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It's interesting you say this, because I have probably written more documentation in the last two years than I did the first eight years that had made up my career prior to that. The team I'm with now, we've been building it with a focus on documentation (and testing) that I didn't appreciate was possible prior.

We've also been pushing hard to get a full time technical writer, someone who specifically doesn't get screwed three months into the job with "Ok, you write docs, AND do a little coding work on the side in your down time". No, we've clearly got the workload necessary for a full time writer, let's bring someone on board and really let them become that core differentiator.
Looking at the code it feels more like an assembler than a compiler since there is no mess and it outputs C code.

But it is very clean and nice. I like the pattern.
my understanding is that by itself global warming won't kill a large proportion of humans (heat waves and extreme weather events). it's the famine that will get us. That will lead, inevitably, to war.
Off their rocker.
Push all your business risk to the least sophisticated party. Simple.
> Better find yourself a job which you'd be happy doing even if you could never retire, and build some happy / healthy / harmonious lifestyle around it.

How many people have such jobs though? For example, I wonder how many people stay in their jobs past retirement age (and not because they need the money)? I suspect it's a tiny fraction.
bioengineering more heat-tolerant plants and mechanisms to carbon sink seem to be more easily solved than bioengineering radiation-resistant humans, but then again predicting future development is almost impossible.
We wish.

The amount they are doing about bots, trolls, and outright state-funded dezinformatsiya and active measures warfare being waged on their platforms is only the absolute minimum so that they can claim to be "doing something", and not appear to be fully and actively allied with the assaults on democracy.
This is from April 2020, as FYI.
Could be—it's been a while since I read about the technique.

I thought a game engine doing this figured out the collisions when the trajectories changed so then it's just a matter of rendering those known effects (rather than the more naive approach of checking each tick or frame whether anything's collided). Note that doing this at impulse can cause the game to slow down when many objects are moved at the same time, like an explosion. I think it works pretty well because most game objects are stationary, or even immovable; also moving objects are rarely subject to new accelerations—they stay ballistic.

But IANAGameDev, so do correct me if you know something about this technique.

t=0
cube1 p=5,0 v=0,0 m/s
cube2 p=1,0 v=2,0 m/s
// Game knows cube1 and 2 will collide at t=2
t=1
cube1 p=0,0 v=0,0 m/s
cube2 p=3,0 v=2,0 m/s
cube3 p=0,0 v=5,0 m/s
// Game knows cube1 and 2 AND 3 will collide at t=2
t=2
all cubes hit at 5,0
Your comment reminds of the Facebook blog complaining that Apple couldn't handle their app's scale, and that's why it was so slow.

Most "larger and complex [frontend/client] applications" don't need to be as large and complex. By "most" I mean "almost all." In fact, I can't think of a single web application or mobile app I've used that can justify all the terribly complex garbage that goes into many of them.
This is what inspired me to write this: https://d22qefpbdavdoz.cloudfront.net/#let-me-work

We're working the wrong way across the industry, developers are being cut-off from the processes they are instrumental in. None of it makes any sense and it's soul destroying.
The problem is we incorrectly assume that if we build something other cultures will just use it. Really we would need to build a good waste system in a really fucked area, then use that system to clean the area up over 2-5 years. Let the example show a better or improved way.

This example stage is something we often fail at when attempting to export solutions.
The smallpox vaccine has a non-trivial amount of danger and the only smallpox in the world is guarded very closely.
There's a chicken and egg issue with the rise of a social media.

You can't get people to join if there isn't a lot of people, and there isn't a lot of people because nobody joins.

Faking the participants 'till you make it is cheating, compared to an organic growth that rarely happens at the inception of a new platform.
I love this! Thanks for making it.
The article states there is a 36 hour barrier. Do you have a source?
Is the hostname "courage" in the screenshot a dig at Apple's infamous "courage" comment when they removed headphones from the iPhone?[0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12838024/apple-iphone-7-pl...
Genetic engineering will be our only hope precisely because modern medicine is disregarding our evolution. Lots of bad mutations are being passed down because we can treat them, which of course allows people to live a good life.
This is why you start your kids' acquaintance with computing in any OS but Windows.
Assuming that the years is currently 2021 and not 1985. Assuming the people existed in the first place. Assuming they are even dead.
> CFS is a recognized disorder by the medical community, although the causes are unkown.

My point was, it wasn't even a recognized disorder until fairly recently. As I understand it, part of the problem is a cottage industry of quackish medicine sprung up around the unfalsifiability of chronic Lyme and CFS. But instead of the medical community taking an agnostic stance "we see you are suffering but we can't explain it", there was a strong push in the opposite direction, asserting that it's psychosomatic / "only in your head" / "here's some antidepressants." And you see this pattern again and again. I think the dismissive attitude is starting to abate among the younger medical professionals but you still see this air of "anything I wasn't trained on isn't a thing" among many of them.
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I'm not as pessimistic as you are regarding VPSes. There are providers that care about free speech, but you'll almost only hear about them in a negative light because they host content from people with disgusting views.

