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Robin Hobb is one of my favorite authors. Her masterwork is a series of series (four trilogies and a quadrology) known as The Realm of the Elderlings.

She published the first trilogy, which begins with Assassin's Apprentice, starting in 1995. I saw the books when they first came out and I assumed from the title and the cover that it would be a cheesy fantasy by the numbers, so I never bought it. But I kept hearing about these books from other people who liked SFF, so I finally picked up the first trilogy.

I was completely wrong. It's not at all by the numbers. While it's not trope-free (nothing is), there are all sorts of interesting ideas, from the political to ecological. As you read the later series, the world opens up quite a bit, and it gets even more interesting. The final trilogy brings so many elements together, and the ending is shatteringly powerful.

While this is epic fantasy, it's _not_ at all grimdark. Bad things definitely happen, but it's more hopeful and humane than something like Malazan or Song of Ice and Fire.

I can't recommend these books highly enough. Even if her writing is slowing down, I hope that she's satisfied with what she's done. This series alone is an enormous accomplishment. To build a world across so many books, across so many years, and have it come together so well in the end is massively impressive.
sure, although metaphorically salting the earth through global warming for future generations arguably is also taking away freedom
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The environment likely has many less free toxins than it did when the author of the link was a teen.

We have things to be concerned about (PFAS and microplastics for instance), but there are a bunch of areas where massive progress has been made in the last 50 years.
I think it just means you are an Agreeable person and GP is more Conscientious ;)
Milky Seas Effect
> Nuclear is the only way to reduce our carbon emissions in both the short term and long term,

This is clearly untrue, to the point of being deliberate misinformation.
> Inflation: During periods of moderate to high inflation, gold and commodities tend to do extremely well. Equities outperform bonds more often than not, but it depends on the type of equities and their starting valuations, and therefore have a huge variance. Real estate does well, mainly because leverage attached to it gets melted away from inflation. Bonds do poorly in inflationary environments.

The article doesn't talk specifically about gold, but I believe it should. From this chart, you can see that gold started an upward trend in price pre-pandemic that peaked in August of last year, and has since declined noticeably:

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/XAUUSD/

Gold is supposed to be the canary in the coal mine for inflation. The slightest whiff of inflation is supposed to send the price soaring, usually led by gold mining stocks.

This hasn't happened. As the price of copper, lumber, other base commodities, houses, used cars, and possibly even labor, has surged, gold has barely budged.

What does gold's lackluster performance so far say about the future direction of inflation?

That's the question people worried about (hyper)inflation should be asking themselves.

Many in the gold market claim that the price is being manipulated by central banks, by the paper derivatives market, an other forces.

But it's very hard to believe that literally every other commodity is flying to the moon while gold is stuck in the basement due to "manipulation."

Something isn't adding up here.
Lol i just learned about these today
That is for much more recent, and bigger cores.

The one I talk about has a kilobyte of ROM, and is an original SuperH from early nineties.
> Staying at work till midnight would be seen as not managing time correctly, neglecting family, being overworked, not in good shape, making mistakes and so on.

How is it seen if someone is at work by 7am? Or even 6am? Genuine question.
Every time one of these hot takes comes up: "field X isn't a science," I have 2 thoughts:

1. Neither is the entire field of mathematics (or philosophy or logic or history, you name it). Not everything needs to be a science (in the "empirical" sense) to have value or some claim to truthiness/rigor.

2. Or "field X doesn't have the perfect predictability/reproducibility of a proper hard science." Sure. But neither does my doctor, and yet the challenges in the practice of applied medicine don't invalidate the entire science of biology. Which pill will cure me, how long do I have to live, what do you think my symptoms mean--will get you an "I don't know but here's my best guess..." from any honest doctor. Turns out it's hard to go from the micro level (say a cell or single organ) to the macro level (the body as a complex biological system interacting with the environment) in any field. And some fields operate entirely at the macro.

Systems that are sufficiently abstract, interactive, adaptive, subjective, or social tend to be harder to make generalized conclusions about, compared to something you can observe in a vacuum or isolate under a microscope or put in a double blind experiment.

In some cases, maybe we're just not at a point yet where we can make super strong claims. How young is the field of psychology? Or of economics? Think back to Freud and the whole pseudoscience of psychoanalysis, and then look at how far we've come. We've progressed on a hard problem the way chemistry has moved on from alchemy.

