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Somewhat of a personal tangent, but I exclusively use 1 screen, and rarely split windows or have more than 1 application open when working. When I need to bounce between code/browser, documentation/code, or email/HN, I use the alt/command-tab functionality.

I find it slower having to switch between viewing different screens or moving my head, yet I'm the only one in my friend group who does this -- everyone else seems to prefer dual monitors.

I'm curious if HN people find that dual monitors feel like more of a distraction, and if it's at all related to multitasking.
haha, it's the same deal for me and my wife

I'll gladly do 2-3 things at once all day, but she has to pause the TV to answer a question or read a text message

I don't think I'm as good at multitasking as lot of people in this thread, though.. I can multitask while programming and feel like I'm doing a great job, but then in retrospect it's clear that my output was maybe 20% of what it would've been if I'd been fully focused

I found that out in college, homework assignments would take 30 minutes at my desk or multiple hours in front of the TV

I think I need to get better about silencing Slack and keeping the web browser closed at work, come to think of it.. It's dang frustrating having to wait 2+ minutes for something to compile and run though..
I still use them. E.g., for build processes that scroll by just a little too fast.
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Can I show this to my boss..? Jokes aside, I literally have felt the effects of multitasking in work. My brain stopped working effectively. In addition, I lost all desire to work.

I wish there wasn't a book advertised at the bottom of this article. I feel like I can't share it.
> Guess what happened? The client just randomly pushed the deadline back a few months making all the overtime unnecessary.

Sounds familiar.

I'd push hard to reach a deadline only to see the deadline get pushed back because other, more sensible people, were not bending over backwards for the company. These are other sensible people could be folks on other teams (eg: marketing), business partners (eg: launch partners), or even customers.

> I’ve had too many health issues from my past bad work practices (it’s hard to have good work practices when doing your own startups...) to do any more than that. Hell im being treated for high blood pressure right now...

I feel you. It's impacted my health as well. I think permanently.

I'm fortunate enough to have built up a financial war chest so that I can relax now, but boooy was I close to not having made it.
I did a thread on the evolution of cryptocurrencies today. I cover the term “premine.” Your arguments do not make sense.

https://mobile.twitter.com/moo9000/status/138957146600232551...
It's not so much about number of monitors but screen estate.
Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Design + Front-end

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-woods/

Email: brad@bradwoods.io
Technically it was a UHVDC line, " As of 2020, at least thirteen UHVDC transmission lines in China have been completed" ...seems like something the US could invest in with their new infrastructure bill...

"April 2010 announcement for a 2,000 MW, 64 km line between Spain and France is estimated at €700 million. This includes the cost of a tunnel through the Pyrenees"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Thank you :) It's encouraging to see that remote.com and gitlab are offering jobs in my country. This may be a little easier than I'd anticipated
The opportunity cost for what? Half the reason why this particular project exists is that Biden has realized that the best way to bring money into the hands of people is by giving them a job that is useful to society.

As it is right now there is enough funding for every conceivable project, assuming the project is profitable (pays debts back) the only real limits are physical resources and unemployed workers and running out of unemployed workers is a policy goal. If we hit real limits, then interest rates will go up and lenders will demand greater returns, which may mean that a solar project like this may not get started and people start seeking out more productive ideas. However, the most important thing is that investments pay their debts back.
Hi, I'm Nathan. I'm a SWE with experience in backend and large scale data processing, with a recent focus on ML/Natural Language Processing. Looking for an opportunity to relocate to Vancouver.

Location: Currently London, looking for Vancouver
Remote: Don't mind
Willing to relocate: Yes, to Vancouver!
Technologies: Python, Java, Spark, Kubernetes, FastAPI
Résumé/CV: https://natpat.net/static/cv.pdf
Email: nmtpatel7337 [at] gmail [dot] com

Whilst I am a strong technical contributor, I'm also interested in leadership, mentorship and learning. My favourite challenge recently has been leading a highly motivated and skilled team of SWE, AI Researchers and Data Scientists. I'm interested in a position where I can continue working with strong co-workers and help mould and lead strong, productive and happy teams.

I also love learning and being surrounded by people from different backgrounds and fields to me. I've had exposure to bio-tech and NLP, but would also be interested in other ML fields, robotics, health, eco/green energy, and probably more.

I'm also very interested in game development, mainly as a hobby - see https://natpat.net/games. Would be very open to roles in that sector too!
This all makes sense, and I've definitely been feeling the integration pain when I want to export code elsewhere – GitHub support coming soon!
As someone living in a country where prostitution is legal I have a hard time seeing how your argument goes from that to dystopia. It's heavily regulated and controlled, which is better than people doing it anyway without any oversight and the safeties from that.

