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so how do you handle the "undo make a change and no longer can redo" conundrum? Just have the branches in the tree of edits laid out flat in chronological order so that in order to bring changes back from the past you go to an earlier time, copy and then paste the changes to the alternative branch in the present?

Idk I do think version control is probably a much better tool to sanely manage rapid workflow when working at scale on huge projects, I just think the problem is that there too many features and far to few people who actually take the time to learn how to use them effectively.

To prove my point, the awk tool is super powerful and solves many "quality of life" problems developers begrudgingly deal with on a daily basis over and over again.

Now lets see a raise of hands of people in here that can actually write an awk script one liner without referring to the manual?

We have all these wonderful tools but most of us are too spoiled by having a mouse and powerful editors that we don't ever learn how to use them to improve our performance as developers.

The stupidity of this argument could be boiled down to the government trying to file an antitrust lawsuit on the Rolling Stones having an ongoing monopoly on rock music because movie directors are still deciding to use their superiorly popular (and in my opinion superiorly written) music over all the modern hacks.

I dont think this is an issue of antitrust, rather an issue of regulation.

You regulate the internal affairs of the oil industry not because you still care about the monopoly Standard Oil once hand on the market, but rather because you care about how they can directly operate in such a way that has been proven to cause more harm than good. (e.g. this is why california is so up tight about getting your car "smogged")

There is a debate that needs to be had regarding how the power of big tech flies in the face of the 1st amendment when it comes to how internal bias can harm the public in the same sense that somebody yelling "fire" in a crowded theater can cause trouble.

But this doesn't fall under antitrust and I think distracting the real issue with this kind of lawsuit is just another way for Washington to feint like they are "actively" trying to do something about the problem while in reality allowing for the problem to persist into the long term future.

Full disclosure, im a republican and yet i find myself defending big tech because i understand generally how tech works (also this is despite the fact believing that they kind of shot themselves in the foot recently)

Do I think there is an implicit liberal bias? Yes, but only when humans become involved in the moderation process. I also believe this issue only exists on platforms like facebook and twitter, but not google because frankly I dont think Google uses humans to moderate.

I think everything I just presented provides a pretty good basis for us to come together and actually discuss whether this issue actually exists right now and whether there is deliberate manipulation on the big tech side of things of the election going on.

I think the answer to this supposed conundrum can actually be logically deduced because I believe its impossible for the algorithms to actually be as smart as "conspiratorial" conservatives suggest. (and like i said i am a conservative)

I don't get the point of this? Are you just documenting your overall experience or are you trying to get insight into why they might have rejected funding your startup?

Where at in the video do you start discussing your app's pitch.

I did mention it by saying I don't believe any government should be able to access user data without oversight.

However with that being said, I'm not totally against the idea of the NSA having the power to conduct surveillance to the degree at which it does.

It's one of those things where I am not happy about it, but then again I'm not so pissed off that im going to lead the charge that somebody deserves to be thrown overboard because of it.

While I agree our Presidents often abuse the office's power to use a defense of national security as a legal justification, I honestly don't think this particular situation is one of those instances.

I should also point out that Congress has passed a bill which bans TikTok (and I assume similar Chinese owned communications apps, I havent read the bill) from Government owned devices. So it's not like Congress is at odds within itself when it comes to understanding the overall potential security threat TikTok imposes on it's users when the CCP is allowed direct and unimpeeded access to user's data.

I also think that trying to pursue legislative routes when implementing policies that aim to protect not just America's but our allies best interests when conducting business with China is too slow and too political of a process when it comes to trade negotiations.

That is one of main compelling reasons why I believe the founding fathers decided they needed to have a powerful executive despite the fact that they didn't want one.

Negotiations are difficult enough as it is when it's the Government trying to get their government to act in it's own best interest. It would be virtually impossible to try and have our legislative branch negotiate with every other nation's legislature/executives directly.

It would be too difficult to offer terms you couldn't guarantee are concrete.

For these reasons I think it's fair if the President uses national defense as an argument to use aggressive tactics during trade negotiations.

It's important to note that as the People it's easier for us to reverse policy the popular majority of the nation as a whole doesn't like because the executive is the only branch of Government everybody gets a say in who gets to run it.

This allows us to avoid situations in the legislature where the people we vote into Congress make concessions across the aisle on things we elected them to be against. Or when the individual parties themselves can't come to a common concession on issues.

