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You're right, but I think you've missed a detail.

Our stuff was being made in China, until many of our supply chains were severed due to Covid, leading to Chinese defaults, shortages, and an increased cost of doing business. Now a certain amount of stuff simply isn't getting made at all.

The question at play is will they recover to 2019 levels? Will China be able to deal with the defaults of businesses who provided key nodes in the supply chain while juggling their 0-covid strategy? What will happen to the cost of doing business when China loses 20% of its workers over the next decade or so due to aging?

I've been a broken record about this but I highly recommend The Great Demographic Reversal. It provides a high level view of the forces at play in our world and is a real eye opener.

caycep said prices were artificially low but that's not quite right - prices were as low as they deserved to be because China had workers and we were able to make deals to mobilize them. In the coming decades I'm not convinced we will have that luxury.
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The centerpiece for W's first term was the No Child Left Behind Act. Many described it as the No Child Gets Ahead Act..

I've heard of that partcular move by NYC and I'm not a fan. I imagine the net effect is that it will drive those with the means to put such children into private schools instead. If you're low-income you don't have this option. How does this benefit anyone?

The whole policy screams of a theoretical idea of not making kids feel bad.
I am aphantast, but I do not suffer from it.
When I am fully conscious, I have no inner vision, but I have vivd and colorfull dreams.
If I remember them, outside that twilight zone shortly before full awakening.
So I have an idea what it probably is like to have inner vision when fully awake.

Allthough there are some disadvantages, of course.
I admire people that are able to draw and paint based on their inner vision.

Much more important for me was the realization that I can evoke images, scenes, etc. in other people that trigger feelings in them. Which in turn can trigger actions or omissions.
Fear, joy, hate, love, disgust, lust.
Which they can't do to me, at least not just by invoking visual images in my mind through words.
Manipulative, but not manipulatable in this regard.
With time, that came in handy.

By the way, I am friends with a handful of people who suffer from schizophrenia.
They say they envy me a little because in their worst phases they wished they didn't have this movie in their head.
It repeats itself, over and over again.

And aphantasia is a spectrum, I have known people who describe rather dull, colorless inner visions and others who can sustain them only for short periods of time.
On the other hand, I met an artist who seemed to live in his own private vibrating Van Gogh painting.
Judging by his descriptions.
And of course, without DMT.
There are people with a stroke, removed tumor or other brain injuries who recover (e.g. see Simone Giertz on yourtube). Don't underestimate the ability to adapt. Maybe you lost a few points. Maybe not. Maybe you didn't even fully utilize your brain anyway and with a few tricks you easily blow past your capabilities from before covid. Just listen to a few "Huberman Lab" podcasts about cognitive function and the brain. I know worrying can be a vicious cycle. Trying to improve is the best you can do to grab yourself out of it.
Yeah, small delays are happening constantly, bigger delays very often, you will always see a few ICEs running 120+ min late. Many malfunctions and building sites. Some tickets are horribly expensive or straight up overpriced and then knowing the arcane system behind pricing is required to pick the right ticket for the right price.

It's also a dense network with lots of passengers and I do manage to get around so there's that? But you were probably thinking of Switzerland, not Germany :o)
I lived in an apartment in suburban Atlanta that was 4 stories in a county with no public transit whatsoever. Plenty of places in the U.S. have little or no public transit in the US but also have the density to support apartment buildings.
Makes me think of … Asperger’s.
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We aren't sure how long natural immunity lasts for.
>My reaction was "well deaths are way down" but then I looked and we recently had a spike of deaths as big or larger than the initial wave.

Your initial reaction was correct, national deaths (and hospitalizations) are way down (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home). There may be localities that are near crisis, but this is a national poll.
Yeah exactly. This is your life now, and worrying about any possible impact it had isn't going to change anything about the impact and how it affects you now. All you can do is move on the best you can.
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That was an absolute delight of a read. I learned a few things. GIR OAA and SAN TA1 are wonderful postcodes.
1. Cool programming stuff, not involving politics or corporate politics flamewars. Generally narrowly focused on one task. (Make discussion more general and framework / language bikeshedding starts.)

2. Career related stuff. It can be useful. But sometimes it too feels like echo chamber.
It's an age thing - the dreams you had when you were younger didn't turn into reality

This is a tangent, but I've heard that children who grew up in the "space age" after Apollo thought we would be on Mars right now, or colonizing the solar system. It was their childhood dream.

Hence a lot of men (especially rich men) in that era are interested in flying planes and going to space. Bezos was born in 1964 and Musk was born in 1971.

