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> Wonderful prose but man the storytelling was a disappointment.

If you're looking for quality prose with a confusing, hard-to-perceive story in the background, I can recommend Patricia A. McKillip. Most famously, I think, the Riddle-Master books, but most of her fantasy stuff is like this.

It's not so much that the storytelling is disappointing as that it's hard to understand what's supposed to be going on. But the writing style is something else.
I’m terrified about wearing out a flash on a unit I’m working on. I have a permanent break point in that code. Logically I know when a write is supposed to trigger, but oh man I’m paranoid I’m going to burn my prototype with a fat finger of something.
> There's no wild assumption going on here. I just bothered to keep reading, very carefully, everything the original author actually wrote.

That doesn't excuse it. You're still inferring stuff that wasn't asked in the actual question.

What happens when someone else comes along who really does want to use a regex? They now have a question without the correct answer and they can't even ask the question themselves because it will be closed as duplicate! Probably by people like you.
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> In theory bank transfer may be reversed, but I have not heard about popular frauds centered around it, so it is likely harder to achieve.

AFAIK, the initiating party cannot revert a completed transfer. What can be reversed is a SEPA withdrawal, up to 6(?) weeks after it has completed.
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I am no legal expert so I won't comment on that aspect but I cant say I am surprized by the kneejerk MRA-type reaction here.
Here is the actual issue, current "mixed" hacker houses don't attract women so this is a thing to address that weather its harassment or just general discomfort of living with unrelated people of the opposite gender.
Another problem is the population of SF skews high percentage of men.
If the men here can leave their tribalism for one second, it would possibly be a good thing for the people complaining or vaugely making dog whistles about this too. Personally the heavy male-to-female ratio is kind of a reason I would rather not live/work in SF as a single guy(this is me appealing to the most selfish instinct of the commenters here). Also if I do get married and have a daughter, I want her to have the same job options and location options as me, same with my sisters and cousins and female friends and I hope some of you can put aside your own fragile ego to think of those women.
I am also willing to bet no women would be in the comments here because they have learned to know how toxic this comment section will be.
Two recommendations:

1/ The Bioneer - Current research on improving intelligence/working memory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsGFCg72zoA&list=PLZo07XrNsS...

2/ Huberman Lab podcast - A deep dive into the mechanisms of our brain and body - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-focus-to-change...
> I support you in whatever endeavor to which your muse directs you. Having a background in coding generally means you’re a good problem-solver, and good problem-solvers are valuable in any vocation.

Ironically for me, the more I got interested in the lower levels of programming, the more I lose sight of the original goal of solving a problem.

I have to juggle between satisfying my curiosity and interest and solving a problem.
> If your status page returns a 502 at the same time that your app returns a 502, you might be in trouble. https://status.discord.com/ really should be on a different domain

Subdomain can be hosted on a different server. You don't need another domain to do that.
I've paired on a couple projects and miss it. The exhaustion is very real but pairing really works when you take breaks.

When one is loosing focus, there isn't a hesitation to say let's take a break. I found it similar to taking a timeout in basketball.

As an engineering manager I stressed it to the team. Take breaks or you will break.
> Doing coding for a living strips away a lot of the joy out of it

As someone with a lot of interests, I have found this to be true for every one of them. Seems like monetizing yourself is always soul sucking to some degree.
This article gets many things wrong. Starting with Bitcoin, he misunderstands what the mining process is. It’s main process isn’t just to mint new coins, which is what I think he assumes. Minting coins is an incentive to incorporate transactions into the blockchain, requiring a compute intensive lottery. Yes verifying transactions is quick, but the “per-transaction energy cost” is not misleading as the energy required to create the transaction in the first place is significant. The mining process will still be necessary after all coins have been minted.

Secondly why does he assume clean energy produced in one region can’t be exported elsewhere? China is the world’s largest coal dependent nation. Electricity does not require batteries to store and transmit large distances.
The author is making a subtle mistake; evolution doesn't mean like-parent-like-child.

Evolution is likely selecting for, eg, people who have children at a certain ratio of introverted-extroverted.

Introverted, disagreeable, high-contentious types make, for example, great scientists. A population (call it A) that produces a reasonable number of such people is at a huge advantage compared to the alternative that only produces extroverted agreeable types (call them B).

Population B will be more competitive at breeding, but population A will win any conflict with B because they'll have a bunch of weirdos in the back room producing a lot of high quality science (a classic stereotype with some foundation in truth).

Note that men are much more likely (something like 4x) to be "completely homosexual" compared to women [0]. I'm betting this is because having a few men who opt out of the race to pass on their genes and focus on other stuff is a massive advantage to the society that hosts them. Look how much of a force gay men have been in culture for example.

