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There ought to be a name for this paradox. Maybe this is out of left field but I've called it the "stimpack & herion" problem.

If I was playing a game, and I was the general of an army, and I could tell my marines to "use stimpack", which would make them move faster and be more focused, or "use herion", which would make them move slower and be less focused. A general would never order "use herion", and plenty would order "use stimpack" daily.

But the human race is not an army, and you are not a general, or a king. You're looking at the world as an engineer looks at a problem with a set of objects. This is super common on this site - we're programmers, we love re-ordering complex systems.

Not only are people far, far, far more complex than inanimate objects, but it might turn out that issuing any orders, or banning any activity has a catastrophically different and more negative effect than you can possibly calculate. Who knows how much of our culture wouldn't exist if people weren't free to drown in their sorrows, or if people spent their lives resenting you for limiting them.

I'm not an absolutist, we should ban plenty of substances, but be very careful when considering society as a system to be optimized.
I have a CBD oil that has no THC in it. It is an acceptable compromise for when you wish to stay clear but still need some of the benefits.
perhaps if you are driven and understand what you are supposed to be working on remote work is not a tall order. School, on the other hand, is not intrinsically as interesting as whatever career you chose. You don't get paid. You are younger (and thus may be less able to concentrate on boring tasks).

They are different. In some contexts more than others but still different. I love going into the office but pretending its magically more efficient is a bit silly. I like getting distracted at work but don't think it makes me more valuable to the company. I certainly don't write better code at work - if anything my home office allows me to shut out distractions more easily (a luxury not everyone has). This entire argument is silly - not allowing remote work is denying a large portion of a workforce. That workforce may or may not be better or worse but its certainly cheaper for the employer. Why deny yourself a large talent pool?
The subreddit r/leaves has been really helpful for me in the past
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> Which economic system doesn't have this?

I mean, there are many branches of socialism devoted quite strongly to this. You could call them a core tenet.

> Who do you have in mind here?

You have to have a serious failure of imagination to believe that everyone's just having a party under capitalism. To pick just one example out of thousands, have you heard of the homeless?

Your incredulity is painfully inauthentic and detracts from whatever argument you think you're making.
Controlled, ability based violence! Aka martial arts with an emphasis on live training.

I do jest only somewhat. As a personal anecdote I find sparing to be a tremendously positive tool to get my mind off of work and daily troubles.
You could argue that the majority of telemetry is produced by the most compliant subset of the users. Critical or privacy-savvy users will probably reject telemetry when asked. These users will accept all the bad UX ideas.
>Most large scale evil is done by career obsessed freaks.

He didn't say that most career-obsessed freaks are doing large scale evil.
Appeal to nature is a logical fallacy.

Also, from the things we surround ourselves with. It's probably the most natural.
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To this day, super-duty pickups do not have to report fuel economy figures. I technically own a 1984 Ford F350, with a 460 cubic-inch (7.5 L) V8, that is rotting in a family member's yard in North Carolina, which (when operative) got 8-9 miles per gallon. It's about the size and length of a brand-new Honda Odyssey; the real split is between vehicles classed as commercial, and those that were not. Even today, you can buy an F250 with no EPA ratings due to the GWVR
Yes, I mentioned beliefs and was admitting that some of the behavior you saw might be based more on human beliefs than science. It wouldn’t be the first time it ever happened, right? ;)

I have heard of banning coal BBQs. I’m sure you’re absolutely right that the instantaneous exposure per second can be worse if you’re close and downwind from one than a cigarette from the same distance. But how often do you go to a party? Is it dozens of times per day, every day? Because that’s how often I bump into smokers when walking around downtown. Part of the CDC’s point is that the damage is cumulative, and you need to integrate over time and space. Exposure to one big source for a short time can be a little bit bad, while exposure to many small sources for a long period of time can be much worse.
Ditch the alcohol, moderately do this.

I’ve been finding it interesting how many more communities Ive found that abstain from alcohol and all the white powder drugs, but are cool with all psychadelics (with more than a few people only liking thc and shrooms because theyre “naturally occurring” compared to molecules “made in a lab”).

I wasnt looking for these communities but its predictable now.

I see the merit in it. I just drink other places.

But it does make me wonder if I will be a person that declines a drink and confuses someone’s entire worldview who expects an explanation or tries to push a drink on me. So far with active groups this big and easy to find it just seems like its not hard to go a long time without a drink without needing to consciously try.
Tldr: We made a single point of failure, then we made it super reliable, then the stuff it was doing to maintain itself made it slow itself down, then our single point of failure took down our service.

