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This is nice advice from Tim Minchin's 9 Life Lessons speech:

> Americans on talent shows always talk about their dreams. Fine, if you have something that you’ve always dreamed of, like, in your heart, go for it! After all, it’s something to do with your time… chasing a dream. And if it’s a big enough one, it’ll take you most of your life to achieve, so by the time you get to it and are staring into the abyss of the meaninglessness of your achievement, you’ll be almost dead so it won’t matter.

> I never really had one of these big dreams. And so I advocate passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals. Be micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you… you never know where you might end up. Just be aware that the next worthy pursuit will probably appear in your periphery. Which is why you should be careful of long-term dreams. If you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.

Full video/transcript: https://www.timminchin.com/2013/09/25/occasional-address/
Hard to beat this one. Now whenever I use a bathroom that doesn't have one I feel like a filthy barbarian
I meant that. Telegram was symbolic for how the freedom of some can impair the freedom of others. I have nothing against e2e encryption or privacy but as I said my liberterian worldview starts to crumble … toward what? I dont know
I am 60 but very active and fit. Can't overstate the importance of it. It makes me feel young and I am constantly working on new projects, have lots of energy and general positive outlook. Clients do not believe my age when they see me. They think I am 40. Meanwhile at one point (year 2000) I was total physical and mental wreck after working as a lead architect for a company. Went on my own since then.

What I do - My daily exercise routine is - 2 hour cardio
(hike, cycle, swim if summer) and every other day 4 sets of 20 chin ups or 4 sets of 20 triceps dips for strength. Cardio takes time, strength does not as I have bars right close to my computer in my office.

Sure, one day it will all go downhill and I'll croak but for now I enjoy the life just as well as when I was 20.
> How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

> I am turning 35 years soon

35 is not old... this post is almost offensive.

But spoiler, it's going to get worse. At 35, you don't look old yet. At 40-45, ageism really starts to kick in and a lot of things get harder: e.g. dating, holding a technical job ...

What to do? most people have kids and revise their goals. Some put all their energy into work or hobbies. Some start to drink (very common after 40).
Right, write the same article about Jan 6 and people at the Capitol Building, and few would blink an eye.

In that case, I don't think any any attempts were made to burn it down, or a federal courthouse building which has zilch to do with their grievance and isn't even the right branch of government. Then people ask, how did we get here? When the past year of activism made mobbing government buildings placing them under siege for weeks and trying to burn them down the acceptable norm with little done to stop it or condemn it in the media, its not hard to see why the other extreme might think its their time to shine. The pearl clutching is amusing to me.
(Not an official answer, I'm just a regular user)

The ranking is a function of votes, flags, and time. Not all votes are equal, as some votes are determined to be correlated via voting-ring type considerations.

But if a submission gets four or five independent votes very shortly after submission then it can easily make the Front Page. It won't happen if the votes trigger the voting-ring detector, or if the submission is flagged by someone.

Why do you ask? Why are you surprised? What other reading have you done before asking the question?
For what it's worth:

My biggest product came just from a random easy project that happened to touch a very large market and a growing user-base with a need. It was quite boring and trivial. But very annoying library and space.

My biggest project that I have spent months and months of my life, that has been very fun and challenging, has made a small pittance.

I've definitely learnt a few lessons these past few years.
It works and is IMO quite okay because NA is not the same as NaN (not a number). NA _does_ actually stand for a number, it's just that we don't know it.

Which is an interesting detail in R that should be mentioned anyway, the difference between NA and NaN. Anyone used to languages which just NaN may confuse NA for that non-value.

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2012/08/difference-between-na-and...

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html... (lots of details how NA and NaN are handled)

Except - 1^NaN also is 1... now that IMO is wrong. But you can try the same in your browser's JS console and you will get 1 as a result too, so R is not the only one.

There are several NA values in R - NA_integer_, NA_real_, NA_complex_ and NA_character_, and the results will be different if you use some of them. NA_character_ and NA_complex_ will produce errors (different ones).
Switching from a mouse to a multitouch trackpad completely resolved my wrist pain, and I find gestures essential to productivity now.

I started off with a Fingerworks trackpad; this is the company Apple bought to bring in multitouch technology. Then when Apple’s trackpads got big enough and supported enough gestures, I switched to those.
Some people want to know when something was built. Better option is to use Git commit of build or even last-modified of the file it's being embedded into. Alternatively, allow a env var to override what date/time the software thinks it is.
If you play a guitar, get something like Hercules GS414B stand. It locks the guitar when you put it, so it's very hard to be knocked out by kids or yourself. Then it's safe to keep the guitar near the place where you usually sit and then you'll play much more often.
My location is incorrect and there is no manual way to specify my location to find breweries.
I’d suggest you’re talking about “a definition” not “the definition”. Merriam-Webster is just a dictionary, not the final authority on the meaning of words.