Locally catastrophic for breeding, globally optimal for society. The equilibrium isn't for all offspring to maximise their chance of breeding. The optimum is for the community to thrive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orienta...
I have bought once a used (very used) Stratagene MX4000 qPCR for about $400 (plus $500 for delivery from the US to Switzerland, as it is really bulky and heavy). I wrote to Agilent asking for the drivers, and they kindly sent it to me for free. I was able to run a few qPCR experiments successfully (never found a SARS-CoV-2 sample in the wild, but control RNA worked).

And I opened an account at Sigma-Aldrich, declaring myself as a hobbyist researcher. There were quite friendly, too.
> I wish when I was younger someone had told me "look, you don't really know what you're talking about, here's how things really work".

To which all youth ever just roll their eyes.
Not this kind of attention. Oil pipelines are considered critical energy infrastructure. This will likely be viewed as a national security threat.

The US government will have to respond to deter others. They have "poked the bear".
Your proposed zero phase filter won't work in realtime, and there are many use cases for what you consider shitty.
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I listen to audiobooks a lot when exercising or doing work around the house. Still, I recommend reading too. It's just a more intimate, focused experience. I even tink that the fact that it requires focus to read is a very healthy thing in a world of constant notifications and distractions.
It is not. At minimum, South Korean and Mainland Chinese working culture is worse than American. Taiwanese as well.

Don't know if that list is exhaustive; it might be.
Yes, because the Fed is increasing the supply to meet an equal increase in demand.
> Cocal-cola, mcdonalds, Christmas, english

These are well dispersed throughout the world...
I have some sympathy for your thinking, but it is not borne of any understanding of the physical concepts you mention.

> You assume wrongly. The implication is that all wavefunctions have a corresponding consciousness. Since the universe is a nested set of wavefunctions, it's essentially all consciousness.

First, a wavefunction is a way of making sense of (some of) the concepts of quantum mechanics. It has a specific meaning, and scientists to this day argue about whether it is necessary or actually a thing.

When it is used, it is a scalar field that is used to describe the probability of some experimental result, i.e. a mathematical tool. It has no link whatsoever with consciousness, which is the result of electric signals going up and down a group of neurons bunched together.

You sound like you want to redefine “consciousness” as “existence”. In that case there is some tautological beauty in what you say, but it is not as enlightening as you seem to think it is.

> There is nothing special about consciousness, it's the unified field, it's all there actually is.

What the hell does that even mean? You use scientific-sounding words without seeming to grasp their meaning.

I mean, surrealism is fun, and metaphysics can be interesting, but don’t confuse them with a deep understanding of physical truths.

> https://youtu.be/LPhgDfT4Zpc

I need to point out that you are citing a crackpot and that there was absolutely nothing scientific in what I have seen in this video. But yeah, it probably is my mental rigidity talking.
The links at the bottom of Correlated.org , "How Correlated generates its stats" and "A response to Correlated's critics", appear to be broken. Clicking either of them leads to pages that display "Page not found".
I used to use YNAB before it was a "web app", and it was pretty auto-pilot after setting up the imports/rules. It classified 98%+ of all my expenses and inter-account transfers without any issue. Every once in a while you had to classify a new transaction but that was rare after a while. Anyways, the ones that are rare like that are usually once-offs and you're already making notes next to them so you know what it was for.
-cide = a killing

Suicide, homicide, genocide. Whenever I feel conflicted about a decision I feel like I’m killing an option. It’s a dramatic framework, and probably why I’m not decisive.
> Failure to disclose key documents in the discovery phase of a trial carries hefty fines and jailtime

When you do this, the documents never get created. Not due to nefarious cover-ups. But because if little incentivises the creation of documentation, and everything penalises it in the edge case, you get rubber stamped compliance stacks for decades until a crash.

If one has massive downside for reporting a potential risk, one better be 100% sure that risk is manifest before pulling the trigger. That delay and omission is the cost of such draconianism.
Hang on, that doesn't feel like great logic to use.

With no explanation as to why those points are bad, is it not the same as just saying, "Facebook and Signal both have websites, host a mobile app, and use the colour blue in their branding, and since everyone agrees Facebook is bad then Signal must be, too"?
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Ohh I didn't know about this. Thanks!
I'm not sure you could implement a useful flatMap() for Collector-like types, at least without forcing the collector to hold all the received values in memory, which would defeat the purpose.

It would be like a function that takes

- a Collector that produces an X

- a function that takes an X and returns a Collector that produces an Y

and returns a Collector that produces an Y.

