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The 10,000 hour “rule” is complete bullshit. I, for example, was a prodigy at art and a complete dunce at music. I got better at drawing much faster than my peers but I was more interested in music, where I simply could not figure out anything. Eventually that was frustrating and I gave up music but I can imagine that I would have been a world-class talent with 10,000 hours of drawing (I went into computer programming instead where I am just mildly above average) and 10,000 hours of music wouldn’t have done anything for me.
A fiat 500 outperform a ferrari to go to the supermarket yet ferrari still sells cars

It's not the same market at all
I regret hearing the lies spoken during sex education when I was in fifth grade in 1987. The public school I was forced to attend brought in a sociologist to do the damage. She told us that we had to release our libido energy regularly - either by having sexual relations with another person or by masturbation, and that this was okay and healthy. Self control and abstinence were presented as being unrealistic.

This provided me with moral license from an expert (and indirectly from my parents, who had to sign the permission form to attend the lecture). One thing led to another, and it undoubtedly resulted in addiction; the endorphins and oxytocin produced by the human body and released during orgasm are worse than heroin. Bad habits form easily, and it's scary when you can't stop doing something that you believed would be just an experiment at age ten. The shame / guilt was hell.

If I could change anything anything about my past it would be to erase the immersion into that addiction at such an early, formative age. All other attachments of spirit have been easy to deal with - this one has not.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner" ~Some guy

No thanks, I've seen the wisdom of crowds enough to know better.
> They just couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that on the spreadsheet if you schedule someone on Friday until Midnight... starting them at Midnight on Saturday doesn't make a lot of sense / they would be working 20 hours in a row.

I started my career as tech support back in highschool. My boss told me this is illegal and stupid for my health when I said I'd like to work a shift similar to this once. I'm not sure of it's actually illegal, though.

> Perhaps they should all be required to go manage a McDonalds for a year or something?

Alas, I think McDonalds employees have enough to deal with; adding horrendous managers into the mix would just make their jobs more stressful lol
It's always been odd that Bash has hundreds of options for controlling its behaviour in non-standard ways, via "set", "shopt" and environment variables, but it's never had an option to make "-e" do the obviously natural behaviour,,

I encountered the "you can't enable -e" problem years ago in a complex build system that used Bash to build embedded sysem components. The scripts were all designed on the assumption that "set -eu -o pipefail" would cause early exit on any failing commands as if doing the equivalent of "exit $?" or "return $?", and of course it is not reliable, as your example shows.

The very surprising behaviour of "set -e" inside functions was not noticed for a long time while the system was being written and used. When it was noticed, "set -e" was added inside the functions because that seemed to work for the Bash version at the time, then later it stopped working.
YES!!

If you have a deep interest and anything resembling the skills required, go for it. Perseverance is the most important characteristic.

That said, Gladwell is completely FOS about the 10,000 hours — it bears repeating completely Full Of Sh*t. Not only is "mastery" ill-defined, but so is what counts as "practice", and it completely ignores that some people will after 10K hours fail to get to the top, and others can get to the top of other fields in less than 1000 hours (depending on how it is counted).

And, while perseverance is key, dumb perseverance is not — how you learn counts for a LOT.

The best key I've found is to seek out people at the top of the field and learn from them. Either direct in classes if possible, or from their books. You will eventually need to learn the best ways of thinking about whatever the field is, and it is better to learn the best way at the outset, than relearning it 5 times on the way up. The simplified approach at the outset may be initially rewarding, but it is a waste of time.

Also be sure to ask all the 'dumb' questions about discrepancies or things that don't add up, or edge cases. Sometimes, those reveal the most essential elements that you need to progress. As an example of how this can work in far-flung fields of endeavor, when I was alpine ski racing, at one pre-season camp, I was flailing, skiing worse than the previous year, trying with all my might to implement what the coach was saying, but clearly not understanding. Fortunately, he was willing to put up with me as I asked in the evening what was going on, and we argued for hours, with me finally asking "where does that force come from?", and we looked a bit deeper and figured out a subtle bit of how the initiation of the term was a bit different than he described. That answer was the key, and literally from the first run the next day, I improved rapidly. In a completely different field, I went to a C++ conference class series with Bjarne Stroustrup, and in an after-session question, I asked what I thought might be a dumb question, but went ahead anyway, "was I spending too much time on naming conventions on my projects?", because I was worried that I was wasting time. I got a wonderfully detailed and concise answer that was basically "NO, it is worth all that up front-investment, especially for the way it helps you think about the structure ahead of time.".

So, persevere, dig and ask those peculiar questions (obviously, not the 'dumb' ones that can be easily answered by looking it up, but the 'dumb' ones that seem like they ought to be obvious, but aren't explicit.).

