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The term doesn't come from people calling themselves 10x engineers.

It was from a study that showed vast differences in performance across software engineers, up to 10x.

The study has been criticized somewhat since then but I think the critics miss the point. Regardless if it is 2x or 10x, or somewhere in between, these differences do exist.
hm, what reliability issue?

I'm using ZFS + netatalk in Gentoo server since 2015 as a backup server for 5 macOS devices without problems.
Not sure any part of my comment history suggest shill or CCP support but ... i guess on this one I am clearly off kilter from consensus.
My Japanese is unfortunately not at a level where I could watch Japanese content without subtitles, so I actually need them. But I do agree that it is distracting if they are wrong or translated in a weird way. I'm actually holding off on watching Cyberpunk Edgerunners because I've heard that Netflix's subs are very liberal (or maybe they are dubtitles? not sure).

The worst thing is if the the spoken language and the subtitle language are the same, but the subs are incomplete or don't fully represent what is spoken.
- The CCP have been routinely supressing any hypothesis on COVID-19 being a lab-borne virus.

- The CCP have been stoic on their approach to zero-COVID

- IF the virus was lab-borne, and IF the CCP know it was, is it not (very, very remotely) possible they know more about the consequences of this virus?

That line of reasoning is pretty conspiratorial, but given that the CCP have been incredibly cagey about the whole affair, I don't think it's unreasonable to be doubtful.

I think it is FAR more likely that it is a face-saving exercise, but I also think it's worth keeping an open mind
> I don't see a lot of women complaining nobody will consider them for a coal mining job.

There is an absolutely enormous gender difference in preferences for a coal mining job (unless you think it's due to discrimination). Could preferences also explain the differences in some other jobs, like CEO? How many women vs. how many men want to become CEO? Is it the same number? Saying that some women want to is not an argument, it's about relative numbers.
> The whole point of TFA is that billing systems are way more complex than they appear to be.

Technically the point of TFA is to market billing software. Billing systems are complex in that they can consist of many different moving parts, but billing system are also simple in that they are easily understood. Billing has to be easily understood, else you'll quickly scare your customers away. Complexity and simplicity are not necessarily at odds with each other. The meat of TFA is mostly about how billing systems can quickly become a time consuming endeavour which again isn't at odds with simplicity.
Last time I tried using Docker Desktop on my MBP (x86), the reason to not use Docker was that it was excruciatingly slow for the test suite I had to run in it, compared with Docker on Linux.

I abandoned Docker on the Mac because of that, and haven't touched it since. That was early 2021; maybe it's faster now.
China's indigenous vaccines (Sinovac and Sinopharm) are based on inactivated virus technology. Describing them as "highly effective" is a bit of a stretch: the WHO [1] put the effectiveness at about 50% against symptomatic infection, and a study in Hong Kong [2] concluded that three doses were required to gain a similar level of efficacy to the mRNA vaccines.

The Chinese government has resisted importing Western mRNA vaccines [3], and their own mRNA efforts are not yet up to speed [4].

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-sin...

[2] https://archive.ph/TY9if

[3] https://www.voanews.com/a/china-s-bet-on-homegrown-mrna-vacc...

[4] https://archive.ph/ifvbC
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You said a lot of things, many I agree and have experienced as well, but never answered OP. How do you create 10x engineers? Well you can’t. And you probably shouldn’t try. If you’re 10x somewhere it means you’re at a place with a significant (I.e. 10x) skills mismatch between people in the team. It’s not fun for anyone, the company and team become too dependent on you, and you skew any ability to project how long work would take on both sides by your presence.

The best bet for both parties would be they find places “where they belong” - if you consider yourself 10x ie the smartest person in the room, you need to seek a better room for yourself where that’s not the case.
Vaccination offers good protection against death / serious illness, but isn't that great against catching the virus and being able to infect someone else.

Their motivation is to prevent an outbreak. (Which is perhaps impossible long term).
Yes, I believe a government that is more local, and representing a community that has more in common, will be more reflective of the wishes of that community, and more responsive (and vulnerable!) to its criticism.

I find it somewhat insulting I even have to argue for this - this move of power further away is a change. It should be justified, instead of happening by default, while the former status quo of sovereign nations has to argue for its continued existence.
Becoming a 10x engineer is more about psychology than it is about IT skills.
It is about doing the right thing in the right context, about communication and about planning.
Put a 10x engineer in a new company where they use different languages and frameworks, and eventually he/she will become a 10x engineer again.

