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Don’t you have to be confident the clocks are sufficiently synced across the system?

And its inspiration is still great but could use a refresh: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

Absolutely amazing. American TV was a desolate landscape with occasional stuff so good you couldn’t believe the oasis wasn’t a mirage. Max Headroom was in that category. And of course it didn’t start in the States.

Dunno if it would hold up today though

you have to actually remap your world to one where this person doesn't exist--that's a difficult neuro process and grief is part of it

I found The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O'Connor really helpful. It gave me a frame for why grief is a necessary part of our brain processing the loss. It made it much easier to move through the pain.

I think it’s important to remember (and buttresses the upthread points)—the volatility isn’t a coincidence—it’s a direct result of the discovery of the oil and the crucial role it played for imperialism and capitalist expansion.

This seems super cool but is this like battery breakthroughs? Don’t get excited until we are much closer to it being manufactured at scale/appearing in clinical settings? This is a real question—I’m not clear on the significance of these kinds of press releases.

And the driver can actually crash. Pilots have strict work rules for a reason. People die when pilots are too tired.

Is there variance in how long people can work without degraded performance? Of course. But it still degrades for most people.

While not that cheap, you could go to Space Camp for adults (over a weekend). Among other things, you get to run simulated missions—both from Mission Control and in a “space ship.” https://www.spacecamp.com/space/adult/academy

As were Marx and Engels, 175 years ago in the Communist Manifesto: “Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.”

This is horrific. I immediately thought of Puerto Rico, where women were forcibly sterilized for decades (until the 1970s), often after giving birth.

(This is part of the importance of talking about reproductive rights, not just abortion rights—the right to control one’s body to have or not to have a baby should be a fundamental human right.)

https://uwm.edu/clacs/eugenics-and-reproductive-coercion-in-...

Pairs nicely with this great book about all kinds of electronic components -- https://nostarch.com/open-circuits

My favorite Easter egg is the title as anagram for “NSA reeks”

Quartz crystal explanation and cutaway picture with fine tuning marks was all I needed. Preordered. Looks like a fun read.

I've found this repo https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions to be useful as well.

I've found this repo to have a lot of useful questions, obviously you have to tailor based on what you value most. https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions

Lovely quote, attribution likely apocryphal (and I don't think it was a poem). https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/ is a nice writeup (assuming you trust its citations).

Came to say the same thing. Fascinating look into a time machine—what problems are we still wrestling with and what celebrated innovations then do we see as problematic legacies now (e.g., when a language allows 1 + ‘1’ to equal 2)? Very fun read.

They could give back $21m of their carry.

This is a fantastic talk. Well worth the time spent watching it.

Great quotes and wow, is that a link worth following! If you’re reading this and haven’t gone to read more of the wisdom in taoup but you liked what’s above, I urge you to go do so now.

A great essay. I suggest Out of the Tarpit as a later exploration (20 years after No Silver Bullet) with fantastic and challenging analysis. If reading the whole paper is too daunting, checkout the summary (and subscribe to his regular email summaries of interesting papers) at: https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/03/20/out-of-the-tar-pit/

Either way, that video is amazing, even if it makes Danny the “heel” of the call. Take 5 minutes and watch it—it’s an incredible window into how far things have changed in 40 years (especially because at the time, what’s in that video is Deep Magic). Thanks for finding that!

chrony[1] neatly solves these and a host of related issues by guaranteeing time increases monotonically on a given host, speeding up or slowing down the clock appropriately. It's a nicer alternative to ntpd. Also, AWS recommends it if you are using their Time Sync service (which is GPS-locked atomic clocks in every region with leap second smearing).

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Among my favorite non-engineering books to help engineers is Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets (referenced in the article). It approaches probabilistic thinking systematically (some of the book reflects my own trial-and-error learnings but with far more rigor). It also cites a lot of literature on decision making if you feel like doing a depth first search.

For example: One new tool for me: the pre-mortem. Given a major deliverable or initiative, pretend it’s, say, 90 days from now, and the project is a flaming crater. Go around the room with everyone throwing out ideas of what “went” wrong. Then assign probabilities to the various issues and discuss possible motivations. It’s difficult to overstate how valuable this tool is. It also gamifies what can be considered negative thinking or nay-saying.

Or, get 60% of the benefit by listening to this interview with her: https://overcast.fm/+Ei1D2qbQQ

If that doesn’t grab you within 15 minutes, bail. But if this topic is interesting to you, I suspect you’ll easily devour the whole thing.

(Edited to add pre-mortem)

They are used to build a number of tools you probably rely on or use regularly, including ruby, golang, bash, MySQL and postgresql.

I listened to them. The audio books are truly wonderful and immersive narrative (all 96 hours!). I can’t recommend them enough to hard sci fi fans. Although I did have a few false starts with the first book.

Any discussion of Magic: the Gathering on Hacker News should come with an ObLink to how it's Turing complete

https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html

For more accidentally Turing complete systems, see

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...

This is a fun read (fair warning: you should have some understanding of monoids and monads before reading) and further validates my hypothesis that understanding category theory would make me a more effective engineer.

If you've had the joy of constructing useful shell pipelines, and part of it is in the ease of knowing how it will behave. this is a nice formal statement that the underlying reasons WHY it just “feels right” are because of category theory--which means if I can just learn category theory, I’ll have a new tool for approaching and factoring problems that will be, technically speaking, hella useful.

I suppose I should start (re)working my way through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58&list=PLbgaMIhjbm...

That's what AWS lambda functions are doing, in essence.