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"Consider the value of 1 extra waking hour per day, times 365 days per year. Imagine that 100 million people ended up taking the drug; if we say each hour is worth at least $1 (a lowball), then that's $36 billion per year." Then we can work on having people surgically attached to their keyboards!
Or better yet, born attached to them!
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And who the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) are those Effective Altruists?
I already sleep less than average, and the possible consequences / collateral damages are not so desirable to just make it "mandatory"
Maybe we should engineer them to really be altruist? Or try to make some gadget to take their heads out of their a...
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Quote: Effective altruism is a philosophical and social bowel movement
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Job description: put Effective Altruist underneath barn door. Start piling rocks on the door.
How many hours does the Effective Altruist want the rocks piled up? Sounds fun!
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What a waste of a good door!
(To say nothing of the rocks...)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So someone invented coffee? Something similar?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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An extra hour for drinking, gaming and writing snark.
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I'm surprised the ![Sunshine | [little ray of sunshine]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sunshine.gif) s guilty of producing this had time for a side hustle. Between Spamazon and Charblecks I'd've thought they'd already be spending every waking hour churning out anti-union propaganda for their corporate overlords.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Quote: For one, Sam Bankman-Fried was a strong adherent of a form of it, which argues that a person should amass power and wealth so they can then donate it and create social change
There's a glowing endorsement for this horse-pucky.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Collectivists, Socialists, and Communists by yet another name.
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Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, the computer science students we knew at college had taught themselves BASIC on either TRS-80s or Commodore VICs and they went to college to learn something useful like COBOL and maybe got a smattering of C and Pascal, or occasionally even RPG, for variety. Fortran is the new COBOL
Yes, I know it's older. And better.
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Are you getting nostalgic, Kent?  
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My memories of Fortran II aren't so fond
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I started with Fortan using Watcom IV, and later graduated to Fortran 77. The language has its good (and bad) points, but on balance I prefer working in more modern languages like Pascal, C, C++, etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Call me. I know FORTRAN. I know it so well that it is not Fortran 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The latest gross web push from Microsoft sees businesses forced to use Edge for certain links. Your default browser is the one we tell you is default
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Some people won't even noticed, there probably are places where Edge is already mandatory due to IT guidelines.
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I certainly won't notice. I only install Chrome and/or Firefox if there's a business reason to do so. Except for a couple of banking sites and ADP, Edge simply works. (Note: ADP breaks on all browsers.)
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The company is testing a new feature that will generate brief, cover letter-like messages candidates can send to hiring managers on the platform. When you want that job enough to get an AI to send an email
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When you want that job enough to get an AI to send an email
When a company wants new workers enough to get an AI to sort the messages or the CVs
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Ah, software estimation - the bane of many developers’ existence and the scourge of project managers everywhere. Estimate it, then double it, then double it again, then through it out as you blow past the deadline
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You are not so far from correct...
The last estimation for a deadline I did for my boss when I was working in the industrial automation was:
My estimation
Factor 1.1x as buffer
Factor 1.25x for interruptions by customer workers asking me to solve their problems or to help them brainstorming
Factor 1.5x for having to train new co-workers
Factor 1.5x for having so many roles in the project (project manager, field leader, only robot programmer, main plc programmer, trainer, consultant...) that I would have difficulties to just do my work
We finished 5 weeks before deadline (over a year project)
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I always knew it as "Double your estimate number, then apply the next larger unit of measurement."
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"Mr Scott, do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?" 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nearly a quarter of the world’s jobs will be disrupted in the coming five years, the latest report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has found. So pick a job in the other 77%
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