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Are PWAs alive enough to have something to “kill” in the first place?

One still has the feeling that the driving force behind “let’s make the web work like native apps” comes from FAANGs who generate revenue by having people engage even more with web content.

Why on earth would we replace one set of walled gardens with another? PWAs are not an improvement, just a different take on the same system (only one would be enslaved to their browser maker and OS maker and not just OS maker like native apps).
How is “No fly zone.” a propaganda phrase? I'd call it a usefully precise, succinct description for an area in which you'll get shot right down if you fly over it.

“Unmanned aerial vehicle.” too. That's exactly what they are, and calling them drones is the more ambiguous thing since a drone doesn't necessarily need to fly.
Fr what sort of romanisation system uses an acute accent for that. It's much more akin to the latin flat accent. But in reality just leaving off an accent or using the u is more convenient for typing.
Another fun fact - the orignal Goodies episode Kitten Kong featuring Twinkle the kitten taking down the BT | Post Office Tower is presumed lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb59dEHRt5Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten_Kong
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How do you do the free body diagrams though?

I couldnt see a section for those in the write-up.

I tried something like this when I was in university for Mech Eng.

In the end blasting through 1000’s of pages of paper notes and working examples by hand is what made things stick and helped me pass exams.

Its sort of like the saying “the ability to do the thing but the wisdom not to do it”

I cycled through every notetaking app and ended up on org-mode in end. Fancy tools don’t make you fundamentally better.

And I don’t think beautifully typeset LaTeX will help you learn better. (Although I love LaTeX and my bachelors and masters thesis were written in it.)
This reasoning doesn't make sense to me. A spammer can make an account, but how would they contact me if they don't know my account handle?

Even if that leaks, the handle should be changeable, and the spam issue could be completely mitigated by having a tab for first time "message requests" separate from the normal inbox.

I can't take a private messenger seriously when they require an identifier that's linked to your government-issued ID in many parts of the world.
Why didn’t you return it, if you weren’t using it?
> the spreadsheet is the reality.

This nails an entire culture, from healthcare, to education, to
policing...

But we cannot blame software itself, right? Something went deeply,
horribly wrong in our own societal script. Something way beyond Max
Weber or Franz Kafka's takes on bureaucracy. SOmething that made us
bow down before computers as new gods.

I'm becoming a techo-athiest.
I'm not sure what you are confused about. NSA is American, FSB is Russian. Which government has more power over you?
Ha! Germans seem to win everything, both good and bad!
Keeping your Bitcoin on your computer in any form is an extremely bad idea.

Multiple laminated (real) paper wallets in a safety deposit box and multiple locations is the only way to go.
Yes they have to work with a structural engineer for that. Just like a car designer have to work with a mechanical engineer or a product manager with an software architect.

Architectes are not engineers they are designers and visionaries.

You can check this video for more info:

Structural Engineer vs Architect - Design Meeting
https://youtu.be/29-xtjX8rAk?si=7dupEMwy3DEbs_Yi
If I care about one thing, I should "shame" others who do not care about it? It feels like your comment escalates things up too quickly. Could it be that you wanted to expand your thoughts in between and didn't have the time or just forgot?
According to your opinion, which evolutionary advantage would something like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia provide to your group?
> I don't see how you don't end up with some depression in the housing market as a result of this, even if its uneven in whom it affects.

I don't think that's inconsistent with "the Fed has overreacted, and should have kept rates low/lower". It just means that probably more people would have been able to make the monthly payments, the depression would have been smaller.

And of course your implicit point is that letting too many bad loans fester could have (would have) cratered a sizeable portion of the financial system anyway.

But instead of treating this as an asset bubble we ended up with an understimulated recession. (It's completely ridiculous that US real estate with a growing population was seen as 'toxic assets' even by the government. Just put it on the balance sheet of some random agency and sell it later, when convenient. Or use it as social housing, whatever. But of course ... politics emerges from culture.)
No, it's very close to useless. This is exactly the kind of thing that experienced developers talk about when they warn that inexperienced developers using ChatGPT could easily be a disaster. It's the attempt to use a LLM as a crystal ball to retrieve any information they could possibly want - including things it literally couldn't know or good recommendations for which direction to take an architecture. I'm certain there will be people who do stuff exactly like this and will have 'unsolvable' performance issues because of it and massive amounts of useless work as ChatGPT loves suggesting rewrites to convert good code to certain OO patterns (which don't necessarily suit projects) as a response to being asked what it thinks a good solution to a minor issue might be.
Sounds sick
> I’d recommend the Oxide and friends podcast.

This is what makes me sad.

I've exchanged messages a bit with Oxide. I wanted to write about them. But they are many timezones from me, so live talk is very hard to schedule.

