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(a) If it's regularly expected that you ship bugs, you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering

A software bug means you can't drag and drop, or have to wait to import your contacts.

An engineering risk means the hood of the car decapitates you above 30 mph, or the diesel fumes give everyone cancer.

(b) If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.

Everything's rated. You open a catalog from a supplier. If there's any question, go up in size. A lot is skids now. There are also trade associations. Dust settles. Products turn from novel invention into utility. Existing capacity is built around one thing a shop does right, especially the knowledge from the workers.

Software is much harder. Go. Just go. Get it done. Get it out. Who cares if it's awful code. We need to make money now.

Engineering is the applied science. Applied means you use it. You don't create it. If you do create it by chance, it's not your responsibility. Ma Bell didn't go into the business of the Big Bang when they discovered cosmic background radiation. Their job was telephones. Science means consistent observations regardless of the environment. Everyone thinks of scientists as people in lab coats. Nothing like that. Lot's of reading.

Software is much more focused on engineering. In other disciplines you are a cashier at a grocery store. Software is much more like Menlo Park. You have a fixed commodity in server cost and bandwidth. Add value to it however you can.

My understanding of gravitational waves is that very large objects try to move. It's easier if the universe sees more or less of their particles than if they moved. So the universe sees more or less of their particles. Instead of creating a warp drive, do that. Find some cosmic structure big enough, and manipulate it until the universe sees more or less of it's particles in a way that you are now where you want to be. Very difficult to do, but it happens:

After years of producing null results, improved detectors became operational in 2015. On 11 February 2016, the LIGO-Virgo collaborations announced the first observation of gravitational waves, from a signal (dubbed GW150914) detected at 09:50:45 GMT on 14 September 2015 of two black holes with masses of 29 and 36 solar masses merging about 1.3 billion light-years away. During the final fraction of a second of the merger, it released more than 50 times the power of all the stars in the observable universe combined. The signal increased in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz over 10 cycles (5 orbits) as it rose in strength for a period of 0.2 second. The mass of the new merged black hole was 62 solar masses. Energy equivalent to three solar masses was emitted as gravitational waves.

people from around the world hungry to pull themselves up from the bottom...

Foreign countries are poor like the Rolling Stones or Motley Crew are poor. They are actually very wealthy. They see nice peaceful lives as something for fools and cowards.

meanwhile in NYC and Oakland, high school students are on "strike" and walking out of class over bogus covid hysteria (aka a legit excuse to combine virtue signalling and goofing off)...apparently we must grovel to their demands as the world owes so much to, and depends so much on, the American teen

Awful to see people turn their backs on their own. Big tech would be gone without bailouts and cheap consumer credit to buy their junk. Despite all their prestige, they don't do anything. People still die horribly. Their charity is not enough. The problems, such as neurological disease, are much more difficult than they thought. "Disruption" or "don't be evil" didn't work.

We gave them the luxury of a lot of resources while we fought some very bad people and took care of the sick. First chance they get they leave for Cypress and Brazil for people who really do hate them.

fast forward twenty years, who will have risen, who will have fallen

I work from home and am only in tech because of family care-taking. Twenty years will be a sad time for me. Everyone will be gone. I'll be all alone.

Despite that, I kept up on my skills. I managed to have at least some real workplace experience. I have nothing but free time, and I am going to be incredibly angry at and have very little remorse towards the people we trusted with all our wealth and who chose marxists and drug gangs and terrorists over their own and burnt and looted my home.

The recent porcine kidney transplant, in which a hog did all the computations for you, was done on a patient in a coma. Vascular endothelial growth factor is being tested with CABG procedures. Find someone who needs a hail Mary, and do your best. That will always be faster.

Genes are not the end all be all to medicine let alone biology. There are places where medicine won't go, such as the delicate structures of the brain. Much too unethical. Neurotransmitters fire across synapses. You will always be uncertain of what temperature or charge you need. No way of telling what's really on the inside. And that's with an incomplete model.

