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Yes, I also alternate. But my ebb and flows are around motivation, not exertion.

If I am working for someone else, and I put in a lot of effort, then I feel completely drained after N amount of days (or after project completion) – which requires me to mentally "unlink" my brain from anything related to that project.

If I am working for myself, whether that be on my company, or for personal growth, then I can hit a wall day after day and still find motivation to continue forward, projecting even one little victory as something that can give me energy to keep going.

The key for me is motivation. If I feel invested (and rewarded) in my own growth, then I am much more productive than just adding more to the bottom line of some faceless organisation.

Good luck to you! I hope you find something worth while that both gives you energy and makes you feel like you're growing.
You have key business ops people AND their key users (direct reports) involved. It scales.
So weird. Todays ModernVintageGamer episode features this game and then this pops up!
Meanwhile, if we were inclined to go there, there is a nexus between the population control movement, the Rockefeller Foundation(s), positive eugenics and the green agenda.
Yeah I've kinda come to the same conclusion. Seeing how I can get done in one day if I'm well rested.
Even just putting two tents on top of each other already improves the insulation a lot, because of the air layer. This was used already during the second world war over here.

In reality in general it's hard to do things that make sense as a whole - large organizations can only optimize invididual parts.
Texas 6 months ago had a worse energy crisis than western Europe have had in a very long time. Seems like America is way ahead of Europe in terms of unreliable power generation.
Historically energy usage has been used to track "human progress" (e.g. a society that is more advanced uses more energy), but I think this is a failed dichotomy as it doesn't account for technology become more efficient at using energy. If we don't price petrol/gas properly (in the face of externalities, energy security, and possibly limited supply), there's no incentive for academia and industry to think ourselves out of a gas-guzzling society.
Note that git does work with diffs a lot.

Rebases and cherry-picks work by applying diffs, not by copying blobs. Auto-merging also needs to look at file content as text, you can't auto-merge a binary file with git.

It's an often repeated fact that if you look inside Git, it doesn't work with diffs, it works with blobs. But if you look closer, it's often diffs again!
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Thanks for this perspective – I was not aware of this. Definitely a good idea and I'm personally happy to see a resurgence in nuclear as a green solution to the climate issue.
If you have money to spare, you're also not going to be able to keep a meaningful share of it contained in filled-up household vehicles, even if you own several of them (such that it'll actually function as a sum large enough to offset hyperinflation in any way that matters).
But "time at gas station" is only like 3 mins per visit though. Yes it's not where you want to be but in absolute time terms it isn't much, especially if a gas station is on your typical travel route
Agreed! It’s a problem that the US hasn’t spent nearly enough effort on, and the pandemic pointed a big ugly spotlight at it.
Sounds like a very complex Roach Motel.
The trend of postmodern architecture is that you build something simple and then you decorate that.

Contrast that to a "modern" international style skyscraper where the building itself is on display.

Many old buildings were built in the "post" style, consider Versailles where the structure is ordinary but elaborately decorated inside and out.
Well, I mean, that is a reasonable line. But it's still moving the goalposts. I'll stick with bricked meaning bricked.

I lost that personal battle for 'hacker' and 'begs the question' but dammit I am sticking to it for 'brick'!!
None of that really describes Instagram today, though. The problem with IG today is literally everyone is trying to sell something. 100% of Instagram today is marketing and there is no longer any reason to use it.
Thank you for this. I thought something was wrong when I tried to hover over links, or I was going crazy. This explains a lot.
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> Pretty ironic to use climate change as a reason to forestall nuclear considering it's our best shot at mitigating climate change pending a renewable energy storage miracle.

I think you're looking at this the right way. We aren't "on the verge" of climate catastrophe, or "at the edge": we are already over the cliff, and the rocks are getting closer by the second.

Our only chance is to de-carbonize energy now, and the only technology that gets us there is nuclear.
Yeah, you can change the current folder with the `Core: Change Project Folder` command, and you can add/close folders with `Core: Add Directory` and `Core: Remove Directory`. (These are run with CTRL+SHIFT+P)
Simple: provide CLI switches to let the user decide what they want for NA detection (current behavior as default, user can provide alternate NA values, per the source file or the natural language it is expressed in), and how they want them displayed, whether as-is, blank or a consistent custom value
(as-is should be the default).
Ooh, this is neat. Long time since I've had to read assembler. The first thing that jumps to mind is wanting to read the tests for this, which of course don't exist. In retrospect, creating this seems herculean; there's so much knowledge about how it should work that lives only in somebody's head, and only as long as they can hold it all there.
I'm triggered.
It's way worse than that even. The CEO is the one that provided what's obviously a fake email address for the Youtube executive.

