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The Golden Rules: Finding World-Class Excellence in Your Life and Work

I recommend this book by Bob Bowman and Charles Butler is a self-help book that provides guidance on how to achieve world-class excellence in any area of your life. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which focuses on a different golden rule. Its written in a conversational style and is full of personal anecdotes from Bowman's own life and career.
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." -- Theodore Roosevelt
Exactly right: the only quality I look for in utilities like these is that they are on GitHub and developed in the open and not full of ads or only downloadable from shadysoft inc or the shadytools website.
You're both way off.

I asked four of the youngest people I know (ages 19-22) what Chernobyl was and only one knew. And only because of the TV show.

You have no idea how little the average youngster cares about stuff they didn't personally experience. Almost nobody is reading history articles on Wikipedia for fun. It's just Tik Tok, Insta, and Youtube.

For the majority of them, certain subjects will just be mentioned in passing 5 minutes in a history lesson, and it exits the student's brain within days, if not as soon as the bell rings.
What is your long term plan?

Do you intend to support this language indefinitely?
Where I live, you hardly meet more than one neighbour at random in the winter. In contrast, in villages in the south of Spain, you meet neighbors and family all day long, to the point where it gets tiring. I imagine there are many more places like that in the world. It's definitely not a universal study.
> Humans are already hitting limits for how much we can think, figure out, etc.

There is zero evidence of this.

What would that mean?

Once our intelligence encompassed communication then it began growing culturally. I.e. we are able to treat math and engineering as no biggies, despite humans needing millennia to realize "nothing" could be a number called "zero".

It's fair to say the 21st century shows no signs of intelligence slowing down. We keep finding ways to think more simply but more effectively.
I have definitely used telescopes that were running on Windows but yeah I doubt it for something like Cerro Tololo which I assume is the impacted chilean telescope
The standard other exemptions are doctor-patient, attorney-client, religious leader-religious person, and spousal confidentiality laws. Some, but not all, states also shield journalist's sources. In the last case, in states without a shield law, going to jail to protect a source's identity is considered a professional honor.
Well in Romanian there's a saying: "Stupid's not the one who asks", implying that the gullible "guess" who gives into the shameless unreasonable request is the sucker. Implying that although "guess" culture is the expected civilized social norm, it's usually it's brazen antagonist that propels your interests forward.
Reduce government waste. You could leave entitlement programs completely intact and still cut billions of dollars in spending without anyone but heavy hitting political donors noticing. Then simplify the tax code with straight forward graduated income tax brackets without exceptions or deductions.
If superfans and economics was your aim, wouldn't email news lists be better?

Got whatever reason, people would actually pay for a news list.
Dear lockhouse,

What does any of this have to do with Neoverse?
They assume anyone is clever enough to find the guide on their site.

https://grain-lang.org/docs/guide/hello_world
This is not about an attention economy. It's not about not remembering your name or website. It's about there being no way to follow you.

Your content needs to be maybe three orders of magnitude better, to have the slightest chance of getting polled.

I would rather write a bot that scrapes your site and creates an RSS feed, than poll it manually.

A blog without an RSS feed is like a restaurant 20km away that's open one random hour a week. The food may be amazing, but I'll never eat there. 167 times out of 168 visits it'll be closed.

So even trying to visit that restaurant sounds like masochism.

If you write a blog, or open source, and hide it in a basement behind a door labelled "beware of the leopard", then it's just cause and effect that nobody will consume it.
That's a great observation. I've bought stuff there that I could not even believe was as cheap as it was, I thought the price must be a typo and for sure it'll be adjusted. For electronics the pricing tends to be lower than the BOM at maximum volume discount when sourced from a large Western supplier.

And the vast majority of it just works, though I've had one or two duds.

But you need to be sharp when it comes to things that plug into a wall socket, open them up to inspect that they are safe.
Good point. However: The users could have revolted and gone to *BSD land instead. But for some reason, most users didn’t.
Not that I know of.

RGB hacking is a thing though so for 15khz (~240 x 60hz) aka 240p it is often just simpler to tap into the OSD display chip (lookup jungle chip mod) input an RGB signal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhEpyFfAHs <- basic RGB mod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANSxASanZes <- advanced RGB mod.
It is worth remembering that this doesn't have to be the case. The governments of the world could stop much of this tax avoidance if they had the will.
Diluting their own market
Concluding that the planning in London is poor because you can't find manufacturing space is certainly...an opinion.
Lets make it easier then, what page of K&R C describes inline Assembly?
In a world with only one developer, yes. In the real world, where other developers can create new apps that do the same thing better, more secure, easier or in a more modern way, no.
The free fulltext of the paper, which is much more sedate, is here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace101/...

