Why is there a gap in position and experience level?
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I can't speak to the average youtube-dl user's experience, but I've used it a lot and have never distributed a video. I've saved videos to watch later on my own, that's it.
It sounded to me like a case of "back in my day" but with incoherent arguments.
Oh how I wish I could leave my light on and still use my multi-thousand dollar machine without strain!
It's a pretty good scripting language, and it's a "good enough" interface that implementers of C packages can expose powerful features, and that can only go so far. User's can't easily compose the powerful features that library designers didn't intent.
Julia, on the other hand, was designed for the explicit purpose of high-performance scientific computing, with a syntax informed by the tools people already knew (python, MATLAB). It's no wonder it's so much easier to use.
Julia's syntax and language design is brilliant, but the biggest reason Julia has been my favorite language since I first learned to program is how astonishingly easy it is to use tools other people have made, and also to create tools for others to use.
The packaging system is just great for development, both as a user, and as a maintainer. I've been surprised by how easy it is to take stuff I've made and get it to work with a myriad of packages for the purposes I need. Multiple dispatch does wonders here too.
In the recent survey they said that 30% of respondents had contributed to a package. 30%! It's a super active ecosystem and the barrier of entry is low enough where I don't feel "imposter syndrome" as strongly as I have elsewhere--that I need to pass some threshold in order to properly contribute.
That said, I also do something like OP to block out some sites, but that really only is important as I “get the ball rolling”. I noticed myself habitually tabbing to twitter or something whenever I got to a “hard part”
I've been told that I was a miserable newborn--I cried nonstop for months and months and my screams made everybody around me miserable too.
My mother was told by family that I needed to cry it out, but 6 months on there was no difference. I was taken in to the hospital and was found to have had a hernia which required surgery.
After surgery, I'm told, I was absolutely quiet and unproblematic. Through the rest of my childhood and teenage years I was the 'easy-going' kid of the family. Through therapy I have learned that my attachment style is avoidant, and I have no doubt that this early experience (among others) heavily influenced the way I process emotions and feelings.
It isn't that I was a naturally 'easy-going' kid, or that I didn't have the troubles that my siblings had. I felt things, but my experiences taught me not to express them. I formed a tendency to over-intellectualize my experience and, in retrospect, heavily suppress negative emotions and even physical pain. My nature was not to seek out help when I felt immense pain, but to persist with self-reliance, at all costs.
Like the commenter above, therapy has done wonders for me in learning to recognize my feelings and having the capability in processing them in a healthy way.
I am not a parent and so I can't speak to the difficulty of a child's temperament; I have no doubt that one child's personality might be much more difficult to handle than another. A parent is clearly going to be affected to their children's temperament, but the parent is also responsible for teaching the child how to process those emotions, and is significantly more equipped in dealing with how the child affects them than the child is at dealing with how their parent affects them.
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I think I had the mentality of "putting out fires" that is always the case in startups, and so for a few months I was stressed that I wasn't doing enough, since my workload was lower than I'd experienced at startups.
But I've learned that the work that is value most is the work that helps others, and what helps others seems to be anything that is highly predictable. So, "showing up" and consistently being responsive and available during work hours. But also writing automations which are visible, reliable, and have a material impact on a team (or many teams).
Thanks for your insight, I think I'll keep that more front of mind in the coming weeks
I also saw a study that said that 95% of children diagnosed with ADHD are magnesium deficient [0]! Another found a "significant decrease of hyperactivity" in children who were given oral magnesium supplements over 6 months [1].
My wrists and hands have felt better, but I've given a lot of attention to them in addition to the supplements, with more upper body workouts (on top of running 10-15 miles a week) and stretches. I'm looking to get more ergonomic tools as well. While I can't say what is and isn't due to the supplements, I don't currently see a reason to stop taking them.
[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9368235/ [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9368236/
I think individualism and personal liberty has been conflated with a selfish sort of consumerism, from the end consumer up through corporate cultures. Want something new? Buy it! Are you a business wanting to make inroads in a new sector? Don't research and produce. Acquire!
It is no surprise to me, then, that corporate debt is at an all time high, corporations and individuals are less prepared and resilient than ever, and that this crisis is violently exposing that.
I'd also want him to publish a revision, I've enjoyed listening to Kahneman on podcasts and have nothing against him as an author