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> An unusually competent individual in a mediocre group will find it hard be a good fit no matter how nice they are.

As the unusually competent individual who rarely “fits in”, this hasn’t been my experience. Mutual respect and some humility can bridge any experience gap I’ve encountered. I’m always happy to teach. If someone doesn’t know something, it’s an exciting opportunity to learn.

If someone just doesn’t have the ability, I’ll be gently honest with them and work to find their strengths. Not everyone is cut out for deep work, but everyone has things they are good at.

To do this effectively, I carefully guard my time. I block out at least two 4-hour blocks during the week for my own responsibilities. Usually Tuesday and Thursday at the same time every day.

I manage this with a disability that limits me to 40 hours or less each week. I never overcommit and set expectations early and often. I’ve never been more productive in my career, even before my disability.
Yes, you are right, especially under normal circumstances. In this case it allowed a window for China to take advantage of the delay in releasing the information and use it for their own PR spin.
I recently hit a deer while going about 60-65mph in a fairly heavy campervan (3 100amp AGM batteries + ~30 gallons of water storage and other gear).

It did $10k worth of damage to my front end.

Deer ended up 150-200 feet away in a ditch.

I barely felt it.
> If you are going through writing the do-nothing script anyway why not do a do-something script and remove the error prone human out of the loop

You will, eventually, ideally.

But that's extra up-front cost (especially when do something involves a complex integration), the do-nothing script crystallizes the definition of the existing manual process allowing incremental automation of steps (also, making a to-do list for automation.) It is an example of “do the smallest useful unit of work”.
Right, because the existing owners were giving you that price as a favor, and now the evil stockholders will demand that they chase away all of their customers by raising prices.
That is a great question. While I'm not going through all the dependencies, I can give a brief overview.

First off, a lot the crates we use are actually just bindings or abstractions over these essential parts such as os-specific windowing stuff. Winit and Glutin are the main examples.

For OS audio stuff, there is cpal, but we found that the way it's designed is not the best for a DAW (no duplex support or MIDI). We may end up creating our own solution under the rusty-daw-io repo, although someone is also looking into creating bindings to RTAudio.

We are using femtovg in place of cairo. The developer of our GUI library is also working on improving the text layout and shaping inside femtovg.

We are using Symphonia for decoding audio files (although we may end up binding to ffmpeg if it doesn't work out).

We aren't using any networking in mvp, but there is no shortage of networking crates in rust.

We will also likely use bindings to libsamplerate if we find that a native Rust one is not good enough.

I don't recognize a lot of those dependencies. If there is a crucial one I missed, please let me know!

Of course some would point out why use Rust if you are using so many non-Rust dependencies? That is a fair argument. Me and my team just really prefer writing in Rust, so we are willing to put in the extra effort of using bindings.
Government just needs to crank out large volume affordable housing. With modern tools and methods (+R&D), enough scale and a long term plan for maintenance this is entirely doable. The goal shouldn't be to house everyone but to create a surplus. (Lots of empty homes) Popular locations with insufficient space will continue to get more expensive, as it should be.
I do push for changes, such as bringing ideas to the team lead and bringing these things up with my manager (hence being brought up in reviews).

There is a self-reinforcing aspect to learned helplessness in teams, as you've pointed out.
Yeah can be quicker to read and comprehend. I also find I’m quite good at abstract thinking which from what I’ve read is fairly common for people with aphantasia.
Question for you, and those like you:

If you don't see images in your mind, do you see images when you dream?

If you don't have an "inner voice", do you hear sound when you dream?

I have no point I'm trying to make here. I just wonder if there's a correlation with dreams.
Currently there is lots of manual steps. Automation for other things than water is coming, in the next major build. We hardly add nutrients at all, just a few ppm of things that are missing in the fish feed. We still get premium quality on the produce.
I always wonder if the whales laugh at submarines for swimming around blind (not using active sonar).

One of the more interesting thing over the last 10 years that I've been reading about has been the amazing amount of volcanic activity that is ongoing under the oceans. Not as photographic as crushing a community on an island, none the less mountains are growing out of the ground at an astonishing pace under the sea.
I've started a campaign to limit short-term rentals like Airbnb and VRBO in my small resort town of Ketchum, Idaho. The number of long-term rentals is down by 40% over the past 10 years, and housing prices (rents and purchases) are up by 40% over the past 8 years. I've been documenting this on my website https://www.airbnbkills5b.com. 5B is the local code for our county. Its on our license plates.

