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I'm not autistic and my family was more emotionally neglectful than anything else, but I had a miserable childhood nonetheless. I was a child prodigy who could read aloud by two and a half, I was studied by pediatric developmental psychologists, etc. IQ of 185 at last check, which was 30 years ago.

Unfortunately, I either inherited type two bipolar depression or it's just what happens when you're very smart and see the world as it is. It has undermined me my entire life. But I also have zero competitive streak and I find material ambition embarrassing. So I've never been particularly financially successful.

Been a coder and writer my entire adult life. Started writing professionally when I was 18, had a column in an alt weekly in a major city before I was 23 and was Pulitzer nominated when I was 25. At the same time I was first a web designer and then a dev. I've worked for a few promising startups but they always did what most startups do. In retrospect, I was already burned out by the mid-2000s but I kept going because I thought I'd either get rich or find something worth my time.

Had a heart attack at 38 and another at 42 that nearly killed me. Had a triple bypass and moved to England to marry my girlfriend. Now I've got heart failure and spinal problems from a lifetime hunched over a computer and all the health problems you get from a lifetime of being a freelancer or contractor without insurance.

But I've lived an amazing life so far. I've traveled, partied, been witness to history, done what I wanted to do and followed my heart and will. I've done some good things for the world, I think. Now I'm writing a new social network app to fix the problems with the existing ones, working on a book about how to survive climate collapse if you're not a billionaire, and writing the best music I've ever written.

You won't make yourself feel safe by getting rich or powerful. You'll feel safe when you've surrounded yourself with people you love and trust. That's all. It has nothing to do with success or ambition. However you find that, whatever it takes, make that your ambition. And to use whatever the universe gave you to make things less hard on you and everyone you can.

If you're as bright as you seem to be, other people probably seem stupid. Maybe they are. But that doesn't make them any less human or any less important than you, and if you can see ways to make life kinder for them, do it and you'll never regret it. Everything else is just ego and self-reinforcement to drown out the things in your head that tell you you're not good enough or living up to your potential. Fuck that.

If you try as hard as you can to make the world a kinder place than you found it, you've won. That's all you can do. That's the only real wisdom I've ever found. We are born falling from birth to death, and all we can choose is how we use our time in the air: we can enjoy the rush of the air in our ears and the view, we can try to make sure everybody falling around us has their parachute open, or we can open ours without a thought for anyone else and still fall...alone.

I hope that helps.
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People like Mr. Beast have managed to discover psychological attention hacks that are not too dissimilar from sex or fear-based content (porn or a lot of political ads), but more insidious because it’s much more tame and “fun” on the surface.

And while I don’t think either can be made explicitly illegal without some pretty nasty second-order effects on freedom of expression, we can’t expect the likes of Google to provide a social fix here. Government will need to take note, label, and activate against this at some level. The TikTok ban means we’ve noticed this can be dangerous at least when rival nation-states are involved, but the call is coming from inside the house.
Their most recent phone (made in 2022) uses an SoC introduced in 2016.

By any reasonable comparison it was an outdated phone when it was released. 2 years of age haven’t done it well. At some point, no matter how repairable/replaceable the other components are, the computer is just not powerful enough to be useful.
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A lot of the detail in this story seems tailor-made (ha) for the upscale fashion image that GQ sells to its advertising targets.
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Do you have a sample DXF (which uses arcs) which describes a lathe project?
PowerBI with an actually decent DAX IDE or language server. Writing DAX in a single line like an excel formula is bonkers. The language itself is pretty interesting but MS apparently can’t be arsed to help me write it.
There's a difference, video is probably transferrable to an extent (with their capital they could probably buy/launch beast-tube quickly and kids would follow).

Building your software to depend on Google API's and then be banned from Google would put you in deep trouble, building on Google systems but not relying on their API would still allow for an migration.
Just to add a non-problematic experience report to the mix: I've been using 6.10 for months on two AMD machines with different hardware (one with a 7840U and one with a 5700XT) without any issues whatsoever.
That's because the mail trucks are not considered suitable for longer and higher speed routes. I would expect them to roll out to rural areas quickly so the USPS can get rid of the mishmash fleet.
> Seems that you’re actually getting some advantage.

Seems like a vanishingly small fraction of users are getting some advantage. Everyone else just pays.
I don't know what subculture you're living in, but in several of mine there absolutely is pushback against this, with people avoiding consuming this kind of content and trying to prevent their children from consuming it, too.

