I live in SF, and I take it daily. It's cheaper than paying for the parking garage near the office. And it's cheaper than Uber: the base rate is similar to Uber's, but there is no need to add a tip.
Waymo sometimes does weird, unexpected things - but safely. Once it seemed to change its mind about the optimal route a few times over the course of 10 seconds, switching safely between two lanes back and forth a few times before committing. It used its turn signal fine, and the lanes were clear, so it wasn't a problem, but this isn't something humans do.
Sometimes it behaves oddly, but I have developed confidence that it will do those odd things safely.
Is it just me, or is the language in the essay strangely hard to parse?
> But insofar as it is the passing on of second-hand knowledge about being, it is itself a form of imposture that reproduces and impersonates without meaning or sense and therefore enacts imposture in the act of naming itself as well as in the manner that it imitates an act of passing on knowledge of an existing disease or syndrome.
The essay doesn’t actually have a lot to say, but that fact is hidden by convoluted language.
Maybe the author is trying to give the reader impostor syndrome?
The NYT vs. SSC episode reminds me of a conflict in Mormonism, the religion I was raised in. A Mormon named John Dehlin criticized the church, and Mormon apologists published a hit piece about him, taking quotations out of context and claiming he was not a true believer. The apologists ended up experiencing a lot of backlash, and their organization, FARMS, had to close down.
The NYT piece on SSC felt like a religious crusade to reveal a blasphemer, taking quotations out of context and making weird, tenuous connections to other known blasphemers.
Count me as another data point. I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and it has not affected my social or professional life in any noticeable way. I was worried I would lose access to my Oculus purchases, but I did not.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was reading my ads profile summary in Facebook settings. It claimed I was in “Established Adult Family Life with Children” or something similar. This was revolting. I was disturbed that Facebook seemed to know I was expecting a baby. I realized that Facebook was extracting far more value than it was giving, so I deleted my account.
This is my go-to implementation, but I make one little tweak. It’s very unlikely that you will overflow a long, but you can you guarantee that you’ll avoid overflow like this:
We went through a brutal battle with Postgres bloat recently. Indexes were composed of 80% bloat, 20% useful data after years of heavy write activity. Vacuuming indexes was getting slower and slower, bringing us precariously close to transaction ID wraparound outages.
Glad that pg_repack exists, which is an extension that can be used to elegantly rebuild your indexes from scratch.
Looking forward to zheap! (Which should obviate the need for index rebuilding)
This is fantastic! Love the parallel vacuum feature, which should help my team’s sanity with a write-heavy workload.
Does anyone know when the zheap storage system will be released? This system will apparently obviate the need for vacuums all together since old row version information will be kept in an undo log instead of in the heap. This will be a game changer for us.
The 50% tax that pg dislikes for startup founders is basically what I experienced during our startup’s liquidity event. I imagine that a fairly large number liquidity events are the same.
The acquirer paid us out in cash, which meant we were taxed at the highest marginal federal income tax rate of 37%. California taxed 10%, making the total 47%.
I only kept a little more than half of the upside, but it was still life changing.
I had to pay the taxes immediately. In pg’s example, the wealth tax would require payment over 6 decades, which is easier.
Agreed. Seems like a bit too much self-aggrandizement. This sort of lofty rhetoric is fine if you have developed a COVID vaccine, but perhaps not if you’ve made a useful tool for system analysis. The teams that built Linux, Redis, Postgres, etc. were realistic and concrete about their value propositions and did not make any pronouncements like, “we’re changing the world.” Seems more honest.
Happy middle: subscribe to one or two high quality sources of news (eg. NYT, WSJ). Less clickbait overload than something like Google News or Facebook, and you get acquainted with the journalists’ styles, beliefs, and perspectives over time. Slower paced.
I’m very curious about spiritual confirmations of truth. What was your spiritual witness of the Book of Mormon like? How do you know that the spiritual experience came from an external source and was not just generated by your brain?
[Edit: Asking because I wonder often about the provenance my own spiritual experiences. I’m currently leaning toward “generated by the brain,” but I would love to be wrong about that.]
Might seem stupid, but I found the following thought experiment interesting. Discovered it on Reddit.
The OP was working in the finance sector surrounded by people whose values conflicted with his.
He wrote something like this:
If you are in an environment surrounded by people with whom you disagree, pretend that you are a Federation officer in an exchange program serving on a Ferengi vessel. Most of the crew’s values will bother you, but you’re not there to correct Ferengi culture. You’re there to learn whatever there is to learn from them and contribute in a positive way to the running of the ship. Being combative won’t change the Ferengi, but your positive example might update some views.
I’m so grateful to have worked with older colleagues who did not care about using the framework du jour. Influenced by their experience, we made some unorthodox tech choices as a web startup, including the choice to use C++ and Lisp-like languages heavily, and it worked out beautifully. From them, I learned that it is more important to ship simple, fast code than to contort your system to use the latest tech fads when it doesn’t make sense.
The generational index idea was exactly what I needed for a search index project I’ve been working on. Makes it much easier to safely insert and delete from a memory arena.
Also, fascinating that Rust’s borrow checker sort of encourages you over time to adopt an entity component system architecture instead of a naive OO architecture.
According to Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now, younger people have emancipative views at a higher rate than older generations. They tend to support their LGBT friends and family, same sex marriage, gender and race pay equality, immigration, and other ideas that are meant to increase the freedoms of marginalized groups. Not all religions oppose these things, but the organizations that most fervently oppose these things today often do so for religious reasons.
This may be one explanation for why religious adherence is diminishing among younger people.
- Do some work - Critique the work
it will converge better