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Javascript has come a long way, but I think there's still a different.

With PHP, you install the toolchain, save a file and the page becomes available.

With JS/TS, you install the toolchain, and then enter a complicated process of yarn/npm incantations in the command line to get the project working right. The manual may say "yarn add typescript" but in practice there's always more setup and configuration to be done before it works well.

For "real" projects, there's not that much of a difference between yarn and composer. For getting started, though, the process is a lot more involved.

Another problem is that running Javascript on the backend is almost completely different from normal frontend development. If you want to store state, you end up using the same (or even worse, a similar) programming language with completely different contexts and available libraries and methods. You can't document.createElement in the backend to tell the user that an operation succeeded or failed, even though that's what you'd do if you were working on a frontend file.

With PHP, you can't do frontend, so whenever you write frontend code, you can't get confused. In my opinion, this makes learning PHP backend dev a lot easier. It's only natural that you choose to continue working in the language you've started you development career in. You can see that by the fact that there are still people who swear by VB.NET, despite everything.

The JS ecosystem does have the advantage of coming with a debugger, but PHP users can get the same by hooking their PHP install into the PHPStorm debugger. I think it doesn't matter much which language you use at that point, it's just a tooling preference.

All in all, I think both languages have their uses. If PHP really was as bad as people say it is, it would've died out already.
If an NFT just contains a URL, is there anything stopping me from minting a bunch of new NFTs that contain the same URLs as existing NFTs? Is there some sort of uniqueness constraint on the URLs or is it just taken on faith that nobody would ever do that? What if I added some nonsense (like, I dunno, an fbclid) to the URL query string? What if I minted duplicates of all the NFTs on the Ethereum chain on the Solana chain, or vice-versa?
As someone who used to be an avid linux desktop user, but has subsequently moved away from it and is interested in the current ecosystem with a view to maybe coming back, what would you say is a good entry point?

I used to run Ubuntu back in the day if that helps.

I'm curious to get a sense of how much has changed.
Oh yes, I loved it since the Big Bang and the Very Large Telescope!
Especially in contrast to the current digital colonialism.

US Big Tech companies pay almost no corporation taxes in the EU (and if they do, only in Ireland / Luxembourg), and compete and buy out European companies, shipping the high-paying jobs (and the economic benefits and taxes those bring) back to the US (much like the oil industry in Nigeria, etc.).

The EU must take a stand against this, like has been done against Huawei. Ultimately the American Big Tech companies are no better than Huawei - the US is not an ally of the EU, and has been interfering in European democracy ever since the May 1947 crises.
They make salt graters that look very similar to cheese graters. I have one I use with a big block of salt.
After learning and developing with PHP, even with the new stuff, I would never choose to use it for anything.
Django was released shortly after Rails. Ruby and Python developers _needed_ to build something like Rails and Django because those languages didn’t promote the same type of script-as-html pattern that PHP did. Had more thought gone in to serving websites, PHP might enjoy more popularity today. PHP had the first mover advantage after all, but frameworks built in other languages were purely better in almost all categories.
It was them--They are still at it.

We were an IBM heavy shop (WAS, DB2) so someone thought it would be a good to host with them--we are slowly getting rid of all of that and moving to AWS.

The other notable part with hosting with them is losing DNS for sometimes days at a time.
mdBook (or Gitbook) is also an option. A bit more general than just for docs, though they advertise it as a first class use case.

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
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You have a url that purports to be a certificate of authenticity. What happens to that certificate of authenticity when the site goes down, or gets sold to someone who decides to replace all the images there with poop emojis?
That's still more memory than my old Vic20 had. :)
I have been tinkering in the NFT space, yet I don't see any particular use cases affecting the world.
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Great move! that'll encourage more people to contribute and improve the software

I agree with others, next logical move is to switch to linux fully
Yes, that looks like a good solution! Thanks!
A major culprit there is the absence of private messaging. There's no way to build intimacy. Sure, you can email, but that's a much larger step change in interaction - and giving your email to one person means giving it to everyone.
Rhymes with weewee.
What is stopping you from selling a movie you've just downloaded ? The movie industry is a scam !
Freedom is the default for existence.

The only way to not have freedom is for others to remove it from you by force or threat of it. The threat of it is what causes us to self limit our own freedoms. (sometimes for a greater good, sometimes not)
I have grown to absolutely love Sphinx. The plugins are wonderful, including Sphinx gallery, jupyter integration, and Sphinx-needs for requirements management.
> But I agree that the ratio between the former and the latter tends to increase as society becomes more developed and free.

