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Plasma Desktop/Mobile developer here

The first version of Kirigami (the tookit used by plasma mobile) had a very interesting concept around navigation and people hated it. We still have some remnants of this with some floating buttons that are easy to reach for the thumb but also often on top of the content.

I really prefer us to copy a bit the UX of Android/iOS than spending a lot of effort trying to come up with our own UX concept that is not inferior of the one of Android/iOS. We are just an handful of developer and none is paid to work on it.
Instead we get Sweet Meta Rays.

(Not to be confused with Manta Rays)
>so what's the solution then?

this is not a solved problem - that's the whole point. there is no general way to verify trust on the web. We can verify trust in certain connections or transactions, but it's not possible to trust "the web". and until the problem is solved, anybody trying to sell a way to do that is selling snake oil.
Don't let one random person dissuade you but my take is that while you consider your text format simple its one more thing I'd have to learn the structure and symbols for.

An other issue you have is that if someone understands the concept of foreign keys already then they've probably already figured out basic create table statements. Lastly, learning a new tool for something that is just a blip (table creation only) doesn't seem worth it.

So your audience for something like this is people that sort of get what a database is but don't know create table statements or people that struggle with tooling enough that an easier mechanism might be useful. I'd suggest pivoting to something like a spreadsheet2db tool. Where filename == database name, sheet name == table name, column name == column name. And the spreadsheet approach lets people actually provide data also. You can also roundtrip and have db2spreadsheet. Once you start supporting rows of data instead of just table creation you open up a lot more use-cases. Plus a lot of people have basic spreadsheet skills.

Everything above is completely off the cuff and I've done zero research to valid the idea. I know there are some integrations in Excel and some tools like SQL Developer partially support this. Another options (to support data in addition to table creation) might be to look into supporting markdown or restructured tables. Might be cool to be able to prototype a database from a basic doc page, markup2db.
Funny that you mention resizing (Preview > Tools > Adjust size) and optimizing compression (Preview > Export > JPEG > compression slider), both tasks that Preview can do out of the box. For advanced edits I use Pixelmator Pro which has a UI that is actually usable compared to the decades-old cluster fuck that is the GIMP UI.
That is such an excellent interpretation, I’m sort of convinced that’s the author’s intent now.

I’d always gone for a more magical realism approach because of how often his supernatural demeanor is focused on, and because it dovetails neatly with Anton Chigurh being a similar thing in No Country for Old Men.
Solar however also takes up a lot of land whereas Nuclear does not. Not saying we should go all in on one or the other but that has to be a huge factor.
Exactly, in a market where the government doesn't guarantee these loans, students would have to negotiate loans with banks who would be very invested in the ability to pay back the loan after graduation. A cook (in this example) would be very unlikely to pay back a $250,000 loan, and no bank would fund that.
> but we could also halt interest accumulation and penalties on the outstanding balances due while payments are still made.

I'd be in favor of low interest rate consolidation programs.

But let's be clear: That's still far, far cheaper than just paying off everyone's student debt from taxpayer money.
Thank you for pointing out this insanity, we'd all be better off if doctors didn't have to spend a few years grinding out million-dollar debts, and then go on to print millions over millions over the rest of their career.

I have a radical idea. Make medical school free, and expand residency slots. Whatever this will cost will more than be made up by a dramatic reduction in doctor salaries[1]... And medical costs in this country coming back down to Earth.

We don't charge people for elementary and high school because an educated population is necessary for the well-being of the country. Well, so is the availability of doctors.

[1] The average general practitioner's lifetime earnings are 8.5 million. I'll happily pay a million for their schooling, if that number could be halved.
Ballmer era Microsoft is a very different beast to Nadella era Microsoft
I'm fine with some consensual system where those who opt in to it can engage in it. So long as I can opt out (of both liabilities and benefits), even if it means forever signing my rights away to public healthcare, it's all good to me. Consent about your health care decisions is important in my opinion.

>bunch of middle men leeching

Hopefully attempt here won't merely substitute administrators and insurance leeches for government bureaucrat leeches. I'm all for tossing out the leeches. Concierge / cash only medical offices are one way to do this, but a well run single payer system could probably achieve it as well.
> This crime is basically impossuble to police because you need an offer with a reliable sound meter device in the right place at the right time.

I live down the street from a biker club clubhouse. It would be beyond trivial to police this here, but of course the police don't care. Or, worse, probably have some sort of agreement with them. Meanwhile, I get woken up at 3am several times a week by a loud bike that sets off car alarms as it goes by.
> OP site looks inferior to the official one, maybe I'm missing something.

Neither is strictly "better" or "worse", but they are different. I dislike the fixed banned, that stuff animated, and various things. Right now it's broken because clicking a header makes that header sit behind the fixed header (maybe a feature? I think it's confusing). I just want a basic HTML page; it works well for me.

