learned eventually that the goal of a philosophy degree was not to find "truth", but to learn about the myriad arguments and models people had for "truth", and how to critique and understand truth.

If you're on your journey to developing your personal philosophy, then a basic understanding of philosophy will help you escape pitfalls and traps a lot of annoying armchair philosophizers fall into. A lot of people read a single philosopher and think they understand everything.

What is your goal for developing your personal philosophy? It might be faster and more meaningful for most people to start with theology/spirituality, books on justice (Rawls, Nozick, feminist literature), or carefully selected business books than to start from the basics because that road is long and full of fallacies.

I think it's very important that for every philosophy you learn about, learn the critiques of those arguments. You kan't learn about all the great critiques of Kant from reading Kant. This is where professors and peers are really useful with discussions to tease out nuances of particular arguments and models.

My personal favorite philosopher is Iris Marion Young. I think her work on intersecting democracy and feminism is wonderful.
Personally, I don't trust panes of glass or rental doors (where anyone could have copied keys) to keep my belongings safe. I have a small backpack that always contains my laptops and cameras, and it comes everywhere with me when I am traveling.

I don't leave it at the hotel, I don't leave it in the airbnb, and I don't leave it in the car. (Remember, the trunk of the car is one smashed window and four seconds away from being opened with the interior trunk release button.)

Then again, I also don't go rock climbing, so obviously my approach wouldn't work for everyone.

I grew up in a place where anything left anywhere in a car (trunk, passenger compartment, back seat, glove box, whatever), locked or unlocked, was fair game in 60 seconds. People who leave thousands of dollars of valuables in places without physical security other than panes of glass baffle me, but I also recognize that my experiences are unique in much of the developed world.

OP, don't beat yourself up over the unlocked window; even if it had been locked, the sliding glass door in the back was a one second barrier.
Flash Boys: Not So Fast is the argument in much more depth, and should be dispositive.
> but having no idea what the bounds were.

The idea for the library writer are that the bounds are large enough for whatever the user needs. User inputs a int64_t? Great the type intmax_t on that system is at least int64_t wide by definition. System doesn't have a int64_t ? Great the user can at best use a int32_t, which intmax_t would once again support.

> intmax_t doesn't define an upper limit either, as TFA explains

Yeah, it would almost be sad that C++ is getting bitten by Cs lack of name mangling. Almost because it is kinda pointless to define a maximum integer in a language where any programmer can add their own fixed sized integer types, so a generic library supporting arbitrary sized integers would have to take template parameters anyway.
A long time ago while high on weed I noticed that my mind is actually two very disparate parts: My "autopilot" and myself. I can control the autopilot, but it can also control me, especially by promoting desires for porn, weed, sugar, videogames etc; this quickly becomes impossible to ignore, and then the autopilot takes over completely. Since then I noticed that this wasn't a creation of the drug, it's there all the time, I just never thought about it, and thought it's always just myself (mostly because I really did hate school, that wasn't just an urge). My whole life was a fight between myself who wanted to make cool software, do my school work and be physically active, and the urges of my autopilot - and the autopilot mostly won, except for a few extremely stimulating cases. Now I can control myself, and the person other people see and interact with is me, not my autopilot; and it's me enabling the autopilot when I need it, not the autopilot enabling intelligence when it needs it.
How do you deal with the dozen thoughts present in your head every waking second?

How do you recover when you get distracted in the middle of work and can't get right back to it?

How do you even do the planning itself when that task is just one of the ten or so that your brain thinks should be done right now?
For me MS Teams has been the most reliable experience after plain-old IRC but with the added video/audio/screen sharing features. The only bad experiences have come from somebody using a terrible wireless link, nasty Bluetooth devices, or just using the laptop audio devices in a noisy environment. This is our corporate ms teams so maybe we get allocated our own compute and bandwidth resources though.

Edit: now that I think of it, the key-press to light latency is horrible on macOS. Even worse than in IDEA. With sometimes just stalls after which the whole paragraph I typed pops up.
I don't remember what I was connecting to, but I've had telnet sessions that couldn't process backspace etc, so I had to use the ESC-<key> mappings.
Why are people speaking of Slack in the past tense? I'm as much of a software liberty zealot as it gets and will never understand people flocking to "platforms" when we had open protocols for chat for decades (irc, xmpp), but Salesforce certainly is a respected company having pioneered SaaS long before that became a thing in this decade, isn't it? At least I remember Salesforce being looked up to by the likes of SAP and Oracle 12-15 years ago.
You never needed apple for that. My laptop can't just be 'factory reset' because the thief would have to flash the bios. without that something as simple as secureboot will prevent reinstalling a different OS.
This sums up perfectly the issue with mental health problems. Burn-out. Depression. ADHD. Being 'old'.