I think it’s more to do with how interconnected we all are now. A few centuries ago the ripple effects of your decision might impact a hundred people. Now it might reach thousands. Or more.
English spelling is also inconsistent with diacritics. You can write ‘facade’ but also ‘façade’, just like ‘naive’ and ‘naïve’.

The only adopted word I can think of that avoids this is ‘Canyon’, since the y is added from the ñ. In Spanish it is ‘Cañon’.
This is a great move! I hope they will still have money left to train all teachers and office staff properly.

Believe it or not, many German teachers have started using digital technology for real only in 2020, when the pandemic first hit. They are now totally entrenched with the Microsoft way of doing things. They know all the MS quirks and how to navigate around them.

Free software alternatives to MS products have different quirks that will need different workarounds.
Big companies tend to do this sort of thing, they are large enough to ignore convention 'outside' and it tends to give the insiders the feeling that they are special, it's another form of gatekeeping. You see the same in the military with endless acronyms.

On a smaller scale, tech people do the same thing by using more complex terms for simple things to appear to have some kind of special knowledge. It's all about who is on the inside and who is on the outside. Highly annoying.

Such DSLs can serve to increase the speed of communication but more often than not they are simply used for obfuscation purposes.
I'm arguing against the particular definition of freedom given, not against freedom itself.
You can add your own search plugin or use another provider like Typesense. They just offer an optional free Algolia service for open-source projects on top. You can read more here: https://docusaurus.io/docs/search
it would be selling a link to the location of a movie file.
Nobody is trying to tell me that buying a movie is an investment vehicle, though.
Freedom is a .... consequence , of ....
> In fact, US in the 19th century was much closer to laissez-faire ideals than today and went through a surge of private road and water channel construction (I could also mention railroads here, but if I'm not mistaken, they relied on government intervention to get the land).

A lot of canals and turnpikes were also built by the government--the Erie Canal and the National Road being preeminent examples. Contemporary railroads, such as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad were usually private. Land grants for railroads were largely limited to the western railroads and for a surprisingly short period of time--only about 1850-1871 were major land grants being used for railroads.

Overall, railroads got roughly the same amount of government support as did canals and roads, maybe even somewhat less. Although this should generally be understood as all infrastructure more or less requiring generous amounts of government support.
This is something that military officer training (at least in the UK) teaches very well. You may have a degree and have gone to Sandhurst but woe betide any junior office who doesn’t listen to their experienced NCOs.
> I do pity anyone trying to learn it.

Depends on the age of the learner and the duration of the instruction. If you start learning a second language in elementary school or even in kindergarten and spread it out over the rest of the school years, then there's nothing to it. If, on the other hand, you start as an adult and want to learn a language over a short period of time, then my pity goes to you regardless of which language you are learning.
That sounds horrific. I hope you found a doctor and medication that works for you.
I honestly don't think this is the big "gotcha" that people seem to think it is.

An NFT can be traced back to the creator. So you don't have the same history or satisfaction of giving back to the creator of the NFT.

I think people on here are getting too caught up in the technical. I can print out a shiny charizard pokemon card but it isn't the same thing is it?

A better way to think about NFTs is exchanging a monetary gift to the creator of something you enjoy for a collectable.
I've lived in a large city and it was miserable to until I learned the ways of those people.
Remind me of this skit
https://youtu.be/Fb7N-JtQWGI
The EU seems to have no problem legislating against and penalizing US Big Tech in return. IMO the European attitude towards entrepreneurship and startups does more harm to EU tech than "US Big Tech" ever would or could
While I primarily program in python these days I have two major open source PHP projects (millions of downloads each). I was also part of the standards group that tried to modernize some aspects of PHP (to various degrees of success).

In general I would never bring them up on this site. It's just not worth my time or effort. I've even gone so far as to ask people who have posted my blog posts here to take them down. Hacker News has one of the worst groupthink cases in tech, where if you speak against various core beliefs you get absolutely hammered with trolls both on the site and off of it. Having a reasonable discussion about the pros and cons of PHP is just not something this site is capable of supporting.
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In the link's discussion someone mentioned they liked the shorter character limit. I frequently see people posting what are essentially full-length articles broken up into chunks.
>You could have a tangible copy of the Mona Lisa that is physically indistinguishable from the real one.

It certainly would not be. It might look very very similar, but in no way indistinguishable to the degree that one digital file is literally the same as a copy of itself.
Very helpful - thanks! I completely agree with the calls to action: I've found them inauthentic and jarring. It's a bit like carefully planning an outfit, then throwing some Crocs on at the last minute to serve as footwear!
I'm off to spend the rest of my day reading Ken Shirriff's blog :)
Good point!