This is also why you also need an executive to act as commander in chief.

The legislature should be deciding who to declare war on but if you tried to make every single individual strategic move conducted in war something that first had to be passed as legislation, our government wouldn't be able to defend itself because it can't keep up with the fast paced, rapidly changing dynamics of war.

Trade and warfare are very similar in this respect.

Honestly, I personally think that this is a pretty impressive strategic move on Trump's part. I mean considering the strong precedence it sets for future Chinese web app developers who intend to market their products internationally. I also think it's important to note that this is us just leveling the playing field in the sense that when we try to market our products there, we have to essentially do the same thing and build a special version just for them that the CCP can monitor and censor at will.

With Oracle being in charge of all the backend operations in the US and being a 10% shareholder I can feel confident that they will ensure that the CCP won't have the ability to just pick up a phone and gain access to all of our WeChat information.

But with all that being said, I still have a problem with the idea of any Government having the ability to access our private conversations willy, nilly and without any real oversight over the NSA to ensure their investigations are legit and not spying for profit.

That's why we need to start demanding that end to end encryption becomes an option we can at least pay for the option to use on all of the major social apps we use like FB, Twitter, etc.

Idk, at first I thought Trump was probably overstepping his "conservative" position by trying to step in and regulate the free market in a way where he is now "picking winners and losers", rather than letting the consumers being the ones who get to make this decision (which is something I passionately believe Government should never empower itself to do).

But then after looking into the situation a little deeper, I saw that they actually have two seperate versions of TikTok. One called Douyin which is specifically for Chinese users and then TikTok which is for everybody else.

After realizing that they were already operating from a walled off garden that keeps their people seperated from us and vice versa, I started to see very little point in having both apps operate from China.

you are my hero for this comment.

wait, you are saying that at MIT you had to sit for a video?

Why are you paying for that nonsense?

the second i saw haskell i started saying eternally, "ABORT ABORT!"

You are going to have to revive jesus to come up with a functional language that simplifies coding over a procedural one. Especially over an object oriented one.

dude i didn't even know there was like a whole "developers" universe to netflix.

"Apple Edge Cache (AEC) is Apple supplied and managed hardware for deployment within our ISP partners networks to deliver certain Apple content directly to our shared customers."

This sounds horrifying.

"Explore our surprisingly simple, absurdly ambitious, and necessarily incomplete guide to the boundless universe."

Okay you have my attention now.

this might be obnoxiously unrelated but this site has probably the coolest usage of particle.js i've seen yet.

This is the moral equivalent of a white flag in the sense that were surrending the idea of free global internet. We shouldn't own the air bro. (You know after we've managed to snip in half all the wires).

For moments when you want to :p on 4chan

My point basically boils down to this, we obviously don't want to continue this trend for the next 100 years. But you could also make the argument that if we could make the planet hotter by a few a degrees and put a cap on the increase in heat, the rest of the planet should naturally become more amazonian/african habitat. Which I don't see how that is necessarily a bad thing considering that is essentially how nature is designed to balance itself out.

To understand the consequences of global warming to the fullest its worth pointing out that we need to understand how ice ages can occur and dissipate in the first place. In that phenomena we see that there is a natural balance that is occurring where nature has a way to modulate exorbitant CO2 output of animals in relation to the plant life. When trees grow in abundance and there isn't enough animals to breath o2 and produce co2 obviously the planet eventually over thousands of years grows so cold that plantlife gets concentrated to the equator. And then with evolution animals get bigger and more plentiful and therefore starts breathing more of the o2, producing more co2, the point being there has to an inequality where animals per mass consume more O2 molecules as a biological function than a plant consumes CO2. (which kinda makes sense if you think about the whole "circle of life" of cellular biology.)

That is the only way such climate changes could occur when the planet's orbit never changes in distance from the sun.

These climate changes occur reeeeeeally slow and of course that means its in an intricate balance with the slow process of evolution... but still with that being said we assume climate change is going to be a calamity only to us, but that doesn't mean its going to necessarily be something that the earth isn't already very well prepared to resolve on its own after were gone. And if it can save it self, that means we can just make sure we save ourselves by burying fallout esque vaults under ground, or going to Mars.

