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Affinity photo has too many quirks and (small) glitches for me: one of the most annoying is that ALL tools/inputs reset to default values/state after single use.
It also becomes imprecise when working on smaller images (not photos): it’s not well suited as a pixel editor.
It allowed me to abandon Photoshop a few years ago but I’m not much satisfied.
The packed that waste on fishing ships who dumped it on the way out and brought back fish. So basically, we dumped our plastic into the ocean, but with a clean consciousness after a convuluted process..

Can we stop pretending that whatever bejing decrees becomes reality in the country it claims to rule over? Its a nice play-pretend facade and the socialist inspired reality below is usually quite dystopian..

We pretend to recycle and they pretend to care..
Is this really... true? I get that there's this idea in people's heads that you couldn't tax for example some incredible rare art collection, because who is to say it's true value and you damage the owner by applying such a tax burden they actually have to sell the art. But let's take a step back. Where is the real money? Bezos, Gates, Buffett, Page, Brin, Ellison, Ballmer, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg. Further down the list the same thing is true - the people with wealth actually have the vast majority of their wealths in companies. It's not difficul to liquidate, it's not difficult to value them, it's actually quite comically easy. Even the guys who actually do have enormous art collections are almost all art dealers, they can and do liquidate their investments all the time.

On to the core question: how much is the stock in the non-public company you work at really worth? I don't know, sell it and we'll find out. A SWE with illiquid stock probably actually has a much shorter timeframe of when they want a liquidity event than the US government has.

The truth is that the reason it's difficult to tax rich people is because the first thing anyone does in this conversation is talk about how hard it would be, without thinking for a second if it actually would be hard. Let's lay aside any talk of real wealth taxes, and just stick to our current tax system, Elon Musk borrowing against his Tesla stock is not a taxable event. Let's change that today. It's specific, easy, would immediately drive revenue, and doesn't require any innovation around true wealth taxes. But... we won't, because it's not difficult, the government just doesn't want to do it. What does that mean? The burden of tax is primarily put on income not wealth, meaning your SWE with non-public stock is already getting absolutely pounded with taxes on their income instead.
This is like the regular articles about some new fancy battery chemistry that will make EVs as quick to charge as an ICE.

It's effectively misinformation, because EVs are already better than ICE and just boring improvements to existing technology will provide improvements over the next fews years and decades.

But, a) people hawking a new innovation need to grab eyeballs, and b) people fighting the future have saturated the media with BS to stop progress on EVs, renewables, recycling etc. and those two things combine to become potent misinformation.

Recycling is already cheaper than making things from petroleum. It only doesn't happen in places where people think they can push the cost onto someone else. They don't realise that they are someone else's someone else and will end up paying the price they think they have cleverly avoided.

Amusingly, the voices that have said "recycling plastic is impossible" have been so succesful, that there's now democratic support in many places for just banning many uses of plastics. Which was an unintended impact of these petroleum fueled lies. They've recently switched to attacking plastic bans, by promising that tech like this, will make plastic recyclable in the future.

Whether pro or anti recycling, they remain consistently anti-regulation.
Confiscate his passport, put his face on the no-fly list, and electronic tag him?

Although possibly more relevant is the reasons Kevin Mitnick was denied bail; what can he do from a computer?
Investigating the World of Chinese Linux
The Chinese domestic market is enormous - no one's giving the numbers but if there's Microsoft-sized desktop Linux OS user group, it's probably in China.
I did think that but even if you extended the model to be one where money could be created via "successful" investments, I suspect much the same result would transpire - wealth would concentrate fairly rapidly if everyone kept re-investing %x of their wealth, such that a certain % of investments would result in wealth creation and others simple loss of funds.
I have to admit: no idea as well.
> converted the immediate throw-catch into a simple goto.

