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In the month it will take me to finish reading Storm of Swords, I will watch ~10 movies. Plus, I'm reading Storm of Swords, which needs no additional support from readers to be discovered or validated--though I still want to read it. Plus, I digitally loaned it from my local library.

I own a number of books (~200) and have probably owned x4 that total in my lifetime. Maybe 1/3 of those I paid full price for new. The rest I sourced either cheap on Ebay or about free from second-hand stores. I've spent probably less than $4,000 total on books, not counting textbooks, while being in the minority of people who buy and read books.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but the question that comes to mind is something like this: how many people like me does it take to support one professional writer?

Non-fiction writers are way more likely to have other income sources than fiction writers. For example, I'm reading Marketing Made Simple (Donald Miller), which was free with Amazon Prime. I'm quite sure Donald Miller and his company are not sweating how much money they get from a Prime reader: getting anyone to read their book strengthens their overall sales funnel.
But when you’ve got 100 billion you get to do a lot of things

https://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2021-5-9-new-scient...
Absolutely! That's my story right there. In my mind this is sort of the process of acquiring any kind of wisdom. We inadvertently discover so many good things, and eventually stick with it because it becomes a sort of intrinsic knowledge that it needs to be done in order to live a good life.

I don't think lifting weights would popularly fall into the category of being a wise thing to do, but I'm sticking to it. Conditioning your body is key to living your best life, and being healthy enough to help those around you live theirs.
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OP is saying it sounds like that, ”until it happens to you.”
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In terms of dominant OS, I think Microsoft is no longer the dominant OS, even though it is the most used OS for laptops and desktops.

Back in the 1990's, Windows was the center of the developer universe. Think how mobile developers eagerly wait to see what Apple will do. It was even more so for developers in the 1990's. There were huge Windows dev conferences. There was a ton of excitement for a new release of Windows or a new version of Visual C++/Visual Basic/Visual Studio.

Now, although there are a lot of computers that run Windows, Windows is not the center of gravity for developers. A new iOS release or a new AWS service has far more impact on developers than any new Microsoft Windows feature.

Joel has a great writeup on this from some time back:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
> Even if it's some hilariously high number (eg. 50%)

It's plausibly even higher than that. The incentive for civil asset forfeitures is for law enforcement to seize in exactly this sort of "a medium amount of money from a large number of people" type of situation. Because it makes this useless:

> Also in theory civil forfeitures can be recovered

"I got back my $9000 and all I had to do was pay $25,000 to a lawyer."

And when people do the math on that and decide not to pursue it, law enforcement gets to keep the money. Hence the incentive for them to do it.
What would be some good ways to distinguish a time traveler from a top-0.01% individual (of whom there are a million people on the planet)?
I don't think it's completely impossible:

- I've paid $50 for an e-book with content that I thought was really valuable (and it was worth every penny).

- In the 2020s the book could be accompanied by supporting material (webcasts etc) which would increase the perceived value.

- Some people would be prepared to pay more for early access and to support an author they really like.

I think that part of it is a change in focus of the book's content: rather than being accessible to as wide a range of readers as possible make it really valuable to a subset.

Frankly too many (non fiction) books are essays spun out to book length. A series of chapters with more dense content would be, in my view, be much more valuable (counting the cost of my time).

And of course as others have noted that many great books have been published as serials (albeit in magazines and newspapers).
1. It’s totally easy to miss things when reading: certainly little delightful details, or even whole ideas or plot points.

2. It’s not like there are millions of great books out there. Some entertaining ones, some informative ones, a few that are both, and a very few life changers.
Out of curiosity, why did these jet suits not exist until now? Why not a few decades ago? What (recent) technological advancement(s) has only now made them possible?

My first guess is improvements in batteries?
"Really bad" is an exaggeration, I think. The auto-transcription features in both Google Meet and Zoom are more than acceptable, they're often very useful in catching missed words during a meeting.

They trip up on technical jargon but handle everyday conversations just fine, including speaker detection, punctuation, idioms, etc.

But that's also a slightly different use case, where each speaker is in their own (somewhat) quiet environment and on separate connections (and thus audio tracks).

It's much harder to do all that after the fact, like with a recorded video.

I find Trint.com, which is partially automatic, to be good for that... the AI does a first pass, and a human cleans it up afterward. YouTube has a similar assisted-auto feature for their captions, minus speaker separation.
Depends on the situation, which is why CVE also have a CVSS score explaining the context and potential for abuse, e.g. : https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...

For example an arbitrary computation is useless for browser exploits (unless you think arb. bitcoin mining is a problem) since Javascript already gives you it for free but it is highly problematic for smart contracts since it breaks the economy based on it.

