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Swift is amateur hour in action by academics that don't value practicality. The new Concurrency was ill thought, and done by people that just perhaps either don't have enough practical experience, or are so enamored with the actor paradigm (erlang) that they had to shove it down the throat in a ecosystem where it is not used that much. No one is really using Swift for distributed programing.

Glad they are backtracking on this, and I hope they start remove features and simplifying things. Swift's enemy is its own self and the people steering int into just an academic exercise, rather than a practical and performant language that can be used in many domains. Server side Swift right now is dead due to all these insane changes.

Hopefully things get better on the server/other non ios domains, but the language needs to get simplified and become practical and fun to use.

I personally love the autoplay (on hovering), as often I just want to see some part of the video without having to click on it and see a bunch of ads before any playback.

2009 - 2013 there were some good bargains in LIC and other areas. It will take a major recession to see some prices come down again to some reasonable level.

Also, I wonder what the volume of transactions is. Because I see little inventory (I was looking into Brooklyn), and perhaps only new construction is selling, which means it skews prices higher (new construction is always more expensive).

Yep, thanks for the link! Good laptops were 4-5k minimum. Thats like 7-8k now.

1k was a cheap / barebones computer. (Celeron, or AMD K4 chip, with not much memory, and maybe a floppy disk and slow CD reader). A good one (in the 90s at least) was at least 1.5k-2k, which is 2.8-4k now.

I trust Fidelity. I used to work there years ago. It is a conservatively run place, careful with changes, which is a good thing when managing large amount of money. The tech and web interface might not be the shiniest, but I'd rather have my money there than vanguard/schwab, etc...

How hard it is, if you have someone inside with the access of the code? If you have 100s of people with full access, not hard to have someone that is willing to sell it or do some industrial espionage...

yeah, I get that 'you see them everywhere', but almost 2/3rd of them have been scrapped, and only the large ones remain, and some left in tourist areas.

So, you are really seeing the 1/3rd left. The bunker built out during communism, was truly crazy.

Most bunkers were in line of 5, and connected by ditches/trenches. So, they almost were never by themselves (unless in some isolated aerea), but in lines, and connected to a network of trenches. As the war in Ukraine shows, trenches are still useful.

There was also communication lines, (hard telephone lines), in ditches about 1m deep, in order to survive nuclear / emp attacks.

When I was a little kid, we'd play hide and seek in those bunkers, or we'd play 'castle take over' with self made wooden swords, romans vs illyrians as kids. (Or Albanians vs Turks). Which team conquered the most bunkers, would win.

They were fun as a kid, but we had to watch out for wild animals (or snakes), take refuge on those bunkers.

Now most of them are being scraped, to recoup the metal, so there are few left.

Geary BRT is still not complete. 25 years in the making, and it is just a half assed solution. SF is very inefficient into completing mass transit infrastructure.

This is really cool. I have a couple of children’s stories / illustrations I always wanted to animate.

Will check it out

The ignorance of this thread. You are making it sound like you are going to a another planet and want to know if the local aliens are hostile or not.

Greece is a developed western country, and has a large amount of tourists, millions of them every year, and a very developed tourist industry (one of the most developed per capita in the world) and has been doing it for decades, and is happy to take your money, and doesn't care where some of the snowflakes are coming from.

I personally didn't like Athens that much, but the islands are great to visit. The whole region (from Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, and all the way to Italy) is a blast to visit.

Haha… It is a a ‘Tera Flop’, as they are falling in the ground…

The Roman Empire was very advanced for the time, and it left such a huge imprint on the civilization even centuries, and thousands of years after it.

The organization was a different scale.

Fun fact: Some of the most famous battles in England in the middle ages, such as battle of Hasting, were basically 5k - 9k soldiers in each side. That's just one and a half Roman legion.

Rome, could field 12 legions at a time, and the scale was insane. I can see why the Roman Empire remained such a symbol of civilization for a thousand of years after its fall.

I haven't used the static version, but almost eveyrone that I know have used Lua loves it. There is beauty to its simplicity/bare bones approach to programing.

I have used it production (embeded/mobile), and I liked a lot. Their associated tables are just awesome.

