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When I saw the title, I initially rolled my eyes[0], but I have to concede a lot of the points the author is making with regard to the examples he's chosen. There is value in biographies covering failures.

My first thought was "there's no market for it". But yes, there definitely is -- at least, I'm part of it. I remember watching a documentary on covering an early .com failure that with a few tweaks would have been a biography about the failures of the CEO and the tragedy of that experience in his life. It was a very unique failure and it interested me because it was a failure at a level I had not experienced in my life[1].

There is a very similar market in the "failure biography" category: True Crime. I feel it's the closest analog. Outside of the books that are written simply because the crime is so gruesome, many are about particularly clever criminal(s) and the errors that led to their capture[2]. While these books often focus on the whole process, and might center around an investigator's hunt for a criminal, there are plenty where "A Biography of Stabby McMurderFace" would be a better title. I'm sure there's an abstraction and a way to map the successes/failures from a true crime book to adequately apply to non-criminal life. Everything I know about software development says it must be true. /s

[0] There seems to be a growing trend with hating on people who are successful, whether it's entirely dismissing their success as "luck" or pointing out the obvious fact that "reading a Biography will not teach you how to become a multi-millionaire". Or worse, that reading about a successful person's life is a harmful way to use your limited entertainment time <rant>(when did it become popular to write articles talking to adults like they've not been on this planet their whole, adult, life? Do we need to be told that wild success is an outlier just because a few adults need instructions to operate Shampoo?).</rant>

[1] I won't deny it, I was watching it 80% for the "train-wreck" of it all and only 20% for the cautionary tale aspects, but you consume both.

[2] There is the third, "unsolved", category and I don't know what percentage all of these books represent of the whole, but I'd consider only the "failed criminals" which at-a-glance appears to be the most common.
Its funny but you may find you might take some of these negative labels over your career. I have been a number of these but it depends where I am in my life, career and the project. Currently I am a "Rockstar" developer.. and looking at the door. Luckily this project has a specific end date I can plan on.
Not “who”, but “what” is a legitimate question.

Is an egg fertilised by only one parent and genetically modified to lack any higher brain structures (and therefore any function of mind) still a “human being”?

Can anyone who answers that question with “yes” justify it without reference to supernatural beliefs?
What a game changer! New Relic's expanded AIOps services now makes getting to root cause issues fast and easy.
I jumped from Apple to Linux because I had to get work done and the scientific software that I wanted to use was a pain to keep working on Macs. Also, it was impossible to configure MacOS to work the way I wanted it to, unlike Linux.

By the way, I use a tiling window manager (dwm) and I can’t figure out what you mean by “tiling WM having too many windows open”. I also don’t understand why free software such as the Gimp should be expected to support the binary file format of some closed-source program. But I do understand the need to work with other people without making excuses, even if their choice of tools is shortsighted.
Google Cloud Networking reporting issues
Looks interesting! Cool!!
I'm honestly still amazed sometimes that the Fighting Irish mascot of Notre Dame is still a thing. It seems inevitable that it gets relegated to the scrap heap of history at some point, but I guess people don't care as much since the Irish, at least in the U.S., mostly ended up catching a break and didn't become a permanent underclass all but obliterated from existence by military might like Native Americans were.
You are right that nobody is being physically forced to make this change, but I think you vastly underestimate the power of propaganda and social pressure.

In today's hyper-socialized society there is not really much difference between "you are forced to make this change" and "make this change or else you will be socially outcast by all your peers".

Github is used by millions of developers all over the world. There is almost certainly at least one person in every western software company that regularly uses github. They have the power to broadcast messages into every software company in the western world, and right now this message is "make this change or you are racist".
Yup, I totally agree. There's also a good chance this total breakdown in culture is partly a symptom of parenting being demonized.
I don't understand what you are saying. There are air to water heat pumps as well as ground source heat pumps. Both have typically tanks.
“Master of Science” is simply a use of a different meaning of the word. If anyone is suggesting to not use “master” across the board, even in the sense of “being really good at something,” they can shove off.

While the “master” branch is clearly using master in the sense that it asserts control of the other branches in some way.

So IMO, explaining could be done by pointing at the dictionary.
Am I missing something? The Play button isn't even clickable on my Catalina Safari, Firefox and Brave.
finally someone saying what we're all thinking!

just tell me which one is wrong dammit!!
I thought that the Google Translate corpus consisted of largely documents that were translated between multiple languages. In that case there was probably context telling the translator the gender, or they were translated from English with a gender to gender-neutral.

In this case I would expect that barring any other influence these are just whatever gender happened to be the most common for each verb in the input texts.
Any ideas on how to pipe this through, Sonos?
Failure is depressing, people who advocate this advise have succeeded after failure.

