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You are correct in that I take on too much myself. Difficulties in communication leads to situations where what I ask for is disregarded or people take offense at the idea I'd need or date to ask for accommodations. "Just do it yourself, why do you need help?" "Stop asking questions just do it" These are knee-jerk reaction of neurotypical society and not something I can ever really change (the world is as it is).

This pattern of being ignored when I ask for help has led to a negative feedback loop where I avoid asking for help and struggle to get or ask for help when I need it most.

> I don't know about the support network for your condition but surely there are some?

I am on my second therapist and he's really awesome, I would recommend him highly. I have two local mentors who have also been incredible but there is only so much you can lean on other people for. I have an incredible wife who is being super patient while her husband struggles to be a partner instead of a dependent.

> Maybe you just need help with connecting to the right opportunities?

Yes. See negative feedback loop above, but if I am lucky enough to connect with decent or like minded people I DO have some success. When I describe these things (desire for a more fair work situation) to people I get responses like "oh so you want the perfect job?" No I just want to be treated with dignity and respect like an adult.
There are water taxis, but I think they only go along the SF waterline, between say Fisherman's Wharf and the baseball stadium.

There are ferries, but they only go from a very few points in SF to a very few points in Alameda, Oakland, and the north bay.

Seems like most of the time, the places you're trying to get to aren't close to the water anyway.
> Do you have any background in movie production?

Yes, but that shouldn't matter.

> most of the production spending is still using fancy optics and traditional production.

It used to be shot and physically spliced together celluloid, too.

Optics are punch card technology. The art, and indeed the end goal itself, is storytelling. The technology is just a means to an end. A grid of photons can be crafted and manipulated much easier with new techniques than by trying to put those photons in the correct places by hand. We're going to look back at optics and glass as the dinosaur age.

> And even for virtual production, the actors are still people

For now. Models can generate animated poses. This is moving faster than you're giving it credit.

(Even when robots replace us, people will still want to act - no question. The technology will still afford that. But just like ADR can now be model-based, so can posture correction.)

Your average ten year olds will be making their own Star Wars films by the end of the decade.
Enforcing the law.
It doesn't actually require having empathy to commit empathetic acts which are acts that display empathy. For example, smiling is an empathetic act, but it doesn't require having any actual empathy to do it. Sociopaths can smile and commit other empathetic acts to appear to have empathy without having any true empathy behind it.
The intersection between the "cars bad" crowd and the "cars should be regulated in a multitude of specific ways" (which has the side effect of driving up the size and price of the minimum economically viable new car) crowd is absolutely maddening. If cognitive dissonance were a physical object I would bludgeon them with it.

I would love a future where we can have cheap super-sub-compact EVs and small utility vehicles. But as long as these Karens get to hand wringing every time they see someone hauling lumber on the roof or they a family pile out of a 1991 Civic said future is but a fantasy.
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What do you want? Pictures? This is commonly known to be an issue there. If I was there right now, I'd say give me 5 minutes and I'll post a picture. Was in SF last week. If you do a lot of walking there, you WILL see not only a shit, but someone actively shitting.

Edit: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab72091...
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Former patent examiner here. The main problem with quality is as you describe: patent examiners don't get enough time. I've written about this before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31197809

Note that increasing fees alone won't necessarily change anything if USPTO management doesn't give examiners more time in response. For example, the USPTO charges applicants extra if they have more than a certain number of claims (20, I believe), but examiners only get 1 hour extra if there are more than that number. I once had an application with 45 claims... I estimate that I only got around 23 hours total for the first "office action" on that one (most of the work), and that includes the extra hour I got. So I got 5% more time for 125% more work!

Edit: Here's the application with 45 claims that I worked on: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190160529A1/en
> Windows uses a single shared registry for persistent application settings (instead of something like a plist/config file local to the application)

The NT Registry was intended for Kernel settings only. Persisting application settings to it was a bug that didn't get squashed early enough, in part because Windows 95 copied the idea without understanding the design/architecture/reasoning behind it. It is a bug that will live on "forever" for backwards compatibility.
Consumers are seeing a need for the scalpers; their service is valued at $200-$300. Whether or not 20 people botted a single one for their own personal use, or one person botted 20 to scalp, you don't have one in the end. Pay $200ish over MSRP and all the headache of locating and securing one goes away. It would be nice if supply kept up, but it's clear at this point that it's not going to.
Well, if our energy use continues to grow at the current rate, we'll boil the oceans in about 450 years, so I would say no.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
no, but they (and their peers) are the ones making bank off it

Ukraine does not get a check for N billion dollars, it gets N billion dollars worth of outdated equipment at MSRP
I hear this sort of thing often but I haven't heard a really good alternative.

