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Maybe they were poisoned, had malaria, were stabbed, and also suffocated and drowned, all at the same time?

"solves" is a silly thing to ask for in matters of probability. I think this test result adds data which shifts probabilities, and that's the best we'll get.

Present company excluded, of course.

Wow, that's bold! I'd never say that...or maybe I'd only say it to a good friend when I knew that he knew that I didn't actually mean it.

I suspect he’s telling a story and chose to personify his own feelings into the words of another person.

Well if it’s anything like where I am, the crap that the managers are asking each other to do is “do more AI stuff.”

Is your manager really asking about your self-improvement?

Or are they asking about you improving what you can do for them, your team and your company? Your job description is a baseline but if you’ve nailed that, there’s usually more you can do that’s outside of that.

Or you can be content with doing your job well, and make up some bs so your manager can write it on a form. Both are valid.

Delivering on that is what I’m doubting, and the website isn’t helping. They have to revive some tech that is now outmoded, and that’s not a small problem. But hey, if they pull it off, great.

The economics of the industry are built around the preferences of consumers. The lower end doesn’t look like this, which isn’t encouraging, but maybe there’s room for it.

This flimsy website and company is banking on your excitement and prayers.

How would I check the parts of my body for that?

Ok, sure, windows.

But here’s one I heard literally two days ago: we counted three engineers (out of many) who knew that physical memory was not actually a giant flat space of contiguous addresses, and that there were multiple layers of address-mapping and region-joining glue logic between a program and the hardware, including in os libraries, and even inside the hardware.

Maybe knowing such information is archaic or useless for most engineers. But the good ones (or at least a certain flavor of the good ones) ask questions that lead them there.

I encountered juniors straight out of school who don’t know what tar is, or rsync, or what a symlink is.

It’s all learnable and everyone starts somewhere. But you’d think natural curiosity would kick in and they’d have picked up some of this on their own by the time they have a job.

Possibly Cousin Andy? https://curb-your-enthusiasm.fandom.com/wiki/Andy_David

Played by the great Richard Kind, who my wife swears she saw on the Highline in NYC.

sure, but that's my point. People doing objectively bad things all day think they are doing just fine.

It's the inverse of the essentialist fallacy. Faced with a bunch of evidence (if they cared to look) that they are consistently making life worse for themselves and everyone around them, their reaction is "I am not a bad person. I didn't even really do bad things, I just did the same stuff anyone else would do, plus it wasn't that bad, plus I like to think I'm awesome, so that's what I think."

BTW I think this is an inherent human trait and I have it too. Some are just really good at it.

They might agree that they would be a better person if they returned their shopping cart. But how many would sincerely state "I won't return the cart because I don't care about putting any effort into being a good person"?

I'd bet you'd get a litany of complaints about the parking lot, the cart, the store, the weather, anything but their own decisions.

But someone that susceptible is likely going to have a bad reaction to many possible unexpected things. How would they react to a minor traffic accident? a family member getting hurt? a letter from tax authorities asking questions?

Having that serious an underlying health problem means everyday life represents risk for you. I don't think that means everyone else has to behave differently wrt (in this case wrt to billing mistakes) to keep you healthy.

Do you think people look in the mirror and say “I’m going to be a terrible person today?”

They look in the mirror and say “good job playing the hand you’re dealt - keep it up!” even while what they do is objectively terrible.

Humans have an incredible capacity for rationalizing their own behavior.

from another thread

I actually am a top 1% writer

Ah, i see.

Interesting! how did you come to know three dozen authors?

I know 2-3 published authors --- published at all, not fulltime authors, just people who got a book published. In my history of acquaintances I know of one mildly successful fantasy author who is making a living at it (parent of a classmate of my child).

So 36 seems like a very high number to me... maybe you sell typewriters? or Wite-Out?

Add forward-cursor and back-cursor, and maybe we can embed a Turing machine in a string.

This all sounds informed and authoritative. And it’s believable. But can I ask how you came to these conclusions? Did you attempt this? Do you know authors getting 500k every two years?

Yes.

Finding a label for personal problems typically results in a honeymoon of self-acceptance and relief. The honeymoon usually ends and the problems remain, but now there are possible paths forward.

“Broader economic purpose”?

It’s all betting.

If someone wants to dress it up in jargon or talk about beneficial second order effects, they can. But if putting money on an outcome you can’t control isn’t gambling, I don’t know what is.

Okay, I read up on iroh. It has some really interesting stuff in it but I see an uncanny valley here.

It’s not simple enough to debug a connection failure easily, but it’s not magical enough to guarantee connectivity. Straight tcp with dns can be hard to debug; and no magical networking stack can really guarantee connectivity. I guess iroh’s strength is connectivity but I don’t know what happens if you can’t find a path.

The third dimension is privacy and anonymity, and I can’t tell if the story there is stronger than other p2p+relay protocols.

So it’s in the middle but at a different point in the space.

Check out Amazing SlowDowner. And AnyTune Pro. Plus lots of yt player websites that allow for looping.

No.

In some cases, the composer makes the video, and is sharing their own work.

In other cases, the transcribed part is not a composed part, and the composer who is listed (Lennon/McCartney) did not write or perform it (e.g. Ringo's drums).

In yet other cases, the composer was long dead before the recording was made, and the melody being transcribed is meaningfully different than the one they composed. Common in jazz.

"Composer" is a 19th century idea, enshrined in copyright law in the 1920's in order to protect the people who made sheet music for piano players to play in their parlor. Musical expression deserves attribution and protection, but let's not pretend the name on the liner notes is a Beethoven with a long quill creating a work of genius out of their solo effort.

I learned this one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07N4VVSmYLU&list=RD07N4VVSmYLU...

…exactly the way you described. Pause, screenshot, adjust color/contrast, assemble in a pdf. Super annoying.

HDMI CEC is the bane of my (home theater) existence.

Which device just woke every other device up at 4am?

Which device just shut everything down while I was in the middle of a movie?

And are they the same device?

Funny to think that WiFi is in fact just a specialized variant of the radio technology explosion that started with Marconi.

Technically of course the path is continual evolution, but the applications are wildly different.

This is interesting as an example of just how complicated and elaborate a toolchain you can use to build something dead simple.

There’s a lot that comes for free by adding all these libraries and crates and steps. But from what I can tell it comes down to:

let _ = if fan_on { fan.set_high() } else { fan.set_low() };