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This just sent me down such a hole reading about Fr Seraphim Rose, thanks.

It has been 8 years since proposed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897

MIDI is not very fringe, and far more people have MIDI controllers than VR headsets, yet Mozilla puts resources into that. My roommates aren't too technical, but all of them have MIDI controllers, and one has made an entire EP on the browser (in Edge!).

And who would keep the data centers running? The invisible hand of the market? Labor does stuff.

I'm hopeful that Deno can be just that runtime. Since its a single binary, its trivial to install and script for. TBH, I don't have any technical reasons for JS/TS over python besides that I have coworkers that have never had to learn python and would prefer not to.

  /**
   * cat.ts
   */
  for (let i = 0; i < Deno.args.length; i++) {
    const filename = Deno.args[i];
    const file = await Deno.open(filename);
    await Deno.copy(file, Deno.stdout);
    file.close();
  }

'os' is in the standard library, not a concern when discussing virtual-env and third party libraries.

I've done pretty much the same thing with idle games. They make me really obsessive. I edit a save file or inject some javascript in the console once I've decided to quit. Once I have infinite resources, I can see how shallow the endgame is and I lose any will to play.

I'd say that roland drum machines and bass synths would be up there, especially in the past 30 years.

If they were available for purchase to non-developers, how would that be early availability? That would just be a release.

$100 is nowhere near enough, but you estimate it at $105 with a $25 parking fee?

FWIW, lots of web devs here. Thats why this is in the guidelines:

Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

That whole exchange is very different than what I have seen. Its actually alarming how reasonable he sounds in this clip. Believe me, I think he was an awful president, and I voted against him twice, but this is what I wish my liberal peers would admit about our own bias.

Are there evidence-based ratings for different publications? And is that the kind of thing that could be done at all objectively? If not objectively, at least methodically?

Baseless Anecdote: I once met a man that claimed he took acid more often than that in the 70s. He said he would get intravenous B vitamin supplements to trip more often. not really arguing anything, I just found his story fascinating.

I have used this, and have recommended it vehemently to people who I thought it could help.

It has a very specific target demographic, in my mind. If you are a developer, and you need to bash out a full design, this tool provides excellent tools for keeping your markup/stylesheet technical part clean, while rapidly editing visually. I worked in small web shops with no designers on staff. Also great for making product pages, docs, side project stuff.

It relies entirely on your chosen framework for its elements. No custom "blocks", just the exact components you'd find in the docs.

The editor is great for managing classes and keeping CSS/SASS clean. Its as fast to make a new class and add it to the element as just inlining the style, so the ergonomics help thwart bad habits.

I recently made a small business website with this + netlify, and it was the first time in my experience where making a website was as simple as it ought to be.

If Boeing was socialized, that'd be one thing.

Boeing paid $11.7 Billion dollars in stock buybacks in the two years preceding this fiasco. All the money they ever needed was already there.

Instead, they spent the money inflating executives portfolios. And now you want more money going to them? If they want to privatize the gains, they can privatize the losses. Your sympathy is very misplaced, IMHO.

You should check out Rocksmith. Its guitar hero with real guitar, pretty cool stuff. I don't see how a scrolling format like guitar hero would fit the slow refresh rate of an e-ink display, but perhaps you imagine something different.

There is evidence for this as well: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mgbg7p/nsa-chilling-effec...

People have changed what they search for since the Snowden whistleblowing.

It might seem ridiculous to section off the entire world with armed guards and determine who can go where based on the lottery of birth.

The numbers already exist and have existed. It is their job to be journalists, convey a comprehensible narrative from facts. Also keep in mind that is the opinion section. I doubt the author would object to changes in tax structure, etc. to grow more home ownership. Why not putting people in houses and unions? Do you think that unions are not effective?

How about this for neutrality: When Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders end a post with "the shooting starts", they can get flagged for glorifying violence as well.

I am really digging the code. Clean, modern, vanilla js! The amount of polish in this game is very appreciated!

