Donated. Never used Blender and most likely never will, but to see such professional software going on and facing the big corporations gives me faith.
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The web framework craze is settling down. Microsoft seems to have consolidated into two web frameworks: Blazor (improved/extended Razor Pages) and ASP.NET for MVC, and APIs. I personaly don't expect another U-turn for the coming years.
Blazor is really nice, and ready for production. The only downside I see is that Visual Studio (vanilla) struggles compared to another MSFT technologies. You don't need Visual Studio, though.
After all these years, I still use WinForms for prototyping, nothing faster comes to mind. If I need a mockup to show to my manager in 15 minutes, nothing beats WinForms.
First is the megarich, then is the wealthy, and then its the baker and then it´s you... barely doing better than them.
These are the companies with the connections that are getting the money.
And, in many instances back home, he also see many fellow americans as worthless.
Frequent releases, GitHub repo with good enough user interaction, examples, bug fixing and feedback.
But traffic is heavy and you have no room to, for example, turn right.
So it's common practice to advance, little by little, until you're basically an obstacle and some other driver has no alternative than letting you in.
Otherwise, you'll spend much time waiting. To make thigns worse, the drivers behind you won't take this unending wait lightly either, so they'd get nervous and try to overtake you and all things get messsy.
How do these systems face this situation?
Allocating the money and printing feel good stories on regulations is the EASY part.
Now, delivering on the cut-throat tech competition on a reasonable time frame seems not part of the european ethos.
Maybe if the US stopped bombing their countries, we'd stop getting so many.
Very convenient for the US, not so for the EU
Basically, China is centralized politically and decentraliced economically. The soviet centralized everything... even meat prices, a recipe for disaster.
They plan the outcome, but let the governing to the different provinces and the implementation to the (mostly) private sector. These actors are forced to compete, among other things, via export discipline that cannot be faked.
And somehow, despite facing the same corruption and cronyism problems we do in the west, they seem to get better results.
Recently, many sites won't fix the viewport horizontally. Why such a major bug happens is baffling
Laypeople needs a simple way to know who's who in advanced research fields, without Nobel prices (or any other commitee) we don't get to have that.
If people gets to ignore (more) such topics, it's likely politicians, and universities react accordingly, and funnel funds to other enterprises.
All these prices (I'd say writing prices are much worse) are typically super corrupt, but at least keep the field in people minds.
It's not like I don't like reviews or cannot work alongside another person. It's I cannot learn while someone is talking to me or trying to make me place the cursor somewhere.
I'm all in for code review, even in pairs. In fact, I do that with a junior dev I have assigned and it's working well for us. I leave him thinking and come back to evaluate his solution.
I find reviewing him paired, is time saving for me. I make him lead me to the right code spots, rather than finding out on my own. I fire 3 quick questions and we're aligned on the spot.
I'll never work again on a 100% pp position but I think I've found my sweet spot with the technique.
I agree that, if no other safeguards are in place, using pp you can avoid real bad code. But without deep thought, you'll mostly converge to an average solution, when social dynamics are very much leading.
In contrast a spacecraft like the shuttle, faces much harsher conditions and, as not many of these were built, I expect more manual procedures and tinkering while building the thing.
In the end, it's incredible these things didn't crash more often.
I can't find any other author, on any other field, I can learn so much from without being actual work.
The thing is, FastWinDirStat uses a licensed propietary component. No problem for me, but the author did have some back and forth with another user on GitHub.
Seems FastWinDirStat license don't match with using a closed source library, or something...
As for its actual functioning, it does as it says. Works much faster than WinDirStat
The first is, despite its name, a manual for countries on how to win at capitalism. A must read to understand what works and what doesn't in macroeconomics.
About Nick Lane, he's an English biochemist working on cutting-edge investigation regarding the cell and origin of life. His work is very deep and leaves me with a sense of awe, of what nature and natural selection has 'built' and why life is the way it is.
It's not uncommon to discover that some clever ideas I thought I came up with have been, in fact, read in a book. Humbling.
The thing is, you cannot get to that point by following productivity hacks. It's true that most divulgation books can we summarized in 2 pages. But the way good authors present the same idea again and again, through different examples and viewpoints is what remains in your brain.
It's a pity this kind of attention to detail is becoming obsolete in favor of flashy but unconvenient UI
I expect this behaviour on any list I find in a Windows app. I also expect keystroke consistency, like press F2 to edit... but all this UI things seems old fashioned.
I assume I don't get that on web apps, but "modern" Windows Apps are also deprecating these conveniences
I wonder if in the apple sphere they're suffering this kind of degradation.
Offers basic functionality, that allows the user to easily achieve most goals.
It's not intended as a Photoshop replacement (GIMP tries to) or a professional tool.
But most other users will find that what they're trying to achieve is straightforward compared to other options.
What is safest. Regulating new cars to expensive safety standards, and make them unaffordable for the masses or being more conservative about such standards and allow affordable cars to exist?
European govermentes have chosen the first option. In the meantime, the car average age keep increasing. Much safer, indeed.
The end goal is to have much less cars on the road, not conspiracy, but an actual statement. And of course, the cars to get rid of are not those of the wealthy.
So you can't no longer buy such cars. And in case you go for the used market, regulations will keep you away from cities due to polution issues, even for tiny cities.
They're perfect for crossings with low to middle traffic. No useless waiting time, good visiblity and no need for traffic lights.
For heavy traffic, though, they're useless as the car flow of one entry/exit can take over the roundabout and block all other entries.
Also, it seems hard to understand for many drivers that regulations regarding changing lanes don't change in a roundabout. So more than 3 lanes are not advisable in my opinion.