One thing I question about scrum is "why daily standups"? Why not 3 days a week? Or once a week. It seems like nothing more than a social event when the whole team gets together every seven working hours and says "here's what I did for the past 7 working hours, here's what I'm doing for the next seven working hours".
https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/howitworks/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrUHkNunkeo
Influencers are businesses, plain and simple. They buy the camera to make a profit.

Compare this to someone like me, who also owns expensive cameras, but I have them to take pictures and show my friends. I plan to make $0 from this endeavor. I'm a consumer, not a business.
I did retrospectives at a job for 2.5 years.

I don't think in those ~60 retros, was there one thing we actually changed or accomplished.

Certainly much griping happened. But ultimately very little couod be accomlished, because our problems were beyond the team.

I would love to see retrospectives that worked, just to know what they are like. But so far I mostly see people forced to contribute to the retro, which results in:

1. Generic pats on the back for every minor thing we did. 'Really good job releasing feature X!'
2. Lot's of social compliments and jokes. 'X joined the team! Yay!'
3. Problems that we know about, but aren't tractable. 'The database schema we made 10 years ago really sucks!' but fixing it isn't practical.
If you search there are many complaints of Fedora killing applications under similar circumstances. Ubuntu sets the memory pressure limit to 50% and Fedora does the same for user processes. The systemd-oomd default is a less aggressive 60%.
This makes a common error in the direction of a causal arrow:

Technological progress is the result of ready access to fossil fuels. That is it is the result of our prosperity not it's cause.

I have also read Smil's Energy and Civilization and I have to disagree on the causal arrow direction.

Coal formed ~300 million years ago [1]. Anatomically modern humans have existed for more than 200,000 years [2]. Complex city-forming civilizations have existed for more than 5,000 years [3].

Chapter 6 of Energy and Civilization shows the dramatic shift in recent centuries: consumption of coal and later other fossil fuels underwent explosive growth only after the 18th century. This even though coal and oil were known to people thousands of years ago [4] [5]. Since people, fossil fuels, and civilization have existed in conjunction for several thousands of years, but usage of fossil fuels has become significant only in recent centuries, I believe that technological development is the proximate cause of fossil fuel usage. Once the early Industrial Revolution got under way it formed a feedback loop where technological exploitation of energy resources drove further technological development and energy exploitation. The early, inefficient Newcomen steam engine is a good example of this loop in action: its first successful application was in pumping water out of coal mines, to make more coal accessible [6].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history#Rise_of_civiliza...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coal_mining#Early_h...

[5] https://connect.spe.org/blogs/donatien-ishimwe/2014/09/18/hi...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_atmospheric_engine#In...
Someone should tell my employer
Most of the students admitted have top percentile grades/test scores as well. But the competition at the very top is based in leadership rather than minuscule differences in testing, yes.
I'm excited to read this!

This isn't about cryptography but Code by Charles Petzold is also a fun book ( vaguely ) about information theory.
Are you kidding!?!

Copyright is forever! How are we going to get any content from one hit wonders unless the copyright is state-enforced with taxpayer's money, and lasts effectively for ever? Who would create any music without the incentive of RIAA member corporations making money off it for a very long time indeed?
This is the reason why CEOs and C-executives make the lateral move to politics.

Large organizations like that are essentially political organizations
Good question.

I think it's for the same reason why car manufacturers don't like it when dealers sell over MSRP; it hurts the long term customer relationship. Higher MSRP means fewer buyers which means fewer services, repairs, etc.

More expensive consoles means fewer owners, fewer people buying console games and subscriptions.
> Deciding if a 32 bit value is an integer or not is awkward in software, which is why Smalltalk and similar VMs use other encodings.

Small integers (up to some small number of bits shorter than machine size) are stored as their value, everything else has other bits set to indicate a pointer, index into object space, or some other thing, is a very common dynamic language data representation in software VMs. XOR is cheap in softwate, too.
I disagree... kind of.

Every team is different and will have different strengths and weaknesses. Scrum should act as a framework to get your team to do the things it's not doing, but it should be doing. The most important parts of scrum are the ones that align with your teams weaknesses. If your team is already good about giving feedback to each other and trying new things to improve retros may be completely unnecessary. If your team just carries on doing that same old things because "that's the way it's always been done", then retros could easily be the most important part.

