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The irony of the Beats is that while they may have turned lots of westerners onto Buddhism, they misinterpreted it terribly. When I was studying comparative religion as an undergrad I asked my professor of Japanese and Chinese religions if there were any American Buddhists that Chinese or Japanese buddhists viewed as detrimental to Buddhism and the western interpretation of Buddhism. She replied that there was only one, Alan Watts. He was largely disliked in Chinese and Japanese buddhist circles because he so completely misunderstood basic concepts and talked to eloquently about them.

I later went to study in India for a semester where I had more exposure to many of the words that American buddhists such as Watts, or Kerouac throw around. I've seriously studied Buddhism in both American and Indian universities, and read books written by Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Tibetan, Korean, and Nepalese buddhists. I'm not a buddhist, but I can say with certainty that the Beats really didn't understand buddhism. Instead I view them as coming from a western tradition of capitalizing on oriental concepts by introducing them to an ignorant western audience. I doubt they did this intentionally, and it's not like I hold some kind of grudge against Kerouac for getting so much wrong. And in a way, good on them for introducing so many westerners to buddhism.

If you are interested in Buddhism and your interest came from reading Beat literature, I highly suggest you seek out a teacher that does not draw their teaching from Beat sources, or anything that can be traced back to Alan Watts. Look for institutions that have been around for a while and that try to demystify complex concepts.
Depends on how you rate side effects. My experience of depression was feeling so physically awful I wanted to die, just to make it stop. In comparison, even the 'extreme' side effects from rapid anti-depressant withdrawal (shocks, vomiting, dizziness, etc) are very mild.

I get that's not everybody's experience. However, my feeling is that if you shop around until you can get the right dose and the right meds, the only side effect pain is when you start, and when you stop or draw down your dose.

The real danger of starting meds is that it can give a severely depressed person the motivation and wherewithal to commit suicide, so I do think it's worth starting them in a setting where you're not going to be alone. Still, I'd say that's less a 'side effect', and more just an effect of having severe depression and suddenly not feeling so debilitated that you can't do anything about it.

In general, I just find the conversation around anti-depressants completely unhelpful and baffling. People focus on the extremely long-tail side effects, and ignore the massive bump in the bellcurve that is a depressed person either committing suicide, or just living a totally miserable life until they die from some substance abuse problem. People who are diagnosed with depression do not live good lives without medication. The statistics for life expectancy, etc, are just awful (it's worse with stuff like schizophrenia or bipolar). So all the stuff about antidepressants making you fat or whatever is just totally irrelevant.
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Sounds like burnout and depression at the same time. He's probably right - maybe a change of scene from writing software for a while.
Lennart Poettering, the author of the proposal and creator of e.g., systemd, avahi, and pulseaudio, definitely cares about workstations, I'd say.
For me, it is easier to think about this approach as "you can model it as a graph" and "you can solve this with graph algorithms". The argument seems to be too often:

* Look at problem space

* Recognize it has a graph structure

* Graph structures can be modeled with links

The last step seems unnecessary, or at least it can be generalized/implied after recognizing the graph structure.

The really difficult part seems to be: Combining all of the ideas. Distinguishing between the types of links seems to increase the complexity again, but using links as a general model gets more interesting (to me) if it actually ends up in a unified space.
Great point on accessibility, a guarantee of screen reader support is a benefit that would be lost with screenshots or text without the correct semantics.
lol yes, the site is not at all (what one would call) minimalistic.
The RAM! I've had 16GiB of RAM in my PC for almost 7 years at this point. If you'd have asked me how much RAM my PC back in HL2 days had I would have said probably 4GiB, but that's unlikely given the stats here. Interestingly I haven't felt the need to upgrade from 16GiB since and that seems to be standard on "developer spec" laptops even today.
I haven't realized SSE2 is so old. Almost half of the machines had it back then already.
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Happens all the time with monitors and dual sourcing of parts like panels where it is lottery on who has supplied.
With the s22 the 'intl' and 'us' models have different model numbers. I'm more concerned when buying a car and trying to figure out in which country it has been assembled (quality and parts used can differ)
I discovered ART [0] from other comments here, and it looks like it explicitly supports Digikam/Darktable metadata sync through XMP files:

> Better metadata handling (thanks to the exiv2 and exiftool libraries), with (optional) support for reading and writing XMP sidecar files.