I couldn't find enough info in text form to research a story. I am a speedreader. I can happily cruise along at 1000 words a minute and can burst up to 3000wpm for short periods. (I read whole novels this way in childhood: a 1970s novel of 200pp was 25min to half an hour.)

It's how I do my job as a writer: lots and lots of reading. Tens of thousands of words a day.

I can't do this with speech. I can't follow speech at 2x speed, and that's still less than half my normal reading speed. 1.5 to 1.75x is the maximum. I'd need a week to listen to the research material for every short article I write.

No text discussion == no coverage.

I am delighted that my colleague was able to do this story, but he's on the same continent as Oxide.

I can't bear talk radio, it's so slow. I've never listened to a podcast in my life; the mere idea horrifies me. You want me to squander an hour on some unscripted chatter about something I could read in 5-10 minutes? Dear gods, no!
:-(
Talk to a marketing agency and get them to audit your site. Some may offer this for free. Free audits aren't as in-depth as proper agency housekeeping reports but it will give you reliable info that's relevant to your site specifically.
Still, most people who have a crypto wallet on their desktop computer don't get hacked. I always found this interesting because it puts an upper bound to how many machines out there are compromised (at least by an agency that's motivated only by money).
Interesting to note is that the rated life time (1,000 hours) stayed the same after the cartel dissolved. Even the ones available today have the rated life time in the same order of magnitude: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/light-bulbs/light-technolo...

Sure, the cartel existed. At the same time, the engineering trade-offs are still there.
After several React projects, I recently went “back to the roots” and created an app with server-generated HTML using the ages-old Mustache templates.

For interactivity, I added a bit of HTMX, and to have beautiful forms, I added the web components from Shoelace, all wrapped up in a Vite build.

And I must say that this was a relaxing experience: No complicated React stuff anymore, and the Typescript-based server components on AWS Lambda render the pages within 30 msecs each. AWS DynamoDB powers the data layer.

Feels like 1997 again, but I am Happy with the new stack!
They're resilient to spam, but often impossible to recover.

I had a spare SIM card that friends and family use when visiting from abroad. It's been unused for 90 days and has been deactivated. The number is lost, and irrecoverable. A friend had created a (second) Signal account with this number and can no longer log into new devices.

As a more mundane example: If I accidentally drop my phone into a river, the SIM is gone forever, and so is that line.

Sure, you can have a contract line which allows recovery. Depending on where you live, these can be several times more expensive than a regular pre-paid line.
>Sure its still hard but unlike those who did it first, those coming after don't have to guess as much and spend resources on dead ends.

In many domains they do. Once the original creators are retiring or not involved, there are tons of tacit knowledge at every step of the way, from the high level abstract design to specific quirks of some manufacturing equipment, that's very hard to build back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRrvUGjRVsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORq8VNIjDRA

there are some strong suggestions that those traits have been selected against quite a few times.
The whole idea that anything on your phone is private is laughable. Private to who? To hackers? To the FSB? The NSA? Phones are all easily hackable for one. Real privacy cannot be achieved on the spy device in your pocket.

What this does is provide a casual level of privacy. It gets us parity with the phone number hiding in tools like telegram.
I hear this and understand the human need to think this is logical. I don't see this as a reasonably back-up plan. The chances of a catastrophe on Mars is even greater considering the environment is not fit for humans.

The amount of ingenuity and co-operation needed to go to Mars may be greater than the amount needed to maintain Earth.

I don't see on Mars is safer than just an orbiting space station. Needing to go to Mars or anywhere other than Earth adds complexity to the issue.
Mariana trench is easy, make a thicker hull. Now try hot patching a house in interstellar space built after the 1977 housing standard.
> I use Github and I bet 99% of coders here do too.

I know plenty of people & projects using Gitlab and Sourcehut (myself).

> If someone tries to publicly shame me, I'll just laugh at them.

Shaming may be wrong. You must have pretty good job security/wealth/influence to refuse Github because this can lose you many opportunities in the industry.

But that doesn't make it good, only understandable & honestly sad
I've been following this for awhile. Not my area of expertise but it seems like such a solid project.

Curious to hear about any experiences using it or thoughts about how it could be improved, extended, or compares to other systems in actual use.
I didn't say it outweighs anything else. You're inventing an argument in your head. Settle down.
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> Isn't the fact that the platform vendor very clearly promotes Swift

No, the platform vendor promotes a lot of shit.

I remember when they were heavily pushing Objective-C Garbage Collection. The fools who adopted it got burned when Apple removed GC entirely, killing their apps. I'm not suggesting that Apple will remove Swift, but it's a mistake to listen to Apple's hype and what Apple says. Their PR is not trustworthy. Make your own decisions.
is it actually?
I've found chatgpt to be pretty good at generating passive agressive responses to emails (at least it was when I've been playing with it a year ago) - maybe just ask it (or llama, that also does it quite well) to draft a reply to you with just the right level of being insulting?

