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> The work knows. That's actually the problem. Your work is constantly decaying. You have to beat the rate of decay.

It's my experience that while not easy this is relatively straightforward for many valuable types of technical work.

The key I've found is that most people are incapable of making themselves seriously work through a textbook. Work through 10-15 good sized textbooks in your field and you are pretty much immediately near the top of your field in the professional world. Most of the churn in skills is happening at much lower levels of abstraction. If you have the fundamentals to understand the higher abstractions backing these changes making a switch is much easier.

As a concrete example, I'm at a big tech company using Typescript (TS). While I have less experience with TS than most of my coworkers many already consider me "one of the local experts". This is because:

1. I was previously aware of the challenges Racket trying to add types back in... I think the early 2000s? Forever ago. Anyway I could guess at the limitations TS would have as a result (e.g. when a type inference might fail).

2. I read a book about TS

3. I read the TS docs and changelogs

(2) and (3) to roughly 12 hours total.

I've had plenty of conversations with people who are much more "guru-ish" than I am and they report similar results e.g. a database expert who has spent 20 years almost exclusively leveraging knowledge discovered in the 80s despite keeping up to date with the field.

I don't think this holds in Academia, but most of us aren't there.
"Citation needed" :-).

There have been occasional examples of misbehavior and ignoring the license terms of certain FOSS licenses, but by and large almost everyone -- including corporations -- does abide by them. The common licenses are well-written, legally solid, and most lawyers (again, and most importantly, including corporate lawyers) agree they would be enforceable in court.

I don't know if you've had a bad experience with releasing free / open source software, and I'm sorry if you have. Many people have seen good results from doing it, and furthermore there's a baseline level of digital freedom now available that is entirely due to people producing such software. The most obvious example, of course, is that you can run a free operating system on your computer and thus not be at the mercy of gigantic tech companies when it comes to privacy, advertising nuisance, non-configurable user interfaces, etc.
I see Blender as a very long running project that got "close enough" to market desires to get industry to see the potential in it and support it. Once the great UI war resulted in 2.8 it has been going great from there.

If you could get krita/gimp/whatever "close enough" to market for industry to "see the potential" then maybe similar could happen.

Although, for all I know, there is a dark side to the Blender current ways of doing things. But for now it seems fantastic.
>This is not assigning blame specifically. It’s discussing the origin of a disease.

If you point at a character flaw and say that it allowed to spread a disease that's assigning blame. Not assigning blame would use neutral language and sound something like "British sailors spread HIV to Europe after contracting it from African prostitutes".

>Would you rather it not be known and discussed?

This is so slimey. Nobody is saying it should not be discussed and you know that.
I found this explanation pretty post-hoc:

"nobody depicts a moose in stained glass. A man scrying the heavens through a telescope is exactly the sort of dignified thing people make stained glass windows about. A moose isn’t. So DALL-E loses confidence and decides you don’t really mean it should be stained glass style."

If the styles of the moose and the man were reversed, you could use the exact same explanation but end with "So DALL-E decides you don't really want the moose to be in stained glass style.".
That being said, it's good that there's discoverable information there.

At my previous job, Symphony[0] chat was set up to launch at startup for all employees. I remember when the icons I call "Pyramid of Infinite Fun" and "Drone Strike" showed up in Symphony. There was no mouseover alt-text for the icons, and the Pyramid of Infinite Fun was right next to the icons for bold, italic, etc. text. So, people naturally clicked on the new icon a few times to see what it did, but it seemed to do nothing. The thing was, it caused a musical ding (like striking a musical triangle) for everyone else in the current Symphony room (channel), without any visual or auditory feedback for the person clicking the icon. So, being in Asia at the time, we heard waves of ringing noises from all over the trading floor when the London office got in. (Deployment of new versions was usually midnight NYC, so mid-day in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore, so the deployment for us was more gradual as people responded to notifications to restart Symphony to pick up the new version.) The sound was closer to a triangle than a bell, but I suspect the driver for using a triangle instead of the traditional bell icon was just to be perceived as making progress.

