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Except it ain’t satire!
Cue argument about non typed scripting languages with garbage collection not belonging on long running server processes, etc… “There’s this thing called the stack, a request response cycle fits inside it and actually http is stateless probably due to contemporary stack limits”
I agree, and found the article funny.
The parts about accessibility, data portability, and alternative interfaces are very relevant: protocols instead of software, open standards.
Remember the various messenger clients and then stuff like Trillian Pigeon etc?
The federated stuff as well as web rings, remember those?
Remember life before Google?
Organic discovery of links is often quite ideologically and teleologically relevant, in terms of the people and minds that connect.
It’s somewhat ironic that web forums such as HN are actually how we discover human filtered links.
Stretching/yoga constantly. Keep the mat unrolled and while something builds, stretch.
Walking. A lot. As I’ve not been able to dance all night since COVID, I’ve started “dance walking” . It looks pretty ridiculous and keeps people guessing.
I like to ride my bicycle, bicycle…
But there’s a multifaceted you there.
It’s pretty hard to reach your potential as a surf champion if you stay where you were born in Minnesota.
It’s pretty hard to become a social butterfly in a culture that disapproves of your sexual orientation.
It’s pretty hard to become a nuclear physicist if you only stay in the farm and study animal husbandry.
Nothing against animal husbandry or Minnesota
Also true. Mental boxes are mental boxes.
I wouldn’t discount alternative environments for stimulating latent or dorment parts of a person, but you certainly have a good point about the perennial capacity for self transformation
1) is this novelty curve, when the thrill is gone etc.
2) happiness. In my understanding it’s a decision about how to view life in general, which couples to endocrine system responses
3) the opportunities and relative merits of different places. I heard said that XYZ is a good/bad place to do PFQ activity
Nice article and all, especially the cute drawings. I don’t agree with their conclusions.
It’s pretty hard to become a surf champion if you grow up in Minnesota and stay there. Each new “reality bubble” or “box” I created in response to different circumstances in a different environment. I changed, or rather, different sides of my personality had to develop to adapt to a different environment.
I’m not speaking as a vacationing cubicle worker, but as someone who completely reinvented himself after age 30, learned a half dozen languages, visited 50 countries usually on local peoples sofas, and then finally changed countries of habitation several times and am now a dual national and feeling both mental boxes quite strongly attempting to box me in.
The part where I agree with the author is that part in which our reality is limited by our own mental box of perception and acculturation.
Our choices and responses to external stimuli determine if we fold or adapt to new opportunities. Will we hide in our shell or will we come out and be molded by new experiences?
Please note, the instagram vacation model is accurate and hollow as outlined by the author, I just think that they copped out with their lame trite conclusion that I have personally found to be untrue.
You would make an EXCELLENT moderator or facilitator. You gave fair shrift and explanation to the various perspectives anc concerns this thread is full of. I will happily vote for you if you ever run for public office.
Downtown Saint Paul Minnesota has the “skyway system” but I’m not sure it provides any lateral stiffening, rather more movement between buildings above street level in inclement weather
Good point, I wonder if light shafts ameliorate that sufficiently, or altered internal topologies, like cutouts
Skyscrapers are disproportionately tall for their width. This leads to the mentioned lateral movement issues discussed. The great pyramid of Giza does not have such issues due to its literal pyramidic shape with its wide base. It would seem to me, purely based on common sense, that skyscrapers are unnecessarily tippy and flexy due to the bizarre interest in making a thin needle-like building with a small base section.
Why would we not consider simply making tall buildings proportionally wide instead of this obviously flawed tippy needle thingy?
Problems with tippy needles include: foundations and their connections to bedrock, simple physical fulcrum principles, and the obvious inability to spread forces over a larger area. It’s a bit like trying to hold a large Christmas tree up with a small stand with low mass… doomed to problems
No,that is explicitly untrue: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-seo#what-does-goo...
Google says that they maintain separation between their ad business and the acquisition now known as google analytics
Wait, are you saying that there is recourse for reversing blockchain transactions?
There’s a difference between one kid, two kids, three kids, and that guy who had 150 kids or somesuch.
There isn’t an infinite carrying capacity to any planet, nor is it reasonable to have excess of a singular species for it is at the expense of others.
Some may have hurt feelings if you explain that more than 2 kids increases the population, but then “go forth and multiply” is probably not currently sound guidance, given what we now know, vs what we knew, say, 5 thousand years ago. It was arguably bad judgment to completely finish the great grazing herds and the Mastodons but try telling that to a hungry lot of humans.
The more we come to grips with the human as another animal species, one of many on earth, the easier it is to see how our own hubris is the issue everytime.
To the person above who thought 7 billion humans above wasn’t pushing any planetary limits: while no individual human wants to feel like excess, and certainly homicide is never what is being suggested, the fact remains that a wise human race that wishes to have a healthy planet and lots of resources per capita will steer their population over generations to be healthy.
I’m rather convinced that the same way a rabbit population without predators will suffer disease if it blooms too much, that this is what we are starting to encounter as we brush with the limits of our host in terms of our reckless dominance and destruction on the only known home to life so far…
No one wants to hear about limits or rules but hey, reality called…
Except we just brought the JVM onboard, with its own headaches. The JVM is arguably as much of an obstacle to developing solutions as boilerplate in Java. You end up having to debug obscure JVM errors in production instead of sticking to Clojure. It’s also not doing any of the compiler tricks CL and schemes are noted for.
