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> In WW2 Stalin initially made a pact with Hitler while all the while knowing Hitler would violate it and invade anyway. Stalin just used it to buy time to ramp up the Soviet military. From what I recall it's likely Hitler assumed this as well and used the pact to delay dealing with the Soviets militarily and focus on his Western front to snatch up as much of Europe as possible.

Not true at all.
1) Stalin was caught off guard by the invasion. We know this because he holded up in his private residence for a few days afterwards until the Politburo came visited him and asked him what he was going to do.

2) The Russian military was not tactically or strategically ready when the Germans attacked. We know this because the Russians lost millions of soldiers by encirclement in the days and weeks after the start of the war. If Russian military had been ready, it would have been in much better position(s).

3) Stalin had purged thousands of quality officers and NCOs from the Russian military. You can't have a good military without a professional, respected and well maintained NCOs core. If Stalin thought the Germans would really attack, he would have built up a professional officer and NCO core.

The three things that really saved Russia are January, February and the willingness of the Russian people to do anything for Russia, regardless of who is in charge.
I don't understand this argument, could you explain why modern software cannot run on old hardware?

It sounds like it's justifying planned obsolescence.
Care to share your best couple of drawings? (:
I wonder if paying the troll wouldn't just get them more trolls, now that they appear to be a soft target?
I can definitely get on board with that sentiment. A number of years ago I was all set to join a Hackerspace in my area, but for two things. One was the monthly dues, $50 a month. I was already budgeting out to the last dollar of income, so that wouldn't have worked. Second was the commute into the city to make use of it. If I worked / lived in the city it would be a bit different, but just as there was the issue of budgeting money I had just as much of a problem budgeting time for it. It really does seem to me like we have less time available then what I recall my parent's generation having (for example my Dad always worked on family cars despite working a factory job with a 60 minute daily commute). And they still had time to watch 2 - 3 hours of TV in the evenings.

Edit: I just looked again, that is the dues that the central organization charges each chapter for chapter members. The individual chapter dues may be much higher, and probably varies depending on location.
I would be open to a remote working arrangement that was truly asocial. The problem is you still want all the normal social features of working relationships - meetings, collaboration, mentorship, collective commitment and sacrifice towards a shared vision - in a remote context. The imitation of a team over Zoom carries, for me, all of the costs (higher costs, even) but none of the benefits. Empty calories. From my end it's you, prospective remote colleague, selfishly offering a raw deal.
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You can't return but what is preventing them to come to your new home. Snowden's girlfriend moved to Russia and I think any of his family members can visit him if they want.
Are there any git frontends that do this today?
> where they suggested 30% extra tax for any savings over 100K SEK (10K USD)

Is it a wealth tax?
If you compare patents to weapons, the above is like privateering. For big companies there is also MAD analogy.
Do you not see how one of those things is a choice and the other 3 aren't?
Yes, I got my degree in 5 years and was on the team for all 5 of those years. It was tough. Lots of scheduling conflicts, because practice/meeting/lifting times are set in stone and you have to schedule your academics around them. I didn't find the workload too bad, but I basically didn't have time to do anything else other than football and school. In-season you scale back classes to the minimum number of credit-hours because football takes about 50 hours per week (minimum, 60 hours when you are travelling that week). I took 5 years though, so was able to spread the credit-hours out over an extra year so I wasn't taking too many classes each term.
People have been freely farting at these events, maybe it's time to put a stop to it. No risk is to little when talking about cyanide...
The only way to fight the abuse is to default most users to interacting with their own city block.

Only through thoughtful upvotes would someone earn the community support for an individual to spread their voice geographically further and further.

Allowing trolls immediate access to the entire world was a mistake.
I assume you're referring to raffinose?

In Indian cooking (which uses a lot of legumes) our solution is to soak them overnight and discard the water - cuts down the raffinose and overall cooking time. We also almost universally cook them in pressure cookers - even the toughest beans cook rapidly in a pressure cooker if soaked - maybe 15 minutes?
Not quite - branches get ancestors.

A new repository starts with an empty branch.

A DAG gets layered on top.

I mentioned conflicts, but can you explain where race conditions would arise?
My 486 ran totally fine on 1.44MB floppy disks as well, what is your point?

As I mentioned down thread, you can get 1TB Samsung SSDs right now for $80. Not the best one, still faster than a hard disk. NVMe are a little more expensive than that, and even faster. The price is not really a valid excuse.

