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The difference is it with software that has product management, it can grow and shrink. Features can be dropped, deprecated, or re-worked into a more appropriate presentation. With OSS it seems like everything is additive, since you have no idea what users are using what features.

The blender 2.50 release was awful for me, since it broke so many of my workflows, but the UI absolutely needed a revamp, and I have incredible respect for the team throwing so much away to make something better.

I wish more open source software would delete more things in order to provide a better or more thought out user experience.

I’ll also note that telling users that their sub-par user experience doesn’t mean that the application has bad UX is foolish. That’s what user experience is. And it’s not a unique position; look at the comments here. The number one complaint is UX. These people ARE the users. I can’t imagine more direct feedback than that.
I don't think I've ever run into that assumption.

Then again, maybe those shops just don't hire me, so I don't get exposure to it...
Game dev here. I've used Godot only a little bit, and Unity a lot.

If you're working a lot with a single game engine, it's nice to have a programming language that's tightly coupled to it.

When Unity moved away from UnityScript (a javascript lookalike but specialised for their purposes) towards C# they had to e.g. change their notation for Coroutines which made it a lot clunkier, so instead of just "yield WaitForSeconds(2.5)" you now do "yield return new WaitForSeconds(2.5f)" AND change your function signature (add an IEnumerable) AND have to change how you call the function - lots of cruft where previously it was all transparent/implicit.

Also, if you're working on your own scripting language you can make it a lot more aware of the particular data and structure of in your own game (games have a lot of data!). I haven't used GDscript/Godot a lot, but I remember the autocomplete being pretty smart and aware of what's going on with your data in a way that would be hard to do with a "commodity" compiler/IDE tool-chain.

It's a lot of work for them to do this on their end, but I think it pays off. It doesn't take much time to learn (especially compared to the api/3d scene interface/etc) and overall it feels slick.

Most of the niceness is sparing on overhead, it's not a fundamentally alien or goofy language. As a games programmer I have to work with a bazillion programming languages anyway; if I'm working on a single project it's a real luxury to have the language be ergonomically fitted to the engine.

There are advantages to using a more general programming language - maybe using Lua would've been a good option, but yeah for here at least I think it's fine (ah, another commenter linked https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.2/getting_started/scriptin..., which talks about this :) ).

On the other hand, if programming juggernaut Unity couldn't justify keeping Unityscript alive, maybe Godot is also fated to change eventually...
This doesn’t include a lot of post-1983 Truisms which are just as good. My favorite might be “Someone Wants To Cut A Hole In You And Fuck You Through It, Buddy”
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The whole advertising industry is imploding during this pandemic. I mean, it was falling apart before with privacy regulations and browsers fighting an industry that put all their eggs in the "personalized targeting" bucket, but performance is exceptionally bad now.

It kind of makes sense. There are ads for products you can't buy at stores that are closed, for cars you won't need to commute with, insurance you're already not using, other goods that won't ship for a month, and small gadgets that are totally out of stock; and that's assuming the person viewing the ad isn't avoiding spending due to financial risks.

If ads aren't converting viewers into customers, it doesn't matter if there are 2x or 20x more viewers than there were before, the ad placements are just worth less.
From a security point of view it will probably require some additional permissions, that I'm not comfortable asking yet.

It's also taking a few seconds to process big pages so for the time being I'll rather have the user click the button when he wants to.

But I'll try to think of a solution for this use case.
What are your sources on nonstop education plus tickets being sufficient to get to 80% / 90% mitigation?
Now, I agree that Inkscape has a fairly solid UI as far as OS software goes.

BUT, in general, UX and interaction design simply is not a reductionist process the way implementing functional requirements is. It is an inherently holistic endeavor, an art more than a science, and that is why it helps tremendously to have a single competent person in charge who has a vision of how things should work.

I understand that to the typical programmer mindset it is frustrating when people come and complain that the UI is clunky and unintuitive without being able to express their frustration as a list of actionable "this does A but it should do B" tickets. But that's just how it works! Understanding and empathizing with the users simply requires a different skillset than programming.
Right I love programming. But I do it 8 hours a day. That's quite enough!
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Most people are terrible at math. How would they ever be able to evaluate a candidate's math skills?
Such as? My watch, for example, uses the gps from my phone (if I would let it, that is).

And are you implying that Google is cataloging my SSID even though I have it "hidden?"
>It is tough to get contributors and maintainers of projects like this, [...]

It has had a PR since day one, from the same person that opened the issue.

>[...] and this issue in particular has been bombed by folks who don't even use Rust and are acting like the sky is falling.

