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I read it as “omega-bar.”

This is the comment I was looking for. He said he was going to intervene and something to the effect of “fix it.” This seems like a logical outcome of that statement.

I just need flexibility and variety. Some days I work better from home. Some days it feels claustrophobic and I cannot focus. Sometimes the office helps me focus. Sometimes it facilitates communications that never would have happened remotely. Other times I’m bogged down by unwanted social interactions. Sometimes I really need to be on site with customers or at a conference building and maintaining social ties.

I’ve worked in hybrid environments for over a decade and could never go back to a full RTO position. I’m currently mostly remote and that is also driving me a little crazy.

Some people do great in the office. Some do great remote. I’m not in either bin.

I asked once and it just gave me “p”. I said “no more fancy like” and it produced the correct result. This is the real power of the model for narrowing search, you can interrogate the results.

…because if you grant them the green card they will up and get a new job? The incentives here are so screwed up for everyone, it effectively codifies a caste system of immigrant workers.

Off the top of my head, Hawking’s books talk a lot about the GUT and are still relevant, Greene’s book on string theory is an advancement of conceptual attempts to find one. It’s harder to point to now because so much of the public discourse since the mid-2000s has moved online.

It would be no harm to the bureaucracy if they did not find the Higgs. The scientific community would have reacted with excitement and the search for the hole in the standard model would have been apace. In many ways this would have been better for particle physics funding. The standard model is now complete, and we still don’t have a unified field theory. I’m not a physicist but have been following this search through popular writing since I was a kid. Is there now any reason to build a bigger supercollider, and/or is there a risk of the entire field stagnating till someone comes along with a testable theory?

A little glimpse into what a lot of proprietary code bases look like - or at least did a couple decades ago.

Academia is exploitative. The financial incentives are a symptom of the bigger problem. Is university career training for industry or for an academic track? It is not made clear to people entering the system, and is often murky to everyone years into a degree. There is encouragement for education for its own sake, there’s encouragement for education for a high paying career, and there’s encouragement to merge these two and enter academia in a professional capacity. There’s often a mountain of undischargeable personal debt behind it.

What people are typically not told is that financially stable academic positions are either political or hard to come by. It’s like professional sports: you can be a pro and just short of top notch and you’ll be playing in the minors for your career, making pennies. This could take the form of endless low-paying postdoctoral gigs, or the crown prize, an associate professorship with little or no benefits and a salary that just lets you scrape by.

In the meantime you are expected to pour your heart and soul into the endeavor. There is some reward in that but it is fleeting, and once you have committed to a career path the momentum to change tracks can be a real obstacle. Academia will suck you dry and demand more. Unless you end up with a tenured position at the end of that, it’s not sustainable unless you have another source of financial backing, like a spouse with a “real job.”

The US doesn’t really value education. Those who do are idealistic or exploitative, sometimes both. You’re buying into a deeply dysfunctional system and should at least go into it with eyes open.

Obligatory: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/real-3

It sounds like we don’t know enough to even consider landing a probe, let alone something completely unprecedented like drilling a deep hole. This mission, if I understand the article, will attempt to determine the depth of the surface, its constituency, and possibly the constituency of what’s below it. It may be that Europa is not geothermally active as we hope, and is made up entirely of ice and other simple inorganic compounds. That would likely shift our efforts to other, more promising targets of exploration in the solar system. Drilling is many steps ahead of where we are at.

This is a big one - pay is livable (I’d argue $24/hr is not, generally) but not great. Doesn’t compare to other technical fields with the same educational and experiential requirements, hours are challenging, and guess what there is a nursing shortage!

When things go well nobody notices. I’ve certainly headed off and found/fixed a lot of bad decisions in my career, some of my own included. There was a lot of impact there, and it’s good when it’s invisible!

Basically what we are all doing here on HN. We are social creatures by nature and the commentary and commentators are often more entertaining than the subject.

My dad is an accomplished artist but never wanted to play the art scene and mostly spent his career as a professor. He once produced an entire storage shed of metal sculpture than he later recycled for lack of anything better to do with them. I could only fit two in my house.

I’m a huge proponent of divorce. I grew up in a dysfunctional household where my parents stayed together. Their relationship was not healthy, nor were the individuals in it. My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was distant and, when present, was focused on placating her. When my own marriage of 16 years ran into problems that were seemingly intractable, I finally realized I did not want similar for myself, my then-wife, or my kids. I spent several years trying to mend things, but I was the only participant. I have no regrets over leaving, it was best for everyone.

As a culture, we are moving away from upholding institutions for their own sake at the cost of individuals who may be harmed by them. I see marriage as no exception.

I use it as a timer and to control a couple smart lights. About 1 in 5 times I use it as a basic utility, it attempts to sell me something. I have nearly stopped using it altogether as a result of this unwanted behavior.

