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Playing Video Games, Smoking Weed, Jerkin Off, etc isn't going to get your life on track.

I'm a traveling controls engineer, systems integrator, it is not a easy life. I've had plenty of burnout moments, those 100hr weeks where you worked everyday just getting the job done. As that is what needs to happen when a scheduled shutdown of a facility that pulls in over a million dollars a day is non operational. Falling behind is not an option. Luckily for me I've had pretty good luck for the most part and have always been on top of things.

But issues do happen, like the electrician landing 120v to a analog card that the lead times for makes it unobtanium. And with that the old VFD's that relied on that card for a return speed reference. In those times using generic remote IO you had in your truck with a analog card can get things up and running, and make you look like a hero. But going without sleep to get it workin is not enjoyable. Anyone that knows AB Hardware and its shitty support of Modbus would know. Using a add-on you've never used, as you'd normally use a red lion in this use case.

My body aches all the time. and I always have a full work load. On top of three kids at home.

There is no excuse to being lazy. Even pain. Disability is min wage, it is a sad shitty life. My wife's mom is disabled, she has to live on what would be considered poverty wages. She doesn't do anything with her life, and she can't drive because of said disability.

Get to the Gym, get a job, get life back on track.

If you are done with programming, deliver pizza.

My best friend is a full stack web dev, but he too would rather not work as the idea of having day to day responsibilities is too much. He moved homes a year ago, and it still looks like he moved last week. Issue? he smokes pot non stop and gets by on minimal contract work while his wife bring in 80% of the income.
I sure hope not. As I age, the value prop of consoles is, I don't have to mess with settings or diagnose problems or sacrifice goats to the "did this update break something" gods.

It just works. I can just play games.
The COVID-19 vaccines don't give herd immunity. I would encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, but this does very little to prevent infection and transmission. Everyone will be exposed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
"having colors" is an unfortunate property of async/await, not of JS. C# has the same exact set of problems, made even worse by Microsoft's love for horrid APIs and inconsistent runtimes.
Yeah its getting tiring watching the increasingly convoluted mental gymnastics to make companies and individuals responsible for completely failed lawmaking and rabid dog enforcement agencies.

Literally in the article:

“Be smart: Congress won't save us, or these companies, from this battle.

…

But long efforts by legislators to pass a national privacy law — an effort many companies support — remain stalemated this summer, as they have been for years.”

No, your fucking government is unable or unwilling to act in the interests of its people. What is a government that is unaccountable to its citizens (whether due to gridlock or malice) called?

National privacy laws would apply to all companies, present and future and to all cases of overreach. Instead, we are all supposed to fight the current big tech cos and fiddle with Google settings to delete location data and buy pinephones and gmail alternatives and drop facebook and use Signal and don’t buy a smart TV and don’t use Github and on and on? Maybe we need to invest more energy into fixing a dead government instead of tech.
Them not doing Silmarillion is odd....

I mean that had some very textual readings that would have been easily loved by the woke crowd. (The Beren storyline, overall strength of female heroes during the narrative)
Robotic surgery turns surgical trainees into spectators
To add to Noe2097's comment, entities ignoring international bounderies is not something special.

For instance US citizens are required to disclose and pay tax on their global income, even if they are official resident of another country. Makes no sense, but the US is free to decide its own rules.
The problem with these big companies is that they tend to produce useful stuff for the average consumer only. But if they were broken up into smaller companies that created stuff that other businesses can use to build more products, I think we would have a more modular economy with far more choice than the current duopoly offers.
I’m salty too. As soon as season 6 was released you could tell it was pure fly by your pants nonsense that had no integrity and catered to the lowest denominator.
Asking for data sharing without specifying exactly which data is included and exactly which data is exempt is ridiculous. The standard for laws need to be far higher. Which metrics? Which data? If the lawmakers mean all data they are going to discover very quickly a lot of that data is subject to privacy standards. You can't for example share the data you use to train a personal assistant without sharing queries people have made of that assistant.
Neoliberalism is entirely unrelated to neoconservatism. The "liberal" part refers entirely to free-market economics.

The two philosophies are similar only in name. It is possible to be both a neoliberal and a neoconservative.

For example, every Republican president from the 1980s up to Trump was a neoliberal. This includes Bush who you mention as a counterexample. Trump was the first anti-neoliberal president we have had in decades as he, unlike his predecessors, promoted tariffs.
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long answer : Read "Four Thousand Weeks".

Short answer: You have to chose a few and eschew the others. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed. There doesn't exist a reality in which you can "test your limits" in all of the areas. Because by its very definition - testing your limits means giving your -all-.

