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“Fixed” here meaning?

What is “foolish” discussion of a personal health topic? The main arguments I saw were that long term studies did not exist (tautologically), and that side effect reports (especially those from women) were swept under the bureaucratic rug. Which is also true.

Plenty of such cases: https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/08/how-did-sweden-sterilise...

Yes, because content is almost never placed above the viewport. Do you have an example of that happening?

But I suppose the complaint might be able to be generalized to all items past the start of a main-axis centered flex-box. Doesn’t make the failure more excusable.

Funny that this doesn’t even mention the actual critical failure of CSS centering: data loss on all items overflowing to the left of the container. Items to the right can be scrolled into view, but items to the left are entirely inaccessible.

With modern high level languages, yes, perhaps. The article says as much.

My b, I misread and noprocrast kicked in before I could edit.

This isn’t accurate. Rather it’s removing 1,500 chars to bring the article from >300 chars to <300 cars, and among those remaining <300 chars one or more of several “obscene” words being present.

Qt uses what is almost exactly CSS: https://stackabuse.com/styling-pyqt6-applications-default-an...

Poor example, given many photographs shoot raw precisely because it gives them more room for artistic decisions in post. Obviously the standardized algorithm should have basic factors like gamma and general phase shifting incorporated, but the idea of being able to adjust the maps delta between arbitrary adjacent inputs is of questionable benefit to the community. It’s akin to adjusting levels via curves with many points, and it’d be incorrect to say folks are taking artistic liberties when they do that.

Yes, that is what the map does. Convert values from one domain to another. That is the purpose of mapping. The point is to make it as simple and consistent as possible.

Rules say you can’t ever produce a number greater than the original largest number, so the possibilities will always be finite. (fixed number of ways to make a list of distinct integers that sum to N such that all values are <=M).

> only look good when processed

Ehh. I personally can’t stand all the post processing folks love to make their results look “magazine ready”. I think the most minimal transformation possible to map the data into 0xRRGGBB would look the best, ideally with a simple standardized algorithm that doesn’t allow for any “artistic license”.

There isn’t a “should” involved. I don’t have hubris in near enough magnitude to think my desires about what species is in control in 3,000,000 hold any significance regardless.

My point is rather that if we do die off, there will be something that comes along, and it will in all likelihood be an evolutionarily “better” species than humanity. For instance, if we die in nuclear armageddon, there’s a very good chance that whatever comes next will have significant radiation hardening capabilities, and perhaps would even be able to metabolize radiation. These individuals would be far better suited to be Earth’s intergalactic vanguard.

Speak for yourself. I made no mention of humanity.

The changes introduced by bacteria were certainly not adapted to by all flora and fauna, as you go on to describe. But here we are.

Had the bacteria said “hey guys all this Oxygen we’re making is seriously disrupting the environment and killing a lot of stuff, we should limit our productivity in order to ensure that doesn’t happen, after all we’re the greatest things that will ever be on this planet so we have to make sure it’s well suited for us and only us forever and ever and ever”, here we would not be.

Verily I say unto you, bacteria have had a far greater impact on climate change than humans could ever dream to. Oxygen wouldn’t be here without them, for one. And plant-available Nitrogen.

All the changes we are seeing now are absolutely nothing compared to the impact bacteria had had on the climate.

What would the end result be/do?

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Oh I was thinking of ORMs like Prisma, where the single ORM System is responsible for both runtime mapping of objects to relations, and development/deployment time provisioning of schemas, migrations, indexes, etc.

Oh I see MySQL added functional indexing in 8.0.13, that’s the main thing I would miss from Postgres. Partial indexes are also nice to have, but I suppose a sophisticated enough ORM could map them to functional ones, at least in so far as testing is concerned. The memory use would likely be much higher than a proper partial index.

In Apple music songs can be in three^ states: Null, In Your Library, or Downloaded, with downloaded being a subset of “In your Library”. When you are offline you can look through all your library and see those songs which you’ve added but not downloaded as greyed out, versus the download ones as black. There’s also a view that filters the library so it only shows downloaded. If you click a black Downloaded song, it plays, if you click a grey In Your Library one, it says “Connect to Data to play this song” or similar.

^ I lied, there’s actually a fourth hidden state “Cached” that the UI presents as “In your Library” rather than “Downloaded”, and will give the same “Connect to data…” error if you directly click on it to play while offline. However, if you click Play on the album/playlist/etc itself, you can then navigate via the “Next Button” and “Up Next” queue to pick the song and if you played it recently, it’ll work. Great if find yourself in a plane and there are some songs you’ve been listening to lately but forgot to download.

I’ve been meaning to write a blog on “The Hidden Cache Apple Music Doesn’t Want You To Know About” for some time now lol. But knowing Apple I’d half-expect them to “patch the bug” by preventing the hidden cache from being played offline.

Outside the military? Is military spending a beacon of efficiency and results/clam now?

The Overton window has shifted such that two adults agreeing to engage in sexual activity in front of a camera can be in any way considered “non-consensual”? Wild.

Do you think adult actors agreeing to engage in sexual activity in front of a camera, but only because they have chosen to do that for a living when other viable employment alternatives were available, is also “non-consensual”?

At least it’s finally rational!

You refer to the ruminates who intentionally bring up and chew their cud over and over precisely because the iterative process they're engaged in allows them to break down and digest the material over time? And indeed is the only possible way they can "work through" the material?

The hubris to suppose those who ruminate are doing it simply to pass the time...

That requires “just compensation”, as per the text of the very amendment I cited. Texan voters are unwilling to provide the compensation. Therefore the project does not go forward. It’s really a very simple concept.

But if the recruiter has already gone through the work of vetting the candidate, why would the company not just talk to the candidate directly and “cut out the middleman”, so to speak? What guarantee does the recruiter have that providing the company this holy grail candidate will be met with anything more than “wow good eye, thanks!”

To me that just sounds like “we don’t want to pay you anything but do all the work for us anyways”. Is it supposed to be some tongue in cheek way of saying “fuck off if you’re a recruiter we don’t give a shit”? Or are they instead asking for a historical example of a good hire you facilitated?

It’s akin to saying “Oh you’re a systems software engineer? Prove it by designing and implementing our entire system for us, we won’t pay you for it, we just want to know you can do it”.

Train scheduling is not a simple binary “freight gets priority = problem, passengers get priority = no problem” matter. The GP referred to a specific implementation of a priority system in which passengers could be delayed for more than the base length of their trip, which presumably makes planning around taking the train quite difficult. This is the “problem” with it. Someone else asked if the other areas experience that problem. I said the Portland/Seattle and LA/SanDiego trains do not. That doesn’t mean they don’t have some variety of a prioritization scheme whereby freight often goes in front of passengers, it means they don’t experience the specific problem GP referred to whereby passengers can experience massive delays more than doubling the length of their trip. This in turn makes commenting via train in these areas comparatively “easy”.