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What is this "self" of which you speak?

It, too is a creation of the unconscious mind. It tends to stay conscious for a period of a few minutes, then fade for a few seconds while we scan the environment, then it recreates.

You can track this in an MRI scanner with the "default network", or by meditation, or by psychedelic drugs (careful with that last one).

Then realize that the "death/rebirth" of the self occurs multiple times per day, not once per life, and re-think how you understand religion.

And each re-creation of self can be a new entity, a chance to drop an old thought/habit and pick up a new.

You should have some attachment to earlier "yous", love is real and powerful and you should love yourself, but those prior selfs are not the totality of you and you can also love without attachment, mark some of that prior self as past and gone never to return.

My wife threw out some cut tulips this morning. They still had their petals, but they were cut a week ago and she thought they were fading. She really loves tulips.
C++ ides do cache files and monitor for changes too but they are much more useable on low-end hardware than anything Java.
I think your mentality is right (as a small business owner myself).

However, to push back a bit, I think sometimes it’s easy to believe that we’re the only ones who can do something because we’re the only ones who have lived and breathe it for 5+ (Pick your number) years. And one might be surprised if they actually tried outsourcing how competent some folks can be.
You are trying to fit the narrative to the symptom but the huge houses trend has been steadily increasing in the US and Canada for the last 30 years, well before the pandemic.

It is absolutely an aspirational thing of people made to believe they _need_ that space or that they will 'look poor' without the square footage.

I would even go as far as say that, I think the increase in housing square footage in US/Canada and the increase in SUVs and SUV tonnage are a big factor in why the US/Canada are not on par with other developed nations in terms of carbon emissions.

The average US house is 1660 square feet, to my knowledge most middle class families in Europe live in houses under 900 square feet and they still have room for baby rooms and WFH offices.
Traditional sutric Buddhism was definitely about detachment (or “renunciation”); you’re supposed to never have sex and if you’re eating food you should imagine it’s a rotting corpse so you won’t end up enjoying it.

The presentation of Buddhism as chill and peaceful and all about meditation is a modernization to keep it alive after the white people found it.
No, for two reasons.

One: the "glaciers" - I assume you mean something like the Greenland ice sheet here - aren't actually shrinking. See for yourself, data direct from the observation satellites:

http://polarportal.dk/fileadmin/polarportal/surface/SMB_comb...

Note that accumulated surface mass balance for both 2021-2022 so far, and for 2020-2021, is pretty much bob on the 1981-2010 average. In fact last year it was a little over the average. You think they're massively shrinking because scientists and the media like to announce years when it's lower than average, then are silent in years when it's average or above average. This form of soft censorship makes you think they're constantly shrinking when in fact size wanders around.

Even so, we must be careful with interpreting this sort of data because they're all at it. Many claims about changes in ice depth or size are the result of ... more modelling ... which has the exact same problem as temperature modelling, it's too easy to bias in your desired direction by constantly adding convenient fixes. Exactly the same problem as seen in COVID models.

The second reason is more subtle. You refer in your comment to temperature "corrections". By definition, "correcting" observational data to make it conform to your theory (which is the effect of what they're doing) is not scientific. Scientists aren't allowed to "correct" their raw data, period, end of story. If they do it's always fraud when judged by the standards of more normal and rigorous fields. If your historical data is of poor quality then you need to admit that, add error bars and propagate them through to your final confidence intervals, then interpret the CIs honestly i.e. if the CIs are wide enough to incorporate "nothing is changing" then so be it even if that's bad for your grant approval rate.

Climatologists don't do this. Instead what happens is that they collect data, it fails to show warming, and they then spend years coming up with plausible sounding justifications for why their observations need to be changed. So they do it, but their corrections are motivated reasoning so newly collected data of course shows the same problem - no warming (hence why we see stories about the mysterious lack of warming from both 1989 and 2015 in the press, see my citations above). So they come up with yet more reasons to adjust the data and do it again.

This practice has now reached its logical conclusion: they adjust every data point every time a new data point is added. That's why NOAA call their temperature history a reconstructed dataset. They literally reconstruct it every day. Climatology is all about making predictions about temperature but literally according to them, they cannot accurately measure temperatures that were recorded last week, not even at specific weather stations. They cannot read thermometers today, but measuring the temperature of the world as it was 1000 years ago, or predicting what it will be in 100 years, no problem. Obviously no rational person can accept such a claim: it is absurd on its face.
I see your point, but managing state is not free on the client side either. Frontend frameworks usually come with some built in state management, but once it starts to be more complicated we often need to find a 3rd party library to manage it.

I agree that there are many cases where managing the state in the frontend is the preferred solution. Multi-page forms add complexity for both frontend and backend. Sometimes frontend is less complex, and other times the backend is simpler.

