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It is less funding. They didn't need the money. Maybe you also want to call profits "funding" because they help with the mindset of building a company.

I used to do this sometimes with C++ when I realized that clearing out a vector with lots of objects was slow. Is Rust basically based on unique_ptr? One problem with this approach was that you still had to wait for these threads when the application would shut down.

My parents used to have one with a mechanical thermostat. It was pretty simple and worked well once you had figured out your target temperature.

“The real problem adults have vs. kids is available time to spend thinking about things (because they have other responsibilities), not raw learning speed.“

I think this is spot on. As adult you have a big pile of past experiences and responsibilities constantly keeping your mind busy. This makes learning new stuff hard. Lately I have been making an effort to approach things with less worries and baggage. I make an effort to not think “I should be able to do this faster” or “this is useless” but instead just do it without too much thinking.

I don’t want gamification but having the data is good. It would also be nice if I could set the shower to a certain temperature instead of guessing every time.

I feel that often a framework can give you a jump start into something new Where you don’t know what you need but at some point you may outgrow it and be better off doing your own thing because now you know exactly what you want.

Happened to me for example with ORMs or third party WPF components. They were good to start but at some point became limiting.

I think you often can’t or shouldn’t skip that step because otherwise the learning curve would be too steep.

“But the first time you see airplane software malfunction, that means you need to change the way the software is written and released so that the whole class of issues will not ever happen again. “

This sounds pretty good in theory but in practice you will just trade the current set of issues against new issues.

In reality, Systems and their interactions are so complex that there is no amount of software design that can avoid bugs and fixing them. We sure can improve but it would be naive to think you can design 100% reliability into something like an airplane.

I totally agree that the looters are hurting the cause and I wish some of the leaders would step up and tell the looters to stop. But considering that one side is doing this professionally and has the right to use lethal violence I think we should apply higher standards to them. Government has to break the cycle.

From what I have read police training is severely lacking and they also let get bad cops away with a lot. Instead of cleaning up from inside they circle the wagons and defend bad guys.

I think to a large part this is a consequence of the racist policies the country had for a long time creating a permanent underclass. This will probably take some more generations to heal.

I also think that the US in general celebrates violence much more than other developed countries (on TV nudity->bad, violence->good). I am always horrified when even very liberal people seem to be OK with people being raped in prisons "because they deserve it". And I think a lot of people are totally OK with rough treatment by police.

That's actually very valid. I know somebody who works at a crime lab with >100k salary, lives in a cheap area of CA and can retire at 50 with full pension. Pretty sweet gig and if they want more money after retirement they can do some government contracting and consulting which is very well paid.

This alienation is what will cause more and more problems for society. It used to be nobility that had no idea of the lives of regular people. Now it’s the managerial and investor class who are losing touch with the rest of society by contracting out things, offshoring and reducing everything to simple numbers.

Fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Ann_Jackson#Rensselaer...

That’s actually a good agreement if not done in a predatory way. Which it is almost to be guaranteed if the finance guys set the terms of such an agreement.

Same at a neighboring city. They want to lay off workers due to COVID while they have doubled administrative staff over the last few years. And none of the administrators is going to get laid off.

The plan is to have parks being cleaned by unpaid volunteers instead of city staff.

Irony would be if the police had been arrested. This is just a continuation of bad behavior.

Trump is just a big bully who loses courage when he gets pushback. Look at how nice he is to the North Korea guy while constantly bashing and demonizing other leaders of democratic countries.

Yes. Looting hurts people that have nothing to do with the protests. Protecting them should be highest priority.

I totally agree with the protests but I think looting is wrong and unproductive and hurts their own cause.

“Those folks are actually chomping at the bit to be taken seriously and have been for a very long time”

They can step forward now and deliver stuff.

Who is a politician and who isn’t?

This stuff used to look high tech. Now it’s computer screens that look high tech. I wonder what’s next. How will a control room in 50 years look or will there be no control rooms?

You always have to look at the facts and not align with a party. Maybe one party does more stuff you like but if the other party does something you want, you should support it.

I am pretty senior and remote now. I would agree that the potential for promotion has gone down a little due to lack of visibility. My strategy is to carve out a niche for myself where I can produce high value stuff that usually doesn't get done in the rush of the office but can be done because I am out of sight. I think this works for me and fits my work style but I don't see myself moving up a lot.

I am actually OK with this despite the motives of the people who want to introduce this legislation.

Now double or triple the speed, make it much louder and you have a jet.

When I was at military I attended a few exercises where jets were involved. They don’t go supersonic but pretty close to it so usually once you start hearing something it’s almost over. It’s actually quite terrifying to have a jet coming at you at 800 km/h at low altitude. Very surprising, then very loud and incredibly fast. You also hear passing by jets only once they are long gone. I assume radar is just much better than sound.

Was that Silverlight on the desktop or in the browser? For a while Silverlight was the recommended desktop UI toolkit until it wasn’t a little later.

Sometime after Win8 release it was suddenly the recommended desktop dev platform. Until it wasn’t a while later and UWP came along.

Really ? Maybe this was an option but I thought Silverlight was generally sandboxed. ActiveX could do native though

A lot of Americans think they can make it themselves without help from others. Smart people don’t believe that and make the government subsidize their stuff left and right. Often while deluding themselves into thinking that they are “self made”. And then you have the people who constantly vote against their own interests while enduring the hardships the system imposes.

Same here. I am totally terrified of being in an accident or having a serious disease and then getting wiped out financially as I have seen others in similar situations. If you are lucky things usually work out but it can easily happen that you are liable for a $60000 helicopter ride or a $300000 hospital bill because somebody (not even you) has filled out some paperwork incorrectly.