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Because any exponential growth rate will eventually reach the physical limitations (i.e. carrying capacity) of the underlying processes that produce goods, whether that is fish or molybdenum. Eventually, even if we can keep scaling exponential growth by spreading to other planets and stars, the growth is fundamentally limited by the speed of light, which means expansion in space is limited by O(n^3), and oh yes, even O(1.00000tiny^n) will eventually grow faster than O(n^3).

https://bollocks2012.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/the-greatest-s...
Is there any documentary explaining the situation there better? It's hard to visualize what's happen, it would be a lot more interesting (and macabre) to actually see it.
> it seemed to make my boring use case a little bit faster

That's an unusual result - if it's faster for an actual app you're using in production you should report that as they'll be thrilled.
As someone who works in a no-code platform company, my view confirmed by a look at our revenues is the author is way off. low-code no-code platforms are booming and will continue to for a long time. There are several reasons
1 - there is a huge backlog of business processes which can be made more efficient with apps
2 - there is deficiency in developers, but a surplus of knowledge workers
3 - IT departments are unable to solve all users app needs
4 - enterprises are mananaging far too many SaaS 'point solutions'
5- most importantly, ROI and TCO make low-code platforms very attractive.
6 - the ability to quickly customize business process applications is incredibly important. Low-code platforms provide this
7 - technologies like webhooks are making it easier for low-code app builders to create sophisticated apps tied to multiple cloud and on prem data sources and systems.
What's the other option? Not get a education and then be further disadvantaged? You can definitely make better choices, but if everyone made the better choice, it would stop being the better choice - not every college grad can be an engineer.

I can tell there's some momentum building for trades, but this is the unfortunate generation that got the wrong old advice instead of the new advice. By the time the new "trades" message is clear I'm sure it'll be useless advice as well.
What batteries does Angular include that Vue doesn't?
Can MS make the ugly Windows 10 UI invisible as well with those updates? If so, I'd be interested.
Among my peers (undergrads in college) Rails has largely lost mindshare to python and Node (and even PHP!). At the 3 hackathons I went to this semester I could not find a single other person who knew Rails (so I always have to switch to node or python). If you take a look at devpost, Rails is increasingly losing popularity: https://devpost.com/software/built-with/ruby-on-rails

My plea to the Rails community and Rails senior devs:

1) Fully embrace SPAs as an option, React and Vue are ubiquitous among my peers. I've seriously seen people who have difficulty understanding a for loop that know how to use react at a basic level.

2) Increase your outreach to hackathons and universities, I'd love to see more Rails companies coming out to the big hackathons and mentoring students. At the biggest hackathon in MLH (Bitcamp 2019) I couldn't find a Rails or Ember mentor. I'd also love to see more courses on coursera and other places that teach Rails, in my search for Rails courses on Coursera I only found 1 course (although Traversy media has been making some great content on youtube)!
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Sort of agree.

Just hired a guy for embedded. A lot of on the job training later and a few times he struggled with something recalling that maybe they talked about this in Architectures.

I’ve used the Observer Pattern high level on AWS and bare metal chip to chip communication. I hope “theory” is t lost completely as it’s what helps you identify the problem and not just implement the solution.
There have been instances whereby a robotic hoover (Xaomi(sp?) one?) have been sending their generated floor maps back to servers in CN, so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume drones could be doing the same thing.
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I agree. Get a lawyer.

@OP: Did you have a lawyer to review the weird clause before signing it? Was it your lawyer?
Maybe off topic but I hope everyone gets my point.

My soon to be niece-in-law (she's engaged to my nephew) has a journalism degree from a well-known university in that field. She's now a news producer for a large television station.

Last week, I caught her on camera reviewing dog toys with her dog and the best blenders during the morning news.

Things have stooped to that level.
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Buffets are associated with:

1. Low Income

2. Old People

3. Families with unruly kids

4. Fights over the Lobster (or insert whatever the premium included course is, steak, crab, etc)

5. No or almost non existant service.

6. Usually dirty because of 1-5.

While there will always be some good korean buffets in the cities, I say good riddance to the Golden Corrals of this world. I suspect it is quite a wasteful way to prepare already mediocre food as well. Nobody wants to be seen eating at a buffet. I hope we can bring back the Basque style of communal eating to fit the middle ground.
okay I can tell this...one of my recent still uncontrolled adhd failures..

