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> I will use SvelteKit, Tailwind, and... (https://www.onemonthprojects.dev/blog/post/making-25songs)

Doesn't Tailwind force you to use styling (utility classes)? Otherwise every element is reset to absolutely no style, so you can't even tell if an element is a button/link/etc.

Because of this, I use https://v2.picocss.com:

- Allows me to prototype with truly no styling (i.e. no CSS/style tags)...

- Yet get a clean default style that is mobile-friendly.

- Easy to add styling later. (Like add Tailwind, if you wish.)

Example sites:

- https://multi-launch.leftium.com (html source: https://github.com/Leftium/multi-launch/blob/a1ff6a69c224f86...)

- https://tt.leftium.com (html source: https://github.com/Leftium/transform/blob/076d9145f9729b959c...)

- https://gg.leftium.com/r/md (html source: https://github.com/Leftium/cloud9dancehall.com/blob/5816aace...)
I've seen exactly the same thing at a couple of companies I've worked at in the past too. One specifically outsourced all of their development because it was deemed to be cheaper (which it was), but after a few years without any in-house technical expertise to oversee development they'd run into all kinds of issues with bugs, outages, slow load times, etc.

For a period when these issues occurred the business could say that they wanted the issues patched, but they never understood why there were so many issues to begin with. It was only until they brought a few people in house to try to bridge conversations between the business and the team of outsourced developers that it was finally raised that the code was completely unmaintainable. And following this an in house team was recruited to bring development back in-house. Of course, when we sorted 90% of the problems the business started questioning why we were needed again and we were all outsourced for a second time...

But this same thing obviously happens in a lot high-tech industries. Without people who are technically competent overseeing what's happening you can only dictate requirements at a high level. You cannot dictate all of the NFRs because you simply do not have the knowledge or ability to oversee them. So what you have is something that at a surface level does what you wanted, but the execution is so horrendous that it's unsatisfactory and no amount of saying "please fix this", "please fix that" will actually resolve the fundamental issue at play.

And the problem is even worse when you want to be an innovator because innovation is impossible when you don't know what is and isn't possible. To push boundaries you first need to know where the hard limitations are and what's just a engineering problem.
Scarcity doesn't mean "limited," it means "not enough."

Enough but still limited is not longer scarce.
I've already done this with GPT-4.

It goes something like this:

Here's the table structure from MySQL cli `SHOW TABLE` statements for my tables I want to query.

Now given those tables, give me a query to show me my cart abandonment rate (or, some other business metric I want to know).

Seems to work pretty well.
> If you look up any texts that describe LCS they don't refer to it as using memoization.

I challenge that actually, several resources online consider it memoization (I would too): https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/longest-common-subsequence-dp-...
> the next bus/train is never more than 5 minutes [..] there is no reason we can't have that

There's no logistical reason, but very few municipalities have the density to support that kind of frequency (via fare revenue), and taxpayers (especially in the US, but in other places as well) don't want to pay for all that unoccupied space on trains and buses.

I'm not saying that's a universal truth. There are a few places that do have the density to support that. And there are a few places that don't, but local residents are happy to pay more in taxes to get that kind of frequency. But most places are not like either of those things.
I was there when Mulally was and people already knew what a horse’s ass he was.

Most of this is his fault, and the board who hired him.
Is there a good way of collecting information on currently missing Language / API calls in pages or files that have Flash elements not presently supported by Ruffle?

It might make it more useful to know what makes one off well loved flash items not currently work, or which elements are commonly used but missing support.
How ext differs from a browser? Browsers already run js. I assume there is something to gain.
A screwdriver is not effective at that job, that’s the whole point. A good tool is a suitable and effective tool, not necessarily an aesthetically pleasant tool. Beauty of the tool is not a relevant metric
> Real programmers can write Fortran in any language.
I don't write Fortran, but I can make my C++ look a lot like a different language.

That sounds like the wrong thing to do and a nightmare to encounter. I guess I'm not a "real programmer", which bolsters my original point.

> Knowing how those other languages work makes my code better.

Knowing is good. But it goes both ways as well. But C++ devs are fairly notorious for not liking different things. See Rust's history.

> Sure the C++ syntax is ugly, but the design is what matters and that take inspiration from languages other than C++.

