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Difference being jQuery was well suited and really necessary back in the day. Browser incompatibility meant that pretty much any non-trivial DOM operation needed to be wrapped by jQuery to be done safetly. Now every browser is just chrome except for firefox and firefox and chrome have played nicely standards wise for nearly a decade now.

Vanilla JS being viable on the frontend without jQuery or some wrapper probably didn't happen until HTML 5 so around 2014 by my reckoning.
>But right now, you have people, mostly younger, thinking they know how to build a better world by starting over from scratch. In programming, we've all seen (and been) the engineer who sees an old codebase for the first time and thinks they could do a better job with a full rewrite. We know that rarely works. And yet somehow many of those same engineers think they can do the same with a global financial system that's been in existence for centuries.

How is this any different than the people who are trying to write a whole social media/communications infrastructure from scratch (ie. fediverse), which turns out to be mostly the same as incumbents but worse? There's even an example of "[new system] is speedrunning the history of [old system]", which the recent debacle on mastodon where people were complaining about unfair/arbitrary bans and name impersonation, both of which are well known problems that centralized platforms ran into and they attempted to put a lid on.
Imo the ancesotor - Girl IM-ME had much better ergonomics https://hackaday.com/2015/06/08/hacking-the-im-me-to-open-ga...
>So I do wonder if trying to offer an similar but not quite alternative to car transportation is actually doing as much good as we think, it might be better for governments to push for more collective solutions to transportation that will drastically reduce environmental impact as a whole

I like how speculative and yet casually confident we get on here. Cities like NYC and Chicago have respectable public transportation systems. Have we analyzed what cars are used for here?

One problem is how do you propose getting people from a dense area to a weekend getaway to the woods, the mountains or a beach?

Another problem is, people live in semi rural and suburban areas, too, not everyone lives in an apartment building five minutes from a bus or subway.
When you consider the limited availability of batteries, electric vehicles don't make sense compared to hybrid ones.

Neither make sense compared to halving our speed limits.
Oh right, so all of the news coming out of Ukraine that you don't like and that contradicts the story that you'd like to be true is what we should believe. And you are quoting Orwell? Seriously. The thousands of people murdered, raped, tortured and mutilated for life are just making this up but you have the high ground.
I was going to say that as a German writing a check to buy a home feels absurd but given all the other (legal) transactions involved (including taking out a loan) boil down to signing a lot of paper, I guess it wouldn't even really stand out much. In fact when I took out a loan I had to write out my bank account details by hand, so this was kind of the reverse experience of writing a check.

It just feels extremely fussy for regular recurring expenses like rent and utilities. On the other hand, transactions on personal accounts are free with most banks (not so for business accounts but the cost is negligible) so there would be no benefit to doing it that way.
As a Canadian, Canada needs way more people for how much habitable land we have.
Lessons from Vienna: a housing success story 100 years in the making
But vast majority of banks will call you and go "yo, wtf", some even outright lock your account (with many false positives but still) from doing so.

There is zero chance that will happen for bitcoin.
"When you mate with shorter people, you’re potentially saving the planet by shrinking the needs of subsequent generations. Lowering the height minimum for prospective partners on your dating profile is a step toward a greener planet."

What ever floats your boat I guess...
Why do you need to be on Mars to do that? It's simpler to do everything in orbit, which is the real gate to the asteroid belt. Or directly establish bases in the belt, if we knew how.
- Work issued thinkpad

- 2 24” monitors on VESA mount arms

- keychron k2v2 mechanical keyboard

- Herman miller Aeron chair

- personal m1 MacBook Pro 14”

- personal iPad mini 6th gen and Apple Pencil ( I just got this so I’m excited to use it for work and personal stuff)

- notebook for bullet journaling

- noise cancelling headphones
The author is a single person. The parent comment implies a large portion of the women would prefer taller mates. The author being woman is not at odds with this claim.
a bit unfair to complain about Windows Media Player 12 having the same UI when the application is clearly included for backwards compatibility even though it has already been replaced by newer application (called just Media Player) with the new UI.
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It comes from fossil fuels today, but it can always come from nuclear or renewable sources in the future.
Nice.

The French translation of "copy and paste" is "copier-coller". A friend and colleague calls it "copier-déconner", where "déconner" is a word play on "coller" that means "to screw up", so "copy and screw up".
Yup. The "innovation" here is in the car, not the fuel.

There is another engine design, a linear piston engine, which is just a piston connected to a magnet and coil. The engine generates electricity (at a constant speed, constant load) and this is fed to an electric motor. So the car is a hybrid. It's more efficient than a regular engine (which turns a large crankshaft etc.) and the fuel probably can be more finicky since the combustion cycle can be tuned for one operating point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-piston_engine
> How is this different from washed check?

