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I don’t think stoicism was applied correctly.

Stoicism is about controlling what you have control over. Chief among this… is our thoughts.

Thoughts matter. How one thinks about things, events, situations that happen to us… matter.

Re-framing and interpreting how one thinks about what happened to us. Is important, for peace of mind.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is an example of how one can apply stoicism.
Can you teach me about this
I made and sold two compilers a long time ago, Builder and Son of Batch. Pre-Internet days. I made a living for about five years that way.

EDIT: you said tons of people. Well... thousands of paying customers in a market much smaller than today's, but that's probably not tons.
Breh, the guy you’re responding to wrote D. Unless you’ve written something similar your argument is moot
that may be true. it's also an indicator of the bubble you're a part of, if true.
I’ve read the Wikipedia page. I also own the copy of the book where it is mentioned, which I’ve also read. People are paying it way more attention than Popper himself did (it’s not even mentioned in the original text proper) and further treating it as some sort of immutable law, when that completely ignores the purposes for which the argument was created and that it was never a formal observation of how society actually operated.
The about page provides some context https://www.culturehustleusa.com/pages/about-us
Great post, I'd been meaning to sponsor you for a while and completely forgot so I've signed up on Github :) Stay awesome!
Everyone has got to eat, but they don't neccesarily have to eat on the direct basis of their open source contributions.

Let volunteers be volunteers.
Absolutely agree. The older I get the more I realize we all have a few callings in life, and not all of them are justly compensated for the purposes they fill, but it does not make them any less significant in my eyes.
It’s generous to assume that they believed the accused to be guilty. Many were frame jobs.
Andreas started this project to keep himself busy out of rehab for drug abuse. I did something similar out of rehab for alcohol. He named it Serenity OS from the Serenity Prayer for this reason. Being responsible and earning income to support your family is an important part of recovery. Beyond that, he's doing it for spiritual reasons. Sometimes the most debilitating feature of addiction is isolation and loneliness. He's created a community that is warm and friendly.

I think what he's done is amazing for these reasons:

He's created a viable operating system with hundreds of contributers
He's supporting his family
He's got himself well out of isolation with a big community of people
Edit: forgot one. He's staying sober
I think not even drug dealers give away their stuff for free, but if you know one that does do let me know!
> People hold views, so what? Why can't we just accept that people have differing views, and just agree to disagree?

This is nonsense. Just because people have the right to believe what they want doesn't mean that lies have the same value as truths.
Sometimes I like a remixed version of a song better than the original.
I meant in the context of a Bastion ssh server, which is what the patent meant i think.
Correct. If you're a shareholder, you can either sue, while you have "standing," or you can just sell and preserve your money.

Even if you sue, you probably wouldn't win, and it would be horrendously expensive.
Iversonian Language or Array Language?
Basically all on social media, yes, most without business model.
Indeed, the IEEE credits David Wheeler with the creation of the first assembly language, for which they awarded him a computer pioneer award in 1985[1]:

> Wheeler’s “initial orders” allowed Edsac instructions to be provided in a simple language rather than by writing binary numbers, and made it possible for non-specialists to begin to write programs. This was the first “assembly language” and was the direct precursor of every modern programming language, all of which derive from the desire to let programmers write instructions in a legible form that can then be translated into computer-readable binary.

[1] https://www.computer.org/profiles/david-wheeler
Thanks for the heads up. It still has the gpio pins and USB and wifi, I'll just need to find a (bigger) box that fits it. Chips out of a washing machine scenario here
How Amazon Cuts Shipping Costs
I just received a pair of 50lb "Amazon Basics" dumbbells from Amazon, shipped in 2 separate boxes. The shipping label on each box says 19.0 lbs. Carrying them to my basement, they sure feel like 50lbs and have a big 50 stamped on the end!
I've migrated one larger project with several containers / databases to AWS Fargate / RDS and a smaller one to Scalingo [0]. In both cases, I'm happy with how it turned out and the migration went fine.

