They better change that taskbar before releasing to consumers.
They somehow managed to combine the "take up the full width no matter what's needed" mentality of Windows with the "show the user no useful information whatsoever" mentality of MacOS.
I'm honestly unsure if they intend the 'must-ignore' policy to mean to eat duplicate keys without erroring, or just to eat keys that are unexpected based on some contract or schema....
A summary:
An old proposal (2015, not sure why OP posted it now), that basically proposes to put some more standards and limitations around JSON formatting to make it more predictable. Most of it seems pretty reasonable:
- Must be UTF-8 encoded and properly escape Unicode characters
- Numbers must respect the JavaScript number Type and it's limitations (i.e. max magnitude of an int etc.)
- Objects can't have duplicate keys
- The order of keys in objects does not matter
- A JSON file does not need to have a top level object or array, it can be any JSON value (i.e. just a string or a number is still valid JSON).
- It proposes that when processing JSON, any unrecognized keys should be ignored rather than errored
It recommends:
- Specific formats for date-time data
- That binary data be stored as a bas64url string
Honestly, the only part of this I dislike is the order of keys not mattering. I get that in a bunch of languages they use dictionary objects that don't preserve order, but backend languages have a lot more headroom to adapt and create objects that can, vs making a JavaScript thread loop over an object an extra time to reorder it every time it receives data.
Dude, go drink a coffee, and then reflect on what a negative little bitch you're being.
The quality on Lemmy is somewhat worse than Reddit 10 years ago, entirely because the user base is a fraction of the size and is more equivalent to when Reddit was first growing 15-20 years ago. Even then it was only a success because they bootstrapped it using fake posts and comments.
Lemmy is doing great, what it needs to grow is a positive and welcoming community, and then for Reddit to do something stupid again to trigger an exodus.
"This isn't a meeting about the budget per se"
"This isn't exactly a meeting about the budget"
If you finish those sentences, it becomes clear why per se is used:
"This isn't a meeting about the budget per se, it's a meeting about how much of the budget is spent on bits of string"
"This isn't exactly a meeting about the budget, it's a meeting about how much of the budget is spent on bits of string"
In this situation, using per se provides a more natural sentence flow because it links the first part of the sentence with the second. It's also shorter and fewer syllables.
"Steve's quite erudite."
"Steve's quite intellectual."
I think intellectual might be a closer synonym, but intellectual often has more know-it-all connotations than erudite which seems to often refer to a more pure and cerebral quality.
"Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the juxtaposition of the relationship between cat and mouse."
"Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the side by side oppositeness of the relationship between cat and mouse that is displayed"
For those to say precisely the same thing it would have to be more like the above which doesn't really roll off the tongue.
"I don't understand, can you elucidate that?"
"I don't understand, can you explain?"
Elucidate just means to make something clear in general, explaining something usually inherently implies a linguistic, verbal, explanation, unless otherwise stated.
Honestly, these all seem like very reasonable words to me for the most part. I can understand not using them in some contexts, but for the most part, words exist for a reason, to describe something slightly differently, and it takes forever to talk and communicate if we only limit ourselves to the most basic unnuanced terms.
When people use industry specific jargon and acronyms with someone not in their industry.
It is a very simple rule of writing and communication. You never just use an acronym out of nowhere, you write it out in full the first time and explain the acronym, and then after that you can use it.
Artificial diamonds can be made with a High Temperature, High Pressure (HTHP) process, or a ...
Doctors, military folk, lawyers, and technical people of all variety are often awful at just throwing out an acronym or technical term that you literally have no way of knowing.
Usually though, I don't think it's a conscious effort to sound smart. Sometimes, it's just people who are used to talking only with their coworkers / inner circle and just aren't thinking about the fact that you don't have the same context, sometimes it's people who are feeling nervous / insecure and are subconsciously using fancy terms to sound like they fit in, and sometimes it's people using specific terminology to hide the fact that they don't actually understand the concepts well enough to break them down further.
For each of these, what would you use instead?
Suda suggested that one reason is publishers and developers focusing too much on Metacritic scores, and deciding to play it safe and stick to what is conventionally known to ‘work’ instead of taking risks with new ideas.
I think most people are missing that they're talking about them from a dev and publisher standpoint, not consumer / gamer.
And from that perspective it is problematic whenever things that are supposed to be used to assess something become targets to shoot for. Oscar bait, teachers teaching the test and not the subject, etc.
Setting that aside, exploring space is not the same thing as building a company town for the world's least mentally stable pregnancy fetishist oligarch in an unworldly cold desert where everyone is sure to die.
I would argue that the majority of sci-fi has predicted otherwise.
Yeah bud, there's also these little shelters called caves.
The author of the article literally guffaws at the prospect of respinning a planet's core when that's not remotely how you would approach that problem.
It would be like writing an article saying "Come on, you believe in vaccines? What, you think a scientist can cut open your individual cells and put antibodies in each one? You really think they have tweezers that small? Get real dum dum."
The scale of what you just described is really goofy.
The word you're looking for is "big". As in, it embiggens the noblest spirit.
I don’t think it’s feasible to protect a mars-diameter disc of massive magnets from damage by either normal objects traveling through the area or from some human engineered attack.
It's also not possible to protect the ISS from either of those and yet it's operated fine for 30 years. You do not need every little bit of it to be perfect, you just need to deflect enough solar wind that it allows Mars atmosphere to build back up which is what provides the real protection.
If you’re imagining the capacity to create such an emplacement, don’t you imagine that such phenomenal effort and wealth of resources would be better spent solving some terrestrial problem?
Like I said, we waste more resources than that all the time. I'd rather we didn't build yachts and country clubs and private schools, yet we do. There's no reason to not get started building that array, especially if it will take a while.
There’s a real difference between e-waste, which is mostly byproducts of the petroleum refining process with electronic components smeared liberally on, many of which rely on petroleum byproducts themselves and electromagnets, which are, at the scale you’re discussing, massive chunks of metals refined, shaped and organized into configurations that will create magnetic fields when dc is present.
That is not what e-waste is. E-waste primarily consists of silicon chips and the metal wires connecting them. Even the circuit boards themselves are primarily fibre glass, not petroleum.
And no, we wouldn't be creating those using actual magnets, we'd be using electro magnets, which is just coils of wire connected to PV and logic chips.
I quite frankly flat out do not understand why people on the left are so against space exploration suddenly. You know that Elon Musk is not the only billionaire right? And you know virtually that all of them just sit on their wealth, and do nothing with it but wast on luxury lifestyles for themselves right? Yeah it would be better if billionaire's did not exist, but as long as they do, why are you upset about their money going to space exploration as opposed to just yachts and $20,000 a night hotel stays?