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As a 30-year vi user who recently switched his C# programming to Rider over the summer of 2020, I'm a bit of an IDE convert now, for all of these kinds of reasons.

What really sold me on it is the ease of refactoring. Makes it easy to rearrange code and clarify names and things as you build the project up.

And then the code quality stuff taught me some things that I didn't know like the allocations that happen in C# with closures being passed to functions.

And then there's just the accuracy bits like greying out unreachable code which usually points out typos.

It also integrates well with the nullable checks in >C# 9.0

The IDE can teach you to be an expert and catch little gaps in your understanding of the language along making you a lot faster and doing a lot more in-editor, and letting you spend more mental effort on all the rest of software development.

Since C# is also object oriented, it also leads towards doing lots of boilerplate for interfaces and delegation which IDEs are pretty critical for (And I'd argue that Go's verbose error handling though also can benefit greatly from macros in an editor at least before anyone hops off this comment into an anti-OO rant).
I’m way past that, maybe 400gb?

Edit: no, I’m just plain wrong. I am paying and it’s about 4TB.
I completely quit caffeine in 2020. I had daily mild headache for a week or so after. After that however things got better. My sleep got deeper and consequently well-being improved.
Gotta mention the timeless classic by Mead and Conway here.
I was thinking big-bang crowdfunding per region to kick it off. If you can't pull that off, then yeah, there aren't a lot of other good options.
The only flexible tool I use in the real world is the Leatherman, and that's for situations when I don't know what I'll need, or if I'll need it. For every other task I have a tool that is designed (sometimes quite well) for a set of tasks that includes the one at hand (see also Alton Brown, no single-purpose tools).

The Leatherman is part of my EDC, along with an LED flashlight with some respectable lumens so I don't have to use my phone to see in the dark.

In software this is known as the Unix Philosophy, but we violate it quite often, and call those tools 'powerful' or 'flexible'. Everything is a Swiss Army Knife all the time, and we aren't self-aware enough to see how consistently - and sometimes badly - we struggle with this.

But you can't tell an addict they're an addict. They will fight you to the death about how they Don't Have a Problem.
Regarding the linked article, I feel it is important to clarify that the field under duress is 'Behavioral Genetics', not 'Evolutionary Biology' (the former may be considered a sub-field of the latter, but I think it is important to be clear as much of the controversy lies in attempts to use DNA to explain/predict the personality/behavior of a modern individual).

I am also curious why you consider microeconomics is a 'hard' science? As someone with a BA in economics (truly the pinnacle of academic understanding), I would not consider it any less wishy-washy than macroeconomics (both of which are 'soft social sciences', in my view).

I can appreciate that social sciences are often vague and messy and never seem to offer universal truths, but, when trying to understand human behavior, I also feel it is important to say that we live in a society. At least for me, I truly believe much of my behavior and habits are dictated by what I learned from the people around me and the stories I have been exposed to throughout life.
And then some academic comes along and claims to understand who I am and who I will be and that it is all encoded in my DNA? It will take a lot more than wishy-washy social-science statistical analysis to convince me of that. Sure, there could be a discussion about fate and free will, but I do not see much use in that, I certainly do not see the need to bring DNA into the conversation, and I definitely do not want the government looking to genetics for solutions.
I am indian we do have the "chalta hai" attitude towards life. Its a generality. GP made that point in a crass way though.
I actually don’t think UBI will help much either.

Minimum wage hikes are counterproductive - it’s a ban on jobs for people whose skills are worth less than the minimum wage, which are the poorest people who need the jobs most.

It’s a terrible thing to say to someone - “The best you can do is $6/hr, so we as a society have decided you’re not allowed to work to support or feed yourself.”

But we can make our society more functional to penalise poor people less. The people who can only run a 10 minute mile shouldn’t be forced to do it with a weighted vest. The people who can only run a 15 minute mile shouldn’t be banned from running at all.
I prefer "git stash -p" to exclude unfinished changes, because if I build up a partial commit in the index there’s no way to test it.
> Jail time for frequency jamming seems very extreme (if you want to see the failure of jail time to curb behavior, look at how many people are in American prisons and how high their recidivism rate is).

I find this comment interesting because I remember people were very supportive of Freakonomics (iirc) saying locking away people works.

>> Steven Levitt (of Freakonomics fame) wrote a paper in 2004 that concluded that 58 percent of the drop in violent crime during the 1990s was due to incarceration. (pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUnderstandingWhyCrime2004.pdf)

I am OK with no prison for the criminal in the OP. However, I would like a drop in jail time or prison sentences for more people at least for non-violent offenses. I agree that too many people are in prison in our country.

> The birth rate does indeed drop as countries develop more, and as more people get educated about birth control, but controlling it beyond that is likely not a good thing.

