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I've spoken about my dislike of next.js a few times, and it's mostly centered around its documentation. It is decent, but it is no way as complete as an established framework like Django. Have you ever compared the depth of the two? I'm on mobile, just read and compare, I don't know, the routing API docs for both.

Also the APIs are very simplistic, I haven't used it in the past few months when I quit my job, but I vividly recall how anything outside of the simple examples it provides were an exercise in frustration and digging into Github Issues and its source code. The whole data fetching system is so incredibly convoluted if you're doing a little more than static pages or build-time rendering. getInitialProps, getServerSideProps, getStaticProps, hooks, etc., all with their own caveats and performance considerations.

Next might be one of the better JS frameworks but it's laughably bad compared to Django, Rails, Phoenix.
There doesn't seem to be an authoritative citation for the source of "cost of living" on that site, suggesting the web site is not fact based.
You can also deploy Hadoop on your own, or write platform-specific assembly on your own, but the question remains: is it worth it?
Averages can mislead. In gaming there are "whales" who spend most of the money on in-app purchases.

Certain ads being seen by certain people might be a lot more valuable than average? It might be interesting to know who these people are.
A lot of truth in this but most of us are not really taught how to discuss or describe. Philosophy I guess.

How many times have I had to ask a Support Tech to go back and get basic details, "not working"? How? What are they expecting and what are they seeing? What time did it happen? Can they screen grab the browser console. All basic stuff that can help most of our fault-finding.
Neonatal HSV1, spread by unsanitary circumcisions, is a known problem in Orthodox Jewish communities.
> Well yeah, because the concept of a "diversity statement", let alone of a DEIB, did not exist at the time.

What I was saying is that diversity initiatives, training, seminars, workshops, and all the various activities that are now concentrated in the DEIB office have been going on for quite some time at different levels in the University. Offices of diversity haven't always been around, but similar efforts have always existed. Maybe your instructors haven't written a DEI statement, but surely they have engaged in the activities one would write about in a DEI statement. Every member of the faculty has.

> You seem to just assume, prima facie, the effectiveness of these statements

The statements are most effective in focusing candidates to answer questions about diversity during the interview.

> their failure to emit who knows what positive signals you or whoever is sitting on the DEI board that year is looking for

The "positive signals" we are looking for are specificity. We just want examples. What have you done specifically? What do you plan to do specifically? Otherwise, yeah, they're platitudes.

> are basically childish, self-centered jerks

I'm sorry I probably overstated Berkeley's intention with their rubric, as I'm not a part of Berkeley and had no hand in writing it, but I just had some specific instances in mind when I that this. I will say I've read a lot of statements that say something to the effect of "I treat everyone equally" and I've had a lot of discussions with those candidates. It usually turns out that after a probing discussion, their actual position is much more measured. The "I treat everyone equally" absolutists I've come across have actually ended their careers in self immolation. And I mean, they were hired in the first place, so their statement didn't even affect their candidacy, but I will say their attitude lead to problems.

> You are extremely even-tempered and civil

It comes from dealing with teenagers all day. Cheers!
We're doing animals a favor, see!

You're making the argument that cruelty to penned livestock is fine as the wild is also cruel. It is curious, then, that factory pigs live out just a fraction of their effective lifespan[0] - typically around 10 months. Wild boars have average lifespans measured in years.

There is a lot of nuance between the agricultural extremes we have now and what environmental activists desire, but I think your argument is specious, and the bar for how we treat livestock should probably be higher than "at least we kill them quickly."

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7286991/figure/...
> I've not seen a convincing argument against simply looking at excess deaths.

You do not see it? I see a long fat tail there.

There were 131500 excess deaths during weeks 1-8 and 230000 after that. Does it sound normal to you?

And for every age group below 65, 2021 has been worse than 2020 and worse than previous years except 2019 for 0-14 that was even worse than all pandemic years.

Are you intentionally blind to this?

You appear to think that we can somehow take each age group and somehow handle them much differently. Practice has showed that we all are connected.

Why are we getting such runover by omicron - kids in the schools and kindergartens. I do not blame them, it just is like it is.
The way that family dogs live, they are effectively family members, so you can reduce exposure and whatever family member has it goes into quarantine. If exposure reduction means no dog park because its spreads in dog parks as much as it does in schools, so be it.

Free range cats - if cats bring it home from wherever they go, well, no more free range for the cat.

