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To be fair, Zed is running just fine on an M2 MacBook Air. I just wouldn't expect a code editor, with minimal features enabled, to bog down a 2019 MacBook Pro.
The project I'm working in is fairly large Python app with a few hundred Python modules, HTML, JavaScript, etc. I wouldn't expect the size of the project to be linearly related to the performance of an editor while I'm working in 2-3 files at a time.
For example, if you live in a place where people make $12,000/yr, on average, then earning $24,000 is a nice living. In the US, software engineers often make north of $200k/yr, but a single family home in a lot of US cities is $500-800k, putting a new roof on your house costs $15-40k, and a dinner out at a sit-down restaurant costs $30-60 per person. If you earn $24,000, but it costs $8 to eat out and $80k for a decent house, that's not too shabby.
Where are you located, if you don't mind sharing?
If you put the money the government steals from your paycheck for "Social Security" into your own private investment account and invest it in the S&P 500, after a 40 year career you would have about 4x the income that Social Security will pay you for the same malinvestment in their broken system. That's now. In the future, we will probably have to net pay Social Security when we retire.
The FDA put candy on the food pyramid, as a part of our daily diet.
The F-35 Lightning project was managed by the government, and, as a result, the United States will likely lose the next major nation state war we enter. But, because of that selfsame government's other skills, the United States will likely be bankrupt and gone before that happens.
Everything the government does is worse; no, the worst. If the government does something, that's a really good reason to look at alternatives.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Conspiracies happen, and the nature of those conspiracies is that they futher somebody's goals (Bush family, CIA, big corporations, who knows), and they're secret plans for a reason, because they run counter to the will of the general public, so knowing about them reduces the actors' chances of success. Large efforts are put into place to keep ordinary people from hearing or thinking about them, until they achieve their goals. High level government agents have testified in front of congress about such efforts, many times in the past.
Rewind to 2003; the selfsame government was engaged in wide-spread lying to convince us that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the media was fully complicit in supporting these lies. I lost my best friend, in that war, in 2006, because the big corporations, in concert with the government, convinced everyone to believe in nonsensical lies.
That war would not have happened if somebody said "wait, they're lying, and here's the proof", and people would have heard about this (on the news), before the war was well underway.
I also love imagining what it must be like to read a comment like this and thinks it's political in nature.
Those were simpler times...
In my opinion, this was all done on purpose. They wanted to ruin free and open access to independent, distributed creations, and keep any traffic into a narrow funnel owned mostly by Black Rock, Vanguard Trust, and State Street Capital, with the eventual goal of frustrating people into purchasing licensed access to AI to get curated and censored access to limited information.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter. Without any disrespect intended, anybody, who thinks the ocean is meaningfully rising because of human activity, I'd rather not have living in my town; they're likely to vote to raise my taxes because the TV told them that if they give money to the government the weather will be gooder.
1. https://www.tideschart.com/United-States/New-York/New-York-C...
You'll likely be adding 6-700KB of React and its ilk anyway (I see it in every project now).
4 inches is no joke for a small Florida beach town. It's not like California, where you have 80 foot cliffs and wide beaches. My favorite childhood beach spots would have been halved. Instead, they're exactly the same. 4 inches would have ruined much of our town's waterfront property.
Go look up pictures from Liberty Island, 1918. The water level is at the same brick as it is at high tide today.
Global warming is a false religion.
It's almost as if expressive abstractions are helpful for human understanding of large sets of numerical statistics, no?
Am I to believe that there is one large, interconnected ocean, and that fluid naturally levels itself out, but that also, somehow, certain places experience sea level rise while others don't? Is it some huge coincidence that the places experiencing extreme sea level rise (e.g., Solomon Islands) are ephemeral and ever-changing volcanic islands and other volcanically active regions that sit upon a soft foundation of molten mantle?
Use your brain, my friend.
Small leaks in an abstraction are survivable. Small leaks in many layers of abstraction are ruinous.
That's 0.004% - huge.
1. Assuming 1 tree per 100 square feet.
If you're a publisher the size of Twitter of contact, then it's much harder to create a monopoly, because you need to spend countless millions of hours per week editorial editing content to make sure that none of it is illegal/defamatory/etc. Having the protections of a public square well only pretending to actually be one is fraud.
There are no "community standards". There are corporate rules and censorship. We are not a community if we can't have free speech. We are subject to a corporation that is publishing and benefitting our content, subject to their terms and political beliefs.
None of the 3 I personally know were (suppose that's just anecdotal also). The one received the second dose 3 days before a major stroke, and massive blood clots. I'm sure it was tOtAlLy UnReLaTeD.
And pertaining to clinical trials, if I want to sign up for a clinical trial for a what might be a placebo for a great white shark bite in the midriff, that's my own choice. If I die because of this choice, that's my fault.
Not to mention, everyone I know knows at least one person who had a stroke within weeks of getting one of the "vaccines", I know three. Previous to this past year I've known one person in my entire life that had a stroke, and it was my wife's uncle who was in his 90s.
Having ideas that map 1:1 to those of an ideology does not intrinsically make you an ideologue. Forming those ideas, based on conformity to an ideology that you have subscribed to, does.
Assuming that you know what your exact attack surface is is a pretty clear sign that you are very vulnerable to attack.
So is the media.
Perhaps it is not on account of the tremendous PR efforts of Huawei that American media outlets appear to be on the same team as the Chinese communist party, on many fronts.
It's always so important to convince each cohort of the population that every step of the ladder above them is absolutely crushing it, probably at their cohort's expense, and they probably deserve to be taxed harder.
After all, what other business does anyone have judging how well others live?
Meanwhile, acorns has raised over $100 million from Black Rock, celebrities, NBC Universal, etc.