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I wonder if we will see something like this in MS Teams at some point as a lot of my colleagues seem to sit in front of 240p webcams from the 90s with the most atrocious lighting you can imagine.

I read that in the article but in the paper I only found a mention of tests for 200 cycles.

The catch is that this is a tiny lab prototype, where the energy density is projected and I could not find it in the paper that the cycling was in fact tested for 1000 times and even though the starting materials are cheap the article is very light on details about mass manufacturing larger cells. I don't want to take away from the research and think it's super cool and hope it scales well to mass production but it's usually a long road from lab prototype to Tesla level production facilities.

Is that how it works? I thought as long as the user gives explicit consent to that happening it's fine. Most checkouts I have seen have a checkbox you need to check before being redirected to stripe/paypal and the likes which asks for explicit consent to the privacy policy rules.

Can confirm, but would add that "more expensive" depends on the exact brand and what kind of meat you compare it to. Even the more expensive faux meat products are often cheaper or very comparable to their organic counterparts. But if you take for example the supermarket brand version of the products, they are often around 33% cheaper than products from gourmet garden oder beyond. Protip: Ikea sells frozen meat ball alternatives. They are SO good and pretty cheap.

That's true but I guess the poster was already refering to retail prices of those components which is more than what apple pays for them. And looking at the prices of other manufacturers at different scales that can offer those components integrated in products I would argue that "significant" mark up in this case is bordering profiteering.

I’m in my early thirties now and I would like to think I am leading s comparably healthy life: no smoking, no alcohol, no drugs, resistance training 3 times a week, running 2-3 times a week maintaining a lean athletic physique, balanced vegetarian diet without sweets or salty snacks, good meaningful relationships, taking hyloraunic acid supplements and using Retinol cream on my skin while making sure to use sunscreen, regular mindfulness meditation sessions, proper sleep hygiene and challenging my brain regularly by learning new languages. Some of these factors I have only introduced in the last couple of years, some have been with me for more than a decade. I often get told that I look like I’m in my mid 20s. However most of those lifestyle choices I specifically and only made because I absolutely hate to age and it terrifies me.

And yet over the years I can see (but still hide) the hair at my temples receed ever so slightly, some wrinkles on my forehead get a little more pronounced, I notice my energy levels are not what they used to be and my pace of learning has ever so slightly slowed down. When I think about it it frustrates me to no end that these things will probably only go down hill from here. Slowly but surely. And so if I could I would love to intervene even more. There are so many things to experience, so many things to learn, so many things to create, I feel like I could comfortably fill 200 years worth of stuff in my life simply based on my bucket list but most of them either require or are more fun in a young, healthy body. So for purely egotistical reasons I want research like that to succeed and be available to me rather sooner than later.

It would probably be best for me to come to terms with the fact that aging just happens and make the best of it but this attitude feels impossible to adopt.

Sometimes those anecdotes make those points engaging and I sometimes find myself re-telling them when having conversations about these topics with others. If information density is all you are after then I would agree, but argue that reading can be much more than that. And when it comes to non-fiction books on stem topics I found the vast majority I have read are usually really dense.

When I wrote my bachelor thesis years back I worked on a particle-in-cell code [1] that makes heavy use of numba for GPU kernels. At the time it was the most convenient way to do that from python. I remember spending weeks to optimizing these kernels to eek out every last bit of performance I could (which interestingly enough did eventually involve using atomic operations and introducing a lot of variables[2] instead of using arrays everywhere to keep things in registers instead of slower caches).

I remember the team being really responsive to feature requests back then and I had a lot of fun working with it. IIRC compared to using numpy we managed to get speedups of up to 60x for the most critical pieces of code.

[1]: https://github.com/fbpic/fbpic [2]: https://github.com/fbpic/fbpic/blob/1867a4f216baf4269f2314ab...

I’m with you. In fact I have had more meetings with these people arguing against these practices than I can count. However every single customer facing project I have worked on so far that tries to sell something uses practices like these. Sometimes even worse. I guess it’s a result of being profit oriented before anything else and it works apparently, otherwise it would not be done. So the change you advocate for is one I would like to see too but it challenges structures which are so pervasive I’m not sure they can be easily reversed. If this company got fined for using Google analytics their answer would not be to re-evaluate tracking, they would make their legal department lay out just how far they can stretch it while still getting away with it and the do that.

