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It's much worse than the article suggests. The article doesn't explain why people don't marry. People who marry before middle-age often have secure attachment styles. The dating pool from middle age on consists primarily of people with insecure attachment styles. Relationships with insecurely attached people are especially problematic. If you're not married, but want to be, look for widows or widowers with secure attachment styles, and work on developing secure attachment.

https://www.amazon.com/Attached-Science-Adult-Attachment-You...

https://www.amazon.com/Attachment-Disturbances-Adults-Treatm...

Assuming the facts are as stated, Google's handling of this issue is inept. When there is a substantive conflict between employees, the employer needs to take immediate action, within 24 hours or less.

For example, the complainant or the supervisor should have been assigned to work in a different location, or transferred to another project. This can be done with some finesse, so as not make the reason obvious to others. This is the right thing to do if harassment is occurring as described, or even if the complainant is making a false accusation.

Given that the complaint was sustained, it would be interesting to know Google's experience as to whether supervisors' behavior changes or continues.

The tattoos in the photo that caught my attention. Aren't tattoos a source of toxic exposure? https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/think-you-ink...

> I wonder if it's the equivalent of making trauma victims describe the traumatic event in detail; an attempt to give higher weight to the raw experience pathway compared to the prior pathway.

> The other promising source of hope is psychedelics.

For me, what this part if the essay points to is that everyone needs to do their own work, in whatever context, and there's no getting around that.

Experts, authorities, and managers need to find the line between facilitating a process and doing the process themselves. You can't make anyone believe anything or do anything. You can only hope to facilitate the conditions where helpful beliefs and accomplishments arise.

I hope this is one significant cultural shift during my lifetime. The 20th century was about creating expertise and giving that expertise authority, which is just another expression of the dominator paradigm.

Even though Google is being investigated or sued in several jurisdictions regarding its data collection practices, I think this change is down to Apple. Google can fight governments using the legal system indefinitely, but Apple can and did just decide that better disclosures were required. YouTube was recently updated on the app store, but gmail etc have not been updated in months.

This reminds me, when I had my 3rd class medical exam at age 16, the examiner didn't have equipment to test hearing. So, he went into the adjacent room and whispered, "Can you hear this?" Then loudly, "OK, cover your left ear." Whispering, "Can you hear this?".... I passed.

I'm using datasette[0] and sqlite-utils[1] on replit[2] for a project, which unfortunately I can't share for the time being. I've been very productive, and the low learning curve on this setup makes it easy for others to use and modify what I've done.

I expect to have time to make a demo datasette project available on replit (and github) 'soon.'

I'm so grateful for @simonw 's work on datasette and sqlite-utils! These packages are beautifully designed and documented, and they work so well! Thank you very much @simonw! EDIT: Of course, I am also grateful for sqlite, one of the best things ever written, not to mention this 'license:[3]'

# 2001 September 15 # # The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of # a legal notice, here is a blessing: # # May you do good and not evil. # May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. # May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

[0] https://datasette.io/ [1] https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/ [2] https://repl.it/ [3] https://sqlite.org/src/file/test/main.test

I have the PayPal receipt. I meant, I didn't receive the email sent to old-timers. I figured you might want to know in case this was an oversight, and there are old-timers you intended to contact, but didn't.

@idlewords, I renewed for a year, having signed up in 2014. For me, it's an essential service.

I didn't receive any email about this; the most recent message I have is a password reset in 2017.

Aren't the deep discounts for multi-year renewal tantamount to recapitulating the problem with the original one-time sign up fee? i.e., having to run the service with no recurring revenue.

I use pinboard a lot, and I'm inclined to pay. I'm curious to see all my old delicious links!

But, having said that, I'm planning to replace pinboard with my self-developed bookmarking site on repl.it.

Which Ken Goldberg? The UC Berkeley professor? https://goldberg.berkeley.edu/

"From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums."

Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color Paperback – Illustrated, April 15, 2003 https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Earth-Art-Invention-Color/dp/0...

https://www.philipball.co.uk/

On iCloud, "A shared folder only takes up space in the owner's iCloud storage."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210910

I'm in the same boat. That's why I use repl.it[0] for nearly all my programming now. Haven't tried jupyter on repl.it, but here's[1] the first DDG result, which suggests jupyter is supported.

[0] https://repl.it/ [1] https://repl.it/talk/templates/Jupyter-Notebook/49993

My own experience is that startup employers really do have unrealistic/over-optimistic expectations of what's actually required to achieve a certain result. Anything worth doing in the startup world hasn't been done before, so it's usually not possible to invent it on a schedule.

People who will throw something together are heroes, but very often the result is complete crap that has enormous costs if it gets adopted as a standard. I'm being only slightly facetious asking, how much has humanity been set back due to the fact that less than two weeks was spent inventing Javascript? Maybe they should have spent an extra week or two on it and saved millions of person-years down the road [ h/t the recent repost of https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... ]

At the same time, my own psychological makeup made me vulnerable to trying to meet those unrealistic expectations, and that's on me. It took decades to really figure out what's going on, and ultimately it's a matter of acceptance rather than actionable change, although change is possible. With so much of our capabilities and challenges being unconscious, I continue to marvel at the miracle that anything gets done at all.

Similarly, I called for appliance service and added the number of the vendor to my address book. Then the technician tries calling me from his unknown cell, which does not ring. He was able to text me though.

Yeah, Musk might be able get away with this, since I expect many key employees will be attracted by much lower housing costs out of state. Texas has high real estate taxes, but not high enough to offset savings on house prices.

