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That's a really interesting observation. My knowledge on the history of finance is woefully inadequate, but stocks seem to be another concept that was popularized very late.

This is a hard lesson I had to learn as a junior developer.

I'm impatient and Stack overflow can often give me an easy solution. But just as often, it can't and I will spend 30 minutes unproductively trying things with little progress.

As I become a better developer I become more inclined to spend 30 minutes with the documentation instead.

Happy to hear I'm not the only one experiencing those freezes!

It's embarrassing how long its taking apple to fix this. Apple's audio doesn't exactly treat me well either.

It feels like we're starting to reach a point where linux 'just works' more often than mac.

Student discount on top of a sale on all apple products in the university store that happened a week after the 16 inch release.

My experience has been quite different from yours, so I figured I'd share mine as well.

- Yep touchbar just sucks, I've spent too much time messing around with with the default version, bettertouchtool, and pock, and I cannot find anything its good at. Worse yet, the volume slider often will freeze the touch bar completely.

- The screen size and format is wonderful. I hate how Dell and Thinkpad laptops I've used in the past, have these widescreen formats, where very few lines of code can be visible at a time due to the limited vertical space.

- I didn't realize this until you pointed it out, but it's definitely very heavy compared to my 15-inch 2018 model and thinkpad x230. This haven't bothered me at all, however.

- It feels significantly faster than my 2018 model, and the CPU temperature stays much lower under the same workloads.

- I know a lot of people have trouble with this, so if you've previously had this problem the 16 inch doesn't change that. Both my hands rest on the touch pad while typing, and I have not had this problem once. Your mileage may vary.

- I got mine discounted down to roughly 2k. Pretty ridiculous yeah!

- The battery life is insane. On a simple workload it will last me an entire day. On my full workload (Flutter development with android and ios simulators open) it lasts about half a day.

In the end I'm very happy with my purchase. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm still using this laptop 8 years from now.

Tangentially, I've been extremely frustrated with that.

From the firebase page, you can only create a 'firebase function' using node.js.

If you instead go to the google cloud page, you can create a 'cloud function' using other languages such as python, which will then show up under firebase as a 'firebase function' as well.

What the hell? It is extremely confusing what can and can't be done in google cloud. There is no consistency between services. Half the documentation consists of circular references that explain very little.

I work with IBM cloud professionally and am shocked how confusing GCP is in comparison. I opted for GCP for my pet project because their wavenet text-to-speech is slightly better than Watson's. I am starting to regret that decision seeing how needlessly confusing GCP is.

Viewed in isolation I don't think it is either. In a society that in practice completely disregards the moral status of non-human animals, I don't think the scientists are acting out of line. They are doing negligibly more harm than the average meat-eater.

When surveyed, most people respond that the meat they buy is ethically sourced but it is rarely the case.

Most meat that is claimed to be ethically sourced is far from it. Worse yet, the places where demand is growing the fastest, are places with minimal concern for how the animals are treated.

I think it's really important to put their torture in proper context.

https://animalcharityevaluators.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/...

This statistic from animal charity evaluators, show just how small a percentage lab testing makes up for in the total amount of animals we use and kill.

If your goal is to effectively reduce animal suffering, the only place that makes sense to start is factory farming. The conditions animals endure are much worse than most testing, and the scale is difficult to comprehend.

I don't mean to trivialize the suffering these mice went through, I just think it's important to make clear that we cause the same amount of suffering every time we eat meat, something that brings us much less value than this research.

These are the predictions that I think go against the norm, where I think it's most likely someone would take up a bet with me. Otherwise it would just be a list of "things largely stay the same, and things people predict will happen wont"

1.) UK's Brexit is an economic success, leading to a boom in Britain's tech sector and a modernized efficient state.

2.) Concerns about climate change will be a driver for terrible policy, further stifling the European economy.

3.) Probably not this decade, but it might happen near its end: Many European nations have their own vote leave, Denmark among others leave the union.

4.) The colonization of mars begins. By 2030 there is still no humans living on mars, but machines are shipped off to mars to start building the colony in which humans eventually will.

For the overtones put your tongue somewhere between an L and an R sound. Then move around your lips to create different o shapes while humming. Move around your tongue slightly in different ways as well. At some point you'll accidently create an overtone for a brief moment. Then see if you can recreate that. Slowly you'll be able to consistently hit the overtones and from there it's smooth sailing.

For the throat singing it's the exact same technique beat boxers use to create the deep bass. Just try to make a exagurated sigh. Do so until you accidently do throat singing for a brief second, then see if you can recreate that for a longer duration.

It's all about trial and error! It's really not as hard to learn as it might seem :)

Hmm, I see it somewhat oppositely. I find that most books are bloated and spend most pages regurgitating information I already know, where blog posts tend to present only the novel information, using hyperlinks to link to information required to understand the given post.

If I know nothing about a topic I find books to be really valuable, but for topics I'm already knowledgeable on, they are terribly inefficient.

I watch CGTN,

while it's definitely pro china, I still find it to be by far the most valuable news television.

It focuses on Africa and Asia, which I otherwise hear very little about. The value of the news for me is mostly not whatever the news is, but the facts surrounding the news.

