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> My answer is to always batch. Depending on the task's size, batching may take the same amount of time as it will to complete the task. And on a few occasions, batching may take even more time than the actual work. But batching is also a skill that needs to be developed.

Absolutely no data is given to back up this assertion, and even if data were given in some research, it would be some kind of average value, selected from a sample size of, say, 20-25 year old, disproportionally male Californiamen, who all studied at the same university, and were all willing to donate their time for some undergraduate research and obtain 50 U.S.D. in return, and the data would already reveal immense spread and variability with clearly around 40% at least heavily increasing productivity by switching, but the article would stress that the average would not, and thus advocate that no man so “context switch”.

Yes, practicing batching will make one more efficient at it, but practicing context switching will also make one more efficient at it,and the true reason is that many tasks require one to wait for something else and do nothing.

The reason why I'm already washing many of the dishes I cooked with as I cooked is of course simple: there is nothing to do except stirring once in a while at a certain stage in cooking so I might as well use that time to do something else.

I also took various sips of my coffee writing this, not because I had nothing else to do, but because it tasted nice.
The pointwise otimality of the LZ algorithm - the fact that it beats every other information-lossless finite-state compressor like Huffman encoding asymptotically on /every/
string, is an ingenious theorem. For versions of the algorithm (LZ77 in particular), it was open till the late 1990s when Paul Shields settled it.

The algorithm is easy, but the analysis of its effectiveness is not at all easy.
I can not find a recent tournament where Stockfish has crushed Leela in head-to-head play.

This is their most recent ongoing head-to-head: https://www.chess.com/events/2021-tcec-20-superfinal

Current result: 9 draws, one win with Stockfish as White, and one win with Leela as White. Drawn.

There is also this one from a couple of years ago: https://www.chess.com/news/view/computer-chess-championship-... “Lc0 defeated Stockfish in their head-to-head match, four wins to three”. Stockfish did got more wins against the other computers, so won the round-robin, but in head-to-head games Leela was ahead of Stockfish.
Same here (in Poland). Besides being faster, this is likely more energy-efficient, as the kettle isn't bleeding heat as much as a pot on the stove.

Speaking of which, I don't understand why we've settled on a gas stove design that's so terribly inefficient, with most[0] of the heat leaking around the pan. Why no design with a combustion chamber of some sorts?

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[0] - Well, at least a lot. I didn't do the math here yet, but it's hard to imagine otherwise with unrestricted airflow around the pan.
> I use Linode now as their support is great and they don't just drop ban hammers and leave you scrambling to figure out what happened.

Linode once gave me 48 hours to respond (with threats to take down the site) because a URL was falsely flagged by netcraft based on what looked like an automated security scan of software I was hosting. Granted, they did not take any action and dropped the report once I pointed out that it was bullshit, but I do not consider this great service. If there is no real evidence of wrongdoing I should not be receiving ultimatums.
What a great idea for getting people to use your Amazon referral code! Very creative, value adding, and well executed. Will use!
Is GPG Auth the answer?

It is tied to the site keys and not the address nor even the CAs.

It forces you to check and think before doing your thing.

And It is easier to use than 2FA, since it is one factor, open your key one time, the key auths you as long as you want.
I haven't tried much forcing in earnest, but I've talked to voices in my head that didn't feel like part of me, and I've lurked in r/Tuples for years. It seems pretty common to have "parallel" consciousness among tulpamancers, though I think it depends on how you define and measure that.

Our sense of "continuous consciousness" is already an illusion, built from a series of moments. There are a lot of things about the brain/mind like that that I think make tulpas less unbelievable the more you think about it. Another is that there is a lot of diversity among "normal" brains. If someone can rotate a 3D shape in their head and you can't, you could say one of you has a "real mental issue," or just acknowledge the diversity. Also, a lot of our "thinking" is not conscious; it seems like we experience certain thoughts as "our thoughts that we are consciously thinking" because some process picks out a thought here and there and presents it that way. If another process were to come along and pick out a different 1% of our ongoing thoughts and present it as a coherent stream of consciousness, conforming to a certain personality, it could be another consciousness.

I don't think the brain/mind has one CPU and one program counter and that's that, and anything else is an illusion; I think it's got lots of cores and lots of threads, and if anything the idea that there's one hardcoded main thread is the illusion.
Both cars and bitcoin are insanely wasteful.

Ever heard of "whataboutism"?
Those noises meant the product was stripping gears during the first day of use while performing it's intended task.
This is a fake quote from a parody website:

>>I happily played World of Warcraft during 2007-2010, but one day Blizzard removed the damage component from my beloved warlock’s Siphon Life spell. I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring.
Because employers can prevent employees from recording them, but not vice-versa.

