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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WEBDEVS, STOP LOADING YOUR WEBSITE WITH CRAP TO MAKE THEM BETTER

I fed a large news site that is not terrible to use into this, and it gave it 14/100 rating. This news site is perfectly fine, has a good design, good typography and loads without any scripts if you need it to. It loads quite fast.

Among other things, Google recommends
- Lazy loading:
NOOOO, just load my document. I hate this bullcrap. It never works correctly and then you just get a laggy and slow scrolling site where you have to wait all the time you use it.
It's a news site. Just load the whole thing, it takes a couple of ms but then the site is actually usable! It's an actual document you can scroll through.

- Ask the user to install as an app, add offline usage etc? Why even?

- Dynamically compress everything?
YES GOOGLE, when saving 8kb per picture, but in the end we need to pull 10mb of javascript libraries from sixty different sources all over the web to even display a text with one small picture ITS ALL WORTH IT

I don't make websites except my personal stuff. I understand you want to present your knowledge and skills.
But please, the websites are getting worse and worse. The best way to present almost any information is in a classic html webpage. It wouldn't need to be like this, but almost any modern websdesign approach seemingly leads to slow, laggy and partly unusable websites, that do end up loading something, but often not the thing I actually want to read.

I am actually trained now to feel a sense of relief if I come across a straight html website, just because the user experience is so terrible now thanks to javascript.

As a consumer, I will continue to beg for simple websites that stay true to the idea of displaying a scrollable document with data and text.

Please, only use all these animations, loadings, dynamics, off-site frameworks, custom browser controls and single page documents if you are making
a) a portfolio
b) an actual application that is mostly simple buttons and does not present significant amounts of text or data

thank you

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I also tend to be a bit numb to these "x found to be (somewhat) toxic" news items because, well, there are so many of them. That being said it's not very rational to dismiss them entirely either.

Especially in this case, unless you're working in a 3D printing farm it shouldn't be too difficult to work around these problems. If you have a 3D printer on your desk consider moving it to a more isolated, well ventilated location. Maybe buy a couple more fans and an enclosure.
Because sub-segments of the population isolate themselves, and then selectively use mainstream articles to reinforce their views to the point where they promote and act on violence.

Take for example the incel communities, where they selectively quote parts of research articles to support their views, and use them to reinforce calls to violence which members of that community act on.
Having tried it, my biggest gripe is the DNS query log stored in the app. This should be optional.
You lost me at "manufactured outrage".
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I think I'm on the "clear definition of monopoly" side, but in this specific example: if Amazon is able to make specific companies go bankrupt, that product will no longer be available to you any more even if you go to Target or Walmart.
He sees alice or bob with two butter roses on top of a smaller piece.

Charlie has the first cut, so he can cut horizontally and make a tiny piece with 3 butter roses on top. he either gets his three butter roses or a bigger piece of cake, their relative value is still the same for him.
I think you might want to read up on this history of Cadbury and the Quakers in general. They were some of the most ethical companies around.
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Probably because it was too high up, and probably because I went a few years ago when commercial drones weren't well developed or even widely available

A more rational explanation is that the region is hotly contested by a number of world powers, and that was probably some experimental military aircraft
Have you written about your daily struggles somewhere? I, for one, would be very interested reading about it as I think not nearly enough people talk about the cons/war stories when it comes to ES (or I just don't find those blogs).
Not at all. They don't jump around and are not extremely bright.
I think you are reading things between the lines which are not there.

It was never my intention to suggest that Europeans are inherently superior to others and that we have some unique ability of innovations.

Of course European advancements were built on advancements of those who came before us. Just as Chinese advancement today is built on advancements made by the west earlier.

I am merely stating a fact: European civilization was significantly ahead of the competition. And those innovations could not easily have been made elsewhere for cultural and geographic reasons:

1) Europe went through major paradigm shifts with1 the renaissance and enlightenment which was in large part possible in Europe because it was a divided continent. Many great thinkers lived on the borders between countries so they could flee to another one as soon as their ideas got unpopular with the rulers. Such a mechanism was not possible in other advance civilizations such as China, which was a big monolith. New ideas in such societies could easily be squashed.

Single rulers could easily retard progress for decades. Consider e.g. how one of the Chinese emperors forbid all sea travel and burned the fleet. The whole of Europe could never suffer such a profound setback because it had no single ruler. Any European nation engaging in such stupid policies would quickly learn of the stupidity of that as competing nations would race past them.

Europe represented a sort of semi-free market of ideas, which did not exist elsewhere to the same degree.

