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> My friend told me that bootcamps are a waste of my time and money, and that he believes that anyone can break into SWE with just a few weeks of trying.

I entered the field from a non-CS background and now work at Google (opinions my own, etc). I’m not familiar with Kickstart, but this glosses over much of the difficulty involved. I would bet that your friend has a rosy picture of what it’s like, and if they were indeed able to break in after a few weeks of trying, I’d hope that they would realize that their experience is very far from the norm. It can be hard sometimes, especially when you’re at a cushy company, to remember or realize how hard it is elsewhere.

Getting your first job is the hardest and biggest hurdle, and I’d encourage you to focus on more approachable targets than the large well-known tech companies. Take a look at startups, both in the HN who is hiring threads and sites like AngelList, as they frequently let you reach a person directly (vs the resume submission black holes). I’d also encourage you to strike a balance between job searching and building things, writing about your projects, and talking with people about them.

Bootcamps can offer a more structured and guided approach, which can be very helpful if you find it hard to learn on your own (and to be clear, it’s very hard). They can have their downsides as well ($$$, quality), but I don’t think you should flatly dismiss them.
> Most people who want to lose weight (aka mostly unfit/untrained) are not going to be able to exercise the amount would take to truly force a calorie deficit.

This is well known and true even if the claims made better happened to be entirely false. I’m not dismissing your point, here. I agree fully.

Exercise just doesn’t burn enough calories to really matter. Especially in the face of a poor diet. Running burns ~100 calories per mile (yes, varying based on weight and a little bit based on speed but it’s a close enough rule). A can of soda has ~150 calories. There’s just no competition. Someone trying to lose weight can skip a soda or a candy bar and it’s more effective than running an extra mile.
You can use them commercially if you pay for a license
18yrs of C# here and i say YES PLEASE to this feature. $@ does not cut work for this use-case and string processing has always been a performance bottleneck.

Times have changed, xml/web is becoming ubitiqos... espically in LOB apps where u can use WebView based frameworks to create cross-platform apps that share 99% of code.
One of the cruel aspects of endurance sports is that they suppress your appetite. You can go out and burn 6000 calories in one race, spend the whole time thinking about all the delicious food you're going to reward yourself with, and then you get there and have zero desire to eat. You sometimes can't even start refeeding until the next day.
Vintage and bizarre photos of exercise machines from the past, 1920-1970
This seems like a complementary idea to "Willingness to look stupid": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28942189

Rather than jump to calling out something as wrong, it can be helpful for mutual understanding to first ask questions framed in the terms of the apparent misconception, even if it sounds wrong to your mind or risks making you look stupid. Sometimes you'll find that there was actually no mistake, and other times you may make a positive contribution in a way that's more collaborative than adversarial.
Remix co-author here. We haven't "missed on RSC", they aren't even released!

We already have experimental versions of Remix running on React 18 and have experimented with RSC, Suspense, and streaming extensively. In their current state however, we're not seeing them beat Remix's current approach in production results or developer ergonomics. We've been providing the React team with our feedback. When these features from React are ready, Remix will be able to easily support them.
Love the picture! I can't decide if the monitors being huge feels stranger, or people wearing collard shirts.
Nobody seems to think about space stations. You could launch much bigger modules with Starship, and many more of them, so you could create a much larger space station for a cheaper price.
Its not possible to be sure!

It just seemed the question was phrased in terms of those being the only options, when in fact they are the very rare options. It seems that mostly people you hire are not going to do serious criminal things, either before or after you hire them.
"The Producers" aside, not paying taxes on money you gave away but didn't get back is not exactly a compelling business case.
One is not obliged to turn ordinary, mined uranium into weapons-grade stuff, in a neutron-emitting fusion system, but you could if you cared to.

I.e., a nation that had control of such a fusion plant would have little difficulty attaching an enrichment process without interfering with power output.