I've found that to be a very good way of dealing with annoying emails without getting worked up about them.
Judging from the actual industry state, and how many have been left behind in that domain, I'd rather believe the naysayers.

Until now it's just an announcement and some money thrown at the problem, so less than vapor.
Ah, they are trying to hide the Kohinoor. Got you, buggers! ;-)
Futures Radar
A lot of VC's use tools like this to guess the direction of the wind in terms of technology and the future. Are there other examples?
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Partially off-topic: I've always found this German requirement baffling. In the Netherlands you can just buy a SIM card at a supermarket and pay cash. No identity, nothing.
I have two degrees but don’t think I’m very smart. I’m actually pretty slow at understanding certain things. I have one big quality though that really helped, and still helps me get through complex things: I can get really really obsessed with a single topic and spend all my time on it.
> But we’re also spending more and more of our lives in education, and that threatens the time in the parts of our lives where we really enjoy being adults.

The time I was going to school was probably the best time of my life. Not because of school itself, but because of having a stable group of friends, lots of "events" and things to look forward to... and a lot of support for extra-curricular activities, like sports and hobbies.

After you finish school, you can feel like having a pointless life if you don't find something to concentrate on (usually your career - which is in many cases a pointless thing to focus on anyway).
As a person with diagnosed ADHD and employed (but struggling) in the IT field, I often think I would truly excel as a waste picker.
You're still liable to Google/whoever for the full amount, so it is only a temporary reprieve. Which can be useful, but does not solve the main problem.
the app itself is experiencing burnout
>And yet it was Sony that hurt their camera market shares the most, action cams are a nieche product.

Mirrorless/DSLRs and compacts have been further niche-ified by mobile phones. Many who previously would step up from compacts to a Mirrorless/DSLR have stopped and just use their (now vastly improved) phone cameras.

And mirrorless and DSLRs are maybe more of a niche than action cameras (which tons of average Joes buy, not just extreme sports fans).
We will.. in the metaverse, interacting with LLM chatbot alien avatars!
Objective-C has dot syntax. It shipped.
Server at the risk of burnout
The problem I have with Markdown is its lack of standardization. I know there is CommonMark but CommonMark is a classic case of https://xkcd.com/927/

Every Markdown spec differs from others in one way or the other and there is no way to tell that if the Markdown documents I am writing today will convert to PDF, HTML, etc. in exactly the same way 10 years later as they are converting today.

Two Markdown specs may end up converting the Markdown into different types of HTML and PDF -- sometimes even with semantic changes like nested lists in one spec is broken list in another one. Nothing is more displeasing than seeing a carefully written nested lists appear as ugly code blocks within lists because a different Markdown spec does not support nested lists the same way as the first Markdown spec I was using. This is just one of many examples where Markdown for one spec can break in another spec.

If you are strictly going to stick with Hugo forever, then that's fine. But how many of us can guarantee that we want to keep using the same tool to render our Markdown for ever? I certainly can't! I really wish there was a simple documentation format that with a single spec with a large number of implementations -- something like the C89 of text formats. Is there one?
Taking notes in math courses in Vim on a netbook (remember those?) is what made me switch to Emacs! I tried taking notes both in LaTeX and in Markdown with syntax highlighting for embedded LaTeX math formulas, and Vim just lagged behind my typing —and I'm not that fast a typist. In the case of LaTeX this is a well-known problem that's addressed in the manual (see :help tex-slow). I tried all the tips the manual suggested and Vim still lagged, the only thing that fixed it was turning off syntax-highlighting completely. On a whim I tried Emacs, saw it was perfectly snappy (like Vim with non-LaTeX files) and switched.

https://vimhelp.org/syntax.txt.html#tex-slow
Taiwan can be economically squeezed by western derisking and moving sensitive tech out of Taiwan or it can continue to be militarily squeezed by China if it continues to be the single point of failure in the western technology chain. The former appears to be the better choice than the latter.
The quality of the submarines might not matter at all.
I agree wholeheartedly. I've been stuck in a rut of procrastination for the last several years, during which I hardly ever started side projects or experiments due to tired old excuses such as "I simply don't have enough time", "This would at least need x hours per day", etc.

When I eventually tried to start something, it would inevitably be delayed by other daily things to carry out (work, family, other life related stuff), so not taking notes would always result in "" have no idea what I was aiming for last time".

Add to that a fairly (un)healthy dose of perfectionism coming from working in the same field, and you have a recipe for years wasted on complete inactivity.