It's certainly not conclusive, but it notes that more data should become available soon, so time will tell.
Like I said, not all writing is for other people.
It is true for the kernel though. Linus has a strict non regression (of the user code) rule. If some user code starts to break because of a kernel change, the kernel team takes the blame no question asked.
What I do is spot check, i.e. open an agreement, pick two or three spots at random, and do my best to read and understand those. My hope is if just 1000 people did that, they’d be able to collectively spot unexpected/unacceptable terms and make them public.
yeah, this is the root of the problem. a lot of programs put files wherever they want. ugly and really cluttered. i like traditional linux (and friends) way to install and uninstall program. there's a ultimate source of truth what files belong to which program.
Hobson's Choice is not something to be celebrated.
Max Tegmark Warns That Humanity Is Failing AI's Challenge
Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea
You can have a vested interest in something and still say the truth. Its not mutually exclusive.
> If they break the rules, you report them

That assumes a working report system which, famously, Twitter has not had for many years (even pre-dating the gutting of moderation that Elnor has done.)

> If you don't like what people might say or react to your content, well, you don't use a public social media to begin with

Basically you're saying "speech is only for those with the loudest voices and angriest fan bases". You can probably see how that isn't a good idea.
I for one am with you 100%

"Philanthropy" is largely rich people giving your tax dollars to a cause they like
https://archive.vn/bGZEA
> In contrast, Apple only follows the convention that a package's assets should be in /Applications/AppName.app... but apps are completely free to ignore that and install to anywhere

If you can't install a normal Mac app via drag and drop, I'm not installing it. It's a great signal that you're dealing with an inexperienced Mac developer.

I absolutely refused to install Chrome for Mac, for instance, until they rewrote it to install via normal drag and drop after their custom installer/update workflow rendered computers unbootable.

> A wave of reported Macs being no longer able to boot was caused by a recent Google Chrome update that was corrupting a necessary operating system folder. Once the update was installed, affected users found they were no longer able to boot into macOS.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/buggy-google-...
Blocking feature to be removed from former Twitter platform X, says Musk
Yes its probably not bleeding edge anymore at this stage
This is called Taarof and can be at times quite extreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taarof.

I have a good friend whose parents are from Persia/Iran. He told me about this culture after we knew each other for quite some time. Even though he has never lived there, he often still has a hard time not to do this, which has resulted in some funny (at least for his friends) or uncomfortable situations over time. Knowing this, many things I ascribed to his character alone suddenly made a bit more sense.
Not happening because no body wants to replace YouTube.
I use an Apple ID, of course. I need it to download stuff from the store. But I don't buy apps or music with it. If it gets banned I just create another; no harm done, no money or data lost. (Luckily that hasn't happened yet). You can do the same with Android.

>Now you want me to sign up with Microsoft. What's the logic in Microsoft? They never ban anyone? Nobody ever loses their account/email from Microsoft?

You seem to miss the entire point of this conversation.

All companies can ban you for no reason. Therefore you have to spread your data as widely as you can so that when it happens, you lose as little data as possible.

You don't need to increase your "support budget" for using more services. Keeping your mail in GMX instead of Gmail won't take you any more time.
What broke recently for you?
Camelot! https://youtu.be/m3dZl3yfGpc
Here Come the Driverless Taxis
For the edification of any not familiar with the phrase:

The Lucky Country (1964) Donald Horne

Horne's intent in writing the book was to portray Australia's climb to power and wealth based almost entirely on luck rather than the strength of its political or economic system, which Horne believed was "second rate".

In addition to political and economic weaknesses, he also lamented on the lack of innovation and ambition, as well as a philistinism in the absence of art, among the Australian population, viewed by Horne as being complacent and indifferent to intellectual matters.

He also commented on matters relating to Australian puritanism, as well as conservatism, particularly in relation to censorship and politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Country

To be fair a lot of Australians were saying smilar things in the 1960s and note was taken.

That was the era of exodus to England and Aussies (Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Robert Hughes, Clive James, et al) making fun of their own country.

Australia is likely much better today for all that harsh self reflection (hopefully).
Good idea. I might start doing this
https://archive.ph/bGZEA
> Only a monopoly like Microsoft could get away with that.