The challenges inherent in the social sciences shouldn't mean we just throw up our hands and give up. We try to make them more scientific, develop new standardized measurements for them. Happiness is harder to quantify than mass. Should we not bother trying? Perhaps we never get to the point of perfect predictability. Living organisms are hard to predict, much less entire systems of intelligent ones. But we can learn at least something.
Wow if you don’t mind me asking, what happened and how did you get out of that situation unscathed?
I know there are first amendment exceptions that would, for example, not require a movie to consider male actors for the role of Juliet or woman actors for the role of Romeo.
What kind of good food do you eat?
I'd rather be "Mark."
No, they're just smarter, faster, bolder, and harder working, and they have social circles that mirror those qualities.
> Wikipedia is a place of ultra-centralization where a handful of influential contributors have most of the power and will enforce the content they want using administrative processes (or arbitrary locking of pages) until you give up.

I have also came to a realization of this when I saw a number of politically motivated powerful contributors vandalizing a calm and mature page about an old historical topic by introducing irrelevant if not made up content. They locked the page immediately after because "there was a threat of vandalism", ironically. It was really unsettling to see it as it unfolded.

I've defended Wikipedia fiercely, about how it's a reliable source because "you can see the sources that are cited" etc. But it is not always a reliable source for ordinary people. It only takes some determined powerful contributor to mess up.

It is a great tool nevertheless, but it really is centralized.
The charging infrastructure is a competitive advantage. Tesla is a business we are talking about capitalism. You can charge your EV at home, you won’t need a fuelling station. That is progress.
Same thing?
For each of them, they see themselves non-accelerating with respect to the gravitational field. But they do see the soil accelerating towards them against the gravitational field.

Why is the soil not in free-fall? Because it feels normal force of all the earth below.

And why is not the whole earth in free fall towards its core? Because it has an electrostatic force (a real one!) which keeps all the atoms and molecules from collapsing on itself. If it would collapse on itself, it would first become a neutron star and then a black hole.
F9 1.0's payload to LEO was 11.5 tons, vs. (up to) 6.8 tons for Delta II.

Yes, D9 was designed around boosters. This means D9 is a different kind of design than F9. I'm contending that a more F9-like design, like Saturn 1B, could have evolved into something like the F9 over time. D-II could not have.
> is just posturing to trick the underlings to over-work?

This. There's nothing bad in wanting to do a great job but most often you're not the one to benefit from that. Especially software devs, some of them can work miracles almost for free, just to get some recognition (but not too much, we don't want them to think they provide something extraordinary )
And they are basically the only field funding replication studies. That makes them more rigorous than many alternatives.
It doesn’t have to be one or the other. At that income, it is entirely possible to do nice things and invest for the future.

You can do anything you want, just not everything you want.

Also, in classic financial blogger style, he misses why people buy nice cars, and treats the invented reason with disdain. It isn’t always, or even often, to make others admire, but because they are pleasant to own and drive. Yes, it’s easy to overspend on cars, but it is easily done responsibly if it is a part of a broad careful plan.
There are things the author overlooks. Primarily, the incredibly massive amount of information and services that has gone online in the past 10 years. From taxing your car to entire digitized libraries of scientific magazines that are there now and weren't before.

But how accessible are they? These days it's hard to even find what you're looking for, and if you do, you probably have to pay handsomely for it.

And the interfaces... Oh god the interfaces... For a long time I thought it was my fault that I could read less and less of the content in any given page.

But loading a news website takes like 10 clicks and 45 seconds of irrelevant garbage loading. You have to ignore the self-playing video(s) at the corner of the screen and the animated ads. Even the articles themselves are written in a way the either keep you reading for longer or redirect you to other articles. It's just incredibly bad for everyone involved. I'm dying for a plain old HTML internet again. Just plain text, hyperlinks and optional media like photos and videos when needed. Combine this with the power of modern machine learning and the result could be incredible, but instead it's an ongoing nightmare.
Obviously, when I said "you can't dance to metal", I was referring to dancing as traditionally pursued by those populations. They probably don't want to switch from the dancing they are used to to headbanging and moshing.
When somebody brags to you about how much they work, answer with “Maybe if you were better at it, you wouldn’t need to work so much”

Watch their jaw drop

edit: use responsibly, social intelligence required (like don’t say it to your boss, but as a jab at a good friend)
This saying embodies all the pretentions of the cult of overwork. Only the people who are "successful" (measured by monetary wealth and/or fame) are "somebodies". The rest are nobodies. They're invisible.
The lowest total cost you can pay for most new cars* is to put in a sizable down payment, chose a loan with a low-but-non-zero interest rate, then pay the whole thing off as soon as the loan paperwork shows up. This will always get you the highest dealer incentives (i.e. lowest number on the invoice) which get made up by the bank paying for the profitable loan. After that is buying cash, and last place is 0-interest loans (I guess technically last place is interest-bearing loans paid off in installments, but if you can pay cash that's not really a consideration).

There are always offers which are available to cash buyers/real loan buyers, but not 0% financing buyers. The reason for this is simple; 0% financing is a hack to get people to buy more expensive cars, and you'll discover that on the lower margin cars that option mysteriously vanishes.