I'll add some comments on your statements regarding backend. I'm not saying it is a better solution than managing it on the frontend for all cases. My point is that although it adds complexity on the backend, it does not necessarily mean that managing state on the frontend is simpler. That depends on the use case, but I think a lot of developers "default" to handling state on the frontend that adds much more complexity than a simple backend solution.

> "rerender previous form pages over and over again, except hidden"

In that case, you would only render hidden <input> fields with the values, and not the complete form. The code for receiving "step x" of the flow, would simply read the parameters from the request and include the values in the html code.

> "have some token to track partial form data"

Using <input> fields for this is much simpler. The final page would just read all variables as if they where posted from the same form, without requiring to generate/parse any tokens

> "build up a DB to store a partially complete form"

Most frameworks have a built in "session" that abstracts this away. It may be stored in a database, file, memory etc. If you require distributed sessions, the framework often handles this transparently by just configuring the session manager to use something like Redis to store the data.
> Being American entitles you to consular assistance from the US when you’re abroad

Please. Every document costs triple what it should be and then you are responsible for paying shipping and return shipping even if they decide to decline you. You are treated like a foreigner by your own country.

Let's talk about COVID-19: While countries like China and France procured vaccines for its citizens, the US did not. They gave out vaccines to other countries, but refused any assistance to its citizens saying it was the local government's responsibility (meanwhile every ambassador and foreign worker inside the embassy got priority shots). It's not their problem why?

The embassy prioritizes galas and showmanship more than actually helping citizens. If they cared, they'd be fighting to fix the stupid FBAR situation; you should not be treated like a criminal for having $10k in a bank in the country of your domicile, where you have a home and a family to look after.
Yes, sure.

His desired end game would have been to do his "special operation" thing and puppeting Ukraine, but I guess that ship sailed, if it ever even existed outside of Putin's mind...
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> what is the winning condition for Russia now?

Warfare is 'the continuation of politics by other means' - it is politics. It ends when there is a political solution that sufficiently reduces the incentive to fight - people are sufficiently satisfied and/or too scared. Political leaders regularly forget this essential - the US went into Iraq, rapidly defeated the Iraqi military, but lacking a political solution they remained for over a decade. The same thing happened in Afghanistan - you can see what happened when the US finally left, almost immediately, sans a political solution. Note that, when political solutions seem unavailable, many invaders tend to persist regardless.

What political solution would eliminate the incentive for Ukrainians to fight? Lots of egocentric attackers think, 'the people will welcome us!' - which is kind of like going into your neighbors house with a gun, taking over, and feeling sure that they will welcome you. But wrapped up in their insulated egos, they still think it: Putin seemed to have thought it about Ukraine.

That fantasy has been dispelled with a vengence; right now it's very hard to imagine the Ukrainians accepting any Russian-backed goverment. Putin's only option might be a fear-based government. If you think that's too difficult, remember that the Soviet Union ruled Ukraine (and other places) in that manner for generations - and that was after taking their food and starving to death a large portion of the population in the 1930s. However, it would permanently brand Russia as brutal dictators. Another alternative is Ukraine's leadership surrenders to reduce civilian suffering - Zelensky is very popular, afaik; would enough Ukrainians follow his lead?
Could be even nicer if they're prescribed all-at-once for all employees, now that I think about it. Similar to how a global reset day is nicer in some ways than an extra day of PTO.
The West has always demonized Russia.

“Communism” equals the original sin and “communists” is basically a slur for about a century now.

After America worked so hard to unleash the most destructive weapon in human history, everyone should have cowed and crowned them the undisputed hegemons of the Earth. The idea of anyone daring to set themselves up as an antipode was extremely offensive.

Even after the fall of the USSR and the convenient appearance of Muslims and Chinese offering themselves as adversary to All That We Cherish, apparently the West can’t resist such a big and easy dart board to pin their failings upon;

Unrest in foreign nations? It’s the Russians. Division at home? Damn Ruskies again.

I wonder if some racism also comes into play here; Here we were, after so much War, with all the white nations agreeing to get along hereafter, but then there’s these “other” white people who are somehow different and don’t want to play along.

After we snuff out Russia, who will we turn upon next?
Some possible insights here: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-...
You've probably missed the footage from Kharkiv and Kyiv. Do take a look around, there's plenty of video, photos, reporting from the ground. Those cities are being bombed indiscriminately, and it's pretty much a total war for the Ukrainians.

