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> Here’s a story from the early days of Amazon Web Services: Before writing any code, engineers spent 18 months contemplating and writing documents on how best to serve the customer. Amazon believes this is the fastest way to work—thinking deeply about what the customer needs before executing on that rigorously refined vision.

Good luck explaining this to the new age Scrum certified gurus who wants to complete all design work in 2 weeks of sprint 0.
Beating children is unreasonable chastisement and is outlawed.
Not everything. A lot. But stuff published this year still hasn't made its way there. And not all social sciences.

source: dissertating

(When I need something I can't get through my library, #icanhazpdf, find on scihub, or other googley means; I just email the author. Though that can take some time.)
I do. To one of my direct managers. Got reprimanded a few times in private as he sees it as an interruption.

Open to suggestions.
Ink my state, the interests of the kids trumps the prenup.
Is waking up prior to 9am really considered torturous? Go to sleep by midnight and you still get 9 hours of sleep, that’s not half bad.
Except when you're born you've been around for a few months already, likely felt one thing or another shared with your mother.

You're right in another way, though: when you are born your body is still not physically wired up completely yet, a process which starts in the womb but we're not in there long enough to allow it to complete.

This is part of the reasons newborns flail around so much -- they're learning what's connected to what, and that takes lots of repetition.

I would be surprised if this didn't affect the physical wiring of the brain, too.

Also keep in mind that in the body, connectedness is not a binary idea. It's really the strength of connections in relation to each other that make up how we respond to things.
So why don't you hear the sound when it all begins, right at take-off? That should be the first sound to reach you, no?
Really cool. Thanks!
I agree. The same applies to companies, not every company’s bonds would sell, and not every company could get a loan.
no it isn't, lol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31709394
I think he's saying something along the lines that intelligence is mutually exclusive to learning.

If we create a neural net that has the equivalent knowledge and intelligence of a human 5 year old but that neural net learns slower and was produced on 10 trillion pieces of data then we STILL have created a sentient AI despite the fact the learning algorithm is shit.
That IntelliJ exists at all is a condemnation of how bloated and generally ridiculous Java has become. I die a little inside every time I use it, but the alternatives for developing in a large Java codebase are all worse.
Well, even in a world where theater is taken as seriously as sport, at least you can do theater indoors at all hours.

You can’t really play soccer after dusk if the field is outside and you don’t have lights. So lots of outdoor sports have strict daylight constraints.
Your solution to them being too loud and annoying is to make them louder and hopefully less annoying?
To Favor Microsoft VS Code, Microsoft's GitHub Is Killing GitHub's Atom Editor
I wonder how things would look like if the 'semantic web' (the actual web3?) had taken off and we had regular and rich, machine-readable metadata for just about everything rather than having to rely on what is largely subpar scraping and 'AI' systems.

People have pointed out recently how Google search seems to struggle as sites on the internet turn more and more into apps rather than standardized documents and they just go and search on reddit. Having a standard to encode semantics seems honestly necessary at this point if you want to keep things interoperable.
It makes sense for an artist creating underground work, and not getting paid for it (e.g. actually illegal graphitti artist, or some avant guarde type that works a different day job and doesn't want to "sell out" to galleries) to be against the commercialization of art.

But for programmers living off programming? Less so.
Pretty much any on-prem software vendor is some mix of direct sales, partner sales, and through distribution. And in the case of, say, a product primarily for SMBs, the mix is probably going to tilt pretty heavily to partners. There's a lot of leverage to using partners and many of them will know and be connected to some market a lot better than you do.

There are differences with SaaS but they may not be as big as you think. For example, AWS mostly started as a go online with your credit card sale. Now? They have a big enterprise sales force and lots of partner relationships.
we take photographs of metal sculpture and jewelry at my studio. a light box is the only way not to get bright specular reflections that completely skew the overall exposure. for the win make soft radial curves with the white paper lining the box so there are no seams or sharp changes in brightness. ooh, also aim the light source(s) at the walls so there is no direct path

..and if you can use a macro lens, that much better
This happened to me several times with more than one Dell laptop. The solution I have found is to set the laptop to HIBERNATE when the lid closes, not sleep. I wish I had known this sooner. This has to be a pretty common issue, I am sure a lot of people close their laptop lid, or set their laptop to sleep and then find their laptop to be an overheated mess in their backpack some time later.
TLDR; Hibernate your laptop or turn it off if you plan on putting in a backpack.
every school i attended was open well in advance of the start of classes so as to serve breakfast to kids who ate it there.

at the elementary school level there were even some enrichment programs beforehand.

even if some kids still have to wake up early, they can benefit from not having to have to take tests until a bit later in the morning.
AFAIK, we’re not really trying to build neural networks that have a similar structure to the animal/human brain.

