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I had the exact opposite experience.

I’ve never managed to understand how to all those things, always switching between github web UI, github tools, command-line github. Everything was a mess.

Then I left github for sourcehut and managed to read a book about git.

It is still hard but now, everything makes so much sense. When I have a problem, instead of clicking everywhere and blindly copy/pasting results from stackoverflow, I actually think about my problem and what result I want to have.

Yes, the upfront effort is harder. It is like learning Vim or Emacs. It’s hard for the first few days/weeks then you get a lifetime of incredible benefits.

(Bias/context: I’m the author of https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html )
I've got some by completing the advice of a tinnitus awareness group I went to on the NHS.

Basically acknowledging it as part of the background noise let me stop concentrating on it as much.

On the other side I worked out what makes it worse - lack of sleep being one, if I stay up too many days watching Netflix then I'll get bad tinnitus, same for hangovers.

It's meant to be linked to inflammation so being more healthy, getting more sleep and putting yourself under less stress all help.

It's hard though - rn I have terrible tinnitus, and of course any reminder of it can bring it back, it'll fade until I scroll past this article again.
> I know when writing music that ideas are extraordinarily fragile.

This is very true and I've found that it goes for programming too but in a different way. With music it's themes that are incredibly hard to hold onto in the face of distraction, with programming it's to hold the whole running construct in your head while you're building only a small part of it. This is why scope reduction and abstraction have such incredible pay-offs. For musical ideas a simple voice recorder can be very useful, just whistle or hum your idea and then it's safe to forget about it for the time being.
I have!

... but not through any conscious method or effort. In fact, this post just "reminded" me of the fact that I had regular and occasionally severe tinnitus over the course of many years. Mine started in high school and persisted well into adulthood. Possibly rooted in a couple of concussions I suffered in reasonably quick succession, possibly too much time under headphones too loud.

Right now, I have to think hard to even recall the sensation, which I take as a pretty strong sign that I haven't suffered it for quite some time. Anecdotally, I can say that I haven't used headphones to listen to music in probably 15 years, and I'm gentler in general with the volume knob now than when I was 15-25. Nothing else jumps out as a possible contributor.

Hopefully this reminder about the condition's existence doesn't trigger a relapse. I'm terribly prone to suggestion.
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That is a pain, but the --update-refs argument to git-rebase helps somewhat: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#Documentation/git-rebase...
That's totally wrong.

If you make inferences from non-public information (e.g. talking to the CEO) you can freely trade on that, provided the CEO hasn't shared MNPI with you directly.

Every public company has an Investor Relations department that talks to institutional investors every day. Investors wouldn't bother talking to IR if they could get the same information somewhere else. And these communications are not made public and shared with other investors.
Especially if the 6 users are completely happy with it, then that is validation that it has a solid use-case. It means there are possibly many more who would use it, just that they've not heard about it yet.
In addition to the excellent man pages, I enjoyed Michael W Lucas' "Httpd and Relayd Mastery" [1].

[1]: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/httpd-and-relayd...
> I'm sorry but you are dangerously wrong.

I think it is the other way around, sorry.

The card number is visible in plain sight. The card number is reused everywhere. Merchant employees often have access to these numbers, and have reportedly used them illegally.

Yes, there are protections, but they often apply only after the fact, which can cause lots of problems, e.g. if you're traveling and reached your card limit. Also, not everyone checks their transactions at the end of the month, so many cases of fraud may go undetected.

Given modern security methods, credit card numbers are just plain silly, and yes, they may be even dangerous.
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I had tinnitus as a post stress reaction after my thesis. Its well known in my family and so I was extremly woried. I got a shake of different supplements, just to rule this out, did not help. After a week I accepted this as permanent and after two weeks it did not matter to me anymore.

I notice it every second month or so and see it as a stress indicator and friendly reminder to go for a walk. But I can easily imagine that this does not work for everyone.
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We had one at our school but I never got the chance to use it. It was for older kids only and I got assigned to the ZX Spectrum with the others :) Not that I'm complaining.
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Yes of course, it lets you wash your hand off of all responsibility.

Reminder to anyone else who is not so trigger happy to dox people: Stochastic Terrorism exists [0] and so does the tale of the “Meddlesome priest”[1]. It’s a trick as old as time, you’re not doing anything novel or clever, and your tactics are obvious to everyone.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_t...
> I don't want to edit a "file", I want to edit these two functions that exist in some module(s)

That shift happened like 20 (?) years ago. That's how Eclipse displays your Java stuff. It goes to a great length to pretend that there aren't files. Instead there are packages.