Go for it, and I wish you good fortune in your new endeavor. It'll probably take longer than you like, but it's likely worth it.
>Leverage what skills you've already gained to switch into a career where they are a big advantage.

Absolutely. In many cases, there are often a wide range of related/adjacent jobs that are significantly different in various ways but can nonetheless be a fairly natural transition. (Though key word can. I've seen examples that worked and examples that didn't.)

On the other hand, I'll go back to school and get a Masters degree in this very tangentially related STEM field is probably going to be a lot harder.
Google isn't really a good example, they love killing off services on a whim. Meta closing down Facebook would be much more... dramatic, shall we say.
Same here. I manage all my projects via Hatchbox. Use UpCloud for vps and thats it... not free but closes thing for seamless deployments.
Hard disagree. It’s definitely area dependent but in New York for me it’s a 8-12 year ROI depending on fuel prices and energy prices. This is me comparing a CRV and a Model Y. If I swap out my energy savings and charge exclusively not at home the ROI horizon goes to infinity.
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They only look better if you're not a photographer and/or don't know what you're doing. As soon as you dig in the files they absolutely fall apart, plus you don't have any control whatsoever on the camera unless you use some extremely clunky third party apps
And just to be clear, this makes sense.

Because the relevant fact here isn't that some CBA voters put A at the front (ACB). It's that they moved B from 2nd to 3rd. So of course, that lessens support for B, so B no longer wins.

People seem to present this as a flaw, when it's reflecting actual changes in voting. And this is basically impossible to do so strategically, because nobody has this level of accurate detail prior to the election.
Yes, it depends on the person’s ideals, it’s now obvious to me that I am more aligned with China then my home country.

I wish I could be there right now
What’s the difference between a VR simulation and a Divine Creation, though? - Both are synthesised realities contingent on the patronage of some kind of administrative creator.
Pretty sure Chrome also uses libav to play back the media as well, so FFmpeg usage alone isn’t what differentiates this thing from a browser.
A similar thing happens in the USA with houses declared "historic". It's well known among realtors and other groups, but not extensively known. Some states/localities have funds to somewhat help with maintenance, but they get depleted very fast, and you often have requirements like "cannot replace the switches with modern ones, must use push button switches" and similar things.

https://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/shop-by-type/vintage-...

At $15 for a switch vs $1, those things start to add up.

In some poorer places it gets so bad the fire department will basically "wink wink" tell you how to burn your house down.

Other areas have a much nicer version which is "remain visually similar" - basically you can't change how the house looks from the street but you can do whatever you want/need inside.
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> A huge portion of people this country seem to believe that they don’t benefit from taxes and would prefer safety nets for other people not come out of their pockets.

Exactly, and they love it when people waste time and energy blaming businesses for not providing charity. This whole tweet storm should not be directed at Google, but directed at the US federal government.

> This also sounds like you think it’s easy, without considering the implications. (If govt resources is the solution, why do we still have a problem?)

Because it is purely political. Stalling progress on providing essentials for life helps keep people from getting help, and hence keeps taxes lower. If the US government can do identity verification for passports at USPS offices, it can do the same for other purposes.

>We don’t have municipal or federal Gmail or Facebook, and there are reasons to believe programs like that would take a long time and cost a lot of money.

If the world’s leading country cannot setup email infrastructure, then we have huge problems. Presumably, it already does for the how many million federal employees?
Tornado Cash might work here; it's a so-called "smart contract" (worst named things ever) that's designed precisely for this.
I get Granagard from https://granalix.com.

I get the co-ultramicronized palmitoylethalinomide + Luteolin from http://epitech.it, but you have to use a package forwarding service to mail to US (they don’t ship to US, even though it is Italy based and 100% legal)

The rest I get from https://iHerb.com

As I said, I am not interested at all in nootropics or peptides. It is basically all antioxidants/natural neuroregenerative compound/omega fatty acids.
The 10k hour rule has been debunked many, many times.

I don't think Gladwell is intentionally a charlatan, but he's astonishingly sentimental given his choice of subjects, and notably, was never a practicing scientist.

At worst he's a fluffy-haired priest to the rentier class, paid to soothe the intellects of Manhattan financialist pirates in the same way William Sumner once stroked the egos of Carnegies and Rockefellers.
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Does it maybe applying to about half of a fifth of the population really make it nationally relevant? Let's not forget the people among them who like this reg for some reason.

