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by rthomas6 9y ago
One other small filesize hack for pretty background images is to use primitive ( https://github.com/fogleman/primitive ) to make stylized SVGs. I use it for https://goodfeels.net for the hero header image.
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Like 3 nested listcomps on one line (Python).
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If the site is static enough to do that, why wouldn't I just use a static site generator? Not being snarky, I'm really trying to learn.
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This. Instant media center that's better than any Roku/Firestick/whatever.
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Is this because it's a quickly made demo vs a refined production-ready site, or is it a direct result of the way the sites are made? Can you use GraphQL, React, Express, etc. and make a very fast website?
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by rthomas6 9y ago
As someone who is trying to learn modern web development, things like this make me feel overwhelmed. So many tools to learn and integrate! Why these tools over other ones? So many tools to choose from on every level of the stack! What the h
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Maybe they have a mil-spec fallback mechanism (manual control, maybe?). Would that suffice?
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Try not going on Facebook at all for a week or two and see what they send you.
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by rthomas6 9y ago
One "non-programmer" perspective here: Python is the new Perl, except it's fast to read AND write. In Python it's fast to do ...everything. I'm an electrical engineer by trade, and Python gets used a lot. * If I hav
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Seems like a simple C app would take much less resources than a docker container and have a lot lower latency, though. How much computing power would you need for each, given the same number of users?
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Interesting that a massage therapist has among the highest divorce rate, but a physical therapist has among the lowest. Those jobs don't seem that different.
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Triggered. Leave me alone and let me make my Hugo blog migration with my custom theme using bulma.io and webpack. Never mind that the WordPress setup I have now could handle 100x the traffic I get.
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I am 29 and am starting to struggle with this sort of thing. I realized that part of the problem, for me, was how easy it was for me to get distracted. When I view a problem like a vast tree and try to keep track of all of it at once, I bec
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Looks like they are using http://leafletjs.com/
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Off topic: I like how this website is set up and would like to know how it's made. Does anyone know what CMS/static generator/whatever it's using?
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Negative externalities? What's that?
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https://bestmotherfucking.website is where it's at.
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You Are Not Your Mind(goodfeels.net)
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As a Python user who read about 60% of SICP, yes it really is readable. The trick is to realize that in lisps open-parenthesis denotes something more than a grouping. ( means "function call", and a change in scope. So if it really
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I think https://bestmotherfucking.website is the best one. It's got HTTP/2, good contrast, minimal styling, gzip, and uses a CDN.
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Good point. Here is why I don't see that as a problem. 1. Things are democratic overall. You tend to follow people that share things that you like. You see what they post AND what they "upvote". Whenever someone votes on some
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Check out Hubski ( https://hubski.com ). It's got a great community, and a unique way displaying and moderating posts. Instead of subreddits, you follow users and tags. When you upvote posts, you share them with whoever follo
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Just a PSA for anyone who happens across this: There are some apps for Android that understand and play multi-file audiobooks just fine. I use Smart Audiobook Player and it works great.
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Here are some scientifically valid answers that are more interesting. * Restrict calories to 30% less than you want to eat. ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19075044 ) * Starve your father when he was a child. ( htt
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Something can be a good idea and unworkable due to political and regulatory hurdles. Just look at broadband access. Or medical records. Two industries that would benefit greatly from some disruption, but we're not seeing much there bec
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Yes, hopefully those sites will not be successful because they do not provide any value to consumers. I don't see how sites like that could get high rankings on search engines, though. Who actually wants to see those? Then again, I kno
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What if the site is genuinely useful, though? I like The Wirecutter for technology opinions, and affiliate links are the only way they make money. It seems like a win-win(-win) to me, if the products are actually things the visitors want to
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by rthomas6 9y ago
This reminds me a lot of the sci-fi novel Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Trying to be spoiler-free as possible, in the book, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the correct one, and the worlds lie on a directed acyclic graph
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by rthomas6 9y ago
Today is my third day on Keto and I feel like crap right now. Apparently this is pretty normal and it goes away, and it has something to do with too low sodium intake. This comment has no real point, I just wanted to share.
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Another datapoint: I've done a 48 hour fast and I felt hungry the whole time. However, the hunger sort of plateaued and then didn't contiune to get worse. It was sort of like, "Oh, I'm hungry. That's unfortunate. Ti

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