On the other hand my first memory of the space program was literally the Challenger disaster ... that's when the myths started dying down, and when America stopped going to space very much. I never really had that dream, and it feels like many/most people my age and younger don't.
Indeed, this unbundling is already happening. Many of the so-called Customer Data Platforms offer a low-code, no-code option for creating and iterating on marketing campaigns. They've already done the work of integrating with the various storefronts and ad platforms.
I want the visitor to be informed that clicking the button places a cookie on their computer and why that is so that clicking the button is an informed choice. The other option is to not click the button.
I love stuff like this. I just went to add my own site only to be told that somehow my feed was there already. I guess I am officially part of the IndieWeb!
Your earlier analogy kind of feels like saying that because you can go further by adding more fuel to a jet engines fuel tank that you have failed at efficiency and should redesign the engine.

But generally I think the better analogy is a rocket ship. If we can still go higher and faster with more fuel we should try to do that before we worry about engine efficiency. You have to get to the moon before you can colonize the galaxy.
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A more interesting bit of AOL era ephemera was that we used away messages as people use Twitter today. In the AOL client you could set a short message (just a few hundred characters) as an away message that others would see if they had you in their contacts. People started to constantly set themselves 'away' with messages about what they were up to, how they were feeling, etc. I'm sure this likely influenced Jack Dorsey and the other early folks at Twitter since they were growing up and using AOL at the same time.
No, I mean at any level.

I agree with the what you're saying, but I'm not talking about things that make people popular, I'm talking about argumentation and what makes someone persuasive. I'm talking about the relatively rare circumstances that can create opportunities to repudiate biases instead of confirm them.
I think I use two Qt apps regularly and both are related to my 3d printer. The slicer and CAD software.

The slicer is Cura and it works great and feels good to use. It's a little slow to load, but once it's loaded it's a joy to use.

The CAD software is Fusion 360. Functionally, it does lots of great stuff, but it too is slow to load and, unlike Cura, it feels terrible to use. Of all the software I use, Fusion 360 is the worst. How has Autodesk managed to write a Qt app that feels this bad?
> get Zapier approved by security

How do you manage this when marketing relies on PII to do anything? We just went through a switch over to a multi-channel messaging SaaS from an internal solution that "worked" for 6 years. Handling the PII aspect of things was taken care of by the SaaS being SOC 2 and GDPR compliant, but something like Zapier seems like it gives users the control to move PII into systems that don't have that compliance. Or are there controls around which data can flow where?
My understanding of how the term was used is this: Zapier has many use cases. Many customers buy Zapier for one or two use cases, not all the features offered. New startups are emerging that accomplish a subset of the use cases that Zapier addresses.
Hmm, but saying that you have privilege is not the same thing as saying you've done something wrong or are guilty, right? Even if you were born into an overall advantage, it wouldn't mean you had done anything wrong.
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What part of forcing sterilizations in camps in our borders is 'making things right for foreigners'?
> The allied victory was paid in soviet blood. The axis had lost before the first US soldier stepped foot on European soil.

It's quite possible that things might have been different if the Nazis were secure on their Western front or the Soviets hadn't received American aid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#US_deliveries_to_th...).

> Fuck off with your US white liberal savior complex.

Really?
You'd think that, but data-driven economists were finding low correlations for this kind of (rational) thing specifically for the modern US dollar, which is confusing. Super great PlanetMoney/freakonomics episode on inflation ~last year. If I remember right, this broken state goes back to at least the Obama years, maybe closer to Clinton.

It's a weird state to be in. The rational thing becomes to continue (leverage) the weird situation -- the market expects continued regular high spend for whatever regular big thing of the month/year -- and the irresponsible thing becomes any deviations that risk rocking the boat (ex: risk EU style rallying on austerity becoming a self-fulling prophecy). A lot on inflation concern is triggering FUD loops (sporadic supply chain hits vs YoY spirals), so when we know the market treats USD differently to beginwith, accepting the FUD (by policies that assumes the USD is a weaker currency) is kind of the worst thing policy makers can do. Likewise, most non-US countries rely on USD stability, so probably same thing for their policy makers.

I'd hate to be the one making these calls.
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This would have been true 5 years ago but based on the current pricing, any non-trivial use case is far more expensive than identical internal development and maintenance.
I don't think so. IMO, things function fine when everyone simply admits the truth: all any of us care about is ourselves (well, and our own families).

Companies want us to make them money and we only care about the company's success when it benefits us. But in this 'arrangement' there's an alignment of values: an agreement that we both want the company to make money.

