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CSS doesn't have to be annoying or boring. Understand the Box Model https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_...

I find that a lot of front end developers don't really understand the box model and everything they do is just learned patterns.

Once you understand how things are laid out then it becomes so much more fun and easy.

Now the hard part is the actual design but I wouldn't say that's your job as a developer unless you want to be a designer. Some of the funnest front end work I've done is taking someone's Sketch file and implementing it in CSS. Seeing things come together into an interactive web page.

If you don't want to write CSS or do any design then use a component library like bootstrap, tailwind, etc. Especially for an MVP.

But if you want something more bespoke then get someone to design a web page with documentation of all the sizing like font sizes, margins, padding etc. And learn to implement that, it's a lot easier than many people think. Especially now that you don't need to care about IE.
Rand Paul did not actually say that Fauci's gain of function research led to COVID19 but he didn't really need to. We cannot trust Fauci.

Doesn't it seems like too much of a coincidence that:

- Fauci has been director of NIH since 1984. [EDIT]. Director of NIAID (the branch of NIH which is in charge of infection diseases)

- Fauci initially denied NIH funding coronavirus gain of function research in Wuhan labs.

- It was discovered that NIH did in fact fund coronavirus gain of function research in Wuhan labs.

- Of all the cities in the world, Wuhan happens to be where COVID19 originated.

- Fauci was put in charge of the COVID19 response in the US (why not someone from the CDC? The CDC is the agency responsible for disease control and prevention, not the NIH... Why did Fauci end up getting this role when it's clearly outside of his normal duties and clearly a conflict of interest?)

Put together, it seems extremely far-fetched that these facts are merely coincidental. They paint a very clear narrative with means and motives; doesn't leave much to the imagination.
Which I think starts here, in case anyone was too lazy to search for it :)

https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/...
"...branch of physics in charge of... charge"?

I'm not sure who or what the site is for. If you need a one-para explanation of what you can do with electronics - it doesn't really provide that, because it doesn't provide product examples.

If you want a usable introduction to circuit theory - it doesn't provide that either. (Explaining what a transistor does is "beyond the scope of this text"? OK.)

If you want to know how a modern phone works (which is literally all of EE except power electronics in a small portable device) - there's nothing about RF, comms theory and encoding, error correction, and so on.

So what exactly is this supposed to teach readers?

It looks suspiciously like what's sometimes called Cargo Cult writing - the reproduction of ideas from other texts without fundamental insight into the topic or reader needs.

The main point seems to be to promote the author(s) as an authority, but unfortunately if you want to be authoritative it takes a bit more insight and effort than this. (See also - Horowitz and Hill, for example.)
Whether or not NIH funding created SARS-CoV-2 is immaterial to Rand Paul's central point, which was that the NIH illegally funded gain-of-function research.
That does bot support your claim that “It is a proven fact now that vaccinated folks spread just as much as non-vaccinated.”

It says:

* Vaccinated people are leas likely to get COVID, even with the Delta variant.

* Vaccinated people who do get breakthrough infections remain infectious for a shorter time than unvaccinated, even with Delta

It does note that vaccinated people with breakthrough infections can spread Delta, but that is not the same as “just as much as the unvaccinated”.
For those of us who have lost loved ones. Who have lost their business. Who weren’t allowed to see their dying father in the ICU because of COVID restrictions. For the 3M “lost children” who never logged on once for school last year. For the future generations who will have to reckon with the economic disaster we may be kicking down the road. For all of those people and more, we deserve to know the truth. That’s the very least we are owed.
Clearly, the god of the internet is Hastur (Nyarlathotep).
Facebook was used to orchestrate the capitol riots [0] [1] and also allowed similar content to spread on their platform for years and they continued to downplay their involvement despite profiting from it, even before the event. They're just as bad as Parler.

> If the parler devs were more competent they could've made their own website with their own infrastructure. There are many despicable websites that survive that way (the kiwi one comes to mind).

So essentially Facebook is part of the despicable websites you speak of then, since they are entrenched on the internet and you are saying that the devs of every other social network is incompetent for using someone else's infrastructure?