The problem with Lua is that object oriented programing is not necessary a first class citizen (you have to create it from scratch with object prototypes) and that Python occupies the same space and has sucked the oxygen out of it.

Think of Lua as a much leaner/simpler Python, and better for embeded situations.

unfortunately, AVP has ignored gaming altogether (to apple it is an annoyance). At least it could have had some kind of push forward of the industry in that front. The resolution is not yet good enough for work either. The only thing that it does well right now is laid back video/media entertainment, and that's it.

Youtube, Maps (mobile, the web version has been getting worse), Gmail are pretty good.

So, their core services are fine; for anything that is not in the 'hot money making' path, good luck, some are great some are bad.

Before Git, Perforce was state of the art.

Before that it was SVN (open source, decent) and tools like IBM Clearcase (not good, file locking, etc)

Perforce was very easy to use and honestly git was a step backwards on a overall usability.

percentage wise, Absolutely yes. Ukraine is 40mil.

If the current rate was sustained in the Ukraine/russia, we would have seen at least 400k death rates. The estimates are 10-20x less. (between 10 and 20k)

You lost the plot, when even a goon like Putin is starting to look more human and conducting a massive war with less civilian casualties.

bruh.... this is clearly 'faschist' type of argument. "They deserve it". The dehumanizing of a whole population is just sick.

Last times this happen in europe were: 1) WW2, 2) The massacres in the Yogoslavian wars, and especially in Sebrenica which was a clear ethnic cleansning/genocide and the war leaders ended up getting convicted for war crimes and crimes against the humanity.

Benjamin Netanyahu is on the way to become the next Milosevic, a war criminal.

I saw some of the incursion footage. How many of the hamas troops in the October 7 incursion were women? 0, from what I saw in the footage the only women involved were isreali victims getting kidnapped. Mostly of the incursion was done by males clearly in their 20s/30s. Perhaps few 19+, but I didn't see any kids participating in it either.

Sure, there might be some women helping out, but we can say it is mostly men, and 99% of the women killed, and most of the kids under 17 are victims of IDF's indiscriminate bombing, paid by our taxes.

If you want to defend war crimes, keep on going, but I feel sick how some goons in the tech community are justifying the killing by saying a '11 year old' is probably a hamas terrorist.

Nothing new here. Basically the genetics, matches the historical accounts. We know (by historical accounts) that the slavic immigration started in the end of the 6th century, after the death of Justinian the Great, where the successors lost territories and few battles and could properly defend the frontier. (avar wars).

Also, after the Justinian plague (541–549 AD) a lot of the local population was decimated, hence the new slavic arrivals found it easier/space to move to the country side (initially as a trickle of immigration in the late 6th century, then eventually as settlers/invaders later in the early 7th century).

17% is a huge cut. More than that and you end up damaging operations. Look what is happening to X / Twitter.

PS. Spotify had already two layoffs, once 6% in Jan 2023 and 2% in June. This combined seems like a 25% ish cut.

Sad to see this happening to my former co-workers. At least it looks like the severance seems to be generous.

"We will start with a baseline for all employees, with the average employee receiving approximately five months of severance."

Serbia is refusing to give autonomy to Preseva Valley too (Luigina e Presheves). Also, Hungarians minorities in the north don’t have it either.

They have lots of soul searching as well.

It is just 8 bucks for the full service... just buy the internet bro. It is actually pretty good.

Jesus.... Visual Basic did this in the 80s and 90s just fine. Flash did it in the early 2000s.

It is doable, but it requires a stable runtime. Just the HTML/CSS ecosystem is too flaky, and HTML/CSSS is a poorly design system for this type of interactive systems/apps.

Joel is wrong. The 2001-2003 timeframe was very hard to find a job, even if you were a really good engineer.

There is a good reason Open Source development exploded during those years, as there were a lot of unemployed or 'underemployed' good engineers that had time to do some open source work while looking for a job.

By 2005 (when that article was written), the market had already recovered, and what he said is true (good engineers had already found a job), but that doesn't negate the fact that 2001-2002 was bad even for good engineers.

Pure speculation: most likely quantizing models to 8bit to make them more efficient (and cheaper to run), and losing some accuracy on the way.

I still use it, but I have found it to be less useful for coding than it was earlier. So, something is up.