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Same here for todos (just with pen and paper).

I don’t see why I’d need an admin dashboard and a DBMS to effectively prioritize what I need to accomplish in 16 hours.

Yeah, not sure what label we’d give to a system like this but it works. I basically do the same, but with Raindrop (the bookmark manager). I’ve tried many tools and systems, but what works (for me) is basically a personal data lake where semi-structured/incompletely-labeled stuff can be archived.

For todos and calendars, I’ve found less is more to be particularly true. I don’t see how anyone gets solid ROI for non-collaborative personal projects by using feature-filled systems. I’m quite busy, and the minimal cognitive load of pen and paper is difficult to surpass.

My understanding is that there is something like a Goldilocks part of the curve (e.g. 115-125) where you get above average intelligence and high motivation (‘hard working’).

On average, any random company will be filled with solidly average engineers. Which means, because of how numbers work, most of the engineers are neither good nor bad at engineering. They’re just mediocre.

Companies need to realize this and come to grips with it. Additionally, this holds as well for the following: beyond a certain skill threshold, a company will not really be any less competitive by failing to hire the best or even second best candidate. If you are a regional telecommunications firm, and hire the 3rd best candidate, the 1st and 2nd candidates will likely get hired in unrelated firms or unrelated regions (especially in the remote work era). And even if this isn’t so, because most everyone is mediocre, the competitiveness of your firm won’t drop appreciably.

The Redmond philosophy views running Windows update as basic control flow for any executable whatsoever.

Also, even for relatively simple and beginner things like recursion there are levels of understanding. Some of the anecdotes I see from people using ChatGPT to learn a new technical concept suggest a false sense of deeper levels of understanding. This seems to be a result of beginner naïveté together with the supreme confidence ChatGPT exudes.

The degree of ‘needing’ to explain consciousness is basically the inverse of the degree of ‘needing’ to explain what the last digit of 22/7 is. Hardly anyone talks about or does anything with the latter, whereas the reality of the former pervades - quite literally - nearly everything humans do and think about.

I mean, you experienced the reality of consciousness while talking about the last digit of 22/7.

If there is anything in our world that needs explaining it’s consciousness.

Reality doesn’t owe us an explanation of consciousness (obviously). We owe it to ourselves though.

I’m not an insider, so I wouldn’t know, but there is an alternative take on their motivations for courting the Saudi’s. Namely, they are becoming a bit like SoftBank: they’ve been raising mega funds the past couple years and have started to run out of traditional institutional investors to court.

While this could be an alternative take all its own, it can also be combined with the crypto take (they aren’t mutually exclusive).

I think a lot of this stuff is probably just a coin flip, because we just don’t know.

I find it odd, however, when people, who seemingly accept an ASI will be developed, focus the downside risk on extinction of us as a species. Sure, that’s a risk. You know something else an ASI would likely have the ability to do, (or at least, one of its progeny)? Keep you alive and torture you for eons in weird and surreal ways.

Why is the downside always focused on paltry, meaningless things (relatively speaking) like extinction of life on earth?

Hell is others’ XML.

Yeah, I wonder sometimes how many people gloss over what it would mean for an “ASI” to exist. We would - if successful - effectively be creating a supernatural being (at least, there wouldn’t be much of a distinction between it and one).

Sure, there’s hype, and FUD, and fatalism, etc. But, if you believe the creation of such a thing is within your lifetime then it would be difficult to find many higher priority issues to prepare for/help solve/vote on/etc.

In reality, we all likely still downplay the risk by assessing the limit on the downside as a relatively quick extinction of life on earth. There are many things one can imagine might be a lot worse than death.

I would love native platform support. I’ll write up some initial thoughts and drop them into the Slack.

My girlfriend works for a large consulting firm. Her mid-to-high-end work laptop runs the standard smattering of PM applications you’d expect (e.g. Teams).

I watch her screen sometimes to see the differences in our workflows. It is incredible the high latencies and low speeds she has come to view as acceptable in application performance. 2-3 seconds to toggle a menu that’s toggled 30 times in a day; 4 seconds for a small file list update that is performed regularly; tabs in Edge frequently hanging; on and on this goes.

Just sad, really, especially when we have a half gig connection going both ways. The work being performed (and the features designed to do it) should not be seen as resource heavy… because it isn’t. It’s the same exact bs that was done on computers in corporate settings 20 years ago. We’ve added collaborative editing and auto save as defaults - that’s the extent of the difference.

