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But, I see things like https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm exist, so it must be at least reasonably usable.
What's a reason why someone would consider this over the big three, besides sweetheart deals for big customers?
If anything, this is actually a lot like Web 1.0 programming: server side rendering, often using templates that end up looking a lot like a DSL. Each page view is rendered based on those templates against data fetched in advance of the output.
You can get pretty deep with that kind of thing, though of course the page refresh time was what killed this otherwise fairly nice style of writing an application. Users expected actions like sorting a column to be as fast in the browser as it was in a Windows 95-era file explorer or Excel, and it simply wasn't happening.
(Imagine if first-class client-side-interactive UI components like a sortable table, tabbed panel, etc. like what XUL provides had been in HTML in the 90s. We wouldn't need half the Javascript bullshit people have to use now to replicate that functionality half-assedly...)
I personally think that's not a terrible offer. $25/hour to stand around clicking pictures? It's a lot easier than most work people do for minimum wage, first, and secondly it's not like you have massive film costs or need a ton of technical knowledge anymore. 99% of the shots people want can be accomplished with stock or relatively cheap lenses, too; you don't have to be a gear-head who spends all their profits on their kit for no appreciable difference in how much people are willing to pay.
Most of us don't have $500-1000 to pay a photographer so we simply don't bother and rely on friends and family for it. I might consider getting professional pictures of my family if it didn't cost the obscene amount that it does. There's probably a market on the volume, low-cost side that simply isn't being tapped because photographers are often such dilettantes.
For someone who wants to break into photography, finding a steady supply of low-paid jobs to build up the portfolio and their name recognition for word-of-mouth marketing is probably the best way to go. You wouldn't want to be running at these wage levels for more than a year, but to start, well, there's certainly worse paths.
I'll never forgive the computer store guy when I was 14 who pushed me to buy the $40 cheaper S3 Trio3D instead of the Voodoo. Instead of something useful, I ended up with a glorified paperweight that only worked well for Direct3D. Guess how many games back then bothered to use that?
I think I got Quake 1 with some shitty hacked MiniGL driver working _once_.
> In rural areas folklore often claimed this condition was not just peculiar to cattle, but extended also to human twins; this belief perpetuated for generations, as was mentioned in the writings of Bede. (de Albuquerque, Martim Notes and Queries Volume 2. 1857 by Oxford University Press, p. 149)
Actual observed effect that has now been confirmed by science? Or, a superstition that got lucky?
THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE. HELP US TO MODERNIZE COPYRIGHT IN EUROPE.
Dear visitor,
why can not you use wikipedia as usual? The authors of Wikipedia have decided to turn off Wikipedia today in protest against parts of the planned EU copyright reform. This law is due to be approved by the European Parliament on 26th March.
The proposed reform could severely restrict the free Internet. Even the smallest internet platforms would have to preemptively prevent copyright infringement of their users (Article 13 of the planned law), which in practice would only be possible by means of error-prone and abuse-prone upload filters. In addition, all web pages for short text extracts from press products would have to acquire licenses in order to comply with a new publisher right (Article 11). Both together could significantly affect the freedom of opinion, art and the press.
Although at least Wikipedia is explicitly exempt from Article 13 of the new Copyright Directive (but not Article 11), Free Knowledge will suffer even if Wikipedia remains an oasis in the filtered desert of the Internet.
Around five million people protest in a petition, 145 civil rights and human rights organizations, business and IT associations (including Bitkom, the German start-up association or the Chaos Computer Club), Internet against the reform in its current version Pioneers such as Tim Berners-Lee, journalists' associations and creatives.
We therefore request that you contact the Members of the European Parliament and inform them of your position on the planned reform.
Thank you.
Printing money does not food create. Look at Zimbabwe for what happens when MMT is put into practice.
Don't like it? Use TLS and verify certificates.
We're definitely in a Google bubble. It becomes very clear that they have intense control over what shows up on the first page of searches, especially in their Featured Snippets and Carousels at the top, and their native-looking ad results.