One of my favorite teams I ever worked on was great about giving each other feedback and trying new things. Retros were completely unnecessary because we were great about giving feedback in the moment. Stand ups were super important on that team though because we didn't have an EM and our PM was completely checked out, so everyone just kind of did what they wanted. If we didn't check in regularly it completely possible for stuff to fall through the cracks or get forgotten.

The team I'm on now, retros are super important because everyone is super agreeable and will hold in complaints. Sprint planning on the other hand is almost completely unnecessary since we have a bunch of long running one person projects that will get done when they get done. Each sprint is basically just everyone going, "I'm continuing what I was working on last sprint".

Figure out what the goal of each piece of scrum is. If your team already does that well, throw the process away. Scrum (for your team) should be what is left. Repeat occasionally since teams and people change.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30767084
I might be cynical, but the thread seems to come from a place of naivety more than anything. The author was getting preferential access because their reporting was positive for the company. When he decided to become a "real" journalist that caused Tesla to cut ties with him because they won't give all-access to someone who might be out to air their dirty laundry.

Look at interviews with any big companies CEO, the journalist doing them are given a very narrow field to play with, that's the price to pay to get preferential treatment.

The title is cherry on top because it sounds like the author paints himself as a victim by using a word "grooming", that is commonly associated with sexual predation on minors.
They will co-opt the next revolution, just as they did this one.
What don't you get about a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors of X, with product × replaced by composition of endofunctors and unit set by the identity endofunctor.
So what will come after Scrum? Is anyone here working in a "post-Scrum" world? What does it look like?
The currency controls have been repeatedly loosened, though it's difficult to try to find what the latest rules are. Russia's now growing concerned that the Ruble is growing too strong. That can hurt exports and exporters, as it means [relatively] higher domestic costs + lower profits.
It's in Afghanistan. US invaded too early to care about it and had no intention of mining it before they left.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.htm...
That's fine but the parent implied it was objectively worse than living elsewhere
Biological life confined to a single solar system: If it happened once, it could happen twice.

Post-biological life: There is presently no evidence of it happening even once.
Monads are when you have more than a single nad... /s
I tried working at a commercial pizza kitchen for about six months. I loved the creative cooking aspect of it. I hated the monotonous, thankless backbreaking work.

At the end of the week I lost all my time, and I had hardly enough money to pay the bills let alone disposable income. It was a net negative on my wallet and it was physically destructive to me, I was sore and worn out and that was a huge motivator to finally quit (getting a job offer helped).

I just want people to understand that the whole "take a break" thing is an incredible luxury not everybody can do. I don't have a job yet every day is stressful not knowing how I will solve the problems of tomorrow. Even if I do things to try to get my mind off it, those problems still exist when I return and often are worse because I ignored them to focus on myself.

> collect your emotions and thoughts and when you feel better level up to a new job.

I burned out a few years ago and while I am trying to recover I am starting to wonder if I ever will
This is what I mean by people not getting out their headspace. I literally find it impossible not to experience every single thing I mentioned above on a daily basis just by walking through the city.
no. you don't need to support older browsers. supporting older browsers only encourages people to not update their browsers. if they can't update their browser because some IT dept. said they can't then maybe if the whole internet is broken for them, the IT dept will finally let them update.
I'm looking outside right now and the landscape is far from hellish. Public transit is a great option for many trips and cars certainly have some downsides, but it sure is nice to be able to drive my car to pick up bulk groceries at Costco.
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Never seen anything useful actually come from a retrospective. There are open and interesting conversations about what went wrong/could be done better, but those discussions never materially change the team. Generally people are who they are, the work is what it is. How the team will be is relatively static given the same set of people and projects.
Yes, an act can be empathetic even if the person doing it doesn't feel empathy. For example, smiling at another person is an empathetic act. Sociopaths do this all the time without feeling actual empathy for people. It makes it easier for them to blend in if they seem to have empathy via empathetic acts however disingenuous they may be.
Huh? I can buy Apple products at Best Buy, Costco, Target, Walmart, AT&T, T-mobile, Verizon, Kohl's, etc etc.