More problems arise when companies succeed but don't share the success or when employees demand high compensation but do nothing to earn it. As long as everyone's honest about their own greed it can work out.
Steelmanning is a bad idea that needs to go away. It’s pretty condescending to say “your argument was bad I fixed it for you”. It’s also confusing when someone tries to improve an argument before responding to it. Lastly, steelmanning done poorly changes an argument into something that’s easier to respond to without necessarily improving it. It might be a good concept for academic debates in ivory towers. In general, it’s confusing and wildly impractical.
They're not "hyping" it as much because not nearly as many people are being hospitalized and dying. Also, there's a shooting war happening in Europe.
>It's clear as day on the Fed's balance sheet the reason for inflation

Yet there was not this inflation during the Fed balance sheet runup in 2008-2018......

So maybe your simple claim is not what is the cause. More likely is that in 2008, the balance sheet was loans to banks (paid back), whereas in 2019+, the increase was from money being handed to people?

In fact, your total assets graph is misleading. Look at the same graph, under the selected liabilities breakdown - the monetary base has been steady, with no inflation for most of it. The big recent increase is in purchase of Treasuries, which is the money the govt gave to the people to help them through the COVID caused downturn. This is a good use of money, and of course giving people money with no gain in production will lead to inflation, but it's not the Fed at fault - it's elected officials voting for free money.
One note to readers who may end up seeing discourse like this online: a (very simplified) critical race theoretic version of this goes as follows:

1. All race is a social (and to some degree, legal) construct. There is more variation in genes / ability / class within a single racial class than there are between racial classes.

2. The "white" race is even a social construct by this definition.

3. Society attributes certain attributes to "whiteness" or "blackness" or "coloured" as a result of its construct.

From there you may hear someone say "we should fight against whiteness" or some such, like a game of telephone. Typically the actual intent is to fight against the construct that certain values are "white" vs. other traits being ascribed to "person of colour." In short: the social construct of "whiteness" as an act of supremacy is the problem, not the colour of one's skin.

I'm not sure I have ever seriously heard the argument "white people are inherently morally guilty due to racism" but I can see how this starts to blend over time. People taking the above argument and misrepresenting or misunderstanding it could quickly devolve into a game of telephone. It's a sensitive topic so it's important to handle it with precision in our language.

But yeah, I'm not sure I've seen any serious "anti-racist" folks actually claim being white is a sin, so much as perpetuating the construct of "whiteness" as some kind of intrinsic value is the real sin. Of course, CRT is a graduate-level field that requires some degree of legal expertise, so you would have to go digging for the steelman version of the argument.
The best cure for inflation is to increase taxes. This removes money from the economy, and can be targeted towards the areas of the economy with too much money.

Raising interest rates paid to the Fed are another way of removing money from the economy, but are a broader brush, although the Fed is a much better steward than Congress. Increased interest rates cause stock market declines, so they also tend to act as a wealth tax.

Cutting spending is another way, but it's slow acting. It's more of "don't make things worse" than attacking the core problem of "too much money".

So if you hear somebody screaming about inflation, ask them if they support increased taxes.
Always had to find that perfect lyric to convey the message. What a time.
> Inside, wide corridors ("streets in the sky") run along the central long axis of every third floor of the building. Each apartment lies on two levels, such that the room on one side of a corridor belongs to the apartment that is mostly below the corridor floor, while that on the opposite side belongs to the apartment above. On those floors without corridors, the apartments stretch from one side of the building to the other, and each has a balcony on the western side.

If you search for floorplans of it, it looks like there are also interior corridors but I think every apartment has access to one of those wide corridors. I'm not sure what the point of having both interior and exterior corridors is, I would think it would be better to get rid of the interior corridor and give the extra space to the exterior one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%C3%A9_d%27habitation#La_C...

Edit: Well this is disappointing. After further research, it looks like that corridor is just the main one and the rest of the floor have dark, internal corridors and then enclosed balconies. What a missed opportunity, imagine a whole building full of corridors like the ones in the image, if you're going to build two story apartments then why not do it that way?
Well, I work in finance and we do a lot of upgrades. We rarely touch the old COBOL systems. But we rewrite plenty of JSF and even AngularJS front ends. In fact, I created a system about 2 years ago that is currently being rewritten by a different team. So it does still change. I have never worked at a true tech company so I'm just assuming the change is slower.
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Are you still talking about inflation? Inflation is change in nominal prices, it doesn't affect the cost of living.
I could see your point there as well. If talking about Facebook and Google, I absolutely am on the same side of not giving them an inch more. I see them as data-first companies, whereas I see Apple more product-first. Whether I'm correct in that is debatable.
Your “proof” is incredibly lackluster. The only study it references was done on people with stage 3 kidney disease, and even the study states the conclusion might be incorrect.