I posit that if you wrote your biography of failure while failing, it only wastes precious time to correct course.

“Winners” should write fewer lines and attribute it to: genes and luck.
This is super exciting for me, I am very interested in MPC/PSI but I haven't been introduced to much about it outside of academia. A ton of potential applications obviously but limited by computational power, as I understand it. Would you mind sharing what company(ies) you work with/for? If you can't or don't want to disclose publicly you can email me: kyoji1@gmail.com or jowens17@fau.edu. I would love to hear more!

Here's my PSI project if interested: https://github.com/dowensagain/EfficientMultiPartyPSI
For quite a while, if you wanted to learn how a Linux system really operated, you'd build a Gentoo system.

Eventually, you'd get tired of all the options and switch to something more stable, especially for servers. I have some fond memories of Gentoo and emerge and compiling all of my software, just so. Sadly, it was never very stable... and not really through any fault of it's own. Really, the customization you could do was great... but there was always one more thing to tweak, one more knob to turn...

Badge of honor -- yes. I'd almost call it a requirement for someone to work through once or twice.
I often wonder if these name change/inclusion initiatives are started for promotion purposes. At least from my observation at work, it seems none of them are led by under-represented groups. Instead, they are mostly led by white/over-represented PoCs.

Of course I don't dare to raise these questions at work (or with my real identity). These days if you are not onboard with these changes you might get labeled as racists.
If it was significant and of consequence, my suspicion is it wouldn't stay subconscious for long.

Original Sin is just as real to the worldview of millions over centuries as Subconscious Bias is to others.
As a tech fan, but not a professional programmer, this only took me a couple hours to figure out :-)

Basically the moment you start to use Linux desktop, you will immediately start googling how to twist this and that. Maybe in an hour, you will start to go to this and that folders to change this and that cfg files. For me, I quickly realize that 1) I won't remember what I did and I don't know all the implications of those changes I made, and 2) I don't want to spend time on those stuff.
Let's say inflation is 2%, and and bonds are returning 1%. That means real (that is, accounting for inflation) bond returns are -1%. But holding cash returns -2% (again after accounting for inflation).
While I could definitely see this coming from ML biases, I would like to know the language in question and test some more examples.
"Leaders aren't born, they're made" [1]

[1] https://coachingforleaders.com/
> If your app isn’t making that much in a month, then your app isn’t very good or you’re bad at business.

Yes, many indie developers are bad at business, but they made good apps. Their month sells might one or two. They pay the $99 to Apples per year just to prevent their apps from being removed App Store.
I like this way of thinking about notes - trying to move them up a ladder of utility (from short -> long term):
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6f6xgGG4NKjkA5NA1kDd46whJh2...

It's ideal to have a tool that is extensible enough to handle scratch notes all the way to densely linked evergreen notes.
> All cultural revolution is forced for those who do not benefit directly from it.

How would you say the American Civil War fits into this picture? Most of the people fighting (and dying to fight) slavery were not slaves. Or when the British made slavery illegal in their Empire? Why choose that, in your model?
Same for education. Let students see how many failures and wrong theories occured in the past, even from the smartest brains of their days. And stop forcing godspell like knowledge onto brains. Make them try, think, sweat, imagine, converge or diverge and correct themselves with some guidance to avoid too much confusion.
The Amiga also had HAM mode that could display all 4096 colours but it was somewhat limited in what you could use it for. When I first saw that it looked like witchcraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify
I think there is a fundamental error in this post.

If there were targeted attack against a person sure, but IMHO this protects against simple brute force attack on the login page where the script just cycles through logins, finds a valid login, and then cycles through common passwords.

If the argument is that the attack scripts can also run against the registration page to correlate login, sure, but you've just made the life harder for the attacker.
Same for me.

I have spent way too much time trying different window managers: i3,i3 gap,sway,bspwm,etc. Usually you also need to find a menu bar, customize it, deal with screen locking, multiple screens setup with different dpi, etc.

I stopped trying to create my personalized environment. I just installed Gnome Wayland (Arch) on my personal laptop with some extensions: dash-to-dock, unite. It is good enough for me, requires almost none maintenance and has a MacOSX vibe. It has been quite stable since I made the switch (more than a year).

I still keep an i3 config that I use in a VM running on my work laptop (I prefer it over WSL2). Because I wanted to keep a very lightweight WM environment. But I don't really use i3 tiling. I just launch Tmux in a maximized terminal window. I do some light development in it with neovim and OPS from it (cloudformation, terraform,etc.). I ssh connect to it with VScode.

