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The original PCWorld article linked in the Macworld article compares three different laptops (Asus AMD, MSi Intel 11th gen, MSi Intel 12th gen). All three have 1080p resolution displays.

How are three high end laptops from two vendors "exactly one specific version of one exact laptop"?
I'd say that the only reason that we have so many posts on the topic is because org-mode has a learning curve ))

We all recognize the importance of learning from experience, and we all recognize that we cannot reliably remember everything important. So the question becomes - where to store it.

Then the question becomes how to organize it. Do we optimize for quick writes or quickly finding things? Do we optimize for space? Is appearance important? Syncing to mobile devices? Reminders? Right-to-Left writing support? Must the data be in plain text files? Must there be multiple implementations of the technology? Does it run on Linux / Windows / Mac? Does it leak private information? Can I recover it? Does it support embedded images / video / audio / flowcharts / etc.

Etc etc etc
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> China has no freedom of speech

whoever wrote that into "illegalwords.zh-CN.en.txt" must have been aware of the irony...
Judging by the sad state of Android, I am confident that the main cause is Google hiring people who grind Leetcode and "crack their interviews". So yeah It's necessary I would say.
Joe Rogan is mainstream media. He’s not some “rando” sticking it to the man. He’s not some guy with a mic and a laptop recording a show and putting it online. He was famous before he started podcasting and he’s getting paid millions of dollars by a corporation to speak exclusively on their platform. The true con in all of this is that Joe Rogan has managed to convince so many people he’s just like them. He’s horoscopes and crystals for people who think they’re intellectuals.
My memory is not good enough to go by what I can recall, so by necessity I live in my notes.

For me the notes are my long term memory and all I have to actually remember is what I’m currently working on. They are organized for easy retrieval (hierarchical, topical and searchable), and I do regular refactoring on my notes to improve retrievability and archive outdated material.
> Why it's easy to understand because it's declarative

Whoever came up with that ... XSLT or Prolog are declarative yet I challenge both of them to be hard to understand
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> There's extensive coverage of Tokyo, by comparison. It's interesting to see the high-density housing blocks and street-level activity. (The "let's increase housing density" crowd from Strong Towns should watch those videos.)

Hmm, visiting Tokyo (which is even better than watching videos) didn't make me change my opinions about high-density housing. Quite the opposite, in fact.
I still remember the very moment I first got my 1200 bps ISA modem to connect. It probably greatly influenced my life trajectory.
> Laws exist, so there are no crimes?

More if you don’t trust journalists to be honest when they at least try to establish norms of behaviour you should trust some random person even less. Both are amenable to corruption.
I'm watching "Dopesick" at the moment, and I'm beginning to understand why people don't trust medical professionals and Big Pharma.

Any call to trust journalists should be met with hoots of derision - I've worked with journalists and they (as a general rule) are not interested in "the truth", or in balance, but in creating a good story that will generate interest and go over well on Twitter.

There is a fundamental conflict of interest in Western society: people who are supposed to be trustworthy and are trusted to act for the public good are also allowed, even encouraged, to make as much money as they can from that position. Until we solve this, we are right to not trust too much.
I think it's generally just for high applicant count SDE1 level roles and similar.

Higher level roles and senior roles focus more on system design and offloading more responsibility for you solving their technical stack problems.
The paper presented declarative configuration as a contrast between the SSI approach and the k8s approach. I don't think it is.

It is useful to have both the fitted arrangements and operator interaction.

In addition to giving operators power to make changes in production, the command line is useful for development. Devs can develop in a one-host grid and interact with it in a repl-like way. Contrast this to traditional workflow where the deployment environment is quite different to the development environment. This encourages devs to work with the grain of the platform and discourages the "it works on my machine" dynamic.
The real answer is no, but after interviewing earlier this year the actual answer in practice is an astounding YES.

