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> But there are not marathon runners who run 10x faster than other professional marathon runners.

It’s true that they don’t run 10 times as fast, but the marathon runner that is 1% faster will finish 10x more races before the slower one (YMMV depending on stdev).

Similar in software development, picking a 1% better local solution often enough can make the global result 10x better due to the complexity of the systems.
Brave New World gets one more step closer. We can soon rename pot to soma.
There's a difference between framing an argument to make it more appealing to people with different values than yourself and lying about what your motives are. For example, if I wanted to pass legislation that would require backdoors in all E2EE communication systems, and I sold my idea by telling everyone that my legislation would prevent terrorism, wouldn't we all agree that's dishonest?
There is a built in fallacy that one can listen to all the sides and form an educated opinion from that. Firstly, if there is one truth, than there are infinite falsehoods. Secondly, I don't think the human mind works like that. We are sponges for information and the more bad data we put in it will inevitably cause confusion if you are just being a passive listener.
Mathematicians discover music can be infectious – like a virus
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The geysers were showing in the video, there was hot gas outpouring from the ground everywhere. That makes it difficult to believe that there was no radiation leak.
Amazon is probably already distributing large quantities of cannabis. I don’t think Amazon is actually concerned with their hired help, but I think they are very concerned with legal risk of shipping drugs which may be disguised as other products.
Yes, but GGGGP suggested that the alternative would be not building it due to lack of patience. That's not "extra time" but the difference between having and not having a result.
I wish they'd do this in the UK. At the moment we have a real naked emperor situation where more and more anti-drugs legislation gets passed to appease the ridiculous "Vernon Dursley" characters that the focus groups think make up most voters, but in reality pot is common enough to be seen as on par with speeding or pirating MP3s to most well-adjusted people.

It's time the legal reality reflected objective reality here. Legalisation is now consistently out-polling prohibition, it's an open secret that prohibition has been a litany of failure by every objective measure, yet for some reason our politicians are like the Japanese holdouts in the 1950s still hopelessly fighting a war that was lost long ago. It's time we told the remaining hysterical moral puritans to get back in their boxes and finally adopt a sensible policy towards the legalisation of cannabis. If pure polling won't make this happen, maybe corporate lobbyists will do some good for society by accident.
Man, I lived that same nightmare scenario with the flipped G-S pins on a MOSFET.

I had the board spun and excitedly soldered it all up. It was a relay logic project with a few micros, tons of LEDs, swaths of general logic chips, and a lot of relays. It was a hybrid mechanical computer, nothing massive, but a lot of components.

Fired it up for the first time and got nothing. Just like OP I narrowed it down to the relay coils not firing. No signal out of the driving MOSFETs.

Being a fool I had trusted a random online library for the MOSFET footprint, and of course the footprint had the G-S pins flipped. I painfully bodged one before deciding to just bite the bullet and spin another one. I cannot imagine doing 300 like OP did, good on him.
Don't forget perfumes! Some work places have banned strong perfumes on the grounds it affects others. Having a really strong sense of smell, I would rather smell cannabis smoke over strong perfume or really any chemical smell.
Overly complex code is more difficult to modify than elegant simple code. A 10x developer will produce simple elegant code. That is one reason why they are a 10x developer. Ten 10x developers will create a much more simple solution than 100 standard developers. Standard developers usually create a mess. That is what always happens, we have all seen it. So 10 10x will be much more productive than 100 standard developers.
Smoking and edibles are different experiences. If you want the effects right away, edibles don't do that. Very different thing feeling the full effects in 10 min. vs 1-2 hrs.
Handy isn't it, though?

Personally, I'm not ok with segregating people, preventing them from shopping etc. Very strange to see this being mandated by the government in this day and age.
I’m unsure the human rights aspect is going to be the limiting factor. Humans are constantly doing inhuman things. We have a history of forcibly migrating people, it’s not uncommon in our history at all.

I think it’s just as likely that we never spend the engineering effort on a multi-generation colonization ship. Compared to inner-stellar travel inter-stellar travel requires much much more space, robust systems, and reliability. For example, the distance between Earth and the nearest star is over 100,000,000 times the distance between Earth and Jupiter. It’s questionable we’ll ever put the effort into being inner-stellar, but the difference between inner-stellar and inter-stellar is greater than the difference between a paddle board and an aircraft carrier.
Don't seem too different from the other side. And which one should I prefer the one which just ended 20 year occupation in abysmal way. Or one that is currently and in close future focusing on areas near itself...
Yes!

This is how bad organisations get stuff done. Good organisations don't run into these problems in the first place because they listen to their staff and don't set arbitrary deadlines*

* I have no idea how arbitrary the deadline for Doom was. But I've seen so many devs burn themselves out meeting deadlines that were pulled out of a hat by managers because it gave them the illusion of control
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> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.
My personal rule is that I only consume news in a language I don't speak well.

