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Eh, if you don't get it you don't get it. I'll give it one more try to explain myself clearly:

You are entering the question assuming your experience is a single point. But that feeling and thought only exists because there is the emergent abstraction of the state of your brain having that feeling and thought. You perceive a singular point of existence because that is the only way your existence can be perceived by the brain you have. That is the state of your brain and you cannot perceive it as separated because the state does not represent it that way. Anything else would require different state.

Remember, we've established that your "soul" cannot change the system, it's an observer. So even if there was no underlying perception of experience and you were a philosophical zombie (so-to-say), you would be saying the same exact thing and "feeling" that same individualism despite that not being true. The ethereal you isn't saying these things, the physical brain is. Your self awareness about your own perception is false, the state of your brain interprets it's own self awareness this way and therefore that's how you perceive it as an ethereal soul. Not the other way around.

But if you, say, take hard drugs, the state of that system can be different and you may not feel a singular perception point. You may feel like a billion neurons coordinating for a moment.

So you think you are a single thing because you have a human ego and your biological brain evolved to think of itself as a single construct with an individual perception.

Your trouble arises from the fact that you're still stuck in the mindset that you have a soul that can affect your thoughts. But that's backwards. Your brain cannot actually understand anything about its observer. The brain is programmed to self-reflect like this and therefore an observer must feel themselves self-reflect in the same way.

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WRT combinatorial complexity, yes. Every combination of everything would have its own "perception" of existence in my philosophy. Because it's entirely emergent, it only makes sense to me that this underlying perception one might call a soul would be more accurately described as just... The nature of existence itself.

"I" exist because my brain exists. I cannot not exist because my brain does exists. That state is real. It has to be this way.

In that same way, if an atom exists, that atom exists. It must. It wouldn't experience existence in any fathomable way, but it still would. And so to would a tree or any colony or chair.

Your example of you and the chair is poor, because you are experiencing the existence of your brain. You are not experiencing the existence of individual parts of your brain or the chair and you as one thing, because your brain does not include that state and therefore the experience cannot be interpreted by a physical thing.

I hope all of that makes sense... But ultimately it's just something that has to "click" or you won't understand.

Anyway, lovely chat. :)
Aiming for Idiomatic Rust
Show HN: Uindex, a data store that uses Parsing Expression Grammars as schemata
With uindex, you provide a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) [1], and you obtain a database that can hold, as data, unicode strings structured according to the top production of the provided PEG. You can then query the db for tokens corresponding to any of the (sub-) productions in the grammar.

This is a work in progress; for example, at the moment, dbs exist only in memory. In my opinion it shows promise, since as I show in the linked README, it performs in the league of in-memory SQLite.

Do you think it is worth investing more effort on this?

1.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
If you've been working with C++ for over 27 years, you owe it to yourself to at least try Rust. A lot of the features in it are designed to ergonomically operate around the limitations of compiled languages, while also encouraging the developer to write "correct" code. If you've got some spare time, I wholeheartedly encourage giving it a try!
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I recently published an article on medium about the importance of End-to-End testing and how we approach it using Cypress.io. Most engineers so far have found it an interesting read.
You're right. A lot of crypto schemes are very close to classical, preregulation banks.

Early banks issued IOUs for deposits. At some point, traders started swapping bank IOUs in lieu of moving gold, since slips of papers were easier-to-handle and equivalent.

At some point after that, bankers noticed they could lend out the gold for a profit.

Fast-forward a few hundred years, and the central bank issues IOUs in the form of dollar bills, and no one else is legally permitted to mint currency. As of a half-century ago, those are no longer backed by gold. Banks, in turn, handle deposits as bits on a computer (which are even more convenient than paper), backed by worthless slips of US-issued paper. Only the US doesn't even bother printing much of the paper anymore, since it's "deposits at the fed."

I wonder if we're heading for a similar path? Government bans the use of non-sanctioned cryptocurrency, like it once did with bank-issued bank notes, and issues it's own cryptocurrency? It kinda makes sense, since it wants to be able to adjust money supply in the public (or political) good.
What crazypants world do you live in where the vast majority of people have all that excess, but the poor are in the minority?
I find it rather odd that you can describe yourself as "aggressively liberal" and then go on to defend discrimination against an entire ethnic group because of one government's admittedly problematic actions.

The CCP does not inherently represent Chinese people (either from the PRC or certainly ethnic Chinese broadly), any more than the Republican Party represented all Americans simply by virtue of being in control of Congress and the Presidency.
This zeitgeist goes back to the creation of America: the people were mistreated by the monarchy. Distrust and accountability to the government is baked into the American constitution (that accountability has succeeded in some areas, as much as it has failed in others).

