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> when is it appropriate to introduce kids to a computer at all.

A question that I've been struggling with since my first was born a decade and a half ago.

I've decided on this: The computer is a tool. As soon as they could use a hammer, or a computer, or a match safely - and demonstrate that they know - then they could use them. My two daughters never got the hammer, my son got it at 5. And he knows why we call it the "thumb seeker".

The "computer" tool I allow for _creating_ content at about 3 to 5, I don't remember exactly. They were all able to create content (or write in VIM, yes, VIM) by 5 I think. And they were able to stop when I tell them to... So I generally didn't have to tell them to.

The "computer" tool I allow for _consuming_ content started at about 8 or 9 I think for the girls, when they demonstrated - and continue to demonstrate - that they can occupy themselves without the computer and that they can stop when asked. The stopping when asked was already reinforced in them from the _creation_ of content. My son, unfortunately, is allowed by his mother to consume far too much content and he has not developed the limits that his older sisters have. And I'm having a very hard time getting him away from it, especially as she encourages it!

But sometimes I can persuade him with the hammer, some new nails, and some nice scraps of planks! He's already built a cage for the rabbit (with his father's help of course).
No. eBay/PayPal usually favours the buyer and tends to instantly freeze the assets of the seller until this is resolved.

This is especially true with "new" computer parts (lot's of fraud).
Thanks for sharing your insights, they're, um, insightful! Don't know what more to say other than that :/
>Yes, you still want a car for such things, sure it's quaint and nice to have a "walkable" neighborhood, if you're a tourist, but if you live there and have to schlep around by foot with your groceries every day, in all weathers, it's just annoying.

Depends on your lifestyle but I'm quite comfortably car-free. Shelf-stable stuff like tins, rice, beans I get delivered once every few weeks. Meat, veg, eggs and milk I want fresh so I rarely buy more than a couple of days in advance. If it's less than ten minutes walk to the supermarket, or on the walk home from the train station.

>Also in urban environments, making a lot of "inviting" public spaces for people to hang around and loiter is not always a great idea.. this also attracts a lot of crime, drugs etc

Crime and drugs happen where there aren't lots of people to witness them. If you're walking at night and can choose between a busy street and a quiet one, which do you choose?
I love living in a walkable city and a tiny-ass apartment (3 people, 75 square meters). When the neighborhood is attractive it becomes part of "your space". I don't need my whole world to be within the confines of these walls.
You're being intentionally obtuse. The only country which actively spies on pretty much everyone in the world is the US, via the NSA. And the NSA is the very definition of "state sponsored". In effect the US is running the largest state sponsored hacking programme that the world has ever seen. So who did the US prosecute for that?

> America prosecutes American hackers who hack foreign nationals

To this day the only person connected to US state sponsored hacking who was prosecuted is Edward Snowden, the guy who blew the whistle on said program. That says everything about the situation. The US is hacking everything that can be hacked, then floods western media with reports of Russian, Iranian, Chinese, and North Korean state sponsored hacks.

> They would if they could.

"Solid" defense there. The kind of argument the Mafia would use as a defense, which just happens to be really unprovable.
Well, yes, you should instead do a dispute through eBay. But "I bought stolen property on your platform" is exactly the kind of problem that they have policies for and for which they will reinburse you.
European Union Regulators Open Probe into Nvidia-Arm Acquisition
Making Sense of RDP, RDS and VDI
Berlin rents have risen a lot, but still is an exception to your rule. I pay less (with utilities) for a 3bedroom, 95sqm apartment in a super central location than what I paid for a (tiny) 1bedroom in Boston or for my room with 4 flatmates in NYC.
I suppose that's better than "orn".
Intel's Aurora Supercomputer Now Expected to Exceed 2 ExaFLOPS Performance
I don't work for Xero but I have worked with some of the data team and can honestly say that they've hired some of my favourite people in Melbourne to work there, and no one I don't like. High quality team that I hope I overlap with some day.
New ecommerce solution on the market, great for SEO
if you deliver a missive you're usually on a mission!

same roots: https://www.etymonline.com/word/missive https://www.etymonline.com/word/mission
> I'd think financial institutions would avoid such a scenario entirely?

Then you'd only be relying on either the standard library, or packages that you (the company) have written yourself, which has a completely different set of challenges - everything from it being impossible to find people who know your internal libraries, to documentation and tests becoming a challenge etc.
It's like either use Angular or end up building an Angular when you choose a smaller/lightweight framework. At least so many times it's true in my case.

Angular gives so much out of the box without making your double think it, well it's an opinionated toolset for sure.

However, any other frontend framework I've used and know, makes you to build all those stuff form scratch or get them by adding more and more dependencies to your project.

Great release and can't wait to try the performance optimization and build enhancements.