There are two options of leet code: some compound algorithm that you would never use in production coded live or homework conducted over 4-6 hours on your own time. Given the extreme subjectivity of software hiring I am not inclined to do either. The homework approach is far more practical and realistic but is a complete waste of time. Never do hiring homework without grading criteria supplied in advance.

There are far more effective ways of assessing competence with simple cognitive exercises unless you are in an area of software that doesn’t primarily favor competence, such as preferences towards tools.
Side question, I believe, there was some startup in the early 2000 or maybe in the dotcom bubble era, they were selling "brain-enhancing tools" which were akin to MS Clippy Office Assitant + marketing sauce on top. And iirc they got to an insane market cap and then it all popped.

Could anyone remind of the name?
I don't get it; that's just how URLs work? This is hardly unexpected behaviour in my opinion. They're not always required, it's a matter of expectation and understanding of how relative URLs work.

You can see /1.0 as a file and /1.0/ as a directory, so the relative URLs make perfect sense either way.
Audi's MMI. It's has Google Earth/Maps and TomTom logos in areas of the interface, but the interface feels quite tightly integrated with the car's non-media features so I presume it's a combination of own and lease.

It looks like this: https://oldeststars.com/images/cd0008d03482460438c9ac135b372... (not my picture)
> No one likes this dance of "do they want seniors at half my current rate?".

This is the reason I don't even bother with permanent roles in startups anymore. Every time the budget ends up being disappointing and about half my current income.

Even worse when they approach me on a platform where they can see my profile & history and infer very well what I currently make and still proceed to pitch me their terrible role.
No, it was at best the same, US was never worse - and only much better after the abolition. The sad fact is that these anarchist places devolved into feudalism/slavery and then straight into warlordism. The only difference was that the people weren't called slaves directly.
I do, just usually save it for when I'm on a proper computer. (Piped is my fav altfront for YT so far BTW)
Add StackOverflow jobs to the mix.
Please define the use of the term 'grinding leetcode'.

Is it:

a) Having a good score on the actual leetcode website as a prerequisite for an offer/interview.

b) Using the actual leetcode website to practice for a technical interview?

c) Practicing some other way using leetcode style data structure and alogrithm problems. e.g. working on the Cracking The Coding Interview book.

Personally I've never seen any recruiter or interviewer mention leetcode by name. But I've certainly been asked to practice leetcode style problems.
That's not my point. My point is that Substack pretending to defend "free speech" is deeply misleading, and probably delusional, if they believe it themselves.

Substack is not a white knight of liberty, it's the product of a time and a place, and as such is subject to external forces (the customs of said time&place). When those change, so will Substack, theories about "freedom" notwithstanding.
Crappy computers or crappy anti-malware solutions? My Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 with AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U and 32GB memory is not the fastest machine but plenty fast when forced in boost mode. In Windows-to-go on an external USB3 spinning rust drive at least.

Running the corporate OS however is a whole different story:

- Symantec Endpoint Protection with SONAR enabled, scanning at every file access

- CarbonBlack Response Sensor

- Hive Streaming

- Riverbed Steelhead Mobile

- BeyondTrust Defendpoint

- Nexthink sensor that were installed because people were (are) having performance issues

- Probably other stuff I've missed

Kernel times are through the roof when I look at Task Manager.

Suffice to say, this computer is plenty fast and does its job better when booting Windows from an external harddrive than it does on its internal NVME SSD running the corporate install. Everything is faster, from running git to running builds and automated testing.
Hmm, I wonder if I could land one of those SDE1 level roles despite having a lot of years of experience on my resume. I don't need a lot of money.
Jabs?
I think it's mostly procrastination. Spending time on tools and methods means avoiding doing any actual work. For 99% of cases, just writing down a few points with pen and paper will do the job. Most of the value of note taking comes from writing it down anyway (which helps memorize it), not actually reading the notes at a later point in time.
The point remains, maybe as an autistic person they don't like eye contact or sitting still but that's where discipline comes into it.
Skip the service, don't skip over the theory, the handbook ought to be enough https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
Just be useful.
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens also gets touched upon in the HN discourse on Note taking apps.

