The5thElephant

It's more likely someone gets killed by a police car rushing to the scene or in a car chase than a drone falling on someone. These arguments aren't very effective.

Many people hold values like this that are immediately dismissed once the technology in question can save something or someone they truly hold dear.

I very much understand and share the fears of a surveillance state. I would also throw those fears out the window if it meant a drone could find or track someone who kidnapped my child or loved one (and I can think of many even more horrifying examples).

I think the reality is far from the dystopic panopticon people imagine and also won't be free of occasional abuse or over-enforcement that will likely be mitigated by citizen pushback and regulation. I think people who talk about it the way you do are being quite hyperbolic and don't actually do a good job of swaying people to their argument.

Not enough people know about Pantheon.

However both Scavenger's Reign and Pantheon feel distinctly different from Japanese anime. They have a much more Western aesthetic eye visually, narratively, and especially in terms of music I feel.

Agreed the built-in window management isn't ideal (although I do like Spaces and Mission Control a lot more than what I've seen in Linux/Windows defaults) but there are a lot of free and simple apps that significantly improve it in just about any way you want. I can arrange my windows in a couple key strokes to whatever layout I desire.

Additional software being free by default is definitely an advantage Linux has, although usually not the benefit I see pointed to by most Linux users.

That being said I am a dev and a designer and I can't think of any paid software I use beyond Figma (which is free for basic use) and Texts.app which doesn't have any free or paid equivalent on Linux.

I am not offended at all, just curious and your reply confirmed my assumption?

Genuinely, how did you get offended out of that?

I'm curious what you can do in Pop_OS that makes MacOS software "meh" in comparison? I have a few friends who are Linux devotees yet watching them do stuff seems so tedious and slow in comparison to my workflows. Like I get that you can setup all sorts of keyboard shortcuts and stuff to do whatever you want, but that's also possible in MacOS, so what is it exactly that you can do better/faster in Pop_OS?

For most of my Linux friends they claim it's because they prefer the customization, but in practice it really seems more like they just dislike the Apple ecosystem in principle. I have yet to find a workflow they have that I can't do more easily and faster in MacOS. Similar experience with working in git in the terminal vs GUI apps. So many devs swear the terminal is "faster and more powerful for git" but in practice I am doing basic git functions faster and with fewer errors than they are just using the GitHub desktop app.

I would very much like to be proven wrong, I think OS competition is a good thing, I just want to see some practical examples.

On the flip side you also get ground-effect when you are low to the ground where the high-pressure underneath the wing gets trapped against the ground creating a cushion of pressure increasing lift.

Definitely thought this article was going to mention this recently released game trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x2gY7CjDKs

This is very cool and I know a LOT of people who would buy and wear these. If you productized these (possibly make them rechargeable and simply way to program the LEDs) they would definitely sell.

Cool! I like the "intelligent canvas" concept. Not exactly the same but my brother and I have been building a side project that also is all about making the most of a set of information using different views like maps, calendars, tables, etc. We have been looking into adding AI to make it easier to import data without having to manually tag all the data. https://visible.page

I'm sure this will be possible in future Vision Pro devices, main issue right now is probably performance. Macbook Pros already can only push to 2-3 monitors (albeit at higher resolution) and the Vision Pro is also running its own apps simultaneously alongside the Mac window (curious if it is the Mac or Vision Pro doing compression and other processing work for streaming to the headset). Apple being obsessive about frame rates and performance are likely erring on the side of caution before allowing too much. For example the recent downgrade from 1080p to 720p when it comes to streaming the Vision Pro screen to other devices.

Yes but it was an obvious trap and self-inflicted wound. Is giving the technically correct answer alone actually better considering the resulting consequences? Would have been smarter to give both the desired answer (calling for genocide is bad) AND follow it with the technical answer to make it clear she understood both what the schools rules are as well as what was happening in that hearing and why.

