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I just want to build software once I retire. Ideally shiny things with little commercial potential or incredibly high risk.

There's stuff I don't like about the job - estimates, daily stand up, other meetings, investor-oriented development. Nearly all of that is gone with retirement.

The work isn't so much for money, but getting opportunities to practice building things better as an individual. I don't need to retire early; the work gives me practice and lets me meet plenty of mentors from different fields.
>It's the only African country with a land border to the EU so there's a point.

By "land" you mean "only a few miles of sea", I believe.

There are three spanish islets (exclaves):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave
in Morocco, but they don't really count, even if inside Melilla, Ceuta or Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93Spain_border

you are on Spanish territory, you still need to cross the Gibraltar straight to get to Spain, they are among the few "special territories" of the EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territori...
Arcane? What did you expect? Add a package and magically everything works? If you make it work by just adding a reference its “too much magic”, if you make it so people write everything “it’s boilerplate” and if you do something in between “its arcane”.
Curious Droid isn’t on these lists. Worth a look.
But many people think they're worth that. I don't think there is an intrinsic "worth" for each developer, demand is high, supply is low, that's why salaries are high.
I like things that work, and I like making things that work. Coding has been a thing I do when I need to, but using the skill to investigate existing code has been the dominant practice.

Every time I reach a goal I move the cheese. I think I'm still getting better. But I'm also realizing the potential to pursue previously unknown goals. It is part of an ongoing discovery process that is not limited to engineering.

If I had a lot more money, I would probably pursue my goals differently but I don't think I would stop pursuing them.
TempleOS in 100 Seconds
Thanks! One of the authors here. We originally planned on having folks actively contribute edits and comments, though we've temporarily turned that on as there are quite a few people reading it now.
I know right? Software development isn’t grilling burgers it’s designing the grilling system and building the entire supply chain to get it shipped to the customer that is*.
While I get how the first line of your comment could come across dismissive in isolation (and I guess that was the entire comment before the Edit - so I understand the downvotes in that context), there's a common reply in sibling comments here that bothers me much much more:

> "bloated Javascript"

> "pointless javascript"

> "javascript-free UIs"

I don't know how much people have worked in UI and with front-end code (HTML/CSS/JS) but... the commenter criticised the UI. Javascript is not a UI language. Being a front-end language it's used a lot in close conjunction with UI components to control interactivity and data flow, but it has no responsibility for their appearance. In terms of aesthetic visual design, the amount of Javascript you have behind it isn't really relevant.

I do see a lot of people mentioning performance (which is a great feature of Sourcehut's), but is also a separate topic.

(fwiw I also love Javascriptless interfaces, not arguing that)
Plenty of non Western cultures have caused the extinction of animals, for example in my home country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_species_ex... no matter what spiel is spun around traditional cultures living at one with nature.

Domination of our environment is what humans do best.
Ah, the old everyone's an idiot that can't think critically thing.
People might not form the opinion you want, but that doesn't mean they can't still be critical and come to an informed opinion.

I think none of these topics are the problem being actually hinted at. Instead, I would ask bigger questions:
- Why do we seem to have an increasing number of politicians/positions of power with little to no depth of experience in their field?

- After decades and more of scientific abuse and manipulation by corporations, how do we rebuild trust (I think this is particularly relevant to the discussion here)?

- How do we ensure social media companies do not influence discussion, but also try to avoid echo chambers and propoganda?

In other words, it's not people not understanding a topic or the 'wrong' voices getting too much attention or too many 'wrong' opinions that is the problem, these are just symptoms.
Good arguments, data and integrity and more discussion should always be desired and encouraged as the way to debate and understand. Most other options are roads to tyranny of some form.
Well, yes but not only. There's only so much you can do with Pis and other SBCs that offer a CPU-centric compute solution. Robots are real-time systems and CPUs don't excel at that.

When optimizing dataflows for lower latencies and higher throughputs, you typically seek specialized compute architectures and that's wherein GPUs and FPGAs come in. That's what this work really enables.
I love taking screenshots and even wrote a script a while back to take screenshot when there is mouse movement periodically when handling incidents, i also have crontab job to compress and gpg encrypt the folder with my key at the end of the day if it's not empty. This, together with another script to record all terminal activities during incident helped me a lot of time in the past when writing up post incident write-up after many late nights!

