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I know the feeling, yet you did not earn shit. You were on the right side of lucky and we tell ourselves stories of justice.

No, but this matters how? It’s just an example of life being unfair.

Just saying that’s life. Earning is a useless question.

Life is uneven like that. Try to make the best of it.

I am completely healthy while some are born into wheelchairs. I did not earn any of it.

It’s their willingness to make up shit to appear more interesting that is at the heart of this. Being interesting or rather, being perceived as interesting, is core to their personality and they think that’s normal, but it is not.

I don’t know about “everybody”. It depends on your circle I guess. I know very few of these people and none of my friends are like that. I don’t give a shit about being interesting and nobody I value does either.

That’s an .. interesting reaction to an unique and thoughtful gift.

There weren’t nearly enough of those to go around. Even medical staff had trouble procuring these.

> UI based SQL query builder

Well, there’s your problem.

Creating more than one entry is not a “scaling issue”.

IMO way sooner. Some low hanging fruit tests would catch this before it’d even hit git.

> We copy pasted the code it generated, saw everything worked fine, tried it in production, saw it also worked, and went on our merry way.

Oh.. this is not good. How did you see it worked fine? You did not try inserting new customers?

Thanks, there went my morning. That was quite the rabbit hole. I’m now confused and sad.

“Scientist”? Is this like Software Engineer?

I refuse to acknowledge anything but multiples of Libraries of Congress.

Having to choose between what is actually good for you and what is “relaxing” and then deciding to divert all available funds to “relaxation” is not a money issue.

For some reason, ignorance most likely, I'm not impressed. Looks relatively easy. Not for me, but for anybody with some math skills it looks easy to improve upon naive solutions.

To be fair, a completely optimal solution definitely seems out of reach, but I'm not interested in those.

Ah. I can understand the argument the streamers should be handled like all broadcasters currently are.

Still think it's an.. awkward way to handle things, but that's up to Cadana. Ok, thank you.

OK thank you for elaborating. I tend to assume that such laws - "let's listen in on everything you do" - need firm and solid justification. Coming up with a simple counter-example on first try signals to me the problem has not been handled effectively (understatement of the year). I'm not talking about having the perfect solution, just.. something that does not immediately fall down on first try within a few minutes.

This world confused me sometimes.

Yes, but I don't understand why. Is Netflix damaging them ("local news")?

I don't see the relation and I'm assuming there is one.

This feels like taxing McDonalds to support struggling local artists.

This, so much this. I feel that society as a whole is eeking slowly into 80-90's level computing, but it is completely asymmetrical. Some parts of society are hyper-evolved, like social media and entertainment, but others are stuck in earlier phases like your example. In that case even 70's level tech and theory would be an improvement.

CS and educated tech people in general are in a hyper-educated bubble where it is normal to talk about distributed systems and algorithmic complexity, but there are an awful lot of smart people without those backgrounds.

A lot of knowledge that's traditionally branded as "technical" is IMO generally useful, but overlooked. For example basic queuing theory in of itself is exceedingly useful. Nothing fancy, just the steady-state, blocking probablity, what chance of how many "clients", etc.

I witness very large (gov) organisations lacking any kind of in/out flow modeling, statistics, etc. No dashboards, no insights. Just going by feel. Everybody is "overworked", but if you dare to say it might be a good idea to start quantifying some of those parameters you'll be in a very silent, very awkward room and will never be asked anything ever again. I wish I was kidding.

AI? Let's start previous-century level process automatization and professionalization first and we'll see in a few decades if we're anywhere near ready for the next step.

Edit: It's btw interesting that most (high-level) managers at these orgs are all alphas, like history and political science majors. I guess it's no wonder they are trying to solve production problems through "consensus" and endless meandering, but it's also frustrating.

Sorry, but Canada demanding "internet money".. you got to be kidding me.

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Department_of_Internet_Mon...

"In order to give the Canadians more money because, according to Stephen Abootman, Canada doesn't have enough money [...] They receive 10 million 'theoretical dollars', which ends up being useless for the Canadians."

Anyway, I'm dumb and I'm not getting it even after reading it. What does Disney+ or Netflix have to do with "local news"?

Compared to.. protein folding, nuclear fusion? Sounds like a handful of parameters to me. What are computers good for if not looking for solutions in this space?

It's strange to me that the cargo space has not been aggressively optimized. It's a pretty substantial part of civilization and, I believe, there's definitely some money sloshing around there.

The “poor” seem to scrape by just enough to get access to Netflix, sports.. I don’t think this is a money issue.

There is a model of a thing and there is a row that stores a representation of that model of a thing.

They both are things. Ignoring the last one might be tempting, but it’s not practical.

Interestingly your own way of thought is applied, but now a level deeper again.

How do you model a row? What makes it unique? A surrogate ID is the only sensible unique identifier for such a thing as there is no “natural key” that would make sense for instances of something so general as “Row”.

What you were saying amounts to “don’t model the thing holding the model”, but experience shows the thing holding the model is itself an (often unwilling) active part of systems.

Someone here gave the example of wrongly entered PK’s by administrative personnel handing live customers. That’s IMO a good example of why you need an extra layer on top of your Actual Model(c). I can think of more.

Broad range of users means keeping it simple and sticking to the standards.

The complexity of government forms is not about fancy custom dialogs, elaborate data types or cute animations. There are usually a lot of (simple) questions. Yes/no, checkboxes, dates and times, free fields. The list is not endless.

These forms needs to be frustration free as possible. IME all easy targets if you don’t use JS.

They did not have a “late start” etc. It’s not just luck.

They just could not. Being clever in one way does not translate to being generally effective.

Scientists would rule the world if that were the case. Yet they are with very, very few exceptions actually bottomfeeders when it comes to power. Those “low competency” people you speak of however..

Indeed. I now know Firefox mobiles gives an infinity sign if you have more than 99 tabs open. These are all articles or topics I want to review.

It’s definitely growing faster than I can review. There is just so much high-quality stuff out there.

I’m not even on social media. Fundamentally interesting stuff will find it’s way off those islands and into the open web. It’s an useful filter for me.

So they explain it to people as being able to catch criminals, but they known it won’t work against that?

How can you maintain such a position? At some point you’ll have to explain your reasons for draconian measures like this.

That’s why I’m spamming people with “it won’t work” because so many seem fooled by this. You will catch exactly zero people with this. The only people you’ll catch will be the ones that you would have caught anyway, because of their nonchalance.

I don’t know anything about law but I know tech.

It’s a disgrace indeed. This fragile, completely open and transparant, utterly harmless human rights paradise wants to just grow a tiny bit while this single, isolated, hostile, aggressive and jealous close-minded nation wants to control them.

Criminals are using specialty phones or should I say, were using, because this was recently cracked and thus became useless. Catching Taghi in NL was a famous result of that.

Point is that dangerous people will use specialty devices/services and being legal is certainly not one of the requirements.