I just went through this myself and helped two friends out, it's true for Ford, Honda, VW, Audi, and Chevy at least in the US.

* If you happen to be one of the few people who actually wants to buy a high-margin car (usually Halo cars like Corvettes) then sure, get the 0% financing. Just realize that you're being fleeced, although if you're buying a Vette you probably already knew that and value isn't top-of-mind
There’s a weird thing in the Midwest where I grew up where people talk about exercise as if it’s unhealthy (and basically nobody exercises).

Then you come to the Bay Area and see just how much people can really exercise. Older people exercising here seem way healthier than where I grew up.

Still when I go home if I say I run 3mi a day people say things like, “that’s bad for your knees” etc. or look at you like you’re crazy. In the Bay Area it’s like I don’t work out at all by comparison.
To this day I don't really like to talk about it because it is easy to blame myself for more and more and I need to focus on the future. One of the things that happens to you when you fail like that after a ten+ year effort is that you sort of lose your identity. By that I mean that I was very well known in my industry, gave seminars to hundreds of people, etc. I went from that to evaporating from the scene for many years. I left the industry and never went back. I shifted into other domains. That identity is gone. In the new context I am nobody. That's a tough shift. Not because I value being somebody, but because losing your professional identity isn't a great thing to having to navigate.

Yes, it is cathartic to some extent. And yet I don't really enjoy talking about it. It still hurts.
Was he at a management position? Otherwise he seems to be poking where it doesn't belong. If a donation banner made him leave, I can't imagine him keeping any job ever.. you realize how little 99% of companies care about ethics (compared to making profit), right?
This definition is concerning because without strict criteria for what is and isn’t science, we welcome topics like phrenology.

Topics like this are, as a whole, not true. While I think psychology is no where near as problematic, the author’s argument that a loose definition of science, like whether the scientific method is employed, can be dangerous.

> This is dangerous because, under such a loose definition, anything can qualify as science. And when anything qualifies as science, science can no longer claim to have a unique grasp on secular truth.

Ultimately, what we define as scientific will impact what we perceive to be truthful. Setting a higher bar for a topic to be labeled scientific will strengthen our grasp on secular truth.
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I’ll find you a couple tens of millions of people who didnt exercise who died well before 98
Can you elaborate on your context maybe? Asking because to me this intuitively doesn't make sense but my context is agile software development with sprint and story points. Since story points are a relative complexity measure they don't care about how long the work week is. The velocity measured over each sprint in these points also doesn't. Velocity is just an average number of observed story points delivered per time period. How many days were 'work days' and which, doesn't really matter.
I wish Robin Hobb all the years she desires and thank her deeply for gifting us with her stories so this animal could retreat to them when it needed a vacation from reality.
Numerous studies show that exercise provides U-shaped benefits to health [1], [2].

Specific to cardiovascular disease, repeat marathon runners [3] have higher calcium buildup than those who do not run in marathons, which as Robin might say, is one of those cases where the animal is driven too hard.

While you have a point for extreme exertion, I'm not sure what you mean by "lazy". Current general recommendations are 150 minutes a week, or <30 minutes a day [4], which definitely falls underneath moderate exercise. I don't think "no one" is ignoring these recommendations (or, at least, they agree with them-- few people follow them :^)).

As for your grandpa's longevity-- your genetics is just a risk modifier, not a nullifier. Wearing a seatbelt doesn't prevent your death, it just reduces your odds of it during a car crash. So, at least, I hope you still wear your seatbelt, because the time cost of this activity is so miniscule compared to the time reward.

As I like to say, "Run for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far" [5]

EDIT: I should add-- I ran competitively a few years ago. My "animal" is no longer as fierce, and thus am a bit more moderate these days. But there is a large emotional aspect and validation to pushing yourself that goes beyond physical health. As with any sport-- running, swimming, football, basketball-- the physical toll is worth it. This, though, is what I would classify under Robin's description of a "tired animal" and is likely what Bolt, MJ, etc. feels. When she says she "wishes she treated her animal better", I don't think she means this, at least when it comes to exercise.

[1] https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/9000/Endurance_a...

[2] https://themedicalroundtable.com/article/role-physical-fitne...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21200345/

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/adults/index.htm

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6U728AZnV0
Because it would ultimately be paid for by the public.
Agree, but in my experience medicine simply kept me from going too low. Some kind of therapy may also be needed, and a focus / prioritization on things that make you happy.
Fear that if we don’t work hard we’ll be replaced by the next guy who will, and maybe for cheaper.

Somehow everyone’s always busy with things to work on, even the guy I see watching YouTube videos after standup.
Don't give up. Just be aware that reality is never even close to a linear path from idea to scale.
How about those of us that just enjoy our jobs?