It's hard to understand where the defeatism and the absolute unwillingness to follow simplest public health measures comes from.
I prefer direct communication even though the surrounding culture seems to be less comfortable with that these days. While I will still post an update
on FB every few months, I got annoyed with how the algorithm made the feed harder to follow so many years ago. In the early days I was a big proponent of blasting out a post to whoever might see it, but I have too many “friends” and even if I curated that list I’d still miss so much amidst the clutter because the algorithm made it so some important-to-me stuff will never appear in my feed. And so often the people I want to see something don’t see my posts. Hence directly texting and emailing them photos! If there were a social media tool that had my best interests in mind, perhaps I could trust it to show my people the content I want to share. Maybe I’m old school since I appreciate getting email and snail mail letters from people, but now if I want to tell people something I send it to them directly. If there are too many people to email/text/call, maybe I should rethink what I’m doing and why. Some people respond positively to that and I’m guessing others find it too forward, but I don’t feel bad about being too forward. Decades ago we used to knock on front doors without telling them in advance that we were dropping by, so I don’t feel an unsolicited texted photo of my baby is so uncomfortably forward compared to that. :)
There is no reason to believe that the lowest 10% performers are the same as the 10% put on PIP/forced attrition.
Thanks, great points. I hadn't at all considered replacement of other taxes. That changes the calculus a great deal, I agree.
From what I know, this happened in a large part due to the Three Body Problem. Once it was proved that there was no closed form solution in terms of elementary functions, Poincare suggested that we instead try to see if solutions existed at all, and whether they were unique. If so, we could at least hope for numerical solutions. I think this was partly responsible for the development of "analysis situs", i.e. topology. [1]

This approach was fruitful in yielding concrete techniques - we now have efficient techniques like the fast multipole method by Rokhlin and Greengard, to numerically tackle the three body problem. Without existence and uniqueness results, there is no basis for the correctness of these algorithms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_and_the_Three-Bo...
Because the government actually has an incentive to run infrastructure well. It's democratically accountable if it doesnt. There is a lever there that you can push if you are unhappy.

If you run the electric grid or the last mile water pipes privately competition is essentially impossible so there's no reason for the owners not to just neglect it and milk customers dry.

With trains the really criminal part was that the land around stations got sold off for cheap to hedge funds who made a LOT of money. Japanese trains can be run at a profit despite taking losses on tickets because they didnt do this.
So, you're living inside someone else's product, yet are upset because you can't personalize it as you please?

Google just changed my entire phone's theming system when I changed the background. I love it! I don't have time to personally pick and choose colors, so I'm very happy with this. Also, it matches the background!
10/10, please don't ask for my consent on this Google, I have enough popups from companies begging for my attention.
It’s getting clearer and clearer that these viruses are extremely bad, see for example https://denovo.substack.com/p/epstein-barr-virus-more-maladi...
Looking at the NHS right now, no matter how much money the tax payer pours into it, it simply isn't efficient enough.

It's hard to compare, but there is no specific evidence that the NHS is noticeable less efficient than the healthcare system in any other developed country – so this is a weird thing to say. https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6326
Don't gish gallop.

> What does it mean for a body to be "mine?"

You are your body.

> So - does water flowing down a hill have a perspective? Where is it located?

Why would it? Does it sense and produce a mind? Not that I'm aware of. You could go the pansychism route if you want though. See David Chalmers or something.

> can I say that I'm any less the water as I am my hands, even though I'm controlling the water, getting feedback from the water, subjecting the water as much to my nervous system as I am subjecting my hand itself?

According to enactivism, no. [1] In general, see embodied minds theory. [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
Depending on the project, the token holders and those who run full nodes govern the system.
No I'm not talking about programming that requires calculations or programs written to solve mathematical problems. Programming at its core is about defining precise logical relationships between abstract objects and then writing algorithms to understand and modify these objects. This is a mathematical process and you should use mathematical thinking to do this.It may not always seem like it when the objects and relationships appear to be simple but that is the core of programming.
Lots of rose-colored spectacles in this thread about Japan. Lest we forget that it is a society like any other with its pros and cons and its idiosyncrasies.

I live in Germany, possibly #2 for fax machine usage by ossified civil servants and old businesses (aka anything that's not an "app"), and I hate having to use physical letters or fax machines to consider a document properly "sent".
Wow cool to see this pop up here. My dad worked for this company in its heyday before it was acquired by Unisys I think. Used to make mainframes. He came to the USA from an Indian village without any formal cs education. Completely self taught his way through tech. Gave me a copy of K&R when I was a kid and kickstarted my own journey.
>Here's the problem - if I can't get my weather alerts from my local city township from Mastadon, but have to use Twitter, then the point is moot. For example - https://twitter.com/TravisCountyTX/status/148934948869109350...

