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> If you doubt how much work is required by capitalist society but actually useless by any meaningful standard, remember what happened during the COVID lockdowns. Most jobs are not "essential". If you work in an office, you're mostly (if not entirely) useless to society as a whole.

That is ridiculous. Many, many businesses closed, and many, many more were impacted in ways that will take years to recover from. Many employees took short term cuts in pay or benefits just so the companies they work for could survive.

Then add to that many of the jobs that couldn't be done during covid aren't useless, but the impact of not doing them scales over time. A good example of this is a sales person for a company that makes a product. Sure, if they can't bring in new clients for a few months, the company will hurt but may be ok. But if you take away their sale people forever, you might as well just close down the company.

Just because we _did_ survive without certain employees for a period of time doesn't make them all useless. The long term impacts are substantial.
Trying to take pictures of jumping spiders is a good way to see how clever they are. We have some lovely little iridescent ones that like our flower beds, I've spent hours trying to get shots of some of them but only have a few.

I had to conclude they're fond of hide and seek, and they understand the difference between a human looking at them and a human holding something. Come out and dance at you until you bring the camera up, then scuttle behind something with just one leg visible... I think that was the "middle finger" translated.
I am surprised to find that a small shade for my laptop screen made out of some illustration board evidently qualifies it as a "metaverse" device, because I sure do get a lot of work done out in the park.
I used to work with somebody on a long-term contract in Glasgow. He opted to forgo hotel and restaurant expenses (we worked at a large tech consultancy) for a per-night cash credit (I can't remember if it was £30 or £60) and lived out of his camper van. I still don't know how he did it.
So what exactly is the system? You transfer the MKVs to your phone via a cable somehow? Is there any quality hit?
> That is one of the drivers of the recent growth in compiled languages (Rust, Go, ...), Not the only one but it helped.

No, not really. In either case (rust, Go) perfomance is at best a nice-to-have, while their main value proposition is, and has always been, turnaround time and consequently man*hours. Rust is marketed primarily due to their first-class support for safe programming constructs, and providing a far better developer experience over C and C++ at the expense of a small but negligible performance impact. Go is marketed primarily for it's first-class support for concurrency, and provide a far better developer experience than Java, C#, and C++ with little to no performance gains at all.

What matters is how long it takes developers to add value. That's it. Most of the times there is simply no value to be gained by shaving a megabyte or millisecond here or there, but undoubtedly there is value in shipping features, not having downtime, and eliminating bugs.
That was also a glaring omission to my eyes. It's the emotion I associate the most with programming, although I guess it's a mix of some of the ones mentioned in the article.
It is strange to read comments like that, I used to be under the impression that PhD was a paid job as it is that here in Denmark. Here they get around £3400 per month [0].

[0]: https://dm.dk/din-loen/loenstatistik-og-loentabeller/forskni...
Sometimes I dispare! Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, <insert-other-multinational-big-US-company>, all seem to be a threat to the open internet they themselves used to become what they are. Obviously MS and Apple were big prior but they did use the internet to become bigger and are a threat with their respective walled gardens.

I am not here to pretend I know anything about whatever the metaverse is, but I do know one thing if it's controlled by any of these companies it's gonna be bad for the people using it.
So is the metaverse AR adverts? Makes sense I guess. "Please go into an AR world, then our advertisers will be able to 'physically' interact with you."

Advertisers will no longer just manipulate what we read or see but now what we interact with. Makes me yearn for the ceefax thing on the frontpage.
Well other than the cost its essentially the same experience for the user
If that t-shirt isn't created procedurally, then any interoperability between differently themed worlds will just make everything look like 2nd Life, since an artist would have to create another, similar shirt in a style that fits.
Another perplexing one is hospitals. Sleep is one of the most important factors in self-healing. However for someone in a long hospital stay, rooms often don't get completely dark, there are machines which make noise and light, and patients are often woken up throughout the night for various tests and procedures. It seems like the opposite of what you would want to do to make someone healthy.
That’s how I read the situation. I think FB is cool for Gen-X and above and they are trying desperately to appeal to a younger audience. They have no where to go but down if they don’t figure that out.
You’re entitled to your opinion, but I want to point out that learning N different custom infra as code systems for N clouds is not really sustainable. If you’re mostly using just one cloud, it makes more sense. Terraform is cloud agnostic in that once you build a process around it… CI/CD of Infra as Code, runbooks around how to work with failures, break glass etc, you can basically use the same thing for any cloud, since all of them have terraform “providers”.

