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There is an inherent tendency in competitive sports to try and push the limits - which ultimately and at top levels leads to crossing of the line of what is humanly possible, with potentially lethal consequences.

Somewhere down the line I suspect there will be a shift in values away from these types of sports that requires the top athlete to resort to various types of artificial enhancements in order to keep up with the competition.

A shift that could hopefully even involve a departure from our present-day near maniacal obsession with competition in general.
And the girl on the left is from comedy clip "Foreign language courses in Balashikha" https://youtu.be/wrYFUBA2kUA
Come on, no need to downvote this. It's just a silly joke 4 comments deep.
Managers are also like movie directors. I’ve been on projects where smart people can focus on the wrong parts of a project. Sometimes it takes one person to orchestrate the band, hone in one what is the true impactful work. Shepard the sheep through to the finish line, especially if they are headed in an ambiguous direction.

Now, what’s all that got to do with having butts in a seat that you can physically see? Jack shit really.
Of course not. If I am sick I self-isolate.
No, Japanese phonology and therefore pronunciation (what the grand parent post is complaining about) is one of the easiest out there. There are very few consonants, only 5 vowels, not tone and accent is irrelevant. I don't understand how pronunciation could be remotely a problem with Japanese.

There are also some other easy things like grammar (very few rules, that are quite consistent and composable) and some basic sentence pattern (heck you can make full sentences, sometimes conversations, with a single word [the predicative adjectives]).
What's wrong with dired mode? Ok, you'll get each directory in its own buffer. But, thinking of that, it shouldn't be to hard to make dired mode recurse into subdirectories inside the same buffer. (And fold/unfold like orgmode does. ;-)
You know your company is successful when you can strongarm foreign governments into using their military bases as collateral.
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It's free and it certainly isn't worse for you than watching tv.
Honestly, anyone who's genuinely at risk enough that they can't risk being exposed despite being vaccinated - as opposed to the people who were convinced they are because of stupid media culture war bullshit - probably shouldn't be working in an office, because at that point they're going to be at reasonably comparable risk from the common cold. Seriously. The other four endemic human coronaviruses, for example, are very far from a walk in the park for at-risk people that manage to catch them; it's just that most people with working immune systems have some level of immunity that protects them from the worst effects.
I guess my earlier statement about fusing to anything given enough heat is maybe too broad. Care to clarify why it's incorrect?
So no real difference?
Because those small affordable ISPs are only available in tiny service areas. Most people still must choose between DSL and cable (horribly expensive), and fibre from KPN if they're lucky.

Offering connections in the Mbit range anno 2021 _is_ bleak, compared to some countries.
Do any of my parent comments have any actual management experience?

Because while it‘s super easy to ramble about managers, they‘re essential to any company that‘s larger than a dozen people.

Management attracts scorn. I have to ignore it as people who don‘t see the importance have no clue what it takes to build a winning team and company.

And while I‘m still trying to learn how to manage a remote team and getting good feedback, I hate it. As in, I utterly, completely despise it and I‘m close to burnout and think about leaving the profession to just do engineering on my own.

Maybe I still haven‘t figured it out, but I feel like I have the choice between still trying to connect to humans and suffer from Zoom fatigue — or go all-in on async, having the feeling that I‘m chatting all day with a black box of meaningless, replaceable NLP models.

It‘s lonely, it‘s tiring and I‘m so looking back to connecting to real humans. If you have tips, I welcome them.
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That's also another positive feedback loop between being "evil" and a consultant job.

If your work is perceived as "hard" and you let your client do the "easy" part, then you can increase your fees (bigger impact, and more ownership for them). If your fees are higher than normal, then your client doesn't want to bother you with the "easy" stuff. You get hired to do the "hard" things. Doing "hard" things often involve saying no to spurious/out of scope requests. Etc etc...
Given dang's comment on guideline, I really don't want to comment back . However, I am just feeling so angry. So many people have unnecessarily died because someone has the wrong idea of risk calculation or political bias in disguise despite all the scientific data. I am sorry. You have a right to not be vaccinated. You have a right to whine about it. But government and organizations also have the right from preventing you to harm others. Still find it difficult to understand why are there so many selfish people in the world. I know it is wrong, but secretly I am not sorry about people like you getting infected or hospitalized. The world might be a better place. Sorry Dang, I deserve the downvotes for not following the guideline as this is an emotional response.
My experience with unions from from (a) conventions centers and (b) aerospace. In both, they are a net negative from my POV.

At convention centers they inflate prices by passing rules that no one but a union worker can carry anything into the convention center. The monitor broke and your booth and you run to best buy to get a replacement. Sorry, find a unionized person to carry it in for you or GTFO. Oh, you want to plug in it in? Sorry, call a unionized electrician or be sued.