Seeing noobies and experienced programmers struggle with it for years, my conclusion is that this is a bad idea. Most problematically it creates "programmers" who have no idea how their project is actually organized, or how to open files that nobody from the ops department put into their editor in such a way that they can be discovered. The amount of dumb questions I had to deal with is on par with those IT stories about outrageously incompetent users pushing mouse buttons with their foot or forgetting to plug their appliance into power supply.

In practice, the more programmers are removed from the actual thing they are programming, the worse are the results, the lower is the competence and the more resources are wasted. I would rather live with the downsides of poor synchronization between the language server and the files I'm editing then let the language server be in the datapath. Too much headache for very little gain.
Glad it changed. It's still a 50% discount compared to most of EU though…
I know when people are in low signal as I get a green then exactly the same blue some time later.
If MS come up with significant technicalities or challenges to the amount due, the IRS will have to choose between litigating each one of them, which both costs them money and involves the risk of losing in court, or coming to an out-of-court agreement with MS.

Obviously if MS don't have anything that won't get laughed out of court, they shouldn't get much of a reduction. If your challenge to your tax bill doesn't involve anything where the rules are hard to interpret and precedent has not been set, you also won't. (If it does, your tax affairs are probably much more complicated than the average citizen. Which is obviously true for Microsoft.)

Worth bearing in mind too that the number might be an optimistic headline figure which has been rounded up in various ways by the IRS, to make themselves look tough, and to encourage MS to settle.
I read it as simple satire.

(Not simple in a judgmental sense, just, as plain old satire.)
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Yea, the tone of "never do this" felt quite extreme. I regularily eat stuff past the date on the label. A blanket rule to not do that will just make me ignore the whole article.
Why can't the journals share reviewers? Once the reviews are in, the editors decide if they want the paper in their journal, and if more than one does, the authors get to pick. Obviously it would be a bit more complicated with revisions, etc. but it would be an improvement over the current system.
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I was first made aware of this Ragel project when _why was still around and he announced the hpricot html parser. https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hpricot-0-1-quick-cinchy-html-p...
I really looked upon him (and Zed too for the mongrel project).

His parser was built around xpath/css-selectors and it blew my mind at the time. I was interning at a company that built hundreds of web scrapers around regexes, Perl 5 and some other in-house DSL. I was wrapping up my university classes on theory of computation and compilers. Although I never made a career in that field, this was perfect timing and it allowed me to connect the dots. One day, I introduced the more senior employees to the limitations of regexes, capabilities that an html parser could bring to our projects as well as some freshly learned theory of context free grammars :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
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There is no such a thing as Artificial Intelligence yet, period.
I’ve had tinnitus for years and I simply got used to it. It’s unnoticeable unless im in an extremely quiet environment. Most of the time when I hear it it simply fades in the background. Now that the subject is tinnitus Im noticing it again and it’s just a little bit troubling. Im just in my 40s and I suspect it may get worse. Can anyone with tinnitus who is older confirm?
Sure, I get that you can ramp nuclear plants, technically, but it’s highly unlikely to be economically attractive to build new ones with the intention of ramping them a lot.

If SMRs are built, I’d expect many of them to be accompanied by batteries (either co-located or elsewhere on the grid) to be used as an alternative to ramping.
Have a look at how Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart produced the very first version of 'Sweet Dreams'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Dreams_(Are_Made_of_This...

It's amazing they got out of that gear what they did and I'm pretty sure that in their case it's exactly like the last line in your comment. And it still rocks.
My last two phones (Xiaomi 9T and Pixel 7) have struggled below about -5C. They still work but the battery drops very quickly so you can't rely upon them. Keeping them in an inner pocket works but I then take them out and see the battery drop. The sudden temperature change might not help there.
That works by reducing the transmit power significantly and having many low-power cells all over the stadium.

In other words, it depends on some base stations being significantly farther away from a given device than others. That’s not the case for satellites.
This isn't an architecture, though. It's an instruction set.

What if the JIT generates new instructions dynamically and initially there are no AVX512 instructions but later on in the process' lifetime there are?
I hear such conflicting information. For a normal looking new development, I hear that developers are looking to offload asap to recoup the investment. Certain markets in America make it almost seem as if these investors are willing to wait years for rates to come back up.