It's tiring, which discourages doomscrolling and the like. It tends to be less psychologically troublesome, because reporters tend to be less melodramatic about news that doesn't directly involve members of their core audience. And, even when it's crap journalism that has absolutely no other merit, it's still good language practice.
HLS has gotten better in this regard: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin...

This provides capability for much lower latency, including effective push by blocking for playlist updates.
It's not even a debate. Where are the triumvirate of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld after falsely starting a war and destabilising an entire region? It doesn't matter what the country stands for, it's what it does that counts.

Due process only applies to American citizens depending on how wealthy you are. The rest of us are sh* out of luck. Which was GP's point.
Some more random trivia: In Brazil it is known as "Quarteirão" which I find an ingenious translation. The word actually means "city block", but it is quite close to the original name, and being an augmentative ("-ão" suffix means big/large) it passes the intended message of a big burger.

Extra random trivia: in the south of Brazil, burgers are traditionally very large, so McDonald's Quarteirão (Quarter Pounder) is actually considered a small burger.
"65 dB(A) during fly-over and below 70 dB(A) during landing."

So like a vacuum cleaner, yikes!
This is the first critical yet reasonable piece I've read on Rogan. The author correctly points out that there is no left-leaning equivalent to Rogan's format. The author also correctly points out that the left is (too) often delusional in thinking that many of their values have (or could have) broad appeal across the electorate, not mention society at large.

This makes me think of past attempts like Air America to counter right-wing talk radio only to end in bankruptcy. Or MSNBC to counter Fox News only to consistently come in third behind CNN with 25-54 year olds (the demographic that matters for TV advertising).

Perhaps the conclusion is, in the marketplace of ideas with every opportunity of distribution, some ideas just aren't selling. Maybe that's due to bad packaging and marketing but it might also be that the idea itself is bad.

I rarely if ever see this kind of reflection on the left. Hat tip to the author for writing and sharing.
> Most likely both programs were ultimately for weapons development

Seems unlikely, the weapons used were pretty well understood. There was a real hype about the idea of non-military use of nukes as explosives back then, as it offered explosive energy in scales simply unfeasible with conventional explosives.

For reference, Minor Scale (the largest non-nuclear explosion in history, as far as I know) was 4kT, the average NEftNE explosion was 12.5, and they went as high as 140. Plowshare ranged from 0.3 to 104, but most tests were in the range of Minor Scale.
"Rarely do we stop to ask ourselves questions about the media we consume: Is this good for me? Is this dense with detailed information? Is this important? Is this going to stand the test of time? Is the person writing someone who is well informed on the issue?"

Actually, I think most informed people are asking precisely those questions about the media they consume.
I think it depends on the industry

Generally an employee must have received at least one written warning before termination with a description of what they need to change and how. After that the employee needs to have enough time to make those adjustments before an employer can terminate

This is of course very dependent on what the warning is about. If an employee is showing up hours too late and is asked to be at the office on time, then an employer is (for the most part) allowed to fire them if they show up late the following day

If on the other hand the warning is about something like performance, then the employee has to have time to actually "perform" before they can be terminated

Anecdotally I've noticed an increasing amount of my colleagues who do not step up for themselves when employers break these agreements

This has emboldened some companies to be a bit too creative with their interpretation of the law because they think they can get away with it, so the type of "cause" you're describing definitely happens more than it should
I've heard Lo-Fi Hip-Hop described as "easy listening for Millennials", and IMO, they're not wrong.
#1 has some huge assumptions built in. A civilization can travel a long distance without visiting every star system between it’s origin and destination.

The limitation could be doubling time not travel time. Sure double every 100,000 years or less and in 4 million years you’ve run out of stars in the Milky Way which is an eye blink on cosmic timescales. But, a civilization that’s remote terraforming worlds that might greatly slow things down. How long does it take Cyanobacteria to create an oxygen atmosphere for example?
It's interesting seeing how many people loved Mr Rogers as a kid.

To offer a contrasting experience...

As far back as I can remember, I hated Mr Rogers. And in general, I did not enjoy it when adults spoke differently to me than they spoke to each other.

To this day, statements like

> Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.

strike me as incredibly weird, almost like a verbal version of the uncanny vally.
Do you have in mind something like this?

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...
Beautiful Angles with Beautiful Cosines
He is not sneering at education itself, he is pointing at the (assumed) cultural and political background of that person and how it isn't surprising that someone that probably finds himself at the very center of woke culture is missing the point completely.
I generally subscribe to this theory.

