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In my experience it pops up when company politics get involved, or somebody gets attached to their idea about how certain things should or shouldn't be done. In that case often the safest thing you can do for your own reputation and appearance is to leave some very gentle notes that a certain thing maybe could have been done differently, but approve it anyway on the grounds that it works for now. That way you're not seen as an obstructionist, but if things do go wrong you at least have a written record so you can say "I told you so".
The author doesn't use words like "pragmatic", which embody this essay a lot more than "craft", IMO.

Craft to me implies design, which this essay doesn't touch on much.
being smartest person in the room is neutered by working in the dumbest room in the building.
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Sitter then? Thanks for clarifying, of course.
because you can't do dns level blocking with doh because of https.
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It's in the text:

"The tensor product itself captures all ways that basic things can 'interact' with each other!"

Tensor Product is also the way to go when combining classical probabilistic systems.

And you need the tensor product already for pure states in QM.

(mixed states need density matrices)
When are you going to understand that many people go into government to get power over others, not out of generosity? I don't mean civil servants (although some of them do chase power at the upper levels) but politicians, many of whom are as psychopathic as any corporate raider.
Microsoft gets too little credit for NT. They were effectively 9 years ahead of Apple in developing a usable multithreaded, preemptive multitasking OS (counting Jaguar as the first usable OS X). Further, they did it in a way that (unlike on Mac) allowed software developed for the old style system to work on the new, industrial strength one.
1000's of lines changed to add/remove a field from a form has nothing to do with react. That's just shit design.
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I don't see the conflict. If it important that the device can prove its authenticity to some centralised service then yes, it is likely that the consumer can't also modify that device.

But how many devices really need that level of attestation? Does a tractor need to be able to prove to John Deere that it is a genuine unmolested vehicle, or does it just need to prove to JD that an active subscription is in place for whatever remote service is being used?

If just the latter, then we can still have encryption, no problems. That's just username & password over TLS, same as we have been doing for decades on untrusted endpoints.
Question: did anything happen between now and when you had this capability?

Because to me it sounds a lot like how I experienced burnout, and it sounds like you’re the sort of person who tends to work extremely hard.
Most TOS documents are so broadly written that they are pretty much a blank check anyway. Seems like a CYA thing on the company's end.
You're thinking of management.

I'm sure most unions would love performance based pay where union reps decide what constitutes good performance. For some mysterious reason management is as keen on unions exercising their judgement as unions are on management deciding.

Where unions agree policies that treat members as interchangeable (e.g. age based pay) it is usually as a result of a compromise brooked with management who would love to have the latitude to give pay raises to scabs, kiss asses and spies.
This is something I've wondered about. For cars there is a bunch of regulatory stuff that might preven you from doing this, but I believe the regulatory burden on tractors is much less. Why has no one just built a full on control system swap for tractors? Yeah, the OEM control board won't recognize your replacement part. Or it won't tell you whats actually wrong. Etc. Etc. But if you just replace it with an entirely OSS control system, that problem goes away.

I know that this probably not a trivial task, but, given the amount of money at stake, it feels worthwhile, but maybe I'm just underestimating the degree of integration of the current control system into the parts. If everything down the internal engine sensors is running priprietary, encrypted software and you basically have to tear it down and replace every single electronic component on the tractor, then yeah it probably won't ever make sense.
Exceptions are for exceptional circumstances. An object being a certain type is not an exceptional circumstance, not even in a dynamic language. You should never be surprised by the type of an object unless your program has serious design flaws.

The fact that the language doesn't have your back means you need to be more careful about types, not less. The type of the arguments is a function precondition. It's the callee's responsibility to document preconditions and ideally recover cleanly from a violation, but the caller's responsibility to ensure preconditions are met. Illegal states should be caught early, not allowed to percolate until an exception is thrown.

I don't much care if what I just wrote is "Pythonic" or not. I don't think too much careful design up front is responsible for every Python codebase I've ever seen reading like Finnegan's Wake.
What's the real story with the MySpace data? In all these years I don't think I've ever heard what really happened from anyone actually involved in the loss.
When I consider the relative evil between cocaine on the street vs a police surveillance state, I know which is the lesser evil.
I remember 2 audience reactions really, really clearly from the original iPhone launch:

1. the reactions to "flick to scroll".

2. reaction to pinch-to-zoom.

In both cases the audience was just gobsmacked: oohs, ahs and cheers all around.