Now, the question why the larger US (or English-speaking) culture isn't uniformly doing the same is much more interesting, but there's no known reason for this and most of the common explanations are both somewhat political, and not backed up by much evidence, so discussion often degenerates to talking about why your theory is more plausible.

I wish we knew.
I'm old enough to still have a (working) 2004 PowerBook which lets you change batteries as easily as with a flashlight. No tools. Bonus: You can switch batteries on the fly and the computer stays on a while so you don't have to mess around shutting down and restarting. That's one heavy machine.
Maybe FairPhone can do it eventually.
> Unfortunately, the police seemingly have no idea who did it and acted based on a tip sent with an email.

I understand the need to take anonymous tips seriously, but I mean come on... an email? I hope there was more than that.

If I assume the counterfactual where someone's attempt to tip police was ignored and an incident results, the public will criticize the police undoubtedly. Still, at some point there needs to be a minimum for verifiable, trustworthy communication if such a tip results in swatting. If I effortlessly generate dozens of plausibly-sounding scenarios, tip off the police in intervals spaced far enough and automate it, when would the police start categorizing anonymous emails as noise?
> Simply? What should it do if the first command fails? Should it exit early? What if you want it to run the second only if the first returns error?

You’d eventually reinvent a shell. But for just these 2 cases you’d just need 2 separators analogous to the & and && of the shell. But yeah it gets messy if you wanted to run a non git command in the middle.

The thing is, all those !a && b are perfectly valid in both posix and cmd. It just refuses to do the whole “if it starts with ! call the shell”. I guess all that’s missing is that it just needs to execute it. That would probably be the less complicated change. That at least doesn’t seem like a big controversial addition (maybe this is already done now it was a couple of years since I tried and hit a brick wall with aliases under cmd)
Without filtration. That means the shit got to be real. Amazing.
That perfectly exemplifies my thoughts about certain happenings in this space.
This isn't really a puzzle, though. A puzzle requires intellectual curiosity and creativity to solve.

This was just a race to see who could burn the most CPU/GPU cycles the fastest.

Even when a real puzzle has a monetary reward for solving it, a big component of the reward is the solving itself. For this, the reward is just money.
Rather than misinformed dick-measuring between the two, we should be glad that the next generation of social media traffic is distributed among many services and not centralized on one that would inevitably devolve into Twitter-like patterns.
That’s exactly how bitcoins works.

As a miner, if I see two conflicting transactions I will prioritize the one which pays more rather than the one I saw first.
I started with my two questions not to strawman, but to find out if there was some underlying point or argument you had in mind that prompted you to make such a short reply in the first place. All I could read in it was not an argument, but a high level assertion, and not any sort of call to action. That's fine, I normally would have ignored it, but I felt like riffing on my disagreement with that assertion. To reiterate, I think you can reasonably measure cost through lines of code, even if that shouldn't be the only or primary metric, and I provided some outside-my-experience justifications, including one that suggests that an easy to measure metric like lines of code correlates with notoriously harder to measure metrics like the three things you stated. (If cost is to be measured by clarity -- how do you even measure clarity? Halstead provides one method, it's not the only one, but if we're going to use the word "measure", I prefer concrete and independently repeatable ways to get the same measurement value. Sometimes the measurement is just a senior person on a team saying something is unclear, often if you get another senior's opinion they'll say the same thing, but it'd be nice if we could do better.)

Now you've expanded yourself, thanks. I mostly agree. Quibble around size is "not a useful way" -- a larger macro is more likely to be more complex, difficult to understand, buggy, and harder to maintain, so it better be enabling a correspondingly large amount of utility. But it doesn't necessarily have to be complex, it could just be large but wrapping a lot of trivial boilerplate. DSL-enabling macros are often large but I don't think they justify themselves much of the time. And I've also regretted some one-line macros. Length can't be the only thing to look at, but it has a place. I'd much rather be on the hook for dealing with a short macro than a large one. Independent of size, I rather dislike how macros in general can break interactive development. What's true for macros is that they're not something to spray around willy-nilly, it's a lot less true to say the same about functions.

If you asked, I don't think I'd have answered that those two things are the most important aims to abstraction, but they're quite important for sure, and as you say the same problems can come with ill-made subroutines, not just macros. I agree overall with your last two paragraphs, and the call to action about recognizing costs and using macros judiciously. (Of course newbies will ask "how to be judicious?" but that's another discussion.)
> Encyclopedias, books, tapes, magazines, devices of all kinds. None of it seemed to matter anymore. Yet I don't feel there's something equivalent that replaced it. Wikipedia maybe but .. not really.