Sorry for my poor communication skills. I meant to say voluntarily, not through use of force or coercion. People are just way too optimistic about the future or maybe I am just too pessimistic...
Valid criticisms, thanks for pointing them out as areas of improvement. Good question about the % of total cases though I think there are some estimates on that. My guess would maybe be 100M+ cases per year.
I've taken two breaks in the last 5 months. The first, i had about a week of the worst anxiety/depression I've ever had in my life. Was really a wake up call on how much it really is a drug. The more recent one, I had splitting headaches for a couple of days. Both times, I thought I had weaned down to small enough amounts before cutting it off, but i guess not. Still working on my relationship with coffee.
Just reading Sleep Smarter https://sleepsmarterbook.com , where a key point is that caffeine after lunch time negatively (and measurably) affects the quality of sleep. So that could be another good reason to take a break...
These records have always been available to people with money to spend on a lawyer with a subscription. So what you're complaining about is that normal people can also access the information now.
I never said anything about regulation.

My only issue is that investment in the traditional markets is subject to government-caused inflation.

This was only the case since Nixon. I would love to go back to stricter regulation such as the gold standard. It is a simple way to enforce financial sustainability.

The US never reverted the "temporarily" suspended convertibilty of the USD to gold. Bitcoin is a reaction to that - gold for a digital age. It IS a form of nonviolent protest. It is scarcity through complete accounting and messaging.
it seems more likely that factors like continued poverty and unfair policing and incarceration rates (minorities are both stopped more frequently and punished more severely) are to blame for both violence and the resulting culture, as these are things we have actual evidence for

blaming culture and ignoring measurable factors is almost always lazy racism
It'd still be like replacing the engines of an aeroplane mid-flight surely? I know Rust can do C interop and it'd probably be done piecemeal but it'd still be an absolutely gargantuan task. I'd say there's a fair chance the sheer time and effort such an undertaking would involve would cost more than the memory safety bugs using C or C++ introduces.
The last paragraph is ominously correct:

> What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who'd prefer cybersex to the real thing? While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where—in the holy names of Education and Progress—important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.

This could have been written last week about the metaverse, or the experiences we faced with the pandemic. That article is quite on point in retrospect. What Clifford forgot is that replacing salespeople and customer support with nothing is valuable because it cuts costs. A CD-ROM (or or iPad app, to update the analogy) sucks as a replacement for a real teacher, but it is a hell of a lot cheaper...
Even as a dedicated operations team for a product, we did this too. On call person worked tickets and took calls for one week at a time, the rest of the team worked on ways to make on-call suck less. For an eight person team it worked well for about three years until bigger stuff happened in the org and we all parted ways.
Web 3.0 is pretty much unproven marketing hype
Everyone is racing to find an answer to what actually is "web 3.0" with no actual innovation other than plain hype. take a look at this site that puts a more reasonable to what web 3.0 should include.
Aside from my own family study (Aerospace Dad in 90s had me late in life), I read a study published last quarter called AAPL which is run by execs who are qualified for AARP membership.
I’ve heard this before and it sounds like Splunk’s margins are just way too high. Why doesn’t someone sell a logging platform that’s cheaper than writing your own at scale?
You cover `git add -p`, but I want `git add -e`.

Also, I often rebase and `edit` commits to split them or undo parts of them.

Rebase and all this is all about making commits that have just the right content, and keeping history clean and linear. The tools have to make this possible and easy.

I get that git feels... barebones for this. You really have to understand what you're doing when using git like I do, so I get that it's not very accessible.

Better UIs are great, but on the other hand, we need to be able to get down to the low level.

IMO.
Fair enough - in my state they are limited to parties involved and their counsel.

The public can still see the filing and result (when the divorce was granted), but the actual documents are restricted so as not to air all of one's dirty laundry unnecessarily.
I worked without it for 25+ years due to religion/religious upbringing.

I started it on my way out of the religion and realized it could even benefit what we called spiritual revelation experiences. Which was funny.

After first experiments I quit a few times but didn't notice that not using was an advantage in any way, unless I was using too much caffeine in certain specific circumstances.

After that I measured my dosages more directly and tried different stacks alongside. 2:1 L-Theanine is by far my favorite to use with caffeine.

At night I stick with a homemade cacao drink for the theobromine and maybe some cinnamon.

The best benefits to my creativity, problem solving, and coding were along the lines of learning about my psychology though, not caffeine and stuff like that.

