From the original post: “Your business is not Google and will never be Google”
From the post directly above: “Most businesses…”
The thread above is specifically discussing business which won’t lose a significant amount of money if they go down for a few minutes. They also postulate that most businesses fall into this category, which I’m inclined to agree with.
I understand it in practice but I also think it's weird to be working on something that isn't aiming to grow, maybe not to good scale but building systems which are "distributable" from and early stage seems wise to me.
When discussing extreme punishments like this, you must consider false convictions. Only in a perfect justice system (which is not achievable) could we allow such punishments. FWIW, I also feel this way about the death penalty.
When proposing “permanent” punishments like this, always put yourself in the shoes of someone who is falsely convicted. And consider that false convictions can (and do) happen for a wide variety of reasons: racial bias, political bias, cover ups, government oppression, etc.
Right I get it and I too always put myself in those shoes. I think if you have been convicted twice that it’s likely to weed out most of those cases. Generally once you have been convicted once, you are already not allowed around children.
While I agree that medical communication can and should be better, it’s worth pointing out that hormonal birth control also lowers the risk of endometrial, ovarian, and colorectal cancer by a similar amount according to cancer.gov (see: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/h...).
Jon Gjengset is great for educational Rust content.
“Tsoding Daily/Tsoding” on YouTube/Twitch is entertaining and covers a very wide range of topics. I don’t think he’s “classically trained” per se, but he’s knowledgeable and great at solving interesting problems.
I haven’t checked it out yet, but I think Ryan Carniato (the creator of SolidJS) streams live coding on YouTube too.
There’s probably a healthy balance somewhere between this and the PyPI approach. But I will say, R (including most CRAN libraries) is a dream to use for data analysis, whereas Python is an exercise in frustration. CRAN libraries are idiomatic, work without fuss, and feel like a cohesive ecosystem. In my experience, working with too many Python packages feels like holding an airplane together with tape.
Using pandas is so annoying in comparison to R built in data wrangling that its amazing to me people not only have the patience for it but the lack of an ability to look out of the trenches for a moment, just reach for easy R, and be done with it.
My understanding is that JS running on Node is insanely fast compared to most other interpreted languages. This is because of how much work has been put into the V8 engine, especially the JIT compiler.
Based on this, it’s fair to put Node into a league above languages like Python and Ruby when considering performance.
This might have played a role in their decision to include Node.
Hey! I love this, thanks for making it. One suggestion: the editor color scheme is very hard for me to read. There's not a lot of contrast between the light, pastel colors and the white background.
Personally, I would really appreciate either a) a way to change the theme, or b) a more accessible default theme.
This was me! I was in the same exact situation. Everything I designed looked awful, and it killed my motivation.
You can learn, but it will take years of dedicated study and practice, at least in my experience. I worked really hard to learn for about 3 years, and now I’m pretty satisfied with my side projects.
I also learned that I really enjoy design. I wouldn’t say I’m “good” at it, but I can get by. I think some people have innate talent for design, and some people (like me) don’t. But you can certainly become “good enough” through hard work in lieu of talent.
Whether or not you decide to go down this rabbit hole is up to you, but I wanted to share my experience. It is slow and difficult, but possible.
If you want to learn, here are a few tips that really helped me:
There are some basic fundamentals to start with @DesignCourse on YouTube has a few videos which cover them well.
Copy good designs. But in doing so, also dissect them and learn what makes them good. Take note of how they applied the fundamentals. This includes great apps/sites as well as UI libraries (don’t use these, learn from them).
Using UI libraries will not result in good designs unless you’re already a good designer. UI libraries exist so that good designers can make uniform designs faster, not so that bad designers can make good designs.
I’m always pleased to see this topic get more attention. Almost everywhere, it’s common for non-native trees, shrubs, and flowers to be planted instead of species native to the area. This is true for residential yards, city land, etc.
Non-native plants are often useless hosts for native insects. So installing non-native plants has the “benefit” of reducing insects, but it also has serious effects on ecosystems and biodiversity.
We need to be more worried about the extinction of insect species. They’re more important than people realize.
If anyone wants to make a (small, but important) difference, do some research to identify important host plants for native insect species in your area. There are usually good, native alternatives for flowers, shrubs, and trees which are equally as attractive. Then, choose these host plants for your yard or garden.
> Non-native plants are often useless hosts for native insects.
The opposite can also be true such that some non-native plants can demonstrate overly desirable results compared to native plants. This is seen with many forms of squash/gourd/pumpkin in North America that results in wider and more aggressive distributions of herbivorous insects that favor those plant types over native plants.
There is also a problem for manarch butterflies when people plant flowering plants they like, but in zones a bit colder than normal, and protect them from frost or replant. They bloom later than the butterflies expect, so they hang around too long on their migration and freeze.
native alternatives for flowers, shrubs, and trees which are equally as attractive
Thanks for using plural here. Nothing really wrong with the article, but the focus on single plants is a bit misguided when it comes to biodiversity (and this isn't the only article like that), because it can lead to greenwashing-like 'look I planted X in my lawn and it's good for this amazing number of species so now I'm doing a good thing for nature'.
In reality the worst case is that it is actually a netto negative outcome (bit far fetched, but not impossible, via principles like: insects attracted to your plant instead of another one closeby, your plant in its environment offers zero protection from predation because it's completely out in the open vast wasteland a lot of lawns are; or: insect finds hostplant X, lays eggs, in winter you decide to cut the plant 'becomes in cmes back anyway' and the eggs are lost) and best case it is positive; but it could be a lot more positive if instead of just the plant, you have a healthy ecosystem because biodiversity (and that's not just plants and the flying/crawling things one can see, also the nocturnal creatures, the soil life, etc) thrives on that, not individual species. Just like a collection of trees isn't necessarily a forest ecosystem, a bunch of flowering grassland plants isn't necessarily a proper meadow-like ecosystem.
How to get that is unfortunately too much to explain in detail here, but a simplified system for a lawn for instance starts with not mowing the whole thing every x weeks. Instead do cut the paths you need and treat the rest as patchwork where each patch has a different age like 1 month not mown, 2 months, etc. There's even no need to manually plant things, the native ones will come automatically.
There is a nuance that sometimes what was native 100 years ago simply won't survive anymore because the lack of the previously existing ecosystem. For instance a plant that needs shade and high humidity that is no longer viable because the trees have all been cut down.
This is random but when I read about the importance of insect specious it reminded me of how this summer we had noticeably less mosquitos where I live. It felt like there were none at all and I spent the whole summer being able to leave my doors open at night. At the same time there was a huge influx of grasshoppers that summer and I think the two are probably connected.
If there is any connection at all, I think it would be a pretty weak one. Grasshoppers don't eat mosquitoes and mosquitoes don't (I think) feed off grasshoppers. However, these critters are quite sensitive to the weather: lots of rain favors mosquitoes and dry hot weather favors grasshoppers. A lot of little critters also have a cycle. Tent catapillars around where I live are on an eleven year cycle. In the valleys of the cycle, you won't see a single one all year. In the peaks, there is enough to defoliate large trees.
Especially if there was a cold winter the year before. I remember talking to an orchard worker who lamented how the frost came early and killed a lot of the fruit before they could be harvested. He said "At least there won't be any bugs next year!" and it really opened my eyes to how these cycles can work over such extreme swings.
From the post directly above: “Most businesses…”
The thread above is specifically discussing business which won’t lose a significant amount of money if they go down for a few minutes. They also postulate that most businesses fall into this category, which I’m inclined to agree with.