Not really feasible in a lot of cases without giving up things the business absolutely wants. I work on an e-commerce site for a large company. Marketing wants to track all clicks and user inputs and get heat maps to improve the conversion based on their findings. They want to know where their users come from, where they go to see if their campaigns work. They also want google maps integration to find retail stores. They want users who come back 2 days later to retain their shopping cart and their preferences even without a login in case they checkout without an account. They want dynamic A/B testing based on user behaviour and they don’t want to/can’t reinvent all these solutions so they go buy them and the devs get to integrate them - whether they like it or not and some things simply make it so that you need to store some data on the client and communicate it on the client in some way while not being completely anonymous.

So cookie banner it is and to be sure you don’t get sued you buy that elsewhere.

What’s the LSP and linter/formatter story these days? Last time I tried it the lsp was miles behind what I am used to from TypeScript land in vscode. I have gotten sooo used to all the auto completion, helpful error tooltips and auto imports and formatting on save that it felt tedious not to have that in a similar capacity. Maybe I was just doing things wrong and it’s been a while. In general I am super intrigued by nim coming from python originally. I wish I could use it professionally on a project just to spend more time with it

I am not sure if Fresh would be a direct competitor since it does not and will not[0] support client side routing. In every company I worked for in the last few years white flashes on page navigations were absolutely unacceptable.

I still like the framework, but it probably targets a more specific segment of the market. I think aleph.js[1] is more like next and then there is the esoteric ultra.js[2] which kind of tries to do something similar and be super bleeding edge.

[0] https://github.com/denoland/fresh/issues/403#issuecomment-11... [1] https://github.com/alephjs/aleph.js [2] https://ultrajs.dev/docs

I'm trying it out right now and currently figuring out how to add tailwindcss as a sidecar process since it's not supported yet. I'm so excited about this! I can already see myself pitching this to our project management in a few months.

I am conflicted about this. On one hand I understand the emotional response and find rape and cp incredibly repulsive but on the other hand I wonder if this goes too far since apparently the person served their sentence and it's been a decade since (without any inappropriate or illegal activites?).

From their proposed letter[1] they say: "We are not pursuing this person throughout their professional life trying to remove their livelihood." while simultaneously saying: "In this case we see no other option than to remove the person fully from the conference and we recommend that most other C++ communities consider this as well." And they re-iterate over and over that the offender shall not be named (while simultaneously being known to quite a few people apparently - which would be a prerequisite to have the offender removed from other communities as well) and therefore the only alternative is removal to prevent the offender from abusing their position of power to harm someone again.

While this is a little shaky I wonder why there should not be other options. Since apparently the board knows who X is, they could easily book security for the event and keep a tighter watch on the person. I will go out on a limb and say if person X was excluded from the conference while also seeking to repeat their offenses they will find another venue so the problem is not solved, rather offloaded on someone elses shoulders. Surely the person proposing the removal would not see that as a viable alternative?

There is also a linked petition to ban convicted sex offenders from the standard meetings which I would find more rational if the crime was very recent, the person had repeatedly commited the crime or shown inappropriate behaviour since. It[2] verbatim says: "The choice WG21 has is between an individual convicted felon and diversity and inclusivity. There is no third option, as inaction is a decision for the status quo and the convict." which I find bewildering. First of all I don't understand the logic behind only including sex offenders because even in their frame of reference inclusivity would be threatened by people convicted of fellonies regarding racism or any other type of violence, and second of all - leaving their frame of reference - why is it that they insist that a person who did something bad will do it again. They make it sound like the harm that has been done is inevitably gonna happen again. I am not so sure if this is a smart position to take.

I was very hesitant to write this and I'd like to be educated if I am missing something fundamental here, but I have trouble agreeing with the position that people who served their time after being convicted of a crime (which is the legal and at its core societal measure for "things being settled") should continue to get punished because someone feels like it's not enough. And I also have trouble seeing how harm is actually prevented this way and not just off-loaded.