Also all the major clouds (even the minor ones) have pretty strong first class support for terraform.
So, you agree there's definitely something wrong, then.
Wait… Do you believe bees act as in some 90s strategy game, with exactly one bee in any hexagon?
That's true. Typically that property tax rate is higher for out-of-state residents too.

I'm suggesting going further than that: owning property in that place makes you a tax resident. That means all your income is subject to state and city taxes. You'd still get credit for taxes paid in other states (as you do now for the most part) so you don't get double-taxed.

But let's stop giving tax breaks to people who reside in Monaco for tax (ie no tax) purposes and park their money in real estate in London, SF, Vancouver, NYC and Hong Kong.
I think the problem you're describing, how to build big and still have it look as nice as baroque / gothic / art nouveau, was basically solved by things like art deco skyscrapers in the US and the seven sisters in Moscow. And for most housing it's not a big problem anyway, because five stories high gives you plenty of density, and that's doable in "pretty" styles as many European cities show.

Your mention of economic constraints also sounds a bit strange to me, because there has been a lot of economic growth in the past couple centuries. The stuff that was possible to build then should still be possible now and much cheaper in labor per capita. If you look up how much it cost to build some iconic past structures in today's dollars, it's stunningly cheap and fast.

> Would a modern LEGO approach to creating nuovo "classical" old towns with standard parts somehow magically remove the inherent difficulties of modern life

This kind of faux-classical stuff is glaringly bad to my eyes too. But the reason is simply that we don't have a living school dedicated to making it good. Having such a school is possible; having it serve the poor would be possible, too. I wish it happened.
No. Bessel functions are the solution to many differential equations posed in cylindrical coordinates.

Legendre polynomials are what we are seeing here which are solutions to many differential equations posed in spherical coordinates.

Classical sine/cosine Fourier solutions are the solutions to many differential equations posed in cartesian coordinates.

So these spherical solutions should also remind people of atomic quantum "orbital" shapes because those are solutions to Schrödinger's (differential) equations in spherical coordinates.
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Irritation: when the documentation is incorrect or missing and I have to figure out how the API works by guess work or hit and trial.

Anger: when there is unnecessary red tape to get access to an API while my competitors have the access.

Tired: when applying Nth money patch to use a broken API

PS: I work with external APIs a lot
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Yeah, that’s kind what I mean

But in the end it will be whoever’s walled garden the metaverse is planted in that makes the real money. 15% of everything.

That’s why fb want this so bad.
Yea that was my thinking too. I always wondered why Apple or Facebook didn't make their internet search engine considering how many users and data they have.
I was not born an American. My first jobs were in Europe and salary negotiations were always done with gross income.

Good job putting labels on people you know nothing about though.
I've used an old roku express, a roku TV and a new 4k roku (forget what the model was but it was made in 2020) and they all have the same app problems

Disney plus crashes more often than not in any given watching session.

Hbo Max tends to crash on the menu about 50% of the time.

Netflix crashes fairly often but not as bad as those other two.

I think it's still the best single solution for streaming but they really do need some quality control on their apps.

Having to wait for your TV to restart in the middle of a movie is never great.
Dude really needs to subscribe to 3Blue1Brown:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

(but anyone interested in stuff like this should be. I guess I'm surprised to see someone like this writing a blog post who isn't regularly checking out that channel)
Well in Arch we have the drivers in testing with an extended period to give users a chance to report issues. You can already get them and help us test! We'll likely move them next week.
GPA matters less for Tech than other fields. But some places (Finance, Accounting) they do check for first jobs I believe. Also I was asked for GPA from a few places, but luckily they were Government, and Defense Contractors, which I didn't really want to work at anyways.
You’re describing the difference between renting and buying, not apartments and houses.

You can buy apartments and rent houses, so they shouldn’t be conflated.
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True! But if OP wants a dialogue about language choices then IMHO it could be good to motivate the reasons. E.g. they didn’t explain why they didn’t want GC.

As others have pointed out in this thread, there are good reasons why Rust is designed the way it is.

With that said, I hope the OP will find a language that they like and can be productive in. Hopefully they input from this thread can be of guidance.
Cities are resource efficient and low environmental impact only if you count the tight core/downtown and exclude all of the suburbs and sprawl surrounding nearly every big city in the US. Everyone driving an hour to get to everywhere is not resource efficient or low environmental impact.