You also can't just zap or plunge in medicine. If you are going gene by gene or protein by protein, yet alone cell by cell, how long is that going to take?

The very idea that there is some measusable "utility" to compare in the two cases, independent from your moral values and sentiments, is inane.

There's philosophical charity, in the sense of your ability to put aside your judgments to listen and gain knowledge. That can be measured. Simply ask "You know this?" and count how many no's. There's some things we will never know that are very important, like dying or being created. From those you can get to real altruism. Caring for others is the natural state of humanity and makes humans strong, nice and beautiful. Selfishness is unnatural, weak, hateful, and ugly. Whatever created you cared about you and helped you, gave you the capacity for joy and happiness. Sooner than you think you will be abandoned by everything and those will be taken away and you will be in need. It's better for you to help others than just helping yourself. Personal sacrifice is not needed. It's not okay to be hurt or be a victim. Interior motives are irrelevant. It's better if everyone in the world is cured than just you while everyone else dies.

The worst is when you have to onboard a new developer. No matter what it won't deploy and just hangs and you have to start new. You have to include that .amplify directory and set up everyone on aws version control.

Netlify and Vercel read directly from your repo. I left them because they did not have pg npm and build failed. I also had to open up the database to the public.

I've found if there was an easier way to do it, the original software would be written to do it that way, and the fundamental unavoidable unit commodity will always be a server you ssh into it.

I wonder how fast 1,000 components render? And if effectful components that call network requests create race conditions?

What worked for me:

1. Move front and surround and height if you have them speakers to full range.

2. Set center speaker cutoff a few hz higher than normal, like 80 or 100

3. Turn up level going to sub. Turn down volume knob on the sub. This prevents auto off

You get a lot of the low end effects off the sub, and the center and sub is just for dialogue. You get that depth effect without the dialogue being muted. I feel filmmakers do this so their movies don't age. Supposedly they're going to have a laser speaker, and the flat panel tv will be a speaker itself with the sound shot across the screen. All those movies get a new release for that.

You can put traefik in front of it and cache. Then setup a max limit on query execution. I don't use REST. Everything I need I write out as a postgres function. The other side is monitoring. Setup logging and run fail2ban, or an alarm to kick the user and require manual oversight.

From the article:

"yet it doesn’t seem to be important for normal development"

Gene space is huge. My cancer is cured, but now I'm dying of mange. So that's why that mouse kept licking itself. Big ask for someone else. They have trouble getting blood thinners, statins and beta blockers right. And there's no genetics there. It's stuff people ate out in the woods for hundreds of thousands of years.

There are so many people close to dying in cancer finding volunteers for a Phase 1 test should be easy

I take the opposite approach. These people have few days left. It's a time to make things nice. It can get much worse quick. Cancer, which can be managed, is nowhere near as bad as it can get.

Disease tends to hit all at once. It's really just dying. Cancer, strokes, heart attacks and infections all tend to gang up at once. The trial will kill these people no doubt. If you have a ticket out of the hospital, take it! Don't squander it trying to wash mud.

Also the patient pays a lot for clinical trials. Hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Scott Wlaschin’s fsharp for fun and profit is one of the best functional programming resources I know across all functional programming languages.

Hey! Someone else saw this. Very underrated resource. Also Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming needs more attention too.

Things I would add:

1. Start off with what types you need, not functions. Creating your types like the tools you need to do the job. Then build combinators. Convert one complex type to a primitive. Then a primitive to your type.

2. Once you have your types, it's not that difficult to make them functional. You just make methods for "of", or "chain", or "map", or "ap". Now you have monadic and applicative interface.

3. The functional part is just like when a shell drops to a program's prompt, like >ftp and >mysql. You setup a series of commands like that, with Either or Task or Fold. Provide input, prepare a list of commands, and then run them when everything is valid and ready.