I'm hoping the election today brings new leadership that can tackle this issue. This Airbnb model is proving to be cancerous to lower - middle income housing stock, and platforms like pacaso and realpha are going to make the problem worse. We need to stop treating houses as an investment vehicle for big investors.
I wonder if Black Rock will fare better than Zillow. My understanding is that they are not planning to sell/flip, rather rent then and hold on them forever.
Google can talk when they stop using a license by a domain squatting org who revised their history and has a pretty offensive line on their front page. COMMUNITY-LED DEVELOPMENT "THE APACHE WAY indeed. Worse, most of the links on Google search point to the org and not the actual tribes.
Queen Victoria was the largest drug lord in history by many accounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
I don't really see how that's the case, systemd was always intentionally backwards compatible with sysvinit scripts. I'm not sure what other issues you're referring to but in most cases it seems one could probably just fall back to a shell script to implement a workaround like it would have been done previously anyway.
The ocean's real big.
Walking out on a job you're about to lose seems self-defeating. The end result is the same.

Before Covid, the common complaint was a lack of good jobs. Now there are LOTS of openings, at least for those who have gotten their shots.

The resistant people are really locking themselves out in the end. And mostly because they are secretly afraid of needles.
It feels like Backblaze has been in the space for a while though? My uninformed picture of them was as a modest small/medium size business with a good niche product and probably some loyal customers type, not as an all-stop-sign-pulled-VC-funded-moonshot startup.
Thanks for taking the time to write an in-depth informative mini-article. It is a difficult issue.

Usually the following would be none of my business, but we are in a pandemic that affects billions of people around the world. It is uncomfortable to navigate uncharted waters without a depth line. A lingering unclarity is that in practice there is no shortage of people willing to weather covid with no vaccine. I suspect such people are unlikely to participate in a RCT, but perhaps the recruitment process can be adjusted to attract more conservative (in the psychological sense) types.
I like the article. This is a great idea. I'm going to implement it over the next week. I have high hopes.

That being said, I have absolutely no clue what the advantage is to the python programming style exemplified in the article. Can someone explain why on earth I would ever want to convert:

def do_something(context):
pass
...
do_something(c)

into

class DoSomething(object):
def run(self, context):
pass
...
DoSomething().run(c)

What is the point here?
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The most positive change I've seen happen in an organization is through skunkworks projects, i.e. work you don't tell your boss about.

Too much technical debt, but the boss doesn't want to refactor? Refactor any code you were touching anyway.

Build process too complicated and brittle? Write build scripts, add error checking, and make other necessary changes to fix the problem.

My past bosses never asked "Where did you find the time to do that?" even if they even noticed that anything happened at all.

At one company I worked, we had no build server. The boss didn't see the need for it so he never approved it, but he also didn't reject it once we set it up.

Any organizational change that requires other to change their behavior or their opinions? It is very difficult to change. The only success I've had is by mentioning an idea multiple times and eventually my boss started thinking it was his idea.
Sometimes but not always. I find that it is when I need to “convert” it into a set of steps or communicate it to someone else.
Really? I know medical professionals waste 50%+ of their highly-compensated time because of poor usability.

If that isn't a cost to the buyer, I don't know what is.
I honestly do like 90% of my internet reading through RSS, so yeah, I think that's the more important one anyway :)
Sadly in 2021, ftp is still used extensively in financial services for stuff like clearing stock trades. I wish more institutions use sftp/scp for this and stop relying on allowing specific IP addresses for security.
Before I used homebrew, I was a MacPorts user and that was a terrible experience for me.

Been running with homebrew for at least a decade since, and I cannot recall any negative encounter other than the hassle of grabbing xcode command line tools when I upgrade a major version of Mac OS, which is a minor detail.

I get the appeal of MacPorts & a dedicated separate package path but it caused all sorts of problems for me v. the integrated approach of homebrew.

O there was another negative now I remember -- had to uninstall brew version of MacVim & install manually. But that not a big issue either & typically, all of the brew packages are CLI only for me.
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> It used to be that the Fed was not too focused on asset valuations, and actually drove policy on the basis of their mandates. Unfortunately they're too cowardly to do that anymore.

Could it be that they're essentially captured by the likes of Blackrock, etc. I mean, it's been this way for a while, but it's getting to where government is openly a tool for the corporations without voter involvement.
> did they just massively overpay up-front?

That's the only possibility available as far as I can see. I recall seeing the housing stock they favored were all in the hottest US markets, so they're exposed to small fluctuations at the extreme end of the histogram. Otherwise the US median home price curve still looks like a boost phase ballistic missile track as of Q3 2021.