There is also tech like IPFS or even Tor, which provide censor-resistant options.
Did you flag this thread? I find this idea so strange, that there can't be multiple conversations about the same topic on here. You do realize readership of online forums is global right? Some might have missed earlier threads or will miss this one. Your idea of 'dupe' fails because for whom it is a dupe depends on many factors, and all you're doing by flagging is stifling opportunities for organic conversations because they don't suit your browsing/reading habits. It's pretty frustrating. Please stop flagging and just scroll past next time, ok? It's ok if you don't wanna discuss this topic.
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Heh. Maybe she will fall for it but I have to wonder about the intelligence of this outfit. She has millions of dollars of their (now her) money and never has to work again, seems outlandish to presume she would risk it all by outing herself to take a job working for an incompetent organization. Maybe this is a joke?
Author here. I wrote this a couple years ago, and chose JavaScript because it's the language I know best.

And I used React as a convenient way to display and manipulate the DOM, but of course it's not strictly necessary.

Overall this was a fun project that stretched the limits of my math knowledge (haven't done any trigonometry since high school). Was really satisfying when it finally started working right!
LOL @ career terrorists.
In real life I think it’s easier to get a feel for people outside what they’re advertising and also it’s not a swipe-right/swipe-left scenario where if you don’t like the immediate presentation of a person you never have to interact with them again. Then ofc there’s the old cliches about all the information lost in purely online communication versus in-person.

Dating apps just feel like I’m looking at the same few people over and over again with the outliers being seen mostly as negative. Nobody looks particularly interesting or like someone I’d get along with, whereas in real life interactions I don’t find myself filtering people this harshly. This is an issue I’ve heard of from people of all genders/sexuality’s. It just feels like a worse version of job hunting. In fact this analogy seems almost too perfect.

You “apply” on an online platform with a low response rate, with a number of the “applicants” effectively treating it as a numbers game just to get something. Many of the responses you do get are rejections. Some may end up eventually getting a positive response and either win, finding a good person for them, or end up in a less ideal situation. Meanwhile everyone tells you that this is the worst way to go about things and that the right way is to have an established network you can reach out to.
> Consider these ideas at broader scale too - What if you could amortize the cost of that power-hungry timer thread for thousands of gamers instead of just 1? Are there maybe some additional benefits to moving 100% of the game state to the server and shipping x265 frames to the end users?

I don't know of any online game that doesn't track the official game state on the server. This is required for anti-cheat reasons, if nothing else. However, networking would typically be optimized to send small packets of information, and typically over UDP. If a packet is missed, the next packet will just be overwriting it anyway, so no big deal. Clients would basically just locally simulate game state and then reconcile that against the game state being received from the server.

Also, rendering has to be done per-client anyway, since each one has a different camera state. So there's no economy of scale for doing that on the server rather than the client. In fact, there's probably anti-economy: Servers that aren't rendering don't need expensive video cards unless they're using them for physics.

I have the understanding that more modern games do sometimes use TCP sockets. And obviously modern bandwidth has made streaming frames realistically possible. Hence the recent emergence of streaming game services.
Kind of reminds me of Alzheimer's disease and the pervasive insistence that it's cause by misfokded protiens even though so many treatments following that assumption failed to cure it. Sometimes an idea is just hard to introduce or root out in academia
True, but I think that more importantly it shows that it's not "easy", since cities that work well seem to be in the minority.

Plus, I'd say European cities, in particular, aren't really "designed", seeing how they have to contend with historic centers they can't touch, etc.

But I think that, more importantly, we should try to avoid having to be all in the same spot if it's not necessary.

Yes, there are some advantages to scale, and some things are easier / cheaper to do when you have 1M people in the same space as opposed to spread far and wide. But this also produces other issues, such as stressed people because of all the noise (not just cars, but neighbors, etc.)
No, that was this morning. Yesterday it was six, and the other day four.
Fusion uses the extreme heat generated by the fusion reaction to... boil some water and run it through a turbine.
Given that you can enter in life with HIV "given" by the mother, it does not seem too crazy to administer it to some babies (given there is no counter indication for that obviously)
Right, but the largest subnormal number in single-precision floats is ~ 10^-38.

