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I once worked for a mentor of mine using elements of Provicative Therapy and thought zhat was weird… not doubting the effectivity anymore.
http://www.provocativetherapy.com/what-is-provocative-therap...
A way more apt comparison would be evaluating him on his knive sharpening skills.
These days, I have the feeling there are only two kinds of platforms left:
The clean ones with strong moderation, where any form of edginess and possibly controversial topics including breastfeeding, violence or discussing human rights can be banned globally or in certain countries.
And the other ones, where the Nazis, lunatics and scammers hang out.
I‘m still not sure what to take from that.
In order to stop robocalls, you just need to do three things:
* Flat out ban them and make it illegal to route them at network handover points
* Make caller ID mandatory with a reachable number to call back to
* Create an authority caring for those robocall reports
Then, put heavy fines on violations and go enforce the heck out of it. That's exactly what the EU did pretty much in the infancy of this technology.
I can't recall ever getting a robocall here in Germany.
That being said, my bet is this being a tragedy of the commons, as the only two parties in the system seem to heavily rely on the tool for fundraising — oh and they probably also make millions for some selected members of congress... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is currently my main criterion. I want something that captures my thoughts while hiking without seeing or touching the screen. Currently dabbling with Siri shortcuts, but they're pretty buggy and lacking.
So if Voiceliner could either support the Shortcuts API and/or switch into a mode that's press-to-record / or start-stop, but somehow works on the connected Airpods only, that would be awesome.
Bonus points for re-reading the transcription to me and very light editing on top (like document switching).
Is there something like that?
When I was in my twenties, I would have empathized with your point. I used to host my own web servers, but back then, my main priorities were curiosity, privacy and independence.
Not just that, I opened accounts for friends and family.
A decade later, I made all my hosting someone elses‘ problem, because I had different priorities.
There‘s nothing like the sound of a friend shouting in your ear because he trusted you with his mail address and he‘s running into weird errors. Or trying to get an important email delivered after a 10h crunch shift when you just want to bring your kids to bed instead.
I‘m thankful for all those learnings, but nowadays, I‘m old enough to just want mail to frickin work, that‘s why Google does it for me on a custom domain.
That being said, my mind was stuck in Animat's state as well for a long time, mainly because of neutron flux. Neutrons were the ultimate end boss at the end of the goal by laughing at your fusion progress and just destroying every containment that comes their way. What excites me these days are modern contenders like HB11 Energy and Helion Fusion jumping directly to aneutronic fusion.
This is the stuff most physicists didn't dare to dream of as of late, mostly because they weren't even close to sustaining the simplest D-T reactions for long, and aneutronic fusion takes even considerately hotter and denser plasmas — as well as being plagued by fuel availability concerns (HE3). But it's something that's within reach due to massive advances in ultra-short laser technology, coil breakthroughs and some other clever hacks like breeding HE3 on site.
That, combined with the other advance of direct electrical harvest instead of thermic conversion puts fusion into territories of believable reach for the first time in my mind. After decades of disappointedly following the status quo, I'm getting seriously excited.
This is one of the seriously great ideas where I‘m thinking: How didn‘t anyone come up with that before?
Can understand he's salty about it, but looks like he's trying to use that fact as well as lots of unrelated stuff as leverage to pitch his foundation.
Is it time to market? Conflict of interest? Are there limitations to the size difference?
I'm just thinking that since the "vehicle" seems to be useful, shouldn't there a race to the bottom be going on in terms of sponsor margins? As in essence, the value any of them provide seems to be pretty replaceable to me. Or what else do they bring to the table than an empty hull?
Exciting times.
It was a hard truth to swallow, but rationalizing it, I quickly realized all other reactions to adversity are pretty pointless indeed.
There are people who thrive in large orgs and then there's others... eventually I realized there's simply no way I'll ever make peace with bureaucracy.
I can stand brilliant chaos and long, hard hours among talented people better than being a smart cog in the wheel who effectively does 50% of a 9-5 gaming the system and playing solitaire otherwise.
Everybody needs to choose their poison.
Interface is from the 90s, no BS, full access to DNS config and transfers, no upsells, just hardcore neckbeard admin stuff.
I like.
> Every single situation had pros and cons, and none of them made me feel completely full-filled.
…I wanted to share this piece of experience that resonated with me back then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15107818
[Maybe we all need a little less balance — NYT]
The point being: I‘ve found that simply accepting no single way living my career has been able to strike a perfect balance _all at once_ already was a key piece that let me feel more at ease.
Your way of trying out a few different things at different times seems to not be the worst strategy in that regard.
I‘d say I‘m 80% happy now with my job, but I know there will always be parts I dread. And doing something different will simply trade them for others.
[...]
The next layer of your unfolding purpose may make itself clear immediately. More often, however, it does not. After completing one layer of purpose, you might not know what to do with your life. You know that the old project is over for you, but you are not sure of what is next. At this point, you must wait for a vision.
There is no way to rush this process. You may need to get an intermediary job to hold you over until the next layer of purpose makes itself clear. Or, perhaps you have enough money to simply wait. But in any case, it is important to open yourself to a vision of what is next. You stay open to a vision of your deeper purpose by not filling your time with distractions. Don’t watch TV or play computer games. Don’t go out drinking beer with your friends every night or start dating a bunch of women. Simply wait. You may wish to go on a retreat in a remote area and be by yourself. Whatever it is you decide to do, consciously keep yourself open and available to receiving a vision of what is next. It will come.
