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jetbalsa··on I still love PHP and JavaScript
This! I use it as a mix of web applications and back end code, like you would with python. More and more my scripts I'm writing in PHP never see a web browser but the power of PHP Data processing has allowed me to really glue APIs together that have no official support in anything. I really do love it for being able to bash out a program in a afternoon and have it do amazing things.
jetbalsa··on I still love PHP and JavaScript
I abuse the crap out of PHP "arrays" between mapping to JSON rather well and allowing you to really put some strange data, functions and objects into them you can really get some work done with data processing.
jetbalsa··on A Love Letter to Geocities Sites
Framesets -- I /love/ framesets and I still use them to make things!
jetbalsa··on How “let it fail” leads to simpler code
Its common for me in PHP land to call die("Error! $e"); when something really bad has happened in a request and I really don't want anything to happen
jetbalsa··on Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train
It's not that I say 50ft is the only zone, but its my main focus, that and traffic around me (Mind you, this is all highway) With the Comma, it moves out a good bit, Allowing me to process more of the future traffic going on and the more edge cases that might come up at highway speeds. Also its vision and radar based so it keeps me 250ft+ from the car in front of me and keeps speed, it won't ever change lanes. This is why its more of a LKAS with better settings.

Of course there are cases the system doesn't work at all and is not well suited for surface roads very well.

Its behavior is very predictable and easy to feel when its seeing something I'm not. (Slowing down to match speed 1:1 with the car in front of me when they let off the gas is a common example)

jetbalsa··on Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train
I used a Comma 3 (somewhat close to FSD, just simpler) and I found that it allows to you look forward in time more then you normally would. Normally you might be looking at the first 50ft for issues, now I find I'm able to expand out to 200ft and look around more for traffic.
jetbalsa··on Ask HN: What tools are you a 10/10 on?
PHP, Mobaxterm, VSCode, Firefox Devtools -- I that /anything/ python can do, you can do in PHP and faster. I might be a old fart, but I can make all kinds of stupid shell applets, desktop GUIs (Did you know that PHP has SDL support using FFI :V), hacky scripts to do the cash flow for a point of sale system using serial and tcp based daemons. Hell I once wrote a rather nice IRCd in PHP a few years go.

Mobaxterm is a treat to work with in windows and really improves my workload when working on several servers at the same time that I need to bash out some commands on.

jetbalsa··on Internet Archive opens Vancouver headquarters, meeting space for the tech world
Geeze, Its much higher then I though! 212PB is damn hard to store!
jetbalsa··on Internet Archive opens Vancouver headquarters, meeting space for the tech world
North of 40PB nowadays. You can find these stats buried in their public links. They do not hold up well to traffic so I will not link them.
jetbalsa··on Internet Archive opens Vancouver headquarters, meeting space for the tech world
I will note that Alexandria backup has gotten a tad out of sync. No fault of theirs, the data set just got too large to manage.
jetbalsa··on Internet Archive opens Vancouver headquarters, meeting space for the tech world
Its also a really hard issue. My fav is IPFS, Its the most common suggestion but it only works on paper. IPFS Allows people to pin things, but it still has to be stored /somewhere/ and, it gets really damn slow once you throw more then a million files at it (I know... we tried)

Overall, Its just a giant archive, its hard to store that much data in a cheap manner that will last 20 years.

jetbalsa··on Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable
You misread! its "Freightliner" not firefighting.
jetbalsa··on I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
Most of the time, no. This is common to prevent people from abusing the system more by trying to find edge cases.
jetbalsa··on Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap)
Wait.. Why a flatpack? Isn't that just as bad?
jetbalsa··on Americans are drowning in spam
It got so bad on my main emails, I just made a new one, started out with a custom domain and going to start doing per-website emails from now on to track where the hell its coming from
jetbalsa··on What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?
Some Tax Evasion laws do allow for criminal charges. tends to only be charged in extreme cases, but can happen.
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