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Most of what you say about the highest level is true for most other pursuits.

My view is that chess without memorization is not a very interesting game. What remains is just calculation which is uninteresting to 99+% of people. Since you reached a high level in the game I believe you have excellent calculation skills and part of the reason for that is that you, as you say, find calculation interesting.

I find calculation pointless and thus I'm very bad at it; even after 30 years of playing I hang pieces on half my games and I rarely, if ever, calculate more than one move deep. I believe most people are like me in this regard and therefore most people will remain at a sub-1500 rating forever.
Manifesto on sustainable software
I have to pass gas all of the time due to my gut so if you insist on me being in an office setting of any kind... prepare yourself for the worst.
> So what I really need to study are the famous openings and the responses to various openings. Seems like a memory game.

That's a bit like saying that mathematics or physics are "memory games", because if you take them seriously, you can't avoid learning tons of equations and formulas instead of being creative (and reinventing the wheel by going from scratch) :)

While memorization is certainly a part of chess:

* Opening theory doesn't matter all that much up until a very high level. Below the master level chess is about 90% tactics. You can pretty much rely on general principles in the opening, and your opponents won't know enough opening theory anyway (so what's the point of eg. memorizing the theory on Sveshnikov Sicilian up until move 15 if you won't ever use it, because your opponents will be out of the book and play something non-theoretical long before).

* Even when opening theory does matter, memorizing it blindly is not enough, and it would be very difficult when done that way. It has to be based on deeper understanding of themes, underlying structures, typical plans for both sides in resulting types of positions, crucial squares to control etc.

I remember this scene in "Suits" (courtesy of YT recommendation algorithm - never watched the entire series, so I don't know the broader context). A guy without a degree walks into a law office, and the boss says "sorry, we only hire from Harvard", but he demands that the boss opens some law book on a random page, and he can quote the book perfectly like a savant. Needless to say, he's hired on the spot : )

This is what people may imagine the work of a lawyer revolves around, but it's not really accurate.
Good article. A lot of the comments here give bad advice though, which isn’t surprising because they show a lot of common misperceptions about chess. Jeremy Silman has written a couple of books about what is actually important. Quickly, what worked for me when I started playing on chess.com at age 40 after not playing for over twenty years. My rating at age 17 was 1450. Restarted at 1200, and barely progressed at first. If your rating is different you may need different things. Again, Silman is good on this. What worked:

1) eat. I would start playing in the morning, do okay, then lose a bunch. Finally, realized my blood sugar level was a major contributor to my elo
2) study tactics. Chess Tempo is great. Lots of good tactics books. Especially study spotting threats
3) Study basics of positions: best places to post rooks, bishops, control of center. But tactics more important.
4) don’t spend much time on openings. Learn the basics of a few common ones. Games will quickly diverge from openings. Because GM games so often depend on openings, amateurs (like me) tend to overpivot on this.
5) After playing, load your game into a chess engine and analyze what went wrong (if you played perfect, analyze what your opponent did wrong). Until about 2000, whomever makes the fewest mistakes usually wins.
The Settlings
If you don't care about the "anti-theft" capabilities, simply don't turn on activation lock.

This story is about somebody who did exactly that, and then discovered they suddenly cared about theft when their device was stolen.

Pick a lane.
If I was Alice's employer and valued her (and other employees) being able to do deep work, I'd have a policy whereby employees could schedule do-not-disturb time (large blocks of it, depending on their needs) where they could shut their doors and turn off IM. Have a red light on the outside of the door, like a film production booth. Book end the day. First 1-2 hours are disturb time. Middle of the day is DND time. Last part of the day is disturb time.

All scheduled meetings have to happen in disturb time.

Now, that doesn't really work for a customer-facing role, at least not without the cooperation of your customers, but having managed a customer-facing team before, I'll say I encouraged my people to schedule office-hour time with their customers to try to channel the interactions in a more predictable period of time.
>This concern about appearances adds another layer to the already challenging office environment.

This sentence sums up the biggest headache of my professional career.

I have never worried about appearances, but instead focused on doing good work.

To my detriment. I know I've missed out on key assignments and at least one promotion at my current employer because I don't sell myself or focus on perception management.

I guess what I'm saying is, this exists everywhere, in every field of work.
Why do you want to replace Calibre, rather than for example making it better?
> ABL is nice, but I'd rather use the budget on a proper hotend and direct drive.

I agree with you, 5 years ago. But now days even cheaper china designed hotends can be decent. And direct drive is de facto standart.

ABL is cheap and convenient.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628345/

There was extensive censorship during covid. Originally starting under the guise of preventing 'misinformation harms'

This censorship framework hasn't been dismantled and is now expanding to basically all other health related concerns. Seemingly even climate change now.