I see that the assets were made in blender. I hadn't thought to use pixel-art textures with low-poly in that way. It looks fantastic, especially with the low-res rendering.

I find it really naive to treat science like some kind of objective methodology that can output unbiased data. Its complete fantasy.

"Science" is much more of a set of institutions and social regard for those institutions than an objective methodology. We often just want to throw money and scientists at an issue, and get out good "science" but thats like managers hiring 50% more programmers for 50% better/more code, we know the details are what matters.

At the end of the day, "science" in the real world is a lot of professor vying for tenure, caught in publish or perish, funding coming from self-preserving institutions, and a bunch of overworked grad students. Its a lot of companies making a buck, too.

Everything is political! Everything. If you see something like science, religion, art, anything as apolitical, that probably means its just reinforcing prevailing politics.

Check out Anarchistic Epistemology if this idea is of any interest.

I've wanted to make something like this, and I'm happy to see its here because implementing a client looks like a lot of fun.

Here is why I want a simpler web: The NewYorkTimes wont be there! Neither will google or facebook or shopify or influencers or clickbait even! I want a web that is hard to make money from. Something that doesn't support fingerprinting and ad tracking, where my interests aren't at odds with the "platforms".

I want a place where people are posting ideas and creations and info and software and labors of love for free, with weird one-off communities that don't get embroiled in national censorship debates.

I might even want the relatively high barrier to entry, the fact that other people there would be looking for the same thing instead of being directed there by browser defaults and content portals.

dividends are what people historically bought stocks for, not speculation. If you want your stocks to pay dividends, earnings per share is a much more useful metric.

Ebay has seller reviews, and I know who the seller actually is. More importantly, ebay doesn't mix the inventory of every seller.

I buy everything I can on AliExpress now, because if I'm gonna get chinese knock-offs, they should at least be cheap.

https://parsecgaming.com/ is made to play local-multiplayer games remotely. It is like screensharing, but it forwards controller inputs as well at super low latency.

What an absurd, elitist, reductive, sci-fi response. Brains don't have ALUs in them, btw. Nor can we image for different skills. Nor should we subject people to this kind of dystopian hierarchy of faulty biological determinism.

Didn't realize that LD44 was this weekend! Thanks for the heads up, looking forward to compo!

This is so sad to hear. I lived in Pacific Grove as a child about 18 years ago. The monarchs would cover trees and entire yards, turning them bright orange. It was the closest thing that we had to seasons. To be 27 and realizing that this natural wonder could already be a thing of the past is heartbreaking.

Could be, but I just checked again and the App takes ~29MB, and the two background processes take ~24 and ~136 for a total under 190MB. Whether it uses 1.5% or 4% of my RAM is meh either way in this case. Windows 10

It is absurd the people that show up out of the woodwork every Electron article to complain about performance. Meanwhile, I have not closed Discord for more than a day or two in years. A quick Ctrl-Shift-Esc shows that it is using 180MB of RAM right now with ~20 rooms open, as well as DMs. Meanwhile, Discord has fantastic uptimes and never impedes performance while competitive online games run alongside it. The idea of trying to replicate the interface in something like tkinter is cringeworthy at best. Discord supports animated gifs, modals, videos, emojis, fonts, code samples, markdown, and game integrations right in the chat! Please, please try and replicate that with Tkinter, an API where you'd need to roll your own drag-and-drop. If i want to run discord as a website, using the same resources as any other website, i CAN! Its the same codebase and interface. I run the full desktop client for the better filesystem, game, and chat integration and it is worth the measley RAM on my modern machine.

Discord is an intelligent start up that was able to pivot from a chat client to a games marketplace with a one-click update. Their use of the erlang VM shows that they make considered tech decisions based on tested technology. I think their use of electron, at least from this users perspective, was a great decision. I realize they are just one example of electron apps, and I'd have a harder time defending a file-unzipper or some madness using Electron, but it no doubt has its uses. To suggest otherwise would be premature optimization at best.