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Isn’t that statistic basically the population growth rate?

If two global shutter cameras take a scene at the same time, they would have the same image. If they don't, then they wouldn't.

Global shutter cameras are also not new. CCD sensors are global shutter and we used to use CCD sensors for cameras decades ago until we switched over to CMOS for most applications due to their larger size and better dynamic range. I have a global shutter HVX200 from 2005 in my closet.

Yes, it does! But while I have not used them yet, the approach used by them (via SGML tags) is not new and many libraries / XLST have done it before in the past 20+ years and I find the approach usable at best. It's too verbose for my taste and it never really caught on, and I find it hard to think that it would catch on this time.

No, React exists because there was a need for a template engine that’s easy to use.

There is still no global standard for templates.

Just like mustache, Twig, Java Server Pages, Jinja, ERB… every language has this problem. You have a bunch of components written in HTML and you need to mix and match them together in a bigger unit. React+JSX let you do that easier than appending DOM components. Before React, you’d use different libraries that did what React did.

The ONLY major language I can think of that has templating baked in is PHP.

Nah I agree with OP

The problem isn’t the deep history of discrimination. I consider that something that created a lot of growth.

The problem is discrimination is natural and it is only fought with diversity but there is no such place that is truly diverse.

I live in, by world standards, a diverse part of the LA metro area. Except there’s like no Black people. Now if I go to a more Black-dominated part of LA, there might not be Koreans. Now if I take the entirety of LA, it will have both Black people and Koreans and maybe you could call it diverse? Except there will be very few Nigerians or Kazakhstanis.

The issue is that I cannot speak for Nigerians or Kazakhstanis however hard I try. It’s like an electrician who just read some books but has never worked with an actual electrician. My attempts to accommodate a group of people I don’t know will be completely fake. They will know I don’t know a single Nigerian or Kazakhstani.

So when people try to be woke, it usually comes from that level of inexperience. It’s not real diversity. It’s that electrician trying their best but doing it all wrong.

I’m sorry but are you trying to speak for all highly educated and technical people?

Because as far as I know, I’m both and I find Google just as good as ever, if not much better.

The only place I see people complaining about Google is Hacker News and certain parts of Reddit and by no means are the opinions on these sites anywhere near universally shared by most people.

And by all means, I think calling yourself highly educated but not being able to adapt slightly when a tool isn’t working right a little rich…

Religion isn’t about any one thing. For some, it’s a sense of community and meeting people. For others, it’s doing right by a greater power. Then there are those who do it because they’ve always done it. Some do it because it gives a dependable source of meaning. And some do it because they actually live in deep fear.

When you talk about living in deep care, that’s because that’s your path. Ask someone else and it might be completely different.

You still have to choose your own adventure.

No, DC is more efficient over long distances than AC. AC transmission has huge losses due to capacitive effects caused by the alternating current.

AC also has WORSE voltage drop than DC because it exhibits something called the skin effect that causes the middle of your cable to not be used as much to carry current.

Tesla triumphed over Edison because we didn’t have the technology to step between voltages back then. DC transformers are still incredibly expensive. AC transformers are coils of wires.

Their cities are also much older. Tokyo is like 400-600 years old.

They ran out of undeveloped land long ago and were forced to increase density.

At least in California, cities are like 50-150 years old at best. Lots of cities are only running out of land now. In 300 years, I'm sure somewhere like LA will be dense.

This is a universal human thing I find. Once something is made or built, we fucking hate change. And change is also super expensive because you now have to tear down what was built.

A lot of countries got bombed during WW2 and got a fresh start. I don’t want to be bombed.

You really lock in your decisions when you start a project.

What you’re saying is true but people will switch defaults easily if the default is much better. It’s just RARELY new products are much better.

For some reason, the other search engines are not really better. Microsoft probably spent millions on Bing and it’s not fantastic. (I haven’t tried Kagi yet).

As a dude who scores perfect on these color tests (this is my superpower), it’s funny on male-dominated places like here and reddit when people discuss logo color changes.

They’re always long threads of very confident people saying how there isn’t even a difference and I’m like lol

Reading between the lines, he’s saying his personality isn’t the type to work super hard to make super money. In other words, maybe he could have just been a high level engineer making $300k somewhere and been super happy minus the stress of creating Nvidia.

It’s not a general statement. He’s not giving advice.

Yeah but then it’s just lipstick on a pig. I can already create a regular table and update it myself.

