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The problem is that “too big” becomes synonymous with monopolistic behavior. It’s the nature of our system that drives them to that end. Winner takes all.
Experience wise I am far behind with just 12 years of programming but started feeling burnout since Covid. I was always work in office location guy even if it meant to stretch by more than 12 hours a day. But working from home is far different. Communication is worst. When in office your colleagues are next to you and meetings were like 4 hours a day. But with work from home it's very different. To get in touch with colleagues, you have to schedule a call which usually taking 3x more time than discussion at office. Also we have repeat things so many times in call since there is no proper blackboard etc. Probably it's only me but now a days calls itself takes more than 8 hours.

Really started getting respect for people who were doing remote before Covid as well. Now I also understand why OSS projects are slow in implementing features.
Cooking, baking, wood carving, writing a novel, lockpicking, maybe DIY (learn some plumbing, electician, tiling skills), glass blowing, drawing/painting, instrument...

Get basic idea of entry level requirements, spend 20-50 hours practising move on if you don't like it by then.

Pick something out of any profession and go at it. I am kind a thinking about shoe making or sawing/clothes making.
Can you alternate gigs ? I found this to be a great fix (maybe transient though). Manual labour 4h, coding 4h. Aiming at drag free day.
> Lastly I will say lumping concerns about the various SARS-cov2 vaccines with the usual suspects in the traditional anti-vax crowd is disingenuous.

You're responding to an article whose most dramatic claim is that a full two thirds of what they consider to be online COVID misinformation came from just 12 individuals. Extremely motivated individuals or not, that does tend to suggest the organization is letting a lot of more mainstream speculation slide.

Still the accounts are named, as are their backgrounds in peddling vitamin supplements and antivax literature and some examples of their posts about Bill Gates and microchips, medical industry plans to create chronically ill patients and the Pfizer vaccine killing more people than Covid. If you're going to call others "disingenuous" for "lumping these concerns in with the usual anti-vax crowd", perhaps you would like to tell us which one of the twelve accused individuals you believe is actually making reasoned arguments about testing procedures or possible evidence of side effects associated with some of these vaccines?
It's also a leadership problem. Too much money can be a good problem to have, but it requires leadership that can drive focus and delivery. It's clear that isn't what Star Citizen has.
Hey I can kind of empathize!

You didn't ask for advice but that's never stopped me before!

Do a fiscal budget and forecast it out a few years. It is so helpful in seeing where you can cut, where you're spending money that you don't need etc.

Do a time budget. I know, it sounds boring and like life planning but it can help show how you're going to spend your time. If you don't like it and it is overwhelming, look for areas to change. Time management is a zero sum game (outside of paying more for lawn mowing but still, you've just freed up that time).

Sorry for the rambling thoughts, budgeting was something very hard for us to start because it doesn't lie and can be hard to acknowledge all of the little things we were ignoring.
remote pre-heating of the oven, remote alerts when the laundry is done. Non-connected versions of these appliances just make a really loud alarm sound when they need someone to pay attention to them, but a small notification on a phone would be more effective and less annoying.
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That's only true if people start to use it, which for sure isn't a given with the current incentives. Also, there is 100% no way this challenges S.O. in any way
Yea I'll probably take some months off. I once took off 6 months and I was surprised how rusty I got after those 6 months.
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A side question: How many days of vacation do you take in summer? For parents and non-parents.
Second-stringers do this. They can accumulate all of the certifications, bogus "patches," and patents they want, but they'll still have zero street-cred. What's more, companies who promote and advance based on these factors are only fooling and embarrassing themselves with weak staff.

The other problem is a fair number of Eastern managers don't know or care about the business or management details, they all of want the prestige of a title with the least effort. A lot of no-name businesses in China are more BS than corporate ones elsewhere. After-all, why is there such a huge market for white business actors?
Unfortunately, the anti-vaxxers hurt tons of innocent, responsible folks. Like my Dad who didn't develop antibodies from the vaccine due to the immunosupressive drugs he takes so he doesn't reject my kidney.
It is Go, the language, that provides a backwards compatibility guarantee.

Another tenant of Go, the language, is specification before implementation. There specifically so that many implementations of the language are created and do not become dependant on quirks of a single set of tools and enabling users to choose which tooling they prefer.

Point being, there is a very clear line drawn between Go the language and the Go distribution. Guarantees provided by one are not necessarily applicable to another. Nor do they apply to gcc-go or tinygo.
>US Smart Meters use RF to shout out their values everywhere like an RF beacon. A power company vehicle drives around the neighbourhood, collecting the values, storing them and moves on.