Alternatively, I found a study that concludes that “consuming less than the 24-h water adequate intake may influence the risk of dysfunctional metabolism and chronic diseases” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6315424/

The study does state that the “adequate intake” is different for everyone, but at the end of the day you need to drink water. Spreading the idea that you don’t need to drink water is foolish.
I had the same observation. And I suspect the answer may be "yes." These are the only people remaining with the skillsets and inclination to maintain a personal website. The rest, if the mood strikes them to start a blog, will go for a Medium or Substack page. And even those are probably the 90th percentile users. The rest are just going to make big Facebook or Reddit posts.
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Can you describe your tooling for Qt with Python development? I've tried to get started a few times but there were some licensing trip ups etc and a lot of different tools on the QT website.

Can you develop a normal (non open source) apps using Qt/Python? For line of business apps users are not supposed to have access to source code etc. Also, do you have to use QML, did you use QML. At first glance that wasn't so appealing.
Shouldn't core inflation include everythign that "regular people" need to keep food on the table and a roof over their head and a basic existence (health care)?
It couldn't POSSIBLY have anything to do with the money the last guy printed, it's definitely all due to the money the current guy printed. Obviously.
> But... I have noticed this before 2016. Years before.

I wrote 'decade' for a reason. :-) The push started during the Obama administration. Before Russia invaded the Crimea, Putin was laying groundwork to soften US resistance.

Study Exposes Russia Disinformation Campaign That Operated In The Shadows For 6 Years: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/878169027/study-exposes-russi...
> and trying to figure out the best way to sync it with all my devices

Store it as an email?

I generate a daily digest for my subscriptions and have them emailed in my inbox.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity. It just owns Raspberry Pi Limited which is a tech company. Don't confuse the two. RPL does the hardware and software stuff. RPF is focused purely on education and outreach work, and can do that because RPL provide the money.
What do you use Zapier for?

I feel like I live in a cave. Over the past 10+ years, I’ve yet to understand what use cases people use for things like IFTTT/Zapier/etc. I clearly must for alone I’m not understanding.

Can someone please help me understand their specific use case. I’m genuinely curious.
Man, it's just old people rambling and exagerating. Don't take it too seriously.
I have a few examples. The loss of ownership over Software. The blatant privacy violations. Free Software + ads combination. The consolidation of vital pieces Software into a very small set(sometimes singleton) of companies. The loss of user agency in Software. Literal killer autonomous robots.
More like a .txt file + OpenAI to generate images on demand
I don’t think the literal fraction of a second difference matters.
> 15 people worked on the OG DOS version of Doom. Many more of course when you start including developers and producers on its ports and localizations.

While Super Meat Boy was mainly made by (AFAIK) two people, the original DOOM was made by an id software that had just 10 employees - this is mentioned in the Doom 3 manual. But this also includes everyone on id, in an article about Quake some months ago Romero mentioned that "We got Doom done mostly with only five people, and then we got a sixth person during the last few months. With Quake, there were only nine of us, but by that time everyone on the team was awesome".

However it isn't just the number of people but also how long it took to make the game. Doom was made in less than a year (or about a year if you include the engine research that went into Shadowcaster) but Super Meat Boy was made in a bit less than two years (and that was with already having Meat Boy as a template).
Yeah, this is almost the sentiment behind the snarky comment I made that got voted down.

The difference is I am not so pessimistic about those UI-based ETL systems because I did a deep dive on the architecture of those and even worked for a startup that built one. I've seen how the industry's fixation on raw performance has kept ETL systems using a relational model that is hell to program for complex jobs -- I pitched a next generation system to a very acquisitive leader in this space and got shot down because my system wasn't friendly to storage locality and SIMD instructions. (That startup had the right idea of passing 'JSON' documents between the lines and the boxes but never settled exactly what the algebra was for those things, how to close event pipelines in the end properly so you always get the right results, ...)

Those "integration builders" though strike me a way of replacing a 10 line Python script with incredible tedium and "you can't get from here to there" experiences. That leads me to say things like "When I hear the word 'integration' I reach for my gun."
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I'll do this sometimes in web forums. There are certain points of view expressed certain ways where I already have a pretty good idea of exactly what the poster's opinions are, how they'll defend them, and how they'll respond to any questions, and I know my likelihood of getting them to reconsider or maybe even engage on terms I consider reasonable is nearly zero, but I might reply anyway just so lookers-on can get a sense that there are alternatives to that POV (and that, after a couple back-and-forths, that maybe their position isn't as strong as their very-certain tone implies)