A single degree increase is significant because that suggests soon it will be 2, and then 4 and then 8... etc etc

The real worry is when we get to 8 degree increase which based on everywhere we've looked in the world that suffers from a 105+ degree avg temperatures tends to suffer from sparse plant life.

Though with that being said, our assumptions about that being what happens to the whole planet if our summers on average get to be 105f on average is very very very very speculative and actually counter intuitive in the sense that one would assume that with increase temperatures you should assume more water evaporates all over the globe, and therefore more rain should occur.

Nobody has pointed out the just as likely possibility, that perhaps global warming might be a problem that fixes itself. (i.e the amazon and africa is warmer because its closest to the equator therefore it has the most densely populated plant life) That is of course after all the Democrat's real estate ends up under water. ^_^ jk jk

I wouldn't say "poor or underdeveloped", rather the economic factors are different in the middle of the country vs the coastal parts of it.

Obviously anywhere connected to the ocean benefits from the fact that they are the first place a cargo ship goes when importing goods into America. It's because of this reason alone that the coastal states just so happen to be tech hubs.

Silicon Valley exists not because every engineer in the world 70 years ago thought it would be nice to live on a crowded little peninsula that has always had extremely over inflated real estate prices relative to the national avg (trust me, my Grandpa and Aunt were both big in the real estate game in the bay way back then)

The reason why they all moved there was because A. The cheapest silicon you can get in America is located where it comes right of the dock. B Because that is true for every imported good, coincidentally the easiest place to find people with an abundance of cash just so happens to be where all the people involved heavily in international trade are doing business.

My point is, you say "under developed" without taking into consideration two realities.

1. You don't want to live in a california with 150 million people in it.

2. states like oklahoma and texas can only survive by exporting the few goods they can produce. Namely green house gas problem sectors like livestock and oil production.

I live in oklahoma. Literally 5/10 men who actually take care of their families around here are doing so by driving trucks across country or pulling black gold out of the ground. The only way these areas could become "more developed" is if all of you did the actual caring thing (and actually smart thing btw) and started building your billion dollar unicorn startups all over the country.

There is no reason why Facebook couldn't be HQ in Texas, Amazon in Utah, Apple in Nashville (hey i think steve jobs would have liked that) twitch in North carolina, twitter in Maine, etc etc etc.

Because literally the only thing tech needs is internet connection. If were going to talk about ignorance of reality lets start with our own hypocrisies. Because frankly I lived half of my life in California and I lived the other half in the bible belt.

I tend to miss both when i am in the other place.When im in oklahoma I miss California because that's where all my childhood friends are. And when i am in california i miss oklahoma because that is where all the polite people are.

10 years ago when I still lived in CA (where i grew up), I was the liberal rebel in my family of CA Republicans, I argued with my grandfather (who was still alive at the time) about the issue of Global Warming but rather than trying to take him on head on about the ethical nature of supporting it, I tried to take the approach of talking about Electric Cars and how Elon Musk was paving the way towards a future where nobody would need to use fossil fuels anymore. (this was back when Tesla was still pretty much a pitch)

He asked me how much would a new Tesla cost? I said well right now they are $120k, but eventually Elon Musk plans to get that price all the way down to $40k.

My grandfather said, he can go right now and buy a 4 cylinder truck for $2000 dollars that gets 25 miles to the gallon and with gas at $3 a gallon he could literally get 360,000 miles out of a vehicle, and then guess what buy another truck for $2000 dollars for the same amount of money it took to buy a 40k electric car...

His argument was very simple, and having moved to Oklahoma after the economy crashed in 2007, I understand now more than ever why his conservative pov was correct.

The reality is that you can't make the world conform to your utopia when it first conforms to its budget.

You think this issue can be solved with simply a 10% reduction each year, when you need to realize people don't buy gas because they are going on family trips all the time they can choose to do the right thing and cut back on.

People are buying gas to go to work and back everyday. Literally the only way we could cut back on our current fossil fuel usage is if Andrew Yang's worst nightmare came to fruition and the robots did take all the jobs, that way we didn't have to commute to work everyday.

Paul Staments is actually doing something about this.

https://fungi.com/pages/bees

The biggest problem I see when it comes to global warming (and countless other issues) is that there is no one place everybody knows to go to see the list of all the actual promising solutions to these kind of doomsday problems that need our support and financing.

