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As someone who started a business only to get a bullshit suit that I was unable to afford by one of the largest re insurance providers in the world (#1/2), the idea that the ip/patent legal framework as it is today helps the little guy is a slap in the face.

They preemptively sued me in a state I've never worked in or entered for that matter because the favorable corporate law there, and that is why they have their hq there. They would file a bullshit motion, get everyone in front of the judge. Somebody would point it out, they would retract it, and immediately file a new one and request everyone have time to review it. All the while bleeding me dry at 500$ an hour for litigation on top of travel expenses plus the regular legal fees of multiple lawyers across two states.

The whole thing was bullshit, lots of red flags but I lacked the capital to assert my agency legally..

The ip/patent framework as it is today helps nobody but big co and promotes regulatory capture. It prevents the kind of reverse engineering you see in China and why we don't have things like removable battery cell phone mods and other "hacks" here. It's why the right to repair is an issue at all, if they didn't have this legal framework they wouldn't be able to enforce any of it legally. Somebody would come along and offer a service to do it at a fraction of the cost. Why do I have to keep buying the same media over and over again on different formats. It's amazing to me seeing the most authoritarian regime in modern history leverage the free market better than the "capitalists".
Sorry for the rant but this shit is imo the reason for most of the corporate bullshit today. It's what empowers the lawyers.
Interesting. I listened to this on the Tim Ferris podcast and, foolishly in retrospect, just took it at face value. I generally enjoy Pollan and I suppose I assume he has integrity, or is trustworthy in his writing and podcasting.

Regardless, this seems to potentially fall into the category of misremembering or simply having a different frame of reference at the time. Diverging points of view are common enough, especially within this time frame.

I definitely came away from the podcast with no bad feelings about anyone. While it would have been nice if Pollan didn’t incite this kind of response through his recollection, it seems harmless enough.

It is important though to be as objective as possible with things like this since no one could possibly fact check it.
It's interesting how Windows went from "worth pirating" to "don't want even if the upgrade is free" for me --- the user- hostile attitude MS has started to adopt has been a huge turn-off.
Seems like a code smell, when breaking the rules is the most beneficial to society.
We’re moving far, far away from the observability and introspection that once made the web a transparent medium. First it was minified JS, then it was minified and obfuscated JS, then it was using a canvas instead of the DOM to prevent even HTML inspection, and now it’s binary executable payloads (WASM) rendering to a WebGL context with zero introspection possible.
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Hey man, you didn't have a means of contact in your profile but I just wanted to say thank you.

Mods or voters, please let this comment remain unflagged so morpheos137 can receive it. I have no other way to reach out to him.

You commented to me recently re: self termination plans. You told me that I'd be cleaning the gene pool by self-terminating.

Thanks for that. I've done a lot of reflection in the days since then. You're right. I have decided to proceed with self-termination and remove myself from the gene pool.

Don't feel bad. It's just your view, one that I now fully agree with. Thank you again for helping me to make this decision.

Take care, and I hope you procreate widely with your superior, healthy genes, ape.
I would guess Europe possibly India

And if you are "salaried" normally that means no fixed hours of work its literally one of the defining characteristics in labour law.
If you're outside the US they require you to make a phone call to cancel, it's ridiculous.
Probably to learn those various technologies. Not only did they use a bunch of new tech, they made something other people can use in the process. Better than making a bunch of throwaway code.
>I don't know how many offers other people are getting, but I'm 52 and I get on average about 8 messages from recruiters every day. Maybe that's because I look younger in my profile picture... :D

Messages from recruiters !== job offers. These things are completely automated and generated by AI at this point. I get dozens a week, and the rare one or two I respond to are met with total silence as they are being sent to thousands of people.
Others have to fill your gaps. I have no problems telling people their methods are wrong even if they might fire me over it. We either fix it or I'm gone.
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A few weeks ago the Reuters Institute published a study that claimed 29% of Americans "trust media".

My question based off of that, are 29% of Americans funding paywalled media?
Meanwhile, people have been patching and modding Windows despite the lack of source code.
If the argument holds that a hash is equivalent to holding/sharing the file, there’s some big problems for PhotoDNA given strict liability laws.
No, they actually open them up and swap the battery and resell, i.e. refurbishing. Apple just throws them away.
$1,560,000.00 for Mario64 (Heritage Auctions)
This is crazy - $1.5Mio for a sealed Mairo64 Game ...

