I find it more akin to prompt engineering; something else that is nothing more than 'typing some shit until it does something useful to someone' and then acting like it's actually a skill.
But we are very good in our profession to make up garbage terms to do anything but describe garbage.
>as if people are walking around using a browser in a language they don't speak. (or, an operating system configured for a language they don't speak
Well, yes, they are! Computers translated in my native language sound dumb. That's how a whole generation of my world learned better English than native speakers, ffs!
Half of the time it's just translated wrong. You think anyone has any incentive to translate any technology to a language with a couple million speakers, all of whom are obligate pirates?
And it seems like you might be surprised to hear that people speak more than one language. Then where's my global setting to tell the browser what languages I speak, so it'd know what header to send? Same place that lets me configure what ads I'm actually interested in. Nowhere.
>I think people don't care to imagine the computer doing as little as possible to get the job done, and instead use the near unlimited computing power to just avoid thinking about consequences.
This, friend, is what computers are for in the XXI century. "Bicycle for the mind", ha...
Yeah, that's smart too. And how the "Spacefaring Guild" requires spice to navigate the best routes between the stars. Oil for transport. Everyone brought to their needs by Pauls' threat to switch off the oil supply. It's all so smart, Herbert was a hypergenius I think.
You don't suck at communicating. The people who want to discriminate against you want to do it badly and don't care what you think about it. They don't believe in a colorblind society and equal treatment under the law, they believe in getting what they can get at your expense while crying victim. I'm not saying you shouldn't be nice to people, because some of them might legitimately feel disadvantaged by their minority status. But keep in mind that some of them know exactly what they're doing to abuse our sympathy.
I don't particularly like crypto (mainly due to inefficiencies being common and it being a breeding ground for all sorts of grifters), but this argument doesn't convince me. Like... what ratio of legal-to-illegal transactions is permissible until you say "no, this is wrong, you can't use it even legally" or argue against it in a "only criminals use this, and you're not a criminal, are you?" way?
If we followed the same chain of reasoning, we can still easily apply it to real money. Cash, especially nowadays, is probably far more likely to be used for illegal transactions than electronic transactions. It's hard or impossible to trace, it can be laundered far more easily, it's easier to cook the books or hide illegal transactions with cash. Does this mean we should move towards banning it, as our society becomes more anchored to digital banking and the ratio of illegality keeps growing?
“You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom,” Luckey said in an appearance last year at Pepperdine University.
I wouldn't want those people's jobs tbh. You can't make every dollar, and they don't really have a life outside work. Fast forward to 60, you're retired and you haven't even lived yet. Sounds like a regrettable situation to be in even if you're rich - your youth is gone, everything hurts when you wake up, and your dick doesn't work anymore.
Yes, I feel I should raise with my manager, but I feel a bit guilty about potentially putting their livelihood at risk.
I'm usually the type to not worry about low performers because I have little skin in the game. So I don't care so much unless my personal productivity is impacted by them or the code base becomes more unstable as a result (which impacts me because of on call). The latter is not an issue right now as we're pretty proactive about reviewing each others PR's here. Even more so when get PR's from junior members or known low performers.
The former could be an issue as if I'm pairing with this person but forbidden from sharing that info, then I could be seen as twiddling my thumbs and not doing much (mentoring is usually rewarded in this company and is considered part of your productivity).
See you have to understand something. Coding is an language , a way of expressing complex logic.
I don't think visual programming works with complex logic. I may be wrong. But I genuinely feel like most visual programming solutions would be like 70% there and then after that , you are stuck , locked...
Which is why v0 etc. work using a db and fetching apis.
I am not sure why they aren't great options of truly non technical teams. You can't create a insanely complicated product being non technical.
Also like I said earlier , coding is a language. And languages come in different flavours , just like how real life languages can be hard or easy (like sanskrit or german (because of its huge words , though I like germany man , not sure how the radical right would change it!) , atleast to me feels hard , whereas french feels a little less troubling)
There is lua for easiness. Golang and python are also great options but lua is great.
Pay attention to usernames. There are some pro-Trump, pro-Russia people here, but honestly not that many. Maybe six or eight, total. They just tend to post 50 times each in any thread that touches on the subject.