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/some-pro-trump-extrem...
Just fine Starbucks 1% of their global turnover.
Oil-Rich Norway Goes to Polls with Climate on the Agenda
A brief history of 4B years of life
So the dog and Octopus have beds but the sapiens doesn't!
Or the ability to change your system apps.
On the other hand, there's a lot of people like me too; one sauna in the basement, one smoke sauna a bit further away from the house (near a river), and a regular outdoor sauna in the yard. Sauna is serious business! :)
Not just incomplete but badly translated. Such as the warning against "vain repetition" in prayer in KJV Mt 6:7, targeting ancient Christian prayer practices like e.g. petition prayers and the Rosary (which are in direct continuation of old Jewish litanies, such as Psalm 136, and sanctioned by Heaven itself: "Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus"). "Battalogein" should refer to "babbling": using lots of grand words to impress God and other people, as opposed to the simple but dignified petition of a humble soul.
For something that the selling point is it looks like MacOS, it doesn't actually look anything like MacOS in the ways that someone who cares about that would care about.

People who care about how their OS looks and feels are extremely detail orientated in whats correct and what isn't in their OS. E.g there absolutely should not be in window menus for anything trying to replicate MacOS.
IME this isn't unique to Starbucks, every single site that uses TrustArc does this.

Thankfully, I haven't had to deal with any of these stupid pop-ups since installing the 'I don't care about cookies' add-on. [1]

Related question: Does anyone have experience using 'Stardust Cookie Cutter'? [2] Is it better than 'I don't care about cookies' or does it do the same thing?

[1] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/

[2] https://get.stardust.today/
The site doesn't account for differences in time zones, the BBC footage is not synced.
The mainstream media seems to be mostly ignoring the attacks on electronic Bibles and Christians this year.

Which is so clichéd it's sad.

A court in southeast China has handed down jail terms to four Christians arrested last year on charges of illegally selling electronic devices that play Bible verses.

http://www.ucanews.com/amp/china-jails-christians-for-sellin...
How is color distance computed for these? Still Euclidean or a different measure? Euclidean on RGB leads to "grayification" of colors.
I think big cloud vendors are more or less as bad as each other, for the simple reason that they are all megacorps - where the "enterprise" mindset is made inevitable by the sheer number of employees; that's going to bite, sooner or later. It's mostly a case of figuring out the worst ones (Oracle, IBM...) to reduce the chances of a fuckup - but a certain amount of risk will always be there.

If one can, one should probably "go boutique", where the power balance is a bit more favourable to customers and vendors do really care about their products and their reputation.
Is the pandemic not controlled?

There are no restrictions in the UK.

The stadiums are full and tens of thousands went mad over a football player just this last weekend.
This author seems to share an absolutist view of the sort Stallman likes to make.

Your technology is imperfect and therefor should never be used
That would be the tech knowledge of the individual. Record lows, considering the pervasive tech.

We've taken the opportunity of technological advancement and turned it into societal devolvement in the name of convenience, instead.
> Rand Paul did not actually say that Fauci's gain of function research led to COVID19 but he didn't really need to.

This is true. He strongly implied it did.

Fauci continued to deny the funding went to GoF research even in that heated exchange, so he wasn't changing his position. Paul said it did, Fauci said it didn't. What Fauci didn't say was that GoF research wasn't happening there. It undoubtedly was.

I'm assuming the coincidence with 1984 is ... the book?
We still use OSGi today for hot-deployment deployment of customer created content onto existing containers.
The fediverse[0]. A federated network of ActivityPub instances; honk is one such implementation.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
Physics-Based Deep Learning Book
China does not really have peaceful options in dealing with Uyghur problem and collapse of US efforts in Afghanistan highlight that you can’t just let situation fester without actions. Every successful counter terrorism operation was implemented with extreme (from modern west perspective) brutality (from Chechnya to Philippine) and all half measures generally fail. There is good chance that in 20-30 years Europe will have to adopt similar methods as extremist population increase among 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants.
This is a stupid comment. You think a child is as much work as a psychotic elderly person.
I think screen color space and print color space are just two entirely different considerations. They meet up in the middle somewhere, but you really can't look at both at the same time
Place the sauna in the basement. Heat goes up on its own.
Reinforcement Learning Lecture Series 2021
From Neo4j themselves - edges are referenced by index position in a file.

https://neo4j.com/developer/kb/understanding-data-on-disk/
I stand by what I said - their code is a convulated mess by design. It's 25 years and they still haven't modularised their code that anyone can use the Gecko engine on the desktop and creating competing browsers. All anyone can do is create a clone of Firefox, which ofcourse, cannot really compete with Firefox or other desktop browser as it will still have all the flaws of Firefox. And this is what Mozilla wants.

They may have started with altruistic reasons, but after tasting Google's money, their greed corrupted them.

