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by javajosh 3y ago
>It's impossible to triangulate those huge distances Galaxies are BIG. Andromeda is faint, but the same angular size as the moon. It's 2.5Mly away, but it's also 150kly across. Over a long enough time line you could do t
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by javajosh 3y ago
I love Ted Chiang and that story is a banger. The movies like Limitless, Lucy or Phenomenon don't really take the concept to its conclusions. Limitless posits day trading, or politics, as the highest goal. Lucy goes post human in a sil
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by javajosh 3y ago
Sadly no. Bernie Sanders explicitly put Citizens United at the top of his legislative priority list. Clinton used her pull with the DNC to undermine his nomination, and the rest is history. This was a triumph of the corrupt status quo over
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by javajosh 3y ago
Good post, and the pat response is "vote them out". The problem with this is that the neither party really thinks this kind of corruption is a problem, and the individual pols that do can't get elected on that issue alone. Th
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by javajosh 3y ago
I agree. I would also suggest occasionally checking out the other browsers like Opera and Vivaldi because they often have a surprising feel and feature set. Vivaldi in particular has a very nice RSS/Atom feed reader built into it, and
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A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why(npr.org)
4 points by javajosh 3y ago|0 comments
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by javajosh 3y ago
Perhaps OP re-invented it, but it's been around for a long time in the java world via jdbc urls. See, for example this writeup: https://www.baeldung.com/java-jdbc-url-format
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by javajosh 3y ago
I also hate using kiosks. And yeah those screens are gross. But worse than that is that I have to learn their UI, and it gives them a chance to shove a set of screens between me and my food. I'm going to coin the term "sellutainme
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by javajosh 3y ago
I say this only half in jest, but could we not request that an adversary trigger their malware to shut down our grid? When life gives you lemons...
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by javajosh 3y ago
The title alone is problematic. Do not auto-makers enable kidnapping and robbery? Do not camera-makers enable child exploitation? Tools don't have morality - people do. Consider that the same argument is routinely used to criticize, fo
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by javajosh 3y ago
If you were burned by Google with RSS, get ready to be burned by Google with LLMs. Google (correctly) saw RSS as a challenge to the position it wants to be in, which is a replacement for URLs. It wants its search to intermediate all user in
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by javajosh 3y ago
We need a new Stallman who doesn't let perfection be the enemy of good. Sometimes I share this sentiment, but sometimes I think that its foolish to try to build on top of a rotten foundation. You might be able to build what looks lik
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by javajosh 3y ago
Opting-out isn't an option when capital becomes capable of deploying (robotic or human) cops and soldiers to any point on earth in 30 minutes. At that point, the real power rests with whoever (or whatever) decides how to allocate capit
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Architecture doesn't matter anymore That is...exquisitely false. Especially under the tensions of scale, architecture matters a great deal. Yes, computers are ridiculously fast these days, but it is quite easy to architect yourse
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by javajosh 3y ago
Epic doesn't make any PWAs as far as I know, so this is really just general shade thrown in Apple's direction. Despite Apple's dominant position, I empathize with the desire for less surface area and eliminating features only
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by javajosh 3y ago
He means https://xkcd.com/1053/ . "I try to not make fun of people for not knowing things."
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by javajosh 3y ago
>low digitalization Given that everyone uses IBAN, and it works great, I strongly disagree. >private healthcare if you want decent treatments Your mileage may vary, but I was very impressed with the speed and ease of acquiring hea
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think you misunderstand the sentiment. You can know how they work; you cannot know why they work.
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by javajosh 3y ago
This sounds like a (critical) bug with Cloudflare Pages to me. No hosting provider should be fiddling with the url scheme, especially with permanent redirects. That's invasive and wrong. If it's an official policy or "feature
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think it's an accurate description that successfully conveys the manipulative, puerile, and harmful nature of these shows in a compact way. My description isn't political in the "right vs left" sense although I admit i
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by javajosh 3y ago
There is a strong analogy in software engineering here. Often the first implementation is "wrong" in the sense that it doesn't resolve the inherent tensions in the system. But that doesn't make it useless - in fact, it&#
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by javajosh 3y ago
"Reacher" is simply right-wing violence-porn. Its moral turpitude is only exceeded by the risible "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" that somehow wants me to like protagonists who kill and hurt strangers without any justification. I&#
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by javajosh 3y ago
A minor note: this is the first time I've seen an svg embedded in a canvas purely for it's onload event. Within this context the canvas is referred to by its (bare) id. How strange and wonderful!
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by javajosh 3y ago
In middle school I imagined a toy that would be a top with a similar mechanism as this cube. It could spin it's outer shell and then tilt and engage a "wheel" hoop, just a bit above the the tops tip, exchange some of of it&#x
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by javajosh 3y ago
Here is the entire script of the game (I added line breaks, I hope in places that don't break the code): X=Y=V=U=Z=t=1;onkeydown=e=>(k=e.which)&1?X-=k-38:Y-=k-39; setInterval("for(++t,o=Z,i=50;i--;)for(b.innerText=o
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by javajosh 3y ago
>Jetty which isn't considered the most performant backend This definitely needs some supporting links. Jetty itself is extremely fast in my experience.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I agree, but I imagine there either is or will be a js-in-wasm project that can suitably truncate the environment. Not that js is actually not good at this sort of application (triple equals get old fast), but people already know it. And of
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by javajosh 3y ago
Gregory Benford made a similar statement about technology, where humans are in constant war with AI and often don't know how the tech they use work. IIRC there was a spaceship in Great Sky River[0] that could only be operated by humans
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by javajosh 3y ago
Fascinating technology - it's good to see good ol' Swing and Graphics2D being used to target browsers in the same way React Native has gone the other way and allowed swapping the DOM renderer for a native renderer. I have a couple
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by javajosh 3y ago
>was good to Mozilla employees, but it's hard to square the picture you paint with the complete lack of direction Isn't there a fundamental tension between "be good to employees" and "strong sense of direction&

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