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I am 42 and blessed with 2 separate careers in unrelated industries. A famous person that went through a similar experience is Admiral Grace Hopper.

I am a technology principal in my part time job and it’s very rewarding when I’m not playing senior manager or director.

My primary career is largely dead. I am a JavaScript developer and I have no interest in tripping over beginner things and framework nonsense. I would rather program and focus on building better products in a world where most JavaScript developers are focused on tools and how to write code.

I spend a lot of my time thinking about open source and decentralization.
I wondered if this was using a machine-learning style AI and it was, among other things, learning the state of the random number generator so it could predict pieces accurately more than one turn out? (And if not, how would you prove that it wasn't? Perhaps tweak the game RNG and see if the AI performs badly?)

Looking at the github repo, it looks like it's actually more of a classical AI doing traditional game tree search. There is some interesting code around the RNG, though: apparently the RNG does make certain piece sequences more likely than others, and there's a lookup table for the probability of the next piece given the current piece:

https://github.com/GregoryCannon/StackRabbit/blob/master/src...

I suppose one could extend this to be a 3-dimensional lookup table with the probabilities of the next pieces given the last two pieces, or to extend it to 4 or 5 or (if you had infinite resources) 100. At some point you'd know enough to be able to predict the next piece with 100% accuracy.
I really hate this argument (that people who die of Covid would have died soon anyway). Everyone will die eventually, so let's not treat any disease? Let's withhold all medical care from people over 80... almost all of them will be dead in 10 years, why treat them?

A premature death is a premature death, no matter how many years it cuts off.
This is the path I've chosen. I don't want to control other people, just myself and my code. Sure I don't make as much as a manager but I'm a simple man with simple needs. I mostly consult and rarely have any issue with finding new work after the old contract is up.
This is standard stuff in all countries. If you need something political done and you have given (“invested”) a lot of money to something a politician cares about, it tends to grease the wheels. Happens in every government on earth.
I've bought a beer ~7 years ago with btc. They just wanted for 1 confirmation (~10m), not that it mattered since we could drink in the mean time anyway.
I think kids have had "avoid run-on sentences" drummed into them so hard that they've become very hesitant to use alternative punctuation that would lengthen sentences.
I’ve seen demonstrations for pothole fillings with non-Newtonian fluids where it’s kept in a tough kevlar like bag, which seems like closer to real world.
Apple became the #1 Brand in China in October
Are tenured professors more likely to speak freely?
Well, I've recently discovered the installation disks for Turbo C++ for Windows. And I remembered I still have Symantec C++ somewhere - and a vague memory they had quite nice MFC examples you could learn from. Unfortunately, I had to stop tinkering with them shortly after I started because I had to prepare for university exams and so on, and in the meantime other more successful tools appeared and I never had a chance to go back. But a fond memory has remained, so now that the second lockdown is approaching and I'll have more time, I plan to write a couple of Win32 (well, actually Win16) apps I had in mind back then. And if I feel particularly adventurous, maybe even port them to Windows 11 (I feel I might be able to pull it off with Symantec and MFC; I think Borland depended on their own library but I may be mistaken). In the light of crazy stuff people do in their spare time and post here, I'd call this a very reasonable and mainstream exercise.
Interestingly the pandemic started during a relevant astrological/astronomical event that only happened last during the industrial revolution
You have to ultimately pay taxes in USD and have to accept settlement for debts in USD, but otherwise you're free to accept anything else you'd like, really.
I've been a happy user of Frixion pens for the past 10 years and Moleskine notebooks for about 4. It's a shame the two don't really go well together however, at least in my experience
Corruption is a type of conspiring yes. Your point?
Side question: How do you think your age of 40 plays into this? Is it about ageism? 40 is not... old?

And 18 years experience is a lot. Something wrong with the companies you interview for?
It all depends. But in general you have a common law right to peaceful enjoyment of your property.

http://bryancrews.com/private-nuisance-right-peace-quiet/
Matlab is awful at being a general-purpose language, anything that isn't wrangling matrices. Strings, paths, networking, etc are all really painful compared to Python or Julia.
I honestly clicked it thinking it would have some of those 70s/80s comedy like Lampoon or Fast Times
You don't just get a few million through work. Salaries aren't high enough to save that aggressively.
Godbolt is great, but you may as well just do it locally. For example, for clang or gcc, pass `-S` to output asm and `-g` for debug information, which will embed comments in the output to point back to the original source lines that generated that result.

Other compilers should have similar options -- this is what Godbolt is doing under the hood.
I feel bad for people who aren't saving and investing a decent chunk of their income as a dev.

I think you can be a productive dev well into advanced age, but I think once you get to 40-ish the career becomes more like treading water until you retire.