I've pointed out the difference: banks, police, and courts understand check fraud. They don't understand account takeovers, as these are much more complicated. They are much more likely to side with you on a case they understand, and reinstate you, and you need them to side with you if you want your money back.

There even may be a law that in the case of check fraud, the customer should be made whole. I seriously doubt there is such a law in the cases of email takeover.

> The author does point that it took 3 months to get funds back

As opposed to the cases where it took people much longer and they did NOT get their funds back?
I am very bullish on Carbon. Using C++ semantics will make switching and integration much easier.
I don't think women really have the best perspective on the difficulties of being short as there's never been a strong sexual stigma against being short for women. This seems particularly pronounced through the commoditization of human dating interaction through digital apps, something that isn't even touched upon in this article. Also not touched upon but felt by men and women is the general problem of being undersized for the world, which seems to be broadly sized for a 5'10" man (in the US at least).
I'm 6'1 and it's pretty great. Luckily not too tall. But my back and neck often hurt because I grew almost too quickly. And sitting in front of a computer all day really doesn't help.
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Not more than Microsoft.
Hmm... in the early days of HTML+CSS, there were a lot of visual people in the field. Some of them wrote some JavaScript, but stopped when things got too complex. These days they are doing UX design or create designs in Figma, and don't really touch code anymore.
How do you prove check fraud for washed check?, it has your signature, check is valid... funds get transferred same as for hacked account.
But you can then by using law, unsteal it. If bitcoin's gone, it's gone. There is no recourse.
The discovery mentioned is not of the script itself, but the fact that lots of common people were extensively using it all over Africa. Previously, it was believed that this script was used by a small part of African population, as a result of its distant past. The author has provided samples of this in several countries, and for common use (like for his own family), something that was not believed to be true in modern Africa.
To summarize my experience, state is hard, phones got introduced as a target, and browser code became fun to write.

Is the complexity artificially inflated? It depends on the app you want to make.
This article is bizarre. It reads like they've unearthed some long lost Rosetta Stone artifact from thousands of years ago. In reality, these people have "discovered" that everyone right around them writes using this language and this is just how they write and they all know about it. What is the "discovery" here?

Here's what I think: modern Western civilization - to say nothing of historical colonial societies - has attempted to pulverize these cultures utterly: it has removed their spoken and written language, music and art; altered their general societal structure; created a false narrative that they are "savages"; and so on. Some of these events are very recent, and some people involved are even still alive today.

Then, we like to do this thing where we go ahead and "study" the same people whose culture we just destroyed, pretending all the while as if it were an ancient civilization destroyed thousands of years ago through some natural process.

Tens of millions of people are walking around in Africa today who use this language. Now that we have "discovered" this, maybe some day we will also "discover" that they have music, art, jokes, and an entire culture.

No shade on Ngom, though, as I am sure he is doing his best to bring some of these things to light within the Western academic system.
> It works.

Technically it works. I never claimed otherwise.

I don't know who Aaron Parecki is and have no idea how much traffic that website gets. In any case, my claim is merely that most people don't consistently have anything interesting to say. Maybe Parecki does, I don't know. If he does, that puts him in the minority.
Ngom, who studied Arabic as a second language (the second of 12 languages that the scholar knows), was stunned. He asked his brother, still living in Senegal, to check with the neighbor to whom their father owed money. Sure enough, his brother reported, the trader had a record of the debt, too, in a similar Arabic-turned-Fula script.

What? How do you not know your father can write? How does your brother live somewhere his neighbors write the same language and doesn't know about it? What the hell is going on? This whole story is extremely suspicious.
You're discounting interface work. User experience, etc.

That isn't just making things pretty, but finding the best ways to display data, get input, etc.
That’s a life goal right there: Have your software reach enough users that a software giant buys ads in searches for your software.
> Why did Frontend development explode in complexity?

The browsers became more capable (as someone said in another comment, they are effectively shooting for operating systems now), and more ambitious projects became possible. Consider such web apps as:

- Google Maps
- Google Docs
- Google Meet
- Youtube
- Adobe Photoshop online
- Figma (or Penpot)
- Miro (or Mural)
- Excalidraw (or diagrams.net, or lucid charts)
- Slack (or Discord)
- ...etc

> Is that complexity necessary or artificially inflated?

