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Dutch people told me school and uni friends are for life and work acquaintances never come close. I asked several, they agreed something about Dutch socialising during the formative years emphasises longterm bonds.

I'm not saying other cultures are different, more that the modern Dutch youth recognises this and identifies with it overtly and strongly. If you move cities it can be isolating because you will be amongst people in your neighbourhood who have long bonds to others and won't routinely include you.

Non Dutch partners have also reinforced belief in this saying that even as fluent speakers they're often in the "outside" group.

The huge expatriate English language community working in the Netherlands may also emphasise this by being an "outsider" group most non locals are lumped into.

A different culture but parallel experience was some friends of mine who moved to Australia and socialised with a specific circuit of friends, and when those bonds broke they found their neighbours and school relationships were set in "distant" mode and they couldn't connect with their local neighbourhood. They actually moved cities (country really) and established local links deliberately before any other kind second time round. Safer!
I once found a table that lasted the energy requirements for Los Angeles water sources. A lot of sources have minimal energy needs. But something like 10% require about 50% of the energy needed for desalinization.

There is a lot of inane nimby stuff mixed in with reasonable concerns. For instance owners of hobby horse ranches in the San Gabriels suing to stop the California's high speed rail's plans to run a tunnel 1000+ feet under their property. Opposition to desalinization is like that.
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Holy shit, I had to surf without an ad blocker for a day, and it was like taking a trip into a dystopian future. I'm not looking forward to the time when the pihole ad-blocking methods are no longer effective.
Lol a simpler latex is so far down my list of what needs to be fixed in science it’s comical as a suggestion.

Here are three options for you:
1. Use latex as is, if this is your bread and butter the initial setup and learning curve is a few weeks.
2. Use overleaf. And please don’t start on “I’ll never submit my data to a cloud” no billionaire is going to not take your data.
3. Use word and let your assistant digitize your diagrams.

Point is the tool to make figures is not what’s slowing down good science. It’s the heads that do it that are a problem
> Please feel free to reply with your finest swearing and put downs.

How about strange?

I binge-watched all of Farscape in under a month during college over a decade ago, and "frell" (usually in the form "frelling ____") seems to have become a permanent part of my vocabulary. The word is a 1:1 translation of every meaning of "fuck", used very liberally in the series.

There's a bunch more swears and work-inappropriate sayings they also leave "untranslated", but "frell" was probably the most used.
> Don't underestimate the extent to which your brain plows through difficulties by throwing neurons at the problem until it goes away.

We also mustn't underestimate the extent in which the human brain is a fuzzy ensemble of partial experts, and composes the first few salient answers provided rather than trying to find a "best" answer that would be too late. Or how often the human brain creates post hoc rationalizations simply to provide narrative continuity.
The first half was interesting, and I think the conclusions hold in broad strokes. But the second half was so speculative and occasionally bonkers that it made me question the first half.

A progressive elite controls policy in Washington? We can’t even get a vote on a national health plan or immigration reform or loan forgiveness. I’ve left the Democratic Party in California because the old guard just bulldozes through everything. I was finally forced out to avoid a baseless defamation lawsuit. And I’m moderate: they treat the woke crowd worse. By moderate, I mean I would vote for moderate parties if I lived in western Europe, but the only choices in the US are center-right and right-populist.

Back to the article, I don’t think this bipolar cabal to remake the world order exists, and I won’t change my opinion until data can flow to the US under a GDPR-equivalent. German military spending can also be seen as a way for Europe to not be reliant on US military guarantees, and a future where Europe can choose between the China and the US on its own power.
Past ‘Soldier of Fortune’ developer reveals some inner workings of the old game
Some interesting tidbits about the Soldier of Fortune engine (mostly Quake) and the porting to various platforms.
It just shows the command. No talk about query plan performance or advantages over multiple updates and or deletes (which should be obvious I guess since this is one statement vs two or more). Otherwise it’s a pretty lackluster blog post.
I stopped caffeine for a while (~2 months) to test this out. It didn't really have a huge effect. The first week was hard, but I adjusted pretty quickly. Not really as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Now I drink coffee again because it tastes great and it's useful pre-workout.
I rarely see this sentiment since the entire Tech class has moved to Spotify subscription streaming as their music platform of choice (slight hyperbole, only slight). But as one of the 12 remaining iTunes app users out there, I am shocked at how terrible the software has become.

The 2005 version of iTunes that ran on my PowerPC macbook was strictly better than the app that I have installed today on my Windows 10 gaming PC. The 2008 iPhone iTunes app was better than the "Music" app on my iPhone today -- when I open my phone in airplane mode on a flight to listen to music, it bricks itself for 10 seconds trying to get wifi connection and prompt me to pay them for their crappy music streaming service. There is no way to disable that self-bricking advertisement.

