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> two famous works by two famous figures being included

I think we run in different circles. Despite having three university degrees and owning thousands of books that I have read, I’ve never heard of either of these books and am just slightly aware of Leibniz, though that might be explained by my never having taken a class on calculus.

tLdr; I still don’t have a clue since I don’t possess enough requisite knowledge in the required domain space.
They fail because cost to produce/operate is higher than value to the consumer.

These companies need to either get much leaner, or change strategies.

The market for a $200 internet connected door handle is pretty small. I'm sure a lot of these products could work with a target margin of 5-10%. Who would invest into that idea though? Haha
What type of shell achieves that level of accuracy?
Insteon has been around for longer than Cloud existed, and their devices will work with HomeSeer or HomeAssistant. But non-techie people probably wont be able to get those working.

Maybe a glut of these will be on eBay soon.
Not OP. But I looked it up. A lot of the ones I found are ones my kids watched and I didn't even notice! Just shows how insidious and gently "slipped in" it is.

https://www.romper.com/life/lgbtq-shows-kids-family

Not that it's bad for those people to believe in those things or anything. But I don't want my kids exposed and normalized to these things until they're an appropriate age to decide on their own.
Can you give some examples of shows, scenes, or dialogue that you find particularly objectionable, and why?
I keep an e-mail for anything I suspect I will get spam from, one for anything official like work/job hunting, and a gmail mostly for anything google-related.
On Oreology, the fracture and flow of “milk's favorite cookie ”
Piracy. It's a crime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU
The interesting thing about the data in the study is that people who identify as Republicans scored higher than people who identified as Democrats, while at the same time, people who watched Fox news scored lower.
You must have had some very unlucky experiences to have this kind of cynical take on things.

In my whole career (17 years at this point) I've encountered only one manager who was in it for the power and control... and he got fired.

I spent a significant proportion of my career as an IC but I'm a senior manager now, and I can tell you that "power over people" is precisely not what I'm after. The fact that I have power (and not forgetting that that power comes with responsibility), is not relevant to me and not a positive part of the job.

Telling people what to do is orders of magnitude less effective than convincing, inspiring, and motivating them to do it.
Running your Apple laptop is pretty costly? It's much less than streaming costs
Sure, but the main contributing factor remains that nobody used it. And the widespread schadenfreude I suspect is mostly due to how blatantly obvious it should have been that nobody would pay for CNN+.
Serious question, who actually uses Snapchat? I haven't heard it mentioned anywhere in at least six months.
Yes! I recently went on a little trip and the AirBnB host had Netflix. This is the first time I’ve ever used Netflix. And oh my god how do people find anything with it?? I didn’t realize that you could scroll horizontally for about a day. And the categories are… useless. +1 for traditional “action” categories. And the content was mostly straight to DVD B-movies with a few “80s oldies.” I did manage to watch the new Blade Runner there so ok they did have something I could recognize.

And the TV shows were awful. Nothing I’ve never heard of. I couldn’t even find Seinfeld reruns or something normal. And after watching a random selection of them I am so glad we never wasted our money on the service. My wife picked a show (neither of us ever heard of) apparently about a narcissist woman who moves to Paris for work and it was just a low budget list of every “arrogant American visits France” trope and stereotype ever invented.

The experience was very much like visiting my devout Christian friend who has a huge bookshelf full of religious movies I’ve never heard of, and nothing “mainstream popular”. Like when you turn on Netflix you enter an alternate universe where nobody’s ever heard of The Wrath of Khan, The Godfather or Pulp Fiction.
>Of course, that is worth about $21 nowadays since we no longer use money in the absolute technical sense, but currency based on the credit of the Federal government and inflation is a bitch.

If humans were immortal and their money kept its value, we would be enslaved to the rich Romans to this day.
As of a few years ago, they paid all cash, gave you an additional 5% of your salary in options, and you could purchase more options if you want. I don't believe they allow 100% allocation any more (but they once did, feel like that ended around 2015 or so)
She's about 20 miles away and, for now, lives here in the summer and on breaks. Sometimes the IP address will match, sometimes it will not.

Househould is not an easy thing to quantify.
That may be true. But for people who are used to working 100% in the office, hybrid working has value of its own.
So can I "simply" go ahead and use this for my own projects, too? The documentation makes it seem like that but I have zero experience with front end development so I'm not sure what to make out of it.