[1] https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__inclu... [2] https://www.change.org/p/ban-convicted-sex-offender-from-iso...

I personally agree that it's not unattractive and being self-conscious about it can make it so. However seldomly people with a perfect hairline worry about that, and many balding people do so it's at least another thing to get the upper hand on. And it's also no suprise a lot of people fear it. Published data indicates that when women rate pictures of balding vs non-balding men, the former are rated worse and one could say the attitude one has would not have much of an impact on that. And it's the same with height, perceived fitness and wealth. What I am trying to say: It's simply not a level playing field and all these things add up.

I do not disagree with you at all. In fact I think it's a smart choice. What I would like to highlight though is that it's less accessible and I would argue more sensible as a topic than eating healthy or working out. I don't think it should be but I think it is.

I would say your post sums up the collective experience of my circle of friends(including female friends) and myself perfectly. It's a weird situation: The average woman between 20 and 40 gets approached relatively often (at least multiple times a year) and experiences a broad spectrum of guys hitting on her which necessitates strict selection. The average man between 20 and 40 may not even get approached at all, ever, and have to fight for attention, making it a numbers game where spray and pray might seem like one of the better strategies. And this is kind of a self-perpetuating system.

I would also argue that you can work on your attractiveness but this can also easily take a toll on you and while working out and eating healthy are rather accessible for most people, making a lot of money or changing further features of themselves might not be. I have multiple friends who suffer from androgenic alopecia in their 30s or who have facial features which deviate so far from the norm that the only way to actually "fix" them would be to have plastic surgery.

Sometimes I wonder if the smart move would be to actually move somewhere where the societal norms around this are different.

This is a smart move and goes to show people move so quick on this. I wonder how long before these models overtake stock image websites, get used in games or video production, generate T-shirt prints and whatever other usecase people can come up with.

On that note: Iirc back when I learned about GANs, when they were still rather new there was a clear path towards improvements of them by making the model bigger and feed it _much_ more high quality training data. When I look at the outputs of stable diffusion or Dall-E there are still often visible artifacts and most prominently faces are often weird. Is there a clear path towards improvement here aswell or are we hitting a wall with the "just more" paradigm somewhen?

You are not wrong that they are not the same but the difference is smaller than you think. Let's run the numbers:

Last year I worked for 210 days and I made 143.480€ (=85€/h) after deducting the 19% VAT. I paid 10.740€ for health insurance (which is capped) and 15.720€ for the pension fund (which I don't have to do but choose to do and this is the same rate an employer/employee would pay given that income) leaving me with 117.020€ taxable income. The income tax then is 117.020€ * 0.42 - 9.136€ = 40.012€ and 2.200€ Soli, leaving me with 74.808€ net income.

When you are employed then your employer has to pay half of your health insurance and pension fund so to have a net income of 74.808€ you "only" need to make 131.940€ per year or about 78€/h all things equal. So we are talking about a 10% difference. Now you could argue that an FTE would not work for 210 days but 200 or 190 days which would add another 5-10% difference but it would still be off from your original 33%.

To put this into perspective: I have been offered full time employment at almost every company I have worked for as a freelancer so far and the by far highest offer I got was 93.000€/year which is around 54.600€ net income - or about 20.000€ less net than I make right now. That is 2/3 of the average FTE income in germany.

I sent my CV to recruiting companies such as Hays, Computerfutures, Gulp and a couple more as well as having a linkedin and xing profile. On my first job I actually worked with one of them as an intermediary for a larger company and when I quit I asked them if they could actually arrange it so I could continue to work there but as a freelancer. They agreed, my original contract did not forbid it and as I was the only dev at the company no harm was done.

I am located in germany, work as a fullstack dev with frontend focus (react/vue). I have about 6 years of total dev experience[1].

For full time projects I charge 90-100€/h (+19% VAT) and I exclusively take on remote projects. When I started out at as a freelancer at the beginning of 2020 my rate was 80€/h.

If I was approached with short term projects(as in less than 160h of work) I would charge significantly more but that hasn't happened yet, usually I get booked 3-12 months.