> yup, seems the dominant voice on this on HN thinks the West has a moral advantage (it doesn't, Yemen Libya Guatemala, etc

I'm sick of this whataboutism. There's a problem, today, and your response is "fuck 'em, there were other problems before dome by those guys trying to help this time"? Fuck you. Yes, the "west" has the moral high ground here. It didn't when it turned a blind eye to Yemen, and it didn't when it incited chaos in Libya.
Definitely use this for future projects
Java was open-source, but not free. Oracle tries everything to squeeze every last penny out of a company if they use Java or MySQL, including threatening with litigation.

If Oracle can't make humongous profits from a product they simply drop it or run it into the ground.
The corresponding tweet stream by patio11:

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1499269526751379457
"New fundamental science advances come out every week"? While there's certainly a lot being published, I think that the word "fundamental" is being abused in that sentence.
That's a good question, I think only this class would need to be reimplemented for podman: https://github.com/afroisalreadyinu/miniboss/blob/main/minib... . The question is of course whether there are any incompatibilities in terms of networking etc.
Same question. I cannot access or ping to Outline.com anymore.
I'm not saying it's likely.

I'm just saying that this might be a last hope for Putin to keep things going.
Yes, because most WebAssembly advocacy knowingly ignores the past to sell their agenda.

It isn't only Java, bytecode as execution format goes all the way back to late 1950's, Gosling quite clearly asserts the work that Java builds upon, contrary to the WebAssembly folks.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1017013

"Back when I was a grad student at Carnegie Mellon, I had this problem where I needed to have some kind of an architecture-neutral distribution format. We had a bunch of workstations called PERQ machines. The folks who built them were a bunch of hardware guys who didn’t want to do software. The only compiler that they could get for free was UCSD (University of California San Diego) Pascal. So they made the hardware interpret UCSD Pascal p-codes.

My thesis advisor, Raj Reddy, asked me to spend the summer trying to figure out how to get the software from these PERQ machines to run on our VAXs.

I started out writing a little hardware emulator, just to understand the p-codes. Then I realized I could actually write a code-generating program that translated from Pascal p-codes to VAX assembly code.

So I wrote a hardware emulator for the PERQ machine that did hardware emulation by translating, and I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why it was that the translation actually worked. One of the things that I noticed was that the code that I was getting at was actually better than the code that was coming out of the C compiler. I was quite floored by how well it worked, and I spent a bunch of time thinking about what it was about p-code that actually made it work, versus trying to do this for some other instruction set.

Then fast-forward a bunch of years, when I was trying to do the project that Java came out of. I had to do this architecture-neutral distribution format, and then I just went ka-ching! You know, this p-code translator thing would actually just drop in there."

As another example of hidden agenda, most WebAssembly sales also ignore PNaCL and CrossBridge, only mentioning asmjs as previous art.
My teams are spread around the world and I’ve seen much better collaboration since Teams and the camera-on-culture became standard. I guess in-person is nice but it geo-restricts your network.
What causes you to continue walking here?
The same for me - I found mindfulness meditation easy and it’s concerning that it comes with all these “relaxation” “stress reduction” “empty your mind” memes. I don’t need that, I need a technique for the opposite of that.

Unfortunately there’s no good secular Tantra.
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...yeah, EU can definitely use this as "motivation" to become "a real thing" with proper integration army and all, closer to an European-federation. I'd personally like this tbh, probably the only way to really be productively competitive against China and US.

But we need to thread carefully here. The other side looks that it might involve non-rational actors. Hopefully they're also incompetent and not very united amongst themselves.
Housing can be a good investment or insurance, but you need to tax those that own properties they don't use to live in. Otherwise housing will get to a price beyond its real worth when people look for ways to invest their liquid assets. We had negative interest rates for government bonds... And renting out has quite the good returns, in my country it is a complete industry that exploits people that need to rent because they just don't have any capital.

Nobody should ever rent because it does not build capital. It can be a sensible solution if you actually do have a lot of capital. I doubt that is too widely spread.

Immigration can be positive or negative for the lowest income class. They don't have the expectations of the domestic population and can severely decrease income in low-income jobs and they increase competition here. "They build houses" is not really too realistic in my opinion. It is mostly beneficial for the better off classes that actually can pay for care.

