GavinMcG

I’d imagine the creator uses Google calendar, made it for themself, and then decided others might like to have a pre-built version. “Trendy” probably doesn’t have anything to do with it.

I don’t use Discord much, but it seems like a terrible way to “stay in the loop.” Am I wrong that you would need to either 1) receive a lot of notifications from irrelevant conversations, 2) spend some time making fine-grained choices about which discussions to receive notifications from, or 3) turn off notifications and instead remember to occasionally manually check up on what’s going on?

It seems like a great tool for active communities but when I just want to be notified that I can get tickets to an upcoming event, I’d really like to be able to sign up for that, not for a whole chat server.

(The first part appears to have been sarcasm.)

Preventative search and rescue, for at least one—which is the opposite of what you'd typically imagine "search and rescue" entails, and if effective, obviates the need.

These full-time positions are fairly common at National Park Service (or other agency-managed) public lands, and are attractive to retirees. I was a paid (and housed) intern at one site, but I lived alongside three or four couples in their RVs. Some used it as a way to vacation, while for others it was more of a lifestyle, volunteering for four months at one location, then traveling for a couple months before volunteering at another location.

You might like Gleam, then. Seems to have a similar feel.

I’ve been learning Gleam the past couple weeks and it’s got amazingly well-developed tooling and community for its age. Overall solid documentation, a full Exercism track with active mentors, good compiler hints (and LSP support) and an active Discord channel.

Curious how you chose the name. Seems antithetical to the idea of getting the work done, at least in light of my negative emotional reaction to “flout” which connotes irresponsibility to me.

He uses the term in his non-typographer-oriented book about typography, so that would be a little surprising: https://practicaltypography.com/verdana-alternatives.html

Is Fidelity a bank that is FDIC insured?

I haven’t used MacOS native dictation, but I thought it could be used anywhere text could be input. Does your script have different functionality?

Edit: looks like Mac native runs locally only with dapple Silicon, and maybe has a more limited geographic/linguistic reach?

The question is about being able to load in the first place. Can it be loaded in one machine, saved, and then opened in the browser of another machine?

Assuming you meant "neither is better," I disagree. Text is far more susceptible to navigation—especially via searching, but also by way of formatting and hyperlinking. It also permits more flexible clipping, saving, or sharing.

You're right to suggest that video can be a good replacement for in-person lectures. But it's a terrible replacement for a transcript or other way of publishing content in two dimensions rather than binding it to the progression of time.

Scheduling is probably the most obvious example of a real problem. You’ve got a space that has many different ways of being bounded and need to efficiently search that space.

Physical design systems (modeling possible boat hulls, say—not the physics itself but the interaction of numerous variables) and resource allocation (drafting a baseball team, say) seem like other likely areas, though I’ve got no idea if constraint tools are the best option or whether they’re even used.

Broadly: if a multivariate problem can’t be modeled, a constraint-based search strategy is the(/one) next-best tool.

That doesn’t contradict what I said. Did you uncharitably assume “parties” meant political parties?

Also, per the site guidelines, please don’t make unnecessary accusations that someone has not read the article. Pointing out what the article says is enough—the self-righteousness doesn’t add anything.

Two parties can both be to blame.

Going from 7% to 4% is shaving 43% off your mortgage rate—which of course would make a difference. But it’s not even the same order of magnitude as what we’re talking about here.

No, the point is that the self discipline needed to hold one’s breath is lower than the self discipline needed to take one specific values-aligned action. And that, in turn, is lower than the self discipline needed to simply not do the thing that isn’t values-aligned, without a method.

Of course doing anything requires some degree of self discipline, if you want to call it that. But not all actions need iron-clad discipline.

No, that’s the whole point I’m making. A semicolon is no better than terminal punctuation in creating visual horizontal space, which is a tool for communicating semantic structure, but one that we never use. I am not speaking to what is grammatically proper, but rather to what is possible outside of current accepted usage.

That seems like an unfortunate tool to have discarded. Right now, I can use vertical separation to structure text, but horizontal separation.... Well, that's far more limited.

Within sentences, there's the dash—either em or space-en-space, depending on where you're from—and there are plenty of other structural options. Between sentences, you've got the ellipsis, and that's it. The way they're used in the Declaration, in place of paragraph breaks, is helpful even when you're not just trying to save space—for example, to structure a list of short words or phrases without creating the visual separation from the text that comes with using separate lines.

By the way, and only because your comment suggests you care about detail and will find this valuable: it’s “pored over” unless there was a liquid you were dumping on them.

Thing is, men are men—can’t help it, really—regardless of what behaviors they display. Being toxic isn’t “being men” because plenty of men aren’t toxic.

> high intensity would be work you can do for only maybe a minute, not twenty

Actually according to the article, high intensity can be done for twenty minutes. So what you’re calling “low intensity” is actually “high intensity.”

(Funny how this works both directions, isn’t it?)

The original comment specifically denied what you’re claiming was said:

> basically virtual floating iPads which is nice, but not anything too special

Instead, it was saying that being able to interact with those apps in a spatial way will be valuable:

> What's much more interesting is that existing iPadOS apps can… [get] the full 2.5D treatment with all of the various controls taking on the expected visionOS appearance and behavior

It’s “cue” for this usage, I believe. “Queue” refers to a group of people in an ordered line, or the act of creating that ordered line. To cue something is to prompt it - as a cue card prompts an actor, for example.

The term is "dog-eat-dog" by the way.

No, not literally. But a "9/11 coverup" suggests a coverup about the substance of the events on 9/11, rather than a coverup about the extent or manner of intelligence operations that preceded it. Calling it a "pre-9/11 intelligence gathering coverup" would be more helpful.

Class actions don't need a huge number of people to lead the charge. That's the point: most people can do nothing, while their interests are represented.

I think it would be best if wrongdoers had to make consumers whole and also pay the costs of holding them accountable. But our system currently doesn't work that way, and in that context, it's still worthwhile to have lawyers motivated to raising the cost of wrongdoing.

I think the comment is pretending to argue using the same logic as its parent comment uses, but about something the parent commenter would find normal and palatable, as a way of drawing an analogy.

Do you want courts ignoring other precedents from the Supreme Court whenever they feel like it? Or considering arguments that the parties don’t make, just so that they can reach the outcome they desire and view as a moral issue?

As bad as things can be in a system that doesn’t always reach a just result, I think it’s almost certainly worse to have courts that feel empowered to do whatever they want.