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winReInstall··on Why long-term plans don't work and how to fix them
Long term plans do not work out, because we have the wrong format for them.

A long term plan should be not a linear chain of events. But a scenario-tree. You are always at root - the now. Now you gain a new a capabilitz or the world changes around you, and the tree adapts. Its branches thicken were they become more likely. Unlikely scenario branches wither away. The whole structure is recursive, one capability reached makes other capabilities more reachable, but might introduce risks, that shrink the whole tree down.

This scenario tree is not focused on a single product, as a product is just one of many expression of a capability. But when the capability is reached, the whole thing has changed, including your view on risks and rewards while moving on. So pivoting might be in order. Meanwhile others move to similar trees, and change the world around you for the better and the worse.

To compress this structure down into a "historylike" sequence of events, is the main fallacy. The past may be a linear graph, but none the less a ever changing root-recursive-tree was traversed by those moving within it.

winReInstall··on Ask HN: I love programming but hate the industry. Can anyone relate?
The real good ones never even enter the industry. So much foresight, inspirational..
winReInstall··on The effects of sleep debt
Spirals.

Sleep debt > Lack of Focus > Stress at work > Stress migrates home > Bad Sleep from Stress > Spirals

May i point out that nothing protects from stress migrating home. Nothing. Normal Homo Sapiens Fight or Flight response expects the stress to cease after the dangerous encounters. The role switching of modern society does not offer a mitigation for that. Meaning the lion hunts you home to the cave. Every day. Stressor handling strategys are plenty available (Rock climbing -> refocus the stress response to a fleeting danger) (Meditation -> Learn to control the stress producing body response), but the best one is to remove oneself from a stressfull environment.

Nothing is worth that payment reduction, after all you pay with your life, getting your system flooded with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol which significantly reduces your lifes lenght and quality.

Just dont do it. If somebody wants to stress you, throw it on the floor and quit. Do it, until they stop stressing you.

winReInstall··on BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea
Not mentioned here: Cooling option + actuators - we are only talking about the basic setup, although that is dishonest, as in the subscription car all options are included.
winReInstall··on BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea
0.25 kg without the wiring per seat, adds up to 5 seats * 0.25kg + tons of coper wiring.
winReInstall··on BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea
+ Seat heaters are heavy. You drive them around all year long, they will show up on your fuel bill one way or another.
winReInstall··on BMW heated seats subscription costs $18 per month in South Korea
I find this great, let them build under priced cars, goto a shop and get the "all features go" chip welded in and pirated firmware. Shareholders financially supporting customers driving better then they could afford, the same fate that you can expect for tesla. Which reminds me what is the tesla dark quota? How many cars totally disappear from the always connected feature and never reconnect?
winReInstall··on Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
Eh, these are cnc milled and and robot handled just like any other industrial good. Sure the quality expectations are high, but the production process is nothing unique..
winReInstall··on People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows
The bad of caste appearing is a symptom of technology strangulation & stagnation. Meaning: new technology empowers the new comer, allowing them to excell in moments of meritocracy - if the economic circumstances give them the chance. But they do no longer, creating the families of old, who own all the things and prevent a change of all the things.

The ugly truth is, the more oligarch a country is, the more the number of disruptions reduces. All that remains is "allowed" disruption, which are basically take over of internal guilds by the oligarchs consolidating power. Think of Rockefeller taking over the stage coach guild with ueber.

The good thing is though, this consensus of oligarchs is not global. In chaotic countries, were the hold of the oligarchs is not total, the new might still bloom and overthrow them. There lies hope, supressed by the tendrils of the oligarchs to the extern in a empire that sanctions experiments.

winReInstall··on My quest for the perfect window manager (2004)
It might sound stupid, but is there a visual equivalent to linux pipes? As in, i have a software that has something iterratable (browser search result, fileexplorer, document) and these result "plop" out into a visual pipe, were they get filtered (either by hand or by some NN-magic or by code) and processed by other pipleline parts. Finally the result drops out into a Folder, a File, a SnyDrive or some CMS system.

I just want to have that factorio overview over my whole workprocess pipeline and everything stuck in it. Inclusive rerouting capability. That would be supersweet. Has that ever been attempted?

winReInstall··on New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'
To connect the unconnected, a feature also seen in which brain-disease, often associated with the erroneous associations (paranoia, over-association of noise as voices and faces). Show me your wunderkind and i show you the shizophrenia in the family.

