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>According to a new paper, mindfulness may be especially harmful when we have wronged other people. By quelling our feelings of guilt, it seems, the common meditation technique discourages us from making amends for our mistakes.

I'm curious what is meant by mindfulness in this regard. People use the same word (meditation) to refer to many different practices, each with its own intentions and results.

For example in Metta we develop feelings of kindness towards others, in concentration practice we develop concentration (which can be used as a soothing respite from the horrors of life, and from the psychological destabilization of insight practice), and in insight practice we develop insight (in the specific sense that is relevant to becoming enlightened—see Daniel Ingram's excellent book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, available for free online).

If you meditate in a way that suppresses negative emotions instead of confronting them, that seems counterproductive to me—except to the degree that you know you are doing it intentionally to take a break from the hard work of psychological re-integration (shadow work).

My personal aim in meditation is to become lighter, ie. less burdened by feelings of heaviness. I have had a few days and weeks in a state of near-total lightness, and it is wonderful. So my goal is to obtain that state of inner peace more or less permanently.

(As an aside, in such a state I find it effortless to work with complete concentration, am not prone to avoidance, procrastination or addictive behavior, and experience heightened physical and creative energy.)

So, while meditating I will often have to confront some nasty stuff, because until I resolve it, I have to carry it around with me. Sometimes it's about negative beliefs, often rooted in difficult past experiences.

Sometimes it's about guilt. To resolve guilt, I have to make amends. I have to apologize. Then I feel a bit less burdened, as though I've unloaded one of many large stones from my backpack.

Where I ran into trouble was that I put too much pressure on myself to be moral: I tried to live up to the ideal of always doing the right thing, and when I learned that I was unable to do that, that was extremely disturbing to me.

What I failed to realize is that it's a muscle you have to develop. You can't just decide to instantly become perfectly moral, just like you can't decide to be instantly become perfectly fit or fluent in Japanese. Like anything else, your "moral consistency" will improve with time and effort.
> Next, the DB experts help improve efficiency. It's too easy for engineers to over-provision a DB instead of rewriting the query or adding an index or two. Lastly, engineers flock to new datastores on the Cloud that may not be the best fit for the use cases at hand. So advising teams on which datastore to pick is another angle of the role.

Moreover, involving this group of people in design processes will keep you from creating wildly expensive and unnecessary systems. I can't tell you how many times I've seen projects start using wildly expensive Neo4j and a bunch of cutting edge research/non-production dbs (and all of the associated operations work to productionize and software written to utilize) all to end up getting migrated back into Postgres once performance barriers get hit somewhere and engineers realize that Postgres can handle the use case just fine.
I'm pretty sure the lifetime of the scooters has increased significantly since those reports. Low lifetime was an artifact of rapid VC fueld expansions where the companies threw whatever hardware they could get on the streets. Subsequent iterations on the design improved durability.
It's not a either or thing. Both help. I'm a Dutch guy living in Berlin. Berlin in the last few years has upgraded their infrastructure quite a bit to make things safer for cyclists. This is of course something that my home country the Netherlands started doing after the oil crisis in the 1970s. The result of decades of policies and regulations is that that is now a very safe place to move around by bike. There are very few traffic situations where cycling traffic is mixing with normal road traffic. That really cuts down on the accident rate. Berlin has some catching up to do on that front.

Here in Berlin, the leading cause for traffic deaths is trucks taking right turns at speed and not noticing the cyclists in their dead angle. Happens a couple of times per month. The way to prevent that is 1) mirrors/cameras 2) installing concrete curbs to force the trucks to take the turn properly (slow down, take a wider turn so they can actually see what's lurking in their dead angle). In the Netherlands neither of those things are optional. Almost any significant right turn will have those curbs and they really work. Also crossings are super well organized and there's just very little room for misunderstandings. Any place with abnormally high accident rates gets prioritized for a little makeover. And forget about being allowed on the road without the required mirrors.