/Edit: sorry, just have seen that you create the 3D model for the customer. I thought I could publish my selfmade 3D models on my own.
As a Masshole I cringe at all the opportunities for make-work handouts and "not quite graft" this kind of efficiency forgoes. Those backwards hicks up there would be so much better off if they did things our way. We really know how to run a state. They need to think bigger. That simple bridge replacement, it should take a year. It should tie up hundreds and hundreds of orange barrels. There will need to be rental equipment parked on site for at least six months. If the local communities are rich, you gotta make sure they tie you up in court over the minutia so you can spend thousands on politically connected law firms. Triple the timeline if you're within 5mi of a wetland. Etc. etc.

(sarcasm should be obvious)
Exactly. I’m a 59 year old man who knows how to pirate, but watches his content from streaming providers because it’s simpler and safer, and I don’t like to steal. I don’t think piracy is what’s killing them. It’s that there are too many streaming providers and people don’t hesitate to drop subscriptions. I tend to subscribe when there’s a deal, watch everything I want to see, then drop it and switch to another one for 6 months. And I’ll bet I’m not alone.
It’s cool to see the impact colab has had here too. It seems like a huge enabler in the art community of people who would otherwise have tons of overhead to play around (getting and setting up the machine and libraries). It’s awesome that google just gives away this scarce resource (gpu cycles) for free.
The reason it's such a great plot idea for a dystopian novel is that the young people, who already resent the old for living this long, will eat them alive if there's no more hope of them ever dying from natural causes.
Java's type system is just powerful enough that sometimes you can approach a problem in a way that resembles a different paradigm than normal, i.e. you solve it with the type system itself much more so than what's expressed by particular procedural or object-oriented or declarative code along the way. Supposedly Haskell encourages this approach as its primary one (and the approach sometimes gets called the "functional programming paradigm" but that I think is a misnomer as FP is primarily about immutability and higher order functions, not static types), to the same extent Java otherwise encourages a Java-style-OOP approach to most things, but I'm too unfamiliar with Haskell to make this claim with high confidence.

Still, different paradigms are useful, and one of the best things about Lisp is you aren't forced into one, and there's no threat of one being taken away from you. Coalton to me seems nice for people who like what it provides, it's nice that it exists, even though I don't see myself using it anytime soon since I don't personally enjoy working in that paradigm. There are two other non-type-proofs-paradigm benefits of static typing, but I don't really miss them in CL. The first is related to automatic refactoring tools, but Lisp has features to ease refactoring to compensate, and text-search methods for renaming aren't that bad (and even in Java necessary if you want to make sure you haven't missed reflection calls, though even then you can miss some) and anyway one can read the second edition of the Refactoring book that uses JavaScript if one needs convincing that refactoring can be done just fine even in a lower quality dynamic lang. The second is related to trivial conveniences like compile-time typo protection on symbol names, interface mismatches (like swapped function call argument order -- but failing to that indicates I have an unintuitive interface, and CL has many tools to help me make it better the simplest being keyword arguments), and faster assembly code. But SBCL's handling of the standard CL type system is good enough to get all of those things to a pleasing degree.
Hey, it is still your wheel, built according to your use-cases.

That is never a waste of time.
If you never follow news (or haven’t for a decade or longer), it’s difficult to get a read on what is going on in the world or in your country, politically. That isn’t necessarily wrong, but it means you don’t really understand the environment you live in. Getting a better understanding is my main motivation for following the news. Mind you, I’m not in the US and for the most part don’t follow US news outlets.
Right, so might as well stay home and hide their window behind my IDE

I once worked with a dude that would come into my cubicle every morning eating chunks of watermelon out of a sandwich baggie. He would just stand there smacking his lips and slurping up watermelon juice, purposefully trying to be a dick.

I shouldn’t have to deal with that or be expected to get a new job. And management shouldn’t have to sift through that passive aggressive behavior and make arbitrary judgement calls of who the dick is. Just let me spend the least amount of time as possible with him, and I’ll be happy. Respect my freedom to choose who I want to associate with.
The entire market of smart-home shit's gonna keep being terrible until/unless some decent, reliable, inter-operable, long-lived standard takes over or is imposed. It's all too expensive to be worth it unless you can be pretty sure it'll keep working for at least a couple decades.

Imagine if lightbulb sockets were proprietary! It'd be madness. The current state of things with smart home stuff is worse than that, because at least there's a decent chance proprietary-lightbulb-socket world would have plentiful adapters and 3rd-party manufacturers for most or all types. The odds of a company stepping in to provide a software-side fix for Insteon dying, are slim.
There's a certain irony too as it was a bit of a quick hack because they needed to create a lot of content.

