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> Authors (actually publishers) use that chapter to list the skills you should have to keep up with the book contents. More often than not, it’s misleading, downplays the expertise you need to have, and it sets the bar unrealistically low.

Opposite is often true for math textbooks. The authors of such texts overhedge unnecessarily, imo.

Open a textbook on, say, differential geometry. The prerequisite are: at least one course of real analysis, facility with linear algebra, knowledge of general topology, some familiarity with complex analysis, bla bla bla. If you are anything like me, upon learning about these prereqs you run off to learn all the ins and outs of nets and filters in topology and end up having studied and finished a textbook on functional analysis. When in reality all that was required for profitable reading of the original textbook on diff. geometry was ability to multiply two matrices together and not up and run in fear when coming across a phrase like "...by compactness argument".
The person you're responding to said "existed and were cheaper," but you seem to have ignored the second conjunct of their claim in your response.
> The house is invested in keeping stock prices stable and rising,

That's not really accurate - the goal of the Fed and all central banks is to keep prices stable and employment levels optimal. If inflation is going out of control then prices won't be stable and employment won't be optimal, in such a case the stock market might have to take a hit.
Also, it's pretty clear most central bankers understand the current inequality level is not good.
Go to bed early and wake up early - fill your Saturday and Sunday’s with 32 hours of consciousness doing nothing special first. You’ll find that the weekend will feel twice as long and make your work week that much easier to bare. Then see what activities/hobbies you gravitate to in those hours and try to support them with more deliberate focus.
Short to mid term inflation isn't that dangerous, sure ~5% loss isn't great but it's better then losing it all in the stock market. So I think being somewhat more liquid isn't the worst idea these days.

For smallish amounts (30k) you can buy i-bonds that have a 7% return.
Shared_ptr and unique_ptr are not replacement for raw C pointers. And the reason they are not blessed with language syntax is because user can and often do implement their own, so those two library types are not particularly special.
Vaccinated people suffer much less from a course of infection than unvaccinated, in all age groups.

Not necessarily 'long covid' stuff, just the basic injury that comes from the illness. I sure don't want to lose my sense of smell.

Even in young children, the consequences of infection appear to be worse statistically than the consequences of vaccination. It's of course not all that well understood yet, but for example, compare this syndrome that appears to be associated with Covid infection to the myocarditis due to vaccination:

https://www.cdc.gov/mis/mis-c.html

If you look at what pediatricians and epidemiologists with children are doing, they are being pretty cautious and are eager to vaccinate them.
> where will they park their retirement nest egg?

I imagine a good part of it is already parked in stocks.

But since it's s retirement nest egg and they're getting retired, won't they just start spending it?
> As for Rwanda, that’s moving the goalposts — there are many things which the Rwandan government has done which most of us do not approve of.

I am only moving the goalpost back to its initial position. Vaccine mandates are draconian - at least when the data is so weak as for SARS-CoV-2.
If you look at the 2009 crash, there is no such thing as diversification anymore. All asset classes around the world dropped except for US treasuries. There’s too much interdependency now among all asset classes. So thinking that diversification will save you from a systemic crash is wrong.
If the weights remain on the ground you can use a pulley system to load and unload weight, just put slack in the cable and lighten the load… Could even be automated with the right sensors.
That's true until you can't withdraw your funds from the house because the house was a degenerate and fucked with it.
it's beautiful for some people, typically living in highly privileged contexts... most people in the world never get anything worth from being born.
One thing that is not clear is if the current run up has some inherent defect or economic malfunction it's relying on. Of course its a bubble because we don't know and we will know only when it pops. However, what I am trying to get at is, the economists and fed is acting as if the free money (at close to 0 rates) given over the last decade and even more so the last 2-3 yrs is causing this run up in prices. If that is the case and the fed raises rates, I saw another report which says the market always goes up when rates are raised -- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/get-ready-for-the-climb-he...

Point is, even though intuitively it feels like the bubble is close to popping we are not sure about it.
WATCH OUT. Xanax is very addictive and should not be taken recreationally.
"Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, yet produces less than 20% of the world’s supply of calories."

https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

"So if this system is so ideal, why is it that my cow hasn’t tasted a blade of grass since October? Speed, in a word. Cows raised on grass simply take longer to reach slaughter weight than cows raised on a richer diet, and the modern meat industry has devoted itself to shortening a beef calf’s allotted time on earth."

https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/power-steer/
Using a custom ROM on my second-hand Mi A2 Lite enabled me access to Android 11. Next step is to flash an ungoogled ROM for maximum privacy.
The markets go up and down. Inflation, well...
It would be nice to have a registry of predictions about the stock market, so one could group them by person doing the predicting and their track record. Without that I personally cannot take seriously the stories about impeding stock market crash that appear basically all the time.
I thought the same, relegated to living in the slums that are Hinsdale.
I ran Linux on a 486 DX for quite some time including providing shells to people on IRC. Don't run X and it's more than powerful enough.
The problems you mentioned about type inference are valid, but this issue lies is any programming language which provides this feature, and a lot of languages which are promoted and looked upto on HN (like Haskell) heavily use type inference.

