Well, you call it friction, but others call it just the real world. It's going to be there, firm and fine, unaware of this digital, virtual bacteria. Just like those rocks who saw a highway come up beside them, a city getting built, and then all becoming ruins, restoring the natural landscape. All happening in a blip of time for the rocks. Adaptation would restore normalcy.
If social isolation and digital-ness is not rewarded, it would go away on its own. If it is not supported by the decaying social fabric, it would fall like facade of playing cards. Everything must interact with real world and adapt at the ground level.
Human endeavor has insignificantly small effect on the real world. Cultures and schools of thought fall and new ones rise. Real world doesn't adapt to your wish, you adapt to the world.
I don’t generally blog about it, but I may at some point.
For specific discussions on what I wrote about, I recommend (other than reading Postgres’ docs, of course) this [0] and this [1], and anything else on those sites.
If you like technical podcasts, postgres.fm [2] is pretty good.
I get the frustration of encountering shallow dismissals and curmudgeonly comments (this is why we changed the guidelines recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43922742).
Yeah, i understand that you act in good faith, but having the possibility to be framed by some random mod putting words in my mouth is a risk not worth taking.
And once you open the door of vile ideas being treated as valid information, you risk them becoming the norm.
"Your knowledge os as valid as my ignorance" is a scocietal disease every country is facing right now to varying degrees of severity because bad ideas spread fast.
The thought that bad ideas can be challenged fairly in an open marketplace is a utopia. Most people are not interested in truth. They would rather touch themselves.
A lot of it is on the publishers for their early review copy practices. Big media outlets will get early review codes for the games so they can be among the first to get a review out and net the traffic. But the publishers want good publicity in return for the early access codes, and reviewers that don't play ball can find themselves on an industry wide blacklist from receiving them in the future.
So the best, least biased reviews you can find are going to be 2-3 days post release, and not from someone who is large enough to get free review codes. I never trust pre-release reviews.
The idea that something which ships with the OS, as a compatibility shim for legacy but still intentionally supported applications, can be called "not part of the OS," is religious. Strongly discouraged or otherwise, I believe it to be in use here. Not sure. I haven't really done anything serious with MinGW, or even Cygwin or Windows really, in at least a decade now. But there's not really a lot going on in the build here, so I would imagine with your much more recent experience you'd be better able to interpret what's there.
I have yet to find a bidet that works like a power washer for the beef starfish.
Instead, they all seem to just get your bum wet, so you have to get in there and dig around. Might as well strip down and jump in the shower - the power spray on any decent nozzle is way better.
Or buy some wet-wipes (baby wipes) and just don't flush them.
I think this is true to an extent and it’s good to take a step back and remind yourself that thing you think is making you miserable is ultimately a small square of metal and glass. But the actual situation is more complicated. Clearly phones have utility beyond being skinner boxes, the ability to contact your loved ones, navigate roads and transit systems, translate languages, retrieve information from the web, etc are all extremely useful and their absence would decrease your quality of life. But since that’s all bundled together with the stuff people find harmful you’re left in a constant struggle to only your device in a beneficial way. You can lock down your phone but that’s just a band-aid. If someone can figure out a “smart-ish” phone that does the things I listed above but not the harmful things I think there would be a real market for it.
Yes, there’s a ton of specificity. Could probably say that about kernel dev too. But there is a ton of things people do that’s a lot more generalized. Of course I’ve used very little of specific things I got tested on in my day to day over the years.
Something like that. Doesn't get much easier. Gone are the days of browser inconsistencies, at least of you stick to "Baseline Widely available" APIs which is now prominently displayed on MDN.
The sad part is anticipate the current administration will see this report and attack any federal funds William and Mary receive unless they remove and retract the data.
how feeding all your data into one system, clicking so many ads that the company can pay an infinite research and power bill, just so you get a virtual imaginary friend can be called "frictionless"?
I grew up in America and didn't find it incendiary at all. The extreme reaction was surprising to me, as well. I find it annoying when headlines are phrased as in this article. It's just unclear and poor writing IMO.
> If you have taken the time to learn your language well, you can avoid a lot of really bad decisions that don’t cost you additional time.
From my own experience, I can say that this mindset can easily become an eternal excuse to procrastinate building and shipping. “First, I must perfect my knowledge and tools—only then will I build my perfect product.” But that’s just another form of perfectionism, and often, it’s equivalent to never shipping anything at all.
Now imagine you have 16 national industries that you've defined as basically "needing the best security reasonable", and most of those industries only deal with security as much as their insurance companies make them.
The same options the average citizen of any country has - protest followed by rebellion. America was founded by rebelling against the tyranny of unfair taxes.
Until Americans understand that this isn't going to end without violence (or a very real threat of violence, meaning people actually show up prepared to fight), they will continue to be increasingly oppressed. You may disagree with violence, but the oppressors see that as convenient.
Is there something similar for Android as well?
Asking ChatGPT, it has made recommendations for Haxe most importantly, which claims to support a large number of platforms.