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Asgard's Wrath took me about 40 hours for my first play through. And the internet seems to suggest about 29 hours just for the main story and up to 80 hours for the completionist
Thanks blorenz! When working with Max, I was surprised how little he cared which library we use to get the job done.
In fact, he's also a big fan of it. [0]

To be fair, we use the Tailwind system, but a lot of customizations on top.

[0] https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/tailwind/
I've worked with some great programmers who check all the boxes. It gets harder and harder to have a reasonable discussion about programming as some generic type of activity.
Ah fair enough, that’s a significant differentiator.
I would add: "Follow the rules no matter what"

I've seen people reading about CQRS, Clean Code, Hexagonal Architecture, Event Bus, all these "good practices" published by celebrities... and after some time these people believe "they are right" because they know these patterns and because they apply them every time code needs to be written. It's difficult to reason with them; the conversation usually goes this way:

- Joe: We should use Hexagonal Architecture in our new system because Alistair Cockburn knows what's best

- Me: I think we don't need it? Past experience in other projects of ours says we can handle this new system without HA

- Joe: I don't think you know better than Alistair Cockburn, so let's stick with HA
Big cities still need people to do the jobs that only pay minimum wage. There was a whole thing last year about how important those minimum wage workers are, but you've probably forgotten already.
Can you blame them? Everyone on the left has been calling them stupid and ignorant for decades. How are you supposed to trust those same people?

Both sides are guilty of this. We can discuss a myriad of ways to fix our political system, but the root issue is a low trust and highly divided society. No system will fix that.
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Yes, that's why JITs are a good idea and often preferred.
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Innovate Ohio has a nice map of Internet service availability: https://innovateohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/innovate/priorities/...

I'm going to be mentioning to my Representative and Senator's offices that there are significant parts of their Districts that are underserved and some completely un-served. There is no reason to think that this portion of the Bill will do anything to drive Internet service behind enhanced (or even provided!) in these areas.

The economic disadvantage imparted by lack of Internet service in these areas is very important to me. As the economy continues to embrace remote work the people who live in these areas are being put at a greater disadvantage by disallowing municipalities from providing services. It certainly makes these areas unattractive for anyone who might consider moving into these areas.
> Having said that, I agree that we perhaps may need a platform for something like this, since solving problems in my opinion is all about points of view and options.

I wrote the post being oriented more to the problem, because solutions are presented to everyone. And as you mention 1% of them are truly well defined.

In the same context of building a platform that can be a step further in any kind of problem that humanity can have, there are a lot of websites that can allow this type of content. Is this really needed? Would someone use it?

So for example I'm intrigued what makes someone ask for help? Or does it? Usually, they ask for help or search to solve a problem when the problem is oppressive.

> will we act thoughtfully and utilise it like we should?

As a human being, we have stupid problems, actually, some are not problems so we if we build a platform which define problems, a lot of topics could be crappy questions.
No finance or speculator people want to. Plenty of tech people that actually use the blockchains instead of just using off-chain financial markets do. But people that actually use cryptocurrency instead of just trade it off-chain are in a minority now.
I'm not disagreeing with you totally. Just want to point out that learning from a master, has a lot of benefits that you are overlooking. It's not necessarily about the absolute number of people that learn some skill at some novice level. The Renaissance, especially painting, was about having elite level of skill. That kind of skill needs to be taught intensively from early age, and get feedback when you are doing things wrong. Often with self directed learning the problem is "you don't know what you don't know". And you get stuck too often.
For example, if you want to be an elite soccer player, ideally you will start at a very young age, and you will need a coach to give feedback and other players to play again at increasing competitiveness you can practice against. You can't get to elite level from watching youtube alone. In fact, the role of the coach in some ways is to filter out the people that are not making progress due to even things as unfair as natural physical ability. Selecting for those players and letting them pass on through the club system is how we arrive at someone as skilled as Ronaldo.
Proportional representation was a non-starter for rural states when the country was founded, and it's going to be one now.

There's no deal you can make with rural states where they give up their stranglehold on the Senate and Electoral College and get... nothing... in return.

It sucks, but that's the way it is.
Interestingly Mark Cuban got taken for a small amount of money by this and is already calling for regulation around stablecoins:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-17/mark-cuba...

I read about it. Decided to try it. Got out. Then got back in when the TVL start to rise back up As a percentage of my crypto portfolio it was small. But it was enough that I wasn't happy about it.

But in a larger context it is no different than the risks I take [in] angel investing. In any new industry, there are risks I take on with the goal of not just trying to make money but also to learn. Even though I got rugged on this, it's really on me for being lazy. The thing about de fi plays like this is that its all about revenue and math and I was too lazy to do the math to determine what the key metrics were.