As an added annoyance, I moved states and it reports the weather in my previous location, despite repeated attempts to update my home location through the app. So I don’t even ask it the weather any more.

At one point it was the cheapest whole-home, multi-speaker audio setup on the market. But I use spotify as the music source.

None of these things generate revenue for Amazon, and their feeble attempts to do so run counter to the actual utility of the device.

We’ve had radiocarbon dating age New World artifacts at 20,000+ years, and one in South America up to 60,000 years, but these have all been one-off occurrences that have been mostly regarded as oddities. This study is certainly compelling on its own, but there are many more indications that humans were here well before the land bridge!

Sweetness and kindness are not necessarily the same thing. Just like how “nice” can be a toxic trait.

His list of points is fine. It’s mostly the servant leadership mentality, which I’m all for. But sometimes to be an effective leader you have to make hard decisions. You’ve got to know your personal boundaries and know when to yield and when to hold them, or other less sweet people are going to steamrolling you, or you’re going to get overloaded by taking on too much, etc. And sometimes you have to be direct and blunt and not so sweet to show true kindness. Confrontation is hard and it’s not something most people really want, but I believe it’s sometimes necessary to embody kindness. For yourself, your teammates, the customer, the organization. Because at the end of the day if you are not effective, that’s going to hurt everyone.

Viagra is prn, you should not take it 3x/day. Cialis is a daily dose.

That is not writing with the help of GPT 4, that is letting it write for you! I can’t imagine doing anything creative and letting a computer source material for me without having reviewed the material first hand, even if it was accurate. Clearly, this is not where everyone’s head is at, and I suspect your wife’s workflow is more the common case.

I’ve said from the outset that in academic settings you should be able to cite an AI as a writing assistant, it would clear up a lot of the confusion about its use. If you used it poorly it’s still on you, but at least there’s some transparency by which to judge the work.

Boost::graph feels like one of the dustier corners of the Boost libraries. I have used it, it worked, but it took a long time to wrap my head around the design and actually adapt it to my project. It is not great for getting simple things done, but it will get them done, with the power and flexibility as stated in the article. You will likely never see the Boost interfaces poking through whatever facade you end up erecting around it.

I did not get the briefcase in my DARE education. What I did get is a cop telling me that my parents having a glass of wine with dinner or a cigarette after work was just as bad a them using cocaine, and that you could OD and die on weed. All drugs are equally bad.

A few years later when my friends were smoking weed and laughed at my concerns, and I realized I’d been lied to, I pretty much did everything under the sun.

An actual education would have let me make better choices about my recreational drug use as a young person.

I’m not sure what point you are making with this reply. I’m late/adult self-identifying autistic. I’ve done this with some of the standard tests that psychiatrists use, attended workgroups related to the topic, and studied extensively. Self-diagnosis is highly accurate for autism, both for positive and negative evaluations.

I am also pursuing a formal diagnosis because so many people downplay it when I tell them I’m autistic. I don’t have the affect at first glance, but it does come out in my behaviors if you get to know me a bit. I’ve also had the luxury of therapy, eduction, etc.

I also agree that the categorization is overly broad and your original post resonates. There are various non-overlapping clusters of traits that fall under autism.

I do think, however, that at the core of it is a common difference in information and sensory processing.

> An AI with any sort of generalizable reasoning ability would just need basic sources

That is a completely unsupportable assertion.

Standard library support is not there in any meaningful way across compilers, I fail to see why anyone would adopt modules at the present. MSVC is the furthest along in its support last I looked. Once compiler support is available, I would expect usage to increase fairly rapidly. As with many things C++, modules are a nice-to-have, adopting a successful strategy from other languages/ecosystems, and many will choose to never adopt them.

In fairness this one’s predecessor has some pretty accessible articles that I’ve actually read. It’s more like an encyclopedia. Some things I have the background for, others not so much.

The paper is actually science, but it’s not news. It is, however, being portrayed that way. This type of writing seems like a job that could, and possibly should, be replaced by AI.

I personally believe the Cascadia fault will go off on June 18, 2025, but I may be wrong!

I’ve migrated between devops platforms multiple times on multiple projects. The barrier is not really that high, and the cost of losing some data is relatively low. You can script most of it or pay a small fee for a user friendly plugin. There are lots of roughly equivalent options, some of them free. It’s nothing like, say, migrating between cloud providers.

I agree. This can partly be caught by screening - serial job hoppers may not be a good fit - but it’s more commonly a reflection of lack of dedication to the employee. I’ve been at my current job going on 11 years, it’s not like I planned on that, it’s that it’s a great place to work with smart people, interesting work, good pay, and just the right balance of pressure and work/life balance. If people aren’t hanging around, you are probably missing one or more of these components. I have seen senior staff evaporate from places when they merge and some component vital to employee well-being goes away. Companies that provide all this are definitely the exception, not the norm.

This is true, and yet, they played the opening move.