Like taxes are fair... You have the freelancers and small business struggling badly in my country, yet the goverment spends millions on nonsensical programs.
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No cost, no need of IBAN, SEPA, or any other information. Just a phone number, that might be in your contact list or not, the desired amount, and is done.
Some business use it too but of course, its application is very limited due to not charging a fee to end users.
How in the world can I stop worrying about errors like using a non existant class member and having a runtime exception? How can I refactor?
Ok, the core devs add annotations, then type hints to the language.
Some other people create MyPy, the JetBrains people use some other linting thing that does well, but does not match MyPy. The Pydantic appear and some other people says its awesome, but yet again, different to the others...
And all that to enforce things we already had 20 years ago in Java 1.0
How about using dynamic typing for small script and prototyping and using better tools for bigger projects?
But the bad guys are the chinese, who hasn't been involved in a war in 40 years.
I remember my younger days when Hristo Stoichkov came to play with Barcelona FC. A very aggresive and sweary player, a few years later he left to play for Parma FC, and while playing in Italy, he kept swearing in spanish!
I even saw him doing the same while playing for Bulgaria.
At the same time, the only real solution that is population decline, is 'spontaniously' happening without any policies like one child per couple, and so.
If the economics of an older population are much easier to solve than our progressive destruction of the environment... Why not incentivice policies to keep people childless?
Google "The fourfold pattern". Basically, he states that there's a cognitive bias where people in situations where a poor outcome is likely to happen, tend to risk too much, and not settle for a bad (but better) outcome that what they already have.
If they kept compounding these "bad but better choices", they might have a chance.
This is blatantly untrue.
Heck, the infamous trifecta Bush-Blair-Aznar led their countries on a war that destroyed a country and costed many human lifes, based on what we know were lies and invented data. What consecuences did they face?
And that's just an example. I can show you as many corruption cases as you want, and see how the subjects go on with their careers untouched.
Never been a social guy, but I found enjoyable a short talk with the guy at the counter.
He gave me his opinion on the tape I was about to checkout and made suggestions about the new acquisitions. I guess after some weeks he knew my tastes and give a human-curated list, hehehe. They mostly tend to by nerdy, so we made a good fit, but they curated the list to old ladies, families and so...
A miss here and there, but I always found something enjoyable in all tapes. Even in the low budget, low quality ones.
Looks like ages ago...
When you're 20-30 something and a nobody in your field, but a privileged mind, you keep your eyes open to all posibilities. You are hardworking and then results come.
Then you gain a name and have all eyes on you and your mental processes change. Suddenly with your opinions, you've got a reputation to defend. You're aware of those supporting you and those who are not. You're reasoning gets blurred by your ego and personality. Once you publicly speak an opinion on a topic for enough time, you cannot simply go back without looking like a moron.
There are several instances of the most brilliant minds following this pattern. Geniuses giving their backs to the scientific method, to all evidence, and looking like amateurs.
Comes to mind Einstein, spending his last years trying to debunk quantum physics against all evidence, Linus Pauling and his C-Vitamin craze or Nikola Tesla and his every time crazier projects with no practical viability. I guess there might be more.
Yes, Linux won on the web and we're freer than if Microsoft had won, but the corporations learnt a way to keep using the open-source tag, and Android is a great example, while cornering our freedoms more and more.
Then, the true mantainer with the open-source spirit, has to live for scraps, while seeing everyone else making the big buck.
To me, the current situation is a consequence of the ethics of the early open-source community, that left the average small propietary software developer unable to make money, but of course, could do nothing against the megacorps. Did they really think they could win?
The digital world is mostly done. Everything, from social networks, to videogames is studied to avoid frustration, be addictive, and generate a dopamine rush. When not, like competitive gaming and so... the skill gap is too big and the entrance barrier too high
Manual labor cannot be so easily simplified and automatized. Yes, you need to perform a task and, if it's common enough, you'll have a Youtube tutorial at one click reach. But that's not so easy in the real world, because you'll eventually find obstacles and unforeseen problems. Usually, the uploader is a skilled guy for whom, some situations, are not even worth mentioning, but will be a problem for a newbie.
Furthermore many basic manual task are not to be found in Youtube, because they're too specific. Yes, you can find a tutorial on how to hang something to a wall, but you need to hang an object of an specific shape, between two walls corner, where some other object is an obstacle.
In those cases, you're mostly on your own, but the task is achievable
Usually, you won't need to directly call any API function to build even a complex program.
.NET comes with everything included
You can get a functional, graphical, Hello World! WinForms app running in like 10 seconds, ok, perhaps 20 seconds if your computer is slow
I can teach anybody with very basic programming skills to build something fancy in like 2 hours
No idea about Mac environment, but I guess it must be similar.
I guess you like better smaller plots, the author can make more consistent and believable.
To me, the way Liu links one after another crazy physics stuff into the book story is masterful. I've read most SF classics and there's nothing like that. That in itself is an accolade.
Heck, several times I had to browse Wikipedia to see whether the next mad stuff had any scientific background, to find most had.
Take patient A in a control room and make him eat 2000K calories a day. Take patient B into the exact same environment, eating the same calories.
Apply insulin shots only to patient B
Patient B will get fat, and patient A won't, eating the exact same calories.
I'm yet to see a rude or unpolite message by him. He's composed, respectful and logical and exposes his reasoning calmly.
But, as he is vocal against the goverment (no matter the party in charge, is the same) and mainstream media, he's been suspended by Twitter several times.
It's puzzling to me he's been categorized the same as real misfits, trolls and so.
But seems like speaking against the majority has costs, no matter the epoch you live in.
It doesn't matter that you know what you have to do, eat well, do exercise, how to prioritize, what's good for you and what's not.
Unless you steer your emotions in the right direction, you won't be able to achieve anything, because resistance and stregth of will won't get you very far.
And changing your emotions is really hard, because they're mostly formed in your youth, and doing so need a systematic approach, consistency, and strengh of will... and that's precislesly what you lack; a vicious cycle.
Here, If you are aware of new wokeness trends in the US is question of about 3 months until the spanish left and media start parroting the new word, idea or whatever.
The consumed culture is overwhelmingly US based. Netflix, social media... The local shows that happen to succeed, mostly are created due to legal obligations imposed by the goverment. If it were not for that...
But at the same time I was wondering how, for a behemoth like Intel, that's been making huge profits by selling high volume products with also a high profit margin, such a tiny market, with reasonable priced cameras, is going to satisfy its shareholders.
I guess the answer is here, and won't take long for the whole program to get the axe.
Wondering what will I do if I keep on working on this project
Tried browsing from google.es and again it was set to Mexico, though this time I was able to donate after changing to Spain.
Coming from IT, in the industry, even questions about software (very specialized, to be honest) get useless results.
I think the openess of information in software is the exception, not the norm, though many fields like science are making improvements.
For me, a relaxing listening audiobooks while safely driving is like a warm-up for my workday. An activity I wouldn't have time otherwise.
And the same, in my way back home.
They acknowledge the importance of the issue, but are not willing to take risks in a difficult an foreign (to them) business.
So, mostly worthless words.
They're never talked about, and seem like they don't exist... but they do, and usually lead miserable lifes due to their insistence in an excessive identification with others people problems.
They look bland, and most don't take them seriously, and sometimes are the laughing stock... and to be honest, I don't think society is to blame, as they don't fall near the middle of the normalcy curve... but they do have a problem.
Anyway, they're out of luck. Not in the fashionable side of the victim mentality of nowadays society.