RandoHolmes

I avoid header-only libs like the plague and don't really understand why people prefer them. I mean, I get it, I just don't agree with the tradeoffs.

header-only slows compilation down just so you can avoid adding in a single line in your build chain of choice. It's just not a trade off worth making imo.

So to me, not being header only is a pro, not a con.

I'm of the opinion that all great abstractions have explicit methods to allow you to pierce them when needed.

endorses is too strong a word here. I get your intent, but as an American I don't endorse anyone having slavery in their supply line.

oh wow, that's a really good idea.

If interaction with the big screen were purely passive then I wouldn't have an issue with it. The problem is that it's a touch screen and is, by definition, not passive.

Here's what I actually said, with added emphasis.

> I don't want to have to stare at my console just to change the radio channel, to turn up the A/C, ETC.

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

> et cetera is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean "and other similar things", or "and so forth".

I'm sure this will come across as harsh as it's meant to be, but you went after a strawman so fair is fair.

My actual point is that if you're doing ANYTHING while driving that involves staring at a touch screen to ensure you touch the correct part of it, often multiple times as you hunt through menu's, then it's less safe than not having the touch screen.

This point is not invalidated because you can change the volume via your steering wheel.

> As for the rumours and claims about seeing his lawyers, I don't have a strong view on it, since the claims seem quite weird and unsubstantiated. I've looked and I can't find any actual reliable reporting on whether he is being denied real representation and I find that suspicious.

You're calling his lawyer a liar and stating his statements about whether or not he's been given access to his client are unreliable.

Why?

> I guess what I'm saying is this all feels quite ordinary.

Just in case you missed it, the point here is that if this feels all quite ordinary it means the legal system is biased.

There's no world in which limiting the defense to 1/4 of the time of the offense is fair, and fair is supposed to be the point of a trial.

100% agree with you hear and made much the same point in another post (just not as eloquently).

An analogue would be arguing that you have to be an official whistleblower in order to be protected by whistleblower laws, rather than simply being any citizen who meets the criteria necessary to be protected. It's just not a tenable way to serve the public good.

Wikileaks 100% had a narrative, it was one of the things that disappointed me most about them.

In general, I was on the side of this information needing to come out, I just really wish Wikileaks hadn't politicized it the way they did.

Reality means your opinion can't happen without abuse.

If there's a subset of the people that are given special rights, the giver of those special rights can then cull anyone who would potentially act in opposition. Since it's the government itself that gives those rights, they're able to effectively act with impunity.

If you give everyone those rights, and those protections under the law, the government itself becomes a lot more honest and that's worth it.

I think that's a reasonable opinion, but I would also like to point out that in the US it's neither formalized, nor scrutinized.

I don't think My Lai can be blamed on the US government. The cover up can be blamed as trying to cover up a shameful act, but the act itself was done by men who were in a shitty situation and snapped.

Unless you have evidence that they were asked to do those things specifically by higher ups, to me those were the actions of shitty men in a shitty situation.

For what it's worth, I was in my early to mid 20's when 9/11 happened and the aftermath made me super angry because it woke me up to the reality vs what you're taught when you're young.

MANY of us in the US absolutely opposed what was happening. We were horrified by the way the US reacted, and the shit it did. It's just that, as a US citizen, we really don't have any power to affect how the government acts.

I can only think of two times when I was VERY angry with the US, post 9/11 and the way our government reacted to the post George Floyd movement. I saw a video where we had tanks rolling down the street with armed men behind it yelling "get in your house". You then hear one of them yell "light 'em up!" and they start firing rubber bullets at these people who were standing on their BALCONY filming this. These people had no idea the ones yelling were even yelling at them. The very idea that all of the elements of tianmen square was there in the US just boils my blood. And then to see so many video's of police officers TARGETTING media or attacking people with impunity.

Even the death of the officers in Tulsa, OK. The lawyer released an affidavit stating that he had watched the police cams and the police were basically beating the shit out of the guy before he finally reached into this car and pulled out the gun. The affidavit stated that the police lied about several aspects of what happened, most specifically that the shooter never stood over them after the fact and shot multiple times into the downed officers, but that instead the shooter was panic'd and started running away (backwards) when one of the officers tried to pull out his gun and the shooter then fired again at that police officer.

I've said more than I should have, but I'm both extremely angry about this stuff and immensely disappointed that my country isn't better than it is.

Inevitable.

I've been saying for 10+ years that browsers will integrate more and more into the OS until they become another layer that users aren't even aware of. Sort of like Electron. Imagine web apps that can render native widgets and show up in the taskbar separately.