It has been "bombed" by people who use mdBook, or rather who no longer use mdBook because they were affected by the issue in question. The issue is on rust-lang/mdBook, not rust-lang/rust, and I don't see anywhere in its README.md that says you need to be a Rust user to use mdBook.
Having location history means that Maps knows places I visit often, so they're highlighted on the map and in the search box, saving time if I want to navigate there or find out opening times. It speeds up time-to-fix with GPS. It allows Google Pay to have the supermarket loyalty card ready when I get to the checkout. Little things like that.
In this case you still trust Mozilla and the JS code they serve to your browser every time you visit this URL (in contrast to e.g. mobile apps), so I don't think it solves much: you still trust a third-party.

Of course it's still better than the default, since your data sent at time t_A won't be compromised by an attacker compromising Mozilla's servers at time t_B with t_A < t_B (well, you try to retrieve your data and they steal your passphrase by serving some new JS code).
I backup all my home computers to my NAS and my work computer to an external drive. All my really important documents are also synced between all my machines with syncthing. I don't consider any of my data important enough to backup the NAS as well but if I did I'd probably use a second NAS at work.
The 15-20 % Americans who lost their jobs will not be able to do the jobs that Ag labour has been doing in the fields.

This is exactly when we need automation so anyone can work in the ag field.

The nature of ‘work’ and employment as we know it will changed completely. The world has changed. We have to redefine everything. Including ‘work’
Likely yes. The system will need some fine-tuning to achieve its goals.
I recall reading that some newspapers have gone out of business due to the advertising crash. This is hardly surprising.

Ripples gonna ripple.
Really hoping we can get away from marketers. Andrew Yang gave it a good shot, but the DNC and media weren't kind:

https://www.axios.com/andrew-yang-2020-media-attention-acc26...

https://vocal.media/theSwamp/a-visual-history-of-the-yang-me...

The whole structure of the debates and 24/7 news coverage is more about reality TV than any kind of substance. It's geared for soundbites and drama. So someone like Yang doesn't fit into that, but shines in long form formats like podcasts.
But to 95% of users turning off Bluetooth means using the toggle, doesn't it?
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>I'd be less critical of them if they were submitting PRs instead of just bug reports.

So, exactly what the author of that issue did on the same day they made the issue.
Recently I got flooded with ads from CEX (a shop the buys and sells second hand goods). I know CEX, I buy and sell to CEX, they don't need to advertise to me. But I was getting the same 5 ads over and over and over and over.

I had to click the little (i), then "stop seeing this ad".
How much of this is due to the surge in demand and how much is turnover (normal or due to pandemic issues)?
The title of the work (or rather the title of her entire oeuvre in this style) is “Truisms”, but I don’t think that means they’re necessarily intended to literally be truisms. There’s a lot of humor and irony involved.
It's better to try vs do nothing. The solutions to all arms races is not just do nothing.
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> If you need 4 hours to fix a yaml file

Yes, recognizing a bug, investigating it, sourcing it to a yaml file, finding the offending line, fixing it and testing it, and getting the fix merged up probably took me a minimum of 2 hours, and I had to do it at least twice.

You just handwave away every argument that is brought against you, without actually thinking about what you're saying or if it's even true. You're the worst type of engineer.
And probably unprecedented.
What if Jeff Bezos buys X game!
Engineering is practical work. Of course you compromise among all your mutually unreachable goals.
nice! which technology do you use for Phone Calls (is it Twillio)?
I highly suggest, [CoC](https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim). It's a simple LSP client, you'll get the exact same coding experience as VSCode. Then you install the [coc-tsserver plugin](https://github.com/neoclide/coc-tsserver) or any LSP server (gopls, omnisharp, etc..) and you're good to go!
Exactly. The challenge is the balance between security and convenience. The issue is that without full management of keys and building of source that has been signed and then investigated, you have to trust someone. I think this is the issue, if you decide to trust, then you trust. The harder question is who can you actually trust.
Yeah seems kind of odd to me that Godot is making the same mistakes Unity once did but is now moving away from.

Unity had UnityScript and a C++ engine but is now heavily investing in C#, moving engine parts to C# and focusing on performance in C#. Unity once had a more static and predefined graphics pipeline like Godot, but has now made it more configurable. I'm especially apprehensive about how restrictive the Godot shader language is.
Why would I look at a chart like this to answer whether ventilators help or not?

Rhetorically dismissing data such as this does not get us anywhere.

Just because it doesn't answer the questions you pose does not mean it doesn't give us insight, in the aggregate, as to how the disease is progressing in different countries.

To conclude, I think you're confusing rhetoric for logic.
By "this area", are you referring to front-end, or back-end?

I am going to guess back-end, because there are a lot of self-study tutorials for front-end that you probably have already found. Unfortunately, I am not an expert in back-end, although at one point I did manage a group that was involved in compiler validation -- but I was pointy-haired, it was my team that knew the innards of the compiler.