An imaginary world, where everyone is allowed to wiretap everyone non-stop, might be fine. But in the real world such ability is hindered by the morals, right of private property and major imbalance of power between people. As such, it is better to explicitly whitelist the few select cases, when surveillance is permitted — lest the society engages in race to the bottom, where every employer will try to give their workers as little privacy as possible.
I'll agree that censoring speech is probably one of the sharpest double edge swords to play with.

My counter to "who decides what hate speech is" - we need to actively figure it out. We can't sit back and say "it's too hard to decide" so we should tolerate all speech either by decision or inaction.

Not actively engaging is as dangerous as letting a specific group decide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
This won't work at most companies of any size, because you need to use a VPN, and the VPN client enforces policies - checking you are using a company machine, that you have their AV installed and updated, that you have their DLP (Data Loss Prevention) installed, that you have their endpoint protection system installed...
I'm a bit out of the loop... Anyone got a TL;DR for why he decided to come back to Russia knowing full well he will be arrested?
What matters is who is doing the considering. Each friendship between people is its own "culture" in that sense; I don't generally do things that my friend would consider offensive, if they are actually my friend.

It's nothing to do with the wider culture or ethnic environment, or what third parties may or may not be offended by: I don't do things that I know would hurt my friends.
This is the distinction we make too: business validations go in the database, ux-validations go in the application.

In practice, however, this means the business validations are duplicated all over the place (but always enforced, as last line of defence, in the database).

It also means customers get more frequent 500 errors (exceptions): when a business rule is implemented in DB but not (yet) in an application.

It is messy.
Yep, making sure you're on latest package branch helps for sure. When it comes to popular packages on the latest branch, I always feel like I've had far more trouble getting up to date versions on ubuntu than I do on FreeBSD.
The fundamental problem with easy repairability is that you need to maintain availability of replacement parts. How can you expect that a given piece of equipment is repairable if you cannot get a replacement PCB? Manufacturing the old electronics is often not possible because regulations change. When leaded solder was banned, some old PCB designs were unaffected, others had to be redone. Components may no longer be available.

So if you had to do a repair job it is entirely possible that a replacement PCB has to be designed from scratch. Doing this for every model is not possible so there would have to be a standard PCB used by all models. Considering the high degree of integration in many products, that is a pipe dream.

The only real solution is longer warranties to keep the manufacturer accountable.
I think it is very hard to quantify problem. In my experience once you have a security policy about updates it is equally easy to update statically and dynamically linked software. The real problem is that most companies do not care. On the other hand, if many application are running in Docker today does it matter if that app has static or dynamic linking?
How does that tell you how many sectors are in one track or how many heads are there?

Presenting the drive that consists of sectors in tracks on platters as if it is a very long string of sectors, how more abstract can you get? And that’s ignoring reallocated sectors and shingled recording shenanigans.
German Covid vaccine officials forced to guess people's ages from names
> its delivered with a lot of negativity

Sometimes truth hurts. People cope with pain differently. A good way is to be direct and sincere with yourself and use a pinch of sardonic humor when telling the story to a friend. To your not-a-friend colleagues maintain a respectful distance, try to learn and understand what they think and feel, then with this knowledge search a path which feels okayish to you.

So looking at it this way I don't find the truth being delivered with a lot of negativity.
Yes, the Loki is the incentive to running nodes. Jami is decentralized without incentives. Berty.tech is distributed, also without incentives.
Are anyone doing Windows or Linux only software shops in 2021 (web services not included)?

Even the ones reaching hacker news seems to fiddle down after just a couple of years and die out.

I’m starting to wonder... here around 4 out of 5 business close down within a couple of years, how is that ratio for business making a software product? Is software a victim of its own success? The market is clearly there, but the competition is ruthless, the stacks ever changing and the risk seems to increase year for year.

At the same time we code on our free time and happily give away our code for free.

Tried to find a study where they showed that gambling addiction and programming addiction operated similarly but it seems to have been scrubbed of the internet.

IMO median(!) salaries will go down relative to other diciplinaries. coding is just too fun.
That’s what I’ve done my whole life.

But instead of a “friend” it’s more like referring to myself as “us”, “we” in my inner monologues.

And it just makes loneliness worse.
Lessons from 50 Years of Software Experience
Not in my experience. I also lived in Sweden and UK. Blood tests are usually only a reactivate thing. You're sick you get blood tests. As prevention not as common I'm afraid.
If you believe that donations accepted by authors of entirely free/open source software are "just another model of making money from software", I don't know what to tell you.

I don't understand it, so I don't think it's fair to call it "understandable".
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I think the “alt” part is in response to the current generation of conservatives who don’t really conserve anything because they are neocons.

