michael_leachim

that thread is horrible.

Somehow no one there sees that people die after retirement, maybe it makes sense not to retire at all?

as for me, I don't know where I am going to be one year from now, not talking about 30 years.

It makes sense to live life which that is now and then just off myself when time comes.

The most important thing that we have is youth and health, money is just a proxy for that. No amount of stuff worth it really.

So I think it is important to live life wisely, so when the death comes I would be at peace.

Now to understand what that means is hard.

PS. My yoda style writing is this way bc I am severely out of English practice, so I am sorry for that. Also, I think it is charming.

Some time ago when money were cheap it made sense to grow, now when money are expensive it makes sense to shrink.

I don't get why people get offended by it. we are not living in a "fair world" whatever that means.

You can die tomorrow or live another 50 years, nobody knows why. All of it is just luck.

thank you, that makes sense to try, the economy is dead though, I probably won't be able to find anything in a year with all the layoffs happening.

I still have to try, what I have to lose?

I am still going to run out of time sooner or later, I should make it worth it. Otherwise what is the point.

> It may be possible for there to be an alien civilization so different in capabilities, goals, and mindset that we comprehend them no better than ants comprehend us. But I have a hard time believing that they would be so different from us that we wouldn't even be able to notice their presence if we were looking right at something they'd made or used somehow.

that is the second part of my answer, as soon as you can be noticeable you stop being comprehensible by those whose means of communications are less evolved.

you either can have a peer to peer communication, which is blocked by our capability (and currently speed of light)

or you are unable to comprehend more advanced means of communication.

again to my analogy, ant can see human impact on the planet, but it can't comprehend that it is human impact and not some different form of nature landscape.

> Maybe there is a galaxy-wide civilization but either they don't see the value in transforming the environment? Or maybe there are fundamental limits to technology of which we're not aware, such that no galaxy-wide civilization would ever be able to transform the environment?

if we are speculating here, I think civilizations akin to to ours are extremely common, there is no reason to think that we are special. We are just weak enough to not to be able to connect due to our technological limits.

I also think that advanced civs are pretty common, it is just we are unable to understand and detect them so we think the cosmos is empty.

> The point is that ants don't comprehend any other animals, neither those more nor those less complex than them, nor even those as complex as them (beetles). In contrast, we have at least some comprehension of all other animals on Earth that we've found. So, there is a fundamental difference between us and ants that makes the analogy not likely to hold.

it is really important to establish some sort of vocab to ensure that we are talking about the same thing here.

By comprehend I mean you, as an ant, "understand" a bug in a sense that you can predict its movements, eat it, force it to go away, or breed the thing if you find its symbiotically useful, in a sense you have internal world model of a thing, comprehend.

hence, ant in a strict sense, does not comprehend humans, it doesn't have world model of us, as a thing. most that it can do, it can see us as a force of nature that somehow happens to it.

on the other hand, we understand it almost perfectly, we can play with them, be benevolent, or malevolent toward their entire "civilization" we can joke with then playing with their communications, we don't get everything but we understand the gist of it.

> It's far more plausible we could have some comprehension of even a very advanced civilization than not. For us to not be able to comprehend them, they would have to entirely be using physics we don't understand at all. Not physics we know + physics we don't, but only physics we don't know about. Which, given how much of low energy physics we understand to great deals of precision, seems extraordinarily unlikely.

no, just no. it is pure speculation, we think too much of ourselves.

> hundreds of light years

that is next to nothing, observable universe is 93 billion light-years around 0.1 stars per cubic light-year (Google response) universe is humongous and very very sparse, our current limit is light speed.

> advanced alien technology

that goes against my second claim, lol, they (if they exist) are capable of observing and understanding us, we can't observe them and, quite likely, we are unable to understand them.

every other civ that is as primitive as we are is bound by the same light speed constraint

come on, light years are several orders of magnitude less than something that we could detect, cosmos is a wast wast space

> Why can't ants comprehend beetles if they are "similar or same"

could you elaborate please? i can’t say that i understand your statement

> Why can't ants comprehend beetles if they are "similar or same"

this one is tricky how do we define similarity? ants to ants is easy because we can assume they are the same or the difference is negligible.

second this, it looks insane I can barely endure 3 minutes shower and my average is 40-50 seconds especially when it is -13 C outside

Do ants comprehend humans? No they don't. Ants can comprehend only other ants. By this logic we can interact only with civs that are similar or same as us.

How much detectable technological signature we emit for others to detect? I am not a physicist but I guess that would be next to nothing for any considerable space distance.

So every other civ that is tractable to us is not detectable (just like us!) Any other civ that in theory can be detectable is incomprehensible just like humans are intractable to ants.

Even if we exist as a civ in current state for a million years (which we won't given out history) our signature will still be negligible for likes of us to detect.

The rest is just empty talking for the talking sake.

100% second this, thank you

it is hard to say almost 99% product is not engineering but what it enables company to do. In a sense this division is psychological: either company cares about engineering and makes it a priority or it doesn't.

I think good proxy would be tooling which company uses, niche languages like Clojure/Erlang, open source activity, well known people in decision making positions rather than specific business type.

thank you, so it more dependent not on a type of company but on how the company runs itself.