I thought they transmitted over the power line? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication
You don't know what you're talking about.

Before my software career I spent a few years working in a diagnostic medical field. Specifically osteoporosis testing. I worked both in a research capacity at Stanford looking at osteoporosis in older men (not pretending to be the PI here) and in a day to day testing clinic. So I've seen exactly what happens when you test a cross-sectional asymptomatic sample of the populous and what happens during the normal course of referred testing.

Low bone mass at the spine, hip, heel, and forearm as measured by DXA are correlated with increased risk of fracture, but it's only a correlation. Some people have resilient architecture which looks porous on an x-ray but only leads to serious fracture much later in life.

Because the current diagnostic tests are set up with levels like 'osteopenia' and 'osteoporosis' the reaction to clinical referrals was most often treatment. Some of those treatments have serious side effects like necrotizing impacts on the jaw. However the reaction to testing in a large asymptomatic population was much more likely to be an increase in preventative behavior (exercise) or no treatment except in extreme cases. While our study was exploratory and didn't have a treatment cohort (we cared about the impact of sleep quality on bone mass) we got to see a lot of older men who if they were referred to a clinic might have received treatment because that's what clinics do. Instead we had sufficient data to discuss what's normal and what isn't. For a time we were the leading experts in the world on what "normal" meant.

Because I've conducted these tests myself and seen data from hundreds of experimental and clinical patients I feel comfortable contrasting the two. The problem is the clinical medical field reacting to a lack of data with over-prescription of treatments.
apparently even lab-grown pork might be kosher: https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-meat-from-cloned-pig-cou...
Our mortgage is ~$1000 a month. If you can make the down payment and get approved, owning is almost always cheaper than renting.

edit: $400 of that $1k is property taxes. Live outside of town. It's better. I promise.
Has someone made a variant of Valve Time[1] for SC?

[1]: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
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And worth noting for anyone who didn't read the original pull request, the case here is documentation switching references to an unknown person from "he/her" to "their" (a change which I think actually makes it easier to read).
Very few false positives: 0.5% false positive rate times 1,000,000 people screened translates into 5,000 false positives, which is in absolute terms not a small number. Those will take away resources from symptomatic patients.
They had a weekend of free ship flytesting or something. I wanted to check the game out so I configured my joystick but had a bit of trouble starting and ended up crashing and going to prison. I was annoyed at the quest, I just wanted to fly around not do an RPG, that should come way after youve had time to get hooked by core mechanics
Would you mind sharing a bit more about that?

I like how this rule sounds, but am wondering whether you live in a high-cost area or not. Having two incomes at the level of the fast-food industry seems somewhat limiting, but this depends on where you live and how frugal you are.

In other comments I'm also noticing that having a mortgage is part of the need to stay in a high-paying job, so maybe renting can alleviate some of that pressure and be more flexible to adjust to live below your means?
> Are you skeptical because it seems too good to be true that he might actually enjoy it?

No, I think it's based on the following:

-I suspect he doesn't "need" this job to survive. Well off people who can afford to change careers (by choice) love to tell you how to build a new business/career when there's no real pressure.

-I am tired of hearing about "Google Ads" overnight successes (to be fair he didn't claim exactly this) I help small biz with Google Ads frequently and it's ... hard. Maybe I just suck?

-I'm skeptical of his first customers: a professional athlete, Porsche owner etc. I realize these are typically the people who can afford detailing but still there are ~1,696 NFL players in a country of 330 million+ - what are the odds?

- Lastly instead of quitting, and detailing cars quietly he wrote a Tweet thread very similar to other motivational/self-promotion posts that seem very inauthentic and hollow. Shedding light on mental health challenges is good! But I could have done without the "here's how I started a new biz and succeeded in 2 weeks angle.

Look guys, I'm busy and slightly overwhelmed so maybe just ignore my grumpiness. Thanks for listening.

Edit: Related to my personality: How I Built This with Guy Raz on NPR also frequently sends me into a flying rage. Every story goes like this: "So I was in NYC and I was "broke", and then my friend from Stanford called "randomly" and asked me to lunch with the top VC in the country".
This is definitely true for me. I went from a digital nomad lifestyle living abroad for over a decade, to moving back to North America and "settling down".

In the last three years I've bought a house, fancy car, and accumulated a bunch of "stuff".

By most people's standards, what I have accumulated is not that much, but to me it's a huge weight on my shoulders. Not only the physical items, but subscriptions to services, utilities, property taxes, home maintenance fees, etc. It's all extremely stressful and draining.