This is very interesting. Both GCC and clang do not do that, as they represent exceptions as abnormal edges out of a basic block and don't optimize further. I guess in Java exceptions are common enough that it is worth the additional effort of transforming some of these cases into normal jumps when the destination is seen, while in C++ it is more of a vicious circle of exceptions not being optimized because they are uncommon and being used sparingly because they are optimized.

It is of course possible that Java exceptions semantics are such that they might be easier to optimize (lots of observable side effects in C++ unfortunately).
It reads as fanboyish because it start with "I love how ...", while a non-fanboy might instead have said: "How apple names things: they choose names that have a slight air of elitism to them (also reusing name parts they already established), to make it sound as if they're slightly better than everything else"
Django vs Flask (or FastAPI) is an eternal programmers debate. I've been on this route several time and earlier I chose FastAPI, but now my current project is Django.

Django comes with batteries included which is perfect for a large set of problems like Appointment booking SaaS or similar client-server problems. It is opinionated in certain areas like ORM or MVT but gives enough leeway in others like addons like DRF and templating. It does strict MVT which makes it unfashionable in µservices and DDD contexts. But once you make peace with the ecosystem and choices, the absolute speed you get in terms or releasing features is phenomenal.

Apart from inbuilt support for security, templating, documentation, Django also plays really well with 3rd party tools like heavyweight frontend frameworks (React) or lightweight libs (HTMX+AlpineJS). It's ecosystem is also great and you can easily setup Social auth or custom crispy forms in a day or so. And the cherry on top if Django admin which is highly customizable and unbeatable.
This is a dishonest piece. It ignores that it's based on a zero-sum game and the world isn't zero sum. The quoted economists know that very well.

I like that the coin flip game illustrates the concept of compounding interest, but it doesn't model wealth creation at all.

Most new ventures aren't I-win-you-lose, they're we-win-or-I-lose. Wealthy people really can take bigger bets more frequently like the article suggests, but it's not necessarily at the expense of everyone else.

A more accurate illustration would be a game where each round you have a choice: bet 25% of your money or recieve $0.30. After each round, you must pay $0.25 to play again. Some people start the game with no money, some people start with $1.00.

If you think this game through, you'll still end up with super wealthy outliers and bankruptcies, but the players in the game actually have some agency.
That's not a problem at all. The concern is not the absolute dollars paid. The concern are the percentages and the concentration of wealth. That the rich pay a lot of tax is basically immaterial except that it points out just how skewed the wealth distribution is.

The "rich pay the majority of taxes" is an excuse.
> Unrecoverable errors are things like stack overflows or out of bounds array access. There is no reasonable way to soldier on after this, so the program should just end

No, I wholeheartedly disagree with this. It's the equivalent of exit(1) some way down the stack. Whats recoverable or not depends on the use case and is a decision to be made by the caller of a function, not the implementor.
So basically no, but they had a good UX team who set clear product requirements
She got 11 years for lying about her product in order to defraud people...
> Buying a second, third, fourth home?

It's too easy for the ultra-rich to find loopholes in any rules. If there is a tax on homeownership, they will simply not own any home but will own some corporate entity that own the asset. See ? No secondary residence. Just an investment in a corporation that happens to home a bunch of houses.
But as far as I understand, the stocks, and other difficult to liquidate assets, as log as you hold them in that form, are worth "nothing". You can't go buy bread with that, not even a house.

At some point, you need to sell and get your local currency in exchange. That can be considered income, and taxed at that value. It doesn't matter whether you had 1M which melted to 1000 or if you bought it for peanuts and got lucky.
Borrowed money is not income.
I favour it because I hate having to endure upsell attempts.
I mean stack overflows or out of memory errors. It might fail one request, but no reason to fail all others.
Yes !

As you mentioned, that's basically competition in both ways, for once : expecting more affordable hotel rooms and wage increase at the same time

Macroeconomicaly, that's basically automating casual and repetitive tasks to focus on value, with more skilled and demanding workers.
I'm glad that automation is becoming more effective for these jobs !
I mean, robot vacuum cleaners have been a thing for over a decade. Why wouldn't hotels rely on them ?