I suspect that the average Apple employee uses Spotify to listen to music and doesn't have a large personal collection of songs not available for streaming on common platforms. The lack of dogfooding shows through.
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High five, fellow PhD dropout. :(

> The coping mechanisms that had served me reasonably well during my young adulthood suddenly stopped working during the pandemic. So, I became unable to motivate myself to a deadline, which had generally been a powerful force to motivate my attention and efforts.

I have experienced the exact same situation (but with work)... always been motivated by well-planned deadlines, but it just... doesn't work anymore?

I'm trying to figure out why. Suspect a combination of WfH, unrelated family issues, dealing with diagnosis and past trauma, a general surge in anxiety across the board resulting in a total burnout of any motivation... just ceasing to care about anything much at all.
This is reasonable advice early on, when you only have a reasonable number of warts in your API and are still able to move rapidly. However, as you go, maintaining every API in a fully-backwards-compatible-forever environment will eventually create sufficient cruft that you as the API developer can no longer build new things quickly (or, eventually, at all), which means that eventually you are unable to keep your technology and feature set growing enough to stay relevant in the marketplace because you have an increasingly enormous investment in your historical support story.

At which point you eventually start losing your current customers too because they can do enough things with the new, fast-evolving API of your competitor that it's worth the cost of rebuilding.
this is an incredibly ignorant statement. you can just google and find out but I suspect you have an agenda here which I don't appreciate.
I'll never know, but I have always been of the mentality that everyone has "something." Whether it has a diagnostic label or not. I guess, in a more terse sense -- life ain't easy for anyone.
What you think of as chocolate taste is already processed. Many people over years already spent a long time figuring out that process, there were many choices to make along the way.

The starting point, the only thing that could be called "like chocolate" doesn't taste anything at all like the chocolate you're thinking of.
part time college, commuter college, community college,online college isn't the same as being in a dorm living with people.
the 2021 version is better imho https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/
> The magic mouse you could not use while charging.

This is the biggest nonissue in computing. It takes literally 2 minutes to charge it enough for 8 hours of use so even if you forget for a month and are actually in danger of it dying, just stick it on the charger the next time you need to go pee and that will get you through the rest of the day.
Probability is invariant to the arrow of time.

If I can look at a probability distribution from data collected from the past and generate a probability. Why can't I look to the future and do the same thing? Even with knowledge of the future you can still count each event and build up a probability from future data.

Think of it this way. Nobody looks at a past event and says that the probability of that past event was 100%. Same with a future event that you already know is going to occur. The probability number is communicating frequency of occurrence along along a large sample size. Probability is ALSO independent of knowledge from the frequentist viewpoint. Entropy is based off of probability so it is based off this concept. Knowledge of a system doesn't suddenly reduce entropy because of this.
ADHD is the result of physical differences in the brain. You could be managing as well as a neurotypical individual, but that doesn’t mean you’re no longer someone with ADHD.

You are born this way. Such as someone on the ASD spectrum.
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Except that extensive internal tracking showed that the question was useless. The whole point of why I brought it up is because it sounds smart to the interviewer, but doesn't actually measure anything. Actual, validated psychometric tests are typically quite boring and seem intuitively insufficient, while the creative and fun questions never pass validation.
Respectfully disagree. Go is another one: while used more for pure APIs, it's definitely able to produce single-file executables which serve HTML.

(Technically the same is true about Rust and Haskell, but the amount of programming mastery required for them is slightly larger.)
This is only if you have _no_ idea how to use very basic open-source tools to wreak havoc via some open proxies. The real cost of launching small-scale attacks like this is $5/month on your favorite VPS provider.
I was flabbergasted once to see Perl rates right up at the top with Clojure and Scala but I suppose Perl's a bit like COBOL these days in that only greybeards still work with it.
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You can very easily use Racket for SICP with minimal translations, even without the `#lang sicp` package. Racket's default cons cells aren't mutable, but Racket still has them. The `#lang sicp` package mainly provides the drawing needs that SICP uses as well as defaults for the MIT Scheme used in the book.

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2007/11/getting-rid-of-set-car-...

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/mpairs.html
I don't think people necessarily appreciate what they're missing. Modern life makes it high friction to see other people. Making plans, getting reservations, etc., is a lot more work than watching Netflix. But that doesn't necessarily make you happy--or at least, it didn't make me happy when I was living in the city.

