bluepizza

Which was not open source from the start?

I don't get this reaction.

Almost every language in the world: here's the spec, the tooling, and everything you need to use, master, and expand this language. Please use it.

Apple: sorry, Mac only.

Like, I want Apple to do the bare minimum that everyone else is doing.

My issue with lack of moderation in social media is not the political polarization. My issue is the blatant scams pushed by bots, or by questionable companies paying sub celebrity influencers.

Criminals are not willing to have rational conversations. But they just won a free pass from the platforms.

That very in order guarantee is the issue. It can't know exactly where the connection died, which means that the client must inform the last time it received an update, and the server must then crawl back a log to find the pending messages and redispatch them.

At this point, long polling seems to carry more benefits, IMHO. WebSockets seem to be excellent for stable conditions, but not quite what we need for mobile.

My understanding is that long polling has these issues handled by assuming the connection will be regularly dropped.

Clients using mobile phones tend to have their IPs rapidly changed in sequence.

I didn't mention databases, so I can't comment on that point.

It's surprisingly complex.

Connections are dropped all the time, and then your code, on both client and server, need to account for retries (will the reconnection use a cached DNS entry? how will load balancing affect long term connections?), potentially missed events (now you need a delta between pings), DDoS protections (is this the same client connecting from 7 IPs in a row or is this a botnet), and so on.

Regular polling great reduces complexity on some of these points.

Mercosur, Australia-New Zealand, and the Gulf Cooperation Council all have a similar agreement on movement of labour. It is not particularly rare.

My personal theory (which is also baseless speculation) is that we use intuition to consider the decision pipeline closed and the matter settled. We keep at it until it feels right.

In this representation, "system 1" is simply an early pipeline decision, where one intuitively feels that it is the correct decision immediately. And if a satisfying decision doesn't come up, we keep looping over the decision, adding more factors, until we finally find the factors that make our intuition agree with it and close the matter. The longer we try to find a satisfactory decision, the more factors we try out, and therefore, someone came up with "system 2", but I see "system 2" as a particularly bad misrepresentation: it is still the same system looping, we are just staying in it longer.

The source of my theory is the interesting effect of a broken intuition: OCD sufferers are unable to break from this cycle, and even when intellectually satisfied with a conclusion, they perceive their brains as "stuck" in the question.

So fundamentally, I agree with your general idea: intuition plays a major role in this system, and when it breaks, people get paralyzed in it, no matter how good the decision is intellectually. My only point is that there is no division of systems. It's one single subsystem, integrated with many others, forming one single blackbox entity. The fast/slow thinking framework is a misrepresentation that doesn't really help one understand people's behaviors. It's a bad map.

> most notably that many of the properties attributed to System 1 and System 2 don’t actually line up with the evidence, that dual-process theories are largely unfalsifiable, and that most of the claimed support for them is “confirmation bias at work”

The article absolutely does not agree that S1 is lower cost than S2, as the article does not agree that S2 exists at all.

The point of the links I've shared is that there is no such thing as System 1/2, and decision effort/cost is not a factor.

We tend to be pushed towards immigration because of a lack of safety, of growth opportunities, and no hope that things will get any better.

With that in mind, if Latin America had safety, I suspect at least half of the immigrants wouldn't leave, especially the ones who are able to hold a middle class job.

Most of us would live in a lower standard of life if it allowed to stay close to friends and family. But not being able to walk down the street bears a heavy weight on our anxieties.

Not parent, but I have a similar impression. Design patterns, clean code, and several of these well known tools were particularly useful during C++ and early Java eras, where footguns were abundant, and we had very little discussion about them - the Internet was a much smaller place back then. Most of the developer work was around building and maintaining huge code bases, be it desktop or server, monoliths were mostly the only game. And many initiatives grew trying to tame the inherent hazard.

I think that microservices (or at least, smaller services) and modern languages allow the code to stay more manageable, to the point where Java devs now are able to dismiss Spring and go for a much simpler Quarkus.