If it was possible to generate interesting and meaningful quests and content I'm sure they would have.
Doctors gaslight people out of getting adequate care?

What have people done to you? What country do you live in?
SemVer for TS in Practice – real world example of avoiding breaking changes
Doesn't the ability to "hot reload" in either CL or Node largely depend on how the application is structured? For example, if you were developing a web server that sat in an infinite loop waiting for requests to come in, how would you go about redefining a function referenced inside that loop? Wouldn't there need to be two threads of execution? One that was the web-server and a second that acted as the REPL? To redefine something in the web-server, the two threads would have to synchronize in order for the new definition to be passed off. Couldn't this same setup be implemented in any language that supports threads and some type of `eval` function?

Edit: The two threads of execution I mentioned above are likely what the combination of SLIME + Swank are doing.
The ridiculous thing is that with these prices, I physically struggle to board a train if I get on on a Tuesday, but I'll get a set with a spare seat to put my backpack on if I get on a train on Friday. Yet it's an identical timetable and price.
> Please explain how Elon has a worse documented history than these current owners.

I don't think anyone said anything about the current owners; the only claim was that Elon Musk does not have a documented record of supporting free speech, which no one has seemed to actually challenge, including you.
What do you mean by "work in all groups..."? I mean, if someone could do their job remote but you are afraid of them goofing off so you need them to come to the office, well that's 100% a case of not hiring the right people. I don't know how it could be any other way. And in that case remote/not remote isn't the issue, it's that your company is incorrectly hiring the wrong people and that's the actual dysfunction - not the remote work environment. The remote/hybrid/on-prem stuff is just an expression of poor hiring practices. They're saying "we don't trust people to work unless we're watching them so they need to be in the office". To that I say "don't hire people you don't trust to work unless you are watching them and it's always exactly the company's fault when this occurs". I apply this universally to 100% of companies in this space without exception.

Obviously, well let's take Intel - I mean you're building semiconductors so you probably need to be near machines/equipment/etc. so I'm not suggesting everybody in the world should or even wants to work remote.
Let's say I want to dip my toe into smart homes, maybe get a smart light switch or two. I care about:

- privacy

- staying out of the cloud (so things like TFA don't affect me)

- an open protocol interoperable between vendors

Can anyone recommend a good "for dummies" guide written from that angle? I know that software-wise Home Assistant is generally recommended, but how do you decide what hardware to get?
It’s both, but it’s mainly due to the culture of putting the group ahead of the individual, respecting authority, and with a homogeneous population that makes it possible. The downside is that same culture tends to be more on the xenophobic side if you ever decide to stay in Japan.
>The article makes a big deal of the binging thing, and I agree it's a terrible model compared to weekly releases. But I feel like Netflix's real problem is that they just don't make enough good stuff.

Personally speaking, I'd be happy if they simply completed the stuff they do make -instead of cancelling it prematurely.
Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
Everything has a limit, sure. If nothing else, the population of humans on earth will probably stop growing before we reach the point where there is a continuous layer of humanity covering the surface of the earth.

Malthus's (and these others') mistake is not in assuming that there are limits to population growth without a change in how things are done, it is in assuming that we have already had all of the good ideas we'll ever have. It's not just Malthus and folks from the 70s, either. In the 1890s, authors wrote about how every street in London / New York City would be buried under 8-10 feet of horse manure if populations continued to grow. They did, and there's less horse dung now in either city than there was in 1894.

On the one hand, you can't fault people for not knowing specifically that we'd invent the automobile, but on the other hand, if you want to make predictions about the future, you need to account for humanity's ability to solve problems and invent new things.

It is interesting, though, that pretty consistently since Malthus wrote in 1826, "the end of the world" has always been about 15 years away.
The big thing is that normally a merger would have delayed or cancelled a project like this, scheduled to begin so close to the merger. This was probably someone's pet project where the only hope for it was to demonstrate it was profitable before the merger closed, which would have resulted in its preservation.
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There are many issues that can be solved with extra time. But should we all be living 200 or 300 years, society would probably be restructured in a way to squeeze that extra time out of you. Want financial stability and a good work/life balance? A house? Just grind for 200 years and you'll be set...
Does anyone else associate "crypto" with "scam" these days? How is this good for them or their brand?

