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yari_ashi_zero

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yari_ashi_zero··on How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground
I lived in Pittsburgh from 1989 to 1991, very close to Carnegie Mellon University. One of their technical departments (CMU) had a self-driving car (really a van like a UPS van) even back then ; we saw it driving around our neighborhood sometimes. I think it always had an operator standing by inside it, for override.
yari_ashi_zero··on Effort to Expose Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Draws Vicious Retaliation
hey Wow so I stumbled into a Natoist troll army barracks here right I guess. No mention anywhere of the right of the population of Crimea to self determination. They held a vote right ?
yari_ashi_zero··on Frege – a Haskell for the JVM
So then we have Haskell with Clojure.
yari_ashi_zero··on CSS Modules
HTML is for hypertext documents, and CSS an organ of the same organism called 'HTML/CSS'. It's made for text documents, and applying it to the implementation of GUI-centric applications has always been an ugly hack. For awhile (90s to 00s AJAX) it was necessary, and now the whole professional ecosystem has built up tremendous inertia over the millions of accumulated people/hours of perfecting this 'competency'/hack. Now though, I would recommend to switch over to building 2D webapps entirely out of SVGs (say with React + Flux) e.g.: https://github.com/Terebinth/Vickers or, even better, to building them entirely out of WebGL. SVGs are easy and would lead to a wonderfully efficient workflow, but I think WebGL holds the advantage for performance considerations, given the way it goes to the hardware.