gnarbarian

well you may only need the keyboard to install it right? there are thousands of USB keyboards everywhere. in the poorest most remote villages in Africa they probably have so many USB keyboards they make sandals out of them.

wouldn't you be able to plug in a USB keyboard?

wings3d is amazing. I loved repeatedly using the interesting vertex transformations to sculpt really crazy looking stuff.

the absolute state of UK law enforcement has proven American constitutionalist claims of a slippery slope for both gun control and hate legislation.

I have to agree. we have way too many layers of abstraction in front end development these days. you may be able to generate a static site quickly but good luck coming back to it after 10 years.

how many of the dependencies will still be maintained? will it still even build?

back in the day tools like jQuery were a godsend for ironing out the browser incompatibility but now standards are much better.

well supported tools like that were a great abstraction point to help simplify the codebase and provide consistent functionality in an ever changing landscape of web standards and browser compatibility.

today we have the opposite problem. we have a incomprehensible mess of middleware designed to help out in some way or another but when you add it all together you end up with a 10MB hello world with 3,000 npm dependencies.

recently I decided to write a PWA using only hand rolled HTML and JavaScript and it was a pleasure. the only dependency I had to add was Nosleep.js for safari. it was extremely satisfying compared to dealing with a more modern toolchain.

Maybe the people pursuing these kinds of practices have quick exits in mind.

they can always join or open their own practice.

even for the most hardcore capitalist these practices are short sighted and will result in bad financial outcomes long term.

a couple things to consider:

* high turnover impacts efficiency.

* Exhausted doctors make mistakes which will lead to malpractice lawsuits

I think incentives are misaligned across the board in the medical industry. This goes for doctors, patients, hospitals, insurance providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, medical equipment/material supply companies and probably everyone else connected to the industry.

These poor incentives lead to pathologies that drive up costs and result in poor patient outcomes.

Anyone who has encountered a "prior authorization" when trying to get a time sensitive medication filled has experienced this.

Some doctors are opting to "drop out" of the counterproductive insurance game by accepting only cash payments, but that only solves a small part of the problem.

this reminds me of simulated annealing which I learned about in an AI class about a decade ago.

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

come work here for 20 years and tell me how you feel about it after.

we have the opposite problem in government

this is how our entire federal apparatus works these days. our government is profoundly broken but we lack the will to acknowledge it.

I have about 20 years of experience in Federal contracting.

we have nothing but process and zero accountability. It's literally a miracle anything ever gets completed.

we sink billions of dollars into projects that are forecast to have dubious economic benefits and then we never bother to see if it actually worked out the way the economics were justified.

empower programs and leaders to buck policy and regulations but make them accountable for failure of their core mission.

compensate leaders who save money by doing more with less.

etc.

Google is ideologically compromised which ties them into knots and creates endless internal struggles.

this led to the release of Gemini which was absurdly biased when viewed by the typical American.

Journalists are mouthpieces for their owners. They only punch one direction.

I think the journalists are punching down. they have far more institutional power than some twitter shit poster.

It's bad when your enemies do it and good when your allies do it.

no AI just natural stupidity

you need to put more stat points into speech.

Hey, at least it supports webXR and there's no way to control that content.

Right. I think Redis hitting the disk would be a terrible tradeoff compared to making a new backend call. it probably wouldn't save you much time and I imagine it would lead to very strange and unpredictable behavior on the front end or trying to debug latency or data issues downstream

the pine time is one of the greatest electronics purchases I've ever made. it cost me $20 the battery lasts forever and it is the perfect minimalist smartwatch.

I think these guys are on the right track aiming for simple hardware. I will be first on the list for their bone conducting headphones

yes it was also a joke

this is a personal attack

hooray

Which country is more diverse culturally? the answer to that feeds directly into op's argument.

postulate: the less people share culturally/ideologically/morally with their countrymen the more numerous and specific (micromanaged) the laws will become. this is a direct result of people not being able to navigate or predict expectations, or empathize with each other.

Keep the government out of my GPU!

chad?

Isn't the effect that increased CO2 levels logarithmic rather than linear or exponential? As in the more CO2 that gets dumped into our system the more slowly temperatures will rise.

https://skepticalscience.com/why-global-warming-can-accelera...