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Jews have a tradition of Shiva (7 days where the bereaved stays home, and people visit them). The advice given in Shiva is don't talk, just listen.

If they talk, then respond based on what they said. In particular if they are telling stories (sharing memories) about the deceased, then you should as well, if you have any. Don't talk too much (especially not about yourself), but sharing memories is good, if they are, or if they seem to want to hear more.

If they are silent, then you also stay silent, and just be there.

If they seem uncomfortable in the silence, but don't know how to talk, then share a memory of the deceased, but you should not talk too much. You are not there to entertain them, nor are you there to "take their mind off things".

Do NOT make them host you!!! They should not be cooking food for you, and bringing you a chair, or anything like that. You should do it for them. They should just be there, with people around them.

Also, don't overdo it. People want time with others, and they want time alone. With Shiva the mourners are recommended to set a schedule saying when they want visitors, so they can control how much time they want alone vs accompanied, and it also lowers the burden of hosting, since they don't have to always be ready for a visitor. (Some people do an hour a day, others 5 hours or more.)
Agreed. The 'fake it till you make it' is a saying for a reason. My favorite example is Tesla, where Musk himself eventually agreed they almost went bankrupt at one point. It is a fascinating lesson in perception, but I am not sure it is a good one.
We have North and South Korea when the communist revolution succeeded in the north but not the South. In the U.S., West Virginia split off from Virginia when most of Virginia joined the confederacy but a part didn't.

Civil Wars, partial rebellions, partial revolutions, are one the mechanisms of state formation.
This post you reference was satirical and meant to illustrate how out of control [1] things can become.

[1] if you measure it in number of technologies / toolsets used.
In my professional view touch UI and desktop UI must never be interchangeable or have similarities, the ergonomic interactions of using a mouse pointer are vastly different from the processes when using a finger.

UI matters for a vast majority of users and use-cases, I can live comfortably with tiling windows manager, but this is not the expected default.

That's why I stayed on Catalina for a long time, Apple has lost the focus from the past (and must reread some old HIG documentation for a change). Beauty is not a function of usability (example: the new Safari), the process of making interfaces more "exciting" and "fashionable" has his roots in marketing, not in product design.

I have tried in recent months all forms of DE's for Linux, the simplicity of Cinnamon and Mate was appealing but somewhat limiting.

KDE is modern and extendable, there are a ton of native apps and the experience of customizing the UI is more coherent and logical.

The only gripe that I have with KDE is the built-in telemetry, but luckily PureOS KDE is older implementation, so for now I am ok.:)
Agreed, with the caveat that what has been messed up is the clarity rather than the stability. AFAIK, there are plenty of options for freely-available, unencumbered, high-quality, reliable runtimes, and have been since Oracle got involved. It's just that it's been a headache to work out that this is true, and what you should use.

I think the situation is much better now than it was. The daft renaming of AdoptOpenJDK is the only recent low point.
The problem is C shouldn't be as safe as your design as skills, modern languages provide assurances that prevent programmers from shooting themselves in the foot and as we know, all programmers do that sometimes.
> German commentators warned of a “Fremdenfeindschaft,” “stranger-as-enemy relationship” endemic to the Chinese.

Hilarious given Germany's history with foreigners (all the way back to the 17th century). Maybe we should pay more attention to countries with high diversity indexes, to teach us about living together in the new globalised context. I think more and more this will be relevant for "not-so-diverse" cultures/countries.
What about taxes and social safety net in Europe? Your 60k salary in Europe probably gets you a lot more, whereas in the US a tech hub could easily eat into savings from just rent/mortgage.
Clickbait title.

2 Billion years ago.

Not recent by any stretch of the imagination.
The GP made those mistakes on purpose. The parent was adding some more.
may add 2008 to title, cause thats when the project was stopped
I like the idea of reserving a time to do nothing but grieve, thanks for sharing that.

> You owe it to the deceased to minimize the time in your life where you aren't alive in a meaningful sense

I don't agree with that. I don't think I "owe" them in any sense, just like I don't consider that they owe me anything.
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I can tell you for sure that the moderators here don't give a shit about "silicon valley's carefully orchestrated theater" or any other orchestrated theater. The only orchestration is trying to have a site with the most (intellectually) interesting articles. People disagree a lot about what's intellectually interesting—that's all that's going on here.

If you or anyone finds other things more intellectually interesting, you're very welcome to post more of them, or look for them in /newest and upvote more of them.
How is this different from the Wallabag project, which, as I understand it (it's on my list of "Things to mess with at some point") does exactly the same thing - website to epub for offline reading?
Counterexample: bowling ball
These (mostly negative) emotional reactions seem pretty reasonable for anyone with so much power/responsibility. I'm not the first to wonder this, but are there ways to successfully run a business without a single CEO taking on all the power/responsibility themself?
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Here, "reality" is just shorthand for "what you can't fight". So if you can fight it, it wasn't really reality, now was it?