I don’t think we need to emulate every connection, every neuron, or every circuit— but I do think the broader neuroanatomy (this region mainly processes inputs from that region, and has these feedback loops, and then mainly has outputs to this other region) is essential to emulating the way brains work.

I may very well be wrong, and I hope people in the field can forgive my insolent impression, but my impression as a biochemist/engineer is that people in the comp sci world and people in the neuroanatomy world don’t really speak the same language: one is usually bad at the other, so there isn’t really a tight transdisciplinary coupling of forces.
Gnome would disagree :)
Even in Germany pretty much any pharmacy, doctor’s offices, and even phone repair shops will close for lunch. It’s not like this only affects a few people.
Yeap. Gtalk did XMPP for a while until it became another walled garden.
According to [1] fuel costs are in the tens of thousands for intercontinental flights. Pilot training is around 200k USD [2] and thousands of hours to be accepted to fly reputable companies' planes. I wouldn't call pilot costs negligible.

[1] - https://www.google.com/amp/s/simpleflying.com/commercial-air...

[2] - https://fly-ga.co.uk/how-much-cost-become-pilot-learn-fly/
Where are you from? Is it common for an employer to be able to regulate what you do when you're not on the clock?
I wouldn't expect feature updates at all. In my mind it works like this:

New features are adding value. This is something that the developers should be paid for! Releasing a new version for features is justified.

Security updates/bug fixes on the other hand are "fixing" things with their product. In my opinion those should be provided because developers should strive to develop good products.

But to give you a somewhat more clear answer: I don't expect new features. I expect Security and bug updates until the next version+a bit of time.

If there is a version released every year i would expect Security/bug fixes for at least one year. Two years would be the developers be great, three years would have me surprised. Anything beyond that would be far more than I ever expected.
And then there's things that everyone knows and that are wrong. Like famous movie quotes. "I am your father, Luke". Known as the Mandela effect [1].

A fast-mode consensus has a high probability to create lasting wrong "truths", that will be difficult to dispell later.

The proper way would be to attach probabilities to information, but that would be too much for most readers, and impossible to do for most normal jounalists.

We're doomed in any case.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_Effect
This only strengthens my point. Going to the grocery store in nearly every household's weekly/biweekly cadence, but most people drive to go out to eat. If we include additional energy costs, the spread in inflation between food at home and food away from home is even larger.
These are teenagers. Give them house keys and a skateboard.
It also stands out to me that the negative examples are ahistorical.

Even into modern times, plenty of people did indeed believe that flight was possible through spiritual practice or mechanical means, had no intuition about maximum construction heights at all, and well.. personally operated boarding houses across the world and throughout history.

I think the article is trying to make an argument that’s worth attempting, but is relying on some examples that don’t help it do so.
The valuable data is backed up properly. And a laptop is usually a secondary computer i.e. there’s not much there to begin with.

But I don’t like to lose any data at all if avoidable, no matter how unimportant that data is. I still keep VHD disk images from these 3 old laptops, thanks to nearly exponential decline of disk costs per TB.
In my nearsighted family (parents, 2 kids) we've concluded that reading printed-pages makes you get nearsighted faster than reading words on a computer screen.

This seems to work for us. Don't know about anyone else. I'm very nearsighted (-14 diopters), but I grew up reading books on paper.
If only there was something you could do about that…
This was the first page that popped into my head as well.
Boy Scouts sell off camps under financial strain from sex abuse lawsuits
Little endian won. I don't see the point of maintaining theoretical compatibility with big endian systems that are at best esoteric right now and soon to be extinct. Likewise, every reasonable platform aligns data fields on natural alignment these days. It's just a waste of effort to make software portable to evolutionary dead ends.
Podcasts never moved to iTunes. You submit the URL to your podcast feed to Apple and it scrapes your feed. Once someone subscribe to the feed, iTunes is no longer involved. The directory of podcasts that Apple indexes is available as a free API that anyone can use and has been an open API for over a decade.

Every real podcast player allows you to subscribe directly to a podcast if you know the RSS URL.