2) Europe had a clear advantage in geography. Using water wheels for power generation and rivers and canals for goods transport was significantly easier in Europe than China, India, Egypt etc where the waterflow varies too much through the year.

The first factories relied on inanimate power from waterwheels which was not easily constructed elsewhere in the world.

Later steam engines relied on cheap transport of large bulks of coal and ore. Britain e.g. had a geology that allowed building canals to mines to transport large bulk loads of coal cheaply. Outside of Europe there was limited possibility to do this.

I could go on, but there were simply a large number of factors that favored Europe. Hence European supremacy was not merely a fluke, and the other nations could not by random occurrence have leapfrogged Europe. The modern world relied on being brought to the rest of the world from Europe, unless it was going to happen much much later.

It does not mean what European did was morally right. It just means one should not delude oneself into thinking that without Europe all the other nations would be prosperous today.
> Who cares? Antitrust doesn't exists to protect companies, it exists to protect consumers.

Is that not exactly what that example is about? I, as a consumer, will not be able to experience their super-cola.
See, I'd read it as "algorithm solves coke-cutting problem" and gotten excited :(
I haven't understood the deep meaning of several of the deals that are reaping huge benefits, so I really have no sense of what works and what doesn't.

Clearly at some level, the SAP sales force attacking on a new product provides unextracted value from an acquisition.

8 Billions worth on a survey company, seems far fetched, but maybe they do have intrinsic value that far exceeds those words, and match a need that customers want to fill.
If it looked exactly the same, but was not made by Aardman, would you not have gone seen it? How much is that marginal extra chance worth, ceteris paribus, that you would go see it because you recognize the name, exactly? Now multiply that by the proportion of people who would actually recognize Aardman as a brand name (i.e. less than 1.0).

Note that we're not talking about just the style of how the movie and the figurines look like, because the assertion which we're discussing stems from the axiom that it's easily reproducible. If it is not, then it drops to assertion #2 which does not talk about IP.

That is the value of the IP of Aardman, and I'd wager it's not worth an amount that would make a transaction worth it for the big studios talked about by the grand-OP (>$100MM).
Seems reasonable when the date on the OP is 9 years ago.
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It's not a bad idea to pursue hobbies outside of programming, even temporarily. I've found every time I take a break for a while, I want to sit down and just program again.

That said, you could also try to find interesting things you actually are interested in working on. Building yet another demo website- boring. Building some sort of useful tool or home tech project- cool. At least, that's what works for me.
It's not new. These wiki/project pages have years of history and haven't been updated.
Is this still maintained? It's a really cool project, it's just so insanely fast.

I once implemented a MariaDB storage engine that used RAMCloud for storage, and it was an eye-opening experience. With blazingly fast reads and writes, latency was the number one performance issue for us.
One of the confounding elements of that particular crash was the fact that when the angle of attack increased above a certain (crazy) amount, the stall warnings went away, due to the inability of the system to cope with an angle of attack that high. This confused the pilots into thinking they were going "crazy fast", when actually they were going "crazy slow".
But people still capture things in the sky if there's something to see. Plenty of footage exists of low flying aircraft and meteors, for instance. People aren't looking down at their smartphones all the time, completely blind to the peripheral universe around them. And there are also dashcams, security cameras, etc, to consider.
EU copyright laws are stupid.
This. It's not a big deal. Soldering also produces harmful fumes and as long as you ventilate properly it's not a big deal.

Just do an image search for "solder ventilation" for ideas on how to do it.

Regardless of this I kinda do understand the motivation to ignore the issue. People are afraid that there will be a panic and it's going to be banned.
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I'm worried it will impact the cost of filament and printers. Unless there is a cheap way to test and certify filaments. Volumes are still quite low. Regulation risk concentrating filament production into monopolies. Then it will be hard to trust that those certification anyway.
It might also be given cursory treatment for the simple reason that it was "marginal".

Take France (since i'm french), one of the big users of overseas and colonial troops, the article lists 500k colonial conscripts. Except we had 8 millions conscripts, and 1 million and a half dead soldiers. While their sacrifice mattered and was not honored enough, it's hard to focus on their specific plights, in the end, they represented ~6% of soldiers, and ~6% of casualties.
I'm not even talking about the destruction wrecked in northern france.

As always, people feel more about things closer to them, especially when they experienced directly it.
No, but most nations have progressed faster technologically by being invaded or influenced by other more advance nations. Without the roman empire, Britain, France, Spain, Germany etc would have taken far longer to modernize.

I not saying this as a moral statement, merely as an observation of how the world works. We don't need to like something to be true.