I used to think Stripe's team cared about technical excellence and generally had good ideas.

With their first announcement into this space and now this I'm less inclined to think so and will avoid their business as much as I can.
> "What is clear to me is that hybrid is the worst of both worlds

I don't agree with this because I think my office is nice and not a barnyard. I mean a door, a window, nice amenities and easy use of a conference room for meetings. I have worked for tech companies that had offices that were like these giant open floors or cubicle farms. There were all these reasons people said they were good but really I think it was that they were cheap and it was easy to circulate people through them in places with high turnover. I'm never working in a place like that again.

My work is currently hybrid and what I like about it is if I want to work from home to keep odd hours or save time by not driving to work. If I want to have a particular time of focus, or host a meeting including guests, I can work in the office. Also, I should mention I have a short commute. Not everyone has all this, but this is what I think we should aspire to.
speed.cloudflare.com

fast.com

In my experience these always tell the truth
Because they're at each other's throats and not willing to cross the aisle to avoid political blowback from their own side.

The state of this country is a shame and we obviously need support for more parties with diversified political viewpoints.
IMO no. I think work that is creative + collaborative in nature (ex: entertainment) performs best with a few days where people are physically around. It's not just the act of meetings, it's how charged people can get when they are around other people on the same wavelength creating new things.

I think for junior engineers, being in person is invaluable a few times a week just having a whiteboard around. Early in my career having a senior dev around to bounce questions off of, or work CTF problems together really, really helped me.

Certainly there is some number of managers who just want control over people, but i think that's probably smaller than what some commenters are implying. The The questions i use for if a particular way of working is a ruse or effective is this:

1. What industry am I working in? If you work in an industry physically making things, you're likely to also benefit from being in the office some days. Same with creative work.

2. What's the ratio of "senior" to mid and junior level employees?

3. Is the company willing to let individual teams make more flexible decisions? I.e go down to 1 day a week, 1 day a sprint etc?

My end goal is to understand the nature of the organization I work for, why it makes decisions the way it does, and if leadership wants to send a message, or if they are open to trying to find the way that is productive and keeps people happy.
There’s no need to use Insteons hub/cloud service. Most Insteon power users that I know are using homeseer, homeassistant as a way to control the devices.

The other good thing about, at least the light switches (which is their core product), is that they work without an internet connection and will continue to function.

However unfortunately the less tech savvy users who set up automations through Insteons service will be left (quite literally) in the dark now.
It's funny they talk about the binge model and how Netflix has to change. I don't engage in the weekly drops on other providers I just wait the 12 weeks anyway. FOMO and WFH cancel each other out.
> But very repetitive and production line, with no passion projects, nothing too arty or quirky, nothing outside of the box, no surprises.

I'm getting the feeling that Apple TV+ is where it's at for this type of content. Severance was particularly good.
The problem is that social media is not optional for many professions.

A book author is absolutely expected to have social media and it can be quite critical towards whether they succeed or not. In fact for any kind of artist is.

Even as a software engineer, yeah you can do without it currently because of how good the job market is but playing the social media game right can offer a huge career boost (or malus if you are not careful). So not engaging with social media or not engaging strategically leaves you at a clear disadvantage.

Humans have a strong desire to be accepted by the group because that is critical for survival. And these days, being good at social media, having many followers, is a huge survival advantage. It directly translates into opportunities to make money, towards job offers, towards networking ability, towards finding a new apartment, being able to do a GoFundMe if you have been ruined by medical bills and so on.

So no, people are no doing it to themselves. They have to play the game.
Jane Street has been publishing some interesting projects recently. See Signals and Threads podcast State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care [0] posted 2 days ago.

I came across the incr_dom library [1], which efficiently calculates the diff on the projected DOM based on a diff of the model data, sorta like React but more... mathematically grounded (?). incr_dom was then reformulated in Bonsai [2] which refactors and generalizes the idea to work with more than DOM. There was a recent Signals and Threads podcast about it a few months ago [3].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31100023

[1]: https://opensource.janestreet.com/incr_dom/

[2]: https://opensource.janestreet.com/bonsai/

[3]: https://signalsandthreads.com/building-a-ui-framework/
This. The going understanding is that hardware companies are high risk, requiring large upfront capital with long market delivery time frames and one-off sales and continuous costs (support if not cloud). There have been some successes where ongoing revenue streams based on a cloud service make companies far more viable and profitable. Everyone thereby wants that and the VCs frequently prioritize that.