4. Bundle size is a problem for web. Until tech improves and bandwidth prices lower, 100 KB on a high volume website is a problem. Nothing wrong with taking a proven solution, like wordpress, and caching it.

5. Property based testing is for under the hood, your types and combinators. It's not something you do with Cypress or units. All that input is type unknown, and needs validation before going to what's coverage under property based testing.

6. One fault that always occurs is trying to use Runtime encoding to build some extensible modular program. Don't do that. Types are for build. Validation is for runtime. If it doesn't validate, show a user a message. Don't try to build some hot swappable modular program, where types are read from input. If they want to program the computer, they can install the IDE.

I wish movies would respect their audience. They tend to dumb things down. It would be fun to see someone really go after it, and let the public catch up. Here's what I think when I see this:

Interesting to see the edges of a black hole. Nothing gets more powerful than that. Why build bigger and bigger colliders if you can get accurate data with something on a cosmic scale.

Interesting to see what particles of spacetime do there. A string is a particle with one dimension. Why is it constricted like that. And what applications exist in manipulating that constricted degree of freedom.

If we are imaging black holes, and manipulating instruments in the plasma of stars, and there's no consequences, at what point is everything out there a refraction pattern controlled by our actions. A star or a galaxy leaves our ability to view it. We still know about it through black hole imaging. No way nature could do that. We manipulate that distant celestial object to rely on our ability to image a black hole, and then suddenly stop. What happens?

Faraday was a book binder. Einstein a patent clerk. Susskind background helped advance theory. Professionals have their problems. Citation gaming. It's possible to get a degree relying on a jargon and learning by wrote without a true comprehension.

It makes you not just rely on particle or gravity field. People starting from scratch have to really explain themselves.

Dark matter, you have gravity forces with far less visible mass. If you want a dark matter particle, it has to absorb from the surroundings without changing its surroundings, while not radiating light.

Gravity, heat transfer through the changing of relative clocks works well enough.

How many executions in 2020?

17

How many people murdered due to the Reign of Terror 2020?

4,000+

Wow, your trendy pet activism of the bailed out rich killed more people than bin Laden. How about a study on that?

You also mention Jim Crow. May we look at the slavery you commit today, far worse than any other time in human history. Where do you think all your drugs, and sex workers, and cheap clothes and cheap electronics and child soldiers come from?

How about murders? Look at the murder rate. You just killed more people than bin Laden.

You can't stop the murders. But you can land me a dream job? Puh-leeze.

Our community is sadden to announce the tragic loss of a local computer hobbyist who tripped and fell in front of a municipal dump truck due to untied shoe laces. Contributing factors to the accident are believed to be a loss of focus from recent life stress including a failed rap career, repressed homosexuality, chronic tardiness, and talking back to elders.

In unrelated news, we congratulate Sergeant Yang of the Benevolent Retirees Association Metro Police for winning the "face up, face down!" raffle. Also of merit is the National Penalty Battalion, who successful accomplished the release of a genetic bio-weapon targeting the financial profiteers of international narcotics trafficking. We ask for no money. Please simply change your ways. In response to your hardship and efforts, 100 billion dollars has been deposited to your accounts by the federal central bank at 0.0001% interest.

Let's look at big tech's track record:

- Don't hire anyone

- Notorious interview process

- Took everyone's money with bank bailouts and inflated stock prices

- Dump problems on everyone else. Debt, price inflation, job loss

- H1B visas only to win foreign contracts from hostile nations.

Now, not only do they hire no one, their product keeps people from getting any job.

Their recent activism doubled the murder rate. That's more people killed than bin Laden, who we just launched a two decade world war against. One day the doors of those luxury buses will open, and charging out, nothing but monsters, ones of their own creation. funny.

If you can't be bothered to prepare, study, and brush up coding skills for interviews, I do not want to hire you.

If you can't be bothered to hire people, earn a profit, and not turn traitor on everyone, I do not want to bail you or your failing bank out.

