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Hubris, followed by Nemesis when you accidentally delete that important config file that causes an outage. What if and backups are always a good idea when deleting via shell

Sometimes the first time you try something the new experience can be overwhelming. You can focus on a specific part of an experience, for example the bitterness of a drink and quickly decide you don't like it. It can also be that the first time you try something you are in a bad mood or negatively predisposed towards something, eg. your parents may have said something tastes bad while growing up and you haven't tried it yourself.

Multiple tries of something can lead to different experiences by tweaking different factors.

In the end, some things we just don't like, but one try is not necessarily a good sample.

Based on the fact that people speaking different languages can lack basic abstract concepts or reason about them very differently, I think thoughts do have a language or at least often follow a language.

Here's a link to a transcript of a lecture with some very interesting examples: https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13/

A quote as a sample: So let me tell you about some of my favorite examples. I'll start with an example from an Aboriginal community in Australia that I had the chance to work with. These are the Kuuk Thaayorre people. They live in Pormpuraaw at the very west edge of Cape York. What's cool about Kuuk Thaayorre is, in Kuuk Thaayorre, they don't use words like "left" and "right," and instead, everything is in cardinal directions: north, south, east and west. And when I say everything, I really mean everything. You would say something like, "Oh, there's an ant on your southwest leg." Or, "Move your cup to the north-northeast a little bit." In fact, the way that you say "hello" in Kuuk Thaayorre is you say, "Which way are you going?" And the answer should be, "North-northeast in the far distance. How about you?"

Thanks for sharing this, it's interesting to get an insider look into what's driving the prices here in Denmark.

This might be because the mental processes that develop through exposure therapy are not centered around the specific fear itself but the patterns that create fear in general.

For example if somebody has found mental tools to overcome one type of fear (like emotional regulation skills), they can apply them to other fears as well, even the fear of the unknown perhaps.

It helps because the instinct is to write lazy code that may fail and the rust compiler will annoy you until it compiles. Every annoyance to fix is a thing you usually need to think about in other languages.

For example, if I'm coding in C# it's easier for me to understand the impact of passing our resources that need to be disposed and good patterns to handle that after Rust has made me lose hairs on this concept.

https://detective.kusto.io/

It's not SQL directly (it's the Kusto query language) which is more geared towards reading data and analytics.

I'm suggesting it however because the queries in it are also basically relational algebra (aka much of the knowledge is transferable to SQL - minus some special features like anomaly analysis), they give decently sized datasets with billions of rows and the challenges themselves were fun.

My point was that the original comment is a low-level view with missing details that gives little insight on the complexity of the phenomenon, not a support for dualism. It's all brain tissues and the information they encode.

I think we agree and it was fun to write this out.

Thus the experience of food is reduced to the release of saliva?

Your point proves that the experience of food is also not just a chemical process which happens in response to food.

The point is that it is a phenomenon connected with memory and thinking processes. The reaction and release of hormones is part of the phenomenon, but not the entire phenomenon.

Take this in contrast to an allergy for example. Can you trigger an allergy by remembering the food? If you see an illustration of a food you are allergic to, do you get an attack?

A more similar phenomenon instead is a phobia. It is also a release of hormones based on some internal or external stimulus (you can apply all my examples about love). However in a phobia it's even more clear that the phenomenon is based on thinking patterns. Reducing the complexity to saying these are just "hormones and reactions" is the same as saying a computer is "instructions and interrupts". That is to say that a computer has these elements but what makes it work is that there are a bunch of other systems including the humans writing the software that organize these into a functional system.

A simple proof that love is not just hormones is that love can last for some time. If it was just a chemical phenomenon why does it happen repeatedly. Why can someone feel love for someone just by bringing to mind the symbol which represents that person? Why can someone feel love by seeing an illustration of someone they love?

They were probably not full time on that project. Since it's a contracting company, contractors can be assigned to many projects.

Maybe the issue was with company being a dinosaur instead of it having a union?

Your first solution is called being a landlord and renting

I was recommended this by YouTube today and it seemed very interesting. It starts with a lightweight introduction to category theory and ends up showing how it inspired some interesting insights on the inverted spectrum problem.

Anecdotal experience but most of the people I've seen being fired in one of the big ones are senior people working in customer facing roles, where the expectation is that they will be replaced by AI and wishful thinking.

Newly hired people were more junior and cheaper than previous employees so it makes no sense to fire them.