Since we moved to my current neighborhood in the suburbs, however, I socialize several times a week. It's impossible not to. There's a dozen kids within 100 feet on our street. Whether we feel like binge watching Netflix or not, the kids want to play--thus providing their own child care--and it's very easy to just grab a beer with the neighbors. Then there's church where I'm on committees that mandate face-to-face interactions several times a month on top of going weekly. I also live 10 minutes from my parents, so there's dinners over there several times a week. I don't work any less than I did when my social life was less active, and I have two more kids than I did back then. But I watch a lot less Netflix.
I ran a pretty great, if I say so myself, AD&D campaign. I started with a campaign that was find the pieces to reforge the sword of ages to beat the big bad (I know right?) that eventually ended up with psionics and spelljamming. Obviously I’m nostalgic, but the AD&D 2e era was marvelous. It’s fun to look at those old notebooks.

It reminds me of the charming MUDs of that era. There was a total focus on fun, with no concern about irrelevancies like “intellectual property.” That’s of course the spirit of D&D. Appendix N literally encouraged lifting ideas from published works.

The hardest part was organizational. I had a half dozen enthusiastic players, but arranging a time where everyone could be there was a real challenge.
> Well, the prompt is actually a bit vague - is it a monk sitting together with a skeleton, or is it a single entity that is both a monk and a skeleton? Seems like DALL-E tried to find some middle ground.

My thought exactly. I'd be interested to know whether any attempts were made at explicit disambiguation (eg. "A monk sitting beside a skeleton", etc.).
> There is ample evidence though, that social-media networks consistently exempt conservative outlets from their own rules to avoid political backlash, a fear seldom displayed when it comes to throttling left-wing content

And in this alternative universe dogs walk on their hind legs and greet people with a knowing wink, and pigs fly.
I did not see this play out. Geek bonding did not happen as much and faded after school when everybody was getting enough geek stimulation at work.

I've seen a great female gang from the University. But they were from random classes and the group held because they made quite some effort to maintain it.

I doubt colleges need to be kept for the friendship angle.
Racket still has mutable cons though. Just prefix everything with an `m`.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/mpairs.html
I've thought of returning to working with Perl but the one thing which puts me off is Catalyst.
What’s the point of posting articles only members and desktop browsing users can read?
Not to criticize, but how the hell do you write this long posts? Why don't others do it too?
I think you're purposefully misrepresenting what "works" means in this context. ADHD people can think a lot more clearly with it. The effect of stimulants is completely different on a brain like ours compared to a normal person as it helps regulates brain function in a way that ours can't.

For normal people it just gets you euphoric and agitated, we get CALMER cause we live in a state of constant agitation.
Really enjoyed this podcast - his enthusiasm makes for a great story-teller, even if embellishing some of the details at times, he weaves a fantastic narrative.
As the Mythbusters so generously taught us, "the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."
I am very close to someone who suffers from this disorder. Their inability to function in terms of personal care, family, social life, occupationally, etc. goes way beyond "normal behaviour in a system that does not accommodate everyone".

Try imagining a literal five-year old in a grown-up body. That's what this person is like when it comes to anything that does not have immediate (< 5 minutes) consequences.

I say this with love, to be clear. They are the most wonderful person. But I could not live with them without support.

Any system that accommodate this type of problem needs an external support structure to offload the burden on many other people. In our society, we call it mental healthcare, and we use diagnoses to help triage.
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ADD is just old terminology. You have ADHD, and you should read up on some updated science cause you got some very weird, very wrong ideas about your own condition.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/
I keep responding to you just by your comments triggering some things I am interested in, lol, but if you're interested in data science and F#, check out .NET Interactive notebooks in Visual Studio Code and the Plotly.NET package.
He’s free now. Vindicated but unclear if he will get his career back.
Hiring is hard, it's true, and companies badly want to do it.

But not at any price. At some price level (especially considering said price level has to apply to all employees, not just the marginally-hired ones), it's better to make due with the people you can attract than to up the cost higher to attract more.

Also, it's not clear that the overlap between the people that are most attractive to employers and the people who would be most swayed by remote-from-anywhere-at-SF-and-also-work-20%-less offer is necessarily as complete as the poster assumes.

Also, you still have to filter the group that comes along down to those who you would actually benefit from hiring -- which is actually the hardest part of hiring -- finding the good ones.

That said, if a vaguely-stable employer offered way more money for way less work, they'd probably get a stampede of applicants. So, if you're actually desperate for more applicants, go for it, it'll probably work.
I haven't looked into the details, but when listening to a wakeword, surely it has to literally listen all the time anyway?

