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>I think the core question is, does Hubbard have an advantage so she will win 95% of the time? If so, it’s not really a competition, especially if that result derives from her innate ... physiology giving her an unfair advantage.

But this is true of lots of sports. Most recently, Simone Biles was punished by scoring judges for a gymnastic move that only she is able to perform, due to her height and musculature. "Genetic freaks" who train hard but still have an unalterable physical advantage tend to dominate any individual sport, to the detriment of their competitors - what makes Hubbard different?
Very cool! I wonder how much effort is needed if I want to build one myself. All I have is some soldering skills.
> Is “hover” done like “over” (long ‘o’)?

No, it's not that - at least in British English - referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English, "hover" uses ɒ ("LOT, blockade, song") while "lover" uses ʌ ("STRUT, untidy, trustee, sung").

In British English, plover (the bird) rhymes with lover but not with hover.

I always have difficulties in the opposite direction, namely imagining how such vowels can be merged - a classic for me was a programming manual once that told me "char" (the keyword) should be pronounced care, "like the start of the word character". Confused the heck out of me, since where I come from the vowel at the start of the word character is nothing like the one in care.
I am a software engineer and I used to love coding, but things have changed lately, I still want to code and ship stuff, whether it is in current job or at new job, problem is, there are many things I don't like but I need to do them anyway, which is part of a job, e.g. PM created a ticket based on customer request which is going to change a lot of things in our code if done correctly, but there is not enough time allocated, customer request and refactoring code is not a problem, but time to deliver is a problem, PM is expecting it to be delivered in a month, but we know we need to make a hard trade-off here by making a patch and creating yet another tech debt, time is just not enough to deliver things with high quality.

All these things piling up everyday and dealing with project with a huge tech debt affected my health, before this project I thought I am a good engineer, now I think I am a terrible engineer, I will fail in my next job and so on.
voice recognition might be ubiquitious, but good voice recognition is not, and until that changes it's relevant. E.g. professional event live-capturing is going to be steno most of the time, for people doing subtitling on videos it's a useful skill for speed reasons, ...
I don't think that's the problem the clarification is designed to address. A plover is a type of bird, and in some accents it doesn't rhyme with either lover or hover.

Nevertheless, the parent is right, in my accent hover and lover don't rhyme either. All three have different vowels.
Thanks for editing your comment to add the insight that you did.

My original interpretation before your edit was that the article specifically talks about the need for a "stricter legal framework for transgender inclusion in sports", and I was confused when you said that it's a propaganda piece being used "to frame generalized trans discrimination".

But now I better understand what you meant by "political football", so thanks for clarifying.

> Were you born yesterday or are you just trying to argue with people?

Aide re, this wasn't necessary.
You may be right and indeed there's many psychiatrist who openly say that the definition of ADHD and where you draw the line between having it and not is somewhat arbitrary. But if people are struggling and having this diagnosis and these treatments helps with minimal downside then why not use them?

I recently got diagnosed and it may just be that I'm naturally very distractible and bad at paying attention. But if the diagnosis and meds make my life significantly better at minimal risk/cost then what's the harm?
You don't have the right not to be offended. No matter how many times you ask.
An overview of protected satellite communications in intelligent age [pdf]
you're counting on the economy

Arbitrary regulation is not the economy.

If CA decides tomorrow to pass a bill that mandates all tech workers to have proper accreditation, including a bar exam, and to fine to oblivion companies that don't comply, is that the economy?
This is awesome mate, thanks so much for the detailed response. All really good points.

(and congrats on the newborn!)
How much do UPS hub workers make these days? I loaded and unloaded at a hub in 1991 and made $8.50/hr iirc. I was a member of Teamsters then and the position is still unionized by the Teamsters today. From what i see, the pay is pretty commensurate with what Amazon pays, but it’s hard to tell for sure.
It's not even limited to physical, there's a vast discrepancy between male and female in non-physical competition like chess and esport as well.
Well.. it kinda isnt. If your IP would be private you CANNOT use the internet. You just cant. If you use a VPN, you share your IP with the VPN. So you ALWAYS have to share your IP with someone for anything you do on the internet. So it cant be private.. it just cant.

There are 2 things u can do, either use a VPN and only share your IP with them, but then brave will also use your vpn when sending info to google, so your IP is safe in this case..

Or option 2 is that you watch out for the things u make connection to. Which is literally impossible. Visit any popular website and your IP gets sent all over place in the background, mostly towards CDNs or analytic platforms. But yeah, the brave feature is an opt-in.. so u kinda give your consent there.