It seems that many confuse science for government, which is understandable given the very recent muzzling of science for political gain.

Fauci's facial expressions during and after the recent regime have been a pretty good litmus for me: he's a scientist that's bad a hiding his emotions. That allows me to figure out when to trust what him and his colleagues want to, or have been forced to, say.
Until someone bombs their family I suppose...
I genuinely don't understand why my comment is so problematic, but I'll do my best to make only anodyne comments from now on.
If you ever find yourself spending time "debugging in C++", you are Doing It Wrong. Coding modern C++ right is the same, that way, as coding Rust: when it compiles, it works.

(In general, if you find yourself inventing falsehoods about other languages to promote Rust, you are Doing That Wrong, too.)

I have personally spent more time, summed over the past decade, preparing bug reports against Gcc than in debugging C++ memory-usage faults.

But C++ compiles faster.

Coding Rust is fun in much the way that Forth is: it is a charge to figure out a way to achieve a thing; you know it will ultimately be possible, and when you find the way, it is an ego boost. You could say, "Rust is the Second Programming Religion", and who could ever honestly disagree?

(But watch extremists downvote this to oblivion anyway.)
how do you find a contracting broker?
How do you mitigate ddos attacks and other bad actors hitting a page?

What does your cdn solution look like?

Route optimization from your (single) endpoint to clients literally half a world away?
Yeah but then it’s not that the space analogy isn’t apt, it’s just it’s not crowded space. Space is a big thing, it holds entire galaxies :)
I don't think the emphasis of something like this is about writing code in a work environment but to help productivity for CS students when they write code in an academic environment - I would imagine that even highly theoretical/maths oriented courses CS courses still involve a lot of coding - mine certainly did.

The only thing that seems missing is document preparation - presumably using LaTeX (we had to use troff, which was 'fun').
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This is probably a better read than WSJ - https://www.investopedia.com/tech/taxes-and-crypto/

Scroll down to personal purchases.

"Currently, tax code allows taxpayers to exclude up to $200 per transaction for foreign currency exchange rate gain, if the gain was derived from a personal purchase, like a cup of coffee. This is known as a de minimis election. But there is no “de minimis” clause that exempts small transactions, which can create a very tangled tax problem if one is constantly trading crypto and also using it to buy goods and services."

Of course keep reading & note the part where you can't deduct a loss either if you buy BTC at $60,000 & then it goes down to $50,000 because Elon Musk tweeted while you were buying a coffee or pair of jeans with your BTC.
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Also, it’s not a new problem; a Makefile or configure script can run arbitrary code as well.
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Actually it is pretty hard if you, y'know, buy stuff with a cryptocurrency, because every purchase is a taxable event! Also hard if you bought your crypto on a less well known and/or now-defunct exchange like Poloniex because the reports they generate are relatively hard to understand. My CPA couldn't understand the notation as there was no mention of USD and I had to break it down for them.

In comparison, paying taxes on stock gains is pretty easy because the brokerage generates a 1099 with all the calcs done for you.
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It’s unlikely ever to be a 2008 like event. Mortgages were considered safe investments so banks leveraged to invest.

No credible bank is going to leverage to speculate on crypto. They might create products to let their customers do it, but they’ll make sure their books have little exposure.

They are selling shovels; not panning for gold.
Oh gosh - I was so primed by the poem to see <woe, is> as a generic specifier (which I thought should fail, because "oh" isn't callable)... that I completely forgot that < is a less than operator and > is a greater than operator. This literally compiles as two string comparisons. I need to go home and rethink my life.
This is incorrect. By a very large margin.
> and will just dial it back if viable competitors come along

Sure, once those find a way around Googles licensing crime against free and open markets built on top of Android and Google Play. Don't have to compete as default search engine provider if hardware providers are prohibited from changing the default.
Something compatible with the Kubernetes API.
disrupting healthcare systems is likely to provoke physical damage to patients. To me this is even worse than a physical attack to a company because it affects those who deserve it the least. It's morally disgusting and would deserve serious counter measures. If backed by a state it is worth some serious sanctions or worse.
It doesn't appear to identify any specific key, just that the user has a yubikey. You could only ban a whole key manufacturer (or key batch, however large that is).
Enfield is a completely different ballpark than London.

500k is what I want to spend for housing as well and it would merely buy a sad flat in London.