And if you're the kind of person who doesn't like meetings and wants to go back to being an IC, you might not have that option anymore because you can't take a paycut.
Far from to everywhere: "Github Yuque Notion Youdao OneNote Bear Joplin Server Chan dida365 baklib wolai Leanote Flomo"
> In human infections of highly pathogenic coronaviruses SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, the most vulnerable populations are patients over the age of 65 and patients with comorbidities, and design of efficacious vaccines for patients in these groups is difficult. Vaccine formulations that have been developed against SARS-CoV not only fail to protect animal models of aged populations, but also result in immunopathology in younger populations, where SARS disease is enhanced in vaccinated groups that are subsequently challenged with SARSCoV

That's from USAMRIID research into broad-spectrum coronavirus antiviral drugs released in March 2019 [0], relevant citations in the paper.

They also mention the possibility of using a "modular vaccine platform", which would be RNA vaccines, but they only considered their use for emergency coverage and also point out how vaccines alone are unlikely to eradicate it, as long as the virus continues to circulate in potential animal reservoirs.

While earlier in the paper it's pointed out;

> Gammacoronaviruses and deltacoronaviruses have no known viruses that infect humans, but contain important agricultural pathogens of livestock.

Which is also an angle that seems weirdly lacking from the public debate [1]

[0] https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/17460441.2019.1581171

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/xen.12591
Yes, you'd have to be prepare to counter that with e.g. testimony from neighbors, or friends who heard the previous owners complain. It's not a slam-dunk, but it is an actionable tort.
No, the source code was not leaked. Only a bunch of assets.
Actually, Starlink is not on a planet. (But that Indians don't like competition is understandable.)
The only meetings I usually call are to discuss cool things I've added to the code base and I make damn sure management is in on the invite. Leave a paper trail, never be shy about letting people know what you've done.
They have already demonstrated the capability to shoot down satellites. Maybe the US should propose a treaty regulating the militarization of space, thus far they have rejected the ones proposed by other countries.
You're saying that they're lying to make it seem innocuous? First, who are they? And what's the motive?
Improving your core abdominal strength is the main treatment for back pain. There are some PT exercises like bird dog, crunches, and superman that will help as well as some stretches. You also want to sleep in a neutral position and walk about as much as you can.

Most are caused by muscle strain when lifting or doing something with your back in a weird position. I think you get continual muscle spasms as well. So the nerves are irritated, the muscles contract and it gets painful so you have to basically get the muscles to relax.

Sometimes the muscles along the hips can be involved as well and figuring out a way to stretch them will help. Chiropractors like to realign them.

Keeping up your core strength is apparently the best option though.
Hylang for R?
I believe the challenge you’re seeing has to do with the fact that those jobs are rare and even more rarely offered to outsiders. Principals that report higher in the org are usually people who have been at the company a long time and know as much about how the company likes to do things as they do the tech stack involved. You can probably easily get a job like that, but it would require a less glamorous role on entry and working your way into it by proving your value.

The hardest part I’ve found being over 40 is mustering the will to prove value. The older I get, the more time I have to spend rebuilding reputation whenever I enter a new company.

I think the best advice I can give is find a company you won’t mind being at in 5-8 years so you can really learn how things are done there and can affect change.
The case is made of aluminium.
Just as an FYI to casual readers, I'd take the above post with a large dose of skepticism. If I'd wager a guess, the research in question was performed during Google v. Oracle winding it's way through the courts, because for a period there was concern that Sony v. Connectix and the other leading cases in the area were about to be tossed aside, which ultimately didn't happen.
I'd say SC2 is still in the "inherently creative" part. Even with the very interesting AlphaStar League partially solving the self-play diversity and exploration problem, it's not at all obvious that just sinking in another 10-100x TPU-time into AlphaStar would patch up all of the errors and poor strategy AS exhibited - in fact, I'd bet heavily against it, since spending a large-but-still-feasible amount of compute doesn't appear to have fixed OA5 or AlphaGo's similar-looking problems, but AlphaZero was required.

Now, applying MuZero might be powerful to solve SC2 with much more compute, but that is still not something many DRL researchers would give you large odds on, and you still probably need to come up with some ways to abstract it and condense the game tree into something tractable for planning over, especially with the partial information making modeling the future much harder. (VQ-VAE and related generative modeling approaches are promising in this regard... but still no slam dunk. If DM announced tomorrow that MuZero+VQ-VAE had defeated AS and a bunch of human pros, people would be extremely shocked, even as they scrambled to tweet about how they saw it coming all along & also are very offended by the waste of CO2 and how unreplicable it is on a grad student budget.)
I work on multiple projects on macOS and I just keep each project in its own desktop. Each project desktop just has its own terminal and text editor. I also have keyboard shortcuts set up so that I can easily move between desktops and move between the terminal and text editor within a desktop.
The 90s called, and they want their tech back. Good gawd those are horrendeously large.Also, I think that page you linked might be from the 90s as well. Every link results in a 404. At least their 404 page has live links to get to current website. Any website that has a Request Quote instead of a listed price just means move along for me. I also saw no info on expendables like paper costs or toner costs. I just don't understand having so much basic information missing from a website. It's almost as if the companies like this are telling you "you don't want to do business with us".