Control over search results is incredibly powerful in terms of anything from influencing the zeitgeist, to controlling marketing efforts at a grand scale, through to straight propaganda.
We really run an incredible risk as a society by putting too many eggs into the Google basket. Using their browser to use their service to consume their results means a complete monoculture; and while they're not really visibly abusing it now, it's clear that they can subtly manipulate things for a long time before they get caught, and they have the platform to be able to do far more should they (or any government actor forcing their hand) decide they want to.
Surely some of the http://refit.sourceforge.net/ stuff could be used for this?
(The idea that we're still supposed to laugh at this like as though it's funny, rather than a tremendous travesty of justice, is pretty telling...)
- Sun already had a massive presence as a big-iron enterprise IT company, and machines running Solaris were everywhere; when such a primary vendor starts pushing a brand new platform, many of their customers follow
- The language itself is reasonably well designed, if a little verbose, but very consistent and well documented
- The Internet was booming and the prospect of writing write-once-run-anywhere applets for the browser JVM with superior interactivity compared to anything else at the time was very compelling
This was part of whatever that Win3.1 thing was that would scan your disk for programs it recognized and add them to Program Manager, right?
Simpler joys for a simpler time.
It's not facing the same way as the Nazi one, first off, and would you also say that's a problem for Sun, or for Columbia (bikes/outdoors)?
This is still such a very strange thing for me. Truly one of the first things that has made me (as someone in my mid-30s) feel disconnected from the next generation.
Why would I want to watch someone else play video games? If I had the time to do that, why wouldn't I just play the games myself? Where's the joy in it? The commentary? If I wanted commentary to listen to, wouldn't it make more sense for it to be about something real?
I guess I'll just tie that onion onto my belt and call it a day.
It's good to hear that maybe when the time comes, I can dip into React by using it as the sprinkle of JS that jQuery / jqxWidgets and such were for me the last time I did any of this.
Thing is, a lot of people don't take CS courses, and have to learn this as they go along. More importantly, the naive cases all seem to work fine - it's only when you get to increasing precision / scales that you notice the cracks in the facade, and that's only if you have something that depends on the real accuracy (e.g. real world consequences from being wrong) or if someone bothers to go and check (using some other calculator that gives more precise results).
My own view on it is that it's past bloody time for languages to offer a fully abstracted class of real numbers with correct, arbitrary precision math - obviating the need for the developer to specify integer, float, long, etc. I don't mean that every language should act like this, but ones aimed at business software development, for example, would do well to provide a first-class primary number type that simply covers all of this properly.
Yes, I can understand that the performance will not be ideal in all cases, but the tradeoff in terms of accuracy, starting productivity, and avoiding common problems would probably be worth it for a pretty big subset of working developers.
First of all, where does this "freedom of movement" come from? Freedoms are things that human societies carve out of harsh reality by legal convention and physical enforcement. "Freedom of speech", for example, is really better thought of as saying "within this area wherein this government has a monopoly on force and physical enforcement of policy, it is permitted to say anything, and legal consequences will be brought upon those who try to prevent others from exercising this permission". It's not some fundamental, pre-existing condition that you have by some god-given set of rights (encoded where? defended how?)
Freedom of movement is not some guaranteed thing, nor is it a state of normalcy. Throughout human history, we have defended our territories from outsiders who would exploit us for their own gain; it's a very sound evolutionary strategy, and virtually every group that has survived the last ten thousand years has this as their default state, modulo legal immigration and trade and visas and such.
In other words, "freedom of movement" is not denied - it's simply not granted by default. When a society matures to a certain level in cooperation with other nearby mature societies, e.g. the situation in continental Europe, it's possible to relax some of the restrictions; but it's important to keep in mind that this only comes from the expectation of shared enforcement of similar or identical laws that just push the border out from the immediate ones surrounding one nation, to a group of nations. The need to enforce who is and who is not permitted in society remains under the purview of government, for reasons that really ought to be obvious.
> you only earn the freedom to move if you've been deemed productive -- so people with physical disabilities preventing them from working, or severe mental illness should be denied the right to move where they wish?