Normally I'd fix this with some Stylus CSS, but the site changes (and my CSS breaks) what feels like every week. So, I set up a redirect from pkg.go.dev to godocs.io and my life has been better since.
I had heard the hype for a while and was excited when I found out I was starting on a new project that was using tailwind. My excitement quickly turned to shock when I saw how much of an utter mess tailwind makes. Antipattern is exactly they way I would describe it as well.

I'll write old school scss over tailwind any day.
I feel the same way. My SO and I together bring in over 2x the median US household income in a below-average COL area outside a small city, no kids. We have a comfortable life: own our home, one modest vacation per year, and have some money left over each month to spend on hobbies. But damn, this doesn’t feel like “affluence” to me.
That presumably needs to make some assumption about it being non-symptomatic and endemic in way that most people can't test for. Which makes it essentially a matter of faith.
Nah he's just living in some alternative reality. A virtual one perhaps
My guess is growing use of new growth forests and ever-increasing harvesting of younger trees to squeeze profit.
Maybe in theory they aren't competing, but in practice they definitely are. Remember, open-source is made by whoever shows up and contributes. If everyone who shows up is either a hardcore Linux expert, or someone who want to make Linux easier for the masses, then who will integrate the two goals? Open-source isn't a corporation, where there top-down leadership. It's a bottom-up ad-hoc collaboration.
Nearly all of these forgiven loans were likely issued under fraudulent pretenses.
> But fiduciary responsibility is doing even a tiny bit of research to see the LTV of that degree.

How are you going to measure it? Philosophy majors tend to have good life outcomes. Is that because they were trained in philosophy? Why would training as a chef be less valuable than training as a philosopher?
Amount of uranium 235, maybe. Amount of ore and environmental degradation, no.

But I do worry about the 8g/m^2 of cadmium mounted on top of houses some of which will burn down.
> He also says that having any degree is "worth it" to an individual, monetarily. It's just not worth it to society to require everyone to have education they don't use.

Half of Finnish people between 35 and 44 have a degree, whereas only 7% of people in that age range from South Africa do, so South Africa must be much better off than Finland.
Perhaps a couple strangers would hear a few words but don't know who you are. If police or other state agency are pervasively watching, listening, and recording, I think you would agree that is quite a different situation.
> It perpetuates choosing degrees that will in 90% of cases never have enough of a return to pay for the loan itself.

Alternatively, it's fairly winding down the adverse effects of government-sanctioned programs that saddled people with debt for the promise of degrees that will in 90% of cases never have enough of a return to pay for the loan itself.

No one argues that these were bad loans and bad degrees. We all agree they shouldn't have been written and that we shouldn't be doing that going forward.

But there are still a bunch of young adults out there with unsustainable debt. Isn't that a problem worth doing, well, something about?
lol, same. One of the recruiters was an NFL player, which was interesting. Did chat with him.
I think you're touching on why corporate America doesn't understand what r&d is supposed to be. Expecting certain returns in specific places is not the point. You fund a lot of stuff and you don't know which is going to pay off.
Rather than change the icon for saving, there are good reasons to think that there should be no save button at all and saving should be automatically done continuously.

Many softwares do that already, computers have the resources to make it seamless, and it just makes sense in most cases.
To achieve an educated population the core problem of wildly inflated cost of college education needs to be dealt with.

Otherwise you have to repeatedly forgive the debt. The message you are sending is to consume without regard for prices or temperance as that will be rewarded in the end.

This acts as a negative externality as it erodes trust in the rule of law (many countries do operate like this, and they are terrible places to live)
It felt like some marketing guy at google deciding to use GO to promote himself.
Blanket funding of education is terrible. Loans should be negotiated on an individual basis based on the degree and that degree's ability to provide a salary high enough to pay back the original loan. This government loan enables colleges to charge more because students will simply take a higher loan out with no calculation of return on investment.
The article itself states that forgiveness is coming because these institutions defrauded their students
You should listen to the EconTalk interview with Caplan about the book. He talks about the relative importance of each factor, the uncertainties, and the logic behind it all. He makes quite a compelling case.

https://www.econtalk.org/bryan-caplan-on-the-case-against-ed...
I have read the book and it is pretty common sense and reasonable. I recommend you to read the book too.
That would be my guess for at least part of the reason, too, but it'd only be a guess. I also wouldn't be surprised to find out that tree species plays a role, and that we plant species for harvest that simply produce worse lumber than what used to be widely available (as old growth).
Student loans are a horrible idea then, because plenty of students choose degrees with very crappy earning potential anyway. Most of them manage to deal with their debt burden one way or the other, but the for-profit college population has a harder time doing that.
> The positive externalities of an educated populace are massive.

