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> "If you want to be good, achieve, and be able to compete, you will have to work your ass off. He's just right,"

Terence Tao on hard work[1]: "One needs to do a serious amount of reading and writing, and not just thinking, in order to get anywhere serious in mathematics; contrary to public opinion, mathematical breakthroughs are not powered solely (or even primarily) by “Eureka” moments of genius, but are in fact largely a product of hard work, directed of course by experience and intuition. (See also “the cult of genius“.)"

Computer Scientest who developed error correction codes Richard Hamming said something like "I stormed into the supervisor's office and demanded to know how John Tukey could be the same age as me and know so much. 'You would be surprised how much you'd know if you worked as hard as he works' said the supervisor. I slunk out of the office and since then tried to work harder, and it helped me know a lot more".

Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul Dirac, from Wikipedia: "Dirac himself wrote in his diary during his postgraduate years that he concentrated solely on his research, and stopped only on Sunday when he took long strolls alone." and later in his life "Korean physicist, Y. S. Kim, who met and was influenced by Dirac, also says: "It is quite fortunate for the physics community that Manci [Mrs Dirac] took good care of our respected Paul A. M. Dirac. Dirac published eleven papers during the period 1939–46. Dirac was able to maintain his normal research productivity only because Manci was in charge of everything else".

Nobel Prize winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft[2] on learning physics: "You won’t get your Nobel Prize for free, and remember, all of this together takes our students at least 5 years of intense study (at least one reader was surprised at this statement, saying that (s)he would never master this in 5 years; indeed, I am addressing people who plan to spend most of their time to this study)"

> "But in America, what's the default? Making people work as much as possible. Cross the Atlantic pond and your mind will be blown at how many holidays per year workers get."

And how much less money they/we earn. Americans in tech scoff at the idea of doing a Tier 1 helpdesk job because it's not enough money to get out of bed for, when it's paying almost double the average UK household income.

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/work-hard/

[2] https://goodtheorist.science/
For the life of me I cannot figure our what Album Archive is. I remember being similarly confused when Google shut down... what was it? Photos? Picasa? And then nothing really happened.

I see I have pics I uploaded to Blogger showing up in this thing called Album Archive. Will they be deleted when it's gone? Fuck if I know.

Google, get your shit together. Your services and mails about them are goddamn confusing.

And I work with computers for a living! If I can't figure this out, sure as hell my parents won't either.
The argument for shorter work weeks isn't that it would make these top athlete engineers more (or at least not less) productive, but that it does do for the bulk of average engineers. I think Carmack is arguing against a straw man if he thinks people are claiming that the best way to make the most obsessive engineers the most productive is to work less.
The "Jim Cramer of tech" is John C. Dvorak.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak

"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things." (1984)

"Maybe when the smoke clears, we will have heard the last of Steve Jobs as guru, seer, visionary and hapless victim too ... He'll go the way of pet rock, electric carving knives, silly putty, Tiny Tim, and the three-tone paint job. Let's hope so." (1985)

"The noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch. It's one of those interesting-sounding ideas that will attract what venture capitalists call dumb money." (1997)

"If [Apple's] smart, it will call the iPhone a 'reference design' and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures. [... ] It should do that immediately before it's too late." (2007)

"I cannot see [the iPad] escaping the tablet computer dead zone any time soon" (2010)

"I consider this situation to be dire for Apple. When the iPhone 5 arrives shortly, it will be crunch time for the company. ... It may be the last important iPhone."
(2012)

"Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores"
(2012)

"If [Apple's upcoming watch] can't replace the iPhone completely it's a goner."
(2014)

"Apple mentions the Mac less and less at its big events. The company knows that the machine is a drain on resources that detracts from its new core business ... Mac will be phased out and the whole line will be replaced by iPads."
(2017)
Yeah, I don’t have that either
It sounds like you're team has anchored around 13 as what we'd call our 5.

Neither is right or wrong, just different.
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The end result may be nobody selling phones there anymore.

Really? Are you claiming that capitalists are so much of a fool that instead of making, say, half the profit they were making before in an unregulated market, they would readily prefer to make 0 profits? The reality is that if American BigTech exit the EU market, then some local or non-American competitor will step in to fill the vacuum. Or have you already forgotten that the European Nokia once dominated the mobile phone industry?
All this panic is not productive and besides, climate predictions seem to change every few decennia.
Speaking as a drummer and sometimes producer, the only people likely to have strong opinions about this are drummers. All of my drummer friends agree: audience mixes make some albums unlistenable on headphones. Nobody else will notice either way, so mix drummer perspective on the off chance that the drummers listening will appreciate it.