"Drone strike" was just the screen shot icon. However, it looked like a targeting reticle and showed up the same day as the Pyramid of Infinite Fun, so I was somewhat hesitant to try it out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Communication
When a human's head ends up on the body of the bird, such as with Darwin or Alexandra I have to imagine a game of telephone where a transcription error in a chain of tradition led to the emergence of an apocryphal figure and they rolled with it.
I think there might be a way to set up some of the Kobos offline.

I really like mine, it has support for many sideloaded formats via USB, and apparently some decent hackability.

I'm not sure how good they are for fully offline privacy friendly use, and they don't have CIFS(And if they did they'd probably phone home when you connected to WiFi).

As an aside: I wonder if textbooks will ever start being published in formats optimized for small size.

It would be cool if A5 or A6 became the default paper size for more things, large format paper is a hassle to physically transport, and troublesome on cheaper e-readers.
As mostly a heavy user, most of the time I find emacs quite snappy.

Where do you find your package code most throttled? Do you have a top-3 wishlist you would want the core team to put in?
Is that so?

As a rule, when you take a limit new things can emerge.

For example, pi is the limit of a sequence of rational numbers. For example 3, 3.1, 3.14, 3.141, 3.1415, etc. All these rational numbers are "perfectly predictable", while the digits of pi are not. One could say pi is a "chaotic number", and is the limit of non-chaotic numbers. Nobody would find this paradoxical.

Take turbulence, the textbook example of chaos. I can approximate any solution of the Navier-Stokes equation with a sequence of periodic functions (with longer and longer period). Each of these is non-chaotic, but the limit is chaotic.

Quantum mechanics converges to classical mechanics when h->0. So, the solutions of Schroedinger's equation (which are all non-chaotic) converge to something that exhibit chaos. Where's the paradox?
They’re clearly designed and revised over the years for that express purpose. I understand why they have to put that warning on the box and not market it for that use…but they 100% know who their market is.
>...is exceptional if you're willing to go with what it wants to make, and a total slog if you have very specific requirements.

The same can be said with respect to how a great many treat most of their relationships, both personally, professionally, politically...
If I may, what continent are you on?

I moved from Africa with its noisy mosquitoes to Canada where the mosquitoes are silent but the bites are violent.
The process cant, but the knowledge can be. You seem to be arguing against dogma, not a mythopeotic view. And fair call, religious power structures do a lot of harm.
> What exactly do you think we did before baby formula even existed?

Well, we breastfed.

Problem is that isn't actually a reliable solution since not all mothers produce milk at the quantities their child needs. This is particular true as a child grows, many mothers grow tired of breastfeeding and look to formula as an alternative. Problem is this deteriorates their milk production since the child is eating less breastmilk.

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The reality is this situation is primarily dangerous for mother's who cannot breastfeed or lack sufficient production - and require formula. There is no go, safe, reliable option because Option A (Breastmilk) is gone and Option B (Formula) is as well.

People keep acting like there _should_ be a backup to formula, without understanding that humans are the only animals on earth that have created an alternative to their naturally produced milk.
If we lost all the insects in a ~100 year period, the result would be close enough to losing "all life on earth" for anyone who doesn't have a microscope (or, more likely, a telescope). This is not an exaggeration in any sense of the word.
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High Noon. An iPhone game which uses the gyroscope to shoot cowboys.
That's pretty silly, lots of c++ projects have changed languages over the years. We get that you like c++ but let's not be myopic.
Love this Jon Solo report on Pinocchio, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGtweb0OS5g
Thanks, seems right. Someone asked github in a discussion 18 months ago[1], and they said soon, but there's still no sign of progress, no issues to track, no indication soon really was in the pipeline.

