> How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.
> You think you know better. But the current process works.
> It has problems, but problems are a fact of life. There is no perfect.
> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not
want to have anything at all to do with your approach.
> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social
media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell
wasn't the solution to politics.
> Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no
than\k you.
Just realized that architects had to actually draw their designs before computers. This is obviously true, but I haven't had to think about this until now.
The realization sets in that the whole culture war of the abstract on the ornamental, migtht boil down to avoiding having to draw till your hands fell off.
If you just need one drawing of something unique it is probably still fastest. But nobody needs one drawing of something unique. You often want to take your drawing and program some CNC (3d printer...) to build parts and CAD/CAM can do that much quicker. You often want more than one copy of the drawing reduced/enlarged. You often want to give different views to different people which CAD will just do with a few clicks. You often want to run analysis for various things (do the beams work, will the pipes carry the needed water...). Many more things modern CAD can just do and more things are being added - you just need to learn to use a computer.
The best way to start a design is with one drawing of something unique.
When I start I don’t know if its beams or walls or trusses or tensile fabric. I don’t know where the water comes from. I don’t know where it goes because I don’t know the shapes of things. Don’t know the form of the whole.
Sometimes computers are appropriate to the work. Sometimes they are not. I started learning CAD in 1989. My understanding of the work is different now.
Recommend checking out Taliesin West, if you're ever near Scottsdale. You'll get to see where he and his students did a lot of the draft work for his architecture and see some of the drafts too.
Fun story, Wright despised the electrification of the rural US, and threatened to abandon the property when poles were erected nearby, considering them unsightly.
I much prefer Gaudi - even more outrageous, and his roofs didn't leak. He didn't have access to modern engineering, but all his buildings were well built.
Gaudi pioneered a lot of interesting physical modelling techniques to check his designs, e.g., he was the first to use inverted space-hanging models for domes and vaults (although his predecessors had used them for arches).
Great to see a story about the USS Midway. It is currently decommissioned and permanently docked in San Diego as a museum for the public. I've been there - on the very landing strip seen in the photos. Really humbled to have visited such a key part of US history.
The point is that Grothendieck, easily one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, who regularly proved deep and fundamental facts about prime numbers, cared so little about particular numbers that he accidentally gave an easy to see non-prime as an example of a prime.
He was used to working on completely different levels of abstraction, so when faced with concrete numbers he could easily make a mistake that a school-child (or hacker news commenter) could spot.
If EB1A is approved, my understanding is that the applicant becomes "current" and eligible for the green card at once without any waiting in the queue regardless of country of birth. Is that not correct?
There’s a cap on how many EB1 green cards they give out per year, and there’s also a per country cap within that cap (no country cannot cross 7% of total cap)
Unfortunately, there are a lot of EB1C greencard applicants from my country (India) as the bar for L1 and EB1C is pretty low. Since all EB1 visas (EB1A, EB1B, and EB1C) are counted together towards the cap, that means that even though I required a muncher higher bar to qualify for EB1A, I have to wait in queue with all the EB1C applicants who applied before me.
Based on my estimate, it’ll be more than 6 years (or even more) for EB1A priority date to come to late 2024.
For those from China and India, based on the current backlogs, the process would take about 4-5 years; for those from every other country, there is no backlog in this category so the process could take less than 1 year.
I second this. I wouldn't have been able to make tmux such an integral part of my daily workflow if it weren't for this binding that I came across in someone's starter tmux conf many years ago.
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