Unfortunately i only see the old version here with flameshot taking screenshot at full resolution.. my few later versions turn screenshot to black and white and applied a few imagemagick tweaks to make screenshot file incredibly smaller to store but you get the idea :):
https://gist.github.com/santrancisco/9d14e0105316cfa15f98f0f...
Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good.

My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell they are. They do this strongman creepy virtue signaling for a while and then tie up Jim’s replacement with some noisy chains on a dock. Surprise surprise, Not Jim makes a noise (not with the chains for some reason), and sure enough the entire cult is immediately wiped out.

…

How did these people canonically survive for so long doing these dumbass shenanigans?
Caffeine is actually pretty unsafe as the margin between effective dose and lethal dose (usually stated at around 5 grams) is only 100x of a 50mg dose. The margin between a cup of coffee and a lethal dose can be less, like 50x.

Much safer than heroin, but a deadly poison compared to e.g. LSD.

And coffee is not just caffeine like tobacco smoke is not just nicotine.
As a controls engineer who has implemented and assisted with dozens of robotic manufacturing cells, the problem isn't the motion planning or compute, it's legacy product support and ease of onboarding new hires.

Any given cell may be in production for 10 years - some only for 5, but some for 20 or more - and you need <24 hour response times to any mechanical issues that may arise over that duration. Also, one can't expect that the original programmer will be available to diagnose and debug issues that arise in the field after a year or two, so you need a large pool of technicians and maintenance personnel that can understand the software and be productive in the first hour after being introduced to the machine. None of this is valued by academics, instead, the fundamentals of the process of a single lab trying to prove merit as PhD students and, once that credential is acquired, move on to greener pastures is anathema to both of these ideas.

The problem is that academia is working in ROS (now ROS 2), writing Python and VHDL, while the real work in the industry is being done in proprietary vendor tooling that's backwards compatible with training from the 80s. They're proudly advertising touchscreens and full-color 5.7" displays on their teach pendants, as if their customers were still 20 years in the past.

Yes, academia, I do want sub-millimeter repeatability, and flawlessly smooth motion planning. I want collision detection that accommodates both the inertia of the arm itself and any end-of-arm tooling, including cable harnesses with distributed loads. I want automatic singularity avoidance and trivial point and frame manipulation. I want 24-bit encoders for resolution, and I want angular velocities to the moon, and to make those work together I need servo loop rates and high-speed skip responses at 1, 2, or 10 kHz. I want 4D stop position prediction to avoid intersection of the robot arm with complex assemblies and safety zones imported from CAD. I want all these things cheaper and faster, with more storage.

But I need these to be accessible by Billy Joe, whose only credentials that got him the job in the maintenance department is that he helped out his daddy working with a welder and an old clapped-out Bridgeport on the farm growing up. Billy is probably my best tech on 3rd shift, and he's never learned to type on a full-size keyboard, just his smartphone... and on a robot teach pendant.
This thread has been amazing for filling in gaps. Thanks for your list!
I am curious. What's the point of having yet another DSL for scripting when there are established scripting languages like the Lua/Teal/Luau/Janet family ?
Less work to do for the hacker, how kind
I think that sound pollution is more harmful. But it is just me, I like seeing that there is a life in the city at night. I can cover my windows if it bugs me, but I insulating my home more against loud sounds is quite hard and much more costly.
Is this what you are saying?:

“Feeble-mindedness perpetuates itself from the ranks of those who are blandly indifferent to their racial responsibilities. And it is largely this type of humanity we are now drawing upon to populate our world for the generations to come. In this orgy of multiplying and replenishing the earth, this type is pari passu multiplying and perpetuating those direst evils in which we must, if civilization is to survive, extirpate by the very roots.”
-- Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, 1922
Why? If the backlog is empty you don’t have a job anymore.
I suspect the biggest blocker for me, was that I was a manager.
I’m a neuroscientist and have struggled with my (mental) health for 30 years. With the pandemic I realized how much foods affect how I feel every day. Going more than 6 months without eating out I became attuned to the differences of meals I prep and what goes into them.

The best explanation I’ve heard is food is like explicit instructions for how our bodies and brains perform through our DNA. Gut health is the engine of the biological machine humming or sputtering accordingly. The research is out there on the differences between food types and impacts of processed foods. The Pollan mantra still still sticks with me: Eat (whole) foods. Not too much. Mostly plants. I’ve added: Sleep better. Move more. Stress less. (To eat well.)
I have talked to two different HVAC companies and our system is sized correctly. When I complain that when it's 105 out I'm lucky if it can hold 80 they tell me it's working as expected. They say no system can do more than about a 25F drop but I have a hard time believing that. People in hotter climates somehow are able to cool their homes more than 25 degrees and commercial spaces (like stores and offices) somehow manage to cool more than that.