An aerospace it meant everyone's role was super strict and trying to do anything outside your role was against the rule. In software that would mean things like front end programmer not allowed to touch backend code. UI programmer not allowed to touch business logic code. Etc.... Maybe someone will argue that's a good thing but AFAICT it just slowed work to a crawl and made people uncooperative
Pfizer wants more money.
> i miss the ping pong table..

You had me until the end. Nicely done.

We all know the ping-pong table is there for the same reason as the couch in front of the break room TV, or the cheese on the mousetrap.
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Are you looking for the American version of the _Inter_net? It's over on yahoo.com.
Doesn’t coin ads do a lot more than just showing prices?

I can see why a app reviewer might think you are trying to collect logins, as you are not charging and you can send notifications without login (and you can probably associate rules for notifications with whatever ID you send notifications to)
> Seems like all the current research is that "immersion" in the target language is critical

This, a hundred times this. Immersion is not only effective in getting you used to the language, but also really helps you solidify what you've learned, and is extremely motivating.

Virtually all of the people that I know in the Japanese learning community who learned the language really fast heavily immersed in a lot of content.

In my own language learning app that I'm making I'm explicitly targeting a feedback loop which looks something like this:

1) You pick an easy show/book/etc. to consume. (I have a list ranked according to difficulty, generated through machine learning.)

2) You prelearn the vocabulary used within using an SRS.

3) You consume it.

4) You continue maintaining your vocabulary through SRS, so the app knows which words you're supposed to know.

5) The app recommends you the next show/book/etc. to consume based on what you've already learned.

6) Rinse and repeat. Gradually the whole thing snowballs and you have to learn less and less for each new work you consume.

I personally believe this to be the most effective way of learning a language, and I'm already seeing some of my users having a lot of success with it.
I don't understand these insanely long password requirements. How are they more secure than say a strong 8-char password?

Even with a 12 password policy I see most people just using 'MyP@ssword2021', so I guess with 64 characters most people will just use 'MyPassword(012..9){6}'
Careful to not cause him too much cognitive dissonance. His brain might explode, splashing his proudly unvaccinated SARS-CoV-2 on everyone.
I think you are a robot. Look I made an assumption too :) just like you. I have no evidence for what I ve said, again just like you.

Dude, please stop watching the news and read more books.
Yeah, I've gone through not quite half the introductory Spanish audio course from Language Transfer [1], and it feels like I've made massively more progress than Duolingo, even though I'd spent at least twice as long on the Duolingo courses over the year. All the Language Transfer is available free too so that's nice.

It's a shame, because Duolingo is fun, the art style is cool and the gamified stuff is potentially useful for keeping people coming back and doing the lessons. It just really hasn't felt very effective to me at language learning at all...

1. https://www.languagetransfer.org/
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In the healthcare field, getting an annual flu shot is typically mandated as a condition for employment. The principle is the same - risk to others is deemed too high. I bet you’d not enjoy being a patient at a hospital where a bunch of staff are carrying diseases while you’re vulnerable … because, let’s face it, it’s bad for patients and therefore bad for business.
The same principle is now being extended to other companies and sectors now. I personally wouldn’t want to return to office if colleagues were unvaccinated (I also have a newborn at home). Many of my colleagues wouldn’t either. That would be bad for individuals and therefore bad for business.

At least FB and Google have remote employment for the anti-vax crowd.
Because this site is mostly used by software developers who have no clue about finance.

"Balance sheet is red" is about the only thing they can understand about an IPO, and thus they comment about it.
And if you're asymptomatic, whoops?
Covid can be asymptomatic, and transmissible, that's the thing.

When you realize it's potentially already too late
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I've no exact copy of the original article in my head, but I think everything after "===" is a copy of it, yes.
>downvoting isn't supposed to be a "dislike" button but is intended for comments that are spam, trolling, etc.

That rule actually rigs the system in favor of irresponsible voters.
Can someone tell me why Techdirt is not featured often in the Google front page results when compared to other media? Is it because they originally had summary to 3rd party content and so Google ranked them low for not having original content?

But now they seem to have only original content.
I am not familiar with the issues affecting the referenced languages to make an efficient comparison, sorry. But I can add some context if you are interested in looking further.

First of all, let's talk about the memory model. The Erlang VM manages memory per process (where a process is a lightweight thread of execution inside the VM that runs concurrently and you can literally have millions of them). So for example, when you have a web request, you spawn a separate process for this web request and once the process terminates, all the memory allocated to it is reclaimed by the VM. This means you can serve a web request without triggering a garbage collector even once. And if you need to garbage collect, it is local per process, so no system wide pauses.