>so I really need to do better and find a way to focus. I just don't know how to do so

Makes it seem like you've bought into a fantasy that there exists a way to focus and do all of these things. It is tempting to think that, especially with all the so-called gurus and their productivity methods. Each technological feat and progress makes it seem like this timeless future is right around the corner. But the reality is that you will die. It could be tomorrow, it could be twenty years from now. But your time here is finite. So you must choose.
If you don't choose, you'll fall prey to the curse of middling interests. You'll hang around all of these interests and never really commit to any.
One practice that helped me with all my interests is to list them all in a spreadsheet and weigh the time investments I'm willing to make (they have to equal 1, and two hobbies can't have the same value).

When you think with that kind of urgency, it's easier to pick one thing to do. And really commit to it. E.g I sold/donated/gave away the tools for my other hobbies. Nothing says I can't get those back if (in the future) I decide not to continue with my current choices.
I can: people. If you think that mass surveillance requires technology you haven't seen what, for example, eastern European regimes we're able to accomplish. Stasi [0] would be the first such example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
This is one of the things bad about Wall Street: Short-term decision-making. Everybody cares what happens to stock prices in the near-term, rather than 10 years out.
Your analogy is poor because the “3.6 Roentgen” was a story the politicians were telling each other; where the actual scientist knew they were measuring the limit of their equipment. Perhaps it’s uncharitable but I feel like I could restate your question as: “I know nothing about particle physics - is it possible the entire field is just cranks deluding themselves?”
> I am fully in favor of legalized abortion, but why was it never codified in law?

The US constitution made leeway for rights to be unenumerated, or not explicitly spelled out (9th amendment [1])

Up until this current supreme court, a right has never been removed. That was not standard jurisprudence.

Now, however, we have radicals on the court who take the view that "if it's not in the text, it isn't protected" completely ignoring the 9th amendment and often only applying it when they favor the text ideologically (see: gun laws. Plenty of historical documents show that the 2nd amendment was about states being able to form militias and not arming individuals. It literally wasn't until about the 1990s that lobbying from the NRA successfully reinterpreted the amendment to mean "everyone gets a gun").

The next problem is that in order to pass new laws, you need to have a super-majority in the senate, a majority in the house, and the presidency to go along with the law. Pretty difficult when the republican party has decided they want absolutely no new laws and certainly no expansion of rights. (See: how hard they are fighting against the HR-1 the voter rights act [2])

But, of course, while abortion rights are wildly popular (~80% of the population supports them in some circumstances. ~50% in all circumstances [3]), we don't run the country as a democracy, but rather a representative republic. And that's the problem. While the people want this, the representatives do not. A combination of gerrymandering and voter suppression has angled them into a position where the population that elected them doesn't track with the general population.

This is exactly the same issue with climate change. 60% of the population view it as a dangerous problem and 40% of the population view it as overblown. [4] That 40% ends up with a larger portion of power in the senate because any action to realistically curtail climate change ends up being filibustered.

The issue america has is we have 1 party with the motto that "The scariest phrase is I'm from the government and I'm here to help" as such, they block any and all regulations and government actions they can feasibly stop. The setup of our government favors that strategy. Their voters don't CARE that they aren't passing laws, they prefer it that way. This kills the ability to compromise.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/ninth_amendment

[2] https://cha.house.gov/hr-1-people-act

[3] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

[4] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1615/environment.aspx
> This proposal would be a clear improvement

It's honestly hard for me to judge. I don't know what it's like to be, say, a Swede moving to Spain and wanting to open a local bank account.

Still, the marketing scenario is that an EU citizen will be able to open a bank account "in seconds", with seemingly no consideration for how a digital wallet may be able to fulfill those existing regulations.

> But it’s in no way required.

Which means the scenario doesn't describe a big need, right?

If this were a solution to real problems, I would expect more substantial scenarios, not something that makes me doubt they've thought seriously about the problems.

I'm still curious if "citizenship" will be stored in the wallet, and who get to decide if "Palestine" is an allowed term.
This is going to be terrible. I can't imagine the SHEER FUCKING HUBRIS modern TV writers must have of they think they can write a fanfic that stands next to Tolkien's greatest work.

These writers' only experience is working on a 4th film in JJ Abrams' Star Trek reboot universe which ended up getting cancelled too.
> pays 0 $/km for the roads,

That is really not true at least in the USA. There are all kinds of taxes and fees for using the roads with large trucks. Have you ever seen the weigh stations on the sides of the highway in the US? Those are there to fine the trucks for what they are carrying if it is beyond what is allowed among other things. You said km though so you probably are not in the US.
> I'm quite sure if you take managing your IT infrastructure as seriously as you take your core business

Try telling a company like Catepillar who manufactures excavating tools to "take IT as seriously as you do making tools"?

