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> HTML and CSS weren’t designed to be general-purpose GUI description languages

Maybe not, but they are now, and are incredibly diverse in what that can achieve.

> HTTP wasn’t designed to be a client-server GUI application protocol.

Again, maybe not, but it is now with Websockets, http2 and webRTC.

> JavaScript wasn’t designed to be a serious application programming language.

Also maybe not initially but it is now incredible capable and amazingly only 50-100% slower than C! We now have WASM that let you reuse a vast amount of code from desktop too.

> basic UI controls still have to be custom-implemented and custom-styled by each app

Even with native gui toolkits developers are having to constantly build custom widgets for their specific use case. HTML gives us a baseline of widgets what work everywhere from desktop to mobile on all OSs. Would I like more? Yes, but what HTML gives us is the ability to build our own really easily, in an accessible way.

> CSS layout and styling is still a byzantine minefield.

I disagree, flexbox and grid layout are incredible and solve all the issues with the older box and float model.

> The ecosystem of tooling and libraries and frameworks remains highly fragmented.

True, and it can be a barrier to entry for someone new. However newer tooling such as Vite and ESBuild are incredible, fixing menu of the warts of the older tools.

But it would also say the the the amount of tooling options available is a testament to the success of the web platform.

> staggering amount of manpower is being wasted away in bespoke frontend development.

Most people don't want the web painted in the same shade of magnolia. Plus all those supposed "wasted" hours pay hundreds of thousands peoples salaries, supporting family and contribute to a vibrant economy.

The web platform is one of the greatest inventions of all time, and so incredible successful. It's so diverse in its capabilities and surprisingly performant at that. Honestly it's far better than people often give it credit form.
> If I knew that everything I have is built on genocide, I would feel pretty wrong.

Well, isn't it? Human history is a bloody affair from the first days of farming to today. History is a long series of wrongs. How shall we undo them?
i think, in order:

1. the mainstream adoption of AJAX

2. node + node development community (top 5% of node/npm contributors - also Google see 4.)

3. agencies trying to sell over-engineered BS to their clients

4. Chrome/Google

5. influx of non-CS/nerds into FED (commoditization of knowledge, process and perceptions.)
I seem to get a lot of benefits from power training combined with cardio, cardio on itself doesn't seem to give me equally strong mental health benefits.
20 M is rapeseed alone, the total is slightly more than 200 M.
No need to be reductive. There's lots of other ways people improve their mental health, like cutting toxic people out of their life, or going to therapy.
> Assume reproduction such that population doubles every 25 years. Fast, but not insane.

This is already completely implausible given everything we know about human behavior, but it reaches impossibility very quickly when you consider the possibility of humans becoming more than a negligible fraction of the mass of their single host planet. We aren't machines that can trivially reproduce ourselves from commonly available materials and then eject into space. Feeding ourselves is hard, getting to space (alive) is harder. And once the overwhelming majority of us are in space because there's no more room down below, how are we supposed to meet up to keep up the 25 year doubling rate. How are we supposed to keep up the rate of resource extraction from Earth?
Yes, the browsers export a lot of capabilities to the frontend. But you point no reason why the frontends must use those capabilities.
The privatization of policing
Outsized influence IMO.

Enterprise is still king, and we here in Enterprise Ops are not happy. Microsoft needs to remember where its money comes from, and it is not jr webdevs
Yeah. We should build one of those too. I think enough people would pay good money to live there.
Checks have your bank details on them. It's the funny numbers at the bottom.

If they didn't how would the receiving bank be able to get the money from your account?
> There are many good alternatives now to burning fossilized hydrocarbons. Windmills. Solar panels. Tidal power. Even some kinds of safe nuclear power like thorium reactors.

> But these inventions need to be scaled up quickly. They are sort of like where rockets were in the 1920s. But in 40 years men had ridden rockets to the moon!

How come nearly every article which talks about carbon free alternatives never mentions current nuclear fission? I mean this article had to go into thorium reactors when effective alternatives exist today.

The more I read such articles the more I become convinced that carbon based global warming is a fraud because the doom mongers studiously refuse to acknowledge the most effective, most energy dense carbon free energy alternative, ie nuclear fission.

All the other alternatives entail huge amounts of mineral extraction and processing, carbon powered of course. Is it because the green movement is driven by construction and extractive industries and that nuclear fuel involves the least amount of mining and construction?

In my view it is the sheer compactness of nuclear power stations, the compactness of the mining and processing, and the energy density of nuclear fuel that makes it so unpopular with capitalism. These capitalists cannot keep digging, mining and building ad infinitum, so they prefer the alternatives which do and promote them, all in the name of reduced carbon emissions.