That the sin(x) approximation still works well for 10^-1 (with an error of ~0.01%) is the really cool thing!
Natural selection is a very powerful process.
Setting aside performance comparisons, how does Imba's approach compare to Svelte's from a design perspective? From your Meet the Memoized DOM article, I take it that Imba is basically converting declarative code into imperative code that mutates the DOM – on first glance, that sounds very similar to Svelte's compiler-driven approach.

Are the two strategies as similar as they sound, or am I misunderstanding something?
That he is a 'performance artist playing a character'
> rather a sign of these countries dystopian work laws/ethics, where sick leave is apparently not a thing

Oh yes, I too take sick leave when I have runny nose until its gone
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You should listen to Mike Birbiglia's "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend." In it he tells a story about how he's T-boned by a drunk driver, but due to paperwork issues, he's on the hook for the damages to his rental car. It becomes an obsession for him, until his girlfriend makes him realize that being right is not as important as being happy, and he just lets it go and pays to make it go away and stop sucking his happiness out of his life.
Why do they even allow that? It seems counter to the whole point of an app designed around finding someone nearby to bang.
AI is a bogus term. It was well-discredited in the 1980s and has gone through an ill-deserved rehabilitation. Deep neural nets are a step forward for some tasks like vision, but are still just scratching the surface of what really goes on in our brains when sense-making from visual data.
https://hyperscript.org

and its async transparency in particular:

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#async

hyperscript isn't a general, full-stack programming language though, it's focused on pure front end stuff, sort of a modern jQuery replacement.
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> Users pay a small fixed charge per withdrawal, regardless of the amount.

Really disappointed to read this. Wages are so low that working people can't pay their bills, so your solution is to lower their wages even more? There was another YC company like this but they were charging the company, not the employees. You may not be a loan shark, but you are enabling the company to pay low wages and offloading the cost of mitigating the problem to the already-exploited. This is ethically dubious, at best
If you assume the low likelyhood of the attack was the reason, that means 90% of those physicians could be lying. The stated reason for refusal was concerns about side effects. It's in the quote.

What you stated as a fact, 96% vaccination rate, is actually a self-reported survey.

Why do a survey when public health CDC records could simply be matched with the physician licensing registrars?

Seems an automatic search like that would save physicians their valuable time, aren't they very busy with a pandemic right now? Instead of hard data from CDC, we get self-reported, likely anonymous, self-reported survey.

What do they have to hide?
Speaking of special-purpose trains, the NYC MTA used to run an armored train for collecting fares from stations.

https://untappedcities.com/2016/02/12/the-mtas-special-armor...
Occam's Razor applies.

You're not wrong, but they continue to lean on the "evidence doesn't support" angle. At some point that looks like bias.
Re-read, or dial down.
> If anything, such a development would enable a greater proliferation of other dangerous pathogens.

No, it wouldn't necessarily.

While it's true that a vaccine would apply selection pressure and create a fitness gradient for HIV to evolve against, the virus is still bound by its genetics.

The rate at which we're developing vaccines is increasing dramatically. If our new methods are good enough to quickly adapt, then HIV may have a limited state space left to explore. A single remarkable vaccine could even do this on its own if we're lucky.

The virus can't easily descend down a fitness well to make a jump to a new gradient (ie. dramatic change of receptor bindings).

If you're talking about novel viruses, that's a wholly unrelated issue. There's of course a giant reservoir of zoonotic viruses that may one day make a leap to humans, but if anything, our work to rapidly develop vaccines may give us an increased advantage against new viruses if and when they arise.

Finally, if you're talking "hygiene hypothesis", that under-stimulation of the immune system creates auto immune disorders, has increased interaction with gut flora, or changes the dynamics with which cancer clearance happens, then you may be onto something. But this is a huge unknown where we have a lot of study left to do.

(On a personal note, I left my pursuit of biochem because when I studied it, the prospects looked to be moving at glacial pace and the tools felt akin to using punch cards and truth tables. The problems are massive, dynamical, and it looked too daunting. After the last decade and a half of bio discoveries and innovations, I've changed my outlook completely and am incredibly bullish on biotech. We are going to make incredible strides in the next few decades that will in many ways mirror the rise of tech. I want to find my way back to the field someday.)
You mention guns, but I'm honestly surprised that pharmaceutical executives being gunned down by grieving family members isn't a daily occurrence.

Given the number of gun owners and the number of pharmaceutical companies that let people die in agony to keep the medical insurance industry afloat, it should surely be a serious enough problem to warrant changes in corporate policy.
How would this vaccine work for people who are already infected?
That’s an even more superficial concern. No one is bottlenecked on the rate at which they can type.
I can't trust the authors when they start with a false premise: "The COVID-19 pandemic has suddenly raised
the need for technological solutions capable to trace
contacts of people and provide location-based analytics".

