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Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

I've heard about, and tried to get into the Discworld a few times, but it never really happened. I think I tried Guard! Guards! twice. Maybe I was in a different headspace, or maybe it was just not for me. But then I tried Small Gods, and it's the best thing I've read since (the nutrition label on the back of) sliced bread. No, really, it's lovely! I'll be done tomorrow according to my Kobos statistics, and then I just need to figure out what I'm gonna read next. Cannot wait to find out about all the things out there in the Discworld that I don't know about yet.
Because it's easier on the non-Pacific time folks. Instead of Eastern time folks starting at 1300, they start at 1100. It also helps coworkers who want to move to other parts of the US, at the expense of those of us still in Pacific timezones. This way Eastern time folks can sign off at 1900 instead of 2100, which makes it easier for us to work synchronously if needed across the US. Before we went all remote we tended to hire in the same time zone but now we hire across the US. Pacific time workers have to take the early bird hit. If we operated the same as before then we'd have extra morning time, but going remote means we now hire many more coworker in other timezones. It's a double edged sword.

We do also tend to end earlier. I don't care because I'm a night owl, but early bird coworkers seem to enjoy the extra time. And yes I've considered walking but haven't yet because I'm not so sure it's that different in other companies I'm interested in at my level.
Power to gas, as you mention, would be sufficient. There are also some interesting battery chemistries in the pipeline, like iron-air batteries. How about we keep building renewables at a rapid pace until we actually have enough to need storage? Until then we have time to improve storage technology and build some electrolyzers (we'll need lots of Hydrogen anyway for industrial purposes).
I'm sure google gives some leeway in eccentricity for this type of job position, but now it's become more harmful than helpful, so they let him go.
I absolutely agree. Nobody goes into a divorce thinking they want it to take a long time. Just get it over with, and keep as much trust as possible. That goes double when children are involved. It's not the kids' fault their parents are getting divorced, but they are the ones most impacted.
France came to view religion as a threat to national identity
Looks like it uses WinDivert as the filtering driver, which says on its site that "Windows Server 2016 systems must have secure boot disabled"; not entirely surprising and a reminder of what a lot of the "security" stuff is really securing.
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On the contrary, "sqlite competes with fopen()" and so is a perfectly crimeless alternative/suggestion
"Ugh, ancap bullshit. Get out of your bubble."

Did you miss I wrote I don't know it would work.
Not an argument anyway? I don't know if you know the version I'm talking about. It doesn't even assume the non aggression principle.

"Because then they have the money and you don't".

Money can't buy you a planet (yet) and money only have value in a functioning economy.

"Look at the world aroudn you and tell me how corporate greed isn't ruining it"
Most very rich people are actually donating most of their time to fix what they think are the worst problems

"Actually don't tell me, your philosophy is bankrupt"

Ad hominem, I belive?
Ah right. 'Ending earlier' is definitely crucial information. I hope 'tend to' means >> 50% of the time.
With all due respect, looking at your numbers my hunch is that you need better insulation.

I know a person who has about 10kWp installed on a passivhaus here in latitude 59N and says that having a heat pump is overkill for them.
As recent decades have progressed and more of our lives have gone digital, self reported rates of loneliness, isolation and depression have been skyrocketing. It's sometimes called the Internet Paradox - a technology that is supposed to increase our connection is correlated with increased feelings of isolation.

It's been the subject of study but it's impossible to truly reject the hypothesis due to the ubiquity of the effect - there's no control group. Obviously correlation is not causation, but I think the severity of the effects warrant further thought and investigation.
LMGTFY https://hackaday.com/2016/06/16/how-to-set-up-and-run-a-make...
Not everyone is like you and that’s ok. Some people enjoy having connections with other people, even if they’re not best friends.
As a general principle, I think low-level APIs shouldn’t provide abstractions that are both expensive and have no clear “best” design: in those cases, you want your applications to have the ability to make different trade-offs, rather than being locked in to a design that might be suboptimal for your usecase. I think sibling comments explain nicely how that’s the case for transactions; I just wanted to point out why that matters in the big picture. Similar arguments can be made for other higher-level features that someone might wish their OS provided, like (tracing) GC.
At that time QL Sinclair was a loser. A good computer that never got programs. It was the computer of Lius Torwalds and the reason he had to write himself programs. Without QL Sinclair, we may never had Linux.

At my work, I was present when the research on ASAS (https://skybrary.aero/articles/airborne-separation-assurance...) led to the idea of PMS (https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2021-05/euro...).

Never underestimate serendipity
That is good advice. Unfortunately, it also requires both parties to be working towards that goal - which doesn't always happen.

If that doesn't happen, yes alimony can get very, very expensive.
Right, philosophers avail themselves of science all the time. Good ones do, anyway. But you were claiming science has no bearing on consciousness, yet even non-physicalists like Nagel heavily cite scientific knowledge. So which one is it?