Zillow only got into this flipping game in 2018. They've never seen anything but rapid price growth. I will not be surprised when we learn the place was off the hook with buyers snapping up properties with no adults at the table.

There is always someone caught way over extended when markets move. This time one of them is named 'Zillow.' Expect a bunch of tedious 'insider' stories from Wired et al; wrecked hotel suites and orgies and $2e6 super cars. All the usual.
Well I'm a BackBlaze customer and have been for a year or more. Not sure what else would qualify me to be part of the IPO before it goes public. Also AFAIK there is nothing preventing them from allowing customers to be part of it, but there may be a limiting factor. Some way to narrow the list. I have more than one computer subscribed, that could be part of the filter.
Because the primary concern of all projects is compliance. Building the thing is an afterthought and it's gonna be expensive and take for ever to deliver anyway so everyone just throws their hands up and accepts it.

Our whole system is designed around making Healthcare this highly moated bonanza for insiders who know how to gameplay beaurocracy so I'd argue its not much of a surprise that that's what we get: a bloated beaurocracy
That's only if they buy it. In the civil war, we took the slaves and land of the confederacy without making the owners whole. Landlords may not be slaveholders, but they are parasites and exploiters, even Adam Smith said so of the big landlords (in fact he was against the modern incarnation of our economy which is highly concentrated way beyond imagining in his time). Rentiers make money by simple ownership and exclusion, not by their labor. It is not socially beneficial. The word "lord" is part of their name and most Americans, at least the common people in 1776, understood the American project as the destruction of the nobility and aristocratic privileges. While the formal titles are gone, the plots of land that were the source of the nobility's power remain.

https://www.quora.com/Was-Adam-Smith-against-landlords?share...
>> I'm talking about regular folks that chose the rental market as more risk-adverse investors and maybe put all their savings into a single property that they fixed up and are maintaining themselves.

I think more risk-averse people would avoid a single property as their entire investment portfolio.

Everyone says "diversify" your investments. if you are more-risk averse, you should not be putting all your money into 1 bet or 1 property.
Bummer. This is solely how I keep alive my old iMac. You know why? Because of the near-impossible-to-replace drive inside of it!
Good! Let's see what happens when more and more tech companies and smart people leave China...
> How much could you earn potentially going with the whole crypto movement instead of betting against it.

Not far ago, bitcoin's market price tanked down to around half it's value in a matter of days, and it stayed down for a long time. That would have been a nice payday for a shorter with good timing.
Some people in the middle think people who describe stronger sensations just exaggerate. And people who describe weaker sensations are just confused by the exaggerations.
It's missing Yorkshire! I live in a farming village, you do occasionally hear voices like this one - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ScELaXMCVis
No, Edge only includes the required PlayReady DRM module on Windows (in fact it's actually part of Windows that the browser calls).

Edge on Mac or Linux only has Widevine Level 3, exactly the same as Chrome, and only gets a max of 720p from Netflix.
I generally agree with your points!

Except the reason people in my social circle would never move to Austin isn’t about guns, it’s about women’s access to quality reproductive care, including abortion.

And I don’t think the democrats are exaggerating the extent to which that is not an option in Texas.
The Mac version didn't have it so there was zero chance the Linux one would.
But the point I'm making is that being against interracial marriage, even if it were somehow just about something like marriage is definitionally not interracial would rightly be considered cancelable to most people. The reason I think that the examples seem different is merely that their badness seems different to you. There isn't some set of things that are clearly ok to sanction someone over and some set that aren't. It's all merely about how clearcut you think the issue is and that will always be political.

To be clear though I do think this is a clear cut issue. Not to get into the weeds on it, but I do think your options are either believing that marriage should not be a function of government at all, or believing that marriage between two same sex people should be allowed
What an interesting mental exercise.

I have an inventory of concepts, data, and other random thoughts in my head. If you ask me how many windows are in each room, I can recall this information (probably even relatively accurately!). I cannot picture the room or the windows, however.

So, I can tally up the windows and be reasonably certain, only because I know how many there are (in this house, I know how many are in each room, so I can add them up; in past houses I have counted them before and can simply recall that information). If I had not at some point paid attention to the number of windows in a room, and then left that room, I am not sure I could accurately tell you how many windows were there, because I cannot recreate it in my mind in a visual way. I think I would have to make a mental note first. However, I think I do actually do this unconsciously throughout the waking day. I can certainly remember things from during the day.

I think that I can know the number of windows in each room even though I cannot picture them in the same way that I can recognize anything that I have encoded in memory before. The information is there for both of us, encoded in synapses like usual.

