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by azangru 2y ago
> Most everyone else tried to find a use for Twitter but couldn’t. I know many early users that either abandoned or deleted their accounts before 2010. So what changed? Why did twitter eventually become so popular?
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> The internet doesn’t need to be like this. As luck would have it, a new way is emerging just in time. If you’ve heard of Bluesky... Why do they write as if activitypub and mastodon do not exist?
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Did he reinvent a static-site generator? Markdown, pandoc, makefile... Sounds like a job for hugo/eleventy/jekyll/whatever.
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Gen Alpha? Is this already a thing?
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> I would normally think that with the rise of LLMs, writing would be come obsolete If LLMs obsolete writing, then they will also obsolete reading. Why waste time on reading texts when you know that no effort has been put into creating t
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WebGL. At least for 2d graphics. And brush up on the simple aspects of the maths that are involved. Web accessibility. Would be great if I could finally finish a simple static website for myself. I've been stuck in the analysis paralys
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> React pre and post 16.8 are two completely different libraries. The two apis still coexist within the same library. > The useEffect hook was presented as something which let's you split your code based on logic instead of compo
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> unless they're writing life saving software or ... you're forced to use them even if you don't want, the technology they decide to use is entirely their choice The technology is always (or almost always?) their choice. H
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As a solo developer, especially when you are building free stuff to scratch your itch, of course you are free to pick whatever tech works best for you. My complaint is that this kind of mindset extends beyond solo developers to dev teams in
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> People don't bother going through official react handbook thoroughly and understanding that react is nothing more than a handful of hooks React is 10+ years old. Hooks are about five years old. There was react before hooks; and pe
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> Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start? Not with React? Seriously, if you are starting developing websites today, the first thing you need to do is learn the web platform: html, css, javascript (p
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Your second paragraph is entirely developer work. At no point do you change your focus to what works best for the user. Who is the user; what kind of devices does he use; what does he want to accomplish on your website; what does he need to
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> The xenomorph’s multicellular structure serves as a cornerstone for its classification within Animalia (Ros-Rocher et al., 2021). Its intricate organization of cells, tissues, and organs reflects a level of biological complexity common
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> It means downloading MBs of javascript just to render a simple page. React + react-dom minified gzipped is around 60kB. Yes, this is a lot; but no, this is not MBs of javascript. If your (simple) pages download MBs of javascript, that
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> But Rust is better in the same way that Betamax was better than VHS, Mastodon is better than Twitter, Dvorak keyboards are better than QWERTY, Esperanto is better than English and Lua is better than Javascript Esperanto is certainly no
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> Maxima is plural In Latin. I am surprised this word hasn't been internalised enough to just use the regular English plural marker. Maximum / maximums.
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Always the right choice!
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A screenshot on the linked page shows a UI that looks very similar to github's. Doesn't github search already do this?
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> if there was no index finger, you wouldn't have a middle finger either You would have two :-)
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Yes, I agree. But in a presumably democratic society, I would have thought, people would need convincing to submit to this claim.
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I hear this concern a lot; but never could quite grasp it. If the premise is that the mindset of citizens is so easily controllable that a foreign entity can do it, then why is a foreign entity's control of citizens' mindset any w
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> The phrasing here suggests some principle that outweighs societal good. Yes. What is the instrument for measuring societal good? And what is the mechanism for acting upon those measurements? My naive understanding is that in a society
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Like the sibling commenter, I don't get it. If people aren't trusted to express their will, however ill-informed, fickle and capricious, then what was the point of giving them the vote in the first place? And if someone puts a fil
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It was a rather depressing read. Sad that an organization functions in a way that doesn't promote collaboration and creates all sorts of perverse incentives. Sad that employees get carelessly tossed from one project to another without
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> The only really significant question is the account of James. One passage. One. In a text, where the other passage is accepted to be forgery, and which comes to us as a copy by Christian scribes. And if it is specifically Carrier that
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Carrier addresses Josephus, both in the On the Historicity of Jesus [0], and in his blog posts [1]. His points, as I understand them, are that: 1) The first Josephus passage — the so called Testimonium Flavianum — is an insertion by Christi
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But the argument from simplicity is the same as the argument from probability. The reason that a complex explanation is less probable than a simple one is because a complex explanation contains multiple parts (which is what makes it complex
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> Occam's razor points pretty clearly towards a historical Jesus Too late for me to edit my sibling comment; but it just occurred to me that you are using the same methodology as Carrier to come to conclusions about historical facts
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> No serious historian of which i'm aware questions the existence of Jesus I am not sure what makes Carrier a non-serious historian. He is trained in ancient history and applies conventional historical methodology to his studies (pe
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Richard Carrier's "On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt" is great. He wrote about Q (he isn't a fan) in his blog, which seems to be struggling at the moment. https://www.richardcarri

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