I don't think Powell gives two fucks about the inflation or unemployment rate. Think he's very interested in cost of living and rent more than anything else. Housing prices barely have moved down at we're on the wrong side over 5%. If housing just thinks its going to wait this wait out and emerge from all of this with this inflated money house has left in tact, while the rest of get slammed by the waves, well ... well I guess I've seen dumber stuff.

Housing needs to get hit for any of this to be worthing anything.
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> Have to blame Apple for not supporting Vulkan

Why would Apple support something that appeared two years later than Metal?

And as others pointed out already, Android and Linux are the only platforms where Vulkan is first class.
Well that certainly seems unexpected.
> Edit: I mean, you're right that nearly every number is irrational.

The set of rational number is a “null set”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_set
It took me 6 months as well, noise-canceling headphones give me some temporary relief, not full though. My tinnitus came after a night out during a time in my life where I went out a lot.
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What is the opposite of malicious compliance?

Gleeful acquiescence?

“Well, Manager AI said we didn’t have to do work anymore. I’m not the sort to be insubordinate.”
Unfortunately it’s generally more complex than that, at least in US law - simply having material nonpublic information isn’t enough. It really matters how you got the information.

For example, when Hindenburg Research did a ton of research and discovered that Nikola was basically totally fraudulent, they traded extremely relevant information that wasn’t publicly available. Not insider trading.

Similarly, if Warren Buffet invests in a company, he knows that its stock is very likely to go up (just as a result of the halo effect around him). He doesn’t have to disclose that he plans to buy, though.
And Brighton, especially Hanover, Devon, Cornwall, Norwich, Lavenham, even Notting Hill in London.

Scotland has Portree and Tobermory.

Ireland has loads of painted rows like this.
Powell explicitly wants higher unemployment.

The feds actions show they want high asset prices relative to wages.

The plan is exactly as you describe. "Asset inflation good, wage inflation bad" is government policy at this point.
The romans, I suspect.
Technically, yes. But measurements of weight, volume, and temperature are also part of the metric system, and those didn’t derive from the meter.

Seconds are also part of the metric system, but one of the few not based on decimal/base-10.

Again, I’m just speculating that the author used “metric” because it often represents decimal/base-10 measurements. Not really arguing whether they were technically correct in doing so.
It's unclear to me if it was ZX-Spectrum compatible, seems like it wasn't. Which would have severely limited it's usability.

ZX-Spectrum clones were as pervasive as mushrooms after rain in Eastern Europe, Romania had 5 different "brands" of them.

There were also attempts at producing proprietary, non-ZX spectrum compatible, Z80 based computers. They were short lived and failed in the market, like this weirdness: https://retroit.ro/product/amic/

Overall if it didn't run Spectrum games it was fairly useless.
Samsung Galaxy XCovers have user replaceable batteries, so can atleast keep spare(s) warm.
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Yup. According to which utility function? Certainly not mine.
That’s why a scam startup is able to rocket as soon as 1 named investor signs on. See the juice squeezing bag company etc.
I've developed tinnitus in my early 30's for no apparent reasons. I don't think I ever even abused my ears that much. It just happened... Initially, I found it very annoying but you get desensitized over time. Now, I hear it all the time, but it does not bother me much: I have better things to do that going crazy about something I can't much about.

I've noticed a few things though: the pitch is always the same but the loudness vary noticeably over time and it seem very linked to my level of stress. If I'm very relaxed, say peacefully hiking in sunbathed forest on a cool summer day, it can become so faint I can hardly hear it. But most of the time, unfortunately, it's pretty loud. When I still cared, I also noticed I could drawn it out with white noise, either natural (ex: a waterfall) or artificial.
My tinnitus is only 2 weeks old, and I went into overdrive finding a cure or a solution, because I read that speed is the primary differentiator for success or not. I tried a lot of stuff and some helped a bit, but: I actually just came back from physical therapy where my jaw muscles get massaged inside and out. There was an immediate tinnitus relief, like 80%. Look up TMD (Temporomandibular joint dysfunction). Ibuprofen helped, too.
Oh that was a good read.

I lived through all that, and can totally understand why people turned away in disgust and agreed on REST instead.
I've had tinnitus since I was around 20 years old, got it on new year's eve when some fireworks exploded very close to my left ear. Was deaf for two days and got an 8kHz tinnitus in that ear, permanently, after those two days. It's not very loud, but I always hear it unless it's noisy. I've had it for many decades by now.