Mobile is a good example. Mozilla realised it was in a precarious position on the mobile platform, which is dominated by Chrome, Opera and Safari. And so they have now been forced to release the Gecko rendering engine for mobile ( https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview ) and are encouraging others to create mobile browsers, in the hopes that this may provide a fillip to Mobile Firefox. Desperation drove them to this move as the money is now in mobile platform (Google paying 15 billion dollars to Apple / Safari highlights this).

If they can do this for the mobile platform, why can't they do it for the Desktop platform too?

This kind of deliberate convulated code mess is like a "dark pattern" where in you know the developer isn't really interested in supporting the open source movement. Yes, there are many other open source projects that have poor code or lack documentation, but unlike the Firefox project, none of them has 100's of millions of dollars at their disposal - it's a travesty how they have wasted all that money!
Fauci leads NIAID, focused on infectious disease research. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/cdc-fda-n...
Why? Will the truth mitigate the prevent or prevent a future one? What matters is the possibility of a leak, not if one happened.

The origin leak is nothing compared to the repeated failures hat happened after and are still happening.
Yes. "Luonnonmuonaohje" suggested eating exactly 1.1 kg of birch leaves producing 5 MegaJoules (1000 kcal). Some army egghead has calculated all the issues.
Thank you so much for going through this story. I really liked your interpretations. Honestly, I never thought of interpretations while writing. My idea was that this universe, all there is, us - we are all stories happening, or waiting to happen in this cosmos. I wanted to write a story about story.

I am so encouraged by your comment. Thanks again.
See https://daisyui.com/ for quality free/open-source components based on Tailwind classes
Could you please elaborate what is meant by "OEMed for DNS"?
After seven years, an Apple car is still on the horizon
https://archive.is/QdjvR
Some US states are currently experiencing their highest death rates to date.
AI Failed in the Face of Covid
The Forever Trial at Guantanamo
Fauci was not put in charge of the response in the U.S. Rather, Mike Pence was, with Deborah Birx as task force chair. And of course Robert Redfield, the CDC director, was indeed on the task force.

You're confusing who had the best communication and stage presence with who was in charge. Redfield was not a good public communicator, and Fauci was, so Fauci got more screen time.
Modern command line interfaces evolved a lot since they 80ies. As this is about Windows take a look at PowerShell.

Automation of command line also is a lot simpler than GUI tools.
I see the TrustArc in use at quite a lot of sites - the fake delay, and the whole UX in general, is intensely irritating, and it just feels like the darkest of dark patterns. Really gives me a bad feeling about sites that use it.
>I see little value in such lists.

Maybe to people especially interested in the subject, but to those with a casual interest, such lists can be a fun introduction to a subject as it provides a way to write a lot of little vignettes. Witness other comments to this post calling out and talking about some of the things they saw in this list that they liked.
156 people died of covid in the UK yesterday. Per capita that's more than in the USA.
There was an episode the TWiV podcast a few months ago where they discussed the biology-based evidence for why SARS-COV-2 wasn't made in a lab. I think it was this one: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-762/ One nice thing about the podcast is that because they're scientists by personality they tend to focus far more on the biology of it, which I really appreciate. I listened to it at the time, but I don't remember what they said, to be perfectly honest.
> Just fine Starbucks 1% of their global turnover

Why? They’re literally adding friction to their purchasing process. Nothing they sell is critical. Nobody’s privacy is being violated. They aren’t lying. They’re just being annoying.

This is the most trivial non-issue one could possibly get hysterical over.
Cookies can manipulate new customers
Ask yourself a simple question: if something fell from the sky and exploded in Orlando Florida killing hundreds of thousands and irradiating the area which would be more likely?

That an undetected new type of asteroid carrying heavily enriched uranium crashed within 50 miles of Cape Canaveral, or that a nuclear rocket was tested and went out of control?

We need to hold funding bodies and scientists accountable for immoral research whose only purpose is weapons of mass destruction.
I don't think torture is a remotely accurate description of psychiatric care. How do you think they treat people with suicidal ideation? Tie them down with chains, stuff a sock in their mouth, beat them with whips, and inject them with deliriants? Seriously dude... You get a room that looks like a normal hospital room. You have the choice to take antidepressants or not. You do group and individual therapy for a couple days. If you're actually being held on a 72 hour hold, your time will be up and you will be free to go. Otherwise you may realize that being in the hospital is beneficial and you choose to stay.

I respond to these comments because I don't want people to hesitate to call for help if someone they know reaches out in need because of what a bunch of software engineers on HN who've never seen the inside of a hospital have to say about psychiatric care.
The most astonishing recent news about dementia surfaced in April, here on HN: A recent Tdap vaccination correlates very, very robustly with a 40% reduction in dementia risk (doi:10.1093/gerona/glab115).