What are they?
PBS Frontline investigated this in 2010: https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-college-inc/

If I recall correctly, these schools were not sufficiently held accountable for borrowers who couldn't repay loans. They only tracked students' ability to repay for something like two years. I think policies were adjusted so that such predatory lending for a poor education is no longer possible. It's probably a game of cat, mouse, businessmen and politics. I doubt anything was done 2016-2020 since that president once ran his own for-profit U, but I think some changes were made before that.
This is truly terrible. It penalizes people who paid off their own loans, it rewards people who made poor choices, and it drives up the cost of school for everyone.
Then you'd lose that bet. Running, even just a little, results in such clear improvements to general health and lowering of all cause mortality that the spreadsheet creator would have to work really hard to push the effects into the negative, and anything you did to frame running as a negative would be trivially dismissed.
This reminds me of when Steve Ballmer retired from Microsoft and their stock price soared!
It's free as in puppy
my un-schooled guess is simple - the rest of the industrialized world has benefited from profit markups in real dollars of today - that fun book or skateboard was priced in modern terms.. while lumber is a commodity from the previous century or three.. their dollars and costs were low to start with, and were pressed down by commodity markets.

I once asked a recent undergrad in Economics graduate, at a party, why one pound of bread costs more than one pound of meat (the inputs and processing costs are vastly different, through the life of the animal, the meat should be way, way more) but, blank stare, more beer.

I for one believe that most of the markets, most of the time, make no sense at all from the perspective of the real natural inputs, and all the sense in the world from the point of view of one human group selling things to another human group, any way they can; old timber included.
I just googled "celebrity crypto wallet addresses" and found these:

Jay-z

Mike Tyson

Stephen Curry

Steve Aoki

Lindsey Lohan

Mark Cuban

Snoop dogg

Neymar

Kevin Hart

Serena Williams

Eminem

Paris Hilton

etc

Would be amazing to march around with these addresses on a cardboard sign asking for donations only to get them blacklisted.
If it isn't modified the AGPL is basically the same as "we use XYZ and you can download its source code from xyz.com" plus the copyleft.
I can delete my advertising ID in Android 12
Honestly, as a researcher in another field who on occasion gets asked to "audit" people's thoughts, it's a return on investment problem. Doing something carefully enough to actually be worthwhile is (especially for someone's wall of madness spreadsheet) many hours of work.

There's no real outcome where it's helpful for the auditor. They don't get paid. No one got tenure checking over someone's Rogue Outsider Spreadsheet.

People doing economic analysis should understand incentives.

What he has actually discovered is the same thing that makes writing quality scientific code so difficult - no one cares but you, so those unit tests your writing need to bring you some inner satisfaction.
I'm not defending the current system, but the predatory tactics of a decade+ ago changed dramatically under Obama and there are other steps currently being taken to prevent overly aggressive marketing tactics. University of Phoenix, for example, completely changed their marketing habits (among others afraid of getting sued/losing accreditation).
This is hilarious (and interesting!).

I don't have OCD, but I do have these kinds of intrusive thoughts. A friend of mine who does have OCD describes the same types of thoughts I have, but with an added intensity, ferocity, and consistency to them.

Has there been any research on what the causes of OCD are, and what the current thinking is with regards to treatment?
Discretion can be abused. "Normal, reasonable people," can be anyone with an 11-99 Foundation license plate holder. Apparently those things actually work, at least in the Bay Area. Otherwise there wouldn't be fakes and people wouldn't "donate" $500+ in order to acquire a real one.
I don't want to annotate an image with a CLI, and neither do you. And a CLI is the worst UI possible for a visual task like editing an image. Apple figured this out 38 years ago with MacPaint.
Tldr:

Ticks put a heavy coating of wax on their eggs which has previously prevented researchers from injecting the embryo to modify the tick genes. They removed the gland that secretes the wax and that opened up the ability to modify the embryo successfully, which opens up new means to conduct research.

Kind of a first step in a longer range plan of modifying tick populations in hopes of preventing the spread of Lyme et al.
Clearly there's a lot of depth here to exolore and I can admit to only a casual interest in the topic, but my understanding is that there were different factions within the Japanese leadership who were comfortable with different sets of conditions, and only #1 was a sticking point for everyone.

However, let's assume this is the only deal Japanese leaders would have accepted. Our discomfort about these conditions should be weighed against the discomfort of killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in bombing raids and dropping nuclear bombs on two cities. It's kind of hard to argue, for example, that an overriding concern about war crimes is why you'd have to bomb civilians.
ChromeOS and Android don't run on regular desktop or laptop PCs, at least not without a heroic amount of hacking and configuration.
I'm sure there are settings on the admin side to control this, but I easily get a dozen Azure auth requests a day.
what youre really asking is "why do credentials matter and why should randomly samplibg information not result in a appropriate confidence in a result"

after all, we knew for decades that the average guess for a cows weight tends to be more accu4ate than any individual guess.

the probablem as you are responding to, is how cheap messaging is and how effortless it is to both produce information and entrain the body politik in its recitation.

these can be over come by what you deride, credentialling and weighting sources. because in the exam0le od the cown, theres no people interested in giving wrong answers or mani0ulating responders to effecr a skew on the answers.

we know and have directly seen that is a naive point of view. as such, your response takes a simplistic exam0le and broadly interprets everything naively.
If you feel so compelled, you already are welcome to donate your money for these causes.

