> The only way to move forward is to put that past behind us.
I think a distinction should be made between revisiting history (in a bid to understand how we got where we are now), and assigning blame.
I'm not sure how we can move forward without some degree of empathy; "Yes, you got the short end of the stick, but how about if we try such and such to ameliorate the impact of the past on your present".
I don't think you are advocating sweeping the past under the rug, I'm just saying that telling a person who is still feeling the sting of a perceived slight (real or imagined) is unlikely to result in moving forward.
Perhaps thats is because ants and amoebas have to find food in a bid to continue thier existence. Its safe to asume that for them to be satiated (not just resting) is to die.
Indeed. I read a book called The Songlines which was about Australian aboriginals and nomadism in general. It qouted Pascal and proposed that the solution is to walk and to wander. That's what we are made for. The solution to the problem of sitting in a room is not to sit in a room!
It is a misconception that all nomadic or foraging humans had to spend 100% of their time trying to stay alive.
I'm fact, if you look at African tribes and their original lifestyle you will realize how little time they had to spend on getting food and how much time they were able to spend just being happy, playing, drinking hallucinogenic substances to get into an enlightening trance etc.
There's a German standup comedian (Volker Pispers) who did a bit about this. It goes a bit like this: People always think that nature is so efficient. But nature doesn't optimize. Nature is lazy and does as little work as possible. You'll never see a lion hunt down a zebra and then go like "Okay, that took me 30 minutes, so I could do 10 more zebras today before dusk". He'll eat part of the zebra, leave the rest for the hyenas, and then spend the rest of the day basking in the sun.
> It is a misconception that all nomadic or foraging humans had to spend 100% of their time trying to stay alive.
Agreed.
> I'm fact, if you look at African tribes and their original lifestyle you will realize how little time they had to spend on getting food and how much time they were able to spend just being happy, playing, drinking hallucinogenic substances to get into an enlightening trance etc.
Generalizations about foraging populations are fraught with problems because there was a lot of diversity among them and its not possible to study them in a "pure" (untouched by agricultural peoples) setting.
Pardon my ignorance or perhaps its just that I've become jaded, but outside of circumstances with dire/sever consequence such as laws, regulations, etc how does an independent audit (legit accreditation or not) verify what happens after the audit is done and the auditors long gone?
How does an independent audit detect out of band taps (swapping binaries, re purposing archives/backups, mirroring, etc) on infrastructure the auditor wasn't monitoring before the audit? logs? but more importantly amortized or not the customer eventually pays for all this activity that at the end of the day is more fluff than substance (in terms of what the customer can actually verify)
In the end doesn't all this come down to just another form marketing?
Please note, that I recognize that there are many scenarios where an independent audit would add value. I just don't think it adds anything that social validation doesn't already add when considered from the perspective of a consumer to whom the infrastructure behind the service is unavoidably opaque.
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Can somebody please tell em, to stop the excessive use of css animations(the moving star field background). It pegs one of my cores, and raises my laptops temperature to the point where i can feel it. Worse still, it really adds nothing to the ability to peruse information, if anything I find it distracting! </rant>
Given this is a website by someone purporting to be providing a "blazingly fast" JS UI lib, comments on UI perf. seem pretty on-topic.
Given the general lack of info on the site about why one should choose this library over others (beyond reiterating that it's "blazingly fast"), a showcase of one's claims of speed should be a pretty important aspect of the site.
This is not to criticise the library itself, but these kinds of first impressions are significant.
I think it isn't the animation itself but the blatant abuse of box-shadow to create all the stars.
Using an image for example should greatly reduce the required performance.
The background is in its own div with classeslike "stars"and "js-stars", just before the footer. You can delete the div using the DOM inspector to remove them.
grafio is a close competitor to Lekh Diagram. Shape recognition and customization of shapes are much better in Lekh Diagram.
What Lekh Diagram lacks (if you compare with grafio) is aesthetically good looking GUI.
Apart from that the grafio recently added toolbox for flowchart shapes which is currently not in Lekh Diagram. But many of those toolbox shapes (like arrow) are easily recognized by Lekh Diagram.
As much as a good looking GUI would be nice, please don't do it at the expense of speed/performance and please don't over do it. There is something to be said for a clean simple, but polished look.
I'm not sure how we can move forward without some degree of empathy; "Yes, you got the short end of the stick, but how about if we try such and such to ameliorate the impact of the past on your present".
I don't think you are advocating sweeping the past under the rug, I'm just saying that telling a person who is still feeling the sting of a perceived slight (real or imagined) is unlikely to result in moving forward.