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What is it about programmers that makes them (in general) not expressive, effusive, gregarious, ...

I have a deadpan face most of the time, people complain about not being able to read me. When I was younger, I rationalized that I don't want emotions to cloud the logic of a conversation. But I ultimately realized that I was deadpan all the time, whether in work/reasoning discussions or personal interractions. Regardless, my lack of reaction frequently confuses others and gets me into trouble.
Can you? A lot of psychological literature shows that we are far from being masters of ourselves.

Depresses people cannot reason themselves to any result at all. Addicted people cannot reason themselves out of addiction. You can fix many things with therapy, but that's far from just "reasoning" and takes a lot of time and work.

Emotions come from a much older part of your brain than the one for your reasoning skills, and thus have a far stronger pull on your actions. That's not to say we are completely at the mercy of our emotions. But controlling them is a matter of practice and reinforcement, not pure logic.
I agree, and additionally, it might take an awful lot of time until a civilization is advanced enough to reach the point where it can simulate other beings. For all we know, we can be the first beings to ever reach this point.
So can the judicial system.

Given the number of imprisoned found innocent over time, some models suggest up to 25% of the incarcerated population are innocent.

Layer on those in prison for minor drug crimes and it goes up dramatically.

Everything is quantifiable. The dimwitted elders in charge prefer you don’t think like that. Just abide the story; senile elders raised in a era of worse education standards, social standards, toxic leaded gas clouds, paranoia inducing world wars and cold wars are clearly the most capable leadership
It was perfectly normal to spell them out over unencrypted wireless phone connections that could be picked up by consumer devices. And it’s not like we’re better today, we still use connections where the encryption is optional (DECT) or where an attacker can downgrade the encryption (GSM).
“Unleaded” fuel is permitted to contain up to 50mg per gallon*; though this is a limit, none is permitted to be intentionally added.

100LL by comparison contains 550mg per gallon by intent.

* Sorry for the crazy mixed units; I didn’t write the regulations.
There's a lot to unpack in your comments.

First off, I don't think a typical investment thesis is: this thing will be less affordable in the future. People invest for many other reasons other than simply capital appreciation. With housing specifically, it might be cheaper for you to buy vs rent.

> country decides to stop making policy

So, yes... US policies towards housing are all centered around the notion of taking out a massive loan for a home. You get paid to do it in some ways, through interest deductions for example. And yes, this policy will never change and this is probably the main reason you need to buy a house with a mortgage if youre in the US.

However, as a counter-example I know handful of countries where mortgages are not easy to get and not a traditional way to finance a home. Yet, home prices in these regions are also skyrocketing. So cheap leverage alone is not a necessary factor for home price appreciation.

Finally: Food and transport can be "replenished" - land cannot. So basic supply and demand concepts would say that land prices will increase, and by proxy so will housing.
I've experienced the use of about three different Roku TV's and they have a tendency to crash regularly with Netflix. I'm guessing Netflix is sucking up all the limited ram available on these TV's As the App is unbearably sluggish to use.
To me, it just highlights that there really ought to be some basic comprehension and reasoning test for jurors.
Note that Wayland users are already using EGL in Firefox, so I don't think this makes any difference to them?
I would really like to see a much bigger juror pool and results sorted by on zip code.

I suspect I can do an ok job predicting relative conviction rates based on well known location and demographic based stereotypes of authoritarian tendencies and attitudes toward drug use.
We can find a why for something like that in history. But note that by your definitions, this experiment is probing how, not why. Its suggested explanatory mechanism of "women in countries with higher incomes are freer to pursue their innate interests" is a how. The paper didn't control for the alternate explanation "people in countries with higher incomes, having their core survival needs more often satisfied, pursue social acceptance via adherence to cultural norms more aggressively."
In America, the size of the median home has increased from under 1,500 square feet in 1973 to over 2,400 square feet today, an increase of 60%. Perhaps that has some impact on the increase in home prices?
> I don't understand why this would just be a supply-side issue

Rates are low everywhere, but housing costs are not exploding everywhere (in the West). Even with-in a single country like Canada, in the Toronto/SW-Ontario area prices are way up, but the Prairies are flat/down in most places.

> rather than a huge demand-side issue given asset price inflation consequent from QE, the expansion of private credit and the financialization of housing over recent times.

Some of the Commonwealth countries (CA, AU, NZ) have the higher rates compared to other countries (DE, CH, JP, FR), and yet have higher housing price rises:

* https://twitter.com/MikePMoffatt/status/1446515836504743956

You'd think the cheaper-debt countries would have the bigger rises in prices.

