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by javajosh 2y ago
There's something touchingly innocent about Boris Vallejo's work. It is as if he is channeling the fantasies of a 13-year-old boy without shame, guilt or even self-consciousness. It is that rare artwork that is only about itself.
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by javajosh 2y ago
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java/Spring/Dropwizard, JavaScript/Node/React/React Native/Angular/Transformer.js, CSS/BLM/Tailwind, DB/API/Sy
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by javajosh 2y ago
A harrowing near-future dystopian tale, definitely worth a read. His "Windup Girl" is better; "Ship Breaker" is like a YA version of Windup Girl, IMHO. His "Water Knife" is also quite interesting, imagining a f
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by javajosh 2y ago
So basically YouTube is profitable because it strongly synergizes with adwords infra. That sounds both reasonable and not a little unfair.
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by javajosh 2y ago
My God, it's a psycho-social catastrophe waiting to happen, not unlike the mid-century cigarette health catastrophe. I go out in the world and see not just adults sitting around a table staring at screens and not interacting, but paren
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by javajosh 2y ago
He mentions the threat of remotely taking over autonomous vehicles, but really its any vehicle who's a) network connected and b) drive-by-wire. Which is why I won't buy one, and why the problem is even worse than it appears. The o
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by javajosh 2y ago
A doctor friend of mine put it succinctly: let old people die; that's what they do . End-of-life interventions are not for benefit of the old, they are going to die anyway. It is an entirely perverse financial incentive that aligns wi
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by javajosh 2y ago
Yes, and I think that's the correct expectation to set. I don't even disagree with its design choices - I like the composability of pure functions as much as the next guy.
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by javajosh 2y ago
The real problem with D3 is that, as a library, it doesn't really do visualizations. It gives you functions and exmaples to compose your own visualizations, whose key requirement is an expert-level understanding of JavaScript (particul
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by javajosh 2y ago
I don't really need a library like this, but I want to comment to say how much I like the way you made it. Very minimal in itself and also in its dependencies. Very clear documentation in the readme. I wish more libraries and tools wer
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by javajosh 2y ago
It's a difference of kind, not degree. A dollar is a vote within a marketplace; a vote determines the shape of the marketplace itself. The idea that the market can solve all things is core to neo-liberal capitalism, but has been widely
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by javajosh 2y ago
Would love to see this done with geometric algebra AKA Clifford algebra.
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by javajosh 2y ago
It's really too bad we didn't have a major CME in the 90's. That was the perfect time for a good lesson in redundancy and why you can't and shouldn't jettison "the old ways" so quickly. Perhaps its not too
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by javajosh 2y ago
>Can you really call yourself a prepper if you don’t have a faraday cage with a spare laptop inside? What do you call someone who puts their tablet and phone in the microwave? Preppy?
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by javajosh 2y ago
I saw the ad as trying to draw an equivalence between the iPad and all of those creative tools, as if owning an iPad is equivalent, or even better, than owning those objects. This is a lie, a deception, and apart from lamenting the loss of
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by javajosh 2y ago
It's a good anecdote but needs a bit more boundary condition. One can always pick a level of abstraction to make an explanation long or short; humans usually pick this level based on context and social convention. For example, if the q
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by javajosh 2y ago
The reason it's hard to refactor to simplicity is that one must feel free to modify foundational assumptions, and the repercussions of that change are both hard to implement (you must recapitulate all following changes with the new ass
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by javajosh 2y ago
"very simple class action" is a phrase used only by someone who's never been involved in a class action.
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by javajosh 2y ago
I guess its time to make a blog that's only available to read through ssh now.
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by javajosh 2y ago
Yes, I'm sure obfuscating Google Street maps will prevent DPR artillery from accurately striking targets in Seoul.
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by javajosh 2y ago
Java still ships and supports Swing/AWT - which is still what most desktop applications use to render a UI, even IntelliJ. I haven't worked with it in a very long time, but there used to be tooling support for alternative platform
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by javajosh 2y ago
I just learned about this thing today, so take this with a grain of salt: there are links out to two apps, Simple Calc and Tube Player, at the bottom of the home page. These are tutorials and source code, not a finished product. There is al
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by javajosh 2y ago
SVG has a lot of warts, but it actually has two big things going for it: it's everywhere, and it's DOM-programmable. Anyone who knows js can start animating SVGs the same way they animate the DOM. It is somewhat more primitive, gi
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by javajosh 2y ago
I don't think you're doing your cause any good, and in fact some harm.
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by javajosh 2y ago
I dislike riddles like this. There are 5 platonic solids, the only likely one for a product name is "Cube" but I've never heard of an OS named "Cubes". And now, I don't want to . Tetrahedron - a polyhedro
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by javajosh 2y ago
Nature herself seems to imply P != NP, as one can characterize evolution as a messy, computationally intensive "search" through a large space of "solutions" to a suitability problem. If P=NP one would expect some organis
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by javajosh 2y ago
>universal charset detection isn't really a thing that works all that well. This seems like something LLMs would be good at. A mundane use of them, but I bet they'd be really good at determining that the input has the wrong e
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by javajosh 2y ago
Yeah and maybe we could do GR experiments on a table top. Gravity goes as 1/r^2 so a small r might make the mass terms irrelevant, and you could check GR in various ways [1] especially Shapiro delay[2]. This would, in turn, give a way
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by javajosh 2y ago
>The article doesn't provide any good example of misuse. It did describe the misuse pretty well, though. The idea is that out-of-band schema modifications are a process/workflow issue that needs to be directly addressed. As s
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by javajosh 2y ago
There are some in the "advice-instrustial complex" that give such advice. The Stoics have a technique where you imagine losing all you have, and this creates a feeling of gratitude for what you do have, and prepares you for losing

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