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When I procrastinate, it stems from the thought, 'I don't really want to do this (right now|at all)'.

So one way to jump that hurdle is consider the consequences of not doing it, and how that makes me feel. For example, learning French. I would like to speak French. The consequence of not putting in the hours conjugating verbs means I will not be able to speak French. That makes me sad. I consider that sadness, and conclude I would prefer to spend the next hour reinforcing my knowledge of the passe compose of avoir. That is better than feeling sad.

Some consequences are not obvious, but cumulative. I don't really want to go to the stand-up meeting. What happens if I don't go today? Probably not much. But what happens if I don't go for the rest of the week, or my attendance is patchy? It'll be noticed, and I'll have to explain why I am not on the calls. The thought of the explanation makes me uncomfortable, more uncomfortable than going to the calls. Therefore I go to the calls.

Where this technique is powerful is that it enables me to filter out those activities where there is no obvious consequence of not doing the thing, which means the activities that remain on my daily list are generally pretty important.
I see. But to my original question, what is the value prop of experiencing this beautiful indescribable short-lived thing?

The experience itself might be a value prop. But I’m more interested in things that can improve my “normal” life. For context, psychedelics sounds interesting to me cause people say they can affect/improve normal life.

> Many human activities are short-lived mood alterations.

Like a vacation I imagine?
I'm in the same boat.

The things I bought early into adulthood are now falling apart and need to be replaced. I chose to splurge on the replacements, because I know what I want and how much I need it.

Otherwise, my policy is to "spend it on the plot". By that, I mean that you should spend money on things that bring change in your life. This can be travel, hobbies, new experiences, etc. Sometimes it means paying extra to preserve the energy for what matters (e.g. the occasional cab ride).

That being said, remember that your decisions have an environmental impact. Being wealthy does not excuse you from caring about your planet. Don't consume just because you can, unless you buy second hand.

You can also use the money to reduce your workload. Hire help or simply work less. You can afford to pick who you work for and for how long.
Many companies just needed some linux. So, choosing between Debian and Centos was pretty much choosing between rpm and apt. Many companies were not choosing between the commercial RHEL and Centos to begin with.
Now they are just fine with just containers.
> I could submit a low bid for a project and if I have no history of ever completing similar projects my bid can be rejected on that basis.

Good luck with that. It is prejudiced discrimination because you assume that if the bidder never did a contract like what you're looking for, they will not be able to do it.

It would be just like you don't want to hire a junior because they never worked before :)
Nobody likes an elite team of superheroes for a _business_. Superheroes burn out, get hit by a bus, have limited affinity for creating good documentation, sometimes a tendency to be fascinated by shiny things, can get annoyed by a real or perceived <whatever> and quit or can be headhunted away. And then there goes your business.

I dislike unnecessary bloat, be it in software or in org design, as much as the next guy, but staking your company's long-term future on superheroes (or superpowers, as it's for some inexplicable reason still fashionable to say) is a recipe for disaster.
These sound like examples of Sprachbünder, not some category of "almost-" X languages. Does the lexicon of Albanian really owe as much to Latin as it does to its position within the Balkan Sprachbund? Not to mention, does a table of related words really tell indicate a profound similarity between these languages? If Albanian and Latin are so much alike, then where, for example, are Latin's optative or admirative moods?
Any example of a serious economic book for you ? Made by pros
A parent can only pass box constraints, not sizes. The size that a widget should take within the given constraints is decided by the widget itself. This article focus on explaining that rule.
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Thanks for the link - I hadn't read the gov report and it's a good read. But I can't find any reference in it to surveying support - the questions are qualitative or open-ended to elicit suggestions. The only graphs or percentages in the report at all are showing that just over a quarter of the respondents were based in Ireland.

Your Journal link is not a poll on this legislation - in fact the wording is so loaded I think you must surely be posting it here as some kind of joke?
> chaining means combining a sequence of expressions that each take the same input as they give as output

> ; doesn't do this, afaict

It's chaining together transitions in the state machine that is your program.

> when you're writing imperative code it's important that control flow (return) is explicitly visible

Control flow is visible with `?` or other do-notation variants. If I want to error out in a `Result` context, I explicitly return `Err(bad stuff)`. And if I don't, I explicitly return `Ok(return value)` instead. If I want to introduce a new asynchronous value in js, I explicitly call `new Promise`. And so on.