This "freedom to move" should be replaced with "right to immigrate into some other country" - very few places try to prevent you from leaving! - and you need to look at things realistically from the perspective of the new country. You're asking them to take on a new citizen you yourself say is not productive - if they have a healthcare system, this translates directly to a new financial burden. Why should they do this? In what sense do they owe you care simply because of your desire to live on their collective property?
> Or that person from the Congo shouldn't be allowed to come here simply as a circumstance of their birth?
It's not just the "circumstance of their birth". We're not blank slates, and even if we were, we certainly aren't by the age of voluntary personal emigration. Some number of people from the Congo do emigrate, of course; but it remains completely the right of their new host nation to be as selective as they like about determining which individuals to accept and deny. Surely it makes sense to do this on some objective merit basis, and not randomly or just all-permissively?
> I'm sure almost everyone on HN would decry the Berlin Wall as a authoritarian human rights abuse.
I'm pretty sure the Berlin Wall was built by the USSR to keep East Germans in, not West Germans out. Who would want to go behind the iron curtain to wait in a bread line?
> The US is far from East Germany, but why even begin down that path?
It's not even remotely a reasonable comparison. The border wall between the US and Mexico is intended to keep illegal immigrants out - legal immigrants from south of the border will probably still number in the hundreds of thousands per year. The idea is that these will be people selected peacefully and legally for being able to contribute to society in a positive way, rather than the selection process of "whoever can pay people-smugglers and survive a trip through the border and then manage to hang on in their new country illegally without getting caught".
> Westerners didn't ask permission to invade the Congo, or India, or hundreds of other places in the global south, and we certainly didn't get visas before stripping those countries of natural resources and their cultural heritage
Well, of course not. I don't really see how this is exactly germane to the conversation about open borders. I will say that the Congo and India probably would have enjoyed having stronger borders to prevent this incursion, in retrospect; I'll also say that I and increasingly many other people do not buy into any kind of collective guilt based on the ethical indiscretions of our ancestors / predecessors / people very distantly related to us.
> How hypocritical is that?
How does it make sense to take an irrational-yet-principled, self-destructive stance? Is the goal to earn some kind of moral absolution? Who would deliver that, and in what sense would it really be absolute, lasting forgiveness? What level of impact / destruction / restitution / reparation is required? How many generations need to bow to this historical guilt - a concept that was literally antithetical to the Western canon of the son not being punished for the sins of the father for the past two thousand years?
Is there some point at which the due is paid?
> And lets not kid ourselves that closed borders keeps "the bad people" out -- people who want to commit crimes generally don't care about following immigration laws. They'll dig tunnels under walls...
I think a decent number could be stopped. It's not like this would be the only effort - consistently applying enforcement and rewriting laws to more fairly and effectively keep the citizenry safe is the ongoing job of any government interested in "law and order". Deportation, fighting organized crime, making it more difficult to be undocumented, and reducing financial incentives to be in the country illegally are all a part of this effort. Of course, this effort cannot stand alone in its attempt to make the country safer and better - there are plenty of legal Americans who are problematic and similarly need to be dealt with. No reason to believe only one strategy should be executed at once.
> If it means more strain on welfare programs in the short run as people try to start new lives here
It probably means their collapse, eventually, when taxpayers become tired of funding an effort that is directly to their own personal detriment and causes the slow decay and destruction of their beautiful cities. What comes next is terrible; so I think trying to stave that off and form something workable while we still have societal cohesion is the better course of action. That means capping things off and committing to a slow reduction in these services (and a corresponding uptick in services to wean people off, e.g. re-education, employment placement, renewed industrial development to help form career paths for blue-collar workers rather than being stuck in entry-level work for their entire lives, etc.)
There are X11 servers for Windows that might be able to run Electron off a remote Linux machine, though watch out for problems with opening files and copy/paste.
Probably better to look to other commentators on this one, at least until he has enough time to emotionally process the situation and come around to it. It's not so easy admitting you're wrong in the shtetl.