I'm not on some crusade against the field of philosophy. Certainly philosophy has contributed mightily, and continues to do so. But I think physicalists like Dennet are making far more tangible contributions. Reading Dennet has been enlightening to me, he's one of the only philosophers I've found who can actually explain his philosophy to non-philosophers.

Chalmers on the other hand reads like a philosopher chasing his own homonculus. I don't find his arguments very clear and when I do manage to decipher him it seems to boil down to a stubborn insistence that fundamentally subjective experience must exist just because it sure as hell feels that way. I just don't see what the epistemic value is in keeping this neo-dualist baggage around. I don't see what it brings to the table. I see nothing that it explains that makes it necessary.
Capturing a gallon of gasoline CO2 emissions from the atmosphere would cost about a dollar at scale. (1 gallon -> 20lbs CO2. Technologies advertising $100/ton of CO2 are somewhat common these days. A ton is 2000lbs, so $100 / ton CO2 implies $1 per gallon of gasoline). There are many technologies that could achieve this, but I don’t think this article is describing one of them.

They want to convert CO2 and water to natural gas and have roughly 30% energy efficiency. A gallon of gas contains 33kWh, so (handwave gasoline == natural gas), it costs 100kWh per gallon equivalent. A kilowatt hour is at least $0.10, so > $10 per gallon-captured-ish.

If the carbon intensity of natural gas is similar to gasoline, so the computation is close enough and the technology in the article is about 10x off state of the art.

On the bright side, the article’s technology would “only” require 5% of the earth’s surface be covered in solar panels, so state of the art would need 0.5%, which is feasible, in terms of land use, at least.

Carbon intensity table: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/b...
Yes, absolutely - the house is a pretty big country side house from 1925, not uncommon in Germany. But (almost) impossible to insulate efficiently. My estimates where €150k to €200k, just for the insulation, windows, and renewed heaters. In comparison, an 'oversized' 70 kWp PV only costs €100k, and also returns some income when not all of the power is used.

The parameters widely differ between country and city: In the country, you usually have space (but lack money), in the city, you lack space but can often work with a pretty good income (= build a new, energy optimized house).

Every house is different. If I build a new house today, of course this would look different.
As it happens, there's one on eBay right now for $99.
Definitely agree - also, couples that can do that tend to not be the ones who keep the divorce industry busy.
I'm currently keeping half of a quite large (and horribly leaky) house perfectly pleasant with a midsized solar array, a portable air conditioner, and a fan. Zero grid draw.
This read gives me a lot of perspective, and I identify with some of it. Have you written any other work?
Transactions are for databases, databases are for sets of 1 or more processes that are coupled to, permissioned for and willing to cooperate with each other.

Transactional operations bring the chance of deadlocks. Deadlocks cause performance and denial of service implications. Deadlocks are far more easier to detect vs prevent vs avoid. Detected deadlocks are resolved by killing one of the requests, which must be handled by the cooperating and highly coupled processes.

The filesystem is an abstraction of convenience and very loose rules. Instead of all the structure and rigor a database brings a program just gives a string to the os and gets bytes back. The cost of this ease of use is that you must keep your program's demands and expectations low.
The snow itself also absorbs a lot of the sound.
I would like to propose a caveat: some people go into a divorce with the intention to ruin the other person. This can make divorces long and ugly, because the purpose isn’t to get it over with but to right some perceived injustice by punishment.
Yeah tend to means "> 90%" as it heavily inconveniences Eastern time employees if we go later.
Show me any large scale infrastructure project that has been realized by private enterprises without massive government subsidies. How is your privately funded highway or rail system working out for you?
When I got into C++ several years ago, I read "A Tour of C++" by the creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, and thought it was quite good:

https://www.stroustrup.com/tour2.html

The second edition is from 2018 and uses modern C++ (C++17). So, I would say read that and then write a bunch of C++ code to learn by doing.
The multiplication problem can be solved by spacing the digits (to enforce one token per digit) and asking the model to do the intermediate steps (chain-of-thought). It's not that language models can't do it. With this method LMs can solve pretty difficult math, physics, chemistry and coding problems.

But without looking at individual digits and using pen and paper we can't do long multiplications either. Why would we ask a language model to do it in one step?
I agree that Myers Briggs is pretty wishy washy, but "You answered these questions in these particular ways, so we can conclude these facts about your personality" is a completely different galaxy from "You were born in this month, so we can conclude these facts about your future."
Great post. It's nice to see something other than the "remote work is the perfect future that we've all dreamed about" religion.
Exactly. Just find friends and activities to do.

It's like they are not getting what it's being discussed here: no more commuting, more productivity and more time.
Oh, I disagree!