Also, this says nothing about residents usually having some say about the regs in an HOA. Don't like something? No need to move somewhere else. Run for a spot on the board.
Columnq is pretty amazing, fully SQL, you can even join them to CSV etc
if you reduce your wages to 0, you’ll probably lose some profit.
Phones are good for snapshots, that's a big part of photography but that's not 99999/10000
Two additions to the many comments saying the 10k rule is bullsh*t:

1. To quote one of my favourite coaches: "Practice doesn't make you perfect. _Perfect practice_ makes you perfect."

2. It can save you enormous amounts of time if you find the right teacher and teaching resources (eg. books, courses, etc.). But how do you know which ones are the right ones - for you?

Also, note that you can certainly reach a fairly high level in almost anything you want, but it is much harder to improve on that. Unless you have talent or you started learning the thing in your childhood, there is definitely a glass ceiling, and it may be lower than you think. But then again it may as well be higher, and you don't know which until you try it. But then, of course, it is too late :)
No problem! The fast.ai forums and discussion groups are really friendly and will help if you have questions.

I will admit that fast.ai goes a little ... fast ... but that is kind of their thing. If you do not have any math-heavy background and want to learn ML at a little deeper level there is a book titled "Grokking Machine Learning"
by Luis Serrano that I would recommend. The author is a good communicator and uses non-technical language to explain technical terms in a way that is easy to understand. I mostly already knew everything in the book when I read it, but it was so engaging that I read it anyway and did learn some new things.
> I would go further and be somewhat dismissive even of "Gibbard's theorem", since it only shows that an insincere vote can strategically produce a better outcome for a voter if they can identify what that that vote should be, and if they are one of the voters for whom such a strategy is available.

Gibbard's theorem is even weaker than that. It only assures the constructibility of vote sets for which the right "final" votes to achieve a particular outcome are distinct. It does not guarantee that there are any insincere votes which perform better than a sincere vote!

Optimal strategic approval voting with a strict ordering is always a choice between sincere votes, in fact (since adding a vote for a strictly more preferred candidate never hurts your preferences, you can always find a sincere vote which performs better than an insincere strategic vote by additionally voting for all candidates more preferred than the least preferred candidate on the strategic vote).
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It's not $44B that twitter will have available and can spend. Most (all?) will go to current investors to buy their stocks at a set price, which is where the $44B comes from

It's probably more about how much the new owners will want to drop into it and how long before it moves to x.com (?) and becomes an everything app
There's another way to look at this. My father, talking about growing up in the rust belt, told me how utterly bland and stifling he found the media environment in which he grew up. Paul McCartney and Skynyrd and mindlessly predictable TV plots and that was all there was. I'm almost certain he would have been an entirely different person if he grew up somewhere with more of a punk scene or proper folk tradition. The crushing conformity of the past, I think, is difficult to imagine. Sure, people can gravitate to 10 or so sites if they choose, but there is legitimately a whole world at your fingertips for you to explore.
To get a currency that you can pay taxes with, or buy traditional securities.
Just trying to motivate some empathy, "there but for the grace of God go I." You are correct than many homeless people are not carless, or they suffer from housing uncertainty (couch surfing, itinerant sleepers rolling through difficult family situations and severe housing shortages). Probably they can manage 2FA though.
You can have compute shaders in WebGL2, and WebGPU is around the corner. GPU power is available but then you run into the thorny issue of specs...

Consumer machines vary wildly in their GPU capabilities, especially VRAM. So how do you know that your nice accelerated algorithm is going to work if the user has an old GPU? And what do you do if it doesn’t work? Run on the CPU? Tell the user their machine is too weak?

Here the advantage of GPUs (performance) is also the biggest disadvantage: a gigantic range of performance profiles. At least with CPUs the oldest CPU is only going to be a small integer factor slower than a new one in single thread.

What unites gamers and machine learning is an expectation that the user has a reasonably recent and capable GPU. But these are small, self-selecting populations.

On the server side the issue is cost. GPUs are expensive, and usually not necessary, so nobody is going to write code that requires one without a good reason.
In my building people kept throwing glass down the chute, which explodes at the bottom and injured some employees working around there. It was poorly designed, and after two injuries they welded the chutes shut and put in a trash can on every floor. I still think trash chutes are a good idea, but they have to be implemented properly.
> The problem here is that misapplied empathy can lead to terrible decisions.

That's not the problem, that's a vague wave at a generic class of innuendo that could be used just as easily to rationalize not allowing your child to eat ice cream or Japanese internment. You have to make the case why Google changing their 2FA system is so much more important than the homeless having phone service, you can't just say "sometimes, empathy can be bad."

I'm not getting that from the rest of the comment, which seems like a gish gallop around a bunch of other things that we're also not going to do for the homeless, and about which you or somebody else can say "it's only human to be worried about other people going through these issues, but empathy can be bad. The answer isn't that HUD should change the second line of the third section of Form B, it's that we should fix the homeless problem completely."

edit: We can't use as an excuse for not making small changes that we should be making larger changes. The excuses that one makes to avoid making small changes will apply more so to larger changes.
It's an incredibly shitty model for everyone but shareholders. Why do we have to institutionalize abuse?
How do you expect homeless people who can't hold on to their phones to hold on to the backup codes?
Even if it was a human interest piece, the good journalists get external perspectives. They don't just parrot whatever the one person says.