I do like Cheesecake Factory chicken and biscuits though.
But why would a sufficiently advanced civilisation choose to colonise the galaxy with organic human-like beings? Surely it would make far more sense for this hypothetical civilisation to send robots first? A technologically advanced civilisation is also likely to rebuild their organic bodies specifically to overcome these limitations, in which case concerns around terraforming really aren't that big a deal.

The problems you're raising are far more technological in nature than fundamental IMO. I agree that as it stands it wouldn't make much sense to attempt to colonise the galaxy even if we had the rocket technology today, but by the end of the century we'll probably have the kind of technology required to colonise the galaxy (robots, AI, improved battery tech) even if we're still stuck with slow combustion rockets.
For those who want to test it out: http://rot8000.com/Index
Good. To each to their own. Maybe your use case is different from others and the OS you moved from somehow got in your way.

In my case; time wasted is money lost and with no money made means affordability becomes a problem.

The best OS platform ecosystem I use is the one that not only saves time, but also saves me spending money whilst continuing to make me the most money.
Kudos for playing trem, I used to love that game as a teenager.
So you do think that it'll be "done" at some point? It's just a long running pyramid get in and get out thing?

I do think now is a good time to DCA in a bit. Go for like 20% in rando coins and the rest in btc and eth.
I could imagine humans fighting over the limited energy harvested by Sol’s Dyson sphere in 10million years. It would give any group of human’s controlling it a massive advantage, similarly to the advantage having the only A-bomb gave US briefly.
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Submitter's note: I submitted this tweet rather than the original article because it highlights an aspect of the piece that I think should be highlighted, and I would not have been able to highlight that aspect if I had submitted the original article.

The Urban Institute article linked in the tweet is definitely worth reading on its own and makes valid points, but I think we need to reflect on whether it is a good idea to redefine objectivity and rigor in narrow ways that make them "harmful research practices".
> In Seattle, a fully legal 10mg THC edible

...does not exist, as it is still banned by federal law.

Federal legality will probably drive prices up compared to the current “technically a major crime subject to run, invest in, or play any leadership role in a major business in, though that's not currently actively enforced” [0] condition as the current condition encourages lots of small operators while preventing consolidation, without the high added risk premium of an actively enforced probibition.

[0] because drug kingpin laws apply to marijuana
What is the "working class" nowadays- just anyone who works?
If you look at the code [1], it skips:

* control characters
* whitespace
* surrogate code units (U+D800 – U+DFFF)

1. https://github.com/rottytooth/rot8000/blob/main/Rottytooth.R...
In my view, ads are mostly to blame here. Just because the quantity of news is increasing and average quality of news is deteriorating, that does not mean all news is low quality and misinforming. I've read the NYT and NPR for years, they're still fine sources with actual experts and journalists, and they don't rely upon cheap ads.

If your goal is information, what you really need to avoid is entertainment masquerading as news. Cable news, YT, many podcasts, many subreddits or forums, they're all ideas submitted with little fact checking and little filter. They're shown to you by algorithms and TV executives because they'll captivate, make you fearful, make you react and keep watching more ads.

Is your attention truly worth a couple measly cents of ads to some media corporation?
One of the best interviews I've had involved coming in and just sitting with the lead dev and we then spent an hour grabbing a fairly low hanging bug that was in their system and he just had me drive and allowed me to ask questions about the folder structure or conventions they used.

He could see I understood how software worked, could reason about their style and approach, and I could fix the issue. I learned about their style and approach and got at least a feel for if their code base was going to be a nightmare or not.

With that said... it's hard to time your hiring interviews with when you have outstanding bug tickets that you can time box to an hour or two and don't require so much esoteric implementation details that it's a waste of time. Koans are GREAT but they do fall short on being a piece of the project that the applicant will be working on, so you miss out on seeing how the applicant reacts to your codebase and he misses out on sticking his toe in it.
Many years ago I was involved in finding and fixing a messaging bug that only appeared when the base64 encoded payload had a length that was a multiple of 87 bytes (it might have been some other value - it was 15+ years ago).

Bug was in a C++ base64 encoder component.
>Almost the entire msm is left, hollywood is far left, tech is left, the music industry is left....

Kind of, because reality and science have a liberal bias.

The recipient of the highest civilian award in the US said this to his 15 million audience.

>"It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump," Limbaugh said Feb. 24 on his radio show. "Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus … I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."

>"The drive-by media hype up this thing as a pandemic," Limbaugh continued.

Most popular cable channel said this about Covid while Covid was raging in Wuhan and Italy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o

Not to mention talk radio is mostly far right wing and conservative, and very popular.

Covid raging among the unvaccinated, un-masked and people not following social distancing is just reality colliding with right wing misinformation, fake news and fantasies.

