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Stop leaving your tracking/security devices in my books. They serve no purpose after the initial sale. Remove them at time of purchase.
Sure - take a look at the first chapter of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. The sentence:

Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

is divided into three (!) verses. That sort of thing is pretty common with the periodic structure of Paul's sentences. English readers, with our weak clause boundaries, struggle with those sorts of sentences anyway.
> Why bother adding the ability to control how things align things to the bottom of the page if the point is simply to stream text on to a screen for someone to read the content?

If the point was simply to stream text on to a screen for someone to read, we wouldn't need CSS to begin with.

> and no one really needed to align things to the bottom of the page.

Documents have footers. Most company webpages have useful information in their footers. I think it is reasonable that a web formatting spec offers the tools to properly format these footers. And formatting a footer is not as simple as just "adding text at the end of the content". Yet, it is also not very difficult to specify how it should properly work.

This is just another example to illustrate that the CSS standardization process has been hopelessly lagging for very straightforward use-cases.
Additional details is not always a net plus, IMO some recordings are significantly worse with ‘better’ audio equipment. For example the sounds of people repositioning their hands across musical instruments really bothers me.
Lab studies have shown that the virus stays around in recognizable form for 1-3 days depending on temperature, humidity, and porosity. E.g. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973 I have not heard of any cases of spread via objects and I think it would be a pretty small fraction, but maybe relatively more risky for a book than other objects. Lots of people lick their fingers for adhesion when flipping pages.
haha, so much experience where i see these consultants summarising the same suggestions i made but with a fancier language, accent and level of confidence and managing to sell it to leadership
I don’t really think they reflect the current climate. Many of those who are silent don’t believe in these ‘campaigns’
Thank you too! I didn't mean to single you out or anything, and I don't think most people who play songs to attract birds have the slightest malicious intentions. They just think they're giving it a call, and once it sees humans it'll leave and forget about it. It's just a matter of education, not everyone realizes it can actually be quite serious, which is why I wanted to bring it up.

It's almost more tragic when someone who truly likes birds and may well advocate for bird-friendly measures and consideration elsewhere accidentally ends up baiting them.
Good observation, but I think it's overstated. I don't know many people who read the bible as a series of disconnected logical propositions, they mainly read it in much longer sections covering some topic.

Chapter and verse come in when you want to quote something, or shorthand something, or refer someone to a specific and narrow section.

In this usage, it's very similar to the way we cite Shakespeare, Homer, Chaucer, Milton, etc. For example, the St. Crispin's day speech in Henry V is at IV.iii.18-67, and any Shakespearean actor, fan, or scholar knows what that means, but that notation doesn't force them to think of the play as merely a set of disconnected speeches.
I cannot receive DAB in my house because of the thick walls, so when the switch-off happens that'll be the end of listening to radio over the air for me. Also for technical reasons DAB is terrible for music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27w3quNTP84
If one is into black humour, it's amusing that one can find actual slavers arguing that if people were allowed to call for Abolition without repercussions, America would become a communist dictatorship.

(I went wait what at first, but I guess the communists were already a thing in the 1830's, so it makes sense educated people would've been familiar with them)

https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/hundley/hundley.html#hund7

> "Now, as every well-informed person knows, the fact is indisputable, and has often been boasted of by the infidel press, that anti-slavery sentiments were first propagated by the ultra socialists and communists--those miserable sans culottes, who, during the memorable French Revolution, raised the cry of Liberté, Fraternité et Egalité, and in the madness of their drunken folly enthroned a nude harlot in the Temple of Justice as the goddess Reason, the object of their admiration and worship. At that time England and Massachusetts were virtuously engaged in supplying the slave-marts of the world with cargoes fresh from Guinea and Loango, and our Northern divines had not the least suspicion that the Bible condemned slavery. But, sansculotteism being quelled in France, soon found a foothold in Exeter Hall, and thence spread to the United States. For a long time the clergy resisted the storm of radical ideas, but being only men like the rest of us, and having an eye to benefices, calls, surprise-parties, and the like, as well as "itching ears" to catch the sweet voices of the rabble, they have at last almost surrendered in a body in the Free States, and now seek to lead in the new crusade ..."

