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I started reading disagreeing with many points of the article, I did realize that she is from a different generation then me, so her "then vs now" is very different from my "than vs now". But still, when I look at what sets were available when she was a child I would say that her points "1. The instructions", "2. The sets", and "The building method"; were based mostly on what specific sets she happened to have, and no on what sets were available at the time.

Yes, up until the 60s (before even that author's time), Lego sets were mostly generic bricks with just a small set of specialized pieces (just some wheels, doors and windows), for example sets of the "Universal Building Set" family [0] like the one pictured early in the article. But by the time of most of our childhoods (the 70s or even 80s), Lego had already introduced sets with plenty of specialized pieces. Also at that time they already introduced some more complex sets tailored for a specific build, some of them, the kind of set some people may chose to build only once (as if it was a glue-on plastic model kit).

The thing is, most rants about old Lego being better more generic, are just misguided rose-tinted nostalgia talking. Lego still sells awesome generic sets, even better than the ones we used to have when we were kids. They just happen to also sell some hobbyist sets. For example, my son's big box consists of a mix of my old 80s era (e.g. [1]) plus my niece's 00s era (e.g.[2]) Legos, and I have to say that the 00s era is much more generic and full of bricks, allowing for much more varied imaginative play, than my old 80s spaceship sets full of large single-use pieces.

[0] https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Universal-Building-Set

[1] https://rebrickable.com/sets/6971-1/inter-galactic-command-b...

[2] https://rebrickable.com/sets/31025-1/mountain-hut/
> That intermittent vs continuous NEVER was part of the discussions about runaway trim. I don't know where that notion comes from. It doesn't make any sense.

It comes from Boeing's checklists: https://i.stack.imgur.com/cRG4J.jpg

It makes perfect sense, because continuous operation identifies a fault condition. Under normal conditions, automatic systems may intermittently move the stabilizer, but never continuously. It may be faulty when moving on its own, but if it moves continuously without input, it's definitely faulty. That's where the name cames from: runs away into physical stops.
This was already China’s plan before the sanctions. Sanctions only slowed them down but that was the goal so it worked. To buy some time before the US loses one of the few technological edges it still has.
Oh, I'm not defending the art industry.

I'm saying that NFTs are the worst aspects of the art industry in a form that can be exploited by single individuals without producing a physical item. In short, they allow for ultrafast laundering because you don't have to go to art auctions, or generate paper trails, or whatever. Hell, you don't even need valid URLs (though it'd probably look a little fishy if all of your URLs pointed to the 404 collection).
Thanks for this. I have a friend who reads this special brand of niche junk math for entertainment and I am sure he will love this.
We don't need a blockchain to solve this problem. It would be enough to make the database public and allow third parties to make backups and subscribe/log all updates.
If you’re planning on using it for productivity purposes, rather than as a detached-keyboard Windows PC, then the iPad is your best choice (Pro devices being the best option, new or used).

Amazon-curated Android-based Fire tablets are cheaper, but with a shorter lifespan and dodgy expansion storage (WTF is wrong with Android platform storage?!?).

If you’re located in a developing market, stick with pen, paper and bicycles: decent data throughput is a hard requirement for high-end tablet use.
> Blockchain is really just an accounting system.

Yeah, it's really just a globally accessible, append-only, Turing-complete accounting system controlled by no single authority.

Nothing to see here, move along.
It's not as good as a typed language but it's pretty good and it will only get better with time.
Building Mould King right now. The difference is almost gone. Cada is worse than Mould King. Anyway with 5x price difference I can live with a bit lower quality. Lego pricing is just sick. Even used sets from not that distant past.
Yeah, I got what I posted above with uBlock Origin on, in Firefox.
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I find the act of building a set and putting it on a shelf to gather dust a bit sad, but big piles of similar shaped blocks are also a bit uninspiring.

So I was pleasantly surprised to find the BricQ Motion sets aimed at classroom use. They come with lessons plans and videos to give some direction, but even without them it's a great self-contained box with very carefully selected pieces to encourage learning about physics and a pile of more "silly" pieces to add character. There's a good selection of wheels, springs, weighted blocks, "ropes" and Technics style pieces. They come in a segmented tray and are colour coded to make finding particular blocks and experiment with related blocks easier.

I think they're the best of both - experiment, solve a challenge, learn something, build nonsense and then break it all up and put it away neatly ready to do it again. Big hit compared to sets.
For me, semver isn't perfect but its good enough.

At least for my experience in the Rust community:

- You can trust people to not break things. For the unsusual cases, people are quick to respond by yanking.

