CaptArmchair

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No. Static vs. dynamic is a concern regarding how HTML / CSS gets rendered by the backend. HTTPS certificates, embedding of 3rd party scripts, outdated HTML / JS / CSS,... are concerns that live entirely in the browser. Wheth
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Solid is a specification that allows for decentralized data storage in so-called pods. The idea is that consumer applications don't store a copy of your information in their own silo - thereby having many copies of your data floating a
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Remembrance and memorials alone don't stop atrocities from happening again. There's a difference between reminded of the past, and actively engaging with the past in the present moment. It's important to give countenance to t
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> We’d be better off suing ourselves. That's what accountability in politics is all about. > It’s we consumers who ultimately burn the oil for our homes, hospitals, schools, cars, and general electrical needs. This implies a will
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by CaptArmchair 4y ago
As far as life-cycle costs go: what about end of life? That's the big elephant in the room. Over the past decades, a couple of hundreds of plants have been build globally. Doing nuclear fission safely is a massively complex technologic
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> But a lot of those people seem to struggle even more now than they were when being in tech. Beware of bias when attributing value to someone else's struggles. "happiness" and "fulfillment" are innate personal p
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Those opportunities would be limited. Given that commercial airlines operating airplanes were in it's infancy before WWII, there was a potential market for rigid airships. World War II changed all that. The Hindenburg wasn't just
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I suppose that's personal taste, which is absolutely fine. Personally, I feel that the design isn't particularly appealing either, but that's, like, my own opinion. If anything, it's not brutalist design: https:/&#
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Having read the article, there's no mentioning of reviving a particular visual / graphic style. On the contrary, the author explicitly states: > It's important not to confuse the web revival with artistic styles such as Va
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There's a resurgence in general against the "bloated web" where a chunk of people move back towards primarily text-based sharing of information and simplicity. This drive is expressed in many different ways both in the fronte
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I'll one up you one. F.D.C Willard was an accomplished published physicist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
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It feels like a leading question. Using the "should" in that question removes the agency to make that choice from the subject in that question. Arguably, the same question could be asked regarding learning how to play a musical in
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> You can remember them. You can avoid the search engine step. No need to search when you already know the answer. Which means… You don't know what you don't know. Discovery is about leveraging common heuristics. The more conte
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Well, the US is a nation of some 330 million individuals. It's the 3rd most populous nation after China and India. The US is also the 4th largest country by land mass. It's actually tied with China in that regard. Why is that impo
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To my mind, advising people to "turn them completely off" is only part of the story. The other part is questioning why they are that wasteful in the first place. One explanation might be that it's a side effect of designing t
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> the platform There's a hidden misunderstanding here. Phrasing Mastodon as "the platform" implies you (probably subconscious) perceive it as a "classic" single, centralized, authoritative service managed by a si
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In fact, passing long-term information is a real life concern. Long term nuclear waste warning messages, for instance, have spawned the field of "nuclear semiotics". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuc
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I'd go with granite. But environmental conditions are just as important on longer time scales: humidity, temperature, acidity, biochemistry, etc. Then again, selecting a physical carrier isn't going to ensure the longevity of data
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> A story about a new IDE is not political Context absolutely matters. And "some grey area" is really a massive grey area. Suppose that story - hypothetically - is about an IDE that continuously logs developer activity potentia
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Eternal September is a thing. Over the past 15 years, billions of people became online. I use that number casual, but it's nothing short of a shift on par with the impact Gutenberg had with his printing press. Humanity's barely ou
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The problem with Twitter - and any social medium - is that moderation is very hard to scale. And that's exactly the trade-off big platforms have made in order to grow their userbase. That's just one problem. Centralization also ge
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> This reads like a massive excusatio non petita. You did post a very short take on a public forum. > I think it's very clear that the sector is often struggling under the weight of its own size That's an opinion. > You j
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That's a sourdough bread, right? Now, there's a rabbit hole to dive into. It uses a different type of levain / yeast culture compared to bread based on dried yeast. Long story short, sourdough was / is how bread was made
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Exactly. Also, the OP refers to the Mona Lisa as an example. Ironically, the Mona Lisa gained global fame because of its theft from the Louvre in 1911 by Vincenzo Peruggia: the very man who had helped construct the panel's glass casing
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Do you have any sources for your claims? Because, having worked in this space for many year, your statements could be read as a generalization, whereas things are far more nuanced, context-dependent and in many cases quite the opposite from
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That's only part of the story. WordPress provides hooks that make it possible to alter the editing experience in the first place. It would be far cheaper to simply alter the API's to stop making this possible. Of course, that woul
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The difference here is that the value proposition of a streaming service is pretty clear up front. Whereas in a context of f2p games, you're given the impression that you're actually acquiring ownership over the digital assets you
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> individuals cost of healthcare is not that high What you don't pay for out of pocket, you do pay either in quality of care or through your taxes, one way or the other.
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Another avenue is just being more conscious about the meat you eat. There's a difference between having meat-based products as a staple food (e.g. preprocessed meat, fast food / restaurant / take-out,...) and reducing which t
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I'm pointing out that reality is far more complex and fraught, and that it's naive and, yes, even presumptuous to assume that so-called "third world countries" are simply going to go along with an amorphous "we&qu

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