This is just another inevitable step towards that. The only concern is how secure this will be, and from the sounds of it, the answer is not very. Still, it's inevitable that some form of this will become popular.

But it's not the same as advertisement today.

If I search for shoes on Amazon and I see an advertisement for a different brand amongst the search results, that's fine. I'll ignore it.

If I ask someone what shoes Kardashian was wearing and they give me a single answer that's incorrect, that's an entirely different thing.

Do you also believe that Disney doesn't love money, or that the Car Insurance ad claiming they love the environment wants you to prefer public transportation rather than owning a car that you then pay them for insurance?

At some point critical thinking needs to become a regular part of your life.

> Im locked into alexa. and now, i'm digging my way out. I fell into the trap!

I'm curious, how do you get locked into alexa?

I've started not taking my phone anywhere with me unless I think I may need it for something (grocery shopping, for example).

mobile phones are not nearly as necessary as people seem to think, especially during covid.

> Even though I don't care a bit about brand loyalty, I can definitely see the appeal of every device (PC, phone, car, TV, eReader, watch, whatever) all sharing the same abstract "operating system" interface, sharing your preferences, schedule, etc without the user having to even think about syncing this information.

Apple has been doing this for something like 10-20 years now.

If you're going to have the car for 10+ years, why in the world would it be a problem to learn the system in it?

> and no big screen for maps

One of the reasons I haven't bought a new car is because I pretty actively don't want a touch screen in my car. It just screams unsafe to me, and all the research I've seen coming out recently agrees with me.

I don't want to have to stare at my console just to change the radio channel, to turn up the A/C, etc. It's insane to me that people think this is a pro instead of a negative.

Those have specific answers, why would advertisers be involved at all? That would be asking Amazon to specifically bring in middle-men they don't need to go through.

"Alexa, what's the most healthy butter" would be a better example of something advertisers might pay for.

Apple products are a bit special in that the integration has always been a huge part of their value.

I would never turn my lights on while trying to use the restroom at night. I explicitly don't want to turn them on because it wakes me up fully. As for your A/C suggestion, that's what thermostats are for. Those have been automated for years now.

I agree with the poster you're responding to. The only true automation that hasn't been done in the home are those that are unimportant. I certainly don't need Alexa to open my garage door, regulate the temperature of my house, and so forth. If I really really want to be able to turn lights on and off without walking over to the light switch, I've had options for that for over 20 years now.

I've been driving the same vehicle for 16 years and the only parts I've had to replace are the starter (< 3 months ago) and the battery (3 times in 16 years). You damn well better believe I have some brand loyalty.

I'm pretty sure everyone is aware of the motivation for the correction...

That's why you don't respond immediately. My policy is that if it's super important they'll either come by my office or they'll call me directly.

Anything else, and it gets looked at during specific times of the day. Once everyone is aware of this policy, they know that emailing me won't get an immediate response, and they accept that.

I don't disagree, but it's particularly bad on the frontend.

This particular frontend person had convinced the owner of the company that there were things you could do in SCSS that you couldn't do in CSS. I had to explain to said owner that SCSS was compiled down to CSS because the browser didn't understand SCSS. That you literally couldn't do anything in SCSS that wasn't allowed in CSS.

The owner ended up having a come to jesus moment when he tried to take all of the tools that frontend developer added and make them available in docker so that no one else had to install custom development tools. He spent several days, failed on it, and realized exactly why I was being so hardheaded about the build chain.

We never ended up getting rid of those dependencies, but I know the owner finally understood my point. Instead the team bifurcated into those who had their local environment setup to be able to successfully work on the frontend, and those who didn't.

Java : 1995 : 25 y/o.

RoR : 2004 : 16 y/o.

Scala : 2004 : 16 y/o.

Django : 2005 :15 y/o.

golang : 2009 : 11 y/o.

Rust : 2010 : 10 y/o.

Kotlin : 2011 : 9 y/o.

Typescript : 2012 : 8 y/o.

React : 2013 : 7 y/o.

Docker : 2013 : 7 y/o.

Vue : 2014 : 6 y/o.

Not even the majority of the tech you mentioned is 7 y/o or less. And you can't name a single piece of tech on that list that isn't actively developed today because they're all actively developed, including Java, the tech that's been around for 25 years.

This is specifically why people talk about fad driven development and make fun of younger people who have no sense of history.

7 years just isn't a lot of time, anyone who thinks it is is a junior who thinks they're a senior.