IP addresses are not exclussive to the internet, they also exist within local networks at home or office etc, people refer to your IP address when using the internet as your "Public IP address".

That being said, it's not nice when people are spreading around your IP address. It's much the same as people sharing your home address. Companies should indeed not be allowed to just give this information away to other companies. But brave isnt doing this, as long it's an opt-in it's your own choice.
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Thanks, the entire thread makes more sense! I want to avoid sounding any more opinionated about sports medicine than I already do, since it's not a subject in which I have any expertise. That said, when I consider that a 'mens' category alone includes both Andre The Giant and Peter Dinklage, it's hard for me to understand how a richer mix of physical attributes could do any worse :)
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That's a very healthy qwerty pace. It would many months, perhaps years, of daily practice before you exceed that. I've been lurking in that community and unless you have A LOT of prose to produce which can justify the up-front learning investment, steno is IMHO best approached as neat hobby/game that also happens to get you fast text input ... eventually. Else you are in for a frustrating wait.

Oh, and to your question, very good stenographers head off into the stratosphere at 200wpm+ (elite in 300wpm+) for extended periods, rates not really doable on qwerty except for short burst of predictable prose IMO.
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.11959v1.pdf
From what I have read, you can go to over 150 in 6 months. Of course, it would depend on how much time you spend on it.

My biggest concern is that there seems to be no standard for programming. I have seen some people develop their own cords, but that seems like quite a time investment to me.

Another think that might be an issue is if you have to be able to type in different languages. I guess you could adapt easily enough as long as the language already has a chord-table, but it also means more time learning.
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If I am not mistaken there have been some restrictions on cutting edge technology of the time (electronics, for instance) but I am not sure whether that has been implemented in practice, especially in Germany and Japan, but also in Italy.

Germany and Japan, though, got heavily de-industrialised and there was a conscious plan to bring the living standards to a much lower level than they used to be. Patents also got seized, and in general Germany and Austria did not recover their pre-WW2 prestige, even, for instance, in terms of the "new Heisenbergs and Schrödingers", which never came.
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Maybe an overheated Starllink sattelite.
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In the school I went to, 2 years was the expectation with graduation requirements being 240 WPM with 98% accuracy.

How quickly you actually got there was very much dependent on the person. Some do it quicker than 2 years with little practice, some do it slower than 2 years with a lot of practice, and some appeared to be unable to reach the requirements at all.

I don't really remember too well at this point but it maybe took me a few months to get to 30 - 40 WPM, maybe a year to get to 120, and year and a half in total for 240.

I don't think it's practical or worth it for the vast majority of people to learn stenography to be honest. That being said, Plover is a nice and much needed initiative, I'm glad it exists.
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I agree with you, but sometimes "no" is not an option, especially now with some organizations, where company success relies heavily on saying "yes" to any customer request and sales people "promised" to deliver feature in 2 months, not knowing that it takes 4-6 months if done correctly, if not correctly, then 4-5 weeks, but tech debt is paid by us not by sales people.
The majority of cats in Europe is city cats that demolish the local bird and critter population.

https://academic.oup.com/jel/article/32/3/391/5640440
If those testosterone's are not a banned substance, then sure. Why not?
> Dividing by sex is a substitute for dividing by the things that really matter: height, weight, strength, bone density, etc.

You crucially missed an important variable which competitive sports of any kind fully hinge upon: skeletal muscle density… which hugely differs across biological sexes.
It's truly an insane decision by the IoC and I'm sure the backlash will hurt the trans community. This is a privileged white male, the son of a billionaire (Dick Hubbard, founder of Hubbard foods) who didn't transition until they were 35. Prior to that they were a washed up male competitor who would never in their dreams make the Olympics. And now, they are displacing one of the best female weight lifters. No wonder people are pissed.
we are going to continue to see huge increases in openly transgender people competing in sport

We're discussing literally the first trans woman to compete at the Olympics. Obviously going from 0 to 1 is a huge increase in percentage terms, but there's no evidence that it's going to continue to the point where women's sports are 'destabilised'.
The compiler implementation has no bearing on whether the spec is a mess or not.

The C++ spec is horrendous, even when implemented 100% correctly.
I kinda like the typo, it gives a very poetic / double meaning to the sentence :)
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Never heard of it, but it looks interesting.

My interpretation, not sure if correct, is that basically you're expressing each vote as a point in d-dimensional Euclid space (where d is number of choices), and the result of the vote is the center of mass of all these points. Stated like this it perhaps makes more sense than just linear range voting.
Amazon managed to play around a lot with the cohort deemed qualified to vote.