In Toronto/GTA, prices have been going rising especially since 2015, when there was no QE going on. But there was a whole bunch more immigration without corresponding construction.
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I think Chrome/Chromium don't use hw acceleration on Linux, right?
The screen on the GATS jar is for testing for Jet-A contamination. Gas evaporates cleanly off the screen. Jet leaves a film in a random pattern as it evaporates.

https://www.pooleys.com/shop/pooleys/the-gats-jar-fuel-teste...
In my early years teaching art in the UK, I worked three days in a row in a uni around 60 miles from where I lived. To save money I slept in the studios. Worked well for one year till I was caught.
And you also need to bear in mind that a 2x increase in house price means much more than a 2x decrease in the number of people who can afford it.
Shame is not really constructive though, if you know what you are capable off, accept that you will always have to learn more and do your best each day. There is no need for shame. Even if your PR comes back with 20 issue even though you didn't see any.
Indeed. It’s not about productivity but rather maintaining the social pyramid intact.

The tragedy is in this assumption that extending opportunities to the middle and bottom layers will detract from the privilege of the top. While it is true to some extent that innovation and change does result exactly in that, in reality we’re all just missing out on the tide of prosperity.

But we’re hell bent on differential wealth and competitive advantage, all slaves to the egotistical gene
Bamboozle was pretty fun but Digitiser [1] (a teletext based gaming magazine) was magnificent!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser
I don’t think this is necessarily true. The value of the land you own can increase over time, but the cost of a square foot of housing decrease, as long as density keeps increasing.

Say I bought a house on a half acre for $500k. Then someone buys it for $750k and builds four houses on eight acre lots and sells them each for $300k. Owner occupied housing as an investment has produced a positive return but the cost of housing has gone down.
Every time I see similar questions, I just wonder why companies such as Signal do not put in place a mechanism to veto changes across countrie.

If they had developers in, say, France, who would need to accept changes made somewhere else then a single country could not force such secret modifications.

Of course an app is actually a binary, so there must be a way to verify that code + compilation = the published binary.
There must be someone, somewhere, obsessively making working models (3-D printed?) of some of these.
I agree it’s not the most important issue regarding Meta, and I don’t think there’s anything useful that can be done about it now anyway, I just reject the outright dismissal of it as a complete non-issue.

Yes, the company name Meta is relevant to the actual meaning of the prefix “meta-“, as in metaverse, a word coined in 90s sci-fi as a contraction of “meta-universe”, meaning a universe that is not the universe but is “beyond” or “about” it, which is a very reasonable use of the prefix when applied to a virtual world, in line with other uses like metadata (extra data that isn’t “the” data but is “about” it).
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Didn't Marx think that Capitalism would end once we were near or at post-scarcity? Seems we'll never be there, because capital will just find ways to artificially create scarcity.
Yeah this is a lesson I learned during the NBA playoffs sometime in the mid 00's - I was supporting the Cavs, and the whole series was hanging on a 3 foul shots by Lebron James. I was watching in a bar, and was super agitated along with everyone in the bar, and everyone in the arena as we could see on TV. But I noticed that James him self was completely stone-faced and calm. And I realized in that moment, that all this agitation wasn't actually useful, and would not affect the outcome. And even if I were the one in position to affect the outcome, that kind of agitation would actually make things worse.

That said, I've had colleagues who could probably do with a bit more shame. Confidence and self-assuredness is great for self-promotion, but if you can continuously produce shitty output with a smile on your face I don't want to work with you.
I think that a lot of the cynicism about this space comes from theorisers who have not yet tried VR for themselves and experienced viscerally + emotionally for themselves, the fact that it is a total game-changer for work and play.

The thing with this space is, enough smart people are sufficiently excited by this new media and working on realising its potential, that it will inevitably end up producing value that can’t be ignored.

Large swathes of smart people who see unrealised possibilities will always win out against individuals who only see impossibilities.

Whenever I see a failure to appreciate the potential of new media, I’m reminded of this conversation between Jeremy Paxman (British journalist) and David Bowie when they were talking about the internet back in the 90s. https://youtu.be/LaHcOs7mhfU?t=297

“The internet… it’s just a tool though isn’t it” ?
FB execs aren't stupid. This is not about the metaverse, it is about deflecting from bad press and ill will into mockery about this aloof nonsense.

A few weeks or months ago you probably noticed your sentiment towards facebook turn pretty negative. Just thinking about the company as dorky instead helps their bottom line.

We all know this project isn't going anywhere, including maybe everyone but zuck.

The more noise about this lame ass project instead of how fb is ruining society, the better for them.
People trust dogs too much.

Dogs are friendly and make good pets and all but people need to draw a line.
That's why I'm asking for a more precise definition.

To me, it seems kinda hard to discuss the implications of something, when you don't understand what it is - or when the people discussing it, have incompatible ideas of what it is.

