I would not like to have to concern myself with exposing government-compliant APIs when coding any arbitrary tool...the free market can reward good development.
No way, especially because all the people taking most market-business-related decisions (eg which software to buy) are not tech-oriented. If we had more power on these decisions, that would mean that development, and even advertising of products, would be closer to what the parent comment suggest. But alas.
Markets cannot regulate nuanced behavior like this. Microsoft is a trivial example of anti-user practices and generally garbage design nonetheless being adopted due to their tremendous efforts of corporate propaganda and scaremongering the decision makers about their products.
> I thought high school shop class no longer exists.
anecdata:
I graduated high school in 2015 and had woodshop, auto shop, and metal shop classes. Also welding, and, for what it is worth, cosmetology. This was at a public school in Houston. We had wood and metal shop in middle school, as well.
These classes are still offered at my school according to my relative who still works there.
From what I understand, I am amazed we have anyone willing to teach in New York (the city) public schools. You need a master's degree and more than three (not sure) certifications. It is insane. Yes, I agree we should have some standards but too many restrictions and I am afraid only a certain kind of personality can survive as a teacher in the city.
This has been the requirement for teachers in Germany since WW II. 5 years of university plus 1 year following an experienced teacher with a practical exam at the end.
You may find if you carefully checked that a number of people who you would think are "teachers" are technically some other classification because they don't have the required paperwork.
Sometimes the requirements are and/or, and sometimes they let you slide if you're "working on the masters".
> Yes, I agree we should have some standards but too many restrictions and I am afraid only a certain kind of personality can survive as a teacher in the city.
The biggest restriction is lack of decent pay relative to the quality of life and liabilities of the job.
Rust is an active and growing community, and there are a lot of software engineers here who are interested in how the sausage is made. I can think of two solid reasons I like to know when something is written in Rust:
1) This is a new codebase that we can study and contribute to. Knowing it is in Rust is relevant, so us Rust people know if we are able to dig into it.
2) Rust makes some guarantees about the properties of programs written in it. These guarantees are of interest to some, to the point where many have adopted Rust versions of common utilities (ls/exa, grep/ripgrep, etc.).
edit: just saw it is closed source. Bit of a bummer, and nullifies my points to a certain extent. But I will leave them up since I think they apply to other projects that are more open.
they recently disbanded the homeless camp on the Burke Gilman, near UW under the bridge, after it burned down accidentally. That was really the only major one actually close to the trail — I bike it weekly.
That's technically the second argument. Just like in C++, when using a chained method, the first argument is implied to be the thing you're chaining on. So this is the same thing as calling Result::expect(File::open(&input_filename), "[ ERROR ] Failed to open file!"), but I've never actually seen someone ever use expect that way.
I'm not a stats expert, and this is a genuine question rather than an accusation. I notice on the "graphs" page, the trends look very close to perfect exponential curves when China is excluded, but get a lot further from that when China is included. Does this suggest a lack of accuracy in the numbers they've reported, or is it more likely that the government's strong reaction to the outbreak quelled the exponential growth in a mathematically disruptive way?
Great question - I have heard both of the options you mentioned as possible explanations for the decline of new cases.
Personally I like to give countries the benefit of the doubt. As difficult as it sounds to quarantine and stop the spread of a virus in a country with 1+ billion people and multiple 10M+ cities, China is one of the few countries that could actually pull it off.
At the end of the day, the option you pick probably depends on whether or not you trust the numbers provided :)
I had a lot of trouble understanding it until I read it 5 times. All the words just turn to soup in my brain as I read them... It's like the information density of the text isn't high enough to keep my attention or something.
The first sentence in particular has a very "the department of redundancy department" structure. Also took me a few tries to realize what it was actually saying.