If the CPU performance gap is not reduced between Mac CPUs and intel/amd laptop cpus for ultrabook, I think my next personal laptop will be an Apple one. I don't want to spend too much time on making the whole setup work.
Hi! I am the author of that article.

> I don't get how people can spend roughly 3 months learning to code and make a career out of it. Surely they must be lacking in certain core areas of CS.

I kinda agree with you. One usually does NOT make a career in 3 months. But who says you can't? I definitely will fail all coding interviews even now after 1.5 years of practice. But I built a real SaaS app that people are paying for. It's not the best architecture. I am sure it will fail at scale. But hi, fuck it, I built something of real value.

The title is a bit clickbaity - but still true. Anyone can learn coding, no matter the age.
It's a quoting character, so any environment that intends to use » semantically would probably not use it as a redirection character
if you align yourself with nobody good luck being the single person changing the world. i guess it could happen
What does it matter if you have a manager, or your manager has a manager, who will approve or disapprove a new disinfo policy based on whether or not it affects specific political groups? A fish rots from the head.
There was this one time where in some city in the US, cannot remember which, there was a city wide power outage, and some people were freaking out because they've never seen a non-polluted sky before.
i'm with you. it's shocking how much attention this bullshit is getting, while there are a million more imortant issues to tackle. this is misdirection at its worst.
I use it a few ways, and I can be specific:

- I will create a folder for a topic with multiple ideas (e.g. transformers), and then put inside it a few separate files. One might contain a link to a paper or blog post and then my notes from reading that (really the most important snippets, occasionally a summarizing statement by me). Another might contain a list of ideas to try, or a pros/cons list.

- I have a folder called "book reviews" in which I put a single file per book I read. I try to write down a single sentence about each chapter, and I copy quotes I particularly like. I don't refer to these often, but it's reassuring to know that I won't have to reread the entire book to regain my state of mind.

- Very often when putting together a written document I write drafts inside the editor. I know there are "better" tools, but the writing feels organic here, since it's adjacent to notes.

- During meetings I'll sometimes make a document for the meeting, and then write down a todo list while we're discussing. This usually gets sent out as an email to the meeting participants (a very useful habit).

I use Obsidian, and have really started this in the past year, when note taking apps took off on Hacker News. Fiddling too much is kind of a distraction (I spent a few too many hours tweaking themes).
At what point did the parent comment say how anyone should think? They presented counterarguments. Is that not allowed?
A good life is often a fine balance between pleasure risk taking, size of risk, and increase of good outcome/experiences.
Honest question, my initial response is that it only trivializes the movement if "see, we changed something" is used as an excuse to stop there. But if it isn't... what's the harm?

Most of this family of points seems to equate 1) being in favor of changing master to main; and 2) being in favor of stopping there.
Another B2B tip: most people are powerless to influence a purchasing decision. At an SMB (<100 employees) your email may get forwarded to the right decision-maker if it could really help the team, but beyond that size (especially as you get to thousands of employees) most rank-and-file won't know anything about the procurement process -- and when you do get into the procurement process, it starts to be committee-driven and quite high-touch.

Try going smaller first!
in CSS you can do "max-width: 40ch" on smaller devices if you want. For fancy decorations you'd need need to draw them with css and/or pseudo elements.

pre{
max-width: 40ch !important;
white-space: normal;
}
I literally don't know how else to deal with certain categories of folks with whom talking and trying to resolve the issue has no effect.

Going around them/ignoring them is literally the advice you get from basically every literature I've read, and I've read a lot about this.

But you do have to try to work through the issue first, and you have to be willing to try again if they seem open to resolving the problem down the line. Never write someone off completely (for professional disagreements).
Information entropy is formally defined in terms of probability. Are you implying that some sort of inverse is possible and probability can de derived in terms of entropy?

Could you write or cite what the formula would be in this case?

It appears to me that the formula for entropy itself recursively suffers from rising entropy. Thus you cannot reverse it... You cannot derive individual probabilities of each state from just entropy. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

(in terms of the mathematical formula from Wikipedia, by saying you can't reverse it, I am saying that no individual P(xi) can be determined when you are just given H(X) as an input)

Thus because of the reasoning above, probability must be the axiomatic source of entropy.

It makes sense intuitively. Entropy is the macro phenomenon arising from the micro phenomenon of probability.

The law of numerically higher probability events being more likely to occur then numerically lower probability events when following the arrow of time is the more fundamental explanation of what's going on here. Entropy is simply a macro numerical summary of these probabilistic events happening in aggregate.
I agree completely. I fully expect to see an article by an affluent white woman writing from her reclaimed wine cork desk telling me to boycott Nintendo until they change the name of the Master Sword.
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I like how the meditation cultists were happy to downvote this but couldn't actually formulate a response. Proves my point.
Yes. All SO, but with our "internal" content.