For example, by the arguments of this article right here, AR/VR is not a requirement for a metaverse (otherwise the current internet could not be a metaverse, right?).

According to the keynotes/talks of Facebook and John Carmack, VR seems to be the most central ingredient though.

Raph Koster seems to rather agree with the notion that VR/AR is not required. It only has to be multiple virtual worlds that (at least some of which) can interact with the real world somehow.

As another example, Raph Koster thinks, that there must be many virtual worlds in a metaverse, and that this virtual worlds must be able to be significantly different from each other - visually and mechanically.

Facebook seems to think that having just one single virtual worlds (Facebook's own VR-world) is kinda enough to create a metaverse.

This article right here implies that no virtual world is required at all - as the internet doesn't qualify.

As a third example, both Facebook and Koster seem to agree, that it is important that a user in the metaverse be represented through some sort of Avatar. They seemingly disagree on what constitutes an Avatar though - Facebook's ideas imply a full 3D VR Avatar - while Koster counts MUDs as virtual worlds, where you get nothing but a handle (username) and maybe a small "description" text-box.

This article seems to deny even that notion, since in the internet you are just a more or less random IP-address. You can have all sorts of Avatars on various places on the internet - from usernames to profile images to fully customizable 2D or 3D-models. But all of those are separate and siloed.

And that's just the first few examples that came to mind - there's a lot more contradictions like these.
$0.01 of fuel is about 7mL. If you’re only sumping 7mL of fluid in total, you might as well just skip the theater and not do it at all.
There’s literally nothing stopping the average person from doing that, besides their own preferences.
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I don’t know if it was intentional, but IMO your last sentence is perfect.

I agree with you about the emotional aspect, and I think it’s one of those blind spots that a lot of engineers have. In my experience, the best software engineering is done by the engineers who _care_ the most about the end user experience and the work their software is doing. And the people who care most aren’t always the most brilliant computer scientists or analytical minds.
Note that I have worked with chips designed in this century that did not implement denormals in hardware.
IMO, this discussion goes wrong when we involve the dog in the first place. The testimony is that of the handler; they are the party saying that they have reason to believe X, based on their interpretation of their dog's behavior... which might as well be a dowsing rod or any other scrying method for the repeatability it has.

If a dog/handler leads them to evidence, then the evidence can stand (or not) on its own just as if they were led to it by a psychic or a "hunch".
Ubuntu: 20k illegal gold miners have invaded Yanomami territory
I lived in San Jose from 2015 to 2020 and I can't possibly fathom how anyone would consider it "nice". It's extremely crowded, traffic is a nightmare. You can't actually enjoy any of the amenities because they are always jam packed. I think the real reason someone buys a $1.5m house in the San Jose area is because it enables them to take a very high paying job.
One view of homotopy theory is that it replaces the relation "=" (equality) with a looser (but fairly intuitive) notion of path-connectedness. Equality of two points on a topological space is replaced with existence of a path leading from one to the other. Then equality of two continuous functions is replaced with the existence of a path between the two functions lying on a space in which the two functions are points (note that if two functions are equivalent in this sense they are referred to as homotopic, and the exact path is a homotopy). Likewise, the notion of isomorphism, which is usually defined by f o g = id_A and g o f = id_B, is replaced with f o g being homotopic to id_A and g o f being homotopic to id_B. If two topological spaces are isomorphic in this looser sense, then they are said to be homotopy equivalent and the functions f and g are each referred to as homotopy equivalences.

A table comparing equals-based terminology with path-connectedness terminology can help:

- Equality of points : existence of path

- Two functions are equal : two functions are homotopic

- Isomorphism : Homotopy equivalence

- Isomorphic : Homotopy equivalent

There is a formal system called Homotopy Type Theory which exploits the above analogy in a really nice way. It does this by treating path-connectedness as a more fundamental notion than equality, with the former becoming the latter if the topological space is discrete (and therefore essentially a set). HoTT actually can't see equality.
I'm not sure I'd call that hypertension difference small, and it's by far not the largest difference. There's ~30% more diabetes in the vaccinated cohort. 2x the rate of kidney failure.
Grades beyond whatever threshold keeps you from having problems with the university don't mean squat unless there is more academia in your future.

At any given level of college education (undergrad, masters, etc.) the overwhelming majority of students will not be continuing in academia after that.

Edit: and spare me the low effort comments about GPA and internships, the overwhelming majority don't have those requirements and the overwhelming majority of those that do don't check.
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I didn't remember an FS register... it was added on the 386, I wonder what would happen if this was run on an old IBM XT?

I realize that something had to go in order to fit it in the size limit, compatibility with 8088 CPUs isn't the worst choice.