What's not visible in a do-block is the implementation of control flow. Which is fine, because this isn't the code that controls it - `Ok(Err(x))` is reduced in exactly the same way no matter what `x` is or where it came from. Traditional imperative code is the same way: the runtime system always works the same way, no matter which statements you ask it to execute.

If you do choose to expose the underlying mechanisms of your control flow everywhere, you get continuation-passing style, which is useful in small doses but more or less impossible to reason about at scale.
Ah coroutines, essentially glorified goto. My 10keV take is that dijsktra's paper while probably right about goto back then has cursed us and we are still cursed till this day. Some logical structures map well to just using goto in a series of steps, but because of this allergy to goto, we're stuck where basically jumping into a random place in a function is "novel."
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No, it's a point people forget. Even 20 years ago people were asking "is this photo photoshopped?", but if you're viewing it on a webpage, it has absolutely been photoshopped. The problem is we aren't good at specifying what we mean by "photoshopped". Any photo you view has been digitally altered, getting more specific gets into the alterer's intent which gets really messy really quick.
To reply to my own question, his grandparents were avid proponents of digital communications. The Queen had the first non staff non research (British) Telecom "gold" mailbox, pre internet and was in due course one of the first accounts hacked online. Philip was totally into computing, he opened the new Edinburgh department of comp Sci in the 60s and asked intelligent questions (maybe he was well briefed)
So you are saying that because you, a presumably exceptional student since you mention being valedictorian, could afford to skip days at school, the same applies to average or below-average students? Could you elaborate on how you came to that conclusion?
I don't do things I don't want to do - I've also set my life and career up to prioritize that. Being overly accustomed to that mode may be part of the problem, because inevitably there are things you have to do that you don't want to do - and those things seem harder, even if they're trivial, when you really want to master your own time. Yet I'm pretty good at getting those out of the way.

That's not my specific problem with phone calls. Phone calls always open up a Pandora's box of more problems. Perhaps if you feel like armchair diagnosing this: I clean my house almost obsessively every day; my desktop has only two text files on it called "Immediate" and "Todo"; my inbox is always cleaned out by 5 or 6pm before I let myself relax. Then I go get fucking wasted and make new friends and end up drinking in parking lots.

But I can't call the fucking tree guy or the mechanic or the accountant. It's not the conversation I'm worried about. It's that I know there will be one new thing on the list.

When the list is cleared, I will be free. I will take my clothes off and walk naked to the airport.

[edit] I just want to clarify: I do think that I'm good at life in my own peculiar way. Just not "good at life" as most people would define it ;)
Nothing an EU mandated root cert won't fix.
As a certified diver, this is very hard to accept. Others have written about losing the mask as being exactly one of the things you train for, and that's true, but in addition to that.... where the hell was the husband while she was struggling???? was he also completely untrained? wasn't there at least one instructor or at least a certified diver with them, if the husband wasn't?

Every place I have ever been to wants to see my certification before allowing me to rent gear, I guess for insurance and legal liability purposes.
240 Catalytic converters and $260k cash found in Oakland bust
At least in the US it is illegal to stockpile materials for making explosives without explicit licensing.
The accounts aren't completely separate, it's the same login on all sites and content is shared. But Prime subscriptions are separate.
>I have seen this pattern repeat many times.

I saw Personal Computer, PDA / SmartPhone and Tablet and I never doubted their success as a product category.

But Vision Pro, or AR / MR is the first one I am joining that camp. I am sure It will do well in many areas, I just dont see it carry the same weight as PC, or Smartphone.
What is known for sure is only that Albanian and Romanian share many words of unknown origin and that those words have been borrowed between the ancestors of the two languages at an early stage, e.g. before rhotacism has changed them.

However in most cases it is impossible to determine which was the direction of borrowing and there is no evidence to relate them with any of the languages named by ancient historians, because too little has been preserved of those.

Also, there is very little evidence, perhaps none, that the Thracian language and the Dacian were closely related languages. The toponyms that are assumed to come from these two languages are not similar.