- Once people hit 1.0, they rate limit their breaking changes to be less disruptive

The nice thing about small libraries is each incompatible upgrade is a smaller step which makes it easier to take on. I've seen large code bases struggle to adjust to large breaking changes and hold off until it becomes business critical.
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This is a nice goal. Will it be the first i Europe? No, Sweden has four such protected rivers: https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveriges_national%C3%A4lvar

I'm sure many other countries have such rivers as well
Am I more of a troll than the other low-effort comments claiming false things like “wayland manages to have worse design than X (without any concrete example)”, or that it causes fragmentation in desktop when fragmentation has always been a thing? Good luck using anything dbus-related thing under a minimal wm like dwm.
> This comment does a good job of citing why the 15-minute city concept feels kind of "off" to me.

As a European, this comment is perplexing to me. We all live in 15-minute cities over here.
just look at where /r/superstonk has gone with that. It's hilarious.
And where there's weather to support that.
Motorcycles are death traps in places that have winter.
A long time ago I read Dan Simmons series article “Writing well”, where he argued that Shakespeare greatly profited from his education in a - very uncreative -grammar school, which emphasised learning of latin and imitation of latin rhetoric.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170411075439/http://www.dansim...
I believe this is partially correct: https://www.gov.uk/dismissal

* you can demand written explanation if you've worked for at least two years

But, for most contracts here a 3/6 month probationary period seem to be the norm for tech/professional roles, and then a 3-month notice period (to quit or be let go).
> It does suggest a training problem.

Aviation rules are written in blood. Training is being updated and fixed. But regardless, MCAS itself is controversial and fallible - it’s crucially important that Boeing make it better.
The main difference is that the sets and instructions got way more complicated and elaborate. So much so that they stifle and discourage the creativity instead of feeding it.

The first set I had was a minuscule "mineral detector" from the space set - https://media.brickinstructions.com/06000/6841/001.jpg

There were 6-step instructions [2,3] AND there was a separate page with what else was buildable from the set [4]. That was the Lego magic ingredient, the most crucial part. It forced one to look and think and imagine how those extra models were put together. That, in turn, kick-started the process of trying other things. Above all, all of it was simple. So when you got more sets you'd look at the instructions as a starting point only and then dive right into building the alternatives.

Modern sets have none of that. If anything, they basically demonstrate that you can't possibly come up with the thing you are building on your own. No way. And whatever you can put together will be so inferior in comparison that it's not even worth trying. It's really sad what Lego did to itself, because it was something magical :-/

[2] https://media.brickinstructions.com/06000/6841/002.jpg

[3] https://media.brickinstructions.com/06000/6841/003.jpg

[4] https://media.brickinstructions.com/06000/6841/004.jpg
I have been following your tool for a while. It's great to see how is still developing and changing for better. The creating in BOWWE is a great experience. Just one question - you are saying that you are focused on change. So what new will come out in the near future?
Exactly, thinking though what lego we have brought each other and the kids (3 and 7) in the last year we could easily be spending twice as much on "adult" lego than on the kids, and we get it for them even more regularly.
Eastern Europe has gated communities? You mean Russia/Ukraine?

Because I haven't heard about gated communities in Slovakia and Serbia, I I'm guessing it's the same in neighboring countries.
I'm not sure what point you're making unless it's to underscore the tautology. The better alternative exists. It's only the political will to implement it that's lacking.
> People inventing/printing an endless supply of money for their own benefit.

This is odd because Bitcoin, despite is ecological problem, was created to precisely not have an unlimited supply. There are only ever going to be 21 millions Bitcoin and the free market was supposed to decide was one Bitcoin was worth (offer and demand: nobody was coerced into buying any).

I don't like Bitcoin's carbon footprint but I can see how Bitcoin maximalists may be disgusted by all the shitcoins and by NFTs.

I don't think "Satoshi Nakamoto" (whatever that means), if he/they is/are still alive, planned on creating an unlimited supply of money just for the sake of getting rich.

To me Bitcoin seemed more like some kind of an anarchist cyberpunk statement than a ponzi/scam.
Can second to that, love my moonlander!

However, I feel it's like configuring VIM - mixed feelings with the defaults but once you set everything "your way", then there's no way back.

I couldn't believe how ergonomic tmux key bindings can be with moonlander's magic.
I also have an X220. An X220 Tablet though. An all-around embarrassing device. Sure, the form factor was correct, but everything else was not. Should’ve just returned it. The keyboard is not firmly seated inside and bounces around, resulting in audible vibrations. When switching to tablet mode, TrackPoint no longer deactivates. The screen moves it, moving the cursor in turn. 3G card was mediocre at best. The pen digitizer does not work properly at screen edges no matter how much I calibrate.

Add to this all the general ThinkPad problems like locked-down Wi-Fi card slots, mediocre battery life and fans that are running all the time.

