From my experience guilt by blood is something that rears it's head surprisingly often even in progressive rhetoric.
For specific people but even for populations.
Adjust the population a bit to one perceived to be disadvantaged in the past or bring their thoughts to a certain context and often you can trick em into essentially almost quoting these guys stopping just short of blut und boden.
So many of the negative comments about Villeneuve's Dune in this thread are astonishing to me, but I will just pick this one: surely scale is something that Villeneuve does so brilliantly! From Arrival, though Blade Runner 2049, to his Dune, he has an amazing ability to make things seem vast (space ships, buildings, cities...) - it's almost a trademark of his work, to me, so colour me baffled that you would single this out for criticism.
(For context, I read and enjoyed the Dune books as a child, I've seen the Lynch film several times and find it broadly comical, I love Twin Peaks, and I think Villeneuve is arguably one of the best mainstream directors working right now.)
I think the GP meant Lynch's world (universe) felt bigger, more mysterious. Like there were more things going on outside this story than could ever be told. Not that the physical size of things was too small. I think I agree a bit. But that universe is supposed to be small and claustrophobic I think? It is part of the lesson in the last few books. I liked the scifi miniseries the best but mostly for what came after the first book. Lynch's I liked when young, but even then I found the amount of internal narrative extremely irritating. The new one jas the problem of most every adaptation of a beloved and dense written work. It tries to serve existing fans and the casual viewer with the same movie. It does much better at that than anything but Jackson's lotr I think, but it is always hard.
Great comment! For anyone looking to learn a bit more about this, the "crossing" technique described above is called "chiasmus": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus
Another famous example is "Vivāmus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus" from Catullus 5 (there are several instances of it in this poem, in fact).
And, of course, speaking of Lesbia (traditionally identified as Clodia Metelli, otherwise known as Quadrantaria), one should mention her “sparrow” mentioned in Catullus 2: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/natural-histories/catul.... Reading that article again I saw a tidbit I missed before: “As Richard Hooper has recently pointed out, ‘in Egyptian hieroglyphics the determinative for “little, evil, bad” was … śerau, the sparrow’”. And so it is: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sparrow_(hiero....
Yahoo was more of a slow decline, and missed opportunities. They could have actually acquired Google and/or Facebook at one point, and could have been acquired by Microsoft at a later point.
The comment talks about "quickly changes the world around us rather fundamentally", "knocked off their perch", and "within a few years", which doesn't seem like an accurate description of what happened with Yahoo.
They are considered to be self-employed. If they're earning more than £1000 a year, then they need to file a self-assessment tax return with HMRC, and if they're earning more than a certain amount, perhaps £12500 a year, they will need to pay income tax on those earnings (plus national insurance).
Do most gig workers actually do these things? I have no idea.
Which is a nice target to have. Makes me want to learn the language.
Modern tech is so obsessed with high-turnover, sale-by-first-impression user growth toy software mindset, that it completely forgot about the idea of creating and optimizing tools for people who use those tools day in, day out.
No it didn't come on. Languages and libraries are still written by developers, who make tools based on their experiences and preferences using tools. A dense tersely named standard library is simply not pleasant to use for most people, and so most people won't develop one for themselves or others to use.
Something that's easy to understand on a first impression is easy to understand on every subsequent impression as well. At least in terms of languages and libs no one is optimizing for that first impression, it's just a byproduct of making it easy to use in all cases.
That's because kdb tables are much more similar to R dataframes (ordered maps of vectors), rather than to relational algebra used in RDBMS/SQL (logically sets of rows). That's for in-memory only (RDB), ignoring historical data (HDB) and persistence since kdb is a real database.
I'm slightly surprised no one has commented on the custom infix operators. I think if I encountered the example in the wild, I'd understand it was a clamp function based purely on the names, but if it were used for anything else I'd have to spend quite a lot of time puzzling over it. Perhaps they make more sense to Haskell people, though!
If you enjoy that kind of thing then you might like Terry Pratchett's early SF work "Strata" that riffs heavily on this idea (on a less parochial scale) while also enjoyably sending up Niven's Ringworld and a few other tomes.
There is also 2022 Netflix series "Ancient Apocalypse", presenting a theory that there was a civilization (not industrial, but like Romans or Egyptians) living on the coastal areas during last ice age, but their traces have disappeared now that sea level is 120 meters higher than during ice age.
In the same vein, I’ve heard historians theorize that Doggerland was the most comfortable area for human habitation in Northern Europe during its existence, with its lowlands, lakes and river systems perfectly matching the landscape of the other ancient civilization centers. The lands of the modern UK and Scandinavia were by comparison inhospitable highlands, where humans have moved after their ancestral lands were flooded.
I haven't seen the show, but I'm captivated by the idea that there are probably thousands of submerged sites like Cosquer Cave that hold traces of human history that are lost to both time and the sea. It's not on the same level as a city, but I am intrigued by it's existence nonetheless. It is also somber to think about how much artwork in that cave was washed away when it was flooded.
