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Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1 billion

all sound and fury, signifying nothing

I believe David Simon said somewhere that one way to think about The Wire is they took Greek mythology and replaced the gods with institutions.

I have a thing that I do since years since I live in Vienna. I basically go around to at least 2-3 cafes a day, sit and work in one for a couple of hours, then walk to the next one for 4-5 kms and so on. On a typical day, I walk between 8-11 kms depending on the circuit I choose.

I have never enjoyed office atmospheres and need life/noise around me to be able to concentrate. I'm also fairly restless and need that walking to be able to think / clear my head.

very much this, I'm a very restless person and I _need_ to move every 2-3 hours. Cafe hopping is very very important to my general flow. I also need noise and general life happening around me. Offices are too artificial an environment and my apartment is too silent.

No, no humour was intended by a purely subjective statement that intense exercise is more or less a deeply unpleasant experience for my body and my brain. The fact that it is beneficial to long term vitality is orthogonal to how it makes me feel and why I am almost never motivated to do it.

Any sort of intense exercise makes it impossible for me to actually think or concentrate on listening. It's a heightened state in many ways biochemically and is very different from the calm that walking gives.

Running would just make what I'm listening to background noise, but that's not the correct level of engagement I want. I want 'exercise' to be the side effect and not the main activity I'm engaging in. Running is the other way around.

Yes haha, I've also been 'cheating' myself to walk more. Grocery planning as you mentioned, also picking up food from far away restaurants that I miss due to the lockdown.

I hate gym culture and I hate running too because the exercise is the 'core' of what you're doing in that time. Walking works for me because I can listen to new music and podcasts or sometimes just go through my mental monologue backlog without any stress. Living in an extremely walkable European capital is also a plus.

Human legs are heavily optimized for walking. Running is a hunting/fleeing mechanism and it just feels wrong for me to artificially simulate that stress environment.

The word 'rational' is one of the most abused in western intellectual history. Hegel considered his system 'rational' and I think it is fairly self-evident that that has nothing to do with these internet 'rationalists'.

I agree with this take, having dropped out from my PhD.

I have reluctantly come to accept over the years that my intellectual interests need to be catered to separately from whatever I need to do to economically sustain myself as an adult.

Some lucky people find a good fit (irrespective of institution, academia or industry) but most of us flail around most of the time.

hah so funny to see this here! I first came across this in the following review of Shortparis' album Easter (ПАСХА). One of 2019's music highlights for me.

https://thequietus.com/articles/24274-shortparis-easter-albu...

The last time I tried to bump webpacker from 3 to 4 at <dayjob> was absolute hell. The fancy chunk splitting logic was spewing out non-deterministic bundles across different machines in our infra. Took a lot of deep digging in the internal graph representation to find the root cause.

I gave a local related meetup talk, slides here.

https://vheis.su/slides/curing-webpack-cancer/#11

Ha! I grew up in a small (by Indian standards) city in India and our school library for some reason had tons of Agatha Christie. I think I read like 80% of all published Hercule Poirot books between the age of 10-15.

He said somewhere that he wants to portray the 'madness in the hearts of men' and I think that is a very good guiding principle to view his oeuvre from.

It's actually really cool in a weird way in that it's measurably consistent. I live somewhere in the west and have skin of the moderately darker variety and the amount of general street racism I face is directly correlated with the length of my beard.

Yes, a fair amount of middle/lower-middle class women in big cities in India make some side cash with this system. Basically just cooking extra portions of lunch and dinner of whatever they're making that day anyway and feeding the busy single neighbours for a very reasonable amount.

This is sort of regurgitated. Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time was quite popular around 7-8 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Wu3Bps9ic

Tangential but I just found out that the author is the son of Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong.

based around the idea of understanding supply chains end-to-end

if you know more companies / projects in this area, I would love to know. It's of course wiser and easier to do b2b in this space, but there's also the dual problem from the consumer side of getting to know the supply chain.

It would be so great to have a portal where I can scan a barcode and get to know the whole chain of production.

They lowered this to 2k a while back though.

EDIT: It seems it's completely removed now. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=4969

Putting the 'personal' back in computing, this is great!

This is on the EU roadmap though, for what it's worth. Sometime in the next few years, we should see instantaneous transfers within the EU.

The darker phenomenon is that there seem to be a lot more Nazis (sympathizers at least) than one would deem normal.

I'm also paying 25$ per year on nic.ru, the price discrepancy is interesting.

Thanks, I've seen Karpathy's core argument before and to be honest, I don't buy it. Throwing everything at neural networks and forgetting all domain understanding (sometimes developed over centuries) just doesn't feel right. They can be good at certain use cases, certainly, but the eating argument is going too far and just seems like lazy justification of his own research area.

Can you give a couple of concrete examples when you claim machine learning is 'eating conventional software development from the inside out'?

Do you have an estimate for how much 'not that much money' is?

Well I for one would prefer a crash because then I would at least consider buying real estate. Without a crash, not happening - renting wins in most European cities right now.

Small addendum - the Greek idea of Catharsis is one of the most eloquent articulations of this process. It is well discussed in art and literature.

I use music for fine grained mood modulation since at least 10 years now. Some progressions consistently work. I will typically start with Joy Division, Radiohead or equivalent post-punk classic albums, which tend to be really far out on the depressive/sadness spectrum.

I will generally follow up with things like Swans, Godspeed! You Black Emperor (I also listen to a fair amount of noise). By this time, I'm usually getting focused in to something - either reading or coding. Before the ramp up, it would be virtually impossible for me to even start thinking of something. Post-rock type long noisy things work amazingly well for me to get into a certain flow state. At the end, after an hour or two, when I take a break from whatever I'm doing, I'm almost manic and hyper-restless (far away from the sad state I started from earlier), but in a good way. I really like my manic states.