I’m not sorry at all I jumped ship back then. I still use the Late 2013 MacBook Pro now. It’s certainly not perfect but just so much better. But that’s just for me.
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I have concern here in the speaking in absolutes. Plenty on the right listen to metal or read Harry Potter, and play D&D. The right is not a homogeneous group. Being against anything the left proposes puts you on the right.
If you still think the right wing is predominately Mitt Romney types who clutch their pearls at the sight of a metal band then you are not paying attention to the drastic swings in politics that have happened in the past 7 years.
Shameless plug but... called it : https://medium.com/@jsemrau/nobody-will-talk-about-uber-in-5...
What's easier making a policy that 20,000 banks have to abide by.

Or creating a new digital currency that 20,000 banks AND every business has to figure out how to accept?

You hand waved away "creating an app", but that app has development and design decisions that need to last, needs to get adopted by people, and needs to be accepted.

A free banking policy is significantly easier and would cost the government less.
And also corruption / crime that are a corollary of poverty
Thank you for that link. Voter ID law seemed like a non-issue until I realized the problems which can arise obtaining an ID and keeping it up to date.

I can imagine lots of edge cases, like a senior citizen who doesn’t drive and has an expired ID. Is it still sufficient proof of identity? Should a voter be turned away?

I suspect these laws are most popular among young people and people who drive—-in other words, people who maintain their ID for other reasons.
I live in China.
Can you give some examples of why the nodejs community is not nice?
I am from the US but do not live there - I live in Norway.

Open immigration doesn't necessarily mean open rights to social structure: After all, most places have some limits on the safety net you are entitled to now - For example: Taking certain types of social help here in Norway hurts my own immigration. You can have some controls on this: One actual answer is to make sure everyone has basic things as rights (Such as food and shelter) and work on making everywhere decent enough places to live - but for this, we need less global exploitation.
This comment shows perfectly that people has no clue what they're talking about, these dev dependencies will never be pulled into your project, they're just for typescript's own development.
Mars is going to be tricky.
They recently started selling in some EU countries, but not yet in the one I reside (NL). It contains an Intel 11xxx, while 12xxx (Alder Lake) is vastly more superior and also there's no AMD option (5 nm ARM like M1 would also be very power efficient). That said, it is a great first iteration. I wonder if it could pass QubesOS certification?
And unless you are i a pitch-black room that is exactly what you want.

And displays arent high-resolution enough for it to be a big deal anyway.
Since these actually-we-are-not-bad-like-electron-we-are-using-system-webview frameworks seem to be popping up every other week, and this comment is always here, I'll be the one to say it:

Lazarus requires you to write your application in a Pascal derivative. People overall don't want to learn another language, much less one that's not "hip".

I for one don't care about having to learn another language or how old it is. But Pascal is not only old, it is antiquated. Standard ML is old, but it still beats the pants off what most people are using out there in expressiveness.

And FWIW: I started writing a Gtk4 application this weekend using Rust and Relm4. Relm4 macros don't get Rust Analyzer support and builder pattern is going back to the stone ages of procedural UI building. I miss something like what I had with VB6 which also represents the good ideas behind Lazarus, but neither compare to the sheer productivity of something like web Elm or React+TypeScript.
Things don't follow the OSI model nor have they ever really, it never caught on. The 4 layer TCP model is much more realistic (and less formalized) but even then there can be differences sometimes. You can spend a lifetime learning OSI to only end up finding a few real world protocols like IS-IS in use and co-opted to be used outside a full OSI stack anyways.

Regardless knowing the layering model to the letter tells you very little about how TCP works for instance. After all that's the reason for layers, you don't need to know how the protocol does it's thing just where it fits in the stack and what happens between the boundaries (which in the TCP model is "not much"). The other commenters suggestion of Stevens book has been the traditional recommendation though I will say it hasn't sat idle since then and you !ay want to follow it up with some more recent resources to get a complete picture of modern TCP extras.

For the UDP one also look into the design of QUIC for ideas in that space.
Stinking homeless are thrown away from public transport vehicles here in Poland.

It's uniquely American problem that your public transport smells like piss.
Why does hello world take 1.8ms to run? That's ~5,000,000 cycles. By my measurements with Actually Portable Executable the latency of vfork+execve+exit+wait4 on a physical computer running Linux should be 25µs. That's two orders of a magnitude difference. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/test/libc/s...
Isn't this widespread knowledge? I'm fairly sure everyone knows this, but reality doesn't seem to confirm my certainty.

The NFT space only makes sense as a money-laundering innovation. Why bother with finding art when you can just generate it from nothing?
Considering what extremely performant and reliable chips you get for under $0.10, it is no wonder that few economies can deliver here.