The fact censorship is happening isn't in debate, but the debate should be allowed if we should be censoring these subjects at all. Unfortunately, the debate is censored.
An array of symbols, yeah. What else do you need?
My recent work experience leads me to believe CE approval is a rubber stamp. I don't have any clue what that certification is worth to anyone.
An official Apple iPad charger wouldn't fail in this case - it has protection against basically anything on the output side - from short circuits to big back-EMF spikes.

3rd party ones on the other hand....
Where did I tell anyone legal matters can't be discussed?

I told people not to take anything randomers with dubious legal training have to say even remotely seriously. I stand by that completely.

Do you have any idea how wrong people get legal issues? Even expensive lawyers and respected judges get them back-asswards on a frequent basis.
This reminds me of a rather wonderful video about getting stuff “done” vs pursuing perfection :- https://youtu.be/bJQj1uKtnus?si=bdyI83voqRb2B3rY
A diode doesn’t protect from over-voltage; that requires more complicated circuitry as far as I understand.

And how would a loose cable cause a voltage spike?
It depends if you use a hardware token or a password manager that supports Passkeys.

If it's the hardware token, then the "certificate" (which can either contain your username or not aka discoverable vs non-discoverable credentials) that private key required for authentication will be stored and cannot be extracted in the secure element (until an exploit is found).
Don't play dumb. I mean the regime, the one with its hands on all the levers.

The one that wants you to pay attention elsewhere.

I still think no other platform can do what Twitter does. None other has the same reach and cultural relevance. Now it's been purged, it's positioned to be a real force for good.

Niche alternatives like Truth are sideshows.
Email is worse than that, running your own mail server means pleasing Google and Outlook to accept your email. And you may also have to pay to get out of blocklists turned extorsionists.

Actually it examplifies what goes wrong when an infrastructure monopoly is created.

Also IE6.
It's got a CE mark, but it's unclear if it's valid or not. This is a mandatory certification in the EU, like the UL listing in the US.

The device is specifying the output voltage, which isn't in spec for the connector, but it is (apparently) accurate.
Kids who go to summer camp where they (thankfully) aren't allowed to use phones are a great market for mosquito itch reduction devices.
Can we be done deriding cubicles now? And how about we put saloon doors on them that enable occupants to communicate "not right now"? And if they're left open it means: "come on in and interru me!"
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Why not have efficient law and just sue large sums out of misbehaving manufacturers? Then you no longer punish the innocent.
Or like a lot of technology it quickly ages. What's more important are the minds that created said technology and will have the future ideas. This is why tech companies pay a lot and grant a lot of stock. They are trying to align their incentives not just what employees create today, but what they create tomorrow using what they learned.

I don't know much about Masimo but they appear to be operating like an old school hospital technology company. They list 'algorithm developer II' salaries of $130k - 190k and requiring a MS or PhD - good luck keeping people when big tech turns its focus on an industry.

https://egcu.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperienc...
That might be within some quickcharge specs and it won't output 9v by default
Funny because I think HTML is overkill and QT is good enough. HTML meaning that your app runs in a browser, which generally uses much more resources than a QT app.
The Social Network Antithesis
Vector API is very far from being hardware intrinsics. Unfortunately for Java programmers, it’s merely a least common denominator of SIMD instructions across different ISAs. This makes the feature very limited by design, IMO borderline useless.
I mean there is of course a way to fight and win that battle and it is regulation, write things like interoperability and data portability into law and enforce it. I was more thinking of things that can be done without enforcement in the initial comment.
Artificial Intelligence Can Personalize Education
Or Org-Roam, to stick with the Emacs connection.
>no social awareness decides to eat at their desk instead of taking lunch elsewhere

What? How is eating your lunch at your desk a social awareness thing? If it doesn't smell and isn't loud, what's the problem?
Foundation series is my favorite. Read the Robot and then the Empire series by Asimov which are all set in the same universe as Foundation. Not as good, but there will be some pleasant surprises.

Dune and sequels by Frank Herbert are the next logical option, with similarly large scope.

The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey is great, set in the solar system in the near future.

Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary and The Martian are super fun reads, technically fulfilling the "not on Earth" requirement. Both are about one person's overcoming great odds, so a very different brand of sci-fi.
Runaway Greenhouse Effect Simulated on Earth and It's "Hell"
Football is very different because you don't have to spend as much time. Professional players train for 1-3 hours per day and that's it. The remaining time of the day they do nothing at all because there's no point to physically exert yourself more, you'll just get injured for no benefit. Also, you have to be 100% rested when game time comes which means that 2-3 days prior to the game you take it very easy during training, or even don't train at all.
I'm the Founder here at salad.com and we're starting to see customers use our network of GPUs for data processing pipelines.
- web scraping
- transcription and audio data processing
- translation
- etc, basically any data processing pipeline.