The thing is: while being fed, the result Collector should first feed the initial Collector and, at some time, "switch" to the Collector produced by the function. But when to perform the switch?
i'm guessing you're talking about things like og 4 tap biquads and the like.

in the time domain, you're looking at what... for each sample a pointwise multiply for each tap and then a sum, right? i'm guessing for most audio applications at commonly used sample rates, you're rarely going to have more than 24 taps at the very most? (with most only really needed 8 to 16?)

with the fft, unless you're using super exotic multiwindow schemes, you're looking at a pointwise multiply just to do the windowing before the fft. then you're looking at n log n to compute the fft itself, then zeroing or applying an envelope (pointwise multiply), then another n log n back to the frequency domain.

i think with simd you're way faster to just stay in the time domain.

would be interesting to bench for sure though... small ffts and simd may be super fast and not that many instructions.
I was thinking the same. It seems like Windyquery isn't really just a query-builder, it also executes the query and parses it.
It won't get better if anything it will get worse. Just start coping with this fact. People tell you that physical exercice and conversations will keep your brain healthy, I'm not saying they're wrong, it does help but it can only do so much, it won't improve it tho.
Well, I was willing to continue, I was kind of waiting for the covid to fade-away so I could start working with him in an office (we live close each other) which I believe would have helped either helping him to progress or helping us to see him not a good fit. It is also that our project is quite complex, that we give a new person about a year to get to know it. But from the perspective of what just happened, yeah, it seems that we should consider firing him.
I think the DevTerm is more supposed to be hung around your neck like a hipster. ;) Or, duct-taped to the datacenter wall for when its time to minicom the hell out of things.
Do any contemporary animals have a second brain to draw a comparison?

(genuinely curious, I'm certainly no biologist)
use simple but powerful tool, like math.

for programming language, the more math-like, the better.
How is this mayhem possible when we have meritocracy at the helm? 50% Ministers in Modi Cabinet in India are Brahmin;
Solidity or the Javascript frameworks that compile down to solidity. EVMs are heavy in this.

Rust is good too. I'm not too familiar with the Polkadot ecosystem, but the main thing you need to know is that every financial app that has been popular on EVMs needs to be rebuilt on those other ecosystems. There can be multiple of the same things too, no different than multiple grocery stores in a town, or multiple actual bridges. Nothing unique needs to occur, just more. Its literally a global boom town you don't need to go anywhere for and your competition would rather argue about how a MySQL database is better for yield farming than a blockchain.
> I've always put in whatever it takes to get the job done. I enjoy my work, and take a lot of pride in doing it well and delighting users.
> I do consulting now, and usually charge by the hour.

There's no problem with this. You get compensated by the extra hours you work.

BUT when salaried workers start "doing whatever it takes" without any compensation except for promises of a brighter future, that's when things start falling apart.

If the employer isn't willing to pay for overtime, the project clearly isn't in a hurry. Of course everything needs to be ready NOW, but when they actually need to pay for getting it done faster, suddenly it isn't that essential any more.

I've been in the industry for 20+ years and I can count the times I've gotten overtime pay with one hand. One of those times paid for a full kitchen remodel (200-300% pay, 24 hours worked over a weekend to get shit working in prod by Monday).
Premature judgements are the root of all evil.
Be careful though, that it's not a rhetorical question. There's perfectly good answers like "no one has thought of it yet" or "others aren't confident enough".

There's tons of businesses that are simple and obvious and that took just the right kind of team with the right kind of effort.
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It is very simple. There is no easier way of getting ahead of other employees than staying longer in the office. It requires no effort. Unfortunately it is a race to the bottom so I employ another strategy. I am the last to enter the office and the first to leave but I try to maximize my effectiveness while I'm there and solve problems a few can so they'll remember me as the guy who comes in solves the problems and goes away making the life of everybody easier.
From the abstract when they try to describe how Obj-S is better than Swift they kind of utterly fail:

"While Swift fixes some of Objective-C's most obvious flaws that were due to it being constructed by crashing two existing languages into each other, it discards the good with the bad. With a vengeance. Objective-S also discards the bad, while enhancing the good and taking it to an entirely new level."

So Swift is Obj-C without the bad parts, but also without some good parts, but Obj-S is Obj-C without the bad parts and the good parts are gooder.

I'm sorry but that's a poor elevator pitch about... anything. Gotta get more specific.
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> Either way I don't think it's an interesting discussion.

There is a worthwhile observation to make here, which is that even though Hatetris assigns scores to all the pieces and correctly determines, based on those scores, which one is the worst, Lovetris cannot correctly determine which piece is the best by picking "the opposite of what Hatetris does". Good is the opposite of bad, but the metrics for badness are not simultaneously metrics for goodness.
> “Print” is a misnomer, as only the US Mint prints paper currency and mints metal coins which is a very tiny sliver of the M0 money supply.

