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> I wish someone had explained that there is immense utility in the community of religion. That you could end up in your 30s without much of a broad social community. Sure friends, sure family, but not really belonging to any community b
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> I was shocked by how buggy Angular Material is. That's why I chose to go with PrimeNG for our project, which has turned out great.
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They did both get hired by Jane Street, which is not so easy to do to. So they did have the "smarts", it just depends on if this started out as, or became, a massive fraud.
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Their ‘chief regulatory officer’ Dan Friedberg was previously tied to a massive online poker scandal! Let's get real here, there was no "due diligence" or anything else that should have been done when you are investing hard-e
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This, to me, is why Factorio is so incredible. It's blananced to a point it always feels incredibly fair, and there are sliders and fine-tuned adjustments you can do if you wan to make it "just a little more chaotic", or &quo
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Given the Gosmic Microwave Background Radiation, and things like this study, there were clearly some "parameters" in effect at the strart of the universe. I'll stop there, call that whatever you want. But whatever those param
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There's a good chance this comes down to nicotine. > Biological mechanisms exist to explain why smoking could protect from SARS-CoV-2 infection. I don’t pretend to be qualified to assess them, but the basic idea is that nicotine com
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I ran a dual-node PCBoard BBS in 1992 that had a custom scrolling ANSI login screen developed by JeD of ACiD, which was a pretty big accomplishment at the time. The annoying thing was the "page sysop" going off at 3 AM from my clo
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Both C# and Java are popular programming languages, and they each have their own strengths and weaknesses. It's difficult to say which one is "better" overall, as the best language for a particular project will depend on the
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Not that impressive at all, eh? Tell it to create you a story or write you a poem based on some information you give it. Forget code, this thing is unreal.
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I've had it write me complete stories, poems, life stories, etc that obviously have no training data, because I made them up. The results were beyond impressive. I don't know how it does it, but it does it really well.
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Ask it to write you a story or some poetry ... you'll be surprised at how creative it can be.
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This ChatGPT really blows my mind with some stuff. I randomly typed in "Tell me a story about a software engineer who descends into alcohol addiction." I got back: There once was a brilliant software engineer named Sarah. She had
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> The bootstrapping operations for the sandbox escape exploit are written to run on this logic circuit and the whole thing runs in this weird, emulated environment created out of a single decompression pass through a JBIG2 stream. It
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Let's not kid ourselves here, NSO is no regular "company" and doesn't face any of these issues. This is literally an arm of the Israeli intelligence apparatus. The laws as you and I see them do not apply in any form wha
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Same deal, 2001 when C# was in beta. That's worked out.
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> And you still need to go through the browser to display anything No, you don't, and even if that was the case you can just throw a <canvas> tag on a page and render whatever custom UI you want to that, sort of like one of Fl
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What would the point of the browser be, then? It's specifically meant to render HTML, JS, CSS layouts. If it's just a shell hosting a WASM application, you may as well get rid of the browser altogether. This is where I get confus
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My thought exactly, seeing how Flutter has an output for the web that renders to canvas, bypassing everything entirely. Then what do we have? A C# desktop application running under WASM inside a browser with a custom UI rendered to a <ca
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> Right now you can port large C code bases over to run in a browser with emscripten so that's nice. Maybe you'll write a web component using WASM at some point. But doesn't this have the potential for a massive, paradigm
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I've been a developer for decades and I'm still getting highly confused by all of this WASM, Wasmer, WasmEdge, Wasmtime, etc. There was another one on the front page today that allowed you to use WASM to program other programming
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> My new conspiracy theory is all of the smaller coins were an easy way to extend the Ponzi scheme by inventing valuation out of thin air. That's exactly what happened. I invent $GRBG coin, reserve 1 billion of them, and sell 1 to
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> Besides, the latters share the same concepts of single file components: logic (JavaScript), structure (HTML), and style (CSS) in the same file. Personally, I hate this. I currently work on a large Angular 14 (now 15) application that s
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No, but from my timeline 30 years into the industry, JS took off, a bunch of front-end developers created an entire slew of frameworks, then they realized that parts of it could be rendered first on the server and hydrated, etc etc. Then we
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A run a handful of sites I just toss up on Github Pages that are only HTML and CSS. The dynamic stuff is .Net in the background. I feel like I've time-travellled back 20 years sometimes, but this is now perceived as "cool" a
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Java has (had?) such beauties as "InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedStates". Now imagine a bit of reflection on that to do some string manipulation. Good times!
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> that you don't have to edit your stylesheets 95% of the time, when you alter the styling of a document And the problem with editing style sheets when dealing with document style, is?
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> I guess the hype-driven junior developers saw how better Typescript is at managing Javascript's shortcomings, and now see static typed languages, especially one with some hype of its own behind, as the Messiah. You can see the exa
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At the time, when you are hallucinating, whatever they are saying to you is the "truth". May give an insight into schizophrenia or anything else.
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> Kalshi is partnered with LedgerX LLC (d/b/a FTX US Derivatives) How has the FTX debacle impacted you, if at all? https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/17/cftc-has-boots-on...
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