Looking forward to see esbuild gets more and more involved in their toolchain.
Yeah and if you stopped doing that and instead used a car to buy your groceries or ordered them delivered to your doorstep, you would have more free time and more energy. People want free time and energy. Just because it "works" for you to walk in the cold rain carrying groceries in a backback, doesn't make it the best solution. If there are better solutions, why insist on doing it the worst possible way?
Yes, I think it's because of how I interpreted your quotation marks: I assumed you wanted to indicate the use-mention distinction [0] so I took the term at face value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
Damn Vulnerable DeFi – a smart contracts wargame
Pretty much all of the UK and Ireland has been cleared apart from scattered fragments of ancient woodland like this. Scotland lost almost all its trees by the 18th century. There are occasional bursts of panicking about timber being a strategic resource - oaks for shipbuilding, or more recently WW1 consumed timber for trench walls and props to such an extent that the Forestry Commission was established to grow it back.
First ride in a driverless robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco
I have written a piece of code which transform an Angular project into a React project. Wonder if there would be interest if I open-sourced it?
Pannous/angle: Angle: new speakable syntax for Python
That is an excellent list of lifestyle factors, but suggesting that genetics impacts 10% or less of biological outcome is pretty bold.

Put another way: everything is nature, nurture and “random”. It’s rare to find an outcome where one of those three completely dominates the causal equation.
The combination of a time and guaranteed error bound can be used as a primitive in distributed systems. You can get timestamps from requests coming from different systems and relate them in a meaningful way. At least, in a false negative fashion. E.g., if A occurs at T + 100ms with 1ms uncertainty and B occurs at T + 105ms with 2ms uncertainty you can conclude that A happened before B. This does not allow you to always establish an order (e.g., if there is overlap) but this isn't always necessary. For instance if instead you are B and you want to have something occur after some time A with uncertainty A_uncertainty, then you can sleep until B with uncertainty B_uncertainty such that B - B_uncertainty > A + A_uncertainty.
Did the change in weather not upset you? LA's winters are mild at worst, I think that'd be the biggest hurdle for me.
'And housing has become a "store of value"'

'Not become' but 'has been' for decades. You only now start to notice it as inflation and wages have not kept up.

This is by design in most post-WW 2 western economies as an economic policy to "increase national wealth". That's why housing loans are subsidized and whatnot.
Same here, the supermarket is 3' away by foot and I've never even thought "oh man, I should take the car and go to the larger supermarket that's 15' away".

It's just not inconvenient at all. I wonder if the difference in opinion is from a lack of exercise? I don't mind carrying 20kg of stuff back home in bags, I'm used to it and it's good to get at least some exercise.
That is an interesting analog to the stylized fact that all mammalian species get about the same number of heartbeats in their life. Mice have a high BPM and short life, whales the opposite
What I would do if I wanted to use "is-buffer" is I would copy this index.js to a new file called "isBuffer.js" and it would look like this:

export function isBuffer (obj) {
return obj != null && obj.constructor != null &&
typeof obj.constructor.isBuffer === 'function' &&
obj.constructor.isBuffer(obj)
}

Imho, there is no need to pull 10 files into my project to use one function.
Yeah this is what I do, and I think it's great! But it relies on there being a driveable street outside of the house, and not a stupid walk path.
The UK has an amazing abundance of models for excellent dense walkable villages and neighborhoods... and then builds endless swaths of American-style car-based single-family houses, with not a grocer, chemist, cafe or pub within walking distance.

Only one motivation is powerful enough to propel such wave of single-use disposable crap over this green and pleasant land: shortest possible timeframe profit for landowners, developers and builders, ably aided and abetted by jobsworth planning departments and clueless in-their-pocket Councils. Bleh.
I worked for a hedge fund that build their own database on top of MongoDB. Data was serialised and stored as binary blobs. This bonkers implementation took away any advantage of using MongoDB. Unfortunately this system had a lot of political backing, and rather than addressing the short comings we were told to simply datasets to ensure they could be stored in this bespoke database. I suspect a lot of trading signals were lost this way.
I worked on Quartz for a while as a contractor. Hated every second of it. Python version was old (2.4 if I remember correctly when 3.x was already the popular version). But that wasn't it. It was the proprietary version of everything in the stack that got me. Proprietary ide, source control, libs etc.
I noted that none of the others who have been there for years have any transferable skills that can cary them out of banking and into a startup for example. All were good devs but only knew quartz. I can say they were great quartz devs.
The pay was great, but the work was soul crushing.
{ [Key in KeysType]-?: ... }

TIL that you can disable ? and readonly in mapped types using -. So in the above code, every Key will be mandatory (-?) even if the original one in KeysType was optional.

source: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/mapped-types....
They are the ones that made the mouse.
There is also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RandomRedirect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomrootpage
Angular is the EE of JS FX’s (inelegant and bloated), always surprised when some devs choose it over Vue, React or Svelte.
The world is a very big place, so why nobody use angular?
> Have these kinds of issues been improved since?