This Volta truck has a great design that should help enormously in countries with less regulation / established policy on this front. These are designed to go into areas where normal traffic isn't even allowed. So lots of pedestrians and cyclists. Even in the Netherlands they should help. You never get to perfect safety so all little bits help. And I imagine the enhanced visibility is helpful in general for drivers.
I like this idea, It'll be good to have the best of both worlds. Is there a way to optimize search engine visibility for such short urls? perhaps with a good title, meta tags having keywords etc.? Is there a HTML meta tag that gives the search engine crawlers an alternate hierarchical url for the same page? I believe setting up the server to do this is not too difficult.
http is still susceptible to man in the middle attacks even if the site contains no secrets. You have no guarantee that the contents of the website haven't been tampered with (not that attackers would have much incentive to tamper with a blog).
So, A cryptobro that eats soylent paste?

Didn't have that one on my bingo card...
Why is “this would take away jobs” an argument that can be made in any non-communist country?
In reality it's very hard to accidentally write an infinite loop that spawns threads. There's no idiom that would lead to such a pattern and I can't recall ever encountering such a bug in the wild.

Yes, in theory, there are all sorts of ways you can still trash the process with bad code. But in practice, the sorts of bugs that programmers really make in GC-d memory-safe languages are the ones that don't. So, exception based error handling really does come in very useful and Rust probably got it wrong here.
You're touching on a different problem, though one that emerges in international contexts. It's also evident at national levels where higher education is subsidised regionally, but employment is flexible at a national scale.

Namely: regions which support low-cost education tend not to see its benefits if they also have a low-wage or low-tech economic base. Such states are simply subsidising brain drain to more affluent regions.

This is one (of several) reasons why improved education is far less effective at increasing economic productivity than is commonly thought. (For more on this I highly recommend Ha-Joon Chang's 21 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, which has an excellent chapter on the topic.)

This turns up in India (particularly in technology), the Philippines (medicine), Eastern Europe / former Warsaw bloc (science, mathematics, computer programming), and in the US. For the latter, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has long had an excellent computer science programme. Its graduates are educated at the cost of Illinois taxpayers (both individuals and businesses), but tend overwhelmingly to leave the state. There's effectively no tech cluster near UIUC, and very little of one in Chicago itself. Tech employment in the state is ~320k vs. 1.4 million in California. And that's actually reasonably good --- 7th ranked in the US, ahead of Massachusetts, which at least has a tech tradition.

It's a bit hard to read by total employment and compensation, but my sense is that positions are less technically interesting within Illinois as well.

By position, top-10: CA, TX, NY, FL, VA, WA, IL, MA, PA, GA.

Bottom ten (starting at the bottom): WY, AK, ND, SD, MT, VT, HI, WV, DE, ME.

Top ten metros by tech employment: NYC, DC, LA, SJ, SF, Dallas, Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta.

Atlanta has 40% the tech employment of NYC.

https://www.cyberstates.org/#interactiveMap?geoid=0__usa

https://www.cyberstates.org/pdf/CompTIA_Cyberstates_2022.pdf
Hasn't the economy for the last twenty years been mostly funded by consumer debt?

With rising housing prices and stagnant wages, this how trickle up happened
There are universities (i.e. colleges) in Greece/EU, where not only the tuition is zero but you also get a good salary as you work towards your degree.
How working remotely helped me climb mental health mountains
It has been solved in modern cell designs. A lot of this is just outdated criticism.

For stationary energy storage, you don't need li-ion batteries at all.
Can forget about only fans cooling your rig though, if ambient temperatures will be around 50 C there won't be enough cold air to cool your GPU I'm affraid :-)
Isn't ETC quite clear precedent for that?