When it comes, it usually won’t be a detailed vision. You will probably have a sense of what direction to move in, but the practical steps might not make themselves clear. When the impulse begins to arise, act on it. Don’t wait for the details. Learn by trial and error what it is you are to do.
[...]
And then, one day, a few years later, it is finished. This layer has dissolved. And the cycle begins again, and again, until you have penetrated all the layers into your deepest purpose. Then, you act fully, until that purpose, too, is dissolved in the bliss of the love that you are.
— David Deida
https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass/blob/master/docs/backends...
Not only was that tolerated in the name of profit, these individuals were able to create official looking, completely unverified "pages" with bogus attribution to create their "engagement" campaigns meant to poison and destruct western society (and arguably being successful in that).
How this is legally anything different than complicity in treason is hard to comprehend for me.
So with that runtime you could easily just write whatever would happen if you press which key combo (or do cronjob-like things managed by the runtime) and then write what happens inline.
Write it all to a single script, copy it to a coworker's computer, run it, several dozen key combos just work now.
That's something I couldn't manage to pull off in AppleScript or Automator, but then again maybe I was just too dumb.
I'm getting melancholic vibes of AutoHotKey reading the docs, which was arguably my first entry into professional programming. Knowing nothing about coding, I built a service desk automation back then — with (network file-) shared hotkeys and a real GUI, all in one single file... good times.
Anyway, ever since switching to MacOS more than a decade ago, I've always been searching for an AHK analog for those simple keystroke automations, text-based, with just enough of a glue language to hold it all together — Automator never quite cut it for me, after wielding the full power of AHK, it always felt too limited, rigid and clicky-colory.
Even though I don't have immediate use cases for it anymore, it makes me very happy that I know where to go back now!
Since then, I've been seriously pondering how a community would feel like that would simply enforce humble, fact-based discussion by technical means. FWIW, I'd be curious to try it out.
I've found out the hard way that social problems are usually a really terrible fit to technical solutions, but I'm curious anyway.
This idea might be a great one to try to go together with that idea.
It's supposed to mean anything, so your imagination, excitement and greed can inpaint the rest.
"Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also “send” requests for web pages. And when you think about it, calling a method on an object is like sending a message to an object! It’s the same thing again! Those are all sending operations, so our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction called messaging, but now it’s getting really vague and nobody really knows what they’re talking about any more. Blah.
When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353157 — Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001) (joelonsoftware.com)
Duh. Who could possibly have foreseen that defunding would not change their attitude?
It made me wonder whether the right NOR the left had any clue left as what the role of a police force in a democracy was actually supposed to be — or whether that battle cry _really_ originated from the same forces trying to split the US society: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/14/russia-us-po...
Like, there would have been lots of great claims: "Train police", "Restructure Police", "Rebuild Police"... but what's a single good argument to "Defund Police" other than wanting to go back to anarchy?
I'm working on the topic day to day in an adjacent field (movie & TV show discovery) and I'm currently not aware of any startup that has managed making money with the discovery experience itself.
It takes a lot of effort, data and persistence to get reasonable algorithms churning out something sensible and then, nobody wants to pay for it. If anything, it's usually an upsell to monetizing the content itself, which is why the only serious contenders to me here are basically Youtube and Spotify.
Even Netflix "had it all" with the million dollar recommender prize they set out in 2014, and I know their data science team is top notch. But if I scroll through their experience with my personal account in 2021, I basically still get "what all others are currently watching in {your_country} now" and I'm less than thrilled.
And that's exactly because once you've got the perfect algo together that would be able to recommend you that niche movie Netflix features you've never seen in the interface that you're _really_ interested in (I can recommend "Last Breath" in that regard), the VP Content comes in and tells everyone something like "hey folks, whatever you do, make sure you're only promoting our originals, because they cost us far less in licensing... oh and let's give an extra in-your-face boost to King's Gambler to give it that extra buzz that lands us in Variety"
Discovery is hard, and once you made a name there, it's rather easy to screw it up by monetizing it.
...and this is also an incredibly hard sell to any upstart, since to creators, reach is usually more important than money.
Source: Worked for one of the last semi-serious local Youtube competitors in our country who tried this strategy and miserably failed, after which the site was effectively shut down and rebranded as a storefront for the TV station that bought it.
The original Scrum also talks about servant leadership, when in reality in 99% of wannabe agile organizations, everything is just about enabling some manager's power trips.
I've found that most software development methodologies don't consistently work, mirroring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885171
The real problem is that Scrum is not agile at all: Scrum is a fat "process" that enforces "following a plan" (regular, rigid meeting structure), "creating comprehensive documentation" (user stories, specs, mocks, task board) and "contract negotiation" (estimation meetings, planning poker). In that way, it's the exact opposite of the original agile Manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/
The only thing Scrum has ever been great at (and why it's continually chosen despite proven harmful to development productivity) is that it's great at simulating continuous progress and control to management. Other than that, it's simply fostering architectural mess and a political, dogmatic attitude from and towards everyone.
It all starts with a clear product vision from the top and defining how succeeding on it looks like.
If you don't know where to go, Scrum will get you there faster and in even more directions at once.
Or, to cite one of my all time favorites:
"Building intuition on how to make good decisions and cultivating a great relationship with your team will get you 95% of the way there. The plethora of conceptual frameworks for organizing engineering teams won’t make much difference. They make good managers slightly better and bad managers slightly worse."