The investment wasn't so big that I felt the need to have to dot every I and cross every T. I took a flyer and lost. But if you are looking for a lesson learned , the real question is the regulatory one. There will be a lot of players trying to establish stable coins on every new l1 and L2. It can be a very lucrative fee and arb business for the winners.

There should be regulation to define what a stable coin is and what collateralization is acceptable. Should we require $1 in us currency for every dollar or define acceptable collateralization options, like us treasuries or?

To be able to call itself a stable coin? Where collateralization is not 1 to 1, should the math of the risks have to be clearly defined for all users and approved before release? Probably given stable coins most likely need to get to hundreds of millions or more in value in order to be useful, they should have to register.
That sucks. I'm sorry you have a manager who isn't seeing the obvious. But speaking as a manager it's always possible to miss the obvious, so I always encourage people to make it as clear as possible (please, literally speak about it) where things are difficult or challenging so everyone can understand that the quality is inversely related to quantity.
Entry-level wages are being heavily outpaced by inflation and COL increases, so they're not actually "growing".
Had a colleague that ran an a very small scale ISP. It was back in the day when the country is transitioning between dialup and broadband. Needless to say that it was very short lived.
There is a lot more to the eastern block than countries that successfully westernized. What I'm describing isn't just Russia, it's also the reality in places like Bulgaria, where massive looting of capital led to deaths and economic destruction, which was then exploited by foreign countries. Same goes for Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and pretty much every country that was in the USSR.

Rather, the countries that transitioned without leading to some kind of oligarchy and looting are the small minority. The majority of countries ended up like Russia.

Yeltsin did not break the chain. The oligarchy is every bit as oppressive as the Soviet system and in many ways even worse. The only hope for the chain to be broken for the majority of the USSR was to follow through with Gorbachev instead of giving in to the corruption.

Putin isn't living off a desire for an imperial past. Putin lives off the oligarchs he is in a symbiotic relationship with. The main reason people support him is because he made the degeneracy of the Yeltsin days better, and in fact Putin is a better leader than Yeltsin, which is an extremely low bar. The imperial ideation is a pure creation of Putin himself, he did not use it to climb to power.

If we want to look empirically we can simply see the results of the referendum on the dissolution of the USSR. If we take the republics that had a low turnout, to be against, we still find that the vast majority were against the dissolution of the USSR.

Therefore we can confidently say that the events of the 1990s were not any kind of realization of the popular will, and indeed they were against the interests and wishes of the vast majority of the people. Instead they were the doing of corrupt party officials and that caused privatization, privately profiting from it and many becoming oligarchs.
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The "one laptop per child" program put some thought into the connectivity problem. They actually designed their machines around the idea of distributing content via meshing and intermittent "sneakernet" deliveries.

Sadly, the price/performance wasn't quite there in the mid-2000s, but it seemed like they had some good ideas:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...

Maybe the mesh networking could have worked better if it were used exclusively for distributing small files, like a P2P Whispernet.
I don't think the Quest existed before the Facebook purchase. The Quest was announced in 2018 but Facebook made the purchase in 2014. Unless you mean before the Facebook login was forced upon Oculus users.
The amount of people who don't have access to electricity in Argentina is minuscule compared to the total number of children who are aided by computer literacy. This is just nitpicky.
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned this, but if you are on a Mac, KeepIt[1] is great. It is basically an overlay on top of the normal Mac file system (a bit like DevonThink in that regard).

[1]: https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/
The financial crisis of 2008 showed us that you can say the same about the traditional finance system.

Crypto is reinventing the same system as traditional finance and hitting all the same problems that we encountered in the last 100 years.

At least here everybody who opens their eyes can see that it's a house of cards.
funny thing is this article can help you by NOT following his advice

wich is, unironically, the purpose of the title haha
tai dak ming. gau ging hai ng hai jyutping, or ng ji.

taai duc ming. gao ging hai ng hai jyutping, or ng ji.
Hasn't that already happened? The user browsers are on phones and tablets; the developer browsers are on laptops and desktops.
Why are you assuming devs who use Docker don't know how to manage a pretty simple LAMP setup?

It's easy, docker is a bit easier if you have multiple environments to deal with. If docker is gone in the next few years (lol) then we'll use the next one if it's easier too.

> We aren't the driver, we are the mechanic, and we should know how the engine works in its entirety.