You cut slack for someone with a broken leg or a blind cane. But unless you've been there yourself, you don't understand what's going on in the head of someone else. So the natural thing to do is to decide "they're slacking".
Meanwhile in education Slack never was a a thing, everyone already had Office 365 and some adventurous users had already started to experiment with that chat client thing tacked on to Sharepoint.

Then, when COVID-19 hit, what we needed was not a chat client with history and file sharing but a video conferencing tool and it turned out Teams could do that, too. Sure, Zoom was better at first, but Teams came with that shared files thing, it already had some basic education friendly extra features and, very important, it quickly improved. By a lot.

The first day all education institutions in my country worked from home, Teams collapsed under the load. Microsoft quickly fixed this, however - and then started adding useful features.

I’ve never been a fan of Microsoft, but that was really ace work.

Meanwhile, Slack was ... a chat service with extras.
As mentioned by another poster, not in every area or situation (covid...) it's feasible to find jobs without LinkedIn. I kind of agree with you, however I just keep my contact list small. Probably I miss some opportunities with that but at the same time it mostly consists of people who have little interest to traverse my contacts. As soon as there's an equally well working alternative for job hunts, I'm off but I don't see that yet. I'm curious about honeypot.io etc. but I don't like the idea to put people with price tags online
Is it, though? Can anyone compare/contrast the 2 designs? Just because the same people work on them, doesn't mean they're necessarily related (Alpha vs ARM).

Dave Cutler worked on VMS and NT and as far as I know NT is quite different, for example.
I wish, I could upvote multiple times. 3rd party storage is a thing that keeps you locked in in loooong terms. Good just for the vendor and jumpstart, short-term users.
> I know what I'm getting them for Christmas

A grandchild who cares about oligopolistic abuse?

Because they don't have one of those.
We changed from slack to discord earlier in the year, works really well for us. I think if they had a "Discord for Business" offering that would be good.
I guess you mean you can’t think when running. When I run at lactate threshold it is true but if it is relaxed and aerobic I can sure think.
If the team is less engaged then that will show up in all of those metrics over time, and losing a sense of community seems like it would trigger that for some team members.
I've come to realize that "I" am just a small part of the brain. A virtual machine running on top of the primitive host.

Every single second is a struggle over the who gets control of the hardware, and most of the time the host wins.

What "I" want and what the primitive host brain/OS wants are 2 completely different things. Food, shelter, reproduction. That's all it needs. Needless to say, "I" want so much more.

Of course, what everyone else sees as "me" is the body/machine. We are one in the eyes of other people, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
The link to your LinkedIn in your HN profile is broken.
It depends on the price point. If you rent cheap then yes your experience may vary. But I’ve always had consistently good experiences on Airbnb. I rent at the higher end of the price range though.
Perhaps the poster is interested in additional income, outside the quite narrow range of the dispute?
Linux PC Vendor ZaReason goes out of business
Just a heads up I bought the extension and then tried it on Brave Browser, keep getting Failed Needs Authorization message when it tries to install.
How far exactly? Most businesses use word.
They only need to fail once in a big way, while the others can fail multiple times, because they are many, in short.
5G! 5G! 5G! 5G! 5G! 5G!

Yeah I am so tired of hearing about 5G. Because that's exactly what it will be.
An Oculus Quest 2 is 300$ not 400$. Just saying.
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There's a couple of hidden treasures in the form of satire accounts, most notably Chad Profitz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-profitz-977536159/

I aggressively block LinkedIn users that post garbage, as well as connections who engage with these posts.

I find the only point of the LinkedIn feed is to serve as white-noise for your brain when you need to recharge.
Can't edit my post, but for context Stephen has since edited his article. My post was related to this version -https://web.archive.org/web/20200730131647/https://www.steph... - which specifically mentioned companies I worked with and respect.
I also love this podcast.
Its sad to hear Bell Labs gave an award, without any understanding of what the paper claims. We need more academic rigor in science.
This is brilliant. Kudos on a beautiful idea !
How would "they" make it difficult to offer the same services cheaper?

The only institution that can do that is government via regulations (like who can practice law or become a dentist). I agree that there are some (many?) fishy regulations like that. But that is on the government, that is, socialism. Only free markets can guarantee fair prices.
The article was edited and I hadn't realised. The original version was [0]. And, working in Haskell, I genuinely don't believe there was a better team around!

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200730131647/https://www.steph...
> Some rumors from the Moderna vaccine indicated that people got swelling the size of a softball on their arm, and it was rock hard. This does not sound like a vaccine that I want to take.

Muscle soreness, minor fever, and minor swelling (as someone who had immunotherapy -- the swelling you describe really is minor) are pretty common side effects of most vaccines[1]. And of course, your example is just anecdotal evidence.

