Matts PR fumble, his apology and his call for loyalty including notable exit incentives in the aftermath were (almost) all it took to handle the issue somewhat gracefully. All of it was openly communicated, in a manner you'd expect from such an entity as WordPress.
The only explanation I can come up with is that this has been in place for longer and legal wanted some tracking for NDA breaches. The internal P2 (it's a WP theme btw.) has been around forever, there are likely NDAs in place to cover internals that aren't allowed to get out. Perhaps legal needs to track leaks in order to ward of collateral damage along side of the WP Engine lawsuits.
This is likely more of a CYA on Automattics behalf than any regular tactic. IMHO something they could've most likely done without.
... our crops as a replacement for bees we are seriously screwed. How about we get moving a little faster on that way overdue global Eco-Turnaround?
Interesting.
But more pressing an issue for me is: When are the complete and 100% gene-compliant biomods coming? I want to turn back my clock 30 years and replace some parts of my lobsided scull and sceleton. Along with 150+ years of lifespan and perhaps optimized pheromone system to make things easier with the ladies.
Anybody working on this?
Figma barely has a business case. Anything still left is being snacked up by AI or will eventually be replaced by open source software.
With UI design tools it's just like with Editors or Web Toolkits. There is always some hype-cycle that pushes the tool that then quickly gets replaced by the next fad: Sketch - Adobe XD - Invision - Figma
I don't even use UI designers anymore, I build right in the web these days. The UI libs are all there already and you can integrate them just as quick as drawing the element. I might copy the occasional SVG object into my components, but that's because Inkscape is a neat vector drawing tool for the custom stuff. For everything else I don't even need it anymore.
... of shifts ever. If you think contemporary feminism is an infantile nuisance at best, wait till the bots start taking most of our jobs, including those working class "strong man" jobs.
In roughly the last 15 years I've observed something very strange: I'm most useful to the ladies as a lover and dance-partner and also am most judged on the skill-level I display in those fields. And I'm a software developer, one of those rare few jobs that had it quite well just two years ago. Given, my exes do still call me up when they have a problem with their website, but even that only happens like once a year and will have vanished real soon now when AI takes over.
When the bots finally take over and post scarcity has arrived, we hetero-men will be even less needed.
Going to the gym, being fit, flexible, emotionally super-stable and a strong independent gentleman is going to be the new standard for getting any meaningful chance with the ladies in general. Perhaps in conjunction with some strange peacocking women-independent philosophy, fashion and etiquette. Sort of like a post-scarcity version of stoicism.
And I've been observing a notable hike in this trend in recent years and it's soooo strange to experience that. And we have barely gotten started.
Bottom line: Prepare for incoming, guys. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Europe should be focused on getting its shit together,
I totally agree. Fortress Europe is our only chance. It's sad that Europolitics has been a little sleepy in that regard. I'm also glad the Trump crew is enough of a Jerk to finally wake Europe up. I hope this lasts beyond nice words. Frontex, joint Military branches, slimming of the large parliaments including EU/Brussels, cultural resilience and a strong young movement to move closer together is what I want to see happening.
(continental European here)
We're like: "You guys sure you want to do this?" and "This doesn't look like it's going to fly and for what you want to achieve you're missing the fundamentals." and "Taxes? Healthcare? Loser pays all for civil lawsuits? Feasible Public Education?"
What's going on right now is making me really queasy.
Here's the deal: We continental Europeans knew Brexit would hurt. However, nobody knew it would hurt _that_ bad. I'm looking to the UK right now thinking "Holy cow, this went from 'It's going to be tough' to 'major disintegration of society' really quick."
I'm starting to feel and fear the same for the USA.
What's really a shame is that solving this wouldn't be hard, especially with people willing to do hard and radical things. But what I'm observing right now is very hard to make sense of. I suspect lowering dollar value and maintaining it's key position is not going to work, despite what some "Project 2025" academics think.
If this goes sideways epic style, and it very well could, I sure hope you guys can redo the constitutional makeup of the USA without any all-out civil war non-sense. Good luck and be safe! I mean it!
... what the term "cognitive ability" (PC speak for intelligence) means.