Fortunately, no economically practical power generation system can be built using hot-neutron fusion, so it is an idle concern, but almost all the money being spent on fusion pursues that impractical goal.
I just looked at your profile and saw what your company is working on. Very interesting!

My wife and I were recently in a situation where I'd wondered why the hospital didn't have such a thing!

My wife has T1D and we just spent 3 days in the hospital for the birth of our daughter. The most scary and frustrating part of the whole process was my wife's diabetes management. She uses a Tandem T:Slim and a Dexcom G6, and generally has very tight control. But the hospital insisted on taking over during active labor, and we had a very tense conversation with a tactless perinatologist about it.

They wanted to put her on an (IIRC) intermediate acting insulin drip, and rely on finger pricks. We were very worried that they would basically be following a canned script and would end up yo-yoing her blood glucose during labor.

We ended up getting our OB to convince the completely tactless perinatologist that we'd define "active labor" as actually pushing. So we delayed getting her off her pump/CGM and self management for quite a while. And by then we'd also fortunately convinced our nurse who was responsible for the insulin that we knew what we were doing. So she consulted with my wife (literally between contractions and pushing) on any insulin delivery. They adjusted the plan in real time based on what my wife said they should do. Had they just followed the script/protocol the hospital had, we probably would have seen them give my wife way too much insulin.

Then for the rest of our stay, the hospital insisted on checking her blood glucose with finger pricks, though she was self treating with her pump. It really felt like it was for their benefit and not hers.

It was really clear that literally every person we interacted with (except maybe the tactless perinatologist) knew less about T1D than we did. They are much more setup for poorly managed gestational diabetes.

Watching the hospital try to manage her T1D made us feel like we were jumping back in time a decade or two. And this was one of the big, nice, (and expensive) hospitals in San Francisco.

If she would have had a c-section or some other situation where she wasn't able to help direct her diabetes management, I'm kind of afraid of what could have happened.

It really made me wonder why there wasn't an artificial pancreas type system for hospitals.

Now I see that someone is actually working on that!
> measuring calories out is extremely difficult unless you're willing to live in a sealed room that monitors your exhaled CO2 24/7

Is even that sufficient? Like, would you be able to tell the difference between "oxidation done by the body to generate energy for human cells" and "oxidation done by bacteria that feast on calories your human cells didn't get"? Maybe you could tell by the mixture of other gases, but I suspect CO2 itself wouldn't suffice.
The proof of #2 is encryption exists. You can build a CSPRNG out of a cipher that's secure against chosen plaintext attack (trivial construction: encrypt a counter with your seed key). We haven't necessarily proven that encryption exists in the fully theoretical sense, but if you're considering the possibility that CSPRNGs don't exist, that means you have to simultaneously consider that encryption itself isn't meaningfully possible.
How does one go about getting on the list for trials?
Doesn't help with reverse image searches, which accounts for probably 90% of the times I end up clicking on a pinterest link.
This feels like an example of why you don't hire primadonas or assholes. Obviously one person has bullied everyone at Tesla into some alleged groupthink consensus that the yoke is just amazing and people just don't get it if they disagree. Whoever that person is is entirely wrong. It'll be interesting to see if Tesla can actually back down or if the next version of their driving interface will require a Tesla chip implant, eye tracking or something equally inane.
Paul, if I am doing 50 miles at 300 watts that isn’t any different than running for two hours. You can set whatever level of intensity you want for the duration. 50 miles a day all out will wear out even olympic athletes. Source: I work with olympic athletes and time trial champions
I always feel there are some methodology issues in sports science studies like small sample sizes or strange metrics.

While I do agree with you that sustained, high level activity requires and burns more calories, I think that the advice coming out of there, exercise is less efficient than diet for weight loss, is going to absolutely be true for the majority of gym goers who quite frankly are phoning it in whenever they work out.