One of the main drivers behind the decision was that Heroku required us to move to the Enterprise tier to run private databases.

If the architecture of your application is not too complex, I would suggest trying Scalingo (or Fly.io, Render, etc.) first. It took me around a day to get the application running on Scalingo, Fly.io and Render. This allowed us to be able to compare them a bit. In the end, we went with Scalingo, since the Review Apps feature to automatically launch environments from pull request worked well for our workflow.

You can see the configuration for Scalingo for a smaller elixir app on Github [1].

[0] https://www.mindwendel.com

[1] https://github.com/mindwendel/mindwendel
> > assuming we have the natural resources to make that possible.

> We do, despite the memes.

Markets disagree: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium
On this blessed day we are all Charles Mingus' ghost.
Most had to delete a tweet to come back. The crappy news outlets are running with it out of pure bias (or ineptitude).
More like, "both sides are terrible, but America works, so let's keep going."
Been using an ICX7150-C12P for a while as my main switch.

One thing that’s been found since this was written is that they don’t tolerate running hot well, and the failure point is the power supply.
> With Firefox it’s easy to disable any of those.

If you know how, yes. The problem with all mainstream web browsers (Edge, Chrome, Firefox) is that with every release you need to disable something.
Ok, after rereading my comment, I gotta admit that was pretty stupid and arrogant. Sorry for that.

It's still something that annoys me on HN, because even if something is interesting, I'd like to know what I'm reading before investing 90-120m. (I'm aware HN actively discourages adding any comments or explanations when submitting something)

Anyway, thanks for providing a summary, that's indeed very captivating to read.
Language is moving towards a disambiguation between male (as a kerotype or body plan) and man (as a social concept of what it is to be 'manly' in that society.)

This evolution of language has been very rapid in some circles, and slow in others, but everyone uses it to some degree.

For example, when people say, "Be a man!" Or "man up!", they aren't saying, "show your adult male body".

They are saying, "meet our standards for what a man in our culture is!" Mulan's famous song, "I'll make a man out of you" has nothing to do with chromosomes or penises. It has everything to do with the social side of the term "man".

So at the very least, the word man is ambiguous and could mean adult male or it could mean someone who is manly in behavior.
> So words might not hurt, but they offer more and more reasons to disengage, not just from terrible people, but from otherwise "normal, friendly, would-never-commit-a-crime people"

Oof that hit home.
You're right. That seems to have been a bad call, with hindsight:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/meta-faceboo...
It is exactly that - an art project.

Maybe it will also be useful some day, maybe not, but to me at least that's not the point. It's really cool that we can fund some art projects like this in the software industry!

Not a perfect comparison, but it's like how some people approach math simply for the beauty of it. That's enough of a reason! And sometimes that math ends up useful too - maybe because math has a connection to reality. So does software - it runs.
The "why" is IMHO simple if you look at the pattern: they didn't ask him for advise. I guess he really expects this. While I personally find this attitude/his comments in different places a bit toxic, he has unfortunately been proven right in the past (like in the freesbd case). I guess it sometimes just requires such people to something right with just enough rigour. I am also be really thankful for this beautiful bit of software in such a messed up space. However, I also totally understand the people who have not asked for his opinion before releasing (I guess this can be a downside).
Advertisers force us to do nothing at all. Memes similarly force nothing. This is a bastardization of the word 'force'.

Either people have rights or they don't. We don't need the government to pick and choose how individuals express themselves in order to protect others, not because it doesn't make sense, but because there is no way to do it without a Ministry of Truth, which is arguably even worse.

Remember, freedom of speech is freedom from governmental oppression first and foremost, the kind that arises when authoritarians get to tell people what and how to think.
It is mainly a thing in open air markets like Kensington in Philly or SF’s Tenderloin.
Sanity is a local phenomenon. Being aware of the influence of your actions at a place beyond your immediate perception requires faculties beyond a rational mind.

