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> that designers are inferior to developers

My comment was ranty, but I did not say that.

But fundamentally, it is not about who is inferior. It's about who's subjecting whom to constant change, and who is not listening to whom.

The problem is that it isn't "the designers" versus the developers anyway. We're all a little of both. The problem is that the sum total of all the little changes, both cosmetic and fundamental causes a drift over time. You don't see it until the timescale is long enough. Eventually you drift so far that nothing is familiar. (case in point: last time I used Windows was Win2k. Windows 10 is nothing like it. I have no clue how to do anything, and it is hard as fuck to learn, because there isn't much in the way of all that ugly "text" to help me out. There's no manual, no printed documentation. You gotta google everything, or use the built in searches. )

I find all this really frustrating. I'm worse than a novice. I used to be good at this. Now I'm a dinosaur. I literally cannot use the tools that I was good at 10-20 years ago. While change is constant in modern life, software, and particularly The Web, have accelerated change to a point where we are, as I say in my OP, robbing ourselves of skillsets when using software as a tool.

I mean, talk to someone who used Excel for 15 years, like friends of mine in marketing positions. Every revision. Changes. New functionality, but scrambling the old. And then one day their corporate overloads mandate a switch to Google docs, which not only has way less functionality, but is also all different. It's constantly changing too. The damn thing scrambles itself every 6 months. Eventually, the unconscious brain unlearns what it knew. And, worse it learns that how it is now is not how it will be. The brain won't bother learning anymore. So we stop actually becoming experts. Because what's the point if it's gonna get scrambled in < 2 years anyway?

> You're literally just making stuff up. Apple, probably the most infamous capricious design company, hasn't changed their File manager, settings menu, dock, or toolbar in 19 years.

Mac is relatively stable in the core things (thank god for that!) but Windows definitely not, Linux definitely not, and the web is a total other animal. Mac also drifts a lot. Look at iTunes. But the one MacOS example in a sea of drifting, changing, usually breaking and getting worse, crapass apps isn't really worth much.
My lay impression is it’s a form of OCD
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Yes. Gamers like Intel because it's faster. Benchmarks are clear. :P
I'm arguing that even though the system works well in many (most?) cases, there are common corner cases in which it does not.

I don't know where you're getting the idea that I endorse autocratic rulers, but it's absurd and borderline inflammatory.
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Seems like this is the tariffs doing exactly what they're supposed to do -- incentivize US domestic production.

> Panasonic’s Canal said foreign solar panel manufacturers want the Buffalo plant’s cells because solar panels assembled abroad with American-made cells can be shipped to the United States tariff-free, according to U.S. trade rules implemented last fall.

> Panasonic’s Buffalo operation is one of few U.S.-based solar cell producers because it is traditionally far cheaper to make the components in other countries, putting it in a unique position to serve the foreign demand.

They would have to do the assembly into panels domestically as well if they didn't have the exemption due to the cells being US built.
That wouldn't make any sense for the article, which focuses on medical data. There's definitely a place to write about and discuss the subjective reasons people have for opting out of having kids (like earth possibly being on fire soon) but that doesn't have anything to do with fertility, birth weights, pre term delivery or any of the other things addressed here.
>So let me get this right...you don’t think a jury can comprehend and understand the facts being presented to them through experts, yet without hearing any facts or experts you can confirm these juries “made the right choice”?

Yes. It's possible to make a good decision through a flawed process.
But obviously not to the degree that something dramatic has happened to the world. And a lot of assumptions presumably go into that chart, that are not shown on the chart.

Anyway, I don't want to discuss climate change. Just saying there is no dramatic impact yet - once there is, maybe the language will change...
I think the easiest thing to forget is what made PHP popular was how easy it was to get started writing software that worked good enough. The barrier to entry was incredibly low. It caused a lot of bad code & gave PHP a bad reputation but a lot of good was also made from it.

PHP made a lot of careers for developers as they were able to fake it until they made it while learning how to code & providing significant value to a businesses.