I will check it out soon, ART has some very useful features that I miss from Darktable in RawTherapee.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art
Xiaomi issues statement justifying Samsung-like performance throttling
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If Twitter is not a public service, it shouldn't be used for official communication by government representatives.
Sorry, that's not minimalism. gwern.net isn't either; I'd call that "brutalism" instead.

THIS is minimalism: https://manuel.kiessling.net

Precisely in the sense of "NOT a lot going on at all times". Just the content, presented pleasently.

And importantly, it's not only minimalism in look-and-feel, but also technically: even a long post with an embedded image like https://manuel.kiessling.net/2021/05/02/tutorial-react-singl... weighs in at under 200 KiB. Loads in under 3 seconds even on "slow 3G" in Chrome. 362 milliseconds via my office's wifi.

Also, no JavaScript. Nothing moves or jumps. Perfectly usable and consumable in a CLI browser like Lynx.

All of that without looking brutalist.
I should try there too, may be local business as well. I had a good reach last year but not now. Just submitted to a few jobs.
As Italian, when I read something involving Agnellis willing to do something for Italy, I am a bit scared about taxpayers money, like Fiat has always got tax discounts and subsidies and as a thank you has closed factories, and fired people, can we just keep the people related to Agnellis in the Silicon Valley?
Text is obscured by the floating graphic tool buttons in the top right, on iPad. Once you scroll down far enough for them to slowly fade out, the whole thing is lopsided, with a big white margin on the left and text hugging the edge on the right.

Points for the detailed explanation of the principles and whims behind it, but the Design of this Website is poor.
Radiation sources as child entertainment, what could possibly go wrong?

I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool, but doing things "for real" isn't really the Disney way. Why bother with a real fusor when you probably make a perfect visual simulacrum with some fiber optics? Then you don't have to worry about stray neutrons, induced radioactivity, X-Ray leakage, etc...
Pretty common tactics.
When I was young I spent couple of months in UK. I was looking for a job and a girl come close to me, asking if I were Italian (she can recognize me by the accent and by the clothes) and suggesting me to bring my CV to local Staples that was looking for staff. She asked me where I live and we exchanged phone numbers (I thought this was interested on me).
We start messaging and after few messages, she told me that she was married and she had two kids, so I slowly stop the chat.
After 10 days, I was at home and she rang at my door with his husband a friend. They would like to invite me to a meeting in London, without providing much details. My family was part of a semi cult movement, so I am able to recognize to recognize those threats and the cult recruitment tactics.
Then I asked more details and after lot of debate they reveleade to be part of Jehova witness.
I told them that I was not interested and to don't try to recruit me again and I slam the door.
They come back other times, but I did not open the door, then I found some Jehova witness flairs on my postbox.
After I left and come back, my flatmate told me that they come several times looking for me and inviting him as well to the meetings.
Having potentially hundreds of copies of popular shared libraries on disk isn't particularly elegant when you find a bug in those libraries
In some IT / professional services labour markets in Australia & the UK, contract work is quite well established. Many organisations advertise contract roles on their websites or local job aggregators -- typically get quite a lot of large private enterprises (banks, telcos, ...) who need people with specific skillsets right now for 3 months or 12 months to keep projects on schedule. Sometimes there are also public sector contracts. So often you can point your browser to the biggest local job search website, switch the mode to contract/temp & query for an interesting keyword.

Some recruiters also run agency businesses where after successfully matching you to work at a contract for a client , they handle stuff like invoicing, in return for taking their own (perhaps quite large) cut on top of your agreed daily contract rate. This can be an easy way to get started since they sort out some stuff for you, but there's more potential profit if you learn how to operate without relying on this.