Advanced texts in compiler construction are going to get into data flow analysis and liveness testing, and talk about basics of code motion. These are all elementary topics and barely touch on the state-of-the-art, but are foundational. Also, get good at reading the assembly language for the machine of your choice and look at the .S files.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but maybe I gave you some search terms.
I imaging further developments in this technology will lead to some sort of private ethereum-like coin.
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Then don't read the link.
This is why I exclusively view Youtube with adblockers, and prefer to view it with NewPipe or VLC+ytdl.

I'm not opposed to ads at the beginning and end, but numerous _jarring_ cuts in a ten minute video to play a couple of ads every two or three minutes? No thanks.
She also created LED signs that cycled through these phrases.

Also for a more artistic rendition on the web:

https://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html
Second that. Would additionally recommend the fzf for fuzzy reverse history search. Absolute gold
> As far as practical applications of non-binary circuitry, the Intel 8087 math co-processor used 4-level circuitry in its ROM. (This chip was used in the IBM PC.) Intel needed to do this to fit the large microcode ROM on the chip.

Also, as noted at the bottom of that article, most modern flash storage uses multi-level cell technologies that allow two, three, or four bits of data to be stored per memory cell rather than just one. This obviously significantly increases data density and allows for cheaper drives at the cost of reduced write performance, reduced endurance, and more error correction being necessary for reliable operation.
So you'd be forbidden to look at your phone or wear headphones during the ride?
True, but you also aren't tasked with going in and manually adjusting weights to improve the predictions. And if you are curious enough, you can certainly look at the theory and mathematics that underpin how these systems do work, even if you don't understand exactly how the training data is making its way into your model: someone clearly figured this out and that's why these systems work.

Put another way: you can treat an algorithm or routine as a black box if you know it works and understand its context in your system. You can even learn the right questions to ask if you do need to dig into that particular box at some point. Without some abstractions, we'd all be constantly paralyzed.

(edit: formatting)
Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
Masterclass has a huge market right now. Lots of people with time on their hands who would like to do something productive with their time.

Studying, in general, is a great use of this time.
Reality has a funny way of reasserting its self.
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It’s understandable, however, that a doctor watching his fellow health care providers die might ask people to stop unnecessary risks, regardless of their personal risk profile.
All my own open-source projects. Thousands of hours wasted
I used to work on lower level stuff a place with a large C++ codebase designed by a bunch of C guys. We had tight memory requirements, so a custom operator new (not nothrow) was supplied; but exceptions were also disabled, so the supplier of operator new couldn't throw in their implementation.

So that's how it was, and the code base was littered with lots of little checks on what new expressions were returning, things like:

int *p = new int[1024];
if (!p) return SOME_ERROR;
doSomething(*p);

Of course, the C++ standard says that operator new will never return null (it's supposed to throw if it fails). So the compiler sees this code and says "hey, that if (!p) check isn't necessary.." and so none of those little checks gets emitted. Sure enough, it happens that the operator new returns null now and then because everyone is on a tight memory budget, but instead of catching it and returning an error, the code just goes on to crash.
I love the way this would be just as good an example for the original article as those actualy given.
You can pay for premium and get 0 ads.
60 USD for unrestricted per year? Can I store 10 TB there?
Sad that Amazon is allowed to take an even bigger share of American online retail.

They are raising their wage to $17 per hour. That's around $3,000 per month in stead of their usual $2,500 per month.

Little vacation, few sick days.
This sounds isomorphic with multi-version concurrency control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contr...
This is a really exciting idea to me, but this website is pretty anemic (guessing it's a work in progress?). Kinda surprising to me, given the 7K stars on github. Maybe it should be submitted when it's a little more filled in?
Andrew Yang is a nice guy but his "math" isn't actually all that good.

His plan to use a VAT to pay for UBI is a regressive tax. People with lower incomes spend a higher percentage of their income on consumable goods. Putting a higher VAT or sales tax on everything to UBI puts a lot of the burden on the lower class to pay for this program. Someone with a much higher income has a number of ways to avoid this tax - they can invest in companies instead, they can buy real estate, they can take a jet to a different country and buy expensive stuff there instead of buying it in the country with a high VAT, like how people in Massachusetts buy their computers in New Hampshire.

So, he "did the math," but that doesn't automatically make it good policy.

The concept of UBI is a good idea to explore in the future. However, we shouldn't just assume that it's definitely going to work as intended, either: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/nordic-welfare-news/heikki-h...
Such a good post of a great lesson learned. I see a lot on how zoning in how much to charge, a lot on how to get customers but do you have similar posts about the other stuff on the biz end of things that fill the gaps? Creating proper contracts are daunting
It can scale well since you can use a load balancer if traffic gets too much for one server.
In that scenario I would backup locally to the NAS and do a backup straight from the laptops to a cloud provider (Backblaze, iDrive, etc). That way if a corrupt file gets accidentally backed up to the NAS it won’t necessarily propagate through the entire backup chain like it might if you were copying the NAS directly.

