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Multiple tries of something can lead to different experiences by tweaking different factors.
In the end, some things we just don't like, but one try is not necessarily a good sample.
Here's a link to a transcript of a lecture with some very interesting examples: https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13/
A quote as a sample: So let me tell you about some of my favorite examples. I'll start with an example from an Aboriginal community in Australia that I had the chance to work with. These are the Kuuk Thaayorre people. They live in Pormpuraaw at the very west edge of Cape York. What's cool about Kuuk Thaayorre is, in Kuuk Thaayorre, they don't use words like "left" and "right," and instead, everything is in cardinal directions: north, south, east and west. And when I say everything, I really mean everything. You would say something like, "Oh, there's an ant on your southwest leg." Or, "Move your cup to the north-northeast a little bit." In fact, the way that you say "hello" in Kuuk Thaayorre is you say, "Which way are you going?" And the answer should be, "North-northeast in the far distance. How about you?"
For example if somebody has found mental tools to overcome one type of fear (like emotional regulation skills), they can apply them to other fears as well, even the fear of the unknown perhaps.
For example, if I'm coding in C# it's easier for me to understand the impact of passing our resources that need to be disposed and good patterns to handle that after Rust has made me lose hairs on this concept.
It's not SQL directly (it's the Kusto query language) which is more geared towards reading data and analytics.
I'm suggesting it however because the queries in it are also basically relational algebra (aka much of the knowledge is transferable to SQL - minus some special features like anomaly analysis), they give decently sized datasets with billions of rows and the challenges themselves were fun.
I think we agree and it was fun to write this out.
Your point proves that the experience of food is also not just a chemical process which happens in response to food.
Take this in contrast to an allergy for example. Can you trigger an allergy by remembering the food? If you see an illustration of a food you are allergic to, do you get an attack?
A more similar phenomenon instead is a phobia. It is also a release of hormones based on some internal or external stimulus (you can apply all my examples about love). However in a phobia it's even more clear that the phenomenon is based on thinking patterns. Reducing the complexity to saying these are just "hormones and reactions" is the same as saying a computer is "instructions and interrupts". That is to say that a computer has these elements but what makes it work is that there are a bunch of other systems including the humans writing the software that organize these into a functional system.
Newly hired people were more junior and cheaper than previous employees so it makes no sense to fire them.
The problem actually comes from the fact that big tech is becoming increasingly cheap on creating good support organizations. Experienced support engineers are fired and replaced with outsourced low-cost inexperienced personnel. In most cases, issues can be resolved or worked around with the help of a support engineer with access to some extra knobs. When those engineers are removed and are replaced with people who act like a pipe for cat to send the customer's stdout to product engineers, you get what you describe.
I can say though that when I was working on stuff I enjoyed less (backend ERP stuff), I felt much worse and would compare myself to others a lot more. So I think these feelings you are expressing can sometimes be a manifestation of not being very satisfied with your own life.
Car crashes: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...
UK for comparison: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
To be fair though, the root cause is probably a mental health crisis, especially seeing that suicides outnumber the homicides. But it goes without question that projectile weapons make it tremendously easier for mentally ill or desperate people to kill themselves or other people.
Maybe you could make a newsletter so I can subscribe and get notifications for when you write? I'd probably read them once in a while.
During execution you had two kinds of memory locations, some in CPU caches and some in RAM. By running all the threads on one socket, everything accessed from the cache was just a fast cache access. Everything accessed from the memory was a slower memory load. Frequently loaded/stored locations will tend to go to the cache.
In the NUMA setup, you would have a larger cache (more than one socket) which would mean that more locations were likely to be in the cache. However, if a core on a socket tries to access a location which is on another socket's cache, it will use the interconnect between them to access it.
If you have an unfortunate memory layout, this can make it so that you end up having a large percentage of the accesses using the interconnect (slower than cache access) and values get swapped between the caches constantly, which forces subsequent accesses to also use the interconnect.
Another way to avoid this except using just one socket is for the designer of a program to consider NUMA nodes as separate processing units and design around that. Both should be processing separate data and they should only share small amounts of data for synchronization/communication. Then the caches will be much less affected.
1) Reading the source code of roslyn which can be quite readable 2) Building VSCode extensions to add diagnostics and implement code actions. You can use any open source language server as the reference
This turned on a light bulb for me, so I really appreciate you sharing your point of view. Specifically, I feel that it helps a lot with my issue of having analysis paralysis to frame things in terms of fulfillment rather than happiness.
I will try to come up with some innoculations of my own going forward.
Anand should ask all the annoying questions. This way he's saving both himself and the VP all the wasted time of hiring him and then having a broken relationship because things weren't clear later. This way the VP can also see what concerns the potential employee and if they have a potential mismatch in expectations.
Finally, even if we disregard all that I said above, if it's Anand's working style to ask a lot of questions and he hides this style during the interview, then he will invariably clash with management later due to it if he's hired. Then he may have more to lose then just a potential future job.
Perhaps it has been easier historically to converge to the single ruler model due to the available knowledge and resources. Is there any research concluding that one ruler systems offer higher gains in modern societies?