When you read this paragraph the only plausible scenario is that the CEO was actively involved in this whole idea of faking the conference call:

After the meeting, someone on the Goldman Sachs side reached out to Mr. Piper, not through the Gmail address that Mr. Watson had provided before the meeting, but through Mr. Piper’s assistant at YouTube. That’s when things got weird.
I completely agree with this.

At a few of the start ups I've worked at, "no" wasn't in the dictionary.

It was always a dumpster fire, the product had some many configurations and options. There were entire sections of the apps I didn't know existed. I think that all these features are ultimately what killed the start up.

At one point I (developer) had to go on a call with a customer to tell them no because the PM didn't want to disappoint the customer.

Learning to say no is extremely important for startups.
I've never been to LA Fitness, but I know Planet Fitness requires you to provide a voided check, and they directly withdraw from your bank account.
>It's the opposite for children of course. Learning is the number one priority.

IDK about other kids but when I was in school, my number one priority was having fun outside with my friends or playing video games. Learning was never a priority as a kid, but a chore, a forced exercise on the hamster wheel.
> The miner that got the fee is owned by Christopher Harborne, Bitfinex shareholder

Oddly enough I looked at DiversiFi’s twitter[1] right after reading your update and they re-tweeted[2] someone mentioning DiversiFi’s founder, Will Harborne. Are they related?

[1]https://mobile.twitter.com/deversifi

[2]https://twitter.com/dltfanboy/status/1442429899235479555?s=2...
So basically, engineers estimate complexity and the manager converts that to time? Still sounds like estimating with time to me.
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Project managing in assembler code, I love it. One of Gabriels assignments is that he should test if the game runs well on his dad's laptop.
Yelling at people at work is unprofessional. Sometimes it's illegal if you are a federally protected class.
Are you in California perhaps?
I worked in factories and warehouses once. I don’t give a shit whether you eggheads think warehouse workers are lazy. Stop micromanaging and tracking people and subjecting them to mistreatment like this. The engineering world is morally sick for being so keen to support this. Factory and warehouse workers are mistreated enough as it is
> There really is no good reason why the average software developer should be paid more than an HGV driver while enjoying much better working conditions.

There really is. Computers will blindly obey orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and can be scaled pretty much indefinitely. So those capable of giving computers orders are in a position to do a large amount of important work, with little effort.

Truck drivers can only do a relatively small amount of work at a given time. Trucks have a limit to the volume of weight they can carry, and the speeds that they may travel to carry it. Thus, their work per hour is capped to a very modest amount. Since there's no real efficiencies to be gained, the only way to improve wages for drivers is to increase the cost of goods by a proportional amount.

Replacing fuel delivery via truck with fuel delivery via pipeline would make things much more efficient, but seems like a waste of resources given that EVs are taking off.

It's not fair, but it is reality. Any profession whose labor cannot be augmented by technological efficiencies is likely going to face the same economic realities. They either go up-market and serve only those who can pay reasonable prices for their services, they get their wages and status slashed in a cut-throat environment, or they are displaced by an inferior, machine-driven replacement.
The basefee is burned, the priority fee is given to the miner.
Back in the day “bricked” meant it was actually and permanently about as useful as a brick - no chance of recovery. These days it just seems to mean “can’t boot and can’t be fixed/reflashed easily”.

Having to plug a resistor into the device to put it in any sort of recovery mode does walk a very fine line between “not really bricked” and “dude you squeezed water out of a stone, you are a demigod”.
It introduces the fundamental question but never answers it. He quotes Deutsch partially, "explain how Shor’s algorithm works" - but doesn't answer this question. He also leaves out the important part of the quote:

"To those who still cling to a single-universe world-view, I issue this challenge: explain how Shor’s algorithm works. I do not merely mean predict that it will work, which is merely a matter of solving a few uncontroversial equations. I mean provide an explanation. When Shor’s algorithm has factorized a number, using 10^500 or so times the computational resources than can be seen to be present, where was the number factorized? There are only about 10^80 atoms in the entire visible universe, an utterly minuscule number compared with 10^500. So if the visible universe were the extent of physical reality, physical reality would not even remotely contain the resources required to factorize such a large number. Who did factorize it, then? How, and where, was the computation performed?"