Small cities/large towns are actually more efficient on average in the US since everyone is a 10-15 minute drive of everything.

Rural areas can be very inefficient.
The timing. HW usually does not directly proceed a test.
I remember how excited I was when I bought my usr 56k modem. I imaged how awesome it would be to download faster than 3.2k/s!! I plugged that bad boy in, and discovered that due to the phone lines in my area, I could now download at about 3.3k/s.
> the eyes move around, locating interesting parts of the scene and building up a mental, three-dimensional 'map' corresponding to the scene

Your reference is very interesting for me because in computer vision we try to locate local features and try to match these local features, so that 3D correspondence can be extracted from multiple images which called structure from motion (SfM). Now I know, humans (and animals) also do the same thing!
The medical personell is also usually over-worked with massive sleep deficit and odd shifts.
The problem is, the average house price is a bit misguiding. The number might be correct over the total of Germany, but you won't be able to find a house at the average price near Munic for example. People with an average job in those regions have zero chance of buying a house.

Land might be somewhat scarce, but that isn't the huge cost driving point. The problem is the process by which land is assigned for building - there is a lot of land which just cannot be used for building. New building areas are sometimes opened, but always trailing the demand, keeping the price up. Also, the density of new buildings could be higher. It is grotesqe that in an area with lacking housing new single homes get approved. Also, why are cities allowed to approve additional office buildings without ensuring that the housing capacity is extended for all those new office workers? Easy way to enforce that would be mixed use buildings, where you have a comparable work and living capacity.
Haha I have some hay in TN. Guess I’ll throw it up here
Sure, density is a good lever for reducing the cost of housing despite increased demand for land.

In your example, if local government instead forbids that development (via zoning), maybe you can sell your house for $1M instead of $750k, because those 8 prospective buyers are now bidding on the only available property.

Homeowners that view housing as an investment would prefer to see housing costs rise further (beyond benefiting solely from land value increases), and so they advocate their local governments to constrain housing supply via zoning. On the west coast, and particularly in California, they've been very successful.
I attempt to automate the setup process and my most important preferences with a couple of scripts. I keep all my dotfiles in a git repo and a script to install my most-used macOS apps and apply the hardest-to-remember system preferences. I also commit the .plist files for 3rd party apps who’s config I care about, which surprisingly is just iTerm2 and VS Code.

To prepare I do a quick pass over the script and update version numbers and such. When the new laptop arrives, I curl down my install script and run it, and I’ll end up with a Mac that works the way I expect it to with my favorite apps, but the system kind of defaults to “fresh” - I need to think about “what do I want to add” instead of “what do I need to undo or remove”.

This is more repeatable than the transfer utility, especially for employer-issued Macs. Are they gonna let me run Migration Assistant on my last day to copy state to my next employer, or my personal laptop? Nope!

My setup script: https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/new/mac-setup.sh
what? people with private planes are the ones running leaded currently. people who aren't very wealthy are flying on commercial planes that haven't used leaded gas for decades.
I sat in court once for 3 days as a potential juror. I was the last person that was not selected for the jury. There is a process like what you describe called voir dire. Both sides have an opportunity to interview jurors and can ask to eliminate some. In the case I watched there was a potential juror that had recently become a citizen and was very interested in being a juror, but she was also not a native English speaker and was clearly not following everything that was going on - both sides wanted her gone right away.

You still get a jury of citizens from the local community, which is the point.
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This is freaking beautiful. The internet could have been like this.

I’m going to show my Mom, she is always wanting to find good hay.

Perhaps a bit more info though like pics would be good haha. Some indication of the quality.
Without question. America gets their ass kicked every single time.
The metaphysical BS is the problem, architects treat buildings like sculptures, novels, and stories; as vehicles to say something as much or more than livable places. I don't know why we have the idea that structures need to be an artistic representation of ideals like sculpture when they are designed to be used primarily by people to live in and customize as they see fit.

It would be like designing hammers that are commentary on the homelessness problem in the world today but are strikingly ineffective to actually hammer nails; its fine if the only result is to be part of a museum exhibit but the architects force us to use the hammers.

