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I'm struggling to decide whether to take this critique seriously or not.

You yourself told the parent "many experts disagree with your assessment", when the parent clearly indicated that they simply were following what appears to be the academic consensus on this book, today.

The link I provided has a clear link to further work you can go explore, and make up your own mind. But I sort of suspect that in the three cases of 1) the parent comment, 2) the wikipedia article, and 3) now this statement about the American conquest, you have already decided what you want to believe.

I'm not personally an expert in this field. So I am not going to go and update the wikipedia article. What I am going to do, is to listen to the people who are experts in the field. I actually loved Diamond's book when it first came out, but over many years, I have not found a single academic historian who had good things to say about it. And it's not for lack of trying. As much as the book has received many awards, it is today simply a fact that it has a very fraught reputation in academic circles.
This book changed my life. Built an entire company (granicus.com) around it and managing government meetings. It helped clerks keep track of where in the process the meeting was, who could do what when, etc.
Went pretty far at sea recently, weeks from any land. For keeping in touch with loved ones I bought a Garmin inReach Mini 2 device. Together with a monthly data plan I was able to send and receive short messages in the middle of the ocean. Not a lot, but much better than nothing.

But the biggest surprise was the size: the device was tiny, I was easily able to hold it in my hand. The antenna extended a little but still under the size of my iPhone. Needed LOS to the sky though. Battery lasted for days. Software was atrociously bad: lots of errors and problems.

So after my trip I was 100% convinced that we will soon see this kind of connectivity built into smartphones. It's great to still be able to contact the world even when truly remote and of course phone manufacturers would love to sell us another subscription.
I started young with tech. Grinded my way through a tough systems career in my 20s. Spent every waking moment on call. Lucked out into a promotion, did some architecture and am now on a very senior role.

Here's some things I've learned:
- age based promotions are real. Not intentionally, but people hire themselves. Most senior leaders are older. They don't trust somebody who doesn't share their world views.
- my biggest regrets are when I was not a good person in life. As I age, what haunts me is the stuff I did that wronged people. That friend I lost. That girl I was meaner than I should have been. My failed marriage. Etc.

My advice.

Nobody really knows why the hell they are doing. We are all that teenager in some form. Just be honest. Reliable. Enthusiastic. And most importantly, it's a balance.. Say when you want a bigger role.

As a leader I can tell you when somebody says nothing and are good at their jobs, assumed happy. If somebody says, hey I'm thinking of my next step.. Any advice? Or I want to be X.. I'll do whatever I can to help. So will most people...IF you are deemed worth taking a chance on.
The problem is each mode change is another chance for loss and damage. You’d often be better off palletizing everything so they can forklift it (though that has additional shipment risks).
thanks. yes. it include js/css from my other repo, but can put them into real single html if necessary, but this is not the main issue. i do want to draw attention to "simple blogging" and "no dependence". even no need my project, raw github markdown is good enough if focus on content. and this PHP project is also a good try.
> In my view it is too dangerous to put cycles on the same roads as cars and lorries. And if we want to promote cycling (perfect mix of exercise and local transport) then we need to invest in totally separate pathways.

Where we already do it that already, particularly on "new build" estates, is almost always awful. They're basically shared pavement, so you have to stop at every single side-road, which is not what you want on a bike. On the continent at least, cycles paths are parallel to the road and mostly protected from traffic, and have the same continuous right of way as the road they're following.

UK cycle infrastructure is awful. Drain and utility covers in the road, next to kerbs so cyclists have no choice but to swerve around them, pot holes everywhere, mismatched tarmac, and absolutely shoddy road repairs by the utility companies every time they dig the road up.

It turns out the UK did build cycle paths almost 100 years ago, and many are lost:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2017/may/0...

(edit) http://www.bikeboom.info/press/
sounds like you need to deploy snyk or something.

but i still think the human element and phishing defense is just as important (if not more in some cases)
It also works that way for socialized medicine. When doctors are paid per action more actions are taken.

Does any country pay doctors per outcome?
Not necessarily true; just because day job programming isn't what you love, you can still do they type you enjoy in your free time if you want to.
Afaik what you describe is not too far off Romero, playing Doom 10-14 hours a day instead of helping with Quake, leading to him getting fired from ID.
Won't someone think about the bankers and the lawyers! It is a wonder why the people have not risen up and demanded these groups pay no taxes.

Jest aside, you pointed out that indeed these expats return.

The argument is they benefited from the US before they left and will benefit when they come back.
Why should they pay no taxes and expect to watlz back in whenever they please without having paid something to keep the country running.
They also expect the country to send seal team 6 if they get abducted.

There might be some valid points about the level of tax liability, but to think people should pay no tax on foreign earning is absurd.
I think this may be first time I've ever heard a dispute between a utility and a regulator where the utility seemed to be in the right... Maybe I'm missing something?
“Modern economists” aren’t really a thing, at least in the sense that a consensus or collective understanding of economics is shared by a group denominated as such.