The supposition that they are closely related is based almost only on the claim of Herodotus that the latter were a tribe belonging to the former, but that claim might have been based only on similarities in clothes and weapons, even without related languages.
I’d be very interested in joining this group
We celebrate the revolution and throwing out the king while basically electing a new one every five years that will magically solve all of our problems.
> But opening the floodgates to the general public even more? Can't be good.

At least historically it hasn't been true[1][2]. In fact I had used nicotine gums which are easily available as OTC drug in the past to help cure my smoking addiction.

Obviously I think there are certain kind of junkies who would exploit legalization and do significantly more harm to themselves than good, but they are likely doing it now anyways. Most drug users I know of do consciously care about addiction potential.

[1]: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/01/24/gateway-drug-no-mo...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
Ahhh, they misunderstood something vitally important.

This guy's speciality is Applied Dishonesty, so he's not the abstract sort with just theory and no practise. ;)
Read the micro 101 and macro 101 textbooks used by good universities. Principles of Economics by Taylor is one of the common textbooks. Macroeconomics by Mankiw is another one. Intro courses on any subject tend to be very accessible to laypeople.

Sowell is unserious because he misrepresents the other side. He basically argues that when you leave everything for the market to figure out it will automatically turn out alright, and if it doesn’t then clearly it means you need to deregulate more. You can look up what the arguments against complete free market solutions in healthcare, housing, education, and manufacturing are and you’ll see that the “obvious common sense market based” solutions don’t produce good outcomes for society.
yup. thats why some folks love to call the current political system a "presidential monarchy", due to the overreaching executive powers granted to the president of the republic.
Coroutined make programming for pico8 very chill as well.

The biggest challenge is sometimes you do want external flow control, and there coroutines can get hard to untangle if your design is a bit messy.

Something like “A signals to B to do something else” starts to be a bit tricky (along with interruptible actions). I think there are good patterns in theory but I’ve found myself with pretty tangled knots at times.

This is ultimately a general problem when programming everything as functions. Sometimes you need to mess with state that’s “hidden away” in your closure. Building out control flow data structures ends up becoming mandatory in many cases.
Just to help you out on speaking French, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_française is pretty good. They have in person classes and you learn quickly with just a few hours a week!
The C Object System looks like an interesting way of doing this today:

https://github.com/CObjectSystem/COS

and

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.2547.pdf
Chatbot Recommending Poisonous Recipes
Have there been any product liability suits for chatbots recommending poisonous recipes? I was able to get both Bard and ChatGPT to recommend some toxic lasagna.
>> And companies can just do it in a country without such regulations.

How is this different from everything else that’s regulated?
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Thank you, this is news to me, I've been using the 'Learn French with Alexa' series on YT, plus a French dictionary and some magazines etc. I'll check it out!
You don't need set theory to prove that 1+1=2. You don't need mathematical logic. A child which answers that if he puts one thing and then another thing and then counts and gets two things have proved it just fine. Those later complications are just there when you try to put it in context of other things you know. Ancient Greeks did not do set theory or mathematical logic, yet their understanding of basic addition was completely fine.

You inability to understand what is irrelevant complication, and your deferral to authority and expertise even when you are perfectly capable of understanding, is your own problem.

Here are two quote you said:

> "(There are no right questions, only right answers.)

A point that does not pertain to what I said. I said nothing about “right” questions."

> "Asking the right questions requires some perspicacity."

You also say "The thoughts were completely wrong". There are also no wrong thoughts, only wrong conclusions. A person afraid to "think" wrongly as the narrative so strongly tries to program people, is infinitely dumber than a person who doesn't constrain his thinking. That's what they want to happen. Amazing there are NPCs like you who avoid "wrongthink".

There are people who know a lot and understand nothing. Knowledge is spewing up complications from set theory. Understanding is being able to tell, by the context, that this is completely irrelevant.

You appealed to authority to even tell me that the earth is flat. You didn't say that we can observe the curvature from measuring distances, from doing an experiment with ships masts disappearing into the horizon, or any other way even ancient people figured it out. It's true because "The knowledge that the Earth is spheroidal has been known for many hundreds of years. ".