It can have its main product not in software, but it can bet on R&D in order to outrun their competition.

And the other way around is true too, that is how you get bad software products which somehow always stays afloat because of exclusive focus on sales.

I agree that AWS is indeed a software product, this one is obvious.

I agree that AWS is a software org, I am interested in E-Commerce in this particular case. Thank you for response

thank you, I've got something to think about.

thank you, maybe it is easier to understand

when you ask whether business will halt and die if the system you are responsible for is down or suddenly absent

or

it is going to be a mild inconvenience.

I think, defined like this makes it less ambiguous

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What category is Amazon? (the marketplace). It looks like a third category (company sells something else, but it has a software component supporting it).

I am asking because I am working in a company with similar business model and I am trying to figure out what category does my work belong to.

thank you.

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would love to read that, I find immune system fascinating.

idk, most of life is about a subtle dance between chaos and order, from DNA mutations to the flashes of activity inside brain to complex behaviour of ecosystems and human interactions.

somewhere in there there is a free will, that is neither order (things predetermined) nor chaos (things happening randomly) but a secret third thing.

thinking in any other way is myopic, in my point of view.

maybe i don't get something important?

I am dying to know how it was possible. Do you have a reference to nutritionist or perhaps a meal plan? Where can I learn more about such things?

I am sorry if that sounds condescending, in reality I question my engineering ability almost every day. There is a lot of things that I know horribly less than any engineer worth their salt.

that looks like I am a good candidate for Amazon, lol.

but on a serious note, the good solution is sort of obvious and in general you encounter much more interesting problems on a daily basis, but than again I am working in Clojure where working with data structures is much easier and straightforward than in Java.

we've had nightly air raid alerts for the last two years.

Now there are less of them, but I don't know what the future will bring. I think russia is preparing their winter campaign of terror again, so we will see.

When it is 3 in the morning and you hear explosions and you are really really fcking happy that it didn't hit you.

You can also have no electricity and heat in the middle of the winter, but it sort of sortable if you go somewhere public where business have electricity generators.

At first you get used to living like this, but after some time your natural resilience start to break and it can become quite difficult to live.

So I've got a lot of time to think about life and death sort of things in this setting.

I've got to understand one really simple thing. I should live my life in such a way that when it really hits me, there be no regrets for my time in this world.

I need a bazzilion friends and experience love, I need that people think of sunshine when they remember me. Because I am love for every living thing. Everything will be the best way it could possibly be, every hard thing in life is there for a reason.

That what lead to gender transition, but that the whole another story, lol

Isn't it obvious?

Your mind has limited capacity for diffucult mental work. After you have used it all, you need time to restore yourself.

You can use several strategies:

  * Smooth it out: work less on a productive day so you can work more on an unproductive day
  * Improve your capacity for work: diet, sleep, exercise. there is a bazilion things written on the topic, find what works for you.
  * Adapt work to your capability. If you have unproductive day, do unproductive things. For example, you can attend meetings, write emails, or take the day off entirely and do something physical.

There is not much else that could be done, you can over extend yourself so you could become sick or burn out. But I don't think that it is best for you in the long term

Love, Emma

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10/10 but the difference is obvious, you just have to look into their eyes. PL designers are a bit weird and not of this world.

Serial killers have this spark in their eyes that is really difficult to hide.

cool, I enjoyed reading article and playing with visualizations. I liked it a lot.

How can I learn to design a hash function? It is possible to understand that stringSum is bad compared to murmur3 by evaluating it against test cases, but what properties make it bad. Is it summation compared to xoring in murmur3? I intuit that summation is kinda lossy, but ofc there is much more rigorous work put into it. It would be really cool to learn more about this. Thank you

hi, it is an interesting thought. Would you mind telling how one can start getting into it for a typical backend dev with 10 y.o.e? thanks a lot

Trying to predict future based on the past is foolish. I will try to do my best based on what I register about our times. My prediction is not about a 2023 specifically, but mostly about the next 10-20 years. Although, as the rate of change grows, it might be 2-5 years. I don't know. As i said that, here are my predictions:

- I pray for the war in my country to end. It was really hard, especially on my mental health. I hope to survive till the end of it and I would really like to see Ukraine grow into prosperous European country. -

- AI will accelerate change and do so in an unpredictable way. -

- AI won't replace coding or writing or art specifically, but it will make work with computers different. Probably, obsolete. -

- For example: why do you need Windows if you can just run on metal an AI that will behave like Windows/Android/Photoshop/random AAA game/custom CRM software? -

- As the language and reasoning is taken away, we will have a crisis on what it means to be human. -

- We will turn more away from computers and towards our bodies: emotions feelings and desires. Sex, food, hapiness, sadness, death and loss. -

- We will need fountain of youth more than anything else ever. Health industry will blossom. AI accelerated research will give us indefinite healthspan. -

- The last human job will be having experience and chanelling it to the AI that lacks body and desire as well as to other humans who will find AI created experiences too synthetic, not much relatable. -

This is my, a little bit out of landish take, but we need to dream big, otherwise what's the point

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