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/07/a-sealed-copy-of-super-mar...
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Lower decks is on Amazon prime here in Spain. I have the service but I still download it because I hate all the restrictions. Also prime shows annoying trailers before every episode.
I come from a part of the US with fairly severe air pollution (2cd or 3rd worst in country). And asthma is a huge problem there, much so more than elsewhere. It is fairly obvious that the air pollution is the cause of the problem. Perhaps we should differentiate between the causes of the disease, and the hazards that trigger asthma attacks.
There had been plans to phase out the cheque in 2018, however the portion of the population that still uses cheque wield popular sympathy, so the plan was abandoned.

Now the official line is that cheque's will continue as long as people use them, but substantial investment will be made in making digital transfers the default. This has meant replacing the slow BACS and expensive CHAPS with Faster Payments, and cash with contactless.

So cheque is accepted almost nowhere, almost dead, but is being strung along until the boomers are gone. It would be fine if it wasn't such a PIA to handle.
A lot, as long as it respects Western intellectual property "rights."

Like persuading Oxford University to NOT give away the rights to its COVID-19 vaccine: https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine...
Sure but if you want to learn a specific technology by making a project, it makes more sense to make a project that can actually benefit from that specific technology.
My Samsung S20 can. IDK about other phones.
The moment I see a paywall or even a flavor of heavy popup nonsense presenting some obstacles to content - I move on.
Same with ad-infested sites.
I have low tolerance to crap.

The more people will do that - the quicker this annoying business model die.
Unless your content will help me to make money (courses, tutorials, specific investment analysis) I aint' spending a penny on you.

In a controversial note - I'd totally pay monthly subscription to some pirating service that extracts content from behind paywall, strip pages from ads and provide access. This will be valuable service.
It's really an issue with ego in organizational structures and power. I've managed people far more experienced or skilled in areas than me. It simply requires you to realize you're not inherently 'superior' to the people you manage, just that you're managing (i.e. manager) highly skilled people to solve problems.

Recognize when to trust people and do just that--you know they're awesome, they know they're awesome, why not take advantage of that and build on it to create something more awesome? Learn to be wrong or make bad management decisions out of ignorance and accept when experienced people suggest or tell you otherwise--they may even give you a way out of a mess you created. Skilled people with that sort of experience often aren't trying to correct you to insult you, they're trying to help you, the team, and themselves by offering their wealth of experience and knowledge.

It's when experienced people like this are quiet is when you should really be worried. If they aren't making suggestions, unless you're sure of yourself, you've likely created or been subjected to an environment experienced individuals have given up on improving and are now in death marches on your project efforts, quietly updating their resumes and awakening their contacts, looking for new positions.
"[Pollen's] recent remarks on a radio podcast during which he laughingly speculates about my motives were simply not true: 'My guess is he was hoping something would happen. He was hoping I would get arrested. This would put Harper’s on the map. This would be a giant case; he would take it in front of the Supreme Court, and he would. You know he has bottomless pockets.'"

It seems like this podcast comment might have sufficiently motivated the editor (McArthur) to write this article. Not that this is a bad thing. We all have a sense what it's like to want to restore truth to an unjust public comment.

Aside: We'll never quite know pollen's motive for censorshing his book's personal psychedelic use content.. could be as simple as arguably unfounded paranoia.
I'm in a very similar situation, just a few years further down the road. I would gladly show you my cool scars.

I have often thought about trying to build a network of like-minded individuals. Of course, it doesn't come naturally. If it did, there wouldn't be a need for it!

My contact info is in my profile, feel free to reach out.
This is neat! I wonder if this kind of functionality would be accessible through a language server, so multiple text editors could use it.
By `standard` I mean a system that works on this platform for any kind of fd or handle.

select() is just fine for simple cases, but of course it has some known problems, such as MAX_FD. There are better APIs, and ultimately it was learned that ringbuffers between the user-process and the kernel (that remove the need for system calls) as an implementation of asynchronous I/O are a good idea. I.e. IOCP, io_uring, etc.

Often you don't need any of these APIs at all - in a system with a constant ("stochastic") load you don't really need any kind of event waiting system. Instead, you can process all incoming messages every N milliseconds or so.

> Callbacks are the simplest primitive for async code.

No, the simplest thing is to just use a plain old buffer. See e.g. the IOCP API or just any regular buffer code. One side pushes the message to a buffer. Some (arbitrary) time later, the other side (potentially, but not necessarily a different thread) pulls the message from the buffer and handles it.

It's just buffers, buffers are all that is needed, and buffers plainly are the best way to solve all issues related to event handling. No fancy abstract template insanity, no weird generic resource handling systems, no complex scheduling systems, not even a need to declare any kind of event handling function or interface. Just place a few statically allocated buffers at the connection points where threads of execution (OS threads, but also hardware / network etc.) meet.