Currently in an Angular project and I would say "somewhat". Our production bundle is still >1MB if you include all the polyfills etc.

As an alternative I recommend Svelte Kit:

https://kit.svelte.dev/

But it's best to wait until it's out of beta. The value proposition here is that it's performant, bundles are exceptionally small since it's more a compiler than a framework and you need less code than in say, React, to achieve the same result.

Now that it has TypeScript support the developer experience is decent as well.
Just because of the points the interviewer fails to address or addresses poorly. I bet many of us witnessed similar discussions; here, the arguments of both sides are exposed and you can see their weak points. Some of these give me food for thought.
That's a good point, we walk to the supermarket (or the farmer's market) multiple times a week, get one or two bags and go home. That way we don't have to have a huge space/fridge/kitchen to store everything in, either.
> inefficient and inconvenient

Just the other day I was about to start cooking but realized I was out of butter, so I walked about 5 minutes to a nearby store, got some, and walked back. It would have literally taken me more time and effort to drive to a store nearby with parking than just walking. The same holds for most household basics (paper towels, garbage bags, etc), for which I have about a dozen options within 15 minutes of my home, ranging from cramped bodega-type stores to large grocery stores.

> You rely on cars/trucks indirectly anyway, that bring the groceries to your closest store, and deliver your packages so what's the different

First, basic efficiency of scale when it comes to general impact on the environment; second, as I mention above, it would literally take me longer to do it all with a car than just walk.
Personally, I think occasionally reading poorly-written/flawed articles is a good way to keep one's critical thinking skills (and BS detector) honed.

If we only consume content that we believe is well-written and logically consistent if not persuasive, or that we agree with, I believe our critical thinking skills atrophy.
In case it wasn't clear, I was referring to the Consumer Guarantees Act in New Zealand
I don't think you're familiar with Orwell, and the meaning of Orwellian.

Did my comment read to you like I didn't know what real life societies he was writing about? I explicitly described how they fit into my point exactly in order to make people not reply with comments like yours.
Can you post the German ones? I'd like to have some cool stuff to listen to and study/learn German with
Officials Disclose a ‘Working Theory’ About Jetpack Mystery over Los Angeles
If you use price per square meter to compare European housing to American housing, Europe seems super expensive. But, if you compare by the functional space (# bedrooms), Europe is cheap.

I moved from San Diego to Amsterdam and was very happy to find 3-4 bedroom apartments to buy (the bank accepted my self employment income and gave a 1.6% interest rate). Apartments are well designed so you don’t need as much space.

I live half a block from a grocery store and still get a lot of groceries delivered. We have 3 kids and no cars. Cheap and easy to rent if we want one for the day. I love this life style where the kids can walk and bike everywhere themself.

Son: “Dad, I have to go to guitar, but it is raining”

Dad: “Here are your rain pants. Hurry, but be careful biking in the rain”
This is kind of a weird response to an article which is explicitly talking about high density family housing. The streets depicted are a lot like the one I live in - in our case a terrace of three bed houses (many extended into the roofspace to make a fourth room) in a residential area that has every amenity you could wish for within a ten minutes walk. The housing values are high because many people want to live here - they’re very happy to trade off the small gardens & relatively smaller houses against the obvious advantages (for them) of living in this area.

The choices are not between “tiny-ass flats” & “exurbia” - there’s a whole range of housing density in between those extremes.
Haha carrying 20kg of stuff back home in bags, that's ridiculous! Yeah do that after a long day of work, and also you can forget ever having any energy left for doing any sport because now your only sport ever is carrying groceries. What a poor life
I have two kinds of personal goals: minimum performance and accomplishments. My minimum performance goals establish an acceptable baseline and have served me well financially but not done my career any favors. This warrants further explanation.

Accomplishments drive me to do ambitious things. These are generally minor short term things like solving for a new software feature, running a 12 minute two mile, or mastering some area of performance in a military school or caring for soldiers.

Accomplishments drive me to push myself and do challenging things. The lack of available accomplishments, such as a job repeating beginner things dicking around with frameworks drives me crazy. It makes me want to give up my over priced senior software job and go flip burgers where at at least I can see how many burgers I can flip in an hour.

A minimum performance baseline has allowed me to pay off debts and achieve over 800 credit rating even without substantial increases in compensation and shifts in lifestyle, such as military deployments.

A minimum performance baseline has been harmful to my software career because software is an unstructured industry. Unstructured industries tend to prefer minimum common denominators in skills and hiring which is contrary to expertise. It appears if I wish to continue to advance in this industry I must do so in either management or not as an employee.