"Given the simplicity of the problem ("I can't hang my laundry [without people, including local officials, complaining]"), the solution is a little obvious ("I want to be allowed to hang my laundry")."

This makes no sense. The lady was allowed to hang her laundry! The other guy entered into a contract that didn't allow it. There is no problem here (other than neighbors not being neighborly).
While billions might watch a video on YouTube, it's not truly a shared experience unless it happens at the same time. And at least for me, even with live chat scrolling in the speed of light to the side, it still doesn't feel the same as "Live TV" did. But as I commented elsewhere in the discussion, I still prefer the current experience.
Rules are rough estimates. Do this and this could happen or not. Roughly stating a generalization of consequences. Every rule breaker does not get punished and vice versa.
Can't download this video with youtube-dlp :( and obtaining the audio with the actual download link requires registration?

(yes the mp4 actually comes through when you click to download it on the actual website, but not mp3)
none of these people ever get arrested or caught. perfect crime
If you learnt about cost centers, you know what OP is talking about.
If I know one thing about tech, it's that whatever it is that ignites a return to physical media is going to be really, really impressive.
gpm[1]? consolation[2]?

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/gpm

[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/consolation-team/consolation
Not the exact timing, but my grandfather started a phd in his late 30s. He then had a fulfilling career as a professor for almost 20 years.
However, there is only evidence to the contrary, the entire stretch from the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market as the confirmed hotspot of the outbreak (samples from cages have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2) is entirely unaccounted for by this theory (this is about 20 minutes by car), the closest relatives to SARS-CoV-2 have been found in Laos and Vietnam (BANAL-236, BANAL-52) and not in China, and (according to US studies) there is genetic evidence for animal-human-animal-human transfer. As far as I am concerned, this is yet another attempt to make reality match preconceived politics. (Because reality is just another political game: who cares what may have actually happened, as long as we may own somebody?)

Edit: To me, the real problem with this kind of games is that they tend to turn into an existential challenge or even threat. "If we can't own them, this will mean their victory, we may never allow this to happen! Otherwise, we're doomed."
It's not just HN, stoics hit a "rational coder" approach to life chord with those who fight computers all day.
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A top of the line mirrorless from 5-10 years ago will destroy an iphone in 90% of situations. You can get a sony a7II for 400 euros, add a cheap manual focus lens and you're set.
| They wanted us to treat them as fungible, replaceable cogs in the machine, not unlike this whole stupid pets-vs-cattle debate with servers.

I have found that when communicating with "business degree" people, I will often use this as a common starting point but then add "but you'll spend far more replacing the knowledge that people take when they leave"
The GR III/IIIx does not have HDMI out, however it does support the DisplayPort protocol where you can solve video output in various ways with adapters, do note the max video resolution output is 1080p. The main problem is that eventually it will overheat and turn off (within minutes). Video was and is not a strong suit with Pentax/Ricoh products unfortunately.
qBitorrent UI is fugly.
Given Stable Diffusion maybe you made the right choice!
Maybe it is not the "building your own reality" which is the problem but the idea of nation states in which you have to be in a particular reality without a say.
It is probably better for humans to live in smaller structures over which they have more control.

Concerning the division between liberals and concervatives in the States I think it is interesting to mention that Theodore Kaczynsky has written that the opposing evolution of these two systems(with the money a power they have) may lead to a larger conflict than other systems like Islam. He calls them self-propagating systems which are somewhat organisms on a higher level controlling more or less nodes, which are human brains(and machines nowadays).
Gladwell's english was very approachable, so outliers was an easy and enjoyable book to read. I even believed it the first time I read it. Once I read his later stuff though, I noticed a couple of things that didn't quite add up for me, and that sort of shone a light for me on the pattern he was using. I wouldn't put any more weight on his work now than I would on a random blog from the depths of the internet.
It's a place for me and my friends to talk, with connections to other places. A quiet little backwater. That's good enough for me to keep running it.
Even better, match up the sound to a song with a similar BPM and create an analogue techno mashup set.
What do you think the moral of Jurassic Park was?

If you dont know how to control what happens in the park you build, then the park will be shutdown.

In the case of Google its not hard to speed up the process of shutdown. I just encourage them to keep working on more and more mindless ivory tower trash like Pixel phones, watches etc and inject more Ads into everything. They dont have the imagination for anything else but want a pat on the head for whatever they build. Give it to them.