Would be interesting to compare this result to the classic paper on Tandem failures:

A. Thakur, R. K. Iyer, L. Young and I. Lee, "Analysis of failures in the Tandem NonStop-UX Operating System," Proceedings of Sixth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering. ISSRE'95, 1995, pp. 40-50, doi: 10.1109/ISSRE.1995.497642.
> Option, the type safe undefined
I mean Scala because I guess it actually has it, but worth pointing out it's like 30 LOC to define one for JS, depending on how many convenience methods you want.

Here's one I wrote: https://github.com/sbernheim4/excoptional

I fully believe it to be the best Option implementation for JS/TS
Something I have noticed. Consider the following trolley problem:

- The switch operator is on a bathroom break

- The trolley is headed for a dead-end where it will crash and cause $100k in damages.

- Pushing the button will divert the trolley to an empty track where it will safely halt, doing no damage.

- A bystander who is not employed by the trolley company happens to observe all of this

For more people than I would have previously expected believe that the bystander has little-to-no moral obligation to push the button (and a frighteningly large number persist even when you change the scenario to the trolley hitting someone) . Someone who does push the button has gone above and beyond, as pushing the button wasn't their job after all.

I have seen a lesser version of this in some of the discussion over the past few days; plenty of commenters basically saying that it's not the job of people not involved in ASDF to lift a single finger to help the ASDF maintainers, and that it is fundamentally impossible for someone to be wrong to ever refuse to merge a patch.

I suppose if we continue this analogy the argument that Stas is making is roughly "I've had to push this button like 3 times now, this is getting ridiculous, maybe if I let it crash this one time, the trolley company will stop sending trains down this track"
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I think the inability to see how they rebound off of others in their thinking and communication is a problem.

Mentorship, communications, even just basic professional behaviour.

All of this is learned, and you're learning all the time.

But ideas even, discussions, blackboards ... they don't happen over Zoom, especially without an appointment.

We don't get enough 'alone time' at the office, but 'group time' is incredibly important for all aspects of our work.

For some kinds of things, like 'going deep' for a few days, being alone is a godsend but it comes with a heavy price.

Also - just being around other professionals, putting on a pair of clothes designed for professional appearance, thinking about what you are going to say, i.e. 'being a professional' makes us almost all better people. It has it's drawbacks, but mostly it's good.

I think we're going to have to find the right, blended approach.

That said, what remote work does do is enable a kind of role-fitting that was never possible before. We have yet to contemplate the economic advantage of that - but that one comes along with a massive White Elephant: that everyone reading this will be displaced by someone working in a 'poor country' who is super sharp and who will work for 1/2 the salary.

Soft. Devs. think they are important until management can hire fully offshore for 1/3 the cost.

The arguments that a lot of people make against offshore apply almost as much to remote.
It depends on the jurisdiction but in general you have to file flight plans far in advance and request visas alongside that flight plan I believe. It's a lot of paperwork and fees.
Funny how I immediately imagined WW2 when I read 'Maikop'. Now I am down the rabbit hole on Wikipedia's Maykop culture :)
Hey, talking about friction.. in your pricing page you say https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/#managed-ssl-certificates

> Managed SSL certificates

> We use Lets Encrypt to issue certificates, and donate half of our SSL fees to them at the end of each calendar year.

> Single hostname certificates
> Free for the first 10
> $0.10/mo for additional certificates

> Wildcard certificates: $2/mo

So, if my pet project needs a wildcard certificate from the get go, I go from $0/month to $2/month before writing a single line of code... can I at least run acme on my own to cut this expense, or this is prohibited?

Actually, to think about it.. Let's Encrypt is free. Is charging for it a significant revenue stream? I would love to see the rationale for that, because it seems to me that this hits small customers disproportionately.
Yeah, this thing supports all popular apps, has Google Assistant, email, cloud sync..

I'd personally define "dumb phone" as one that doesn't use the internet at all, period.
Full paper, but it still seems to be very light on details, especially for a peer reviewed paper

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.15764
> A systematic review published today in the scientific journal Addiction has found that cannabis use leads to acute cognitive impairments that may continue beyond the period of intoxication.

Hm,

> "may continue beyond the period of intoxication"

that's a very different fact then "persistent cognitive impairments"

Like I think anyone can agree that cannabis during the time of consumption leads to cognitive impairment.

It's also not a secret that canabis can have residual effects if consumed too much. Which as far as I know decrease over time if you stop consuming it, i.e. "residual effects" not something I would call "persistent" effects.