My ex and I split amicably and looked around for a facilitator to help with the paperwork. We hired a woman who seemed like she knew what she was doing, met with her, and as we had already been separated for years, we didn't think about it much and just sat back and waited. And waited. And waited. We'd call and she'd say she was waiting on the courts. Checking online would only get back some cryptic pending notice. After over a year and a half, we finally get a stern letter from the court, "Get your asses down here, the judge wants to speak to you idiots." (That's a summary, of course.)

What happened was the woman we hired had filled in the wrong county on all the forms. The court sent them back, with a note explaining the error. She submitted them again, untouched. They bounced the papers back to her. She did it twice more!!!

We had no idea until we're literally standing wide-eyed before the bench and the judge basically says (again, a summary), "Why are you two morons wasting the court's time? What the hell is wrong with you? Fix it. Or else."

Neither of us had been in court before, and my ex is from Spain and unfamiliar with American justice, so the experience was a tad intimidating, to say the least. There's a sense of seriousness in a court that really isn't something you regularly experience outside a funeral parlor. We immediately hired someone competent and were divorced within like 3 months.

So, I think this is actually a pretty useful service!
No, per Susskind, we need entangled quantum computers of sufficient size to do wormhole experiments!
Not mentioned but I see as a increasingly large problem is mentoring new hires and juniors and seeing them improve and get promoted. It's absolutely just not the same anymore and I believe that it will bite many industries hard.

I'm not saying that it's impossible to mentor people online, but here's the issue as I see it...When I physically worked with people, I'd them having trouble, I could see their body language, notice they were coming into to work later, looking unenthused. I'd develop their social skills. The bandwidth was way, way higher. Problems were ok because though I'd go over to their desk, sit with them and teach them things, teach them to communicate, develop their social skills, go get coffee and talk about their problems, they'd ask questions and we might go to lunch together and talk a bit more about things and work through. We'd form a bond. What I'd get out of this bond is more capable people around me at, what felt like, a lower price than with remote work.

Now, mentoring for most people is a way bigger sacrifice. I mean, I could be out riding my mountain bike rather than mentoring newbies or sit on the phone listening to their issues.

I'm also simulating a social scene based on previous work social life. I know what the important of conversing with my peers is like. I remember how to do it. I perpetuate it with online work. Not everyone can do this.

When I worked in an office there was a clear distinction between my two lives, my work life and my free time. I was happy to give my work life and time to others. I went out of my way to do it. Now all my time seems more precious and I don't want to give too much of my free time away. This is great in the short term but it's bad in the long term, I can see it affecting our team negatively already. There is a growing gap between the less experienced people and the people who can learn and grow on their own, autonomously. It's like some people have a level of knowledge that makes them immutable to the isolation of remote work, for them remote work is 100% ok. Others don't have the skills yet to cope. The people who don't have the ability to perform and work autonomously aren't schooled, they're scorned, they're annoying, they're stopping people from accessing their endless free time gained from being good at what they do.

There's a raft of other issues that go with this too, timezone barriers, the fact it's super easy to avoid people so they can hide issues and their feelings with less effort. I could go on. Anyway, I believe this will become more of a problem as more experienced people retire and stop schooling the younger crowd.

Time will tell, it will be interesting to see how all of this pans out. I'm 100% loving remote work , I'm not trying to say there is an inherit issue with it, just going to have to solve this problem, I can only imagine it getting worse over time if younger people stop physically attending college. Good bye another mechanism for developing social skills...
If you subscribe to game theory the end game means that you MUST develop this technology in case your adversaries are doing the same.

Humanity will never hold hands and sing kumbayah together.
Companies do that .. using "a leading" instead of "the leading". I guess it's vague and subjective enough so no one can complain or sue.
It was a great read, I agree. It reminds me of using unboxing mine for first time and being equally blown away. Amazing machines. They were backordered for almost a YEAR due to schools/business/everyone sucking them up as fast as they could. Glad to hear they are readily available again.
Is there a network wide DPI circumvention tool that can be easily deployed using Docker?
I'm sorry that you think being productive at your job is the only thing that's important in your life. Maybe you've just gotten really unlucky with the people you work with, but for me, finding people I actually enjoy spending time with really improved my quality of life at work significantly.
> speak to a lawyer - early - to preserve your rights and those of your children

also, do this years before a relationship so you set up your finances and asset structures before all of this starts getting built in a marriage!

pre-emptive legal help is orders of magnitude more powerful than reactive legal help
And I'm sure they'll record all that information. I didn't really want someone to invent a new and interesting type of metadata to preclude me from being hired by fussy firms and embarass me when it inevitability leaks.

It's very sad that kids growing up today cannot enjoy the digital privacy that we briefly saw at the turn of the millennium.
I just watched friends divorce. They brought a lot of unnecessary suffering in themselves. They didn’t want an app.