It's still better than if it was completely impossible to communicate to others without twitter.
Genuinely curious. I'm not very familiar with UK politics and I was always under the impression that Labour was more left wing than Lib-Dem and Conservative so I was surprised to read that description of them.
This comment should be printed and put up on quite a few teams' wall.
Trains lack competition regardless.
Is someone going to build competing tracks?
Can trains pass each-other in a bid for speed?
Privatise and they'll bid for the operating contracts of lines and then pass that cost on to the consumer with some added cost for profit and poof expensive trains in Britain.

Also sometimes trains are subsidised by the taxpayer and that's ok. Like here in Belgium the train runs a loss tho the fares are comparatively cheap. I'm damn sure it can be optimised if some overpayed management was replaced, obvious inefficiencies worked out, the weird splitting of services required by the EU reversed, etc

But they also provide a huge societal boon despite that subsidy because we lose boatloads of money on roads like the ring around antwerp and brussels being the most congested in europe which can only get exponentially worse given how much commuting happens here.
Only way that happens is if the USA leads it. Couldn't even get you guys onto the metric system, what do you think the chances are that you'll subscribe to this?
"no objective facts nor sources were provided, so they are assumed as irrational beliefs only"

That's just a reflect of your ignorance. You live in a bubble and you're ignorant about your own country, I don't have time to do google search for you.
Agreed, but I believe "using AI for inference from sparse observations" is unfortunately a thing already.
yikes. I'm all for trying 'nudges' over outright censorship, but actually interfering in the social graph seems wrong.
Thanks I didn't know that - and wow, that's a serious disadvantage! (I've got a bit of assets at Coinbase, and was considering doing some mining...)
If obtained through scraping vs the API it also isn't allowed via the regular ToS https://twitter.com/en/tos and their robots.txt

So either way sounds like a ToS violation. Which Twitter is usually pretty aggressive about shutting down.
>Emulating basic on an Apple IIe is like forcing the kid to learn trombone and play Count Basie tunes because that was what was cool back in the day. They will despise trombone by the time they are teenagers.

Exactly!

Forcing kids to learn what you did the way you did is not smart - unless they actually want to learn what you did (the way you did)

I worked at a non-profit in my early 20s, and had the chance to teach kids from middle school to early college how to build web pages (among many other things). When I would teach the workshop, they were building actual, live XHTML 1.0, CSS3 (I think it was 3?) compliant pages and sites in about an hour or so

When others would teach the workshop, they'd be in there for two hours just seeing all the ways we used to do it that we don't anymore (except, you know, when you really need to (using tables to format, etc (all those 'fun' geocities hacks folks making "complex" sites in the 90s had to do before CSS was a thing and widely supported))), and only then get to the 45-60 minutes of how to do it now.

There are some things that can more-or-less "only" be taught one way (like, say, using a table saw). But everything else? Teach it in a way that engages your student(s).

Want to write games? Get some books on the topic, and write games. A handful of fundamentals need to be known first, but without goals that connect with the learners, they'll never really learn it.

And if it turns out they hate programming? That's OK, too - there's a whole world of alternatives, an being so myopic as to think the only way to "have fun" or "learn" is the way you did it as a kid is kinda dumb :)
> I think in general there is this trend in UX toward treating users as helpless children, and it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you take away someone's agency, then yes absolutely they will be helpless. They will learn to be helpless, to act like children. I don't think that's something we want to aim for in general. It's bad for society and disastrous for democracy.

On a similar note, constantly redesigning UI just to redesign them encourages this too -- why develop expertise or skill when it will be undermined because some UX designer wants to make his mark?

I get the strong impression that UX has stopped being about the users and has become more about the designer's ego or his employer's interests. It's the best explanation I can think of for all the redesigns that no one wanted or asked for.

IMHO, the first questions any UX designer should ask themselves are:

1. Is the new design a useless side-grade from what we already have (i.e. just doing something differently to do it differently)?

2. Are the advantages over the existing design significant? Is it really worth invalidating existing user knowledge?

I've had a few run-ins with UI designers and architects (of the building kind) as an end user, and they've left a sour taste in my mouth. A lot of dismissing user feedback with pablum about "change being hard" or insistence that the changes are popular with some silent majority.
Exactly. But having a theory of identity is just a declaration that you subscribe to one, not anything meaningful.
The 8-bit guy is building this:

https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/home/

Which might fit what you are looking for.
Virtually everything in life is about smart risk management.

Some things are just far more likely to happen than others.

Which of these 2 things are more likely to happen?