It obviously wouldn't be as large and probably suffer from everyone on real ETH selling off their duplicated assets, but it'll surely be a thing, a last ditch effort to keep mining rigs profitable before everyone moves on to the next best coin?
It's at the bottom of the page. A pod with 1GB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 10GB of storage costs $2.65 per month. Bandwidth is not mentioned but I don't think it should be a problem with most of apps except for like blogs.
The marketing exists outside of the "buy now, pay later" scheme.
"Buy now, pay later" is not a scam.
Not quite what you describe, but in this short film Utopia, similar themes are explored - exclusion from society due to non-compliance with the "digital lifestyle."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYaXy5mmA8
You realize that a large fraction of the land that we farm produces fodder for livestock? Everyone being vegan would greatly reduce the amount of land we need to farm. Sure, some meat can be produced from agricultural waste or from grazing on pastures, but the reality of industrialized meat production is so far away from that that you might as well disregard it. Almost nobody would be able to afford meat anymore.
I never heard or read about this and I used to read about past practices a lot. Who, when and where? I mean, which social class, which place and period and how prevalent it was?
my favorite KISS Linux is Tinycore http://www.tinycorelinux.net
It's even more opinionated and architecturally simpler than this. Every package is simply a tree fused into / with the union file system. It runs from ramdisk and can live in a fat formatted thumb drive.
Here is the abstract of a paper from 2000 titled "The Three-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem"[0]:

"The problem addressed in this paper is that of orthogonally packing a given set of rectangular-shaped items into the minimum number of three-dimensional rectangular bins. The problem is strongly NP-hard and extremely difficult to solve in practice. Lower bounds are discussed, and it is proved that the asymptotic worst-case performance ratio of the continuous lower bound is 1/8. An exact algorithm for filling a single bin is developed, leading to the definition of an exact branch-and-bound algorithm for the three-dimensional bin packing problem, which also incorporates original approximation algorithms. Extensive computational results, involving instances with up to 90 items, are presented: It is shown that many instances can be solved to optimality within a reasonable time limit."

That sounds slightly different, if you have to specify the size of the big box up front, but you may be able to efficiently explore different values for the L x W x H of the big box once you know the optimum packing for a given set of lengths.

[0] https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/opre.48.2.256...
>most precious and vital resource we can gather in limited supply (energy)

???

What leads one to this opinion? The problem with energy isn't that there isn't enough of it but we're not exploiting enough of it. I want a personal fusion reactor, not a tax on existing.

Why does viscerally hating cryptobros lead people to wanting to kneecap humanity forever, huddling around solar-powered heaters in winter, eating impossible soy products?
Technically `cd ~` will take you to your home directory, in this case it was /root as they were running their examples as root.

A useful feature in Bash is that `cd -` will take you to the directory you were in previously.
What you're suggesting means we should have more grants or just lower costs/prices at schools. Which I mean, yeah, I totally agree with that.

Loans are debt. They have to be paid back. So yeah, of course how much someone will make after school is relevant here. If doctors in the US didn't make bongo bucks, med school costing 250k+ would be absolutely insane (rather than just moderately insane).
"Big Carb" is what allowed human population to grow to billions.
The one that struck me the most was:

"Sanpaku 三白 literally means “three” 三 “white” 白. It is used to describe eyes positioned in such a way that the iris does not touch the bottom eyelid, showing how the sclera is all connected."
(if you google for 三白 images you will find many examples).

I thought it odd that a language needed a word for something like this (shades of the myth about Eskimos having hundreds of word for snow), so I asked my Calligraphy teacher about this (she is Japanese).
Specifically, I just asked her: I mean, "the fact that someone is looking at you in a way that a slim portion of the white of their eyes is showing either below or over the iris" is something that is often a topic of discussion?

Her answer:

Not really, but in the past, people defined it as a criminal face and didn't really like it.
Nowadays it seems like it's a part of beauty.
They put Audrey Hepburn as an example.