Another example would be data leak vulnerabilities which on some cases be only a stepping stone towards a RCE, but on others scenarios like for Heartbleed basically breaks the Internet's overall security.
> Coding at work sucks. Coding at home is great as a hobby.

Curious why you think that is. I think the difference is that coding under unreasonable deadlines (and then getting blamed when the quality produced under the unreasonable deadline is low) is what sucks.
Web novels seem to do just fine releasing chapter by chapter in Korea and Japan.
How do you solve a problem like plastic?
People “working in the videogaming industry” aren’t comparable to “fiction authors” but to “people working in the slice of the publishing industry involved in publishing fiction”.

And the slice of the videogaming industry that is analogous to authors is probably a vastly smaller proportion than of print fiction publishing because there is so much more non-authorial stuff to do.
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Serialized novels used to be common, though. Many of Dickens's novels were famously serialized weekly. Alexandre Dumas' famous novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers were also published as serials. There are plenty of other examples. More recently, apparently In Cold Blood and Bonfire Of The Vanities were both initially published as serials.

Even today, comic books are effectively serialized narrative stories that are pretty reliably published on schedule and have writers who have to keep up for months at a time.

> Authors tend to have phases of inspiration, and lulls in between.

Different writers have different approaches to work. Some writers work in highly productive sprints with long fallow periods, and you're right this model probably wouldn't work well for them. But some novelists do work steadily (Stephen King I believe still tries to write for a couple hours every single day and only takes relatively short breaks between novels), and the fact that this model used to work for a number of books that are now considered classics seems to indicate it can still work in at least some cases.

I'd actually be more worried about the consumer side - the death of magazines makes this model tougher. A given author can reliably produce a novel over the course of a year or two, perhaps, but probably not indefinitely (comic books solve this problem by having writing teams do arcs and then swap out the writer). Magazines used to bundle multiple authors, so subscribers weren't affected by the break period of a single author. In a world where people subscribe to individual authors on Substack and there's no bundling of many authors writing, yeah, it's a tougher sell.
The dump needs to contain the data that is associated with your user and unless they store "user has rated Minions (2015) with 5" they don't need to tell you that. (Quite the opposite - it would be illegal for them to do so unless they also tell you what they'Ve stored exactly the way they've stored it)

Do note that nobody actually knows* if what I'm saying is true, but that's just another problem of GDPR
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Rereading a book, one could pick up on things that were missed previously or that have been forgotten about. Also, one might be in a different life situation or mindset from one read to the next which could alter the perception or enjoyment of what's being read. Not to mention that some prose can be appreciated for its beauty.

TV shows, movies, and albums are often revisited by people who enjoy them. Even as I write this, I'm listening to an album right now that I've heard dozens of times before. I may not always be in the mood to listen to it, but my enjoyment of the music has not been eroded by how many times I've already heard it. Rather, being familiar with it, I appreciate both how it's composed, played, and the nuances that are now apparent to me that I certainly missed on my first listens.

One of my favorite books when I was younger was "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art" by Scott McCloud. It was visually appealing to me at the time, but after several readings, I started to really grasp its concepts as an educational art book.
It has been about 15+ years since I had watched TOS star trek. I recently started watching them again. I recently went back and am watching 1 a week, same with Stargate. I find them very enjoyable again. Some books/movies/shows work better at a particular pace. I found that binge watching them makes them decidedly less enjoyable. Other shows are basically designed to be 10 hour movies. So those are OK to do that with (westworld being an example of that).

Sometimes it is worth taking a break and give it a decent amount of time. Then watch it again. I have a few dozen shows I know I liked when I was younger. I could even give you a 'outline' of one of the shows that I could make up. Yet for the life of me I could not tell you exactly what 1 episode was about without looking it up. I know I liked them. Yet I no longer really remember them. Those are ripe for revisiting. But sometimes it is best to leave them as 'fondly remembered' and my older sensibilities do not match what I had years ago.

But yeah watching the same thing every other day and you will grow bored with it.
I literally view coding as a skill, like a blacksmith of the past or a mid-higher level field architect. My one coworker/semi-mentor also seems to view it that way.

I'm not even that good, I just learned enough Java etc to be solid as a mid-level engineer at age 29.

It pays well, sometimes it's fun (with coffee and techno music of course). But I do what I need to do to get the job done well, and then reap the benefits of having a skill that's in demand to build what companies/society wants.
I think by being huge he/she means C is very popular and there is so much code out there already written in C.
What about fortnite do you believe is "training children to be degenerate gamblers"?

