RNCTX

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by RNCTX 5y ago
America's version of paying the barbarians to stay away from the gates of Rome in the last days of a dying empire.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Map tiles are actually one thing you can still justify bare-metal for, imo. I don't do things with maps professionally but when I did some non-profit stuff involving maps in the last couple of years it didn't take long to figure
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Not really surprising if you consider their likely motivations. Google isn't in the business of selling things to end users, they're in the business of selling ads. The only thing GCP gives them (outside of getting wall streeters
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Actually it had both of them in mind. People whose data validation is done via server-side logic probably don't need typescript either.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
The "easily" in that sentence is an important word...
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by RNCTX 6y ago
> and more importantly, the code will look idiomatic. That's the kicker. Whether a thing is possible or not is a far cry from whether it's a good idea. And when you consider what someone who opens up the code 5-7 years later w
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I mean, you gotta trust someone at some point. If they don't trust Google, Microsoft, and Apple to keep Javascript in the browser sandbox-jail then they're gonna be re-inventing an awful lot of wheels ;).
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Apparently this is possible: https://shinglyu.com/web/2018/02/08/minimal-react-js-without...
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I suppose it could, but there are annoyances with JSX defaults. For instance, Vue provides a method to explicitly declare your template variable delimiter syntax. Last time I looked this was requested of React, but not implemented, someone
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Vue is the only one of the most popular 3 frameworks that can easily be used on a minimal basis to sort of "spruce up" old applications by selectively adding it here and there in the templates. Seems like they should try more mark
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by RNCTX 6y ago
> Virtually all drugs come out of an NIH-funded lab, but so do a huge number of other drugs and therapies that don't work. The vast majority of things that come out of research labs have no hope at making it past a phase 1 trial. No
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by RNCTX 6y ago
> Without the right to exclusively profit from the final product, are pharmaceutical companies gonna invest all the resources and engage in all the bureaucracy-navigation it takes to develop a new drug? Per recent congressional testimony
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by RNCTX 6y ago
A dumb idea turns into dumb system requiring dumb labor to complete a circle of dumb that no one wants. Imagine that.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Bet you won't have to dig far to find that the author of the article is an apartment developer or very adjacent to one.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Nah, mine is in Texas. But I'm sure we can probably apply the same story to hundreds of universities.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
The important thing is that you change whatever you use as often as possible so that those social media and search links stop working ASAP.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I know the university I attended has learned nothing at all. State university in a wealthy US area with over 30,000 students. They still think security is forcing everyone to change passwords once every 6 months. No offer of 2fa of any sort
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by RNCTX 6y ago
> but their progress with site features has been... well, underwhelming. As is Patreon, as well. Their website is slow and a pain to use. They just stopped publishing direct, hard links to S3 in subscription RSS feeds late last year or e
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I find it highly unlikely that there are repair contractors with people sitting behind magnifying glasses and soldering irons. I would suspect that toss and replace is the norm across the whole spectrum of
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by RNCTX 6y ago
False. Colin Powell made his entire career on being the person willing to help cover up the My Lai massacre.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
I was pleasantly surprised last time I stayed in Chattanooga ;). I was flying a private airplane (am a pilot) and the monthly GIS database updates and PNG map tiles required to fly with an app rather than paper maps go well into the tens of
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Yes, they are. There's nothing strange about it at all. If you want to sell securities on public markets you have to abide by certain rules. It's completely reasonable, and I know that corporations and their apologists like to t
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Listed corporations are not "private companies." They gave up privacy when they sold stock/bonds on public markets.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Related: check out @nyt_diff on twitter.
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by RNCTX 6y ago
You got me, it's early yet ;)
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by RNCTX 6y ago
> First "corporate personhood" means that corporations are allowed to sue and be sued like they were individuals. Along with being taxed and regulated. A person doing business face to face in a store cannot hide the nature of t
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Well, well. It's harder and harder every day to argue with the legal opinion offered by former SCOTUS justice Kennedy, which seemed hilariously corrupt at the time, that corporations are effectively people. A defining trait of an awfu
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Because speech recognition quality is a product of data harvesting, the one thing Google does well?
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Big difference is Ford, VW, et al had local dealer networks that not only fixed the cars, but turned the lessons and data learned in the fixing back into engineering improvements upstream. The net result of this is over a span of years Ford
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by RNCTX 6y ago
Highly dependent on how I got to the repo. If I know what repo I want and am going directly to it, sure. If I'm looking at lots of repos that match a search (either on GH or somewhere else), say... looking for a library that does a thi

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