Yes, my 2TB NVMe is $300, and does sequential read/writes of 3,000 MB/s, which is close to 100x faster than an HDD. It's not space age technology, solid state storage has been consumer technology for 2 decades already.
Yeah, I didn't eat any of the weird offspring. We did eat the summer squash it produced, and they were delicious.
I think the issue lies more with how regular people interact with the political process now, which is mostly political activism as a hobby rather than meme activism. Meme activism is just a consequence of that type of activism in contemporary society. Political hobbyists are a much larger issue because by nature the cost of participation is low (especially on social media) so many do not have much investment and are capable of being manipulated easily since they often lack the understanding necessary when engaging in difficult social issues. This leads to performative politics and eventually purity spirals. Social media exacerbates this since now you are easily capable of socially signaling to a much larger audience.

In the age of social media this can (and has) created huge social movements based on nothing more than feel good politics. While huge, these movements aren't very resilient because most people aren't actually very invested in their causes, and leadership is often nebulous and diffuse. As a result, these causes can be hijacked, subverted or can just fall apart as peoples interests move elsewhere somewhere along the grueling path of change. For most, their political activism begins and ends with the retweeting of some catchy hashtag or infographic, or attending some march with their friends for some cause without fully understanding the issues they are protesting. When push comes to shove, most will not be willing to make serious sacrifices for their cause.
> I have hated Tim Ferriss for a long time.

Personally I'm immediately wary of an article which starts off with how much hate someone has for another person.

But aside from that. This is from 2009. And a lot of the opinions I see in the comments here seem from that era too. Tim Ferris is now a lot more than the 4 Hour Work Week (whatever you think of that book - admittedly it is very polarising).

I would encourage anyone who hasn't delved into his material more recently to do so. On his podcast, he's become a very good interviewer over the years, who asks thoughtful questions and leaves "space" for the interviewee to speak (unlike many other podcasters) and has increasingly not shied away from difficult topics.

Personally I think that some of his output on depression, anxiety [0], childhood abuse [1] and suicide [2] is incredibly important. Especially where the traditional view might be that to talk about such personal things may not be good for one's "image". It's not done with any sensationalism, it just comes across as someone who has become "ok enough" with themselves to be able to talk more openly about their own struggles.

(As someone who is no stranger to mental health struggles, I find listening to him speak on this topic to be incredibly relatable.)

I happen to also like a lot of his more practical, life-hack output as well, but I think it's important to recognise that he has rounded out over the years and has a bit more to offer now than the slightly narrow 4HWW caricature which still seems to persist.

[0] "Productivity" Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me)

https://tim.blog/2013/11/03/productivity-hacks/

[1] My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List)

https://tim.blog/2020/09/14/how-to-heal-trauma/

[2] Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide

https://tim.blog/2015/05/06/how-to-commit-suicide/

EDIT: Wow, just browsed this lady's blog a bit more and seems she has a bit of a part time hobby of posting about people she "hates". Not a good look.
What exactly does "modern software" does that justifies needing the hardware to follow at such a pace?
Hyperbole aside, past infections do not mean you're immune. My girlfriend got Covid last year and then about a year later again this past spring. The first time she took a couple months to feel basically back to normal. This time it seem like it'll take much longer (though we're still hopeful for a full recovery). The second case was pretty close to calling for a hospital admission. She's 28 and generally very healthy (aside from her body's apparently affection for corona viruses).

I don't want to directly argue against your point that vaccination shouldn't be required, but I just wanted to address your side point about previous infection. If you're able, get the vaccine even if you've been infected. You should be doing for yourself and you should be doing it for others. Really you should just do it.
Good for those parents, but I don't think it's the job of society to optimize for the preferences of a small set of very involved parents. If anything we should optimize against them: bringing the gaps in school choice low enough that most parents won't prefer one over another anyway.

I also think there's a value to be had in having the over-acheivers and under-acheivers together in the same social setting of school, if not in the same classes.
> It's whats happening right now with CRT. You can't speak out against it, without risking reputation or livelihood so you hope to just ignore it until it goes away.

I find this absurd as someone who had an interest in critical theory (including CRT) about 7 years ago.

Nobody had even heard of CRT until like 3 years ago and what people call "CRT" isn't even an actual category. It is certainly not being taught in highschools.

It's a boogeyman produced by conservative media. I actually am not a fan of many subbranches (ie. afro-pessimism is BS, IMO) and would have no fear about stating that publicly.