On the other hand, I'm asking them to sell me something that's more expensive and the fact that they don't want to tells me that they have some reason to believe I wouldn't be happy with the result.
Use ROS 2. The misconceptions about ROS have been mostly addressed with ROS 2.

Check out industry adoption of ROS 2 in various industries including automotive, healthcare and warehouse automation. ROS 2 is (and will remain as) the de facto standard for robot application development.
We appreciate the kind words! Ping us if you feel like there's an area that could use more thorough research, there is counter evidence we should be considering and featuring, etc.
How the Path to Home Ownership Runs Through Mexico
A chess-playing robot broke its seven-year-old opponent's finger
A line from the abstract is not a fair summary of this article
Comparing light to pollution is a big stretch.

If one doesn't want light, there is no issue with living in a forest away from cities and civilization.
My dream is to have something like a performance institute, both mental and physical. I come from a war torn country and MDMA / Psychedelic (etc) research is proving to be very powerful for healing trauma and providing mental health benefits in general. I would love to help people with that. I'm also very active, I was a former bodybuilder then powerlifter who has now gotten into running ultra marathons. I have a few friends who are also into this and we chat about how we can get better all the time. We have home gyms but it would be nice to have a single facility. I also think it's super important to be active as you age, so I would love to help people on their old age active journeys. I think the niche that may get a foot in the door on this dream is helping my parents, expanding to their friends / other older people, and then getting to a point where I can include more serious athletes as well.
Already posted in an earlier response to you.

But no, nothing like that. These were relatively recent videos about newish but well-established industries. In particular Waymo's self-driving cars and, to a lesser extent, some company doing consumer DNA testing.

These were pretty blatant immediately, no hind-sight or digging required. And full videos too, not ancillary comments like on Twitter.
I don't really care. The stuff I write actually has a fairly significant impact on people's lives.

It is not hyperbole to say that some of the software I've written has saved many lives. Others tend to use a lot more hype to describe its impact than I would.
That's a great channel (given there's a recent thread about great youtube channels https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220192 ).

For people who are less graphically inclined, but still want to check out godot, here's a great 2D simple code-along from the channel HeartBeast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9FzW-m48fn16W1Sz5bhT...

It's a pixel platformer, and is intended to show you the various 2D features of godot as well as be a tutorial.
> Solving for battery chemistry is cheaper and faster than rebuilding all of America (outside of a few metros where cars aren’t needed) around mass transit and walkability.

I don't think it's an either-or thing. I think we can have long lasting and high quality electric cars and also build so that we don't have to rely on cars as much or at all. A lot of people think that reducing reliance on cars means building skyscrapers and density like Manhattan, but it actually means building medium density mixed-use development where biking and walking and perhaps a streetcar are how you accomplish 90%+ of your day-to-day mobility needs. Then you have a car for when you need a car. This means you don't take a car to a grocery store that's half a mile away, you walk or bike. It means you don't take a car to a grocery store that's half a mile away because you have a small grocery store in your neighborhood that has everything you need for day-to-day living (you don't need to stock 16 different brands of cereal).

It also has some nice benefits where you can better participate in your local government or other civic institutions. One of the other insidious problems created by automobile-only infrastructure is that it weakens society. You can't protest when you have to figure out where to park first. You can't meet your local representative when you have to pay to park and it's a 30 minute drive each way. Etc.
Steelmanning / starmanning are viable ONLY IF the other part is really arguing in good faith.

Assuming good faith is not always effective: it's completely vulnerable to various forms of trolling including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

Trolls love making people waste their time refuting bullshit.

Choose wisely who to argue with.
"I mean GPL at least forces you to either try negotiating a different license with the author (for money ideally)"

Sounds great in theory, but even for a popular open source library developer this happens so rarely that it rarely pays the bills regardless of license.

"Using a permissive license that allows multi-billion dollar companies"

Most embedded devices by far are not developed by multi-billion dollar companies. Their legal departments are also actively steering away from GPL licenses.

"try negotiating a different license"

In my experience, by far the most companies don't want to negotiate anything. If there's a product with a set price, yes, then it might be purchased. They typically also want some kind of product support with it.

"use your code for free certainly doesn't help changing the mind set of "open source is other people working for me for free"."