There is vigorous disagreement in the field regarding just about everything. The title of the underlying article may more appropriately be, “Popular Economics for Non-Academics.”
I think one thing that humans have not come to terms with is the possibility that some fundamental fields are essentially dead in terms of possible new discoveries that most people will care about. That doesn't mean that there's nothing left to do. There are minor details in some fields but they are more like engineering problems. Physics may be one of those fields and I certainly think math is as well. However, it's sometimes hard to recognize because there is a core group of people that keep it going because it's their nest egg.
Your resume is a mess probably. I'm a writer. If you want me to take a look email me John at Biggs dot cc.
so how do people find you and how do you convert them?
do you do cold calling?
You're reading a lot into what I said, and yes, the things you read into it are not wise, I agree.
The house price inflation has been staggering across Sweden, but not so much in the rural north where I live. I don't think many people will ever want to move here, but for those with more mainstream idea of what a "good place" is, yeah, it's getting ever harder.
In this 3-minute read, I'll tell you why cybersecurity matters

Technology is outsmarting Humans

Data > Gold

Hackers are average

… and why cybersecurity is even more important today than ever before.
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The civility.
Yeah. Extreme productivity (or at least the public perception of it) almost always comes at extreme cost. In particular social skills suffer, because it's almost always a sign of highly skewed time spent doing not-social stuff.

One of my bigger realizations as a kid was that a lot of the role-models held up as options for "who do you want to be like" were... not people I wanted to be anything like at all. They achieved things, but loads of them were pretty clearly struggling and/or terrible people in many ways. Sometimes fame destroys people and some other times it takes plowing through tons of other people to get what you want, and I don't want either of those.
But isn't Webb calling the BBT into question?

Even if we answer how it began there is still:

1) Why?

2) What was there before that?

3) And before that?

4( And before that? And so on.

It's the rabbit hole only hallucinogens can fill.
For decades they told us it was the Big Bang and we believed them.
The answer to that question is almost always “yes”. There’s no shortage of IT employers, quite the opposite.
Getting existing software to change is equivalent to the general switching cost problem which is the real argument.

Software modeling would be easy. For software it is an additional month with only 1 or 2 days. However because it would be a holiday most humans wouldn't need to talk about it as a month.
The disputes where the utility is right often get no media attention, because it’s a boring story. The addition of wind is what makes this one notable.
The way we currently view time there was no time before the Big Bang. No space = no time
the god of gaps is more and more god of cracks
It's not a market failure. Markets are not supposed to keep a steady profit margin regardless of demand.

Production cannot be scaled up and down infinitely and immediately.

The price is a market signal.

The fact that production cannot be immediately scaled to serve the customer demand and bring prices (and therefore profits) back down to a "normal" level is not a market failure either; it's simply a physical reality.
Not sure what the article said since it's locked, but I recommend Steven Landsburg's "The Armchair Economist". It's one of my favourite books of all time.
I quite disagree with this. Visionaries come along to unseat centuries of limitations, raising the ceiling forever. Those visionaries are rare, but there will be more.
AI for assessing heart function better than clinicians in blinded clinical trial
Preconfigured hippocampus dynamics guided by embryonic birthdate andneurogenesis
There is vigorous disagreement in the field regarding just about everything, but some of the few things they agree on (and the key fault lines for what they disagree on) didn't exist at the time Kapital was written.
Can you imagine having your birthday on a Tuesday, every year, for the rest of your life ??
The drivers of high prices are broken nuclear power plants, high gas prices due to a war and record draughts causing issues for hydro. None of these are caused by European bureaucracy.
What kind of jobs are applying to? Your xp sounds like “rando IT guy” so it might not be translating well.
The answer usually comes from experience. Once you've learned a language through immersion and deliberate practice, you can never go back to the classroom setting.

Language learning gets obfuscated by the profitable industry that has sprung up around it, but in the end it's clear which method works the best.
The Russia-Ukraine War at Six Months
Looking at a static stone and deducing where it fell from may work based on the current rules you know today but no one tells you these are the only rules. We have to look at science as best guess for the moment and not as absolute truth.
Are you able to type out texts or is it canned messages only? I’ve always wanted one of these but have zero use for them.
What makes gas different from wheat? US is a huge exporter of wheat, that doesn’t mean us farmers/traders don’t have their eye on what Ukrainian shortfalls imply for global balances?

Same thing for gas, uk is competing with their neighbors for a resource that just got a whole lot more scarce (locally), causing prices to rise
You would be better off asking this question to a recruitment consultant, ideally one that specialises in whatever it is that you would label your core skillset.