We are all, in all our information streams, rolling more dice than ever more times a day than ever, and you only need one or two snake eyes to start the process of going down an unfortunate path.
The religion of Zoroaster, in the context of Eran Shahr (Land of Iran/Arya), has 3 distinct phases.
There is the pure Zoroastrianism of the early Hakhamanish Empire and in particular Dariush the Great who was single-mindedly devoted to Ahura-Mazda [1], the name by which the prophet Zoroaster knew God. (It means mighty-wise). His predecessor, the more widely known Cyrus the Great however appears to have been rather relaxed regarding the deity and gave lip service to both Marduk and "god of Israel", depending on which of the subject nations of his empire he wanted to please. Both, however, seem to have had no need for the intermediary of a priesthood. The fire temples of that era (Azar-Padgah, today Azer-Baijaan, and as it with everything apparently "Turkish" /g) are a testament that some form of Zoroastrianism was in fact practiced. The distinction here is that one does not hear much about priesthoods. This empire's kings however very rapidly, it seems, descended into polytheism with various Fereshtah (Angels) showing up alongside of Ahura-Mazda.
There then follows the rather lengthy period of Hellenic Persia (the Selucids) and the subsequent Iranic (but not Persian) empire of the Parthians which over time shed the imposed Hellenic cultural elements. It is not clear (to me at least) to what extent Zoroastrianism was prevalent in this era or how it was practiced.
The second great Persian empire (& the 3rd Iranian) one was the Sassanids. They very much sought to project themselves as the true inheritors of the Hakhamanish King of Kings, and Zoroastrianism was a very pronounced feature of this era in Iran's history. Regrettably, this is also when institutionalized priesthood [2] became firmly established in Iranian society. A particularly nasty specimen was Kartir [3], a very powerful and influential 'high priest'. This was not a tolerant era in Iran. Fundamentalist, mired in ritual, and brutally suppressive of any competing religion. Christians, Mazdakians, and Manichians were violently suppressed during this era. It is important to note that during this empire the original Zoroastrianism seems to have been a trace memory - many of the secondary scriptures attributed to Zoroaster - the name means Golden Star or the Sun btw - were in fact written in this era.
By the time of the advent of Islam, it appears the religion had decayed sufficiently, to wit, the famous companion of prophet Muhammad, Salman the Persian, was actually the son of a high ranking Zoroastrian who first sought spiritual meaning in Christianity and then directed by the Christian monk that he followed to go seek the prophet that was highly anticipated in that era, and this of course was Muhammad.
The Parsis are the descendents of the Zoroastrian (elite) that fled the Arabs into what is now known as India. Many centuries later these same diaspora Persians, now Parsis, sent instruction back to the remnant in Iran to re-educate them in the religion. In this era, naturally as a minority religion in both Iran and India, Zoroastrians were obviously not intolerant.
As to the ridiculous notion [4] that Zoroastrians at any period could remotely be considered "devil worshippers", let us note that the Abrahamic religions owe the Angels, Heaven, Hell, Judgement, and "a New Earth" (for the "meek") all to the Iranian prophet and his ministry. Even the Arabic Qur'an uses Persian theological terms such as "deen" (religion) and "ferdows" (Pardis now Paradise) and in it Allah insists that "He is al-Aziz al-Hakim" which is the precise formulation of Ahura-Mazda in Arabic ...
Notably, Bitcoiners are very upset about all the worthless shitcoins added to the BTC there.
While the Ethereum is arguably decentralized, maybe, kind-of, the other ones: XRP, Solana, and Cardano, are basically centralized nonsense, that at best can be considered a payment system and not a decentralized commodity.
Unrelated but I cannot imagine anyone on this site still using Chrome. It's an advertising tool and with the change to remove Ublock and enforce DRM every more aggressively, it has so little to offer. I only use it for casting. Hard to see why anyone would use it for anything else at all.
The first thing they teach you at any photography course worth its money is that framing the picture itself is a distortion of reality. It's you deciding what's worth being recorded and what should be discarded.
There's no "objective photography", no matter how hard we try distinguishing between old and new tech.
It will make the world a safer place. That's why Macron is opening up this discussion at all.