Of course we can strive for a better less violent way of doing things, which I think we are doing in the world we live in today. We are spreading ideas and technology through trade primarily rather than war. It is not always fair trade, but it beats colonization.
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"It's because Greenpeace is a political organisation, their purpose is to be anti-corporation"

Where did you get that from? Greenpeace has a history of working with corporations to improve their practices and promoting the efforts of corporations to engage in sustainable production:

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/greener-electronics-2...

https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/mcd/sustainability-old/libra...

http://changeyourtuna.org.au/
Since we're all giving our UFO encounters I'll chip in with mine.

About 25yrs ago as a teenager and utterly obsessed with the supernatural and the unexplained, my family were on a fly drive holiday on the west coast of the US.

One night in a roadside motel in the Nevada desert, I was woken up by a strange, loud, rythmic, droning sound outside. Absolutely convinced that it was a UFO landing and terrified that if I moved or made a noise I'd be abducted, I laid still, sweating with my heart racing for hours until the sun came up.

Turned out to be a dodgy air conditioning unit.
UPvoted because you were wrong and presumably lots of other people were wrong but quiet about it -- so now you and they know the actual answer.

Explained the upvote because I don't want you to be confused.
It is hard to believe for me that the stall avoidance system is out of bounds. If somebody would ask me to implement such a system the first thing would be to gather the scenarios when such invasive action would be potentially fatal. Starting with the how far is the ground from the plane following with the condition are we taking off at the moment. If Boeing has a system that does not have bounds and always on than I am going to stop flying with airlines that have these planes in their fleets today.
Everything has limits and fails. So yeah, probably this.
I think part of the problem is that we're not making sure everyone understands how to think critically. This is to some extent a failure of the early education system and the society around it.
A friend of mine did $120k completely passive with his book (+ audio book) on Amazon. Without Amazon, he would have to get the outreach. Outreach is the expensive and difficult part. When the customers are already there, it's just a matter of converting them.

There are many people who make $25k/month completely passive on Amazon. I'm not a big fan of Amazon, either, but you're not signing a bad deal with them. Most publishers are worse (and don't deliver the outreach).

edit: Another thing to consider: Don't limit yourself to selling books. Add value and place upsells in your books. And for fiction writers: Maybe add merch and other stuff. For non-fiction: Sell online courses or coaching for your expert topic. Usually the book is just the entry.
I still need to understand how that is going to be faster and more private
I sort of agree with the parent. They clearly had the right to do what they did, and the world is probably a better place for it but then if they're willing to bend their "neutrality" principle for that then why not for other things?

And let's be clear, I'm not taking the stance that they shouldn't refuse service to hate speech websites, I'm saying that IMO they morally and ethically should strive not to provide service to obvious scams and malware websites either.

I really don't think that the "common carrier" angle holds any water. An ISP requires infrastructure and as a user you don't even have a lot of choice about which one you use. Even if you do have a choice it's not like you can change your ISP easily and quickly. That's why "common carrier" and net neutrality make some sense in that context.

Cloudflare is much closer to a web host than an ISP. You can still very much host websites that will be accessible by everybody without Cloudflare's help. If OVH hosted spammers and botnets and refused to do anything about it under the guise of "free speech" would we consider that a good thing? Is it really all that noble?
You mean Disney & NBCUniversal. Both have been acquired and lost most of what made them famous (creativity) in the process. I think that's what Nick Park is trying to avoid. I'm assuming he'd get more satisfaction out of seeing Aardman thrive independently while he rides out his retirement.
I wouldn't say I've gone that far to other end of the spectrum and still make time for seeing friends on a weekly basis - I guess I'm just more comfortable in myself than I was when I was younger therefore FOMO is not a thing I care about any more. The well-being of my family and the home we live in, is :-)

Also, not actually having the time to see friends as much as I used to makes a big difference!
Ever heard of "Winnie-the-Pooh" [0] and "The Toad" [1]? It seems having some memes referring to the head-of-state is a common pattern in countries with authoritarian governments, since calling them directly by names is, at least, uncomfortable.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/8/4/17651630/christopher-robin-bann...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moha_culture
Not really as Cadbury chocolate barely used palm oil, except I think in a couple of products.

Palm oil in everything is a Mondolez "innovation", along with lying about not closing the factory - a promise broken a week after takeover, and changing many recipes for the worse. I think it's the palm oil that gives American chocolate a distinctly greasy feel, and now some of that is being given to Cadbury too.

No problem, Aldi do perfect copies of how Cadbury Fruit and Nut and other bars used to be. So the copy is cheaper and better than the original now. They do good high cocoa chocolate too.

