JimBrimble35

"How do you overcome it?" - don't.

Lots of other good suggestions on here, but I have some commentary on this problem as well.

I experience the same issue when trying to read with greater concentration. I start out and my brain goes crazy thinking about everything in the known universe. If I stick it out and keep trying to read, in about 10 to 15 minutes I notice that my concentration is restored.

10 - 15 minutes may seem like a hefty price to pay to read with attention, but consider this: the problem described here is very similar to many people's experience with meditation. I believe that this type of mental state is a sort of un-bundling for your brain, and once complete, you can better focus on the task at hand. In my experience, the more reading I do, the less time I spend in this state. By the time I finish a book I can pick it up and immerse myself instantly. Instead of viewing this as "waiting so you can read", try thinking of it as your daily meditation, without really needing to try.

I see this less as an impairment due to your skimming habits, and more of a natural process that many people experience.

"“Once a field commits to a particular hypothesis, the research resources — funding, experimental models, and training — all get in line,” she wrote in a 2018 analysis. That brings backers of the dominant idea accolades, awards, lucrative consulting deals, and well-paid academic appointments. Admitting doubt, let alone error, would be not only be a blow to the ego but also a threat to livelihood."

Is this not extremely controversial? It was always my belief that "not creating a cure for X disease keeps the money flowing" was the calling card of tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy nuts. This statement, and the following paragraphs seem to suggest this is somewhat commonplace

console.log('cellar door')

I would love to see the impact of acronyms on information density. It would also be interesting to see how many bits per second the average human maximum is.

I've written tens of thousands of lines of code, solved a plethora of complex problems, worked on a number of projects from requirements to production in an assortment of different languages and technologies and I can count on one hand how many times I've had to use the modulo operator.

This is first year-out-o-school, junior gate-keeping bullshit. We need better methods to evaluate intermediate and senior devs, and FizzBuzz ain't it

There are many reasons to not use auto iso, in spite of the fact that modern sensors produce much less digital noise than they used to. If you're enlarging your images, or cropping significantly, you'll want images that are as clean as possible. It also tends to vary from camera to camera.

Yeah, you're super wrong about this. Manual mode helps you control the consistency of photos during a session. I've met very few wedding photographers (who incidentally work almost exclusively out of a studio) who are willing to risk letting the camera decide on exposure. You need to know what your shutter speed is so that you don't end up with blur from the subject or camera movement. You need to control ISO to reduce noise as much as possible (grainy black and white's aside). And most of the time, the aperture is being set in a very specific way to affect the depth of field.

Once you become accustomed to manual mode, it is much more reliable and equally as fast as other modes, with the benefit of knowing that the camera isn't interpreting some specular highlight in the background and under-exposing a bunch of images.

This all applies to the professional sports, news, and event photographers I know, as well as myself personally.

Further to this, there are many photographic effects (long exposure light trails and panning, capturing fast moving subjects etc.) that are done much more easily and don't often occur in a studio setting. I think that the technique you've suggested may be valid for a certain subset of shooters, but your understanding of the photographic profession in general is very shallow.

I think this is a neat idea. I would love it if you made this into one of those scary image popping up and loud screaming audio pranks. Three and a half minutes in everyone would be pretty sold on just relaxing. The perfect targets.

Patience isn't about waiting for something to take a little bit of extra time. It's about working on something and being willing to wait for _years_ if necessary to see it happen. To know that what your waiting for is out there on the horizon, is visible to you at all times, yet there is no way of speeding up your journey toward it. Ultimately, it's about how we live in the space between the moments we anticipate.

It's been a very frustrating, but important 12 months.

There seems to be a high correlation between outages and security breaches. My guess is that at some point in the future there the consequences of these shutdowns will come to light in the media.

That, or this is all related to high profile sites being required to install some additional level of infrastructure which is being required in secret by an organization like the NSA.

Both theories require a fairly thick tin foil hat, but honestly.. I have a hard time believing that it's just random downtime.

Oh thank God, I'll have another company to not buy products from!

Seriously though, I think his vision may have overstayed it's welcome at apple.