For one, caffeine can stimulate the imagination but it's crucial to be able to recognize how and when to consciously use the imagination for personal benefit. Otherwise...what do you need to imagine, for work? You can get caught out by beginner questions like that, so you are stuck in your past even with the caffeine. Caffeine has no user manual for really leveraging the psychological effect at a subjective level, which sucks :-)

Good luck in your search.
I think broadly the same tradeoffs exist for any search sysetm, like Google or PACER for example.
The public has access to most local court data in my state (Ohio, US) thru websites run by the various local courts. A state-level database for government use is, as far as I know, still not actually available (though it has been in planning and some phase of execution for 10+ years).
Ok, it's a bit of an exaggeration, they definitely still do projects, but there's seems to be a real shift in focus now.

Most of what they do now is stripped down privacy focused versions of existing stuff rather than innovation like they had in the FlyWeb days.
Not sure what you were doing wrong, but I use worktree regularly and you can absolutely see the same commits from both the primary and worktree side.

The great thing about worktrees is that everything local is still available in the worktree and vice-versa, you can even stash push on the one side and pop on the other. You also don’t need to push or pull on either side first.

I have noticed that for submodules, although they share the .git folder, they don’t share references, so you can’t see local branches and stashes between the worktrees, but sub module pulls are still quicker since they share objects so those don’t need re-pulled on the other folder.
Well the integral doesn’t work for a Cauchy distribution either so that seems a little unfair for criticism. And this kind of procedure is not unusual for more complex distributions that have no well-understood density function to integrate, like the results a physics simulation, aren’t they?
Thank you for this. It’s helpful to have a rational, reasonable treatment of intellectual property protection that avoids both extremes of “all information wants to be free” and “piracy is theft.”
Harry Potter's Forgotten Predecessor (2015)
I was never a huge caffeine user, my peak was maybe 3 or 4 cans of coke zero a day. Since I quit I've seen my level of general anxiety go down, my moods are more stabler (like less feelings of irritability, stress, feeling overwhelmed), and I feel like my sleep has improved. I haven't noticed any real change in my performance after quitting. Maybe I don't feel as "sharp", but I'm still getting the same amount of things done at the same quality as before.

One thing to note is that once you quit you will not be able to really use caffeine effectively at the same level you are currently using it.

I recently had some caffeine, and after being off it for so long, it was actually very unpleasant. I felt like a cpu that got overclocked and was overheating. It didn't really make me any more productive, it just made feel like wow I'm really up right now, too far up and I want to be back to normal, but I can't until the caffeine passes through my system. And just that feeling of being trapped in the "high" and being unable to get out was very disturbing to me personally.
I find Mercurial very difficult to use. I find Git much easier.
Same experience I had a couple years ago, except I quit for several months. I think genetics might play a part here.
I have been drinking coffe since I was 14 (I am 36)… I reached my peak during university with 8 espressos a day but for the past 10 years I only drank 4 espressos a day. I sometimes stopped drinking (like a couple of years ago I went for 3 weeks in the states on vacation and since there the coffee is basically liquid shit I decided it was better tu just avoid drinking it!) and never noticed any difference!
I tried quitting caffeine about 10 years ago and for some reason had to pee so often I felt borderline incontinent. After a week or two of that I started coffee again and it went away.

But last year I went on a vacation and didn't drink coffee at all that week. No problems, so I don't know what happened the first time.
Yeah, the only missing piece for fulltext harassment is a "Google alert" for particular keywords. Put the names you wanna track and receive a delightful alert in your inbox with rocks to throw over other people's roof.

EDIT: the tech is great, but I think there should be a record of who is accessing the data, for what purpose, terms for how it can be used in a civil way, and means to go after misuse.
no, it's not. LA is a river basin historically, and even with some bluffs, it's not protected enough from ingress all around (and water falls from the sky too!).

the simulator you linked to makes no sense (or maybe it's broken in my ad-blocking browser). it shows ingress on palos verdes, which is basically a mini-mountain right on the shore that would become an island with enough sea rise.
It doesn't do a very good job of delineating the coast. Seems like +- 50 ft is black. Puget sound is unrecognizable on my display.
How so? New not-in-safe-languages code is being added all the time.
That sounds like it. Thanks!

The funny thing is, while I have seen that, it was a long time ago (right after Bandersnatch came out). But I have the nagging notion that I saw this recently.

I suppose either somebody else riffed on that scene, OR (perhaps more likely) something I was doing led me to go back and watch a brief clip from Bandersnatch on Youtube or something, and it was in fact that very scene. Funny that I can't recall the details now though. I just recall the "OK Timothy Leary" and "it was Huxley, not Leary" thing. Weird.

Edit: Aaaah... maybe what I'm remembering is this relatively recent HN thread which actually mentioned that scene.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29631782

That thread itself being a discussion of Huxley and The Doors of Perception.
It doesn't matter how exotic something is when you're taking about rewriting an entire platform - the sheer amount of man hours required to reimplement something for an advantage the vast majority of customers simply don't value enough is the limiting factor.