They were replaced with (sometimes inferior, but often cheaper and more convenient) substitutes delivered via the web or internet, often to smartphones, whose usage patterns tend toward short-form, bite-sized "content" (as per TFA). Playback devices (CD players, DVD players, radios, hi-fi audio systems...) have been replaced by mobile devices and/or smart TVs/streaming devices.

The brick and mortar stores that used to sell physical media (bookstores, music stores, magazine stands, video stores, software stores, etc.) are mostly gone as well.

Libraries are still around, but digital collections are hamstrung by copyright law.
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This sounds intriguing. Of note for anyone with an audible membership: The Goal is in the free library.
YouTube Shorts is really dark, there's stuff that makes David Foster Wallace's 1996 vision of people hyperglued to a TV look prescient instead of allegorical.

There are many, many, videos that are literally the adult version of baby videos -- ex. Squeezing rainbow colored Play-Doh through a sieve, really bizarre just pure visual attention hacking.

Your comment reminds me that's the local optima for YouTube x creators and it's just sort of contracting the work of actually producing content out. It doesn't care what it is. Just hours consumed.

The abuse of FOIA for police bodycam content published with light commentary... Zoom court sessions enabled turning judges into stars on a show they have no part of it...
I do get a sense of relief downloading a movie recommendation and being greeted by the Criterion logo.
Forgive my ignorance, but can the police not get the identity of the people calling these in from the phone companies? Swatting would be over very quickly if we just started handing out 5 year prison sentences to every moron who tries this.
Great point. Spend time learning things that will put some fucking money in your pocket. Once you have financial independence then you can think about changing the fucking world.
It's not always just battery replacement:

Spend 12% of the cost of a new phone to keep the deficient one running, spend even bigger fraction on both battery and another overpriced fix to have decent QoL on the used phone (or other way around, fix a broken screen to have a working old phone with bad battery or spend bigger part of the price of a new phone to fix both), expecting the new battery to die sooner, requiring another 12% as well as other overpriced fixes due to the phone's age -- or just buy a new phone and impress whomever you want without any hassle and worry?

I don't think that's majority of cases, but I bet it's a significant amount (>5%), in a large market
on average, everyone will follow the path of maximum reward/lowest risk. Management has a job to do, but is aware that they may lack any choice or path to success. They still have a job to do in e.g. allocating engineers work, managing performance, promotions, and morale... so they do it, meanwhile they may also be looking for the exit.

As an IC, never believe a manager at face value - they will promote you if it's good for them, they will pacify your concerns as it's what they are paid for, and they will fire you if its good for them. This is the nature of the relationship.
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Maybe... but I read it more as (and tend to agree with) blow it off because it's explicitly an approach that makes the world a worse place in almost every way except perhaps your bank account balance. It's possible to be successful without being mercilessly amoral and there's a big difference between not personally caring for a product vs thinking a product is toxic and holding your nose anyway for the sake of a paycheck.
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It's distribution dependent.

It's been a solved problem for years, but some of the better rendering methods in FreeType are/were patent encumbered, and so it comes down to what each distro's lawyers are comfortable with.

Gnome's out of the box font choices don't help either. Cantarell renders terribly on anything but high DPI displays.
I’m not sure i understand your complaint

Are you arguing that I’m making an appeal to authority fallacy?
I started writing a reply about my childhood. But then I realized I would be sharing more than I'm comfortable sharing in public, I don't even feel comfortable creating a throwaway account to discuss this stuff.
Lot of people critiquing this, but you can't deny the success. I think a lot of the advice is applicable to startups.

1. KPIs, for Beast they are CTR, AVD, AVP, will look different if you are a startup. I am willing to bet he knows his metrics better than >95% of startup founders. Because he is literally hacking/being judged by an algorithm, his KPIs will matter more and can be closely dissected. Startups aren't that easy in that sense, but KPIs still matter.

2. Hiring only A-players. Bloated teams kill startups.

3. Building value > making money

4. Rewarding employees who make value for the business and think like founders/equity owners, not employees.

5. Understanding that some videos only his team can do, and actively exploiting and widening that gap.

The management/communication stuff is mostly about working on set/dealing with physical scale. You need a lot more hands dealing with logistics, which requires hardline communication and management. In startups, the team is usually really lean and technical, so management becomes more straightforward.