Live albums get a pass, of course. And yes, lefty drummers exist. If a lefty drummer wants their kit panned the way they hear it, that is of course fine.
BMW Z4 from 2004

I wish it had Bluetooth…
What Happens When Governments Build Software [video]
Sshkit: Ruby toolkit for deploying code in a repeatable, testable, reliable way
There are many cut rate brokers, some more successful than others. We believe first time buyer will like PropBox. We even make them aware of the 5 year rule. Thanks for your comments.
Can they? I have to use a password, but I guess I've never tried the "forgot password" option.

As far as giving my ID to Equifax; they already have my details whether I give it to them or not.
Maybe they needed to illuminate the whiteboard through the window.
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Recently Chomsky talked about Ellsberg in response to a question "Who has been the single greatest public figure of your lifetime?"

https://youtu.be/TQ-Crh3rdQA?t=1946

(BTW - the whole interview is well worth watching).
For killing scope creep, yes. But Rubin works off instinct and his own tastes and is forthright about having no clue or interest on what listeners want. Those aren’t traits that really make a good PM, but thank goodness music isn’t product management. PM’d music is Maroon5. They are a product, not art.
Interesting how you left an "A" out..
Have you got any recent snapshot benchmark available? I can find only one ancient one.

> btrfs don't allow nodatacow with snapshots

What's the use case for a snapshot at that point? Isn't it the same as making a copy of the files?

I'm not even sure what would this look like... CoW is what enables snapshots. Without CoW you can't get a consistent copy anymore.
> "if you look at Academia you will clearly see that the best and most productive researchers are the one that work nonstop."

Price's Law[1]: "Derek de Solla Price, a British physicist, historian of science, and information scientist, discovered something about his peers in academia. He noticed that there were always a handful of people who dominated the publications within a subject. Price recognized a pattern which was later named after him.

50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.

Only a handful of people produce half of the results in any given field or company. You may have observed this phenomena throughout your experiences in life. You are working on a team, and there are the superstars who do most of the work or seem to produce most of the outcomes and then there is everyone else."

[1] https://expressingthegeniuswithin.com/prices-law-and-how-it-...
>reading writing

I think it depends precisely what you are doing. There is a difference between low cognitive effort (e.g. reading) and high effort (e.g. creating an algorithm or playing chess). Low effort uses glucose, whereas high-effort requires the microglia (the brain's immune cells) to create lactate and transport it to the neurons. Excess microglia activation has been linked to anxiety, depression and neuroinflammation.

I suspect it's not physically possible for a chess grandmaster to play for 90 hours a week, but probably quite easy for the average person to read or write for 90 hours a week (with some breaks).

>start writing a large amount of non-crud code, seven hours is kinda the max.

Most programming jobs are just writing "crud code" if you want to call it that...basically mostly meetings, and cranking out banal code. You can certainly do this for 90 hours a week without fatigue, although it will likely lead to burnout in the long-term, so it's probably better to find a job that does require significant mental effort, but without requiring 90 hour weeks.
Yes, using a watch + compile + restart development environment where everything can be worked on locally reduces cycle time to 5ms, which is ~100,000x quicker than the 10m compile time in the parent post.

I've deployed 35,000+ lines of code to prod in 2023 with this flow. I've only had 2 small bugs.

This is by far the most efficient setup I've ever used.
> verified

Yeah, I have difficulty with this, in particular trusting sources. Wikipedia is almost always correct on a technical level but very information dense (Good Thing! Recently I looked up “captain obvious disambiguation” for a joke and learned the word “lapalissade”) so it sometimes requires a certain mindset to learn from there. Some public school teachers don’t like being questioned(!!) and I think that’s caused me to have an internalized skepticism of academics, ironically despite the likelihood they’re more informed. Rando stranger on the internet can be good source but maybe a bullshitter instead.

On the whole, and especially in particular if one pays attention, people here tend to make “good faith” statements such that a difference of opinion similar to this thread is genuinely informative if one is willing to consider the possibility of any particular thing being true (or not). It helps to understand the difference between statements of fact and opinion. I’ve found it helps also to be open about a lack of knowledge if one is willing to ask questions and “be taught” in a fashion, despite the reputation that such leading statements have.