PS. I know the downvoters are going to down vote this into oblivion, but why not keep it up and present strong counterarguments it? Would that be because the arguments against nuclear energy don't add up.
I disagree. Climate change doesn't mean that things are slightly warmer, it means that there are more frequent catastrophic weather events. We're seeing this now. It WILL impact you during your lifetime.
What kind of sweatpants are more expensive than a tuxedo??
I have never seen a tool that really does so little out of the box (notice most people only talk about cloning IR remotes) be worried over so much. SDR, key relay and other radio based attacks were happening before flipper and will continue.

Anyone who wants to do real harm with flipper will have to learn a lot, and when they do flipper won't be the tool they stick with. It is limited compared to something like hackrf.

Criminals can buy all kinds of turnkey kits to do crime, flipper isn't one of them.
I was hoping for an article about the invention of the real walkietalky..
So you can't show a preview of what the buyer can expect?
The obvious solution then is to convert areas that already lack "character", are high density, noisy, high-traffic, etc. The article points out alleys, train underpasses.

Why does this not happen in the U.S.? Is that also NIMBYism?
4. We do not have enough renewable biomass to use as feedstock to replace our current use of non synthetic fuel.

Synthetic fuel from renewable feedstock should only be used where we cannot replace ICE, for example planes.

Synthetic fuel for cars is pure heresy from the environmental point of view. We already are at the limit in the production of wood pellet for heating (the forest are suffering enormously from climate change), bio gas is using not only waste but also corn and "good" crops to be produced.

And of course, the process to convert all this biomass into a fuel is consuming a lot of energy.

Please, do not dream of everything green with synthetic fuels everywhere, this can only be part of a small part of the transition.
I don't really think there is one true best sequence of events. For example:

1) Luna first, send stuff to space with mass drivers.

2) Gravity well is lava, mine asteroids (near Earth, then Belt) and build massive space colonies to your liking (O'Neill Cylinders, etc.).

3) Lets build balloon cities in the atmosphere of Venus!

4) Settle (likely after doing nr. 2) the ocean worlds of the kerbal-scale Solar System analog around Jupiter.

But most likely, some mix of those will likely happen, with different organizations having different needs and aims (eq. massive free flying factories and scientific instruments vs self sustained city building).
But if samsung put ads and bloatware on their phones... won't they put them on TVs too?

Oh wait, they do:

https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/co5aw4/unrem...

What about on smart fridges?

Oh wait.. they do that too:

https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/yr80x3/my_smar...
>mass produced planetary scale rocketry beats all other weapons

if your goal is only destruction sure, the likes of ICBMs are great. for conventional warfare when you want to do things like topple regimes, annex resources, subjugate peoples, etc. not so much. it's exactly why Russia hasn't used nukes in the Ukrainian conflicts.
This entire article assumes that the type is only used to satisfy what's on display in the example function, which is almost never true.

The article itself is some sort of a programming flex I'd fire you for if you leave it in the code reviews too often. :P
I purchased two of them, recently. I bought one in December from an authorized reseller and received it within 2 weeks. Ordered another one direct from the official Flipper website in late December as a gift and received that one within 1 week. They're easy to get at this point.
Just to be clear, the Catholic Church condemns slavery at this time. But what I think this Bitcoin guy may be referring to is that in the past there was not always s sufficient moral understanding for people to know _why_ all forms of slavery are wrong.

Good article that explains it: https://www.catholic.com/qa/the-changing-circumstances-of-sl...
I'm not planning to join the 'artificially bloated vs. necessary' debate, but

i think the web platform is a very open platform. Sure, there are highly complex toolchains for the web, but you are not obligated to use them.
If you want to, you can use vanilla JS (if at all), raw WebGL and even Wasm.
Hm I never heard of Rune, and I have heard of all the others (although this article gave me more info about Val):

https://github.com/google/rune (side project, not Google project)

This part is interesting, as I've found many benefits from having a layer of indirection between the app-level data definitions, and the C/C++ struct level. I recall that Jai used to advertise the SoA -> AoS transforms but that was many years ago.

It provides many of its features by deeply integrating the "DataDraw" tool into the primitives and constructs of the language. DataDraw is a code-generation tool that generates highly-optimized C code which outperforms e.g., the C++ STL given a declarative description of data-structures and relationships between them. For more information, see the DataDraw 3.0 Manual.

I've never heard of DataDraw either .. I wonder who uses it?
I would argue that anyone who professes beliefs such as the person in question is, in fact, an "absolute nutcase". The extreme beliefs themselves are what makes someone a nutcase.

A primary example of such a nutcase belief complex is: 1. That X is the only true religion. 2. That believing in false things is not a natural right and is heresy. 3. That heresy can and should be punished.

This belief complex has been demonstrated publicly by the mentioned person.
The global energy usage from crypto was in the ballpark of 120-240 TWh/year, but a couple figures repeated the specific 150 TWh/year figure, so I'll use that.