Determining whether a given situation can be changed or just needs to be accepted is a difficult challenge, one where there's not absolute formulas.

The main thing in these discussions is bosses or higher bosses tend to demand results regardless of the challenge of a situation. And oppositely, underlings often ask constantly for exceptions. So the word "reality" is great as rhetoric for justifying those things you can't or just don't want to change. Which to say all this discussion about how things should be framed and very little is "reality-reality", how the world is, since that's complex and difficult to be certain of. IE, saying "that's just reality" a good tactic to get out of tough binds.
It's simply not possible to track "natural immunity" in a suitable way to protect the public.

Also, while "natural immunity" may be better in some cases, it is much more unpredictable. We can't even tell for how long that natural immunity is good enough at all.
I wish there was a safe and convenient way for those of us who agree to meet and brainstorm how to improve the situation. But I’m not sure how to accomplish that.
Racism is .. well, everywhere. The technical community isn't immune to it.
Why in the world would they have a case sensitive search.
It also depends on your target environment, and how much control you can exert over the machine where your software will run.

Sometimes you're creating an app that other users need to run in their own environments - and in that case, targeting "latest LTS" is safer, as they may have requirements on what they can run that you don't.
> Without the profit incentive for the entrepreneur there is no business.

This just isn't true. I have entrepreneurs on both sides of family going back at least 3 generations. Many of them were happy just to create something and make a decent living.

As an example, look at Bob's Red Mill, a 500+ person company in Oregon. The owner recently turned the whole thing over to his employees: https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2010/02/bobs_red_...

You could also look at worker-owned co-ops. In SF, Arizmendi is a very successful string of worker-owned bakeries: https://arizmendibakery.com/faq

Or take a look at the Zingerman's community of businesses in Ann Arbor, MI: https://www.zingermanscommunity.com/about-us/a-bit-of-zinger...

The founder, Ari Weinzweig very clearly doesn't give a shit about the profit incentive. I recommend his book, "A Lapsed Anarchist's Approach to Building a Great Business": https://www.zingermans.com/Product/zingermans-guide-to-good-...

I grant that part of corporate America's civic religion is pretending that greed is the only possible motivator for anything good. And maybe that's true for some people. But if you talk with actual entrepreneurs, especially ones outside the tech filter bubble, their true motivations are rarely about a chance at vast riches.
> all tape measures must be the exact same length.

Tape measures are useful even if they're not the same length.

Higher-end engineering tapes acknowledge that length isn't constant, and provide temperature coefficients, ranges of accuracy, and tensioning guidelines.

You can spend a lot of money on a tape measure which is more exact under more conditions. Most people don't need this.
Bookmarked your page. Am building embedded devices and thought about having them keep reverse tunnels to some gateway server. Cool, that there's a dedicated service for that! Have my own domain but am still eager to outsource this part.

Some things to note:

- The sshReach.me logo in the topbar links to https://sshreach.me/init/default/index.html rather than https://sshreach.me. Expected the latter to have a clean URL to bookmark.

- At the very bottom of https://sshreach.me/init/default/index.html, the links {debian,arch,mint,...} link to the distro homepages. I expected links going to distro-specific guides on how to set these distros up to use our service.

- The Yocto project is quite popular for building embedded devices. It would probably push your service, if you would provide yocto recipes which make the created systems maintain reverse ssh tunnels to your service.
PDE5 inhibitors improve dementia, so they definitely do something good to the brain. Truly wonderdrugs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705107/
There's no real reason to use java for new development in 2021.
I have to ask: How long did you expect a pandemic to last? What's a reasonable timeframe to get a pandemic under control, in your opinion?
All companies currently pushing the "we are family" culture are doing exactly what he did. Making dumb employees work harder because they feel their life purpose is to help the company.
It protects visitors on compromised networks--and that includes things like ad injectors at coffee shops that might push nasty code to them, not just people dealing with oppressive regimes and so on. It also provides some benefit around "well, that page is HTTPS, so it's more interesting"--if every page is HTTPS, the signaling value of switching to HTTPS is destroyed, and that is a good thing.

HTTPS everywhere is a positive, and it is a good thing to do.
Time series correlations like this have next to no evidentiary value.
This is very true, I tried to print some figurines using filament, and it was a total disaster. I'm sure there are some figures and some settings of slicer and printer that work, but just grabbing a fig and printing it isn't the same as grabbing other things and printing them. My experience based on 5-7 spools of filament printed through a rather enhanced Ender 3 Pro (+BLTouch, MicroSwiss, new mobo, dual gear extruder, upgraded bed springs).

