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I really like the movie, but i think it did lose some of the soul of the short story.

The short story is essentially a story about grief using time travel as a metaphor but not actually having time travel in it. The movie has the character changing the past in a critical moment which kind of undermines the whole soul of the story imo.

To be clear, i still think arrival is a great movie, just rather different from the source material in terms of meaning and "soul"
I just asked the optom for weaker lenses for computer use. No need for whatever these are.
To reply to myself - the really hilarious bit about all this, is the incels seem to be folks stuck half way between ‘blue pill’ (an actually good guy) and redpill (‘bad boys’).

And in some ways, just like in the original matrix, the blue pill does result in an easier steak dinner if you play your cards right (also not easy to actually do), and the red pill will get you relentlessly hunted and destroyed unless you’re pretty good at a game no one ‘in the system’ prepared you for or could even safely acknowledge ever existed.

So for incels, near as I can tell the issue isn’t so much one position or another that they are taking. But that the ‘pill’ is stuck and so they can’t actually be either one in reality.

Which makes a lot of sense if part of them knows they’ll be immediately massacred if they ‘took the pill’ because they don’t have the strength, knowledge, or support to handle it, but also have seen enough behind the societal ‘curtain’ and have suffered enough problems from normal society and interactions that they can’t just go and eat their steak like cypher either.

Maladaptive Conditioning and PTSD is a bitch.

And so that causes cognitive dissonance, pain, and all the other issues - including causing them to lash out at the thing triggering all these difficult feelings of inferiority, fear, confusion, etc. aka women
Yes it would be a fantastic achievement. I was saying in another comment what is your he movie industry going to do when there is no such thing as no service, a common theme used in almost every scary movie?
How does this fit into data protection law? If a person stands in front of it for a moment, (a tiny shadow of) their likeness will be preserved in the image. What if that want that removed?
That's insane and impressive. Well done!
Really cool concept and execution. I did notice that the live notifications quickly become overwhelming, so there should be some kind of rate limiter on them.
As a technical platform lead the flexibility is great when needed. But chat is no replacement for face to face discussion with the team.

I don't think I would ever want to do a full WFH/remote arrangement, rather one that allows for flexibility without judgement and mistrust.
Want to add, I, as someone with over 20 years of driving experience, do still periodically perform exercises in empty parking lots. It’s far better to be over humble in this than arrogant.
I wonder if the paint used as exposed layer will see its “printability” property decay with tile. I have experimented pinhole exposures length up to 1 day with and photographic films and the light capture decay drastically with time: what’s happening in the beginning of your scene is much more present than what was present in the end.
WFH and WFO companies are pretty different, from the leadership down. Many existing companies (especially large) can't just adapt so they force RTO to accommodate their existing "style" instead of adapting.

I think we'll end up with two types of companies, WFH and WFO, and right now it looks like the WFH companies will have an easier time recruiting and hiring. So imo this would work especially well for small, fast-growing companies. We'll see whether they can keep up WFH as they grow but maybe there's a limit where they'll need to transition to working from the office.

If that's true, it might be a good time to start companies again and take on some of the incumbents. WFH is a pretty strong selling point to those disgruntled by RTO policies.
Yes, the average US engineer is better than the average Indian engineer. Any other questions?
Feels like you read my mind. I'm disconnected from career and generally feel disappointed with direction of technology. It's quite difficult finding meaning in life surrounded by careerist.
UK Rail privitisation wasn't under Thatcher.
I don't think it's that they didn't understand. They movie just focuses on something different from the book. Where the book is highly conceptual and philosophical, the movie applies this in a very personal way. I walked away thinking about how every story ends in sadness and despair. Even though we can't see the future in this much detail, we all know how every human story ends. And yet, we engage with hope, and I think life is still worth living.
> It doesn't matter if very few people use it -- it's presence prevents its much bigger privately-owned brother(s) from doing terrible things.

I'm going to assume that "bigger privately-owned brother(s)" you're referring to Docker? If so, ironic given all of the evil things RedHat and IBM do in the OSS realm.
Even in this thread there are comments saying it’s some sort of scheme to prop up failing real estate and similar nonsense. So yes, it is in fact a moderately common belief.
What does "productiveness" mean exactly? As a manager I find all of this quite hard to quantify.
None of these people exist but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway
Goats are cheap, pliant, and edible.
I think the issue with Champagne is that in the USA we used the word as a generic term for sparkling wine for MANY decades before it became a Designated Appellation. Bottles were sold here using the word champagne only to indicate it was sparkling wine.
> Is a google employee in US somehow more competent than the one in India?

Yes. I can’t speak for Google employees but I’ve worked with Indian FTE teams at another big tech company. Indian FTEs are generally less competent than US FTEs at the same level. Upper management knows this and they don’t care because US employees are 3-4x more expensive, so they can hire 3 senior engineers in India for the cost of 1 in the US, which is still a good deal on a cost-per-output basis.