I do agree with this though, which is why I once built a server from scratch (as in physical parts) and put a website on it to find what I was lacking in "full stack"* -> installed the OS -> install and configure nginx, php, mysql, mail, sftp, bit of Zabbix to monitor the whole thing -> built a website to go on it -> made it live. Just for a laugh. At the time the only trouble I had was CSS :)

But aye, no skillset if docker dies haha

* Which later turns out doesn't include any of the build/install/OS/monitoring apparently. Full stack my arse.
> a decades-old media platform

Huh, I was gonna nitpick about this phrase, but then I checked and... look at that, GStreamer turns (turned?) 20 this year. So, technically correct! The best kind of correct!
For browsers, the opposite has been true. Developer tools that you once installed as extensions (hello Firebug) are now shipped in the browser.
Based on the name of the website, I would say the author is not a native English speaker. I'm neither. To be honest I understand his sentence better than yours (even though yours is supposed to be gramatically correct). Interesting, don't you think?
Is there really any future in small ISPs now that Starlink and its competitors are being launched?
That boss' demand would be right probably 99% of time. And getting it fixed by a hardware partner without concrete evidence would be unlikely to be successful.
So you heard from a second-hand source that productivity at a bank tanked, and that's making you think that negative WFH productivity is the norm? Maybe base your opinions off a little more information than a friend's story.
It kind of did with mobile / desktop.
Base pay vs overtime. Cops work a lot of overtime.
This has always been the problem with smart contracts. They are infact dumb contacts.

To program one you need to think about all the edge cases. The programmers here likely did want >0 here. The possibility that the thing feeding price data return zero incorrectly was higher than the price legitimately being zero in their minds.

There is no court or lawyer who can interpret the spirit of the contract.
Your assigned tasks.
Why would you give children used Macbooks that are incredibly expensive to repair if you're out of the range of an Apple store and not really user-serviceable when you can give them even cheaper used corporate Lenovos for a fraction of the price that do things just as easily but have far more availability of spare parts?
Article says it was for a photo on his phone. My guess is gay stuff.
Well damn. That flew under my radar. Or I put up some mental blocks because our family really wanted one while some from the older generation could still experience it.

Now that I think back, I think we knew that, but it was still an "Oculus" account at the time, before the "Facebook account" requirement was announced. That seems to have been announced August of 2020... just weeks after we bought our Quest.
> When the skull was presented to a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, the audience refused to believe that anyone could have survived a trephining operation carried out by a Peruvian Indian. Aside from the racism characteristic of the time, the skepticism was fueled by the fact that in the very best hospitals of the day, the survival rate from trephining (and many other operations) rarely reached 10 percent, and thus the operation was viewed as one of the most perilous surgical procedures. The main reason for the low survival rate was the deadly infections then rampant in hospitals

The elephant in the room is that many cultures were far more advanced in their prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. The Incas figured out that certain fermented plants had health benefits, which we now know is because they contained bacteria which produced penicillin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocosh.

The Persians and Greeks similarly used fermented hay for their antibiotic properties, although they hadn't developed the microscope to understand why it worked.

How to make penicillin at home:
https://www.primalsurvivor.net/make-penicillin-home/
75% of adults want children - and they're somehow happy
> the existence of successful municipal broadband disproves neoliberal dogma that state-run anything will always be less efficient, more wasteful and more corrupt than privately owned alternatives.

It's easy to be the best service provider when competition is quashed by rules and regulations. How are private entities supposed to compete when states and municipal governments are no longer afraid to blow their budgets? These services are essentially subsidized with unlimited dollars from the federal government.

That's not to say there won't be competition. Various governments will eventually create their own broadband services and states will adapt the best policies to ensure they are competing with the best states/services. This would(in the future) serve to disprove the "neoliberal dogma that state-run anything will always be less efficient, more wasteful and more corrupt than privately owned alternatives".

The "neoliberal dogma" asserts that the private sector without competition from government will out perform by all metrics in the long run. Comparing a world of government run services to a world of private run services over the course of 100 or 500 years would be necessary to get a better idea.

There are other ramifications that arise when governments control services. Corruption, in it's many forms could degrade the service. For instance, if the government becomes radical and disables certain individuals or groups from connecting to various online entities, the argument still exists that "example" government run broadband provides the fastest speed. However, it is a mute point if you are one of the individuals or groups that is being targeted.

Using the above example of targeted restrictions, the private sector solves this by having competition. If there is a group that wants something, there would be another to provide it.
Hey - first of all, looks great and I'll definitely look into it. Good job!

Question - do you have any comparisons on the size of the resulting distributed executable compared to Nuitka, pyinstaller?