These kinds of side-effects really aren't new at all, and I'd be surprised if anyone whose had regular vaccines hasn't encountered them at least once. It's just your body's immune response, and it's effectively an indication that the vaccine is triggering the desired immune response.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
How to see your LinkedIn page followers on your company page
I like Teams because it is crap comparing to Slack so people use it less so there is less noise so I can do my job.
Michael is a pretty frequent contributor to HN. In fact so much that his latest project is an ebook specifically about how to get on the front page of HN.

He has spent a few years building small one man startup type projects. His blog is quite obviously a way of generating initial interest in these projects.

He specifically notes that he has ended all relationship the affiliate so your baseless conspiracy theory is unnecessary.

Do better, clacsam.
To (1): Justice.
An important note is that reading is entirely auxiliary to philosophy. The important thing is to think, and to interact with others who are thinking, either orally or in writing. I'd even go so far as to say you could be a philosopher in the fullest sense without ever reading a page of philisophy, although you'd need to know some smart philosophers to get away with that, and you'd be unnecessarily holding yourself back anyway.

The purpose of reading in philisophy is to become aware of interesting problems, challenging arguments, to notice and comprehend tools of thought, and to avoid spending your time developing your thoughts in a direction someone has already travelled. You can get all of this by talking to smart people, it's just that reading is much more efficient.

But what you can't get away with is just reading, or even just reading and writing. You need others to read what you write, and have them respond to you. Or engage with them back-and-forth orally (although writing really helps to organize your thoughts).

If you want to study philisophy, then, you'll need to find a way to interact with others who have studied philosophy, and the best place for that is a university, where you could ask to audit a class, or to join in a discussion hosted by a philosophy club.

If that's not an option, there are internet communities where people discuss philosophy, just be aware that these communities usually form around groups of people who share some philosophical view, and can be insular echo chambers, and they may not be interested in discussing any old philosophical topic. Academic philosophy is filled with bad ideas and counterproductive norms of discourse, and can guide you in completely the wrong direction, but they're still the best environment in which to learn to think.
plenty more here! I collect these https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dro...
Done. See https://github.com/susam/spcss/commit/bf90ecc788030897b18941... for details. Thank you for the suggestion!
To people who hate running, run slower! Most people who hate running are conditioned to go way too fast. Once you build up a base, then you can speed things up.

There is little enjoyment if you are constantly struggling. A smartwatch can give you a pretty good idea of how difficult a run is based on your pulse.
Yeah, at the core we're still just animals. Our consciousness just runs inside the brain and tries its best to control the hardware/wetware. Some are more successful at it than others. Personally, I want a refund heh
I will start building 5G jammers. The FCC can eat a bag of dicks.

Apparently even 5G-NR has an equivalent of the wifi "unauthenticated deauth" intended for emergency quench of uncooperative devices.

The cellphone location data abuses revealed over the last three years have led to a remarkable increase in the number of GPS jammers out there. Gaussian-noise blurred, the good ones that can't be notch-filtered.
These are really great points; I appreciate the feedback!

> In the Anca Dragan episode (and maybe others), the colours used are very similar, makes things less clear.

Very true, I need to come up with a better color scale for this visualization.

> I'm confused about the second graph: how should I be using the left and right axes?

This was definitely the most poorly executed visualization. It's meant to show you the catalog of episodes twice: once for the like ratio over time (at the top of the chart) and once for the views over time (bottom).

> The blue banner below Screen Time looked like a footer to me, so I assumed that's where the page ended

Really great point, updated the copy on this one - thanks!

> The "Search for a different episode" under Episode Similarity doesn't seem to be working

You're right, that was a pretty obvious bug I should've caught. It's fixed, thanks!
Here's the largish summary about the discussions from 9 years ago, that found the applications limited and tradeoffs painful: http://blog.fogus.me/2011/10/14/why-clojure-doesnt-need-invo...
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Thanks for sharing.

Life is full of these should-I-take-this-train moment.
While I lived in Amsterdam I could have made LOTS of money from AirBnB, and again where I live now close to the mountains.

However, I offer a room on CouchSurfing and to friends-of-friends in sporting activities I do..... for ZERO. Nada. Zip.

Why should only those with deep pockets pay insane prices?

An amazing stream of people from all walks of life have passed through my home able to enjoy things on a shoestring budget.

In return each guest has offered the same gesture if I am ever in their country.

You don't get that with AirBnB as paying customers!
While that isn't really relevant as the sizes used by my example could just be larger (if intmax_t worked as intended, which of course it doesn't), the fixed width types are all optional. For example on systems that use ones complement you would have a intmax_t, but no int32_t or any of the others.
Thank you for the suggestion. Added the demo link in the About field too.