1) An attack or change on Bitcoin that renders it completely valueless or unusable

2) Governments inflating fiat currencies and robbing you of your wealth

I'd say that 1 is merely theoretically possible, but 2 is about as close to complete metaphysical certainty as you can get.
Thank you. It's always a struggle to communicate to people in 'labor' industries that creative content is ruled by 'talent,' so even if you employ the 'talent,' they still have the upper-hand as the owners of their IP and abilities.
I also don't think that they would completely abandon it, but if non-targeted advertisements are not generating enough value, they could switch to a paid subscription model. They would certainly lose many users, but as all competitors have the same issue, their monopoly position may allow it.
Definitely in the EU (my own experience), and most probably in UK...
I'm glad there you guys made this option available in the browser. For those that don't know, YouTubers can spend more than 50% of their time editing on just cutting/trimming down silences!

Source: I am a YouTuber.

I even tried to tackle this problem in 2021 by building Atomic Edits[0] - an electron desktop app that did the same thing! I built a working prototype, but eventually stopped working on it after realizing that lots of web-based video editors started offering this functionality. In retrospect, it was obvious that doing this in the browser with cloud saves was way better.

Anyways, nice work! I'll check it out later.

[0] https://www.github.com/SuboptimalEng/atomic-edits
I meant explanation why this particular house consumes so much energy...

Anyway a rhetorical question as the article was mostly about the visual and social aspects.
>Maybe 5-10 years ago, there is no need anymore

Is still either create your own or install a random package that brings other 20 as dependencies.

Example, you want to show an Alert or Yes/No popup, This are built-in everywhere but n Web world you need to review and install a third party thing, or create your own buggy or incomplete implementation.

Maybe you want modal dialogs, this is a standard in GUI tookits but you need to create your own or install a package/module/plugin specific for your project shitty framework

Maybe your designer demands a (context) menu one with keyboard shortucts and native looking like , or a scrollbar that matches the website/app theme colors or that works horizontally without holding Shift like in native apps, you have again to find 1 solution from a giant pile of shitty packages.

The dropdows,scrollbars, number spinner, color picker inputs CSS customization is pathetic, the designers demand customization and the only solution is installing third party stuff.

There is no DataGrid or ListView component with a smart implementation that can hold many items so all websites implement a crappy inefficient thing, or show you only 20 items and you need to hit NExt Page like a money or again you find a third party solution.

As a language JS progressed a lot, so much I am not sure if switching to TS is a good idea or I just need to wait until JS will catch up with TS. But as a platform the Web /DOM is still garbage, CSS got some nice feature with flexbox but that is all.

People that did not wrote complex desktop apps with a GUI framework will not understand this, and think that the shitty component they create by nesting 12 divs and catching 2 events is the exact same thing. It is not, this GUI frameworks components are efficient and handle all events/cases properly. Even Google devs were incapable to make the Youtube search suggestion dropdown work correctly, many times it gets stuck open and you can't close it without a reload.
Who else immediately thought Red Dwarf's scene where Rimmer commanded bots to repaint the interior from navy blue to ocean blue?
There’s a Covid-19 epidemic in deer
[Briefly verify that Chase Bank, General Motors, etc. all have iPhone apps]

[Upvote tim33's comment about the author's lack of credibility and related shortcomings]
Isn't that an implementation choice?

Like in C++, a const is absolutely allocated since you can get a pointer to one. And then you can do horrible stuff like const_cast that pointer and mutate the value, and the possibility of that occurring prevents the compiler from doing certain const-related optimizations.
Yes, it (the lack of deterministic-select) is only annoying for several special cases. For most cases, it doesn't matter whether or not the default behavior is deterministic.
It's not really whataboutism; plenty of countries and businesses commit terrible crimes without ever facing actual concequences. The Twitter mob won't actually do anything, and in the real world business goes on as usual.
A voip call should be done normally, which means that unless you are one of my starred contacts I don't get a notification in DND mode. I have starred maybe 5.

You can make up all sorts of notifications for emergencies but I could counter with what happens if I am in the shower when I get the notification? I don't want a tornado warning the last possible second, I want to know it ahead of time so that I can get to a safe place. If my car is broken into there is nothing I can do, if my grandmother has a fall it is at least 30 minutes before I can get to her, I don't need notifications for bank payments (it gets added to a list that I renew when necessary).

I wouldn't want a notification for an active shooter at all -- if I was hiding from the shooter, it could give my location away.
People who love Twitter, how do you use it effectively to serve you?
I assume you will be relocating with L1A visa. EB1 applies to L1A under category 3 which is Current as per visa bulletin. I would suggest USA if so.
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