Sure this is a neat toy, but where are they going to get data on _everyone's_ heart signatures to make this practical. That's not going to be eas...

Looks at Apple watch.. looks at fitbit.. looks at Samsung phone with heartbeat monitor..

huh

Not to mention studies showing that hand dryers, with the Dyson models leading the pack, do an excellent job of distributing bacteria over a large area.

That's fair, my point is that in many cases (a rapidly growing number of cases), the entire site is JS. If you need to service, then you have to accept the tracking.

Aside from the obvious usability benefits, this kind of thing makes it abundantly clear why much of the web has gone to javascript dependent SPAs. If you need JS to run the site, then you also have to leave it on to be tracked/fingerprinted.

Kind of makes sense why companies like Google and Facebook have invested so much in creating open-source front-end frameworks. The ROI is probably phenomenal.

I get that stackoverflow isn't an SPA, it just made me think of this point.

Side-note: you can block JS on stackoverflow and still view answers. That works for 98% of my usecase for the site.

The downvotes are disappointing. If you don't have think it would be fun, just don't upvote maybe?

I've wanted something like the Remarkable for years, but the cost is still way too high. The rocketbook has been a decent interim solution, but there is always the issue that I can't re-load and modify old notes.

rocketbook is an amazing tool.

It would be amazing if they gave this an online battle royale mode.

indeed

The guy answered a question about market share like a 4 year old answers "how much do you like tacos?". The CEO had to take a risk on this guy, had to put him in a position to become valuable. Yes, taking someone with a grade 4 education and building them up the the level of success in this story is heroic.

Sorry, but we have _definitely_ reached that point. Granted I'm extremely cynical, but stories like this are outliers and not the norm. And not simply because of the scale of the success.

Read my other comment on why I consider the CEO the hero of this story.

How unethical would it be to take is idea and simply compensate him for it in some small way. A promotion, a bonus, some small percent of the proceeds.

My point here, and it was obviously lost on some, is that the CEO saw the possibilities for the person, instead of simply seeing an interesting idea. I'm sure there are plenty of stories where a similar scenario played out and the protagonist didn't end up in Montañez's position.

The real hero of this story is the CEO who decided to take this guy _and_ his idea. He could have easily taken the idea and ran with it on his own, with Montañez spending the rest of his life mopping floors.

I wonder how likely this scenario would be in today's world. I have found personally that many companies are unwilling to take risks on employees who aren't formally qualified, even if they demonstrate the skills to operate at far beyond their current pay grade.

Second real hero of the story is his wife. How important is it to have people around you who will enable you do things you aren't qualified to do because they believe in you unconditionally? All of the importants.

I love how clean and professional looking this is, and how difficult it is to tell that it's being monetized. Content like this is why the internet exists! I can definitely see the value in having this app on my phone too.

I think that if you look at the history of the trend, and the politics behind it. The decreases in top marginal tax rate, decreases in corporate tax rates. It starts to really _feel_ malicious. Although you're probably right, I don't think that all of the current c-suite occupants in the nation are acting out of malice.

_but the billionaire's have MOST of the money_

............ THAT'S THE PROBLEM

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what pay inequality looks like for top earners. This isn't about using pay to buy luxury items like iPhones vs putting that money to charity. This is about people stuffing bank accounts with more money than they'll be able to use in their lifetimes because the generations of executives that came before them made it acceptable to take a disproportionate cut of the earnings from a business.

Businesses _shouldn't_ exist for the purpose of making the executive team and the shareholders rich at the expense of the employees. American dream or not, businesses serve a purpose in _society_ not just the tiny fraction of society who have the skills to start and run the business.

The goal now is to make executives and shareholders disgustingly rich, and use the government to subsidize the underpaid workforce that generates that wealth. We've created a socialist state for corporations.

It isn't incompetence, it's complacent acceptance of a toxic norm for personal gain.

I think what you are identifying as incompetence is, in fact, well-aged malice.

The greedy behavior that leads to the kind of inequality faced by today's society is now so well established that it has become hard to recognize for what it truly is.

The fact that this article's author seems to find it novel to trickle down the proceeds of the company to the bulk of it's employees is a pretty good indication of that.