What I can't tell is if the study fund long term effects besides this, or if it want to make it look like it found such.
Whether taking punches is healthier than weed or alcohol is of course questionable.
California had liberal medical Marijuana for decades and now legalized it and is economically fine.
Interesting analogy. Yeah, I tend to combine narrow observations and extrapolate them to see what happens on a societal scale. Speaking of Generals, I can imagine China/Russia drumming up pro-Marijuana narrative in US to cripple it from within. When 20% of the population is addicted to Marijuana with memory loss and obesity (munchies! hello), it is a good strategy. I mean, isn't that the reason China is banning video games - so teenagers don't waste time and contribute to the vision China has?

I am being a little frivolous but this is literally the kind of stuff I think about.
Now that's some nonsense.

iPhone was ways ahead in usability compared to everything else back then.

For all the faults of Apple, they needed to define how smartphones look like and act. Mobile OSes were horrible pain to use. People tolerated that because there was nothing else out there.
Don’t mind the negative comments below; it happens every time the crypto market takes a dive or is in a downward trend you get countless ignorant remarks from people like you did here.

Simply put, put BTC against any other asset over the past 10 years and your better off.
I used to wish to be a professional drummer. When I was 14 I attended a drum camp for a week to meet and learn from some of the world’s best drummers, along with other children and adults from around the UK with similar ambitions.

I became friends with one kid who was exceptionally talented as a musician, but also had a chronic marijuana habit. He was a better drummer than me at the time, but the drum camp was held every year. I attended the following year, and to my surprise, so did he.

As I am a huge nerd, I spent the entire year obsessively practicing. My friend spent the whole year smoking marijuana and being complacent. We were excited to see each other and catch up, but it wasn’t long before we started showing off our skills on the drum sets. His heart sank when he realised how dramatically my skills had surpassed his. I think he had a bit of an identity crisis, and likely as a consequence of the frequent substance abuse he developed a deep and blatant paranoia. He tried to commit suicide in his room the following day, and had to be removed from the camp.

I didn’t speak to him much after that — kids weren’t quite as connected as they are today back in 2005 — but to my surprise he did manage to contact me a couple of years ago. I asked him how he was, and he said he was doing better now after rehabilitation, but that life got much worse for him since we last met, explaining that he had been addicted to heroin.

I recognise that this is an extreme case, but I grew up with a lot of kids like this, and marijuana is scary as shit to me, despite some nerds today being adamant that it’s excellent and certainly better than alcohol.
So why smoke at all? Don’t you want to operate in life at your cognitive best?
No, it was a team choice.
>> Given the fed reversal, it's looking pretty clear that stocks will fall quite a bit further

It sounds like you have information that isn't already priced into the market. That's awesome. You can get rich.
> I know this study was not exactly opinionated, but the world shitting out and then people are also exhibiting symptoms of poor mental health…Quite the fucking coincidence if you ask me.

The alternative was having dead bodies stacked high in makeshift morgues like commandeered ice rinks with the military running frenetically to keep emergency field hospitals from collapsing while gather up the dead.

I know that because I lived through it in Spain in its first covid wave. I remember very vividly the army trucks speeding through the streets, and the covid hotline being totally overwhelmed without a better answer to give people beyond "just stay put and don't go to hospitals because they already can't cope". I recall experiencing covid symptoms which were gradually getting worse to the point I didn't knew I was going to wake up the next day, without anyone or anything to turn to. I recall their mobile app to report symptoms, and how they called back when I stopped using the app to perform a death check.

I also recall that rigorous 3 week lockdowns were all it took to decimate the spread of the disease and death rate, and how their effect is sabotaged by those who refuse basic higiene, health and safety measures like social distancing, washing hands, and wear a face mask.

Is it hard to endure a lockdown? Yes it is. But I lived the alternative first-hand and I need to say it is much much harder. Perhaps the hardest is seeing all these people actively sabotaging any chance to make covid stop being a problem
> Cannabis is the third most consumed psychoactive substance in the world (after alcohol and nicotine) and adolescents as well as young adults have the highest rates of cannabis use.

More than caffeine? Really?!
I don't know anything about you other than the two sentences that you just wrote up there, but I've known other people who have expressed similar sentiments. After years of struggling with this, they've determined that what's actually going on is that they in fact are depressed and have been for years, and their cannabis use has basically been self-medication of an anti-depressant. They thought it was cannabis withdrawal that was causing these symptoms, but what's actually been going on is that they were stopping treatment that was working (for other reasons, like "I don't want to be a stoner forever" or something)

They also reported the "bounce backs" as you do, but those were never permanent.

You have no reason to take this advice from someone random on the Internet, but I strongly recommend that you get yourself evaluated for depression or something related.
>It may not get me a fancy computer job, but I think I am happier on the whole anyway, giving myself to lisp.

