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When my son and I drive to London, we pass Stonehenge and always play that song. We repeat that line many, many times.

I like this, I’ve been tracking with MyFitnessPal. Would be great if I could import historical calories to see how it performs. Also note that tracking calories is hard - often it’s an estimate so quite hard to vary by the small amounts above and below the threshold needed for continued weight loss. Also losing weight is hard!

Worth mentioning Gene Wolfe’s superb Latro books (https://www.goodreads.com/series/49453-latro)

I think the premise for the books is that the story is found on ancient papyrus.

Which reminds me of a weekend I took a few years ago where we drove to Edinburgh from Manchester on day 1 then up to Arisaig on day 2 to camp on the beach - then back to Edinburgh for a wedding on day 3 and then back to Arisaig the next day to continue the long weekend. Then full day drive back to Manchester.

The uk government development service as you call it is not a service. It’s more of a declaration of process that is adhered to across diverse departments and organisations that make up the government. It’s usually small teams that are responsible for exploring what a service is or needs and then implementing it. They are able to deliver decent services because they start small, design and user test iteratively and only when there is a really good understanding of what’s being delivered do they scale out. The technology is the easy bit.

And now imagine the future where code is embedded in the world all around. No one knows it’s there, except… the magicians! They’re the only ones who managed to RTFM before it was lost in the mists of time…

I have visited 2x - Once recently and it was very impressive. But I also climbed the towers in a thunder storm in 1990. Which was a terrifying experience. The stairs had about 50cm of stone balustrade on the inside which was not enough to feel safe. I was on my hands and knees by the very top. It was either real or vertigo but I swear I could feel the tower sway as the lightening and thunder crashed all around. A most treasured experience

Sounds like consumers need AI identities to help them get the best deals from this kind of thing.

I have never heard it referred to as North England. Northern England or the North of England yes. As a reluctant “northerner” it dunt sarnd reet.

Just found out about this by looking into why I get dizzy when I swim crawl in the sea! The body is truly a complicated and wonderful thing.

from this page: https://www.outdoorswimcoach.com/post/i-m-so-dizzy#:~:text=B....

Slightly tangential but along the same lines. Worth a read, BlackBerry Wine by Joanne Harris. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry_Wine

Totally agree with this. I do big corp work and the problem space is totally different from what is needed for a single developer.

I’m currently reading Flux. Brilliantly bonkers.

That chimes with my experience. Back in 2009 my (then) 9 year old son made a few stop frame lego movies and we posted them on YouTube. Some of the comments were really mean. I remember being surprised by the response but found it quite amusing. We still joke about our favourite comment: “You’re an embarrassment to the stop motion community”

Fun fact and one of my dinner party anecdotes; I have the accepted answer for one of Ross Ulbricht’s (Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts) SO questions that got him busted.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9563675/destroying-a-spe...

I’m a competent amateur guitarist and I feel your pain. Learning pieces so they are good enough to perform takes so much practice and I too get sick of them before I can play them adequately!

So does Dominic Cummings read HN?

I don’t think it’s about ability or interest. It’s about presence. There’s loads of developers out there with a range of skills. I work with devs who are great who you’ve never heard of and others who aren’t so great who you’ve never heard of. I’d consider myself in the 99%. I aspire to market myself but I’ve got lots of interests and I’m quite a private person so I find marketing myself in conflict with that aspect of my personality. But get me one to one and I’ll happily talk about my latest interest (which by the way is Directed Graphs).

Care to substantiate that?

Yeah, but how many?

I was thinking about this yesterday and came up with this question: How many trees would I have to plant, and how long would they have to live to offset my (average Western European) lifetime CO2 contribution?

The best thing about this is that the vessels’ names are inspired by Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels.

https://fivedeeps.com/home/technology/names/

Forgive me but;

You know you are, you really are.

Bringing this back to the article - the context for candid feedback is a competent workforce. By your own admission it appears you we’re still in the process of learning about competence so the prof was not providing candid feedback of your submission but questioning your competence. That’s a different and necessarily more personal discussion!

I think the point here is that your prof was criticising you rather than your output. That’s why it’s brutal, because it’s personal. He’s being honest about his feelings but it’s not very helpful to you. So I don’t think it’s fair.

>> - psychological safety requires comfort with brutal candor

I would disagree with this. Candour and honesty do not have to be brutal to be effective in this context.

For those with access to the BBC iPlayer, it’s available to watch at the moment.

Looking at his map[1], I think you are correct. He's in Kenya heading toward Sudan. Probably giving South Sudan [2] a wide birth though.

1 http://theroadchoseme.com/africa-expedition-overview

2 https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/south-sudan/safety-...

Indeed it is!

Also to add. If you can't work out the answer to that question then don't feel pressured into trying to force it.

It's ok not be able to answer the question. Life is a search for meaning. Sometimes it comes, sometimes it doesn't. The money in and of itself isn't going to answer the question. And in fact, freedom from the 'toil' required to make ends meet might remove some of the purpose that OP previously felt. But I think when faced with change and upheaval that removes the certainties of life (in this case 'work, eat sleep, repeat') you owe it to yourself to see if you can work out the answer.

This guys retro futurist artwork: https://www.simonstalenhag.se/