Though, as others here mentioned, resin may not be what you want either. I looked at them briefly when my son was interested in painting minifigs, and decided I didn't want to deal with resin and I DEFINITELY didn't want him working in resin, based on the messes he makes with cereal.
Are we talking hardware, or stock Pixel software that nobody here should be using, because GrapheneOS.org has a 5 minute WebUSB installer?
Thanks for crafting this document, it’s a great start and good to get the discussions started. For me, when I look at which distribution to use I would probably consider other factors that this post doesn’t touch upon completely. What sort of upstream contributions and activity, support across both cloud and on premise and multi architecture support are just a few that come to mind.
Yes, my feeling exactly - especially when some of the "manager" level comments assume all tech should be infinitely fast when being shipped / released. Releasing to web is usually possible to optimize (in terms of how long it takes) with many strategies, but don't even get me started about mobile... the store approvals take anyway 24-48 hours!

I can't really tell the difference in this thread through jealous snide side comments and those which just lack understanding of large production applications.

Of course the guy is going to push tools he has courses about, I wouldn't expect different from anybody else.
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I’m also interested in what kind of world you might imagine. If Intel were broken up, I imagine the processor group would remain in-tact. I don’t really feel like Intel really has any other major successful businesses (though I’m pretty ignorant in this space)
Some people who want to run your software may have a policy of only running LTS versions.

In some cases, this may be your ops team.
They are not the same. But the "risk" from the vaccines does seem negligible compared to almost anything else.
The "both sides" arguments are total BS here. Fox News clearly entertains lies and factually untrue statements, while actively discouraging the vaccine.

You may not like that CNN endorses vaccination, but you'd be hard pressed to catch them in even a simple incorrect statement, much less an intentional lie, let alone at the same order of magnitude. It is hard not to endorse vaccination if you understand the science.
I think we've evolved to the point where middle management no longer involves a coherently planning or organizing process. Rather, middle management comes up with justification to force more out of people and the underlings both plan and execute the results.

See The Gervais Principle:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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The nuts on either side aren't the loudest by their own virtue. They are amplified by their opponents. "This is the left," say the right wingers, pointing to the easiest-to-criticize, most ill-informed example of a leftist... and vice versa.
Please build a login with just HTML.
This is great if you are a teenager. I used to do stuff like this all the time.

But as an adult.. It's just not worth the time.
It can make your vision blue: https://gizmodo.com/why-viagra-tints-your-vision-blue-168517...
Mini, the little puzzle that helped launch 930k subscriptions to NYT Games
Alec Baldwin was pretty good, no?

I always found Trump-satire a little bit symbiotic. He thrives on non-boring politics, satire only normalizes his actions - i.e. mocking war hero's, regardless of what you make of the war they fought in, is just inhuman and satire only serves to form a grotesque hyperreality which we saw explode at the beginning of this year with all this nonsense over the election.
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Would love a similar article for b2b saas!
The best model would be the time period from 1910 to 1950 where the US Supreme Court had ruled that motion pictures had no 1st amendment protection. This let states censor and dictate at the same level that China is doing right now.

Productions that wanted access to the entire US market bent to the most restrictive state’s demands.

Did some states occasionally pay to incentivize compliance? Don’t know about that, but the function is largely the same.
Clearly you are not familiar with Thingiverse. Their slogan seems to be "Why fix it if it's broke?"
Being there for them is 80% of it
Yeah. All extensions are potential malware. The only extensions I trust are uBlock Origin and those made by the EFF.
I've followed Ryan's writing over the years, especially since our careers were on a parallel path throughout most of his time as CEO. I've led a company that had a difficult time in achieving a PFM and as such everything else was painful. And I was also blessed to have a perfect PFM in another company. I think I've seen enough of the spectrum to be able to say that Ryan's writing is not reflective of the job itself, but more of his perception of it, which I am not even going to try to analyze. This is not meant as an attack at Ryan, but more as a data point for anyone else who is considering becoming a CEO and is feeling discouraged from reading too much of Ryan's stuff.

The job has its downsides, and the worst thing that can happen to you is 1) be a first-time CEO, 2) have no PFM, and 3) have no safety net. If you hit that trifecta, it's not going to be easy. But here's the deal - you'll get through it, and you'll come out on the other side with a much improved mental model that will allow you to be more successful in your next go around. You may or may not ever achieve market-level compensation, and you may even end up in debt. But it will get easier each time you try, it will come the closest to being your own boss, you will learn more than doing anything else, and most importantly, you won't turn 70 and think of yourself as having not taking enough chances in your life.
Yes and no right? What I mean is that this is how science works, where someone says "This is the answer to this question" and someone else says "No there is this other answer to the question." And what follows are a series of investigations into why the other person's answer is wrong and your answer is right. Eventually a lot of evidence has been gathered and a lot of theories and predictions have been tested, and then we can say "With everything we know so far, the only possible correct answer is 'A'" which becomes the answer of record. And the longer it holds up against people trying to prove it could also be 'B' or for some reason it could not be 'A' then the more consensus we have that it is the correct answer.
> You can’t defeat reality”

Yes, as in "You can fool the people, but you can't fool the laws of physics."
More like landing gear.
You can test for "antibodies". But the question of "is this patient immune from Covid-19" is a lot harder to answer and especially to standardize.

