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"ZIRP-era deadweight"

that's 3-4 years ago now

good point!

Web mercator is fantastic map. It's well known of course, so very helpful to orient. Plus, its square and easily tile-able, which is good for performance. Shapes of countries are preserved. Plus, the lines are straight, which works great for on screen. Neat and tidy.

Who cares Greenland looks big when zoomed out. "Mercator distorts size" is one of those gis-nerd idee fixes, the first factoid they learn in class, and it overwhelms all thought.

AI doesn't mind you'll be ridiculing it in public

> and it took us forever to find where he buried the rule.

Salesforce is such an ugly beast

i still miss the interior of my 2010 fiat punto

it now has dedicated index types for logs and metrics with all kinds of sugar and tweaks in default behavior, they should introduce a new one called "database" that's acid.

so basically, none of it realized unless they borrow.

I'd say the exact opposite. engineering is markedly being outsourced to europe.

Like your optimism

also, future of USD-value is highly uncertain, dropped 10% last year, likely to drop more if interest rates keep dropping

> here are annoying off-by-one errors

These barely if ever happen for simple iterations, it's an idee fixe. Off-by-one sneak in when trying to do something special, and then a for-on loop is useless anyway.

> Symbol.iterator interface

I get it, but it's unnecessary abstraction to overgeneralize a vanilla array to an iterable.

anyway, for..of is not an issue, it's alright. I think if there's one main point i'm trying to make, is that devs will write objectively worse code base on gut wants (in this case, obsession to use higer level abstractions to iterate over an array).

And it's still worse, and has to rely on contrived setups to almost reach parity. People will insist on using a new language construct, even if it's objectively worse than the standard. What's so hard about a conventional for (let i ...) loop?

At least for of is better than forEach (ill never forgive crockford for goading people into this functional-lite code with horrible runtime footprint), but these things are fetishes.

after not visiting for like a decade or so, being back in europe, the presence of electric cars in the city has improved quality of life enormously.

closer to home, one neighbor bought a hybrid, the other an electric truck, and it is so much more calm and quiet.

It's hard to put a finger on, but I do think it only "works" in a locale where you have a certain degree of anonymity, where it makes sense. Chicken egg for sure. But yeah, categorically, you can't really do city activities in the burbs, the feel isn't right.

very few software has commoditized, doubt it will be the fate of AI tech stack.

> They have been poor for generations

that will be news to a lot of people in the south.

or dollar losing value

spain was no longer a major player in world politics by 1800s, but they had a good 2-3 century run. not sure if the monetary crisis was really did them in, or more just it being the ebb and flow of history. britain's world dominance is long over too. if they did "fuck up", it was because charles v was the first global hegemon, nobody know how to do that, he was in uncharted territory. and obviously no, the merino sheep weren't a better bet long term, that's absurd. global dominion required a cohesive domestic home country to serve as the wellspring of power, not the fractured foedal remnants of a mediaeval europe that required constant war to keep together. and then of course, industrialize early.

best malick movie that wasn't a malick movie i saw recently was "here".

atlas remain very high though. so what's different there that they're not eroded?

what i'm reading here then is that those 7.999999999B others are braindead morons.

OP is 100% correct. either you accept that the vast majority are mindless automatons (not hard to get onboard with that honestly, but still, seems an overestimate), or there's some kind of structural unbalance, an asymmetry that's actively harmful and not the passive outcome of a 8B independent actors.

Glad to see 2d mapping is still of interest. 20 years ago, information visualization, data cartography, exploratory analytics, etc.. was pretty alive, but it never really took off and found a reliable niche in the industry, or real end user application. Why map it, when the machine can just tell you.

Would be nice to see it come back. Would love to browse for books and movies on maps again, rather that getting lists regurgitated at me.

i wish JS gurus understood this before jumping all in on hooks and bloating the runtime footprint of every web app out there

that's great. because those cars trash the city.

congestion pricing is the gift that keeps giving

i think less. not sure if that's a good thing. but small little bugs and improvements get cleared so quickly now.

> Also now using ChatGPT intensely since months for all kinds of tasks and having tried Claude etc.

the facts though, read like an endorsement not a criticism

Crazy we need studies for this

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