A lot of the people the Union convinced ended up being swapped out with newbies who had only been exposed to anti-union propaganda and hadn't seen what the job really had to offer yet.

There's always a contingent of people who are afraid that the center will close if they vote to unionize and will lose their jobs (even though it's technically illegal).
But the end result would have been the same - he wouldn't finish his tasks ahead of time, he wouldn't have spare capacity on Friday - management notices this and thinks he's underperforming
Hubbard's was a choice not a fact of nature.
Why would having the same muscle but heavier bones as your competitors be an advantage in almost any sport?
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10800v1.pdf
Are you a woman? Because dating -espcially online dating- is much more favorable to women.
Men usually have the opposite experience.
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The training stuff show concrete practical support these units got. Khashoggi is not first or only person every killed by Saudi states. When you are training Saudi units, you know exactly that they will be used against political opponents, against activists and so on.
What VSE doesn't capture, but I feel is an important part of voting is signaling voter preferences.

Election where a democrat vote with 70% of the vote conveys a different information than the one in which 30% of those 70% first went to the green party candidate.
> My biggest concern is that there seems to be no standard for programming.

The standard would definitely have to vary by language, and you would probably define custom strokes for each defined symbol in the source, similar to the strokes for English words in ordinary steno. It could be workable if the stroke definitions could be stored with the original source code as custom comments, and then imported by your stenotype tool.
Also loads of locations and little queuing. Also increasingly you get sausage sizzles that seems to becoming a tradition to go get your sausage sandwich.

I find it amazing hearing about people in USA queuing for hours year after year. It doesn't have to be that way.
Yeah the difficult part would be to keep it a secret, including all the gory details. But they failed at that which makes me question their expertise.
They sell oil for dollars. They give the dollars to the fed and 101 other institutions as loans, those institutions lend the money to the government and private groups.

China does the same only they sell goods for dollars instead of oil.
Sure, and those are the organisations where burnout is common. Burnout is stress-induced fatigue and exhaustion due to over commitment at work. Unless you fix the over work you can't avoid the burnout. Saying "no is not an option" just means you'll have to accept the burnout instead.
> Whereas with an ordinal system you'd vote A-B-C, but you have no way of 'telling the voting math' that the distance between A and B is much shorter than between B and C.

Kenneth Arrow is famous for his impossibility theorem, but he also rejected cardinal systems out of hand, because you can't honestly judge the strength of your own preferences compared to other voters. He argued (pretty well, I thought) that the extra information in cardinal systems was useless.
Jerry is on Crosby's wonderful 1969 solo LP If Only I Could Remember My Name. The article mentioned Neil's early 70s solo output: Harvest and Goldrush. No mention of the brilliant stuff from Stills: Stills I & II, and two astounding Manassas albums. If you love the Stills tunes on CSN & Deja Vu, the Manassas LPs are a must. Finally, for Stills fans, here's the prototype for Southern Cross [1]: Curtis Brothers with Buckingham & Nicks on Seven League Boots in 75.

[1] https://youtu.be/TNEpFrOWooE
It is unspecified, not undefined.
Do these people genuinely have freedom to contract? If there's only one employer in town (or a range of employers offering the same conditions), then that freedom is moot.

This is the balance we need. There needs to be equal forces pushing up and down on workers' rights. At the moment, for many industries, there is too much down and not enough up.

Could you make collective bargaining work without restricting freedom to contract in some way?
You can pick at everything even if the game is realistic, if you have some kind of views. For example, lets attack a realistic game/simulator, like rFactor:

- They fail to simulate the difficult path from a low class kid to end up driving a F1. Much easier is your father is Lawrence Stroll, e.g.

- They fail to simulate the pernicious effects of CO2.

- Doesn't take into account the resources wasted to the frivolous and improductive activity of car racing.

- Doesn't allow you to drive a bike, a solar powered car, etc. It promotes dirty cars.

- Add displays on the tracks exploits the players silently.

and so on. The main problem here is that "X game doesn't align with MY agenda, so it's inherently wrong designed".
Well we're already effectively at monoculture. The only other rendering engine that has any meaningful market share is Apple's fork of Webkit.

I disagree that with the proposition that a single open source project with broad industry representation would hinder evolution.

Companies like Google and Microsoft don't compete on their ability to support the various web specs, but on quality of the web applications they can deliver to customers. Competition in this space will continue to drive innovation even with a single agreed upon rendering engine.