[Edit] Sorry if this sounded too negative... I'm astounded that it's even possible to do this in a sector at all.
> In this case, the trade didn’t even violate the intended behavior of systems involved.

This is clearly a false statement. The people who set up the system did NOT intend to allow others to take $130 million for nothing.

The point was that their code did not express their intentions 100% correctly, and that's because that is quite hard to do.
As if China does not resemble a mass-surveillance state dystopia already? I'm not sure "improving living conditions" in a country where The Party dictates every aspect of life is something to aspire to.
> 1. Abolishing landlords is not the answer (I see a lot of people suggest this). Ownership is a barrier. Rental properties are useful.

This is circular.

A big part of the reason ownership is a barrier is that landlords—usually large corporate ones—own all the available properties in an area, and have exactly zero intention of selling individual units. This, of course, raises prices.
> So the best practice is only placing files and directories that you need to add to image under current directory.

You can create a .dockerignore file and exclude large files or file types from being included in the context. Especially useful in data-munging heavy projects where large inputs/outputs are used.

See: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#dockerigno...
Came here to post the same. It’s a gem of a book.
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This is not true for many, if not most of the devices on that list. You may have to jump through some hoops to unlock the bootloader but once that is done installing alternative distributions is no more difficult than installing a vendor distribution. Have a look at the installation instructions (click on a model and follow the 'Installation instructions' link in the header) to see how things are done for that model.
> Would you rather maintain a couple hundred lines of straightforward code or thousands of lines of class hierarchies with delegates and whatnot?

I feel this is a gross misrepresentation of the problem.

With higher-level frameworks, you can add complex features with one-liners, which by their very nature (generic, extendable, and general purpose) are bloated and underperform when compared with the code you could roll yourself. However you need to write far more code than one-liners to reimplements those features, not to mention the time it you'd take your team to test, validate, and maintain it.

Therefore, contrary to your initial assumption, there is indeed a tradeoff between reusing someone else's general-purpose but battle-hardened code with your specialized, lean, but untested code, and the cost to go with rolling our own implementation hardly justifies the potential performance gains.
At least all the money printing didn't cause any inflation.
Because both parties benefit from the status quo

The whole thing is still a pyramid scheme

Trickle down is a euphemism for pissing on people

They think in hierarchy and give us data structures like org charts to distribute that meme, manufacturing consent

God on high, down to priests…etc…king on high…baron…etc…most people never learn to talk around the imagery.

Futurists have been suggesting the fall of nation states is at hand as cities begin to chafe under outsider rule. Of course then you just have local hierarchy.

I’m done seeing the public as capable political agents. The Roman Catholic notion everyone is their own moral agent has allowed people to think their actions only have consequences they choose them to have, as they optimize for increasingly specific stats with little real network value.
I wonder how much performance is gained by having the code written by just one person. At work we have a reasonably large (16 MLOC) codebase. At this point I don't think it's possible for one person to do everything, especially while adding new features. So what we do is that we create relatively clean interfaces, and have people code mostly inside those interfaces. But every time we go through one of those interfaces, there's a performance hit.
All apparently first-party by the product names, though, which mine isn't.

I'm going to try building and sideloading one of the IDK sample apps today. If it works, I'll update with details including the TV make, model, and OS version; if not, I'll...just update with that, I guess.
Establishing a sense of urgency has always been a common sales tactic.
I think you cannot control how you are made, but you can control what you do with it. It's up to you to figure out how to put yourself in situations where your personality will be an asset rather than an obstacle.

As far as emotions like inadequacy and anxiety, I think mindfulness is a useful tool in terms of differentiating between having those emotions and dwelling in them.

For instance, recognizing one's sense of inadequacy, and from a sober state of mind being able to decide whether that is a signal to reenforce one's skills in some area, or to remind oneself why that reaction is inappropriate in this case is a healthy response. Just walking around feeling bad all day due to imposter syndrome is not a healthy response.
That seems like a distinction without a difference. (How is doing a problem set not studying?)
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You bring that up as a bad in this context, where enironmental impact because of poor ways of generating electricity is not relevant.

AC has had an extremely positive impact. Simple uses energy == bad reasoning hasn't.
I can relate. I did my PhD with a £10,000 (per year for 3 years) scholarship, from which I had to deduct £3,465 for the tuition fees per year. If it wasn’t for the fact that I had a second “night” job as a freelance developer I wouldn’t had been able to pay for rent or food. I could write a compendium of tricks on how to live well below the poverty line lol
Yes I quite like the metaphor that our rational mind acts largely as the press secretary for our emotions.
There's a lot of affordable housing in Canada outside the GTA & Vancouver

I bought a house at the end of 2014 for 130k in London Ontario. Prices have indeed gone up, worth about 350k now, but that's still affordable