is that why you flagged this lol
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downside are the two usb-c and the endless accessories that are quite expensive
now i only wish somebody turned Total War series into open source, especially the map campaign mode
Xi like Putin is on the edge of the cliff. When strongman fear an uprising, they create external conflicts to mobilize the crowd. For Putin, it was 3 decades of stealing from the Russian state and people with covid decimating it's economy. Similarly for Xi, it is the continued economic growth that legitimizes its power and with the deflation of its real estate industry, zero covid strategy touted by xi, that in turn created an economic fall out, it's do or die for Xi before the 20th party congress in a 4 months or so.
I fear that Taiwan will suddenly find itself in a situation like Ukraine except I do not think the US and its allies will allow China to gain unchecked access to the Pacific ocean by taking Taiwan and its semiconductor production that US military depends on.
I personally think that we might end up like Japan with a permanently low interest rate at the cost of stagnation and continued inflation that destroys the middle class and pushes people on the fringes further.
It's likely that the whole pandemic measures while legitimate in itself, also had a second ulterior beneficiaries, the ability to massively lockdown segments of the population and keep them inside. Looking at the Shanghai and now Beijing lockdown reminds of this yet the cases continue to rise which tells me the primary motive isn't to reduce covid over there. It will take far less to pull off the same thing in free societies, fear portrayed by mainstream media and experts is all that is necessary to keep everybody from participating in mass protests and violence.
It is said that if you do business with authoritarian countries, you start to resemble them and I fear that we are headed towards something like that from all we've seen in the past 3 years especially.
Unlikely until mid-elections. No political camp wants to be the one that stops the music and become the destroyer of wealth of the middle class. Yet the soft landing they keep touting is simply not possible with the amount of money printed.
The fed is at a tough place but if the US dollar loses the faith of other currencies backed by it, it could become a national security issue. Yet the decision maker's continued hold on power is dependent on them delaying it as such for the duration of their term.
Something has to give. $1 in 1992 is now $2 in 2022. It's very possible that it reaches $4 in half that time, possibly even as little as 5 years. This is a very real possibility that stakeholders are dealing with.
Hyperinflation is almost certainly followed by a major world conflict. ex) Weimarch Republic
If there are lot of participants in a labor pool, naturally wages will be under constant pressure. The barriers to entry also play a role.
For those RN's quitting, they will simply be replaced by foreign workers. It's similar to how certain jobs no longer have locals in it anymore, instead relying on migrant workers. It's the reality in Singapore for instance and naturally creates an implicit caste system.
Now the markets have evolved/evolving where incumbent locals are no longer granted the same privileges they once enjoyed, somebody who does not have the luxury to consider alternatives will be the ones who fill the jobs, and get the blame when the descendants of local incumbents cannot make their way back.
This is sort of the system I am seeing emerging and it explains the anxiety of us vs them. In reality, the government, markets simply do not care for such superficiality. It seeks to accomodate those who are productive, not sit around waiting for higher powers to "fix". And as such, this dynamic ensures wages in certain industries stagnate, and it's especially true in markets with the characteristics I mentioned above: low barrier to entry and abundant supply of labor.
would be cool if this somehow let me know before running the python code whether I am passing in the wrong type or not.
very nice work, i dont really understand whats happening underneath the hood but any productivity boost is welcome.
Who you were in college/university, what courses you took and how much it cost is missing the point is completely subjective. If you took STEM path but you felt like you could've leveraged your open source contributions to a job, yeah you might be inclined to view it as a transactional loss (which to me is quite predictable and telling of their outlook). IF you did not take traditional STEM path and do not translate into an acceptable level of intellectual challenge/livable wage you will also view it as transactional loss (also quite telling what sort of preferences and outlook this group has).
Who you were in college/university, who you met, what sort of social experiences and relations you had will directly translate into how much you view it as worth it.
What you get out of something is largely what you perceive as valuable and your current situation will play a large role in that. So it is perfectly acceptable to feel at different points, college/uni was worth it/not worth it.
Just for me on a personal level, the friends I have gained through clubs, memories of working late in groups, socializing (pushed myself here), relationships more than made it worth it. My only regret was not pushing myself further to seek potential partner relationships because outside in the real world, there is a loss of innocence and naivete that you could only find in such environments. Everything feels transactional between adults with careers and strings attached although that isn't to say you won't find similar bonding-over-camraderie and aligned interests, you might find even more worth while relationships. It's just that intimate ones seem much harder to come by (at least for me) and that would be my biggest mistake, not exploring/pursuing those because of more problems I deemed more urgent: academia (impacts job), a job upon graduation ( a huge source of anxiety). In reality, I created these urgencies to avoid and limit myself when I should've been all out exploring. It actually might have made me more efficient at studies too. It's the inaction that kills me and I tried to justify it through PTSD, wounds, external things when the correct action would've been to aim to become wiser.
