chrisrhoden

Speaking anecdotally, I know and know of many people who believe the election was stolen from the president by a conspiracy, 100% of whom are devout evangelicals.

Yes, but the argument goes that someone selling a device specifically for receiving content may see you as a customer of that service primarily, rather than as a means to subsidize the cost of the display or device.

Not sure how that plays out in practice, but not a distinction without a difference.

As I said, it can afford indies some legitimacy.

I'm not arguing that either is good, but I think there is a fundamental difference. Apple is reacting to the threat of regulation, which is at least theoretically aimed at protecting small business owners. Valve is fundamentally competing for the business of large companies that actually can afford to forego the exposure Steam offers.

I'm not sure that the App Store's position is as stable as Steam's, either. I don't really have a clear sense of what impact it would have on their sales if Humble Bundle could sell iOS games.

You don't need to distribute on Steam. While it can bring legitimacy to an indie, alternatives exist. Not so with the App Store.

Steam wants to disincentivize big companies making their own distribution, which is why they have the regressive split.

> certify and emphasize content that is grounded in science and verify content creators of such

Respectfully, how does this help? My impression is that the majority of the people who believe that e.g. vaccines are detrimental think that credentialing by traditional sources that don't agree with them (e.g. mainstream media) is simply evidence that the party has been compromised.

You'd be creating a subset of YouTube that is easier to ignore for the people who wish to.

This was a time when there was widespread belief that iterating over an array was best done with a library.

I know it's weird, but that's what $.each existed for. for ... of did not exist.

Things sure have changed in the last 12 years! The only method you're using that existed back then is join. Wild.

If I remember right, the intermediate string version was already a reflection of the shifting interpreter landscape. I distinctly remember learning to always prefer Array#join for these kinds of things in 2006 or so for the same reason cited in the post.

Of course, that could have been based on a misunderstanding on the part of the person talking with me, though I would guess it matters how many intermediates (or array elements) you're talking about.

Sort of a miracle that you mostly don't need to worry about this stuff today, even running on a $100 mobile device.

This is a funny quote. I really hope it doesn't keep people from learning regular expressions, which are actually not as hard as they are often portrayed and extremely powerful and efficient, as demonstrated in this post.

> In the functional example, where does Person store the fName and lName variables? Is there an intrinsic/hidden 'this' pointer? If functions persist data, are they really classified as functions anymore?

There is no intrinsic "this", the code as presented is using a closure. Closures are typically considered a standard part of functional programming.

There is no equivocating here - the assertion is that the folks in this category are incompetent and, "almost rational," whatever that means.

> "I've just realised that welding and painting are different kinds of work and most people greatly prefer one over the other. Perhaps we should label the jobs and let people gravitate to the kind they like so people aren't as unhappy."

Except it's more like, "We hire people to design and assemble complex machines and some people make their own tools while others buy them. Anyway, the people who buy them are basically incompetent and when they claim to prefer focusing on producing the machines rather than tools for building them it's because they are scared of losing their jobs. Let's give them a new title, ideally that trivializes the work."

I guess this comment being downvoted indicates that this perspective is more widespread than I thought - can someone please explain to me how you would go about structuring a project with zero software development using libraries available via your preferred programming language's package manager?

As near as I can tell, the post is a response to comments in reply to a previous post which essentially states that the _existence of cargo_ is bad because there are bad libraries available.

This post further asserts that folks who like the fact that libraries are easily available are "not very good at something being discussed" and have "Peter Principled" themselves. It also states that they are, "almost rational."

What you're describing is an under-performer, or perhaps someone who is working specifically in a maintenance capacity (likely with a title that reflects that!). I don't think that is what the original post is talking about, but perhaps I have misread.

I guess I am stuck trying to understand if the assertion being made here is that folks who use a library to connect to PostgreSQL are not really writing software, but maintaining vendor garbage.

Pretty wild assertion that using rust crates eliminates development.

I think podcasters generally only care about RSS because it's how to get into the Apple Podcasts app.

There are many hosting companies that will create friction and pain if a consumption platform attempts to vertically integrate and eliminate the idea that you can publish a podcast on any web server, but we're already in a world where some of the consumption platforms have distinct flavors of RSS published especially for them.

Not hard to imagine one of them offering better support if you use a more custom integration, which it's not impossible to imagine major hosting providers building.

It's also an extremely common place to set up a legitimate business.

> More than 50% of all U.S. publicly traded companies and 63% of the Fortune 500 are incorporated in Delaware.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware

What's a glueman?

No. Once a valid, signed transaction is _out there_, any miner can (and is generally incentivized to) add it to a block.

The closest thing to cancelling is making a new transaction which makes the first one invalid (e.g. by emptying the source address) and hoping the new one gets added to the block first.

Because transactions can have fees attached to them, you could presumably make it more appealing to mine the second transaction than the first, but I don't know if this is something people do, and as far as I understand it most miners prefer the first transactions they see.

Given your tone, it sounds like you sincerely believe that I am more likely to have positive feelings about doing well in a game than a girl is for reasons that are not cultural / social.

Cultural acceptance / expectations account for a lot of behaviors. I played soccer & baseball as a boy because that was what was expected of me, not because I have some natural inclination to do so.

That's a novel concern, at least to me - and it's not clear to me that we have seen any examples of _content modification_ based on psychographics. Curation and promotion based on targeting seems plenty pernicious at least at the moment.

yes, for sure. lower volume shows mostly don't use DAI. the big ones use the systems I described.

The podcasting standard does not allow for HLS enclosures.

source: I have worked in podcasting for almost 10 years.

Real question - is it dynamic ads that bug you, or the implication that there is some personal tracking motivating the dynamic ads (rather than, say, calendar based ad buys or impression limits)?

> podcasts have unblockable ads

As far as I know, they are also the last digital ads with a non-disableable skip button, so you win some and lose some.

No HLS in podcasting because of its legacy but just-in-time building of audio files with some caching is plenty fast. Some folks who do this use old internet radio streaming technology with the max buffer size set to infinity, but most of the time it's operating with plain old mp3s.

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It is localized to other languages, as explained in the article.

One of the complaints in the article is that the different localizations offer uneven quality.

The loans wouldn't be federally guaranteed, for any meaningful definition of the phrase.

If you're deemed to be credit-worthy it doesn't really matter, and if you're not it doesn't really matter if you have a federal job. The federal government won't be paying back the banks if the employees fail to pay the loans back.

As I suspect you may already know, this is dependent on the server 1) indicating support for byte range requests and 2) correctly implementing it.

I don't think I have noticed Firefox getting worse at this over time, but I'm not downloading large files every day. Would you be willing to share where you're noticing this?