Of course the left is very happy with the defanged right, so they call any actual conservative “alt”
Possibly a similar or related phenomenon: https://neurosciencenews.com/writer-character-voice-16749/
> I had several locals comment that I was a bit fat [my BMI is ~26]

"According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH), a BMI of 26 falls into the overweight range of 25 to 29."

https://www.livestrong.com/article/373940-what-does-a-bmi-of...
I've had that with stuff I've Freecycled. In the end I decided not to worry about it. These people aren't getting rich off my castoffs. If they can earn a little bit of extra cash then that's fine by me.
Sure, physics doesn't stop working. My argument is, are you sure the "its only physics" people are modeling the world in a correct, precise way and there aren't other factors to be considered beyond what they propose.

The point I think the author is making isn't 'calorie counting is wrong' -- 'calorie counting is not the whole picture'. When someone says software is just 1s and 0s, How hard can building software be? You're right its 1s and 0s, but that's not an entirely helpful model to work with if you're trying to build software.

For example, you could say the number of people coming out of a building will equal the number of people that go into a building, its basic Maths - counting is the only thing you need. Now if the person uses this logic for a maternity hospital and they suddenly find out there are more people coming out than are going in. It doesn't mean that math is broken.
My bad then, I read it as wanting to Android apps instead of iOS apps on a tablet.
The barrier for entry to the Apple ecosystem is extremely high though.

Xcode is extremely hard to use. I've been programming for over 20 years, and used lots of different editors and IDEs and languages.

But Xcode is just TOO HARD. Swift was nice and easy to understand. But just editing (or even typing) code on the editor is a huge pain. Even things like selecting text, or moving the cursor around are super non-standard and complicated (and this is coming from someone who's managed to become proficient with vim).
No, it doesn't and this is where an initially "superior" technology (Jails existed years ago, I was using them at least 15 years back in time) gets overrun by "inferior" tech (Linux containers), because the latter gets a user oriented tooling, packaging and so on (no flame war intended at all). Now the Linux container is much more "superior" as it catch'd up and exceeded Jails in many areas, especially user oriented readiness and integration.
> It's almost comical : you advertise for a screen tech, but you carefully avoid to show how such screen looks like. Definitely a red flag.

Are you an E Ink employee or something trying to badmouth clearink? Because you can just go to youtube and search clearink and find clear videos of their products from various conferences.
Reminded me about Steal This Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book
>Let me know what you think

Sometimes a thing is not broken, but it makes you uncomfortable and you only notice that later. Like one of my washing machines that beeped a couple of minutes before it unlocked its door. If this will fly, please allow to add such details into reviews, e.g. “not broken, but I hate it” status.
But that's a good strategy regardless of Corona, you don't want you kid to download stuff into your work environment or watch NSFW stuff on a work related computer.
Yeah, if I'm giving something away, it's because I have decided it doesn't really hold any value for me anymore, nor would it be worth the time and hassle to try and sell it.

So I'll give it away and if anyone thinks it's worth the time and effort to sell it, that's not for me to decide. Once it is out of my hands, it is no longer mine.
Why, they don’t need to advertise to the people who already have the product!
I got lost at the part that says "byte value 0xF1 which is ñ." How does it jump from Unicode codepoints to bytes without UTF-8?
Interesting!
Is there a way to group for period (eg top trending this week/this month/this year etc)?
People underestimate the utility of good sharpening tools.
McCarthyism has a section on its wiki page called "Victims of McCartheyism" and mentions hundreds imprisoned and thousands of people losing jobs. It was hunting a soviet threat to America which didn't actually exist, and doing tremendous damage while doing so. The article you link on the actual spies is listing maybe tens of names.
Or use an induction stove, which is even quicker than a kettle
Again and again, I think that hacker news cant be a place for spreading false anti-russian (anti-any country) propaganda that was proved to be false a long ago. If you read a references section of "penal military unit" - you will not able to find it in his books.
The law is the law: You cannot contract with another party to "allow" either one of you to break the law.
I would normally suggest being a bit concurrent - contacting Apple and seeing if you could sign up as an individual and then migrate the registration to a corporate registration.

However, if you have had months of issues getting a DUNS number you likely are beyond wanting to move around a temporary roadblock, and on to trying to remove a more permanent roadblock first.

Getting a DUNS number for my LLC was free and not difficult, but it was confusing. There are a lot of wrong ways to try to go into the process - to the point where the DUNS sign up now has "Apple Developer" as one of the reasons you are asking for a number.
Without a backlog of high fee paying transactions, Bitcoin mining becomes unstable, as discussed at [1].