And even aside from that I don't see a problem with it, of course as long as it's 100% consensual. Maybe I'm missing some obvious problem, but the thing currently driving my country towards a dystopian society is mainly growing corruption with shrinking consequences as well as ignorance, not people choosing what to do with their bodies.
I got to know Iman personally a little, and he's easily one of the smartest people I know
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Also, they probably want to make sure the farmer knows that it's not supposed to be moved, so that he doesn't just move it again.
Compare the time spent using rr to track down the occasional failure against the sum of time spent waiting for the Rust compiler, every build, every day. I know which number is bigger, at least for the sort of code I work on.

In the last 10 years I have spent strictly more time preparing bug reports against compilers than on tracking down memory usage errors. So, while Rust solves a problem all C coders have, it is not a problem that modern C++ coders necessarily experience enough to justify the extra coding effort, build time, and tool maturity risk.

Rust, at this stage of maturity, is fun in a puzzle-solving sense, and modern, and enlightening. No one who learns Rust will regret the effort spent. The only serious risk is that it may take many months to restore one's habit of putting a terminating semicolon where C++ demands one but Rust does not. A shift in preference against designs requiring mutex locks may improve the performance of your C++ code.
Option 3 - your logical leap was invalid, and it is perfectly possible to be human and believe in truth and love and morality and all the rest of it, all within a deterministic physical system.

Choice is deterministic, but that doesn't make it less real - on the contrary, it gives your choices meaning! They have causes, reasons, justifications! It would hardly be preferable if your "choice" were the outcome of a fair dice roll, would it? What kind of choice would that be?

I think the problem arises from a confusion of of abstraction levels. At the level of atoms and chemical reactions, you are completely deterministic and "choice" isn't a meaningful concept. 10 stories up, at the level of thoughts and ideas, it is. This is no different than how "pressure" is a meaningful concept for a tank of air, but not a single air molecule.
What an idiotic thing to do. This will absolutely hurt women and underprivileged people far more than privileged men, and it will result in a lot gifted people refusing to cooperate.
I am happy Synology user since 2015. Currently I use Synology DiskStation DS918+. I fit in 4 x Toshiba N300 4TB 3,5". So far I'm happy with this mix. I use it mostly for backing up of my machines and my VPSes (over OpenVPN), and also as media server connected directly to my TV (I'm weirdo who is not too happy to have TV constantly connected to the internet).

I mod the OS to turn off certain options between 10pm and 7am so the HDD can sleep during night hours.
A nice example of how much effort MC simulations save is calculating the area of a shadow cast by a cylinder. If you orient it just right the answer is easy, but it's a properly taxing calculation to work out an analytical function by hand that works for any orientation. Seriously give it a try, it's much harder than it appears.

You can make a spreadsheet in 3 minutes that numerically solves the problem with MC. Now imagine that the cylinder is partly transparent and you want to know how much light makes it through. A few minutes of adjustment and the spreadsheet will do it no problem. Now imagine there is another object embedded in the first with its own transparency. Again only a relatively small amount of time is needed to get the simulation working. The analytical solution is not reachable by mortals.
Can you describe your current job and company?
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The PSF has not really sponsored CPython so far, and PyCons are for self promotion.

Often in OSS foundations the entire sponsorship money goes to people who don't deserve it.

Please do not attach any meaning to corporate sponsorship of foundations unless you can point to a specific project.

99% of CPython has been written by individuals without any compensation who don't get any credit. When a corporation gives money to non-productive bureaucrats everyone thinks they are helping open source. It is very sad.
Thanks! Pricing info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27041676
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That's a classic post from their defunct blog. Another one is Black women and Asian men are the least messaged.
Algebra is another story but if you ask university math faculty their opinions of high school AP "Calculus" you might want to sit down first.
There are people who have had a cognitive impairment they've worked with and they're are people who haven't.

If you have a brain injury, head trauma, stroke, cognitive migraine.... You're aware of the space you vacate. You can feel it missing and its "a thing".

For everyone else, you just convince yourself you're just as effective as you were. You think multitasking works or driving after two beers is ok. You're not aware of what is outside of your constrained cognition.
> the impostor syndrome is real

Take this with a grain of salt, but I've found myself happiest working for small companies with people that I like being around. The list of reasons why is quite long (I can elaborate if you like), but the only unfortunate downside is you make a lot less money. You do have a chance of winning big in the acquisition lottery though.
> methane decomposes to CO2 in atmosphere in a decade or two, which is then captured by grass

But methane is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2, so it's not neutral at all.

