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From personal experience making the same comparisons during undergrad, I think it just comes down to the availability of conceptual models. If the brain does X, there's a good chance that a computer does something that looks like X, or that X could be recreated through steps Y & Z, etc.

Once I started to realize just how much of the brain is inscrutable, because it is a machine operating on chemicals instead of strict electrical processing, I became a lot more reluctant to draw those comparisons

It's incredible just how long the Iberian fascist regimes lasted. I imagine that if you polled a set of random people from the street, and asked when they thought the last war for colonial indepence from a European power was, very few would answer "the 1979s" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_War

Only a bit related, but I recently learned that André Weil's sister Simone was a noted philosopher and fought in the Spanish Civil War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil

All of which occurred under the management of Toshiba, no? And Westinghouse is now owned by Cameco, as a more vertically-integrated uranium & nuclear company

Depends how insolvent it is

Location: Vancouver, BC, CA

Remote: Much preferred

Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity

Résumé/CV: https://extendedmind.notion.site/prior-work-eb010114b61c4fba...

Technologies: Typescript, PHP, Vue & React, Go, Terraform (ie AWS, GCP, Azure, in order of professional familiarity)

Email: avery [at] gitblame.me

I've worked across a variety of domains (healthcare, geosciences, now ecommerce), I tend to take a generalist role, and I'm happy to work on back-office functionality that doesn't get much customer visibility. I'd be particularly interested in roles from firms in the finance/capital markets space.

Here's a few:

* Matthew Klein & Michael Pettis - Trade Wars Are Class Wars

* Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern

* Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (had never read it before, probably book of the year for me)

and of course, Matt Levine's Money Stuff, which is good every year!

Afaik the bonds are issued by the PE firms executing the deal, and it's taken many months to close. The debt has sat on bank books for a significant portion of time, so the yields are reflective of the price needed to unload them in the current market vs a market that was more conducive to the offering when the deal was initially agreed upon

I've become more and more fond of Notion over the last few months. The composition of "blocks" is very nice, and even things like how indentation is done makes a huge difference in taking notes. I can manage meal planning, grocery lists, todos, essay drafts, and software projects all in one tool.

It's also very easy to interlink things and make notes as verbose or minimal as you like from page to page. I can define an item in my weekly todos but then link to a project page that's part of a kanban board that has more context. Overall the UX just feels really elegant compared to everything else I've tried to use.

Location: Vancouver, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Preferably no

Technologies: Typescript, Go, React, AWS/GCP

CV: https://oikonomia.notion.site/cv-eb010114b61c4fba995a90635cb...

Email: hn username at gmail dot com

I'm currently an intermediate engineer working on payments integrations, with some background doing more full-stack work. I like core/infra work, and I'm primarily looking for a role at a firm which is either directly integrated with or adjacent to my primary interest, capital markets

Most surprising part of this FOMC had to be when Powell said "we would like to slow demand" during the press conference, you don't usually hear the quiet part out loud like that from this Fed chair. Also shift upwards in PCE in the SEP, plus the dots, all seems appropriately hawkish

I think the reason is that LibraryThing is significantly less UX-friendly than Goodreads. I use both; I use Goodreads to track what I consider "personal" reading, and I use LibraryThing to track what I consider "technical", but the big reason I have it broken down like this is because LibraryThing is just not as friendly to a user as the alternatives.

This is something I've seen with copilot with market data.

I was creating a unit test in a Go codebase and I had dumped the JSON that I was going to be decoding at the top of the file, and when I started writing the assertions, Copilot was very quick to use the data from the JSON, with quite high accuracy, based solely on me typing which ticker I was going to assert against.

tachyons is excellent, nice to have a small library and build from there

Event page on USGS https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000fd9v...

Once you have a developer [who does everything], development time to get a superior product will drop massively

I feel like you're just going to get stressed engineers who are stretched thin across multiple domains. This sounds horrible

They didn't announce it.

The projected rate increase is the result of the dot plots, which is the assessment of both governors and regional members of the FOMC. It is not binding and it serves merely as a projection.

If you watch the press conference, you can tell how annoyed Powell is at constantly having to answer questions stemming from what the dots show.

I started a job recently where I'm working for a company in a time zone 3 hours ahead of me. I bought some of the Hue bulbs and replaced my alarm with a gentle synthetic sunrise. My sleep habits have gotten much better since

Okta will issue shares to Auth0 shareholders at share price of $276.21, close to 20% less than the current share price (at the time of writing).

The screenshot immediately under this statement shows an Okta share price of $226. Am I misunderstanding something?

core CPI last month was 1.4% and has consistently been under 2% for a long time

Citation?

It was my understanding that this is more of a seasonal thing than on a day to day basis. That is, during the summer, southern California uses a large amount of electricity for climate control, and so power is transferred along the Pacific DC intertie in a north -> south direction.

In the winter, electricity usage in the north is devoted to heating, whereas in the south temperatures are mild. The result is that power is moved back up the intertie from south -> north. In the spring, snowpack melt refills the reservoirs in the hydroelectric system, allowing it to be ready to provide power to the south again once temperatures start to climb.

My main reason for using bspwm over herbstluftwm was that I had issues doing certain operations between two monitors, such as dragging a window in floating mode between two monitors.

This is actually a good idea, I've been meaning to turn one of my old laptops into a media server, but it hadn't occurred to me to use it as a development server as well.

I'm in a similar boat as the Macbook Air, but I was going to go for a Surface Book because I want the detachable tablet features

Could you elaborate a bit on the shareable app instance (or just share links to its documentation)? That sounds really useful but I hadn't heard about this use case before

My primary workflow on side projects right now is VS Code with an ssh connection to a GCP instance. It's very quick, and I can run it across both my desktop and laptop, so if I want to go work in the living room I can get up and get to work immediately on whatever was open in the workspace.

The only downside is that the difference between extensions installed on the remote and locally is a little confusing, but the extension ecosystem in VS Code has satisfied all of my use cases. I've also run into some occasional ssh hangups on weak connections, but I haven't experienced that isuse in a few months.

For years I was a linux guy, and now I see no reason to go back, because I can just remotely access a linux environment from whatever system I'm already on. Less time spent swapping between operating systems to work on projects, and a consistent environment, are both huge features.

The work add-ons for slack is something which is a strong selling point, but I've found Discord hooks to be straightforward to set up for my use cases.

This is a good point, one of the points that my friend made is that without a comparable revenue model you always run the risk of Discord shutting down whereas Slack wouldn't. With that said, I would happily pay for an enhanced nitro subscription to discord that allowed for enterprise use

I've been telling my friends for months that if I were to create a startup I would use discord over slack, and my argument is always predicated around the fact that if you want to have a voice conversation with someone and share your screen the flow for it is easily 5x better than the slack calls.

They laugh at me, but I think its a viable use case

This is correct