Like, for example, an olympic swimmer may eat 5000-10,000 calories in a day, but they are spending around 4-6 hours a day in a cold pool training at a world class level (body needs to keep warm somehow regardless of effort.) But a normal person may only swim for 20 minutes at a much gentler pace. This person should still be eating in line with calorie guidelines and macros for age/sex.

The reality is that diet needs to be flexible based on results. Not losing weight? Eat fewer carbs or calories. Feeling tired and worn out? Eat more or exercise less based on your physique and goals.
For Freddie/Fannie: some sources say that they support investment properties for conforming loans [1]. They have information about loans for investment properties that I am still trying to make sense of [2]. I have seen other sources say they support loans for 10 properties.
Even if the support were only for 1 secondary home, why should the government be subsidizing this?

I understand these policies work differently in expensive markets. But as per this article, investors are targeting rentals in less expensive markets.

[1] https://www.quickenloans.com/learn/conforming-loan-limits

[2] https://sf.freddiemac.com/working-with-us/origination-underw...
You know how far we've fallen when we consider VSCode or Discord desktop apps with good performance
The type system can't catch nil dereferences or out-of-bounds accesses, which (in my experience) are the most common causes of runtime panics in Go. I assure you, there are many ways to make a Go program crash. :) If your program is handling untrusted input -- and almost every useful program does -- then you really should be fuzzing your input handlers.
Yes I called it skimming. I specifically said that’s what I did.
The thing is, exercise still reduces appetite.

It raises the blood sugar levels as the body supplies the muscles with carbohydrates, and triggers a complementary response in appetite hormones.

Finally, and most importantly:

Exercise releases dopamine.

Dieting is universally a mood killer, because kilo-joule deficit equals starvation.

So whilst it does not directly impact weight loss. It still makes it (a bit) easier.

Plus there are an enormous quantity of other factors in health that are impacted by exercise.

Bodily strength is entirely responsible, for example, for stopping you getting a "bad back."

The less strength you have in your back muscles, the more strain your vertebra and ligaments are under. Hence your body falls apart quickly and more easily.

You definitely need both kilo-joule control and strengthening exercise if you want to keep your life on track.
Remember, this is in the context of companies stating they value impact over effort, the sort of places that brag about their work/life balance. If I'm accepting an offer from such an employer and taking this into account during salary negotiations, I will be rightly pissed off to find out the standard is secretly 60-80 hours a week.

If they're open about expectations, assuming I'm at a point in my life where the trade-off makes sense, then if the compensation is good, that's fantastic. Nothing toxic about that. Not that different from some US manufacturing workers getting paid hourly wages, who make the same kind of trade-off all the time, making damn good money for 60 hours of peak performance a week. Sure, they might end up paying for it by ruining their bodies and drop dead from a heart attack or stroke within a year of retirement if they make it that long, but the risks are no secret.

> This situation is normal and expected in professional sports.

Let's google. The NFL seems topical around this time of year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/heres-what-the-average-nfl-p...

> The minimum annual salary for a rookie active roster player with a one-year contract is $480,000 . . . A player with three years’ experience would command a salary equal to at least $705,000, while players with seven to nine years on the field must be paid at least $915,000 . . . the average NFL salary was only about $2.7 million in 2017 . . . That’s less than three-quarters of the average $4 million earnings of a major league baseball player and less than half the typical wage of NBA players, who earn about $7.1 million on average.

I take everything back! Let's not treat SWEs any differently. For that kind of money, I will gladly put in 80 hours a week.
Paul, you can lose all of your weight without working out at all!
As TFA says, you arrest them and give them due process, and hold the state accountable for any mistakes in the process.

Are you suggesting an 'eye for an eye' penal code? e. g. you would suggest punishing an arsonist by burning their house down?

