Online discourse has been declining in quality for many years in my opinion. I think as a consequence of more platforms where more specialized conversations are happening now in private: Facebook groups, discord channels, livestream chats, etc. I think it’s hard to say if the junk has gotten worse on Reddit or the good stuff now has dwindled. However all the popular sites, including this one, are gamed by companies. There’s even strategies for when to post on HN, at what time and with what kind of title to get the most engagement.
To be honest, these don’t sound like hard problems. These sound like they have very specific answers that I might find in the more specialized stackoverflow sections. These are also the kind of questions (not in this domain) that I’ve found yield the best results from LLMs.
In comparison asking an LLM a more project specific question “this code has a race condition where is it” while including some code usually is a crapshoot and really depends if you were lucky enough to give it the right context anyway.
Sure, these are standard problems, I’ve said so myself. My point is that my productivity is multiplied by ChatGPT, even if it can only solve standard problems. This is because, although I work on highly non-standard problems (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10069 for an example), I can break them down into smaller, standard components, which ChatGPT can solve in seconds. I never ask ChatGPT "where's the race condition" kind of questions.
Grafana cloud, install agents, pretty dashboard. Can add custom prom ingestor to load application logs. Sleep good. Feel confident, look at grafana alerts. Cry much. Finally learn promql, pro dashboards, sleep good again.
Seriously though grafana cloud with their agents is pretty easy and affordable. Grafana family of products kind of have a learning curve but they work very well.
Agents are being deprecated and now moving to Grafana Alloy
but agree. a bit steep, but easy to start with. Grafana cloud can take you really far. (you don't really need all metrics for all running services do you?)
I wish they have built in ping scraper instead of having to run yet another service to do it.
Yes that’s the position. Good to see it verified in the study. Having a partner and sleeping in the same bed can lead to alterations from the optimal sleeping position, especially sleeping on the back is not good.
Sleeping on the back is also one of the main causes of snoring, which often occurs in people which have a big belly and can’t really sleep lateralish anymore.
Sleep quality is important too and one big factor is not to go to sleep with a full stomach. Sleep quality will suffer because of the active digestion which probably will not let the glymphatic transport do it’s job properly.
Also good to know that “…low doses of alcohol (0.5 g/kg) increased glymphatic clearance…”.
That's great that there's a way to passively optimize that process every day. But it's also bad news considering it's contrary to what you need if you have GERD.
> A limited number of studies have demonstrated that sleeping in the left lateral decubitus (LLD) decreases nocturnal reflux in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) compared to right lateral decubitus (RLD) and supine.
The most successful projects I’ve been a part of were because one or a few people cared. Cared enough to build the right thing. Cared to make sure it was high quality. Cared about the stakeholders. When the leader is that person it is great but I found usually it’s one senior member on the team who ends up being that person.
Cultural changes are unpredictable. Europe was a hotbed of fascism not that long ago and looks nothing like that today? I wouldn’t discount the effect the baby boomer death waves in the next 20 years will have on cultural shifts either. Crappy executives and politicians can’t live forever and the zeitgeist is already changing among the people.
Since you obviously weren't around in the 1960s 70s, you seem unaware that the overwhelming majority of corporate and social reform that improved the modern world originated in that era.
Yea, I've lived through a few "cultural shifts", and none of them were in the last 30 years. The last several decades have been a pure war and corporate power pep rally.
Starting in the 80s (with Ronny Rayguns) followed by the Clinton administration's US version of Tony Blair taking the DEMs for a hard right turn into previous REP territory, it's continued downhill into today's quagmire.
We all thought the "culture wars" were over in 1979 and that ongoing progress would result because it's "already changing among the people".
Let me clue you into something that it's not possible to comprehend until you get closer to the far side of middle age: as your cohort ages, and becomes more invested in the status quo, many of those idealistic imperatives will evaporate. This has little to do with the era, and everything to do with the position in life of the individual. Believe it or not, your cohort will be the new boomers.
If anything, from my perspective, it's clear that the lives of the millennial generations are SO entangled in corporate platforms, it's pretty much impossible for them to fight back against the corps.
When I see the majority of zoomers throwing out their phones because the corps that operate those platforms are practicing pure exploitation, then I'll believe that significant change is possible in the new millennium.
At this point, I see no social movement with sufficient breadth to bring about the kind of changes needed to correct the ever increasing exploitation for profit.
WRT the specific topic of the article, it's clear the author is not of the neo-liberal capitalist strain, because if he were, then everything he cites would be presented as a good thing. According to right-wing-nut-ism, squeezing the workers and customers to bring more to the shareholders is how it's SUPPOSED to work. Goggle and Amazonia are working exactly according to plan.
This is the fundamental flaw of modern (especially US) capitalism. Shareholder return is the ONLY metric. It's not that it's the most important thing, its that it's the only thing. This is not an oversight, this is by design.
Since most people seem unable, or unwilling, to see our current situation as a result of rampant runaway capitalism, this trend will continue to get worse.
Take a picture now, because in a couple of years these are going to be the "good old days"...
Today in discord I got an ad for loot boxes. Every time I hovered over the ad blocking the bottom right of my screen it crashed. Everytine I played a YouTube video in the client it crashed. Every time I watched some screen share it crashed. Every time I shared screens it crashed. Discord has been mostly very nice for me but it’s a weird coincidence that when ads appeared the client became immediately less stable for me.
> With enough discipline and tooling, it is possible to write safe C++
I think it's possible to write "safe enough" C++ for real-world use. Then after some time you get a weird crash because MSVC stdlib implementation does something weird in new spec. Or your dependency does something unsafe and hoses you. Or the new guy uses `std::string_view` but forgot it doesn't guarantee null-termination. Or you casually forget about iterator invalidation because you're tired and compiler doesn't help you. Or or or. I like C++, it's a nice language but after befriending Rust compiler, or seeing how awesome hot reload in C# is or live-coding a front-end in javascript or any other advantages of other languages I find the use-case for C++ shrinking daily. Really if the C++ ecosystem wasn't so damn rich with libraries, tools and more I doubt it would have as much backing today.
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