Like a hipster wearing a monocle fashioned with metaverse-substrate. The new age user interface is like cup of coffee and a pipe with eco-friendly, translucent tobacco.
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On the human side: the problem is the producers (of meat/dairy) hide the torturous aspects from consumers by abstracting it away. We go to the store and get some chicken breast, steaks, or pork ribs, but we don’t do ANY of the work to prepare that animal. It’s prepared by underpaid/exploited foreign labor.
In contrast, even if a wolf killed a bunch of sheep for sheer pleasure: they are doing the killing, which takes energy. And if the sheep has a herd of rams with them the wolves might come out bloody themselves.
NOTE: I’m talking about factory farms and large scale production. There are farms which follow good, holistic procedures—where the farmers do care about the well-being of the animals and the cycle of life, even when animals are slaughtered.
Animals will catch what they eat, and catch no more than necessary. Humans will over-fish and dump shit all over the place killing marine life and filling oceans with oil.
I could go on and on. But you know, we’re all fucked from this behavior. In the name of money we will all perish at the hands of our fellow cheek-turners.
We don’t know how to read either because we skim the internet’s garbage, sifting through ads to get to the meaning of a blog entry, only to think we understand it but… what if we skimmed over it??
Communication and social interaction have been junk-food-ized just like everything else mass produced, and supplied in abundance.
Then again, the author’s post didn’t exactly communicate that well—this is just my interpretation :)
I can just see me working on a brilliant invention (one can dream , right?) and putting my notes into the note boox, only to realize it gets patented before me by a Chinese company.
If I use any current digital forms of payment, someone is watching/recording the transactions and pairing them with my ID for some ad campaign.
Oh and: I should be able to stroll up to a traffic light and be able to donate some BTC to a homeless person via Bluetooth without getting out of my car (so I don’t give them COVID)
For instance, on piano you can see AND hear the intervals on a scale.
Strangely though, outside of elementary school there’s less emphasis on tactile learning—and no football is not the same thing. Art teaches the mind how to think outside the box and in creative ways. It also taps into the subconscious and allows us to learn and communicate better.
But let’s be serious here it has to be at a place where a warrant is issued right? Tech folks are super paranoid. Like, try to make sure no warrants are out for you and your cousins and you should be fine. If you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time: sucks to be you anyway!
Folks, keep your information AT HOME where it belongs. Don’t dirty the streets with those ugly snaps no one wants to see (unless there’s a cat filter) :)
It would be nice if instead of websites being forced to display cookie banners, what if they were forced to support plain HTML/CSS only mode? Not only would it increase privacy and prevent things like Canvas fingerprinting (oh wait, that’s what commercial interests use), it would also put content first.
JavaScript began as a way to add dynamism to HTML which CSS now can handle by itself.
What we need is a web framework that provides good fallback modes.
My challenge to folks: try to use HTML/CSS only to create interesting and dynamic websites which focus on content-first. And give that content good printer-friendly support :)
And for monetization, sell a product on there of some kind. Provide something useful. Don’t hide behind a barrage of ads. There’s always another way!
Perl is superior in many ways and I think using it for data-exploration still has tons of merit.
Folks “shoot themselves in the foot” when they don’t understand the language. In Perls case: list/scalar context is usually the culprit, but it is quite easy to understand. It’s more flexible and concise which in many ways makes Perl better at exploratory programming.
Perl on the command line is beautifully concise; it’s easily embedded into CI/CD pipelines because the q, qq, etc escaped quotes; it has best-in-class regex support; calling external utilities equally concise with qx or back-ticks; etc etc.
Personally I tend to favor C/C++ for the main event and Perl for everything else on the systems side.
JavaScript is obviously ubiquitous on the front-end but it feels very clumsy. Not a huge fan of that on the back-end system it’s just too weird to do simple stuff like “parse a file” or “rip through a directory tree” or call a shell command.
If I buy a product and it has issues—okay, it happens. Maybe I post a bad review or just don’t buy it again.
If I buy a product and it’s something else, the seller should be ashamed of themselves.
I have bought (and returned) countless fraudulent books from Amazon to the point where I had to weigh the books, count the pages, and compare with publishers.
And then I closed my prime membership and I’ll take the longer wait times for a real product.
Lately I prefer purpose built IDEs for whatever task is needed. I’m over with editor evangelism. :)
Funny thing is a lot of the features are... just like a file system or Perl script to rip through and replace strings.
If no one is available, stepping away from ones own work and reviewing it with a fresh mind can have a similar affect
A more beneficial study than the OP would be to turn off all lights by sun down, and remove all technology. I’d wager folks would naturally wake up with sunrise over time and feel healthier, assuming they know what to do with themselves.
Honestly, I would personally teach plain C for algorithms because it has the simple for loops and while loops, tail-call recursion, arrays and structures.
Python has a kitchen sink.
Many developers these days scarcely read books on subject matter. But if they did read books, they would find there’s actually more C/C++ literature and established best practices than there is for Rust (naturally).
The effective C++ series comes to mind as something not just approachable, but enjoyable and largely insightful.
The truth is... systems engineering is a discipline which requires an understanding of historical context. You get that with the C/C++ books! I highly recommend reading on it to better appreciate Rust.
Folks really ought to read the C/C++ literature to understand why Rust evolved in a unique direction. That gives better compare/contrast.
Also, a lot of Python idioms are actually from C++ (e.g. mixins, iterators, operator overloads, etc).
Anyway, to reiterate: folks interested in systems languages should read the C/C++ literature and actually become a systems engineer first.
Important takeaway: only buy month to month plans when testing out services.
EDIT: I’m not a huge fan of subscription models in general. Software doesn’t need to change at the rate it is these days, but it does work wonders for the bottom lines of all these companies.
EDIT2: Monthly payments to open source software is a better investment because they actually need funding, and they aren’t paying shareholders profits.