Following this line of logic no one should have empathy for anything except the victims of the worst disaster or atrocity in history. A lot of the people who are rightly supporting Palestine now showed no empathy or support for the many much larger atrocities happening daily elsewhere in the world, will you criticize them in the same way?

Genuinely curious what your personal approach is to "picking" a religion to believe in. Generally I know most people don't pick a faith and just have the one they grew up with, but you strike me as someone who actually critically examines their beliefs (based on your comments).

I've had a lot of great conversations with religious people about the nature of their faith, but I have never gotten a good answer on why they chose their particular organized/named faith. Other religions have people who believe just as much as you do that their religion is the "right" one and all the others are wrong. How did you come to choose your particular form of Christianity over the dozens of other named faiths you could choose that have equal levels of historical correlation to their religious texts?

You have to define free will first, and that is essentially impossible. What is happening in that "processing" though? That is not free will, your will is being determined by the state and context your brain is in. In fact any thing that is not a purely random choice is not a free will, and a purely random choice is not a will at all. The very concept of free will as most people understand it is absurd.

The only definitions of free will that work are deterministic ones.

To elaborate on your TV signal analogy, the TV does not get to "choose" what it shows next no matter the technical reason for the awareness of the choice coming later or not. These are physical deterministic processes.

It isn't an edge case in the SAAS world, it's just that the majority of SAAS tools either don't implement mobile, or don't do it well. Every single SAAS company I have worked for in the last decade has had complex web apps that required very involved HTML and CSS work (and a dash of JS) to get them to work well on mobile. Additionally very few of the front-end or full-stack devs on those teams actually knew HTML/CSS well, they were all React/JS-first.

Sure the majority of websites on the web aren't SAAS tools, but the nuances of mobile vs desktop layout described in this article don't apply so much to such simple content pages.

Sure for a content-site template, blog, or something else fairly basic. This is not at all the case for things like art-directed super-custom designed sites like magazines, fashion brands, museums, etc, OR highly complex interactive SAAS web apps like the ones I work on. These have lots of unique considerations like complex animations, layered menus and controls, optimizing for change from mouse to touch interactions, handling the higher rate of people who use zoomed text on mobile devices, adapting to device safe areas in portrait and landscape, etc.

I am a designer and HTML/CSS coder so I am aware of the challenges from both directions.

Not really. No media queries, no percent widths or non-pixel units, no margins (everything is padding or gap), no viewport units, etc.

I'm a CSS person who works in Figma every day and Figma absolutely sucks for responsive design and handoff to devs.

I wish I could just design in Framer or Webflow but those tools while being Figma-like are entirely catered to content websites and not to product design.

Design tools should render with HTML and CSS, not make the mistake Figma made in creating their own rendering engine they have to painstakingly recreate CSS from scratch with.

Designers usually not the problem here. Most are well aware that rendering should change between different types of devices and displays, they use these website and devices too!

The problem usually is the resources and time available to implement such designs. Most of the time the devs simply don't have the time, desire, or even ability to implement more advanced responsive design, so designers will design what will actually get made.

I don't think panpsychism is really a religious stance, it's just a logical solution to the problem of qualia. It certainly isn't testable and there are a lot of people who come to views that are loosely called panpsychism through less rigorous and more spiritual routes, but I would suggest those are quite different and shouldn't dilute the core reasoning behind panpsychism.

This is an absurd argument because it inconsistently moves the value of giving credit outside of the realm of determinism. Since everything is determined then the concept of credit would become meaningless. It is not meaningless because it exists within the subjective world created from determinism.

Just like you can't say a criminal is not guilty of a crime without free will, because the concept of crime exists within the same subjective context as the experience of the criminal choosing to commit a crime. Choice and will still exist, they are just not "Free" in the sense of being determined by something outside of physics and its resulting emergent systems.

It would be like arguing that a waterfall does not exist and is not beautiful because if you look closely enough at it all you see are numbers representing the states of molecules and velocities.