So I don't see much benefit in training, what works much better is learning by example. Put junior engineers in a team with a 10x engineer and if they are open to it, they can quickly acquire the same mindset. But ofc this only works if the 10x engineer is a good tutor and coach as well.
Are there any good zero toads expert guides or books? I understand the basics but feel like there’s so much beyond my current understanding.

I want to know how to calculate expected performance, understand the process for disk monitoring, what to do in the event of a failure (my guess is to not power down the cluster in case disks don’t spin back up), etc.
That's strange. My father was a voluntary in the polio vaccination in Argentina in ¿1956?. My mother also remember that epidemic. I guess old people here is one of the more conscious groups about how important are the vaccines.
You mean intersex children, right? Or you don't care about them because, er, reasons?
Your last point is a great point. For all the things my company invested in during their international expansion, cultural training was not one of them, which is a great shame.
I've seen -1x engineers too (and probably have been one).
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The recommended rate of losing weight might have changed meanwhile.

I have lost weight (from around 120 kg to around 76 kg) about 15 years ago.

Nevertheless, I believe that if care is taken so that the calorie-restricted diet still includes a normal amount of all nutrients except carbohydrates and non-essential fat, 4 kg per month, like I did, should not cause any health problems.

Unfortunately, I have seen too many suggestions about how to lose weight that do not pay enough attention to provide all nutrients. Such diets can be sustained for a few weeks, but not for longer durations, like a year or more, which are needed when the required weight loss is great.

My weight can vary from day to day exactly as much as yours, but nowadays it rarely does.

The main difference between how I eat now and how I was eating before losing weight is that previously I was eating until feeling sated, but now I always decide how much to eat before starting to eat, so for most days the energy intake is similar, so the weight oscillations are small. When I happen to eat a more copious meal, I compensate the next day, mainly by cutting the carbohydrates during that day.
I'm only up to about 2000 but I haven't really seen slowdowns or other issues.
Why would anyone bother with ACLs in a SOHO environment? I'm not sure I understand the threat mode and use case you're designing against.
If the virus originated in a lab, then it is very likely that the CCP knows a lot about its behavior. The grandparent comment is implying that the CCP is acting based on something they know that they haven’t shared with the rest of the world.
There are no general algorithms that can report a "no" to general source code. The maybe is obviously not considered in the context of this discussion thread about ML. It is obvious that ML. A simple search on Internet could give you resources like this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09610
Isn't AFP deprecated?
Given what I know about the modern man in general (being one, being around them), it's possible that more healthy men do not catch covid and also have higher sperm counts to begin with. Not sure if the study took that into account.
Our payment/billing backend is built so that it can support multiple payment providers, as some larger customers e.g. pay by bank transfer. Stripe is just there to store sensitive billing data like credit card numbers and actually charge customers, everything else happens in our backend. Stripe supports that use case well, they e.g. provide web hooks and an event log which you can replay locally to integrate with them, which makes it easy to run your own billing/invoicing logic on top.
"If the grocery store allowed me to pay via gold bullion, I would pay rather than shoplift."

I'm sympathetic to "I would pay for this if I could" argumentation when it comes to digital goods. But at some point the conditions you're setting become so unreasonable that nobody can reasonably fulfill them, and it becomes clear you're only doing it to get free stuff and stiff the creators.

You don't want to see ads? YT already gives you that option. You don't want YT data to be used for ad targeting? YT already gives you that option. But you additionally want to pay in gold bullion and only to the farmer rather than the grocery store that actually provided you the service. It's not very reasonable, is it?
> Is there much daylight between unsafe to drink and unsafe to shower/etc.

Have you ever gone swimming in a natural body of water?
If it's a lab-leak it means the virus was potentially well studied before the leak, and it's effects known. Therefore the government could know a lot more about it than they claim.
The main issue mentioned in the article is to use Github.

The "issues" on Github could be "bugs", "feature request" or even "improvement" (it could be anything actually).

If I were to maintain a project by myself I would rather just deal with bugs or performance issue, and allow feature request in a separated queue where people can upvote it and discuss.
The feature request queue could sit there forever as it's just a view of what people wants and not how the project should go.

Also react-native-fs mentioned in the article only have 4 bugs opened. The rest is just noise and unlabelled issues. Note that there might be a considerable amount of bugs in those unlabelled issues.

As a maintainer I should not spend my time to label anything, either you enter it as bug and I'm considering it since bug are supposed to be critical, either it's not and it's going into a sperate queue I can read whenever I have more free time.
> usually

I think this is their point. :)
Not just that, how many people in US already had covid and how many did in China?
It's the terminology preferred by people with particular ideological commitments. Those who disagree have no obligation to conform to those preferences or permit others to choose the words they are allowed to use.
> You cannot divorce the technical side from the garbage crypto brings.