One of the salient points made in the book is the idea that externalising thought is:

1. Helps us with our internal thinking
2. Is difficult to do

Personally as a user of Obsidian, i'm here for it. I want to take notes, they help me in numerous ways and i'm interested in the structure and approach in which I take notes.

I'd draw a parallel between note taking systems and efficiency systems in the workplace. It's good to apportion sometime to getting better at stuff and I feel often there's a discourse on what the proportion should be.
“When the phone system went electric”

I have trouble getting past this sentence. Did they mean “digital”?
No fear, it's just a mild and hygienic form of compulsive hoarding.
Instead of cluttering up the house your physical form is living in, you do it with the mental doll house in your head you're really living in.
I have new MBP 14', and even external fiio E10k headphone amp. They work great with my Sennheisers HD 650, but suck with WH-1000mx3 compared to internal AMP.
As far as I thought, that’s why she does this, her technical skills and her appearance don’t align only if you have a preconceived notion about how she should look
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>The anti-work movement is goodin the sense that it is waking people up to spending all their lives working for terrible bosses and companies.

It didn't wake anyone up to anything - everyone except perhaps the entitled rich has been perfectly aware of this ever since the days of the Industrial Revolution. Go watch Metropolis, made in 1927, where the plight of the working class is illustrated as oppressed factory workers literally being thrown into the furnace mouth of Moloch.

People don't put up with work because they're blind to its nature, they put up with work because they have no alternative in a purely capitalist system in which survival can only be rented by the labor class, not owned. But what is the anti-work movement's answer to this? Just don't work? That's not feasible for most people.
It’s legit if the man says it’s legit.
A safe and healthy workplace is one thing. Also, a stable schedule (which may actually involve advocating for more working hours). To say that workers' only concern is that they have to actually work is a rather blinkered perspective I think.

Separately, I'm not sure who you are referring to by "the men in suits" but the large majority of men in suits I know (lawyers, accountants, finance professionals) work crazy hours.
> We shouldn't accept it though and there is a massive double-standard in the treatment of the merit of women who are also sexy and men who are also sexy. We don’t question the merit of Ronaldo as a footballer because he also uses his body in a sexy way to advertise for example.

Of course we do! I'm not into football, but several of my friends who are dislike him explicitly because of this.
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So that is then evidence that there are stupid dolphins :)
Does this mean I've been eating bad rice for years? There are many times I cook rice on the weekend and eat it throughout the week (stored in the refrigerator)

Never seems to get 'bad' only dry. Throw some water in to steam it up in the microwave and its usually fine
It's so awesome that this site is still online.
SO jobs is shutting down in a few weeks, sadly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023343
> But you've really got your head up your own ass if you convince yourself that you are protecting people by deciding the information that is appropriate for them to be exposed to.

The main point, from my POV, is that it's already being decided which information is appropriate for people to be exposed to, by "the algorithm" guessing which posts are most likely to get people to engage, and exposes them to those.

I don't particularly think censorship is the option. Unfortunately, the European Parliament just rejected a proposal to ban personalised algorithms in general, but I wouldn't be surprised if we'd need something like that to deal with this.
> It's Spotify telling artists and content creators that it won't be a part of either their political statements or grudges.

I realize I'm pulling a quote out of context from your comment, itself a specific reply to another comment. That being said:

This doesn't seem to address what I understand to be the issue. I would draw a distinction between political statements based on differences of opinion/perspective and statements that target misinformation. If one believes that the latter is at play, this distinction is relevant, and the idea is somewhat codified (with some variations) in the free speech, hate speech, and libel laws of many jurisdictions for reasons that seem justifiable to me.