I also used to have a ton of hobbies (photography and electronic music as well, interestingly enough). I haven't touched either in over a year, and I don't even have a valid excuse for this paralysis. My job has a hard stop at 5pm. Yet at the end of the day, the only thing I mentally have energy to do is cook with my wife, and then zone out in front of Netflix, read reddit, or occasionally have a few beers.

Even though I make more money now and am in a much more stable job than ever before, for the first time in nearly a decade I find myself depressed and filled with anxiety. I yearn for the simpler lifestyle with less to worry about that I lived before. I'm at - over to be truthful - the age where all my peers have kids, but I'm honestly terrified of the additional responsibility and commitment needed when even just supporting myself with a 'normal' lifestyle is this stressful.
Most programmers think math is boring. That to me is really weird, but I suppose arithmetic is the most thought of type of math when someone brings up math, and that is extremely boring.

I would encourage any programmer to try out Book Of Proof. At the end you’ll end up understanding what it means, in a mathematical sense, for there to be different “sizes” of infinities. That is interesting.
It’s a facet of the underlying problem in my experience - feeling that you have no control or ability to solve the pain/endless problems you are being subjected to, and it will never get better.

Eventually anyone is going to be beaten into submission/get learned helplessness in that type of environment.
To me, operator overloading is doing it's job well if I didn't even notice that's what was happening until I really started to think pretty hard about the details.

For example, I spent a while staring at assert_eq! statements in Rust docs wondering if an array reference is redundant, like this:

assert_eq!(args, &["first", "second"]);

Can I just write:

assert_eq!(args, ["first", "second"]);

Yes, I can. But wait, why can I compare these things at all, with or without taking a reference? Because the equality operator == is overloaded to be able to compare args (in this case it's a Vector of OS-specific string types) against this local array of constant strings. And clearly there's no way for the compiler to just magically "know" how to compare those somehow, the standard library explicitly tells it how to do so with an overload (by implementing the trait PartialEq)

But it made intuitive sense that you can compare them, I only wondered how it was done after I started specifically investigating this code. At a glance it made sense, and it actually does what I expected.

In contrast overloading is silly when it invents a new meaning for the operator. C++ gets a (rightful in my opinion) kicking here for streams, but I can also see an argument for the same claim about using + for string concatenation.

Restated: If I see a = b + c in a program, I am OK with a, b and c all really being some complicated object and not just numbers, just so long as intuitively you can add the a object and the b object together and that is in fact what this code does. If that makes no sense, or it doesn't do that, then you shouldn't have overloaded the operator.
My Dad got the vaccine and developed no antibodies. Nor did any other kidney recipients under his doctor's care. The immunosupressive drugs he's on are the cause.
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Yeah given what the core player base seemed to be enjoying about this game (space exploration) I always kind of wondered "who is asking for this?" when they announced they were basically adding a B-tier FPS to Elite..

I suspect internally someone pitched the "FPS is more mass appeal and will draw in new players!" idea and it just went ahead uncontested?

I've also read rumours (but enough from different places that they're likely somewhat valid) that Frontier as a company has had a lot of engineering turnover in the last 2 years, which no doubt has an effect on extending and maintaining an in-house engine and product like Elite.
I am going through SICP. I have just begun.

I am learning more about Transformers architecture and modern NLP using the Hugging Face API.

Building a computer from scratch using nand2tetris on Sundays.

Learning to meditate following a detailed meditation guide. This has been working better than I expected.

Going on and off with learning classical music online (with a piano).

Learning German.

I am primarily focused on learning deploying AI to embedded devices right now. Working with the TinyML book and the course on edX.

As someone who does Computer Vision for a living, and always loved Electronics in college (no microcontrollers experience), I am finding it right at home with this. I wish I had started earlier. Really liking the experience.
This is much better than a coin flip. A coin flip would give about 50% true positive rate (which is about the same as the test), but it would also give about 50% false positive rate.

To put it in perspective, imagine 10 people have cancer in a population of 1000 (a rate of 10% which is too high compared to what I think the real number should be). The test would fail to identify 5 of the people with cancer, and it would say that 5 of the people without cancer have cancer. So overall it would misidentify 10 people. The coin flip would misidentify 500 people.

Amusingly in this example if you have a "test" that just says nobody has cancer it would also misidentify only 10 people :) I think this is why they are reporting true positive rate and false positive rate.
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The “orange man” as trump is called in the comment latched onto various utter speculations and tried to use them to absolve any responsibility to our poor preparation and response to the virus. And used it more to further a racist culture war than doing anything constructive. So yes, at a time when it was pure speculation used for a harmful agenda, the “orange man” was grossly irresponsible. And he acted like if it was true we could go back to normal and stop quarantining.