I think the reason for this competency discrepancy may be the huge incentive to move to the US because of pay. In other words, if Indian engineers were as good as their US counterparts, they would move to the US and make 3-4x as much, which leaves only those incapable or unwilling to move in the Indian market.
With the rabbit it would be like talking to the starship enterprise as well.
Having a distinct artistic style also doesn’t suddenly mean you stop paying bills.
I'm pretty sure off-site backups would have zero issues at 200Mbps.
There is something to what you say, but the continued success of both Apple Silicon and Nvidia processors seems completely opposed to your statement. How do you reconcile those two things?
I agree with you. Everyone is trying to get you riled up over theft, but it's really just a calculated risk. There are two retail strategies.

One is to let people walk into the distribution centers and touch everything, hopefully making them more emotionally attached to the product and thus pay a higher price. This carries the risk of people walking out with the merchandise without paying, but it's offset by the improved convenience. ("Is this the right size? Let me just take it over to that closet and see. Yeah it is, here is my credit card, can I wear this out?")

The other strategy is to publish a list of what's in your distribution center, and then have an employee of the store bring it to your house. Since the general public can't get into the distribution center, the risk that they walk off without paying is lower.

(But not zero. Employees steal. Customers steal by claiming they never received what they order.

To me, that's the same thing as smashing the glass of a retailer and walking out with their stuff. But, it doesn't make for an emotional photograph, so people don't treat it that way. They're wrong, though. Stealing $1000 worth of stuff through deception is the same as stealing $1000 worth of stuff by force.)

Strategy two is doing very well these days. But it's always done well. Remember when you could order a house kit from Sears and they would put it on the next train to your town? Same thing as Amazon. It was popular then and it's popular now.
Doing what you want to do is my very definition of being agenty. Some of the most difficult thing in the world required long duration effort.
No I'm not missing the point.

I'm pointing out that the RTO boosters are making a much larger ask of their teammates.

In the age of open floor plans, no cubes, no offices.. many of us find it near impossible to do "deep work" in the office. Sitting on an open floorplan with noise cancelling headphones on for 8 hours per day is not a life I want to go back to living.
How paranoid should I be about routers from companies like Cudy that I’m not familiar with? My intuition is “very paranoid, even if I replace the firmware with OpenWRT”.

Am I being too paranoid?
Interesting how the Big Mac density is so much lower in the western half.
I resonate a lot with this but I think it's against my will that I feel lost. I've started little projects like 48hr.dev to try to help me just build more and to collaborate with people in the same spot. I have friends building these incredible saas apps or stuff to help in scientific research, or just really cool side projects but I struggle to find ideas that are valuable to people. I don't lack motivation or interest I just lack the luck or either skills to find (and have faith in) solid ideas.
The decentralized domain is interesting to observe. I find this try ambitious. But as others state it, technicalities to run something on your own, are not yet just as simple as having an app on your device, underlying factors make it inpersistent for any individual.
I can completely relate to this, and was in a similar place not too long ago. My personal recommendation would be to check out Vipassana (dhamma.org) - it was a life-changing experience, and the first to actually address some of the mental issues I was facing.
Art may be useful (or at least usable and realistic), e.g. imagine providing instructions how to get the photo from that camera for (hopefully) people in 1000 years, or even describe what that cilinder on a pole is in the first place.

Science experiments demonstrating discoveries of the past centuries (magnetism, electricity, radio) are a kind long-term useful art.
Apologies: The actual white paper as well - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/69746-hart-smith-on-...
Original Macintosh Exhibit at the Computer History Museum
Boeing was trying to piggy back on existing 737 certification. If they certified it as a new plane, the certification would be more extensive and the pilot training would be different (which could have been a better route given the size of the engines they installed on it).
The only people talking while setting points should be ICs and maybe the scrum master occasionally.
Just think of Seattle while Amazon was WFH. The city was dead. Restaurants, food trucks, barbers etc.. All dead.

I'm pretty sure the big firms get tax breaks for forcing RTO, as it helps local businesses.
This is the first writing I've seen in a while that posits something specific that works better in office than remote.

It doesn't match my experience though. The person I hired during WFH consistently works on the right things and has great judgment, while the other team members who predate it are either neutral or struggling in the same way they did before the pandemic.

Why do you believe seeing a person live makes it easier for you to instruct them on what is worth spending time on? What's your evidence?
A variable resistor has only 2 values where the power dissipation becomes negligible, when the resistance is null or infinite.

Therefore any transistor, triode or any other controllable device has only 2 states, i.e. on and off, where the power consumption is negligible.