The simplest answer to your question of how to know what type the compiler will choose for type inferenced variables, is by compiling an example code snippet and printing out the type using either something like decltype or typeid (preferably the former).

But the thing is, the point of type inference is you want to abstract away the type, if you want to explicitly be aware of the type at all times, you should explicitly state it in declarations.

The issues described is inherent in the very notion of letting the compiler infer the type for you, which leads to this ambiguity.

If you want to avoid it, then best to be explicit, if you dont care about the type and are using typeinference to build compile time simple template functions using lambda and the type inferred parameters.
Then type inference is pretty handy and leads to easy to read code.

It’s a tool, when you feel it’s getting in your way at writing code, you remove the tool/feature from your code.
You're doing your company a great disservice if you think no great engineer had ever joined Meta.
It's pretty cool to get an up-to-date Linux working on such old hardware but I get the impression this kind of thing is going to get harder to do with the major distributions dropping support for 32 bit x86. I've been using NetBSD with older hardware.
Out of all the sites I visit on a daily basis, facebook clearly has the worst user experience out of them all, and that's counting the ad-infested local news that have jumping elements before click.
Not sure if I'm the victim of some test group, but the page loads so slowly, and stories become pretty much unresponsive. If I click exit on the first story, it just keeps playing at least 4-5 more stories before it eventually closes the page. I wonder if this is actually intended to make people look at more stories. Marketplace is another abomination which feels like it was thrown together by an intern. Useless filters, categorization of items super-bad, and again slow, slow, slow.
> more solitary individuals will regret not being more socially active and having fun

It's bizarre to me that some people think the opposite of "drinking alcohol" is "being solitary and having no fun". It seems like a lot of people have leaned on alcohol for so long that they've actually become convinced it's the only way.
For the most part auto follow the same rule as template argument deduction which is more than 20 years old.
I more or less quit alcohol when cannabis was legalized in Canada.

It’s a better recreational drug by pretty much every metric.

It only takes a few tens of milligrams of THC to get the desired effect vs 50+ grams of ethanol in an evening (that gets metabolized into carcinogenic acetaldehyde).

While we don’t fully know the safety profile of cannabis it’s obviously far safer than booze, especially when consumed with a dry herb vaporizer.

No hangover. I can wake up at 6am 7 days a week and work out.

A small amount allows me to instantly shed all work related stress at the end of a busy day/week and get in touch with my body, a process that without cannabis usually takes a few hours.

It makes sex better and boosts libido, unlike alcohol which can easily ruin a sexy evening if you have too much.

I can grow my own, providing a fun hobby.

It doesn’t cause any gastrointestinal issues, but in fact calms your gut. The opposite of alcohol.

It’s just better (for me) in every possible way. It enhances my life greatly.
> Smallpox and measles mandates worked.

(Vaccine mandates) and (mandatory passports everywhere) have failed

> And which western/first world nations actually had COVID mandates? The US sure didn’t.

Germany, Austria, Australia, France, Italy, ...
Crypto yo /s
What if the health care isn't overwhelmed? Which it isn't.

With that reasoning you can never remove the restrictions, because you never know if that would overwhelm the health care system.
He reaffirmed over and over again that he only invests within his sphere of competence and made clear that IT companies do not fall within the said sphere. Not investing in the said tech companies and remaining consistent to the markets he mastered best was a deliberate choice and one of the main reasons for his success.
I still sync; sync; sync.
Reiser anyone ;-)
I would assume that alcohol consumption makes people act less rationally, like having sexual intercourse when it would be better not to, leading to unplanned pregnancies. Evolution tends to favor behaviours which lead to more offspring.

I am not advocating this in any way of course, just pointing out why getting drunk might have evolutionary benefits besides not starving to death.
Short horizons just hold cash or short term govt bonds/I bonds and stomach the loss. Long horizons hold index funds and ignore the ups/downs/blog posts/talking heads. Nothing’s really changed.
Do you have a science-based argument for mandatory vaccines against SARS-CoV-2?
I'm not quite sure who this article is aimed at, and who those "C++ apologists" are, but as someone who programs in C++ all day, doesn't like it at all, and yet won't advocate to switch to Rust, these kinds of arguments are unconvincing. I'm not advocating to switch to Rust not because I don't think it's better than C++. I am absolutely, 100% convinced that Rust is technically better than C++ in most possible ways — in some, significantly better — and worse in almost no way. The problem is that, overall, it's not better enough.