For people saying there were other devices out there at the time with similar or better hardware specs, or even comparable feature sets, I think you are totally missing the point. That kind of comparison is making the same mistake as the infamous "Less space than a Nomad. Lame" Slashdot comment re the iPod. I remember trying out the original iPhone the second day it was on sale, and just being blown away - and I worked in the mobile industry at the time and was well aware of the features of other phones.

The overall experience of the iPhone was just legions ahead of anything else that existed at that time.
From the abstract:

> Scientists often refer to spiritual experiences with science. This research addresses this unique component of science attitudes — spirituality of science: feelings of meaning, awe, and connection derived through scientific ideas. Three studies (N = 1,197) examined individual differences in Spirituality of Science (SoS) and its benefits for well-being, meaning, and learning.
I was replying to your post on the subject?
I think I didn't state my case very well. I was thinking that the news was censoring that, the newspaper and/or walter cronkite didn't repeat the specific racist comments, it wasn't out to the home consumer. Of course they were yelling vile things out loud, people were saying them. But it wasn't repeated in the media.

Today it's repeated in social media incessantly, nazies saying things on twitter is another example.
Yeah, if they allowed texting and weather it would allow me to get rid of my InReach Mini (these are the exact two services offered by the InReach Mini). I bet Garmin is squirming a bit now. I just got billed for my yearly bill from Garmin not even for service, but for the privilege of being able to resume service at any time if I want to. I will be glad for some competition in the space, even though I enjoy my InReach outside of Garmin's predatory billing practices.
NT5 beta was more stable than anything MS released to market before, it was funny
I remember having this book. I was probably 14 or 15 years old, and I was just getting into aviation after being given my first flying lesson. I had a copy of MS Flight Simulator, and I had taught myself some C++, but of course the content of the book was a bit beyond my capacity at the time. It's nice to relive the excitement of getting this book with the idea of being able to make my own flight sim. Of course, the sim they make in the book, IIRC, was nigh unplayable!
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QA involves more than just testing - verifying vendors, checking their bona fides, and having relationships/terms that allow for more than just no fault returns for fraudulent suppliers.

Amazon basically has the same broken dynamic as other centralizers like Youtube. They want to promiscuously accept suppliers as if they themselves are just a neutral conduit, while also performing discovery/recommendation across those listings. These are two very different things, and the conflation of them makes it so the barrier to getting in search results / recommended is an afterthought. If the fraudulent books were only reached because OP had come in through a link recommended elsewhere, there wouldn't be too much to take Amazon to task for. The problem is that they're discoverable through their own branded search, hence the blame of quality (or in this case, abject fraud) landing at Amazon's feet.
It is not the responsibility of the US to prevent an invasion in another country. A country's military is to protect its own borders and citizens and as a last resort after diplomacy fails.

US influence in Ukraine in 2014 precipitated the Russian invasion. Leaving Ukraine alone in 2014 may have meant no invasion and no war. Sounds pretty great to me.

Assisting Ukraine was a surefire way to start a conflict with Russia. Putin warned an invasion would be the result of NATO expansion. The US ignored the warning and shutdown diplomacy with Russia. This left Russia with no alternative but military force.

Our leaders are playing a deadly game where some choices have near certain outcomes. They chose the path to war as they have for 70 years. The peaceful path would have been to leave Ukraine alone and keep talking to Putin.
OK. Why would people want to hurt the US in ways military power become a deterrence?
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So basically he just had the wrong title? Sounds like a great engineering manager or lead (in a company where that involves less code writing) or something. But his title is an IC role. But if he's spending all day pairing and not writing code then yeah - that manager seems to be correct, that's not his job? Why isn't he taking on any stories?
Deep Work was such an egregious example of betraying its own principles by cluttering up a thesis for the sake of the NYT bestselling list and in doing so wasting its readers’ time.
Unless you've changed the URL, neither Rust nor any other mark appears to be in either the domain name or a subdomain. The term "rust" appears in the path, but that has never been an issue.

I have my reservations about these plans, but a lot of the reaction from online commentators feels like the "MongoDB is web scale" of legal advice - poorly understood regurgitation of very complex issues by people who are simply not experts in the field.
This didn't age well now, did it?

I myself was quite hesitant about touchscreens back in the day, when I was debating whether I should buy myself a Motorola Milestone (Android 2.1) after seeing a HTC Dream at work, or whether to get a BlackBerry Storm (with the tactile screen) since I wasn't sure how good a touchscreen will be or even if Android will survive.
I live in Indiranagar and this is a sad reality of life here.

These issues remind of this scene in Margin Call where two character talk about the impending 2008 crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYi4NzxlhE&ab_channel=Movie....

