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by gwd 1y ago
I'm normally not one to discourage anyone from open-source; but if toxic entitlement is going to get you this worked up, you might consider whether it's really your thing. The more successful you are the more you're going to
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by gwd 1y ago
One frustration I have with OOB elements in HTMX: 1. If the element is out-of-band, it MUST have `htmx-swap-oob="true"` in it, or it may be discarded / cause unexpected results 2. If the element is not out-of-band, it MUST
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by gwd 1y ago
It's good to know -- having replace-url functionality behind the paywall is likely to be a deal-killer; I can't help but think that this "freemium" model is really going to kill datastar's prospects for taking off;
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Live Materialized Views in Turso(turso.tech)
2 points by gwd 1y ago|0 comments
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by gwd 1y ago
> But we’ll never be able to reassure terrified, scientifically under-informed people to their satisfaction, particularly when they’ve already decided that GoF is somewhat scary and maybe even partisan. 1. You don't have to be &quot
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, yeah, add that in there. Listen, I'm not trying to argue that the containment protocols aren't safe; I don't know what they are. What I am trying to argue is 1. That these fears are reasonable , and deserve to be tr
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by gwd 1y ago
> A) this antibiotic resistance was already found in nature, B) it's a resistance to a very specific antibiotic, not all antibiotics These are reasonable, but... > C) you're doing this in a protected lab. ...this one is prob
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by gwd 1y ago
Voice interfaces actually remind me a lot of command-line interfaces: If you know the a working "rune" on the tip of your tongue (e.g., "Set a timer for 10 mintues", "Play <exact title rune that gets the song yo
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by gwd 1y ago
> There's no direct harm if someone believes the sun revolves around the earth. No direct harm; but it may be comorbid with other things that cause harm, like vaccine skepticism. There is a question about what the best response is.
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by gwd 1y ago
Where is this from?
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by gwd 1y ago
I don't think the claim is "More warts is better". I think the claim is, "A technology with at least a few warts is an indication of longevity". Basically, if there are no obvious warts, then either: 1. The design
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by gwd 1y ago
> Sometime in the deep prehistory of the English language, the ‘g’ sound got pulled forward in the mouth to sound like ‘y’ whenever it was next to these front vowels. My understanding is that a modern Greek gamma (γ) is the same way: act
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by gwd 1y ago
> Connolly, from Northampton, ...urged her followers on X to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers. This isn't an opinion, it's incitement to a crime. > Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk / Mahmoud Khalil These
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by gwd 1y ago
Right; and there are things which fall into the "true or false" category that are difficult to get clear answers for; economic policy is something that there are just too many confounding factors to prove to the same degree you ca
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by gwd 1y ago
> People can make judgment calls. Those are opinions. I'm not sure that's a helpful distinction. In some sense, everything we classify as a 'fact' is a judgement call: is the sun a giant ball of fusing hydrogen? I
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by gwd 1y ago
> I’d say if you can be jailed for a particular opinion Can you give an example of someone in a modern democracy jailed for their "opinion"? To wit, are the examples you're thinking of "statement of opinion", &qu
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by gwd 1y ago
> It doesn't say "if your opinion is correct". Opinions cannot be right or wrong. > It makes no exceptions whatsoever, and that is what we need to strive for. It certainly does. See libel / defamation / perju
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YouTube to pay $24.5M to settle Trump lawsuit(dw.com)
3 points by gwd 1y ago|0 comments
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by gwd 1y ago
Can I make a distinction between "friction" and "effort"? If you're riding a bike up a hill, you can't go up without effort. But not all of your effort is actually moving you up the hill -- some of it is being
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by gwd 1y ago
> HTMX says just return a re-rendered form with the error messages. MESH says make the form a component with its own endpoint. HTMX can do the same thing: you can do `hx-trigger="changed delay:500ms"`, and make an endpoint for
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by gwd 1y ago
Sorry to be dense, but can someone explain why this is on the front page? Obvs sad for this person, seems like she had a fun time, but that's true of millions of people. Take this as "Help me see what I'm obviously not seei
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by gwd 1y ago
I feel like this would have been a bit better with some sort of "recap" at the end, to summarize where he got to. The README on the MESH page is a good summary: > MESH is a fun project intending to demonstrate the kinds of con
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by gwd 1y ago
"[C]ursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your fac
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by gwd 1y ago
What's exasperating is that this has been going on for literally 20 years: > Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttleworth's laptop successfully suspend and resume using ACPI and that wa
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by gwd 1y ago
I'd be all for bringing back the Fairness Doctrine. ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine
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by gwd 1y ago
Right, so the general NIP13 could be used to define a "ID proof-of-work" note attached to an ID. You could add PoW notes after ID creation, or create new, more difficult notes if the original one turned out to be insufficient. Bu
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by gwd 1y ago
Don't know much about Nostr, but wondered re the spam problem, if it would make sense to introduce the idea of proof-of-work for the identities? A quick search shows that the have optional PoW proposals for notes (i.e., individual p
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by gwd 1y ago
Right, well, the project needed something like IRC / Discord / Slack, where random people could just show up, ask questions, hang out, whatever. You know, engage with the community. "Lots of clients" -- that's actu
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by gwd 1y ago
> And I was talking about Jabber, not IRC. Right, I misunderstood your last line. I initially took you to mean, "We've had IRC since forever and Jabber since the early 00's..." Reading it again, I now understand yo
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by gwd 1y ago
Listen, I'm an old fart who may have been messing around on IRC when you were just a twinkle in your parents' eyes. IRC does suck along a lot of important metrics. The GPL open-source community-developed project I worked on fo

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