While PHP is nothing like its former self, most people who developed web apps in the first decade of the century will probably always remember PHP for what it was.
There's a few here (https://mauijacaranda.com/places) but ty for the suggestion :)
History suggests that desperate people will attempt to follow the industry regardless of how horrendous the living conditions may be.
I wasn't in a position to make realistic comparisons on SKX at the time, but it seems that Zen is similar to Haswell (and Haswell/Broadwell is still pretty relevant in HPC). I'll eventually get back to it and try on SKX.
I expect you can do better with the generic code, as suggested. The point is that received wisdom is that you can't just rely on compiler vectorization but need careful hand-(un?!)rolled code. The story around BLIS was that GCC wouldn't vectorize loops that at least GCC6 actually does (better than the SSE3 code in the how-to-optimize-dgemm tutorial). Then the suggestion was to force it with the OpenMP simd pragma, which is worse on Haswell because it doesn't use fma, but I don't know if that's relevant for, say, POWER using the generic kernels.
I'm not actually ignoring level 1 and 2, although my interest is HPC. BLIS' reduction-type loops in generic C at least get vectorized now via -funsafe-math-optimizations. Small dgemm is important in some HPC applications too, for which BLIS doesn't do too well, but there's libxsmm.
Monsanto just needed to go out of business, even if it’s renamed to Bayer. They’re one of the most evil companies in US history. They jury voted this way simply because Monsanto is an evil company.
Why are we acting like this is a bad thing? Not having a child is the single greatest thing an individual can do to reduce their carbon footprint. World economy based off of infinite growth is unsustainable. America can keep this economic model for the time being by being accepting of immigrants, but eventually, the birth rate of the entire world will be in decline and will have to base an economy of a static world population, and one that will be quite older than we are used to. Progress comes with its own challenges, doing things to raise the birthrate are not the correct answer.
Curing cancer is also economic growth.
"If you’re not profitable yet then that means there’s lots of room for growth..."
Well, it _could_ mean that, or it could simply mean your business will never be profitable. In fact, of all the companies which are not profitable, easily the majority are ones that never will be (although, sure, some will).
I genuinely wonder how much xenophobic fear-mongering you would have to drum up in order to get the "Don't Tread On Me" camp to agree to mandatory federal ID. I think you're right, it's much easier to just slip it in on the state level with Licenses.

Also, do you think California was being actually inept or just willfully ignorant based on their demographics? I live in NJ and I know we were also one of the laggards. Shocker, we also have a very large immigrant population, and have a AG that issued orders not to assist ICE. Seems like it's probably easier to play coy and just drag your feet on this one. Or it could just be good ol fashioned government bureaucracy and ineptitude.
What's the unethical argument here?
Has anyone else found it strange how we haven't heard any complaint about WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption from law enforcement (of various countries) in the past couple of years?
Give me a call at metrix.afraid.org instead.
Roads designed for cars didn't really accelerate until after WW2. Before then, especially on the east coast, you had numerous small, walkable towns.
When I did more PHP I quickly ended up writing my own sort of standard library with consistent functions and unit testing. It doesn’t really take much time and makes things much more predictable.
Both what Musk and Jobs do, are bad for consumers.

Both companies are extremely selective in what they say, and lie about their features, quality and accomplishments.

Not every company does this and gets away with it. But Tesla and Apple manage.

I wonder what demographic of people are okay with lies.

Edit, would someone explain why lying to consumers is a good thing?
WordPress is NOT an example of modern PHP practices though. The amount of legacy insanity in WordPress is enough to make any sane dev cry...
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I always got a kick out of the way an 18th century charlatan's name made it's way into the fantasy role playing settings of games like Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot, in the form of "mesmerization" spells.
Agreed. My point is, however, that while carbon pricing may be ultimately a political decision, technology has plenty of opportunities to make this decision easier and more likely to happen.

A country deciding to correctly price in environmental impact today would tank its economy on the spot. But availability of alternatives with lower emissions to various economical activities (e.g. electric cars as an alternative to ICE cars) allows that country to incentivize their use and offers opportunities to start pricing in emissions piece by piece.

The reasons why good solutions aren't implemented aren't always and only "because politicians are corrupt"; sometimes it's because they're impossible to push through (e.g. you'd lose election to someone who doesn't want to do this), and/or because going full-steam ahead risks social unrest and civil war, none of which will help climate.
Thought the 4-hour work week was an interesting pitch (less work, passive income – yes please) until I realised he was financing himself via a borderline-scam product like nutrition supplements...
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> What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue

To me there is something seriously wrong with this way of thought. Why would we collect a small tax to make up for businesses' lost profit? It sounds, to me, downright bizarre, like saying forcing factories to be more environmentally friendly would cost money to the business and cut profits so we should take that money from the taxpayers. Wow.
Please for the love of everything, let's go. I'm in. This is not a joke.
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Sure, it's possible to focus on a tech-specific niche (security consultants come to mind) - but if you do so, you should be sure you know _exactly_ who your potential clients are.

The trap I fell into: I specialized in WordPress performance. I was really good at solving complex performance problems. But...who is my client? Maybe eCommerce stores, but which of them have performance problems? Typically, when they did have performance problems they felt it was a temporary problem and didn't _really_ want to spend the budget to fix it.

