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Trump is orders of magnitude more financially motivated and self-interested than any other US president in history.

To piggyback on what PaulDavisThe1st said.

Record numbers of US citizens seeking to relocate to Canada & the UK. In the last couple months I remember seeing several news stories variously about Doctors, Professors and students applying and/or relocating.

Layoffs in the tech sector haven't slowed at all, and couple that with the DOGE Govt layoffs and the recent jobs numbers stories.

I feel quite certain that if the U.S. is actually measured "at #1" for anything good, it won't retain it much longer.

Bias Disclaimer: I'm a former software engineer working an hourly labor job.

You are not alone. I'm also just shy of 2 decades of experience, and have had extreme difficulty.

My last salary was as a contractor for a 10 month project, which ended Dec 2019. Then came a divorce, the covid lockdown, and a horrendously difficult bout with depression.

I've moved back home, and have been looking for work in earnest for the last two years. I've finally had some nibbles with freelance, but interviews for salary positions are still few and far between, and even then solid, successful interviews have not gone in my favor.

For comparison, in 2013 I was poached after a recruiter saw my linkedin profile, and given an offer I couldn't pass up.

While playing with this, I landed inside a tardis [1] in England. Pure awesome.

[1] https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=QHW86N

Wow, I haven't seen anything regarding Forth since the last time I was using an old PowerMac as a daily driver. The openboot firmware for those old macs was a forth interpreter.

“Lancre woman gives birth to snake” - C.M.O.T Dibbler

For me, by far the most impactful is: The logistics planning software used by a major sports league in the US. The package I worked on allowed management to comb through a full season schedule, fine-tune a myriad of different associated weights, and push it through a specialized simulated annealing program to yield the schedule for every player, referee, etc for the season. The league went from manually producing perhaps 2 to 3 full schedules a season, then having to almost immediately scramble to handle exceptions, to producing hundreds.

Twenty years between various agencies and contract terms, I've worked countless projects, and the ones which improved business processes, where end users lives were made much easier, were the most rewarding. Conversely, most of the 'fun' projects were almost immediately obviated (I'm looking at you, Silverlight).

[Layman, but I've read up quite a bit on thorium and molten salt reactor designs]

The 1959 Sodium Reactor experiment was to demonstrate the feasibility of a sodium-cooled reactor as the heat source for a commercial power reactor to produce electricity. It used fuel rods similar to rods used in reactors in operation today.

Conversely the The Molten Salt Reactor experiment[1] used uranium fuel dissolved into a salt as both fuel and coolant for the reactor - this design enables significant advantages over traditional reactors powered by solid fuel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment

The only framework alternatives I’m aware of are PouchDB and BreezeJS. Most everything else I’ve seen seems to tack on offline support.

One I’ve used before is BreezeJS[0], and it’s been around for over 8 years, maybe longer. It’s a data framework which takes care of managing dynamic object graphs, providing ways to query, save, and track local changes.

[0] http://breeze.github.io/doc-js/

I’ve had similar backend projects where I setup a reverse-proxy to a backend, along with the frontend dev server, to allow the full site and api to run in the browser from local host.

It’s not the most graceful setup, but it works if your backend build isn’t as flexible as you need.

I shortened its own url and it yielded “https://poop.is/remorseful”.

A+

ClearCase was expensive, unless you pirated it.

As far as other opensource go to solutions, CVS and SVN, branching in them was nontrivial. Many folks preferred zipped folders to using CVS/SVN.

I do exactly this - I budget for 2 simultaneous streaming subs and then just cancel one and resub another when I get bored or want to watch something on a diff service.

Tangentially, I still prefer Netflix solely based on viewing experience for web and mobile. The other services all have super awkward tradeoffs or issues.

Rich created rollup :)

One of my favorite techniques you don't see at all today but looked amazing from that era is color cycling (or palette shifting). Its more of an artistic technique, but it shows how creatively people can think with and around constraints.

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_cycling

I felt the opposite when I read the books. I thought it was rather clever that Frank Herbert invented a physical force [1] which accounts for much of the interesting tech that isn't possible or feasible in reality. I just wish there was more detail.

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Holtzman_Effect

Suspensors aren't really used for thrust, but as a way to augment or nullify the effect of gravity on an object.

In the books, the kernel of fictional science used for multiple effects, including suspensors which is what the Baron uses, is called the Holtzman Effect [1]. The movie doesn't mention it at all, but the depictions of suspensors with all the massive vehicles, as well as floating furniture, glow globes, etc, are all consistent with how the books describe them.

[1] https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Holtzman_Effect

I wonder why the rewrite doesn't have music.

The original js13k game implemented a small sonant-x player for the audio, both sound fx and music.

> Mobile devices needed a new kind of UI, something suitable for small touch screens. People tried things...

Exactly this.

The flat "Metro" UI style was initially modeled and developed on Windows Phone 7, and for what it did, it was (imho) a great way to use a phone.

Then the rest of microsoft took what that group was doing and made it one-size-fits-all UI for everything windows.

I used to use Figlet and TheDraw, waaay back when, to draw things like this (though nowhere near as good as these examples). Fun times.

These days it looks like PabloDraw might be the way to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIGlet [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PabloDraw

The behavior and aesthetics of this site reminds me of designs of artists who typically design for print. Fully constrained width, zero use of content reflow, yet theres a 'finished' look to the design (multiple columns, alternating figure placement).

NeoCities is a modern recreation of GeoCities.

Definitely not the only one. Capitalization matters. For me, the mental transposition is less likely with 'SciPy' than with 'Scipy'

More of a tongue-in-cheek reference to the reoccurring joke that bender wants to kill all humans, except for his pet Fry.

Reminds me of seadragon images circa 2006, which was, among other things, rolled into silverlight as 'Deep Zoom' images. There isn't much to show for it these days, but for an older opensource js implementation [1].

[1] https://openseadragon.github.io/

On multiple projects I've used a tool [1] to closely match a built-in font to a web font in order to present content faster and avoid avoid FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content/Text). In one case, I replaced webfonts entirely with native platform fonts, purely for speed.

With this approach you can be more practical with your goals. If the design cannot be compromised, you can still get to initial paint quickly and let the WOFF files load in as needed.

Edit: If anyone is looking for more information about this, the post [2] from this tool's author from 2016 does a good job of discussing the tradeoffs.

[1] https://github.com/notwaldorf/font-style-matcher

[2] https://meowni.ca/posts/web-fonts/

Earlier this year I read an article [1] that spelled out some of the history of how vscode came to pass. I was surprised by how good the electron-based editor was, and early on (2016) it immediately replaced sublime text for me, before later on replacing practically all other ides.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-vs-code-turns-5-how-...

Starlink is a satellite constellation being constructed by SpaceX to provide satellite Internet access.

Presumably their router would connect to this.