Isn't this a bit like claiming that main reason of drowning is water?
The real questions here is why people given opportunity to not have children jumps at it.
My personal opinion is that children are not that great - too much responsibility, too little support from society, too many of them behaves like little psychopaths most of the time (this can be probably cured with strict discipline but stress free upbringing seems to be in vogue). And the things that children "give" in return are rather questionable (especially for people with low emotional needs like me)
Most people probably like the "idea" of children but the practical side of having them is mostly boring ungrateful work that takes greater part of you life away and there is inherent risk that it can never end (I do not understand how anyone would not take into considetation the consequnce of having special needs child)
> The real questions here is why people given opportunity to not have children jumps at it.
Point taken, but that opportunity was not there until about 60 years ago.
I don't think people unwillingness to have kids changed, they didn't have much real choice back then. Well, their willingness to have sex was stronger than willingness to not have kids ;)
Because I go out regularly and does not have any problems with parking (uber / public trans. / choosing places with plenty of parking generalny solves this headache) , the people (you know that you can choose who you meet), prices (free meetups rules) and mediocre drinks (not drinking is an option ,but if somehow not, craft beers seems to work)
I think it depends on a variety of factors. The given city, day of the week, popularity of the establishment, etc. Going to a great brewery in Columbus on a Wednesday is a great time. Going out to a super packed bar on a Friday night in Los Angeles is a different experience.
Judging from first few chapters Seldon did manage to create probabilistic model, and not a deterministic simulation (he was not sure how the interview with government representatives will go in the end). So I guess even syfy writers do not believe that it is possible to simulate reality in deterministic way.
I bet that it does not matter that they are garbage. They are so entrenched in their market segment by the basic business requirements and existing business relations that there is nothing to "disturb" without rewritting it feature by feature with help of very expensive subject matter experts. Its a kind of project that takes 5 to 10 years to create MVP (its mainly due to knowledge transfer not technology) and is rather high risk.
There is a reason SAP is so big and most of its software is not the best (Im underselling it a bit here ...)
I do not understand how can anybody take seriously this simplistic dichtomic way of looking at world. It's like the only thing that you learned about abstractions/modeling is boolean logic and now off you go to proving there is supreme being that has properties you want it to have (like caring about you).
What if the reality is really only probabilistic? Or just chaos all the way down with some general models only kinda working on top of that but only if you don't look hard enough?
Just taking this axiom into considetation : "Either the atheistic view of reality is correct or the "religious" one" - what if we live on a world where its true for some people and not true for others - lest say that some are selected by some random beings and they have "moral obligation" imposed and others were not so lucky and are left to themselves without any judgment waiting.
And this is why only go to boutique gym where you get personal trainer and whole room full of equipment only for yourself.
I did not know that this kind of arrangement is possible (I used to go only to normal gyms which were overcrowded most of the times).
My wife found it near us and we decided to check it, made a reservation, and now, after a year I cannot imagine going back.
Unfortunately it does come with hefty price tag - about 4-5 times bigger than normal gym subscription.
>> Both maintenance and testing are not valued by business.
It depends on the incentives I suppose - if commission and bonuses for sales people comes only from new sales, then sure, maintenance is irrelevant and will be ignored.
>> Because you cannot sell maintenance to the customer, you only can sell features.
No, that's not true at all.
If sales people are properly incentivised to sell support contracts (their base salary being a percent of maintenance fee for example) then it will be sold like crazy. I have seen this happen at my company - at one point we did not need new sales to be profitable - just raking support contracts fees was enough to keep up costs and then some.
If you work for people that are only extracting value and are making decision based on next quarter predictions then I can see that.
This is why I do not work for faceless corporation. I deliberately sticked with small lifestyle business that values maintenance as much as new sales (as a matter of fact just this week I was refactoring my own, original piece of code, that its first version is dated by versions control as written 15 years ago and during this whole time there were clients that were paying support fees for it)
Anyone who lived through Model Driven Development era (late 90 and early 2000) knows that this solves only like 20 percent problems that those who complain about lack of version control are really talking about.
The real unsolved problem is lack of visual comparators that could show what really changed between versions. If you try to do diff those text serialization formats (those being yaml, json or, in old days, xml) you have to do a lot of mental gimnastic to map those onto visual changes that are meaningful. And most potential users of your low code tools are not capable enough to use it this way.