I mean it seems like the biggest agenda right now when it comes to global warming activists is to just get everybody to accept there is a problem and/or exploit the fact that there is a problem to try and gain leverage and control over politics when it hasn't been proven that the public sector is more capable to address this kind of issue than the private sector is.

What I mean to say is how exactly does a carbon tax at the gas pump decentivize us from using gas pumps in the first place, when everything in history suggests that where there is a profit stream there is a benefactor willing to protect it no matter what? In other words, doesn't a carbon tax make the more liberal leaning political parties more dependent on fossil fuels if the taxes produced pay for other unrelated endeavors (e.g. medicare for all, canceling student debt)?

I don't mean to make this about politics because I respect the collected intelligence here enough to know that we can all agree we are the people who actually understand there is an actual tangible problem here, considering we're the lucky few who can actually do the rather straightforward math (co2 has a heavier molecular weight than everything else in the atmosphere therefore it knocks lighter molecules up and away and produces more temperature when the heavier molecules collide with each other more often due to there be more molecules present, i mean this is basic chemistry/physics 101), and know the consequences if we don't do something about it soon....

All I am saying is why aren't we personally doing more to try and solve this issue like it was any other issue?

I mean either we can figure out the solution, or literally the only alternative is we kill all the livestock, tear down all the structures made out of wood (that houses farting termites), and go back to horse back riding. (because as of right now there is nothing to indicate that Tesla can scale to our traveling/energy needs)

Realistically, we need to build a site that is heavily curated so it doesn't get heavily polluted with all the hack scholar noise and lobbyist confusion bullshit, and focus on this problem like the bug it is.

The fact that the ocean cleanup and paul stamets bee solution are both literally something I only luckily managed to stumbled upon because Joe Rogan is for whatever reason the "Bro" form that Christ chose to return this time as, shows that frankly were not doing our jobs. Literally a comedian is doing a better job at solving these kind of problems than we are right now.

Politicians aren't going to do a better job than us figuring out how to solve this issue so we really need to stop depending on them (they aren't smart enough, and none of us are willing to take on the burden of having to kill people in order to ensure a smarter class of politician is elected into office)

If we can do folding@home to simulate protein folding, we can do the same thing to figure out how to fix our carbon output problem.

Just saying. I want a website where I can go to figure out whats going on with paul stamets endeavor, whats going on with that thing Bill Gates was talking about where we use depleted nuclear fuel to make a new kind of reactor, whats going on with the ocean clean up, whats going on with the building sized CO2 suction thing in China, what is going on with fusion, what is going on with solar panel and electric car tech, etc etc.

One site, for everybody...

Were not going to be able to make every American care about this issue. They just aren't smart enough to grok it. And that means Government can't help us because they are bound to serving the will of the dumb idiot people who will never get on board with the reality that we all need to be go back to horses and vegan diets (therefore no politician will ever be able to push such hardcore measures, its a dead end.)

Which that fact alone also suggest we need an engineering solution.

If the solution is that we need to build a million building sized vacuums and a space elevator or pipe made out of carbon nano tubes, then that sounds like something we need to start doing NOW because that will probably take 30 years to build and every single tech corporation to take the first step and say "hell yes im going to put a billion dollars down on this idea".

All it will take is us coming up with an actual real solution and convincing every tech giant to drop a meager billion dollars on the crazy initiative, and then all of a sudden the rest of the world will be like "drkkkk wut r dey doin ober der O.O"????

And then they will be like oh shit this is an actual solution that doesn't require us to stop using fossil fuels. (though we probably should stop using them for the health reasons though hell crisp-r might solve that problem too?!)

Im just saying, we need to figure out either how to get the CO2 into space, into our oceans, or economically split back into C and O2.

"Your language, that was made in c/c++..."

What's funny is that C was initially written in B, and C smoked the living hell out of that language. As it turns out, the speed of compiled code and the running time performance of compilation is two drastically different things.

If C++ was a runtime language it would be slower than a checkout line at Walmart filled with grandma's trying to get in the last bit of Christmas shopping after all of them had just found out their kids are finally going to come out and bring their grand babies to visit for the first time after all these years.

In other words, the way you measure speed and the way I measure speed are to different things. If you had to account for the time it took to grow food back in the old days when accounting for how long it takes you to make dinner, you could say that standing behind a line of grandmas is way quicker.