I try to remind myself that all topics which are able to capture academics’ attention have a lot of depth to them, practically by necessity. My physics teacher in high school was fantastic so I have a solid understanding of the concepts taught in that class -- in my experience, MKS logic has been a helpful mental exercise for understanding any abstraction. But it would still take years of study for me to really understand the things we can’t explain about the physical world. And that’s true of almost anything. Best to keep an open mind.

That turned into a bit more than I expected. I appreciate your comment, if it’s not already obvious! I hope you have a nice day, whenever you read this.
What about COPPA?
> I think you might be straw-manning the message of the article.

Yes? First sentence was that I don't understand this perspective.

> Are you selling yourself short by doing that?

I think finding progress is more important than what is literally being done. Activity and productivity are very loosely correlated in knowledge work. If that person scrolling facebook decides to switch careers to online marketing or bring those skills into running their own business, it definitely wasn't a waste of time.

> Most people surfing facebook for 4 hours a day are not productive geniuses with an idiosyncratic process. They really are just fucking around.

I don't know anyone working in tech that's this dumb and lazy. The post is about writing software, not menial work. If someone is bored by tech work or doesn't see the value in it then they don't understand it. They deserve to fuck around and get fired.
Oof. I had to do the double daily standup thing once. In addition to the retros, calls with subject matter experts, company meetings, etc. By the time we could actually get started on sprint work, and do a couple hours work here and there between meetings, it was almost sprint deadline already.

I didn't even bother with pulling data from Jira and trying to make a point that way. It wasn't necessary.

I just quite honestly gave my update in my second standup "No progress since the last meeting because I've been in meetings since then."

Some people were a little rankled by that honesty. But eventually they got the point and scrapped that second hour of standup and some of the other meetings. That helped significantly.
* Turns out, folks are seeing the "buy" button just fine. They just aren't smitten with the product. Making "buy" more attention-grabbing gets them to the decision point sooner, so they close the window.

* Turns out, folks see the "buy". Many don't understand why they would want it. Some of those are converted after noticing and reading an explanatory blurb in the lower right. A more prominent "buy" button distracts from that, leading to more "no".

* For some reason, a flashing puke-green "buy" button is less noticable, as evidenced by users closing the window at a much higher rate.

Including untestable reasoning in a chain of hypothesises leads to false confirmation of your clever hunches.
I built on the same stack and have a similar opinion. It’s only easy if you’re depending on the webrtc implementation. If you’re coordinating changes across your own server, you gotta put in some work.
And they have every right to be scared. I mean, Google is saying they are deleting something related to photos. Who knows what the hell it is, but it sounds scary.

I still cannot figure out what exactly they are shutting down, and I'm computer savvy.
I don’t get the criticism that Rubin doesn’t have “a particular sound.” Music should have the musicians’ sound, not the producer’s. The producer should be invisible and bring out the best in the musicians, the way an editor in writing is.
Rookie numbers. I pulled the plug on a decade+ old account with 140k karma. Fuck it and fuck reddit. I'll take my attention somewhere else.
> However with civilian nuclear waste you really have to come up with pretty unlikely stuff for it to ever harm anybody.

Germany will be glad to hear that. They can continue using Asse II instead of needlessly spending billions clearing it out.
And this version which has been updated recently: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
This sounds exactly like all other addictive drugs, such as opiates. Diminishing returns combined with physical dependence.
Well we know that Huawei fully stole Nortel’s IP as well as Cisco’s software. So it’s not exactly a squeaky clean company.
I'm not familiar with Rubin beyond his public persona. How is he a scumbag?
Another one for the graveyard, sure. If only I could figure out what it is they are killing this time!
> The word "best" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I am definitely not at my best every day that I work for a company. But I will do my "best" given the constraints I am currently facing, which could be numerous (too many meetings, headache, personal issues, technical issues, etc.)

Sure, but the context here was a young person moaning about the “rich capitalist pigs” getting wealthy off the backs of the proletariat. If, as a young person, you get caught up in ideological thinking rather than just getting on and doing your “best”, you’re going to be replaced by someone who was actually willing to do the work.
Yes, when we released the initial set of models Open Llama was still at 600B checkpoint and not finished training yet. It's an easy port :)
I’m 40, was on for a year, then went off for a year. Levels of both natural testosterone and sperm count recovered in less than six months (could have been much less, didn’t test again until then), but those first few weeks really sucked.
What is the correct tool to properly merge a large set of tar.gz files for which may have an enormous overlap of similar files, and some that have been altered just slightly?