However, what happens if you want to share a large blob of memory between processes? If you copied it between each process it would be expensive, so in this case the VM employs reference counting.

One curious point is that the Erlang VM did not give allocated memory back to the OS until Erlang/OTP 22 (roughly two years ago). This was not much of a problem in the Erlang VM because you typically run only one instance of the VM per node, regardless if you have 4 or 32 cores. Given the issues you mentioned in Python/Ruby/Node, could it partially be because you would rather start 4 or 32 instances per node, so if one of them accumulates too much memory and doesn't give back, it starves the other ones? Or perhaps you would have background workers fighting each other? If you have links to said issues, please share them!

Implementation wise, the Erlang VM uses its own memory allocation library to fight fragmentation. You can learn more about it on the erts_alloc API (http://erlang.org/doc/man/erts_alloc.html) and there is also a relatively recent article on instrumentation (https://blog.erlang.org/Memory-instrumentation-in-OTP-21/).
And below the article there's the chumbox, full of clickbait, outright scams, fake news, detailed pictures of nasty diseases, and borderline porn.
Interesting read. I agree with the author, if you're practically immersed in a profession, only then the discussion becomes more interesting.
I'm not sure how abortion relates to this.

But genetically-modified food could be. By living in the US I'm not sure how OP can avoid it, as it is not labeled. So there you go with a long term exposure with unknown effect.
I have all three, for steaks/burgers I exclusively use the cast iron. Just doesn't brown as nicely on the stainless steel. Not sure if the same applies on gas/induction ovens though.
It is. But diverse bubbles.

I think this is still better, than just one bubble, even if the intention is a "pro-science" bubble. Because there are not many people claiming to be opposed science. Allmost everyone claims to be "pro-science", even flat earthers.
So it still comes down to what the specific mod thinks.
That’s my exact same app with almost the same appstore experience.

It’s called Crypto Rocket and they initially rejected it just because of the icon (it had a frog on the Rocket, just for the meme). Then they rejected it because they associated it to simulated gambling. And now a month after the release they are going to remove it until I provide proper privacy and support information…

The app is also open source here https://evolveyourmind.github.io/CryptoRocket/
Yeah, that's kind of the point where I reached with German on it and I think I'd have to agree with you. The only problem with German is that practicing in-person outside of that country and the conversation usually veers into English much too easily as their English is often quite good.

I'm surprised how much I get now between translating words I don't know on leo.org and just reading what I know already on news articles which is how I'm keeping up casually on that. The journalism in that country is top notch and it is probably worth learning the language for this alone.
Can I just point out that the number of scientists saying something in science doesn't mean much
yeah, looks like Vercel is free for my use case
We already have a 2-3 days work from office policy but for some that is not good enough, they want full remote. Many other IT companies are now offering full remote... but I think it’s not in the interest of the employees that need to develop and learn. Again it’s my own experience, I might be wrong, I am just suggesting to approach this topic with care.
The Guardian became particularly bad like that too.
I don't think so.

Just look at YouTube, lots of people comment on videos without actually watching the video despite it being right there.
As I mentioned in my comment, many folks have families. We are not dealing with individuals when it comes to a pandemic. We are dealing with contagion amongst bubbles of people. Many people have vulnerable people in their bubbles at home and need to make a living.
The only concrete example of a sunset in the rant is support for Python 2.7 (released in 2010) in the gcloud CLI tool. Seems like a pretty bad place to start.
that's what I went with, truly amazing, a little counterintuitive but easy to avoid vendor lock as its quirks are only a specific folder structure, which the non-vercel environment can use too, thanks!
Firefox uses a master password for its password store and stores them in own encrypted sqlite database. Chrome stores them using system keyring, which is ok in linux, not so fine in windows.
I don’t think “money doesn’t come from (in the sense of originate from) rich people” does much to address the question of “how do you propose that game development projects involving many people be funded?” .

The question is not “what is the ultimate origin of the money”, but “by what mechanism does it come to be allocated to the project”.

I think some would answer “the funding for the project should be democratically allocated by the employees of the company, from previous company income”, which, I suppose is coherent, though I think some substantially overestimate how much of a benefit it would have.
Isn't that what Discord's spoiler tags are for?
I think there is a lot of confusion based on terminology. Even though the US failed to hit the 2% inflation goal for years that doesn't change that the Fed considers 2% inflation to be price stability i.e. the same thing as no inflation.

When they say transitory inflation they obviously mean transitory inflation above 2%. One problem with transitory is that a lot of people think the timescale is very short, maybe it will be over by the end of 2021 but nobody really knows because it all depends on how quickly the supply chains catch up.
Yes, of course I think about others. I would never go in with symptoms of any infectious disease. Were I asked to work in a building away from people that are high-risk or are regularly in contact with high-risk people I would easily oblige. There are multiple possible solutions that do not violate my bodily autonomy.