It would, however, limit the ability of a company like Apple to hobble their only-supported browser such that web apps can't compete with native ones.
I am trying to push myself to think positively, everyday I say to myself, this work is awesome, I am going to build things, doing things I like, coding and shipping features, but the time I open next ticket/IDE all these feelings are gone, how can you positively think when you are sitting on a shit
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Probably not Open Source but there is an Android keyboard based on Graffiti: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.access_com...
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Thanks for the correction. What does it mean?
But I didn't say that Zaporozhians are distinctly Russian either, just that at that point in time the divide between Ukraine and Russia was a lot less clear. People who drive a hard line about differences of these people, especially in those times, are usually politically and/or ideologically motivated and have barely any knowledge of the historical context.

You're absolutely correct that the Zaporozhians were somewhat of their own people, much like the Don and other groups of Cossacks - which can be seen in them uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian rulers and the Czar respectively and trying to form their own states. I wouldn't go so for as to say that they aren't part of Russian-Ukrainian history either, just that claiming for them to be the same as modern Ukrainians or modern Russians makes as much sense as modern Greeks claiming to be direct descendants of Alexander the Great.
Ah, that's nothing. Follow the suggestions, and eventually you'll end up with Jelle's Marble Runs.
Just set up a cron job
If your an individual contributor, a "dev", you cannot say 'no' to feature requests, fix requests, etc. That's not your job and you do not have the authority.

What you can, and should, do is provide feedback on these requests to the people who have the authority in a positive and constructive way.

Then, you can leave if you really cannot stand it anymore.
> On June 22nd at 8:25 AM UTC, we released a new update designed to reduce the download size of the optimization database.

That's around 4:25 a.m EST. Are updates usually done around this time at other companies? Seems like that's cutting pretty close to the around 8am where a lot of employees start working.

The details of the whole incident sounds pretty terrifying and I am inspired to hear how much pressure their admins were under and got it working again. Good work.
Or you could just use Boost stable_vector and save yourself the trouble

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_76_0/doc/html/boost/contain...
What an interesting set of engineering choices. (Mercurial?)

LFS is something I recommend to everyone, an it's great to see fresh ideas built on it.
Although it's not in the standard library, this can be handled properly using the unicode-segmentation crate: https://crates.io/crates/unicode-segmentation
Yes, the grid paper is a stepping stone for the line paper. However, it is a tradeoff. With grid cells you can tell what symbol is in it. With symbols on a line, you have do guess a lot. Illustrative example: there is a unicode symbol for "colon equal" – "≔" – if you write it in a cell you can be sure you got it right. If you write it on a line you could mean two distinct symbols – ":=".

The problem you mentioned – that you have to plan ahead – is not true for grid cells. There is a part in the GRAIL system demo where it is shown that you can go quite far with this approach. [0]

But as you mentioned, flexibility of handwriting is in its non-modal interactions. I am currently working on a line-based editing, but it's a bit tricky.

[0]: https://youtu.be/UXcHidWnD2g?t=282
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No, that is not true at all. Fundamentally I support more of a Geo-Libertarian[1] system, so I support property rights for things you create from your own labor, but natural property that was not created by humans belongs to all. Those that want to make exclusive use of this natural properly owe a "rent" to all.

This rent is the only ethical tax[2] one can use to publicly finance a government. Taxes on labor, voluntary transaction, etc are all unethical theft of a persons labor

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism

[2] https://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2012/04/the-geoliberta...
I am hoping new job will be different for me, to avoid getting trapped into burnout loop again in new place, I am trying to minimize effects and memories to carry from current work. Do you have any recommendations for it? maybe some articles, specific mediation techniques, books, videos, anything?
> If you remove the old-fashioned tone of voice from the translations and speak them as someone would today

I think that's almost wholly because of the the "thou", which was added to distinguish from the polite plural "you", but maybe it shouldn't have been. I doubt anyone would have mistaken "fuck your mother" for the polite plural.
Saudi Arabia routinely dismembers their criminals, and has done so for many decades. They don't need training to do this.

Khaashoggi was working with the Qatari government against the interests of Saudi Arabia, in a very public way.

He is no more important than the millions of women subjugated and tortured by the regime on a daily basis, whose stories nobody will ever hear. He is propped up as some kind of martyr of hero because it helps with some other associated narratives which the media has an interest in.

The abstract story of Saudi Arabia butchers person who works against Saudi interests has been told countless times already.
Same here, it's very concise, love it.
Understood. Just so you know:

> someone took enough of an exception to me writing here that (COVID) masks are trivial

trivial: "of little value or importance"