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by javajosh 3y ago
I think it would be funny if we discover that refraction is caused by the slowing of light in close proximity to mass. That is, one of the most common and observable phenomena in physics is a quantum gravity phenonema! (The usual explanatio
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Apparently oop as envisioned by Alan Kay was supposed to work like cells in the body that pass messages between each other and take actions independently. IIRC he was interested in an abstraction that worked "all the way up"
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by javajosh 3y ago
Great tips although I wish they'd link to the original source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
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by javajosh 3y ago
>SVG is one of the most, if not the most underutilized web format Yes. I think the problem is that you have to learn to author with it before you program with it, and the learning curve is actually fairly steep. OTOH the feedback is im
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by javajosh 3y ago
Alas, yes. And you have to reflip it with another g/scale. But such is life!
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by javajosh 3y ago
I like it! But instead of modifying your data to suit SVG's default coordinate system, I suggest using a top-level "g" tag with a "transform/scale" attribute. Like this: <svg class="natural-units&q
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by javajosh 3y ago
I agree. And yet many people in positions of power look at twitter as a kind of real-time polling tool. They look at twitter reactions and think they know what people in general are feeling and doing. Then they make real decisions based on
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by javajosh 3y ago
Ha. Someone should write a service that examines a news feed and twitter, retroactively finds correct predictions and give them a reward. Call it "youwereright.com", or something.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Prediction: people will quit Twitter and realize that it was a net negative in their life and not bother replacing it and be better off.
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by javajosh 3y ago
That's an extremist view.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, it sounds reasonable. It also sounds reasonable to allow police to enter anyone's home at any time - consider all the crime they might prevent if only they didn't have to wait for a warrant! It sounds reasonable to let the po
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by javajosh 3y ago
In my view, every software product has two parts: the product, and the artificial scarcity. Rarely is the later simply a paywall anymore, as in the metaphor. Instead, business school graduates are tasked with finding every angle to make a p
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by javajosh 3y ago
Enshittification is a (very good) name for when you start off with naturally non-scarce information resource, and later impose artificial scarcity on it in order to make the moneys. It's like building a theme park, and only later addin
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by javajosh 3y ago
Correction: late 18th and early 19th century sailing ships.
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by javajosh 3y ago
There is something like a paradox of automation at play, too. Both business and programmers are aligned on not wanting drudgery, but this means that a) we undervalue first-order work, and b) our automation reach often exceeds our grasp (k8s
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by javajosh 3y ago
Why would you ever even need to pass an endofunction through a transplainer pipeline? There are far more efficient ways to do async island hydration in Elm.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>That’s how Einstein himself explained it Yes, I think we're violently agreeing then. The original 1905 paper is extremely readable.
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by javajosh 3y ago
yes, there are lots of quantitative details. I wanted to emphasize the key qualitative concept, from which the others can derive. In a similar way you can derive all of special relativity, and approach an intuition about the strangeness of
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by javajosh 3y ago
Entropy only made sense when I learned it from the perspective of statistical thermodynamics. It's a very programmerly understanding, IMHO, and it's quite intuitive. EXCEPT that the language used is ridiculous: grand canonical en
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by javajosh 3y ago
There's so little great work done that the path is bound to be idiosyncratic. I suspect that a lot of a great work sneaks up on people. Sort of like great love. It's that jolt of inspiration where you see something new. Like reall
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by javajosh 3y ago
Ah yes, but what interesting, related shape has the volume of 3 times that of a cylinder of a certain base and height, I wonder? Perhaps the coefficient here is just coincidentally interesting and there are actually infinitely interesting s
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by javajosh 3y ago
Your standard full-stack dev is going to have "less experience" with approximately 80% of her codebase, by dint of having a finite life-span. ChatGPT is a faster and more convenient SO in that (very common) case. I, for example, h
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by javajosh 3y ago
It may be retribution. Maybe a yacht propeller maimed or killed an important orca, an elder or a child, and now they want retribution. Or maybe it's just a fun thing to do, or a teenager right of passage thing. Or some combination. It&
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't really know. I'm on Mastodon but that doesn't really do anything I mentioned as far as I can tell.
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by javajosh 3y ago
that's probably true if you search for "how to build a [insert bad thing here]" or "blueprints of [some critical infrastructure]. But the CIA is ultimately like everyone else: pumping out info that they want you to read.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Public service announcement: the only good thing on twitter, massimo, has at least one mirror on mastodon. https://mastodon.social/@rainmaker1973@birdsite.miisu.net
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by javajosh 3y ago
What if we just had sites and RSS-like aggregators? You could subscribe directly to the sources you like. You could then publish the aggregation. In turn you could subscribe to an aggregator, and perhaps even reaggregate their content, too.
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by javajosh 3y ago
You may be right - I suppose that apart from my first point about ambivalence being the default, it doesn't necessarily apply to you personally. But it does apply to the general ideology this thread is addressing. I'm sorry if I
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by javajosh 3y ago
>To you. No, to them. I was thinking specifically of the Rwandan Genocide[0], where there was and is no visible difference between the Hutu and Tutsi. The difference was via a field on their national id card [1]. 0 - https:/&#x2F
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by javajosh 3y ago
> The default action today is "do nothing and don't acknowledge the problem." Ambivalence is the human default, and logic requires it must be so. The world presently has 10e9 people. Historically, something like 10e12 pe

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