No, it has not created any such "need". "It's for yours and _everyone's_ health" is the most common premise used to reduce privacy and increase control over people.

No!
Thanks for highlighting this. While most hikers are aware of the dangers of Lyme disease, the encephalitis is less well-known. I only found out about it while hiking in Slovakia a few years ago. At that stage, the hiking trip had started and it was too late to get a vaccine.
If you count all the specialized trousers (a lot of which aren't cotton) for various types of activities, the number in my house definitely gets up there even if I discount things like sweatpants and old trousers I use as work pants.

Most of my unnecessary bulk though is logoware from tradeshows and the like which I don't go out of my way to accumulate but still adds up over time as I (normally) do a lot of that type of thing.
Exactly, a stylistic choice frequently made by click-bait type sites like Buzzfeed, and not made by Nature in the submission.
In USA it's pretty difficult to get a NFP (501c3) created around just code. One needs to have other things in place, community, grand goals, etc. I wish it was easier too but US-IRS has put additional scrutiny.

If any lawyers on here have a speciality on this I'm looking for help.
Actually it is very reasonable to choose the right language for the job, especially for tasks that are not performance-critical.

When you are writing and debugging something new, you don’t want it to take forever to get it into a correct state. When you are maintaining things, you want readable code. And in an open-source project, you might attract more maintainers if you have code that is more accessible (e.g. simple things appear as simple as they are because they’re scripts, and people familiar with those languages can help even if they are not C programmers). It is also more likely to work cross-platform.

I can imagine a lot of things that would be a very simple few lines of script but a mess to write, debug and read in C code. This is especially true if you could have (say) relied on a robust, debugged Python standard library function that has existed for years but instead had to do all of that yourself in C “because the project should only be using C”?
If only we had a Project Warpspeed for AIDS.
Are we ready to stop eating meat?
Because many users are on tinder just for validation, and getting matches makes them feel good. They're willing to pay for it, so Match is willing to take their money at the cost of UX
I used a picture of myself, a picture of a tan colored bird and a Mortal Kombat character and it marked them all as NSFW
Not sure those are the top ones either but let's grant the point. What do you think voters should be doing instead?
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All my uniqlo t-shirts are falling aparts within 3 years. Other brands aren't much better..
> Selling the story of disinformation

FYI
Then your original claim was equally pointless, wasn't it?
Yes, don't worry it will probably level at 11 billion
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I like the components. I do not like having to do everything through a JSX template. I do not like debugging through a transpiler. I do not like testing a DOM tree I didn’t build.

Just my novice view.
Is it back to being "Warming" again? I thought it was still "Climate Change".
“You should be grateful to be a victim of sexual abuse and not dead on the tarmac in Kabul!”. Utter drivel
I live in US, use contactless everywhere, and never have this trouble. But I just look for the (standard?) design pattern that indicates contactless is enabled - either text on a screen saying ”… or tap”, or the row of 4 blue LEDs across the top of the reader.
The only people I've seen being attacked for their views on Covid are outside the scientific community. People that have no business saying whether it's dangerous or not because they havent done any real research. And of course you have the scientists that are being political. Just like we have scientists that deny climate change for political or monetary reasons.
* given enough time
It might be. However, I am from these parts of the world, and never heard of it.
when executed over millions of years
Bioengineering can have its own negative externalities, and in practice incentives may misalign in such a way that we solve an immediate problem but also create a new one that will manifest later and hence someone else will have to deal with it. I d much rather we address the current problem directly by bringing the climate back to where it would be without human pollution.
That's what I do, even though I run my own router. The pi-hole acts as both DNS and DHCP.

It sets the DNS domain correctly via DHCP, unlike a lot of routers.
I honestly think we need to rethink accessibility from the ground up. modern advances in OCR and machine learning should allow us to do accessibility entirely from the GPU output.

it'd take awhile to perfect but i think it'd ease the burden tremendously for software developers and those who need accessibility.
> I don’t really care, they improved society, period.

This is one reason it's so hard for me to rag on Uber. On the one hand this thread describes many of the horrible things about Uber but I have to say, my life has improved since Uber came out.
Is there a term for something that is absolutely not for you, but that you're still very happy exists? I can't see myself ever using this, but the idea that someone has put that kind of effort in is amazing.
Interesting. I haven't watched the video get but I'm interested to know how is Imba for low-coders like me? React has a huge ecosystem around it and while it is not low-code, component libraries make adoption a bit more of a no-brainer so I'm interested from that perspective.

I've currently been working on a Blockchain app with a low-code back-end which is almost complete now and the front-end is supposed to be done in React but I'm open to alternatives.
Any idea who wrote the story for EV nova? That story writing was masterful and I was hoping to find more games written by the same person
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