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Young people are mostly blissfully unaware of the reefs ahead that can ship wreck them. I could rattle a list of them off the top of my head, but they won't listen or care. It's funny in a way, because someone who has suffered a s
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The video embedded in the Vox article is worth watching. I didn't realize the sepia tones in O' Brother, Where Art Thou were a digital effect using techniques that were very new at the time. The film was digitized, color altered a
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Metaverse, AR and women top’s sports tech investment trends(sportico.com)
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Good article: Reading the manuals and specs can give you super powers
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Not to take anything away but by legacy I meant late last century sites. VanillaForums was released in July 2006 according to Wikipedia, which makes it Web 2.0. Wikipedia also says "UTF-8 has been the most common encoding for the World
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From another link on the front page the Amish use the term "Amish Electricity" so this would be an Amish Battery Amish Hackers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29905288
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The craziest issue I had was I couldn't predict what char encoding the text in my database was in. Most users entered Windows-1252, some text blobs were UTF-16, others were European character sets, and some were UTF-8. Some were Japane
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Has anyone ever successfully converted a large legacy Apache/PHP/MySQL site to UTF-8? If so you deserve an award. utf8mb4 is just one issue and not the worst.
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> in 2018 That's quite a lag. Peak XML was probably 2000 if I recall correctly. That said, XSLT is pretty cool from a language standpoint. I wouldn't want to program in it all day anymore than I'd want to program all day
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I'm working on something even better. XMLambda (XMλ) implemented in Haskell, which is revolutionary and exciting such that I have investors throwing money bags of money over my backyard fence with a paper contracts attached (they don&#
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Where's the smart contract capability? Smart contracts are important in certain applications, which is why I store purchases in XML and do transformative contracts in XSLT. Version 2.0 of XSLT is Turing-Complete, with the added advanta
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That's more true when taken in isolation, but I read about it as part of "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay as illustrative of crowd manias, mob mentalities, town scares and herd sta
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user 'NoahDiesSlowly' seems to know it well enough to be making some money. I'm glad he outlined it for us. This is a great addition to the more theoretical posts.
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"Paying for open source - it matters" ~~ Rich Hickey @richhickey https://twitter.com/richhickey/status/1338893764702691334 Edit: "Open Source is Not About You" by Rich Hickey https:/&#x2F
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It feels like that way to me but it's hard to tell these days. Possibly a good example of Poe's law
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It was marked as unlisted, then Molly White (@molly0xFFF) got ahold of it and started making fun of it. That's how I found out about it. Now Cryptoland is threatening Molly with legal action https://twitter.com/molly0xF
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"If something is too early to criticize it's also too early to evangelize" Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower, Jan 2, 2022
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I was really drawn to Dart when it came out in 2012 and still use it for hobby projects. I know Google uses it internally a lot and is used in the experimental Fuchsia OS. And of course Flutter. I wish Google would put more resources into d
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> The tulip bubble is a myth That's news to me. In what way is it a myth? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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Ringo was a much better drummer than I appreciated as demonstrated by Grahame The Drummer. I realized that the stylings of Ringo made me love these songs as much as anything else https://www.tiktok.com/@grahamethedrummer&#x2
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Suggested feature: export as a plain text file like https://www.editpad.org
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Another aspect is that companies like Twitter or Meta have legal exposure in various jurisdictions around the world. The libel laws in the UK are different than that those in the US, etc... They're responsibility for what is on their s
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> should be able to tightly control what information people see You don't say what you mean by this so I don't know how to respond. Some say the tech companies lean left, some say they lean right, but HN is not the place to dis
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If you live in a cold country with cheap electricity they have you covered. But I think you're right - that can't be good for a computer The electric heater that earns you money https://heatbit.com/
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I don't hate Peter Thiel but I feel compelled as an American to say I believe that we should find ways to improve our democratic system, not get rid of it. Thiel seems to believe democracy doesn't work and presumably technocrats s
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"mark twain" means 12 ft. Samuel Clemens adopted it as a pen name. https://www.mvd.usace.army.mil/Portals/52/docs/regional_floo...
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https://archive.is/15e0l
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Link to Vitalik's comment https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/ryk3it/my_first_i...
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I found the local discount grocery store selling Soylent for 70 cents a bottle, normally $4, so I bought the store out, all 6 cases. I'm not living exclusively on it, but it's nice to have a meal in the bottle for someone who does
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I jotted down some thoughts I want to post before this very well written and interesting article by Moxie drops off the front page. I'm sure I got things wrong, but in the spirit of blue sky thinking: The Physical layer is centralized

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