> Those who understand the technical features can see there is nothing there to justify the hype,

I'm confused, is it bad tech or is it undesirable effects?

Technical critics flatter themselves too much about their supposed understanding. It's political, not technical. We need crypto for the same reason why need to keep the cash economy alive.
Really depends on the size yeah. If you're working on some 20k+ code megaproject then it makes perfect sense, but for the average small side project I feel like the code and approaches change so quickly that you'd just spend half your time rewriting and fixing broken tests for no real gain.
I think I misunderstood your comment, sorry, but I have difficulties in understanding how it's different that how things works already, then. You either have to rely that the compiler author did chose what you expect (not the case here), or check by yourself and hope it won't change.
I can only offer conjecture, but: maybe stadium visits are different from daily outdoors life, in the eyes of China's government? Also in some countries in Europe such events are still an exception to the generally no-mask-required policies.
> Do you really want JRandomUser to be able to add notes to your repository?

Not any less than I want them to comment via the web interface.

> Can they make it so that mirrors run out of disk space by adding notes to all the commits or extremely large issues?

Better to solve that than to just not mirror the comments which is what is currently the case. You can always opt your mirror to not fetch notes if that is what you want to do.
Was it the grid? The linked article only says "power outage", but doesn't mention a grid failure.

Do you have another source with details?
What kind of language is C replacement without UB and better concurrency and more stable/predictable than Rust?
Because there are internet providers out in the wild that can and will insert some garbage into any unencrypted HTML page, including ads or phishing.
Don’t be so small minded. I’ve seen -infinity project managers and architects.
we could compile our own binaries ;)
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Okay, so we should just stay locked in our houses for the rest of our lives?
I suspect it's lazy reporting on the BBC's part. Mask-wearing has been the trigger point for so long in the west that's it's the default explanation. Whereas in China, the trigger point is still assembly (which is where the west was 2 years ago).

What Chinese leadership knows is that masks are nigh-on worthless for Omicron (I've seen numbers as low as 30% efficacy for N95 and basically no efficacy for cloth and surgical vs omicron) and that the only way to control it (without high prior infection rates and/or better vaccines - neither of which they have) is physical separation.

Another issue is that Omicron isn't actually much less severe than previous strains on its own - it's just that in most areas there are effective vaccines and basically everyone has gotten covid before, so it's effectively less severe. But at the same time, it's way more transmissible than previous variants (like ~10x so). So China's put itself in a bad situation. If it lets loose, Covid goes wild and their healthcare system is crushed because there's basically no immunity against the world's most transmissible virus. Everyone will get it pretty much at the exact same time and 10-20m people will die with little to no healthcare within the span of a month or so. Or they keep locking down in perpetuity until something changes (they get a better vaccine? they do a controlled burn? the virus gets a lot weaker? revolution?).
Exactly as planned I think.

Welcome your new feudal lords, they may throw you a bottle of water (probably Coke though), but watch you don't choke on the plastic.
You can get it more than once, though.
Crazy, I always assumed they sent the same prompts to multiple users and cross-checked.
It's not eradicated until its eradicated worldwide.
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3. Xi gets overthrown, takes the blame for the covid hysteria, new power is installed in China.

I have no idea how likely or realistic that is, but seems like an option too.
pair programming is definately the way to go. Even Software Legned Uncle Bob Martin is a strong advocate for it. Listen to what he said about it in this podcast - https://alphalist.com/podcast/58-uncle-bob-martin-the-clean-... (about 10-15 minutes in)
One day the imperium of man will be finally defeated.
I am a 10x engineer. I have the awesome capability to show you that a project is going to cost 10x the time/budget, and why you don’t need it, and should probably focus on the obvious 1x idea.
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"10x engineer," in my experience, is typified by "hyper-focused engineer who works 16 hour days 7 days a week and is the darling of upper management."

In my entire career (spanning 20 years by the year, 16 years of active time), I've only met one engineer who astonished me with his prodigious amount of _correct and clean_ output. But the downside was that engineering was his entire life; you couldn't hang out with him, because all he ever wanted to talk about was engineering.

There's a tradeoff for that kind of output.
You still have to solve many issues, mining raw material, recycling, storage are just a few of them.

As I said, it's all clean and nice on paper, once you take everything into equation we're faaaar of from that green future.