It's awful & absurd. But... crowd dynamics are hard, our impacts are extremely hard to judge, only tall people get any info, & i respect that, those absurd difficulties of knowing wtf is going on, even though the aftermath is so obviously horrific. Being sensitive & thoughtful is the best humanity, but it is hard.
I am pretty sure there are cases of jail time across Europe and U.S. for social media posts coupled with sensitive social and political activity in context of said countries. I do not see difference here, except excessive jail time verdict for this Saudi citizen.

Furthermore, I wasn't able to find what she posted, and no media mentions content of her tweets, maybe there is some extremely sensitive content there that is not in the interest of western media to shine light upon. Just theory, IDK.
I don't really understand SAFe, but from the outside looking in, it seems like the answer to "How close can we get to agile while still employing an army of Project Managers?" Which is to say, not very.
I tried to enjoy rust and make a service with it to give it a test run. I really disliked the reliance on so many third party libraries to get things done.

Is this not possible using the standard library alone?
Have you tried writing a web backend in Rust?

See Primeagen, a Senior Eng at Netflix w/ Rust as his #1 lang, and his experience writing a quick web backend in Go, Rust, and TS:

https://youtu.be/Z0GX2mTUtfo?t=267
Thanks. My copy was actually the copy that they sent to J.D. Bernal, and was signed over to him "with the compliments of the authors". My father was another PhD student of Bernal's, and became Professor of Crystallography at Birkbeck later. The diagrams are scanned in from the original, but I re-typed the text for web presentation. It is astonishing how much of Computer Science was completely understood by the end of the war.
Ironically, comments like these make me want to stay away from Doge as far as I can.
Who cares about breakdown by mass. Break a battery cell down by cost: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-cost-of-a...

The cathode alone contributes to half of the cost of a lithium ion battery. Shortages of lithium are indeed driving up the prices of batteries. If doesn't matter if a small amount of it is necessary, if obtaining even that small amount is expensive.
Thats a grade school level strawman. You may not be wrong but your argument is.
> Many lawyers in America still use WordPerfect, and I suspect Corel still makes and updates it for that reason :-)

IIRC, that's because Word can't do footnotes (or something like that) the way lawyers need to do them, but WordPerfect can.
In a monocultural society like South Korea, it's a good idea that probably could work very well and would have saved lives. I'm afraid here in the west it would quickly be abused by morons wanting to amuse themselves at gatherings and quickly be ignored, making it useless.
The HP 12C is an excellent example of "Calm Technology"[0]:

1. "Communicate information without taking the user out of their environment or task". The display shows a single number: either the answer to your question or your current input. I don't need to worry about running out of battery or charging it, as I only need to once every few years. I don't need to think about my 12C except when I need to answer a finance question. I don't need to turn it off "correctly", I just turn it off.

2. "Gives people what they need to solve their problem, and nothing more". Basic math plus special purpose finance functions. No notifications, input history, cloud saves, Share button, upsells, political statements or otherwise claim they're making the world better, achievements or pretty but functionless UI.

3. "Moves easily from the periphery of our attention, to the center, and back". When I'm discussing a scenario, I don't need to sit down at a computer and design a spreadsheet. The functions in 12C are concise and operate quickly, showing the answer to one question at a time.

4. "Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity". 12C doesn't use ML to guess poorly what the user is trying to do, suggesting autocompletes and "are you sure" or "you mean...". It respects that the user knows what they're doing.

5. "Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak". The display on 12C is minimal but shows everything you _need_ to know: the single number in front of you.

6. "Technology should work even when it fails". It either works or doesn't, no incorrect numbers reported, no missing functionality. Even when the battery dies, it will give me ample opportunity to do something about it before it actually happens, as the display dims gradually over weeks.

7. "The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve the problem".

