parksy

95 ms·

181.
by parksy 6y ago
The full title is "When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number" not sure why the title here omits "number" but it is there on the actual post. Also as someone th
182.
by parksy 6y ago
I would agree the skeptical approach is healthy. As the scientists involved mentioned in their live stream, there's definitely more work to be done to gather more information, and figure out why this substance is where it shouldn'
183.
by parksy 6y ago
I only skimmed the abstract and this is the first thing I found but it looks like there's a field of research around colour and its impact on attention, arousal, memory, learning, etc. Maybe some of these references are a starting poin
184.
Leveraging mental illness for fun and profit(medium.com)
1 points by parksy 6y ago|0 comments
185.
Ethical Investing, a Beginner's Quandary(medium.com)
1 points by parksy 6y ago|1 comments
186.
by parksy 6y ago
And I am a beginner. Just some musings. Still no idea about right or wrong.
187.
by parksy 6y ago
I tried to read the first link in the article, the link in the sentence "There have been cases of Amazon removing specific books from customer accounts (and kindles)." It redirected me from: https://io9.gizmodo.com&#x2F
188.
by parksy 6y ago
I will join other commentators in saying that this is super neat. I am surprised that there's such clear and methodical street-level records of basically every address in such a large area from this point in history. I shouldn't b
189.
by parksy 6y ago
It's funny because in writing my previous reply to you I felt a momentary sense of inclusion into a special club, I did think something along the lines of "should I just enjoy the show" and then on reflection I realised that
190.
by parksy 6y ago
I can't send DM's here and I don't know if you'll see an edit, so I wanted to add that I am sorry if I sounded condescending in my other reply, I initially just wanted to make sure you and other readers understand I am n
191.
by parksy 6y ago
Is the only thing that stops components from colliding literally naming convention? Like <fast-dropdown> != <my-homebrew-dropdown>? So it's basically a convention-based standard rather than a fixed standard? This feels like
192.
by parksy 6y ago
Okay I think I get it: 1. Define elements in script by extending htmlelement 2. Follow the allowed structure in the DOM so that the custom elements don't break / conflict with anything 3. Use CSS to make the custom element look ni
193.
by parksy 6y ago
Thanks that actually sounds like it could have value, but again it's a new paradigm to learn. It's like a while back I trained myself up on GWT because in my mind it was the future of reusability. Sure it was Java based and everyo
194.
by parksy 6y ago
I started coding BASIC in the late 80s and built websites before CSS and JS was a thing in addition to just coding stuff in whatever language took my fancy to solve whatever whimsical project I had that day, I had a particular affinity for
195.
by parksy 6y ago
I understand the framework concept very well and have (oh god I hate this term) "spearheaded" multiple componentisation schemes over the years, to make code more reusable across teams, to reduce coding effort, to reduce expense fo
196.
by parksy 6y ago
I appreciate the support I guess but at the same time I don't understand what you mean by there are an unspecified number of people on my side and that silence is golden - either that means I should be quiet and join the throngs of the
197.
by parksy 6y ago
And I am trying to understand, I think I'm just in a bad mood about this (I think I have framework fatigue? if that's a thing?) so thanks for explaining.
198.
by parksy 6y ago
Thanks I have asked another poster to fill me in because maybe I'm too old school and yelling at kids to get off my lawn. I might have to shut up now for a while until I run away and get back up to speed in this arena. But I have used
199.
by parksy 6y ago
I honestly don't understand what this definition of "frameworks" means in this exact context and I've been building websites since 1994, survived the XHTML collapse, etc etc... What's the main advantage here? That w
200.
by parksy 6y ago
edit - to thank everyone who took time out to explain what's going on - I'm still cynical but it all makes more sense now. I also like to think the ignorant guy asking the ignorant questions (in this case me) can sometimes be valu
201.
by parksy 6y ago
As an aside, I think it kinda sucks that we're in the age of information, but I can't google "fusion energy research funding history" and get anything other than op-eds and old news about funding announcements. We should
202.
by parksy 6y ago
I had a similar almost to the letter conversation when I did some web work for a much smaller GIS firm back in the day, but wanted to add that in my experience this isn't just a google thing but an issue with governments and outsourcin
203.
by parksy 6y ago
I don't think enough people yet understand distributed ledger tech. They are still seeing it through the lens of a currency, or a secured database. I haven't had anyone yet dismiss my digital provenance use case for any technical
204.
by parksy 6y ago
I am talking about mechanical systems that can be created and that will operate in automated ways. No one would have to push any buttons. Mathematics and physics doesn't care about our feelings. Your point on EU states politics isn&#x2
205.
by parksy 6y ago
Yes - establishing provenance of digital assets for one example. In a democracy, it is critical that legislators have access to verified sources. Most legislative assemblies in non-corrupt democracies don't allow representatives simply
206.
by parksy 6y ago
Thanks for the insight, I never heard of this until today and this adds another dimension to explore. I read some excerpts here https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A4158164 and it definitely adds context that only really im
207.
by parksy 6y ago
In the books, there is an electronic guide to the combined knowledge and wisdom of all the various species that inhabit the universe. The guide is itself called "the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy." I have always interprete
208.
by parksy 6y ago
Sorry if this seems tangential and anecdotal, it's just an interesting part of home computing history and I lived through a bit of it growing up in the 80s and 90s. Way back when, we had usenet, telnet and gopher, and local BBS's
209.
by parksy 6y ago
Yeah that's a good way of putting it. Also has a catchy name, "TOD". Ultimately as well we don't care what the code looks like, if it passes all tests then it "works". You probably don't even need to gener
210.
by parksy 6y ago
I have thought about this before but I can see that logical errors are introduced which must be manually tested and reviewed anyway, so what if a more reliable approach could be achieved by training these data sets on test cases alongside p

More ›