The number one thing to know about divorce with kids is that you lose control. They couldn’t stand that. The idea that the other person was 100% in charge of the kids.

They began making extremely vague allegations of how the other parent does unspecified “bad things” that need to be “reported.”

They eventually ended up believing their own propaganda and are convinced the other parent is abusing the kids on their days.

It’s a total mess.
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> With all due respect, looking at your numbers my hunch is that you need better insulation.

With all due respect these are the kinds of "tiny" details that renewable enthusiasts conveniently forget. Yes, this person's house needs better insulation. As does everybody else's.

You can't just wave this away with "your math is wrong". These numbers reflect reality, not wishful thinking.
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"Working with people you're friends with" and "having a life outside of work" are extremely not mutually exclusive. You can work with people you enjoy working with and still work 8 hours a day.
I mean this is a decent point, but I have to point out the following:

>Lets you establish what claims your spouse will have to your future earnings

A pre-nup can't really cover this base. For the typical working class folk the way future earnings after divorce are extracted are through child support, which in its current incarnation functions as back-door alimony and can't be cancelled through a pre-nup.
Thank you. That's a good point.
I graduated in 2020 into what was supposed to be a “regular” in-person job, that was turned into a fully remote job due to Covid. I ended up hating it there, and since have found a new primarily-remote job that I love.

My life feels hopeless. I wake up, go to the gym, and then work from 9–8. I work so much because I have nothing better to do. Then I watch a movie or some garbage on YouTube and go to bed. I have no friends. On the weekends I try my hardest not to think about other people my age (24) going out and having fun. I haven’t had fun going out with friends since college in 2019. The only things keeping me going are the gym and my work.

The days where my two teammates and I coordinate going into the office together are a nice reminder of what having friends was like. Ultimately, I go home and I am alone.
And now I have flashbacks of trying to use flock(2)/lockf(3) for their intended purposes... such miserably misdesgined (and underdocumented) pieces of file API, bloody hell.
I don't understand why everyone here is talking about Lambda not being sentient or Lemoine's state of mind. None of that is relevant here. He was fired for literally taking confidential information and leaking it straight to the press. This is instant firing at any company.
> SpatiaLite is licensed under the MPL tri-license terms

One of the greatest things about SQLite is its license (or should I say, lack thereof). It is a pity that so many extensions to SQLite (this included) elect not to follow that example
You've cut out the key part:

"the system had developed a deep sense of self-awareness"

Without that part, it's just a question of "did it output text that describes a concern about death?", "did it output text that describes a desire for protection?", and so on. But once you ascribe to it a "deep sense of self-awareness", you're saying more. You're saying that that text carries the weight of a self-aware mind.

But that's not what Lamda is. It's not expressing it's own thoughts - even if it had any to express, it wouldn't be. It's just trying to predict the most probable continuations. So if it "expresses a concern about death", that's not a description of Lamda's feelings, that's just what a mathematical model predicts to be the likely response.

Framing it as the expression of a self-aware entity completely changes the context and meaning of the other claims, in a way that is flatly misleading.
It’s a cute shorthand. Like T-shirt sizing: small, medium, large.

The point is that sizing is relative. That 2 point story kinda looks like it might be twice the work of that 1 point story.

If your story is an 8 (or xxl) it’s likely to be underestimated due to hidden complexity. That’s why you should try to split it up.

Although, it’s not like I haven’t had a bunch of “small” stories that ended up being triple-x large.
> It was presumably not programmed to be sentient, so becoming sentient would be a) against its programming, and b) extra-ordinary

Terrible argument. If consciousness/sentience is an emergent property of a system, it's quite possible that it could emerge from ML trained on conversation syntax and general knowledge of the world.

I still don't think it's sentient, but being "against its programming" is a fiction when it comes to these sort of systems (statistical, unsupervised, et cetera). In many ways you're just a probability distribution over sequences of words too.
It has passive cooling solution a.k.a throttling. It is the same thing what your smartphone does.
That's fine, but pointing that out, like you did now and providing a cogent reply like I tried to almost always leads to interesting discussions, I've found. The trolls run away at the first sight of real discussion anyway, most of the time.
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"I can’t move out bc I have nothing determining my location"

But there's more to life than work! I wanted to live an easy bike ride from the train near a good school with a few acres to rewild under 100k. And now I do! Couldn't before remote, though.
> It’s extremely hard to be friends with your co-workers. You have to go out of your way to reach out and be available. Friendships don’t happen “organically” like they do in the office

Are people actually friends with their coworkers? I'm friendly with my coworkers, but I find actual friendship to be a conflict of interest. This is why I love working from coworking spaces. I can be friends with everyone I spend the whole day with, without worrying about it negatively impacting my work or vice versa.
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