I used to play that same thought experiment with more basic utilities like my toaster with it's various settings and electronic controllers. Then I was given a Dualit. No more philosophical dilemmas!

Kidding aside, it's always staggering how far removed we really are from operating on (humanly) first principles. Humbling.
I'd recommend Arch Linux for developers.

It takes a little bit of set-up / learning at the start. But you can easily try it out with a tool like ALMA - https://github.com/r-darwish/alma

See my preset files here - https://github.com/jamesmcm/arch-i3-usb

But PopOS is probably the closest to the previous beginner Ubuntu experience now.
A good lesson on the value of failing, throwing something out and starting over
Same for your movie collection. The movie streaming industry is a scam !
That is fantastically impressive and reminds me of something Sam Altman said once

"Alan Kay gave me an Alto. That’s not the very last computer that I think is within my capability to understand everything that’s happening in there, but it’s getting near the end." https://mastersofscale.com/sam-altman-why-customer-love-is-a...

This is a visual representation of about what I understand about a processor and still outside of what I could actually make without a lot of reference material.
At least Office 365 does proper kerning.

Edit: I don't get the downvote. Last week I spent 10 minutes of a meeting waiting for the presenter to apply some fix to his LibreOffice presentation because font kerning and sizes were corrupt in the full screen view.

I would love to ditch MS completely and use LibreOffice for all my work, but it has its weak spots.
For the individual? Depends. The percentage of individuals with ADD smoking is 10x higher than in neurotypicals (whatever that may be). Dopamine deficiency may be one "problem" people self medicating with nicotine might try to "fix" (treating symptoms).
One of the photographed slides [1] seems to portray it precisely as a two-part strategy. The right-hand side mentions "Förderung/Entwicklung nutzbarer Lösungen" (The word "Förderung" means "advancement" usually including the financial sense of contributing to funding) with the flip side of that being "Berücksichtigung von Anforderungen", i.e. the German state wanting their requirements addressed in the development process.

[1] https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/si...
Definitely, I can feel you on this one. There's a lot of negative connotations in regards to being associated as one.
I like KDE 5 very much, personally, and am a user of the KDE Neon distro. If you've looked again at KDE recently, what are your primary paint points?
They are put on IPFS which can exist forever.
They might be valuable to other members of the NFT believers group in the same way that rare baseball cards are valuable to other baseball card collectors, but the rest of us just aren’t interested in trading digital baseball cards of JPEGs.

Well that's the point isn't it?

It's valuable within the in-group that the person is part of. It increases their status within the crypto community and gives them access to exclusive networks/events.

Sure you can right-click save a crypto punk, but will that allow you into their community?

Much in the same way that I marvel at peoples ability to spend millions of dollars on Modern art (Basquiat's for example look like a 5 y/o drew them), NFT's to me serve a similar function.

Yet another way for humans to form tribes, create meaning and use conspicuous consumption to signal status.
Yeah I m in the same boat. I come from France, an old, maybe aging, proud of itself democracy and... when I discovered Singapore then Hong Kong, two semi-dictatorships in different ways, omg: I had never seen people so free in ways we cant be free in France.

So now that Im a permanent resident in Hong Kong, joking with everyone next step is Chinese citizenship, I'm a bit at a loss when it comes to freedom. Not corruption, efficiency, representativity, predictable justice or even fairness, where clearly I cant argue against France and for China/HK. But just freedom itself, I feel it goes so much beyond the ability to vote and complain publicly. I cant define it just like you, but when I look around me in the middle of a street in Hong Kong, even now, I feel so much freer that in Paris... it's weird.
You do not extend tolerance to those who would deny your humanity.

Want to know how to fight back against authoritarianism? Look to the folks who've been fighting against racism for (literally) hundreds of years.

Racism in the US is just fascism that hasn't hit white people yet.
“Freedom” can be given up by choice, too. Often because the trade-off is better for both. Marriage, for example.
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Freedom means different things to different people, but it's not because it's all a treacherous language game. It's because the concept is complex. The forces that underlie freedom like choice and power are not just treacherous language games. They also mean different things to different people, but they're very real at a base level.

If it were all a treacherous language game, then playing would be futile. There would be nothing to talk about.

