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So basically a giant t-shirt cannon for compatible deliveries.

I can definitely agree with the theory behind it. Pair autonomous systems with delivery trucks and let them deliver easy packages (light weight, non-fragile) and let them deliver from the truck to harder addresses (long driveway, up a flight up steps in a breezeway) or deliver ahead.

Kinda sounds like you're arguing both sides of the issue.

Offices are meant to be productive, but real estate in SF, NYC, etc makes it too expensive to design offices for productivity.

I think it's healthy but small, and growing.

The biggest "homerun" case for LiveView is all of the forms where you'd typically do server side rendering then add a bit of JavaScript for the few dynamic pieces you need. Think about what you might typically see in a Ruby on Rails app. Lots of Ruby generating the views, a bit of JavaScript for client-side whatever.

LiveView can be used for way more than that, but I think replacing "glue" JavaScript is the most slam-dunk case.

I think you are misunderstanding what GenServers are and are for.

GenServers do have their own state, but they are used for way more than just storing state. It's probably best to literally think of it as a server in your running application, analogous to a server running on a network.

If storing state is all you're trying to do you might want to look at Agent or possibly ETS.

Further, GenServers come from Erlang, not Elixir. They're intended to model all sorts of runtime properties of code.

This is the best way to do graphics IMO. Instead of pushing the tech to its limits and landing in the uncanny valley, it's better to back off a bit from the limits of the tech and perfectly execute a more stylized result.

The Zelda games (and Nintendo in general) are the perfect proof that great graphics are about way more than more sophisticated or technically advanced graphics.

Many games on the Switch look way better than generic AAA games on PS4 and Xbox. Granted the Switch games are still somewhat held back by limited hardware.

Personally I'd take Breath of the Wild over some generic UE4 game any day.

AIDS isn't really a relevant comparison to COVID-19

These bailout bills have been passed with broad bipartisan support, of which you will never see who voted for or against the bill because it was only a voice vote.

So how is voting for either party going to help a problem that both parties equally passed?

So potentially the next step is specialists covering whole regions where the latency of fiber is still acceptable. Then as the equipment and training for telesurgery becomes more available/costs come down, you might see it used for smaller benefits of sterilization and travel/cleaning time within a hospital, even for more common/less specialized surgeries, and even if it's just a surgeon located at the same building or facility.

How common are robotic surgeries today? Are there benefits to having a machine do the cutting?

That makes sense. The extra RAM is basically just an extra caching layer.

I was just curious, because even on my desktop I rarely fill 16gb of RAM for day to day use.

Real talk though, what are you doing on your phone that actually uses 16GB of memory?

In that case you're not really hacking it.

If you think about what a switch does and how it works, it makes perfect sense. It's just a bit unusual to do it that way.

Unfortunately that mentality isn't limited only to newcomers. There are plenty of developers with many years of experience who still practice that same short sightedness.

This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds. This is tracking signals that an optional device optionally broadcasts (and has for years). You can easily avoid this tracking by not having your phone broadcast bluetooth or by not carrying a phone.

Not to mention any number of actors could have already been tracking this signal for years. It's the nature of how bluetooth devices broadcast their presence.

I don't think syntax is the big limitation here; it's library and behavior design.

The One Language concept could still be considered to be accomplished by a language with two syntaxes provided they have a low friction to interoperability.

No, because that suggestion is a strawman and doesn't contribute to the discussion.

My guess is that they're giving themselves a ~4 week buffer so they're free to prioritize orders both by necessity and efficiency.

This might be a more realistic compromise.

Maybe if the industry can agree on an OpenConnect standard with some traffic shaping. Then Netflix, Hulu, Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, EA, Disney+, etc could all share the same edge CDN hardware. Then residential buildings, cities, individuals, whoever, could run their own caching hardware that would cache based on downstream demand.

"We acknowledge that this decision impacts the quality that our customers have come to expect. We appreciate your patience as we all face these trying times together, and we will explore additional options to make sure our customers are treated fairly and are fully satisfied with our service."

That's basically all they had to say. Something to the effect of "This sucks but it's necessary and needed to be done quickly. We'll try to make it up to you." Then figure out whether to refund people on the higher plans or give them a free month or credit on their account or something.

Defending Netflix here is asinine. They have handled this communication poorly, plain and simple. All they had to do was acknowledge that cutting bitrates might raise concerns about the quality of the service and the amount they charge and that they would look into it.

This is a brand image issue and is exactly the type of issue that should escalate quickly to the CEO if necessary.

This position is flawed IMO.

We postpone the hard conversation to get through the crisis. Then after the crisis the hard conversation never happens.

Because compulsory taxes that pay for a public good are exactly the same as a private company where users may elect to pay for one of several tiers of service.

>collapse under the weight of a natural disaster

This is flawed reasoning. They're not collapsing because of the natural disaster, they're collapsing because of a financial disaster of their own making.

It should at least mean additional regulations.

If you're getting a public bailout then the public has a greater interest in regulating how you conduct your business.

This seems like one of the core problems to me.

I don't necessarily think that companies should be banned from ever doing stack buybacks when they have sufficient cash (for some definition of sufficient), but allowing companies to take on debt to do stock buybacks seems asinine, both on the part of the company doing the buyback, and the creditor lending them the money to do it.

Any company doing so should be the last one to receive a public bailout; so maybe regulations should be targeted to industries deemed too critical to fail, such as airlines.

So if I understand you correctly, they voted to extend these (existing) powers short term, and will have another vote later on whether to keep them long term.

The headline seems to imply congress is trying to sneak something by while everyone is distracted, rather than maintaining the status quo temporarily.

There's enough to be concerned with congress without being misleading. Framing everything Congress does as some conspiracy theory only dilutes the response when actually shady things are happening.

So literally the opposite of what the headline is implying.

Using what you don't need to further help people around you is a really great suggestion!