Without seeing your CV, my guess would be that you're missing some criteria that the orgs you're applying to are applying as a front-end filter. For example, maybe you don't have the right degree (or maybe you don't have a degree at all), and the places you've applied to auto-bin CVs which don't meet this standard. This is something a recruiter can likely help with, either by manually bypassing the filter or by pointing you towards orgs which don't have those requirements.

The other thing I would say is that it's pretty clear you actually want a raise, not a move. Is that coming across in your applications? I wouldn't personally waste time interviewing someone who didn't seem like they were genuinely looking for a job change.
What's an example of these "wrong facts", and who is a historian that discredits it? Ironically, your comment is fact-free.

It's a work of synthesis, so it has the problem where every specialist will find something to disagree with. Not to say that this shouldn't be taken into account.

(I have read rebuttals/contradictions of Diamond's other work, e.g. on Easter Island)

Also, why not read the other 4 books on the list, instead of focusing on the one you read and didn't like?
if you want to be an IC, then you are a "technical operations expert with <word fluff> operating and deploying services"

if you want to lead, embrace the "Director of IT" title and play up the fact it was an SMB if you're going for a relatively low level leadership role (team lead, etc).

whatever you do, get rid of the phrase "tech lead". i've yet to meet someone who described themselves with that term that didn't make me go "this fucking guy"
Throwaway acct.

I left my first sysadmin job after about 3 years because the advice I recieved is that if you work solo for too long, you develop your own ways of doing things, become unable to integrate into more mainstream best practices, and become effectively "unhirable". I wonder if that has something to do with your lack of success in the job hunt.

It sounds like maybe there's a lot of 'institutional knowledge' about how that 42U rack and the rest of the network is assembled that only you know. It would be expensive for your employer to replace you, but with an external consultancy that replaces a large fraction of your infrastructure with something they can manage, they could survive if you left.

If you're willing to take the risk and switch careers, it might very well be worth having that sit-down with your employer where you lay out exactly what will happen to their infrastructure when you leave.

Edit: I would reconsider how you wrote your CV.

- It's not a matter of the degree to which you fit some specific title (didn't go to enough board meetings to be the Director of IT, or whatever). It's not percent score match, it's pass/fail. Were you the director of IT, or weren't you?

- Eight years is a lot of problems to solve, and a lot of weird niche technologies to learn just enough about to be dangerous with. Those are specific examples of your ability to be really good at the stuff you've been doing. Mention it. Plus, who knows if someone else is looking for someone with experience with a weird niche technology?

- Given how long you've been doing this job, PHP dev might be too big a leap to make at one go. Might be worth looking for something halfway there, that's still perceived as similar to what you've proven you're good at.
Doesn't work for everyone. Burning out from programming in a draining day job can make people completely unable to do the type they would normally enjoy.

It's definitely a YMMV thing either way. I just take issue with the idea "oh, if you're not programming during your free time like Romero and Carmack, that must mean you don't actually love it".
The str functions aren't ASCII-only, they work perfectly fine with multi-byte strings such as UTF-8-encoded strings. The "length" just isn't the number of "characters", but the definition of a "character" itself is murky and bytes are what what you're usually interested in anyways.
Reddit is just a mess, there nothing make sense.
Not all of us, no. Or rather, yes and no.

I could as soon say to you, "At least go to Google News, search 'hunter laptop', scroll, read, and then think, if you can still manage it."

95% of you will just say "Well, this one isn't credible" or "That one is a right wing conspiracy theory." Or at least the ones emboldened to type replies will. So don't ask me to throw myself to you hyenas by linking specific sources. Google News isn't that many more clicks. I'll be busy holding my breath until the attorney general indicts his own direct reports and makes his own boss look worse.

What the FBI said may not technically have been a bold face lie. We don't have a transcript. It's a prime example of not letting the one hand know what the other is doing.
Clearly we need a micro service, we know that relational databases are not up to this task of telling us facts about related data.
Only if it makes you decide to use less electricity.
Any theory of everything has to fall into one of the options of Agrippa's Trilemma - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
Could you please expand on this?
In Greek, all letter combinations always have the same pronunciation. My Greek teacher told me she learned English by reading alone. When she first met an American, she apologized for arriving early, but she pronounced "early" like "yearly" because in her native Greek, the "ea" combination would always produce the same sound.
We Need a Y Combinator for Politics
Nim binary size from 160 KB to 150 Bytes (2015)
I agree that the title is kind of defeatist and I'm not against scientific research on finding the source of universe, heck I optimistically hope humans find it within my lifetime. That said, all your examples are really miniscule and dare I say, easy, as compared to the scale of understanding the universe.