To the contrary, Snowden is talking about Freedom from the context of a society that was a humanitarian, economic, and cultural disaster - Mao's China. Those failures were far from a language game.
Last night I was thinking about why some people are fine and others are not. I had a random thought that is probably nonsense but here it is: when I get a cold I noticed that if I sleep on my back the mucous all drips down my throat and I end up with a chest cold too. Once I determined that it could be related I never sleep on my back if I am sick. I have literally not had a cold move to my chest since. I started wondering if anyone had done studies on sleep position with sickness and maybe Covid to see if there is any correlation.
I don’t know if it’s that personal fwiw colonisation is horrible

And there are countries that have come out of colonisation to succeed, South Korea Singapore Malaysia India in Asia Australia newzeland Canada US. Germany and Japan were bombed and occupied
Inspiring hopefully other countries
What led to obesity is not the food per se but the wide availability of it and the change in other norms like exercise and outdoor play which changes lifelong habits. Even with a world of processed food it's rare to see a fat person who is a daily runner and that is no accident.

But this theory that humans used to eat an optimal diet and now don't assumes that humans in the past were somehow in more control of their diets than we are today and I don't think that's true at all.
How different is really microblogging from forums? Given how simple this entire domain (we are really talking about different database views of rather simple sets data points) it should be really easy to structure things so that people get the "slice" and experience they are interested in and comfortable with.
PHP is great as long as you accept it 100% for what it is - a shitty language.
If in X years the domain in the link to the NFT stored in the blockchain expired and ends up pointing to a new image was it ever an ugly ape?

Is there at least a hash of the image stored with the metadata and link?
North Korea shows what a difference leadership makes. On the one hand one pushed education and industrialization on the other hand cult of personality and some flavor of communism/collectivism.

I think this is a stark example of what a difference leadership can make.
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Investigating viruses is normal procedure and has many advantages. Millions are spent investigating flu, common cold, mutations thereof, and other viruses every year. It's how we know how to deal with them, and how we can get better at making ways to counter them.

If this spill-out theory is correct, the Lab is at fault for improperly handling these viruses, something you can't really fault Fauci for. Unless, of course, you buy in and regurgitate political dribble.
This is mostly because the "Munich case" was a star example for a long time. Also, star division, the company that started star office, is from Germany.
> OSS is dead.

Given that OSS was a corporate sponsored perversion of Free/Libre software designed to trick naive developers into contributing unpaid labour without getting anything back, I would hope so.

Free software, on the other hand, is roaring ahead, and doing better than ever.
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I tried to use a CNC mill recently and that lasted about 30 seconds. Terrible piece of equipment.
> storage, fakes, and transaction costs. NFTs solve all three

NFTs solve none of these problems. The underlying asset is not stored on the blockchain and can be deleted at any time. Fakes are unaddressed since you can only validate you are the owner of a specific url and there's no guarantee that what you own is the original version (bytes are easy to copy). Any validation of authenticity must happen OFF of the blockchain in which case why are we doing this again? Transaction costs are a function of the market (even on the blockchain) and are not at all connected to NFTs.
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This is a good explanation of why some people perceive NFT's to have value, setting aside if they do or not. The people who believe they have value I think expect at some point a business model will emerge to provide them with income for access to the "art" they "own".

The way to make a business model is to associate copyright ownership with the NFT ownership and then assert those rights by filing DMCA takedowns (and/or lawsuits) everyday to anyone who displays the "art" without paying for the privilege and using the NFT owners original work as the source file.

This would create digital scarcity because copies couldn't be used without legal exposure, so any real business or serious person who wanted to use it would pay for the rights to. It's like the Getty Images business model scaled way way up. I don't necessarily think this business model is good for society or will actually happen but it's the way to monetize NFTs.
With the TPB parody and everything, this a satire against intellectual property in general, not just NFTs, right ?
I'm guilty of the odd shitpost or troll, or forgetting that there is an actual person with feelings on the other side of a heated internet argument - but this thread gave me pause and kind let me re-center myself. Something that's been difficult given the circumstances of the passed two years.

I'm going to try to be better.
A scam implies someone is getting hurt. Yet I haven't seen anyone getting hurt. You might say that people will get hurt when the bubble pops but people have been saying the same thing about crypto for awhile.
I'd argue that hunter gatherers had all of the units of freedoms, and when full centralization happened (monarchies) we lost all those units. Democracy gave you back some units by decentralizing power (not fully).

I'm not saying decentralizing more is gonna give you more freedom, more like a different take. I think your point is still valid, there has to be an equilibrium and I just don't know where it lays.
Yes, we can use `#amazon-s3` as the anchor, then the name could be long, for example, `#digitalocean-spaces-object-storage`), and it will not work in Chinese.

Your suggestion is better than current one, we will use that, thanks!