To my knowledge there is no "gambling" aspect of the game. Did you just randomly pick fortnite because other games have loot box mechanics and you assumed fortnite did too?
I have one of these and would second the recommendation - really cool bokeh, light and cheap enough that I don't mind bashing it around. Seems they've gotten more expensive compared to when I purchased mine though (I think I paid 50-60 USD)

Generally speaking all of the M42 mount Soviet Zeiss clones will be interesting and relatively affordable.
Datalog would be the closest I can think of. A bunch of static analysis engines are implemented in it.
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I see. I tend to avoid organisations that have such culture - I tried this and for me it is too mentally exhausting to constantly be paired with someone.
> and you should ask him about Symmetry Investments and if they are hiring.

I'm starting in July.
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Most new books are about people. A few good new books are about things. Very few great new books are about ideas.

The decline has affected both fiction and non-fiction. Almost every book is a big disappointment these days.
The younger generation is mostly using alternate platforms, like snapchat. Facebook can benefit by hooking the kids to its platform at earlier stage and profit from it later.
This is my new project that adds an interactive read-only SQL querying interface to any Django+PostgreSQL project.

The interface is protected by Django authentication: you can execute one or more SQL queries, copy the URL and share it with your collaborators on that project.

You can also create a saved dashboard and make that available to the wider world. Here are a couple of examples of saved dashboards that I'm running on my personal blog:

https://simonwillison.net/dashboard/tag-cloud/

https://simonwillison.net/dashboard/code-examples/?search=re...
Plus, for whatever it's worth the classic is already guaranteed to be culturally significant. Other people will have read it and you can talk to them about it, which can be a fun exercise and may not be true for whatever random book you could otherwise read.
Optimally yes. But in practice multiple rays from multiple angles strike the same sensor.

Lens design is about minimizing this.
I'm not sure how chain-email debunking DHS seizures pertains to this specific case in the OP where hundreds of safety deposit boxes we seized by the FBI and there is an ongoing case over it. Fact checking blogs are notorious for selecting multiple variations of a rumor and "fact-checking" the low hanging fruit, then treating all other variants as satisfactorily debunked.

>"What the government has done here is completely backward," writes Frommer. "The government cannot search every apartment in a building because the landlord is involved in a crime. After all, when somebody rents an apartment, that apartment is theirs."
Archive link since the original appears to be down right now: https://web.archive.org/web/20210510151205/https://www.dprev...
I'll be convinced there is a serious inflation problem if broad-based measures show inflation >3% in 12 months time. In the meantime, a lot of the price increases cited by individuals seem to be related to pandemic-caused supply chain issues, which will hopefully be worked out within the next 12 months.
As a basketball fan, my only gripe with VAR is how much time it takes to complete. Advanced AI would presumably extend into those systems and make the review near instantaneous.
I'd say this characterization is questionable at best. He worked as an engineer for 4 years and then got a Ph.D. in Physics, as well as working the majority of his life as a physics researcher and teacher. It's like calling a surgeon with an undergraduate degree in Biology a "biologist'.
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you could probably also get away with a phrase like "look at all this cactus" or "this hill is full of cactus"

I'm not sure if it's correct, but it sounds correct.
Good point. More than a few I would wager. It's also a way to pay a politician in a backdoor way.

Having said that, I'm amazed that so many of those titles are actually bought, they do appear to be at least somewhat popular. Any thrift store has piles of Presidential biographies and outraged-about-a-President books, they're over by the microwave cookbooks.
When you have a ship with sails this big, you’ll need a huge crew right, each with their own rooms? And since it’s such a large _sailing_ yacht the number of people qualified to captain and crew it are probably very small, so you’re likely stuck onboard with one of the few people who can do that. Where I’m going is, if your idea for a yacht is luxury and privacy, why would you ever buy a sailing yacht? I’m failing to see the upside. You could make an eco argument, but this is completely unnecessary conspicuous consumption and the embodied carbon footprint of any mega-yatcht exceeds that of a typical lifetime.
"It is better to let 100 guilty persons go free than one innocent person should suffer."

We've come a long way.
The effort of picking a story up again is a fair argument against. There are some genres (crime fiction) where I think that the anticipation of waiting for a chapter could genuinely add to the experience.
- Nothing was done about Climate Change back then

- It was an "extinction" event

- In reality, nothing really happened, and here we go again, people feel gloom and doom...

> Things are finally moving, even if it is not yet enough.

Here's a link for you, Buffet and other heroes who can help the good things happen faster:
https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
There's no perfect answer to please everyone, but I think there are better answers to prepare, attract, and graduate more competent graduates.