The syntax isn't the point, or is at least a minor one. The main point is that languages like C++ make designing harder than it needs to be. Also, in a language like C++, nearly anything can happen at any moment. It's like rolling dice for every function call. God may play dice, but I don't like to.
How about instead of making AI wrappers to over 50 years old SQL, we’d make a database query language that’s easier to read an write?
What if I'm using a Unifi UDM router and all of my IoT devices are on a separate VLAN and the firewall prevents them from initializing connections to any other devices on the local network?
Do you think you’d make a plugin interface to get books? For example from Standard Ebooks, via some sort of API? My guess is that they’d be ok with that usage if you ask and you can solve some cold start problems that way. And, of course, get some more eyeballs on their fantastic project.
Thank you for your valuable insights and recommendations. I genuinely appreciated both the suggested paper and your project, as they contributed to my learning. I completely agree that File Hider techniques have significant room for improvement in terms of seamlessly integrating the hidden data within the host file more organically. Regarding the session key, it is encrypted https://github.com/x011/File_Hider/blob/0f46058731d08c06a110....
I’ve done this with Neo4j. Pretty simple to hook it up with Open AI APIs and have a conversational interface.
They had (have?) some Hopper's on display at the Huntington Museum. I realized that even the best art books are unable to reproduce the stunning colors of the originals. It was the visual equivalent of CD audio versus live performance - just not the same at all.
I think the loss of these tools has less to do with the death of flash, and more to do with the decline of the genre of "internet ugly" cartoons and free games as a whole. We have technology in the browser that is just as powerful and just as portable (case in point canvas), but we rarely see it being used in the same way to build the same variety of browser games and experiments.

I know a lot of people talk about the tooling not being there, but I'm not sure that's the case. Web development is a very open field, there is a ton of documentation, and a lot of easy ways to get started. Just open developer tools in your browser and you can write Javascript - things were never the easy with flash. There's also plenty of free tools for building things with, from game libraries to animation editors, to IDEs.

I think the bigger issue is that the audience isn't there in the same way. Partly that's culturally - part of the glory of that era of internet was proper reveling in crappy animation, gross-out humour, and absurdism. But that's no longer part of the cultural zeitgeist in the same way. As a result, the cultural force behind a lot of the early examples of the medium has died out.

But also, and I think more importantly, the platforms have evolved. Animation still exists, but it looks different and tends to be hosted on YouTube or TikTok, because that's where people are. Games still exist, but now they're usually mobile games, because it turns out people like playing these games on the loo, and mobile browsers suck. And both of these platforms have their own advantages for creators: they both make monetisation easier, and they make it harder for other people to steal your work - both things that flash creators spent a lot of time worrying about.

Even as flash was dying, if it was culturally necessary to maintain, people would have done so. We had the tools and we had the technology. In fact, people did - I remember people pushing "HTML5 games" for a while, but they were never any good because no one had been making good news games for a couple of years at that point. In the end, flash died for much the same reason that non-threaded forums and IRC died - the cultural forces that used them either died themselves, or switched to other systems.
Discord Lays Off 170 Workers, Says Company Grew Too Fast
> > All housing is inherited in equal share by all descendants

> Isn't that's how it works pretty much everywhere these days unless there is an explicit will?

No, in highly advanced countries we use the Highlander rule, "There shall be only one left", descendants fight eachother, cutting heads of loosers until only one remains and inherits the property. This is also the reason UK tries to ban knives, they are way to small to cut someones head with a single strike. We are humane after all.
If you don't pay the investment costs, then you pay "Pool prices for electricity spiked to $1000/MWh" costs. It's certainly possible there are math-illiterate people who can't work out which path is better, but that doesn't mean it's not "very badly managed"
Evidence Russia Is Now Using Jet Shahed Kamikaze Drones Emerges
Class action suit against Spirit Aerospace
There's a discourse forum if you're into async, or there's a Discord server for more up-to-the-minute updates. Along with the github repos to track bugs, feature requests, and see how the project is made.

take your pick :)

Discourse: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/
Discord: https://universal-blue.org/mission/ (link on left side, click discord)
GitHub: https://github.com/ublue-os/
NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
Honestly, I don’t really understand the advantages (or the point of) NixOS over something like Docker.
Instagram cuts 60 jobs, eliminating a layer of management at the company
If you're dealing with actual cold, you do definitely need some secondary source of heat, ideally one where the fuel can sit around for long periods of time (propane, wood stove, etc). Running a generator just to dump the electricity into a resistive heater is a bit poverty-living ridiculous, and indicates addressing heat should be the primary concern rather than worrying about boring food.

Whether portable propane heaters are considered "safe" to run indoors depends on what state/country you are in, so make of that what you will. Personally I'd rather not add the additional variable of carbon monoxide to what is already an emergency situation, but perhaps a few CO detectors would alleviate that concern.
The thing about "cultural norms" (why not "norms?") is that expecting everyone to understand them is precisely what makes them "norms" in the first place.

It's "cultural norms" because it only extends to the scope of some population of people. These tend to break down when outsiders become involved, because one population's norms aren't always the same as another's.