My current strategy is to backup my laptops (macOS) locally using Time Machine for a full backup with a fast recovery time and then sync important files to a cloud backup provider in case of a major disaster.
I have a set of Bash scripts using Rclone to backup from my laptop to another laptop via Google Drive.
It's really disingenuous to lay everything at the feet of SCOTUS. Anything related to elections could be seen as a voting rights issue, and if SCOTUS issued binding opinions on all of them it would be a disaster.

It would simultaneously federalize elections, and subvert Congress.

You really don't want a bunch of appointed-for-life judges to have total control over all elections in the country.

The Constitution has little to say about voting, but we all know voting is a complex topic. Voting policy should come from the legislature and SCOTUS should merely oversee it.
I am normally for privatization. There are so many ways USPS could bolster their infrastructure to grow. Reduce the bureaucracy and improve efficiency.

Being said. USPS offers a secure and power agnostic means of communication. I don't trust large corporations to respect privacy or provide the caliber of federal security USPS offers it's clientele.

Although, when legislation becomes a component of business operations... failure becomes imminent.
Yes, the bottom is currently falling out of the advertising market. If your income is based on ads, my condolences!
That's so nice to read.

Coral reefs, glaciers, many species ...

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059061
And does it tell you how to totally disable them?
Venusian Cloud Colonies
The plague was stopped before vaccines existed... Same with many other pandemics. A pandemic is an epidemic that affects a larger area, not an unstoppable monster
The checksumming/error-correction of ZFS is big difference, and the main reason I moved some of my file systems to ZFS (even with versioned backups, on EXT4, I suffered data loss due to corruption/bitrot).

On the other hand, for a simple set-up on a lower resource system, EXT4 has lots of advantages.
Can you explain further? Is this a better paying alternative to Youtube?

But aren't we really talking about Adsense? If we're talking about Adsense, aren't we really talking about the overall capabilities of the system?

Is there any alternatives to Adsense? No, if Adsense isn't working for you, then you're looking for a totally different approach for monetizing your content.

But we still haven't arrived to the fundamental issue, which is that we're in the midst of a global economic meltdown. A lot of Adsense buyers are pulling out and that's driving down the market for ads.

I'm not a marketing guru, but I'm guessing that advertising spend in general is one of the first things to get cut during difficult economic times.

Does Nebula address this? Are they giving away helicopter money? Perhaps the service can open a portal into another dimension where COVID-19 has never happened (or maybe not for a couple of months, so we can get some quick partying in.)
Because lying to investors can get you in trouble.
A debate is a distributed way of thinking.

This is a beautiful way of putting it, but IME rarely do actual debates actually rise to this level. Typically, they just amp up our confirmation biases and cause people to dig in.

I've had a few beautiful debates/discussions with friends in my life where we took sides on some issue and by the end, had both switched sides. These are great, because we're both cracking up by the end, but they've been incredibly rare. They require a way of exploring topics in a way that doesn't require/trigger ego investment and some adherence to the principle of charity[1].

Hell, I'm practically demonstrating the wrong way to do it in this very post. ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I would love to get to a point where my laptop can be managed as immutable infrastructure.

All the big chunks of data are already isolated into redundant partitions, but it’s the system config that’s tough.

I have a time machine backup, but that’s still not the same as being able to say “I’m gonna wipe my hard drive and start over today”.

So does anyone have have good suggestions on maintaining a MacOS laptop in an immutable way?
Nice work! what do you use for front-end and charts?
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Wikipedia has a few sources, may just be them all echoing from the same source, but it seems that a close friend is the source of one of the articles.

https://math.unm.edu/news-events/news/famous-british-mathema...

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mercer/obituaries/covid-19...
I am not familiar with the package of arch, but changes could have been done. When in doubt and need, try an vanilla version from source.

You can adapt the layout in the preferences.

> Since they talk about crashes I hope at least the spontantous crashes while copy/pasting are gone now.

Yes, copy-pasting had issues, but if you adapt to duplicating instead almost all problems will be gone.

> A nice bonus would be touchpad zooming (at least moving around now works smoothly).

Touchpad zooming will be in the 1.0 release, called pinch-to-zoom

When I am using an FOSS tool, i try to learn it as an tool, meaning that I want to understand the reasoning for some work flows. By learning the tool I want to show my appreciation to the devs.

On mouseover you will see that the '%' sign enables/disables snapping, which is almost always the desired behaviour.
There is the option to use YouTube Premium though. It's not too expensive (yet), and with the number of cooking and tech videos I'm consuming right now, it seems worth it.