I would get going with a more popular technology (I chose Svelte and Sapper). Like I mentioned, it's the first website I've ever built, so I ran into some problems that I'm sure would have been easier to deal with had there been a bigger community and more tutorials available. I was fixated on it being as fast as possible, which is perhaps quite ironic with the amount of images it's downloading - not lazily.
I have to admit now that I'm thinking about building a second project, that my technology stack will also be governed by what employers are looking for. I'm currently working in a non-tech industry, but I'm starting to think about trying to transition.
Another thing that came to mind was that I'd try to remove some of the monotonous tasks that made it such a grind, like manually compressing all of the images and trying to find the right size. That was a huge ordeal, and I would've been better off with implementing lazy loading and just running the images through some compression automatically or not compressing them at all. I really should have done that.
I'd also probably try to advertise it a bit more. This is the only time I've mentioned the project, and it's almost a year old. I was just hoping people would magically stumble into it.. I'm sure even a dollar or two from it would have given me the motivation to at least complete the parts I'd planned out for and actually found interesting myself.
Thanks again for the compliment and happy New Year's!
How much has anti-mask protesters contributed to the surge? They got a lot of coverage in [social] media, but what's the marginal impact they have, given their frequency?
It's important to establish the actual significant causes of issues, so we now how to improve in future. Actions of those on opposing political sides would be a convenient and perhaps comforting significant cause, so we should be careful in prematurely concluding that.
Anti-maskers made masks political. Even people who aren't anti-mask themselves can be surrounded by a political atmosphere where wearing a mask can be construed as a political message.
Also, people can get demoralized in their personal efforts when they see mask wearing as a "divisive" thing that is a matter of opinion, and when they see other people, especially public leaders not wearing masks themselves.
This may be true, but if you want to blame LA’s situation on anti-maskers you also need to answer the question of why LA wasn’t so bad in April or November when much of the rest of the country was spiking. And on the flip side, why is LA so much worse than ‘red states’ today?
I think a more likely explanation is that the lockdown worked up through the holidays, and then people went overboard the other way. If you lived in Texas or North Carolina, you may have seen your friends and family throughout the year. So it’s easier to keep Thanksgiving small, because the public messaging has been, ‘now it’s serious’.
If you live in California, you’ve been told since March that basically any activity puts you at risk of the virus. Depending on your county, this year you’ve been told to wear a mask when you’re within 30 feet of someone outdoors; that playgrounds and parks must be closed while bars can stay open; that indoor dining is banned unless you’re the governor; that there’s a 10pm curfew despite no evidence that such a curfew will slow the spread. At some point people get COVID fatigue and start to tune the messaging out. And I’m betting that point is around the holidays for many, many people.
The problem with the holiday theory is that the spike started being detected around Nov 1, not thanksgiving. Cases nearly doubled in the first week of the month - and tests are always a lagging indicator.
I really have no idea of the specifics between different states and timing in the USA. I live in Finland, so here's what US looks like from here since February:
- leaders downplaying the virus
- no top-down leadership in tackling the virus
- masks made political
- hundreds of thousands of people dead
- media focused on wedge issues and Trumps fantastical statements while people are dying
I do not live in the US and I don't for a second believe that everyone is anti-mask there, but judging from the outside looking at your numbers and media coverage, your whole attitude towards this deadly disease seems f'd up. I don't mean to direct this as an insult to the American people, more as a criticism towards the cultural and political attitudes surrounding this crisis. Anti-maskers of course are not solely to blame - nobody is - but they certainly seem to play a huge role culturally when compared to other countries.
My suspicion is that these events directly contributed very little overall. However, they normalized non-compliance and increased the number of people who don't wear masks as a point of resistance.
Their anti-reality stance should not be tolerated. In a time of crisis we are divided over a piece of cloth. They are a net negative in our efforts to contain a highly contagious virus. There's nothing redeemable about them.
You’re implying that the impact only matters if it is direct.
‘Actual cause’ implies a singular input and output relationship which is both rarely accurate and the type of logic that enables things like anti mask lunacy, and vaccines, and other conspiracy theories.
Overall I don’t see the problem as anti mask protests...I see anti mask protests as a symptom of the selfish stupidity that seems to impede progress.
In this case Brexit is going to have a huge and damaging effect on the UK's IT industry.
Not only will some corps leave for Ireland taking their jobs with them, not only will small businesses and consultants find it far harder to sell services in the EU, not only will the UK be excluded from cutting edge research programs and funding, and not only will UK students be excluded from the international Erasmus scheme - but the current government literally has no idea why these losses even matter, never mind why it's important to mitigate them.
The absence of No Deal means the UK will tend towards slow decay rather than instant crash and burn, but the medium/long term prospects of almost everyone working in IT are now significantly diminished.
Not really. Japan gained significant inroads and became a major world economy but did not “take over,” and demographics caused Japan to cool off quite a bit toward the 2000s.
China has similar demographics, but is also larger. It has roughly 4X the number of people as the USA, so all it would take to equal the USA in aggregate is reaching 1/4 of US GDP per capita. GDP/capita is a more meaningful measure anyway.
Thats what I'm saying. They didn't take over despite all the expert predictions that they would overtake the United States by the mid 1990s. Chinese population is aging far more rapidly than the US due to the one child policy, their economic system is largely dependent on exports to countries where it is increasingly politically unviable to continue such trade. They are far more overleveraged than the united states is or ever was. Additionally they have to import the vast majority of their oil so in an economic crisis they would have to have to retain access to usd for oil which is a precursor to many system critical end products.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/
Here is a neat visualization of their demographic situation. There are worse demographics but the point is that they have run out of labor for an export led economy and the internal base for a consumption led economy. Same thing is true for Germany which means they will have to find another production model which means major political instability.
> How does a Linux port make it easier to port emulators or console games?
It helps emulator development by giving you something to work with inside of your emulator that actually has some tooling to let you look around and test out the system from the inside, unlike trying to get a game working. If Linux-N64 can boot, you can expect that a lot of your code is working properly.
Linux has debuggers and such and people (like me) are way more familiar with its stack than whatever they had back in the day. Software development would be way easier with all of that a support infrastructure.
I got that perspective from hiring an artist (and being hired as an artist). What's the secret? Have what the client wants.
I was looking to get a dog tattoo. So, I looked for a tattoo artist with dogs in the style I wanted in their portfolio.
As a visual effects artist I happened to make some dust in my early features. Since then, after looking at my demo reel, I've gotten hired to make more dust in movies.
Dozens of hollywood movies from Hellboy (2004), Constantine, to R.I.P.D.
Absolutely, and it tracked along with technology and my ability to just cram more particles in the simulation or use new structures entirely like VDBs or Sparse Volumes. But the basic use of many (many many) layers of sculpted Perlin noise never changed.
Yes by eliminating state you eliminate the possibility for a function to depend on state. When a function does not depend on state or anything it can be moved, reused and reorganized anywhere thus eliminating technical debt that comes from organizational issues. In other words, all functions in the point free style must be combinators because the point free style eliminates state as much as possible.
It's a forcing function to make your logic all combinators and not dependent on free variables.
Though I do agree with one replier. It does harm readability so now I'm thinking it may not be the best recommendation. Using combinators without the point free style is enough to actually fix the technical debt I'm talking about.
It's not going to replace the enormous investment Nokia made into the free software/linux community... So it won't help the graphs the original article showed. But by another measure, it's already a success since it exists.
What would you do differently if you had to redo it?