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The crux is the realization of the absurdity of (unrealistic) expectations. Those who figure it out early are able to find balance. But those who succumb to it generally end up hating themselves and their research because of how inadequate it makes them feel.

I do agree upon the role Bethe played in Feynman's early career and I think both of us concur that we need more Bethes today.

While I agree with most of what's written, I think that revenue from volatile stocks does come at others' expense and, thus, might not be an example the author should be including.

Or port-knocking.

India already did it. At that time I thought that it was outrageous but now I'm forced to reconsider.

Precisely. There is a (now outdated) model called Truine Brain model which proposes three layers of intelligence: the cortex which is responsible for higher thinking/planning/executive functions, the limbic system responsible for 4Fs/emotions, and the basal gangalia/brainstem responsible for basic functions like movement, homeostasis and etc. It's uncanny how this matches closely with the Software/OS/BIOS analogy.

Or as I like to say, our Software might be up to date but our OS and BIOS are still legacy.

Try me.

For one, like you said, there are so many spam websites out there that it's extremely difficult for Google (or any search engine for that matter) to gather genuine results. I also think that it's a matter of incentive. As long as traffic doesn't decline, does Google really have any incentive to fix or improve things?

Also, I presume the search algorithm is not how it used to be too, what with ML models being used left and right. I wonder if anyone really knows how we get the results anymore. There are a few initiatives like kagi but I know too few about them to say anything at this point. For now, I am quite content with appending "reddit" at the end of every non-technical query nowadays... at least until they start gaming this as well.

Anecdote but I always noticed change in sleep patterns after starting antidepressants. Actually, terminal insomnia (you wake up and then are unable to fall asleep) are characteristic of chronic depression. Add to this that SSRI causes increase in sleep hours (maybe even quality?) and then you have a theory about how it might just have been due to lack of sleep after all?

Same thing my doctor said. But getting appointments is really difficult around where I live so I'm just waiting for now.

VB6 was a gem. To a young me who was starting out programming, there was nothing more empowering than dragging a bunch of different buttons, resizing them with mouse, fiddling with their labels and creating a calculator within half an hour. I crave for a similar dev experience but no language today seem to possess that simplicity. Today, it's all container widgets of different kinds that I have no idea how to use.

Doesn't have to be this verbose even. Just a "I've been using Notepad++ for years now, thank you so much for it!" and a bit of "I understand that there are many issues that require your attention right now but there's this thing I'm struggling with..." Would've done.

Honestly, this looks like a troll's work. I personally would've ignored him/her because of the adage, "don't feed the trolls"

Last paragraph unneeded.

Even Rust?

True, but notice how I said personal computing and not computing in general. There's no denying that much of the scientific advances today would be impossible without computers in research facilities and/or universities.

People decry the energy wastage brought about by the Crypto Mining, rampant invasion of privacy & trust by mega corporations, ubiquitous presence of misinformation and vitriol in social media, mismanagement of e-waste, global climate change and the impending doom upon the entire human civilization, and a thousand things more, and yet find this article condescending.

This is not to say that I agree entirely with it either but, I find myself empathizing with the author at some level. If nothing more, it's a fun mental exercise to imagine what life today would be like had there been no personal computing.

Well it's hosted on GitHub pages. So I'd wager yes.

Same here. The more I've progressed in CS, the more dissatisfied I am. Outside of creating algorithms that vie for constant user attention (the basic business model of FAANG), I don't see any fruitful application of my skills. I'd much rather move towards the domains where my knowledge of data, systems, and algorithms could be better utilized (medicine, Genomics, structural engineering, governance etc).

How difficult is it to transition from Computer Science to Biomedics? Particularly towards the field of Genomics (where CRISPR is).

What in the world is bake-it-in-the-oven?

Imagine a crowd sourced metadataset of which model output is "good". What happens when we try to incorporate that knowledge into the pre-existing model? Will it learn to generate more "good"looking output?

+1

I'm not sure if this has come before but for me it'd be ffmpeg. The things it can do!

The hardest part seems to be sitting down to create those flashcards.

Does it remind anyone of Po and the Dragon scroll from Kung Fu Panda?

For the longest time now, I have been thinking about this fact: Mine, and the entire Humanity's survival depends upon a mere handful of men. I sometimes think about how a madman could launch a nuclear attack that could potentially cascade into the extinction of humanity. Or how another authority could cut millions of trees solely because of the fact that it lies on his/her territory and that it's none of our business, triggering irreversible climate change and once again, the potential extinction of humanity. All of this makes me terribly sad.

What use is years and years worth of scientific research and intelligence if all it does is cause our own extinction? We are just like Ouroboros eating its own tail.

Bugs are a part of life and I think it's safe to say that we don't intentionally put Bugs on our code. Therefore, while your guilt is justified, I don't think you should let yourself be overwhelmed from it. The best thing you can do is to double, and triple check that you don't lose data because even if users face down-times, they'll be mostly fine. But the same thing can't be said for data loss.

Apart from ensuring that all parts of the code are covered via appropriate tests, and being responsive to the customers' complaints, there isn't much you can do.

Really? I've always pronounced it car (kar) because it's short for character which is pronounced karakter in the first place.

Oh this brings a lot of memories. I remember writing a DSL for visualization of logs that we collected when we were working in a hyper local geographical search engine. I was fresh out of college and this was when Google maps had yet to penetrate my country.

I started out with pylex, yacc and then what was supposed to be a quite simple DSL with a few keywords and a few nodes, very quickly exploded to a very complicated endeavor. Alas, I'll never be able to prove that it was Turing Complete. But that doesn't stop me from believing it.

I mean, the entire premise of Squid Games is just this.