> I've been experimenting with having custom fonts disabled (that is, fonts I don't have locally

How do you do this exactly?

Given the time span, I assume the answer is, "no," but are you taking any dietary supplements? DMAE? Galantamine? If yes, stop taking them (after consulting with an appropriate heathcare provider).

EDIT: My own experience with DMAE is that it made some dream memories hard to distinguish from reality. Did that happen only in a dream? I wasn't so sure sometimes.

EDIT: Oh, yes, I see, I am not sure why anyone would do this. Maybe someone who had an address or two they want to keep at the lowest possible cost. I'm not sure how email is managed for such accounts, but it's possible Dreamhost will take care of the setup, so maybe you don't have to interact with the web control panel, which might be intimidating for some users. Could also be a legacy arrangement for an older product offering.

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Buying domain hosting gives you "unlimited" email addresses, so domain hosting is cheaper as soon as you need 3 or more addresses.

3 addresses x $2 = $6/mo for email vs $4.95/mo for any number of addresses. I have a friend who is married with 4 children. He pays $4.95/mo for 6 addresses. You don't have to actually host an http domain to get email hosting that comes with domain hosting.

"unlimited" in quotes because obviously there are some limits and service terms. You can't start a competitor to gmail with a $4.95/mo hosting account.

And, like most kinds of work these days, science progress is mainly collaborative, rather than the result of one independent thinker.

pg seems predisposed to dichotomous thinking. This could be about his rhetorical style. It's easier to write an essay, or a screenplay, with good guys and bad guys. The world is more like a novel now, with multiple independent processes in shades of gray.

The advantage is you can have "unlimited" email accounts and "unlimited" domains for $5/mo. One domain registration is even included.

Dreamhost offers email hosting for any number of addresses “free” (at no extra cost) in all plans except the starter plan, $4.95/mo.

https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/shared

>Next year, Chat will become available as a free service—both in the integrated experience in Gmail and the Chat standalone app.

It was great when Chat [EDIT: This was Google Talk, I think.] was integrated within gmail, both as a ui, and the fact that chat messages were mixed-in with your regular emails, and available for searching. I don't remember when this was removed, but I haven't used it 10+ years. Somehow I doubt the new Chat will work the way it used to, but I hope so.

EDIT 2 (off topic): I tried to look at Google Chat, but first Google wanted me to answer some survey questions, so I agreed to. There's no (apparent) way to navigate the survey questions or revise your replies. I clicked through one question accidentally without answering it. For another question, I mistakenly answered the opposite of what I meant to. Garbage-in, garbage-out.

EDIT 3: After clicking "Get Started" in Google Chat, it appears this is only for groups a la Slack. Why can't I just IM other people with gmail addresses in my address book?

This is hardly worth writing up for n=57. I scanned the full text and didn't see any notation regarding vitamin d blood levels in patients, which would have been useful to know. Maybe nobody wanted to pay for those tests? A helpful result would be something like, "blood levels of X ng/ml improved survival rates Y% with a confidence interval of Z."

Instead, we have an odd and vague dosage, "80,000 IU vitamin D3 every 2–3 months." I gather this study was constructed given the supplement regimen that was in-place. Why were the patients being supplemented that way? What standard of care is that?

Discord for sharing and multi-person audio/video. Content is accessible to Discord itself, of course, but not to the uninvited. Don't need an email address. Works on desktop, tablet, phones.

https://discord.com/ about: https://www.protocol.com/discord

Yeah, Docker is an issue for me as well. Great idea! Thanks! Care to share any more details? Who is hosting what configuration?

Mechanically linking is heavier than fbw/electrical/fiber optic linking, and what's the point if there's no mechanical linkage to the control surfaces?

With the fbw system, the software makes the choice on how to interpret the control movement, use one or both? If one, which one?

EDIT: Maybe you mean that a mechanical linkage would provide a feedback mechanism, so that one pilot would know if the other pilot was attempting an input? I don't know if there's force feedback on Airbus flight controls.

The advantages of fly-by-wire are too good to pass up, so that leaves the question of how to design an FBW system.

A high school teacher of mine in the 1970s predicted an accident like AF447. He framed it this way: the 'American' approach is to implement FBW to always do what the pilot inputs indicate, whereas the 'French' approach is to do the right thing, and override the pilot if the FBW 'knows' better. That's an interesting cultural cultural consistency as well!

So, the 'American' approach is better if the sensors are not working as expected, and it makes the software simpler. The 'French' approach is better if the pilot is wrong, but both the sensors and the software must be working perfectly. Everyone makes mistakes, and all software has bugs. What to do?

(In reality, some 'judgement' is needed by the software, even in the American approach.)

EDIT: That said, some of the design choices in the Airbus FBW are baffling, such as making the control input the average of two different inputs. I like to think AF447 is less likely to have happened in a Boeing ship, although the ulitimate cause of the crash was a pilot making what amounts to a beginner mistake.

Don't miss William Langewiesche's article!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

I was intrigued by this paper. Haven't tried it though.

Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/

Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. However, research has shown that histone-deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC inhibitors) enable adult mice to establish perceptual preferences that are otherwise impossible to acquire after youth. In humans, we found that adult men who took valproate (VPA) (a HDAC inhibitor) learned to identify pitch significantly better than those taking placebo—evidence that VPA facilitated critical-period learning in the adult human brain. Importantly, this result was not due to a general change in cognitive function, but rather a specific effect on a sensory task associated with a critical-period.