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waingake··on Second-guessing the modern web (2020)
Yes this. The article mentions the following as poor candidates for client side rendering. I can agree with blog, but suggesting a tool like React is a poor choice for a shopping cart is naive.

> Those are things like blogs, shopping-cart-websites, mostly-CRUD-and-forms-websites.

waingake··on Live video stream from Iceland volcano
Direct video link https://mbl.netvarp.is/incoming/mbllive/index.m3u8
waingake··on Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding (2012) [video]
Can someone explain what he means when he says there is no physical?
waingake··on Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding (2012) [video]
I found this Chomsky video last night. It's from the late 80's early 90's. He's really still in his prime here. He makes some really insightful calls on the direction of the emerging "Information Super Highway" in this as well.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-kL0UNWcWFc&feature=share

waingake··on Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop
Alan Kay reckons they aren't OS:es enough https://www.quora.com/Should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-bein...
waingake··on Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now
I read somewhere that Nirvana was given 60k to record Nevermind, at the time they were a very niche college radio band, not expected to be a big thing. Someone did the ROI on that, so yeah the flip side is that you also had the chance to pay for all that gear :)
waingake··on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
For the advocates of a UBI—the problem of capitalism merely concerns the distribution of wealth, whereas the production and measure of wealth under capitalism are never interrogated.

No form of universal basic income can free us from capitalist exploitation, since only wage labor in the service of profit can generate the wealth that is distributed in the form of a UBI.

The less our lives are exploited for the sake of profit—i.e., the more we devote our lives to the public goods of the welfare state or to non-profit projects supported by a UBI—the less wealth there is to finance the welfare state and the universal basic income. This practical contradiction in the redistribution of wealth is unavoidable under capitalism, since the measure of value is socially necessary labor time rather than socially available free time. The more we emancipate ourselves from the exploitation of living labor time, the less wealth we have to support our state of freedom.

Excerpts from "Hägglund, Martin. This Life"

waingake··on Show HN: Where Are the Foodtrucks?
A simple app to show local food trucks on a map. Registered trucks can toggle a switch which will let them appear on the map using device GPS.
waingake··on It's Time to Build for Good
Corporate America stopped building nationality once it realised it could offshore to failing states with populations who's alternative to wage slavery was starvation.

If you want to build for good, we need alternatives such as worker owned business where insentives align with the interests of the communities they are from.

waingake··on Time is the only real currency we have
Yes! Please track down this book "This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom" it examines time and the value of it in the way your seeing it. Long but great write up on it here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/if-god-is-dead...
waingake··on If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything (2019)
Um don't you just prove that it does with your second paragraph!
waingake··on If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything (2019)
Can confirm I'm not part of a voting ring! I am a newyorker subscriber and I'm currently reading this book so was excited to see it reviewed.

I actually feel like there is a large cross over between software and politics. Look at the foundations of the free software movement. When I was a young idealist this was one of the things that drew me to the profession.

waingake··on If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything (2019)
Try the audio version :) the reviewer here does take the slow burn approach on this, but it's worth it.

I'm reading the book currently and am really enjoying it so was excited to see it get such a comprehensive and ultimately glowing review. But tbh I was a bit annoyed at how long this review takes to get going :)

waingake··on The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure
I'm so happy someone has made a clear bug report here. Because damn, this is a thing.
waingake··on Breaking max efficiency of solar cells by activating 2 electrons with 1 photon
> the massive subsidies they've received by not having to pay for polluting the air, as well as being major contributors to climate change.

This this this

waingake··on Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
Nope. It should be prohibitively expensive to own any other car but an electric car. Because the externalized costs of carbon should be fully reconciled in the price of fuel. With the extra tax revenue here, a government could subsidize electric vehicles.

If your fix is waiting on people ( that are wealthy enough ) to choose an electric car over a gasoline car so they feel good about themselves we aren't going to get where we need to be in time.

The economically viable thing to do, needs to be the right thing to do. This is a place for regulation, not the free fucking market.

waingake··on Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
I agree, setting the correct incentives seems like the obvious fix here. Environmental degradation is an externalized cost. It should be much more expensive to pollute than to not, until it is, things will not change.

One of many examples; single use plastic packaging should be expensive, but it's long term costs are all externalized away.

People do what makes economic sense, don't expect an individual let alone a corporate body to act in any other way. Which means that this is going to require regulation.

waingake··on Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools
Correct me if I'm wrong, but web-socket debugging in FF isn't supported?

I ran into this last night, Chrome shows me what requests are going over websockets, FF does not.

waingake··on A journey through internet garbage
This very page loads chum at the end of the article ...
waingake··on React Router v5
I recently wrote a custom hook* which is serving me well so far.

https://gist.github.com/tim-field/99104278abfad1b8dd94d26717...

I combine this with a simple switch statement in my main component and it does the job.

  const [page, setPage] = useRouter('/')
*https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-custom.html
waingake··on Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often?
Fairly recently rendering in the client became possible and desirable. This was a paradigm shift, it raised a lot of new problems, and a number of attempts were made at solving these issues. The field is settling now on the ideas with the most merit. Reacts idea of the virtual dom is an example of an idea that is becoming a stable standard.
waingake··on A fun optimization trick from rsync
I'd be interested if someone could show me a FP friendly solution to this problem.
waingake··on Do What You Love and Starve? (2006)
Thanks I like this.

> the statistics of the universe are on your side.

What do you mean by this ?

waingake··on Getting Started with Headless Chrome
I agree with the sentiment. However an issue I had using PhantomJS is that it doesn't support modern JS rendered sites ( doesn't support much es5 at all it seems) I needed to create a pdf from such a site and couldn't get PhantomJS to do it. Headless chrome saved the day.
waingake··on Getting Started with Headless Chrome
I needed a delay before creating a pdf maybe this is helpful ? https://github.com/tim-field/urlToPdf/blob/master/url-to-pdf... ( using via node )
waingake··on Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
Do any other Linux desktop environments show the applications menus in the title bar ( as OSX does ) ? I really like this feature, and Unity does it well. Unity is easily the best Linux desktop I've used; I've been using Linux as my sole OS for over 10 years and I've tried them all. I always felt that not liking Unity seemed to be nothing more than the contempt cultures fashionable position to take.
waingake··on State of Clojure 2016 – Results and Analysis
2. For me as well. I built a couple things with ClojureScript but once I started working with Relay and GraphQL I felt that it was no longer the best tool for the job.
waingake··on PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL
I'm nearing completion of a real world commercial application of some complexity that uses this along with React Relay. I knew SQL but not PostgresSQL coming into the project.

I can say that this has been a joy to work with. This is how I will be building apps for the a while now.

Huge thanks to Caleb Meredith for all the work he has done on https://github.com/calebmer/postgraphql

waingake··on My search for a MacBook Pro alternative
File system case sensitivity?
waingake··on Attacking WordPress
I always give the webserver read only access to the file system, except the uploads directory, and then prevent the webserver from being able to execute php inside the uploads directory.

You can't update plugins via the admin with this setup, that is instead done with a deployment script.

I've deployed many WP sites with this setup and have never been hacked.

Oh fail2ban monitoring wp-login is also essential.

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