There are plenty of retail outlets that are more than happy to sell Apple products while Apple also sells...
And the bad PR would be something along the lines of "company gouges prices to screw customers." Yeah, I think you're right. So it has to play out this way, with people paying a scalper's premium, and sometimes getting totally scammed. Really unfortunate.
Whether or not you agree with them, there are substantive reasons that sentiment in the US is turning against China. Your statement is too cynical.
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You might want to contact the Mayo Clinic (particularly at the MN location) and see if they have what you are looking for.
For example, they tend to do programs for executives where they get a comprehensive physical over a few days:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/mayo-clinic-e...

In general, I've heard they are good at getting multiple tests done and multiple visits with specialists quickly.
> The interesting question is, is it more efficient to always let 12V->5V regulators run for 5VSB or to use an extremely small separate regulator?

To complicate this further, full system power-off is not the only time you want to do wake-on-lan... if you want to wake from system sleep then you have to be running the 12V rail anyway, because that 12V rail drives the VRMs which drive Vcore and Vmem. No 12V rail means you lose your memory and CPU state...

As such I don't think you can really frame this as "having a separate 5V regulator with the 12v rail turned off", or at least that use-case must exist in addition to the deep-sleep use-case, it cannot supplant it entirely.

Anyway though, power-supply 5V rails are usually much much larger than they need to be, and that has higher loss inside a transformer. Even if you make that a solid-state thing inside the transformer, moving power at 5V is less efficient than moving it at 12V and stepping it down at the point-of-consumption. So actually the answer is probably that it's more efficient to always run a step-down regulator.
The economy is full of all sorts of middlemen.

They know local markets, and it's easier to deal with a few of them than all the consumers. For a heck of a lot of businesses.

Apple is pretty special in that they've got the whole consumer end themselves.
considering that Russia's actions in Ukraine are now the threshold for a genocide, the US and its allies have committed four genocides just in the last 20 years - in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya and in Syria
Can there ever be a prescriptive product development framework that works for all software development though? Is such a thing even possible.
iPhones are profitable the minute they walk out the door - you buying music or apps or whatever is just gravy. Add to that the day-one markups (earbuds, charging cables, apple care), they have every incentive to put you in the hands of a caring, dedicated salesperson who can upsell you up to your capacity.

Your playstation, on the other hand, requires you to buy two or three games, and if the games aren't there yet for mass market appeal or sufficient genres, well, the console will still be there in four years when the games catch up, and your iphone will be out of date in six months.

In both the manufacturers and scalpers minds, nobody would bother scalping an iPhone - the margin was already sucked out of it and it has a shorter shelf life; In the case of a console, the margin won't be had for a few years, but none of it flows to the casual scalper, so it's a lot of work for 100$ - they'll do it, but it's a grind.

But either way, people are happy to wait in line for the latest fondleslab, and they get it when it's their turn
It's not USD purchase specifically, it's exchanging your RMB for any foreign currency that's restricted. The Communist Party keeps people's money hostage and the reason is very clear: The rich obviously do not trust that they're safe. There is no rule of law, you can be arbitrarily locked up and have your savings taken from you at any time. All it takes for example is a change in leaders, as the Xi purge has shown. So they take their money abroad. To Canada, to the US, the UK and elsewhere.

The bill is probably needed but this is a bad look for the US whichever way you view it. I could go into long details but in short the situation we have now with increasing trade restrictions, stock delistings and so forth is the culmination of catastrophically failed policy towards the Chinese regime. The US and other developed countries were completely wrong and naive in the way they dealt with China. In fairness, in the 80s and 90s no one could have foreseen the current development and it was a reasonable assumption that with economic growth the country would liberalize. Even under Hu/Wen, I can see how people could convince themselves into believing increasing economic ties would make things better. Although already back in the late 2000s it was clear that the promise to open up the markets was a lie that never happened. Foreign ownership continued to be restricted, companies were forced into joint ventures (aka "thanks for the blueprints, suckers"), the Yuan control actually got tighter...

Western countries plus Japan, Korea and Taiwan made the Communist Party rich and powerful. Without all that foreign investment and technology transfer Mainland China would still be a broken backwater. Corporations in the developed world had gold glittering in their eyes when they looked at China and it's massive population. The Chinese regime found that one fatal flaw in free market capitalist systems: While economically they work, there is no incentive for the corporate leadership to do what's best for the country. Those who spearheaded the outsourcing of jobs and factories profited massively. As did the shareholders initially. It only came at the cost of the future of all the less wealthy people in the respective countries. Plus now they have a nuclear power pouring more and more billions into their military, preparing for war, while running concentration camps and allying with Russia and Iran.
"I'll give you my HP Prime when you pry it from my cold, dead hands"
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