Another fiend of this kind, friendly to procrastination, is the inability to decide what to actually work on, especially when you have a lot of interests.
Then the question becomes "I have hours available to work on something, but I cannot pull the trigger on any of those things that interest me", so back again to square 1 with year wasted on indecisiveness with nothing to show for it.
IKR, isn't that great?
The system prompt tweet is from a while back. Maybe a week or so. Don’t think it’s related
That's assuming what you say is true (well it's unfalsifiable in foresight) and you are not employing some reverse psychology here. Incidentally I find that pro-China accounts or forums use similar arguments to profusely support removing sanctions.
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I think they're making reference to some ancient Alien theories along the lines of Erich Von Daniken and others, which tend to postulate that certain ancient and megalithic structures would have been impossible to build without modern technology, and thus can only have been the result of alien interference.

It's worth mentioning that there is often a white supremacist or pro-colonialist dimension to these theories. Rarely does anyone question whether the Greeks built their architecture, for instance, but according to these people it's simply not possible for the Egyptians to have built the pyramids.
Wait, 10 minutes ago?

Why do I have this sneaking suspicion that the reason you found out is specifically due to this GPT malfunction?
Right? Wouldn't all the smaller particles of lint etc in my pockets be much worse than some rice particles?
That assumes an AI that is trained exactly once ever.
Gas is not a subscription. It's a recurring consumable, but when you buy a gallon of gas, or a cheeseburger, you bought an object and you own that object. You didn't rent the momentary use of it. Electricity has only a token subscription component.

The subscription aspect of a house is the property tax, which does blur the definition of ownership when it comes to land, if the government always has the ultimate claim.

Still they are perfectly apt comparisons. Consumables, even recurring ones, are not subscriptions unless you happen to subscribe to a service to provide those consumables. Even then you still actually own the delivered product and the only thing that stops when you stop paying is the service. They don't take the cheeseburger back, you just don't get a new one.

HP printers are now a subscription. They do retain control over the object and even the already-delivered ink stops working.

And it's an outrage, not reasonable. Artificially turning the seat heater in a car into a subscription is an outrage, not reasonable.

For most software, there is no reason it must be a subscription.

None of the value of updates and the treadmill of maintaining compatibility with other software, and the developer's wish to collect recurring income changes the fact that the software itself, if it functions today, can function exactly the same forever.

Maybe it will need to be run in a vm to provide an entire preserved world to go around it, maybe no one else will accept the files it produces any more after a while, and maybe you don't want to do any of that, but those are separate issues.

You could address those issues some other way like by writing a converter or something. If that's impractical, then you will surely buy new versions voluntarily, and there is no excuse for forcing you by breaking your existing things and essentially holding your life hostage all day every day.
Beside of achieving a cycle-life of 1000, it's most impressive to me that they managed to get away with only 500 cycles for that long.

500 is actually average for many years now, Premium smartphones used to introduce batteries with a cycle-life of 800 already ~10 years ago [1], using more expensive batteries...

(However, I'm not sure if they rolled back to 500 on newer products then and stopped talking about it, considering that apparently noone cared...)

[1] https://www.stuff.tv/news/lg-optimus-g-officially-announced
I like to think about discipline in terms of habits, either built in a perfect environment or real and messy, as described in the article. The perfect ones are what we aim to achieve, but they are flimsy because once we are in a different environment, the habits disappear. The latter are much more prone to changes but harder to initialize.
But those energy costs are externalized from the manufacturer to other players, so no company cares.
Do we just call everything that misbehaves “extremely hostile” now? Would be keen to see how this relates to any sensible definition of hostility.
Great idea, but its inconvenient when you need liquidity but the bank doesnt have it. We should let the bank lend out more money than they actually have, and if there's a run the public can just bail them out
>If your evidence that any part of UFO folklore is definitely false is just that “the US government said it was [x]”, you shouldn’t be surprised if people don’t find that convincing!

Luckily, no skeptic of the UFO narrative has just the government's word as evidence to the contrary.

What's weird is that the same people claiming you shouldn't trust the government when it denies the UFO narrative are using the government and its integrity to argue that Grusch et. al must be telling the truth, that Grusch is a man of unquestioned integrity and honor and no one would just go in front of Congress and tell lies. The same government which has apparently been orchestrating a sprawling conspiracy of lies and psy-ops around UFOs for almost a hundred years, but for some weird reason respects the bureaucracy enough that they'll just let Grusch blow the lid off of the whole affair.

Even though that hasn't really happened yet. I'm sure it'll happen any day now.

You can't have it both ways.
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just to add some thoughts here, because that was my first reaction as well, to think of mixing this with htmx... but after some thoughts, I am wondering how much this would be really useful, because the main benefit of htmx when writing html. Writing html being the key. Here we are writing python.