There are many major issues in India's growth story, and I feel the music is gonna stop really soon.
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I worked at a company for a couple years where you had to produce 10 points a week or you got pipped. Didn't matter if you were a jr or sr. I worked on a few teams there and you could immediately tell how the teams measured points by the stress level of the developers.

Teams that attempted to measure the points in good faith were stessed and most of them showed signs of burn out. They regularly worked 60 hours a week.

Teams that gamed the system and understood the impossible task they were assigned always gave the highest points total to a ticket they could or broke it down into smaller achievable tickets that continuously added to their points totals. These teams were filled with happy stress free developers.

In an environment like that playing by the rules is a suckers game.

When I eventually quit, every sr engineer at the company; 7 total, followed me within 4 months.
Or worse, "arrows.midst.senses" and "arrows.mist.senses"
Is interplanetary travel possible by flight? Or just menu?
What is a typical cost?

A laundry near me costs £4, which is $5. Feeding 20 coins into a machine is unappealing, so I can see why apps and so on might be more popular in the USA.
It's called consensus.

If HN in aggregate were a person, it would be somewhere slightly to the left of a right-wing libertarian. In practice the community also includes plenty of outliers like far-left anarchists and far-right nationalists. It's very much not an echo chamber. Not that "echo chamber" is a very useful criticism or notion given that it's so poorly defined and even when you can define it, you still need to demonstrate why the thing meeting your definition is bad.
From the comment guidelines.

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."
I remember a lot of tech reporters were quick to mock the iPhone for not supporting a feature they all took for granted: copy and paste.
Nice, the fact that it breaks the back behavior of the browser is a bit annoying, especially on a phone.
> That's how I learned my job isn't to do what the client asks, it's to make sure their project succeeds even if it means making them (temporarily) unhappy.

And I learned that doing it my way will get me fired because the manager has asked to do faster.

The way I have learned to get around this is by making the manager publicly document the request to go faster. If they don't document, I don't see or act on it. Once they document it, I happily go faster and let it all crash and burn. Then when they inevitably try to blame me, I point at the public documentation of the request to go faster and let the blame fall on the person responsible.
I've read that they have to be reachable in order to get any kind of state benefits, and being unreachable leads to automatic disqualification - which is a big problem as homeless people often lose their phones or have them stolen.

As far as smartphones being a necessity goes, I have never owned a smartphone myself, and do not carry any phone at all most of the time. I have just gone on living like I did before smartphones, though I am aware that I am locked out of more and more things. I am beginning to resent things like parking that requires a smartphone. I don't understand the lack of back up options.

Rather than insisting on 'smartphones as a human right', I'd rather see 'opting out' as a human right.
Even the need to "reverse engineer" something that you paid for and ostensibly own, though, is overwhelmingly insulting and in some ways (though obviously not technically legally, ethically) is basically directly challenging public perception of property ownership.

It's not even like it's say, a watch that I might actually need specialist equipment or knowledge to repair/maintain.

It's actually something I'm expected to at some point, be required of me, but is tactically not provided to me as to benefit a private entity.

And arguments can be made about who's ethical and economical burden it is to make documentation, but the fact is it'd just save an overall immense amount of societal time and productivity for those who already have the potential to provide documentation, to do so.

And so the expectation that we are left to our own devices on various forums and social media websites that may or may not be SEO'd by google to be brought to our attention with the right combination of keywords.

Is kind of baffling, to be honest. If it's easy for us, it should be even easier and quicker for them. Especially when most in many countries are unfortunately reliant on such things, many of them may not be reverse engineerers, or even versed in google-fu.
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Pluscode is a trademark. The actual standard is called "open location code" and is unrestricted - https://github.com/google/open-location-code/
The iPhone was a software innovation that was years ahead of the industry at the time, enabled by that one hardware innovation that you’re sounding rather dismissive of.
It's a selective one-way valve, that's why you need a demon there to check each molecule.
Best in-depth breakdown for music theory nerds: https://youtu.be/LwOs4aM6upA?si=6C44l9umUKmjFFOY
Switching stacks is just longjmp().

Memory management for stacks has tricky questions about how much address space to reserve for each stack and how to ensure there are guard pages to catch stack overflows.

Or you can YOLO it https://dotat.at/@/2010-01-22-coroutines-in-less-than-20-lin...
I've been collecting Patreons, yeah, and my finances are getting to a place where I can actually sub to all of them, because that is 100% the appropriate course of action to take. It's unfortunate that the employees of an unethical company have to suffer when that unethical company experiences consequences, but that's never been a reason to not oppose an unethical organization.
Agreed, but many self-help books either waste their time by making dubious claims from half-sourced research, using useless anecdotes, or repeating the problem in different ways. The best ones actually tell stories of different ways of using its method to solve a variety of problems.
Solar roofs provide very little power, generating less than 5 miles a day in charge.
A sweet article, thanks.