This was written by one of our SA's and is a very cool demo of using an LLM to retrieve and format data.
Propensity for distraction varies a lot between people.

For me it varies on a day to day basis. Some days I could focus through a hurricane while others people buzzing around me is enough to make it difficult to think at all, let alone deeply. It averages out to normal productivity but I’d rather have fewer low productivity days, if I had the choice.
One of the things that bugs me is the design of the current DNS system which is currently extremely centralized and under the control of a small number of organizations. It's ridiculous that nobody can truly own a domain name and instead, we're all just renting them and renewing them and have to keep forking over money.

I really like the concept of Unlimited Domains which lets you buy and own domains forever but I'm wondering why browsers don't support them broadly as an alternative. Blockchains are optimized for high-availability and therefore, that makes them ideal for the DNS use case where you want lookups to be free. Also, it is acceptable for updates (e.g. ownership changes or changes to the 'zone file') to incur a cost that is proportional to the utilization of the network for that purpose; it would guarantee that each update action would incur the lowest price possible.
>U.S. global monopoly on high tech products

Right, using US companies such as Samsung, TSMC, Sony, MediaTek...
Presumably the computer had a password set. This makes it non-trivial for an unsophisticated thief to unlock it, but there is a documented procedure to do so if you know how to look it up: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102673
My first job out of college (~2007) had an open office plan. The development team sat right next to all of the sales people making phone calls during the day. When someone made a sale, they would scream loud and then ring a bell (loud cheers then proceeded from the rest of their team).

This happened at least a dozen times/day. We were allowed to wear headphones, but could not listen to anything streaming online. I would record 8 hours of streaming radio the night before and then transfer it to my Ipod nano in the morning. I was usually so sleep-deprived that I didn't have any time to check the recording before work. Once/month, my Internet connection would go down and I would have 8 hours of white noise (those days were a nightmare).

I eventually figured out that I could RDP into my server at home and stream audio from there, and listen to it through the RDP connection. The Internet filters they were using couldn't detect it.

I think what finally made me quit was when I found out management had screen-monitoring software installed on all of our computers and would review it every hour.

A co-worker discovered it by accident and due to my inquisitive nature (which sometimes gets me in trouble), I tried to telnet into the listening port we found on his computer (to see what it was) and it completely crashed their monitoring software (must have been really shitty software). I was hauled in the next day and questioned to see if I did this with malicious intent and he was fired )I guess they were watching him for awhile and were gathering evidence. He had worked with the company for 5 years).

I got out at a good time. The company in question was in the loan industry and it melted down a year later in 2008 and the whole development team was laid off.

I hated this office experience so much, that since the job I had after this, I've only worked remote jobs (and still do) in my home office or office space I personally rent. I don't think I could ever go back.
A daredevil flight to save rare birds
Mice could become venomous - study on the evolution of oral venom systems
For what it's worth, I can charge my X3 (same camera, two generations later) with all the USB-C charger I tried (laptop charger, phone charger, car adapter). USB-C helps, I guess (One X is micro-usb).
So you're saying programmers' time is not expensive enough?
There are many busses and trams going to the university, you can be as close as 20min away and be in a decent place that won't be as expensive as being next to the uni (there aren't that many hotels there anyway).
For most people it does not matter what people are using at the other end of the world, they will use the locally dominant platform.
I saw a device (a drill or something) that had a standard USB-C plug on it's charger. I thought - nice, I can charge a drill with my PD charger or use it's charger to charge my phone while I'm in the garage!

But the charger was always giving 12 or even 20V (i don't remember exactly, I don't have access to this device now).

A real trap.
How about copyright terms of 10 years for all works, or for a tiny nominal fee (between $1 and $10) you can list the work on a register for a further 10 years, which you can do multiple times up to a maximum of 50 years. The idea is to strike a balance between giving creators time to monetise their works while also allowing abandoned/unlicensed works to fall into public domain reasonably quickly.
MacGyver-style support needs very creative solutions because no budget.
[Puts on my best suit and "Elder Microtherion" badge]

Howdy stranger! Have you heard the good news about "FileVault Recovery Keys" ?

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/protect-data-on-you...
And Chuck credited a lot of his sound to Sister Rosetta Tharpe
We have a floorplan with offices of all sizes. (Ok, the biggest ones are like a mini open space - mostly used by flexdesk people who come in only from time to time).

It was more expensive, but we have zero issues with seat allocation. We don't force it and make teams always sit together. People are free to choose and switch their places, so often a project is spread across several offices and mixed with other projects.