All that speaking out against "CRT" as a general phenomenon demonstrates to me is that you spend a lot of time reading the conservative media bubble.
I bet if you look specifically at "cancelling" mob type activity, the % is much much more concentrated.

There are disproportionately loud participants on Twitter that push a toxic narrative.
"Or you know, just don't be a creep and treat women like human beings and you'll be fine?"

Tell that to Alex Reid.
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My partner is a nurse by trade and has observed negligent behavior by medical professions every single time we've been to a hospital. Most of the time it is minor, but there have been times where she's had to speak up and get supervisors involved.

I'd say that "95% of people exhibit incompetence at least once per shift" is not far from the truth. I've been in taxis where the driver has run redlights. I built a house so I know all about keeping tradesman honest.
At Amazon*, the "bar raiser" has to approve the hire though, so there's a pretty mechanistic control against the worst form of this.

* - as I understand it; never worked there.
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Follow the links from his Wikipedia page and you can see Twitter threads where he responded directly to allegations like this with links to the apology.
Can you explain why you expect modern software to run on old hardware first?

Should I be surprised that my turn of the millennium PC can't even run Slack? Yes, in absolute terms it's a bit ridiculous, but we're not talking philosophy here, Moore's law is a thing and software has been getting more complex as hardware got faster. Deal with it.

How is this news?
In my experience at Amazon, line managers (5-20 people) still often act as if they have unregretted attrition goals.

It's up to the Sr managers and directors if they spread the 6% goal around all their teams, or let one or two teams "implode". But the line managers know that their team either needs to outperform other teams or that the performance management buzzsaw is likely coming for one or more of their reports.

Heck, I even saw directors and VP refer to "regretted attrition" and "unregretted attrition" in all hands meetings.
> Among women ghosting is 100% a legitimate way to refuse a second/third/etc. date.

Even back in the prehistoric times of my dating days, which was before I recall the term "ghosting" existed, it wasn't an uncommon thing. It might have been disappointing on occasion, but I never found it "rude". It wasn't very hard to take the hint and move on.
Agreed. I consider myself pretty competent at git (consistently helping out the rest of my team of ~15 people with it) and even then I've shot myself in the foot using `git checkout --` instead of `git reset` before to unstage a file, and lost all of my work on it. Really felt that should have given a warning.
Because Twitter the result might look extremely toxic but be a small fraction of the overall Twitter (the company) userbase.
>and store the hash of the output in an append-only log somewhere, with their signatures.

Fwiw this is one of the few optimal use cases for blockchains - high value data that is lightweight on disk and network, and that needs to be stored in an append-only, replicated, tamper-evident, public database, which is both trustworthy and not requiring trust in any single entity.
"Long time twitter user" is a pretty awful metric for credibility.
None of it makes it not professional police tho. Police does not mean "hollywood movie good guys". It just mean police and in authoritarion setups it means more violence then in liberal setups. Police tortures people all around the world, both now and in the past.

You never seen them at battlefield. It was organized, effective, produced bureaucracy. They were police force.

They did not run camps, tho they could send people there.
I hope you're wrong. I understand that the technology for the dream that "Google Glasses" was selling isn't quite there, but I hope Apple has a research team moving closer and closer to it.
436B$ for flipkart? Something is wrong!
No, but they’re scared of losing access to wire transfers. Or at least they should be. So if the Fed tells banks they can’t transact with or accept proceeds from the sale of Dogecoin they will cease transacting with and accepting proceeds that appear to be from the sale of Dogecoin. And then Doge will be well and truly fucked. You can’t get to the moon if you can’t get any money.

And for the record, the SEC can’t arrest or bring criminal charges, either. They’re civil enforcement only.
>>I think Doge could still be correctly branded a ponzi scheme, since the returns for an investor is essentially tied to the number of suckers that buy into it after them. An early investor can take a "structured payout" by selling off the asset once the hype-cycle is creating more and more suckers who buy into the idea.