But sure, when lurching from speculation to speculation in a desperate attempt to shift blame and go back to normal, throwing random unfounded ideas like ingesting bleach, hydroxychloroquine, and lab leaks, then sometime the broken clock is right.

Edit:
Policy needs to be data driven, not driven by complete speculation. Later it doesn’t matter what comes out if at the time the “theory” policies were based on were unfounded speculation. That is grossly negligent. Timing matters. And all of these matters are still speculation:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/hydroxych...
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Anecdotally - I'm 30(just), I'm leading a team of people under 30, and everyone is saying that they cannot imagine ever working in the office again. Our company announced they will expect people to come in for at least 2 days a week from September and we're extremely unhhappy about it. If I get an offer for full remote from someone I can't say I won't be tempted.
> A power company vehicle drives around the neighbourhood, collecting the values, storing them and moves on.

Maybe it used to work this way, or some uncommon types of meters work this way, but I've never seen them. The only ones I've seen broadcast to collectors that are usually on street lights, which are then connected to the power company's network. If you go to the wiki that's linked at the end of the article, they've even got pictures of one: https://wiki.recessim.com/view/Landis%2BGyr_Collector

The connector on the front would have an antenna, and they're usually placed right before the light on the pole facing down.
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My understanding is that they're not necessarily asking for the commits to be squashed, they're asking for them to be submitted together as a patch series.

Patch series are an important part of a healthy review workflow because they allow both a micro and a macro view of changes. I have written about this before: http://nhaehnle.blogspot.com/2020/06/they-want-to-be-small-t...
I use !s for Startpage results, which are Google results, but it doesn't go directly to Google and is supposedly more private.
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Thanks for clarifying! Makes sense.

A few follow up questions:

1. Do you expect the opt-in nature of these studies to impact their findings?

2. To compensate for the voluntary nature of the studies, do you think researchers in general will still be incentivized to find data sources that are less respectful of people's privacy and don't require an opt-in to the study?
Your replies to folks in this thread contain the same hubris as the content of your message, which in turn is consistent with the hubris I've encountered in the medical community over the past five years.

My wife went to urgent care twice in three months because of a pain in her side. She was turned away with cough medicine. She finally went to the ER where a CT scan revealed massive tumors in her abdomen that had gone undetected for likely years. Genetic and semi-annual CA125 screening could yield quite a few false positives, but combined with her physical symptoms she may have had more cause to press at an incomplete conclusion and possibly could have had a different outcome. She underwent nearly $2M in medical procedures over the course of 26 months and died at 45 years old last year.

A few years prior to that I was spring cleaning one day and found a glucose test kit at the house. I had the whole family test their blood glucose. My youngest was 240mg/dL. We waited a day and tested again, same thing. We took her into the hospital and they actually admitted her for two days because they had no idea what to do with a child presenting with Type 1 diabetes that hadn't gone into full DKA. That's harmful, gross, and embarrassing. And this is a major children's hospital that was recently in the top ten in the nation for endocrinology.

In both of these situations, preventative screening could have or did have positive outcomes. I don't disagree with the effect that has been observed, but the conclusion being drawn from it is revolting to me. People should be permitted to make their own decisions about their level of knowledge of the state of their body. We only get one trip as far as we know, and I just find it unacceptable that people are willing to categorically deny diagnostic technology or bemoan its development because they they don't know how to support people trying to navigate the information it brings.
How does new or used make it more or less "shady?"
Uptime of data centres is protected by federal law? Which USC is that?

Can't you just ping a couple of servers at a centre and get an extremely accurate readout of a data centre's uptime?
No, I am having a discussion with someone and trying to understand someone else's position on something on which we are opposed. Is that wrong? Or are you just anti-bitcoin/cryptocurrencies and have come to argue with me and are picking up something without bothering to read the whole context of the comment chain?
Talk about not wanting to hire someone: this person used the word playfully, not in the literal negative doing-something-wrong sense: but you're actually saying you ::like:: cheating in some of your staff as long as it makes you money

I wouldn't want that comment associated with my name.

Not to mention the endless amount of false expectations and customer complaints that causes, wasting engineers or devs & post-sales support staff endless hours dealing with the fallout. And nothing good happens to a company's culture when cheating in one area is fully embraced.
If we did so, what if China picked up the slack? I'm not sure that would be a net win for humanity.