There is such a thing as testing for neutralizing antibodies by testing the antibodies against the virus directly. But in general, all of the relevant tests seem to be more expensive and harder to standardize.

Every human body creates its own set of antibodies against the virus (or the vaccine). Starting from different strains of the virus, the potential for uncertainty is too great.
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DAs choose or choose not to prosecute cases based on likelihood of winning, not justness of cause.

Which is why I'm confused that you seem to be implying that a DA dropping the case is evidence of... lack of merit?

As for the current state of the trust, that's the entire point of this article -- or do you believe financial court judgements should be avoidable by forming a trust in another state?
I need an ontological reason for the existence of these people.

How many times they come down to operators (be it engineers or anything) and call for stuff to happen magically.

It's never "so on average you need 1 week, what could be improved so we only take 6 days ? anything we can change or add ?"
There are some nice insights and engineering ideas in here. Thanks for writing this and sharing!
A big engine they have to run 100% of the time they are parked to keep the juice flowing. A blower is only running when it's being ran which is just one portion of the job.
Tesla's Giga Shanghai Has Overtaken the Fremont Factory in Output
Can I ask what kind of languages you're thinking of compiling? I was pretty excited about WASM too, until I realized it was bring-your-own-GC (which makes sense in retrospect I suppose), and libgc's WASM support had heavily atrophied last time I tried it (last year), such that it was freeing memory that was still in use(!!). If there's a high-quality GC for WASM you've used, I'd love to know about it for my own use!
Property rights are a fundamental cornerstone of society. Rejecting them is incoherent. Infringing on another person's property is synonymous with coercion. Perhaps next you'll venture that self-defense is a bourgeois construct?

As for Amazon, maybe look more closely at the government interventions in the financial markets. Yes, Bezos is an entrepreneurial figure. He is also symptomatic of an artificially supported economic system. The central bank injects liquidity. Financial markets acquire it first, and consumers are left with the inflation.

I would argue that large concerns like Amazon are enabled by the current paradigm. We could describe it as a tax by other means and price fixing of interest rates.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-borrows-%2410-billion...
Here's my recommendation (I work on OpenJDK at Oracle):

If you're using the current JDK version (recommended for regularly maintained applications), it doesn't matter which distribution you choose, as they're all pretty much identical. If you're using an old version (LTS, intended for legacy applications, which might benefit from it), pick a vendor you trust for OpenJDK support, as the builds are not the same, and neither is the support. After Oracle, which contributes about 90% of the work on OpenJDK, the companies distributing builds that contribute to the project and have experience with it are (in rough order of experience and/or contribution): Red Hat, SAP, Azul, Bellsoft, and, more recently, Amazon, and Microsoft.

There are, however, a couple of standouts: Alibaba's Dragonwell, which, last I looked, did not meet the Java specification, and Eclipse Adoptium, built by IBM, which is the only distribution built by a team that isn't involved with the OpenJDK project, isn't very familiar with it, and isn't a member of the OpenJDK Vulnerability team, and so get security patches only after the other vendors have delivered their builds.
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A specific example: At [NDA-ed work project] we compile a lot of templates in our D code. I was using a uProbe to hijack the semantic analysis in the D compiler to count how many and where the templates where from.

All good so far, but the moment I wanted to do a little bit of non-trivial work (collect some metadata which is not a memory access away) I would've had to switch to some other much more complicated system. I don't think Pin is that complicated but it's not really intended for "infra" programming like eBPF.
> Make Amazon work

I guess you mean showing prime video content in 4k, and not whether general amazon.com has issues working with this browser?
They don’t have any power over the government or the average US voter. They only have power over random corporate employees and universities.
I built this a few times. The most current implementation is called CloudSeed, though I am trying to fundraise for an open source version (with a RedHat-like business model of support).

CloudSeed has been a key part of several >$1bn contracts for KnightPoint/Perspecta/Peraton, most recently DHS DCCO ($2.7bn).
Southwest Airlines canceled another 1k flights–more than 25% of its schedule
Work Poem
this is a poem about work, the way work manages to encompass and cannibalize the things we enjoy, the things we love to do, and even the things we need to to do in order to continue working. this is a work poem.