[1] https://github.community/t/support-for-sha-256-hashes/157493...
I offer you a free cake, but every 4 bites you have to let me smash your thumb with a hammer.

How do you react?

1. Tell me to go to hell.

2. Try to figure out a way to eat the cake without getting your thumb smashed.

3. Accept the offer.

1 & 2 are perfectly rational human reactions. 3 probably indicates some degree of mental illness on your part.

There's also probably a deep sickness in the society and culture that allowed me to make the offer in the first place.
As one of the folks that currently works on Redis, I want to highlight the "Redis can be improved and should be improved". There is a lot of really good ideas put forth that are likely worth consideration in the Redis project as well. There has been a lot of conversations about renewing multi-threading, especially to address the point of simplifying management and better resource utilization.

Glad to see you guys made a lot of progress, although a little disappointing you chose to go down the path of building yet another source available DB and not contributing to open source.
I never viewed "as the flu" as a minimizing view. You don't want to get the flu.

This has always been something almost as deadly as the flu for everyone. More deadly for older folks. And as contagious as the cold. Not something to take lightly.
Gravatar? The vendors recruiters use are not above ingesting data leaks, and I've definitely tracked three cases of recruiters (including a FAANG inhouse recruiter) using inappropriate email addresses to one vendor using data from the gravatar leak.
Waste plastics from old cars “flashed” into graphene to go in new cars
The fruits and vegetables (I'm not counting nuts) need a couple gallons per ounce. Even desalination would only cost about 0.3-2 cents per ounce of those foods, and that's pretty much the upper limit of long-term water prices next to an ocean.
Which means they may pay for an alternative to the AGPL.
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For that, I can only apologize. Completely agreed that clear communication is difficult.
The mpkb.org link discusses rather small faraday cages like this:

https://www.marshallprotocol.com/images/Building_a_DIY_Farad...

Look at the awesome picture on the very top left. That’s a tent made out of Mylar or a similar material. You can’t monitor the air quality inside with modern technology because that would pollute the interior EM environment, thereby defeating the purpose [0]. I like fresh air in my room, TYVM.

[0] Of course you could use a fan outside to move some air through a mesh and sample it, and you should if you’re going to live in this thing, because IAQ is important.
Definitely self provoking, because the conservative party / parties overlap policy-wise with the liberals (and probably NDP). For example Charest would be indistinguishable from the Liberals on a lot of policies, as would Doug Ford.

Unfortunately the actual "conservative" elements usually have some other ideological hangups that make them impossible as mainstream choices. But I'd rather support a slightly politically unpalatable further right conservative that won't take power than see all the parties just converge to some sort of centre-left unprincipled thing and have no different voices in the discussion, like in the last federal election.
I've currently got a phone number and to my surprise its
0x+y=z a+y=c a*a=b
You can probably figure out the last 3 numbers.
Ok now that i've made all of the same numbers the same variable there isn't that many combinations. Cool.
My state took it just seriously enough to get us to vaccines (and even before that, buy some time until they realized they shouldn't just put everyone on a respirator). For all I know it may have saved my life and the life of several other people I know with comorbidities. Possibly my parents as well.

Yes, a third of the country didn't go through the effort and a lot of people died in those states also. The country might still be functioning, but not necessarily well, with significant labor shortages, supply chain issues, high inflation, a looming recession, record high gas prices, etc. (not all of that is directly because of the pandemic, granted, but it sure didn't help).
People language hop all the time. I 've seen people rewrite apis from python to Go, java to go, python to scala, Go to rust, etc etc etc.
> Is any new code being written in C++? Apart from adding to existing C++ based projects like Chromium and maybe supporting legacy trading/financial services code bases what else is C++ being used for where all the modern new features would be helpful?

All Adobe products heavily use C++, Most Digital Audio Workstations heavily use C++, All 3D authoring software heavily use C++, Most new core Blender code is now C++ instead of C. Of Course, most game engines are C++ based as well. So this is just the consumer space.