Reevaluating a low-level programming language is something that's done in a large organisation or project once every 15-25 years or so. Switching such a programming language incurs a high cost and a high risk, and is a long-term commitment. To make such a switch, the new language obviously has to be better, but that's not enough. It has to be a hell of a lot better (and, if not, at least return the investment with a profit quickly).

For some, Rust is better enough. For me, not nearly so. Even though it offers a fascinating and, I think, ingenious path to better safety, it shares some of C++'s greatest downside for me, which is that they are both extremely complex languages. Maybe Rust is simpler, but not enough. Rust also shares what I think is C++'s original misguided sin, which is the attempt to create a low level language, whose code appears high-level on the page by means of a lot of implicitness. I've become convinced that that's a very, very bad idea.

If there were no other ideas on the horizon or if Rust seemed like a surefire success, it might have been justified to make such a switch, but that's not the case. Rust's low adoption rate in professional settings is not reassuring to "PL-cautious" people like me, and a language like Zig shows that there are other approaches that appeal to me more, and while more revolutionary and ambitious than Rust in its departure from C++'s philosophy, I think it also has the potential to be better enough. Maybe it will make it, and maybe it inspires some other language that will, or maybe other ideas will turn up. Given the risk and commitment, to me it makes sense to wait. I don't like C++; I believe Rust is better. But that's not enough.
More so housing prices because a large chunk of the financial system is based around house prices. If house prices drop by 25%, it can collapse entire financial systems from the fallout.

The only problem is that the fed really doesn’t have much more it can do. Interest rates are too low right now and the market can easily lose faith in the Fed which means utter chaos could occur and deflation will run rampant.
That's interesting thanks, although just from the delta it is not obvious how it fix things; I'll have to read it eith the full context.

So is launder needed for anything now?
Don't work for these people.
This comes off as rather petty, impetuous and dictatorial.
>>Meanwhile my most recent clothes purchase was 6 identical plain black t-shirts.

I do slightly better, find a shirt I like, then buy identical set in 5 colors, and I am all set until next years shopping 'spree' of $60 (5x$12)
Delete it and try again.

The title sounds a little cringeworthy to me because it sounds like it is about the fake controversy about the Bernoulli Principle.

The Bernoulli Principle doesn't explain lift from aircraft wings at all (particularly in that the 'angle-of-attack' is so critical to lift) and all reference to it should have been excised circa 1960 but oddly it has survived in this narrative that there are two competing theories about lift that has chronically survived in places like the manual for the 1980 Microsoft Flight Simulator.
How about rather instead of suggesting OP lean on a different substance for finding meaning and enjoyment in their free time, we offer suggestions for what a substance-free weekend might look like?
Inquiry. Using all our mental gifts to test an assertion’s truth.

- Do the numbers add up? Fake numbers often don't.

- Does the narrative have a logical flow? Lies often break apart (careful! Consipracy theories are often very consistent)

- Aethetics. Lies are often repulsive to our soul (Nazism, socialism -> see nihlism). Careful again; sometimes its “the ugly truth”

- Dialectic (for lack of a better word. Not Hegel’s type. Whatever that was). Engage and hear out someone who disagrees

- Meditate. Close your eyes and release. And overlooked Truth might pop up.

- Look around you. Does the narrative fit your observed reality? Careful! There’s observational bias.

Keep tabs of who has the courage to defend positions they disagree with.

Keep tabs of those who reveal themselves sycophants
Controlling complex systems with artificial intelligence
> The stock market at 2x US GDP has concerned many for quite some time

Genuinely curious, since the stock market is global, can’t it be twice the US GDP without it being a significant problem?
The Fed wants inflation. It’s deflation they are concerned about and something that could happen when super bubbles deflate.
Which is, incidentally, why you can also write `index[var]`. `[]` is really just a convenience for `*(var + index)`. In fact that's exactly how the standard defines it (or at least defined it as of C11, I've not checked more recent versions):

> A postfix expression followed by an expression in square brackets [] is a subscripted designation of an element of an array object. The definition of the subscript operator [] is that E1[E2] is identical to (*((E1)+(E2))).
Shall we also start making moral judgements about the city or country you live/lived in? The products you choose to purchase? The schools you chose to attend? The political party you choose to support? The religion you are or aren’t a part of? The sports teams you support?

