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If they had just given the replicants a visa and a software update there wouldn't have been any fuss. Of course, then we wouldn't have had that great final monolog. :)
Also interesting that as a kid born in 1980 at the start of the drug violence epidemic, we were allowed to roam as we pleased as long as we were home for dinner. Contrast that to today's vastly safer world, and kids are not allowed to walk the neighborhood unsupervised.
I'm pretty sure most Linux desktop environments these days have decent support for UI scaling. Last time I tried it worked well if your dpi was close to an integer multiple of 96. And if external boot works well with the M1 Macs, a thunderbolt enclosure with an m.2 drive would be pretty darn fast.
Man, it's very difficult, and very humbling to try and wrap your head around just how big the universe is. I don't think human brains are capable of thinking at that scale.
On the other hand, search engines of those times gave you what you asked for, not what it decided was best for you. That option is gone now, and searching for many niche topics is no longer possible. If that's what you're looking for, it might as well be 1990.
I noticed during the last local eclipse that the light shining through the trees cast thousands of little eclipses on the ground. I thought it was way cooler than the eclipse itself.
And just so 2020 can give you a kick in the teeth on the way out the door, you can't buy any of these technological wonders unless you pay a scalper on eBay a 100% premium.
Reading the NY times article I wasn't sure whether to laugh or rage at how the author repeatedly equated videos with "teen" in the title and child sex abuse. I've been an avid consumer of porn since the early 1990s and nearly every movie has a "teen" in it who is certainly no younger than 25. So apparently all of that "sexy teen" porn I've watched over the years was CP.
Front end library type definitions are a nightmare because they are usually retrofitted onto code that uses JavaScript idioms that take heavy advantage of metaprogramming and it's dynamic nature. It's also compounded (in my opinion) by developers that insist on making everything inferable instead of just putting a few generic parameters here and there and saving an enormous amount of complexities. Native typescript libraries are generally extremely easy to work with, however.
Investment rounds aren't loans, they're... Investments. You're selling them a stake in the company, not borrowing money. I'm sure there are exceptions but that's generally how it works.
People are afraid of being labeled a bigot and having their careers ruined because they have a nuanced opinion about an issue related to identity politics.
I split my time between front end development and UI/UX design. I believe this is because achieving a good UI/UX requires a holistic knowledge of the entire software suite, and detailed information about who is using the product and for what. This kind of thing takes a ton of research, and it's the kind of thing that only a BDFL working side-by-side with a talented UI/UX designer can achieve. Basically, it takes a small group of people with a vision, who know the product and the user very well, and can afford to spend dozens or hundreds of hours on it. This is not something that most open source projects have, unfortunately.
I’m so tired of reading this same comment over and over every time someone on HN dares to say they prefer Windows. As if it obviates all of their other points. Also, you turn it off once after install and that’s it.
You can still create a regular oculus account and it will continue to work until they fully transition to Facebook accounts, which I believe isn’t for several more years. It’s likely a new generation of the quest will have been released by then.
This is rapidly reversing as the javascript ecosystem has increasingly adopted typescript in the last two years. I, for one, refuse to start a new front end without it, and the only other js dev I've spoken with recently who disagreed had never actually used typescript and didn't want to "write a bunch of interfaces like java".
These are all excellent points in favor of productivity with GraphQL. I always avoid new technologies for a few years to let the hype cycle mature (for example, everybody talking about how great mongodb is and writing blog posts about how they migrated, followed two years later by everybody talking about how terrible mongodb is and how they had to migrate to posgresql). As a dev working on a commercial software project, especially if you're in leadership, you have to look very carefully at every technology you introduce into your stack, because you are going to be supporting it for years. If it turns out to be the wrong decision, or you get caught out by a bunch of edge cases that weren't well known in the early days, you can end up losing millions of dollars in productivity, and possibly killing the company when you can't fix bugs and ship new features. So I've been suspicious of GraphQL, but keeping an eye on it. I still don't know if the productivity gains you get up front are actually technical debt in disguise, but if that turns out not to be the case, and it really is a matter of only having to write one query instead of making five requests and several dozen lines of types, validators, and async redux middleware, I'll be happy to adopt it in the future.
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> I suppose that means if a photon, say, is reflected by a mirror, that should collapse its waveform and any measurements after that should not have any effect on it?
I'm not sure if that example is the right one to use, but yes, that's roughly my understanding.
I wish, for the love of god, that the early pop science about quantum physics hadn't used the phrase "when observed" when describing the wave collapse. If they had said "when interacted with by another force" (or anything along those lines), we wouldn't have loads of new age dummies talking about how the particle "knows" it is being observed by a conscious mind. No quantum woo, no Deepak Chopra.
You're assuming that the ratio is disproportionate because people are being pushed out of the industry against their will. Some people get burned out, some people retire early, and some transition into management or start their own company. The industry has grown exponentially in the 20-40 years those people have been working. If the industry now is 10x the size it was in 2000 (arbitrary number), then 40 year old developers should be 10% of the workforce, even discounting any other factors.
I don't see anything alarming here. I am a 40+ year old developer, and I've never seen anyone my age leave the industry because they were victims of age discrimination. The opposite in fact. I have never had so much clout during job hunting than I do now, with 20 years of on the job experience. Anecdata sure, but that survey is not sound, and it does not attempt to discover whether older developers are actually unable to find work, or what other factors (other than the obvious massive industry growth) might contribute to the imbalance.
How do you handle streaming when all of the services refuse to stream 4K on any computer? I think Netflix does HD bit Hulu and HBO are like 720p. It's like watching a torrent from 2005.