Unilever, meanwhile, has been praised by Greenpeace for being at the sustainable end of palm oil use. Though they don't do enough to preserve the planet they're at least giving it some board time. Seems more than adequate reason to criticise Mondolez and their bought up brands.
Being born in a "red flag" country and trying to travel to Israel on an El Al flight is an interesting affair.
My bad, should have been this book by Lawrence Levy: http://lawrencelevy.com/book/

I've corrected my post, thanks.
I've thought the same of viruses as well. If the Zika virus can cause brain damage, perhaps there was another virus (and/or microbe) at some point that made us smarter.
"I made a throwaway account, for the future."

Yeah, well, you're not fooling anyone around these parts, Brian.
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This is called progressive enhancement and, sadly, nobody seems to be doing it any more.
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And some people (including myself) actually enjoy the smell of molten rosin flux.
> You're forgetting about the Six-Day War [1] and the Yom Kippur War [2].

You using something to deflect from something else doesn't mean anyone else isn't aware of the thing you use to deflect.
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https://youtu.be/hF-kuB9pBT0

https://youtu.be/6ioN-3UWYrY

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> They target retail brands

This is necessary if they want public support because the general public tend to look at matters much further away then immediately under their nose as being nothing they can do anything significant about, so it is hard to get them engaged even if they actually care.

Furthermore, from a cynical sounding but unfortunately true PoV: if you can bring an issue down to "this product/company you deal with every day" many social influencers will jump on the band wagon even if they don't really care...

It is not specifically that they target retail brands over all other organisations, but that those are the campaigns that get most public pushing & traction so are the ones you are exposed to more commonly.

> while staying silent when governments destroy the environment intentionally or through badly conceived regulation.

This is demonstrably not true, and I shall prove my point by providing as many well researched references as you have for your assertion... :-)

Less facetiously: your own post contradicts this point by mentioning their strong opposition to nuclear power (while I understand their stance I disagree with being as dogmatic: it is dangerous but the danger is understood and (if well managed until other tech is more ready in a generation or two) offers a less damaging solution overall than other practical options in the near/middle term, and some arguments I've seen include significant scientific misunderstanding or misrepresentation).

A strong anti-nuclear stance is hardly just going after retail brands.
Kraft are a notably shitty company, as is Mondelez, the subsidiary owner here.

2010: One week after they acquire Cadbury the new owners sack 400 workers, despite pledging otherwise in order to get the deal waved through.

2016: They further renege on promises to use Fairtrade cocoa beans... but keep the logo on products to fool consumers.

2017: Mondelez pay £0 tax on profits of £185m in the UK.

I wouldn't give my dog their chocolate, but the larger point is that this is not the kind of company we or the orangutans need around.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249728/Cadbury-sac...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/cadbury-cho...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/cadbury-cho...
I'm unsure why "manufactured outrage" is an issue here?

That's exactly what this is. It's obviously being use for a positive purpose here to advertise the use of palm oil, but they could very easily clarify the lack of clearance and address it, instead using that lack of clearance to their own ends.

Again, I'm not judging their morality in using this tactic to drive awareness of palm oil - but this is pretty much the dictionary definition of manufactured outrage, pushing the notion their story is being silenced, whilst knowingly ignoring the issue is actually about a very specific technicality.
I really do not understand IBM move here. Openstack swift is an opensource standard, interoperable & available through different cloud provider (IBM/OVH & co).

Now, they're putting themself behind AWS and loose a way to differentiate their service (i'm still waiting for hardlink / move object APIs)
Are you indexing from 1 or 0?
It's interesting that eBay has no mention of this on their corporate site or in press releases. It would likewise not surprise me if they don't apply this policy in their subsidiaries, like StubHub.

https://www.ebayinc.com
Those would not qualify actually. IMHO, the class of attacks on humans is never solvable at protocol layer and the statement you made that funds from A can be moved without A's action is both technically and practically incorrect.

I come from a family of policemen and consider that cryptocurrency adoption will lead us to a scenario where your assets can't be taken away from you because they can't be linked to your physical identity in the first place. The idea that others will protect your personal property on your behalf actually puts you and your assets at danger in more sinuous and violent ways, either by theft or injunction or even by clerical mistake.
I would have thought Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 would be well known enough to make manufacturers think twice about sneaking in features and not telling pilots about them and CAAs about certifying them.
This reminded me of an essay by Amy Hoy: https://stackingthebricks.com/entreporn/
Yeah the risk factor is really important to know. It could likely be more unsafe to stand outside because of the toxic particles from cars.
How about torrent sites? Where would you personally draw the line? It has to be drawn somewhere.