errantspark

What if I just don't write apps for or use apple devices?

Is this legal? I sort of assume it isn't, in which case why bother? It seems faster/easier just to pirate from the get go.

Highly recommend it, though beware your yields will be truly abysmal during the winter. I live entirely off-grid in California and even here the dead of winter can be a bit tight on power. I will say setting the whole thing up is super duper easy, and if you buy second-hand solar your price/watt can be very very cheap. I paid about 30c/watt for panels.

I'm guessing that as pg puts it, orthodox privilege was more widespread back then. I wasn't anywhere near being alive during McCarthyism but I would be surprised if this is a result of 2-4x greater pressure to self censor now vs 70 years back; but rather a result of a much more heterogeneous US population.

Someone more familiar please fact check me on that though.

To be clear I don't think that a bunch of motors with low latency control solve the problem of flying straight in turbulence. I think that it will allow for exploration of a new space of clever approaches to mitigate turbulence for craft with low inertia.

I this is a solvable problem and moving from current propulsion methods to a whole bunch of very small individually controllable BLDC motors with one moving part and low inertia is definitely a step in the right direction toward increasing the stability of low mass aircraft.

This isn't my experience. There's a difference between signalling admiration and actual respect.

Of course there are plenty of good people out there, but in my experience the plurality, and probably the majority of FAANG peeps will be made uncomfortable by the implicit challenge to the morality of their choices. Even though they might signal support for your actions; privately dealing with the cognitive dissonance does often result in eroded respect. A common defense mechanism is to see themselves as better than you because you just couldn't take the pressure to work at a "world leader" company, after all if they aren't the best people making the best choices, why would they be paid so much? You just burned out because you couldn't make Level 5.

In this limited management context it seems like sound advice.

In a broader view I think most people err far too much on the side of order. A greater respect, tolerance and appreciation of chaos and it's utility is something almost everyone could stand to learn and benefit from.

I don't think people understand how important this is.

Yeah sorry, I was thinking of tripcodes and 4chan pass as representing most of what an "account" is. It's not the same thing though.

FWIW 4chan has accounts, banning and guidelines. It's not totally lawless and anonymous. It just has the option of anonymity.

Probably the best, deepest LGBT+ issues discussions I've ever had have been on their /lgbt/ board. They were filled with people yelling obscenities too, but that doesn't bother me. I guess it's the culture I grew up with, it's natural to engage in discussion while people are yelling around me.

I'm really glad there's still a place out there that believes in free speech as a foundational principle not to be infringed upon except as an absolute last resort. I'm glad not everywhere is 4chan, but 4chan is a gem of discourse in today's world if you ignore like 90% of it. I'm increasingly convinced that that 90% is the inevitable cost of the wonderful 10% that represents the sharing of intelligent thought without fear of reprisal.

The baseline I can get for $10-30 worth of my time as effort put into piracy is a reasonably encoded `*.mkv` with subs, chapters, multiple audio streams.

It's just a far far better experience from a user perspective than anything that's commercially available these days.

How is it possible that I have to spend perceptible amounts of time to search/view logs? I didn't ever have this problem in the 90's or 00's.

No amount of paying for things beats the experience of a decent ad-blocker.

I can't agree more, the idea that google derives an economic benefit from my work makes my skin crawl.

Whoa? JS? Really? The Chrome Dev Tools are probably the best REPL programming environment I've ever used.

Czech Republic, reporting in! I'm too young to remember much of communism but I remember the balsa and rice paper gliders I built with my grandpa very fondly. There's something so fantastic about the fragile beauty of those planes with their skeletons visible beneath that translucent skin.

There's a magazine in the Czech Rep. called ABC which always had plans for some sort of papercraft model in the back. I used to love them as a kid.

https://www.abicko.cz/kategorie/6333/navody-z-abc

That podcast is absolutely amazing. I love getting engrossed in it on long car drives.

I've probably read < 10 of his posts and on the whole he did seem extremely benign. He had a large body of work so perhaps I just had a huge sampling bias. I meant to specifically ask for some criticism you had of SSC as a self described person on the 'loathing' side of things as purely a point of curiosity. It's a strong word and I'm specifically curious how someone who to me seemed so benign gained your condemnation.

Uhh, kinda off topic but you've got a great username and you mentioned two of my favorite artists to make a point. Feel free to email me if you wanna be friends. :3

Seconding this, I honestly find it hard to understand having strong feeling one way or another on such a neutral essayist. Though perhaps it's quite telling that I consider him to be "neutral"?

I'm not saying there's no reason to turn off javascript, or that there aren't professions where that's a good default. But it's absolutely not the norm.

There's nothing wrong with it, I AGREE with you that we shouldn't ship 5 megs of some garbage framework with every blog post. The point I'm responding to is that it's somehow reasonable or common for "professionals" to run with JS off, and to not do so is "playing around". It's not. It's a very niche thing that very few people get an actual benefit from.

It's kind of sad to see Mixer/Beam go, they did have a couple unique features I made good use of.

- FTL protocol, a streaming protocol based on UDP which had sub 1 second delay times, far far superior to what Twitch is capable of.

- User interaction, I was able to quite quickly set up buttons on my page that let my stream viewers control the RGB lighting in my room in interesting ways, and it was a lot of fun for me as a streamer to get that realtime interaction with my viewers

Damn, I was excited but sadly mine isn't on the list. :( It would be so nice if I could have root on devices I buy.

Ahahaha come on my guy, effective people get to where they are because they can make good risk/reward assessments. Turning off javascript hasn't been worth the opportunity cost to a "real professional" for decades.

I'm stoked on this change, frankly the TS layer being included in Deno felt like a mistake from the get-go and I'm glad they've come around on it. I've seen many transpile-to-JS languages come and go. Javascript is eternal.

(Though I also think TS is a verbose mess made so that enterprise programmers/managers can feel safe, but even if it was great I still think this would have been a good choice)

Or you can just use pixel fonts (which imo look better than subpixel-aa fonts on 4k anyway) and donate the difference in monitor costs to [optimal virtue signalling charity]. Gaming on a 4k monitor sucks also, I don't know what kind of supercomputers people are running but my meager 1080Ti can't peg any of the relevant games to 144Hz at 4k.

This is amazing. I'm legitimately excited for Deno, I will start migrating all of my dependency-less node over soon.

> The real insight for me came when I learned to hear what people were really saying

Yes.

I would add that another insight is that it's much easier to communicate with people when you learn their language. It might be much easier for a nerd to introspect about their personality when prodded using MTG, a familiar framework. Similarly some people expect their relative positions in n-dimensional personality space to be codified using zodiac signs. If you can do so, meet people on familiar ground, at least at first.