Shall we look down on NASA engineers because it’s part of the US government and pulls heavily from the US military/has overlap with the intelligence services/some of its top secret projects maybe do things I’m morally opposed about?

This kind of guilt by association is pretty bad and that’s the pushback you’re seeing in this thread. Humans are social animals. No social group will be without it’s flaw and larger groups have more and larger problems. This same line of reasoning is what fuels religious and political persecution. It’s barely acceptable in sports but that’s because it’s mostly harmless and in good fun until you hit riot levels of idiocy. Heck, the big tech companies are massive. They have so many individual teams that do totally unrelated stuff to the things you might have issues with.

As for the bitterness someone else noted, it’s not that you stated your values. You went further and made the claim that these engineers would have trouble finding jobs outside of SV because of the association. That part is blatantly false on its face. They may have trouble because of niche skills that aren’t relevant elsewhere because the scale doesn’t exist elsewhere. Are there some employers who won’t hire us because of our association with some company? Sure. So? I’ll not choose companies for myriad of arbitrary reasons too. That doesn’t mean I’ll struggle to find a job overall.

As an aside, I find it a bit telling that you lump Netflix into it and then your primary complaint about the company was that they canceled a show you are attached to. That’s not even about morals and is fairly arbitrary. This is why there’s feedback that it looks like you’re salty about something unrelated and note you’ve attached a larger reason behind it based on morals.
> You think they're throwing away product by over applying fertilizer?

They need to overapply fertilizers because by now that's the only way anything grows in most places after decades of soil mismanagement, due to a wide-spread disregard of sustainable practices in favor of "fast results, fast money" over-fertilizing [0].

Rotating crops to keep the soil fertile sounds nice in theory, in capitalistic practice it's not popular because demand for different crops is not interchangeable, so rotating crops means industrial scale operations miss out on valuable growing months, labor and resources, growing a product that's not as profitable.

The "fix" is to just keep applying fertilizers to keep growing those high demand crops because industrial scale operations also think like corporations; It's all about the financial returns in the short-term, not about long-term sustainability.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210112125215.h...
Interesting - I still have my good old note 3 as daily driver, although my use case has changed (It is the need for better modem/antenna tech) that makes me upgrade.

I am testing the IPhone 13 now. It is quite a jump in UX, hardware capability (5G, camera, storage space not so much). Also, your flashlight app does not spy on you.

The Note 3 was truly a masterpiece when it came into the market. Also, the the exchangeable battery was very practical. And 8+ years in use: what a economical and ecological device.

If I find some time, I will have a look at lineageOS. Any hints?
Yes and no. While some cells may be impossible to rejuvenate otherwise, there are few reasons why we cannot just exchange many organs for dish grown ones, i.e artificially grown kidneys. For others like blood stem cells, we many extinguish the existing ones and add replace them by fresh ones that lack any pathogenic somatic mutations every so often. Even parts of the brain may be replaced one by one, though I assume such a technology is quite far away (compared to the other two that may be possible in the next 2-3 decades).
Ireland is on the tail of their omicron peak ( based on cases, hospitalizations, and icu beds). Ireland has a very high vax percentage, well over 90+ in the covered groups, with high penetration of boosters as well.

The case peak from omicron was 7x the delta numbers, hospitalization numbers were 2x, and icu was actually down.

I feel like omicron has burned through here, and there’s not a huge risk to opening at this point.

At the point when we have another infectious strain going around, they’re going to have to reevaluate, but that’s later.
I am also a teetotaller. In my youth I watched peers drink, seek alcohol, get drunk, crash/burn etc - apparently with great joy. As for me, I got tired, lost coordination, etc, but had no apparent 'joy of getting a little/fully drunk'.
As a result, I ordinarily never drunk alcohol = waste of $$/zero apparent pleasure/abandoned it. That said, the herd effect where other drinkers act to coerce drink for drink matching was in play - so the zero alcohol drink became my choice, I drank coke by design. If someone grabbed my drink = pew, I said I was driving - an acceptable defence. Works well, saves $$ and lets me run with the herd...
I dread interviews. I am an engineering manager, a product guy and have a long track record of finding creative solutions to problems, convincing leadership at all levels and executing on it. However, I suck at coding and coming up with solutions on the fly. I need that extra time to think through because I don't have every possible tech solution in my TLB buffers, I need to page them from main memory or even disk sometimes. So I end up failing interviews by default, so much that I stopped trying to move. It helps that I am doing quite well in my current role and am happy, but missing out on growth up the ladder.