I am the same way. I have been using Emacs since 1995, but have never had a full-time programming/IT job (although my tech skills have always been integral to my career). Perhaps having the luxury of not having to write code for pay is what makes me want to instead slowly learn Elisp. I read email using VM on Emacs (also since 1995), and over the last few years I have broken out of just knowing enough to maintain Emacs' dotfiles to actually writing substantial routines that expand on/fix VM and Emacs's capabilities.
What about TLS? We support it on both standard SMTP connections and for sending emails.
You're creating a strawman. I only said that our government has demonized self applied therapeutics and pushed vaccines only. There is no scientific reason to demonize therapeutics the way the institutions in the US have done. And what about the censorship? How can open debate happen when qualified individuals are shut down? It's all very anti-science and anti-democratic.
I was referring to a specific situation (a university campus) that already banned smoking from all indoor areas, and all outdoor areas within 100ft from buildings (could have been 200, I don't remember). The question was whether to ban it everywhere. That scene I used of the party was very accurate, you'd have about 1 in 20 people who smoked. You'd not bump into smokers in any other settings, basically. (You'd maybe see a random smoker smoking on their own far away from buildings.) This was early 2010s at a west coast university.
> (This is why T-Mobile in the US is now blocking Apple's "Private Relay" encrypted service and are complaining loudly - it's costing them sniffing-data-resale revenue.)

I'm fairly sure this was shown to be false. From memory, they were shown only to be blocking it on their "family monitoring" opt in plan - i.e where they sniff and intercept at the behest of the owner. As far as I know, no US mobile carriers are blocking it beyond this. Do you have evidence of this?

> The carriers are monitoring all of your unencrypted DNS traffic (and your unencrypted SNI traffic that starts all of your TLS/SSL connections that says to which hostname you're connecting) and selling it, alongside your phone number and name.

You're probably right they're collecting it, but adding PII and selling it doesn't pass the Litmus test for me. Do you have any evidence or sources of this?

Whilst the advice you provide is sound, it appears to be built on unfounded falsehoods.
> They are using the same SoCs across the compute modules and the products in cases, a lot of stuff is shared between them.

I'm aware, each device is essentially a "copy and paste" PCB with hardware repositioned - but because it is repositioned, there is no clear upgrade path. When a board breaks, you need to wait for another manufacturing run. The SBC from a PineTab won't work in a PineBook or a PinePhone or a A64 LTS board, despite them all having very similar capabilities, power requirements, etc.

Each of the boards also has their own set of hardware revisions, as "copy and paste" is never so straight forwards in hardware. They literally already have the answer to this problem though: standardize the hardware platform into modules.
I never finished Infinite Jest.

I wonder what he would have thought about Netflix.
Currently messaging providers like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have an obligation to scan images against centralized hash databases of known child abuse imagery. End to end encryption unburdens the providers because they don't know what the message content is.

This type of reporting catches people who are not just consumers, but are actively sharing and trading - in theory the people who might be directly abusing or trafficking children to produce content and may lead to organized rings. Given the direct evidence and the fact they find a ton more when they raid the house - they are slam dunk cases for the police.

I don't have any hard numbers, but as you suggest I believe the vast majority of cases where they are communicating directly with children are self or parent reported. These cases of course wouldn't go away with end-to-end encryption.
For the most part each "grouping" is left to govern itself, but the state will step in if they feel there is abuse. I remember reading basically the same story as this one: Police abusing their power to pull people over in a nearby interstate, and the state came in and completely disbanded the police force.

Different laws are set at different levels, and historically policing was always at the city level. Also building codes are often at the city level.

Voting is typically at the county level (which is a group of cities, or one very large city).

Etc, etc. There are customs for most of these laws, and which level of entity is in charge of them. And the "higher" level entity can step in if necessary, but usually does not.

Also typically a "sheriff" is a voted position, while police is appointed by the mayor. So ultimately they answer to the voters, either directly or through the mayor.
I'm not sure how a suicidal heroin junkie fucking up their life with hard drugs is relevant in a thread about cannabis. The whole "gateway drug" nonsense was debunked decades ago.
Exercise and healthy diets do not have the same effect on your mind as weed. I say this as a person who has a fairly healthy diet and exercises everyday.

Marijuana alters your state of consciousness. It enhances certain senses (taste being famous) but also allows for socializing and empathy. As a person who’s extremely narcissistic, it has helped me gain a lot of empathy by allowing me to “step aside” and observe my actions and those of others around me. And if you’re high with your partner, you can have a very fulfilling bonding experience (emotionally as well as sexually).

The only thing I’ve experienced come close is meditation. But that takes a lot of time and effort.
Out of curiosity, what was awful about the recent iPhone experience?