This is the issue I've faced. Nontrivial programs (that, say, import pandas, numpy, selenium) are huge, implying a ~250MB+ download for the user - and then maybe up to 1GB in disk when its all unpacked.
Not quite. What makes this interesting is that the municipality (and other government structures) had no involvement beyond approving the permits for trenching.

There's also no ongoing contract with the municipality, nor is it funded through taxes.
Elixir uses the term grapheme already:

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/String.html#graphemes/1
>However, they rarely live where they work, which should change

That's a feature not a bug.

When you have a lot of unfair and unjust laws you need jackboots with no stake in the community in order to enforce them.

My state has some fancy words for justifying and obfuscating it but this is how they justify their policy of assigning state cops far away from their hometowns and residences for the first decade of their career. They want the cops to police the way the state wants them to police. They don't want them to think about what's best for the people being policed.
The compiled binaries have a suffix, and you are able to select which binary you want for the default. So, `php` is set to say, `php74` or `php8`.

The suffix also applies to the config files and init scripts.

As far as running two versions on the same webserver, you just have to set up the config for each version to be on different ports or sockets.

Also, to clarify a bit, this is all using the Gentoo package manager, so you do not have to manually compile the packages, or manually create the symlinks.
Saving this text. Very accurate.
I’m not sure why you’re arguing this particular way, but I guess there’s not much left for me to say. You can believe what you want, but I don’t think most people would agree with this line of reasoning.
I can throw a ball up in the air and catch it 99 times out of 100. Seems to me that my mind has strong predictive power.
Internet is bad because government, solution is to bring in more government. I am not sure how the US ended up with this situation otherwise. I also think that the solution is not to have a state owned internet provider.

https://www.telecompetitor.com/broadband-monopoly-report-at-...
Because it's not? It has a type system but it's still duck-typed at the end of the day, and no amount of Mypy will change that.
Phoenix Liveview shows great idea, but I prefer to develop in typed environment so I'm working on ts-liveview (TSX+SSR+live-update)
Both parties have internal diversity.

Dems span all the way from Sinema to AOC. GOP goes from Collins to Taylor Greene.

People can express their individuality in the primary process fairly well, especially for national elections with lots of candidates.

But at the end of the day, every election is between the #1 and #2 candidates, and those candidates are going to be a hard compromise for lots of people.
The vast majority of us aren't learning from masters; we learn who moderately qualified teachers who do what they can.

Nothing from what I learned in Uni prepared me to actually be a software engineer, yet here I am (as well as most of us who are reading this, I assume).

The world's progress doesn't depend on a few exceptional people, but it does require a competent majority.
40 years ago, financial innovation involved finding new affinity groups to sell credit cards to (and others I'm sure but that was a scam I saw firsthand).

It wasn't any more honest than this; it was just kept quieter with private meetings and less publicity for the collapsed scams.

I'd be looking for the banker-adjacent people in these. The folks that don't work for the banks directly, but consult; somehow always seem to have some extra connection to someone at the bank, related, married, side projects...
Honestly I didn't think the purchase was until like, 2017. I'm just as surprised. It kills me that Facebook owns the entry level and stand alone market as well (said as an Index owner).

(in response to the edit) I can see that, my first VR headset was the CV1 Rift and my logic at the time was similar. Sure Facebook owned it but everything seemed to be still fairly separated. None of what happened after was particularly surprising.
outstanding point
The equivalent to that for worker shortage would be "the government paying people (unemployment) to stay at home, in some cases more than what they'd make if they had a job".
Also if significant funding and attention was given to this problem, and people realized that the existence of life on Earth depended on it, I'm sure there'd be a lot of innovation, resulting in all sorts of other ideas and technologies that we haven't thought of yet.

Did you just wake up for a coma or something? Recent history has shown that when faced with a life-threatening disaster, half of this country is going to deny that there's a threat at all and an expensive project to ward off a threat that's decades away won't get funded until it's too late.
Exactly, you need to have access to tall buildings / towers etc with fiber. The cost of putting a couple of antennas on a tower can basically eat up any profit you would get. You are also competing with LTE/5G, and one storm can wipe out half your infrastructure in an afternoon.
> it is kind of strange that Renaissance is capitalized

Autocorrect.
Blade, the Uber for helicopters, had a fake spokesperson for three years
> There is no court or lawyer who can interpret the spirit of the contract.

That's obviously the point, though. You are trading one set of risks for a completely different set of risks that might suit your use case much better; your counterparty being able to contest a contract in court could very well be a "bad" thing for you.
> The way the accountability aspect is supposed to work is that voters are horrified and hold their elected representatives accountable by voting them out.

It's always too late by this point. It's a flaw. The elected official get's to screw over their constituents for the duration of their term..