8. "Technology should respect social norms". The 12C can be at the center of a conversation, and even help move a conversation forward by answering questions; I don't need to bury my face in a laptop while talking with someone, so it doesn't look like I'm ignoring them or that I've shifted my attention elsewhere; while I'm typing in numbers, it's obvious they're the numbers we're talking about. It respects the norms/customs of the field their customers work in: no need to type enter formulas for PV, FV, IRR.

[0]: https://calmtech.com/
> Managers want workers that will benefit their own career.

+1! This is probably brutal but the most truthful fact not everyone can accept. This is especially true in big organisations. As much as we would like to believe that managers want workers to have a positive impact, that’s usually from the perspective of a manager who has a massive stake in the businesses, for eg, a founder or a small business owner.

Too many “managers” in big organisations are simply employees themselves who care more about their own survival and career, just as with the employees these managerial employees hire.
Used commercial equipment is an interesting option that didn't occur to me when looking for a sfp+/sfp28 solution at home. Even with a fanless option like the 7150 (or a similar mikrotik, some of which are cheap enough new) I still ultimately needed an AP with a 5gb connection which basically is the consumer sfp+/wifi router option.
The issue is, who determines truth? Without that mystical all seeing arbiter, we must abide both.
Leslie Lamport was a hero for me. Then i heard that he went to Microsoft and then i heard nothing about him.

I guess Microsoft got what it wanted.
WireGuard is a registered trademark.
So they can track their users? The free tier users are still users.
An interpretation and characterization of Watts, by a human who seems not aware of that level.

Watts was surely flawed in many ways, but his true value to humanity is an ongoing mystery, although such things often appear very much otherwise.

Woo woo!
Memcpy is fast. Don't let them pin your arrays.
Yeah, but the easiest way to learn a cloud provider's service is to read the TF provider's docs for the resource(s) in question. It helps to cut through the fluff and to get down to the essential elements of the offering.

Once you know how to provision the resource and all the switches and dials on it, you can then go find out what they do and how they work by readying the cloud platforms docs.

This MO works pretty well for me.
The solution is to allow people to one-click filter their feeds. If a person does not what to see the word "Trump" or any vulgarity, slurs, anything, they can one-click, or very simply, block those.

What has always bothered me about the Twitter censorship war is that the people most angry are the ones wanting to silence speech. I say let speech be free, identify the people, groups, and ideas you don't want, and block it out. Build your own town square.
> It kills me to see programmers on Windows using Notepad++.

It kills me to see programmers on Windows using Notepad.
I have not a single clue what's going on here, because I'm not a designer.. but I like it.
I don’t know about much more. The last time I saw the top ends of Google’s IC pay scale, it was ~$1.5 million TC, and that was for, like, two people.

I’m being nit picky. But big tech isn’t THAT insane. 7 figure TC is incredibly, incredibly rare. It’s not just “senior engineer”, it’s “senior senior senior senior” or more.
In my experience, if what you've got is a months-ahead plan where management sets the deadlines AND controls the scope via pressuring the line manager, and delivery relies on crunch time and panicky de-scoping and working to the letter and not the spirit of the contract, then what you have is waterfall in a fedora and a Groucho Marx novelty disguise.
> We’re a federation of 50 sovereign states, not a single state.

Not since Appomattox and the subsequent enactment of the Civil War Amendments — and arguably not even then (see the Supremacy Clause and the Oath of Office Clause in the original Constitution).

State "sovereignty" (a.k.a. "states' rights") is basically a fig leaf that occasionally gets dragged out — often by racists — in pushing back against national standards of decent behavior. Just one example: In 1957, President Eisenhower invoked the Insurrection Act, federalized the Arkansas National Guard, and sent in the 101st Airborne, to enforce compulsory desegregation of Little Rock schools, after local officials and the state's governor cited "states' rights" as a purported justification for flouting the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling. [0] The Supreme Court's subsequent Cooper v. Aaron decision rejecting the Arkansas view was — uniquely in the Court's history — signed, not merely joined, by all nine justices. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_v._Aaron
Logs aren't a draft! The data model is stable and can be relied on. The vendor I work for (honeycomb) already supports logs[0] and we expect a lot more users as support for wrappers around common logging frameworks and exporters grows in SDKs.