The US's annual gasoline consumption is 135 bn gallons (2021 figure). At around 20 mpg (random estimate because I have to pick something), that works out to 2.7 trillion miles. At 30 kWh/100mi (figure from google), that works out 800 TWh if every gas vehicle in the US was suddenly switched for an electric one, or about 20% of the US's annual electricty generation of 4222.5 TWh (2018 figure). Also, that's about 5x the global crypto energy usage, vs just America's cars. [Obvious disclaimers: some of those estimates are arbitrary and not perfect, but they're in the right ballpark, and we obviously wouldn't switch to electric cars overnight]

Crypto was bad because it didn't actually accomplish anything with that power usage, but it was a pretty small footnote on the grand scheme of things.
> http://2011.beercamp.com (depth? scrolling)

Volume warning when you press the spinning thing, blasted my ears out.
Good. More people should.
Because complex applications are now delivered as web apps instead of as desktop applications, and these require complex tooling to maintain. Then everyone wanted to use the same tools in other areas (I guess), where it is probably not necessary in a lot of cases. You see similar trends elsewhere (e.g. cloud, k8s), perhaps CV building is the real reason.

Then again, a lot of the complexity is mostly optional these days. But knowing how to avoid it is tricky, given the amount of tutorials online that will happily convince you to use webpack, redux and whatever else that was made for bigger problems as if they should be used everywhere.

I don't envy young programmers these days, the amount of stuff to wade through is just mindblowing.
You do realize that the author is a noted left wing activist/anarchist and affiliated with the Occupy movement? The Economist reviewed his prior book rather critically. Too many books are published these days masquerading as scholarly when they are actually nothing more than agitprop. This is one of them.
This was my first paranoid thought.
Can't wait for CBMC and Why3 connection efforts for rust to start being used by AWS and their formal methods people (I know they're into TLA+ and I wish there was also some work going on to connect rust/SPARK and temporal logic tools better too).
The flipper zero does have a (pcm?) speaker! It comes with a music player by default with the marble machine sample notes.
I don't see how the submission title is consistent with the article:

"Staying hydrated is linked to ... faster aging, early death"

The article makes the opposite claim.
I think that's practically what will happen a lot of the time, but it's not very satisfying. It seems to amount to "this person won't be convinced by my unconvincing argument, so the conversation wasnt worth having". (Unconvincing in that you're basically asking them to take it on faith rather than demonstrating it rigorously).
Pretty interesting article.

I have always been a Mars-skeptic so this article reinforced much of that. That said, in reading this article I came to wonder why the author is even proposing we spend the money on more probes. Sooner or later, the probes only make sense if we intend to follow-up with human space travel. I suppose you could make the argument we are a century away from where we ought to consider that, but the author does not broach the subject of what the long term goals ought to be for space exploration and why.

From a science perspective, I am in favor of more things like JWST. More probes probably make sense for similar reasons. From a commercial and human standpoint, we should probably be focusing more on Low Earth applications with maybe some possibility that some of this ought to also focus on establishing a permanent base on the moon. But doing this on the moon assumes some really good reasons materialize for doing so. Whether it is the discovery of ice or minerals, or (maybe also) that there is an area we could setup beneath the surface the is shielded from radiation.

It would be great if we could find a practical reason for establishing a presence on the moon that then also laid the groundwork as an environment where some of these longer term problems could be tested and refined while we were also extracting some value from being there.
It's perhaps not exactly what you mean, but the paint example of Diffie-Hellman is pretty neat for coming up with a common secret: https://cdn.comparitech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/diffi...
It's all over techcomms too: GML / Scribe aaalllllll the way to DocBook, then DITA and S1000D. And people run to adopt those thick specs, in spite of there being zero supporting data that they in any way reduce cost . . or do anything useful[1] at all. Watch that adjective "useful".

I see it as Scientist/Technician vs Prophet/Priest.

These two pairs are solutions to a problem: the world isn't doing what I say. They can both work, or at least do better than random. The difference is that the former can explain why, and the latter can't.

The cool thing about not explaining? It makes the Prophet the only person who can evaluate the work. They have vision into the solution, and it appears only to them.

The bad thing about Prophets? If you've quantified the solution, then it can be falsified and replicated.

Wait a second . . how hard can it be to quantify a solution? It's actually really hard - particularly in things like natural language (tech comms) and visual arts (yes, front end is viz art, FIGHT ME :D). Some industries have blown up their prophets to such towering heights that they will set fire to clients and money and any other quantitative measure of value . . all in search of that One Truth (content re-use and so-called "single sourcing", I am looking at you, but I'm not even going to tease the elephant in the room that is AS9100)

People in insecure positions will always seek to turn their Technician position into a Priest position, even if they need to find some Prophet to cling to. And eventually, they might get a chance to be a Prophet too. It's like an MLM for your mind.