Any kind of logic circuits that use transistors or triodes that stay in any other intermediate states between on and off (like in analog circuits) would consume too much power and would overheat. A MOSFET can have any intermediate state between on and off, the current through it can be varied continuously as a function of the gate voltage, but it will dissipate a great amount of power in any of the intermediate states. There is no difference from this point of view between MOSFETs and vacuum tubes. Setun just had too few and too big vacuum tubes to worry about the power consumption.

The kinds of logic circuits where not all transistors or triodes are on or off have been abandoned 40 years ago and there is no chance for them to ever come back, because at the current component densities their power consumption would be enormous.

The only way to use devices with more than 2 states in logic circuits would be to use devices with a variable reactance, for instance varicap diodes, because those do not consume active power.

However the devices with controllable reactance cannot use DC power supplies, they need AC power supplies, which creates a lot of problems for which there are no known solutions at this time, so nobody has designed yet a complex logic circuit based on controllable reactances instead of transistors.

As long as electronic devices with DC power supplies will be used, binary logic is the only kind of logic permitted by the energetic constraints.

Only in the non-volatile flash memories, multiple values of electric charge can be stored in a capacitor, because it does not consume any power for storage.
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There are strides in UX around self-hosted domain. Just look at homeassistant as an example.
That was a cool feature (I didn't realize it was gone, that's unfortunate), although I felt the generated code wasn't super great, and if the container is stateless (excepting what's stored in volumes of course) then it's so simple to write your own systemd unit file that I just do that now. I wrote it once and pretty much just copy/paste it when needed, changing the podman run command for image names, port numbers, volumes, etc. For example, here's what I use for Jellyfin. Just drop at `/etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service`:

[Unit]
Description=Jellfyin
After=NetworkManager-wait-online.service

[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run --rm --volume '/srv/jellyfin/config:/config:Z' --volume '/srv/jellyfin/cache:/cache:Z' --volume '/media/media:/media:Z' --publish '8096:8096' --publish '8920:8920' --publish '1901:1900/udp' --publish '7359:7359/udp' --name 'jellyfin' 'docker.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:latest'
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 5 jellyfin ; /usr/bin/podman rm -f jellyfin

[Install]
WantedBy=local.target

Note: You can also just `s/podman/docker/g` and reuse the same service file with docker, which is really convenient for systems where you have no choice
Tbf, this is Google we're talking about. They routinely pay a single developer more per year than a few of these would cost to produce. They could make hundreds without a second thought.
It turned out not nearly as many people were needed to run Twitter. They are all in office though.
Without turning this post into a book, I think what you are feeling is very normal, and perhaps even a healthy moment of reflection. If you consider time to be the single most precious resource, then perhaps you can figure out how you want to use it. If that's in bacchanalian and hedonistic pursuits, then great. If that's in self-discovery, great. Maybe on your path you'll find therapy or diet or exercise or hobbies or meds will bring renewal. My guess would be at some point you will find something that sparks renewed interest and you'll find the balance.
I opted for the same solution.

My computer glasses simply have 1 diopter less than my normal glasses.
> But not only has my professional life become monotonous and unchallenging

In my 20 years as a developer, I think I can count actually fulfilling moments on one hand. Maybe I'm just really unlucky, but I suspect that professional development isn't very efficient or worthwhile. So many projects get canned, delayed, reworked, death marched, or are just, well, asinine.

Personally, my growth had stunted, especially ever since Covid hit. I was just kind of "existing" and not really doing anything. But lately I've taken on something completely new to me, and wow I'm pretty bad at it. I'm learning so much, and it's fun to see the improvement and "ohhhhhhhhh" moments. So maybe just try something totally different for a while.
Hmm.. what's the business model of HN?
If you provide your phone number for security and your credit card number for verification of humanity, sure.
I like the idea of learning to use Axiom, but getting it to run has been a huge PITA, at least on PopOS using the distro packaged version. In fact, I never did get that to run. So I switched to using Tim's Docker image and even that failed at first:

$> docker run -i -t daly/axiom axiom

yields

personality change failure 1

But after a bit of digging, I finally found the solution for that. It's related to a seccomp setting, which can be toggled with a command lines switch.

So this will yield a running Axiom instance:

$> docker run --security-opt seccomp=unconfined -i -t daly/axiom axiom

As a side note to all of that... when I first decided to take a stab at getting a CAS running on my laptop, I tried all of Maxima, Axiom, FriCAS, and, uh, probably some others I'm forgetting. And NONE of the distro packaged versions worked out of the box. All would fail on startup with some variation of:

The assertion realpath(s,o) on line 471 of main.c in function mbin failed: Invalid argument

or

** buffer overflow detected *: terminated

I finally got Maxima working somehow, and that's been my goto CAS ever since, just because it worked. Weird, but it is what it is.
Poor use of LLMs is incredibly easy to spot, and works as today’s sign of a worthless post/comment/take.
This is true. I'm assuming disagreement in general because my post has negative karma.