Next market crash, burn m*f*er burn.

The death camps opened up again. They're called fentanyl. This time they figured out a way to charge admission. How about reparations for that? More people enslaved today due to ignorant foreign unchecked ambition than anytime in history, and in far worse conditions. The past has its brutality. You're worst, for far less, and you do it because you like it.

No, the world doesn't need a autocrat. Too much knowledge for one single authority. The world needs you to learn how to live your life without bothering other people. Try it please. It's really easy to do.

You just blew an undercover international federal investigation on terrorism. I would say that's a bad idea.

Won't terrorists go after you now? Close the exploit, or be mortared. You go to the feds. They say: Oh! I can't get to that now!!! My phone says I need to update!

The J-20 copied the F-35. Now the international marxists are trying to junk it with their bought and paid for media.

Bold move.

A few dirty secrets about war. Really powerful people do start them over petty arguments at home. They loose power, and then make life as worst as possible for everyone until they are back in power. Some have a heart and things just gets out of hand. Some view other people's lives like poachers view deer in the wild or oil from a well. Mine it till it runs dry, move on. They are convinced of their immortality. Part of me sometimes question my doubt, like if they have some state secret medicine.

A cockpit is not a pretty place to be. It kills you just the same as anything. Fumes, oil, vomit, sunlight, stressful long hours. Replace it with drones all you want. People will find out what really kills drone operators too, and it will probably be generational. Increasing the knowledge requirements so you only study, don't have a family, and your city is filled with junkies. Sap them across decades and centuries.

War is killing first. How you do it comes next. Cold calculated killing, weaponizing everything we know.

It's best to avoid it. And if you think about what provokes, and what soothes violent people. Materialism and moral license, with their drunkenness, boredom, search for meaning tend to provoke. It's then you have the street fights. Lofty moral standards, such as I just built a gravity application with the new black hole imagining data, something that will kill everything EVER, tends to calm things down, mystify and give them something to achieve.

Oh yeah. Big tough gangsters. Got shut down by the neighbors and realtors and now cry to the press. Boo hoo hoo. Bother me and I'll spike your lemon juice with elephant tranquilizer.

Look everyone. Look how these tough guys cry when they wet their diapers. These wannabes are nothing. Drive them out. Drive them to the gutter, to the wild, to the sea. Just drive them out.

Why didn't the car show buy up the real estate? They had the same opportunity as their neighbors? Oh yeah. They're illiterate junkie diseased bums. F** 'em.

Maybe it's reversed. Families with no livelihood don't watch their kids. I suggest everyone cuts bait quick before they capsize the ship and kill us all.

They have the self control to break into homes, to steal. But they don't have the self control to follow rules and live in a society hundreds of millions thrive in? I have zero sympathy. I know how truly awful people are. And they are everywhere because rich lawyers found a loophole, preying on people's naivete and conflict avoidance.

A retreat to barbarity seems to be the most popular life choice today, as in behaving like an animal is the only thing that's authentic. The problem is the malice is still there driving it all. People who truly despise being restrained by laws stampede the heard off the cliff. On the way to the burning down of your own city other people built for you, here, get a credit card and phone plan.

You can write all the news articles you want. You can sign all the legislation you want. The law is here to limit violence, not do what everyone agrees on, not to make everyone feel good. If the police don't do it, other people will. Business owners. Realtors. Other criminals. Foreign debt holders. Or even worse, nature, as in starvation, disease, exposure, trauma from accidents.

It's not okay to be a victim. If you are robbed or attacked, it's not okay. Best way to end crime. Got your window broken, or your city burnt, or your border is opened? I'm not going to punish them anymore. I'm going to punish you.

Watch crime drop real fast after that one.

I remember reading an article about war games. We lost because we needed to turn on an old computer that hasn't been updated. Clippy killed us all.