> " Already, we repeat, this terrible question is being mooted in secret conclave; and should the time ever come when it shall be mooted openly--when loudmouthed and earnest men, fresh from the people, shall bestride Faneuil Hall, bawling for an equal and exact distribution to every mechanic of whatever craft, to every operative of whatever mills, to every laborer of whatever grade--bawling, we say, for an equal and exact distribution to the workmen of the net proceeds
of their combined labor; and denouncing in the same breath pampered capitalists, as so many lordlings growing rich on the earnings of the moiling and toiling poor, reaping where they have not sown, and gathering where they have not scattered; upon what plausible pretext will you, Sir, then seek to gainsay them? You will have none. Dumb and quaking with fear you would be constrained to acquiesce in their logic; for they would only use in their own behalf the identical arguments you have assiduously tried to impress upon their minds for ten years and more, in order to persuade them to interfere in the affairs of their neighbors."

^F "socialist" for more of the sort. Hundley would've hated 140 characters.

These days the french have moved on; they're even going for Liberté, Sororité et Egalité. What horror!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls_nVMZK3rM
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The original material design spec was a lot more layered than what it’s turned into.
These are library books.
This is what Steam looks like in China, if you’re wondering how crazy they’ve really gotten:

https://cdn--images-win-gg.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w820/s/cdn-...
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The article's talking about people accidentally setting fire to library books.
> When will we finally get a way to fix the aspect ratio of a div in a straightforward way?

Here you go:

https://css-tricks.com/a-first-look-at-aspect-ratio/
Reference (short version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMStODromg8

Long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs
People are tinkering with phones in order to circumvent law and make quick, short term profit at the cost of tax paying citizens. None of the noble reasons you'd think of apply.
The real problem isn't necessarily flat vs skeuomorphism - it's the representations that are not really representative to everyone.

Try "Click that icon with the floppy disk to save." with a new user.
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Give an option to pick and choose what they don't mind moving into the cloud, and which ones they definitely always want on the machine and not be asked again about.
> That hermeneutic - texts are collections of independent logical propositions - was essentially unknown in the ancient world

On the contrary, the atomization and recombination of the text into new meanings is highly characteristic of Midrash. Of course, this isn't the same as the "prooftext" hermeneutic I think you're criticizing.
And I do. What are the chances of multiple male authors creating a book that confirms their worldview and lays down the law for everybody else to follow putting them at a very hard to dispute real life advantage vs it being handed down by an omnipotent being?

Let's just say I would be highly surprised if anything related to the spiritual world and related to miracles or the origins of the universe as related in the bible came out to be true in a way that does not agree with hard science.
I would guess no unless someone stepped in from above. Unless it ended in the complete source code of all their systems, perhaps.

In a lot of commercial code there is almost literally nothing worth protecting, just sunk-cost. If a finite element package got open sourced, that would be a minor disaster (although even then you're paying for the UX and support not the code) but things like firmware are barely worth the electrons on the drive.

The point being the business impact would probably be fairly minor for most projects.
Oof, just started reading through and this is pretty cringeworthy. It seems the author has a made a few blog posts of your typical, infantile criticisms of religion that they simply link to throughout the text, which is deliberately taken out of context at every possible point and mocked inline. "Advice about avoiding prostitutes? That's anti-woman, sexist absurdity! Why doesn't it mention male prostitutes?" If you're looking for good critique, you will not find it here.
If it were the case that one third of the population of London are immune against covonavirus already that would have massive implications on public policy. But we don't really know yet, the science is still shaky on the issue, and we better get it right.

Why then is a think tank, whose purpose is to sell public policy, permitted to discuss science? We know what policy they would like to implement, we don't know if reality agrees, but instead of waiting for better data they are selling their wishes as actual fact. It doesn't work like that in the real world.
So, having read the whole of what you wrote, the reason not to do both is that atomization promotes an epistemology that does grave violence to Christian belief. God's self revelation could have been a math textbook: a collection of independent propositions related by logical necessity. But it's not.

His self revelation is a person who has a story and who tells stories. When we atomize the scriptures, we're implicitly constructing an argument against the epistemology that God has revealed in the scriptures. That's the thing that Satan does in the wilderness when he puts Jesus to the test. We ought not lead others into that time of trial.

So the convenience of being able to cite a verse as quick shorthand comes at the price of a profound argument against the coherent truth of the scriptural witness.
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Looks more like a partially depleted uranium fuel cell to me... I hope that isn’t the final design
I stitched together a King James Version Bible app in 2018 without any ads and with the entire Bible available in one scroll.