Thanks for the link though. At least I now know these exist, and I can one day be a hero in a meeting with this knowledge.
> in to the company's tech stack and development ethos

To be fair, at least in Google's case that's not difficult to do, because those technical decisions are grounded in reality and their infra and dev processes are some of the best in the world. And it's not like it used to be that you can't use your knowledge on the outside. The world is largely moving in that direction. In my estimation the rest of the world is now catching up to where Google was 10 years ago.

A bigger problem is activism. You have no choice but to see the most insane, unhinged behavior and rhetoric imaginable on internal social networking website, and that'd irk some, especially older folks who tend to be somewhat more conservative in their views. Nowadays you also don't get to ignore it sometimes (unlike, say, 10 years ago), because some of it is seeping into official company policy. It's unprofessional, and dumb from management standpoint to allow this, but the asylum is run by the insane at FANGs.
I could imagine that proper Lisp-like metaprogramming might come in handy. R can do metaprogramming, but it's quite tricky, even with all the tidyeval tooling.
> and it's not clear how you would automate this.

The amount of things you encounter in the real world is ultimately limited.

Any half decent valuer will already have a literal book on these types of things predefined.

Automating it isnt really the problem, properly surveying the grounds and the area are.

I'd also posit going this way is the wrong approach, they should be using metrics like time on site and ratio of views online vs views on site.

These things work as proxies and are enough to apply as a modifier to more usual pricing models.
Does Opendoor avoid some of the standard x% realtor fees on either or both of the transactions? Reduced fees could easily make a huge difference to expected profitability.

In contrast, “Zillow Seeks to Sell 7,000 Homes for $2.8 Billion” so Zillow lost more than a few percentage points.
What is an astrological event?
If your methodology tells you VB is more popular then JavaScript you just delete your research and start from scratch.
It's... debatable. EULA's are not enforceable usually. Just because something is mentioned in an EULA it does not mean it's the law.
WiTTY, a smart terminal emulator powered by OpenAI Codex
Yes, that was my point.

Naturally I am not speaking about OS/360 in particular, rather the vision that gave us type 1 hypervisors and hardware/OA agnostic runtimes.

I am used to lack of vision, many seem to only understand what is shown running in front of them.
In a vacuum this isn't true: diseases will select to be more transmissible, that can mean less deadly, but not always, think HIV. If the incubation time is long enough before death, then it could not matter. So, you could imagine a nightmare scenario where some disease selects to have a longer incubation time while still transmitting, but then causes more severe disease down the road.

However, because we have vaccines, I do think ultimately you're right. If it turns out that omicron (or another variant) is basically a cold but also evades current vaccines, I think society will 'allow' it to become endemic.
> They then recruited 264 English speaking adults using Facebook to take their questionnaire.

Their conclusion is my own personal bias, but this does not seem like quality research. It is hard to measure intelligence and the group is selected among people who spend time on facebook…

Belief in astrology might indicate poor education maybe.
Turkey !== revenge
You're wrong. Look at the history of digital gaming and people trading in game items for real money. Look at the whole swath of digital art, music, nba game moments, etc that could not be certified and now can be. Look at how major game studios were silent about NFTs and now all announced in their recent earnings reports that they are at least investigating blockchain and NFT and soon incorporating them into their futures. If you do any bit of shallow research, you'll stumble into several multi billion and soon to be multi trillion dollar market cap plays.

Look back at this comment in five years.
That’s where some decisions should be made. For example, creating a new programming language. The answer is almost always “no, that’s a horrible idea” the determination otherwise should be made by the person ultimately responsible for all engineer execution.
You could get (in US dollars) 3 Kinesis Advantage 2s for the price of the basic kit here. As an Advantage user (I also built a couple of Maltrons from scratch at one point) I'm not giving up symmetry to fulfill what I suspect is a fundamentally hauntological desire.
When you say FPGA, do you mean running on soft cores or do you mean high level synthesis from Rust directly?
Caring about this sort of thing sounds like some toxic masculinity grandstanding childishness. So it makes sense that politicans would.
Stuff being wildly lucrative isn’t necessarily a great benchmark. On paper at least Axie has been wildly lucrative. Being wildly lucrative for some people who can pay their rent doesn’t make it moral either. As my sibling comment notes there’s also no free lunch and the lucrative for some people part has negatives for the rest of the player base.

That said I have nothing against player made cosmetics being sold but there are much more obviously equitable ways of doing that.