If you're going to be pedantic, the Mint only does coins. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing prints the paper money.
It's "contact us", i.e. how much is it worth to you?
Eat well, sleep well, stay or become physically active, and try something new every day.

Don't compare yourself to others. Rather, set goals for yourself that work best for you.

But do keep learning and drawing inspiration from others. We are not meant to be islands unto ourselves.

Challenge your mind with books and articles that may run counter to your ingrained beliefs. Sit down and have a game of chess with someone who is the opposite of you on issues of the day.

Get out in nature, take regular walks through the local park, cemetery, etc. There's evidence that this has therapeutic effects on the brain and body.

Grow a garden, get your fingers in the dirt, eat your own homegrown produce.

Shake it up and do something totally new and different: African drumming, Asian cooking, 3D printing (my new hobby).
Wouldn't most of the data you mentioned eventually become part of projects like OpenStreetMap?
Usually eaten up by the Fisher effect [1] to the extent that it's hard to execute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fisher_effect
Nowadays people would just Google for the answer!
You absolutely SHOULD use the same domain name - this gives confidence that the status page is from the right service and not a fake/scam site...

You simple point it somewhere else, a completely different infrastructure.
All internal communications, unless they are with an attorney and are clearly marked "privileged" and pertain to actual legal advice, are discoverable.
I came here to say essentially this. But what is the name of this process where groups of people select for variety instead of optimal individuals?
//I am constantly meeting people younger than me that just blow me away with their smarts//

How old are you? How old they? Can you give some example of "blew away smartness"?
Work patterns, emails, special requests from team members, bladder, time for collecting thoughts, etc.
I realize that Google Groups is just a Gateway to Usenet groups, but there is something out of place about seeing the founder of Google posting in Google Groups five years before it existed. The archeology of the internet is strange.
underrated comment. especially this company which was in the news for a major spill not so long ago.
Very few fiber optic systems are run at capacity.

Upgrading bandwidth is therefore a matter of new optics and router cards, not new cables.

Furthermore new subsea cables bring down the unit cost of bandwidth.

Far more subsea cables have been decommissioned due to them not being cost effective anymore rather than not working.
*when the sun is the highest in the sky. Shirt off, if you dare. Start slow (don't be stupid and burn yourself).

The energy is incredible. I walked about 20 miles this morning with the sun coming up before biking 6 miles to work and then back in the evening. And I know I'll have lots of energy to spare tonight.

Yes we are warm blooded animals but still very dependent on the sun and activity.
As someone who managed people like you: it's good to not work some times.

I've had to physically take away a "coding is fun" -person's laptop, disabled all their logins and their office keyfob and force them to take their mandatory vacation.

Without this they would've worked during vacation and committed a bunch of stuff on their first day back to not get caught working during holidays...

Even then they replicated the Java stack they were working on with Rust, from memory, at home during the vacation. Just for fun.

When you love your job, maybe a bit too much, it becomes really hard to see when you've burned out. Sometimes dreaming about code is a good thing, your subconscious is working on a problem. Other times it's a sign of burnout.

I've been there and now I know how to not end up there - and I try my best to not have people who work with me burn out either.
They say crypto can't be anonymous due to the blockchain but this proves that isn't true.

I wonder how they shuffle it around and eventually convert to fiat.
It's much more than "2 new keywords", asynchronous programming is a different way of thinking about program flow and architecture.

The thing is, your program is only as asynchronous as the lowest I/O level. It doesn't really make much sense to have your business logic take advantage of this, if your program will block on lower levels.

So you DB connection, caching, HTTP requests, disk I/O, etc must be asynchronous to really reap the benefits. Since Python has been synchronous for something like 20 years, there's a lot of historical code that simply won't play nicely with the asynchronous approach.

Hence the brand-new libraries.
I was waiting for the first gatekeeping comment, and there it is.
While i like the idea I must say, not going to happen. Companies want to have the full control over the status page. At least those company that have service level agreements with their customers.
My experience is that it's best when it happens organically. Enforcing this sounds like a punishment.
Why do these machines have so much thermal mass in the cycling part of the machine?

A series of wells a few micrometers wide in a silicon substrate, doped to make use of the thermoelectric effect, ought to be able to do temperature cycling at kilohertz, by 50+ degrees C.

It's the kind of thing that could be built in a university silicon lab too.
And the word elide comes from elidere.
I wouldn’t make that decision. No one would. Which is why it must be made for them… kind of like car insurance.