It simply isn't worth it to manufacture these chips without selling billions of units. Not to mention the development, even the small chips today are extremely advanced from a technical perspective.

Opening a lemonade stand is a far more solid business plan. Since owning know how is somehow not worth anything despite heavy handed patent laws, I think the business case is just bad. China seems to work against this with specifically funding establishment of fabs.
Say you are a game developer and you are creating a game like WoW or EVE online where items can be traded via an in-game market. You can design the whole system from scratch yourself or plug in to the various blockchains and use the dev cycles elsewhere. You could represent each item with a 32byte id and each player’s inventory with a wallet.

Bonus: say a new WoW private server spawns up (there are tons of these around). You can offer the option to a player to “migrate” from another server and keep all their items. All they have to do is provide a digital signature from the original server to show that they own the items.
It is extremely secure and reliable against very specific forms of attacks and provides little to no protection against other common forms of attacks.
Are Today’s Portraitists Better Than the Old Masters?
Single-pair wire can deliver power in addition to 10Mbps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#PoDL

* https://blog.siemon.com/standards/ieee-p802-3cg-10-mbs-singl...

Not sure what kind of distance-dropoff trade-off there is.
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> It would appear that, in the 1970s, equality of the sexes and creativity was the end goal for Lego

No. Saying you can buy your daughter a spaceship and your son a doll house doesn't mean that was your end goal. More likely, having to come up with fewer differentiated toys to sell, i.e. broadening the market, was.

I'm not saying that equality (although playing with nontraditional toys isn't synonymous with that) be an aim, but it's not the most obvious "end goal" explanation.
Why is the financial media so obsessed with Gamestop? It's a relatively tiny company and if it truly was the case that it is over they would have stopped talking about it. Instead they publish fear-mongering articles and hit pieces on people like Keith Gill who was just a normal person seeing a value investment and got lucky. hint: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
At least for Go and Rust, they have a much steeper learning curve. If you are a startup with limited funds you are not able to target engineers workings with those languages.

If it's just a matter of speed, PHP already is good enough for the great majority of cases. The bottleneck is the data layer, usually. If your problem is being faster than the latest versions of PHP can achieve, you can certainly look for Go/Kotlin/Rust. But if you start your startup optimizing trying to shave off some milliseconds out of a response time you are setting yourself for failure.

And in any case, languages like Go have their own part of quirkiness around the language or tooling (should we talk about how dependencies are managed in Go? that's ages behind npm/composer). Or shall we talk about the lack of exceptions, but then people regularly ask for them?
The reason those flags are so rare is because the grip of the 1x1 round brick at the bottom is much stronger than the strength of the flagpole so if you would remove it by pulling on the flag you'd break it.

So these commend ridiculous prices for small pieces of plastic (about 8 euros or so last I checked).
Single-pair wire can deliver power in addition to 10Mbps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#PoDL

* https://blog.siemon.com/standards/ieee-p802-3cg-10-mbs-singl...

Not sure what kind of distance-dropoff trade-off there is:

> For example, at 55V and 1000m, 7.7W can be delivered to the endpoint. At shorter distances, 55V and 150m, 52W can be delivered to the endpoint.

* https://ethernetalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/EA_T...

Eval board here:

* https://www.analog.com/en/products/adin1100.html#product-eva...

All of this is meant for bulk purchases in the industrial/embedded/automation/SCADA space, so small-batch hobbyist purchases may be expensive.
Bugs, tests, documentation, grooming, there's plenty of stuff to do to get one's feet wet.
The "which of America’s largest cities have the greatest potential for transitioning into a 15-minute city?" line is really confusing. Instead, I believe they're talking about American suburbs and minor cities.
A monkey doesn't know what a firetruck is, nor is it influenced by cultural pressures, such as glitter and pink are for girls. The difference in gender preference is that the females prefer people, such as faces and social interaction and boys prefer objects such as trucks.

This preference was also shown in studies where female new born babies tend to look at faces more than male babies.
I really like this benchmark site. I would love to see erlang added. Assume Elixir is close enough?
The spaceman is Salvator Tuesday by Conor Walton.
Our culture is overly obsessed with the concept of certification as being a necessary precursor for professional legitimization. Shakespeare did not have anything close to what we'd interpret as a modern education and it's interesting that you regard some imaginary English teacher as a major influence. Artists for the majority of history learned most of their trades on the job. We mythologize the education system as the only legitimate venue for learning when it's a fairly new invention. Robinson's point wasn't attacking teachers, but the bureaucratic factory farm of universal education that does more to categorize and institutionalize labor, then foster creativity and critical thinking.
I thought xlispstat was a big deal in statistics at its peak? I suppose both R and xlispstat are (to varying degrees) lisp-based, so another way of looking at it is that statisticians like lisp?