There is no moral equivalence. Public consensus means nothing. Laws still restrain people no matter how many people agree. The purpose of laws, in regards to humans? Limit the violence, not create it.

Here's an idea. How about not betraying the people paying for your bailouts. You could at least hire more people.

Isn't Karl Marx the one European who has enslaved more people than anyone? Wealth doesn't accumulate. What once was novel, like electricity, becomes ubiquitous. And you can't "rich" yourself out of society. If you are moral and behave, you accumulate wealth, and often give it away before your lazy spoiled children ruin you.

And the dialectical materialism, didn't Marx misread Hegel? Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Hegel never said that. What Hegel said is if you choose an "-ism", the very real world proves it wrong, and that's how you get ideals.

The communist plague the world. OK. We'll just advance medicine. The communist bribe and loan our leaders? OK. We'll just take the money from them, and throw them in the ocean when the loan comes due.

Anything else?

Learn from the best:

Force difficult people to borrow money from adversaries, the marxists, the jihadis, the drug cartel.

Take the difficult people's money.

When the loan comes due, dump them in the ocean. Good luck collecting.

There will be a standoff with your adversaries. To hell with nuclear weapons. How about using recent developments in fusion and matter waves to turn the sun into a giant microwave? Or, better yet, pair production and coherent control to turn the black hole the sun orbits into a giant microwave, and then melt a couple billion people off the earth as easy as adjusting the volume on my speakers.

The article mention heart surgeons. Not like any heart surgeon ever defrauded the public, cashed out in crypto, and flew to Mumbai from Canada with USB stick in their shoe. And not small town surgeons either. Heads of big pharma and research universities.

What Is the Field of Thermodynamics? ----------

Nature has no internal mind. Entropy and relativity and space time are as mystical as a bag of potatoes falling on the floor at the grocery store. Thermodynamics, why we study it and why it's important, is as best of a model one can get which strips out the internal mind from nature. No momentum. No charge. Just internal probability and the external environmental constraints needed to maintain it.

What Are Particles? ----------

Not what most people think. Can heat be transferred to or from the object in question? That's one part. Is there a capacity for heat, or a latency between heat transfer and external environment effects? Then you have a particle. So it's not little grains of sand or little specks of dust. Anything that absorbs energy without moving the thermometer or multimeter.

What Is the Second Law? ----------

If there is no conductive surface or convective medium, such as the Sun warming the Earth, what is the medium of heat transfer? Relativity, speeding up and slowing down internal clocks, works just the same for heat transfer. So does uncertainty, nature's built in tolerance of measurement. Their amount is much more than any cloud of dust in the air or specks of pollen in a slide. They have a long time to go before reaching equilibrium. The insight is the Second Law is not some mystical holistic property. It's a bath of internal states working themselves out.

Why Is Explaining This Important? ----------

Entropy, uncertainty, cosmic scales, tend to cower people's ambition. It should send us the other way. Go for coherent control and pair production. Think of applications where the Earth is enveloped in a matter wave, and the medical treatments we could have down to the quantum biological level of mitosis.

Or if we had control of fusion of the Sun. That core is orbiting a black hole. We make it easier for particles to pop in and out of existence on the surface of the black hole, than it is for them to complete an entire orbit. That's a microwave, ready to melt any incoming asteroid, and will likely be humanity's first gravity application, giving a little black hole-ness to our Sun itself!

Part of me thinks humans, at the very high levels of power and state secrets, have been doing this for decades, if not for over a century.

Horrifying!!!

Hundreds of cities looted and go up in flames and boarded up. Murder rate doubles. Every child molester and cop killer is release. Drug cartel and jihadis and marxists laugh at us as we pay them to plague and murder us.

Biden's president, and Lady Gaga's dog goes missing. Now it's a problem. Never mind the guy who was shot multiple times.

Take bailouts. Don't hire anyone. Make them pay you to work for you.

And I thought I was tough.

Have fun when your kid turns into a junkie and bricks you on the street.