But both realities are not only mutually exclusive but if you were to ask me; one of those two situations is more gratifying and the other is absolutely aggravating.

Waiting on C++ to compile feels like waiting on a line of grandmas at walmart just so I can get something to eat.

well we all got to start somewhere i suppose. It looks like he's off to a good start and perhaps we got another coding horror in the making. One can hope right?

RTFM is always a valid response when you are dealing with a lazy, spoiled society that would rather just call tech support and bother somebody who is sitting on the other side shifting through a stack of manuals in from of them that comes with the product...

What surprises me are people who have the patience to wait for somebody else to tell them why their app broke, when it's much quicker dealing with problem just by going straight to the source. (pun intended)

Maybe it's about time for Linus to break the fourth wall and flip them off again in the middle of of a university classroom?

I mean it worked wonders the first time, considering that's how we got the Nvidia proprietary driver to begin with.

Ive been using wayland and sway for about 2 weeks now.

My experience is this.

If it's compiled to run for Wayland. Fan f-in tastic. No hiccups, no random screen tears or visual glitches of any kind. My logs are surprisingly sparse and when there is a configuration issue it's something trivial i overlooked and easily fixed.

Now here is the issue. When it comes to X-Wayland. Well lets just say that my opinion of X-wayland can be boiled down to two major criticisms.

1. It's turning into another X11. I've been trying to get apps that should just work out of the box when running on gtk like Google Chrome. And frankly looking at the bug reports and hack ass solutions to get things like Video Hardware Acceleration to function using X-Wayland... Nightmarish to say the least and glad it's not my job.

2. I think history has shown time and time again with debacles like Apple trying to retain backwards capability for powerpc MacOS or Windows ensuring your archaic MS-DOS application at work doesn't end up need an expensive update.... that any time you try to not throw things away that need to be thrown away, regardless of how sentimental they might be, you always end up a dead hoarder buried somewhere in your house where nobody can find you but they can sure as hell smell you; so they know you are in there somewhere... Where ever the hell that may be.

My attitude when it come's to the critics of Wayland is to say build something better or shut up and just not use it and keep letting X11 make the desktop experience on Linux suck on two fronts.

The first where nobody who is working on it actually knows how the entire thing works except maybe a handful of people. (all of whom are btw wayland core developers).

And the second, where things just don't work like they should out of the box on whichever desktop environment circumstance you may be in. When you have such a complicated API you end up with 50 million different ways 50 million different developers can write bugs into the 50 millionth reimplementation of your system.

There is a reason why Unix was the most ripped off and successful operating system in the world. It's not because it had X11...

Doesn't inflation directly lead to a decrease in the percentage of the likeliness you are going to be able to hit the correct number for the same kind of products?

Also I think Apple and China kinda destroyed the whole "relative value, everything only has a 5% markup compared to their cost" price evaluation model. You know the thing that used to allow people like our Grandparents to be able to afford things like the American Dream on a single poor person's salary.

That's my theory anyways. Or maybe people are just getting lazy and not studying as hard as they used to. Or perhaps Bob Barker finally kicked his cocaine habit and no longer needs to keep taking the bribes?

I was having fun with recaptha the other day on Dan Harmon's (of rick and morty fame) site called Channel 101.

His sign up page was all sarcastic and the recaptcha test asked

{ Image of distorted random letters and numbers } "Are you human?" [text box] Prove it...

And I kept trying answers like.

"Okay blood's drawn, where do i send the sample?"

"uhhh so I'm blind..." (no voice alt test)

"a robot testing a human for humanity? (this is going to go nowhere good quick...)

"Morty, its your grandpa Rick! Let me in Morty. belch"

"I identify as a pro exclusionary Cylon. My prefered pronouns are su, pid 1, root, or if you prefer just refer to me as Zuck" (okay i didn't get to enter that last one in. too long)

"Isn't putting random numbers and letters the kind of answer a ROBOT would make. It's only an answer written in THEIR language! o.O

Unfortunately Mr. Harmon's test had a fatal bug or something because I never could get past the sign up page. :'(

Or maybe I'm not human or i'm just missing something? idk.

The last time the government tried to build a website inhouse.... Well we all know how funny that was. Ahh the good ol' days. Good times. Welp back to grind.

The government makes a profit? How does that work?