Meaning does not require "free will", and the very concept of a will being "Free" is absurd since a resulting choice is either completely random (And thus not really anyone's will) or is determined by prior states and circumstances (the things that make you you) and is thus not really "Free".

Except you still see the encapsulated classes when you inspect it in production, and often that is where the bugs appear and need to be figured out.

The ridiculous class strings get particularly hilarious when anything beyond basic CSS is used. Want CSS variables? Now it's even less readable!

Exactly.

The moment you start working outside of the React bubble you begin to discover just how many of these problems are solved by things like Svelte/Vue's single-file components and a few decent editor extensions.

I don't have to go hunt for a separate CSS file to see what is happening with my semantically named classes. I don't even have to scroll to find it in the same file, I can just option-click the class and see a mini-window showing the relevant styles, edit them inline, or jump to where they are in code. I can find out which classes are unused or where they are used. I get the best of both worlds.

Additionally the moment you get into anything beyond basic layouts the readability of Tailwind drops from "a little frustrating" to "completely opaque". Start adding new CSS features like variables, wide-gamut colors, sub-grid, etc and your neat Tailwind classes start looking like abstract [ ] and letter soup.

Tailwind has some really cool benefits like helping you stick to consistent tokens from your design system and being able to copy paste most HTML from one project to another and have it work, but those benefits simply do not outweigh the downsides I find when I am working in a real project I have to come back to edit and iterate on with multiple people who don't all know CSS well.

There are numerous developments happening all up and down the chain to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. Yes some parts will take longer than others, some will have unintended or ignored secondary negative effects, and some will happen faster and better than expected.

Diesel and ICE in general is not going away over night and there are efficiency developments happening with those technologies as well. It seems foolish to just drop any focus on things like solar, batteries, wind, and EVs because it hasn't yet met some standard of perfection.

But if I understand correctly the optics can't recreate how our eyes focus on near and far things in reality. So if something is supposed to be 100 meters away it will still be physically like focusing on something 1-2 meters away due to how the optics work. That's the whole VAC issue mentioned in the article.

Phones have adblockers too. I know they are harder to use on Android than iOS, but both have them.

I was born in 1987 and don't think it is too slow at all.

Just don't pull your phone out while watching a movie and take some time experiencing the slowness. It might feel boring or torturous at first, but give it some time and you will begin to see the value in focus.

Sure the average audience of today has no attention span and needs constant flashy-action, but that doesn't mean you have to be a part of that.

I think we may be talking about different goals here. There is no effect in stating a "truth" that is not received and you don't enjoy stating. If they want the truth to be known, they need to make more effort for it to be communicated, not just heard or read. If there isn't even that desire, and it is purely for the sake of a pattern of sound passing through the air, what should be appreciated about that?

I am not talking about status or victory alone, I am also talking about moving things along and being effective in collaborative or social situations. As someone who used to believe (and still does to varying degrees) that they were one of those smart people floating through the world untouched, I had to learn the hard way why I was under-appreciated. Also considering how often my smart self has been wrong about things that at the time I was 100% certain I was right of, the floating through the world being right part begins to fall apart given enough time.

There is a space between throwing tantrums and being a self-absorbed dick, and that gray area is far more effective, moves things along faster, floats through the world being right better, and is far more appreciated than what the original comment and you are describing.

This comment sounds like copy-pasta so not sure if it's being posted in disagreement or in satire.

However if it is genuine, as someone who used to think this way I realize now it is falling for the same black and white worldview that you accuse the "insane" others of following.

Is your goal to convince others of the truth, or to simply feel smug about convincing yourself you know the truth? You are enjoying the idea of uncomfortable truths more than the actual discomfort of having to use empathy and mutual context to introduce someone else to a new or uncomfortable view.

Also you wouldn't actually like a world in which everyone was hyper-rational and had no illusions or falsehoods. It would be quite dull.