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I’m a backend developer who’s trying to build up some rudimentary design chops and I’ve a consumed quite a few resources about design.

A lot of them say, pretty early on, “don’t use pure black or pure white, period”


So… Black Mirror season 3 then?


It's not great if it's 15 million supporting 35 million children, elderly and sick.


Here's a case where robotics and other innovations can help out.


A diaper changing robot would take care of both ends of the spectrum, young and old.


Changing baby diapers everyday for a year and knowing the process and at the same time looking at the video of state of the art robot moving parts between shelves I'm pretty sure that this solution is in a Sci-Fi (or Sci-Fi-horror) realm for a long long time.


Ah, the main application of Bitcoin - ransomware - is now more lucrative then ever.


Well, bitcoin has many legitimate uses like buying drugs or evading taxation


but still the most popular currency for tax evasion, buying drugs and international terrorism funding is USD using citibank and deutche bank infrastructure.


Well, USD is used too. For decades. Even with too many regulations and security controls implemented by financial institutions around the world.


...just like, fiat money.

At least, Bitcoin can't be printed and not centralized like a government-controlled money.

Bitcoin is not perfect, also not fully decentralized either, but still much better than more-centralized fiat which are government-controlled and are still used for all the harmful purposes already.


Don’t forget money laundering.


There are plenty of better ways to money launder right now than to use BTC. The classic buying of art work and shell companies are fantastic to evade taxes and clean black money


Bannanas taped to a wall.


how? bitcoin is not anonymous



It's anonymous as long as you manage to sell it without connection to your real identity


My experience is that 99% of the work related to geters and seters is handled by the IDE


This encapsulation style for OOP is standard; the language should support it and not require additional design patterns or IDE tools.

An argument could be made for adding a sigil so the class user knows this isn't a dumb field, but then if someone wants to upgrade a dumb field to this, as Python encourages, they would need to modify every use.


> What about developers who don't want to use Tailwind?

What's that Steve Jobs quote? "You know, you can please some of the people some of the time"

I have a hunch there's a good reason almost all of these site builders go with Tailwind rather than classic CSS, but as mostly-backend developer I couldn't tell you what that was :)


Context for the quote: https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o


Natural gas is terrible, but arguably less terrible than coal which aside from CO2 spews out a plethora of other nasty compounds.


One small plus for coal is that it doesn't leak. With better satellite observation now, we're finding out how underreported the emissions of methane from natural gas extraction were.


Of course coal "leaks" .. it's a major issue worldwide.

https://www.osmre.gov/programs/mine-fires

    Due to thermal insulation and the avoidance of rain/snow extinguishment by the crust, underground coal-seam fires are the most persistent fires on Earth and can burn for thousands of years, like Burning Mountain in Australia.
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire


Coal mines also leak methane.


FWIW it’s the same thing if you buy an American stock from a EU country, the dividends are taxed in the US.

That why global index funds are probably the best way to invest for non-professionals


I spent some time trying to learn about investing as an average person, and from what I understood, the entire knowledge could be summarized into "pick your favorite global index fund and hold"


If you ever plan on selling your company you’d do well to have it wholly owned by a holding company (which in turn is owned by you).


> I refused to learn geography because we had map applications

Which is ironic, because geography isn’t about memorizing maps


Funny you should say that. In Sweden, to get good grades in English you have to learn lots of facts about UK, like population, name of kings and so on. What does that have to do with english? It's spoken in many other countries too. And those facts change, the answers weren't even up to date now...


That’s odd. Outside of reading comprehension assignments I never had any fact memorization as part of any language course.

Perhaps they changed the curriculum since the 90s


Yes, I was very confused when daughter came home with some bad scores on a test and couldn't understand what she meant. I had to call the teacher to get an explanation that it wasn't history lesson, it was english lesson... Really weird is just not covering it.

Swedish schools gets a makeover every time we change government. It's one of those things they just have to "fix" when they get to power.


Some parts of it were though.


Almost all parts require it, but none are about it. That's how background knowledge works. If you can't get over the drudgery of learning scales and chords, you'll never learn music. The fact that many learners never understand this end goal is sad but doesn't invalidate the methodology needed to achieve the progression.


It would be interesting to test adults with the same tests that students were given. Plus some more esoteric knowledge. What they learned at school could then be compared to see new information that they learned after school... as well as information, skills that they didn't use after school. It may help focus learning on useful skills knowledge that people have learned... as well as information that they didn't learn in school that would be useful for them!


> That's how background knowledge works. If you can't get over the drudgery of learning scales and chords, you'll never learn music.

Tell that to drummers


As a drummer, you need to learn your scales and chords. It still matters, and the way you interact with the music should be consistent with how the chords change, and where the melody is within the scale.

Your drumming will be "melodic" if you do so


Not mention tuned drums


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