The eisenmann snippet of the second page has him try to defend his work because it is supposed to say something, a commentary on modern dislocation. But that's a message designed for people to not escape, and most arcihtecture in that sense is the tyranny of the artist or government trying to immortalize feelings in books which you can only close the cover of by moving away.
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Don't forget physical handover, snail mail and email.
A common theme with residential (other types don't have these problems, like museums, public office spaces, hospitals, etc.) brutalist buildings is that they were built as low-cost social housing, and the problems are not with the exterior but with the interior, and I think not inherent to this type of architecture. Shoddy workmanship, cheapest materials, etc. The contrast between how stunning it looks (a matter of taste, granted) from the outside and how it's inside is stark — avantgarde, modern, and bespoke, combined with boring, gloomy and depressive apartment interiors.

A lot of commenters have mentioned New Belgrade municipality of Belgrade, and it is a great example of this. The exterior is very often quite well though out — lots of space, lots of trees and parks, playgrounds (looked at from the ground there's hardly any of the oppressive concrete feeling often associated with brutalism), general living affordances like schools, public services integrated into complexes... But on the inside, even ignoring long term issues of maintenance stemming from broader social issues, things are dysfunctional, ugly and generally of poor quality. It's a byproduct of cost cutting commonly associated with these types of projects. But just like with apartments in Soviet Brezhnevkas and even some Khrushchyovkas, when renovated with care and attention the apartments are just fine for what they are.

And it's not just a feature of Cold War socialist brutalism. In Trieste for example there is a somewhat (in)famous Rozzol Melara building[1][2]. As an idea it's great, the complex has everything for day to day living, a post office, a supermarket, an elementary school, a kindergarden, even a small medical facility, all connected with tunnel bridges or roofed passageways (except the small chapel) so you're never exposed to the elements when going somewhere inside the complex. But it seems as though the architects thought about how can we make this cheap but practical and then got the practical part completely wrong. For example, the passageways and tunnel floors are completely covered with anti-slip rubber matting, but the problem is these passageways are almost too practical and inviting so people end up using them to take their dogs out for walking, and so the result is rubber covered with sticky, dried dog piss (sometimes even poop) every 5 to 10 meters in all directions. You can imagine how this smells, encased in concrete and glass during the summer in a moist coastal city. The terrace views from higher apartments on the side overlooking the city and the sea are beautiful though, so you get some satisfaction if you live in one of those.

[1]: https://www.greyscape.com/architects/rozzol-melara-trieste/
[2]: http://architectuul.com/architecture/rozzol-melara-complex
That may be true, but most of the devices on that list are either old or not devices people actually want to use. Apple, Samsung, Lenovo (Motorola), and LG combined make up 94% of the market share in the US, while others make up only 6% [1]. Of these, only Motorola seems to allow bootloader unlocking. Samsung locks bootloaders on all US smartphones (though international versions reportedly aren't locked) and uses proprietary "download mode" instead of fastboot mode.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
hmm but were there high level languages being usable on these ? I remember a CLISP impl on some atari (but I think the dev had a ram addon).

all in all, I'd really love to have or make a 1MB minimalistic shell with a tiny lisp/prolog/smalltalk
still unethical no matter how you slice it.
If I had a kid, I’d be encouraging them to play Minecraft. I’m 25, and played during the very early days around 2009. I can’t see a way in which Minecraft was anything but good for my brain.

I regret the amount of my teens that I spent playing video games in general, but I don’t regret Minecraft. It’s such a genuinely positive and constructive experience in its openness. It’s like life - there’s no endgame or goal. No single way to play. You can decide you want to build a megabase connected by rail, you can decide you want to terraform a mountain, you can build crazy automatic machines to grow food or kill enemies for you. But it’s your choice, the game doesn’t push you in any direction outside of the very early game.

It also served as my introduction to computing - the in game wiring system is Turing complete. I learned about logic gates from Minecraft.
Why should it take 20 years to own a home?
>Housing is an investment only if you own more than one.

Every California rental I've lived in for the past five years had the owner residing in it as their primary residence, renting out the spare rooms, while doing one of two things: not declaring any of the rental income while still getting primary residence tax breaks, or declaring it as a full rental (and using another address as their primary address, despite not living there), and writing off the exorbitant Bay Area HOA fees.
I mean if a sufficient number of residents support it, they can forcibly purchase the land or building they're sharing as a cooperative.

Of course, they should pay market rates for it. Think of it as a private application of eminent domain. As far as I'm concerned, the rights of people to live in the homes they technically own without being extorted by a REIT who owns the land those houses sits on trumps property "rights" of REITs.

Worldwide this sort of thing does happen. Example: the UK system of leasehold/freehold.