The cost of housing, the weather, the incoming tax hikes, progressive teachers and teenagers with knives are the reason I'm relocating somewhere else (Brexit didn't change much).
I still remember being in my AI class and having the teacher say "This course is taught in LISP. We'll be spending one class on the peculiarities of our system, but otherwise you're on your own. If you don't learn it, you'll fail."

They did eventually realize that teaching some of the basics would actually make for more successful students, and better alumni donations.

In the end, the CS Dept. started offering these things as zero-credit courses as a way to square the circle.
Yes, that is a good point. But by analogy, should an English major receive credit towards their major for a course in word processing, or is it just something that they should be expected to pick up along the way?
I'm curious where you're from and what kind of food you like to eat. And what kind of food you tried, your experience with it in the UK.

In my experience the food here can be really good. Food and choice in the supermarkets can be bad, and typical foods of those in poverty (including those who were raised under the spectre of rationing here) aren't good, but proper, traditional British food has a lot of variety and interest, in both produce and dishes.
I took a 5eu special from Amsterdam to London and it was perfectly pleasant, and we even got to walk around in the eurotunnel. Don't recall any Wi-Fi though.
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Frankly, I think the "we're just a platform" excuse goes out the window when they directly make money from it. If you sell an ad, you need to proactively ensure that the ad isn't illegal. Full stop.
I find that a bad faith interpretation of the following quote:

> As a non-chinese, I'm also annoyed at the lack of differentiation between Asian and Chinese- and then further from Chinese descent vs. CCP supporter.

But to further exemplify. If objectively evil aliens who looked just like white dudes with early male balding appeared, and people started attacking bald people. I think bald people would be frustrated if the cultural narrative asserted on them was "Anti-bald hatred" and that all bald entities should work together here, including the evil aliens. The problem might just be that a subset of bald people are bad, and some assholes are particularly degenerate in their willingness to group them together. Bald people would reject being called the same as the evil aliens just because they're visually similar. They're not the problem and they shouldn't have to put up with this.

People hate the aliens, and a subset of people are just jerks. Unlike past controversies like anti Muslim and anti Black sentiments, anti-CCP isn't unsubstantiated. It's a non trivial threat. Some racist, violent thugs shouldn't get to control the cultural narrative of what's going on. If I oppose X, hell no am I going accept a movement that says that both I am equivalent to X, and that opposition to X is unfounded.
It sounds high, but their business model involves them buying established revenue streams, right? Their use of funds is less speculative than a typical software company?
I like the idea, but I think Rust is too picky of a language to use for something like that. IOCCC is fun because of how interesting it is to watch seasoned C professionals finesse their favorite language. A Rust variant would likely end in tears, copious compiler warnings and perhaps blood.
When you’re 70 you’re not going to buy a latte from your 401k. Instead you’ll transfer the money into a regular bank account (say once a month). At the end of the year you’ll get a tax form form that lists out all your 401k withdrawals.
Also bicycle is good.

If you pick the right place (look at the cycleways map), you can usually find somewhere with a mostly off-road cycle route from home to your office.
You can also just put arbitrary code in build.rs, it will be run by cargo check, rust-analyzer, etc. Though I admit macro expansion hacks are more fun and easier to hide.
At Kent State (graduated 2004) I had to take "Social and Ethical Issues in Computing". It was a very easy "writing-intensive" class, where we had some group discussions of the contents of our textbook, and then had to write a few 5-page papers talking about the content.

The only thing which stuck with me was the Therac-25 story. Everything else was just pretty much "don't deliberately use your powers for evil" type thing.
You are reasoning about this well. Offering a self hosted solution is a solvable problem that can be profitable. The challenge might be that there are multiple different strategies the folks at Notion could follow, but choose not to. Each is solvable and each can bring more profit. And yet they need to decide what to do and what not to do. You should not chase every rabbit and solve every solvable problem.
As a desktop user mainly, this is exciting! I really only use laptops for meetings, but next time I upgrade my laptop, I'm getting one!!

If it works well, I might consider switching back to a laptop for my main workstation...
Yes, the IRS expects you to pay taxes on the delta between the value of the coin when you bought it and the value of the good you exchanged it for.
Weirdly for sure - referring to Charlize Theron as "African-American" always sound odd, even if it is technically correct
Common misconception. In the audiobook narration world the price per finished hour is considerably more revenue than royalty split. It is therefore reserved for the more reliable and more talented ACX narrators.