“The definition” would refer to how people actually use the word, and examples of pre-2020 writing (as I gave) where e.g. the vaccine for Marek’s is called a vaccine would suggest merriam-webster’s definition was too limited.

That said, I think the old Merriam-Webster definition still applies to the covid vaccine anyway, so this is a bit of a side conversation. “ produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease” an increase of immunity suggests that this definition also covers leaky vaccines.

The definition update seems to be more about, as sibling poster said, the first part of the definition not covering mRNA or toxin based vaccines accurately.
I don't know the JIT internals, but just ignoring them I'd point fingers on the setBit(x) = "load byte from mem into reg, set some bit in reg, write back reg to mem". Now it's just a "write byte to memory", which is much faster at the expense of using more storage (factor 32 or 64, probably 64). Though I am surprised caching doesn't mitigate this.
> The susceptibility of these systems to completely failing on weird inputs shows that it's a kind of massive memorization going on here, rather than true understanding.

Isn’t that a truism? “Understanding” is equivalent to AGI. Nobody would argue that we have AGI yet, but the intelligence-sans-understanding is somewhat similar to animal intelligence, which was the precursor to human intelligence. What should scare us is that we know that animal to human was not a difficult step evolutionarily.
Makes sense, thanks for explaining.
Wow! Thanks for that. I've just started skimming it and the number of features it has is formidable!

>> It constantly monitors the phone for status and disables any other access to the phone by previous/other jailbreaking software. Pegasus also contains a complex self-destruct mechanism which completely removes it from the phone.
+1 for rice cooker. So versatile and so convenient
Why Did a Fish Have Fossilized Feces Where Its Brain Once Was?
> have about $500k in savings. I am single and haven't had a serious relationship for many years now.

You have wealth, a good set of skills, etc.

My advice is to work on yourself. Some basic rules:

1. Focus on personal growth - fitness, hobbies, health and goals (build self-esteem).

2. Find social groups - church, clubs, w.e. This helps foster relationships and a sense of community.

3. Build something. Could be a house, furniture, what have you.

Some basic, pretty universal truths:

We, as humans, seek a community. Whether people like to admit it or not, we want community, family, mates, and offspring. The majority of us need those things to feel fulfilled. We need support and we want to feel affection.
i second the recovery from addiction as a catalyst for growth in emotional maturity.
I've come up with an algorithm (the same as the AI's) for solving that linear system using a CAS. Feels relevant because this breakthrough is heralding an era of much more powerful CASes.

We're getting close to an era where the drudgery in maths can be automated way.
If you work with your arms and your arm hurts, you cannot work. Vaccine has also other side effects for a couple of days so it's not that simple.
I got a sage (breville I’m the US) barista pro and love it, no heat up time as it uses a heat pump, great grinder and easy to clean. I make at least two coffees a day, every day for over a year and it’s never missed a beat.
Another +1 for health, which is easy to improve by exercising. I started exercising (simple pushups and pullups) in 2019 and running a year ago. My social life has improved by this as well, it's just easier to do things when you're healthy. People also start making remarks about my physique, which is also nice :)

I was lucky to make new intimate friends as well around that time, which also really helps feeling connected. Exercise you just do, but for friendship you need some luck.
Edit: also, if you have $500k liquid you could invest it in something like QYLD and draw roughly $5k/mo and try taking a sabbatical for a year.
Okay. But I'm storing it in a variable explicitly declared to be a double. That should be enough. If I divide two integers in python or R or Julia or a dollar store calculator I don't get an integer and I don't even have to explicitly type the variable. You have to know that C++ will do that. It's not common sense just like R recycling shorter vectors.
It would be interesting to know how much of this improvement in the last 25 since he was a student comes from Moore's law, other hardware improvements, various new technologies not related to AI, amount of money being thrown at the problem... and how much of it are advancements in our understanding of AI.
Object found in the Milky Way 'unlike anything astronomers have seen'
AI has been over-hyped, that's all.

The machine learning techniques that were developed and enhanced during the last decade are not magical, like any other machines/software.

But people have different and irrational expectations about AI.
This year we moved new apartment, so I had opportunity to renew most of the staff I was planning, from multi-monitor stand, some powerfull homelab server to robocleaner. From all of this, the cheap trash box I bought with sensors always make me smile whenever I use, I didnt even notice I needed before. Its quite big so enough storage for 1-2 day and when your hands get closer even in dark it opens automatically.
Find a sport or sports that you enjoy. Focus on getting good at them with a coach and PT. Would recommend tennis and/or badminton. Join a local club.