When visiting countries with a lower GDP in other parts of the planet, I was shocked by the madness of this cheap workforce : they cost nothing, so a lot of workers were working in pretty unproductive jobs.
Like ppl don't drive, you have a taxi or tricycle driver to carry you around. If you're middle class, you have caretakers all around. And there is no automation at all, it's cheaper to hire unskilled.

They were working much harder than were I'm from. But there wasn't any focus on value or production or anything.

That's why I politically hate whoever blames jobseekers for any issue, and point these jobs. If you want to rebuild a lower GDP economy, yeah, send everyone to unpaid jobs.
If you want to move forward, just automate everything, and let workers have jobs where they add a lot of value.

(Disclaimer : I'm an industrial engineer who wanted to do robotics, but ended up doing DevSecOps/ IT only)
> If you are wealthy and refuse to earn an income, then your savings will eventually deplete and you’ll become bankrupt.

Please look up "rent", "dividend" and "capital gains".
Ok, Microsoft is not a shining example for naming either, I mean, they had a product called "Windows 8" which actually had version number 6.2 - do I need to say more? At least they fixed this with the first release of Windows 10 - and then got rid of the version numbers in the very next release (at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers...).
Loans are not income.
What about a tax such that you can only use assets as collateral for a loan if you've paid any outstanding capital gains on them? Would affect normal people through HELOCs but otherwise would mostly affect the very wealthy.
Donald Knuth discovered bug(s) in TeX that had been in the very first version, but because releases were checked with diffs and didn't change in this aspect, weren't noticed.

At some point such bugs start to look like features that people are relying on...
Yeah it looks dated. It has its uses though.
Tech giants ditch office space in London and Europe
It’s slightly buggy, but I do depend on this utility.

Main point of contention: Adding a new bookmark in Chrome and changing the folder in which it is stored almost always causes an error and restore to the previous state.

Not a huge deal, but I have to consciously remember to do each action atomically, add, rename, move, with a second or two in between each action. Even then it’ll usually take a couple of goes to her right.

I also have a couple of “accounts” for work and play. Don’t forget to sign into one of them for more than a couple weeks. They expire.

Good to use a bookmark backup script: https://gist.github.com/shuckster/a91724adf5db1897ef07a69165...
Just because Rust people are in denial about it doesn't make them not exceptions. The Either/Result monad is isomorphic to checked exceptions, with any differences being pretty much just syntax.
This all presupposes that the government is an efficient user of capital, when its pretty clear its not. Heavy taxes on the rich, means that capital investments that a rich person might finance, become government programmes and bureaucracies. Theres obviously a sweet spot here - but rich folks are good at creating capital and governments are notorious for wasting it.

Now in the US I probably don’t have to tell you where most of the money goes - hint military - so more rich folks money into the governments coffers - what industry do you think benefits the most from a policy like this?
Sure, but we all know about the loop holes that need to be fixed.
I am a devout capitalist with an accounting degree and an MBA. I believe the theory and data indicates that wealth is a mix of (in order): luck, family wealth, social ability, attractiveness, height, intelligence, natural abilities which align well with making money (conscientiousness, ability to delay gratification, affinity for work in scalable professions like IT, etc), culture, place of residence, likelihood of sociopathy, and many more.

Luck is part of it, but there are so many other factors here. When they converge, we often end up with people extremely good at making money. Under capitalism and in principle, this isn't a bad thing. It means they're generating outsized benefit for society. However problems quickly emerge: with economic power comes market inefficiencies. The wealthy can use their power to buy out competition, under-price them (below profit), out-market them, and leverage their efficiencies of scale and bargaining power to maintain a permanent moat. We are seeing all of this occur to an extreme degree in the modern software space. Frustratingly, anti-competitive laws have been on the books for a century, and are sufficiently broad to use. It's just that U.S. politicians lack the will.

