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All described here but there's lots more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/04/starbucks-a...

I would say HyperCard fits here.

The GUI is determined by the interpreter/vm. A spreadsheet doesn't really define it's GUI - the "host" defines it. A ruby script building a GUI (e.g. shoes) can look like anything. A spreadsheet, word document or web page has to have some basic structure.

Of course with things like VBA/OpenOffice Basic, or SPAs with JS, those distinctions start to blur - it's definitely not a perfect categorisation and it breaks down eventually.

Maybe you could say every document is like a custom plugin. E.g. my spreadsheet is like a plugin to Excel/Numbers/Sheets I _think_ in fact in MSOffice and OpenOffice plugins actually were just special documents but it's been a very long time since I was in that world.

I put spreadsheets in a special category of "document-as-program".

As in: - an excel spreadsheet is a program that is run by Excel - a word document (with or without macros) is run by Word - a web page is a program that is executed by the browser

Documents-as-programs have this dual identity where they are a combination of data, presentation and logic. It's not a perfect categorisation but I find it helpful.

I don't usually, but... https://media.tenor.com/87_Ea43k7O0AAAAd/face-mask-mask.gif

Thank you! I had a bet on with myself that you would deliberately misinterpret the quote. I get to have ice-cream tonight!

Is there a version of Godwins Law for invoking "wokeness"?

A long time ago I read a book (can't remember the name) by a producer that outlined all the things that work in a book that just don't work in a film/tv show. It could be updated for video games.

The TV show format would not allow enough time for this kind of evolution and audiences would have lost patience with the Ellie character had she developed as you described.

TLOU is by no means perfect as a show but a lot of the criticism I've seen boils down to "it's not like the game".

I think the last word should go to Ashley Johnson [1]

"I'm so proud that I got to play a strong female character who isn't a sexualised or a damsel in distress, or the opposite of that". Ellie in the TV show embodies that perfectly. Just because it doesn't fit with your preconceptions doesn't make it "woke".

[1] - https://youtu.be/_lBiJd1S4UQ?t=169

Oddly, the article on Ulithi Beg himself has a better description of how the observatory works

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

From November, 2022

"Activist investor TCI Fund Management is calling on Google's parent Alphabet to pursue aggressive cost cutting on the back of a hiring spree during the pandemic, claiming the business could be more efficiently run."

- https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/16/tci_fund_google_cut_c...

I would assume Google was no the only one to receive such a letter, nor were TCI Fund Management the only investment fund sending out such letters

I think this is a joke comment, but I've seen variations of this made in earnest over the past few months.

It's clear by now that these layoffs aren't targeting low performers. They're not targeting any individual. They are an accounting exercise with selection based on meeting a formula. The suggestion in some quarters is that there's a kind of collective hysteria driving the layoffs amongst tech companies. Incorrect. The one thing all these companies have in common is that they all have the same pool of institutional shareholder.

The layoffs are not about saving money, they are about being seen to save money.

The institutional shareholders have demanded this be done, and the boards have complied. The big layoffs - Google, Amazon, MS, etc - are largely pointless and don't make any meaningful savings. And let's not do the "thinning of the herd" bullshit, please.

Why have the institutional investors demanded this? 1) because they've become accustomed to make obscene amounts of money and want to continue making obscene amounts of money even when things are slowing down, and they (wrongly) believe laying people off is the way to do this 2) because they can. They hold the real power.

Apple have largely avoided doing layoffs because his 40% paycut has soothed the baying suits, and Tim Cook is in a powerful position anyway. Most other CEOs, not so much...

But this sounds incredibly like “buy the dip!” The situation with twitter is dire. Nothing indicates that any of the things listed are remotely achievable.

From the outside looking in, was the opposition worse?

On the one hand, labour seem really similar to the Tories - disunited, dogma over common sense and oddly out of touch.

Their policies _were_ opposite to Tory policies but they are trying to be an opposition so… Yes Corbin was a leftie (corduroy elbow patches and all) but he’s a leader of a left wing party. It’s like complaining that Thatcher was a bit right-wing.

It seems like the core issue is that the voters want something like Tory-lite. Blair did that and no one wants to go back to it. So this is what you’re left with

This topic has come up several times now on HN and the conversation is always very frustrating. The debate tends to run towards "no one will tell me to wear a helmet". The same studies are cited as supporting one side or the other when all the studies are clearly insufficient.

It's good that HN doesn't take things are face value, and the discussions here seek to understand unintended consequences. But sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and anecdata does in fact equal data.

Unfortunately cycling is dangerous because - in most countries - cyclists share the road with cars and trucks. There's only one winner in a cyclist vs car showdown. If you cycle somewhere that doesn't have nice cycling infrastructure a helmet is a great idea. A helmet will not automatically turn you into a target for indifference or road rage from motorists - that's the default posture of most motorists towards cyclists, helmet or not.

