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by javajosh 3y ago
You mean YOU don't consider SVG a graphics API. But it's right there in the name, dude. If the article is going to bring in Canvas, it should bring in SVG. SVG shares more with opengl than Canvas does.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Does this mean that in theory i could skip the build/bundling step entirely? You can but you must write your app in something the browser understands (js not ts, css not sass etc) and use native modules. For example, here is the
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by javajosh 3y ago
It was interesting...except that it omitted SVG entirely. So one should take it with a grain of salt.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Yes, the classic example being from Jaws https://youtu.be/_eO_5q5dR9M?t=20
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by javajosh 4y ago
So, a local government going after a small subset of positional data. Good heavens, doesn't Ring already do facial recognition and license plates and give well-heeled clients access to that feed?
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by javajosh 4y ago
It's never been less true. Humans have never been more capable of coherent action, and this fact has not been lost on the sociopathic no-upper-limit-to-greed manipulator types who've done well in this nascient internet with its ag
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by javajosh 4y ago
The worst situation in my college experience was when a prof would go over some mundane part of a proof in excruciating detail, and then hand-wave the important part. I realized later in life it was because they prof didn't understand
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by javajosh 4y ago
Thank you! I think you correctly guessed what the students were thinking, because I have thought similar things. One angle here is that academics are (rightly) proud of their specialist knowledge, and often using words like "simply&quo
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by javajosh 4y ago
I wish HN would add a new reply button, "It's hopeless and people don't care and its only going to get worse" because it would save a great deal of time for everyone involved.
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by javajosh 4y ago
Accurate. This is a result of the heady combination of relying on the profession to enforce ethical codes, and letting corruption become standard practice, and therefore common and safe. That medicine is NOT a free market is easy to prove,
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by javajosh 4y ago
Constraints always have value. Without constraints programmers are confronted with the naked complexity of mapping between the set of all possible states of N bits which is (2^N)!.
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by javajosh 4y ago
On first principles, this is unfortunate. A good example of how technology enables the old to maintain a grip on power. I generally like Harrison Ford and his movies, but deciding to continue with this franchise feels wrong, somehow. Undign
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by javajosh 4y ago
That's a great xkcd, but there are 2 upsides to this arrogant approach. First, arrogance is a nerd-snipe maximizer. Second, there is a small chance you're absolutely right, and you've just obviated a whole field from first pr
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by javajosh 4y ago
And what a strange end for the mighty Blizzard. I wonder what the owners of Blizzard thought would happen when they sold in 2008. I bet it even mattered to them at that time, at least a little.
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by javajosh 4y ago
This is the seed of a science fiction novel that takes place in a far future dystopia where humanities remnants scavenge in the ruins, and who's brightest members are kidnapped by a mysterious group that turns out to be an AI run organ
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by javajosh 4y ago
Physics and computer science share the feature that it seems easier to start by explaining linear motion (linear programs) but all the really interesting stuff is circular (loops). Complex numbers are the simplest representation for describ
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by javajosh 4y ago
That begs the question: does correcting a homophone constitute a correction of grammar or of spelling? And another: can I successfully provoke another correction by 'misusing' "begs the question"?
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by javajosh 4y ago
Why isn't there an xkcd where a Lego engineer is trying to describe how he wants components to integrate, and cannot find the words.
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by javajosh 4y ago
peaked my interest That's "piqued my interest". It's a homophone. Also used in "fit of pique" and, very rarely "piquant". It's a word on its way out, but I like it.
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by javajosh 4y ago
> Django migrations are the gold standard here in my opinion Intriguing. In JavaWorld it's really only Flyway and Liquibase, and the important self-imposed rule, "Thou shalt never remove a column from a table."
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by javajosh 4y ago
You can vote yourself into authoritarianism, but you cannot vote yourself out. And when that authoritarian you love so much makes a major blunder, invading Europe for example, he takes everyone with him, and that's by design.
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by javajosh 4y ago
I use this trick to autorefresh the resource that I'm working on.
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by javajosh 4y ago
The correct term is "maybemorphism".
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by javajosh 4y ago
The term "natural" is basically meaningless here, and the rest of your comment implies that humans are incapable of saying "no" to change. The Amish, and Richard Stallman, are both counter-examples. We don't have t
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by javajosh 4y ago
And yet the arrogant position is to believe you know how human society works so well that you can say with confidence that obliterating a hundred thousand years of cultural isolation has no downside. The burden of proof is on the one who wa
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by javajosh 4y ago
>I miss the old days of the web where it was a web. Everything is a trade-off. A partitioned culture is worse for exchange, but this is good when there is a risk of memetic infection. I suspect the best case is a softly partitioned cul
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by javajosh 4y ago
> Nerd-snipe and useful? That’s the holy grail! Yes. i think its a good software product! Maybe one of the best there ever was - I'm not surprised Sam Altman jumped the YC ship for this one, or that MS is particularly interested i
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by javajosh 4y ago
>Pretty much everything is bundled, minimized, and obfuscated now. Yes, but there is a strain of software minimalism that eschews the front-end build entirely. This is relatively recently possible because of excellent implementations o
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by javajosh 4y ago
It's almost like ChatGPT is nerd-sniping us all. But we like it and it's useful to us.
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by javajosh 4y ago
In my view, JS is preferable because you are forced to ship source to the client. This provides a beneficial atmosphere for learning and sharing solutions. Compiling to WASM, and front-end builds in general, take this critical and unique qu

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