I therefore think it's more realistic to assume that he disagrees. But you're right I could be wrong.

Anyway my comment was very general. And I offered a anecdotal counter point. Falsification only needs a single piece of evidence as proof.

A single example of a sub contractor who is both cheap and high quality will falsify the general quotation here. There is literally no stronger argument in existence. So not surprised that people can't find a counter point as what I offered is literal proof.

Other then dismissing the quality of iPhones coming out of china, At best one can counter by changing the topic of the debate. You could say that in general there's a trend of lower quality associated with lower cost and that while it's not strictly true, it could be generally true. But that's not the argument.

In fact on that topic i am not making such a strong claim that it isn't true. For that topic I literally don't know.
One person’s “community and networking” is another person’s distractions.

It is much easier to add community and networking to a remote team (e.g. by frequent colocation) than it is to remove distraction from an in-person team.
But its more like the opposite: the new MAX planes are tarnishing the reputation of the older ones. This one incident being a more standard problem that hasn't gotten much attention in the past.
> I started my career during the dot com boom, and there was so much optimism about the beneficial societal changes that tech and the Internet would bring. I don't feel like all tech is "evil" these days...

Wow that's so true... we totally didn't see the social media dystopia we're living in today coming. We imagined a world where everyone has all the world knowledge available at their fingertips would be wonderful. How wrong were we.
Here. I'm just lazy. An excuse I tell myself is ehh that probably has no monetary future so I just don't do it, but its probably just laziness.
Live by performance, die by performance.
I think the b factor is due to the analog representation: if the base has b values, you use on average b/2 voltage for representation. I would think the mean square value in might have been more appropriate though? (as voltage energy losses usually are V^2 / R or C V^2)

Repeating the calculation (for k bits and b values) using square values, you get E = b^2 * log_b(k) and dE/db = 2b/ln(b) - b^2 / (ln(b))^2 / b = b/ln(b) * (2 - 1/ln(b)). Setting dE/db to 0, we get 2 - 1/ln(b) = 0, ln(b) = 1/2,

b_opt = sqrt(e) = 1.6487...
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Your pacemaker should be running open source software
The government consulted the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research to run a study and they did and concluded it was a bad idea. The government and court in turn decided to ignore their consultants... I expected better from a judge at least.
Because it has been the same problem for decades: the more RAM developers have the more RAM their code uses. There is nothing special for 32GB, it was always the case.

Only when the resources are limited do we see optimization being done seriously.
Two films plus miniseries.
It can also be used as an alibi, so if you go kill your ex wife, make sure you have location tracking turned on, and give your phone to someone else to be in another place.
You might see them both "being very, very similar", but that does not mean that it is.

I mentioned it countless times already, but it gets tiresome to repeat myself.
Just ask your "AI", capable of "thought", a question (e.g., derive something given a set of axioms and definitions) from a non-widespread field (e.g., perspective geometry, Clifford algebra).

Then you might also arrive at the conclusion that it is a hyped up "Google search results mixer and matcher".
"Deep within" gas giants, physics gets incredibly weird due to the pressures involved. Life arising on a moon seems more likely to me.
I can see that, though it really depends on what these abstractions are, how complete they are in solving in a variety of problems, or I suppose, how frequent the problems it makes easier in relation to ones it makes harder.

I’d have to know a lot more and spend a lot of time before judging.

But I am not impressed seeing a single example. I could hypothetically write a language where mergesort is the operator * and reversing an array is the operator + and showcase how in my language 30 lines of code becomes 1. That would be insanely nice if you’re doing something which just requires thinking about sorting and reversing arrays but all together, very poor thing to build a standard language on.
Unless I misunderstood Poland has put some inconvenient regulations that discourage companies from allowing remote work. It requires a special contract otherwise you are compelled to go a number of days per month to work.
I do not follow the theory. But in implementation there is a counter example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun

This was a ternary computer built by Soviet mathematicians

> Between 1965 and 1970, a regular binary computer was used at Moscow State University to replace it [setun] Although this replacement binary computer performed equally well, it was 2.5 times the cost of the Setun.[2]
> I see no reason using Docker at least on Linux boxes. Not sure how Podman fares on macOS or Windows.

I hope the majority doesn't end up with your point of view. Docker is not RedHat/IBM. If Docker goes away RedHat gets to continue to push their corporate agenda with a heavier hand. There are some advantages to Podman, but there are also some things that have not been executed well in RedHat's mission to replace all things Docker. If you look at the history of how RedHat approached the container space they could have contributed, and improved, a lot of projects they ultimately wasted time and effort on. RedHat isn't a company that has an agenda of doing right by the customer and that's why you should consider what you hope for from a bigger picture perspective.