My company is really good about work life balance. But there are plenty of people, myself included, who log in on the weekends or at 2AM and write code or review stuff. Coding is fun!

There are people out there who do for pay something very similar to what they would do if they had millions of dollars.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but you don't need to work endless hours to "be somebody", maybe to be a successful entrepreneur but then you have a very specific idea about what defines someone's value.
in europe you'd just use a trailer for this kind of work on a (compared to american cars) small car
Digital goods prices won't increase due to demand necessarily. Those prices will rise because electricity, rent, and all the other overhead line items increase. Those increases get passed to the customer, who is going to be hit with increased prices for the necessities of life - food, water, housing.

Digital goods do nothing to support human life - food, water, housing. Sure you can buy things online, but you can buy those things at brick and mortar stores. In turn, gas prices will rise to the point where delivery services become unviable.

Inflation touches the entire chain whether the product is digital or otherwise.
Taking the individual letters' opposite is pretty common. The interpretation of the resulting opposite differs somewhat by system. (This is getting into what's known as four-letter Jungian type, not specifically MBTI)

There are also temperament groups, which are NF, SP, NT (HackerNews' audience...), and SJ. Generally you don't want streams to cross here with the type of information people of each temperament want to consume and the time perspective they prefer (past, present, future), though there is some overlap.

Some would say it's a good idea to get at type opposites by mirroring the functions, e.g. ENFJ (FeNiSeTi-FiNeSiTe) would be functionally opposite to ESTJ (TeSiNeFi-TiSeNiFe). So these two type groups would tend to want to repress' the other's perceptive and decision-making functionality. The same would not necessarily be as true, or true in the same way, with e.g. ISTP and ENFJ, which some would consider a potentially lovely pairing due to shared function-valuing, meaning that these two opposites will naturally develop toward the other over time, from a developmental perspective.

I think Isabel Briggs-Meyers had her own view of the first four functions' order, which you can read in her book "Gifts Differing". This would also yield a different type of opposite.
Correct, which is why I said you have to look at demand. Velocity tells you nothing, it isn't an input.

Also, you are wrong about prices not increasing "in reaction to possible buyers". If we lived in the fabulous world of rational expectations and flexible prices moving instantly but we don't. Understanding why this isn't the case, ironically, is why we use monetary policy/inflation targeting.
In my anecdotal experience, seemingly not noticed, as people assume that you came in just a few minutes before.

For a couple of reasons, I spent a period of time going into work at 6AM. Most came at 8 or 9. Far more people commented when I stayed until 6PM one day.

A former co-worker of mine used to do this as well. I didn’t notice for weeks and only because I logged in very early one day.
I am sure there are instances. I can't really speak for everyone and generalize for an entire management class, but in our company, it does not appear to be just posturing for managers and middle managers. Getting someone for 15 to 30 minute window can sometimes be rather hard. I see my manager in and out of meetings all day ( some are pointless so he can do some of his actual work ), some are a shit show where he needs to actively participate just to keep things afloat, some are something in between. I do not know if he is an exception, but buddy that just got promoted said she is having the same issue. Metric ton of stuff to do and no time do it in. Doing more after 6 or w/e your 'end time' is seems common here.

And I had a taste of something similar myself. Project dropped out of the sky on my plate with due date a little too close for comfort. So what do you do? If you want to deliver, something has got to give..
Roku vs. Google: Who’s to Blame?
The key is to keep moving forward. Marion Countess Dönhoff had a great line about aging in an interview when she was in her 80s: "every day a little more self-discipline."

Dönhoff was an East Prussian who became an influential journalist and later newspaper publisher in W. Germany after the war. In her family, the attitude to life was basically shut up, deal with it, and keep going. She was an aristocrat in the best sense of the word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_D%C3%B6nhoff

Edit: typo
We're debating semantics, but if I reshaped an RGB image into component arrays i.e. u8[yn][xn][3] → u8[3][yn][xn] then would you still view that as a 24-bit format? What if those 24-bit values were huffman or run-length encoded would it be an n-bit format? If your Y′CbCr luminance plane has a legal range of 16..235 and the chrominance planes are 16..240, then would it be a 23.40892 bit format?
The actual studies show there is a J-shaped curve relationship between endurance sports training and long term health. Most people in affluent societies are way over on the left side of the curve and could improve long term functioning through more exercise. The risks for chronic problems like heart scarring, arterial calcification, and musculoskeletal injuries only start to increase once you get over about 20 hours per week.

Elderly people frequently die because they get weak, then they fall and end up bedridden. At that point they don't last very long.
My grandfather lived into his 90s and as far as I know never "exercised". But during a lot of his life he split firewood and worked 8-hour shifts at a factory (before walking home for an hour or so) and did a lot of other things that would be much more vigorous than regular exercise. A different anecdote.
Nobody wants to drive korean kthx.