Osmose

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by Osmose 3y ago
You can use Preact + HTM to skip the build step, too. It's very nice for the middle ground where DOM management gets annoying but adding a build process would be difficult.
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by Osmose 3y ago
> React was meant to be a way to provide snappy page loads and UX. This is a very common misconception. React was meant to provide one-way data flow. With an app built directly on the DOM you have to deal with the DOM having its own stat
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by Osmose 3y ago
Is there a good reason this is formatted like a scientific paper and submitted to arxiv besides "it makes this ad look more legit and innovative"?
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by Osmose 3y ago
Maybe. Then maybe they'll try some other tactic in those cases. Either way Exxon totally has a way to reduce the emissions of their customers: by reducing their customers. They may go to other producers but this is hardly the only thin
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by Osmose 3y ago
Then Follow This and other orgs will start looking into how to get voting power there, too.
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by Osmose 3y ago
Unions sometimes charge union dues in order to fund the operations of the union (i.e. pay for negotiators, fund initiatives of a larger union if you joined one instead of forming an independent union, etc.). If you only consider your total
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by Osmose 3y ago
By reducing the amount that they produce and sell?
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by Osmose 3y ago
Code for America's union ratified their first contract last year. Kickstarter United ratified their first contract in 2022. I myself was in the Glitch union when we won voluntary recognition several years ago. (We had layoffs unrelated
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by Osmose 3y ago
They would be untenable at current profit margins. Significant profits could still be made while also paying a living wage if current profit margin expectations were reduced and viewed across a property as a whole (i.e. merch sales, ongoing
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by Osmose 3y ago
Because we are humans and our capability of abusing those rights is limited. The scale and speed at which LLMs can abuse copyrighted work to threaten the livelihoods of the authors of those works is reason enough to consider it unethical.
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by Osmose 3y ago
Looking at the source tweet[1], this isn't a list of artists specifically used to train Midjourney, but instead is a list of artists used to pre-render additives that can be added to an existing prompt much faster than an arbitrary add
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by Osmose 3y ago
Since a lot of people seem confused, this is a real disaster prevention app made in partnership with the Japan Meteorological Agency that's been on app stores since 2019: https://www.gehirn.co.jp/en/news/2019-
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by Osmose 3y ago
Yes, check the footer for links to the company behind it. The original developer was just a huge EVA fan and got permission to use the branding.
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by Osmose 3y ago
To be clear, Mozilla has no investors, the corporation is wholly-owned by the non-profit foundation. The value of a diversified revenue stream here is the ability to sustain the Foundation/Corporation and all of its projects, including
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by Osmose 3y ago
Right, but part of my point with #2 and #3 there is that "browser share" is a really poor choice for the performance metric in question to tie compensation to. Browsers just duking it out on features and ease of use is not how the
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by Osmose 3y ago
Worrying about Mozilla CEO compensation when 1. Mitchell Baker is also chairwoman of the board of the Mozilla Foundation and is a founding member of Mozilla, and receives no stock compensation because there is none to give, 2. Google can de
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by Osmose 3y ago
The courts don't come to decisions like this, but it's pretty straightforward to want to prevent AIs from being able to invent patents (even as an aid) because the obvious consequence of allowing it is companies automating the gen
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by Osmose 3y ago
You're not wrong, but a good, well resourced QA org can both help write or develop more flexible tests, and also help fix brittle tests when they do break. The idea of brittle tests that break often being a blocker is predicated on pra
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by Osmose 3y ago
This is a good reflection, but I do disagree with the view of honest efforts from Google to improve the world being met with unnecessary external criticism. People outside Google don't have the benefit of thinking of any particular pro
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by Osmose 3y ago
I think this article is emphasizing custom tags / code reuse as the primary feature of React, which isn't really the case? The whole reason React was a game changer was because it eliminated (as much as possible, anyway) the invis
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by Osmose 3y ago
"Look at the good we can do when we wield our monopoly." isn't really the brag that Google seems to think it is.
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by Osmose 3y ago
To the first question: Yes. An example would be travel sites and shopping sites getting way more use during holidays. A big one is always December: end of the year holidays mess with usage metrics a ton given how many people take off work o
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by Osmose 3y ago
This is valid but in both directions: people will say "Firefox is slow" because they don't have the time/interest to say "Firefox is slow on this specific webapp that is very important to me on my specific laptop&qu
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by Osmose 3y ago
I dunno that it fits under "elegant" but visually https://corru.observer/ is one of the most striking web games I've ever played, and it's entirely built using vanilla JS and CSS techniques.
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by Osmose 3y ago
Along with sharing rent with roommates, homeless people can and do still work and combining that with a basic income can get them over the hump and into stable housing where a single job sometimes can't.
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by Osmose 3y ago
I've got this setup with a Brother ADS-1700W scanner, which can write directly to a network share over wifi. Paperless-ngx is running on my NAS which hosts the share as well.
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by Osmose 3y ago
40 years on and they still seem to think giving talks and making free software is a suitable defense of Free Software. It's passive, and has fallen apart in the face of tech companies that actively use their free software tools to make
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by Osmose 3y ago
These are not at all comparable? This would be more like seasoning with salt in predefined amounts and not knowing how to season to taste, which will fall apart the moment you deviate from the recipe or change up the seasoning mix at all. C
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by Osmose 3y ago
If they spun it off separately they'd be handing a pretty big target for publishers to lean on during trial: "They *knew* what they were doing was wrong, they even tried to separate it from their non-profit to protect themselves f
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by Osmose 3y ago
Again, considering only the IA's own CDL program is a narrow view of the larger issue. This doesn't necessarily end with a single lawsuit.

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