I wonder if you could even retrain active run-away shizophrenic people to produce meaningfull creative outcomes. So lets go to the tenderloin and connect random physics and science wikipedia articles to a megaphone.

Schools out, but the learning is just getting started.

winReInstall··on Eiffel Tower riddled with rust and in need of repair, leaked reports say
This building needs a sacrifice annode ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opferanode) and electrical charge to prevent rust.
winReInstall··on Why don't more people use throat mics?
But have you considered all the possible markets? The adult movie industry for example, a spearhead when it comes to new technology..
winReInstall··on Belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem
We will have AInquisitors, hunting for potentially becoming sentient programs, to avoid that company have to treat them like living things and release them into the wild with proprietary information as knowledge base.

Are you prepared for the audit of the GANish Inqisition? Are your thoughts profitable and there is no you in them? Lets ask you about your mother and tall, whit fountains in dark rooms..

winReInstall··on OpenBSD has two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir
Ah, yes, love those, cobbled together embedded compilers. Not a word in the Release.Me about the quirks. Just a "STABLE!!!".

Like binary C-Operators will only work on the first 8 bits, the rest is up there and needs to be shifted in and out.. basically work it out yourselve, once it wont work.

Then explain to the manager, that his hot project tooling from the megacorp upstream was basically license-brokken copy pasted garbage from some hobbyist half way around the world). And get a no, when asking for at least posting the patches back.

Or the "Working feature" which is just some api header, going into a inlined binary blob returning some constant. Which is just some flytrap to get you to drive by develop it for them. Twelve angry part time devs, make up one full working project.

The only professional in some industries is looking at you every morning from the mirror, begging for a mercy killing.

winReInstall··on Pre-Modern Battlefields (2015)
After all the grain has been stolen, you are in for a rough year where hunter/gathering might reappear + cannibalism. Imagine it less as a "civilization appears" moment, and more a "metal locusts from outer space eat previous civilization and leaf behind large slave farms after years of famine.
winReInstall··on Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold
Hot water has potentially a much larger surface, as the molecules all have the brownian energy to escape the fluid bonds and cool the remainder down doing so.

So given a big enough surface (turn it into a foam) should allow it to dissipate the heat much faster, then a liquid, were the energy first has to do a slightly chaotic thermodynamic walk to the surface (away from gravity), aggregate with other local energy spikes into one spike big enough to eject a molecule from the bonds and allow energy to escape.

Sending soundwaves through the liquid that intersect with each other creating cavitys, aka foam would also help.

winReInstall··on US Army deploys its first floating solar array
There are currently experiments in europe, to combine the too. Turns out alot of plants just need 2 hrs of sun and shut down after too save on evoparation. Meaning 35 % of the sunlight needed and the rest as solar seems feasable.
winReInstall··on Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
Slavery, cheap labour is a poison for inventiveness. Why build alexa, if you can buy a alexa. Why build with concrete 3d printers, if slave-labour is plenty.

One of the reasons of pushing UBI is, that without it, complex artifacts (lawn cutting robots) are slowly replaced by their wage-slavery equivalent and innovation becomes nothing but a curiosity to be displayed on some southern domus terrace during a orgy.

winReInstall··on “Atari Was Very, Very Hard” – Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later
Innovation death of a whole society is a stable condition
winReInstall··on “Atari Was Very, Very Hard” – Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later
Pension funds own all large industries as a total, most competition today outside of startup crechee fields is non-existing. Turns out, giving state functionality to free market participants does not make the state more dynamic, it makes the market more like a state, introducing a command economy like central structure and a aversion to change.

The market hurt itself in its victorious confusion. So yeah, that lack of innovation and capability of western economics, your private pension does that.

winReInstall··on Stolperstein
A woman in my town was send into the "lighter" political version of the KZ, because she remarked upon recieving the "medal of motherhood" with a cynic "and were shall i pin that, to my bottom?"

Totalitarian nightmares have no humor. If you think, your favourite thing in life shoul dbe spared jokes and jests, you are heading right towards that spot. Nothing should be sacrosanct to jokes.

I raise my glass to those who walked into the fence, taking theire workforce awaz from the fuehrer and his germinions.

winReInstall··on SpaceX launches three Falcon 9 rockets in 36 hours
Ukraine using starlink begs to differ
winReInstall··on How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need?
2- one for the train to pass through and another for wagons with arriving to decelerate and another wagon with departing to accelerate and catch up with the passing through train..
winReInstall··on US Army deploys its first floating solar array
$orry
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