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I don’t think the deficiencies of major news organizations have ever been as blindingly obvious to me as they have been over the past month. I knew it was bad. I didn’t realize exactly how bad it was. For them, even a national crisis is just an occasion to twist against Trump. Yes Trump is far, far, far from perfect, but there’s a huge difference between honest, factual reporting and these transparent efforts to use a tragedy to take him down. Nothing more obvious than the attempt to pit Dr. Fauci as somehow being "against" Trump or being "silenced" only for him to come on national radio and set the record straight.

Thanks, I mixed those up. Minor details aside, the larger point was, in order to brew "your best" cup of coffee, you need consistency in the brewing method with the least amount of variables (save the other important variables such as quality of bean, roast profile, water composition, water temp, etc). The aeropress gives you that.

To brew "the best" which means really to get the best extraction out of the bean for which the flavor profile the drinker enjoys the most (too much extraction results in a acidic, heavy taste, too little extraction results in the dreaded "mud water" light taste)

I've tried them all. The aeropress simply enables you to brew the most consistent cup to your liking, plus all the other benefits Steltek pointed out.

Svelte is a compiler for vanilla JS with no runtime like react has, so I guess in a way you are writing vanilla JS?

"Hi jimmy, this is your mother. My phone died so I am calling you from the hospital phone. Your dad is in the hospital. Come quick."

In the above scenario that happened to me, sometimes you just don't have time to let the information find you.

Just pains me that the Rust team is so oblivious to the fact that they need a spec if they ever hope to have a chance to replace C.

Don't call yourself a typical developer and read up!

Great attitude. Let's move on and leave 13% of the global internet population behind.

Alright, someone tell me what are some must downloads? I've been out of college for a while so haven't kept up.

edit: I am most interested in models of computing, and more recently ML-family of languages, and the theories behind it. I am also generally interested in those papers that people view as "classics" or serve as computing history. Hoares CSP, or most anything by Dijkstra that may not be public already.

I know this place discourages this sort of thing, but really want to make this emphasized in case anyone from the ACM is reading:

same here x3!

Fun fact: by the popularized definition in the media, most of your Catholic and Orthodox churches would be "mega churches" as well, despite sharing little in common. They get lumped together statistically, however.

Rather than see this as pointing to how fragile the economic system is, I view it as how wrong the current zeitgeist around business practices (having money is lost opportunity) and which businesses truly are viable (businesses that run up years worth of debt chasing some remote possibility of an explosion of profit).

I was a very early adopter of React at my company (fall 2013) and IIRC, using jQuery with React was still in the docs.

edit: and it still is today, just a tad updated: https://reactjs.org/docs/integrating-with-other-libraries.ht...

What? Is this really controversial? Sometimes you need a UI library, sometimes you need really quick interactivity to toggle a menu. I use alpine.js on my marketing pages, and I use vue/svelte within sections of my app.

Are you kidding me? Look at the current hash tags on twitter. Miserable people never stop.

Thanks for showing me this. This isn't silly, this is awesome! Just what a serious gym goer needs!

It makes your eyes bleed? If you thought mine was a take...

Anyways, let's not act like ES6 classes aren't without their slew of issues, obscure syntax, and most importantly, problems when it comes to transpiling and backwards compatibility:

https://medium.com/@WebReflection/a-case-for-js-classes-with...

Just watching the marketing materials and presentation once again highlights just how important marketing is. Well done on that front.

I don't think it did. Those of us who bothered to spend more than a glancing look at prototypes figured them out pretty easily. Including Classes in JavaScript feel like pandering: there really wasn't much to directly gain from them, but they threw them in there anyways because the TC knew it'd gain JavaScript some popularity.

My brother is a restaurant owner and reports that despite volume being down, profit is up due to less overhead. Others in the restaurant industry are reporting the same. When we come out on the other side of this, I think a lot of businesses are going to rethink a lot of things they held on to as infallible truths.

Sorry as many mentioned, yes the key ingredient is takeout: This is a fast casual italian / pizza restaurant. I find fast casual restaurants doing just fine in my area. It's traditional sit downs that are struggling.

Search on twitter for "computer science" and "gatekeeping" and ask all those people, I dunno. I gave up trying to reason with unreasonable people a long time ago.

It would serve everyone well to start at that level. I write enterprise CRUD webapps, and learning these things helped me tremendously.

Unfortunately we now have a culture that views this type of knowledge acquisition as "gatekeeping"

We all have that one place that we secretly love but keep on the down low for risk of being chided by our more "sophisticated" company. For many that is McDonalds or similar.

For me, it's Waffle House.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bct8stbZafI

Counterintuitively, you are more likely to be better at privacy if you are in the business of selling data, especially in the current regulatory climate.

The websites that have been the worst at maintaining my privacy were those that primarily sold physical products or medical services. You'd be amazed how many organizations broker data now.

Now do me this favor: take your experience and opinion, and compare it to others. How many people share this with you? If the Acer was just that substantially better in terms of value and build quality, why isn't Acer the #1 laptop in the US? Why do so many companies, organizations, and developers not share this take with you? What may you be missing?

Act of congress is a very common idiom, and widely understood by many who have similar systems of democratic government. Don't be that guy.

Ah yes, forgot calling out pedantry hits too close to home with one of the world's most pedantic communities.

Depends on how you are defining "worth" here. They are the only devices "worth" their price as evidenced by how well they hold their value and how much consumers are willing to pay for them. They are not "worth" the high price if you are valuing the internals (what GPU, processor, memory, HD you get).

You don't have to have your business model be advertising in order to be shitty at privacy.

But it's not a great point. The oil industry has had a 100 year head start on the art of money, power, and influence. Human power dynamics are the primary drivers of societal and global change.

That is to say, the reality is you have a zilch chance of passing a carbon tax in the US government sufficient enough to facilitate the change you are hoping to see. The only way oil and gas goes for a carbon tax is if it ends up being a net benefit to them, and as long as there is oil to burn, I don't see that happening any time soon.

I would think California, for as progressive and liberal as it claims to be on the outset would pass something like this, but it's tough for me to be too optimistic there considering the influence and power Chevron has over the state.

It's just so interesting how the same event could lead people to such drastically different observations and take aways.

For instance,

> the importance of global cooperation,

For me, and many others, this pandemic has highlighted the need to be less centralized and dependent on foreign nations, especially with respects to China. Relying on them for our global pharmaceutical supply chain, for instance, seems like a terrible decision to have had made now.

> democratic values

You would be excluding the majority of the world's population, who aren't under a system of primarily democratic values.

> the more expensive it is and the narrower our options become.

That is, until a new or emerging technology opens up a plethora of new options! Have some optimism! Because what is clear to me is, even with this current shutdown which has caused the lower pollution is, we cannot afford the cost it takes to do the kinds of drastic, immediate changes needed to lower the C02 emissions to what the majority of climatologists say it needs to be. Technology must be the answer here.