And then the elephant in the room that cosmetics are not game affecting and there is utterly no reason to use a blockchain for any of this.
It's interesting to note that Mobilecoin isn't available on Windows or Android. That's a whole lot of users who are locked out of this supposedly universal cryptocurrency.
> From the link below we see evidence that the chance of dying from Covid-19 is multiple times bigger for the unvaccinated than for the vaccinated.

That depends on a lot of factors, among them the virus strain, the age group or how long ago the vaccinations happened.

Germany is already having death streaks in pension homes again, were vaccination rates of the elderly are 100% [0]. But those 100% happened earlier this year, since then the vaccine protection has heavily diminished.

[0] https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/mainz/corona-a...
https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/brickyard-blues/
In that case, what's the problem? If nobody is going to buy it, then there's nobody that needs to be discouraged from buying it.
I’m not that sure. Nowadays you can get runs on the cheap, that’s why group buys are even possible in the DIY community.

The fully machined aluminum case probably plays a part in there too.
Yes, it could, but potentially you reach a point where there is little or no interest in vaccination. In that case the harmful mutations are self-defeating because they get stuck at dead-end homes with their hosts, who stay home from work.

In the highly vaccinated version of the story, vaccinated people are mostly unaffected by the severe effects, so they go about their lives and, if they happen to be the ones with the harmful mutations, they give those variants a fighting chance to spread. It would be different if the vaccines reduced viral load, but the limited studies available don't seem to point in that direction.
> Cactuses are protected from destruction by law, and must be transplanted when doing clearing for construction. You may find the idea of being able to own a firearm without a license to be unpalatable but the state largely remains very safe crime-wise (perhaps due to that?)

My mom lived in Tucson and decided on a visit that I might want to go shooting with her and her boyfriend at the time. Suffice it to say, it didn't go well. BTW, Arizona does very poorly in crime rate (10th highest for violent crime, 3rd highest for property crime), especially Phoenix and Tucson (but is very urban, so there is that also). I'm not sure why you consider it safe crime wise when the numbers say otherwise. They also do very poorly in education (rank 48th). I was really surprised they could beat New Mexico and Louisiana (https://www.wmicentral.com/news/latest_news/arizona-ranks-48...).

It is beautiful. I would love to live in Tucson someday, but with the bad schools, it would have to be after my kid was done with school and I retired.

> I miss living in Arizona. It's a beautiful state with very caring folk. I saw almost no homeless folks in Phoenix. Folks there seem to really care about their fellow citizens. Southern hospitality is for sure a thing, take it from a daft boy from Brooklyn!

When I was a kid, I took a greyhound bus from Vicksburg MS to Seattle WA via the southwest approach (I later did the northwest route, which wasn't as interesting). People would get on the bus from various prisons in Texas (the bus stopped a lot at prisons), New Mexico and Arizona...and were all going to LA. Why bother being homeless in Phoenix (when summers can kill) if LA isn't that far away? Heck, that applies to Texas as well, not just Arizona.
You probably shouldn't try to explain things to your family until you understand them yourself.
If you're pulling a 6 figure salary then sure.

If you've been earning on a typical career - say £25k/yr starting in your mid 20s, £35k-£45k through your 30s, perhaps getting upto £60k by the time you're into your 40s, you won't have saved enough to pull even £20k a year for a few decades.

https://uk.indeed.com/company/Precision-Microdrives/jobs/Sof...

https://uk.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=62dc4988a0e4f36b&fccid=0de01...
I think you underestimate the difference in pay across the western world.
Example of the difference between American and Indian English:

https://i.redd.it/fhmx835buxl51.jpg
https://archive.md/YUbf3
I think this is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsBIQIBavms
> I don’t think this is a useful analogy. Top speed is a randomly picked metric, which presumably most car buyers don’t care for.

My comment applies to any metric that is an unalloyed good, not just top speed. Saying "AWS has high up-time" or "This car rarely needs repairs" or "I never spill coffee with this cup" are suggestive that something has been designed well, but they are not themselves substantive comments about the design. For that you'd have to say how they achieved those things. It's the difference between a goal and the method.

> that’s the exact hallmark of not just a good but great design.

Talking about trade-offs between goals would be substantive discussion of design. That one metric got high marks without saying anything about how is not.

I don't think this digression into semantics has reached diminishing returns.
As always, the real gold is always in comments section. GNOD is exactly what I was looking for.

I wonder why I never stumbled upon it…
But can it be type coerced?
> and Mil Comms satellites will be.

Like Starlink in the future, then? Possibly? https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-signs-deal-with-spacex-to-ass...
When we were looking for a house we rejected many because of the “wrong sort” of neighbor, ascertained entirely (and possibly erroneously) without meeting them. I doubt Zillow can model that with public data.