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you might have an easier time splitting up send and receive into separate managed things instead of looking for one system to do it all over SMS

_SEND_

You can send an email over SMS I believe by texting the email address.

So you should be able to set up a server to process emails you send to a specific address and trigger commands in response to it. the triggers would need to be set up in advance, but other than that you should be able to do anything normal

_RECEIVE_

For receiving SMS - I am not sure tbh. You could use Twilio, but it might be overkill. I would jsut make sure whatever solution you use doesn't get automatically blocked by the ISP. I am not sure the proper way to flag something as wanted / intended

> you often have to have your own experts anyway.

+1 on this

IME the most successful outsourcing arrangements revolve around scale of work, not substituting an entire department. Keeping the amount of in-house experts lean and having them manage outsourced resources. So it is more of a tool for someone internal who has the needs organized rather than a dependency on a 3rd party to know what is best for you

In short, they arent going anywhere

Internet culture is trending towards being fed content algorithmically rather than seeking content deliberately. I see no end to the ad market in this context, for as long as you are not the one deciding what you are looking at - there will be value in paying whoever does control it to show you an ad.

People need to start vehemently rejecting content forced upon us without request with the same intensity as someone shoving food in your mouth. The recent rise of the "for you page" indicates social trending in the opposite direction though, so ads arent going anywhere.

i am equally interested in seeing it compared it to alternative fuels in the same manner. the point is more about putting nuclear into perspective with human error. and what kinds of human error are necessary to make nuclear dangerous.

I feel there is an assumption that there will always be enough people at every plant who are fully competent, which i do not think is the reality we would see if we replace most energy needs with nuclear

What kinds of things do you sue car companies for?

I do not think lawyers literally encouraged it, I just think that they are expensive and going proprietary helps avoid issues.

What's your take, though? Genuinely interested. It is widespread across the entire industry, so there appears to be an industry-related driving factor for it

i blame lawyers in general. the more subjugated a customer is, the cleaner their interaction is with contracts, and the less money is spent on lawyers working through the specific situation. Especially relevant in the event of tragedy.

"your car exploded? well you didnt use a triple certified dealership for your last oil change so you cant hold us accountable for that. says so in the contract."

now obviously if a car had that level of danger.. you wouldnt even be able to get the oil change done anywhere but the dealership. and in modern times where we try to hold companies responsible for everything we possibly can, it makes sense that anytime there is a remote possibility of liability, they attempt to gate the customer out of it completely.

i feel like the general population has either grown to be, or always has been, so indifferent towards subtle legal differences that we continue broadening the strokes of liability which is causing us to lose the power to do many basic things ourselves as a trade off for avoiding any personal responsibility tied to the consequences of doing those things improperly.

nuclear is also incredibly hard to build an accurate model for because the concern tends to revolve around the risk of human stupidity causing major issues.

on top of that, i feel like there is a lot of hand waving involved with the waste. if we really industrialized nuclear fuel worldwide - we would be creating a lot of nuclear waste. theoretically, this isnt a problem.

what id like to see, and may do one day if i run out of projects, is at what risk factor does nuclear equal fossil fuels. not, look how much better it is, but "this is about how dumb we would need to be in our handling of nuclear plants to cause about the same damage as our current system does"

making it apples to apples like that would make it much clearer.. % risk of this or that is tough to internalize for a lot of people. but is active sabotage of 1 out of every 10 plants necessary to be as bad as current energy? or is just 1 plant failing enough to make nuclear worse and we are just saying the likelihood of just 1 plant failing is astronomically small

Discipline and reward are the solution for me.

It sucks but you absolutely must prioritize getting that work done and off your desk as soon as possible. I tackle this work with the energy of a rabid dog, using my hate for it as fuel to work quickly. Afterwards, I make a nice cup of tea. It still sucks, but I am minimizing the total amount of time I spend with this type of work on my mind which has had ineffable benefits on my mental state

If possible, get a coworker into the flow by working up drafts and having them review and provide feedback. while waiting for feedback, it isn't on your desk. If you have to provide your own feedback, still chunk and draft the work as if you were sending it to a coworker and then create a time-block for when to review it yourself.

I have a lot of 'shallow work' right now as you describe. I am at a small business and I often get other peoples shallow work randomly dropped on my desk as well since my desk is also an operations overflow.

DO NOT OVERUSE AN OXYGEN TANK. This will give you oxygen poisoning.

There are no weird tricks for weight loss. My best advice is to commit fully and indefinitely. Kill the illusion of yourself living your current life as-is but with a thinner body. you must grow / adjust / embrace permanent lifestyle changes and then you will eventually find yourself having the body that reflects those changes.

