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7 years agodiscuss

Nice timeline! As the author of “Action!”, I’ve mused over the years at the poor quality of interface tools / environments. I’m happy to say that Apple is on to something with “SwiftUI’. They have completely rethought out a declarative UI, kept it quite interactive, and made it much easier to build quality IOS applications.

7 years agodiscuss

Nothing was more depressing than growing up in LA in the 1970s, lungs hurting, and 30% of PE classes cancelled because of smog. I remember looking at the sickly yellow light casting this disgusting puce sheen on the asphalt. The city was all I knew, and I hated it. Once a year we would go up to the Eastern Sierra and I felt released, natural, like this was how the world should be. Returning home to the smog and traffic was a depressogenic gutpunch.

7 years agodiscuss

I just implemented this for an app, and was glad that for the most part Apple followed a standard here, but some of these “peculiarities” referenced are a PITA.

Most notably imo:

> The scope value of only the very first request by an application is respected.

This means if you require an email address and something goes wrong before persisting it (e.g. the app crashes), there’s nothing you can do except ask the user to sign into their account on Apple’s website, revoke the app’s permissions, and start over.

7 years agodiscuss

Yeah, but you won't find this accessible to patients in 99.99% of the world's hospitals. In another 10 years, not in 99% of hospitals. In 20 years, not in 98% of hospitals.

7 years agodiscuss

Similar to this, can anyone recommend a good book on linking/loading? I'm mostly looking for something about the process in Linux, but a general reference to common techniques would also be an interesting read. Bonus points if it was published this century.

7 years agodiscuss

That's ~483 km/h in non-freedom units.

7 years agodiscuss

Sure the new Model S and X don't charge as fast as the Model 3 (but 200 kW on v3 is already very good, which means also that they tweak somehow the battery as a whole, including power electronics apparently) but who needs charging so often when you have such a range?! Supercharger locations will see more Tesla owners now coming to relax first and recharge (the car) than recharge and relax...

7 years agodiscuss

The default isolation level of MySQL is READ REPEATABLE!

7 years agodiscuss

Is thinking for ourselves really such a good distinction for ‘modernity’ from past generations? Belief is belief afterall, whether religious or not we’re all still swayed by our cultural biases and popular opinions.

If Monty Python were to stay true to form in the modern day, I might say they’d oppose our supposed “woke” generation’s self orientation.

Author quoted Kant almost in a context of Nietzsche at the end there, but what I think Kant (and the movie) meant by this phrase is that we should each consider our religion realistically, not that religion is an intimation of the unthinking.

7 years agodiscuss

She doesn't look disheveled to me. Are you sure you aren't just doing the predicable? Using stereotypes to talk about mathematicians and commenting on women's "looks" before ever getting to what is important? Waste of words. If you want us to know her, maybe something about her other interests instead of what you think of wearing Birkenstocks. My 17 year old wears Birkenstocks. They are hot right now.

7 years agodiscuss

This kid is going to be fighting off job offers.

7 years agodiscuss

I've been coding professionally for almost three decades, and the pursuit of elegant solutions makes up about 1% of my paid work. The rest of the time I'm fighting constraints: time, money, available resource, risk, all the usual. Very rarely does professional software engineering leave room for art, IMO.

7 years agodiscuss

Happy that I was sleeping at that time.

7 years agodiscuss

I will note that basic Buddhism and the Gnosticism appear to agree.

The first noble truth of Buddhism can either be rendered as "suffering is inevitable," or "life is unsatisfactory." In my limited understanding of Gnosticism, The other three truths are that suffering is caused by a misunderstanding of our essential nature, that liberation from this suffering is possible, and that there's a path anyone can follow to attain this liberation.

In Gnosticism (per Wikipedia) that all matter is evil, and the non-material, spirit-realm is good. There is an unknowable God, who gave rise to many lesser spirit beings called Aeons. The creator of the (material) universe is not the supreme god, but an inferior spirit (the Demiurge). Gnosticism does not deal with "sin," only ignorance. To achieve salvation, one needs gnosis (knowledge).

Look kinda similar, do they not? While there's no evidence that Buddhist thought directly created Gnosticism, Buddhism had been around for a few centuries by the time Gnostic Christianity appeared, and even though there weren't many Buddhists in the Roman empire, there were Buddhists in Afghanistan by around the time of Alexander, and some of the monks were known to be Greek. I'd also point out that Mani (creator of Manichaeism) cited both Jesus and Buddha as inspirations. Anyway, long story short, these ideas were percolating throughout the civilized world in later classical times, so I'm not surprised that some Christians tried to incorporate them in their practices. Same thing happens today, for instance with the "Jubus" (Jewish Buddhists).

7 years agodiscuss

What is it about every HYS in the Science section that attracts the population control nutters? We all add one to the total. Those screaming for our numbers to be reduced fail to notice a small part of the solution to the problem every time they look in the mirror.

7 years agodiscuss

The food analogy does not work and is a good example of people talking outside their area of expertise. Dieting on weekdays and "pigging out" once on pizza (what's wrong with pizza?) on the weekend would actually be fine. There is no evidence that food is like sleep and needs to be balanced on a daily basis.

7 years agodiscuss

Why this link can be forbidden for me?

7 years agodiscuss

I am curious about the potential for a hybrid wind turbine (clutchable):

Generate electricity during peak hours (high price) / Generate storable heat during off-peak hours.

Or would it be better to generate e-power all the time if the turbine is capable of it?

7 years agodiscuss

I like how Mr O'Sullivan saw fit to mention California in the first sentence. If he hadn't, I would have.

7 years agodiscuss

I think it's a matter of discipline. Well it's a nice topic you have. I think public toilets is not for bathing its for emergency reason. The outdoor toilets pittsburgh is successful too and it's very clean.