I think the only fair option on the admissions-side is to maintain high standards of selection the same for everyone. Race, gender, disabilities, adversity, income (handled after admission), and legacy shouldn't be considered... name and address should also be blinded to avoid biases. The main discriminants ought to be leadership, achievement, curiosity, and potential. There should be some discretion without focusing on who's the most wronged victim.

At the macro scale: all underperforming schools anywhere below a threshold should receive specialized "A-teams" of educators and organization miracle-workers with the legal authority, clout, and budgetary influence to get buy-in and improve the schools over a long-enough term until they're at least as good as the "rich kids'" schools. Any school that fails to maintain themselves up to minimum (good) standards gets taken over and run by the county or state. Buildings and classroom conditions should also be regularly-inspected like restaurants.

At the micro scale:

- Serious mentorship of students should be a universal right. There are plenty of older people with exceptional wisdom and life experiences that kids can benefit from, especially hope and positive mental attitude.

- Some sort of personable, respected, well-liked school counselor needs to have ongoing 1:1 with each student throughout the year and as-needed.

- Students who are underperforming or disengaged should be nonjudgmentally listened to to see if there's any way the school and/or parents can help. Do they need a vacation or change of scenery? Are they being bullied? Are they depressed? Are they ill? Do they get enough to eat? .. IOW, what is really going on with them that could possibly be helped and supported without it being a punishment, embarrassment, or lack of agency?

- Mental healthcare, actual healthcare, hearing and vision care, social services, housing, and nutritional assistance all need to be assured so students can focus and have a fair opportunity to do their best.

In the US, there has to be the will and the backing to maintain a high-performing educational system, or it will crumble and lose what made that exceptional.

Edit: One love and human family.
So you're saying despite the fact that bitcoin has been the best performing asset in history (not just a short period either, we're talking the past decade), it's still a scam?
Thats usually due to reverse causation. If you are ill then the best thing you can do is sleep, so ill people sleep more. Its not that sleep is bad. If those people only slept say 8h then their health outcomes would be much worse. Basically if you are sleeping 11h then you should be worried about an underlying medical condition, not from the actual amount of sleep itself
It's an interesting question around sustainability.

These developing world labs and researchers are far more reliant on being included in published research output and receiving research funding than their developed world counterparts.

For them, releasing their data into a shared pool as effectively anonymous contributions means there is zero incentive for developed world researchers, who have the resources to exploit the large data sets, to partner with those who provided the sequences.

In other words, for developed world researchers the sequencing of samples is easier, cheaper, and something they can do in addition to all their other research usually by pawning the work off to interns. For developing world researchers the sequencing work is far costlier, more difficult, and takes up more of the primary researcher's time. By treating both as though they were the same you're potentially making the developing world sequencing work financially non-viable.

The risk, then, is that those labs stop being able to provide a useful and ongoing set of sequences, rendering us effectively blind in terms of genomic surveillance in those countries and regions. Clearly that's not ideal.

I don't believe the answer is to not have an open data approach, though. The benefits of being able to mine large genome sets is self-evident, and may help with new vaccines and treatments. But it may be worth finding a hybrid solution that works, perhaps by arrangement some sort of payment for the labs and researchers who agree to add their sequences to the open data set.
A lot of photographers buy amazing gear, and ignore the fact that they lack the skill that would use it well or even require that gear.

I think the closest analog might be someone that reads the reviews, buys the latest-and-greatest computing hardware... and then uses it to surf the web and play Tetris.
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Why not?

For nearly any user-facing program, merging the design and requirement gathering¹ with programming brings only good things.

1 - Including user testing. It's worth putting a lot of time into the process design just to have user testing concomitant with programming.
I assume construction is still ongoing? The updates page hasn't been updated in almost 10 years.
I'm saying with the same sensor, the competition will have better data compared to you, since the rays are striking where they should be.

Information is lost when a ray strikes somewhere it shouldn't. Things get blurred and cannot be recovered. You can't fix this with software.
To me a plausibile answer is that we can at least observe specific dynamics within our own life based world where we keep ants (based on dna like us) in a cage and they’re totally unaware they even are in a cage. For them that’s their universe. They go along and discover new things thinking in their own way why no other life form has contacted them. Even though we literally lift them using our hands. They simply think that’s a natural phenomenon.

To me it seems plausibile that other life forms that are probably not even based on dna are very likely to be imperceptible to us, the same way we are to ants.

Thus I’d like to think the universe is probably our cage and we’ll never possess the mental capacity to distinguish alien beings from actual natural phenomena.