(also, you would probably write 三白眼, - Just 三白 would be, "the snow falls on the first three days of the year" - or a horse with three white legs, like https://images.app.goo.gl/JBU1d9bQaAYmVVfj9 )
That is how benefits work. It is called imcome redistribution and the people doing it are proud of it. They also like to pretend it helps the poor and disenfranchised.
All it does is encourage freeloading and cheating, as well as disincentivising success.
That's a feature, not a bug. NYC has always been free, free-wheeling, and very pragmatic. Think for yourself, don't worry about what everyone thinks about you, get things done, work it out pragmatically with the people around you. Look at how traffic flows - no laws describe it, lanes are often ignored, etc., but it works. Saying 'you are violating traffic laws' would be misunderstanding the system fundamentally. NYC has always worked very well, the greatest city in the world for generations (despite recent media campaigns that seem to have forgotten it), but it's also not for everybody.
I am African, and I cringe hard whenever somebody refers to a group of people by their skin feature, regardless of where they come from.

I personally don’t think it’s ok to refer to a person like that, it’s a rather gross oversimplification of a human being.

We ought to be more sophisticated than that.
just you wait till someone makes east europe simulator
Waveshare sells one for $25
Akpeteshie
That looks like a converted bus cab.
> Daily morning and afternoon exposure to bright light might actually be more important to reducing depression than direct vitamin D supplementation.

I don't understand how this is even a question. It's like people have no idea what's doing them good. Sure, I understand that scientific evidence is helpful, but this isn't particularly rocket science?

The difference between being in the sun and taking vitaminD is perceivable. Taking vitaminD doesn't make one feel better even to a fraction of how one feels after hours in the sun.
People have a hard time differentiating times when they were innocent from innocent times.
This didn't start a couple of years ago, lol! Re-defining equality as equality of outcome in order to obtain power is a trick that dates back at least as far as Marx and probably much further.
Most artic trailers with more than two axles (and many with only two axles) have got multiple steer axles.
That's pretty much my point, there is no reason to meddle with the contents here. It's different if you live in a country where your ISP automatically MiTMs you (as a sibling comment to yours pointed out), but that's not a thing here at least. If you know that's a threat and it bothers you, you would likely already have measures in place anyway?

But I admit it's a valid reason to have https.
I won't judge, especially as I don't know cpp either :)

It seems great and way more user friendly than what I have. I might steal your code for the next iteration.

I'll write a proper readme and make my repo public today.

EDIT: Here it is:
https://github.com/Stanko/retro-frame
When I went to university (in Sweden), a lot of people were just pottering around, taking additional courses to delay having to get a real job, so I suppose that should be factored in when comparing efficiency between different systems as well.
So you're saying we favor frequent submissions over in-depth conversations?

Hey - that's not in the manifesto!
I'd say "yes and no" from what I could see. If you are looking for a DBA job only in a big/small company, that will be very hard to find. Sadly, most companies will expect you to do DBA work as a "side job" (they see it as an unnecessary expense).

However, if you have expertise in specific databases, start a consulting company. That can be a very lucrative job, and you won't be tied to your employer's mismanagement - I've seen numerous times where a company will hire more managers and fire engineers (or cut the costs in hardware) due to increased costs by those managers. And they end up badly pretty quickly.
His business was selling generic "herbal remedies" IIRC. Which is bad/predatory IMO. And going further to meta-hustle that this is salutary enough to recommend to others without any seeming compunction is meta-bad.