You're also assuming that cattle are fed naturally occurring grass rather than industrial livestock feed, which I don't have numbers for but I assume is not carbon-neutral.
"I do not consent to any searches."

You can't prevent them, but don't consent to a search just because you don't do drugs, transport drugs, transport anyone who does drugs. Carrying cash is considered a valid pretext for a search (have any coins in a change tray?), as is being too polite or not being polite enough (maybe because you're annoyed at being stopped).

Now that a search of your vehicle also includes a search of any information it's received from any connected devices as well as a history of your locations and speeds you need to make sure you preserve any and all possible avenues to challenge anything found.

"Your honor, we didn't find any drugs but during the search he consented to we found evidence that he was driving far in excess of the posted speed limits on these 20 occasions so we're charging him with 20 counts of reckless driving. He confirmed to us during the initial stop that he is the only driver of the vehicle. He was also carrying cash so we're moving to seize those funds and the vehicle."

Who, what, when, where and how fast, all neatly tied into one package.
> Attraction is not a choice.

I sense a seduction community vibe in that quote.
> Why do we have this bias?

It's about the control in hierarchy. The more one is flooded with streams of work, the lower is the chance of threatening somebody or leaving for greener pastures (leaving to worse ones is more likely for an exhausted person).
Good list. But when you write about xargs, you should absolutely warn that it has problems working with filenames with spaces in them, and the -0 option to fix that.
That's not true. It is a false dichotomy. There are a myriad of reasons you'd find different behaviors or results in different groups of people besides either ingrained innate unchangeable differences and lack of opportunity for that group. Even if you sampled two equally sized samples of equal distribution of the same kind of people (whatever that means to you) you'd find aggregate disparity to some degree. No innate differences at all, and no difference in opportunity based on group membership, you'd still find disparity. Your dichotomy is false.

Additionally, I find this whole assertion I see often nowadays that there's some invisible force creating opportunity disparities between different arbitrary groups of people to be a bit hand-wavy and suspiciously convenient. To me it is comparable to asserting that the disparities are because it was the will of God.

Finally, your statement is a roundabout way of saying "if you don't agree with me you're a racist and I don't talk to racists" and that is extremely dishonest. Frankly, if you don't want to talk to people you don't agree with, why are you on a discussion website at all?
Thank you for your response.

I hadn't considered timezones as a limitation so that gives me some food for thought. I'm in an awkward timezone in NZ but I could make it work with a US company (have done so in the past). I may also try to float the point that I would be good to have around during out-of-office-hours as a potential plus.
There is a superficial push to "get more people into STEM". But STEM is undermined by reducing competitiveness. What we are creating is a watered down and un-competitive STEM
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Donald Trump's response to social media bans is a blog
My idea is that "work", or maybe more precisely, a "job", is something that you only do because you have to, because you need something it gives in exchange, and otherwise won't do.

If you do something because you enjoy it, it's a "hobby". If you are paid for that, too, you are just lucky to have the best of both worlds :)
See https://globalcar.com/11-car-safety-systems-to-become-mandat... . I won't list them all, just the non-dumb features:

- Alcohol interlock installation facilitation and attention detection

- Emergency stop signal (aka autonomous braking)

- Intelligent speed assistance (aka adaptive cruise control)

- Lane keeping assist

- Reversing camera or detection system

All these systems require the car to be aware of its surroundings, i.e. require some "intelligence" in the control systems.
I think, like blender, it overlaps with interests of a lot of people who end up here - an people have done some very cool projects with it.

It's also a good example of something pretty rare: a long lived, decently made and supported project that facilitates a lot of other peoples research.
> It would be nice if you wouldn't assume the absolute worst possible interpretation of the argument of your interlocutor. This is against HN's guideline and generally increases the amount of noise. It's also quite rude.

To me it seems you have gone to great lengths to clarify that you mean exactly what the original poster is referring to.

I don't believe their reading your argument at face value is in any way assuming the worst possible interpretation.

It's not a personal attack for someone to disagree with your beliefs.
Not sure you ever figure it out, you just live it as you go along.
Quick update: scaling up again atm, HN was a bit too much for the current machines :)
> keeping your developers happy working on familiar code

That turns pretty quickly into "developers being unhappy that they have to maintain legacy code written for the old language/platform," though, especially with any sort of employee turnover.
I think while performance is not a proper justification, if you get other stuff in the bargain it can be really worth it. Rust, for example - the justification to switch is usually not just speed but safety and the safety enabling more optimizations, parallelism etc. If all you care about is speed you stay in C/C++.

