I was particularly impressed with how performant the demo was as it was playing. I was fully expecting my Macbook-fan to start whirring as it usually does with most javascript-heavy pages.
Readit Newskeithxm23 commented on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy... · Posted by u/belter
It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole, particularly with the USD being the reserve currency.
The flow of goods is balanced by a flow of US dollars to other countries, which are ultimately cycled back into the US financial system - enabling budget deficits and an abundance of capital to invest in high growth industries.
The flip side of this is that it also drives inequality - the upside of this system is felt by the entrepreneurs, investors and high-skill employees in tech and finance, while the downside is concentrated with low-skill workers whose jobs are offshored to lower wage countries.
The obvious solution is not to hurt the economy as a whole, but rather for the government to lower the cost of high-quality education, build out social systems, and invest into onshoring select strategic industries by raising taxes at the high end.
As such, this administration's policies are foolish, but many on this very site would need to give up a little bit of their privilege to reduce the pain felt by many of their fellow citizens.
That is something that in the current American political climate seems a nearly impossible sell.
> but many on this very site would need to give up a little bit of their privilege to reduce the pain felt by many of their fellow citizens.
Agreed. However, by imposing tariffs it is not the privileged who are going to be affected the most. The pain is felt most by the low-skill workers you mentioned earlier.
If the solution was instead along the lines of changing tax-brackets to tax the 'privileged' more, that might have better addressed the problem you mention in the beginning.
keithxm23 commented on Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage kupajo.com/stamina-is-a-q... · Posted by u/kolyder
This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes I try to live by..
"Tenacity is a most underrated quality in life. We all speak about talent, intelligence, glamour. But tenacity is the common thing for every successful person in life. Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation." - Arsene Wenger (Legendary Arsenal FC Coach)
keithxm23 commented on Ruby in Jupyter Notebook nbviewer.org/github/SciRu... · Posted by u/Alifatisk
This is a dead project. Everything in the SciRuby/sciruby-notebooks Github repository hasn't been updated in 8,9 years.
While the example-notebooks repo you've mentioned is not actively maintained it looks like the IRuby kernel used by Jupyter still is maintained: https://github.com/SciRuby/iruby
keithxm23 commented on Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT lumafield.com/article/rea... · Posted by u/eucalyptuseye
The more likely explanation is that they saw that their content marketing piece worked really well, so they did another one.
That's fair. And it's probably more interesting to showcase Apple products because they do produce relatively better engineered products in general that would look great with this kind of imaging technology.
keithxm23 commented on Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT lumafield.com/article/rea... · Posted by u/eucalyptuseye
This is the second time inside a month I've seen Lumafield portray Apple products engineering prowess. First time being when they compared the USB-C cable (unfairly because they compared against the wrong type of third party USB-C).
Is this just happenstance or is there a connection between the two companies?
keithxm23 commented on The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes vulture.com/article/rotte... · Posted by u/tortilla
Rotten Tomatoes, owned by Warner Bros. and NBC, part of Fandango Media, a movie ticketing company.
One would have to work hard to prove they were NOT biased in the first place, or at least since 2011 when they sold out to the movie industry.
FYI, the other big name in movie reviews, IMDb, has been owned by Amazon since 1998 (color me surprised, I didn't know it had been this long until I checked on Wikipedia), and they also had their own streaming service, IMDb TV, now called Amazon Freevee.
IMDB and Goodreads; two useful review-services purchased by Amazon and left abandoned. Are there other similar Amazon acquisitions?
It would be super cool if this was implemented as a firefox plugin!
The first thing I do when I work in an editor with a mini-map is -- turn it off. I find it mostly the most useless feature for coding, and for sites it seems to be equally useless. Why?
1. Stuff is too small to really make out where I'm going or navigating.
2. Short or long pages, both don't really benefit from the loss of screen real-estate. Or the distraction really.
3. Other tools like a proper index with descriptive headers, or the search function work so much better to navigate the page.
Where mini-maps could be awesome are large images, or maps. They tend to visual in nature, and when zoomed in you can look at the mini-map to see where you are in the whole. Which is useful.
So, cool future, but this doesn't really seem like a great implementation.
A lot depends on your use-case and the kind of website you're using this on.
I would find this very useful on a site like Wikipedia where I often know the section I want to jump to before landing on the page. (e.g. I want to see the number of goals Messi has scored each season at Barcelona and I know there's always a table at the bottom of most wiki articles regarding historical stats for soccer-players). I could see from the mini-map where the tables are jump straight to it.
Like you said, the the text is too small to make out where you're going or navigating. But most often I find myself visiting sites that I've visited in the past and for those I have a good mental image of what the page already looks like. I can use the hints from a minimap to jump to the relevant section of the page.
Is it common for people to watch Youtube sped up?
I've heard of people doing this for podcasts and audiobooks and never understood it all that much there. Just feels like 'skimming' a real book instead of actually reading it.
Additionally, the brain tends to adjust to a faster talking speed very quickly. If I'm watching an average-paced person talk and speed them up by 2x, the first couple minutes of listening might be difficult and will require more intent-listening. However, the brain starts processing it as the new normal and it does not feel sped-up anymore. To the extent that if I go back to 1x, it feels like the speaker is way too slow.