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by romaniv 1y ago
Yes, but not in the sense of dumping serialized JSON into HTML. It ends up being represented by custom HTML attributes and their values. For example, if you need to keep track if the user clicked on some button, you might represent it as fo
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by romaniv 1y ago
Devs have learned not to keep state in the document, because it's inadequate for it. Web devs have moved the state out of the document into JS variables and have been piling bloated, short-lived crap on top of those variables ever
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by romaniv 1y ago
Step one, companies create AI gauntlet for their applicants. Step two, those companies lose access to the top talent who will simply go interview somewhere else or get a job in some other way. Step three, less scrupulous candidates start to
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by romaniv 1y ago
URL shorteners were always a bad idea. At the rate things are going I'm not sure people in a decade or two won't say the same thing about URLs and the Web as whole. The fact that there is no protocol-level support for archiving, v
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Texas Instruments AI Productivity Roundtable (1987) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by romaniv 1y ago|0 comments
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Factor Programming Language Tutorial [video](odysee.com)
2 points by romaniv 1y ago|0 comments
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by romaniv 1y ago
From the video: "It's like, yeah, he said that in 2003, right? He said that after a very long time. So why did he say it? It's because 10 years earlier, he was already saying he kind of soured on it." https://
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Texas Instruments AI Productivity Roundtable [video](youtube.com)
6 points by romaniv 1y ago|2 comments
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by romaniv 1y ago
This video contains many serious misrepresentations. For example, it makes a claim that Alan Kay only started talking about message-passing only in 2003 and that it was a kind of backpedaling due the failures of the inheritance-based OOP mo
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by romaniv 1y ago
The title should be "DSLs pose an interesting problem for LLM users". It is significant that LLMs in coding are being promoted based on a set of promises (and assumptions) that are getting instantly and completely reversed the mom
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by romaniv 5y ago
The best unit of isolation for web functionality is behaviors, not controls. Think of them as traits enabled and configured via attributes. I've used such things on many different projects with very good results. The main advantage is
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by romaniv 5y ago
> The government’s action is troubling enough, but what should really disturb us is the ease and invisibility with which it is being done. This is such a great point. I'm not sure why it needs to be made over and over again, but it
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by romaniv 5y ago
> Carrying cash is exactly how you lose it all to police corruption, sometimes called civil asset forfeiture. If you have police seizing assets for bad reasons, allowing them to automate the process is going to make things worse, not b
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by romaniv 5y ago
> An illegal action which causes harm to (many) others should come at a cost. Peak irony here, considering why he was doing it. Protecting his children from social media harm. Were anyone at big tech companies ever jailed for the myria
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Fastly Stock Plunges(marketwatch.com)
2 points by romaniv 5y ago|0 comments
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by romaniv 5y ago
> Rosa Parks was jailed. Are we at the point where jailing of Rosa Parks is somehow used to mock and chastise people who just participated or supported a civil liberties protest? This is some bizarre mental gymnastics.
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by romaniv 5y ago
My cynical take is this is exactly why CTV, which was clearly and strongly biased against the protest when it was happening, decided to publish this particular story right now. Normalization aka boiling the frog. You start with a case in th
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by romaniv 5y ago
>CISA’s purview is information security. Is it only? Doesn't seem like it from what they do. 'I' stands for "Infrastructure" and it's a very stretchable term: https://www.cisa.gov/chemical-se
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by romaniv 5y ago
I understand that right now people just want some way to make pages update with minimum fuss, but when you start talking about extending HTTP (even more), that automatically brings up the question of whether you're solving the wrong pr
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by romaniv 5y ago
The general theme of this list is that technology gives us more and more hoops to jump through, then provides some trampoline to jump through them. We're supposed to be eternally grateful. I'm not. I want to focus on problem-solvi
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by romaniv 5y ago
I don't trust any government agency that sponsors and publishes literal propaganda: https://www.cisa.gov/resilience-series-graphic-novels Especially when it's designed to encourage a kind of pro-establishment para
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by romaniv 5y ago
It's not just Reddit's "etiquette", it's the general direction where most social media comment sections are pushing their users via design and algorithms. 1. Click on the next thing in the feed. 2. Upvote/downv
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by romaniv 5y ago
I highly recommend everyone here to watch these two cannels for Covid news and analysis: https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching https://odysee.com/@DrMobeenSyed:1 The first one is a bit more user-f
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by romaniv 6y ago
>Programming languages advance by introducing new constraints. Among other things. >throw is a little bit too goto-y for my taste Conceptually, throw is not at all like GOTO. It's not a control structure, but a communication
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by romaniv 6y ago
In 1986 people wanted to make real programming more like a computer game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LZ6TnSP40 Today, when we have much more computational resources, I'm reading this article about representing F
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by romaniv 6y ago
http://quickenloans.github.io/Behaviors.js/ Once I got past certain mental blocks, it became fairly obvious that you can structure all your GUI scripts to be configured and to interact with one another via DOM. The n
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by romaniv 7y ago
I'm willing to bet this will be used as one of the arguments in a corporate push for global automation in ~10 years.
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by romaniv 7y ago
>And the web was designed with the intent of running code practically from the beginning This is absolute nonsense. In the beginning the web didn't even have inline images. It was a text-only protocol. https://www.wired
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by romaniv 7y ago
Do you seriously expect Google and Cloudflate to make basic web development easier when they are making tons of money by "managing" its complexity for others? It's in their best interest to make hosting your own content or us
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by romaniv 7y ago
>Any thoughts on how to dip my toes in the water with hardware to see if that's a better fit? How much money is "dip my toes"? If you're talking less than a hundred bucks for some cool toys, you can buy Korg Volca a

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