For example when they covered the election in Senegal, I learned a ton about Senegal as a result. The news about the election was not the important part in this case, it was learning about the country.

I wrote longer about CGTN here: http://mathiasbonde.com/?p=96

While I take a lot of issues with the article itself, I concur the core message completely due to having done the experiment myself.

Two months ago I gave up my phone for a week, for a class on ethics along with a single other student.

Not being able to listen to podcasts, audiobooks, and music everywhere I go, I fell into so many more conversations than I normally would in a week.

what I realized was that, while I didn't feel addicted to my phone I definitely was missing out on a lot of unique interactions by wearing headphones everywhere I went.

And then we beat you up for deliberately sabotaging our investigation. If you didn't have anything to hide why would you wipe your phone? Clearly you must be a spy or worse so we have no choice but to send you to the re-education camp.

Do you run at a high or slow pace?

I find myself unable to focus on my audiobooks while running once the pace is high enough. I imagine all I would be thinking of while running without content to distract me would be the number of the miles left of the run.

I see I didn't articulate myself clearly.

I later confirmed it, by carrying a co2 monitor with me and noticing every time I get that type of headache, it's because the co2 was too high.

The device I'm building will be attacked to my backpack and connected to my phone via bluetooth so it can push notifications descretely, allowing me to get out of a place where the co2 levels will give me a headache, without the social cost of taking out a co2 monitor everywhere you go.

In my defense I was a teenager!

Whether my choices were wise is not too important. What's important is that I almost failed mathematics because of my poor choices.

If every other teenager makes equally stupid choices, causing them to not learn vital skills, we should still change up the system. Teenagers will teenage, build the system around it!

I didn't test it back then, it was only much later I made the connection when I started getting the same headaches from university, where I got proper sleep, enjoyed the coursework etc.

A co2 monitor confirmed my suspicion. The problem with co2 monitors, is that it's really impractical to pull one out to check. I'm actually in the process of building one myself that instead sends descrete notifications to my phone if the co2 ppm gets too high.

Lack of sleep was definitely the cause of my terrible grades in highschool mathematics. I would stay up late (1-2 am) to play in starcraft tournaments, to have 8 am classes in mathematics. (There's a neat inverse correlation between my highschool grades and starcraft rank)

It's crazy to me just how terrible school systems are at optimizing for learning. I would get terrible headaches from classrooms that had too many people and too little fresh air. I thought it was just me dreading my lessons, but in reality it was from co2 ppm reaching levels that humans can't properly function in.

We wake up students too early, put them in rooms that kill cognitive performance and then have the audacity to complain when they can't follow along!

And while you're at it, I can highly recommend trying out tree style tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

If you do decide on using it, I recommend editing the browser so it doesn't display tabs on top, so the tree style tabs is the only place your tabs are located.

I cannot emphasize enough how big an improvement this has been to my browser experience, once I got proffecient with it.

I'm pretty confused, What else would you like us to use?

I started regularly excercising every day, after I realized I could use it as a means of procrastination.

I can seriously recommend it. Go for a run, if you're finding yourself putting off something with the intention of working when you get back.

Yeah, I was mostly thinking in the context of a junior role. Generally bullshitting of any kind will be caught out. My point is not that someone could bullshit their way through an interview of this style. It's rather that I think it unfairly favours people with a lot of general and high-level knowledge, over someone with strong fundamentals.

My problem with this style of interview, is that someone like me, who is a mediocre programmer, but stellar communicator will fare MUCH better than someone who is a brilliant programmer but poor communicator.

I spend lots of time reading about smart people's opinions on programming, and will be able to recite that knowledge and play it off as my own hard-earned experience. I could talk for an hour about tradeoffs between Vagrant and Docker, without ever having spent more than a few hours actually working with Docker.

If the interviewer is really sharp they could maybe dig deep enough until they see that there's nothing beneath the surface, but I suspect most wouldn't do so even if they were capable.

and more importantly, a plant-based diet will significantly reduce the suffering of sentient life.

From all the horror stories I hear about IBM it makes me wonder whether we are talking about the same company.

I work at IBM in europe. We have open office spaces, I will work remotely for the entirety of next year. I guess the work I'm doing would be considered 'uncool' by most people my age (Internal Devops engineering).

I'm always surprised whenever I read just how bad it's supposed to be as it doesn't remotely match my experience.

Just curious. In what way was Terence McKenna ahead of the curve? All I've heard from him seems really crazy. Suggesting the most plausable explenation for the origin creatures you speak with on DMT is that they're other dimensional aliens (or something close to that).

I'm really confused to why so many people whom I respect find him insightful.

As an employee of IBM Denmark I'm interested in hearing what makes you think so from a danish perspective.

IBM is my first employer and while my inside impression has been great, I'm wondering what the danish view from outside is!

Thanks, I'll make sure to read that. Generally I am greatly frustrated about how little I know about 'physical things'. Like all my effort has always been poured into philosophy, mathematics, economics, and computer science, never leaving any time to appreciate physics, chemistry and engineering. Just the title of that paper has three words I don't know what mean!

I moved to Copenhagen, but I guess that qualifies as the area :P