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not in the undergrad courses that i have taken. but that was a few decades ago when computer science covered anything related, and the degrees have diversified since then.

the problem with modularity and abstraction is that in order to make that work you need to step back and be able to build tools and frameworks that are completely independent of customer requirements.

ruby on rails is a successful example of doing that, and other frameworks that came out of some industry need. but a startup who is just getting their first customers doesn't have the resources for that, but also in my opinion are 5 customers not enough to make that move. maybe after 10, or after a few years of working you have accumulated enough experience that you are able to create something like ruby on rails that is modular and abstract enough to really be able to handle every need a potential customer might have.

(basecamp was founded 1999, RoR was released 2004. basecamp as a product came out in 2005. so it took roughly 5 years of consulting work for RoR to emerge)
This isn't how discourse works and you know it. It is eminently acceptable to censure people who put forward racist and eugenicist views even if done so politely.
You could also just work less, or let yourself spend less time and energy on your kids.

I get that most people recoil in horror at the latter one. I think they're silly. The fact of the matter is the world is a safer and more prosperous place than ever before. You should be able to invest less into your children than your parents did before you and still have them lead happy lives.

If you have a child, and your own life isn't a pile of misery, you can be reasonably confident your kid's life won't be either. After all, you grew up in a poorer world than they did. But if you hold back on having children because you fear you can't afford to send them to Yale, or buy them all the Steam games they ever wanted, you're probably not saving them from a life of pain, you're just depriving the world of another soul which could've had a beautiful experience here.
That's where I disagree. I think individual rights must trump collective rights. Unfortunately (for me) the elites are with you (at least by now).
It means you can do some dinner prep mid-day, including potentially starting something long like a slow-cooker, pressure cooker, or oven so that you don't need to start the "total cooking time" clock after you arrive home.

Additionally, it means you can do this stuff during the day, when you have solar and/or the electricity is cheap.

My own commute is only 12 minutes by cycle, so this is actually the biggest annoyance on days when I'm forced to be in the office.
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And now we have Social Media. I doubt there will ever be a time in human history where the masses aren't spending their time doing _something_. As long as there is money to be made.
Exactly getting top people improved would take a lot and mostly would get in the way.

Getting lower performers to higher level should take less effort to achieve nice results.

Also low performers need to be controlled because if they don’t show signs of improvement it requires quick decision to let them go. You don’t let go your top performers unless they are really shitty people or done something really bad.
What I mean is that OP is presenting a story, not a scientifically proven methods for mental health improvement. And perhaps some things worked for them. This is different from scientifically proven methods. Although useful, it is certainly not a given that the methods will work for you, it could even be so that they will have a negative effect on the majority of people. Still, there is value in these pieces, everyone is different, hence social science being difficult. One could use them to experiment, harm is unlikely to be caused. But, reading to much about self-help and just not getting started with it for whatever reason can also make you feel bad. It starts with acceptance imho. Anyway, just be careful with pieces like this is my advice. It worked for one person, OP. And there are a trillion more pieces with either similar of very different advice.
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Nokia phones allowed you to install .jar apps that you could download from various websites. Not closed at all.

WhatsApp started as a .jar app for nokia dumb phones.
They don't kick you out for being lucky.

The only reason to kick you out would be if they believed you somehow have an edge on them.

The customer who got lucky at first and is willing to try to be lucky again and again is the best customer for the casinos.
> - There is no shortcut to add to queue,

There is, just swipe the song to the right.
Spotify has never automatically deleted offline content for me, but it does have extremely confusing UI which makes it very easy to wipe all downloads without confirmation.

Basically, the download button is a single down-arrow at the top of your library. When you tap it—and download your music–the down-arrow turns solid green to indicate your music is available offline. It doesn't disappear. It turns green, Spotify's primary color.

The kicker is: if you accidentally (or out of curiosity) press that green arrow again, it will wipe all your downloads without confirmation (disabling "offline mode"). Did that on a flight once and lost all my music. It's absurd how that UX made it out of testing.

Here's a picture of what I'm talking about. Tapping this icon deletes your library from your device:

https://i.imgur.com/zrSid1T.jpeg
For me it became an estimate of how old I wanted to be when my son turned 20. In my 50s seemed better then my 60s.
This applies to people coming in from outside the city with SUVs.

It's probably still not fully financing the parking spots. Parking spots in cities are incredibly expensive and heavily subsidized.
Communist/Socialist are very attached to their theoretical world construction. With tons of obscure terms and redefinition of common terms. So that whenever anybody who isn't an expert says anything they can say 'you are wrong because such and such'.

The fact is whenever Communist took over a country, they created mostly the same structure. And its the only form of socialism/communist that existed in a realistic long term setting.

Everything else is just theoretical talking about what true socialism and true communism really are depending on the subculture.
There's nothing rational in having kids, as in many other things we do as human beings. I've no arguments to refuse books like David Benatar's Better Never to Have Been. Actually, I agree with most of his theses. The only rational actors that want us to have kids are governments, because citizens pay taxes and provide soldiers.

Still, I embrace my lack of rationality. It's what makes me human.
"Our very survival" is not threatened and you know it. Pretty sure no wealth-controlling multi-billionaires look like indigenous Bolivians.
There's an alternate version of history, where there's a gentlemans agreement that Netflix doesn't make their own content, the content houses license their stuff to them and don't make a competing service, and everyone gets their share of a bigger pie. But HBO saw Netflix and was like, I could do that, and Netflix saw HBO and said I could do that. And instead of working together for a better outcome, they decided to fight so here we are.
Why do you consider it “navel-gazing”?
I think you get it backward, lot of people would like to have kids, the problem isn't life with kids, it's life with modern jobs and everything that come with them
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It's interesting to note that you consider having children a selfish choice, because in some cultures, not having children is considered selfish.
It's a selfish thing to do.

Nonetheless nothing I condemn.

At the end of the day it's harder not to have kids and stop this cycle than not, thanks to evolution.
Life with kids has always been problematic.
The original owner no longer possesses the commercial value of the thing.

That's what you steal when you pirate.

People have been buying into shared cultures for centuries. Sometimes being able to afford access to a certain culture - and excluding those who can't - is part of the culture itself.

In a bottom-up cultures people are happy to pay because they feel part of the scene and they want to support it. A big part of that is user/costumer/fan experience and a feeling of community.

Top-down cultures feel exploitative and predatory - because they are. They separate the culture into producers and consumers and enforce strict gatekeeping of the relationship between them - which usually means a one-way financial obligation that feels like extortion, and unnecessary complications and frictions in the experience.

The real issue here is the insistence by the media-cos that movies can only ever be top-down.

The predictable outcome is there's now a shared culture of piracy in which people willingly support the pirate sites instead of the official distributors, and running a pirate site can be incredibly profitable.
Surprisingly I don't have that issue on my other two Macbooks. Also WiFi goes randomly down without any notification and so does USB charging. M3 Max for $8000. One would expect something less messy for that price.
I like that pip-tools is a separate thing. Most Python packages don't need and shouldn't use a requirements.txt file. It makes more sense for npm to have it by default, but not Python.
> is that modern German is mostly High (Southern) German

Absolutely not. South german is for me Badisch, Schwäbisch, Bayrisch und Alemannisch (Badian, Swabian, Bavarian and Alemmannian --- similar to Swabian, but with lots of differences, e.g. we have "gwä-Schwaben" und "xsi-Schwaben".

But perhaps my other understanding stems from the fact the "Hochdeutsch" (high german) can mean different things. E.g. the german wikipedia has a disambiguation page https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochdeutsch for it.

I interpreted it to be the "normal" german we all speak if we don't speak a german dialect. Or, in other words, the first link of that disambiguation page: standard german. And that is a result of some "norming process", initiated mostly by the brothers Grimm, i.E. they wrote the first generally accepted german dictionary. Generally we can say that this process started in the 17th century, with it's high in the 18th. So it's quite modern, long after dialects formed.

And they didn't life and work in southern Germany, but quite in the center, the area between Hanau and Göttingen. If we look for dialects there, when we see that they are influenced by frankonian and saxonian dialect --- not the modern day Saxonia, but the historical one. The border between both empires goes right through the working area of the Grimms, e.g. the german town "Frankfurt" has a "Sachsenhausen" at the over side of the river. Or north of Marburg you have "Frankenberg" and "Frankenau" but also "Sachsenberg" and another "Sachsenhausen". These old kingdoms created language differences ... but they have nothing to do with southern german dialects / languages.

However, the various "Plattdeutsch" dialects like Plattduitsk or Frisian are totally different, here you're correct. They are categorized usually as "lower german" (Platt => flat => lower), North See Germanic, West Germanic, Germanic, Indogermanic.
I think the main appeal of projects like Bun and Deno is the built-in tooling for building/bundling modern typescript applications without requiring dozens of dependencies for even a basic hello world app.

If node.js decided to include functionality similar to what is available on Bun/Deno, both projects would probably lose traction quickly.
More discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Surplus

(here we are, 14 years later than the book; are there any obvious examples of freed cognitive surplus changing the world in the interim?)
> going to a restaurant twice a week with your partner, when you're 40+ and no kids, will get very repetitive and boring.

As opposed to sitting at home with your partner when you're 40+ because your kids are out being teenagers and you need to be available in case they need you? Life at either extreme looks boring.
Maybe metadata is wrong? Somewhere around 2011 it started to report as cbr, but encoding options are -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 20.5
I've just turned 40, and I'm currently childless, but not because that was my goal. Twice wanted to settle down with a woman, but I wasn't her Mr Right. I'm still friends with the second, but she's (metaphorically) married to her activism; she and I split just as I moved to Germany which was itself just before the pandemic.

Then I ended up with a boyfriend, but medical tech isn't quite there yet for Mpreg :P
I always think of this when I edit python and my code is indented wrong... not a fan by structuring by indentation, but it doesn't seem to be a problem for most people.
> Honest question, why not?

Value for money. Most households don't spend their lives watching 4-8h of content every day, I'd think.

I'm likely to watch maximum 12h a month. So 6$ an hour? No thanks. And I'm talking maximum. Most months I spend 6h watching in total. That brings it up to $12 / hour.

Pay-what-you-watch sounds better to me and many others. Show me a gradually increasing bill in the top right corner of the UI and I'll manage. Or give me only one subscription -- much less than $70 though -- and then you distribute my money to the proper rights holders. I shouldn't care who owns what, nor should I be bothered switching services.

It doesn't matter if I'm a billionaire as well. Again, value for money.
It's not as if less people having kids leads to humanity becoming extinct. We're still growing way too fast. Some people will just want them and that's fine.

It's just something that was previously seen as a virtue (or for example for Catholics almost a holy priority) is now becoming a hobby. And if not everyone takes up that hobby we can be sustainable for a lot longer. Even a population decline wouldn't be bad after we've been growing so hard as a species.

Of course we can't keep growing forever. And hoping the future comes up with a magical answer is exactly how we got into the climate mess we're in right now.
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On my family's iPhones, we have a Shortcut (automation) that kicks in every evening at 9 pm:

1. Turn Mobile Data Off

2. Turn Bluetooth Off

3. Turn WiFi Off

4. Turn AppleTV off (this one is fun because it can cut off a show mid-sentence)

5. Set brightness to 10%.

Then, a reverse of the above at 6am the following day.

Normal phone signal is still enabled for any emergency calls, but most apps become useless without the internet.
Wow, I thought K stood for thousand (as in 4K=4,000)! Nice piece of trivia if true.
Well, maybe the best reaction would be to uninstall the app and give it zero stars.

Of course, if you've bought hardware controlled by it, that's unfeasible. Keep it in mind for next time.

I don't suppose there are review sites that mention how predatory and nagging a mobile app is?

I've basically given up on mobile apps around when the ipad 3 was launched and never looked back. The reasoning being that i got an ipad 1 when it was new, and you could still find pay once games then. But they all got replaced by free to play gambling applications mislabeled as 'games'. Then the news about utility applications tricking you into $50/month subscriptions came about...
I think that is just straight up selfish thinking and if further left unchecked, the reason we are all doomed in the long-term.

Individuals cannot handle systemic problems, almost by definition. We either ignore them at our peril or we recognise that there's a reason humanity decided to organize as civilizations as opposed to hermits in mountain caves.
What nonsense. Having kids is not selfish.
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Was watching Bron/The Bridge some time ago. Danish sounds like gibberish indeed, but then again "We hebben een serieus probleem" was a meme a little while back.
Thats not the kids. Thats your lifestyle. There are people with kids living in the jungle on tubers and pigs.
that's neat! totally not discoverable though
It's not just TV though, it's TV & movies. I used to go to a blockbuster equivalent with my parents most Fridays, and we would rent 3-5 movies. Usually it would be 1 new releasae and some from the back catalog. I was only about 14 so I don't know exactly how much it cost, but the "New Release, only €5.25" poster is etched into my brain. I'd guess we did that 3 out of 4 weekends, spending probably €10 each time, which is about half of that cost.

> That's a fair wack cash.

I never said it wasn't, but (I would wager) it's most households primary form of entertainment. It being ~2% of the median household's income it's good value.
First, look for some reliable sources, and check out sports data APIs that have the data you need (points, assists, 3pt shots % etc...depends on the stats you're covering)

Then, create an appropriate database schema to store the basketball stats. You might have tables for players, teams, games, and stats. Ensure the schema allows you to easily filter, sort, and analyze data. Keep it normalized to avoid redundancy.

Set up an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process to fetch data from the source (API) and insert it into your SQL database. Python libraries like pandas can help you with data transformation.

Write a script that efficiently retrieves data from the sports data API using API endpoints or SDKs. Utilize SQL INSERT statements or ORM libraries to efficiently insert data into your database tables.

And most importantly, test the import process on a staging environment before deploying it to production. Verify that the data in your SQL database accurately reflects the source data.
Indeed, give the environment a fighting chance :)

The absence of people with bad ideas won't help as much as a surplus of people with good ideas. Since even if we had half the people they could still pollute like crazy.
Cultural anthropology might have an answer there. I guess that some cultures and traditions view not having kids as selfish because there's a cultural push for preserving society (kids will become workers, help parents, pay taxes, fight in the army, and so on). I consider myself selfish because I've done it to fill my life with something I felt was lacking. I've no rational excuse.
Governments forcing technical standards on innovative companies is not something to celebrate.

In the last 20 years Apple created two connectors (30 pin dock connector and Lightning connector). If Apple had been beholden to USB standards, we might have seen devices with mini-A ports, then mini-B ports, then micro-A ports, then micro-B ports, then micro-B SuperSpeed ports, then USB-C ports, multiplied by all the difficulties of the transition from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0, and the difficulties of compatibility with USB-IF (with damage caused to incompatible devices). And then we'd have all the variance in cable/connector power handling that blights USB - unlike with Apple, whose MFI standards ensure safe and standardised connectivity for consumers.

I cannot begin to fathom the environmental damage of USB standards in mobile devices, and the awful consumer experience, compared to Apple's ecosystem.
Mail.ru will be owned by the Russian consortium as well. This divestment is to split their startups and a couple EU based assets from their Russian ones.
Denying access to apps: if you're on android, you can root it and use AFWall+, which just sets up a basic linux firewall - but apps are installed as individual users, so you can just allow the apps that actually need internet - messengers and browsers, and things you want to sync across networks.
It's weird how a whole bunch of parents jump into threads like these to tell us all about how totally awesome having kids is.

I love my son, but it's also easily one of the hardest things I've ever done and will continue to be so for the next 18+ years. I wouldn't recommend having children to anyone: it's a singularity, and there's also no undoing it. You need to be very sure it's what you want. It will be expensive, it will limit what you can do in all sorts of ways, because it is relentless in a way which exposure to it as an aunt or uncle or friend simply won't communicate adequately (heck: even parents with older children seem to rapidly forget what having younger children is actually like, as I've experienced).
> The idea that you’re inherently better off not having kids is nonsense.

We're in a world where we constantly told that we have to give up meat/dairy, powered transport, heating/cooling, and a whole lot more to avert climate catastrophe.

I'm surprised there's so few mentions of the incredible destructiveness of having kids (e.g. vs. owning an ICE car or taking a few flights per year)
I wonder if the key issue here is lack of housing in developed countries. Here in the UK, owning a nice house (not just a flat/apartment) in a decent suburb is out of reach for most people who are at the traditional age to have children. That is a problem of lack of land rather than some inherent material cost. With such a vicious fight over the few properties that exist, almost all income is squeezed on that goal, with very little left for other costs of raising children. It also encourages everyone to have a worse work/life balance in a desperate attempt to get more income for housing (but of course it's a zero sum game because that just pushes the prices up for everyone).
They don't need to look for a hack, just its trace.

If the accident is any serious, both insurance companies will routinely buy the info sent by default to the maker by that model; In particular speed and location info.

If the info is suspiciously absent (because somebody hacked their car to stop sending it), the insurance companies will enter in red-alert mode, and will find how to get themselves out of the problem.

Sent info can be used against you, but also could benefit your insurance company to win the case. Is not always white or black. The main goal of insurance companies will be to protect themselves, but the secondary goal will be to protect you, the client, from potentially serious legal consequences. If both insurance companies are the same, they could team against the vehicle with less clear data.
> McDonald's vs Burger King

Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, etc.) is slightly larger than Restaurant Brands International (Burger King). McDonald's is larger than both of them put together. Or if you want brands rather than corporations, there are a zillion burger chains.

> CVS vs Walgreens

Rite Aid and Walmart, among others.

> AT&T vs Verizon

The US wireless carrier with the largest market cap is T-Mobile, with only slightly fewer users than Verizon. There are also many smaller ones.

> Democrats vs Republicans

This isn't a result of consumer preferences, it's a result of the first past the post voting system creating a powerful incentive for the most similar parties to merge until there are only two left. (Score voting fixes this.)

> Apple vs Google

This is the only real market duopoly here, and it's the one they have to worry about.

Either they can license their content to multiple services so it's convenient for customers to subscribe to one service and get everything, or those two companies will eventually figure out a way to get the same effect and most likely end up sucking in 30% of their industry's revenue in the process.