I think it's certainly superior to having an open space.
5000 years ago when jesus buried the dinosaur bones. Can you name a larger upward transfer of wealth?
What I was saying I feel applies to everyone, you and me included.

'extremism', 'advocacy', and even 'violence' all have subjective definitions dependent on nuance, context, and subtext. Exactly what you (and me too) perceive these to mean will depend both on us and what is being discussed. That's just the way it is. There is no absolute objective viewpoint when it comes to human politics.
They've linked to some examples:

https://source.dot.net/#System.Linq/System/Linq/MaxMin.cs,70

It's a little hard to read (due to the use of "ref" everywhere for raw pointer arithmetic), but that implements the use of vectorized min/max instructions to find the max of elements in an array (or any span), comparing them N at a time rather than 1 at a time.

If you don't call "new", and are careful to call non-allocating functions, and pass everything by reference, then the GC is irrelevant.

Obviously you only bother to do this at the very bottom of your flame graph in the hottest spots.
I am concerned that there are no pictures of the adorable cats in the post.

It sound like the manufacturers just see USB-A as a convenient and cheap connector for delivering power.
The arch keystone got me thinking. What is a keystone and what makes it different to any other stone in the arch? Surely all the stones in the arch are needed to hold the structure in place. If any stone were to be removed the structure would collapse after all.

Most arch stones are precisely cut. Or at least we pretend they are precise. The keystone is different because it’s an oversized wedge that you slide in at the end to pick up the slack. You can’t cut it precisely because you don’t know how big it needs to be until it’s doing its job. Once in place though, you can trim it down to make it look like you knew what you were doing all along.

There’s a metaphor here, I think, for the style of “engineering” we see in software. It’s not a value judgement other than to acknowledge that, with software, it’s ok to be good enough and to iterate. Lots of real world engineering is like that, but keystones may be an exception.
Most people don't have friends on other continents. At least for Germany I can confidently say that there is nothing (except rounding error) besides WhatsApp. No matter the demographic.

I have never experienced a debate which messenger to use, and I have joined about twelve study-related group chats over the last two years. Same for personal messages. Some people have Signal or Telegram installed. After two or three messages for the novelty factor, everybody is back on WhatsApp. Because that app is open all the time.
Good news! They can let the coders work from home and massively cut down the amount spent on insurance, office space, and furniture!

Weirdly, that's not popular with the decision making extroverts either...
At least these vulns are memory safe. Whew!
Highly variable based on your previous programming experience but it’s designed to not take up too much of your time.
I'm not sure why car manufacturers thought it's a good idea to have essential controls on a touchpad you have to look at to navigate. I mean, shouldn't you be looking at something else when controlling a vehicle?
I wish we could offer more, but employers are only willing to pay so much to get someone to apply for a job
That looks like a proprietary version of Quick Charge, which has a negotiation step before the alternate voltage is enabled. From that murky period where everyone was tacking on all sorts of protocols to get more than 5V/0.5A from a USB-A port.
i'd be more interested in the "unbiased" part, because there is no such thing as having no bias. bias is everywhere and usually people or sources claiming to have no biases just don't know about theirs or actively try to hide them.
They don't necessarily need to be big offices. It's just that corporations generally do seating based on seniority and status, not need. They have tiny cubes for worker bees and giant private offices for the queens.

Even small offices require more costly building materials than large cubicles. So even a high density might still be somewhat expensive. Fortunately, there are opportunities for cheaper commercial real estate these days, so someone has the opportunity to try something new.
Previous, related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686967 17 hours ago, 211 comments (thedrive.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38678853 1 day ago, 52 comments (afronomist.com)
I've worked on HPC applications doing simulation software, and those things are definitely important for that sort of application.

But I really don't think I'd recommend it for general purpose web type stuff - there, there are a ton of performance factors that you can optimise before going down that route and it should probably be a last resort for a smaller company to turn that way.
Firstly, CE is not a certification, it just means that the product is in compliance with legislation. It's something the companies need to verify themselves.

That leads to the problem child which is China and its lacking morals. Chinese companies will just slap the CE on anything, because the EU say that must and Europeans seems to enjoy seeing it. Sometimes, they will slap on a different CE marking, meaning "China Export". You can tell the difference by tracing the C to a full circle, if that hits the E exactly, its CE as in "conformité européenne", if it doesn't, it's China Export.

If you're a fly by night USB charger manufacturer, you just invent a new brand for next month, so you won't get the fines or be banned.
From my experience appliances tolerate a wide range of voltages. The outlets in my house routinely deviate from the standard 230V, with the lowest I have seen at 170V and highest at about 260V. I have not had any appliance malfunction.

Edit: I am not advising anyone to deliberately do stupid things, simply mentioning that from my experience the builtin margin is fairly large.