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by gary_0 3y ago
HTML, and retained-mode GUIs and DOMs generally, is all you need. Anything more complex is over-engineering. JavaScript was, broadly speaking, a mistake. 90% of what we need computers to do is do some I/O and put text, colored rectangl
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by gary_0 3y ago
There was someone in my high school who had the stereotypical voice. One of his friends, who'd known him since they were little, mentioned that he had talked like that his whole life.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> When the sequel took 15 years to come out, it was just cringey Nothing makes me feel more ancient than when I watch/play something from the 2000's that I found funny and edgy at the time, and now it... just doesn't hit.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Hey, that's an interesting idea for a side project: an easy way to serve a file via torrent. Maybe a commandline utility that uses WebSeeding so you don't need to run a torrent client? Hmm. (I did a quick `apt search` to see if so
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by gary_0 3y ago
I can think of even more problems. Off the top of my head: the manufacture of SMR modules would be, by design, centralized into a few large, well-funded entities needing lots of government permits. The probability of corruption, mismanageme
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by gary_0 3y ago
The article kind of answers its own question in 2 sentences: > But gigawatt scale reactors are easy to turn into bespoke engineering megaprojects. Custom engineering for every site foregoes economies of manufacturing scale. My core impre
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by gary_0 3y ago
> a minimum of 6 years to reach commercial production Which is optimistic. The current track record for the US is about 10 years: https://grist.org/energy/first-us-nuclear-reactor-40-years-o...
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by gary_0 3y ago
Some of the more whackadoodle fusion plant designs (which nonetheless have millions in funding and early prototypes built) get around this by doing the fusion in a blanket of liquid metal, or by using aneutronic fusion (which requires ridic
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by gary_0 3y ago
In the late 90's my dad got dialup and a brand-new e-mail address, and someone forwarded him a GIF of Don Hertzfeldt's Ah L'Amour . So this was happening before Rejected even came out. By the time I was in college in 2003,
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by gary_0 3y ago
"In the long run, we're all dead."
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by gary_0 3y ago
"biz > user" is valid on paper because someone has to pay for the party; there are a finite number of software devs and capitalism is great at allocating scarce resources where they're most needed. Or at least the "sp
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by gary_0 3y ago
> that is free of the quirks of a human author Uh, is that supposed to be a bad thing? Humans don't want to read uncanny-valley output devoid of personality and subjectivity. Even a Wikipedia article tends to have a small amount o
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by gary_0 3y ago
> given enough money on the table and the opportunity. In my personal experience it was never even that much money. Some people just really want to feel like they've pulled a fast one, even if all they really end up doing is wasting
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by gary_0 3y ago
> That said, there are different failure modes for purely technical people not understanding business. A common one, I think, is technical people thinking management or business expertise is easy (or even beneath them) because they&#x2
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by gary_0 3y ago
This is jart we are talking about. Perhaps, having made code Actually Portable in space, now she is doing time .
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by gary_0 3y ago
This is really just the modern patent regime at work, isn't it? Any random problem a chip company SE or EE can solve in an afternoon can get that solution whisked past an overworked patent examiner. Now open-sourcing your basic code to
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by gary_0 3y ago
LMMS is a lot like FL Studio: https://lmms.io/
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by gary_0 3y ago
I want to see reliable fully autonomous cars before I worry about the world ending due to super-AGI. Also, have we figured out how to get art generators to always get the number of fingers right, and text generators to stop making shit up?
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by gary_0 3y ago
Do you think the situation will improve while Firefox has 3% market share, down ~2% from 2 years ago, and with <1% share on mobile? You're nitpicking, there are lots of corporate sites that only test against Chrome/Safari these
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/w2yih8/just_got_th... https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13dyzgl/my_bank_no... https://old.reddit.com&#x2F
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by gary_0 3y ago
There are already plenty of banking sites and such that will turn you away for not having a standard-issue Chrome user agent header. Also, crank your browser's privacy settings too high, and any website with twitchy Cloudflare settings
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by gary_0 3y ago
Anyone remember "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"? Now it's "Chrome ain't done until uBlock won't run". If it's not Manifest V3 that makes the Internet safe for advertising, it'll
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by gary_0 3y ago
The destruction of knowledge and culture wrought by copyright lawyers amounts to at least 1000 Libraries Alexandria.
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by gary_0 3y ago
That sounds about right. My back-of-the-envelope is $2000/mo to colo (not including up-front hardware cost) and $12,000/mo for 2000TB from rsync.net (although you might be able to get a bulk discount).
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by gary_0 3y ago
> Microsoft said it does not plan to sell the chips Add it to the list of things you can't buy at any price, and can only rent. That list is getting pretty long, especially if you count "any electronic device you can't ful
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by gary_0 3y ago
> If they get it right, and the search produces exactly what they predicted, then they get something. Good grief, I can think of a variety of ways that this incentive would result in horrific corruption. Judicial impartiality is importa
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by gary_0 3y ago
Especially once you throw the Problem of Evil in there ("Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then from whence comes e
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_subsidies https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-5-trillion-in-fossi... In 2019 governments spent $51 billion on natural gas consumption subsidies, which is
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by gary_0 3y ago
The article doesn't make any mention of the massive government subsidies and other economic incentives that have kept fossil fuel prices artificially low for decades. I'm sure the green energy industry is lobbying itself up a litt
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by gary_0 3y ago
Demagoguery and personality cultism never ends well. You'd think humanity would have learned by now.

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