Sure, the middle class does benefit from cheap labor which immigration provides... But not to the degree large capital owners do.
Is troop morale likely to be an issue if Russians are worried about their currency and financial situations at home? Would they be getting paid reliably or even in a position to check their accounts?
> dealing with shit like computers on a tractor that have a tantrum

The completely obvious solution is to not buy those tractors.
Yet it's 2022 and I literally don't use web-based desktop apps for my day-to-day work ? Likewise, the SteamDeck just released with a desktop UI built entirely in Qt? I feel we are living in alternate realities
An endpoint for Russia for the war always was and is a return to the negotiation table. They’re far off the course that they expected for that, but they might not be so quick to quit right now because they need to rebound. At the least they need the spirit of Ukraine to be broken more than it is now, and a few days/weeks of shelling/rockets/blasts should probably get them there
No, rather the contrary. I delete everything I do not need and can be likely be retrieved easily if the need arises. I only keep important documents, files that are nowhere to be found in the internet, archives of older work that I deem important as examples and record of how a problem was solved. The rest ... rm -r . Same with physical things. Moving and backuping is very easy. Only a handful of times did I delete things I later regreted doing so. And no, I am no follower of Marie Condo.
I think there's a third option -- that of independent Ukraine, unassociated with anyone (Swiss-style). The option of NATO -- as is clear from Russian actions -- isn't acceptable to Russia, but this third option may be.

(And I don't get into the argument of whether Russia should have a say in Ukraine's future — you and I may completely agree that it shouldn't, but Russia clearly thinks otherwise.)
I know what you're talking about, and I went through 3(!) major episodes of that kind. Of course, in the end I came out a much better person with a lot of weight lifted off of my shoulders.

Also, I was being very conservative with my comment and it is impossible for me to truly highlight my experiences without writing a book about it. I can say that I met a lot of very interesting people, educated and wise people who helped me a lot.

Actually, if you look at the old texts from Hindu Rishis and Swamis who lived throughout India - most of them talk about teachers appearing if you have the correct discipline.

This was my experience.
Make sure to grab some coffee grounds too.
I'm actually with you on that. Attacking a civilian building during a war is a war crime, even if that building is tied into the war effort (e.g. farms). This isn't anything new; plenty of generals have forbid cutting trees or burning farmland thousands of years ago.

However, sanctions have proven a very effective alternative to war. It's a way of punishing warmongers without anyone getting hurt too badly.

I don't know if it's ultimately effective, though. Something like this pushes both China and DPRK into Russia's corner. And then before you know it, you have WW3 on your hands.
Why not say all exercise is fake? The mechanism isn’t very different.
I'll check this out tomorrow, thanks for posting
It doesn't matter if the West is on the wrong moral side in some conflicts as you mention because it is clearly on the right moral side regarding Ukraine. Nothing gives Russia the right to wage a war of aggression.

You seem to indicate that just because Russia is threatening Total War, they have the right to conquer Ukraine. They don't! The quicker the world steps up to stop an aggressor like Putin, the less people will die.
Using a negative interest rate to reduce the miney supply is a much better idea than using a peg. To be fair you can do both. A negative interest rate is a speculators nightmare.
Exactly. Proof of work is costly in energy and affordable in labor. The energy consumption of labor-intensive industries obfuscates the real energy requirements of those industries, by effectively outsourcing the energy consumption to the workers.

I still prefer Ethereum's variation of Proof of Stake over Proof of Work, but it's by no means clear to me that Proof of Work based blockchains are less resource-efficient than traditional financial systems, and I would wager a comprehensive analysis would show in fact that they have the potential to be vastly more efficient, if they're allowed to scale up their transaction throughput to amortize their energy consumption across
more numerous transactions.
All great for you ... but hey lets think of the little people like the shareholders of google... 257 billion in profit in 2021 (share price closed 2800), from 89 billion in 2019 (share price closed 1350).

Hey look it works for them too, everyone is a winner!
It sounds like intrusive thoughts. Some (a lot of?) people have thoughts that pop up in certain contexts where they are incredibly unwanted and they can be disturbing to experience.
If you're in a position of some power that's maybe what you'd prefer. I'm on the bottom rung and being able to walk up to someone's desk so they can't ignore me would be extremely helpful. Been WFH for a while and it is not uncommon for people to ignore requests, never reply to messages etc.

Yes that is a problem with my current team, but I can't really do anything about it. Working from an office would mostly sidestep it.

I feel like most people are in agreement - commuting really sucks but working in an office is generally better. I suspect if teleporters existed barely anyone would WFH.
Every beginner Diablo 2 player puts one point into every skill, instead of focusing on 1-3 main skills that should get 20 points and 1-5 points into secondary skills/"one point wonders".
Argh, in which case, the scanner made the same mistake I did wwwwww
The end game looks like WW3 in ten years started by the China-Russia-NK alliance using Taiwan as a pretense. The real reason will be the desire to change the order of things, so China is the new capital of the world. I feel like the west is in denial right now, hoping that this far away war will get resolved by itself in a month or so.
That's great, but I don't want to work with you, because something you're working on or something you're responsible for is blocking me and I have no way of making progress.
Unsure, I am not from the U.S, but I tought maybe you can get back to the country for treatment...
There is truly nothing worse than China giving money to Russia so they can pay off their dollar denominated debts...