Ruby was the most approachable language I found and sheparded me from my limits of bash scripting and Windows batch file scripting into the next level.

The author derides Ruby’s easy readability and syntax because it has issues scaling to large enterprise applications. I don’t disagree there is a performance ceiling, but how many hundreds of thousands of Ruby projects never rose to that level of need? The author is also forgetting that Ruby had Rubygems for easy modular functional additions years before Python eventually got pip.

I don’t write in Ruby anymore, and Python has evolved to be much more approachable than it was when Ruby was in its prime, however if someone came to me today saying they wanted the easier programming language to learn that could build full applications on Linux, OSX, Windows, and the web, I’d still point them to Ruby with the caveat that it would have limits and they would be better served by Python in the long run.

Sorbitol

People get the cold and flu for a week. For people, like myself, it happens yearly.

I know its been a month since this conversation and it looks like you’ve forgotten, so I’ll just point up the thread. A cold and the flu are different things. You said “a cold”. A cold should not take you out of work for a week. The flu certainly could, but thats not what you said you had.

What kind of cave do you live in?

The same cave your former boss lives in that knows a cold doesn’t take you out of work for a week apparently.

Hamilton is the only one in that poster that doesn’t look happy to be there.

I like seeing these solutions in the modern day. If you’re looking to get even more use out of the limitations of your phone plan, you can take a page from computing history. Back when our mobile internet was 64kps-128kps we had these same challenges. I was doing remote server screen sharing on Windows with 19.2kps with VNC and could still perform important fixes in emergency situations.

Analogous to your situation though, a very clever approach was to use what was called a “clipping browser” such as Blazer for PalmOS.

It would work with a server with higher bandwidth to receive your web requests, fetch the contents to the clipping server where it would downscale the graphics and remove rich media elements (videos, animation). The result was a surprisingly fast loading graphical web experience. Keep in mind in those days a 320x240 screen was the limit, so you could downscale graphics quite a bit without losing any quality perceived by the end user.

You could probably accomplish this same thing with a modern Squid proxy server with a custom configuration.

Alternate headline: trump accidentally establishes list of plausibly trustworthy journalists

The water in the plant would immediately begin to boil (not because of heat, but because of the lack of air pressure in the vacuum of space), probably rupturing the cell walls of most cells I would think.

So to answer your question would probably be: The plant could continue to grow in space for a few fractions of a second.

We see bunny tracks in the snow in the morning, but very rarely a bun out in daylight during the cold months.

Problem: Cost of bricks skyrockets because of dynamic pricing and the increase in demand for window shopping with a brick.

but I think the realistic reading is it was simply a kickback to fortune 500 companies that got these politicians elected.

If there were no legitimate geopolitical reasons, then the “simply a kickback” would be much more plausible. Also, if it was a single source company, then “simply a kickback” would look true. Additionally, if was perhaps just domestic companies “simply a kickback” would certainly be even more likely. Lastly, the Chips act wasn’t just about production domestically. It also blocked sales/exports of completed high end chips and chip making equipment to China. If the Chips act was “simple a kickback” you wouldn’t do all that other stuff, and you certainly wouldn’t allow foreign winners (like Taiwan’s TSMC).

Was their rewards because of industry lobbying? Certainly. However, unless you’re in a purely communist system of government where all the companies are owned by the state, you’re always going to have private companies benefiting from government spending, tax breaks, and subsidies. As to this just applying to fortune 500 companies, there isn’t really a “mom and pop” semiconductor industry making handfuls of chips at a time except outside of engineering sample that are used in R&D for fortune 500 companies.

The worst of it hasn’t happened yet. The point where consumers can no longer afford to consume is coming.

Its mostly already arrived.

“As of June 30, the top 20% of earners accounted for more than 63% of all spending”

source

This means that the other 80% of Americans represent only 37% of the spending done today. If a company is looking to maximize profits the typical path is to do so by marketing to the group where they could earn the most money. That is less and less the bottom 80% of Americans.

The creator in that video seems to think the Chips Act subsidies were to benefit consumers by having affordable memory produced domestically. That wasn’t the goal. The goal was to derive drive GDP by having another source of domestic production, and drive job growth/tax revenue from workers working at the domestic facility. Lastly, it was to have strategic domestic production decoupled from other nations so we, as a nation, could not be held hostage by another nation (like we do to so many other nations) for crucial (pun very much intended) resources we need.

Nothing about that is about making RAM cheaper for retail consumers.

Blagojevich had the “D” but was also a bad pardon. Criminals need to account for their crimes and serve their sentence.

Metaverse was like the AI nobody asked for getting pushed into apps. Nobody wanted Wii Mii like hangout rooms where you have to water a clunky headset.

I was willing to give a shot to something like the Metaverse, but the instant I heard it was a Facebook/Meta project I had zero interest and hoped it would die. This was my same experience with Occulus. These are both technologies I want for a cyberpunk future, but Facebook cannot be the one to control them.

Every time I go to IKEA I always check and they are always sold out of Blåhaj.

with the same razor

“we’re blood brothers here. We share bloodborn diseases between each other this way. Hepatitis A is for Alphas.” /s

Then again, I don’t want to live in Ohio either. Yet here we are.

Well, at least its cheaper cost of living than FL.

I had read October Sky

The book was called “The Rocket Boys”. The movie made from the book was “October Sky”. (I honestly like the movie name better, though).

Chivalry is not dead.

The promise of “fiber to the home” is still mostly unrealized, but those trunk lines are out there with oodles of “dark fiber” ready to carry data… someday.

Counterintuitively, I’m seeing “fiber to the home” deployed more in rural an exurb areas. My guess this is because its lower density meaning installing and maintaining copper repeaters becomes more expensive than laying long distance, low maintenance, fiber. Additionally its easier to obtain permits because there is far less existing infrastructure to interfere with right of way and critical services.

We got fiber to the home in our exurb about 4 years ago here in the USA. Its really cheap too. 500Mb/s is $75, 1Gb/s $100, and 5Gb/s I think is $200 per month.