I monitor my performance baselines setting personal standards of conduct and performance fitness. I establish rules for behavior and define personal failures. Then I slowly raise the bar over time. As a result I continue to observe improvements in my technical capabilities as a software developer and simultaneously observe failures to progress in my software career.
an unexpected mitch hedberg line appeared from the tall grass!
It maybe just that I am a millennial and lack experience, but for me component based approach is much better than all 3 in separate file, for both maintainability and code reuse.
You would, of course, preserve the copyright and license notices too. Otherwise that would be a violation of the license.
Make a new account.
Partly, but also smaller living space is in fact part of the tradeoff that you make when building stuff close together. It's a worthwhile tradeoff in my opinion, but I'm also not saying that single-family car-centric suburbs should be illegal for people who prefer it, unlike how building denser housing is illegal in many expensive cities.
This is function of house prices, not of natural segregation.

When I was growing up in London the streets around me were fairly mixed. You could find public school educated lawyers, minor celebrities, and even a few financial types living close to factory and shop workers.

As public housing was sold off and property prices were goosed towards the stratosphere the inevitable result was separation, because the poors were economically cleansed into poverty ghettos.

Now houses on the street I grew up on - built as cheap and dense worker housing - sell for around £1m.

I think the arrow of expense points in both directions. Building more nice neighbourhoods would lower prices. But one of the reasons nice neighbourhoods aren't built is because it's so easy to make money by building cheap trash housing and selling it to people who can barely afford it.
This is the way I live, you think I've never shopped after work? If I couldn't carry 20kg for 200m, I'd have more of a problem with how I live than where.
That doesn’t follow. Genetics very much influence the factors cited within the 90%.
> but if you live there and have to schlep around by foot with your groceries every day, in all weathers, it's just annoying

Even with quite large family walking for 10 minutes with groceries seems to be not problematic.

Unless you live on South Pole or something.
I think that bit of history shows what a false idol extensibility is. 20 years of extension and improvement has resulted in a chat system that is still staggeringly worse in practice than its competitors of 20 years ago. (Seriously, XMPP is still worse than AIM for actual day-to-day use).

Look at XML vs JSON for another example. A simple standard that has no improvement path except completely replacing it turns out to be much more usable than an extensible, upgradeable standard.
Software project best practices checklists
'Learn' is in a way the germanic-side equivalent of for the latin-side 'study' ("getting busy"), since to "learn" is to "track down" (intentionally actively progressively consider something... So, "to investigate").

In the Arts there may be little specific track, but it is acquisition of keys anyway, and a fundamental one, because the consideration of art is the encounter of patterns. Pattern for your further recognition, application, and for your development in general as a "pattern-rich entity".
Yeah but now you are optimising for the minority case at the expense of making the most common case worse.
The US is not a good comparison because the house sizes are just ridiculous – and those huge houses are just as out of reach for most "common" people and are rapidly getting even more out of reach because they never were sustainable at all! But there’s a spectrum between 40m2 highrise flats and 800m2 single-family McMansions.
This is the typical expectation of articles from the independent these days which to me is not surprising given its slanted towards the (il)liberal left.

> What is interesting though, she often does not explain why.

This is the problem with this article. They won't explain why but instead will get them cancelled instead because they simply disagree with them or they are 'offended'.

For them, if you don't have an argument, why not attack the person and blame them for everything instead?
Well, I don’t know about Quartz. I worked with DB systems and they were awful in that regard. They worked, but largely because people stuck to convention.

For example, changing scheduler jobs required submitting a change in Excel and having it approved (twice...) by someone. Except the table was world-writable and changes not logged. So in principle only your appropriate superior could approve change, in practice anyone could, and you’d never even know.
As much as the JS ecosystem terrifies me, Node isn't really the problem here. Receiving plugins that contain minified blobs of JS is, practically, quite equivalent to receiving plugins that contain binary blobs.

If you accept receiving and using plugins that contain unauditable blobs of software, whether it's minified JS or a binary, a good-quality audit is going to be virtually impossible.

In many other ecosystems this wouldn't be normal. If a Rust crate ships binary blobs with no easy access to source code, I wouldn't ever consider depending on it.

If you can't prevent these blobs from infecting your system, you have to deal with the risk another way – locked-down containers on the server side, strict CSPs on the client side, and monitoring.
Does zoning prevent the walkable neighbourhoods from acquiring a full range of amenities?

Or maybe the planning restrictions prevent the kind of organic infill development that leads to these places acquiring their own local character?
20 kg seems like a lot for walkable grocery shopping unless you're intentionally getting a bunch of bulk staples all at once.
Since when are graphics cards registered?
Walking for 10 minutes with an umbrella to the shop takes about the same effort as packing all this things into car and later unloading it and driving.

Or even less if shop is 300m away.
Here you go: https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/Scrip