- > But don’t be too quick to attribute its failure to the “ick” factor that many > Westerners feel about bugs.
I think this is a weird wording. I dont think you need to limit the ick factor to "Westerners" There are an awful lot of people out there who would feel the "ick" factor.
And even for some of those who do eat insects, they are specific insects, form specific places, prepared in traditional ways.
Not a powder of insects
- This is impolite but it might be that the services you offer are in decreasing demand in general.
Your return customers know what a great show you do and it becomes tradition and they obviously love it.
But the difficulty finding new clients (something we all face) may be partially due the world moving on.
- I think we should shut down the current crop of social media but that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
I think an easier way to achieves instead of imposing this on everyone. Social media companies should be required to add paid tier where the individual user can block the types of the user does not want to see, (or just block all of them).
In some places perhaps the government would ban "free social media" and only allow the paid tier to operate.
This in the best case would make the price reasonably low, if the social media company does not want to lose a lot of users. Perhaps even subsidised. At which point the goal set above is achieved.
- It seems like an effort to hire newly educated people for a two year program, to work on various efforts in the federal government as something close to on the job training.
Once you are done you can pair up with one of the private partners you had contacted with during your program. (If they want you).
This does not appear to be an effort to hire people to the federal government, but to get cheap labour from new grads who hope to work on something cool.
(But yes they will have to hire the framework people)
- We have built a new device. The device is a ring with a button and a microphone. Pressing the button initiates recording of your voice captures voice via the built in microphone and saves it on your phone.
I think it would take a lot of heavy software to process and index the voice notes for the claim "Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain" is honest
- """Leaked documents [1] obtained by SOMO reveal how, under the pretext of the now-near-magical concept of ‘competitiveness’"""
I was a bit disappointed when I clicked the the link called "1" following leaked documents I got a short note on the document, but apparently no link to the document.
So I scrolled dow to the bottom figuring the number and link was a reference to the appendix but that did not appear to be case.
Similar link looking numbers appear to work the same way.
- This is highly accurate. Presently its a whole set of entirely different diagnosis make up "the spectrum".
They even eliminated "Asperger" and then just folded that into the spectrum as well.
I sometimes think about two women sitting on down on a bench. Once says a bit uneasily "my son, well he is on the spectrum" The other responds with "Oh I know what you are going through my daughter is also on the spectrum"
At this point neither has any idea whatsoever about what the others experience is like.
One may be highly functional, socially awkward and doesn't think like normal people and processes sight and sounds the same. I find myself moderately down this path.
The other may be non verbal and violent.
- For a while I worked for a company that was doing some shady and unethical things, but just within the law.
I took em a while to understand how things worked and when I did I found a different job.
Now this enterprise I left, could never have done what they did it was not for the developers that made it possible.
When we talk about the giants on social media, it it us, the developers who make it possible for them to do what they do.
If you are frustrated about how they are not being stopped from doing what they do, encourage people to leave. They money is great, but doe sit make it worth it?
From the other side, let us say that the US shut down Meta and the rest of the social media beasts, how many developers would be out on the street?
- I wonder at what age they start getting upset that they dont have what all the other kids have. The peer pressure on conformity I think is still strong. thought not explicitly stated.
I have seen older children cry that they dont have an iPhone or they dont have the latest iPhone, or in a different region, that they dont have Android and of course the latest Android
These were older than 7 to be sure, but not sure when it starts.
you can set your kid up to be independent and a FOSS influencer but I dont think that always works.
- Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in MICE lung microbiome after just one week.
I really wish this would be included in the headline in such stories.
Is there a repository somewhere that measures the number of studies on mice that go on to successful human trials or verification.
With the prominence of studies on mice, I think most humans trials Started on mice.
- What they show is so far ahead of what other robots can do right now, esp in aggregate of everything it can do. There is not a lot of probability that this robot will deliver on its promises. That would be a major steppig stone, possibly worthy of a Noble Prize for someone.
I personallly would -not- want an alpha / re alpha large robot roaming my house. If it hullicinates or a horrible bug a lot of things could get destroyed in a hurry.
This feels like like Musks promises of a fully autonomous self driving car.
- Hosting staging on a fundamentally different architecture and resources than prod (and dev I think) is a disater waiting to happen.
Unless they plan to move prod and dev as well, and using staging now as a test platform.
Once few problems glitch when moving to prod, they may no longer think they are saving much money.
- As a soon to be graybeard think this has been fairly obvious from the start. And outside of specific workflows, you are adding unneeded complexity to a system that does not need it. In general, an anti-pattern. but it does have valid use in some cases.
On the last project I worked on that came to involve serverless, it made no sense at all other than it was "the fad".
For this system we had an excellent knowledge of what the theoretical limit of users and connections as.
This apparently needed to be done container, serverless, kafka, blah blah.
Annoyed with the whole thing I took a few nights to tear logic out from the micro servers or nano services, and wrapped the whole thing into a Frankenstein monolith.
AT least 60% of the code all had to do with dealing solely with the code needed to pass information around to different services so it was easier to maintain. Well my hacked together moonlight was not a great start for anything but a demo.
I installed Postgres on my laptop, ran the monolith on it, took 3 servers each pushing the theoretical maximum load we would have, and what do you know the performance was fine. But the architecture was the architecture decided upon.
Great, give users something that messy, horrible and not fully functional. Customer who spend big for production environments are exploited to "be the outsourced QA"