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It's hyperbolic for humor, the main point is after the <hr/>

"On a more serious note, I think we should stop loving the tools and start loving the act of slaying problems. In any profitable monetized project, there is a very human customer pain that is worth addressing. We should care about the bigger human pain, and work towards reducing it. A loose analogy: A surgeon who loves the task of suturing may extend his work past the surgical incision. His goal is not to love cutting and stitching, it’s to improve patients’ lives. Similarly, the tasks of any developer job converge on an abstract user problem. We should reward progress towards fixing large problems not the mere completion of micro tasks."

The prettiness could be an emergent effect of any feature compositing done by the algorithms. On average, the composite faces of a group of random individuals look more attractive than most of the individual members of the group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averageness

My spouse also has PSC w/o IBD, 13 years now since diagnosis. We were given a poor prognosis 5 years ago but Vanco has stabilized her MELD score (indicator for transplant) and has been somewhat stable since. The Mayo Clinic in AZ has been very helpful after many hospitals rejected our desire to use experimental treatment.

NOTE: There are some generic equivalence issues having to do with the coating, make sure you research the manufacturer (ANI seems well tolerated, Alvogen not so much).

Disappointed that all the photos look like African children, seems like a careless trope. The author even states it explicitly in the FAQ:

While giving NFTs themselves to children in Africa probably won't help them much, what we are trying to do is to raise awareness for effective altruism while poking a little fun at campaigns that usually end up keeping the majorty of their funds raised.

The numbers show that Asia is more severely affected (12.1M in Africa vs 31.9M in Asia), data from 2021 April. https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/

Assuming you mean a DB schema per tenant (and not server/tenant), you can control quality of service by setting account limits for each user: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/user-resources.html

You can write scripts to do bulk updates/queries as long as you can ensure that the table schema remain consistent between each individual DB.

It’s a noisy and expensive filter at that. The low SES folks (anyone who has to work-study really) will be unfairly selected against per degree completion.

That seems like the innate personality trait of conscientiousness, not something trained into a person through 4 years of artificial tasks and goals, at least not reliably at scale.

I'd argue that university degrees don't even sufficiently prepare students to work for someone else. A lot of the "soft skills" required for career success such as: self-marketing, business communication, personal finance, sales, politics, etc... are picked up on the job or from the environment (parents, networks, ...).

A potential solo indie-dev would probably be resourceful enough to go the autodidact path, or cherry-pick their own course plan at a university. Since credentials are less important for a self-employed person, they can get the same value from learning resources.

If you don't have any publicly viewable projects, make some of your own, or contribute to others. https://www.donatecode.com/ https://github.com/showcases/great-for-new-contributors

Thanks for that info.

A quick aside:

I'm curious why it's gene vs environment (either/or), and not gene + environment (emergent)? If the latter, then I'd think heritability would necessarily factor both genes and environment -- as genes don't express in a vacuum.

For example, the heritability of "general skin cancer risk" is both genetic (melanin) and environmental (latitude, sun irradiance...). Due to differences in UV exposure, the genetic influence is probably greater at lower latitudes than higher.

"Stop while it's good"

I don't need to work until I'm completely exhausted, it's okay to stop with some fuel left in the tank...and resume some other time.

Abstracting is often more effective than de-coupling for these kinds of discussions. The act of changing concrete variables about a "case" requires that one keeps everything else (and their value-laden implications) the same. It is also much easier to mentally manipulate symbols when they are free of moral/emotional weight.

In the example given in the article, the question of IQ heritability can be "safely" abstracted into a population study question without referencing specific groups or populations. Of course, a serious biologist would use higher-resolution concepts like "breeding population" with defensible boundaries.

It seems disingenuous (or maybe naive?)to expect discussions about American racial groupings to remain neutral and freely "de-couplable".

It's like honestly expecting people to adhere to "is !== ought". There is a political implication to any conclusions derived about race, as it is mostly a sociological concept. Discussing it is especially difficult because the people who discuss racial differences (as opposed to other groupings like: family, class, height, religion, etc...) generally employ it in a political context (eugenics, affirmative action, etc...)

The multi-line comments follow JSDoc syntax, which many IDEs can parse to give the developer useful suggestions. https://jsdoc.app/about-getting-started.html

I've enjoyed reading the Guacamole client code (JS): https://github.com/apache/guacamole-client/blob/master/guaca...

Clean and consistent formatting, detailed comments, sensible modularization -- and it works well

I recently read a story about a very senior engineer (in his 50s) who was denied a working VISA in some European country for not finishing a degree. As inane as it sounds, completing any sort of 4 year degree signals to employers that you are likely not dumb and/or undisciplined (not necessarily the converse). Paraphrasing Steven Pink: college is an inefficient 4 year long IQ and marshmallow test

I'm on the same boat as you, I have 12 yrs exp, operated as head of engineering but I'm tired of ticking "Some college" on applications and having that "uncomfortable" conversation. I want to have the option to go to graduate school or change careers down the line and those paths require at least a bachelor's degree. So I've enrolled in a degree-completion program in a non-CS (but stimulating) field that interests me.

I have finished my core courses and I'm muscling through "uninteresting requirements" like foreign language, gen-ed, etc...

Curious, what do you dislike about formal learning environments?

I understand the instinctual irk of having one's habits monitored by a corporation but I'm curious about practical implications.

What are some concrete harms to the individual viewer in anonymously sharing TV viewing data?

Dopamine exhaustion from over-stimulation may be a reason for the common “can’t focus” complaints. Dr. Huberman claims that he has treated this with dopamine budgeting, information diet, etc…: https://youtu.be/QmOF0crdyRU

You can do this securely without exposing your public IP.

1. Get a cheap VM close to you. AWS micro works, I use Google's Compute engine. Use the public IP on your DNS. 2. Set up FRPS ( https://github.com/fatedier/frp ) on the VM, create an Nginx proxy to FRPS 3. Set up FRP clients on your home devices.

This will reverse tunnel traffic securely without setting up SSH tunnels / VPNs. Only specific local ports will be exposed.