So that's my warning: If you tout yourself as a tech-specific problem solver, you should have a clear picture of how you're going to find clients with that specific problem. I find this harder to do than the reverse process of picking a type of client and THEN identifying their problems.
I dunno, I actually hated the HPBs more, because at least I could rationalize getting beat by an LPB, i.e. someone with a technological advantage over me. ;-)
This is incredible. MicroSD is so small! What is the theoretical limit of this storage medium? There must be a point where we can’t go any smaller?
Climate change is bad, because it could reduce the number of human lives.

Therefore, we will reduce the number of human lives to combat climate change.
In economic terms I don't think it can be good.
>excess battery production

Tesla buys batteries from Panasonic. Why would Tesla have excess supply?
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I fully agree. The article does have some good points about the problems associated with on-average later births.
Yes. Manufacture is a multi stage operation. Transportation costs (waste) is balanced against production cost at each stage. Tariffs are one (synthetic) aspect of production costs. This may be a hint that the tariff structure is inconsistent, or perhaps it working fine and transportation waste is an acceptable cost.

One way to look at is that it's often cheaper to export inputs (cells) for foreign assemble and then reimport the outputs, even if tariffs are not a factor in the location of the inputs. I believe steel or aluminum or oil is similar in that taw materials are mined/extracted somewhere, sent elsewhere for processing, and then finished products sent back. You yourself might have once sent a piece of equipment or repair via mail order, or sent your children away temporarily for education?
> This article deals with "big picture" aspects

Read: It's a rant and/or PR.
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Try asking what they think of the quantity of Money they make and they won’t stop complaining that it isn’t what it used to be, or it is barely more than maintenance fees.
It's possible it interferes with day to day life but extends life as a whole considering the typical diet in America.
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This is what launching early looks like. This is just following the mantra of, "if you're not totally embarrassed by your product on Day 1 you waited too long."

They establish the demand and build anticipation in the product. Then they spend the millions/billions to create it to serve the demand. It seems like a smarter way to do business than the other way around.

> Amazing that Solar Roof got so much news coverage for what, in the end, amounted to practically nil.

What do you mean "in the end" -- do you think Tesla has or will abandon the solar roof project? Or is it more likely that they lost focus on Solar Roof during the Model 3 ramp, and that they are still doing the R&D to increase manufacturing yield and longevity of the tiles, and hope to ramp up production later this year?
I'll admit that I sped through it because I'm currently trying to wrangle a toddler but does the article present it as a bad thing? It's possible I missed it but I didn't see that. Not having kids is probably a great decision for most people.
last i checked, icloud apps can only run on macs.
The question is whether AI should be given moral value. The premise is something has to be alive to gain moral value, and the scientists provide a definition of life that excludes AI.
Hence, AI cannot have moral value.

Seems pretty straightforward to me. Not sure why you are calling it propaganda. I would call this an argument with which the reader can agree or disagree.
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From an ecological perspective not a bad thing. From a national economy perspective, it is a very bad thing for two reasons.

Capitalism requires an expansion of consumption to grow. Even in a recession/depression the old natural birth rate guaranteed that there would be a larger body of workers and consumers to grow the economy when you came out of it.

Secondly, the elderly require more care (Social Security, Medicare) while also paying lower taxes mostly because of lower earnings. Our social support systems are funded primarily on the assumption that there will always be more young people than old paying into the system to support it.

Once countries stop growing in population the weight of the old really takes its toll on growth.

Export oriented countries can get away with it for a little longer because the populations growing in other countries will support their economies for a while. Japan would otherwise have collapsed by now under the weight of a shrinking population.

Aside from a small core of anti-immigration extremists in the US, most people on the right and left, including our very Orange President, are for legal immigration, which is the best way to stave off population decline.
Then from whence came their imperfection?
the authors manage to
consistently present a world
where diversity and sexual
diverseness are a given,
without coming across as
forced or overtly political.

I don't think the equation is difficult to parse. In fact, they dance around it with two or three simple actions.

First, they never place the premise of the racial diversity into the dialog of the script the characters speak. It never appears in the talk balloons. Furthermore, the medieval period and fantasy genre roll the date back to eliminate the American slave trade from being addressed, and deflect it with the ancient premise of Roman slavery and dungeon bondage.

Second, the sexuality is always part of the gag, thus the sexual diversity is built in, and beyond the reach of criticism. It's not approached as a pejorative, and thus the power differential of the comedy itself is innately inverting social norms as part of the joke. The roles for the person doing the fucking, versus the person getting fucked is always flipped around (the opposite of the painful norms often found in real life) as deliberate aspect of the punchline.