If my RBDMS adds materialized views, I want it to help me with it lol

The writing makes it conspiratorial.

It’s law enforcement companies trying to lobby for increased chat control. They’re doing it via a scummy way of NGO fronts.

That is not really a conspiracy in the classic sense of something crazy. Lobbying via front organizations happens all the time. I don’t condone it. We should stop this effort. But it ain’t anything special.

You need an abstract if you are looking up a topic and you’re scanning through articles though, and I think even if articles didn’t have abstracts, people would still link to papers to spin a narrative.

I think this all really the cost of admission for the ease of self-publishing. Now any jerk off can post about their opinions on keeping abstracts while using the bathroom on company time.

This has not been my experience at all. AirDrop always works and is always fast.

The lack of notification when you are receiving is annoying though.

Students, open your textbooks to the Industrial Revolution and describe the immediate costs to society, the long term gains in productivity, and the driving factors towards continued industrialization.

And remember kids, be sure to remember what you learned in class!

No, and nor do I compared to a rich person.

But is telling anyone "don't minimize your taxes" really practical?

Well they already have that liability. Can’t see a reason to add more.

Every company avoids taxes. Shit, I damn avoid taxes whenever I can.

Blame the game, not the player.

It ain’t my fault they wrote the laws wrong. And I’m not giving away my advantage when no one else is gonna.

I don’t know. I trust Google the most. They’re basically an aimless company with the strongest technically secure infrastructure I’ve seen with the strongest privacy policies implemented (just read about their infra). I think people give in to what people say versus say what they do. Just because Google runs an ad company doesn’t mean shit. What they’ve done with your data (their “actions”) for the past 25 years means way more (they absolutely do nothing with your data — in fact, they seem to completely waste it).

The link between 23andme and Google is tangential at best. Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin were married and that’s it, but they are completely two different people.

I have no idea how you’d ever consider 23andme a reputable company. Reputation comes from 20+ years of history — your actions, not what you say. 23andme is not even 20 years old yet — how can you trust something that young?

But you can do that already. DNS, ARP, TCP/UDP, and IP are all completely optional.

Just write a program to send and receive Ethernet frames. I believe it doesn’t have to contain IP.

Ah yes, instead of going to google.com or 192.168.1.1 or adding a printer connected to my Wi-Fi, let me open my big yellow pages of globally unique MAC addresses…

No I doubt CVS is. Their profits have gone up almost every quarter for almost 6 years, unlike Walgreens and Rite-Aid. Plus none of their stores that I’ve been inside has looked dead, and they always have locations in the right places like in downtown areas. You almost wonder what Walgreens and Rite-Aid have been up to all this time.

At the end of the day, if I’m in a major metro area and I’m not near a supermarket, I’m going to CVS.

It does but I assume the loss of business from foreign customers still is less than the cost of losing cars.

That said, you’d think they’ve considered exceptions based on your passport?

I am one of those people but this is a far cry from the days where you had to use a newspaper vending machine or walk into a video rental store. Free wasn’t really even an option.

Anyway my point is that the problem is not the lack of open standards. The problem is that we discovered how to do “free” and a lot of people prefer this way whether they want to think about it or not.

I use plenty of services that I do really want but as long as I don’t actually have to pay for it, I won’t pay. Do I watch Disney+ or HBO or Netflix a lot sometimes? Yes. Have I ever paid for any streaming service? God no, because I always got some friend I can bum off of. And as long as I can bum, I will continue to bum.

The only things I willingly and voluntarily pay for are news and music subscriptions and that’s because I value them the most and consider them important to society but I definitely don’t necessarily use them the most.

Anyway my only point is that it has nothing with open standards. People want free and will take advertising if it means it’s free.

Yea, but after doing so, what you learn is too trivial to teach anyone else because there are hundreds of people near you who know way more.

But do it somewhere less advantaged and you become a valuable resource.

Well most people see LinkedIn as a central place to store resumes.

Being everyone’s free storage unit does not generally make money.

So they have to turn the resume storage part into a loss leader and turn a profit some other way. Being a place to list job postings is the most obvious but they have competition already.

Throwing on ads will make money but LinkedIn isn’t a site most people stick around on. Turning LinkedIn into a social media site keeps people on the site so the ads work, but it’s a pretty ugly way to do it. The type of people who are actually going to use LinkedIn like Facebook is probably the worst kind of people you want sticking around too.

LinkedIn could have stayed a small site with a small team but they got started by getting money from investors. Now they have other people to answer too.