This entirely depends on the product. You need the complexity for some products; and not for others.
Yeah, because current fuel prices - especially in countries like the USA are fake.
From delimited continuations to algebraic effects in Haskell
Well, a cat should live just fine on say an O,Oeill cylinder[0] or a surface level Lunar or Martian hab (possibly a large dome or huge cavern). They might have to adapt to the low gravity or the side effect of spin gravity, but the environment should eventually be pretty similar otherwise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder
> I remember accessing the web at a pretty early stage by telnet to info.cern.ch which presented a text client pretty much like an old version of lynx, but double clicking on that would get you nowhere. You had to press Enter, iirc.

I remember using that text client as well. If I recall correctly, it was just called "www" and presented links as footnotes that you could select by number. I remember thinking it was quite clumsy and would never be as elegant and clean as Gopher. ;) I always assumed that was the first web browser, but it makes sense that this NeXT-ish/GUI-ish client was the first, given the circumstances of its development.
This restriction only applies during F1 events.

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown commented, “These drivers can do this stuff in their own time, so I think it is within Formula 1 and the FIA’s right to say ‘here’s the code of conduct we expect for you to follow during a grand prix weekend. You’re free to do whatever you want to do Monday through to Friday’, so to speak, but obviously it’s at a grand prix weekend the drivers have the most cameras on them."

[1] https://www.planetf1.com/news/zak-brown-backs-fia-political-...
I don’t know that I’ve heard anyone claim that C++ itself was a mistake, although there have obviously been many (acknowledged) mistakes made with C++.

All things considered, for the time, given the paradigms we understood to be effective, and for the value within the design space, C++ was about as close to excellence as we could’ve hoped for. It didn’t replace C, nor was it meant to, but for its purpose it was a great success.
Please don't nitpick, I'm perfectly aware that the OS vendors would be the ones to recompile everything and users the ones to update their systems.

I don't agree with your sentiment as I read it as a little bit narrow-minded and I also consider the examples given to be bad, with design choices not quite feasible to be applied to generic and widespread community language such as C++.

> On windows apps ship the c++ runtime along with them so nothing changes for old apps

That combination is probably the worst from the both worlds so not exactly a shiny example.

> MacOS users are used to compatibility breaking every 3/4 years

Apple has always been special and I wouldn't consider their choices, which are almost exclusively aligned with what their business wants to achieve, to be something to be followed. They can do whatever they want because they're under total control of almost everything on their platform. Unless when they aren't and when they start to develop their own programming languages. Pretty much the same story as with Google.
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I recently transitioned to a "full-stack dev" role (using React on FE), and honestly, it is much _simpler_ than I expected. I had the opinion before that FE is lacking the breadth of BE development, but of course, without actual experience in the matter I might have missed something.

Now that I'm 2 months in, I still don't see the complexity, actually, if anything, React makes stuff so much _simpler_ due to its leaning heavily towards FP (to me, the class-based approach of React seems more complicated than the hook-based, for example, deciding what `this` points to at any given time in Javascript is no small feat - with functions/closures, you don't have this problem). There is depth for sure, handling all the possible errors and edge cases requires care and attention, just like in the BE.

To me the only shock so far was how low level all the stuff is, I mean come on, we had Delphi in the past millenium already, creating a form with a text field and connecting it to a field in a data structure was a solved problem back then... a "one liner" if you will, now you have to independently manage the state and handle events for each field? Come on, there must be a higher level library that solves this!
I upvoted because I thought it was well-done satire. This is satire, right?
I completely agree. That functional style actually favors readability and maintainability is a quite strong claim which I read often but it's usually lacking evidence.

In my experience, software engineers "think" imperatively. First do this, then do that. That's what we do in everyday life (open a random cooking book..) and that's also what the CPU does, modulo some out-of-order and pipelining tricks. A declarative style adds some extra cognitive load upfront. With training you may get oblivious to that, but in the end of the day, the machine does one thing after the other, and the software engineer wants to make it do that. So, either you express that more "directly" in an imperative style, or try to come up with a declarative style which may or may not be more elegant, but that this ends up more readable or maintainable is on the functional proponents to prove.
same issue with many buildings by frank gehry
All this complexity is actually a counter reaction to frontend developers not being considered to be real developers. They went overboard trying to prove that they are.
1.7m is a common height used for Russian optics of military weapons, used to measure distance based on the height of a person in the scope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSO-1#/media/File:Distance_mea...
It's documented on Microsoft Learn at https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/controls/cookbook-...

Be aware though Microsoft considers its WinUI 3 framework as the primary framework for implementing its Fluent design language and controls. (WinUI 2 will get you there too but has recently been deprecated.) Win32, common controls, WPF, WinForms, etc. are considered legacy technologies and cannot officially make use of many Fluent styles or controls.
Sounds like a pretty straightforward trademark dispute.
I’ve heard this time and time again. I am 6’1” and have been complimented about my height by a lot of girls with them also saying they won’t date shorter men. This article is a bit comical to read and is more of an opinion piece then facts.
The dating app business is a problem. On the other hand, my colleague from a former workplace was maybe 5'4", a splendid guy who had no problems with the ladies, but he knew how to box.
Batteries are constrained right now so they could have gone as a better use into plug in hybrids instead. For each full electric car you produce you get 1 full electric and 6 gas cars, or you get 7 plug in hybrids, using the same amount of batteries.