There are domains where there is simply no alternative to C++ in terms of features and speed. Rust maybe, but I don't know enough about Rust to formulate an opinion. No need to say that C++ is absolutely here to stay.
The worst mosquitos I've ever encountered in the world were right outside Jasper NP in Alberta.
Rust fans rely on the compiler to enforce safety, to the exclusion of other qualities. In C++, we rely on libraries to provide safety and also those other qualities, so library authors get powerful features to enable that.

In practice, people writing modern C++ code do not struggle with memory safety, so it has been a good trade.

People avoiding modern coding style, such as Lakos and his minions (and, apparently, Fuschia and Chrome authors) do not get that benefit.
Suicide accounts for just north of 800k human deaths each year. Definitely more than mosquitos.

The source is a "worlds deadliest [to humans] animals" infographic [0], and suicide seems to me like a very clear-cut case of a human killing a human. I don't know why it's excluded, and neither the article nor source explain.

[0]: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-Lethal-Animal-Mosquit...
The comment section is full of clueless numpties that do not understand what 4 degrees REALLY means, and think it won't lead to collapse.

When the world was 4 degrees COLDER Chicago was under 900 meters of ice. Toronto was under two Kilometers of ice.

Do you think that would cause collapse of civilisation? How are you going to adapt to a glacier covering all the farmland? No technolgy, not even nuclear bombs, can remove the billions of tons of ice that would be covering all the farmland. We could not even protect cities, the moving wall of ice would buldoze every structure we've build and then whoever didn't freese to death would die of famine.

We are headed for a 4 degree change in the OTHER direction. That's what we are headed for by the end of the century

The biggest mistake climate scientists have done is communicated their change in terms of degrees, so people think about their everyday experience with weather, which obviouslty changes much more than that, and think they will just sweat a bit more in the summer.
I have a 27 year old email address that's on every spammer's list, and it's in a lot of password breaches because I used to not be diligent about changing it.

So you'd think I'd see this happen... but it hasn't happened to that email.
What, in your head?
All these claims fundamentally require trust in some external party, at which point you no longer have trustless distributed consensus.
How do you know school use doesn’t need extra functionality? School use covers students, teachers, administrators, and staffs. And usually the choice is at the district level , which includes lots of district staffs.
By ‘slowed down’, do you mean this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc ?
> Yeah but how many mosquitoes do we kill in return?

Not enough.
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Are programmers really smarter?

Smarter than animal trainers?

Smarter than massage therapists?

Smarter than lawyers, artists, plumbers???

If we took a vote here, well we might be biased!
A google image search turns up endless flocks of stained glass meese as well.
U.S. cities where women are most likely to earn $100k or more
Isn’t this because FDB persists to disk? What’s the difference compared to Redis persisting to disk?
For business, too?
Wrote a query language in a couple days once. It was a lot of fun!
Benchmarks are curiously all based on Graviton2 or Graviton3 instances, it would be interesting to add some Intel/AMD instances to truly compare with Redis...
What are the main positives to letting China have access to information outside of their country that they demand be censored?
Ask HN: Best-practices for email and account hygiene?
I've recently noticed increasing notifications (both via email & 2FA) of attempts to break into various accounts (extant and not). I've enabled 2FA wherever it's available and every password is unique via LastPass, but all the notifications I've been getting have me alarmed. For example:

"We received a request to reset your password on BestBuy.com. However, we don't have an account associated with this email address..."

This, combined with the uptick of spam getting through gmail's filters, has me considering the daunting task of migrating all of my accounts from me@myname.com to... something else.

I'm curious about the experiences & lessons learned from others here who may have gone through something similar. My current plan is to migrate to accounts+bestbuy@myname.com, accounts+amazon@myname.com, etc, and to isolate human-to-human correspondence at somethingelse@myname.com. But I'm open to alternative strategies.
Yes, free will. Good thing we are all born on an even playing field and then are given an even playing field for our childhoods. That way it doesn’t break our brains to blame the common man vs the actual status quo.