(Of course not but I guess anything is ok when you disagree with the protest to begin with)
Male genital size reflects tradeoff in two live-bearing fish species
Saw the headline, immediately thought of the same short story. Excerpts where they encounter said brain:

"It's a monstrosity."
"Not to us," she said sharply. "We see a thing of wonder and beauty."
"No," I said firmly. "Let's be clear about this. What you're showing me here is a human brain, a living mind, turned into some kind of slave."
"No slavery is involved," Weather said. "The mind chose this vocation willingly."
"It *chose* this?"
"It's considered a great honour. Even in [our] society, even given all that we have learned about the maximization of our mental resources, on a few are ever born who have the skills necessary to tame and manage the reactions in the heart of a [star]-drive."
…
"The degree of concentration is quite intense. He can barely spare any resources for what we might call normal thought. He's in a state of permanent unconscious flow, like someone engaged in an enormously challenging game. But now the game has begun to get the better of him. It isn't fun anymore. And yet he knows the cost of failure."
…
"It'll be more like one very long dream. Someone else's dream, certainly, but I don't doubt that there'll be a certain rapturous quality to it. I remember how good it felt to find an elegant solution, when the parameters looked so unpromising. Like making the most beautiful music imaginable. I don't think anyone can really know how that feels unless they've also held some of that fire in their minds. It's ecstasy, Inigo, when it goes right."
"And when it goes wrong?"

Definitely worth reading.
Aducanumab for Alzheimer's:the amyloid hypothesis moves from bench to bedside
I know such a person which is why I mentioned it. That vast range of human physiology is fascinatingly wide. He also is very aerobically gifted, possibly related things. (efficient engine, but not confirmed with testing, maybe just a big engine and loves food)
In your example, if you exercise, you can have the pizza as well as the sandwich. This can be significant, because suppose you have those 300 surplus calories 3x/week minus the exercise (not unreasonable, a small snack here and there, right?). 300 calories is about 3 bananas, so it might not even be unhealthy food.

Rough math: 3 * 300 * 4 = 3600 calories surplus/month. A pound of adipose tissue has ~3500 calories IIRC. So you're now gaining a pound of fat a month, and you're not even indulging yourself, really.

In reality, physical activity and diet aren't so steady, so some months you maintain weight, some you lose, and some you gain a lot. But over time it averages out, and you've put on 12lbs in a year.
Do you have any example code that highlights the caching idea described on the main page?
If done right, SQLive is the sort of thing that could entirely change the way many applications are written. Solving the problem of real time collaboration at the database level has been a dream of mine for years. Unfortunately I'm doubtful that existing RDBMSs will be able to integrate such a thing, seeing how shoddy implementations of materialized views have been.

I really hope you are successful in tackling this problem and that you can share your work.
They are making the app worse (removing local vaults, making their mac app and iOS app crappy) so that they can force me to pay them more. Why would I agree to that? I resent it, and I'm leaving.
Eliminating the memory overhead of the Go garbage collector
Our T1D kid has been pumping since 18 months. He was diagnosed at 12 months old. He's six now and has been pumping nearly the entire time.

We're in Vietnam but we do all his endo related medical stuff in Singapore.

Counting carbs in kids is a nearly pointless endeavor. Picky eating habits, nutrition mis-labeling (good luck finding accurate nutrition information in Vietnam), etc. And you'll also need to consider that their bodies are moving targets with hormones, growth spurts, etc. It's going to be really hard to manage just by math alone.

Being five years into it now, because the math seems to be changing daily, we are doing it almost by feeling backed by CGM evidence. In our case, the only CGM available here is the Freestyle Libre which is mildly inaccurate except for informing us on the general direction his blood sugar is taking. It's enough info that we've gotten his hb1ac into near normal range and the miaomiao3 turns into a full fledged CGM that we can use with nightscout and xdrip4ios for realtime monitoring.

I'd also advise you to think about joining a group of parents of T1Ds because there's a lot of things to learn and I've personally found it helpful when working through edge case scenarios that will eventually happen.
> if I go all out on a row machine for 30 minutes, I'll burn 300 calories.