(I know it's bad posting something this dismissive in deeply nested comments, but I believe it is relevant information to the discussion which hasn't been mentioned elsewhere. I tried elaborating but the elaborated versions of this comment were more cynical/uncharitable, not less, so I'm keeping it short instead).
The very phrasing, "buy now, pay later" is predicated upon the implication that it provides a benefit without a negative.
Talking about agile, I subscribe the ideas from Allen Holub (holub.com), especially because he doesn’t talk about a one-size fit all formula, instead he focuses in collaboration between peers, and short feedback cycles aiming to solve business challenges.
Fwiw I also think it's the coolest thing ever
The book: Compiler Construction by Anthony Dos Reis explains very clearly about parsing. You'll be able to build you own regex parser. I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in learning compiler theory.
Another widespread opinion is that religion is an structure created to manage and channel human espirituallity for the profit of "those who are able to talk/understand/explain/mediate with/to/from god(s)"
Almost all fraudsters on eBay already go free, at least in certain circumstances. I have reported numerous, obvious fake items in categories I'm familiar with to eBay, and had virtually none removed.
Microsoft Edge seems to be introducing the same feature. I really though their browser won't become trashy this time. How naive of me.
Totally agree. There's the obvious part of insurance: If there's a 1% chance of something bad costing you $1000, you can buy insurance for $12. Then there's the less obvious part, which is that the insurance company might only have to pay $900 for the same risk that would cost you $1000.
For me, the biggest appeal of programming as a career is getting into flow state - becoming so absorbed in what I'm doing that I lose all track of time. Which sounds like the exact opposite of mindfulness. Mindlessness?
The government's money was formerly your money. I would prefer to keep my money and help in my local community than pay more taxes to distribute wealth.
> However that doesn't help much if you are a foreigner and don't speak English well.

Well... welcome to the world? You'll have the same issue traveling to South America, Europe, Asia. When you travel and end up in a country where you don't speak the native language, communication gets more difficult. This is a non-issue.
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866614/

This is a Monsanto sponsored papers.

"Funding: This work was supported by Monsanto Company, the original producer and marketer of glyphosate formulations."

"Disclosure statement
The sponsors were provided the opportunity to review the manuscript prior to journal submission, but inclusion of their suggestions was left to the discretion of the authors, who retained sole control of the manuscript content and the findings. Statements in this paper are those of the authors and not those of the authors' employer or the sponsors. The authors are employed by Exponent, a scientific research and consulting firm that provides services for private and governmental clients, including on projects concerning glyphosate and other pesticides. In the past five years, Ellen Chang has provided consulting services through Exponent on behalf of Monsanto Company on other issues, and she also has provided consulting services on other pesticides and lymphohematopoietic cancers for other clients."
Sometimes you don't want that actually. For example if the reason that device has an battery is a RTC (Realtime Clock) and it uses it to keep track of time.

Or with things where battery life is a much smaller issue than forgetting to turn the thing on (e.g. smoke detectors).

Or with things that draw unspeakably low amounts of current and where such switches would be hard to implement (e.g. digital wrist watches).

Other than that: Yes please.
I use Restful URLs.
Getting started with the GD32VF103 RISC-V Microcontroller
(Background: I work in product design/new product development, and conceivably might have designed this thing! If any of those were still designed in the Western world. Which they aren't. I have designed some stuff like it, though!)

Oh, great, this debate again! I shall use this post as ammunition next time I am arguing with our stupid design team about why we need an off switch on the stupid product we are designing, because it is a giant pain to live with devices you cannot turn off.

(It is especially fun to put something together for the Very First Time, then realize you can't turn it off... and you need to turn it off because it's the Very First Time this thing has ever existed at all, and it isn't quite right, and you need to fix something. But it can't be turned off, and this is somehow by design.)

(Our design team will never listen. This is because they, one, don't listen to anyone ever; and two, never use the products they design. Oh, sure, there might be a user study or two. But they never actually have to live with or work with the damn things.)

> They never seem to just use the bluetooth module as the sole microcontroller

We actually do this! It works pretty well.

> and also it's not like microcontrollers are expensive these days. with a blobbed-on IC of some 8-bit custom non-programmable thing, they're probably spending like 1-2 cents each

Yeah I wish we could get those prices. But we don't do COB (chip-on-board) and we only use microcontrollers we can get and read datasheets for, so we pay at least 20x that price. Maybe that's why we don't have any clients?