I agree with your assessment that major adverse effects are unlikely, but ultimately unknowns are impossible to quantify. I know the risk of COVID, I do not if I am being prescribed thalidomide.
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Speaking of books about calculus, I like Robert Strichartz's The Way of Analysis. Robert develops intuition and motivation of key concepts in an amazingly detailed way. He often starts with an intuitive but flawed idea, and then gradually revises the idea to a mature definition or proof. The whole book focuses on "why": why real numbers are defined that way, why limit uses the delta-epsilon notation, why we need to topology, etc and etc. Reading the book is more like an adventure than following a set path. The author explains his approach eloquently: "Mathematics is more than a collection of theorems, definitions, problems and techniques; it is a way of thought....My goal in writing this book is to communicate the mathematical ideas of the subject to the reader. I have tried to be generous with explanations....I believe that what you learn through a process of struggle is more likely to stick with you than what you learn without effort....Understanding mathematics is a complex process. It involves not only following the details of an argument and verifying its correctness, but seeing the overall strategy of the argument, the role played by every hypothesis, and understanding how different theorems and definitions fit together to create the whole. It is a long-term process; in a sense, you cannot appreciate the significance of the first theorem until you have learned the last theorem.”
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> There's simply no room for new SFH neighborhoods in reasonable proximity to city centers where the jobs are.

The demand isn't only for SFHs though. People are willing to rent/buy condos, and existing homeowners are refusing to allow them to be built. How is that not NIMBYism?
> The problem is that you can't possibly become fluent in a language with an app like it and there isn't any single app that will.

It still improves you way more then anything else you can do alone with low effort.

Being fluent is absurdly high goal. At first, remembering basic structure of sentence and vocabulary is already achievement.
Man, I work in bioinformatics and study some aspects of the immunity. Like, on a low level, down to specific molecules. Am I qualified to make a decision whether I should get vaccinated? Hell no!

We’re talking about public health here, not just yours or mine. Something tells me we should have a bit of trust in people who studied epidemiology and vaccines all their lives. And the consensus in the scientific community is that herd immunity by vaccination is a way to go.
We've had mandatory vaccinations for public schools for decades, and it's largely a settled issue. This is no different.

If people want to put others at risk of harm, employers are under no obligation to indulge them.
Found Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Moved on from the Holocaust comparisons, at least.
BitLocker can be configured to be passphrase-only.
No cloud backups allowed on a corportate laptop, got to email it to yourself instead.

Or my personal super advanced, high security method - keep it in the 'drafts' folder.
I don’t want to steal the OPs thunder, but if you want this app now, Cash app sends you text alerts when Bitcoin moves 5% in either direction.
That's fair, though I think in the case of wanting to be able to be a tourist in a place with a foreign language, you'd be better suited using phrasebooks and a translation app. Duolingo isn't going to really prepare you to have those kinds of conversations and isn't really a reference book, so being able to look up the few phrases you need to get around isn't practical. It's designed to teach you the language in a structured way and while the ordering of it and most language courses does attempt to get people proficient at very basic touristy things, depending on what it is you're doing, you might not even get to the point where you can do that.

Reading a menu requires cultural context along with reading comprehension. Unless you're intimately familiar with the culture, being able to read it (as in sound it out by reading the characters) is pretty useless. نان (naan) is probably something you could understand because it's a loanword we use in English from Arabic but without cultural context could someone guess what قابلی پلاؤ (Kabuli Pilau) means? Probably not. If you're in Japan and China, learning to read a menu is in itself a huge barrier.
The EU wants to be carbon neutral by 2050. Europe's forests absorb around 10% of today's CO2 emissions and they are expanding. Given over 50% of CO2 emissions comes from transport and energy (natural gas is the real elephant in the EU), just pushing hard with today's renewable technology could quite easily go a long way towards meeting that goal.
I would say the opposite, outsourcing is a success if FAANG and so many other companies in SF are actively outsourcing to Eastern Europe
That is very old information and not up to date (newest laptop in that list is 14 years old). Resetting a BIOS password for newer models requires a bit of voodoo (booting up with what looks like a debug BIOS to retrieve info from somewhere else in the system).
Don't worry you are not alone, I got an app update rejected because the reviewer did not like one of my iPad screenshots. The iPad screenshot they were upset about was multiple months old and I had been pushing weekly updates without issues.

The human element of the reviews is in my opinion the weakest part of Apple's reviews, most of the time they don't catch rule breakers and just reject based on silly 'issues' for some sort of power trip. The Google Play Store review is the other extreme, its super easy to push something broken to production