alexvy86

While not convinced by the statistical argument either, I think a more accurate analogy would be "Imagine you have a cell. It breaks apart into two identical cells. [Rinse and repeat a bunch of times]." And then if you pick a cell at random from the resulting set, it is indeed more probable that you picked one that is not the original one. IMO this doesn't apply as cleanly to simulated universes because they're not literal clones of one another, plus we're not even sure it's even possible to simulate one (while we know cells do go through mitosis).

This is how I read the idea in the comment you replied to: external factors (namely, needing money to satisfy even the most basic life needs), not biological ones, are the ones that drive some places to have a more evenly split men/women ratio. When the environment is "safe" enough that you don't need to worry about how you're going to survive, that's when the biological predispositions come to light, and you get women going to what they inherently prefer, and move away from the things they don't.

I don't think the point is that women can't successfully tackle engineering, they can. But that doesn't mean that they have a predisposition towards it. If you encourage (or even force) someone into a particular profession, they might excel at it, but that doesn't imply that they would've picked it on their own.

Exactly this. And if I might nitpick a bit, I'd say "the amount of time people WANT to spend in social settings". Which would probably correlate well to the actual time spent in such settings, but to me the heart of the matter is that some people just aren't look for it, while others are.

> Denormalization when done right should NOT result in duplication

Isn't that what it is by definition? Can you give an example of how would you denormalize without causing some sort of data duplication?

It's supposed to come back (improved) with the Fall Creators Update though. I can see how many users would get confused by it but hopefully this time it'll be more intuitive.

Ok, I do agree that it's not a black/white thing, it's a spectrum. If that was the point you were trying to make, then we're on the same page. In my personal case, I think I am pretty consistent on where I am in that spectrum. I might wiggle a bit, but it's more like measurement noise, not swings up and down from one end to the other. For example, I just can't recall the last time I genuinely enjoyed a big event with tons of people.

To your point about labels, I guess some people do label themselves in an "exclusively A or exclusively B" manner, but I think there's also a lot who say "I'm an introvert/extrovert" as short hand for "I'm on that end of the spectrum", it's just more convenient, if technically a bit unclearer.

The second and third sentences are reasonable; yes, we should all try to step out of our comfort zones every now and then. But I vehemently disagree with the first sentence. I have no scientific studies or similar sources to back up my views, but I've read several articles that very accurately describe the way I feel about this topic. For introverts (and I count myself here) social interaction is for the most part an energy drain, while for extroverts it's an energy source. There's people that cannot stand the idea of staying home on a Friday night and would actually feel down if they did. They crave social interaction, loud places, being around people even if they don't know them. And there's other people who cannot stand the idea of going to a club and party until [whatever time] in the morning. Loud places, crowded places, forced conversations, just suck away our energy, they don't make us "feel alive" or anything of that sort. So we stay home and read books, or attend small social gatherings with our close friends.

To summarize: in general, extroverts get energy from social interaction, and introverts lose energy in them.

As you said. the Work/School Account is one provided by your employer (normally), and usually comes from Active Directory (or AzureAD).

The Personal accounts (also called Microsoft accounts/IDs or Live IDs) are the ones you as an individual create directly with Microsoft. The prime example would be people who've had a Hotmail account for ages, and that eventually became a Microsoft account.

The confusion comes because since a couple years ago, you can create Microsoft accounts with any e-mail that you own, be it personal, from work, hosted in gmail, hosted by your employer, hosted by yourself... You name it. So it is possible to create a Microsoft account with your work e-mail, even if your work e-mail also has a Work/School Account tied to it. All the notifications for that Microsoft account will go there, but they are not for your "Work/School Account" (also referred to as Organizational account), they are for your personal one.

Yes, it is a mess. After a while I got used to it and now I'm comfortable navigating all my identities, but it can be very annoying when you first encounter it.

Can you be more detailed about "shit android support"? I'm currently trying it out and didn't seem so bad, similar to how I currently use LastPass in Android in general. Apparently I need an extra click to actually copy a password there, but I also saw they have an integrated keyboard (https://support.1password.com/android-keyboard/), which I haven't looked at yet.

Kudos to the dev team for that, I think most people wouldn't own that kind of issue

Did the parent comment change? It currently says "an authorized..."

I'm not familiar at all with Amazon's cloud, so I might be misinterpreting... but when you say "sometimes reuse..." and "they're often still there..." it sounds to me like they might as well not be? How would that be a good foundation for an app deployed in Lambda?

I'm not sure I follow... the parent comment didn't seem to question the legitimacy of his election. And I also think that Trump's attitude in general can be seen by many as a validation of that behavior ("throwing your weight around" / bullying).

I agree with this and have been trying to put it in practice myself.

Like OP, I was an avid reader during my school years and noticed that I wasn't doing it as much the past couple of years. I realized most of the time that I could spend reading books I was spending reading articles from my RSS feeds, but many times just to get a sense of completion (like an Inbox Zero for my RSS feeds), which meant I didn't really let them sink in or wasn't doing any thinking of my own about them.

Realizing that it provided very little value, if any, I decided that I had to stop that and go back to reading only when I have the time to do so at my own pace, and only things that I really wanted to read, not that I felt I had to read for bogus reasons.

Going back to OP's question, I do think that information overload is partly to blame here. At least for me, it's taking a conscious effort to put this in practice and ignore a lot of the information that comes my way.