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Justice for men! Then finally alphan0n could come out of the closet as the true alpha he has been this whole time

Managers are taught to live in a world of emergencies. I believe that someone who takes a measured and thoughtful approach to things is excluded from management out of principal.

without risking harm to a relationship

Only from a very narrow perspective. Opening yourself up and being real with people is how relationships form. If you test every conversation you are going to have with someone before having it, then the 3rd party basically has a relationship with an AI, not with you.

Now testing every conversation is extreme, but there is harm any time a human reaches out to a computer for social interaction instead of other humans.

I disagree with my sibling comment. The trick is beautiful. If you generate UUIDs such that each bit in the result can be reliably traced back to a single bit in the input, then you can take a substring of the UUID and use that to infer which bits of the input integer must be set to produce that substring. So you can produce a whole list of input bytes that meet the criteria and those become your search results.

The real magic trick here is that the uuids on the page only look random to us because of some bit twiddling and XOR trickery. If we had a better intuition for such things we would notice that successive UUIDs are just as correlated as successive integers.

Elegant stuff

If a planes jet engine gets close enough to the roof of the airport to burn this treated lumber, there’s bigger problems afoot.

I know two (educated and hard-working) people in my immediate circle who intentionally keep their income below $30k/year so they qualify for state healthcare programs that they couldn’t otherwise afford unless they were making upwards of $150k.

So we have accountants and scientists who need back surgery intentionally working part-time barista hours.

As a programmer I’m all for gaming the system by knowing and navigating the rules, but the situation is comical.

Healthcare is just a word until you get into your sixties, then it is a lifestyle

I agree, but some people use social media to follow 1000s of other users. Some kind of “hot right now” or “high engagement since you last logged on” setting might be nice for them.

switching back to a rarely used and much more inefficient manual process is extremely disruptive, and even itself raises the risk of catastrophic mistakes.

Catastrophe is most likely to strike when you try to fix a small mistake: pushing a hot-fix that takes down the server; burning yourself trying to take overdone cookies from the oven; offending someone you are trying to apologize to.

I’ve spent many evenings there, the owner definitely has a soft spot for clown portraits

Nicely said. The way I think about it: if we can’t write legible and adaptable functions, then we have no chance at making viable systems. All the same engineering skills are at play, just on a different scale.

Less than zero, really

If you’re stupid enough to get depressed you don’t deserve to rot in bed all day. If you’re stupid enough to get sick you don’t deserve to go into debt.

But I think that’s the difference between seeing gambling as an activity and an addiction.

That’s a lot of “I” statements for the egoless commenter.

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1987/

I after with you, but to be fair many cases of mild mental illness can be improved through regular journaling. Talking to a chat bot is probably not so far off

When I started working at Amazon in 2014 I had a number of coworkers from India and Taiwan whose dentists had convinced them that they needed professional teeth cleanings every 3 months.

I didn’t say anything as I am not a dental expert, but it felt like my coworkers were being taken advantage of. Like you I had an experience as a child with a dentist who my parents later found out was full of B.S.

In the remote era this is the only way that 2nd level managers can exert authority. In the office they have a nicer desk and eat lunch with a different crowd so you know they hold power.

If it makes you feel any better the director is doing exactly the same thing to them.

The app is very clear when a time is based on gps vs the schedule. You can even watch the gps like you can on Uber.

No one can predict the traffic but in my daily experience it is reliable to the minute

Nothing has changed for rich people who didn’t see their employees as people anyway. When you are the one stuck with a computer as your boss then tell me nothing has changed. Good luck getting a reference for a better job!

my layman viewpoint is that psychedelics make things that seemed immutable more…mutable. Everyone has some short list of things they are endlessly hung up on. Mushrooms might make you realize there are more viewpoints and more options.

But after you’ve taken them a few times, there isn’t so much resistance. It’s just a goofy light feeling for a few hours. Chasing that feeling when you first took them and realized that “borders are just like, made up man!” is just like chasing any other high.

It hardly matters anymore. Probably at least half of all Americans live in a state or city that celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day. Italians have secured their place in society.

Well it’s kind of a moot point if we only care about “those who survive”.

I expect professors to be homeless too.

Penroses theories about cognition smell like bunk and I only got a physics undergraduate degree. I’m glad he has found things to do in his old age but there are not a lot of physics departments jumping to put those theories to the test.

This isn’t a “both sides” issue, it’s two separate physicists and two separate theories about different areas of physics.

To add another voice, lift even though it is annoying for 3 months, after that you will want to lift because you’ll notice how you feel (and look!) without it.

It’s the trickle down theory all over again. If our toys are /extremely/ nice then surely global poverty will be relieved!?

There’s certainly something to be said for the fact that shoplifting has entered the Overton window in the last few years. I see on tiktok probably weekly videos of people suggesting that shoplifting is not very serious, how to nick things at self checkout, how stealing from faceless corporations is hardly stealing at all…

I feel like as a whole people are more likely now than in the recent past to see their relationship with corporations as being adversarial and this is just one facet. It is hard to blame anyone for feeling this way, as consumers and employees are becoming more disempowered. Additionally, the shopping experience has become much less personal. It is hard to justify stealing from a shop where the owner goes to your church and knows your dad. But with a multinational company where you can’t even get a real person on the phone, maybe that feels different for some people.

I’m not saying I agree, but the more people who think companies are “evil”, the more types of disobedience will be seen as reasonable.

This paper is very enlightening, but I don’t think that an algorithms class should address these sorts of problems. When I went to school (15 years ago) We had a separate machine architecture class series that went over these sorts of practical concerns. We had labs where we would time memory accesses and test aliased variables and manually decompile simple functions.

In my humble opinion as a volunteer educator, algorithms are already very complicated and students being introduced to them don’t need to concern themselves with this stuff at the same time.

The end of the article indicates it does not