> with all the enterprise grade open source solutions to infrastructure challenges

You mean like OpenStack? Have you ever been in a large IT org (non tech company...like a distributing/manufacturing company) that has tried to implement it? and then maintain it? Oof...
> Their intent is pretty clearly to protect the privacy of women seeking healthcare at facilities that do provide abortions

And they just happen to think of that after the recent supreme court ruling?
It was even before then. Season 6 was absolutely terrible and the storylines made no sense from that point on.
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Mazda has really stepped up their game lately. I love my Miata.
This is true, and this is entirely the UI / workflow problem.

Git keeps a version for you while you are doing a rebase, so you can say `git rebase --abort` and get back to the preserved state. But it does not keep a log of these, and, more importantly, does not ask you whether you are glad with the end result: you cannot --abort right after a rebase completed without conflicts. One would say that you should explicitly do something like `git rebase commit` (or `git merge commit`) after you have reviewed the result.
At the end of the day stories reflect our society and LoTR is just another story.

All of the classic stories we tell kids have evolved over time and are no longer true to their original source material. We take the thing we need, ignore the things we don't need, and add what's missing from our modern eyes.

If you go back to the source material for things like Snow White, Pinocchio and trace them through the ages you'll see that they have constantly changed and adjusted.
> One of California's senior legal officials has shown his support for a young mother charged with murder after her stillborn baby boy was found to have toxic levels of meth in his system, reports Daily Mail.

https://meaww.com/who-is-chelsea-becker-jailed-for-killing-u...
The Wheel of Time series was of such middling quality that I'm more skeptical of this than ever. Not that a Silmarillion tv show really has much appeal to me anyway.
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Past few years? Maybe the past 18 months it's been slightly more difficult but even at the beginning of COVID it wasn't hard to source most anything. And even during these more recent supply-constrained times, you can still source hardware it just might take a little longer for delivery or you might pay a bit more than you did before.
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Sure, but the problem being much worse 30 years ago doesn't mean there's no problem now.
Yep.

"So you think our fines are too puny to make you comply?"

"There fixed that for you."
Putting Evangelion in a list of anime without fanservice is almost comical.

Did we watch a different series? Sure, it's a very original take on Super Robot but it's chock full of fanservice.
They would definitely not be publishing results of the power increase on the same day of the increase. These experiments take a lot more time than a day to perform and analyse.
This isnt an usolvable problem though since you can calculate the strength of model fit for a particular data point. You learn how to do this with linear models in stat 101 so everyone who is paid to be a datascientist will no doubt understand this.
'Two doses no longer enough': Canada to require Covid shots every 9 months
> the Dutch are the second largest agricultural exporter (in absolute terms!)

This number is quoted often, usually in defence of strict measures, but it includes flower exports (which you can't eat unless you've got a real expensive taste) and imported food being exported again.

I agree with everything else you say, but I very much dislike this factoid.
As North Carolina warms, one farm is turning to a tropical crop: Taro
The 9th amendment says you don't have to explicitly state a right.
(Citing this from my personal experience of dealing with contracts and service issues).

Read your contract's clauses for the following:

1. SERVICE levels. If you have agreed service levels and the vendor is in breach of those, you have recourse under the escalation process.

2. ESCALATION process. If your contract defines an escalation process, you may want to first escalate the service level breaches following the process outlined there to get remedies.

3. SERVICE credits. If your contract specifies service credits (i.e., amounts you can deduct from the invoice for breaches of SLAs a.k.a. penalties), invoke them. Nothing gets attention like dollars and cents. Ensure that you have this right specified in the contract.

4. TERMINATION clause. If you have a "Termination with cause" clause, you may want to use that to cut your losses and is invoked after the escalation process fails. Typically, these have an "opportunity for cure" language to provide the vendor an opportunity to cure the issue. If there is a "Termination for convenience" clause, that is a leverage you have as a last resort. (Typically, you just have to give X days notice that you are terminating it and fulfill the obligations under that clause).

Talk to your vendor relationship manager (i.e., the vendor's official representative, if mentioned in the contract) and document the issues in writing. Agree on any remediation steps in writing with dates/timelines and joint reviews.

Internally, talk to your legal team to understand your options under the contract and also your rights and obligations. (Don't underestimate the legal team's values in this exercise. They can very quickly tell you what to do.)

Good luck.
Purvi Patel was sentenced for wrapping a live, viable baby in a plastic bag and then throwing it in a dumpster.
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Full devils advocate here, but the argument I've always heard is that the play store is a lot less arbitrary and restrictive than the App Store, so there's less reason to want to go outside of it.