I did not have my adhd under control well enough last year to explain why the Bitcoin economic value model was factually incorrect..most of you now know that the economic model once touted failed to take into consideration....

ie that the growth of internet in terms of chasm between early adopters and mainstream would be exactly the same for crypto coin...the fly in the cake was that the chasm between early and mina stream adopters of crypto coin is in fact very different from internet site user growth..

In short terms bitcoin value economic model wrong due to no data on the chasm between early adopters and main stream.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019616
If you are expecting a drastic decline in housing, you can hedge by holding financial derivatives that increase in value when the market declines. e.g. NYSE: REK, SRS, DRV. This will decrease your downside exposure for the cost of the ETF (in this case) management fee. In other words, housing market insurance. Note that it will also cap upside as any gains in housing prices going forward would be offset by losses in the derivative. Such is hedging. The portion of your investment that you leave unhedged depends on your risk appetite. As of now it sounds like you are 100% unhedged and you aren't comfortable with that.

I'm not a financial adviser. This is just food for thought.
>in UK, refusing to talk to police at first contact can be used against you

If you have read any of the anonymous blogs by those on the Job, they almost always tell you to either keep your mouth shut or say as little as possible ─ this was the wisdom imparted by 'Nightjack' before he got outed and had to delete his blog, subsequently going on to win accolades and the Orwell Prize.[1]

https://web.archive.org/web/20090426201221/http://nightjack....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Horton_(blogger)
Same branch, but no coordination, right?
If you want to express what something looks like, draw a picture. If you want to express how something behaves, use words.

Graphical tools work great for creating static sites, because you mostly just care what they looks like. If you have complex behavior to describe, however, typing will always be easier than creating a massive flow chart.
If you just want to learn "programming," there is no shortage of programs you can attend instead of college in order to do that.
I only raise this because it has the interesting property that if (unlikely) Johnson loses there is precedent to take politicians to court for false or
misleading promises

Could you imagine all political campaigns being truthful, measured and accurate?

:-)
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Fukushima was a very extreme natural disaster striking at a precise location to expose that the Fukushima reactors were not fully ready for a theoretically possible but never in 1000+ years of Japanese history observed earthquake.

15,897 people died in Japan that day, in buildings, roads, and vehicles. None from the nuclear incident. Yet no one talks about how the building, road, and vehicle security failed and wants to ban those.

Sure, the Fukushima security could and should have been better. The industry has learned the lessons, as it does from all accidents. But even if it didn't, we could easily absorb accidents like these for once in a 1000+ years and still be the cleanest energy form there is.

The comparison with Chernobyl is no comparison. That was an unforced error on a calm spring night. Operators doing experiments on badly designed reactors with known flaws they were not informed about because it would look bad to spread the information that pressing a certain button in a certain situation was risky. So they pressed the button, and the reactor exploded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
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The situation is more complicated. Anyone with sufficient money can effectively buy "content".

For example: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal...
The police in the past actually wanted me to come in and talk to them about an issue someone had reported. I came in and they surprised me with the line "My partner is just setting up the camera in the other room if that's okay". I was quite surprised and shocked that they wanted to record what they made sound like a friendly chat.

I of course refused to give any kind of statement under video and instead just spoke privately with an officer and gave minimal details. However I fear that others less inclined about their rights or why they wanted to record would be screwing themselves.

Essentially I had a false report made against me and there was no evidence. If I said anything incriminating in a video statement by accident I would have just made evidence for them. No one advised me of this. It felt like I should have brought a lawyer with me.

Edit: This was in an Ontario based police department.
Honestly I think those categories apply to most jobs. Just look at all the posts on here about 10x and 100x developers.

Some people are amazing at their jobs, some are scammers/incompetent/full of BS, most are in the middle.
It seems like they're just saying:

- China makes most of the drones

- A lot of them aren't very secure

Which isn't surprising to me considering the state of things like DVR cameras (also mostly made by China, also plagued with security issues) and similar tech.

The real problem is that consumers want cheap but quality and security aren't cheap. The cost of security isn't obvious and consumers don't really know how to evaluate it.

But, when things like drones and cameras start communicating over the 5G backbone then we should maybe be concerned about who controls both of them.
>processed meat

I'm pretty sure what they're getting at here is something like a salami or cured bacon. Not simply ground beef.
Well, for further launch, make sure this page is no longer publicly available ;-)
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In my opinion, VM's are less secure than containers.

VM's provide a large attack surface, while one CAN restrict containers sufficiently. See contained.af. Doesnt mean Docker does this though.
Did you have an attorney ? One of the most valuable lessons I learn is that lawyers are really important for founders -- perhaps even more important than co-founders.