If you take into considetation that visual comparators of workflows is extremely hard problem to solve (probably only bunch of people in the whole world is cable enough to do this in a way that anybody sane would use) then you easily see why all visual dev tools of last 30 years went bankrupt. And if you did any sensible research you would know there were hundreds attempts at it with some spending hundreds of millions of dollars (Rational and later IBM being main ofenders here)
I wish I could show you something I’m working on — I’m just finishing up documentation now. I don’t think many people get this too. I haven’t launched yet but I think I solved this problem, my email is in my bio if you have any interest in talking about sane visual diffing and merging
Hmm this looks more like na attempt at building better merger by getting rid of unstructured text and replacing it with some kind of structured/hierarchical data.
I think that this can be useful but I don't see how this helps to solve general problem of visualizing diffs between workflow versions (and making it readable and mergeable for mere mortals)
Yeah, sorry (as I said in the below comment the site is super incomplete, showing screenshots of visual diffs is actually not that easy and I am yet to upload a demo video). Probably can’t give a great pitch here but the whole thing is based around building diffable plugins (which are really just html documents that are run in an iframe). Most of the documentation at this point is based on teaching version control to mortals rather than demoing the 4 diffable applications I made to launch with. But it really is built for mortals and is generalized so anyone can build applications that can meaningfully diff.
There’s some snippets of a visual diff in the docs here https://floro.io/docs/product/product-and-terms. If you do want to give feedback or see a demo I’d love to chat. Again, my email is in my bio.
It is deeply stupid that I spend much of my time looking at C++ (and asm, and IR...) diffs in a tool that looks at the raw bytes instead of at the AST they represent. Likewise git merge would do a lot less damage to codebases if it spliced the AST instead of the raw bytes.
I'm at some risk of replacing that with something hacked together out of XML. Hopefully you're doing something useful in this space.
Totally. Sadly I’m focused on GUI use cases and not AST. I’m more focused on making distributed version control for tasks that are handled better by visual editors than plain text. Universal AST diffing and merging is probably an impossible problem to solve (entirely). You could write a driver for llvm that would work for any language that shares the same IR state. Even then there’d be a lot of cases where you’d have to depend on a developer to manually resolve syntactic conflicts and enforce consistency in the IR state, which makes it pretty impractical. But two things, first, I would look at Pijul, my understanding is there is (some) support for AST diffing and merging. Second, git does support custom merge and diff drivers — I’m not sure if this is where you’re going with your xml hack but I don’t think it’s too cumbersome to write a custom differ if your painful conflicts are relatively constrained to certain functionality or part of your code base.
My site is half built (lots of broken links and only half of the documentation is done so please don’t judge me), but I think my technical explanation does an okay job of talking through some of the complexities to think through in regards to structured diffing and merging. It might be helpful to you if you do decide to write a git merge driver. https://floro.io/technical-overview-part-1
It gives me chance to get off computer (so only physical boardgames - no BGA) and meet new people (so no solo games). And since I like collecting stuff it also plays nicely into this quirk of mine (my collection just passed 140 mark).
The world of modern boardgames is really fascinating and totally different than I remember from childhood - playing boardgames in early 90s in Poland was geeks territory (up there with math and computers) and nowadays its almost badge of honor and all the coolest people will happily play boardgames (just to be clear I do not claim people playing games in 90s were geeks, it was just the prevailing opinion of my peers)
I second rotring! Especially 800 model, it's just so nice piece of precision machinery which combines ideally with Moleskin P notebook and leuchtturm pen holder (after retracting its tip 800 fits nicely on the side)
The real questions here is why people given opportunity to not have children jumps at it.
My personal opinion is that children are not that great - too much responsibility, too little support from society, too many of them behaves like little psychopaths most of the time (this can be probably cured with strict discipline but stress free upbringing seems to be in vogue). And the things that children "give" in return are rather questionable (especially for people with low emotional needs like me)
Most people probably like the "idea" of children but the practical side of having them is mostly boring ungrateful work that takes greater part of you life away and there is inherent risk that it can never end (I do not understand how anyone would not take into considetation the consequnce of having special needs child)