As it turns out my yearly net income is significantly higher than that of my employed peers in every single project I have worked so far since the market is so starved for devs and I never had any downtime between projects. Sometimes I wonder if I could ask for even more given the market situation but I also feel somewhat overpaid tbh.

[1] I learned programming on the side during my bachelor's in physics. During my master's I started working for a consultancy at night doing webdev while researching quantum computing and machine learning for my master's thesis. After I got a job as a full stack engineer after I finished my degree but I quit that job after about a year to go freelance.

Vegetarian here who recently started taking multi vitamins + extra vitamin d + k2 (after being diagnosed with a severe vitamin d deficiency). I also get less tired since and even more so my sleep has improved drastically within about 2 months. I fall asleep _so_ much faster. Usually 10 minutes now instead of an hour and I also sleep through most nights instead of waking up 6 or 7 times for no reason for the past 10 years. I haven't changed other variables (I think) but so far I am happy with the results. Also purely anecdotal.

I am a happy paying user of supabase and I did just that for my project which is meant to facilitate trading of left over wood between woodworker shops. I simply set RLS rules and now I only have a react frontend which calls supabase directly and it works great.

I haven't checked in a while but one thing that was a little cumbersome for me was that I wasn't familiar with writing proper RLS rules and felt like documentation was a bit sparse and iirc there was not autocomplete to guide me a little more - but that might just be me being an idiot and it worked out with a little trial and error. :)

I have trouble loving myself. Like the author my life is mostly great, though I sometimes struggle with health issues but I would not wanna trade it for any other life. I love my friends and family and they love me back. However I would avoid conflict at almost all costs in order to please people even if it is too my own detriment. It meant saying yes to everything in my last relationship in fear of losing her and being alone again (which is very egotistical) and it meant only 3 weeks of vacation in the past 3 years because I didn't want to leave the client/teams hanging. In romantic relationships I am desperate for approval and expressions of love since I do not know how to love myself properly. I am also afraid taking steps into that direction will take away my motivation for self-improvement. But most of all I have no idea how to actually learn to love myself. It's not like I haven't read a ton of advice on the topic, it's just that it didn't work yet. Maybe I should find someone professional to talk to. It's not crippling me and I am fine but I feel like my life would be better if I loved myself.

Just finished migrating the react project at work to vite and vitest after the pleasant experience I had with it in a private project. It was surprisingly little effort and is _so_ much faster and easier than the webpack mess we had before. I wonder if at some point they'll ditch rollup and go full esbuild. however Dev Server cold starts went from 34s to 0.3s and build times from 1m20s to 9s so I won't complain!

I think developers knowing JS/TS is a highly compelling argument given the fact that most companies are struggling to find any devs at all. I would argue finding Rust/Go/Elixir developers is going to be _a lot_ harder for a lot of companies than finding JS developers.

Also then sufficiently proficient frontend Devs have an easy in into backend development which has turned out to be a very good thing at 5 different companies I have worked for in the last 4 years.

In addition to that not every backend or service needs much performance. I have written quite a few services that get hit maybe 3 or 4 times a minute at best and Node was great for that. Actually I have yet to work anywhere where performance was limited by the language choice and not by architectural decisions or inconsidered use of databases and data structures. I am not saying this does not exist but it does not mirror my experience with the majority of companies at all.

I'd also say that despite npm and dependency hell being a real problem there is a vast ecosystem of packages out there. I know python has that going for it too. But Elixir is much less developed in that regard - simply by being less popular.

Close, I saw this when dabbling with Nim and I remember I found it confusing, since I mostly write TypeScript and that is not a thing there so my post was mostly my ignorance speaking. I guess when one is used to it it will not look confusing at all!

The syntax looks a little funky to me but it's still quite interesting. Is there a reason why you would make fn(1) and fn 1 equivalent? For me personally it makes readability worse and looks strange when chaining functions like in their last example on their landing page.

On mobile horizontal scrolling through the code snippets will trigger switching to the next snippet on my phone.

Didn't the M1 come out in november 2020 and the M1 Pro in October 2021? That would be closer to a year than 6 months. I actually would not be suprised if it took even a little longer and if they went with a more advanced node on TSMC to get both, architecture improvements and miniaturization improvements.