We excel at things that bring us strong feedback - the innate feeling of quality, or a feeling of friction when the quality is not high enough. Therefore, ironically, it seems, that we excel at things that “irritate” us most.
Observation: the music we consider classics enters public domain at around the time we stop receiving student prices for streaming services .
However, there are two ways of interacting with an abstraction layer: as shorthand for an understanding of what it is doing on your behalf, or as a black box. I think engineers are most capable and most effective when abstraction layers serve as shorthand rather than a black box.
For instance, sometimes we create abstraction layers that allow people to create things on top of them explicitly without having to understand anything beneath them. We call those “platforms.” The expectation is that when we create abstraction layers like that, we should see an explosion of creativity
As we’ve made it easier to build games, we have certainly seen more of them. But the number of highly rated games (in this case as recorded by metacritic) does not seem to be increasing over time.
I think we can only truly create when we truly understand what we have to create with.
The qualities that make a good engineer are often the same ones that create a good engineering organization. Both start with deep understanding as the basis for innovation – cultivating the curiosity to look inside the black boxes.
Surfing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724523
Oxygen mask https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723706
As a pilot, it was eye opening to see first-hand what happens to me when experiencing hypoxia. The trainers were talking to me, and I was replying, but was unable to tell them what 17 minus 4.5 was.
The researchers, led by Corey O’Hern, developed computational models for all globular proteins in the Protein Data Bank, an online database, and measured their interior core regions to determine how densely packed they were. Every protein had a core packing fraction of 55%. That is, 55% of the space was occupied by atoms. That led the research team to two questions.
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-protein-mystery-core-fractions.html
A separate thread is spawned to ingest data into the pool, but it doesn’t stop to wait until the tasks are processed. Therefore, if task definitions consume substantial amount of memory it can lead to OOM kill.
If you’re using
multiprocessing.Pool, consider upgrading toconcurrent.futures.process.ProcessPoolExecutor, because it handles killed workers better. It doesn’t affect the problem described in this question.
a quiz question would be to expand the abbreviation.
list of timezone names: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/
When saving an image from the graph-driver store, a new archive is created containing the uncompressed layers; saving/loading will produce the same layers as were pulled, but the save/load won’t include information about their compressed digests, because this information cannot be verified without the actual compressed artifacts (as pulled from the registry). Reconstructing the compressed layers is not possible due to compression algorithms not being 100% reproducible (they may be most of the time, but various factors, including CPU load, and CPU optimizations during compression can cause their checksum to differ).
Cadence is the core tension in music theory. The most common one is called the authentic cadence - between V and I degrees of the scale. In blues however the cadence of IV to I is more typical.
Fun part is that IV to I is also called “Amen” candence, for its frequent use for “Amen” in hymns.