Not even mentioning QAnon.
That’s right, the mythical 10x-er who does greenfield work, uses the latest tech, who not only never maintains their masterpieces but moves on to other pastures causing other devs loss of productivity and captive to their mazes..
It's not about drug tests; most of the time there is no testing. If you admit to actively using drugs, you'll be denied. If you lie and they find out, you'll be denied and barred forever. They're going to talk to your friends and neighbors and there's a good chance they'll find out. And your claims about beating tests on a few hours' notice are nonsense.
It must be nice to live in a place where you don't get enough dust to cover your parts in a day.
This blog post is a short read on the the book: https://medium.com/@dvxwang/book-lessons-the-mythical-man-mo...
I think the part that is intimidating to me is the power/clock/microcontroller integration. Maybe the gateway is to design a PCB that just connects the LEDs and over time add more and more components to it.
I used to listen to Rogan quite regularly. I think he's funny (on occasion) and is truly inquisitive (when he wants to be) and is a good interviewer of experts for the every-man. (That said, I personally never enjoyed his MMA or comedian episodes -- they have a very different tone.)

Where I fell off was that he consistently skewed guests to the right side of the political spectrum. Did he have Bernie Sanders on and express his support for Bernie? Absolutely. But he more often gives a platform to many people I'd consider far, far right -- and in my summation, it's because the right-leaning side of his audience is louder and demands those subjects. Ultimately, it is not a very balanced show. And that's ok, it's his show.

It's not just Joe. In America, what seems "left" to us is actually fairly moderate, politically. I liked having something to listen to that seemed to truly want to find the middle ground, at first. The show has since gone off the rails, IMO.
I think that's a fantastic approach. You're effectively avoiding the pitfall of automating too soon while still shifting the focus towards "driving action with this data". If people click the buttons frequently, it's ripe for full automation - and they already trust it. If not, there's still an easy way to for users to get the job done quicker.

Is this all internally built?
If anyone else really enjoys finding new background music to study/work to. I would highly recommend checking out the South African deep house genre.

To try describe it to anyone who hasn't heard it before, basically its a house blend of minimal techno, melodic pads and soulful cord progression.

If anyone is interested, here's a list of some sets from YouTube & SoundCloud that I'd recommend listening to:

Pierre Johnson: Pure Ibiza Radio, Resident Mix [#002] (https://youtu.be/HZV_ridyGPg)

Kat La Kat: Deep Vibes #73 (https://soundcloud.com/kat-la-kat/deep-vibes-73)

DJ Buhle: LIVE at #KLK12 (https://youtu.be/5S_nqwf4_eI)

DJ Buhle: DJ Buhle LIVE at The 11th Annual Kat La Kat Party in Pretoria, SA #KLK11 (https://youtu.be/cYxWMYuY1DA)

2lani The Warrior: Super smooth house set in The Lab Johannesburg (https://youtu.be/Ht9x3ZDNXkg?t=54)

Ady flemming: Sultry Sounds Sessions #26 (https://youtu.be/MQ-F8uw0Lfc?t=74)

God Fathers of Deep House: DAY 1 OF 21 LOCKDOWN WITH MASIA THE GODFATHER (https://youtu.be/HQhkUOpOIWU)
The one year thing is no longer the case based on my experience. Some friends of mine had extensive marijuana use in a legal state up to 5 months before being successfully cleared
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It's definitely a generalization, but during my bike lane commutes or when I drive along a bike lane, I see a ton of Lycra-clad middle-aged men bent over in there best aero positions going 20 mph+.

There are not a lot of upright riders going slowly.

It's definitely a generalization, it's anecdotal and specific to the streets I frequent in my Midwestern US city, but at least here it's a true generalization.
The rottenness is that our government wants to wield social media as a propaganda tool.

They never discuss breaking these companies up, they only do things like bring Zuckerberg in and try to prod him into regulating his platform in their direction.
Hopefully WHIP takes off. It’s a standard protocol that would easily allow things to interface with WebRTC.

https://www.meetecho.com/blog/whip-janus/

https://millicast.medium.com/whip-the-magic-bullet-for-webrt...
Does Hacker News count?

I guess frictions matters, our brains constantly seek the shortest path to getting excited.

Recently I resorted back to order physical books, and enjoy waiting for the books to arrive.
I'm not sure that the majority opinion is that it is on tier with mp3 piracy.

In cooler towns like London, Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield maybe. But my parents in the midlands are strictly anti-drugs and see cannabis as as bad as cocaine, and its the case like that for all their friends and the community around.

The culture in the UK is just too different than the culture in the US.
Alzheimer patients have moments, brief, at random times, where lucidity seems to be there for a bit. This could certainly happen in the moments before or day before dying, and for family this might seem meaningful when it happens. But there is not any kind of connection between the things. Patients just get worse over time until they die.
You don't get the same withdrawal, and your anecdotes do not indicate that it causes any kind of withdrawal, just that some people find nature/amusement parks more enjoyable stoned.