Same, except when 12 came out, I did 8 -> 12. A backup between each, but unneeded, it was seamless - just incremental migrations per release.
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How do we move the ownership to where it belongs?
I think trying to bring it back to "white people" when they overwhelmingly voted not to do that is disingenuous.
My singular observation has been that you seem to repeatedly wish to project a view that asks the audience to treat a group with suspicion and doubt. Based on their race and origin.
I think that's spurious, and as it applies to me and just about everybody I know, I know it to be patently false. My first-hand account also seems to be of no value.
A direct parallel would be like me propagating something negative or disparaging about Jews as a whole, due to my feelings about Palestine. I wouldn't do that, and I expect the same courtesy. Group biases are discrimination, and discrimination generally leads to collective punishment. None of these are good things, nor do they make better people of anyone.
[1] Not all white people here are 'colonial' like you'd imagine - see the Highland clearances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
The government lied to everyone, and some believed it. You'd seemingly like to make a villain out of all white South Africans, but that's not helpful in any way - many, like myself, were born into apartheid and struggled against it. So were my parents - they had no part in making those laws, and yet were born before the Union was established. It's easy to miss what it's like to try to counteract a regime - you and your loved ones will suffer. The populace did not wield the power of transformation itself, it was international intervention that allowed it to happen.
Were some complicit? Yes, obviously. Did many know? Probably. Was it the majority that supported a status quo for some time? Yes, but not without being manipulated. It was standard education that there were 'grades' of people for most of the 19 and early 20th centuries, and in South Africa this was redoubled. Narratives like 'black people are the result of the snake and eve' were common. I've spoken to many older people who are horrified at what they believed. It's incredibly hard to escape a bubble when it's all you hear. State TV, state sanctioned news, international sanctions mean you didn't ever hear how SA was seen internationally. The TRC was asking people to recognise what it saw, and what many others saw - that evil is banal, and within us. It deliberately did not pursue further actions against those that were not directly involved in harm, or who ordered it.
You have taken 'large numbers' and seem to have interpreted it quite liberally to mean 'the majority', and then further concluded that there is then some obvious flaw in their moral character. I could say the same of the US forever wars and destabilisation, but would it help? To accuse and paint with that shame every citizen?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_South_African_apartheid_r...
We have to teach our children to be good people, and how to process the world, and what we've already managed to process out of what we've seen throughout our own lives. If your strategy depends on censorship to provide a healthy path, I don't think it's going to be that healthy of an outcome.
Given names are not familiar names. Given and family names are not legal names.
Please do not use 'abstractions' this broken. The appearance of patterns you're trying to abstract here are cultural windows, not global truths.
Versioned, text format diagrams.
Alternately as mentioned, the mermaid DSL or similar, but this is daunting for non-technical users. I'm more a fan of having people be able to think and communicate visually, as the technical users are both the least likely to need the visuals, and if capable of creating them, the visuals are less valuable.
Mermaid is a great output format for documentation though if you're rendering these from API/code.
There was a moment in the web's history where we were trying to figure out how to make XML, HTML, RSS, and 'microformats' all play well together. Next to that were a million authors of WordPress themes who thought 'semantics' was academic rubbish, and just wanted to make the web into another word processor. We got OWL, RDF triples, and no-one paid attention, and just carried on farming complexity.
The cries for simplification are more the result of the tooling, build chains, etc., in my mind than the core tech of HTML, CSS, JS. I'm just concerned that we redouble the complexity by inventing new abstractions to wrap the old.
##teamcity[setParameter name='foo' value='bar']]
##vso[task.setvariable variable=foo]bar
We then tried to make what was basically gopher++ into an app framework. Then we wanted all user-agents to behave the same, wanted pixel perfection. This meant we didn't empower user-agents to make their own presentation decisions.
Glad you refer to SGML, I thought XHTML was amazing at the time too, then HTML5 broke compatibility with everything. JSON has been inferior in every way, but XML and attendant standards had also blossomed into fractal complexity. Ever try XSL-FO?
Everyone can roll a wheel, and imagine a vehicle, but not everyone can build a car, at least not without engaging with some complexity. We need better tools for the middle ground, but need to avoid building new layers of abstraction that pretend the complexity isn't there.
Exploring without a map or map-making is futile, and fraught with danger.
Both these things can be true.
There's really nothing to be afraid of; a few services would implement some skew, the rest of us would get NTP updates and life continues.