That’s health and socialising covered. Which is most of happiness.

Oh and deal with any underlying trauma with a talking therapy and some kind of somatic therapy.
You may have the opportunity to help others (students?) make their mark. That could be very rewarding.
> It always seems like a bit of a cop out to me. "Life is empty and meaningless, so I'll just have kids, let that fill up all my time, and maybe they can figure it out." I suppose that could be the history of humanity in a nutshell.

I understand the sentiment here, and prior to having children of my own, I would have agreed with you. But having kids brings tremendous meaning to one's life in a way that is difficult to explain - it has to be experienced. What you see as an infinite recursion, i.e.:

have children and find meaning --> your children find meaning from their children --> etc., etc. etc.

Being part of the ongoing chain of humanity, there's something beautiful about that lack of an endgame, just being a part of something and then passing the torch.
The novel things you mention have happened to you take are rarer occurrences than a 3 year old experiencing basic physics.

I can use the same example though! Seeing each of my children born left an immense imprint on me. Seeing them experience basic physics for the first time was as novel of an experience for me as experiencing it myself many years earlier.

There are infinite novel experiences awaiting you if you want to seek them.
- $500k may seem not much for you. Guess you would have more if your start-ups took off or if you would just work in fang and save the money.

- The money doesn't really matter. Guess you would feel the same if you had a successful start-up running.

So to your question. I can really understand you. To be honest I don't have a solution for you, but guess money isn't part of it. I think you would feel the same if you had $10m on your bank account. So it's more the social part. There are some obvious steps you could try to improve it, like dating for example.
> In software, I would use an unicode string internally, then when writing out I would encoded that to utf-8.

I don't understand what distinction you're drawing here? UTF-8 is Unicode. In what way would you be modifying it at the presentation layer? (Unless you're dealing with true UI code, and are saying "I would map the characters to font glyphs according to the UTF-8 standard".)

I know UTF-8 isn't the only way of encoding Unicode codepoints, for what it's worth. I'm just struggling to see how you would be using just 'Unicode', as opposed to a particular encoding, at the storage layer. It's still just bits and bytes.
I'm getting stable results without involving Docker. In fact, your own summary shows stable results when running without Docker in [1]

Results:
Time: 14010, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 14208, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 14111, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13869, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 14119, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13916, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13903, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13890, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 14024, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13924, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 14180, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13980, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13825, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13800, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 14041, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true Time: 13941, Passes: 10000, count: 78498, Valid: true

Running on: JDK 11.0.8 on Windows, with somewhat old Intel Core i7-3740QM

[1] https://github.com/PEZ/ghost-chase-condition/tree/master/tes...
I'd have to say its not a field of broad interest, and having been pretty solidly studied and explained already, there's enough opportunity for fruitful self-study that no one thinks they can sell it as a class.

A bit like studying the composition and seeking the perfect recipe for black powder Gunpowder: it's not terribly relevant now to most, because the work's been done and the results are so readily available that most never realized it was something that needed that much technology behind it.
First of all, at 35 you're still a baby. Tap the brakes on your anxiety around running out of time.

Second, most everyone is recommending other self-interested pursuits and I don't think you'll find the best fulfillment there.

For me, the answer to "what's the point?" is: kids. After I pursued all of my self-interested goals (resulting in a mix of failure and success depending on who's keeping score) I had kids and realized none of that stuff I pursued really, truly mattered. In fact I wish I'd had kids sooner, as young children (I've got three) are an especially thorough ass-kicking for a 40+-year-old.

Having kids with a like-minded, selfless partner is literally the very best thing I've ever done. And it's the best thing I suspect you'll ever do if it comes to pass. As a friend of mine (who also had kids later in life) says, you have kids and you realize "oooohhhh, this is the whole point".
Relationships are not transactional like that, you don't have to have a USP to get a romantic partner. You are probably selling yourself short and there are a lot of people who could love you (and that you could love).
Where are you getting 10% guaranteed a year?
I also use vim for R for mostly the same reasons.