My advise would be to fire the developer and hire the best attorney you can afford.
The idea here is that you’re exposing the LAN the minimum amount possible, and only indirectly... all public access is through the server component, which you could lock down as much or as little as possible.
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That sounds like it's more a function of choosing a career that's in demand rather than choosing to go to college. Bonus if its something that's not a "bad idea" for you.
I think they could manage, given that they open sourced bunch of stuff that probably had the same problems.

What is shame is for such valuable effort to die. Tech dying is a shame and you can see it everywhere, from folks experimenting with TempleOs to 8bit game emulators...
Similar experience with a Q/A team using LabView. They had a tool they were comfortable with, and had inevitably created a fragile, horrid monster that looked like a plate of spaghetti. Their test framework was probably nice and intuitive for six months before rot set in, and then no one could understand it.

A new project rolled in that didn't meet the expectations of their tooling, and suddenly they had to start writing native code plugins and so forth, and they were totally at sea. They started demanding engineering resources and invasive changes to the product so their test environment could handle the thing with minimal modifications.

I remember telling one particularly obstinate contractor that we were colossally uninterested in writing drivers for their environment, and that he was either going to learn C or lose his contract. I didn't see him again, maybe his management chain told him not to come 'round the software group again, or maybe he learned C and saved the day for his team.
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Let's assume that they're encrypting the payload before sending it back home and we've broken their encryption techniques.

You don't think it would do a lot of harm to publish detailed analyses letting them know we've broken their encryption?
I surprised the "Benefits outweigh the costs" question clocked in at only 55% for vocational/technical training. I wonder if that is pushed down so low because of the prevalence of private for-profit vocational schools. I'd be surprised if it wasn't much higher among students who received such training at community colleges.
College needs to be a business decision on the part of the individual. Taking on massive amounts of debt at anytime is no small matter.

In my experience though a lot of the questionable talk about how much / easily a graduate might earn is from other students, none of whom are working / earning that money.

There seems to be a bit of a feedback loop when it comes to expectations.
It appears to me you believe in belief. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Belief_in_belief
>High costs are still keeping people out of higher education.

I did a bachelor's in Engineering, did community college, commuted from home, worked full time. Graduated without debt or mommy and daddys money.

What I did is unacceptable to most internet commentators.

I don't understand why this hard lifestyle is unacceptable and impossible. I clearly did it.

If we say this possible outcome is too hard for most people, I want to nail down the impossible part.
"I'm not being paranoid", said every paranoid ever
There are two sets of slideshows on the main WWW site.
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> big publishers sometimes purchases the second local newspaper and make it an empty shell that republishes generic content from syndicated sources

That sounds like Sinclair. Seems the U.S. ended up in the same place.
China literally steals IP from US businesses and uses the fact that they had no R&D costs and cheaper production to then sell those "stolen" products back to the US, undercutting the US businesses that invented the IP.

This is not a "neutral" behavior.

And this is different from the past when "every country stole ideas" because in those other instances the "thief countries" weren't generally trading those products with their target.

It's fine to steal ideas if you use it to make your own country better. It's not fine to steal things which you then use to undercut the people you stole from.
Seems like there shouldn't be since the examples are interactive (can rotate the move the shapes in 3D space with the mouse), but perhaps animation is a DIY exercise on top of this library
Rails is slow.
Ruby isn’t slow.

Ruby has the same thing that every other language has, call outs to C code under the hood for most of the real work.

What makes Rails slow is the process around so much object creation and destruction, but this is exclusive to Rails itself.

You put a Sidekiq worker up against a Go worker for some background processing and the performance is comparable.
While the effort by the Angular team deserves praise, I think for the vast majority of use cases it is a mistake to do it all client side.

With some exceptions, there is really no benefit in making a SPA but there are many drawbacks.

I don't say this lightly. I used AngularJS in 2015 and since then I've been making SPAs in React, Vue, and Inferno + Mobx.
I do think the period directly following the revolution in which the rival factions fought over the country is a context of a libertarian dystopia, if only a glimpse of one.
The documentation is written in Scribble, another Racket language, and Scribble does allow for PDF output. You can easily produce a PDF version if you have Racket installed. It probably wouldn't offer enough usability improvements over the web version to justify hosting a separate PDF version online.

More generally though, although you can make printed books with Pollen, they are not a core part of Pollen's value proposition. Pollen was created specifically so that books published on the web could be done well. The very first sentence of the documentation says "Pollen is a publishing system that helps authors make functional and beautiful digital books."
Having grown up religious, I used to think this way.