[0]: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/latest-opentelemetry-updates
But shouldn't that be relatively easy to check? I mean, how many cars are actually rebuilt/salvaged per year. If Portland alone has 10,000 thefts per year, throughout the U.S. most rebuild/salvaged cars would have to be stolen.
"Your perspective is perverse. the onus should not be on citizens to be informed about every possible toxin and regularly take action. This is victim blaming 101."

Perhaps you misconstrued my perspective. I'm just telling it how it is. There are plenty of issues that we should see action on, yet none is taken. The main reason is that there's only so much bandwidth in the system so things get prioritized. The high priority stuff is high priority because a lot of people give a shit about that thing.

This is not victim blaming. Even if people gave a shit, the system is overburdened and they'd have to deprioritze other stuff. This is simply reality. Not to mention, we'd need proof that all these indifferent people are actually victims.
The paradox of tolerance is not some narrow tool, it can be used in many contexts. In particular, it can be used to demonstrate that, if you want to exist in a society that has a coherent notion of "self-defense" in general, you must admit the existence of the paradox and the necessity of judging actions in the context of aggression or defense. To wit: killing someone is against the law, but killing someone who's trying to kill you may be permitted, but even in that case, the aggressor still isn't allowed to kill you just because you tried to kill them in self-defense; they forfeit the right to self-defense by being the aggressor.
> Most marketing urls have those long ugly urls to tell the advertiser what campaign/source etc you clicked on. So Google let's the advertiser display a fake url for ads.

I expected Google Search ads to be above this. But in retrospect I shouldn't be surprised that ads would lie to you.
The far-left fights ideas it does not like with censorship and cancellation. The far-right is more aggressive at defending their beliefs. One says you must be silenced, the other says come at me bro.
Because we have enough empirical proof from last 100 years that right people at right time can convert your country into one where you can be sentenced to death, labour camp or any of those based on your ethnicity, religion, world view or even fact of wearing glasses.
It's bizarre that people's form of protest against Heroku is to threaten to move to a competitor that has even worse pricing tiers. You've had a free ride for a decade, being asked to cough up $7/mo now isn't the end of the world.
I'll work on extending the docs and examples. Have you played around with this link https://randy-r.github.io/stenimator/ ?
> Once the channel grew large enough, I was able to enable monetization in the form of ads. I felt a bit weird about this, since I use an ad blocker myself, but I figured that the kind of person who watches my content is perfectly aware of ad blockers and can make their own decisions about them.

The classic.
And to add to that, it also makes other people happy too, to contribute or just to follow. Really cool stuff, and meaningful.
Pantone prints "bridge decks", with the true spot colors printed right next to their CMYK best equivalent. If you've ever seen one, you might well conclude that almost none of the Pantone spot colors are representable in CMYK. It's not great!
The original implementation had a lot of issues, but more importantly it was pushed to head and deployed in production without a review:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
I'd guess Netwons Principia would be a good example, given it basically became the founding work of a mathematical approach to physics, gravity, newton's laws of motion etc.

The book is written in Latin and contains diagrams and text to describe each lemma and law. Geometric proof seems to feature heavily!

From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Pri...
I found most senior tech folks are gone or just tweets non-sense these days. 2012-2017 was a good curve, I think. Like I feel no one is actually give a shit about tech sanity anymore. It's all somewhat identity competition now. Tech brands and business, everyone stopped giving a shit about hacking.
> I think English just refers to the language for the package labels and manual. Nothing to do with the calculator itself.

They should make a calculator that works with English natural language numbers:

compute eight plus four
twelve