This is why I have preference towards being explicit. If you don't want to make food after 4:30pm, put up a sign that says the kitchen closes at 4:30pm. Then it's explicit, and you don't have to rely on the implicit understanding of "cultural norms" in order to effectively communicate that you don't want to be making food later than 4:30pm.

It removes potential sources of ambiguity in favor of explicitly stating your preferences. This generally works better for all parties involved.
Why the United States Is Losing the Tech War with China
I like the idea too, it feels like a browser able to run the same software/website/tool in html/css/javascript on many different platforms, with monetization based on paying users and not ads.
If they use the same runners, couldn’t the attacker just wait? The runners would need to be sequestered too
Wait, why do you think that permission to operate the autonomous vehicles would not be withdrawn? It's happened!

It's totally bizarre to give mediocre humans credit for their self preservation and then demand that an autonomous system be beyond superb because it doesn't have it. Statistically, the mediocrity is going to be the bigger problem.
Yes, the frame by frame approach and focus on vector graphical animations made people have a lot of fun instantly ( together with the great authoring tools).

I'm currently thinking about a project that requires "regular people" be able to create interactive content for the web, and honestly i don't see any alternative.

Where it started to go bad is when people tried designing full data-oriented websites with flash and air, but i believe it remains great for its core purpose.
> The emissions of a small electric car like the Nissan Leaf amount to 10.9 kg/100km in Europe, including the emissions of electricity production.

Why are they measuring carbon impact per mile for manufacture? Is this based off some assumed period of ownership after which the car magically is useless and the battery can't be recycled, etc?
I didn't get that impression at all. Using "less technical words" is not an insult.
What does the latest research say about how to reduce dementia risk?
What happened to Simple File Manager? I'm using it currently and I don't see a problem with it.
Bitcoin is inflationary. It will never be deflationary.
I wonder how many of the 200K+ PIs being manufactured are actually going to consumers. It seems to me that most of the PIs that are being made are just being sold straight to businesses.
Only for binary translation or just-in-time compilation (basically producing native code). If you're interpreting RISC-V you can just pretend the registers are an array of register-sized integers. Which is what they are.
He was outstanding in The Big Short, I'll give him that. And his casting in BR2049 was the perfect choice; all he had to do to act like a robot was to act as usual...
Yeah that would be ideal. Sadly a lot of stuff goes wrong in building rail because governments have to do it and clearly suck at it, and if it weren't so, there wouldn't be nearly as many trucks on the road.

Unlike building rail, the concept I outlined would be feasible to do for a private corporation though, even a startup. The delta in necessary resources between the two is huge.

I'm also not quite convinced that you can pack nearly as much cargo on a rail at the same time (with different destinations) as on the road, but the reason for that believe might be the fact that I'm not a rail expert.
It would be for people who are not that fluent in SQL. Even as a dev, I find ChatGPT to be easier for writing queries than hand coding them as I do it so infrequently.
It's a paragraph, not a div, the intent is clear by definition.
Depends on the model. All EVs are affected to some extent. But some models deal with this better than others. A 30-40% range reduction is reasonable to expect with most cars at very low temperatures. This is not a permanent loss. The other thing that happens is that cold batteries don't charge very well. Many modern EVs have battery management systems that manage the temperature of the battery for this reason. This improves both charging and range.

Warming up the car of course costs some energy but it's a reasonable tradeoff. Some cars actually have heat pumps that make warming them up a bit more efficient. And of course a nice feature is that you can use an app to turn on the car so the car is nice and comfy by the time you get in.

So, it's not that black and white and EVs are pretty popular all over Scandinavia (Norway especially) and in the arctic circle where they have some pretty extreme temperatures every winter. Teslas are pretty popular there and have been for many years.

ICE cars also are affected by cold weather of course. You get range issues; maybe not as extreme as with EVs but 15-20% less efficiency is pretty normal. And they have all sorts of fluids besides fuel (brakes, coolant, oil, etc.) that can become problematic if it gets cold enough. Reliability is a much bigger concern than range with cold temperatures. And ICE cars have a lot more things that can fail when it gets cold.
In general, if something has been around for a very long time and nobody apparently seems to have thought to improve it, then odds are the reason is it's pretty good and genuinely hard to improve on.
I am looking for a cofounder, but not in any big rush as I want to find someone that is a good fit. In the meantime I am working on a project to improve/practice my development skills with a mobile app and attending meet-ups in my area to chat with people and maybe do some projects to test out how we work together.

I have more of a 'business' background, have worked on policy projects for the tech sector and have a lot of project management skills. My day job right now is an executive position, and I can build teams, set vision, and implement. I also have enough coding background to build prototypes, so can contribute to technical aspects at the beginning.