[1] "Structured content is the future!" Oh, is it now? How's that been working out for you last checks watch twenty years? "Hierarchical organizations are required for finding stuff!" Do you know, I think I remember the Internet Outline google publishes ever second /s. Ah, "useful".
Sierra Nevada watershed is already being used by Northern California.

It provides 60% of California water.

Even removing the farms, I couldn't find any data supporting that it was enough water for the rest of California.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't either.

The data I found says the Sierra Nevada watershed supports 750,000 farms.

Is that equivalent to 15 million people or so?
Honestly sort of depressing how everything follows US policy: NDAA contained whistleblower-protection language--and we have to be proud of it. Couldn't other "western liberal democracies" just initiate their own policy initiatives--sounds like I'm denigrating US--I'm not--but couldn't other countries initiate their own first, why have to wait and play second fiddle? Always like this. US passes some law, then you see, like the dominoes fall elsewhere--depressing as it gives the impression they were too scared to pass before US...ugh. Progress controlled from one source is not diverse enough to succeed. We need more :)
ncpa.cpl forever baby
One more I'll add is to show/say some response, anything.

One group of people I've found difficult to interact with is those who won't show any emotion or acknowledgement. It could just be a visual cue, a nod or a smile.

I've noticed when the other party doesn't provide any visual cues, we tend to talk more either into hard pressed convincing or make some assumptions to go in depth into it until we get a response.

I've noticed that I talk usually more than necessary to someone who is quiet. I've tried being on the other side and have noticed the same behavior from the counter-party. I guess we are hard wired to get some or any response for our contributions.
Exercise, sleep, modest portions of good food, rewarding hobbies.

Not that any of it ever permanently fixes my deeper issues with anxiety or depression: I have to run/exercise every morning to feel really good and ready for the day. But I think that's the deeper point: it's the good habits that make life bearable and even (sometimes) enjoyable.
I can live without a lot of the forced fun/team building exercises. As you say, a lot of this happens fairly naturally at least in person. (Certainly, less so remotely.)

On the other hand, I've heard remote/distributed people very vocally object to being asked to travel to a team meeting once or twice a year on the grounds that they work 9-5 (or whatever) and that's it.
Pre-2001, we had webrings, and thus people got plenty of traffic; anyone becoming successful meant others became successful. That's the golden age people refer to.

In terms of reasonable conversations, prior to the internet going truly mainstream and people wandering around with access to the internet 24/7, most relatively niche sites that had interactive elements ended up attracting very specific demographics, of which you would likely have plenty in common with.

The stats on Tumblr, and number of sites running on top of WordPress begs to differ in regards to blogging not seeing a revival. This doesn't even take into consideration Tumblr adding ActivityPub, nor WordPress being able to add it with a simple plugin.
I envy your access to your recruiting organization.
Is there a place where I can see a demo of this in action?
Well if the Dep State RFJ program wasn't a scam, that is...
Because we took a platform for linked documents and grew it into a platform for applications. If the web were still documents, or if it started as a platform for applications, then it wouldn't be as complex.

Another reason is that the languages and tooling to do these things are always easy to start and painful to master, leading to too many sort-of capable people dreaming about how to do it better.
French police discovered a wireless hacking device in trunk of car
Leasing a terminal costs around $15 here so many handymen just... have it.

The worst case you can just get to the closest ATM.
It sounds like we need a way to tap people on the shoulder and force them to do online schooling for some duration and/or summer school.

Eg, a hint of bullying gives you a two week online-only experience that increases in duration for repeat offenses.

They could find a room at the library or something.
Taking pills for 20 years has a financial cost, and drugs typically cause side effects anyway (you dont have efficacy for free). That sounds like a bad calculation.
> At this point, it is hard to not find life on Earth. Microbes have been discovered living in cloud tops, inside nuclear reactor cores, and in aerosols high in the stratosphere... Even microbes trapped for millions of years in salt crystals or Antarctic ice have shown they can wake up and get back to metabolizing without so much as a cup of coffee.

> The fact that we failed to notice 99.999% of life on Earth until a few years ago is unsettling and has implications for Mars.

This is the most shocking takeaway for me from the article. Is it true?

There are lots of citations attached but they're all to individual papers, and the "99.999%" figure appears to be hyperbole, not any kind of actual calculation. (Nor is it remotely clear whether it's attempting to refer to percentage of life by mass, by organism, or by species.)

If this is true, shouldn't there be some mainstream news articles? At least a mention on Wikipedia? Wikipedia describes the existence of extremophiles [1,2], but nothing about any recent discoveries that they make up nearly all of the life on earth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microorganism#Extremophiles

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile