I think it's the amount of embedded videos. I appreciate them because it really illustrates what each feature is, but they lag the page. If I recall this can be solved with animated webp images which are more lightweight than full on <video/>s. Or maybe just not autoplaying them
>> Action A+B is illegal, and A by itself and B by itself are legal. A company did A+B, but the individual employees only did A, or only did B, and neither knew about the other.
That's a really interesting idea. Can you give some real live example of such situation that really happened?
If you know sb have disabilities, you must provide assistance.
If you give immunity for these, the lawyer will ensure the one in the act never know those information. OTOH, if we hold this to a person, someone can be hold accountable for some systemic communication failure
What was the Larry Ellison attributed quote about programmers ? Google shows me sth along the "the computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than fashion industry".
It rings quite true - new tools comes and gets the market because they are the new hot shot in town (like eclipse and then intellij once was). Its only matter of time before VSCode will go the same way.
As for eclipse I personally blame lack of funding and interest from new open source devs after it lost its status.
I still use it daily but with each new Eclipse release and my code base growth it really slows down to a halt sometimes and it becomes more and more frustrating. Maybe its time to switch to something that is kept alive by more than few old guys.
>>they aren't the manufacturer's customer in the market for new cars
Wow somehow this simple observation seems to be the greatest critic of capitalism I have heard in long time. It succintly shows why this system if left alone and scaled will destroy everything with its externalities.
The trouble is it isn't limited to "capitalism". A similar set of incentives are implicated in public choice theory, which is why democratic institutions are frequently willing to sell out future generations or compromise the public good to benefit the governing coalition's cronies.
And the latter is more susceptible to it. Things work when you're the customer and you have competing suppliers. They don't work when you're not the customer. But you could still be the customer in another market as long as there is one, e.g. because third parties can reverse engineer the OEM parts and go into competition with them. So a major risk here is that the incumbent captures the government to prevent that from happening.
The closest you generally get to competing alternatives with government is "laboratories of democracy" from having different states each with their own laws and the ability for people to vote with their feet, and even that suffers from the same failure mode. The system is intended to sustain that by having a strictly limited central government, but the central government gets captured by those who want to impose uniformity on what was meant to be diversity.
And for something between Ticket to ride and 18XX games you can try Age of steam - this is a lot better for when you really feel the need to build some railroads and just move stuff and not to have to learn how stock exchange works.
>> Well, it turns out what they said was true for them, but is not true for people like me, who can't visualize to save their life.
I used to be exactly like this - I could not visualize anything. Which was very perplexing for young me - I was astonishingly good at math (winning some country level math competitions even) but could not get past some arbitrary but somehow low level geometry problems. Then it struck me - I could not see the solutions in my head, only on paper, which drastically limited my search space.
But latley after years od doing other thing (including more artsy stuff like drawing) I discovered that I was wrong - its it possible to learn, its just that some people gets this faster and with little effort. For me it was just a other few thousend hours of doing staff that accidentally expanded my visualization ability and then "miracle" happend.
The same was with my supposed tone deafness - guess what, I only believed my self info being tone deaf (real tone deafness is very bery rare). I just was lazy in this departament (in building my ability to perceive tones).
Not OP but guessing that this is about metaphorical self-destruct button (that has other important functions beside killing everyone).
Have you every been in airplane cockpit?
There always is a switch that cuts enginees off and from what my pilot friend tells me using it in mid flight is more or less equal to killing everyone. And yes, as far as I remember it is big and red and have a lot of "do not touch" vibe around it.
The point is that it's distinguished by a lot more than just color. Shape, positioning, texture, etc are all used to seperate functionality (which is a hard-earned lesson in aircraft: there have been plenty of accidents because a pilot confused two similar levers/buttons/etc - one famous example was the lever to raise the landing gear being next to the throttle, which resulted in more than one case of it accidentally being raised while landing)
> There always is a switch that cuts enginees off and from what my pilot friend tells me using it in mid flight is more or less equal to killing everyone.
Now I'm curious about that! Is that for a situation in which there is absolutely no hope, but bringing the plane down *now* would be better than not doing so? I.e. it's a kind-of aerial trolley problem?
I actually did not ask when you should use this but I guess this could just be normal engine off switch that is always used when on ground (just you should never touch it mid air) or maybe something also usefull when when you have some fire-like situation going on. The whole not use when flying as far as I remember was because it can be really hard to get the engine to work again. And the look of the switch conveyed this message really well.
Yeah, we learned a lot about user interface design during WWII from things like this.
The B-17 was one of the first 4-engine planes and some people thought it was impossible to fly, but really there were issues because the "raise/lower landing gear" and the "dump fuel overboard" switches were basically next to each other and used identical toggles to save money.
Now the landing gear switch is a big handle with a wheel on the end aka it looks like a landing gear and the fuel dump switch is under a protective Molly cover and they are far apart.
>> It's old, but the beginning especially is just a non-stop adventure. It always drags a bit for me after the first third, but picks up again and continues to be great throughout.
Its a pity that we can have new cuts of movies (Zack Snyders Justice League vs original one) but we will never get George R. R. Martin version of Count of Monte Cristo.
Tangentially: the 2024 version [1] of the movie has been a huge success in France (quite deserved in my opinion), and is about the open in the US.
The imagery of the movie has a definitive "Batman" vibe - sort of "full circle", even though, apparently CoMC was not _really_ an inspiration for the Dark Knight, as the legend went. [2]
The trailer looks a bit generic and definitely has a bit different vibe than Im used to (me not knowing French does not help at all :) ). Also the Count after transformation seems to have a different style - feels not as distinguished as old school actors in previous movies.
But maybe it will be exactly what this story needs.
Try "Best served cold" by Joe Abercrombie. Followed by The Heroes. And to avoid minor spoilers, read the First Law trilogy first. All good books are great, The heroes is probably the best!
Thanks, it looks more like fantasy than fiction - I always liked that Count is embeded is real historic events despite me being fantasy fan and almost never reading historic fiction. But somehow in Counts case it seems essential (and that's way anime adaptation was my least favorite).
Any man made hardware is rather too organized to be good analogy here. But we have better alternatives than came along recently - LLMs or any kind of AI models as a matter of fact. Personally I would use analogy of "try running a prompt locally and then explain what really happened inside in terms of CPU operations" :)
>> If your entities are modelled mostly correctly you really don't have to worry about migrations that much
I'm gonna take a wild guess here that you have never worked in unfamiliar domains (like lets say deep cargo shiping or subpremium loans) where your so called subject matter experts provided by client werent the sharpest people you could hope for and actually did not understand what they where doing for most of the time?
Because I on the other hand am very familiar with such projects and doing schema overhaul third time in a row for production system is bread and butter for me.
Schemaless systems is the only reason I'm still developer and not lumberjack.
I cannot be sure but there are clues ... (The fact that this page crashes after ten seconds on mobile chrome being the first one :))
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