Existentially, I believe that power corrupts. Billionaires are billionaires because they created a lot of value for society. Great. But once they're billionaires, they can control the destiny of countries, and this undermines democracy and greater social outcomes. I believe therefore that a balance must exist between deterrent effect which occurs with aggressive redistribution (and the effect is undeniable), and preventing the emergence of ultra powerful individuals.
640x400@70Hz monitor (not 100Hz as OP claimed) was the second part of the puzzle. You want as much readable non headache inducing (interlaced Amiga) text on the screen for music sequencing. Not to mention Atari ST _with_ that monitor was still substantially cheaper than naked Amiga 1000.
I understand that. I would expect Netflix to tell the production crew "I want the film grain on a separate layer so we can apply it after compression".
It is reasonably easy.

Step 1. The country creates a law forbidding any financial interactions with "offshore" countries (list is populated manually by lawmakers) and also with companies working with such offshore companies (shell intermediaries) in "good" countries.

Step 2. Country forbids its citizens from owning any assets or be incorporated in the same "offshore" countries.

Step 3. Blanket ban of cryptotokens.

Step 4. Huge inheritance taxes.

Step 5. Incremental tax hikes for second and more houses/apartments owned. Restrictions for corporations owning a lot of residential properties and huge taxation.

Step 6. Ban or restrictions of airbnb-like activities to discourage parking money in the housing market.

Basically look where rich hide money go for that. When they switch tactics you follow.

Step 0. Big independent financial auditor structure, independent from law and judicial branched both (or almost independent). From experience - you can dismantle a lot billionaires even with existing laws, if only someone looked close enough and punished them. This is a huge problem in eastern europe for example.
> You say there is no difference between unchecked exceptions and Go's errors

Where do I say that? I say that Go programmers, in 99.9% of cases, do manually what exceptions do automatically. In terms of cumbersome, error values are the equivalent of checked exceptions. The equivalent of runtime exceptions are panics.
Reasoning is often purely symbolic.

You take symbol A and derive another symbol from it or combine multiple symbols to form new symbols.

You can approximate this through statistics but sometimes approximations aren't enough.
Well... That's what predominates as user-generated content, I think :)

Anyway, none of the existing image-gen models can be used in content production in their vanilla state. Prompt to image is fine as a hobby, but style/concept transfer is what makes them usable in professional setting. Or rather will make in nearest future, as this is all still highly experimental. SD in particular is quite small and is not a ready to use product, not intended for direct usage. It's a middleware model to build products upon. Such as Midjourney.
In these situations, I always have to ask: who's taking the other side of the transaction, and for what fee? Who's trading Bitcoin for rapidly inflating Sri Lankan rupees?
Ha, Austrian school of economics... I'm sure they have a neutral point of view.. /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School#Criticism
Have you considered making the website available as a PWA? That would make it convenient to write everyday.
Confident Adaptive Language Modeling
I wouldn’t. Simple.
Most of our money does not go to the military. Defense spending is about 700b per year, while the budget is over 4t.

The government doesn't need to handle capitol allocation. We can simply shift the tax burden upwards. Poorer people get reduced tax, rich people get more.
I have already covered this elsewhere, but that's an excuse and actually only points to how concentrated the wealth is. Too bad they pay more money than others. Tax them more.
There is one similar viking ship currently under construction in France in Toulouse.

The objective is the same : doing a transatlantic travel for 2024.

Though, the project owners claim this will be the fastest drakkar ship :
In french : https://batar.fr/orkan/
Yes, it works well. The first time it misunderstood my query "write a very short story in Inform 7", but after clarifying ("I wanted a short story written as an Inform 7 program"), it wrote me the exact same story but in Inform 7.