The problem with this "definition" of a Ponzi scheme is that any transaction with a future payout directly or tangentially related to people buying into it qualifies. Homeownership is a Ponzi scheme. Employment is a Ponzi scheme. Software is a Ponzi scheme. Investing is a Ponzi scheme. Life itself is a Ponzi scheme. What GP is getting at is there should be a more specific definition that properly identifies the required element of fraud (as defined by the law) in a Ponzi scheme but doesn't demonize mass risk taking and losses that come with it. Very few people being l end up winners any endeavor. Loss alone doesn't make Dogecoin fraudulent anymore then it does the lottery.
He's accused of more than being a jerk in social situations, but being a jerk in social situations is by itself absolutely grounds for being fired. The list of things you can do that aren't illegal but will reliably get you fired is long.
All of those hatefull actions usually come from those which strongly support criminalizing hate speech (i.e. critique of anything they believe in)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine

Maybe the country is more polarized, but I think we need to be cognizant of the tendency to make everything today be totally unique.

Political violence has a long history in the US, and there are far fewer people getting killed over it today.
That sort of implies trying to blow up the universe wouldn't be a fruitless effort in and of itself. You'd have better luck just waiting for the heat death of the universe at that point I think.
Good read - fwiw if this is your blog some of your links are broken and think they are local -
https://heap.io/blog/%E2%80%9Dhttps://github.com/apache/spar...
It took me so long to become "financially literate". I racked up big credit card bills in my 20's, bought a few cars with unfavorable loans around the same time. There was no education on how interest rates work, apr's are calculated and such. I probably lost 10's of thousands on poor financial decisions that I would have avoided if a class like this was around.

Some things I have learned that have become invaluable:

- Risk/reward with stocks, how bonds work.

- Balancing budgets, monthly, yearly.

- 401k, roth IRAs, saving for retirement.

- Credit debt and how to avoid it.

- Interest rates for housing and how it affects the housing market and purchasing power.

- The importance of a "rainy day savings fund".
Apple's Bluetooth-LE tags don't seem to be mentioned but to me this is one of the most notable beachheads for Apple to mix the metaverse with physical reality. we still don't see a ton of uses, but there's something super enticing about being able to casually discover digital things amid the physical. I'm not surprised good adoption has been slow, that we don't have a ton of neat use cases to wow people, but also: I was shocked as heck to see Google retreat from their open standards competitor, Physical Web/Eddystone.

Apple also makes good use of Bluetooth for airdrop & wifi password sharing, something else google is light-years behind in.

Good writeup, interesting, even if it seems a bit (quite) oversold to me. Makes me think of Benjamin Bratton's The Stack, the many tiers that compose the digital.
>Why do you draw the line there

Simply personal preference.

>And that means you're okay with things like torture of animals and bestiality?

Yes
I've played around with this topic before: https://every.sdf.org/.webshare/bon_appetit.txt
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All companies letting some employees go. Why would companies keep employees who are consistently underperforming? such employees usually have negative impact on the company. If you started a company tomorrow, would you keep such employees? As long as the process is fair I see no problem with it (fair = letting employees know months in advance that they are underperforming and need to improve, offering a decent severance package based on tenure, etc)
The code is quite legible; I recommend having a peak.
Low interest rate are not the problem here.

Household debt is overwhelmingly about home ownership, first of all which affects richer working people. Housing prices mainly have to do with housing scarcity in good areas, which is a density problem.

Workers have been getting fucked, but blaming interest rates is simplistic and counterproductive as the ability to do more fiscal stimulus as aided by low interest rates would be in their favor.
Here's the CVE

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-2022...

For some reason the article don't link there :(
You have to maintain a certain GPA regardless to continue competing. Unless they're cheating in school, the incentive to study will be the same either way. If they are cheating in school, then they were never serious about the education in the first place.

Honestly the focus (or lack thereof) on education starts at home.

source: also played college sports.
Systematic animal torture sounds dystopic.

Why not attack that from all angles? Convince people to eat less meat and more vegetables…sure. But you will still have holdouts saying that they prefer the taste of meat. Hence plant based meat alternatives and lab grown meat.

There can be multiple solutions to a given problem.
Yes, I also use it daily, so thanks for making an amazing tool!

100% vs 80% is of course going to be subjective, but the missing 20% in my opinion is built-in merging and a built-in repo browser. When I've tried to advocate GitUp to my coworkers, those are the two things that keep them going back to SourceTree or Fork.

(Also, on our (admittedly, pretty large) repos, it's not quite rock-solid; staging can be unusably slow (requiring fallback to the command line), switching to the commit view from the map view can be slow, and making lots of changes to the working tree will crash GitUp.)

Still, a brilliant piece of software, and I am suprised that (1) it didn't find a larger audience and (2) that it wasn't more influential on clients that came after, like Sublime Merge.
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