I've had similar experience. I found that I went through a kind of mourning for my old life for a while. It's a huge adjustment.

It also eats up a huge amount of time - reading labels for hidden ingredients, trying to come up with a meal that you can make that doesn't include the bad things etc. It became very isolating. Eventually I decided I had to figure out a middle ground.

I will meet people for "lunch" and just have coffee, or whatever I can tolerate from the menu. I have people over more often because I know what I cook won't make me sick. I went back to eating out - it takes a while to figure out/trust restaurants you can eat at. There will be mistakes along the way.

Good luck - I hope it gets easier for you.

Fitbit does have it's own SDK, that you can use to write both apps and watch faces. In theory you could create a watch face that met your needs.

The SDK is pure JavaScript and seems friendly enough (I only got a few examples working and lost interest) - https://dev.fitbit.com/build/tutorials/examples/

I don't know if the SDK can target the luxe BTW

Would you consider using d3.js? I’ve been able to get great performance for large deeply nested trees using d3. It depends on your use case of course.

I think, generally, the concern is that if the Qatari rulers are rolling back on this commitment (which is relatively minor) they will roll back on other much more serious promises that they made about personal security of visiting fans.

In any case, no one should be going to, or watching, this world cup - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/14/stadiums-of...

"Though only around 30% of Twitter users identify as "Liberal" or "Extremely liberal", those users are evidently responsible for around 60% of tweets."

Conservatives are less likely to self-report as conservative. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shy_Tory_factor

A novel visualisation of temperature fluctuations since 1880

I _think_ OP is referring to the fact that most sites are forced into writing really long form posts because the format is "encouraged" by Google.

I don't know the ins and outs but my understanding is that if you don't follow the Google format then you recipe drops way down in Google search results.

It really is god-awful. RCS is a technology that benefits mobile operators, not users.

Also, Google really aren't in a position to lecture anyone on this topic, given their N+1 approach to messaging services.

But it will impact 100% of the women needlessly killed or imprisoned.

> Abortion isn’t 0 or 1, legal or not legal. As others have already pointed out below, and I already mentioned, over half of states are ready to enact total bans. The repeal of Roe doesn't make abortion illegal, but it does make a _ban_ on abortion legal, which is exactly what is happening.

> I would guess in 10-20 years the US would arrive at the same conclusion, with small differences between red and blue states.

This data visualisation [0] highlights the problem with this approach.

This isn't an issue where you can sit back and contemplate it as some abstract exercise of democracy. So many women will die, or be persecuted during that 10-20 year span you mention and it is completely needless. No one should be adopting a "it'll all work out in the end" mindset.

[0] https://twitter.com/monachalabi/status/999562371461992448?la...

Over 60% of the US population think abortion should be legal. More than half of US states are (or are very likely) to institute abortion bans.

To the broader point, there has to be _representative_ democracy for decentralized decision making to be fair

- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2021/nov/...

> If you are using instanceof in a normal java program

In applications yes, but instanceof is heavily used if you write frameworks.

And as someone else has mentioned, the more functional style java you write the more use you start to make of instanceof

To be fair, it was a distinct diagnosis from autism until relatively recently. It was "absorbed" into autism in DSM 4 or 5.

So if he was diagnosed with Asperger's in the past, he would now be considered to be on the autism spectrum.

> I actually hate people disavowing themselves of responsibility here.

It's easy to say "they should have known" better because in absolutist terms it's correct. But you're focusing on the 'what' and not the 'why'.

For example: https://rollcall.com/2021/09/07/left-behind-by-financial-sys...

"Normal" investing is complicated, and stacked against regular people. Now we're asking people to understand blockchain and cryptography as well as investing. Yet it's sold as democratisation of investing. I mean, seriously.

You could still produce a AAA title with a small team (e.g 10) in the early to mid-90s. By 2000 an average team was about 100 people. There are exceptions to this in both directions but that was the overall trend.

In that period, you moved from mostly 2D to mostly 3D games so more complex code generally, plus the need for artists to do 3D modelling, texturing, rendering, optimisation, etc etc. Sound designers, composers, etc etc. AAA Games just got bigger, plus multiplayer. Hardware got more powerful (sound and graphics cards) so there was a desire/demand to make more use of that hardware. Generally, it all became a lot more "Hollywood".

There are still great games made by small teams of people in a short period of time. But to hit the AAA mark you need to be with a big studio and have the marketing budget behind you. Again, Hollywood.

As an aside, the IR filter is often removed[0] from many cameras when using them for astrophotography. Canon[1] sell dedicated astro cameras that are modified in this way, along with other modifications.

[0] - https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/imaging-foundati... [1] - https://www.canon.co.uk/cameras/eos-ra/

While it wouldn't be what springs to mind when you think of a mall, this video shows an interesting repurposing of a mall to become residential space: https://youtu.be/HmL2l-bcuUQ