In my family, I now see people coming up against real hardship, and because their purpose in life is so deeply rooted in religion, they don't know how to cope with things emotionally (instead, trying to defer the emotional toll of those things, believing that their god will handle it)... and they make strange decisions, things go horribly, they are left struggling to comprehend. They live as if they are on a rollercoaster of hope, anticipation, crisis, disappointment, recovery, hope.

In my own experience, having your self worth and sense of identity attached to religion is a fragile existence, especially if you are logically inclined.
As users we can complain to sites too. I hate amp sites.
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>>This would cover the use cases of easily 95%+ of computer users (web+email+office).

I suspect if that were the case then Windows RT wouldn’t have been canned. I’m wondering what’s different now that makes this idea better. Marketing?
Well, the specific concern is that all new tech ships with OTA update capability. Infrastructure should probably never have this in the first place for a variety of reasons, but it does and it will because the of huge cost savings it can enable. When the Chinese government can tightly control the companies under it, and those companies control the OTA update, then nothing produced by those companies can ever be considered safe so longer as China is considered adversarial. The same could absolutely be said about US made products being used in countries that the USA is adversarial against, and that's likely how the USA government started thinking about it.

"Hey, what's a great way to deal with China if we go to war? Whataminute, they could do that to US!"

Just look at the havoc that has happened unintentionally due to bad updates being pushed out on a large scale and extrapolate to what could happen with a malicious actor at full control.
I saw a lot of concern about sending data to servers in a specific location such as CN. However, there is no such thing as Custom for Data. So, I think sending data to either CN or any other place is not much different.
JS and JSX are isomorphic (in the mathematical sense) hence why JSX is considered just syntactic sugar.

JS and TS aren't isomorphic (there's no inverse morphism once you go TS->JS that can bring the resulting JS back to the original TS) hence why TS is a different language (even if a superset of and compiled to JS).
Even that doesnt help if you dont look like the right kind of white hetero male. Lets not muddy the water with identity politics please.
This is just incorrect. Windows as an OS is amazingly stable considering how many devices it supports and how backward-compatible it is. Windows as an ecosystem less-so, but I mainly fault crappy drivers written by budget commodity hardware manufacturers like Realtek and Conexant. Windows is not a "CPU hog" either; install Windows fresh with only the manufacturers' drivers installed and you'll be running at 0% of CPU unless a background task like Windows Update is running.
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You really don't need a 3-4 year program to learn theory though.
I'm not saying HTML5 didn't have its share of architecture astronauting, attempts to add features that didn't pan out, etc. Trust me, I know it did.

I'm not saying it didn't spec various things that didn't match browsers (some just because, some because it tried to reverse-engineer browsers and failed). Well do I know it did; we're still sorting some of those things out. The only defense there is that unlike previous web specs it actually tried to specify this stuff (like navigation!) instead of just saying "yeah, do whatever".

The element name thing was actually needed for compat with how browsers parsed HTML in practice. The ID thing largely affects well-formedness, but was also informed by common practices, and the mismatch with CSS in large part was probably somewhat unavoidable due to differences in reserved chars. For example, there's really no reason, within the context of HTML, to not allow "foo.bar" as an ID, and people were definitely using IDs of this form all over, whereas in CSS you'd need to jump through the "#foo\.bar" hoop to use it in a selector.

SGML comments were definitely _a_ big problem (I'm not sure why you decided to describe them as "the" problem). This sort of markup:

<!-- This is comment -- This is just in a markup decl -->
This is still comment, because the '>' is inside the comment the third double-dashes started, yes?

was fairly common: people like to use "--" as a replacement for em-dash and it often ends up in the middle of comments. Browsers that attempted to implement SGML comment parsing would end up with the "This is still comment text commented out; other browsers did not.

> presumably to make JavaScript commenting uniform with HTML syntax

No, that was there to enable hiding of <script> tag contents from browsers that didn't know about <script> at all. So you would write:

<script>
<!--
// Your script here
-->
</script>

and in a non-script-aware browser you wouldn't have a blob of script text showing up... It's actually a pretty sane approach for the problem of initially introducing the <script> element in a world where it didn't use to exist.

> In any case, WHATWG has driven almost all web browsers out of existence already

I'm not sure the problem here is "WHATWG" per se. I'm pretty sure that if WHATWG had never existed the results would have been pretty similar...
I think you are confusing common sense and nonsense.
Yes but jobs require “BS in Computer Science or Equivalent” even if they are just writing yet another software as a service CRUD app.