Feel free to message me if you want to collaborate on a project!
> We'd demand a way higher standard because these companies don't really have any skin in the game, except for financial penalties which we now understand is not a deterrent for anything.

As we have seen with the titan sub, not even death is a full deterrent. A lot of companies will still risk it for the biscuit and take the risk of getting jailed for their shot at leading the market (in fact, a lot of people risk actual jailtime for financial gain). Having strict regulation and not allowing subpar cars on the street really is the only way.
True, but a heatpump can heat and cool. Power outages can happen in the summer as well. During heatwaves the local power company actually cuts service to some to prevent wild fires. Losing power during a heat dome is what I'm thinking of.

My winter plan is to supplement heat with a fireplace insert, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
> If you can run trucks 24/7 without stopping then you can cut their speed say 33% or whatever and still come out on top.

Well, they should still be driving no slower than the rest of the traffic in the slow lane (modulo what is safe for a larger vehicle under whatever the prevailing road/weather conditions are).

I think a bigger benefit to not needing drivers that need to rest/sleep is that you can allow for self-driving software that can't handle all the weather and road conditions that humans can handle. The self-driving software can pull the truck over for a few hours in a snowstorm that a human driver would be able to handle, and still be ahead of a similar human-driver schedule.
You may very well be right, but I was not talking about rage baiting by the dev, but by the author of the review.

I thought that this would be clear from my initial comment, it seems that it isn't.

> Especially given how cordial everyone in that thread on mastodon was behaving, in the face of such a ridiculous reason for a negative review.

Yeah, negative reviews with troll content are a thing though
How out of touch with reality do you need to be to take an absurd "kids these days" joke seriously?

You should be alarmed!
Yeah, same here. Seems like that approach is much simpler than this.

I guess the real benefit here is that you don’t need to understand the schemas so the knowledge is not lost when someone leaves a company.

Sort of an abstraction layer for the schemas
> There is no Hamas in the West Bank

> The fact is of course Israel is going after Hamas [..] because you are unable to engage with actual facts
Only kinda related:

Any one know where I could get a print of the Hyde Periodic Table?

I'd love a poster of a table that clearly shows the periodicity.
My volvo xc60 does that.
Great validation. What (maybe more nuanced) insights would you add?
AMD and Apple don’t run chip fabs and Boeing will.. People in here will literally argue any point no matter how stupid
My suggestion would be to first give Ubuntu-based distributions a try, like Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, or KDE neon. If there's still too much Ubuntu weirdness for your liking, try Debian. And if that doesn't satisfy your desktop needs, give Fedora a try.

All of these provide good out-of-the-box experience.
Irreverent and funny firsthand look at the Corredor Interoceánico from a railroad engineer who consulted on the first trainsets.

> Well There‘s Your Problem
> This is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes

https://wtyppod.podbean.com/e/episode-143-corredor-interocea...
This is super interesting. From your email address domain, couldn’t really reach your homepage. If already up and running, can you please share your company landing page? Otherwise, good luck! And keep us posted
I'm not sure what you're talking about. You said to stop worrying about tools, and I gave an example where the tool does indeed matter, and then you agree with me but act like you're disagreeing.

> A good tool is a suitable and effective tool, not necessarily an aesthetically pleasant tool. Beauty of the tool is not a relevant metric

No one is hinging upon aesthetics. They simply come with tools that have been purposefully designed. I might suggest reading some architecture books, from the older architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, or books on complex systems about the relationship between form and function.
A lot of people blame the current toxic culture on the McDonnell Douglas merger that happened in the late 90s.

One of the reasons that merger needed to happen though, was that Boeing didn't know how to be profitable in a non-government regulated market (post deregulation of the airlines).

It's easy to make well engineered planes when the government has a hand in guaranteeing you good profit margins and you don't have to worry too much about costs.
> The US has not lost industry.

Compared to China's absolutely staggering industrialization it has!
> Personally, it's confusing to me what D's niche would be if they go all in on the GC. I get that it didn't really have a solid niche before either, because it was basically just a 10% better C++

Yeah, for a long time the language was marketed as a better C++. That was wrong for two reasons. First, it's a C++ replacement, but it's not C++, as many C++ developers learned in frustration. Second, it's a lot more than a C++ replacement. It works for scripts, as a general programming language, and especially for C interop (ImportC, BetterC, etc.)

One of the goals of the fork is to stop apologizing for the GC. You still have reference counting, unique pointers, and whatever in the standard library. I'm sure if someone wants to contribute functions that avoid the GC, they'll be accepted. What you're not likely to see with the fork is Adam writing new functions for the standard library that go to great lengths to avoid the GC. He believes fear of the GC is overblown.
After losing pets I am all about increasing their lifespans, but not at the cost of their comfort and health.