I think people simply don't understand the sheer scale of it all and the cost of externalities, from the mine to the landfill. Slapping a "renewable" sticker on it doesn't solve the root issues, it certainly is perpetuating the myth that energy and growth are unlimited though
Yeah a whole lot of these single-board computers can run emulation but that doesn't make it worth playing.
The raspberry pi can't even do perfect Dreamcast emulation.
And for the the price of emmc, that's very expensive(for a single component)

I don't know who would want a subpar experience on a mini console when they can just run an emulator a decent 4 years old computer/laptop and have a much better experience...or just buy the console if it matters that much to them.
It's really bad, only 65% of 80+ are vaccinated [1]

As you mentioned their own vaccine is not very effective but they have also approved no foreign vaccines yet [2]

They have far too few ICU beds to manage the surge if restrictions are dropped to, say, average EU levels [3]

They seem to be trapped

[1] https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202211/22/WS637c2416a3104917...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/25/china-covid-...
[3] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/icu-beds-...
Well, that's undefined behaviour. It could have inserted system("rm -rf /*"); instead and be right about that.
* Teaching me SQL

* Providing us the training and paying for a cloud vendor certification

* It’s a small company so team discusses all major tactical decisions

* Providing me the opportunity to implement and document a new but super fast approach to architecture that I have developed over the past three years in a personal project

* This is only the second time in my career that I am engaged all day (been in the corporate world nearly 20 years). In prior jobs I went to meetings and maybe did 1 hour of work a day. That was either because task assignment was in competent or because they were not training developers which me a 10x developer only because I do work on personal projects outside the office
That's it exactly. They don't tell us how we should treat native Americans or Cuba.

But we have it baked in that we're the arbiter of what every country does globally, and a history of military action putatively justified by those moral concerns.
It’s got to be a misconfigured system that’s repeatedly downloading the package.
And to the surprise of no-one, this system has also been used to control the movements of political dissenters for reasons that have nothing to do with COVID:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bank-protest-stopp...

Anyone who doesn't think that western vaxpass systems could be coopted for similar ends is horrifyingly naive.
1h+ build times are probably a result of not doing something about the build times like fixing #include mess, making sure there are no redundant compiles, caching and getting better hardware.

But even if your build times are that ridiculous, git bisect is still useful because it is not just a constant time improvement - having to do log(n) builds isntead of n is going to be helpful no matter how long each build takes.
Mythbusters did a segment on this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YJ91FKZHI0
A common story you hear is that Chinese vaccines are less effective and that they also do not want to rely on Western vaccines in turn.

What I don't quite understand is why they couldn't just create some joint venture with a Western pharma company and then supply a rebranded version of the mRNA vaccines to their population. I would think they have the propaganda tools at hand to make such a move palatable even to the more nationalist citizenry? Surely this would be preferable to the costly shutdowns.

Probably I'm also unaware of the constraints the Chinese leadership is operating under. I tend to think they have the power to make anything happen with their unlimited propaganda and censorship tools, but perhaps that is not the case and selling a foreign vaccine domestically is harder than I thought.
do we know what the Party line is about this? Do they, for example, blame western propaganda, involvement etc?
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> A brita-type filter will do precisely nothing for most things that require a boil notice

Well, it might do something, give a nice warm and humid substrate for bacterias to develop
I don't actually believe it from this example alone but wanted to say it. Your reading is a little simplistic and condescending
It never clicked for me? It just always made sense.

Maybe I’m still meandering around in the pre-click phase though and don’t know. Maybe one day it will click for me!
> Undefined behavior: Anything is allowed to happen, and you might no longer have a computer left after it all happens.

and

> The moment your program contains UB, all bets are off.

Does this include that a compiler, when it can prove that a program it compiles contains UB, erase your disk as part of the compilation process? i.e. without you ever running the compiled program.
It was clear to me. Are you in the US perchance? :)
But 50% of those over 80 are not vaccinated. [0] So the US is doing better among those that are most vulnerable. [1]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-18/only-half...
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/11/11/stunnin...

Sorry about the low quality source links. I'll try harder to find CDC links in the future.
I should clarify that I believed all that in 1990-something; I've arrived at a more mature professional opinion in the nearly three decades since.
Taking this opportunity to ask a slightly off topic question.

Are there any Wireless Storage solution that doesn't use the "Network", i.e Behind a Router. If not, are there any NAS solution that only works for "Intranet" or a Single User only.

Basically I want an external storage solution that doesn't require a cable. And offer ZFS / BTRFS error protection. And it has to be consumer friendly, i.e Plug and Play.
Ask HN: What products have you bought for a different purpose than their primary
Sometimes we buy products because we want to use them for something other than their primary purpose, have you ever done this, what was the product and how satisfied were you with the decision?

My product - The reMarkable 2 which I bought to use for reading ebooks because my kid broke my old Pocketbook - and which I have to say I regret because the screen is not light enough to read without using my glasses.