I'm at the Pizza Yurt, I'm at the Taco Bill
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I've often thought of using the words "internal reactions" as a euphemism for emotions.
His wife had divorced him a while earlier, and by the time he was evicted the carpet was filled with dog poop and pee, some partially cleaned up, some not.
The guy was an accountant. One would assume that a professional like that would be able to get access to help; would be able to figure out what's going on and change course.
I don't know or remember enough of his story to really make a point. It sucks that he died. It sucks that I'm part of a chain of events that accelerated that. It sucks that people get drawn into things like gambling and drugs. It sucks that people are unhoused in a country with access to a surplus of resources.
By the time someone gets to intensive care in a hospital, a nurse can 'save their life' 5 times in a night, just for them to die the next day. This guy could have lived more years, but it's really hard to know what those years would have been.
International Law = game theory
I don't think there will be any new[1] dog breeds for the same reason.
1. New meaning actual new breed, not just new mixes.
I had a $600 surprise water bill. It was (partially) forgiven because the water department could drive to my house and see evidence of the leak next to my water meter. It did turn out to be on my side of the meter, so it is my responsibility.
If the water department had driven to my house and seen evidence of commercial agriculture (so to speak), then it would not have been forgiven.
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The parallel here is that the water department can't come into my house uninvited - the cloud provider SHOULD NOT have intimate access to the running code, but they are able to observe some patterns without 'breaking in'.
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Side note: the size of the bill and the amount of forgiveness was largely driven by waiving an 'excess usage' surcharge - similar to how you can get a discount for cloud service reservations.
Might also be useful for Mars *
* Maybe not in real life, but in my imagination
As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing production. As much as we would be honored to be part of any Valve game - we do not work in this sector at all. We are not secretly working on Half Life 3, Project White Sands (whatever that is/may be) or any other Valve title - we're just nerds working to secure the global bioeconomy.
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Or so they say...
Ahh! Yeah, we need better value functions.
1. In order to effectively deploy real robots to solve real problems, you have to foresee and fix any problem that may occur in 99.5% of scenarios. As automation is added in series, the higher that number must be to remain economically effective.
My second law of robotics:
2. Robots depreciate, which has tax advantages. Human wages do not.
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Discussion:
A realistic scenario is an assembly plant that makes 1,000 widgets per day. Imagine cars, washing machines, etc.
Your widget plant has 10 footprints. Any robot stoppage takes at least 5 minutes to clear.
With a 99.5% success rate and one robot, you lose 25 minutes a day (1000*0.005 = 5 stoppages ) * 5 minutes.
If all 10 footprints have robots with a 99.5% success rate, you lose 250 minutes a day (naive model!). That's over 4 hours.
In reality, each station would have manual bypass procedures, or you would go bankrupt.
But then, how could I be sure that the notes were trustworthy?
We're still doing this? Capacity by weight and volume, and efficiency per distance are much more meaningful. Charging is mostly a function of input voltage.
feels like a pill being used purposely for it's unpleasant side effects.
There is a step like this in ML. I think it's pretty interesting that topics from things like economics pop up in ML - although perhaps it's not too surprising as we are doing ML for humans to use.
Anyway, I feel like the human species has arrived at a time when we have the internet, without having a great way to deal with everyone's feelings.
Some news media orgs make junk food, some news media orgs make information poison - they make it harder to understand what is going on in the world.
"It's always in the last place you look" - if you already know how you FEEL about something, you don't have to think about it in information or factual terms at all. You don't have to keep looking.
Whatever framework or philosophy or concept you use, it gets implemented by people in an organization.
If that organization is new and growing, it is graded by things like active user growth (top line); if that organization is established, it is graded by profit (bottom line).
The journey from top line to bottom line is where all the complications come in.
So I think the author is correct in their conclusion [0], but not in depth.
0. Engineers will tend to be sad in established orgs [cost centers], and happy in new orgs [product development].
If developers want the freedom to write software in sensible ways, they need to enter the market directly as either founders of companies or freelancers instead of through the comfort and convenience of existing companies. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but there just aren’t many companies doing it right. Luckily, I am guessing it is easier to teach business to a programmer than the other way around. Think of it this way: it HAS to be better than doing Scrum!"
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My previous comment on the subject still seems appropriate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080195
The big problem is "How do I connect the money to the work". In large corporations, this becomes project -> plan -> work. The project gets a budget based on the plan, then you do the work based on the plan. The problem is the link between plan and work. As you work, you learn. That is the primary activity of software development. Learning is a menace to planning. As you learn, you have to replan, but your budget was based on the original project plan.
You can talk about engineering and culture and whatever you want, but if you're working for money, the problem remains of connecting the work to money and the money to the work.
I'm reminded of the Oxygen Catastrophe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event - we need oxygen to live, but it also kills.
> 1:17 "How can an organization that is so great at science be so terrible at creating a new launch system?"
> 2:33 "What goes on inside any organization is what I've taken to calling the game. ...
Every large organization has their own version of the game. The goal of the game is simple - it is to move up the ladder in the company to get more money more reports more power more budget more respect. The game is about career, and very much about the career for the people who matter: management and especially executive management."
> 15:20 "The game was:
Keep NASA space flight centers open,
Keep money flowing to NASA contractors,
Keep votes flowing to Congress people,
Preserve NASA management jobs"
It seems like a quark core would be predominated by the weak interaction, so it might be more opaque to neutrinos.
Do they call it MOG instead of MIG? Although it's Chlorinated Rubber, not metal, so maybe it's CROG.
> "I'm reminded of the Oxygen Catastrophe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event - we need oxygen to live, but it also kills."
If the turbines are 50% efficient, then the heat load on the cooling towers would double, which I have to assume is WELL within design limits.
You have made me wonder about turbine overspeed and steam bypass.
It's easy to say something like 'War am Bad", but are you willing to be civil to sh*theads?
Someone wrote a post that I can't find right now with a title like that - good advice accounts for the target's personal situation.
Good advice is not a list of winning lottery numbers, it's a description of a state transition; some state transitions are really hard and scary.