Computation is real - it requires matter and energy. If Shor's algorithm can factor a number so large that it would require more matter than there is available in the universe: _where is the computation occurring_? I have never seen this plainly addressed. I'm a layman, of course, which I why I would hope she'd break this argument down in her MWI video.
Well-off people are usually quick to criticize the decisions of "the poor", but they rarely understand the context. For example, why do poor people stand in line for a new iPhone just to sell it immediately upon exiting the store? Its often because they can get it on a telecom-contract, sell it unopened immediately for less than it usually costs to someone else and pay it off across two years. It effectively serves as a quick cash loan with a moderate interest fee in case you can't get one from a bank and are smart enough not to contact the mob. Every time the iPhone gets more expensive, people with a dire need for cash rejoice...
What is neoliberalism, and why is it bad?
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My problem with it is that I'd rather have an iPad and a cheaper e-reader to get access to many more apps and functions. If it was 1/2 the price it would be at least interesting but I use the iPad to read ebooks, to browse the web, to paint in procreate, to sequence synths and record using an audio interface, to watch YouTube in the kitchen or Netflix in bed, and with a logitech keyboard work on documents in Microsoft office. As I find new useful apps it becomes more and more useful itself.

The remarkable does cost less than the iPad but it has maybe an 1/8th or a 1/16th of the functionality, and my Kobo reader cost me less than $100 for most of the benefits of having an e-ink reader. It lacks an app ecosystem and seems aimed as a tinker device instead of an end user product.

But I guess if you have to have a larger e-ink tablet the remarkable seems to be the thing.
That is obviously what was intended with that tweet. Such a Trump-like thing to do
Right, but then what are options? Everything hits the poor I agree but if you don't want to then we will just let the global warming to run rampant and watch?
I don’t think life would be worse off if I never watched popular movies or if Football didn’t exist. I have actually given this some thought given recent events.

These last two years have changed my perspective. While the vast majority of people were bathing in hand sanitizer, hoarding toilet paper, locking themselves away in quarantine, and avoiding elevator buttons, the people who were least in tune with popular culture (Religious, rural, etc.) seemed like the most rational actors. In my opinion turning off the TV and ignoring mass media, sports, culture is probably the most healthy thing a person could do.
If i was to bet, my money is on a catastrophic fuck up. Its probably 'other peoples money' too. Some VC maybe lost a big bag of ether.
Because I don't want one? This device does what I want. The iPad doesn't. It's pretty straightforward.
There is a service called privacy.com that does something similar. You can open and close new cards easily. I use it all the time for sketchy web sites.

http://privacy.com
> Yes, after having read this article I’m none the wiser about why Popper was wrong or even if he was wrong about falsificationism.

"While all this was going on, three philosophers were pulling[0] the rug away beneath the Popperians’ feet. They argued[1] that[2], when an experiment fails to prove a hypothesis, any element of the physical or theoretical set-up could be to blame. Nor can any single disproof ever count against a theory, since we can always put in a good-faith auxiliary hypothesis to protect it: perhaps the lab mice weren’t sufficiently inbred to produce genetic consistency; perhaps the chemical reaction occurs only in the presence of a particular catalyst. Moreover, we have to protect some theories for the sake of getting on at all. Generally, we don’t conclude that we have disproved well-established laws of physics – rather, that our experiment was faulty."

The basic argument is that falsificationism isn't actually how science is carried out.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2181906?seq=1

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-010-1863-0_...

[2] https://philarchive.org/archive/THOPBS
The blogger does not understand Git, fundamentally.

Git does does not work with text. It stores snapshots of artifacts.

The diffs that you see when you use the various commands like git log -p are recovered from the snapshots, when those artifacts happen to be text files.

Git absolutely works with texts when you connect it with external representations and tooling, such as when you "git format-patch" and then "git am" to import that; and the rebasing workflows obviously have textual merging with conflict resolution. Still, that seems like something that could be externalized. A language-specific three-way-diff tool can handle a merge by parsing all three pieces and working with ASTs. It's something that could be developed later, yet still work with your old commits.

There is this: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-mergetool

No idea how well it works.
The nice thing about game development (at least back then) is that once you ship the game, you can expunge all that info from your brain. So as long as the game works when you ship it, no need for tests to catch regressions.
At this point I think they could reasonably be considered combatants. After all they have done nothing to prevent murder of civilians even if they have had tools like second amendment exactly designed for this purpose. And no it's not massacre, it's justified death penalty for mass-murderers.
Fair – I suppose my point is that they've set themselves up for an out better than others have.
And to quantify this a bit more, current costs for direct air extraction and sequestration of CO2 are about $6/gallon of gas. Climeworks is charging early customers $600/ton of CO2 [1], and about 100 gallons of gas convert to a ton of CO2.

This sort of direct air capture will be absolutely necessary in the second half of this century for all of our current oaths to keep warming to 1.5C, according to the IPCC SR1.5 report. And though many parts of the supply chain of CO2 direct air capture might get cheaper with time, the actual sequestration part might get harder and more expensive with time.

Chevron had promised to capture only a small amount of CO2 as part of a LNG project in Australia, but is facing massive fines because they didn't understand the geology enough to actually sequester CO2.