I mean, would it really consume that much extra power to just have a second sink that's just a N-second circular buffer, so you got the samples after the wakeword ready for speech recognition when the wakeword is detected?
The only expensive part in Moscow is home/appartment. Everything else is cheaper than in other cities. Moscow is a major logistic hub of whole country, everything is here. Food, entertainment, great public transport system.
Cases are up. Hospitalizations are up. Deaths were falling but have levelled off. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_s... Scroll down to the map and see how much of the country has "high" rates of community transmission, meaning more than 100 new cases per 100,000 population in the last week.

If your news sources are not telling you about it, I recommend Violet Blue's Patreon (free), where she posts a roundup of covid news every Thursday. https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-65708396 It's detailed enough to feel informative, and infrequent enough that I don't feel like I'm drowning in bad news all week.
California is a great place to grow fruits and vegetables. Very stable weather and long growing seasons. Of course the issue is the lack of water. California provides a large amount of produce for the entire country.
I highly recommend growing heirloom tomatoes. The flavours will knock your socks off.
He is not being rude by asking you to consult a reference text.
I don't see why a Docker container with an app using your language of choice would be hard to run off a $5 hosting. You don't even need Docker; Podman or even systemd can run your container (or several). You still normally need to configure a Web server in front of it to handle HTTPS, but same applies to PHP.
I doubt it as most job boards I've seen have 3 or 4 Django roles for every Rails role.
Which is a completely pointless reference when discussing municipal water supplies.
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I played back in the day. I was terrible, insisting on omnipotent characters and unable to accept misfortune.

If I were ever to return to play, I would aspire to have disposable characters die glorious deaths and weave an epic tragic tale instead.

My brother was much better than me. He was a Dungeon Master. Now he writes fantasy novels.
> Before we get rid of colleges we need to find an alternative to this.

Nobody is getting rid of colleges.

Also, I don't think this is underrated. It is highly rated and, as you point out, that is for good reason.
Aristotle is not the word of god on democracy, and in general the Greek version of democracy leaves a lot to be desired by contemporary standards. When you quote him saying "the interests of all", it's about as disingenous as quoting the founding fathers of the USA talking about freedom for all people (well, except the slaves, and the women and ...)

Your definition of "woke" is one that has been applied to a set of concerns, ideas and strategies from the outside. It is how those who wish to reject those concerns, defeat those ideas and strategies define it. You're quite welcome to do that - it's not as if this is the first time this has happened. But "woke" (an almost absurd term that seems rarely by anyone outside of the conservative right at this point) doesn't have anything to do with the way you define it to the people you actually consider "woke". I think that's worth reflecting on.

As for fears of the majority ruling over the minority, it's far from clear whether that is actually worse, given at least a reasonable legal system, than the minority ruling over the majority, a condition that one could make a reasonable case for defining the current political system in the USA.
It's more fun in my head if "CloudFlare Attack Mode" allows you to wield CloudFlare as a Black-ICE weapon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_Countermeasures_Elec...
Heck I miss the version of Razer bold enough to make gaming phones. I tell you what, if Razer came out with a phone with slide-away controls like a modern Xperia Play I would be frothing at the mouth to buy it.
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Why would you want to learn racket after having learned sml? racket is great, no question about that, but it is mostly an educational tool and a "first language". I personally would rather choose a language with a broader real world user base. if you're interested mainly in functional programming, haskell would be a reasonable choice after sml. if not, there are plenty of other possibly more rewarding choices (on the long term).
85. Used Libertine and Coquette. My diet of early American literature is showing.
I used to work there. I don't find it very mysterious. The only difference is our offices had an extra layer of security/access control, and we had to firm NDAs. The team sitting next to us worked on that robot, but I couldn't tell anyone until it was released.
Do I need one to have an opinion on the law or what might result? No I don't.
Can you link any resources? SRE post-mortem analysis by Google is a resource I have found to conduct a blameless post-incident review.
Sanctions are not likely to be lifted until "wrong" people profit from Russia's oil. Russia looks like a banana republic where the puppet government gone rogue.
Every day you delay pushing a fix for whatever the pull request was accomplishing is a day you are punishing all the other users of your project, as well as robbing them of the benefits of the work done by the person who submitted the request.

If I find an issue in your code and I submit a pull request or (more likely) file a detailed issue with associated patch, and I watch you try to block back onto me to edit it to your liking when I know it would take you less effort to just do that final work yourself, you are less likely to get me to care in the future to do the work to isolate an issue and potentially even likely to lose me as a downstream user of your code.

I also definitely wouldn't want you force pushing a change with my name on it: if you are editing my code it isn't my code anymore... just commit the code as you. I am not playing some weird game where "credit" on a commit matters: I'm trying to get work done (as I'd hope we all are), and feel a need to be helpful to others instead of selfishly hoarding patches for myself. And if someone is playing such a game, it is probably better to discourage them of it rather than putting up with it.