The website got taken down with a notice claiming the domain was expired as of "2021" which of course the year hasn't passed yet. It was a pretty big eye opener for me. Don't play with the Bible. I was also baited by the San Jose Police department earlier this year. Ever since I posted that app my life has gone south. I think I pulled a King James on myself.

After all the last passage of the says "If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."

It's really not a joke especially with the whole end of the world thing. I think the dns providers were telling me something with that message. Something is scheduled for 2021. The site was hosted with NetworkSolutions btw.
The difference though is that on Windows you have to specifically choose visual styles to some degree.

On Apple systems, as long as you’re using the native frameworks, the framework itself handles a lot more of the visual update.

Both methods have their pros and cons, but you’re less likely to see an aesthetic divergence on iOS/macOS
Ya, but I still hate pealimg them off my own books at home, especially those bought online. The worst are the thick tags that either cause the hard cover not to shut properly or leave an impression in soft covers.
Which is presumably due to birth control and other unrelated factors. To back up the claim that women are no longer looking to pair with men due to apps you can't use reproduction statistics.
Good resources on double descent phenomenon?
Can anyone recommend any good resources on double descent (DD; the phenomenon whereby overparameterized estimators achieve better error reduction than parameterized ones)?

DD seems like voodoo to me. Research has shown that DL models can reproduce even random noise training data perfectly. So DD seems like an assertion that somehow an overparameterized model can contain more information about a source than a sample dataset, like "free information." It seems like it violates the data processing inequality or something.

Is there just confusion about this phenomenon in general, or are there good resources on this?
Because I'm a black developer and I am deeply, savagely offended by such empty pandering gestures. It's like being patted on the head. The thought that a professional like me is disturbed by industry standard terminology is truly degrading. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend there being any good faith motivation behind any of this.
It probably began as a reference scheme for scholars, by scholars. The same thing has happened to other ancient texts, like the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Homer.

You can refer to The Republic 327a1, or Book 1 line 230 of The Odyssey, and people who study ancient Greek texts will immediately figure out which line you're talking about. Those references aren't complete sentences, either. Apparently it didn't matter to the people who first came up with the numbering scheme. The Plato reference format is actually nothing more than the page, column, and line number of a particular edition that happened to stick.
Christians, in particular, would believe Christianity man made. After all, God became incarnate and fully human!
Great idea, just remove the versioning from GPT otherwise it will get out of control fast :)
I see literally no reason why this new aesthetic was not possible to introduce 7 years ago. The mindset was there, the tools, and the culture. It’s puzzling, and should be considered an epic failure imo.
If it was that easy!
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It's been done.
Thanks for writing this. "Both sides" often implies a false equivalency, and I've struggled with a good way to describe why this is bad logic.
I'm pretty sure libraries are reopened in lots of places. My town library has reopened for curbside pickups and I think may be reopening for browsing in a week or so. And that's in Massachusetts which has been relatively conservative.
lucky for you it's finally in the CSS draft proposal now
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-4/#ratios

you can use it in all major browsers except Safari
The last paragraph of this speech is perhaps the best appeal to our better selves a US politician has ever made, in my opinion. The way he seamlessly shifts from acknowledging the current madness to a lofty call-to-greatness gives me chills every time I read it.

> I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
So are your "endless complaints" about web designing documents or applications? (curious to update my experience database with your response)

I think CSS was designed for documents and not apps. And almost all the real difficulties I have with CSS (and all the ones I hear from others) is with application development, not web design per se.

CSS is my favorite coding "language", but I have always been an artist & coder.
The users that can't use the GPL are often commercial in my experience. In that case I'd rather dual license than change to MIT (or similar).

You want it for free, give something back. (Is my thinking)
Mine recently re-opened. Now that we've had some time to research how this virus spreads, and discovered that surface transmission really isn't as big a deal as we initially feared, I'm not so worried about it.

You can quarantine them for a few days after checking them out, if you like. Just like mail. Or pizza deliveries.
Yeah...I'm not really interested in making any rhetorical points. I appreciate the passion, but I just like to write great code and put it out there.

I'm not a gunsmith. I write small iOS apps and libraries. I'd rather they didn't get used for nefarious purposes, but I am not interested in exerting any kind of control over what happens after I put them out.

I have done some rather more ambitious and socially-relevant stuff, and that is all MIT. We switched to that from GPL a year or two ago, as the GPL was interfering with the willingness of people to use it.