So while I'm fairly confident that we could eventually get the tech for CO2 capture down to maybe $1/gallon of gas, the actual sequestration is only going to get more difficult with time.

Every gallon of gas burned today makes 20 pounds of CO2 that will need to be removed in the future we are burdening future generations with an incredibly difficult debt that we don't yet know how to pay down.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22663597/largest-direct-ai...
I think I made it clear that ZIP encryption is "very bad" :-)
i was computer obsessed as a kid and my parents could do little about it, though hard they tried. i did all the chores they came up with in exchange for hours on front of a 286 with a monochromo crt. but i had to leave it in the room, so i survived it.

i shudder to think how my life would look like if there were smartphones back then.

no reasoning is strong enough with this kind of brain candy.

i also shudder how i will proceed when my kids are "phone age". this planet is doomed.
Those figures assume that the miners other than yourself are honest. The big risk with MEV is that in theory it could trigger all miners to prioritize reorging (51% attack) instead of building on the longest chain.
I know I reacted hard to this statement:

> Going further down the rabbit hole, the toltec GitHub page mentions that it works on top of the Entware distribution, and recommends what is basically “wget | bash”. I’m not a fan of this. Could I install my own rsync?

We made sure that the toltec install process includes a hash of the install script to prove that it isn't modified by a man-in-the-middle. Toltec itself requires the use of SSL to connect after the fact, which lowers the risk after it's been installed. We are also exploring the implications of adding package signing[0].

0. https://github.com/toltec-dev/build/issues/14
In the UK, even before COVID there was a government funded Pupil Premium programme [1] which gave funding for disadvantaged pupils to get private tutoring.

Additionally, during COVID, there is a new National Tutoring Programme which allows all schools to get funding for private tutoring [2].

I think it's really important that private online tutoring shouldn't be restricted to well-off parents, as it just perpetuates the poverty gap.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium/pup...
[2] https://nationaltutoring.org.uk/
To be fair, they said that ZIP had very bad encryption.
.... That's the whole point the USA doesn't invade it's European allies.
Are you implying that a significant proportion of teachers are going to die of COVID? You're aware that this is a virus with a 99.x% survival rate, right? And the vast majority of cases are asymptomatic or mild?
Can someone please post version without paywall?
The requirement for electronics knowledge and skills is a clear dividing line for me.

I've recovered and hacked devices for friends using software. Especially phones which have recovery functions I can use but I've also hacked some older game consoles. I can't do anything if electronics skills are required though. At that point it becomes specialized repair work.

I suppose nothing's really bricked if you're smart enough. Just desolder a chip, reprogram it and resolder it back in? I don't know how. I tried to learn what I could but it turned out hardware is a lot harder than software.
There’s a few products that I feel bad for the devs and people associated with. I really feel bad for SharePoint devs because it doesn’t seem like it should be as horrible as it is.

Like everything simple (let’s make a wiki tied to AD) is twisted around to make it complex and confusing so it’s lock-in forever.

The per user cost for SharePoint is like $100-200/year. Think about that for a minute. That’s really high for a wiki. And cheap for an enterprise knowledge workflow. But it sucks so hard if you want users to create, collaborate, and share info.
There's always Glass. $5 / month, no ads, no VC funding, no manipulative algorithm.
Bookmarks would be super nice. Also, a more secure way of storing the stylus. When I slide mine into my backpack I have a high chance of swiping the stylus onto the floor because it knocks off very easily. A couple of times, I haven't noticed and ended up going somewhere and being unable to use the reMarkable because it was at home under my desk or couch. One of these days I'm going to do that while I'm not at home and I'm going to be incredibly annoyed that I have to buy another $50 stylus.
Willow.tv is a major culprit here. There is no cancellation button on the website, and you are required to email a support person multiple times (back and forth with retention offers) for cancellation. They are in violation of CA law that prohibits this behavior.
I see your point. But what is the consequence for making "the wrong choice"? (I don't think there is a wrong choice). Will you be scolded? Will anyone even notice?

I've never worried about making the wrong choice. I've never spent more than 5 seconds choosing a commit category. It should just be a best-effort system, that adds a bit of Metadata, structure and clarity to commit messages. The many teams I've seen with "wip, wip, wip, fix, fixing class" commit messages in PRs surely isn't aiding code review.
I think that's the implicit joke of the article. It was loudly missing. Especially as it is a more recent history than Hitler.
But it has allied itself with those who did. And then did not fight to liberate them...
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So this is one thing I'm trying to tease out. Do I feel motivated because I'm well rested and have energy? Or is it the motivation that causes the energy?

From this morning I can say it's the former. I do feel super excited to work on my stuff, but just cant get myself to do them or start. Getting out of the bed this morning was tough