There can be legal issues where it is unclear if a worker should be classified as a contractor or an employee, which could result in the worker paying more or less tax, or the employer being liable to give additional benefits to contractors who are actually deemed as functioning as employees, or so on. Another thing to think about is insurance & liability -- if a client pays you $10 to write some code, and your code has a defect and causes the client $1b in losses to their business, can they sue you for $1b? $10? etc.
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Thanks. Will look into them.
As someone from Europe I would much rather have it default to Signal than to Telegram. I prefer encryption over "jurisdiction-based protection" or whatever security shell game Telegram is playing to protect my plain text messages.
Sorry, I realise my comment may have sounded a bit harsh, it was not meant as a criticism of your website - just describing why I don't perceive it as minimalist design
Thanks! This actually does help. We had encountered Lottie earlier in our search, but didn't explore it enough. The size compression it achieves is in itself a big advantage.
I don't think EVs will save us. But I do think that it's an important step. I only said reduction in my original comment not complete solution.
I think generalists make good Product Managers. Getting a "good" understanding of all the business functions (tech, analytics, ux/design, sales, legal & regulatory etc) is fundamental to being successful in the role and naturally fits the type of mindset that you describe.
Huh? I have the opposite experience. Major upgrades always went flawlessly for me. With the rolling testing-Release on my workstation/laptop, I sometimes run into dependency problems during upgrades. But these can always be solved by a few standard techniques. Not really beginner-friendly, but quite reliable.
I have had many more problems when upgrading Ubuntu installations.
Did you intend to reply to my comment? I’m not sure how the quality of new hardware relates to my using only older hardware which is stable.
True of course, you pretty much hand them the key to your house to do as they please. I remember defunct banner ad services redirecting all pages with banners on them.

The problem is real tho. You casually publish 1-3 things per day. After 20 years you have many thousands of pages that slowly rot away. You could monitor them and delete the articles but that doesn't always work. A tweet and a 5 second video in the middle of a lengthy article don't render the article useless. It becomes something like old paper publications citing lists of unobtainable things.
I love this site. The content, minimalism and focus on performance, the honest over-engineering, everything. But I can't read much of it as is.

• My reason is not the font, which I like, but the 'density' (not information density). The line height is too less for me.

• There are a lot of hyperlinks and they look like the factorial notation instead of an underline and are of the same color as normal text.

• Sidenotes are a good thing but they should be shown on demand, not everytime (maybe there's a setting I missed which does this).

• Regarding the pop-ins, I dig the idea but IMO, showing the whole page is not very useful. Maybe just the summary of what's to be shown. Why would I want to read a whole article in the pop-ins and what purpose do they serve which sidenotes don't?
Some people managed to run Doom 3 on Voodoo 2/3 cards, applying some patches and resizing the game textures, etc...
I managed to run Doom 3 on a Creative GeForce 2 MX DDR using the patches for Voodoo 2 and doing the same trick of resizing textures. The game was playable, except for the boss guarding the soul cube.
If I did another startup in Europe, I would incorporate in Delaware and raise US money from the get go.

It's cool to see the YC terms borrowed directly, and hopefully that would be a shot across the bows of European investors. But to really give European founders leverage they need access to US valuations and terms.

I think semi-philanthropic incubators like these could really help by guiding founders to form US entities or reincorporate as early as possible.
$HOME/bin is useful as well. I like that I can have my own software (that I wrote and compiled) in my home folder and don't need to ask a sys admin to install it for me.
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We are a team of skilled 1.) Scala developers which like to write pure functional and clean Scala code and 2.) Infrastructure engineers with a strong background in IaC and a DevOps-mindset

We are now looking for an infrastructure engineer with a strong background in IaC and a DevOps-mindset to help us build scalable and replicable infrastructures for our customers and our own products on AWS.

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begin transaction;

write to db;

post /api

commit;

Assuming rollback is implicit when an exception occurs, failure at any point results in the whole operation not executing.
Next you tell me that NATO hasn't moved East despite promises.
You get the same crap results with those searches.

All review site have become some version of "link to amazon and include their description as your in detail review"
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yeah and then go after European engineering talent, try to get best of both worlds.
I agree, but we appear to be in the minority. I find videos unengaging personally.
I see some outrageous complaints about Scribus here, but I'm going to say that it doesn't make sense to focus on small details and annoyances, throw your toys out the cot, and then proceed with saying that Scribus is practically unusable.

It may not have the bells, whistles, and polish of a multi-million dollar commercial effort, but if you can't use a software like Scribus without getting angry and annoyed, then computers are probably not for you.
I presume the intention was to present UNIX server and not the commercial, user-oriented Mac OSX
On top of that, there's no good reason to offer euthanasia to those who are fully capable of killing themselves. If they want to, they can do it.

This system is going to get abused so much. It's sickening really. And think of all the perverse financial incentives it is creating.
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For those nostalgic folks that miss music visualisers
It's the mental image of a sedative plunge, plea to breathe by an asthmatic, and rapid dismemberment in a plastic wrapped room by a hit squad of private jet flown high level Saudis. He was going to get marriage paperwork completed. The callus calculation left an impression.