In trying to make my pizzas round, I realize that there's a craft to it. It can't be all that hard since so many people do it, but I haven't got it yet.

Also, cooking is a craft. That's why a restaurant interview for a cook is often "make me an omelet." There are, indeed, some foods you can make strictly by following the recipe, but others take craft.
No idea why i can't access this website from Ukraine.
It is not deterministic since text-davinci-001.

https://152334h.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/
Why are you comparing transgender persons and pedophiles?
Another place to see it is on twitter. Now that we are in the post-Musk X time, there is much more there, it's not being blocked like it was in the past. The gist of my argument was social media sometimes allows a lot more racist speech, getting to my thought that this is why some young people want censoring of that, because they don't want to be confronted with it. Even advertisers have noticed - https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/tech/x-ads-pro-nazi-account-b....

I didn't mean to imply there wasn't racist public speech in say the '60s, of course there was, but it wasn't repeated on the news much. If you went out in a crowd you'd hear it, but the news paper usually gave some nicer repetition.
> The English spoken in America is from immigrants from the UK.

Yes, but immigration involved language mixing. It's not like a remote village in Scotland could elect two hundred people to hop on a ship, cross the sea, and settle down in another remote village in Montana. For their kids born in America, they would have been lucky to find one other family that spoke the same dialect.

So the differences averaged out, in the same way kids growing up in London speak London's dialect regardless of where their ancestors came from.
It's more about measuring outcomes. We have a goal, did we meet the goal. There are many paths to the goal, so measuring things like lines of code is incorrect. But so is measuring Bob's ability to ask Alice a good question. Management can't, at scale, consider such factors. We don't have the counterfactual where Bob didn't ask the questions, and Alice did great anyways. Performance reviews would become even more subjective if we had to place a value on the impact of asking questions. All forms of measurement are flawed, so I stick with outcomes.
I’m 10 years older, my experience has been that getting to ask stupid questions is one of the joys of age/seniority/security. Very often everyone else in the room has the same stupid question but you get to look like a stone cold genius because you were willing to risk looking silly.
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The problem things like this is that what gpt4 can do is reduced over time due to a maze of restrictions that OpenAI keeps adding on top of it.

You can tell when something is intentionally nerfed when GPT replies with the exact same canned answer about why it can't answer some question. It literally gaslights you.

For instance, I give you this challenge: GPT4 will tell you that it is not aware of anything after September 2021. If you ask it a random fact, like the worlds largest animal, or what happened on September 11, 2001, it will give you an answer. But try to get it to give you the latest event it is aware of. You can ask six ways until sunday and it will always give you the same verbatim answer about why it can't answer. It will literally lie about what it is capable of. It's pretty clear that for some reason OpenAI doesn't want you to know the exact last date of their training data.
Quite simply, no.

You're not going to learn from being handed an answer on a silver platter.

You'll implement it, get on with your day, and not at all think about why the answer is what it is.
> Some have suggested that Apple will simply set up their own Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) and just fund the subsidy…

I was one who believed this up until the announcement. I grossly underestimated Jobs’ ability to negotiate/strong arm the carriers, who were and remain one of those industries who fear and proactively hate their customers.

(Side point: I accidentally typed “nagotiate” which was autocorrected but surely is a word every parent could use)
Read up on handspring.

Their phone was the full modern smartphone years before the iphone. They're the ones who met with Larry Page and got him to make a mobile version of Google.com.

Jobs met with handspring back when apple was focused on the mac PC. Jobs stood up at the whiteboard and drew a mac with all the aspects of a person's life around it. Handspring's CEO or CTO stood up and drew a handspring phone and all the same photos, music, www, etc around it. "Except you'll carry this with you everywhere you go." It was at that moment jobs realized he needed to build a phone and what it needed to look like.

Thing is, while handspring got there ~5 years before jobs did, they didn't have anything to leverage. They were a small startup and completely at the mercy of the telco carriers with their existing cellular subscribers, who then proceeded to force changes to the interface and apps. Handspring actually had to risk it all on their vision of what a phone should be.

Jobs had a healthy apple with a healthy mac computer lineup and billions in the bank. When apple went to the telcos all jobs had to do was ask "do you want access to our millions of ipod users?" and he got his way. Handed the concept and executed with essentially zero risk.