I think that you are being unreasonable. Logic gives you zero demo trial period and its price is significantly higher. Most audio software is relatively expensive, if you have any experience, which I doubt given your claim that this competes with audacity. Audacity competes with Ntrack, perhaps. This competes with Ableton or Bitwig. Go check their prices
I disagree. I used trackers for decades but I’ll take piano roll any day.
A working recording studio will not change versions, let alone DAWs, given the non significant investment in plugins, time patching routing, probably to a physical patchbay, and hardware controllers or digital mixers that may have firmware compatibility concerns etc. Apples pace in pushing you off their hardware is many times faster than the geological timespan of pro studio upgrades. Note that Harrison mixing consoles funded some of Ardour dev a few years back expressly to use it for their system, adding bespoke plugins etc.
it’s really a different world from electronic music production, which I’m rather familiar with lol.
Basically, if it involves in-the-box synthesis and largely programmatic sequencing it’s a different animal than a multi track audio editor optimized for comping takes. Ableton workflow makes it clear how they are streamlining features to fit the electrónica (everything is electrónica these days, in terms of the production techniques having been appropriated by everyone else.) And trackers and such are one of the original opinionated platforms expressly for making machine music, as Frooty and it’s ilk like Orion added audio tracks and recording features much later. Workflow. Horses for courses. Upgrade timescales. Different animals. Can’t be everything to everyone.
Crystal: Kemal, Amber, Lucky, and more…
The tools have evolved, even if ROR brought a lot to the table.
Speed is now a first class feature…
Use HAProxy, this is what it is designed for.
Só, nginx is a freemium webserver ($2500 IIRC, the open source community edition deliberately withheld features like hot reload of configs, not sure of current status wrt versions features parity etc.)
It can also serve as a proxy server, but we already have the finest proxy server in the world as open source: HAProxy
I urge anyone to learn it’s admittedly obscure but simple config file switches and be amazed at how many layers this software can operate on.
When you really need to performance tune your frontend in real-time, you will appreciate HAProxy and what it offers.
That is an exhilarating yet bewildering yet funny read. I’m not sure it’s enough to make me check Bloomberg repeatedly, however I’m shocked at how hip postmodern and stuff they went here. I suppose it’s just op-Ed and they can afford a little silliness now and again, probably by running the opposite of this piece, whatever the hello that would be, an elephant toaster mug singing fígaro?
As in the net root, or what?
I don’t know the product, but you could certainly make a “secure iot “ device with C. Formal verification is again the search term you seek. System states. State machines being a good metaphor. Array bound checking doesn’t really matter if it’s a statically allocated array of a fixed known size. Arguably dynamic code vs static code is a bigger issue than language choice, and you see static code here in Hubris, and they explain why, so it’s not just about Rust but about the system design
They picked c++ because it’s a low level capable language that has a reasonably familiar syntax, and their primary training wheels are these simplified arruino libraries.
The actual runtime framework with its “setup” and “loop” methods is a reasonable proxy for an RTOS or the framework an experienced embedded developer would have built as a general runtime system.
There’s nothing wrong with Arduino, except that its SPI SD card library won’t give you good bandwidth but that’s because they wanted it to be an understandable simple access library for SD cards, and you will need to go further if you want reasonable performance.
Your metaphor that “python is the new basic” stems from desktop computers use of BASIC to teach beginning programming skills on largely 8 bit machines.
Once you started with BASIC you presumably moved to learning assembly language, as many of these machines gained c compilers, you might have tried to obtain one.
The entire point of micropython is a friendly introduction or friendly prototype platform or learning platform. In no way does micro python take advantage of the hardware nor could it ever directly talk to hardware.
One should not treat all programming languages the same as they have different purposes and python is not fit for the purposes a c or c++ is fit for, aka memory allocation etc. The number one lesson a beginning embedded programmer should take away from arduino is that controlling hardware is about writing specific bit patterns to memory locations. Sorry, this is not something python can do or was designed for.
Deeply embedded means “embedded Linux won’t suffice”
Your car braking system had better not be a micropython program.
There are actual safety proofing systems in which code is proven, and the python interpreter itself will not come close to passing as the complexity is too large. (Formal verification is the Search term you seek (
Not to mention the hard coded file names a certain Linux screen capture utility leaves behind…
This was a great toilet read, not too long, not too short, although I’m somewhat of a speed reader. Now where did that sea sponge on the end of a stick go? No wait, that’s the toilet brush.
Well, I suppose you can examine gun crime statistics in the rest of the world and see that the US gun death numbers per capita cause of death are higher than anywhere except failed states and war zones. Do I need to cite this obvious state of affairs? I can if this part is really in doubt.
Control is largely possible where there is a political will, case in point being Australia and their rather sudden shift and it’s rather obvious results. Deaths from all guns, legal and otherwise, are down, due to concerted efforts to remove guns from circulation.
I propose that groups like the NRA have fetishized an absurd interpretation of the second amendment.
Here is the second amendment in its entirety:
“ A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”
This in no way establishes a uncontrollable right for every citizen to own an arm. The phrase “well regulated militia” can be argued to death but there is no denying the well regulated part.
We live in a time where fancy legal experts and corrupt Supreme Court justices feel inclined to ignore the literal text of our constitution and insist upon erudite legal interpretations that make a mockery of language itself. That some dare to call themselves conservative is a slap in the face to our heritage.
What to say, legalese was always intended first and foremost as clear precise language, not as a gatekeeper hurdle or occupational shibboleth.