The lengths people go to not to make walkable cities (and insulated buildings, fast trains.. you know, all the stuff that actually exists and works)
Readit Newsmangecoeur commented on Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration arxiv.org/abs/2501.06623... · Posted by u/energy123
mangecoeur commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
"The future is..." well it might be until the next fashion change comes about.
mangecoeur commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
I was ready for flat design to die 10 years ago. It's astonishingly unintuitive, ugly, the opposite of style, and straight up anti-human. There are still abstract icons in some apps and UIs that I can't wrap my head around and I have to just click and hope I'm right. There are things that I cannot figure out whether they're interactive or not unless I just tap randomly. There are so many occasions where I can't find what I'm looking for because some goober decided contrast and color coding is a sin.
Flat design stands against every single principle of proper design. All I can hope is 40 years from now, there isn't some "retvrn to tradition" BS where a new wave of the youth decide we should return to the "cool classic style of the 2000s-2020s". Let me be an old man and die with the software around me looking beautiful.
This will happen for sure. Designs are fashions that come and go, like jeans that go from skinny to baggy and back again. I don't think anything is absolute, tastes change and people get used to just about anything, and will mainly gripe when anything changes.
Did my phd around that time and did a project “scaling” my work on a spark cluster. Huge pita and no better than my local setup which was an MBP15 with pandas a postgres (actually I wrote+contributed a big chunk of pandas read_sql at that time to make is postgres compatible using sqlalchemy)
Finance bro decides tweets are better evidence than physics… nothing to see here
mangecoeur commented on Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory mathstodon.xyz/@tao/11391... · Posted by u/bertman
Hardly surprising that an administration that built its brand on “post truth” has no interest in the good functioning of academic research
mangecoeur commented on macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium github.com/ungoogled-soft... · Posted by u/keepamovin
Seems like a lot of effort to go to rather than just use Firefox or Safari...
mangecoeur commented on Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech ianbetteridge.com/2024/09... · Posted by u/rpgbr
When the industry is all about the myth of the trendy tech founder, of course the ones who succeed are the con-men and fabulists. All jobs and no woz indeed
mangecoeur commented on Why Ed-Tech Startups Don't Scale (2022) giansegato.com/essays/why... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
there is also not that much money in the state run that the majority of people education follow. Teacher salaries are already squeezed. Its ironic, everyone says get a good education, old grumps complain the kids don’t know anything, but when it comes to actually paying for it its crickets. Software could help make teaching more efficient but requires up front investment that no one wants to make. State run software projects tend to suck because they are based on minimising cost. Maybe if the act and job if teaching had the same social status as doctors and lawyers it would be different.
mangecoeur commented on Japan on edge of EUV lithography chip-making revolution asiatimes.com/2024/08/jap... · Posted by u/ksec
They mention validation in software which suggests a hardware implementation is a way off with a lot of practical issues that might crop up on the way. So best of luck to them but i wouldn’t expect to see hit the market for quite a while - saying they are “on the edge of euv chip making” is very optimistic.