How to solve this? Ideally the library developer would get paid AND the consumers get more value for their money. This would encourage more developers to write useful libraries that provide great value in the big picture, but are uneconomical or otherwise too much trouble to deal with on an individual company or product level.

As it is, everyone seems to lose.
Same. At some point I'd love to figure out ways to get entertainment/game software built without sacrificing a team.
Firstly, your comment completely ignores the negative externalities created by North American-style suburbs in the first place.

Secondly, this is still a strawman: I've yet to hear of any policy proposal that would abolish zoning completely and allow highrises to go up anywhere. What policies would do is things like let the market determine whether it's more efficient to build a McMansion for one family or a fourplex or lowrise apartment building with eight units, all with the same footprint.

But if you still hate this so much, you can live far enough from the city that it's not economical to build next door to you, or you can own enough land that it won't be an issue.
> The two teams of researchers, from London and Glasgow, say infants exposed later than normal - because of Covid restrictions - missed out on some early immunity to:

> - adenovirus, which normally causes colds and stomach upsets

> - adeno-associated virus two, which normally causes no illness and requires a coinfecting "helper" virus - such as adenovirus - to replicate

> That could explain why some developed the unusual and worrying liver complications.
OT, but I sorely wish there was a way to whitelist channels or playlists in the youtube app and have it show only this content. better yet, be able to subscribe to a curated list of channels and playlists. Id love to give my kids free reign to watch any of this stuff, but there is far too much other stuff that gets pushed on them too fast.
"- Are there any Cannibals in this Island?

- Not anymore, we eat yesterday the last one..."
This is actually explained in the Godot docs: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/about/faq.html#what-i...
Let's also call out the origins (at least partly) for this mess. Which is the obsession with a balanced budget, mainly originating with former finance minister Schäuble. The last 20 years of extremely low interest rates would have been ideal to use essentially free money (government bonds were typically below inflation) to build German infrastructure. Instead Schäuble used weird anologies to your neighbor who should not spend over their budget (the German expression is Milchmädchenrechnung) to convince people that taking out loans is a bad thing for governments. Such a lost opportunity, Germany could be so much further along in their transition to renewables, could have one of the best public transport systems in the world and that essentially and no cost for the loaning the money. Instead it has a dependence on Russian gas, destroyed renewables industry (which used to be World leading), and public transport infrastructure which is desperate for investment just when we are coming into a recession.
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> The utter tersity of a bash one-liner just tickles me.

To anyone else confused, the repo has both "sh" and "bash" versions, and the bash one isn't a one liner - it's the sh one.
Thanks for the heads up.

We've been soliciting additional information, counter evidence, criticism, etc. from folks who read the Google Doc since we would like our understanding of the subject to be as clear-eyed as possible. That said, we've disabled comments/suggestions temporarily since a ton of people are reading it concurrently and we want to be able to properly review suggested additions before many other people start reading them; we'd like to vet the ideas in it as much as possible.
IKEA has fake lighted windows all over the place. I wonder where they get those.
I can relate.
Zooko's Triangle might be a factor here. Sounds like they chose 'distributed' over 'human-meaningful.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
In many places, lines aren't going to be built. So the question is what's the best way to move power via road?
Compared to people who do useful stuff. Like you know, teachers, healthcare workers, etc.
> The largest straw for me was probably the one on self-driving cars with Waymo. For an in-depth look, Tom Nicholas did a pretty good job[1] covering it from what I recall. In particular the comments on that video from Veritasium really shook my trust, IIRC.

Thanks for the follow-up, I'll give it a watch (and a read, as I see there was some back and forth in the comments).
Well, I believe that as humans they are worth enough to eat, live, and enjoy life, at the very least, but from a surviving-in-capitalism perspective they can't pull their weight for a while in most cases. I'm not arguing against hiring and paying juniors a living wage, just noting that it takes a while and some diverse experience to get most of them over the hump, so to speak.
> a company could conceivably have a policy of "you can't use tiktok".

How does this apply here? In this case the employee has been informed that they haven’t broken any policies (“I asked, ‘Have I broken any policies? Have I posted anything on TikTok that is a security concern?’ And they said not at this time I have not”).
20 billion dollars oof
I think you're supposed to take two of them in concert with each other - it originated in South Korea and was published during a particularly politically convenient time in South Korea. I don't know personally how important or suspicious that is, but the fact that it's clearly been marked and acknowledged as "unevaluated" is maybe a stronger reason to take it with a pinch of salt.