In that context, even a small architectural difference can be seen as a high barrier.
Markets are not zero sum in aggregate. Every trade is zero sum-- a buyer has to be matched with a seller at a price. However, the price of an asset can move without any trades. Your perspective would seem to imply that overall economic growth of all markets could not happen without an equivalent amount of loss somewhere else. Clearly this is not the case.
the core problem is trusting a byte you read and use to make decisions. this is the superset of memory safety and not protected against by any language as of now.

let’s kill bytes. :P
I was getting some really bad anxiety and a pounding heart rate, an hour or two after having caffeine. Because I mostly consume in the morning, this meant that afternoons were especially difficult. Because I slowly drank it through the morning, it meant several hours of misery.

It took me a really long time to realize that it might be related to the caffeine. I tapered myself down by using Excedrin (65 mg per pill) and Jet-Alert (100 mg per pill) and cutting the pills smaller each day. If you're disciplined you can do that and not experience too much discomfort.

I also used "de-caffeinate"[1] which seemed like it helped, especially before bed to sleep, but I'm not positive.

[1]: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01997EVNG/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
That's very cool to have support for rsync/dropbox collaboration of the repo files. I'm always sad that there isn't a maintained p2p git implementation anymore. I'd love to just dump a bare repo to a syncthing share and collaborate with a small group of people accessing it.
Never quit. Don’t ever quit.
This person is ultra high income if their marginal tax rates are 50%. They didnt give numbers but using an online calculator [0] and assuming a high tax state (CA), you need to be above $500k a year income to hit 50% marginal rates. That is also assuming you are single, a married person would need a combined income nearly twice that to hit 50%.

[0] https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
You do realise most studies are just a collation of anecdotes.... They literally are what the big picture is compiled of....
Are you using freelaw's code to scrape all the different servers? Why are there no contact details on the site? I don't understand the mystery and black ops nature of this thing. It feels like there is some sort of conspiracy here that I've yet to uncover!
Well, if zozbot234 meant "systemic" then I have no idea how

> Thinking you can even have a "systematic approach" to either explaining or mitigating something as complex as poverty, deprivation and marginalization can only be described as the highest sort of arrogance.

makes sense; I can understand how someone might think that looking for a systematic approach to something very complex is arrogant, but not how they would think the same about a systemic approach.

I'll gladly take your word for it that you did mean "systemic" but I confess that I'm then not sure what a "systemic mind" would be that "takes a [systemic] approach".

(My guess, for what it's worth, had been that fineIllregister probably meant "systemic" even though they wrote "systematic", that zozbot234 followed fineIllregister in writing "systematic" but also meant "systematic", and that since you were responding to zozbot234 you probably meant "systematic" too.)
Good to hear - do you find that works well?

Also out of curiosity - what type of org/company do you work in? I'm working at a startup, so also trying to gauge differences across types of orgs (public sectors vs. private, large enterprise vs. startup etc)
You became dishabituated. Likely you could get more of the effects you remember with a smaller dose.
I completely agreed with you until I realized that caffeine was aggravating my anxiety. I went years not realizing this, so it's possible that for some people they're getting symptoms they haven't linked yet.

Now that said, when I was younger I didn't have that problem and caffeine was a powerful tool in my toolbox for maximizing performance. Definitely glad to have it when needed.
> This creates a zig-zagging pattern of the lightness level. Each cycle, or zig+zag from black → white → black again, covers 500m of elevation.

I find this zig-zagging of lightness level very difficult to interpret. Greenland looks to me like a series of concentric hills. Perhaps if I were to get used to it, it would become easier to understand.

But the monochrome areas are really neat to see, and it's very easy to understand what's happening geologically in, say, Finland.

A feature I would like to see is a shareable URL for regions.

Northern Scandinavia looks positively Lovecraftian.
Can't imagine a working day without coffee, if even just for the pleasure and ceremony of drinking it.

Often along with dark chocolate or something else sweet.

Drink about 6 cups of coffee a day, starting around 9am. Last cup around 10pm. Love the creative process of development combined with coffee!
First week was tough.

After a month you feel more awake on mornings.

A couple of months after that you feel exactly the same as before.

I started drinking more tea (with and without caffeine depends on the taste) because I wanted a hot drink but not specifically caffeine.

I quit coffee for health reasons (stomach) so it was kinda forced on me. I still love coffee taste very much and can still consume it in cakes and such
Yes, as per my other comment, I’ve noticed with submodules that the references are isolated between the different folders, but they do share the same objects in the .git folder, so you still get efficiency there in not needing to store or pull duplicate data.