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That reminds me of an image I meant to create myself once.

@[email protected], can you show me a painting, reminiscent of Magritte's pipe, but replace the pipe with an emoji poo, and the text with, "Ceci n'est pas une poop."

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Yeah, but he'll need to borrow a vehicle to get to work now.

I kind of miss when No Man's Sky was an endless, empty expanse. That sense of loneliness and futility was an emotional experience that it doesn't have now. It's become a much better game, no doubt, but putting time and careful planning into that long crawl towards the galactic centre felt right.

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We could offer to shut down their military sites, but that's probably what Putin wants us to do.

It has to appeal to his ego. We rejected his bid to build a casino in Sydney decades ago, and now that casino is going bankrupt, so we could let him "save" it by buying it out. No doubt he'll lose money on it anyway, we get a fat investment and tariffs dropped. Shittty deal for Trump but he won't care if it gets his name on a building with Sydney Harbour views.

As most have said, doubling up compression won't usually get you much.

However, video compression is usually designed to facilitate performance of sequential reads because videos are typically played beginning to end, so theoretically there may be ways to compress them more if you're willing to make sacrifices there.

I doubt RAR is the way to do it, though. It just hasn't been designed for this kind of data.

Maybe there's a video compression format out there designed specifically for archival storage, but I'm not aware of it.

ISO won't get you any further compression, that's for sure.

You could certainly test this out yourself and let us know if you get any space savings.

Feels like you're stuck in an exoskeletoooon.

I thought the same, until I spent a few years on a codebase where self-documenting code was enforced with detailed code reviews. That does a very good job of clearing up the ambiguity.

If you can't get that kind of review, then by all means use comments.

I'm still waiting for the day I see UML in a professional context. My undergrad teachers were all about it.

Similarly, I don't design software using design patterns, and I've had to discourage juniors from forcing them into projects where they don't add any value. But that's not to say design patterns aren't useful. They do exactly what you say, allowing your brain to recognise a pattern so you can remember or communicate it without having to go into details. Most of the time it won't be an exact fit for the ideal pattern implementation, but it's still easier to remember the variation.

I wish they were taught more as communication and cognitive tools than silver bullets for good software design.

In the real world there aren't even that many patterns. On a very large project you're likely to see the same patterns repeated throughout the system, because a good architecture doesn't add variation and complexity unless there's a lot of value to gain. You learn the default way, and then the diffs.

The US needs to break the two-party system so minor parties and independents actually have a chance at representation.

Of course there's no incentive for the establishment to do that. Is there any way for new candidates to run with the major parties, but on a platform to introduce preferential voting when they have the numbers? I don't know much about factions within US parties, but they certainly exist in my country, and can transform parties quickly if they think they have election-winning appeal.

It would have to happen bottom-up, as you say, so people can get comfortable with such a big change. Also, people are much more likely to elect independents at a local level.

Living in rural Tasmania, trying to work on (often) 5 mbps down, with frequent drops, looking at the garden that produces fruit and vegetables faster than we can eat them... that agrarian lifestyle is looking mighty tempting right now.