A stationary bike at a steady 20mph pace is about 500 calories in 30 minutes. That's really significant. An hour will erase about a third of a normal person's diet.

When I used to do heavy training (long distance running, weight training) I would eat close to 8k calories a day and I was in fantastic shape. Eating more was necessary to survive, given how much energy I was expending.
Google tried that with their plus button, but it went away along with Google Plus.
The Wild West of Windows command line parsing
>"oxidation done by bacteria that feast on calories your human cells didn't get"?

That would still be part of calories in.
> exercise=shape

That really depends on the exercise you’re doing and what “shape” you’re going for. Putting tons of time into running won’t make someone look like they lift weights. Aerobic exercise is great for health but it mostly doesn’t change anyone’s “shape” except to the extent that it helps them lose weight.
I think you underestimate the effort of writing a document while being dyslexic. I can spend hours on a half page.
Sure, 50 miles a day @ 300W is not much different than running for 2 hours at a sub-7min/mile pace.

But most people cycling 50 miles are not generating 300W continuously, and most people running for 2 hours are not doing a sub-7min pace for the duration.

ps. I have run for 2 hours at a sub-7 min pace, and cycled 50 miles at about 280W.
In Houston, I remember seeing fuel prices at the start of the pandemic at the pump for close to $1.00/gallon (in the ~$1.10-$1.30 range depending on the forecourt).
Plutonium, anyway, is not waste, but fuel. And weapons material.

But there are other long-lived isotopes, as well. Safe disposal is not a difficult technical problem, but is a political football causing limitless distraction.
Yeah. A single snickers is over 200 calories. That's 30 minutes of running.

Eating is incredibly efficient.
Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux
My test is single threaded, and thus has no parallelism to begin with.
You don't know anything about my weight! :))

For sure. But the discussion going on here (and in TFA) is the balance between weight loss via exercise and weight loss via lower calorie consumption.
If you scroll down on the OP, two of the source lists are actually uBlacklist block lists.
You can't base spinning rust flushes on RPM; the seek arm is what dominates.
You are talking if helium is stored in atmospheric pressure. It is generally sold compressed like all other gas. Search google for 10kg helium tank. In my area it is available for $30.
It’s actually the opposite: one will be writing that syntax when using the language if it’s a chore to write then nobody will want to use the language. Also it’s easier to understand what a language is doing looking at code than a technical document.
I can't find any code that highlights the main feature of the language. Only example programs like hello world, arithmetic, etc. which are fairly useless.
It has a lot of backing when you look at people changing jobs without gaining or losing weight. We think of exercise in terms of X minutes on a treadmill, but people working long days of physical labor can more than double their daily caloric needs and will eat accordingly without prompting.

There where plenty of old jokes about lumberjack breakfasts and people eating skills tall stacks of pancakes. These guys weren’t trying to gain or lose weight just keep going for another day of hard labor, but when you start talking 6-8,000 calories per day it’s an insane amount of food.

Also, some of the feedback mechanisms involved are quiet slow and can take weeks to kick in. Your body doesn’t need to balance things every day as gaining or losing significant weight takes time.
I always felt like the ultimate flow with Slack was to make focused channels for a given topic; threads are too generic and hard to track and I generally get the impression that they're meant to be ephemeral, whereas a focused channel will of course ensure all participants know the intent of the channel, and the content is not lost. Essentially, a channel should be treated as an e-mail thread. Once the topic has finished, you can close the channel and archive it for future reference.
I ride 20-25 miles a day on a stationary bike, at about 20-25mph steady rate. It burns a bit over 1000 calories during the hour. It's more than enough to make a significant change, especially when paired with a half hour of weights.
Still, fission operational expense is very, very large when compared to solar and wind, which also have radically lower capital cost. Operational expense of neutron-emission fusion would be radically more than for fission: not for the fuel, but for everything else.
Cash has been depreciating faster than even used cars.