I am also getting some bad culture vibes from the PDF and really dislike the writing style. I think it's important not to micromanage to the extent he is--it's necessary, maybe, for his business. Not for startups. Interesting perspective, reminds me of a chef de cuisine in a cutthroat 90s kitchen. The dishes (videos) have to be perfect, they require a lot of prep and a lot of hands, and you have to consistently pump them out.
I must say you are the first one convincing me the other side of the coin does exist.
Clicking around the website for the past 30 minutes has left me way more confused about what this is than when I started. I get the feeling that it would take me at least two weeks to figure out how to make a todo list app in this language.
This is actually a really good document for someone who is a junior or assistant. I've worked a variety of jobs and didn't get much documents on training like this, mostly compliance stuff. You could take a lot of it out and get good points on managing people and taking ownership for tasks. It seems redundant or basic, but a lot of these things aren't explicitly mentioned, usually informally only.
Why are we calling it anything other than what it is, addiction. You mentioned sugar. Others mentioned alcohol/tobacco. In the end it is just addiction. If we can't talk openly about the actual problem, then it will never be solved. Just like the war on drugs. As long as people want it, others will provide it regardless of legality or self harm
There's a disincentive for YouTube to change because it'd make both creators (to a greater extent) and users (to a lesser extent) unhappy.

It's almost like the situation of buggy hardware implementations of networking protocols being so prevalent that software has to adapt to it, and vice versa, leading to lots of silly non-compliant (or non-optimal) behavior because it's disadvantageous to fix your behavior before upstream/downstream fixes theirs.

I think the better ways to fix this would be either gradual change, carefully-crafted regulation, or a new platform entirely that's not owned by an ad company.
How is it the new model looks even more outdated than the old one?
A part of me thinks that SWATting should be considered attempted murder (IANAL); you're sending in a bunch of heavily armed men into a house for no real reason, what the fuck do you think is going to happen?

Maybe "murder" is a bit strong, but it certainly has led to people dying in the past, and it's not like "death" is a bizarre, unforeseeable consequence of sending in a dozen heavily armed people into an innocent person's house. If I shot a gun into the crowd in Times Square, and someone got hit and died, I don't think it'd be a very good defense to say "I was just trying to shoot into the crowd, I didn't mean to kill anyone!"

Frankly, I don't get it, it's really not very funny, and carries a risk of jail time in the process.
I don't get it. It looks like an actor in a plastic outfit. Is this is a computer program responding to voice or controls?
Delivery is communication between two actors. Processing is what one actor (the receiver) does with a message.

Communication is when two actors exchange a message. Communication is generally done over an unreliable medium because in practice there is no way to communicate without the potential of failure.

1. Exactly once communication between two actors over an unreliable medium is impossible. At the very least you have to account for the possibility of failure of the medium, so you might need to re-send messages.

2. At least once communication between two actors is possible -- just re-send a message until the receive acknowledges the message.

3. Because a message might be re-sent, the receiver must be able to cope with duplicate messages. This is what you're describing. This might be done by making message processing idempotent or tracking which messages you've seen before. In either case, you have achieve exactly once processing. That is, if a receiver is given the same message multiple times, only the first receive of the messages changes the state of the receiver.

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> But exactly-once delivery is not only possible, it's trivial.

Considering that many in the field consider this problem to be impossible (or, at best, extremely difficult, e.g. https://www.confluent.io/blog/exactly-once-semantics-are-pos...), this should be a huge red flag to yourself that you're missing something. Everyone has blind spots and that's okay, but hopefully you understand that there's a pretty big mismatch here.

Alternatively, it's possible that this problem _really_ is trivial and you have some unique insight which means there's a great opportunity for you to write a paper or blog post.
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Absofuckinglutely. That's the point. Build a good enough business that puts some money in your fucking pocket.
I have kids and I'm really bothered by MrBeast. I had to buy goddamn chocolate bars at Walmart because of him. I acknowledge he is creative and driven but the content is such crap, with a few exceptions that my kids point out.

But, what's the alternative?

For example, I love 3brown1blue videos. But, it is too advanced even for my eleven year old.

Mark Rober videos are great, and my kids love them, but he's even inside MrBeast's orbit. And, he's not putting out as much content.

What are the good channels that create creative and stimulating videos that are a benefit to humanity.

Does YouTube kill those channels?
Sure, there are different ways to be commercially successful and most probably require immense talent and hard work. Doesn’t really contradict any particular value judgment of the type of content he produces though.
ChatGPT seems to have initiated a conversation with an user first
Is this supposed to be a gotcha of some kind? I don't see any point or value in this comment.
I see a lot of hating on mr beast for being so mechanical in driving views but blame the game, not the player