More specifically, I would have a problem with Spotify engaging in specific political disputes between artists on their platform. I wouldn't have a problem with Spotify adapting their terms to target misinformation on their platform, assuming this was done in good faith and enforced reasonably.
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Please don't mistake what I've said for whataboutism. The Muslim rules about women that the Taliban abide by are a lower level of civility. Full stop.

We've had similar disconnects between civilisations on other topics such as slavery, brigandry, serfdom, duels, witch trials, honor killings, torture, debtors prison, capital punishment and such, which improved and in some cases even disappeared as various peoples attained higher levels of civilisation.

That said, being "less bad" compared to some others isn't a laudable accomplishment. Honestly investigating your weak spots is an important aspect to growth.
> This is one of those "made up problems" as it only exists because you insist in doing magic, i.e. mapping /foo to either /foo/index.html or /foo.html.

If the underlying resource (web server) is Linux, then there is no magic. In Linux, everything is a file, including directories (maybe in Unix too, I don't know, I only work with Linux). So e.g. `/var/www/foo` is the same resource as `/var/www/foo/`. But without the context of the underlying filesystem being available to query that (e.g. with the `file` command) there is no way to know that `/foo` refers to a directory.
Mitnick using social skills to get a pincode for a door is also hacking even though he didn't need use any computer commanding skills.
> Do remember that the Panama Papers whistleblower got mysteriously car-bombed.

Remember? As far as I am aware the whistleblower is still anonymous. Where did you get your information?

People who believe the elite control the media seem to often be very credulous towards claims that don't come from elites.
We moved all our apps to AWS ECS. Developers happy. Kube was installed by hired consultants, after they left it was real struggle. Then we moved to ECS.
It's not disagreement, you are being flippant here.
Rogan is promoting alternative facts, such that are life threatening to those who believe them.

Facts are not stories you can agree or disagree on.
In my experience the vast majority of people who use the phrase "mainland China" in Guangdong - and especially Pearl River Delta area - are using it to mean "not Hong Kong or Macau". Taiwan is really not part of the consideration for most people in Guangdong.
As I noted, adversarial wordle shows that no words take 6 guesses and only 2 words take 5 guesses (BOOZY and BOOBY.)

If you removed just 1 of those 2 words (leaving 2312 possible Wordles) all Wordles can be solved in max 4 guesses.

Ignoring the 2 scenarios where your first two "optimal" guesses are the Wordle

X% of the time you have 1 word left (guesses= 3)

Y% of the time you have 2 words left (guesses =3.5)

(100-Y-X)% of the time there is a pool of words left, requiring one more "optimal" guess

And either your optimal guess #3 is the Wordle Z% of the time (guess=3) or there is now one word remaining (guess ≈ 4)

Where Z in this case is just a function of the number of words remaining (ie Y is just a special case of Z)

So you want to maximize X and the weighted average of Z across pools.

By sheer brute force you can do so

1) for each 2 guess combo
2) discard any "suboptimal" combo where for any remaining response state word pool there is no optimal guess #3 (ie not possible to definitively guess in 4 guesses)
3) calculate avg remaining guesses
4) identify optimal word 1 (minimum of sum of step 2 per first guess)
5) within combos with word 1, identify optimal guess 2 for each response state

And the weighted average of step 3 for these combos is the global minimum for Wordle.

I believe this is the algorithm you're after? In this case, we're making a first guess that maximizes the chance we will get 3 guesses instead of 4.

Per this algorithm, optimal guess 1 is RAVED.
This is the 'official' explanation, and definitely true.

But most of it is selling that next productivity upgrade that we communally all seem to obsess over here. People sharing their note graphs is the same as the guy on youtube with a sixpack promising a new and revolutionary 5 minute ab routine.

And while the 5 minute ab routine certainly won't harm you, that body was built from months of discipline and required a full fitness routine, as well as careful calorie counting.