You present an interesting semi-fictional point on simulation.
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yes but that is from the perspective of a big co adding on employee costs and not a consultant that is self employed. you need to make at least 2x what an employee makes in total comp.
I went down the rabbit hole of trying to connect to iOS Safari’s web inspector from my Linux machine last week. From the trail of activity on GitHub it looks like it might have been possible during about 2015–2020 but the open source adapter has since been effectively abandoned, with too few people doing the necessary ongoing maintenance. I spent a while trying to do it myself but it requires a deeper understanding of WebKit and Chromium internals than I possess.
There's nothing inherently "western-exceptional" in recognising that Indo-European languages are structured fundamentally differently than Japanese. That's just a basic fact of linguistic typology.

Obviously, nobody is claiming that Japanese has no way of talking about the future, that's the kind of nonsense non-linguists like to read into purely grammatical differences. It's still a fact that English has a grammatical future (actually more than one), even if it's not inflectional and not strictly required in all situations, and Japanese does not.

For example, "tomorrow, it's cold" would generally sound weird in English, the most common way to express this would be "tomorrow, it's gonna be cold". There's nothing weird about 明日は寒い, by contrast.
Great insights, but want to clarify that the Zuck media appearances are pure manipulation and deception.

Don't be fooled by cheap words, look at the actions.

Zuckerberg's behavior makes his position clear: The billions of dollars and power he gets outweigh the minor, even trivial downsides of waking up to annoyances and most of humanity hating and resenting him.

The probability that he really gives a fuck is vanishingly low. Think of him like a lawnmower or a wild animal like a shark; they have a certain function and that's the end of it: consuming whatever is underneath them.
Someone stole my truck. I got a crash course on the black market for stolen cars
> Small pox wiped out double digit percentages of the indigenous population and devastated their society.

This is the kind of cherry picking I was talking about. It'd be like saying "disease killed a large portion of Jews during WWII". Technically, it's true. A lot of Jews died from disease (in concentration camps). But it avoids asking the question of "were there any aggravating factors (like sudden displacement from homes, famine, violence, etc.) that caused them to become more susceptible"?
Freakonomics?! It's a clickbait book. Wild headling-grabbing claims, bogus data, and dubious methods. It's like saying to learn investing you should watch Jim Cramer's Mad Money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics#Criticism
Those kids, and any artist, are if nothing else affected by their environment and the culture they experience, at a fundamental and largely unconscious level.

So even the most reclusive artist is in a dialogue: with all the artists of the past several millenia ;)
in the US they are. they are also color-coded, so you can tell which day the bread was baked, since old and new bread loaves are often shelved together.
We use these extensively in dsa meetings, since there’s no strict hierarchy or chain of command (more like, a lot of mutually supportive roles) and a lot of people at meetings. They work well as long as you’re willing to be a bit flexible and everyone is acting in good faith.
I don't really understand what you are saying. That if something isn't 100% blocked it isn't censored?

But censorship isn't about treating something differently.

Yes it is. Not just treating it differently, but treating it differently and negatively based on the content. Suppressing a story or speech based on the content.

They have no duty to be neutral.

Legally, no duty. Morally, I think most people would say Facebook has a duty to censor some things (child porn, live streams of killings, threats), and a duty to avoid censoring other things, like political speech, religious speech, etc.

Censorship is about preventing a certain kind of speech.

Yes. Preventing, suppressing, limiting, blocking. Any of those would be a form of censorship. It doesn't have to be 100% prevention, 100% blocked, or banned.

They did not do this.

They did. Mark Zuckerberg said the limited the distribution, that's suppression.
Sounds more as sysadmin job than PHP dev. Maybe that's why your CV is not attractive to people looking for PHP devs.
Eye watering French power prices:

* Baseload from nov22 to feb23 above 2000€/MWh

* Peak Load nov22 to dec22 at 3000€/MWh

* Peak Load Q1/23 at 2970€/MWh

But the prices for other nations also went up steeply.

[1] https://www.eex.com/en/market-data/power/futures#%7B%22snipp...
How is it subversive? You are letting Google display ads on content which is yours, it seems perfectly legitimate that you should get a cut.
As discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549604

(over 200 comments)
never seen such a thing, lived here all my life. That article looks like something from before i was born.
It’s interesting that the latest rumour is Globalstar, previously they were rumoured to be going with OneWeb who I believe will have a better network when it’s complete.

OneWeb were due to finish their constellation this summer, but have had to redirect launches from Russia to SpaceX delaying the completion of it. I wander if that impacted the Apple deal, with Apple wanting to launch the product this year.

OneWeb were launching incredibly quickly last year, achieving one launch of 34-36 satellites per month. It’s unfortunate that it came to a halt in February due to Ukraine. They are currently on 428 of 648 for the complete constellation, I believe just below what’s needed for initial operation.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWeb_satellite_constellati...
California is near the same cost as hawaii. The rates are absurd. With the rate payer bailing out their past dividends and lack of investment.