How did we get here?

One of my close friends was recently scammed out of $203,324 and the scammer used a text message, from an invalid/unused number, as the entry point. The full scam was quite involved and took a little over a month to run through.

She is an immigrant and her parents cleared out a savings account in the process (the scammer convinced all parties involved my friend would be deported unless…).

By debugging homebrew issues during Moneterey updates.

I didn’t brick the machine, just the ability to setup a typical python venv.

Twice bricking my laptop’s ability to do python development because of venv + symlink bs was the catalyst I needed to go all-in on remote dev environments.

I don’t drive python daily, but my other projects thank Python for that.

> A new programming language has to be really good to survive. A new language needs to represent a quantum leap just to be in the game. Well, we're going to be up-front about this: Flare is really good.

I feel like projects with this type of language/writing suggest the project won’t be successful.

I’m sure there are plenty of org inefficiencies that need to be restructured or eliminated. Early in my career, I would simply nod along to a headline like this. Now, I realize any single individual lacks the imaginative capacity to accurately know how much stuff large orgs naturally end up doing in service of even a limited set of simple goals. A limited number of simple goals at a large enough scale require an explosion of seemingly unimportant work. That’s just entropy.

Really cool! (logged in just to let you know). Put a smile on my face while playing with it.

-Setapp for Mac

-Raindrop.io

-Gitpod

I’m a tool junkie, but those three are the only ones I’d swear by.

My understanding is that, within the academic literature, nearly everyone accepts qualia in as much as qualia is simply the subjective character of an experience/sensation. The disagreement is over how exactly to cash that out, and whether - and to what extent - the non-physical comes into play.

“Once we have made the decision to turn back to the ways of duty, gratitude will flow naturally into us, and… gratitude is the precondition of joy. Only those who give thanks are able to rejoice, for only they are conscious that life, freedom and well-being are not rights but gifts.“

I’m self-taught, with bachelors and grad degrees in non-STEM. Broke into the industry a little over two years ago. I currently have interviews with FAANG and FAANG-tier for SDE roles. In fact, I have a final round this week.

You can teach yourself pretty much all of a CS curriculum by buying a stack of textbooks listed on CS syllabi, and then going to town. Naturally, you’ll build projects while doing this.

Do some LC and prep for interviews.

You don’t need to get a CS degree to get SDE interviews. It helps, but isn’t necessary. And to pass technical rounds, you don’t even need to have read most of that stack of CS textbooks. You need some bits and pieces from that stack of books, and be quick on your feet with LC medium.

If your friend is good at standardized tests, then LC is right up their alley.

I still have sleep apnea, but the symptoms are entirely gone.

I became a different person after taking the medication. Even after just a couple nights.

It’s quite remarkable how you are mentally and physically when you’ve never slept.

Trazadone cured it for me. My respiratory arousal threshold was low - due to sleep apnea. Trazadone raised the threshold significantly.

I just need 12.5mg before bed.

evil-mode emacs isn't as snappy, vscode is harder to wrangle for a really pure-like vim setup. Someone else in this thread mentioned nvim, and while I like nvim a lot, i like the vscode extension ecosystem also prefer a gui vim editor (ive tried many).

long story short, i really like the product roadmap for onivim2, even though it isn't quite feature-full/polished enough to make as my daily driver. i've been a monthly Patreon supporter since last fall, though, and am guessing it'll be my main editor sometime this year!

>MSNBC/Fox/CNN

An alternate explanation is that these are not news outlets, and haven't been for years. Instead, they are merely editorial outlets.

Multi-national corporations as pseudo central banks is likely one of the many end points of globalization. Much like globalization, it is neither good nor bad, it just is - and is so for reasons of inevitability.

The nation-state was always a sort of imagined reality. Though, I'm uncertain much can be drawn from that fact.

>unproven allegations

This entire thread concerns Mailchimp specifically. Not sure there is a clearer definition of advertising than "unproven allegations".

I'm not sure what you are arguing. I'm arguing that political nihilism is a possible position, and that being a political nihilist is different than being a supporter/opponent of the status quo.

Your argument seems to be that there are only ever two possible political positions: pro-status-quo or anti-status-quo. Is it really that simple/non-complex?