karol

Can't help it but think this is written from a position of a someone who doesn't have a long to do list and chooses the passage of emotions and frankly boredom as entertainment. Nothing wrong with that, however with the times being gloomy and oppressive as they are I would think this type of activity will be chosen less and less.

Once this changes the prospective employees will turn to other application strategies such as depicted in the famous graphic "will code html for food".

All it does is it shows we are still in employee driven market, hence the recession hasn't hit yet.

Why bother with mini farts when there are far larger methane leaks? https://www.ecowatch.com/methane-leak-russia-coal-mine.html A clear case of over-focusing on the problem.

Should I applaud that in a few years we will be able to visualise individual animals' methane emissions when clearly this follows a Pareto distribution and shutting down the largest offenders will have the greatest impact.

Instead it seems we want to congratulate ourselves again that we created more data points about our methane-guilt. It is clear to me that if this kind of tech can be used to slap fines on people it will. And so we can create new markets for allowable methane emissions!

Good stuff. Still it's worth to look at the the ice core data from Greenland drilling.

You, not the average graph of all people's choices, are in control of your life major turns.

Some very nice answers here already. I would extend the definition of "a stack" to any plain where some wizardry is performed that is not trivial to learn. By doing this I am suggesting that a full stack developer or a generalist or a an entrepreneur are actually quite related.

These are the people who can see the big picture and have "enough skills to be dangerous" in each field. These skills are user experience, user interface, getting things done, communication, programming in various languages, architecture and devops, debugging and bug fixing.

Of course on the lower level there is API design, writing type safe code.

And on the even lower level there is optimising SQL queries, writing Chromium patches, designing network protocols, defining new EcmaScript primitives. These are extremely specific skills and people who can do them might have more narrow and deeper experise.

It ended up being a bit o a ramble, hope it hints at a useful perspective.

Fully agreed. Also I have a feeling the opposite might also be true - the more meat a person eats the bigger their chances to get good levels of energy and cognitive skills required to increase earning potential.

Google The Hustlers University.

Sounds like a limiting belief.

It's a crazy question. Obviously she has just given birth. Why would we brainwash women into think they account to nothing if they don't ALSO have a "career"?

If you are an engineer you are intelligent enough to work out how your metabolism works and make changes. What would be a reason to stay fat?

All crazy elimination diets work short term. The true measure of a diet is the one you can live on for years and be healthy.

You should have called the blog post "DRY considered harmful" and go down in history.

What makes you think the description is incorrect? Even following your own account the title of the article is spot on.

The rest of the emissions story is the overarching narrative that we "must" cut some emissions and therefore food production must be reduced and hence food prices must increase.

Don't try to make yourself perfect, instead figure out what you'd like to do.

Looks woke

Using this means devaluing your software related skills. Do not do that!

Excellent question. Esp. the final bit where you ask about 'the business value'. It is actually closer to just 'value' - as experienced by the users.

If you are in a position where you see piling up complexity does not bring in more satisfied users and more money that is a great time to set up a simpler competitor that will do things on the cheap in a less complex way.

This is super cool. However over the years I have seen super cool things being noticed by powerful organisations and made mandatory for the greater good of the corporation or the society. I would not like to see that happen with this one.

Native Polish speaker.

To get out the max of this poem you need to be versed in Polish lang of course, but also mathematics and basic history of Polish literature.

The poem is a mock-erotyk (quasi "poem about lovemaking") where the mechanics of love are replaced with mechanics of mathematics. It works very well with całka (integral) which creates a fantastic replacement całkować (determine integral) instead of całować (kiss).

The other place that speaks volumes about this being satirical is an almost word for word quote from Polish national epos called "Pan Tadeusz": Wiele trzeba cię cenić, ten się dowie tylko" (Much you must be valued, he will only know), which for a Pole is an instantly recognisable stylistic device.

It also mentions a lot of math which is either made up or way above my head so I won't comment about that.

Could you use dog's blood for transfusion? No. But you could use chimpanzee blood in humans.

We are 98.4 identical genetically with chimpanzees. In other words, if another entity, not humans, created the biological kingdom taxonomy we would end up being called the same species.

Why would anyone send money to a foreign country army? You elect your politicians to do that for you using taxes.

And maybe UK, and maybe Austria, and maybe Australia? Check the work of Edward Snowden, see who shares data with the NSA.

I don't see anything here that other countries don't do and then cover it up and put on a democratic facade.

That sounds nonsensical, when people visit your website they run your code using their CPUs and electricity. You also get their attention and may even influence their heart rates and breathing patterns.

Yes, it has been done with go and Deep Mind. The program found novel patterns of playing that were not known. I don't see why this wouldn't happen with chess.

> Convincing, nutritious, cheap artificial meat could turn the world vegetarian.

You wrongly assume people in general want to or need to be vegetarian. We evolved to eat and digest animal based foods.

> Although you can work out in the gym and increase the size of your biceps, that doesn’t mean your children are going to inherit those characteristics.

Our evolving understanding of genetics show a less black-and-white picture than this sentence does. We can trigger certain genes through behaviours, which would otherwise remain dormant, which in turn can be passed onto our offspring.

More info: https://www.science.org/content/article/parents-emotional-tr...