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   by pgt 6y ago

   Hmm, point "a.3 Because governments have become parasites that are killing their host," resonates with truth, but not all of the truth. We must be in a local maxima (minima?) at the moment - I don't believe we've found t
2. 512.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   If anyone from the New Yorker sees this, here is what your user interface looks like to the average reader of your online newspaper: https://imgur.com/a/kCoxLHR Notice the % that is content.
3. 513.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   In this case, I don't think anybody is fooled.
4. 514.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Amazon is the new Paypal.
5. 515.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Note that this project is unrelated to Sequoia Capital.
6. 516.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Gravity wells. I only realised in my 20s that the only reason satellites can orbit the Earth without crashing into the ground is by going sideways really, really fast. So as they inch closer to the ground, they also travel parallel to the g
7. 517.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   If you are an expert reading this considering writing a blog - whatever you do, please don't start publishing on a paywalled medium like Medium.
8. 518.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Anything smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to fail it. There's a story from a few years ago about how Target knew customers knew themselves, but they were smart enough to mix the diaper discounts in with some lawnmower
9. 519.▲
   by pgt 6y ago

   Fantastic! This warms the cockles and makes me feel like the Web is moving in a good direction. How is this implemented, canvas? (I haven't checked)
10. 520.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Ah, but what are you doing with the time you have? Is what you’re doing saving other people time?
11. 521.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Very cool. Next step would be to emulate lighting in the target scene, but that probably requires pose detection and facial landmarks for accurate shading.
12. 522.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    This is great, except for the writing. But I’d buy it!
13. 523.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    There is an old army rumour that South African infantry men were fed copper sulphate ("blouvitrioel" in Afrikaans) to decrease their libido, but it's not true: https://samilhistory.com/2017/10/17&#x2
14. 524.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Just want to say thanks for this. I was using Leechblock before, but it would frequently navigate away from in-progress forms while I was writing longform comments and lose work, whereas Intention offers a modal prompt to extend the period.
15. 525.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    Clojure + Datomic & ClojureScript + DataScript
16. 526.▲
    by pgt 6y ago

    For those confused by the headline Carnival is a cruise ship operator, not a festival.
17. 527.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    Hahahahaha, I've sent this to everyone I know. Thanks!
18. 528.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    It should be able to aggregate across multiple tables, but it might need intermediate views. Can you give an example?
19. 529.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    I think you’d be surprised how eager the owners of crusty mainframe systems are to stop managing ancient infra and how heavily they have been sold on serverless / “the cloud”.
20. 530.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    Panic closed the tab when a giant form popup appeared asking for my email. Hate to add noise to the discussion, but I hope the author sees this and understands the market doesn't want this and reduces readership.
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    by pgt 7y ago

    Materialize exists to efficiently solve the view maintenance problem: https://materialize.io/
22. 532.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    Poverty = trauma?
23. 533.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    I wonder what a Toki Pona for computer programming would look like.
24. 534.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    When I click on a building, I can't mousewheel to get out if it. Closed the tab immediately.
25. 535.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    I tried to zoom out immediately and it felt constraining that it kept reverting to a zoom level. Let me zoom to the limits! Maybe then I'll buy a skyscraper "over there."
26. 536.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    My point is that it doesn't matter whether you see it as derogatory or not, because here we are arguing about it instead of Urbit (whatever it is), and therefore it is bad marketing. The goal of good UX is to eliminate question marks,
27. 537.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    You could call life an entropy pump.
28. 538.▲
    by pgt 7y ago

    The derogatory term "normies" hampers the explanation of Urbit. I can't help from commenting on that term, instead of helping to spread Urbit, which is the opposite of what Urbit wants. Whatever it is.
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    by pgt 7y ago

    Yes. I now use Rum + Datascript + core.async for event sourcing. Here is the entirety of my reactive event-loop handling, inspired by Tonsky's Cat Chat ( https://tonsky.me/blog/datascript-chat/ ): ; One M
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    by pgt 7y ago

    Life decreases entropy within its area of influence while increasing entropy outside its borders / cell walls / areas of influence.