Callbacks are of course theoretically equivalent, since they can be made to do the same thing as buffers. You can trivially write a callback that only pushes the message to a buffer. In practice, the difference is significant because lots of callback boilerplate is created and temporal coupling (i.e. same thread, same code path) between enqueuing a message and handling the message is encouraged. This results in a lot of overly complex code, including custom green thread runtimes. I've seen it, I've tried to do the same, I've seen others try to do the same. It turns out to be a very, very bad idea, resulting in the creation of a whole parallel universe with separate green threads I/O implementations.

This is what the term "Callback Hell" was invented for.

Look at Windows Fibers API, it's widely recognized to be a dead end. You will find some good post-mortem material on that topic on the internet.
'I've read many anecdotes of people who sought psychedelics after reading his book with the expectation of life-changing experiences or psychedelic treatments for their conditions, only to be disappointed when they didn't experience the miraculous experiences and transformations he describes."

Now this sounds at least as interesting as anything Pollan himself writes about.

I'd be interested in hearing the details of what they tried and how (ie. their set and setting).

Why these substances work for some people and not others (even when administered in the exact same therapeutic settings and using the same protocols) is one of the biggest open questions in psychedelic research.
You also getting better at owning mistakes without making them sound like a big deal. You just say stuff like “that’s an interesting edge you’d only learn by querying a table with millions of rows” instead of anxiously shitting your pants in shame.

Last Friday learned that Postgres (and apparently MySQL) will effectively ignore an index in a column when combining “ORDER BY … LIMIT …” and “WHERE some_column IN some_array”. I had introduced a query that timed out on a critical prod table , fixed it by removing the limit, and turned it into a teaching moment to others who could have made the same mistake: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8909163/avoid-full-table...
And this is a solved problem I remember working on a product that did UK Postcode validation 20 years ago and we brought in a product to do that for us.

Just update the US version of the PAF file every month.
Watch Hamilton Morris’s interview with Pollan. I think people are starting to get tired of his schtick, so he’s no longer getting the benefit of the doubt.
> eh, I really really disagree with this. In my experience more often than not this kind of changes breaks the app in various ways.

What did break?

> What if the app was using that shortcut for something else ? Now it's broken and can't be used anymore.

Win+; is very unlikely to be used by anything and it is handled by the window proc of the EDIT window class, meaning that other stuff (e.g. accelerators, which are used to implement shortcuts) get to take first dibs. So if an application was using that shortcut it wouldn't reach the EDIT window proc anyway. It isn't any different than an application replacing the right click menu of a text field - the applications that do not do that (ie. most applications) get the new entries introduced in (IIRC) Vista about Unicode characters, etc and the (few) applications that replace it just do not get these options but their menus keep working.

> Likewise for the hidpi thing that windows does, it's terrible - running the app at original resolution and applying a 2x nearest neighbor filter to the whole window would be better than that mess of "crisp" text with upscaled pixmaps that were never made for this resolution.

Note that this is what Windows does by default, what i describe is something you can do manually.

But personally i disagree, i'd rather have crisp text (which is what the majority of a window contains) and a few upscaled bitmaps than lowres everything.

> I strongly believe that for old games / software it's better to use a VM / emulator for hardware of that game's era.

I play a ton of old games and i completely disagree with this. VMs pretty much never work properly and have all tons of issues. Emulators are very slow. And above all, running games on modern hardware allows for higher resolution and maxing out graphics that was often impossible in original hardware (e.g. forcing 32bit color, antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, etc). Not to mention the potential for mods that improve parts of the game which would be impossible on original hardware.
There was a mid-stage startup I was at that was happy to hire engineers in their 50s. The one caveat is they still need to be able to do the standard tech whiteboard interview.
> I know that in the UK you basically have to post your accepted papers in publicly accessible repositories (..)

How does that _actually_ work, though? Can anyone download the final, published PDF from "publicly accessible repositories"?