It doesn't diminish the deaths of 100k civilians. No whataboutism debate necessary, both are barbaric. One was top of mind, neither is mutually exclusive.

The common denominator between Saudis and Russia is oil and lack of conscience or moral compass. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Ever since I started working in 2015, I often encounter a salesperson from a company that engaged in lead conversion for its customers. They are almost everywhere I've been in my city. What they do is to sell stuffs and donate proceeds/profits from sale to the charity they are working with at that point. While this may not look out of place, the fact that they approach people with a slight lead of "helping charity" only to sell its products make me wary and try to avoid them.

What they do is that they will have a short activity to get people to sympathize with their cause (asking to write made-up pet's name to vote on what necessities is important to it), then they will describe that they are doing CSR work for its company in association with the charitable organization. They will conclude the conversation by asking us to purchase products, and some salesperson outright saying that it's a donation (when in fact it isn't). They fix a minimum price of their stuff at $15, but they will try to get a bundle of $60, and when I say I don't have that much, they will keep dropping the price, as low as $3 (no stuff). With the minimum wage here is $10 a day, whatever they're trying to sell is just too expensive.
While reading you're more prone to analyze and think about the subject, while videos are sort of mechanized, in which generally people don't pause and reflect on what's being said.
Not everything is a binary.

Also having everything system specific live under a single path means easy backups, easy immutable trees that can be A/B swapped for seamless and online updates with easy rollbacks.

No more wondering where the various tools live since everything lives in /usr/bin and more.
1) Satisfy your creative needs

You are highly creative and therefore need a creative outlet. Since you are interested in the intellectual side of things, you should probably write. A blog isn't cliche - it's an outlet. Nobody will read it nor care about it except you, but it serves the purpose of putting thoughts into words and coming to a clearer understanding of the things you are interested in. It exercises both the creative and the critical parts of your brain and you will eventually look forward to writing once you practice. You shouldn't write for a blog - you should write to think. Without writing down your thoughts, you are not really thinking. That creative want needs to be satisfied - so create something!

2) Drill deep down into ONE thing

The problem with the creative types is that they are interested in every shiny thing they see (speaking as one). This results in a bit of chaos if it's not kept in check.
I would pick one thing you do in your job and deep dive into it - become the expert in your company in that particular area. This will pay dividends to both your job and intellectual satisfaction as you will be able to apply what you learn to the real world. Expertise in your job has the added benefit of being valuable straight away, something which is vastly important when you have time constraints such as family (which is not a bad thing by any means!).

Source: A fellow creative who started doing the above 2 years ago.
Good luck with that, Italy and Italians are one of the most bureaucracy-obsessed country on the planet. You can think you own country has bureaucracy issues? Go check Italy, and it will be for sure worse. I mean, in 2022 AFAIK and still not every salaried person can have a default pre-compiled tax draft that they can just sign on the Internet and get approved. You have to go and compile it one from scratch (I think the situation is changing but still not everybody has this by default). Also there is this idea where you get by default a lot of taxes but that you can opt-in to many helps for various topics (like, improving your house energy efficiency) which will reduce your tax burden, over usually 5 or 10 years after you paid for it cash. There are small taxes and fees for everything, you had to pay an annual tax to validate your passport (which was obviously checked only when you left Italy, if you live abroad nobody even knows about it, so now they made it a big fee at passport renewal every 10years) and so on.
Source: an Italian living abroad, tired of bureaucracy .
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I had this same realisation about 6 weeks ago, I had fallen into a routine that was not bad but also never challenging or surprising. Since then I have been trying a bunch of new things to kick myself out of the rut.

A simple idea is to take things you enjoy and do them with other people, for me this meant doing classes at the gym instead of working out at home, booking art classes rather than trying to learn from a book. In some cases this has been amazing (I found an olympic weightlifting class that is the most fun I've had in years), in some cases not so amazing but still glad I tried.

Also I have started meditating (again within a teacher). For me the chief advantage of this is to start noticing your own patterns, and to be more deliberate in what you do. It has helped.

ymmv
AOSP Camera can't use them but GrapheneOS ships with a Camera app that's able to use all the cameras and a lightweight variant of HDR+. Google Camera can also be used on GrapheneOS simply by installing GSF and Google Camera. Network permission can optionally be revoked for both, and neither has special privileges. It's different on CalyxOS where using Google Camera requires giving a high level of privileges to Google Camera itself and Google services (microG).