In recent history I have worked a lot with Golang and also encountered the tendency towards globals being the recommended path.
Specifically, I encountered it with logging, frameworks( Gin ), and DBs. It is interesting to me that you called out these three things specifically having encountered them all myself.
I agree also that it is a result of having poor DI support from the language.
I also like your point about PHP users using Golang. The approach Golang uses towards serving web content is very similar to me to how initial PHP frameworks did it.
Go tends to make it easy to setup concurrent things occurring, and so I've found myself spending a fair amount of time speculating on what is thread safe and what isn't.
No matter how much I see it I still do a double take when I see globals in Go modules. Seems like a bad practice to me.
Why in the fuck is sharing some knowledge of what I know about science that leads to people believing there is nothing outside the observable universe downvoted?
I can see having a dislike of my opinion and beliefs ( which is not a valid reason to downvote by the way according to what Hackers News itself says... ), but downvoting me when I am attempting to communicate useful information. Come on now.
The claim in the article, which is believable, is that many people either don't want to get the vaccine or don't show for some other reason during a single day.
For some unknown additional reason, doses within that day are supposed to be used up. There seems to be an implied expiration for doses, but a single day doesn't make much sense.
The result of both these together is that they are supposedly letting people not scheduled to get the vaccine get it on some days. The article calls them "walk-ins".
Apparently word of this has been spreading slowly, and in this case went viral and a ton of people showed up to attempt to get some small number of "leftover doses".
It seems like chaos to me and a failing of sensible procedure. I am not though a doctor or involved in the distribution process so what do I know. Perhaps there is good reason this happens.
You're right. The earth is clearly flat and that is a sensible assumption if you haven't left your local area or been in space or seen a picture from space.
Or not. Flat earthers are quacks.
It is the same principle essentially. It is illogical to think "hey if I keep walking that way I'll hit a wall eventually". That is why flat earthers are quacks from the beginning.
The same principle applies to space. What quack seriously thinks that eventually there is just a wall in space or that it wraps around?
Wrapping around makes zero sense in 3-dimensional space.
TLDR summary of article: Plain observation only shows 6 stars not 7 because the 7th is quite dim and close to one of the other stars. 100k years ago it would have been further away from the others. Therefore the story must have originated 100k years ago.
The person in the article doesn't seem to be in a high risk group. They state they pedaled their bicycle 5 miles to reach the scene. I get that the virus is dangerous for everyone, but I think those of us who are younger and generally more healthy should allow those in high risks groups / high exposure to get the vaccine first, regardless of whatever "leftover doses" exist or not.
Perhaps this person is in a high exposure group due to their job? I'm doubting it but I guess it is possible.
1. Google doesn't own or control "the internet". They can change Google Chrome however they want; so long as they are plenty of us who don't want whatever crap they are peddling we can and will continue to use the internet as it has existed for a long time.
2. Web browsing is not "the internet". I get that headlines are all about grabbing attention by basically stating overblown lies and then backtracking in the details, but come on now.
3. Cookies aren't going away. They are necessary for how a majority of websites with login/sessions work.
4. 3rd party cookies are crap, and they may well be limited by most popular browsers. That is fine and doesn't affect normal web users. It affects advertisers to some degree, but no more than adblockers do.
5. So long as Google is involved in it, they are going to try to keep advertising profitable for themselves. So whatever "it's good for everyone" nonsense they are peddling its just them trying to prevent the public from shutting down the crappy internet advertising that most of us internet users have hated since it began.
6. It doesn't sound like they are working to prevent fingerprinting. That is the direction things should go imo; we need to get rid of all ability to identify visitors period. There is no reason why anyone needs to know what websites I visit or why, and I think there are plenty of people who agree with my desire in that regard.
7. I'm on the side of those calling to abandon Google and their nonsense. They can't be trusted any more.
Oh noes! Social networks are dropping me. We need to rebuild the internet immediately so I can spread useless popular crap to all my followers. OMG OMG
Neither the title nor the summary say anything about the "observable universe". They make broad claims beyond that. The detail of the article in no way mentions that there could very well be infinite duplicates of what we see out there beyond observable distance.
My main response to this article is essentially the same question. I think the article is presuming some things to come to this conclusion.
The main thing that is being presumed is the "big bang". If you proscribe to believing in the big bang, then the entirety of everything we see is an expansion from a single dense explosion of matter.
It is still a valid theory but I myself don't understand the physics of what is observed well enough to be convinced this is true. I believe that they are seeing something similar enough that it could be perhaps a "localized bang" or something like that.
The main evidence used as "proof" of the big bang is the observed data seeming to show that the everything in the universe is "dispersing" slowly. That is at least what I've heard claimed.