When you play a podcast, even through iTunes or the podcast player, the audio is served from your website. None of this is true for either Google or Spotify,
I would assume you do, only it's so far away and your ears aren't powerful enough on their own to make it out. (If it can even be picked up over the other background noise.)
Ukraine and the start of a second cold war
If my family is any indication, the menu won’t get corrected until the restaurant owner sends their child to American schools and the kid gets old enough to fix it. Just give it 11 or 12 years.
Apple still sells Macs that don't come with a screen. If someone buys a Mac Mini, chances are high that they will plug into it the monitor they already own, which most probably won't be retina.

I do use a 1440p monitor. The blurriness is still very much noticeable. It was much better on Mojave when all icons were drawn to the pixel grid.

And yes I'd buy a 5K monitor, which is the retina equivalent of 1440p, but these things aren't exactly easy to come by. Besides the blurriness is still visible even on retina displays, it's just not as pronounced.
"most of the time".

Is there any evidence that 50%+ of overweight people are that way because they consume too little or just enough?

Or, instead, would you find just the opposite? And that overweight people grossly underestimate the number of calories they consume...
Being born is a clearly demarcated event, but first words are probably not.
Crop circles was a great experiment that showed how immature people still are. Instead of united curiosity, as one might expect, something as benign as pictures on crop fields produced contempt, suspicion, envy and greed. Now imagine we were to find a tiny piece of actual alien tech: that would start a war between believers and non-believers, and the actual research would never happen because it would be a heresy.
Yes. The line for state involvement interfering with the raising of children has to be somewhere well beyond "barely adequate".

Many things can be problems we all hope to be better that do not fit into the set of problems the state should be responsible for.

People seem to think and want more and more for the government to take the responsibility to fix things despite plenty of evidence that they really can't do so all that well. Beyond a certain threshold yes, but that threshold is not "if there's still a problem the government isn't doing enough".
Iran tries to do the same at least once a week. For example:

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/levant-turkey/165...

Of course you know this.
I discovered Nausicaa on Netflix last year, and was so impressed! Incredible world building, and you can see so much of its DNA in other media which has come after. Rey from the new Star Wars for example seems almost directly lifted from the film.
Afternoon rush hour tends to be worst than morning rush hour since more people leave at the end of the workday at the same time than arrive at the start of the workday. For schools, does letting everyone out at the same time create more opportunities for conflict and trouble? Or does the before school period that's usually unstructured allow more due to how little supervision there is? For my schooling, I remember far more after school conflict, most arising from events during the school day. Kids tend to forget grudges much easier than adults so maybe in the morning they're not as upset at the insult they heard from a classmate as they were the previous afternoon.
It may be that this developer really did single-handedly save the day, but:

> half the code delivered was his. You can't get any more objective than that.

Counting lines of code is a famously ineffective way to measure productivity. It encourages low-density code style, and encourages working on easy development tasks. It also encourages prioritising velocity over quality, although in many contexts that may be what you want.
Here in Austin, Texas, there's a cooperatively-owned software development and design business called Vulk Coop. They've hosted a series of meetups and happy hours for people to talk about the co-op model and how it relates. However, it's not anti-capitalistic, just worked-owned. Details at https://vulk.coop/ and https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Software-Co-operatives/
That's ceding to a popularity catch-22 from a view of learned helplessness, assuming an individual has no power, which is untrue. Network effects bring all sorts of new apps to the fore,
one user at a time. Good and better things are difficult and take time. It's people who shrug and reinforce the hegemony who are at fault.
I don’t know if that’s what they meant, but what you’re saying is interesting.

I would soften the idea a little bit by noting that as a little human grows up and learns more things, its brain plasticity goes down over time. AFAIK there’s no evidence that learning “saturates” the ability to learn other things, and the loss of plasticity is probably mainly linked to aging and/or other factors, but functionally the effect is very much the same: humans that know a lot of things typically have less capacity for learning.
It was always drawing my attention when people engaged in long code review threads, writing elaborates explaining why something should be done their way. Most of the times the issue would be solved by having 5 minutes conversation, but instead some were deciding to write full blown articles that I am quite sure was taking hours to write. In most cases people will write things they would not say during regular conversation, especially when they don't like the person they are reviewing their code. As a result tensions get worst and people want to fight back, but never chat their problems through with the coworker they have problem with.
The DSM LCD (like) you've never seen
In my experience, the only hole in shadow libraries is that they lack scans of old papers on non-trendy subjects. Interestingly, it seems the humanities don't have analogously useful sites.
Ok thanks, that helped clear some things up. I didn’t realize generational GC reuses the same contiguous memory blocks for the young regions. Makes sense from a fragmentation and resident page locality perspective.

