I was vacationing in New York, and we went to some pretty standard-looking mall bookshop somewhere near Poughkeepsie some time in mid 90s. And I bought an interesting looking comic book, something I had never seen before.
I liked Dilbert for a long time, but Adams's Trump Dementia became so bad in the last decade that it completely tainted his legacy for me. His role in enabling Donald Trump to rise to power is undeniable, and his death makes me wish I had reserved a bottle of sparkling wine for the occasion.
I yearn for the time when it was possible to never meet your idols.
>Can anyone tell me an actual reason to use Org mode over Markdown?
I think the reason in general is simply that org-mode is better, i.e. more carefully defined. I'll mention the things I like more specifically:
- Link syntax in markdown is something I never remember how it goes. Org-mode is [[link][description]].
- Text styles in org-mode make more sense. In markdown, * is used for italics, * for bold. Additionally, * is for lists, which might be confusing.
- Markdown blocks are freaking awful and seem to work by luck more than anything else. Code blocks even worse -- they are made by indenting 4 spaces or a tab! I couldn't come up with a worse way to do that even if I tried. Org-mode has clear #BEGIN_xxx / #END_xxx blocks.
- Markdown has a weird YAML frontmatter syntax. Org-mode has keywords which can be attached to the whole document and properties, which can be attached to every heading.
> Link syntax in markdown is something I never remember how it goes
I can remember it fairly easily. [Link](url). Very unconvinced by this.
> Text styles in org-mode make more sense. In markdown, * is used for italics, * for bold. Additionally, * is for lists, which might be confusing.
* for lists is what I would naturally use so I think that's better than - (but Markdown actually supports both). I'll give you * for italics though. Definitely should have been bold.
> - Markdown blocks are freaking awful and seem to work by luck more than anything else. Code blocks even worse -- they are made by indenting 4 spaces or a tab! I couldn't come up with a worse way to do that even if I tried. Org-mode has clear #BEGIN_xxx / #END_xxx blocks.
Sorry but there's no way #BEGIN_xxx is better than ``` or 4-space indent.
> Markdown has a weird YAML frontmatter syntax.
It doesn't. That's some extension. Maybe Pandoc?
> Org-mode has tags.
Yeah they look kind of useful.
> Org-mode has timestamps.
Can't say I've ever remotely wanted that feature...
>1. Why Musk made such a hard-right turn politically, alienating most of his customers. People on the left were always far more likely to buy an EV than those on the right.
Yeah, makes no sense. Also anecdotally, I bought their EV out of concern for the environment and the thought that oil should be consumed as little as possible for geopolitical reasons.
He claims that Musk is just attracted to power and trolling, and will do both cynically instead of from any kind of principles. He guesses that Musk was worried at the time of losing the support of some actual nazis in the actual US government and wanted to signal them publically.
I'm not sure if a cynical nazi supporter is better or worse than an actual nazi. Could be worse, because those are the people who could and should be making better choices.
Yeah, I was also utterly disappointed at Volkswagen early last year. After Musk's nazi moment, we started looking for a replacement, and after months of reading about how Tesla is the worst car that has ever existed, I thought this would be an easy trade.
But nope, turns out that Tesla's UX is actually top of the line and everybody else, even the best chinese models, are fumbling about, trying to catch Tesla's quality and failing.
ID.7 was absolutely the worst. As you say, the cars are good as cars, and indeed climbing into the car felt good. That shattered utterly in 10 seconds -- we talked loud with the family how neat the car felt, and turns out that the car was listening to us and started blabbing "sorry, I didn't get that" in loud volume over our conversation. Trying to find out how to permanently turned that feature off revealed how dismal the UX of the media system is. Perhaps a testament to the Android system it's built on.
It might be fastest I've ever experienced a mildly positive feeling dropping to absolute zero point.
VW needs to fire 80% of the interface designers they have, starting from the top and perhaps hiring somebody from Tesla to help them restart from scratch. They had the moment of a lifetime 2 years ago and they totally blew it.
Curious how did you consider a car forcing a giant tablet interactions or hiding emergency door opening a "top of the line" ux, compared, say, to Kia EV6.
This one is probably also -- if not completely invented by -- at least seriously boosted by russotrolls. And weaponized for several pro-Russia talking points, such as campaigning against Kamala Harris ("she is not against Israel so don't vote for her") and driving global gaze out of Ukraine.
I testdrove a BYD Sealion early last year. A presumptuous piece of junk with a lot of style over substance was my verdict. China seems to be really interested in over-doing americans in this sense.
They give clip 1 of Kapustin running into a van in a (slightly) open environment, into the sliding doors, the drone crashing in... then cut to a second clip in a fenced environment with what appears to be an SUV with outward opening doors on fire.
That assumes that outsourcing was all about coding/typing/manual work. I subscribe to the knowledge-centric perspective on software development,
treating knowledge as the fuel that drives the software development engine.
Central to this perspective is the concept of the 'knowledge gap' - the difference between what a developer knows and what they need to know to effectively complete tasks.
Thus, outsourcing is not about manual work but about buying knowledge from vendors.
But don't worry guys, given my selection strategies' success lately, this will mean that Firefox's user count will start rapidly increasing.
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