Ah yes, the summoner of outages if you have production systems with windows server and allow user input in paths.

They might be doing that already by acting as scalpers. I don't see why the solution isn't simply what airlines are doing where you register a ticket to a name and it's non-transferable.

The end goal is to only offer chat bots and thoughts and prayers

This makes sense if you consider the size of the product engineering team vs the amount of customers out there. For every engineer there's probably hundreds or thousands of customers. If they had to engage immediately with every support case, there would be zero progress on any other job.

The problem actually comes from the fact that big tech is becoming increasingly cheap on creating good support organizations. Experienced support engineers are fired and replaced with outsourced low-cost inexperienced personnel. In most cases, issues can be resolved or worked around with the help of a support engineer with access to some extra knobs. When those engineers are removed and are replaced with people who act like a pipe for cat to send the customer's stdout to product engineers, you get what you describe.

Inferiority is how you frame it. You don't need to be Jane Street level to do good things in computer science or life. I've found a job where I do cool things on a compiler and I like it. I don't feel inferior to them, instead I feel inspired from these articles to learn cool stuff and build things I'm proud off.

I can say though that when I was working on stuff I enjoyed less (backend ERP stuff), I felt much worse and would compare myself to others a lot more. So I think these feelings you are expressing can sometimes be a manifestation of not being very satisfied with your own life.

This is probably what you're thinking of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisection_method

Guns do enough killing to be compared to car crashes: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...

Car crashes: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...

UK for comparison: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

To be fair though, the root cause is probably a mental health crisis, especially seeing that suicides outnumber the homicides. But it goes without question that projectile weapons make it tremendously easier for mentally ill or desperate people to kill themselves or other people.

Insider trading sometimes

I liked From the Notes. The story had an Asimov vibe to it and the flow was captivating for me.

Maybe you could make a newsletter so I can subscribe and get notifications for when you write? I'd probably read them once in a while.

I might be wrong on this explanation, but the reason why it was faster might have been the following:

During execution you had two kinds of memory locations, some in CPU caches and some in RAM. By running all the threads on one socket, everything accessed from the cache was just a fast cache access. Everything accessed from the memory was a slower memory load. Frequently loaded/stored locations will tend to go to the cache.

In the NUMA setup, you would have a larger cache (more than one socket) which would mean that more locations were likely to be in the cache. However, if a core on a socket tries to access a location which is on another socket's cache, it will use the interconnect between them to access it.

If you have an unfortunate memory layout, this can make it so that you end up having a large percentage of the accesses using the interconnect (slower than cache access) and values get swapped between the caches constantly, which forces subsequent accesses to also use the interconnect.

Another way to avoid this except using just one socket is for the designer of a program to consider NUMA nodes as separate processing units and design around that. Both should be processing separate data and they should only share small amounts of data for synchronization/communication. Then the caches will be much less affected.

I'm working on a compiler for a DSL which is based on Roslyn. The most useful things for me learning wise have been:

1) Reading the source code of roslyn which can be quite readable 2) Building VSCode extensions to add diagnostics and implement code actions. You can use any open source language server as the reference

-Happiness is not the ultimate pursuit for the wayward person, fulfillment is. Sometimes one must sacrifice happiness to gain fulfillment.

This turned on a light bulb for me, so I really appreciate you sharing your point of view. Specifically, I feel that it helps a lot with my issue of having analysis paralysis to frame things in terms of fulfillment rather than happiness.

I will try to come up with some innoculations of my own going forward.

Anand could very well be moving across countries and investing immense amounts of times to start a new life. He could also be leaving a great job to seek a new challenge in a company he wants to invest years of his effort in. The VP has also dedicated time specifically for Anand's interview. He also probably has the power to fire him in short notice and with limited severance.

Anand should ask all the annoying questions. This way he's saving both himself and the VP all the wasted time of hiring him and then having a broken relationship because things weren't clear later. This way the VP can also see what concerns the potential employee and if they have a potential mismatch in expectations.

Finally, even if we disregard all that I said above, if it's Anand's working style to ask a lot of questions and he hides this style during the interview, then he will invariably clash with management later due to it if he's hired. Then he may have more to lose then just a potential future job.

Any citations for this broad statement?

Perhaps it has been easier historically to converge to the single ruler model due to the available knowledge and resources. Is there any research concluding that one ruler systems offer higher gains in modern societies?