Apple locks out so many useful kinds of software that there actually may be enough momentum for real alternate app stores to proliferate.
Microsoft is hating Linux desktop more than ever today. They've just changed tactics. They may congratulate Valve for DXVK, send a cake to Firefox for a new anniversary, but it doesn't change that they pay Canonical to make their distro work flawlessly under WSL, so they can axe new installations of Linux desktop systems by enabling Linux under Windows. Similarly, they try to make sure that VSCode is the most loved IDE/Text editor so they can axe other free and paid development environments both under Windows and Linux.

Microsoft is trying to kill Linux desktop and lock it to server rooms, because the server side is a lost cause, but the desktop side is not. They just want Windows based games to work on other systems, so they can market Windows as compatible with that "other" games, and enable Linux under Windows so they can say "Hey, you don't need to install that, it works under Windows, too". Even more so, they can completely lock PC platform starting Win11 and onward and tell antitrust regulators that all the software already works under Windows, anyway.

They wanted to inject Mono/C# into GNOME and Linux so they can make the whole desktop dependent on themselves, but that backfired spectacularly. So this is their new tactic.

Microsoft has a DNA, and this DNA is in action with full force. They didn't change, and they won't change, ever.

Oh, maybe they can extort some money by suing DXVK in the future, who knows.

We're seeing all EEE cycle, again.
That doesn't matter!
I personally always liked the flexibility the stage offers.
I’m done getting more than 2 shots . I’m getting COVID every few months and I show 0 symptoms. Only way I can tell is daily testing
Electric vehicles (EVs) performed worse than gas-powered models in the study. EVs had 240 complaints per 100 vehicles on average, plug-in hybrid vehicles had 239, and gas-powered cars averaged 175.

This never fails to baffle me. An ICE vehicle has a hundred times as many moving parts as a BeV. Just how much lower is the BeV production quality to give them more problems?
That’s definitely how the IT department at my company works (I bet a lot of other roles too). Every few years a new exec comes in, sets a new strategy, claims tons of savings, creates “excellence” initiatives (everything that has “excellence” in its name triggers my BS detector). This lasts for a few years until the next guy comes in and goes through the same process but different direction.
Good point, it's also important to consider this in the context of the application that will use those multiplayer cursors. It's important that the state of the document matches the cursors, so it makes sense to have both presence (cursors, selection) and storage (document data) be perfectly in sync even if that means having a slight 80-200ms delay.
I am one of those people (roughly speaking). Do with that as you will.
I was. No problems with it at all other than the native iOS Fastmail app was useless without a data connection. You couldn’t do anything offline. Also it’s difficult to export all your data from calendars and contacts. And there is no notes API or back capability at all.

I’m now using apple iCloud+ for all of this as it is basically free for me anyway and everything works offline.
What's your differentiation criteria for whether a comment is worth posting or not?
The mathematitians I know, don't care much about other people ;)
They surrounded a house with tractors at night without notice.
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The new particles in this case aren't "smaller" than the ones we already know about. They are short-lived because they are heavier. They quickly decay into something simpler.

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. This article doesn't really describe anything that unexpected. It's not that hard to believe.
"FedEx first opened an on-premise data center at 250 Spectrum Loop in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2008" - what were they doing before that?
Also leaving old laws in when they are ruled null by a court. As a result, many states' laws changed immediately after Dobbs was ... (issued? enrolled? made in force?).

It's like leaving data in memory such that a new pointer gets the old value. Pure crust.
There's also the Patek Philippe museum in Geneva. Would recommend a visit!
In theory. Practically, creating browser & its underlying engine is an arduous task. Later, it is inevitable that Google will use dark patterns like shadow dom to optimize their website like YouTube etc. And, website owner will force you to use chromium based browser, because of course "This browser works best with Google Chrome".
More to the point the choice isn't between writing one or the other it's between doing 1 unit of work to maintain/fix bugs and doing 1000 units of work to start over potentially for little perceptible benefits.
Because it makes very little sense for a country as small and densely populated to heavily subsidise this industry and have such an export surplus, even more so for livestock. This is not a healthy industry, economy at all.

I think this is an utterly ridiculous situation to be in, and the whole argumentation from the farmer’s side is ridiculous. I understand their concerns, but this process has been going on for years, decades, and at this point they’re just mostly spreading FUD.
So legally speaking, the person in a civil suit typically has to be the one harmed, or have some major interest in the harming of someone their connected to (if that person can't bring a suit themselves). Texas' working of this is that the baby/fetus/whatever you choose to call it was killed and can't bring suit itself, and they're explicitly allowing the society to bring suit on behalf of that.
I think the biggest change we would likely see is that classic-game-rereleases would evaporate, as it would become trivially easy to install emulators.
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