What we really need is the principled and ever consistent hypocrisy (that always seems to be benefit the person) of most libertarians/sympathizers. When they are doing well…no regulation or taxes or safety nets. Someone else does something wrong because the system sucks? That person is at fault. Oops something doesn’t go well for the person. Now they want action. Make things whole.

A quirky recurring example of this are grifters like Mark Cuban following this to a tee with crypto. Or even funnier, the reversal of Eth after the legitimate DAO attack or wanting FDIC sort of insurance any time things don’t benefit them! I understand the desire to want to fuck. All the time. Yet never wanting to be fucked.
Probably not many in production, but the "recent kernel" is going to be the more important part.

I'm not hip to how much new stuff is backport-able, so this may preclude Ubuntu 20.04, for instance. You lose the "LTS" part if you compile your own kernel, if you manage to make it functional at all.

Note: I never use kernel modules due to the issues rhel/debian and I have had with such things in the distant past.
Regardless of whether the formula changes/doesn't change is essentially irrelevant. As a baby grows, their diet grows as well. A toddler can get by on infant formula (though less than optimal).

This situation primarily impacts 0 to 4 months olds and secondarily 4 to 6 months old. It's less than ideal fora 6 to 12 month old to use a sub-par diet, but it's much less critical than in a newborn.

Basically, the newborn range is growing so quickly that small deficiency can have huge cascading effects. Old babies are a bit more resilient because they're growing a bit slower (relatively) and have more buffer in their reserves for certain things.

In my opinion, what you're arguing is equivalent to saying "children should be allowed to drink alcohol. If it's safe for adults, it's safe for children".
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Thanks for sharing this! I think your explanation really hits the nail. Reminds me of what Pope John Paul II said on a similar topic in a husband-and-wife context (book title: "Love and Responsibility"). He said that all relationship is build on "common ground" (i.e. school project, work project, etc) and this is one of the reasons why the Catholic church mandates a couple to have the willingness and openness to have children as a prerequisite to get married in the church. Children are one of the "common ground" that glue the relationship between the husband and the wife.
Looks like archive.ph has stopped working.
Yeah and that sucks because dark nets are really the best use of crypto
I am less demanding, No MrFusion no buy.
You are not wrong, but isn't the insect-apocalypse distrinct from climate change? Insects aren't dying from CO2 emissions, different policies are needed to address them.
That is brilliant. Thank you for linking.
So you don't believe people are equal?
The quality of the buildings that get built is unrelated to the type of buildings that are allowed.
It's not really clear-cut that it's relevant here, since we're talking about deaths which require at least two organisms (here, a mosquito and a human). The analogy would extend to deaths between humans where at least two are required which I think is a neater category to reason about when we think 'threat'. Suicide isn't the same kind of threat the same way another human is. You don't walk down the street ever fearing suicide will be imposed upon you, whereas you may well walk down the street fearing mosquito bites and other people.
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> Nobody ever called x86 fun.

I thought x86 was pretty dang fun.
Yeah, you would need to cut the middleman in on the deal somehow, or sideline them in an unobtrusive way (for example, set up or join industry-specific consortiums that will own the combined training data sets rather than you, but you help define the standards for that data).

You might find these interesting:

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2013/02/attack-defend-and-dark-...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/12/open-source-as-weapon.h...
Put it in crypto. That way it will be recorded on blockchain and there will be permanent proof that you did invest your savings. Big banks wont be able to deny that you didnt invest your savings. And if some day your government introduces oppressive measures, you wont have to rely on traditional currency controlled by them.
IIRC they provide some mechanism for fine-tuning: they showed a demo where you could erase portions, re-prompt and have it re-generate in the deleted area.

It seems like a pretty good general way to work toward specific requirements, though I haven't tried it.