Nobody knows how to interpret it. 40% is a huge effect size! (I doubt aspirin shows up as more effective against headache.) Is it the tetanus, the diphtheria, the pertussis antigen? Something else they put in the vaccine?

You can get a Tdap at any pharmacy, on demand. I did.
AWS doesn't offer this now, do they?
I'm not sure what you mean; standard library is part of C++ and it overloaded the meaning in that way. iostream "is C++".
Uhm, there are literally hundreds of millions of people in the world that use RTL languages.

For mainstream, global software this is not a niche feature but a core requirement.
> Judging by the HN and Reddit comments with each Firefox/Signal/Matrix releases

There are always comments and complaints. One need to evaluate the quality of this complains to understand their worth.

> either the product stops growing and simply becomes a niche product for those set of users or it dies.

Successful products prove this wrong. The most successful ones barely change at all, they usually evolve for a decade or two and then adapt to a new generation. Stability is a viable road to success.

Heck, even chrome didn't really change that much since it's first version. Firefox is really absurdly extraordinary in how unstable it is.
I wonder, though, if people who attempt and fail suicide are more likely to be the ones doing it impulsively after a psychiatric episode or other major emotional setback. If someone has thought it through and genuinely wants to die I suspect they would have a better chance of succeeding.
Metrics for the speed of software engineering teams
While you're not wrong, it seems very clear that these measures are not being pushed for their stated purpose. The fact that they are ineffective at that purpose is powerful and important supporting evidence that we should not ignore.

Here's an example: Article 20 of The French Military Programming Law, which entered into force on 1 January 2015 against heavy criticism from civil liberties groups, gave the state full access to all unencrypted telecommunications, including SMS.

11 months later, Paris was attacked by a wave of terrorism, coordinated by... unencrypted SMS.

In response, the government... pushed through even more intrusive surveillance legislation, and coordinated a public relations push to implicate encrypted messaging providers as "complicit".
All languages suffer from some form of "dll hell" when everyone goes through endless third party dependencies, the major difference is how those conflicts get sorted out.

The solution in the Java world allows kind of shipping both conflicting libraries and still have a go at it.

Other ecosystems might make you rethink the whole dependency tree instead.

I guess it was similar, I never used WebLogic.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/support/swg/s...
overall nice interesting article. the actual "why" part is less than 5% of the content.
TLDR: tight competition, highly price sensitive customers. most fuel stations have attached convenience store which brings in bigger profit margins. so they don't want to increase fuel price coz that will result in losing bigger profits from the convenience stores.
What makes you claim that extremist population will increase among 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants?
Cuban here. This was going on for a week or two. Yesterday the phones began to be unlocked when connected to internet.
But those are largely proving your identity in a situation where you wish to identify yourself.

Proving an unrelated fact about yourself solely because the government thinks so is a different thing.
This is not the point of the document dump. The document dump shows that Fauci funded GoF research in Wuhan, and that people involved in the funding pipeline were involved in covering that up. These were the same people who advised the big tech cos to cancel any information about a lab leak.

Love the down votes for merely restating what the FOIA'd docs say. All you have to do is read them. It's not that hard.
Te fact that modern os's have built in RNG is so blatantly obvious, it's clearly not what my comment was about.

Your numbers say strictly nothing about the "secure" part.
But the comment you’re responding to said it’s unknowable, not that it shouldn’t be known. It’s not an argument of merit but of practicality. I’d also add that it’s irrelevant. Let’s hypothesize that we find out tomorrow irrefutable evidence for this theory. What does it change? Are we going to start WWIII over it? I’d hope not. Maybe ‘the powers that be’ came to the same conclusion early on and tried to stem the public outcry, and maybe that’s ok. If you say that the value of finding out it was a lab leak would lead to stricter controls or dissuade similar research, I’d say that that has already happened. So I agree with OP in that it’s a distraction at this point and we should put all effort and mental energy into dealing with the pandemic rather than finding someone to blame.
According to https://ourworldindata.org/ Israel is #4 in COVID cases right now (856.81/M) and #5 in vaccine doses per 100 people (163.74)
> I just learned from a colleague and it was confirmed by every student I asked, that 25% of students age 16-32 take Adderall 1-7X/week (not prescribed). And 5-10% do the same w/Modafinil or Armodafanil; 30-35% of students are on amphetamine

Modafinil isn't an amphetamine.

Source is seemingly "anecdata."

And this was posted on Twitter.

Probably not much to see here other than some outrage for attention.