What's the problem there? Unless Microsoft forces you to buy a separate Word license to use their email product, who cares if they reuse some of their own code?
https://archive.is/uqyfy
Make an extensible platform through a plug-in facility is hardly new or specifically closed source solutions, doesn't it?
I do appreciate the feedback, i hope this isnt a language barrier. I do agree that your advice is valuable if you are stuck in an environment where you have to manage malicious people. But i can not overstate how much effort that starts to suck up for every person. You are then working on them instead of the project at hand. Setting the default environment is really important here, because it determines the risk of creating conflict with people who would have normally defaulted on mutually beneficial cooperation if communication hadnt broken down over assumptions of intention.

Your approach results in an overall reduction in cooperation potential for the sake of managing the excess of toxic actors short term who will be a constant burden anyway. Even if you keep them from acting out, you still have to work around them. By being given the benefit of the doubt and getting engaged towards cooperation people are pushed on either higher or lower levels. Either the negative behavior piles up or you manage to open actual communication. It tells you who you need to be concerned about and what motivates them. Its a filter that looks at peoples intention and ability. Which makes it possible to differentiate malice from stupidity. Which reduces the overall burden immensely as problems from stupidity often stem from misunderstandings and reactions turning into cycles because people get emotionally involved in a conflict.

Some coworkers not wanting to make the journey towards a professional work environment doesnt mean its not a beneficial thing to do either way. Letting such people drag everyone down is the worst case, even if its done to prevent short term direct conflict.
> How are trap streets “the trick” if they are not copyrightable or enforceable under US law?

US law is not the only law.

Current US law has not been as it is for the entire existence of the US.

Trap streets and other such devices have existed much longer than the US.

As well as copyright law the trick can help detect beaches in contractual agreements that cover use of information from services. Action based on such breaches do not necessarily end up in a court of law at all.

Out of court settlements do not necessarily rely on the letter (nor intent) of the law, but often instead the expense (money directly, time, potential reputational risk) of defending a position even if the law is on your side. The threat of action is often enough to make the other party cave and such actions will usually happen well out of public view (I know of one instance involving a list of phone numbers, that I won't go into in detail because while there is no NDA or such in force this discussion is not worth irritating people I have the confidence of!).

> clumsy attempt to work around this.

That the trick is clumsy does not mean it isn't still commonly used (it absolutely is) or that it has not been used in successful cases between map makers and such (it has, one significant example is given in the paragraph directly following the one you selected to quote from the page linked in my previous post).
Unix has a lot of services that listen to 'localhost'. It has had elements of a service oriented architecture since the first daemon was launched, even though the IPC endpoint wasn't always something listening to a socket.
Windows 95 - August 24th, 1995

Win32s - October 1992.

And I was off by one Windows NT version, it was already based on 3.51, not 4.0.
I'm amazed how much MS is failing with the MSI. You'd expect that in Visual Studio (the proper one, not code) there would be a simple way to say: this project - compile it and stick into MSI with just bare defaults. But no, you essentially have to get a third party thing to manage creating that for you, and even those involve custom scripting that requires another custom generator on top to get the list of files to install (looking at you, Vix). And no, the publish to Azure or ClickOnce are not reasonable options.

VB5 came with a built in installer generator - how did we regress from there?
wow i feel much better navigating youtube

How do you navigate it? Does search start working once history is gone?
And thank G-d it doesn't do it!
Windows registry is such a good place to get lost it's been used by many trial software to leave hard to detect marks there.

Instead of trying to solve an impossible task like attempting to detect and remove "leftovers", it's more reasonable to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Most programs don't even need installers and work after simply unpacking into a directory like a zip archive.

For the rest, running programs in a sandbox like Sandboxie keeps their file and registry changes contained to a specific directory that you can simply delete. Coincidentally, it also makes all programs portable so you don't have to reinstall them when you reinstall Windows.

But of course all of that is quickly growing irrelevant as Windows itself is becoming more and more of crapware.
example of program "so simple it might be free of bugs" is buggy.

classic bad tool work.

EDIT: imagine a line starting 'pub fn'. correct solution? use parsers for parsing, not hacks.
Infrastructure like communications network for self study or schools for learning are limited.
> The CIA is responsible for us being able to differentiate between truth and falsehoods so easily, and without effort.

Are you sure about that? The CIA has been successfully conducting psyops for decades, on both US citizens and abroad, and it can go undetected by even experts in the matter, let alone regular citizens. That's the whole point of the operation: influence public opinion without leaking the source of the information.

So unless the information is coming straight from a CIA official, I doubt that truth and falsehood is so easily discernible.

Nobody is invulnerable to information warfare. We can just be skeptical in varying degrees, which can sometimes minimize how influenceable we are, but ultimately it's impossible to discern fact from fiction if your information sources have been polluted by propaganda. The internet is the greatest psyops weapon ever invented.
Yes and just viewed the main page of this blog, https://jv16powertools.com/features

Tools like:
System Cleaner "If you are asking “How to make Windows faster” or “Why is my computer slow” – you just found the answer"
, Internet Optimizer

Very very dubious.
I’ve been learning PowerShell recently and as I was writing down the good things about learning about a shell scripting language I came to this conclusion.