The most efficient method is to raise your base metabolic rate while maintaining an appropriate caloric deficit. Be sensitive to the difference between hunger and starvation. Get comfortable feeling hungry, but dont let yourself starve

the only tricks or tips that might help with this are personal experiences on your end. Finding activities, routines, communities, support systems, etc that make it less of a chore to stick to a lifestyle fitting to the body you want

HIIT training is a good way to quickly increase your resting metabolic rate for a short period of time (like a day) - do it responsibly though ofc.

The thing is, if you use weight loss tricks (like HIIT) and dont intend to continue them after youve hit your goal weight - your base metabolic rate will drop, and you will start rapidly gaining weight if you dont adjust your diet to match (which is much easier said than done, and hard to even notice it is happening tbh)

So no matter what you do, by the end of it you need to be living an appropriate life for the body you want if you intend to keep it. Might as well work towards building that lifestyle from the beginning

what industry are you in?

On the other hand, if you begin the draft the same day as the invasion you are probably going to have a bad time

looks like there might be an emerging market for 60-inch computer monitors

I relate to the OP on a fundamental level although the literal expression would be different for me. I do not think it has any relation to speed. It is not a deliberate step. It would be slower to mimic this behavior, but if you have it by default it's just kind of there.

Certain calculations are actually faster because i begin to have faith in my feeling of the math over doing an actual calculation - with the same type of confidence i have when recalling a times table for example. Still, it usually doesnt get me all the way to an answer

There are certain mathematical rules that you can probably identify that are related to my internal expressions and how they "fit" together. For example, I do not know without calculating what "25 x 15" is, but I have an idea of what the answer feels like. anything below 100 or over 1000 feels outright OCD level out-of-place. Numbers like 114, 201, etc, feel dirty and incomplete. we can identify in this scenario that the shape / feeling of the answer for me is related to an intuition for the mathematical principle that the product of two numbers that are divisible by 5 is also divisible by 5 - but at no point did I deliberately evoke that rule when conceiving of a possible answer. Also this is a simple example, this intuition runs beyond my knowledge and ability to formally explain the principles. In reality, many such principles (learned or inferred) come together at once to feed my internal expression of the answer. A calculator says 375 is the answer, though 325 and 475 feel about the same

I do not think it makes me better at getting correct answers, but it does help me accept an answer as being correct when looking at it also feels right. It's most useful when identifying errors. There is a big help when you see "15 x 25 = 356" and without thinking you can feel internally like something is out of place, dirty, needs attention (this applies to advanced topics as well). As I said above though, more than the correct answer can have the same or similar feeling - so it is prone to false negatives

With something like math, intuition based guess work that has room for false negatives is hardly that useful overall. So maybe the only real edge it can provide is in working with novel concepts where you have to guess a direction to explore and hope you uncover something useful. That is an unfounded hypothesis though.

ngl I am also curious about meta-dynamic information and I do not think this response helped me understand the definition much.

Do you mean the rules for Collatz are the meta-dynamic information? because from the rules we can generate additional information dynamically?

Are you able to describe it a different, less mathematical, way maybe?

for example, can meta-dynamic information be observed by seeing the way someone jumps up and down?

the companies are asking, and contractors are answering.

It is the contractors business to accept the contract, not the companies. IMO increasing the responsibility of a business to use contractors will add more roots to current large companies and increase the burden of small businesses to exist.

I agree this situation is terrible, and that the contracting system is being abused by large companies, but we need to try to solve this without changing the nature of what a contract agreement is.

>Thinking about sending a contractor to negotiate with a terrorist should scare the pants off of companies.

the spirit of a contract is that the companies do not have an obligation to think about the contractor at all, and vice-versa. The entire relationship is defined by an agreement not to breach the contract, and that's it. Do we really need to burden every contract with cynicism just because it is a point of contact with shitty people doing shitty things?

For example, if I hire a contractor to redo my kitchen I am shifting responsibility to someone else to do something, and then I write up a contract for all the arbitrary things that need decisions like design choices, acceptable colors, etc. They are accepting the responsibility for operations. If they use illegal operations, that is on them and I hope they face consequences for that. I am just some guy who wants a nice kitchen, I cant be expected to audit the guy i am hiring to know what to do on the things he is supposed to know better than me. The only thing I accept responsibility for is whether or not I like the outcome of him fulfilling the contract.

The real problem is that companies are getting away with using "contractors" who in actuality operate like employees and are not really in a position to accept responsibility for their entire scope of work. That's a shitty thing we should be dealing with. because if a companies EMPLOYEES get kidnapped by ISIS while doing work assigned to them by their employer.. that is a very different situation