People "knew" the sun rotates around earth for thousand of years. And the truth won despite it being against the "authority". And nothing will change that understanding, even if some string theory will discover the 11th dimension or whatever, because that will be irrelevant in the same sense that set theory is irrelevant to 1+1=2. For these same reasons you don't need and shouldn't appeal to authority.

Appeal to authority is only knowledge. Zero understanding.

I said nothing about "doing the research". A person who deferred to authority and knowledge to answer a question is always inferior to a person who tried to understand and failed. A person appealing to authority is just trying to mirror someone's intelligence. A parrot who repeats a correct sentence is still dumber than a human saying a wrong sentence.

A parrot who repeats "vaccines are good" because he heard that is always the greater fool than the anti vax who says vaccines are bad.

A parrot who says 1+1=2 because set theory shows less understanding than a kid with an abacus. The parrot is saying irrelevant things while the child isn't.
Yes, tcp/ip runs over it, at low bit rate
Ask HN: Is Google showing you ads in the middle of the search results?
I just saw an ad in the middle of the search results page. This was very deceptively marked with only ad “Ad” favicon and no other advertising markers. Even had the triple dot options icon but that was not clickable.

See screenshot: https://ibb.co/W32vxnQ

Anyone else seeing this? Feels very deceptive to me
> Am I a terrorist too?

Not yet, but give it time.
Yes, but that's not what I said. Sea levels do rise globally at a slow rate, but it can also be offset by the land itself rising and falling (isostatic rebound), by minor changes to instruments (because the actual changes we're talking about are tiny), temperature changes affecting the volume of the ocean etc.

In that particular city and beach, you can see that tides went down between 2000-2005, then remained more or less stable until 2015, then went up a bit and stabilized at a new level. CO2 levels meanwhile go up very steadily. This data clearly doesn't indicate something CO2 driven given the various trends including declines that have happened within the time since the gauge opened in 1995. These look like natural changes, which are expected because especially when zoomed into these tiny differences everything is always changing.

In either case, South Florida just this year had "once in 100 year" floods

If they happen every 100 years then why is human CO2 emissions to blame? Even climatologists don't claim there was much CO2 impact in 1920 or 1820.
Plenty of people prefer a brick in the pocket to a small thing on the wrist, even before you consider all the technical advantages of the brick — screen, input, battery life, etc. I don’t feel the brick in my pocket, while I feel the small thing on my wrist almost at all times, however comfortable the band is.
One thing I never see people talk about in these comparisons is file type support. Vim has everything from hosts file to apache, nginx, sudoers, etc, etc. And for general purpose languages it is still better than things like tree-sitter. Certainly the latter has more features but it is less reliable and consistent.

After almost 20 years of vim I switched to doom emacs for development. But for sysadmin tasks I still use vim. And sometimes I miss its consistency even for GPLs.
I mean, this is an interesting thing to think about but isn't at all what the article is about...coroutines have many uses may be and are often related to async work in general but OP is using coroutines just as a pauseable function (in good old asm, you know how computers actually just work, this is just jumping into a subroutine).
> On the contrary — copyrighted data industry(?) is quickly converging into copyright by appearance and not by provenance or by means.

I mean, its always kind of been that way. You can copyright the appearence not the idea. Provenance doesn't really matter.
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Why is this happening?

Who is causing it to happen?

Why do lawmakers feel it will be a benefit? Are they afraid of some outcome? Are they trying to induce some outcome?

This seems like fear + buzzwords to me, and it seems like we are about to get some really bad legislation out of it, by people who don't understand the technology or the uses of the technology.

EDIT: It also seems like it might be a connected-industry-insider attempt to capitalize on current public fear and uncertainty around buzzwords to get some anticompetitive legislation rushed through quickly in an effort to not have to compete in the marketplace on merit.
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Again, recent work has established the direction of borrowing for many items as Albanian > Romanian due to secure Indo-European etymologies for some of the Albanian material. And for certain other items, recently it has been proposed that the direction is dialectal Latin > Albanian, undercutting any claim to Dacian origins. You are right that little is preserved of certain ancient Balkans languages, but there is enough preserved in toponymy and onomastics in order to establish affiliations based on the reflexes of the PIE velar series and the vocalism. That is what, in the last 30 years or so of scholarship, has excluded Illyrian and Thracian from playing any role in the Albanian–Romanian lexical isoglosses.