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Maybe that and also switch to "capitals" mode to use the capitals of the countries instead of the country names. I used to use another "popular map guessing site" almost daily to practice world capitals until one of their pop-up adverts hijacked the page's onload and redirected me to another site. Travle seems much more effective than rote memorization, as it's practical.
A.) If maintainers of your dependencies edited an existing/previous version, or
B.) If your dependencies did not pin their dependencies.
For instance, if you installed vue-cli in May of last year from NPM with --prefer-offline (using the cache / basically the same as checking in your node_modules), you were fine. But because vue-cli doesn't pin its dependencies ("node-ipc"), installing fresh/online would create WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt on your desktop [1], which was at the very least a scare, but for some, incredibly problematic.
If you're trying to start an actual business, it's very very difficult to get people to pay for your solution when a large incumbent can just pay people to use their competitive (potentially sub-standard) product by burning through mountains of, (sometimes not even their own), money. Or once you start to gain some traction, deplatform you from social/search, or bury you in frivolous lawsuits. It can be done, it's just not very straightforward (unless you also already have your own mountains of cash, or are very well connected). But, business is business, so sink or swim?
Otherwise, it's much easier to ride someone else's huge marketing budget (Apple App Store, WordPress plugins, ChatGPT etc.), which doesn't change the competitive landscape and gives those incumbents even more power (merchants/developers/creators touched by the platform's Midas finger become dependent on the platform because it's their income, then their users buy further into the parent system, etc.).
> "But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable. We believe that everyone has the right to make up their own minds about what to read..."
So... "Let [Media Matters] say what you [consider objectionable], and [let us make up our own minds about what to read]."
I do get that that shouldn't preclude lawsuits for slander/libel... but suing people out of existence with "thermonuclear" lawsuits seems to be roughly the same type of tyranny as the censoring he's taking a stand against.
Clearly just bad UX, since this would be solved by having "Walk" flash instead.
Another comment claims: "I recall andrej walking around the office at this time (tesla), bad-mouthing all the sugar products that came into his view, claiming they are weaponized; and very pleased if he saw any nuts." [1]
This advice would actually kill me fairly quickly if I didn't know any better.
The internet is full of prescriptions without qualifiers, and desperate people, (feeling very ill without answers from their doctors, or no access), willing to believe whatever opinions they find because it fits their current perspective without deviating too much. It might be better to just give people the tools they need to understand what's happening [2], and let them listen to their own symptoms to make changes, if they're willing and capable...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110001
[2] https://www.roche.com/about/philanthropy/science-education/b...
Kidneys make calcitriol. One kidney means you'll make less, and if you don't supplement, you'll become deficient. Deficiency would (possibly) lead to autoimmune diseases.
Also EPO (erythropoietin). One kidney means less, and less (possibly) means fewer new red blood cells, then (possibly) anemia. Anemia wreaks havoc.
And bicarbonate.
To be clear, if you want to donate a kidney, then do it if it's the right choice. It's very kind. Just know what to pay attention to to keep yourself in good health.
I wonder if any Bowerbirds have shared your revelation.
I think you'd like news.ycombinator.com (also called Hacker News or HN). What's nice is that the news titles on the home page give you the exact slow drip you're looking for. If you want to participate in a discussion, then there's a comment section, but if you just want to read more, you can click directly through to the article without seeing any comments at all.
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Rational take, but I see the debate similar to Roman vs Arabic numerals.
Keeping a tally? Roman. Need to use operators? Arabic. Sometimes you can keep a tally in Arabic (not ideal), and sometimes you can do basic operations on Roman numerals (not ideal).
However, when you want to start using variables, only one tool enables this easily.
I can't architect the types of redundant and properly separated interoperable systems with a monolith that microservices otherwise enable.
So the desire to move forward isn't the need to find a magic bullet, but the next evolution of an existing ability that unlocks new capabilities...
(I don't think calculus would have been discovered using Roman numerals)
I think the casm separates testers from non-testers.
I've noticed that there are either doctors who will order ALL of the blood tests (all at once, and a few times to track trends), or doctors who will not order any, even if it's clear that tests are absolutely necessary.
A LOT of stories I've read on HN, or heard from others I've spoken with about this subject mention that somewhere along their journey to recovery, they (the patient):
- Did some research,
- Requested their doctor order a few labs,
- Were denied by their doctor (not for insurance reasons),
- Ordered the tests on their own from jasonhealth / ultalabtests etc.,
- Received high/low results as predicted.
...and only then did their doctors respond appropriately.
The fact that we can order our own tests is the difference -- I think -- because it's very similar to the difference between GenZ and Boomers with respect to being tech-native.
From my own experience, younger doctors, generally, order as many tests as possible and want as much data as possible (since data and testing are now cheaper, faster, and more available -- and this is native to their experience, now), whereas older doctors are less likely to behave that way (since tests used to be more expensive, slower, and generally not covered by insurance).
-HOWEVER-
Looking from the other side of the table, sometimes it might not be best to order lots of tests all the time for certain patients, since some (possibly acute or false-positive) results might just stress them out...
Especially when most patients are happy with the current standard. Patient has a rash. Doctor prescribes steroid. Rash goes away, and the patient is happy. No need to dig into the root cause of the rash, and if that cause might lead to cancer 10 years down the line, if ...for 99% of people... it won't.
That said... for the patients who do show an interest in debugging, I think some accommodations should be made that don't involve the frustrating "self-ordered tests process" listed above.
This might not be insightful from your perspective, because you've thought about it before, but it needs to be said. Just like a NO DIVING sign in the shallow end, most people already know, but some people who don't know might not know if it isn't stated.
Interesting that it's suddenly become so "controversial" to suggest circumspection with respect to this subject...
With respect to GPT etc. as a copilot, the current dialogue seems to focus on "ask for GPT to generate code to do X" then "just paste in the error message to fix bugs in the code GPT generates"
A.) Why is GPT generating code that results in simple compiler errors (that is why GPT probably shouldn't be used to generate any code / replace devs for real projects yet), and
B.) error messages are (just guessing here) probably <1% of the actual errors in most codebases.
I personally know of a few large companies laying off devs over this.
IMO, the tech debt we're going to see in 6 months will probably be huge. Good now to start a staffing agency of human experts who can come in and fix this type of problem (extricating massive amounts of code generated by GPT without starting from scratch) because there will be a bunch of fires to put out and those fires will be worth $
Even though CMSs have been around for decades, there are MANY, and many new ones created all the time. Companies and people have reasons for reinventing the wheel with a proprietary solution (sometimes control, sometimes legal, etc.).
So, you'll still have a job.
If the code hasn't been written before, gen-AI will be able to help flesh out a structure from requirements, but you'll still need a dev to make sure the all of the requirements are present (based on what humans know about humans within the context of the problem being solved) and that logic is solid (AI can supplement here). Especially when you start creating or modifying 1M+ line codebases.
And humans will always trust humans (or humans + machines) more than machines acting alone. Maybe I'm just starting to sound old, but "AI + Da Vinci" is NEVER performing an operation on my body. I'm choosing "an experienced human surgeon + Da Vinci" 100% of the time.