When you are "visiting" each room in your house, I think you are walking through a recalled simulation that is created in your working memory, e.g. a visuo-spatial sketchpad, using the same type of information that is stored in my brain. The difference is that I cannot recall into a visual simulation that encoded information in the way that you can. So, I think the information is there for both of us. You can just do something with it that I cannot. Maybe. Anyway, memory encoding is not where my research is, so don't quote me. :)
Here is the case shiller index for Phoenix - it is absolutely wild since 2020!

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PHXRNSA/
He's the scrum master for other projects and he deals with things like hiring.
EU satellite programme to provide real-time greenhouse gas emissions monitoring
https://webassembly.org/

Again, it's all about the interface the browser provides. They could decide to remove this API for example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History
> MS Word had a banner the other day - something like "Looking for a new job? Download these templates to make a great impression!" after I opened my CV. I really really hope MS is not scanning the content of my files because that would be a big no go...

Isn't that classic Clippy/Clippit behaviour that Word has been famous for for years?
Nope that would be the British East India company, they make the CIA look like street dealers. The EIC literally went to war against a dynastic empire in order to sell opium, and won.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
> He got dropped though. Meaning that you really don't need a label to succeed.

And? It doesn't change the fact that he did get exposure thanks to a major label at some point. You have proven nothing, on the contrary. You have demonstrated my entire point. Nobody makes featuring with Eminem or Lil Wayne without being backed by a label. Featurings are never free.
This is assuming you already know Ansible.
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If local real estate agents and developers can manage to manipulate the "Zestimate", and I'm pretty sure they are at least trying, you can imagine the payoff.
Yeah, and if the deer went through your windshield you likely would have been seriously injured. The relative size of the object to the vehicle doesn’t have to be large to cause significant damage or injuries. Just because you are big doesn’t make you invulnerable.
You are majorly in a tech (a.k.a HN) bubble if you think that. People whose jobs have been 100% in person the entire pandemic are not using video chat for work, so that leaves family and friends. Many people just talk on the phone or see people in person.
Did it all the time. Users weren’t sophisticated. They want a tool they can put a user/pass into and then upload and download. They have maybe some conditions from IT (SFTP okay, S3 okay, encrypted at rest, whatever).

We did this trivially with S3, our implementation guy gives them an access key ID and secret access key, tells them to install Cyberduck, and gives them a URL to paste. We’re off to the races.

Having the user generate the thing will turn going live from hours to days.

I’ve also done this analogously with SFTP. You keep the creds so you can help them because they’ll type it in wrong, their software will fuck it up, whatever.
Yeah might have to try it out.

The images could be for things like performance graphs, interactive menu choices, photos of GPIO wiring etc. Not a huge loss to not have them, but given it's dead easy to add to a Word document, why not?
#1 is less risky, since mortgages have to be collateralized. #1 is also less volatile
Funny enough, at my last job the bosses never listened to anything their employees suggested. Whenever an outsider (journalist, user, family member, or outside consultant) suggested the same thing as the employees suggested, only then did the bosses consider it.

I don't know how common this is in other places, but that organization could only change through external, not internal, influences.
Can you command the character in this game to give up snowboarding and become an accountant?
Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps
I have paid for Backblaze for 4 years, after signing up for two 2 year subscriptions a few years apart.

I have never got it to backup my files ever.

Their settings dialog integrates with macOS preferences and freezes while it scans for files to backup without giving me any status update. It uploads so damn slowly it’s pretty useless. If I was to move/rename things around it would take weeks more to reupload. Every time I try to ignore some files so it’s actually useful, it blocks my system prefs again and takes forever to rescan.

I honestly don’t know how anyone uses it.

Carbon Copy Cloner on the other hand is excellent software. Entire backups of 4TB drive in less than <20mins. And excellent support.
So how big a body pile are you gonna tolerate?

You don't just get to send men with guns to take large chunks of peoples wealth without dire social and economic consequences. To believe otherwise is pure fantasy.
I can certainly understand your view despite my almost pathological hatred of landlordism. I just think a once in a century pandemic is the type of event where it's useful for the government to step in and safeguard essentials for the population.

And asking landlords not to throw people on the street at no additional cost (let's say they do evict, who is going to be doing viewings at the height of the pandemic?) to them is a very low impact ask.

Edit: I think the root cause disagreement is how we categorise housing, as an essential or an investment. I can see why you'd be squeamish about such heavy-handed intervention with investments but my view is that's a category error. This is like wartime rationing, people need to eat and they need to live.
The question is if dtksh has been upgraded to David Korn's 2014 release.

CDE must start with a modern shell.