I normally use Python for things like this, but I have gotten burned more times than I care to admit with simple scripts having dependency issues.

I realized that shell languages are not only smaller languages, but are more limited in scope. This means there are less dependency issues to handle.

On top of that PowerShell scripts are easy to stitch together with pipes, so doing things like parallelizing and sending a job to the background as a task, then checking on it later is a lot easier.

Furthermore the stitching together of shell feels very functional, and because the cmdlets only do one thing getting it to be parallelized is infinitely easier. To this day PowerShell is the only code I’ve ever parallelized on purpose.

I then realized this was all possible due to the self contained nature of the cmdlets, which goes back to the Unix philosophy invented in 1969, about doing one thing and one thing well
Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby
Most languages are open source, it should not be difficult to extract their parser and do this stuff. As far as I know, only Babel ( JavaScript ) and Java have a plugin ecosystem, but only related to compiling.
FWIW, ls in Research-V6 back in 1975 had 10 options. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

By BSD 3 in 1980 it had 11 options. https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/BSD-3-S...

The thing is, we can see even from the 1970s 'ls' how the Unix model doesn't meet the goal "to chain these simple programs together to create complex behaviors".

There is no option to escape or NUL terminate a filename, making it possible to construct a filename containing a newline which makes the output look like two file entries.

The option for that was added later.

There's also the issue that embedded terminal codes will be interpreted by the terminal.
> which means the touted openness advantage could easily be lost

I don't expect them to open source their processors, but they do definitely contribute back to the community. E.g. they open sourced their first risc-v vector implementation (ocelot) on top of BOOM. It's in order and they used it as a reference for their later out of order commercial designs, but they also could've keep it to them self's.
Ugh… Don’t get me started on HTML in emails. What was so wrong with plaintext for emails? Vomit (meant to type Comic, but the typo is staying) Sans? Non-W3 compliant contrast ratios? Nineteen embedded images?

Seriously, if I want to send you the pictures from the beach I can do it with an attachment.

Plaintext works, but as the great David Bowie said: “If it works, it’s out of date.”
Everything has a terms of use. Codeberg is still way better for privacy and freedom.
Back in the day it was just a table based layout though. It was used for quite some time. I'd say the design first emerged about 1998 and lasted until the smartphones came in 2010 or so.

It's surprisingly easy to make that sort of design if you use the right tools. You just drew it in photoshop and sliced it up and exported it as an HTML table, then you poked out the bits where the content was supposed to go.

Doing it with CSS is a right pain in the ass though. I guess that's why there are so many mono-colored rectangles in modern web design.
Whether those authors are still at Google is irrelevant. As long as Google is still hiring the best people, you should expect to see work that has just the same quality and impact, just produced by a new team. Although I genuinely don't know if this is still true.
Ask HN: How to contract for US companies as EU national
Hi folks,

does anyone have experience they could share about contracting for US companies from Europe as EU national?

I'm investigating this as being a bit tired with the lack of contract / remote / engineering first culture in the EU. I hope this will be an interesting topic for a few people.

After some googling, I'm under the perception that US companies are mostly looking for remote workers inside the US, however, there must be companies in the US who are looking to find specialists in the EU. Are there any sites that bring together companies and offshore contractors (not upwork, I'm thinking about niche or expert sites)?

I'm not sure about the legal obligations on either end. Does the company or the contractor need to register somewhere or pay special taxes in the US to provide services in the US?
What is different "these days" compared to the "old days" that would make reading long articles harder?
One of the striking things about working in big enterprise is the number of policies , rules, guidelines especially in industries governed by industry regulators (eg ISO, FDA). Those with proper knowledge of the arcane bureaucratic systems can navigate it (with effort!). Those without get bogged down quickly. Current LLMs could be good at populating the document filler required in this area.

A properly trained “oracle” could be a big leg up to new hires at companies and new entrants to such industries.
If it's that bad, you might be better off paying extra to avoid shitty outsourcing companies.

But you're probably not the person I should telling this, developers aren't usually in charge of that.
Always amazed by the effort of excluding the link to the original paper, thanks journalists.
How do you know what to cleanup when you have no idea which APIs might throw, what stack frames might have been skipped when they do throw, and what state was left broken by yeeting a stack-unwinding exception up your call stack?
I haven’t made such a claim.
Near protocol?