Space is infinite. I believe it goes on forever in every direction. Whether you can see whatever is out there from here in no way proves that it isn't...
I do have multiple blogs and multiple Twitters, both under my real name and additional aliases. I unfortunately am not able to centralize these identities. Even this HackersNews login is a throwaway experiment of mine.
I have never been able to express myself freely without being downvoted and/or attacked to all hell and back. This particular identity is me just being who I am and not giving a damn if I am rejected. I'm just so very tired of filtering my thoughts and ideas.
The person I truly am is radical and flamboyant. The world does not want that person typically. Thank you for your appreciation of my comments here; I will continue this identity for what it is worth until it is downvoted to oblivion.
I will share a bit on this since it is relevant to the topic of my thoughts and whether they are allowed in society.
When I was very young I kept a detailed diary. I did so because I believe any who strive for greatness must do so, as an obligation to those who study their lives when they are finally acknowledged for what they have contributed to humanity. ( whether while alive or after death )
What I wrote even as a child was equal in length to the bible. I was writing my diary in DOS on 286 computers, before any online blog existed. I published the entirety of my diary on the internet publicly. It was online for many years. It is still in fact accessible on archive.org if enterprising souls dig enough.
Eventually my sister discovered that my diary was online and bitched about it. She said that I have no right to publicly share the details of my life for all to see. She involved my parents, and they together came to me and demanded I remove it from the internet.
I have always considered that to be an attack on my freedom and evidence of exactly how much people are ashamed of who they are and present a fake front of themselves. I believe that we as humans should always strive to be the best people we can, and be unafraid of being known in detail, because being known as one is is the ultimate way to face oneself and confront your flaws immediately.
In the years that have passed since then I went through many rounds of using various online communication mechanisms. Every single one I've ever used from I've been rejected from and/or banned from. This includes the long period of time where I never cussed because I believed it to be wrong. After so many iterations of this I've accepted that my ideas are unwanted in the world.
I still attempt to communicate the truth as I see it and share ideas openly in an attempt to improve the world, but so much of it falls on deaf ears and is met with anger that I barely bother any more.
I've been fired from so many of the jobs I've held, simply because I refuse to keep my ideas to myself. Good or bad it doesn't matter; no one wants to be shown up by a person 2 or 3 levels below them.
I've been fired for "doing my job too well" and "being too smart". I've had multiple employers say I am the most talented engineer they have ever met in the process of terminating my employment. I'm not even surprised any more. It is simply inevitable at any position I hold, whether it be a level 1 software engineer or CTO. I've done both.
I've been in national news, and it is impossible to control the media. They make up whatever they find sensational and publish lies, and you can't really do much of anything about it unless you are independently wealthy to be able to sue them and cover all costs till you win.
I've written my own fiction novel as well. Perhaps I will publish it when I am feeling particularly generous to the world...
I've written so much code in so many languages it is very easy to just stop caring about the entirety of it and throw in the towel, because even the most beautiful code is thrown by the wayside the majority of the time.
If and when I see something worth commenting on, I give it a go.
Yes I agreed that for my experience and ability I get paid badly. It is one of the reasons I am a rather bitter and angry person.
On the other hand, I still make a lot of money compared to the majority of people. This is little consolation though after devoting so much time and effort in my life to what I do.
Hence I hate pretty much every engineer I come into contact with these days. A huge number of them make as much or more than I do, and have 1/3 the experience and knowledge.
The recent release of the details of Signal stack requirements is rather damning. I actually agree based on it that they are likely doing things badly.
I don't though think that Musk had that information when he made his off the cuff pronouncement. I think he just says whatever he feels like and everyone automatically assumes he is correct because of his success/riches. This is my main objection to him. Respecting someones opinion and assuming they are correct because they are rich is just plain disgusting. Society should be better than this.
I also think that someone in his position should not be mocking a company that provides a free service. It just makes him look like an ass imo. In turn it makes me think that those who upvote that shit here on Hacker News are sheep.
If he gave some reasonable explanation or details, then fine. If he used reasonable capacity planning and some sort of evidence to demonstrate that such an accusation is reasonable, fine. He didn't.
This is what happened: Musk thinks to himself "Signal is better than Whatsapp, I should recommend Signal and people will think I'm awesome." His recommendation of Signal was merely the statement of an attention whore. Signal was obviously better for so long. Anyone worth anything in security / tech knew this a long time ago.
After Musk recommended Signal, it blew up in his face because they couldn't handle the capacity increase immediately due to his recommendation. This makes Musk look bad, because he just recommended them. So what does Musk do? Musk denounces and mocks Signal.
This is why Musk is an asshole and deserves to be mocked and attacked. It is all a fucking publicity stunt to him. He doesn't give a shit about security or helping out Signal. All he cares about is acting like king of the world. Fuck him.