Some of the most awesome engineers contributed a lot, which made it pretty high quality.

You could also ping a person when asking a question, that's usually more polite than pinging over chat with your question.

Some high-touch teams (e.g. software networking, with whom almost everybody has something to say/ask) set up their "how to ask us a question" to post on internal slack. Works great.

Edit: also keeps people more honest when asking questions - SO taught us to ask questions correctly. :)

Current Uber employee
I completely agree, please do not use phrasing suggesting otherwise. There are plenty of behaviors I am judgemental of, that does not mean I would try to infringe on people's ability to perform those behaviors. I was just trying to explain why people like me would be disappointed by certain development.
It's unfortunate about the ABIs - I think this probably adversely affects linux stability even when you have the source and allow a recompile.
Doesn't stop there.

There's also project sulong that tries to bring LLVM IR into the graal ecosystem. Giving you the ability to integrate C/C++/Rust/Fortran/etc. Whatever has an LLVM backend could possibly run side by side with Java/javascript/python all without major FFI penalties and possible cross language optimizations.

https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/sulong
I’m reminded of an incident at a local school. The principal, a black woman, became increasingly incompetent. The teachers, many of them POC themselves, were now collectively doing her job for her. They tried to get her removed.

The NAACP got involved. There was outrage and shame to spare. The principal wrapped herself in righteous indignation, despite herself being in the position of power.

Months later, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Oops.

I’m sure this person definitely experienced racism and sexism in her life and career. There were undoubtedly many incidents when she was slighted by white people. It’s America, after all. But in this particular case, she was not the victim. The teachers were the victims. The students were the victims. Yet she still acted the victim. Hence, “victimhood mentality”. “Contentless” can cut both ways.

The insidious thing about these types of incidents is how it discredits the rest of the racial justice movement. We need to hold our outrage to a higher standard.
I have a lot of love for Wirecutter, but I definitely agree with you. Their suggestions are often focused on too broad an audience to be relevant to me.

Re: monetization, for the short term, we’ve got relationships built through my time at Honey that give us confidence we’ll be able to get above-average affiliate commissions. The costs to run this business are low, and we expect per-user purchase volume to be significantly higher than your average affiliate-driven review site.

That said, our end goal is to bypass affiliate altogether and become a marketplace like Amazon, only with more reliable/trustworthy content, and more fun. From there, the monetization possibilities are pretty much endless.
I really like these in depth, detailed note taking strategies/tools, but I've come to just using markdown files with good naming. Even then, I'm getting annoyed with myself splitting up class days into separate files. I think I may even just go back to plain text.

I use markdown because it looks great when rendered to HTML, but I've only ever used my rendered notes once in three years. I always just grep them or vim search them instead. Since I'm not getting a benefit from markdown, I'm just going to switch back to text files, using one per class for the rest of the semester and a separate file for misc topics/notes.

I think I'm just not the audience for this, but I like the concept of these detailed note systems a lot, I'm just not very often searching my notes again without just using plain old grep.
When I moved from DOS to Unix, I quickly got used to the default prompt of "$" instead of DOS’s default ">". Whenever I see ">" in someone’s custom prompt I assume they are DOS or Windows people who couldn’t get used to change when they started using Unix-like systems.

(This is how normal DOS and Unix command prompts looked, for reference:)

C:\DOS> chkdsk c:

server$ vmstat
My thoughts exactly. I started with the XML flavor, and although I hate XML, it was (IMO) a far superior mechanism than annotations. All the config was in one spot. You didn't need to recompile to change it. So much easier, all in all.
How the Atari 2600 display hardware works.
"Megan spent much of the next three days in her room, trying to concentrate on sensations in her body. Beck sat by her side. “She always had the option to leave,” Beck said. “She wanted to stay. She doubled down. She was trying so hard.” According to Beck, Megan told Hin that she felt like she was going crazy. Hin instructed Megan to focus on her breath. During one meeting, Megan had trouble sitting up, so Hin had her lie down. When Megan clenched her fists, Hin told her to focus on the feeling in her hands. “Yanny had no sense of this being anything that she couldn’t teach her way out of,” Beck told me. When Megan got agitated, “the instruction was always the same: close your eyes, go back to meditating.” (Yanny Hin declined to be interviewed for this story.)"

This reminded me of my experience at a crossfit gym. I never once heard the instructors tell anyone to stop going even if they were likely to hurt themselves by continuing.

Sure you can get up and leave the WOD whenever you want, but that social pressure is likely to push adherents beyond what they would normally do. This can be good if nothing goes wrong, but it can also mask preexisting issues or issues that arise from the practice itself.
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