Just like actual productive note taking and creative thinking is about spending time with your notes every day, and not the software.
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Ah wow! This is so obvious to use AirPlay to manage them. Thank you! Will see how this goes.
Why is it a problem that she employs people to help with her work? Putting out novel and high quality videos at a constant rate is hard.

Despite a lot of popular youtubers giving off the vibe of being one-person shows, most employ production assistants and editors.

Besides, (old) Top Gear was one of the most beloved shows of all time, which constantly featured segments where the Clarkson-Hammond-May trio was implied to make various contraptions, which were clearly made by the production staff. Not once did I feel like that it detracted from the enjoyment.

So as long she puts out high quality content, no one should mind that what she does is 'movie magic' in part.
>But wanting to "organize life", "track thoughts and ideas", "never forget what you learned", etc, are symptoms, not cures.

It's the inverse.

Note-taking might be a symptom of OCD or autism disorders (that can make people compulsively take notes or enjoying collecting information in itself), but they are cures (or, rather, coping strategies) for ADHD.

ADHD is not manifested as "tendency to take notes" for note-taking to be a symptom.

It's manifested as tendency to be disorganized, to have trouble tracking thoughts, forgetting, etc - which makes note-taking a way to manage symptoms.

It's looks like you fell for the "correlation equals causation" fallacy, not in a study, but in a simple real life observation that should have been trivial to see the right casual direction!
I had a faang recruiter actually suggest to me to grind on leetcode… a week ago. So apparently they themselves think it’s helpful.
It is if you want to work for a FAANG.

Step 0: manage to get an interview

Step 1: do 300 leetcode problems

Step 2: fail ("you're almost there")

Step 3: do 500 problems

Step 4: take interview

Step 5: land $300K job (see salaries on levels.fyi, depends on country and level) and relocate) + tons of benefits, include remote work nowadays

Step 6: Struggle with legacy code, buggy internal tools, stressful performance reviews, strong colleagues who set the bar very high, high turn-over, oncalls. But the money is real, and overall management and colleagues are pragmatic and skilled.

I assume a smart/lucky/fast thinking guy can do with less than 500 problems. I also assume that as these recipe is getting well-known, difficulty of problems is going to increase.

Also not that this work even if you didn't graduate from a top school, even if you don't have significant experience, even if you're an older candidate. In that sense, these companies don't lie on the "equal opportunity" stuff. It's all about how much you're willing to grind these problems.

Other may offer counter opinion, but this was my experience as well as other new recruits.
Because if you want to learn Rust, make money on the blockchain, or engineer optimal colonies of bacteria in your gut, it helps to write down and keep track of all the complicated stuff you learn.

Seriously though, I think Hackernews is making up for all the notes they didn't take in college as they expected to breeze through on smarts alone.
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As far as I can see, this person didn't act like a leader of the movement at all except by founding the subreddit and deleting the inevitable spam and porn links. Does they have any posts where they is acting like a leader?
I remember getting a book on spirituality whose author is an attractive young woman. She had rather suggestive photos of herself throughout the book and the book's content had nothing to do with the photos (and it was wasting space, the book would have been a few pages shorter without the photos). The book itself was pretty good, but it was really annoying to see her photos everywhere. There is not one reason for suggestive photos and yet here we are.

This to me, is disingenuous. If I am attending a math lecture, I do not want to see my professor's abs (or balls or whatever) even if he was the most attractive man on the planet.

The problem (at least to me) is not that Naomi is wearing skimpy clothes. The problem is her channel has nothing to do with fashion (or women empowerment etc). It can be a completely fun and educative channel, instead there is more discussion about her clothes than the good stuff she makes and the good education she provides. All the while claiming she is not trying to be sexualized. All this unnecessary controversy can probably be shut down if she had two channels - one for fashion and one for electronics.

Having said all that, maybe we should grow up as a society and learn to not put so much thought into body parts. I get that viewpoint too.
IIRC old telephone lines used to work without electricity not sure if they’re alluding to that. I don’t know how much the modern cellphone infra is grid dependent.