Since the software is actually a lifesaving infrastructure, every non-use could mean lives lost.
Infection requires a certain level of exposure that you're unlikely (I would say, impossible) to reach merely by touching (unless it's a droplet and you shove it up your nose or something...).
Ebook readers cost money. Getting a book from a library generally doesn't.
All the libraries in my city are open for pickup. I think the benefits of people without e-readers being able to take out books from the library far outweigh any tiny chance of transmission via books.
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At that time my functioning brain cell is entirely dedicated to getting the coffee made!
I’ve done something similar to the author. I have OmniFocus and a folder in my dock. Most used apps are on the front page of the folder. Nothing else on the homescreen.

I can’t wait for iOS 14 and the new app library, though I hope there will be a way for the list view to be the default view. I’ll also probably end up adding a few widgets back to the homescreen.
I have never used Qt, can you give a rough outline/commentary on what Qt does right? (it's been decades since I've worked with a gui library that is non-web based)
Sometimes you don't need to overthink it - design changes are required every few years to make a product look fresh and new. Not because previous design was worse, or not usable, or new is better, or boring etc.
I agree with you, this talk of infection via objects is a remnant of the early paranoia around the virus.
Honestly, I was actually excited by flat design when I first saw it, but that was on Windows Phone 7. And WP7 had an exceptionally rigid and consistent approach to flat design. If something was colored, it was a button. If you wanted to color something that wasn't a button? Too bad for you. Basically, on WP7 you didn't get to "design" at all - the UI framework basically said "this is what your widgets look like, if you don't like it you can make software for a different operating system.

Ironically, I think "bringing back the fun" is what destroyed flat design, because people who wanted to make their designs "fun" destroyed the design-language.

Overall, I don't care if you go flat or otherwise - I want the WP7 attitude in my software. The platform provides a rigid design-language, and the individual applications do not deviate from it. Unfortunately, web is fundamentally a platform designed for styled documents and not GUIs so we don't have that kind of standardization available, and the web is the center of modern design.
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As a former atheist / agnostic, I completely understand your perspective.
Consultants can also help companies be dishonest with themselves. Imagine a company who has failed to find product market fit bringing in a sales consultant to "fix their sales problem" or a engineering consultant to fix their "product problem". Are either of these consultants going to turn down the work and point out the real problem of missing market research?
Indeed - and I'd say that the division of those sources has been broadly restricted to scholars, and that those scholars broadly also read those ancient texts in the enlightenmenty way that I'm suggesting does violence to them.
> Reminder that KDL will quarantine returned materials for 72 hours.

That protects you from viruses left on the book by the prior person who checked it out.

But what about viruses left on the book by people who used the book at the library but did not check it out?

If you are actually worried about possible transmission via library books, you would need to do your own quarantine of the book after you check it out before you start reading it.

Edit: Note that I'm not saying risk of virus transmission via library books is something you actually need to care about. But some people obviously do think it is a risk, or we wouldn't be reading a story about people microwaving library books.

The library is trying to address those (possibly irrational) fears by pointing out that they quarantine the books when they are returned.

All I'm saying is that if someone fears (however irrationally) getting a virus from library books, then they are probably going to want the quarantine to come between them checking out the book and them starting to read the book.
Another benefit of that hack Jony Ive's departure, and yet more proof that he was worse than useless without the firm grip of Steve Jobs to guide him.

And as to Ive, he cannot even claim to have originated flat design, it was a slavish imitation of Microsoft and Google's design.
There would be defined interfaces (APIs). Eg easy to add physical knobs to a Tesla for climate control.
Let’s not be pedantic about “Open Source”
The studies were done on cells (taking a sample from the surface after minutes or hours and trying to infect them - if they die, there is infectious virus there), but cells in culture don't have an immune system, nor they have physical barriers like nose and mouth.

At this point animal studies are necessary to determine whether there is significant infection through items or not. Given the spread of the virus in the world, I think it is unlikely at this point, though (it would've been noticed if significant).
It's important not to apologize if you don't honestly believe you have done something wrong.

When faced with a mob claiming victimhood or hurt feelings, apologies can confer legitimacy to complaints that don't deserve it.

The forced submission and contrition gives the mob its payoff, and thus feeds it further. This appeasement encourages the runaway social media mobs which have now spilled into the real world, murdering and looting.

If you have done nothing wrong, do NOT give them the satisfaction of an apology. It is the first line of defense in beating back outrage culture.