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5306354.0
> this is likely more energy-efficient

Be that as it may, it's most likely more expensive. This is purely my personal guesstimate, but gas tends to be much cheaper in Poland than electricity. More efficient, maybe, but I'd be very surprised if it was cheaper given the prices.
We could go into a whole debate about this. From my perspective, I don't think they're wrong, at the end of the day, I'm a foreigner in their country, and it's up to me to adjust my mindset. I don't think it's up to them to change their behavior because I find something offensive, that to them is not considered offensive.
I've found this on Freecycle. They way around it is to ask a question in the offering post. Anybody who doesn't answer gets excluded and the problem goes away.
Interesting! Some Friends from Sardinia told me that seafood is predominant in their diet! And of course, veggies.
I have MFA enabled, so I authenticate with user/pass, then a OTP from an authenticator app, then an SMS code is sent.
The way I have done it with both groups of friends and past partners is we rotate who chooses the activity, and that person pays that time. So if you can only be cheap and do picnic in the park that's fine, but if you want to spend more that's also ok. This works best if your friends (both poorer and richer) are not materialistic and don't keep count, and it needs to be a fairly steady group, 5 or less works best.
Many dishes simply require such switching because they require two pans to finish around the same time and then combine.

What is the extreme end of this, anyway? Is the auctor asserting that we hold our lives for the week it takes for various form of dough to ferment till readiness? simply staring at the fridge that houses it?

This is also the problem with this philosophy: the vague definition of when a task be “done” or “still ongoing”.
Fwiw, this is totally untrue. Most people are simply not very efficient, even people who are "good at cooking". Knowing how to cook and then watching someone who is self-taught (or worse, YouTube influencer taught) is pretty eye-opening.

Don't feel bad, most people are not actually good at cooking. But if you care, being good is pretty simple. It just takes actual training, which most people are surprisingly resistant to.
My personal experience is that when I eat carbohydrates I enter “berserk” mode, where my appetite is extremely elevated. It usually ends up with overeating and an insulin crash.

While when eating no carbohydrates I don’t get that same feeling and can have more self-control.
> Why no design with a combustion chamber of some sorts?

Thermal capacity. Gas stoves are great because they have none, so any temperature changes are immediate. Anything between the pot and the flame will destroy that advantage.

Also, the combustion chamber will have a vent for the exhaust. So I would suspect that it won't be any more efficient, except for very small pot sizes.
Cosmic rays aren't caused by the sun. If anything the heliosphere shields us from some of them.
I've seen this pattern repeated with many websites. Once they become popular enough to afford it, they lock all their content, disable their APIs, and start requiring their users to verify emails, share their phone numbers etc. Export options become hard to use, open protocols get squashed, API access becomes really difficult to get.

It seems like the end game of any large website is to hold data hostage.
> ... that leads to people believing there is nothing outside the observable universe

No mainstream scientific source says this. The observable universe is purely a limit on the distance we can see - a horizon - due to the speed of light and the age of the universe.

> The main evidence used as "proof" of the big bang is the observed data seeming to show that the everything in the universe is "dispersing" slowly. That is at least what I've heard claimed.

There is much, much more evidence than this. Wikipedia lists observational evidence in 7 categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Observational_evidenc...

> If you proscribe to believing in the big bang, then the entirety of everything we see is an expansion from a single dense explosion of matter.

This is misleading. The Big Bang is not an "explosion" of the kind we see on Earth, where some matter is pushed apart from a central point by an explosive force. If that were the case, then what we observe would be different.

Instead, what we observe has so far only been well explained by the idea that space itself is expanding. In this model, there is no center - there's no location you can point to as where the explosion happened, the expansion happened everywhere equally, it didn't radiate outward from a central point.

We have evidence of this omnidirectional expansion, in the form of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, which is radiation from the early universe that comes from all directions in the sky, because the Big Bang similarly occurred in all directions. Again, this is not what we would observe if it was similar to a traditional explosion.

> I believe that they are seeing something similar enough that it could be perhaps a "localized bang" or something like that.

If you're thinking of something more like a traditional explosion, no, that is ruled out by the observational evidence.
The intention behind it is pretty good. Best of luck to them.

I wonder if I can donate computing power to this remotely. Like the old SETI or protein folding things. Use idle CPU to calculate for the network. Otherwise the estimates I have seen on how much it would take to train these models are enormous.
The do intend to kill fingerprinting [and cookies].

But only because they have a far more efficient way of tracking users _and_ make sure they're the only one who can benefit from this.

It's unbelievable how absurdly anti-competitive and anti-consumer google has become, yet nobody seems to care.
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or maybe change 1F600 to 1F44D :)