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Ralfp

1,999 karma · joined October 16, 2013

xstack developer working with Python and JavaScript

I've created Misago open source forum software which I am actively improving in my spare time: https://github.com/rafalp/Misago

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Ralfp··on Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride
Min helps with growing back and strenghtening hairs, but it doesnt stop hair loss on its own.
Ralfp··on Designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization
We are on schedule. People seem to need to get a reminder every few generations why authoritarians are terrible at running the country. Sometimes the process is peaceful. Sometimes it isn’t.

But the blame is not 100% on the authoritarians. The „we’ll refuse to do anything about your living conditions so you’ll radicalise and vote in somebody radical” is part of the cycle too.

Ralfp··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
People usually don't type embdash, just use regular dash (minus sign) they have already on the keyboard. ChatGPT uses emdash instead.
Ralfp··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
I've only learned about this man's existence because I've returned to watching South Park when I've heard they are targeting Trump and his politics.
Ralfp··on Digg.com is back
"Every madman thinks all other men mad"
Ralfp··on Digg.com is back
See, this is what I was going at above. You are not really concerned about wellbeing of the children. You are just obsessed about this single (manufactured) issue.
Ralfp··on Digg.com is back
And so you’ve decided trans kids will be your goto issue in internet discourse? Curious.
Ralfp··on Digg.com is back
Funny thing only yesterday I saw a great thread on reddit where people shared stories of their older relatives becoming obsessed about trans people (not in a healthy way) alike to how some became obsessed with the qanon conspiracy before.
Ralfp··on Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users
EU requires legal presence on our soil for US tech giants, so they usually open offices in Ireland because thats cheapest.
Ralfp··on Litestar is worth a look
Tell me how to extend Django's default JOIN clause with custom AND, eg:

    SELECT \* FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t1.id = t2.key AND t2.used_id = 213
Ralfp··on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible
And again when Boeing's management overridden engineers in decision that Max 8 was safe to fly and new flight stabulity electronics were good enough.
Ralfp··on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible
Its fair to blame Stockthon because he fired or treated to sue everyone who didn’t buy into his spiel about this being revolutionary disruption of private submarines. Leves of staff rotation were insane in this company, their lead eng. at the time of implosion was a software dev because everybody else left or was laid off.
Ralfp··on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible
You don't need to watch Netflix series. There is a transcript of entire conversation between Stockthon and David Lochridge where the former scolds the latter for taking his safety concerns outside of company and firing him:

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Sep/20/2003550726/-1/-1/0/CG-...

Ralfp··on US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible
It didn't implode on next dive, it was much worse.

On dive 80 during surfacing people heard a "loud bang" from the submersible (according to a witness it sounded like a gunfire).

They looked at their "RTMS" system and found recording of loud noise from the hull. But only three days later they did the dive 81 (with customers). After this dive their tension sensors shown that their carbon hull no longer compresses under pressure like it used to. They then made plan to inspect the hull after dive 83. But instead they left Titan winter on the parking lot in Saint Johns where it was not protected from any exposure because that was cheaper.

During summer they hauled it for a dive 88 (I don't know why they jumped from 81 to 88, prolly cancelled dives because of the weather?). During hauling it become loose and started knocking against the hauling platform (LARS) because of the waves. Day later they did a dive where it imploded.

On side note, they had no way to access and inspect the carbon hull without having to completely dissemble vehicle, and that too was considered too pricy to do.

This was a disaster of organization with messianic CEO dismissing all concerns with bravado and legal treats that got what was coming to them. If you want to, here's transcript of him scolding and then laying out one of engineers because they took safety concerns outside of the company:

https://media.defense.gov/2024/Sep/20/2003550726/-1/-1/0/CG-...

Ralfp··on Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight
Looks like the US is working on their own Arsenal Bird.
Ralfp··on SDR42E1 modulates Vitamin D absorption and cancer pathogenesis
Sadly Frontiers in Oncology is not better. Recently they published a meta analysis from „research institute” that pushes alternative cancer medicine written by people who have no domain education with no actual analysis of quoted research being done in the paper:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/oncology/articles/10.33...

Ralfp··on SDR42E1 modulates Vitamin D absorption and cancer pathogenesis
If you’ve heard about a journal publishing an AI slop paper claiming they reviewed it, its the same journal we are seeing here.
Ralfp··on Tough news for our UK users
Nope, I’ve did questionnaire and it gave me big green „yes”.

Only escape hatch they give you later is if all communication between users is delegated to other medium, eg. email or phone or sms.

Ralfp··on Tough news for our UK users
It may be so, but as somebody else mentioned every site that lets people register an account and share stuff is affected because having legal age verification on site requires you to pay a third party provider and writing paperwork for the gov is too much for your site about pet hamsters.
Ralfp··on XMB Forum 1.10 under development (first major release development in 16 years)
Now this brings memories.

Good luck to whoever picked up the project!

Ralfp··on 'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'
Ask your uncle who lives in old country, what he values more. EU-developed startups or universal healthcare that cured his child without bankrupting his household?
Ralfp··on Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency
My favorite explanation for this is "Everything you say can and will be used against you. So why talk if you are winning?".
Ralfp··on Axon's Draft One AI Police Report Generator Is Designed to Defy Transparency
Having picked a habit of watching propable cause proceedings on YouTube, I wonder if this is simply result of real reports that AI was trained on being purposefully obtuse and laconic to give prosecutors a wiggle space in the court room?
Ralfp··on Why are there no good dinosaur films?
They are flying over the cloudbs because thats only way to avoid defenses of the Machine City.

Matrix 4 introduced „good machines” but didn’t do much of anything with them :|

Ralfp··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
Authoritarianism is self-contradictory by design. Supreme leader is to be followed, not understood, so you have to refer to them in doubt.
Ralfp··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
Depends on country but in Poland where I live calling 911 also reaches emergency dispatch even if „valid” number is 112.
Ralfp··on Defold: cross-platform game engine
I’ve used to follow this few years ago. This is a game engine created by King that they then set free after deinvesting from it themselves.
Ralfp··on Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase
Together with price raise they stopped doing voice over in my language for new content and I’ve been watching it mostly together with my parents. Seeing how I’ve didnt watch anything on it for two months, I guess time to cancell to.
Ralfp··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
And then you build on that, and you have card-alert, card-message card-message-small, card-body-alert, card-body-message, card-form, card-login-form together with extra sass variables for them.

And then you ask "why not just have variable for each component, not each component's style?" and this is where tailwind steps in.

Ralfp··on Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever
The state of things here is that Unreal Engine 1 may be open sourced one day but would need cleaning up first. And they just never got around doing it:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-1/14084/6

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