The batteries in each Tesla Semi could make multiple shorter range delivery trucks/vans that benefit from stop and go regenerative braking much more.
Purity is a poor word. It refers to referential transparency: if I give you an input to your foo function, “A”, and I get an output, “a”, then I can always substitute foo “A” for ”a” in my program and it will not change the meaning.

It’s poor because it invites other meanings: some people think purity means immutability for example; but that’s only part of it.
This. I attempted suicide when I was middle school-aged. While I'm sure puberty and social issues had a lot to do with it, it was mainly because school was bad and hard (I went to a public "gifted" magnet school) and all you heard from adults is that high school is even harder, college is harder than that, and "real life" in the workforce is even harder than that. Based on this faulty intel, I assumed that suicide was rational: if I was miserable now, I would be miserable for at least 40 years (until retirement).

It turns out that "real life" is way lower stakes than I was led to believe (at least if you have solidly upper middle class parents like I did). Even poorly-paid jobs are livable if you have low expectations, live somewhere cheap, and don't have children. Rent gets even cheaper relatively if you have a partner with a job. Unemployment insurance and medicaid are an inadequate safety net but they do exist and can get you through a rough spot.
I’ve seen the general idea here called “part blindness” before: https://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20131124T0927Z.html
I'm sure there will be relevant scientific papers for this experiment either way.
Does it matter?

It's not like some dude needs to operate a crank for it to happen…

The computer does the actual work.

You know, a computer, this machine that can automate tedious tasks.
> It's not like it keeps any communication unreadable or even more difficult to read from the government

If the foreign government can only read French, it sure does it. Especially at a time when there was no google translator.
It is a fact that a disproportionate amount of women prefer men to be six feet or taller but only like 15% of men are that height.

All of this is just people unhappy about biology because it creates winners and losers. Losers think they'll have an easier time changing biology than themselves or simply readjusting their expectations.

(Never mind the insanity of this article saying it will help save the planet...wild how the NYT now prints stuff 10x crazier than something like Breitbart ever did, and no one cares)
Sex and massages.
Yeah, I get into arguments with people all the time whenever I am "teaming" any kind of parallelism.

I assume at the beginning that the unit of work is almost certainly so small that you can do many units of work in the time it takes to move a unit of work from one thread to another. Usually the other people are obstinate and insist on implementing something that is slower than serial execution, but they do come around unless they give up entirely when their attempt at a parallel speedup really causes a slowdown.
It is difficult to detect auto-generated content, but it also does not preclude the possibility an author was having a stroke during composition.

By definition, one no longer fully owns a company when exchanging ownership for liquid capital (often at ridiculously discounted value), or lose future well-being through debt-financing issues/predatory-scams. Note, the often negligible incremental cost of scaling tech companies often offsets the expected value in investment risk. Every fist-year student learns Bayesian statistics, but Vegas was built on those who still can't assess risk.

In general, a small service site like Craigslist operates just fine with minimal overhead, and has remained functional much longer than most startups.

It was really sad seeing what Silicon Valley Bank did to startup culture, and naive investors that get FOMO.

Happy 2023 =)
Higher sodium = your blood is saltier = insufficient hydration.

Your body attempts to keep it at a constant level. This is much easier if you drink more than you need to; it's easy to remove excess water, harder to remove excess sodium especially if you're about to drink more water and would then be sodium-deficient. But in general, serum sodium shouldn't vary much unless you're at least a little dehydrated.

I try to always keep some water handy, since if I don't, I have a tendency not to go grab it until a bit later than I really should have.
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Nobody is “getting personal” on this thread.
As weird as it sounds, but even when performance is not a deal breaker for individual users, on high-traffic sites the sum of all energy wasted on unnecessary/unoptimized computations can become so large that it becomes an actual ecological concern. It's a completely new thing that we should keep an eye on.
This reminds me of the oraand NFT project. "On-chain generative art for the Commodore 64 home computer." https://nopsta.com/oraand/
The top comment in this thread seems to be the clarification you are looking for. It tells that higher serum sodium concentration is tied to lack of hydration.
Was convinced this was going to talk about short-selling stocks and already head thought up an instinctive counterargument based on the title.
Matches my understanding also. Can someone in the know confirm?