(Full disclosure: ex scientist with published papers, still no idea how I can legally share _my_ work with anyone who might be interested...)
Yes, the price we pay for the exploitation of stupid movies? Torrents should be the standard way to distribute anything.
I am not sure I understand the app. Is it 2 input fields one for name and one for password?
Which you then print?
Is that the functionality - or have I misunderstood?
Might be referring to Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music? https://music.ishkur.com/
> publish your papers in your personal webpage

Q: Do authors actually _have_ the right to republish the final published version from the journal they submitted their work to?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi... is one that I have found useful.
> I think the problem with the web as it is now is that it's too easy to discover sites. Both are the same problem: it’s hard to find good sites among the massive amount of clickbait, SEO optimization, and generally low-quality sites.
It’s a hard problem too. There are a million users who all want blogs, and a million bloggers who all want viewers. The reality is, if you or I were to start a blog it would probably only be interesting to a few people. So your goal is to get said blog to the right few people, while getting a different blog to a different right few people, etc. a million times.

A niche search engine is a good solution, for niche content you already know about. For discovering new niche content you’d need a really good algorithm (perhaps based on similar niches) or some other system.
yes, I've got a little heuristic I use to tell the beginner analysts at work when to think about automating their work or putting it into a script.

if you're doing something once and once only, maybe it's a candidate for the manual or gui way.

if you think you might do it twice, it's almost certainly time to automate or start programming it.

Anything encountered in business that you encounter more than 1 time is likely to be encountered N times more.
Yeah, I really liked the article overall. I see it as saying that these things people think in a binary fashion about should be treated with more nuance. The author addresses why these binary-style mantras exist and how they are not always true.

There are two where I disagree with the author (not saying it's unacceptable; the author may be correct and me wrong): the CISSP one, and also the rating vendor one. The author takes a deeper view than the binary thinking, and I want to take it deeper yet to refute the author's view. This arrives at the same conclusion as the binary groupthink in the infosec community, but does so by explaining why the binary idea became de-facto standard.

In case anyone is interested, my beef with CISSP is that the curriculum for CISSP certs promote a highly bureaucratic approach to security. I feel like it is largely a waste of time and money to get that cert. It rubs me the wrong way because once things like CISSP become required for some employment, it is hard to go back to more "lax" standards. Of course, it having a baseline of useful information like the author says is true. I just think CISSP is a net negative for society even so.
> A DOI to IPFS directory would be cool

Q: How open is the DOI system itself?
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There are enough escape hatches in erlang to efficiently do "joint parallel tasks" when you need them.
Kind of disappointing that his probably very expensive digital oscilloscope can't record the entire protocol. I mean, what is the price of ram these days?

And note that (since it's a digital signal) you don't have to sample evenly; you can also record the timepoints of the edges.
“Hopefully the company aren’t working in an important area like healthcare” ... oh, that’s exactly what there are working in
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> A company which only hires junior developers

Part of it is also stingy investors in the ecosystem.

The top-tier investors often give enough cash to hire experienced developers. Unfortunately most companies don't get that kind of money, and instead of getting the $2M round they need, they settle for a third- or fourth-tier VC's $200K check with bad terms and a warrant for the rest of the $1.8M, and then they end up paying their employees crap wages and overworking them with the hope that they can attract a top-tier VC for the next round.
I'm surprised by this view of how to change your mind. Most of his personal experiences in the book mentioned there were no major changes. I also thought the book was level headed compared to the typical stuff you read about psychedelics. His history section was really neutral and all of the trips were done under supervision of a therapist. If you came away from that book expecting miracles I think you just hear what you want to hear.
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The most senior engineer I’ve met had a refreshing attitude that clicked with me.

“It’s just typing. Typey typey type.”

I take that to mean, no matter the code base, no matter the questionable choices made historically and that will be made in the future, the job doesn’t change.

Figure out the requirements, grind until they’re met.

Who cares what the stack is and how many layers of libraries there are? If that becomes a problem we will fix it.
No you shouldn't.. The idea that your idea is so novel it should be legally enforced as "yours" is pretty egotistical imo. How do you credit the millions of ideas you are basing yours off of. It's also information, it's not "stolen" in the sense that multiple people can't use it at the same time.

Benefit of rnd is being first to market. You will capture much of the market while everyone else catches up and you are in a better position to innovate.

Also without these legal barriers if somebody can improve on it and make it better that's better for the community and consumer at large and allows for constant iteration.

Also there is a lot of bad behavior and things encouraged by the patent system. You have judges giving patents over technical nuances they can't possibly learn in a courtroom. You have companies like Intel spending millions on legal teams to enforce things rather then engineering innovation, which is great until you are no longer the dominant player and global players don't play by those rules.
I have no problem hiring junior developers if they are coming off a short stay with an employer. Honestly, junior employees are not very good at picking an employer, and there are lots of employers that are just horrible. Treat every candidate like they might just be your next hire... until it is clear they are not. And even then, treat them with courtesy, respect and dignity... after all referrals are a thing.