Source: I was the founding audio production manager for ACX.
> You're speaking as if generating mocks and adding stack traces to errors are... features

They're working around a weakness in the language. Stack traces in exceptions are definitely a feature. golang doesn't offer it out of the box, which is why the abomination of a framework I was telling you about had to be written. Similar things had to be done to work around the lack of generics, or the lack of composability of goroutines, or even in normal functions because of lack of composability of error handling.

> Sometimes I truly don't understand the context that my peers are working in. Totally incoherent...

Exactly what I think when I see people writing large projects in golang, and all the messes they have to go through to work around its limitations.
It sounds like she hasn't actually used it in a long time, and probably forgot about it.

> According to the Sci-Hub founder, the Gmail account associated with her Apple account (and from where she received the email) was registered by her a “long time ago” when she “was at school perhaps.” However, a cursory Google search reveals that the address is public knowledge and has been associated with Elbakyan for many years, so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that someone is having ‘fun’ at her expense.
Yes, let's wager on that.
> “ it's also a magnet for many of Europe's promising startups”

Is this still just as valid after Brexit?
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The UK has more top restaurants than most countries, and one occasion had literally the best restaurant in the world - as judged by the French of all people who I guess don't give it out lightly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Michelin_3-star_restau...
Let’s be real. There was a trump Russia thing. It’s beyond sketchy to have your campaign manager and his aid literally provide internal polling data to Russian intelligence. And Russia was undeniably trying to help trump win, and trump was undeniably pleased that was happening. I don’t get why people deny this happened.
I've actually stopped staking for exactly this reason.

I don't have enough to stake for the rewards to be worth the time hassle of dealing with this.
I'm glad the IRS is doing this, but I wish they would also go after wealthy people dodging taxes. The IRS has been deliberately underfunded to protect wealthy people, who have the resources to fight the IRS. Paying taxes should be celebrated, not vilified, and I hope Biden's proposal (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/bidens-80-billion-plan-to-be...) or something similar to that takes effect soon.
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Learning the basics of shell scripting has been super valuable to my career.

The only time I found it to be a liability was when I was pair programming. My pair couldn't read a shell script to save their life & had very little interest in learning. When I tried explaining it line by line, they stopped wanting to pair because I was apparently making them feel stupid. They actually reported me to management for being an arrogant mansplainer. I'm pretty sure that was the beginning of the company deciding I was not a culture fit :P I had to learn how to, and how not to, work with someone less experienced in a certain topic after that.
in London you can have the best food in the world, but you'll often have to pay stupid prices for it.

I say that as an Italian expat in Manchester (where things are... not that good).
The supercharger will likely have the same Al-ion battery. And there's still untapped potential of using high voltage, when 10kV switching is possible with recent semiconductors, then to get 500kW means only 50A current.
I agree with you here. Using Prometheus, federated Prometheus, and Thanos on top of it for good measure, would probably get you better results without using a hodge-podge of non-Prometheus-compatible tools.
Is there a name for the pattern where your client retrieves a subset of the available instances via service discovery, establishes connections to every instance in the subset, and spreads requests between them?

E.g. you have 200 clients connected to 100 servers, your service discovery sends each client a list of 10 servers, and 2000 connections are established instead of 20000.

"Partial mesh" is a good description, but it's mostly used to describe routing, not load balancing.
And? Standard IT practice.
Nor will three rangy step-siblings.
It's the amount of light that decides the amount of noise.

Yes, you will need four times the ISO. But you will get exactly the same amount of noise.
That'd be a great distinction to make, but as far as I can tell, 90%+ of colleges offer and treat CS and "the degree you take to become a professional programmer." I feel it does a disservice to both CS as a fascinating academic discipline and Software Engineering as an important career-oriented discipline, but until more places start offering both, I think CS programs can really benefit from more SE content like this.
I forgot to people
Currently a junior hr , pressed by hiring needs and time constraints , I feel like I am forgetting my human side and how to actually connect with people I don't know, especially such from a very different background. I have this bias there is nothing in common which is a silly assumption
Can I just strike a conversation with you on what you like?
How would U feel if I randomly sent you a blog that might interest you? What is a cool non-generic conversation starter with a person from any time of background?
Are you gonna be repulsed or what are you gonna think?

It's just that I rly like the place I work @ and am pretty sure others will like it too cuz I'm very picky usually. So I think I am geniune? Or am I? How do I know..tell me where I go wrong :C
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This is as huge a deal as "using ./configure && make install to exfiltrate secrets."

It's a class of supply chain attack focusing on build time code evaluation. Almost every programming language has some kind of support for arbitrary code execution at build time, and any project of scale is going to require it.

RCE isn't an interesting exploit when the system is literally designed to run code from somewhere else.