However, you do indeed get autocompletion and many IDE amenities with the language server protocol. Naturally it’s not at the same level as RStudio. But one tool to play with any language is a very nice thing.
This is mental gymnastics. People have some job to do and are looking for an appropriate tool for it; sometimes that’s R and other times it isn’t. Who cares if you call it a DSL or a general purpose language. If I want to do something and the language makes it difficult, telling myself “oh but it’s a DSL” doesn’t get me any closer to solving my problem.
mailto: links open up gmail for me. Not sure when or how I configured this, but it works like a breeze.
Deus Ex Silicium as done a few video around these "use once" electronic device

- pregnancy test : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8EVFe-0GE

- pregnancy test, the week information : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1x8HnousXg

- Electronic covid test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nhg9wrcILY
No one is forcing me, but not using it would mean I can’t have DKIM signatures, wouldn’t it? As far as I know there are no mail clients that add the signature before sending it to the MSA, but I might be wrong.
You make a good point, but I have to admit, as someone in my 50’s, I also chuckled that some thought they were old at 35. I guess time changes all of our perspectives a day at a time.
I picked up one of those crazy ultra wide monitors (34" MSI optix 21:9 something-or-other) to replace a 27" qnix POS and an ancient 17" 4:3 LCD. It's been a game changer for me. I now arrange my windows mostly in columns: one 50% wide center column for my primary tool (browser, Xcode, vscode, slack (ugh)) and two tall single-tab terminals on either side. The terminals are more than 80 columns wide so they provide plenty of space for everything I need to do. I use Divvy on macOS to move and scale the windows from my keyboard but there are a lot of other options.

Dual monitors were nice for quite a while but I don't think I can go back now that UW is available.

* eta: somehow didn't see wil421's comment before mine.
I've been eyeing the Apple trackpads for some time now, as the experience of their trackpads are like no other (for laptops at least). How well does the standalone trackpad work with Windows and Linux? Those are my main OSes I switch between, and it's very nice that mouse input is exactly the same for both so muscle memory works perfectly well, would the same be true for using a Apple trackpad?
It's a bridge for trains that now use another track, and it is permanently 'open' for normal shipping. Bezos' toy isn't a normal boat so they have to dismantle it, which includes lifting out the movable part in its entirety. This is not without risk to the structure, as has been proven in the past.
> Why are people using timestamps in builds and what is the better alternative?

Timestamps are often an implicit part of the build which leads to the same code producing 'different' artifacts (e.g. file created timestamp, generated metadata about the build stored in the artifact itself). One alternative is to support explicitly defining the 'build timestamp' so all builds with the same timestamp produces the same artifact. This is what Maven does[0]; I'd imagine it's much harder for build systems that download and recompile dependencies.

[0] https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-reproducible-buil...
The roots of the word currency do not stem from your sense of "current", by which you seems to mean something like "immediate".

It primarily comes from the Latin currens which means to run, or flow.

It's monetary sense comes from that, as money can be thought of as flowing throughout the economic system. The temporal sense of "current" comes into play only as denoting something like "the present day medium of exchange" not "immediate". Bank notes and checks for example are both forms of currency but are not immediate.

The immediacy of cash-- separate from its status as a currency-- does not confer it special rights. To use something less trivial than a bagel, think of a car. If the dealership is notified that it received stolen cash for a car, it now knows that it is in possession of stolen money. It cannot legally keep money it knows was stolen. The exchange it entered into with the thief was itself not a legal transaction. The cash goes back to the rightful owner, the dealership gets to fight it out with their insurance company to get its own money back.
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> I do not think it is fair the way you paint the picture of people who choose to not have kids ("feeling sorry for them") as if it was a condition or something.

It's not painting childless folks as having a condition, it's more kindhearted than that. It's saying, "Here's this thing that's incredibly difficult but infinitely rewarding. I care about you so I want you to experience it too".
Covid-19 invades cognitive centers of brain and induces Alzheimer's-like changes
Well said! Life should be what you want to do - many people don't have ambitions or interests, and I guess defaulting to the evolutionary standard of having kids is a valid response.
No, different bridge.

This is about 'de Hef'. Nearby though.
There are even large ones wide enough to suit both keyboard and mouse. You don't have pad area anymore, mouse works everywhere. It's also more comfortable for hands when typing. Mine is Asus ROG Sheath, 990mm x 440mm.
Why does it matter? Link to your github account and I can rate you on a scale from 1 to 5.
Deep blue is 25 years out of date and far far weaker than modern chess engines.
> They also didn't look at DLLs used by other DLLs.

If so, then the data is too wrong to be of any value.

However, ldd lists also indirect dependencies so I think this was already accounted for (though that might've been by accident):

~> readelf -d /bin/bash | grep NEEDED
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libreadline.so.8]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
~> ldd /bin/bash
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff15191000)
libreadline.so.8 => /lib64/libreadline.so.8 (0x00007f2a24818000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2a2460e000)
libtinfo.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f2a245db000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2a249b1000)
"Incorrect" is way too strong here.

I agree that a reference frame that has about the same velocity as the stuff you care about is in some sense privileged. But the fact that we haven't seen the merger happen yet means that it's outside our light cone, which means there exists a reference frame where the merger hasn't happened yet.

that is to say, t_{this_coversation} < t_{merger}, in that frame.