Who even designs these studies? Is tax money used for stuff like this?
... an Internet protocol, at worst a global mental illness.
Facebook only ever had a business case because email is a clunky historically grown service and protocol from the steam age of computing. And the alternatives such as Usenet or IRC aren't that much user friendly either if you aren't willing to learn the basics and set up a client.
If we would replace email, Usenet, IRC and a few others with a fresh unified protocol with full on Ident/Auth/Auth/Signature/Crypto and build useable clients for regular people for it, Facebooks business case would instantly vanish into thin air.
WordPress and its predecessor b2cafelog arguably were built by people who couldn't program all to well. And the codebase certainly shows that until this very day. However, in the decades that I've been using WP and it's predecessors I have come to discover that many things that look like a bad joke in code form come with unintuitive key advantages that have secured WPs position as the worlds leading CMS for good reasons.
Here's a list of those key advantages to WordPress, that still make it the premium option for CMSes today:
1.) Everythings procedural. And yes, that's an advantage(!), for multiple reasons:
-- Even the most clueless of progging n00bs will _instantly_ notice when he breaks something, because then the whole thing crashes into a white screen of death (or todays equivalent).
-- The memory requirements for WP are quite modest, even today. That enables the thing to "run" in thousands of instances with modest HW requirements.
2.) WP does templating right. Because is doesn't use some inner platform templating bullshit like every other system does, it uses pure PHP. WordPress is the only notable project that is aware that PHP is at first and foremost a templating language in itself. A rare thing in the PHP world, where each and every project has to reinvent the wheel and make their thing unmanageable in the process.
Child templates are another instance of templating done right.
3.) WPs data model is a mess. But it doesn't care. And that's good. Because the systems that _do_ care always turn out to have way _worse_ models. As shitty as WPs model and god-object wp_post is, anyone can grasp it in 20 minutes or less. The advantage being, that I can program around any nutty WP nonsense within an hour, build exactly what I want and need and nothing more. Every other PHP CMS forces it's bullshit on to me and I have to spend days wading through inner-platform documentations to get anything done. Sickening. Drupal/Symfony being a good example of this problem.
All datamodels turn into a dumpster-fire if their aren't meticulously managed. Which they very rarely are. With WordPress I at least know _exactly_ what type of dumpster fire I'm getting and have the tools at hand to put it out and/or get it under control and turn it into my very own special type of dumpster fire.
4.) Hardwired URLs turn out to be a good thing too. You can't migrate domains or hosts without asking the person in charge, because he needs to run his special SQL & SED scripts. That has saved me countless headaches in the last 2 decades and has prevented many a team of taking the CMS and causing damage without being aware of it.
5.) WP uses PHP. 3000 projects on one host, 0% cpu load. We don't care how shitty your code is, we'll kill it at server-timeout anyway. Stateless server-side templating. You can have all the state you want until timeout. Then we'll just wipe it. Awesome. No pathetic Node babysitting like with some 90ies Java Enterprise behemoth. Soooo much piece of mind.
6.) UI doesn't have users fall into an instant panic attack. A monkey with a learning disability can handle WPs Dashboard within 5 minutes. I can't stress enough how valuable this is.
Bottom line: Many things in WP that look like the worst thing ever turn out to be very useful and advantageous. And make WP notably superior to other setups that try to be smart but fall on their face in the real world. You'd be surprised.
... is crackpot science. Not all and perhaps not the majority, but given that the quality of Therapy is extremely dependent on the match and vibe between patient and therapist and many practicing therapists aren't that good at their job I totally believe that an AI can be a better option for many.
Especially given the fact that by simply heuristics a therapy AI can gain experience from talking to hundreds of millions of people. Something that is totally beyond anything a human can do.
If AI comes anywhere near what is technically possible, they'll basically be gods. And what better a therapist than a literal god that gives you more than full attention and perhaps, in the future, knows every detail of your life and can recall it even if you look since have forgotten and moved the experience into the subconscious.
By and large it's a no-brainer that AI is going to replace human therapists in the foreseeable future. If civilization doesn't crash and burn that is.
... come out within the top 5 of key factors, correct? I won't get more specific.
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