Git plus some parsing seems close in that space, as analyzing the files to create a dendrogram like tree of potential alterations to files over time by levenstein distance may be useful to approximate commit history.
However, this doesn't seem to exist or be popular as a tool.
There's vimdiff or meld, but they are extremely manual and tedious to the extent of being pointless to try for something like a large history of takeout tar.gz's.

Throwing in the towel completely, borgfs can be helpful to reduce the amount of space they take by de-duplication on the block level, but this is a terrible solution as it doesn't really track file changes in a reasonable way, etc. It is useful to extract the files into a directory without the tar or gz, but this can also cause issues with how to appropriately organize the directory structure over the history.

Any thoughts or projects that do a better job of this?
People would just live with the risk, if their house burns down they're just homeless
Now you're just being gross for the sake of being gross.
If the IP is commercially viable then it would generate revenue to cover the fees.

If it wasn't viable then it would either never be created or would automatically enter the public domain.

Currently, if IP is not commercially viable then the author has the choice of not creating it, or creating it and releasing it under CC or just public domain. So essentially the same.
> Yes, I considered the long-term experience gain (columns, not lines: from 65 to 151 and from 60 to 104). [...] As those reactor 'models' were very similar [...]

They're not the same buildings. A N4 is much larger than a CP0, uses different technologies, has more safety features, produces much more power, etc.

To compare with another tech topic, that's like expecting SpaceX to design or build their spaceship faster or cheaper than they designed their falcon. That's unlikely, even though falcon knowledge definitely benefited the design of their new craft.
It's so tiresome that nuclear proponents pretend the only alternative to nuclear is coal.
Again, this is just delusional. Nuclear waste can not be society ending. Did you read to much Greenpeace propaganda or maybe was it some cheap action movie?

And I'm not against spending money. I'm pro-spending money. I want them to spend money on next generation nuclear technology that actually uses the 'waste' to produce energy and other things, like medical isotopes and nuclear batteries. This waste that would be produced from advanced reactors could be reduced to only need 300 years of storage, and for that you don't need geopolitical storage.

So how about instead of spending billions digging a hole, spend billions actually improving the situation.
> Brauner said that he thinks bcachefs is in "excellent shape to be upstreamed", but he is concerned with the number of filesystems in the kernel; he is glad to see that there are efforts to remove some of them. Changes that impact all of the filesystems in the tree "get painful very very fast" and, in some cases, there is no one available to review the changes. He would like the acceptance process to be more conservative; accepting NTFS/NTFS3 was "a huge mistake", for example.

As someone not familiar with the filesystem related parts of the kernel, it's quite surprising to hear this. It sounds like filesystems are a lot more integrated (or at least less modular) than other kernel subsystems.

Anyone else who found this surprising, I recommend reading this other LWN article that is referenced as well: https://lwn.net/Articles/886708/

However, that mostly discusses issues caused by having 32-bit data structures, and how they will cause issues in 2038 when it's no longer able to handle the timestamps required. Specifically for ext3, NTFS, and ReiserFS.

But other than that issue, I don't really understand why it's difficult to simply rip out support for a specific filesystem. Compared to something like a driver for a PCIe or USB device, what makes filesystems so much more integrated and difficult to remove?
I hope you'll consider being more obnoxious and weave even more presumptuous non-sequiturs through your next comment.
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All my last phones the battery had issues, including two phones where the battery became a ball instead of a rectangle right after warranty ended. And the battery caused problems before the software.

I ended using even a KaiOS phone just to have a phone I could replace the battery. People keep moaning about phone being waterproof yet my phones fail on me nowhere near water so what is the point?
They could be p-hacking, though getting 6 sigmas through p-hacking without outright fraudulent data is actually some pretty impressive level of p-hacking. I'd say it's more likely they either made an error or there really is a correlation.
No, do not use a safe deposit box for this. It will be inaccessible as soon as you're dead.

Also, don't put your will among these things; your will will be required beforehand, so you'll want to file it directly with your attorney, family, or a close friend.
The US has military bases in countries that have agreed to host them, and in many cases even asked for them. Meanwhile China hasn't got permission for the secret police stations it's been setting up around the world.

China and the US both understand how to acquire power by carrying a big stick. The difference is that the US also knows how to speak softly to retain it. That's why the US projects power with cooperation and diplomacy, while China relies on coercion and deceit.
I’m 40, was on TRT for a year, quit for a year because of hair loss and fertility, then have been back on for the last six months. The initial high doesn’t last past a couple months, but I’ve always felt much better on TRT than off. The baseline is steady, not declining.