Third, the comic only really appeals to people who CAN laugh at such a joke. Don't believe me? Consider that the comic is patently NSFW by default. Bring the same humor into a SFW setting, and you'll quickly locate all of the intollerant personalities that would not enjoy the sensibilities of the comic. It's actually operating in a zone (creating a distorted echo chamber of sorts) that side steps ever being noticed by most of the individuals that would notice and take issue with exactly the things you, yourself, would so quickly celebrate (a-cups, obesity, pubes, anal exploitation, laughing at rape, etc).
I wonder when Rancher will get acquired? Its just a matter of time. And VMWare seems to be buying a lot of these types of companies.
Lets make such a resource together, a forum or list of things to do, and invent/work on?
You could encode the addresses as 24 letters and numbers (a to z, case insensitive) but I'd say dns is probably a better solution.
> Go is designed to do concurrency via message passing, not shared memory.

... and yet experienced gophers will criticize newcomer's code for using channels too much and they will tell you you need to use traditional stupid shared memory approach instead of channels in many cases.
People living in sprawl and in nonwalkable places are more likely to be overweight, get less exercise, and spend less time walking

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629517/
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I argument that if a business can't provide a livable wage to its full time employees, then the business isn't viable.
Didn’t we just have an article yesterday on how difficult it is to recover from this event in a simulator, in which the pilots knew exactly what was wrong and what was going to happen.

Blaming the Ethiopian pilots (One of the safest airlines in the world btw) for getting over speed during the workload induced by runaway trim is disrespectful.

By now, near every professional pilot agrees that these are near unrecoverable events unless you assess and cut the trim in first 15 seconds or so.

Blaming Lion Air in the first hours after the crash, with their somewhat sketchy history, was understandable.

Everything after that is uninformed or racist.
I think it depends very much how you use your computer and also how much comfort you need. Therefore the answer is very individual. If you want to go totally hardcore secure, you might consider OpenBSD on some obscure architecture like RISC-V or Power - the Talos II workstations are really powerful. (Power was AFAIK originally vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown, but there are mitigations and it's 100% open source) Probably it's smart to use 2FA on separate hardware (Smartphone, Yubikey or Smartcard for instance) and make it a habit to delete data and apps that you don't need. Oh and also installing only software from trusted sources - whatever that means for you - and an adblocker might also help to prevent malicious JS code. Also for many people iPads serve all needs they have and by default all the native apps have been reviewed.

Probably it's smart to not see a computer not like a walled garden but more like a sieve.
Yes, I think people choosing not to have children is substantially better than death by climate disaster.
The difference is React actually handles escaping properly. It won't just dump out raw HTML by default, so you won't have an XSS issue.

PHP, on the other hand, requires manual escaping with htmlentities() ... It is very, very error prone.
They also suggest to another reason to avoid black: it makes scrolling laggy on OLED screens, from turning pixels on and off.

Perhaps instead the UI could just slightly bump everything from black to the darkest gray, until the scrolling has finished?
For a while it was popular to just create your own functions with your own naming convention and parameter order, easy to do and you have whatever order is sane for you. Lots of frameworks around now so you don't even have to do that any more.
Which version of Python? I ask because making fundamental changes to character encoding was the single most disruptive feature of the Python 2/Python 3 split.
The docs at python.org refer to them as “type hints” ️

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
On a historical level fertility rates appear, with the exception primarily of Africa, to be dropping across the board [0]. There's a concise summary by country on present fertility rates on the World Population Review website [1]. Quite a few surprises as well.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

[1] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-r...
Climate change is bad because it could catastrophically reduce the number of human lives by killing a bunch of people through famine and disease.

That’s not at all the same thing as reducing birth rates - which is voluntary and does not cause death and suffering.
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Microsoft's office offerings comes very close (cept for the free part - which i guess is just a bonus and not a requirement). Although i have to say, despite microsoft's attitude for keeping compatibility and old stuff working, they too could chuck a google reader one day, and deprecate/remove a needed service (along with all your data).

What's needed is a syndication of data, and inter-operable apps. Like how xmpp worked. But of course, all vendors don't like this, because it turns themselves into a commodity.
Apple and Tesla are two of the most loved companies in the world by their customers. Tesla actually just won the "Most Loved Brand" rating from Auto Trader [1].

Neither company is perfect, or makes perfect products. Turns out in this world perfect isn't a requirement. Companies can "get away" with failing to deliver 100% of what they promised, when they promised it, if the end result is still delightful.

In short, both Apple and Tesla make delightful products.

[1] - https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-most-loved-brand-auto-trader...
It's in D&D as well.
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The policy problem is that there is a large chunk of people who don't even think there is a problem. How is that going to be solved with a different "mix" of tech?