Sometimes the choice is also made when you already have to pay a transitional cost - at a previous employer we had to rewrite a bunch of code to move from an old version of PHP to a newer one, and a strong argument was made that at that point we should just adopt a better language since we already had to pay that cost. I think eventually a lot of stuff transitioned to Haskell as part of that process, even if other stuff stayed in PHP.
Reminds me of a case here in Sweden where a father was found guilty of attempted murder of his half year old child. Just hours before the attempt he had been at the hospital begging to be committed since he was hearing voices and he was scared that he might hurt someone, but the beds was full so he was sent home.

Healthcare for mental health is still very much underdeveloped, especially when the patient is male. It is just easier to blame the individual.
20 years or so ago, I went to the movies in Brussels. A movie in English with subtitles. Both in French and Flemish at the same time, and in many cases the subtitles were taking close to half the height, it was ridiculous.
It occurs to me that when someone asks "Is there a Hacker News for X," the best solution you're going to find is "Hacker News."

Alternatively, you might find an appropriate forum on Stack Exchange.

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

https://stackexchange.com/sites#
Netflix will be in touch.
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The update process that runs in the OS would need to use the driver at issue here to write the new firmware into flash at some staging location. After that is done, then you reboot, and the chips see there’s a staged update and applies it.
That is possible because your son doesn't HAVE to do any of those things. He wants to do them. There's no external pressure - deadlines, impressions. There's no reluctance. There's no examination of how well he listened to any of it.
GDB is supposed to have reverse execution capability now. How does its facility compare to rr? Are they complementary, or one a pale shadow of the other, or something else?
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I agree that it’s confusing. But Virtual Regatta has been around since 2006 and is probably the most prominent online sail racing community after SailX dissolved due to malicious hacks.
The amazing thing about this is that M Expressions were proposed in 1960, but never implemented.
I'm a bit user of Nuzzel and this isn't entirely unexpected, but I'm disappointed. Nuzzel allowed me to catch up on links from my Twitter stream without me getting caught up in infinite scrolling and distracting conversations. It didn't replace Twitter, but let me use it in a different way.

Nuzzel replaced a similar -- but much better -- tool that I can no longer remember, after it shut down as well. At this points I'll probably have to create yet another side-project to do what Nuzzel was doing for me.
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I remember there was some sort of push to shift from STEM to STEAM, where A is Arts. And that signaled to me that other groups of people were trying to pile on to get access to funding opportunities. It also means a dilution of focus. STEM is already pretty broad. This article is all about fabs. That is a very niche part of STEM. How do you make sure the U.S. becomes strategically focused on developing the skills for running fabs if there's such a political debate over the importance of various majors who want to be incorporated into an already broad category?

See: https://soeonline.american.edu/blog/stem-vs-steam
And why do you think he did that? It's a defensive response to the opposite spectrum where people have actually been arrested for not wearing masks and had their businesses raided/shutdown by government officials, thrown off airlines because their 2 year old won't keep a mask on etc.

Putting an apparatus on a child that restricts their breathing when they don't understand the reasoning really is akin to child abuse. It's a completely unnatural thing to do. I don't agree that these parents should be jailed, just as it's not appropriate to be jailing people for not wearing masks. He's getting a message across that it's not appropriate to be doing this to children.
Dog mom's got anger issues, too... it's kinda fb's bread & butter
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not free for commercial? the license is https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer/blob/dev/LICENSE.tx... . My reading of it says you can use it for commercial use and make derivative commercial products under your own license terms. The only thing it says is it is not FDA approved and should really only be used for research purposes, but you can do what you want, we don't accept any responsibility for your use of the software.
More importantly who cares, a couple 10k dead people a year is probably worth a tiny bit of inconvenient, not to mention the 500B in insurance waste.
Remember, this doesn't mean you can't get multiple things done. Just do them one at a time wherever possible. You'll actually get all the things you need to do done faster
I'm not sure how to answer that. The dating game is in some ways like any other game. There's some minimum threshold of competence below which nobody wants to play with you. Ideally, you have enough skills that people will want to play with you all the time. If you conduct yourself well, they will look forward to playing with you over and over.
But at the same time, I recognize that there are people beyond mastering even the basics.

But also, dating is usually many to many type of activity. Sure maybe marriage is one to one. But you can enjoy dating even if it does not result in marriage, multiple times with multiple people.

I dated a very obese, unattractive girl before. Ultimately it was her selfishness and failure to understand reciprocity in a relationship, that made me not want to see her anymore. Still was an interesting experience.
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