However - I'm lucky in that I'm not really bothered by it anymore. In fact I didn't notice it now until I saw the HN headline and thought "tinnitus". And now I hear it. It's not very loud, as I said, but still loud enough to hear it over the traffic noise outside. And still, somehow, I forget about it a lot of the time. A guy at work is so disturbed by his tinnitus that he sometimes have to take the rest of the day off. I'm lucky I guess. I don't know if there's any mental method which can help with this.

Edit: I remember now that when I still traveled at lot at work the tinnitus would get worse after long noisy flights, and last for a while (up to a month) after that. I started using good noise-cancelling headphones and that definitely helped. As someone else said, protect you ears. It's even more important if you already have some hearing issues, I believe.
Seems like you're sending plain text emails, no? I have links for websites, resume etc. in the signature so I am not sure how this is conducive to that. Unless there is a method to add a signature with links?
No idea what the lifetime, production, and disposal environmental impact is. But I can say that if every car/motorbike in every major city is electric, it does wonders for the livability of the people.

I'm in China right now. 10 years ago, it was hellish to breathe in a major city and cars made the average temperature hotter. Today, it's much better. Granted, a lot of has to do with other improvements such as moving factories farther away from cities. But a lot of it is the electrification of vehicles, both cars and motorbikes. In Shenzen, where I'm at right now, almost all motorbikes are now electric and 90% of DiDi (China's Uber) rides have been electric cars for me over the last week. It seems like 50% of cars on the road are electric, though I'm just eyeballing it. I'm going to guess that within 5 years, 90% of the vehicles in Shenzen will be electric at this rate. China's electrification of transportation is nothing short of astounding for someone who visits for a month once every year or two.

Conversely, I visited Vietnam recently where 99% of transportation is still ICE and it was simply awful to breathe and walk around.
> I can imagine one use-case for this: a task that is scheduled from and executed by a work-stealing thread-pool can allocate memory in one thread but by design there's no guarantee that the memory will be necessarily freed from that exact thread. Would that be a good use-case for snmalloc?

Yes. A work stealing runtime is a perfect use case for this. Also, cases where you might have a dedicated IO ingress thread that allocates work items, these get picked up by worker threads, and then sent to a dedicated IO egress thread. The ingress thread does a lot of allocation, the egress thread does a lot of deallocation, and the workers do a bit of both. The deallocations typically flow the opposite direction to the work flow, and this works extremely well with snmalloc.

> This sounds much like a bump allocator use-case but which can do this exact thing by calling a single munmap(addr, len) and unmap multiple allocations all at once.

Where suitable bump allocated arena management will be fast, but some times the lifetime are more complex. Certain algorithms for memory management can often release a lot of memory in a batch that is not necessarily allocated in batch, i.e. Lock-free epoch based memory reclamation, or Linux RCU, both batch deciding memory is no longer required. There are also application level things like periodic flushes of a cache/log that can cause batching of deallocations, but are not well suited to bump allocators.
It's ironic that this ... rant? ... is basically unreadable without knowledge of basic statistical methods.

How do you teach any of this to someone who hasn't already taken introductory statistics? How do you learn anything if you first have to learn the myriad ways something you don't even have a basic working knowledge of can fail before you learn it?
Not the GP, but I'm also aphantasic. To me, the square hole question is more like "cubes have square faces, therefore yes". Seems to me like touch typing (knowing shapes) vs. hunt-and-peck typing (search for shape, align).

For the "what happens if" question, it's similar: "based on facts from experience, what happens next?". I lack the requisite knowledge base for ochem specifically, but in software, I'm usually able to come up with "have you considered input X" when reading code that just isn't handled well. I don't have any visual reference when thinking about such things; I just "feel" that there's an unhandled edge case. There's nothing concrete that visually represents input values, but I guess a marble maze could work for folks though.
> Why do we all get paid the same each month, pay the same rent/mortgage but some months have 4 weekends, some have 5.

Is paying monthly an American thing? In Australia most things seem to revolve around n weeks.

- I get paid on Thu every second week (2 weeks)

- My pre-paid phone auto-recharged is every 28 days (4 weeks).

- House rentals are listed as weekly rates, paid at whatever n weeks you negotiate.

- Mortgages are monthly by default, but most let you opt for n weeks, so most people pick the day after they are paid. Interest is still added monthly though.

The only things I can think of that I'm charged monthly for are online subscriptions, which I suspect got influenced by America.

> We should have 13 months, all 28 days long, exactly 4 weeks. Whenever there's a leap year we get an extra day for free.

Same length months would be cool... but as above, months don't mean practical month to me except for having to remember which one we are in.