Do you know if the early generation region settings can be tweaked (alignment, size, number of threads/regions)? I’m wondering what happens if you “overflow” these areas by generating too many objects
Deduct home office expenses or get reimbursed, perhaps it should be a choice
I try not to leave mine unattended either.

My dishwasher will unload water onto the floor if you put items in the wrong place.

A friend's dishwasher will unload enough water to fill a 24" planter on certain cycles, under conditions he's not figured out yet.

They're terrible. I'm not asking for a lot. Clean dishes, water stays in. At least they have WiFi now /s. Priorities!
I've been staring at the supposedly readable and memorable uuid for like 4 minutes without any idea what it says.
Good good good, good x 100. I'm so happy to see this main stream. The more people that know this is possible, let alone easy, is good. Maybe, hopefully, eventually, the knowledge and understanding will trickle down to our representatives in various governments who can too be aware and take this kind of thing into account.
> Go to sleep by midnight and you still get 9 hours of sleep

Assuming you can fall asleep at midnight, sure.
I miss JimCarrey.com which was the only arty flash site I liked. It's gone now but is recorded on video https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ
True. Let me clarify that I approach software as a solutions first, meaning, I am a user first.

When said software is open source, it allows me to hack on it, improve it, etc.

What is imporrant is rhat if there's no perceived value for me as a user, no matter the tech, I'll most probably ignore it. On the other hand, I could learn any tech should I need it to propose more value to a software.

That is why I couldn't care less about the "in Rust/Python/Haskell/Zig/..."

I'm not opposed to people doing that, I'm just the kind of user that takes zero interest into it until I want to contribute to add value to the software.

Let's say I'm product-first rather than tech-first.
Only mobile issue I see is there is a really long link that overflows the intended document width, which introduces an horizontal scrollbar. That makes scrolling a bit finicky on mobile.
Also, FAANG will negotiate offers against fringe benefits. They won't cut you a custom 401K deal, but they will beat any offer by 20%+ and include the post-tax cash equivalent of better retirement packages in that beat. If you ask for it and if they want you badly enough.

Assuming you can get a gross offer that matches net, having the money in post-tax accounts is better because the tax rate on the 401K at withdrawal will likely be higher than the 15% capital gains rate.
I think you are overestimating how available high-quality information. Low quality, misinformation, disinformation - that is all widely available.
I honestly didn't know this was a thing in the wild now. Sure, we've all been hearing about the death of IPv4 for two decades, but this is the first time I've heard of an actual person even wanting IPv6, much less needing it.

Thanks for sharing.
This is exacerbated by an unproductive amount of both homework and screen time.

Getting up approximately at sunrise should be fine most people assuming they have many of the other factors in place like a wind down period, screen time cut off, dark room, low or soothing sounds, good temperature etc.

However I cant imagine that for many kids they have all these in place, and Id find it hard to believe that anything a high school maybe trying to teach them today is going to be more lifelong value than maximizing their physical/brain development (until 25!) and learning good sleep hygiene.
Tragic article on many levels. When hatred between parents is involved, the courts must decide who is telling the truth about abuse. In my family growing up my parents, both deceased now for some years, absolutely hated each other. My sisters and I were mini recorders of the abuse and would have gladly reported to any who would have listened. Unfortunately, the divorce didn't occur until after my younger sister was mentally damaged from all the chaos. This occurred during the late 60's and I'm leaving out most of the details, I'm just saying I think it would perhaps be better to ask the children who they would like to live with.
Those float inputs are even more complex than that. Some inputs are excitatory and some are inhibitory, but some also modify the response of the neuron to other inputs
Precisely, "sound attenuation in the atmosphere and your hearing threshold".
Hah you obviously haven’t seen the wildly illegal things people do on the urban exploration part of YouTube.
They can land on roofs, in parks, any open area large enough basically.

That kind of is the whole point being able to land anywhere. Short term, anything that already accommodates helicopters would be good enough. The problem with those is mainly that helicopters are very noisy so people don't like to have helipads everywhere.

But considering, these VTOL planes tend to be a lot less noisy, having them land in more places might end up being less controversial.

Either way, it would be a perfectly valid way to commute 50-80 miles in ten minutes or so and skip the 2 hour car ride. I could see that become a popular thing. Initially probably quite expensive but the pitch for these devices seems to be that they could be mass produced cheaply.
> How viable is to live without GMAIL nowdays?

Completely. In the corporate world, Microsoft is the dominant player, but on premise is still a thing, as are other ESPs. Gmail is nowhere near as dominant as people seem to think it is. They still transact over SMTP...