hcarvalhoalves

> Why would you want to “focus on the underlying content” here? Tab bars and toolbars still cover the underlying content, and the more transparent/translucent they are, the worse. When something fades to the background, it literally ceases to be in the foreground, so there’s no point in focusing on it. This is like proposing an interface that helps you focus your sight on your peripheral vision.

I believe that's exactly what Apple wants. This new design direction appears to be a strategy to unify all UI for VR as well.

If all controls are designed to be translucent, they (Apple) have freedom to put the control anywhere on the user's field of view on VR and allow "focus on the underlying content" (which in the case of VR, is the real world).

Time will tell if this approach makes sense for 2D screens.

Company takeover by bean counters and clowns. It happens with every company, sooner or later.

Apple remains on the edge with hardware though. I guess the show is still ran by the engineers at this department.

The Philippines has a story of foreign influence on their local politics. It wouldn't be crazy to expect this is just the latest chapter of the 3 letter using it as laboratory.

In other words, gravity would be explainable by statistical mechanics (like heat)?

This looks like a product evolution, but in reverse.

I suppose it takes a lot of deltaV to get a stable orbit over the sun poles?

Last I heard, workers were getting replaced by AI, so this will sort itself out.

The traditional methods of "carving" I know about are using an adze [1] and controlled burning [2].

[1] https://engineeringlearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Adze...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dwAu6RIQURo

This is the first chair one can make, it's a common pre-industrial chair design. Search for "tribal chair" or "2-piece chair" for examples.

It gets even better with wood carving (rather than building out of straight planks):

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/chairs/african-sol...

What once was old is new again.

https://lisp-docs.github.io/cl-language-reference/chap-9/j-b...

https://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-24-algebraic-effects-y...

Here’s one using Emacs’ Org mode built-in HTML publishing capabilities:

https://github.com/hcarvalhoalves/org-mode-site-template

Is this what Stephen Hawking used at the time?

A much needed area of study. Companies and institutions are drowning on "data", but don't know how to organize information. It gets progressively worse with the ability to generate large bodies of text with the help of LLMs, but no structured information.

> Even if you are the biggest critic of AI, it's hard to deny that the frontier models are quite good at the sort of stuff that you learn in school. Write a binary tree in C? Check. Implement radix sort in Python? check. An A* implementation? check.

I don't feel this is a strong argument, since these are the sort of things that one could easily lookup on stackoverflow, github, and so on for a while now. What "AI" did was being a more convenient code search tool + text manipulation abilities.

But you still need to know the fundamentals, otherwise won't even know what to ask. I recently used GPT to get a quick code sample for a linear programming solution, and it saved me time looking up the API for scipy... but I knew what to ask for in the first place. I doubt GPT would suggest that as a solution if I described the problem in too high level.

The problem is any discussion around this topic is tainted – these companies have to justify their valuations. Begins with the shift in nomenclature: "LLM" is now "AI".

I login to Instagram and I see:

- Ad promoting "investment" platform with deep fakes of personalities

- Ad from radicalized politician promoting hate speech

- Semi-naked girl promoting their "other" social media (OnlyFans)

- Ad disguised as content of some dude promoting a random restaurant

I agree with Zuckerberg, it's not social media anymore. I don't see content from any friend, only scams.

When I first read the title, I had something in mind, but this is actually about structuring the code itself as a fixed-size table.

Here's a different take on thinking about tables:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5UK-VHbJlQ

Yeah, I miss buttons and VFD displays.

> REST (or, rather, how REST is broadly used) encourages you to think in terms of Resources rather than Models or ViewModels. At first, your Resources start out as mirroring Models. But a single Model rarely has enough data for a screen, so you develop ad-hoc conventions for nesting Models in a Resource. However, including all the relevant Models (e.g. all Likes of a Post) is often impossible or impractical, so you start adding ViewModel-ish fields like friendLikes to your Resources.

So, let's assume the alternative universe, where we did not mess up and got REST wrong.

There's no constraint saying a resource (in the hypermedia sense) has to have the same shape as your business data, or anything else really. A resource should have whatever representation is most useful to the client. If your language is "components" because you're making an interactive app – sure, go ahead and represent this as a resource. And we did that for a while, with xmlhttprequest + HTML fragments, and PHP includes on the server side.

What we were missing all along was a way to decouple the browser from a single resource (the whole document), so we could have nested resources, and keep client state intact on refresh?

The fact Windows 2000 was peak Microsoft and OS X 10.5 was peak Apple is proof that the golden age of software is way behind us, unfortunately.

I believe the "Peter principle" [1] also holds for companies. A company grows until it eventually outlives its mission and loses focus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

YaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R

https://bookdown.org/ndphillips/YaRrr/

You should read up on "autarquia federal". The Central Bank is not part of the government.

Correcting the blatant misinformation about the topic:

- PIX project started in 2016, public launch in 2020

- It was not "launched" by any President; the Brazilian Central Bank is an independent authority, with it own mandate, not a branch of the executive power

- PIX was co-developed with institutions of the financial sector

- It's a protocol that participants must implement, not an app. The specification is even on GitHub. I don't know what you mean by "its code is nowhere to be found".

- The Brazilian Central Bank is acknowledged as a benchmark, rather than "proverbially incompetent public work force"

The language was married to and sold with a hardware architecture that didn’t achieve massive commercial success compared to the other workstations at the time and later microcomputers.

The plot from the "Idiocracy" movie gets more real everyday.

A billionaire Asperger high on ketamine, can't stay out of the limelight for a single day, and for every stupid thought, media gives him some more attention. It's a vicious cycle.

Software has such huge economies of scale that, for the most part, being useful or cheaper than the alternative surpasses the need to be correct. Only for some categories of software being correct would be a priority or a selling point.