I'm thankful for whatever relationships remain, and I feel lucky to say that I've gained friends for life due to college/university but was only possible because I pushed myself to the extremes of comfort zone. Something that I'm saddened to say, I increasingly avoid as I get older. I'm screwed but having friends lessen that dread more, although that isn't to say you can't find ways to do it yourself without external things.
Rambled on here but seems tough to really limit this discussion without involving some personal anecdotes because the axiom highlighted in the article is completely irrelevant to anybody reading if they realize its wholly subjective.
No is not what I'm arguing for here but you highlighted my concerns here, I see two points of failures/blackboxes that I am now betting the house on vs the "problem" mentioned (having to create API/Redux layer).
As I said, this might be an issue for indie/small startups looking to create an MVP but more often than not, you would want to optimize for hireability and removing the implicit. It would be tougher to find an Haskell dev compared to "boring" full stack devs, and this is just the start of the problems.
All data is realtime and reflects the latest database state: Local state management is fundamentally hard as it's
dealing with distributed system problems. Best to avoid it alltogether.
All database operations go through a unified standard interface, IHP DataSync in our case.
This looks okay for building MVP, as most of these tools seem to be aimed at. However, companies with existing product or looking to make their APIs as a core product wouldn't want to lock it down and be held hostage by a Rube Goldberg machine. For full stack developers, it really isn't too much of an effort to create backend API endpoints separately and hooking it up to your frontend either.
I invite you and others to share their points but just from the get go, perhaps I'm older now and have become wary of the next shiny solution favoring boring tech, the problem you are solving appears to be a non-issue for most live world existing API/Frontend products, as well as full stack developers (for ex. scaffold crud generators are a thing). The cost of moving faster by taking on hidden technical debt especially in a core, essential part (the api) of the product by a 3rd party looking to remove that have typically ben risky. Also, I couldn't quite understand what was happening underneath the hood so might be good to share more technological risks/debts that is implicit.
The documentation on https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/api-routes/api-routes-detail... seems quite sparse. I see basic routing and middleware but seems nowhere near as many features as other frameworks.
I see it's great for building an MVP but may not be a good fit outside of startups. Nevertheless, its the front-end and server side rendering is quite interesting to me.
What are some problems with this setup? Might have a go just for the frontend portion but seems to good to be true in some aspects.
Pushbacks on Elon threatening to bring free speech back (hopefully addressing the toxic witch hunts, cancelling) were seemingly orchestrated by incumbent billionaires with their own mainstream media outlets feeling threatened by it—because it would undermine the impact of their own loudspeakers if views that challenge popular narratives or The Current Thing.
Anyways, I am not a fanboy of Elon by any means other than SpaceX, I think it was a refreshing move for a billionaire to not just buy another mainstream media outlet. Unsure what will happen going forward ....
but strictly from a business point of view, buying Twitter for the purpose of profiteering was a bad one, but at his level, money has become irrelevant, its more about control here.
Having said that I do question how far he would be able to take the free speech thing as a private company.
I guess the only missing piece there is a backend API.
I bought Chakra and now kind of regretting, seeing all the free stuff, Daisy for instance is something that I never heard of until I saw the comments here.
Nobody is on the streets selling psilocybin like they sell other drugs, it would be like people trying to pass off broccoli as marijuana.
I'm sorry but you sound like Nancy Reagan right now. You are trying to warn people about something that you yourself have barely experienced or knowledgeable about by taking some other tangent item and applying it here because it is "drugs".
some people don't seem to have it as bad but for me I really struggle with the popular belief that marijuana is harmless. We simply don't know, we are guinea pigs with these high thc marijuana.
I certainly wasn't my best with it, it magnified emotions and past memories, it exasperated my OCD/ADD. Looking back, I really wish I hadn't used marijuana but at the same time, glad I went through that phase when I was younger.
psilocybin's come up is frightening/anxiety/panic inducing as it is....I don't think I can ever jump over ayahuasca, that seems like a whole different animal.
For me I feel like psilocybin "reset" my brain and there's some long lasting protection mechanism against depressive thinking. Even if I do feel down, something pulls me out of it. Whereas depression once it pulls you in, it likes to keep you there.
Do not take psychedelics lightly, especially ayahuasca and heroic doses. Even for the come up on psilocybin, it required considerable self calming and focused willpower to overcome the fear of losing ego. But my god, what comes after, the clarity, the peace, love and lingering positivity....zero chance the pharmaceutical community will be able to replicate it.