I encourage you to spend your money supporting the ideas in which you believe.

Let us know how it goes.
I will just leave this here.

"I am a strong believer that Bourne-derived languages are extremely bad, on the same order of badness as Perl, for programming, and consider programming sh for any purpose other than as a super-portable, lowest-common-denominator platform for build or bootstrap scripts and the like, as an extremely misguided endeavor. As such you won’t see me spending many words on extensions particular to ksh, Bash, or whatever other shells may be popular."

http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html
We mined the forests, and they've long run dry.

The wood used to built those houses was the old growth timber of the western united states. Its basically gone now. As well as the second, third and fourth growth.

Wood of sufficient quality to do the things we used to do with it simply doesn't come from industrial forests.
> That is ONLY possible with federal funding, no private lender would fund that.

Is this not a double edge sword tho?

Prior to student loans you more or less had to fund it yourself, which people did with a part time job or summer job. When they decided they wanted education more accessible and introduced student loans, all of a sudden more people could afford school and schools increased their prices 10 fold over time.
Utilities at this scale need to become boring and stable. As long as someone can game it, they will.
It gets much easier to think about if you picture the solar and wind owned by parties A, and storage and long-distance transmission by parties B. Then, it is just a matter of responding to spot price. The capital expenditure by A and B combined is less than for refurbishing existing nuke plants, never mind building new ones.
I wouldn’t write regex in this, but it would be interesting to use it to debug/read complex expressions.
Is this really easier than cmd+space "Preview" File > Export > PDF? Be honest.
That bad justification for choosing a very wrong tool for the job does not instill confidence for other logic employed by the author.

“I used the tool that obfuscates my work that I’m trying to get others to review and buy in on because I consider myself hopeless at clearer tools and don’t want to even try. Why will no one engage with my obfuscated work?”

I mean even he admits he made and corrected a ton of mistakes in his beast of excel. It’s absurd to think anyone would want to wade through that mess.

Intentional or not, if one makes it impractical and unreasonable to crosscheck ones work then critics shouldn’t be expected to unravel it to point to the internal error. They only need to point to external evidence in the contrary.
I had a little chuckle at this. One day you will too :)
> there's a lot of software that's mostly-open-source-except-Amazon-isnt-allowed-to-run-a-hosted-version-of-it-without-paying-the-authors

That's...not mostly open source. Being able to pay whomever to run a hosted version for you and not have that be exclusive to the original creators isn't, especially in the age when hosted services are in high demand, a peripheral feature of open source. It's integral to the value proposition.
This is a specious argument imo. The beta does mention that some part of it is written in Rust, why exclude Swift/Objective-C to JavaScript if you're in the business of talking up implementation changes?
Docusaurus looks great, I'll probably go with that. Thanks
Ex-Baker by Trade here. yes even the little shops are effectively mass production factories.
Buy the ingredients in big pre-mixed sacks. add the right temp water and yeast into a big mixer and press go.
drop that into a machine that cuts the right mass chunks out and shapes it ready for production line style dropping into tins and mounting in the proofer then into the oven.

Typically they only have one actual baker, a few apprentices and often just unskilled laborers.

actual "Artisan" bakeries are very rare and not terribly profitable unless in highly affluent areas.
Too bad there aren't many details. Did they not have enough warning from orbital prediction models? Isn't that a problem for them no matter whose satellites are sharing China's space there?
At this point, it's pretty clear that someone has blackmail material on Zuck and he's being embarrassed before outted.
The same, but with syncthing, I don't really see the utility of giving 1password or any company my ssh passwords or my passwords, like they're there for anyone to attack
Can someone point me to a simple example use case and why temporal is beneficial? The website has a lot of temporal-specific jargon and not a lot of straightforward examples.
First abandon ship, then abandon your mates, finally abandon yourself. It's a crypto-roadmap!
I wish there was a theory for why a certain set of sounds is music and why it isn't music. I'm positive I can follow all the rules according to standard "music theory" and produce sounds that aren't classified as music.
Yes, be an Owner in every way except the one in the ways that matter - decision making and a piece of the profits. I just ignore dumb propaganda like this. You have no obligation to accept the responsibilities of ownership if they don’t come with a proportional piece of the rights & rewards. Although if you are given options worth a fair amount of % ownership, this may be a reasonable request.