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Just for reference, I did receive an email from them.

I had the exact same experience. I think it can be a pretty big barrier to getting started, as you really have to lock into a sub-set of the ecosystem (i.e. I can only use crates that have support for Tokio).

I understand the reasoning for not wanting this in the core language, but perhaps there could be some standard implementations which would still allow for custom runtimes.

-- I decided I don't need more RAM than 8 GB, because nobody from the first reviewers managed to give the RAM a hard time. It seemed to me it's a different beast altogether and it doesn't make sense to just compare numbers and say that more is better. Apple allows you to buy a computer with more than 8 GB RAM, but I think it's just a trap how to satisfy and charge those who don't believe the reviews and just want more RAM whatever it takes. --

I think the reason I would always buy more RAM is not because it needs it today, but because it may need it in 2 or 3 years, as app inevitably eat into the performance gains with bloat.

There are a lot of people customizing their OS X experiencing (including custom window managers). See here for some examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/search?q=mac&restrict_sr=o...

Adobe AIR was a desktop runtime, analogous to the Flash Player for the browser.

It supported all of the capabilities of Flash in the browser, including Animation, as well as additional desktop specific functionality (such as file system access).

There were two primary authoring tools from Adobe. Adobe Flash (not Animate), which was the traditional designer / animation tool (but also enabled programing), and Adobe Flash Builder, an Eclipse Based IDE targeted at ActionScript development (and a heavy focus on Adobe Flex, a markup based Application development framework built on top of ActionScript / Flash.

Flash was powerful, in part because the Flash Pro authoring tool opened up interactive content development to designers who had little to no programing experience, and then scaled up to allow more advanced functionality via programing.

Note, I work at Adobe, and was responsible for Flash community at Macromedia and then Adobe.

Yes, Adobe released an SDK (which Google used) to allow indexing content in SWF files. However, it looks like Google no longer uses it, or indexes them.

The Flash authoring tool (now called Adobe Animate) has HTML5 / Canvas output via the CreateJs library.

https://createjs.com/ https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

There is some discussion related to this in Adam Curtis's Century of the Self:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

where there was a concerted PR effort after World War 2 to associate Democracy with Capitalism, (as a push back against some of the more social policies of Roosevelt.

Yeah, I have the same type of email, and I received legal and medical documents, letters from schools about students, tons of personal notes, and daily signups for services.

Its crazy.

Here is their video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXg7GQogAE

Yeah, I got my general license a couple of years ago, and was really trying to get into it, but where I live in the SF bay area, there is just too much interference.

I am looking forward to when I eventually move and hopefully have some more electronically quieter spaces. Its really fun and exciting doing digital modes to see how far you can send / receive on simple antennas.

I wrote up some info on on of the digital modes JT65 here: http://mikechambers.com/blog/2016/02/19/example-jt65-qso-exc...

(not sure if that mode is still used.)

(I used to really love listening to shortwave, especially to get difference news / views, but not shortwave is mostly just religious stations)

My hope is that the thinking is that we have a very disruptive social distancing phase (now), in order to give our medical system time to ramp up to handle much higher surge capacity, and then transition to a more focused isolation / social distancing policy (maybe based on regions or outbreaks).

Might want to check out Jameco on the Peninsula: https://www.jameco.com

Not a walk in store, but you can order online and pickup.

Chomsky and Herman discuss this in Manufacturing Consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Good video / overview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

You can find the SWF spec at: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html

Macromedia / Adobe released it quite a bit ago (while Flash was still popular).

The only difference between the free (Starter plan) and paid version is that the free version limits you to sharing one prototype at at time.

Thats it. Otherwise, functionality is the same.

XD has a free plan (which just limits the number of simultaneous prototypes you can share).

XD is also free.

It may dominate (some) local job markets.

Processing is probably the most popular and accessible.

OpenFrameworks and Cinder are probably a bit more powerful, but more difficult to use (built around c++).

I also like PaperJS, which is built around JavaScript, but doesn't have the performance of Processing and OpenFrameworks.

Finally, you can just use raw drawing APIs (such as Canvas in the browser).

Good list of resources here: https://github.com/kosmos/awesome-generative-art

If you have the original source file (FLA), Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Pro) can export to Canvas. It uses the Create JS library for export / runtime:

https://createjs.com/

There are tons of places to eat, but not a ton of places to grab a quick bite.

> I now believe with some effort at least most of the common meat usage can be substituted away.

I have had the chance to have the impossible burger a couple of times, and, at least for hamburgers, it is a VERY good substitute, both in taste, mouth feel and overall satisfaction.

https://www.impossiblefoods.com/burger/

Capitalism also drives greed, destruction and human misery as well as some other pretty evil things.

Actually, Flash has a similar model for its HTML 5 export (I havent had time to look into Lottie though to see how similar it is).

You can find a good description of the system in this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/education/21sfschool.html

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Here is how the current system works: Let’s say a 5-year-old — we’ll call him Jake, like my son — wants to go to kindergarten. His parents fill out an application and list seven schools they prefer.

The more desirable schools get more applications than they have seats; in some cases that ratio is 20 to 1. That’s where the Diversity Index comes in. Known as “the lottery,” the index uses five factors to determine a child’s profile: poverty level, socio-economic status, English-language proficiency, academic achievement and, for upper grades, the quality of the student’s previous school.

Once that profile is built, the child is placed in one of his selected schools, in a class of students whose collective profile is as different from his own profile as possible. As each child is added, the class profile is adjusted, and more “most different” children are placed. Students living near their selected schools are considered first. The district also gives preference to children who have siblings at the same school and apply on time.

But there is no guarantee that a child will get in a selected school. And once the lottery has filled all the slots, those soon-to-be kindergartners who get into none of their choices are offered a place in a school with open positions. Proximity to their home and transportation are considered.

Designed to be race-neutral, the system has instead been widely criticized as too complex and opaque. “It’s all magic and voodoo,” Ms. Menegaz said, only half joking.

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Basically, they try to balance out the schools, but it means that if you are of a higher socio-economic status you are placed into schools with people with lower socio-economic status to try to balance things out. But that often means being placed into schools that are farther away, and don't perform well. So, it pushes away people from public schools who can afford to move away, or send their kids to private schools (this is why we left San Francisco).

Its not just housing prices, its also the school system, and the way children are placed in schools. From the article:

-- Jean Covington, a San Francisco resident who works as a public defender in Contra Costa County, said she noticed a “pilgrimage” of her friends out of the city when children reached school age. When she decided to stick it out, she was confronted with what she described as a bewildering public school selection system governed by an algorithm that determines where children in the city are placed — sometimes miles from home.

When her daughter turned 5, Ms. Covington applied to 14 public kindergartens, but her child ended up being placed in another. She chose a private school instead, along with the strain on the family budget that it entailed. --

In my personal case, we owned a house, but moved out of the city specifically because of the school system placement process.

It might be worth trying in ear ear buds. I use etymotic ER6s

http://www.etymotic.com/consumer/earphones.html

which are in ear and noise blocking. They also have different size attachments so you can get a good fit, although they cause ear fatigue sometimes if you keep them in for extended periods (i.e. hour plus).

One suggestion on using Steam link, is to connect the streaming machine, and Steam link via ethernet, and not WIFI.

From my personal experience (and research online), wifi can be iffy, and ethernet ensures a much smoother experience overall.

San Francisco is very different from the rest of the US, particularly in the quality and cost of food.

So, the cost comparison may be apt although this page, which compare cost of living between San Francisco and Denmark suggests that groceries in San Francisco are way more expensive (nearly 60%), although restaurants are cheaper (16%).

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Not sure how reliable a source this is though.