Not sure if it's because I said "very short", but it basically locked me into a cabin without letting me go anywhere. It did describe a fair amount of objects inside the cabin though.
Catching unchecked exceptions at module boundaries is perfectly fine and as far as I know (which admittedly isn't much) both Go and Rust in fact allow doing exactly that.
I'd say that it could be confusing, since people often "Stand in solidarity" without any actions, but "Giving mutual aid" is something active, like protesting, monetary aid, a large scope if things.
> ship as a single binary (unlike Java).

Possible with GraalVM. Has been possible if you were willing to pay long before that. GraalVM produces statically linked binaries with only one external dependency — zlib, which is preinstalled pretty much everywhere. Startup time is measured in milliseconds.

I recently built a mid-size REST backend with quarkus — it ships as a single binary with size comparable to what I'd expect to see if it was written in Go, and starts in about 200 ms (from executing the command to when it's ready to serve its first request).

Having written code in both, I hope GraalVM buries Go in the long term, but in our hype-driven culture it's unlikely.

https://quarkus.io/guides/building-native-image#configuring-...

https://github.com/oracle/graal

> A reasonably good and ergonomic concurrency approach (like JS, unlike Java)

This is also very close to being solved.
If we were a species that evolved where extreme inequality made sense, we'd probably be fine with it. But we aren't - not even close. We have strong notions of fairness and acting in the best interests of society as a whole, that enable us to cooperate effectively etc. Extreme inequality eats away at what has made us successful as a species.
Do you not play? That sounds to me like a reason not to hire you. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of professional programmers play. I would guess almost all of them. Would I expect anyone to do the sort of play I do? Definitely not.
Make prohibitively expensive for corporations to own residential properties (cut off by square meters or land use type).
Those loopholes are trivial to eliminate, because those laws are already in place* for restrictions on foreign ownership.

* in many countries, I don't know about the USA.
Obviously not, a lot of reasoning boils down to modus ponens.
Some crimes are inherently hard to prosecute. Fraud for instance requires you to prove intent. International fraud is a mine field of overlapping jurisdictions and definitions and legal systems etc.

Other crimes are very easy: misleading (prospective) investors just requires that you fail to disclose something. No need to prove intent, even something very small will do. And as long as there is at least some connection to the US, US courts will hear the case.

Prosecuting SBF for defrauding customers would take years. But getting him for failure to disclose to investors (which seems to be what they're after) is really easy. So they're powering through.

They also now have 2 co-operating witnesses.
Come to the Netherlands! 52% kicks in early and plus there is the 2% worldwide wealth tax on all non-real estate investments.

Is it worth it, just to live in a shockingly civilized society under a highly functional government?
If you're riding at any decent speed, say 20 mph (32kph), think about the additional windchill that adds: -30C becomes ~-46C, if you're blessed enough to not have existing cross or head winds.

Base -30C temp is pretty normal here during the winter (3+ weeks worth before winter even started this year). Granted, in my city at least, we would have to do a much better job clearing/sanding your proposed bike roads than we do our regular roads to maintain that speed on a bike with any sort of safety. In any case, it's a helluva lot easier/more comfortable and less risky to bundle up and trundle to the train/bus station, than to risk additional frostbite from that windchill or wipeouts due to reduced stability of bikes on ice for any significant time. Again, assuming you could convince everyone else who has money for a car to abandon their cars and convert enough roads to dedicated bikeways, and build the infrastructure to safely store a bunch of $3,000-$7,000 ebikes.

Beyond all that, ebikes don't solve a lot of problems if you have a family of any significant size. If I have to buy, maintain, and secure 5 ebikes (and get my kids good with and prepped for riding in the cold and snow), public transit or even a car start looking much, much better.

I realize that most people don't live as far north as I do, but there are many millions who do and my whole point was that it's not eye rollingly obvious that ebikes are the immediate solution for everyone.
This somehow reminds me of some DOS games we had on computers in primary school.
Yes, checked exceptions with a proper type system and abstraction facilities would be completely equivalent to Result<T,E>, except built into the language.