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sbv

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  • JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson

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  • Developers wanted to build and deploy apps to end user machines. The round trip for page loads was lousy for usability.

    Java applets were too shitty. Flash was too janky and hard to work with. So Mozilla started adding JavaScript as a hack. It filled a need.

    a barrier-to-entry that makes it difficult to develop new browsers,

    It definitely adds a barrier to entry, but JavaScript was really perfected in chromium, which is a different codebase from the folks who proposed and built js to begin with.

    I'm not saying JavaScript is good, but it fills a need.

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Monster

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  • a little too close to reality, tbh

  • Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

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  • Our reality feels superficial and degenerate.

    I suspect it was ever thus. As long as wars are far away they won't seem real.

  • Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

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  • The 15th Federated will remember our sacrifice at the Battle of the Erie. As long as there's a Fifteenth, we'll live on. o7

  • Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on Demand

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  • Cyberpunk is a critique and warning about hypercapitalism with cool aesthetics and technology. Somehow we ended up with zero aesthetics, meh technology, and we're far down the road to actual factual shit down your throat hypercapitalism.

    I always try to end depressing comments with something positive, but I can't think of anything. Hug your favourites, and good luck in the Climate Wars.

  • What RSS feeds do you follow?

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  • Same boat. Somehow, the magic is gone.

  • Why is it often cheaper to buy new than repair old and how can repairing be encouraged on different levels of society?

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  • TIL Lemmy feels strongly about the right to repair and modern manufacturing practices.

    Okay, I already knew. It's on brand for whatever it is we are.

  • Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

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  • In a recent series of experiments, we paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study was over. And those who maintain their healthier newsfeed reported less animosity a full 11 months after the study.

    Twitter got a lot better when I unfollowed the peeps whose tweets I hated. But it also got boring, so I stopped using it (this was loooong before Trump, Elon, etc).

    There's probably a lesson there.

  • What's a regional pronunciation of a word that seems normal to you but is weird to people from other parts of the country?

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  • In the Maritimes, Dalhousie (the university) is pronounced: "dal-HOW-zee".

    In Ottawa, Dalhousie (the street) is pronounced: "dal-HOOOOOO-ze".

    I don't know why, but I find the Ottawa pronunciation really annoying.

  • What's something you started doing arbitrarily that's been really positive for you?

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  • Damn, that's a great idea.

  • Bots everywhere or am I losing it?

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  • We're here because we're like that.

  • Bots everywhere or am I losing it?

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  • If I were an evil fascist I would fill this place with bots to keep the lefties arguing with the void instead of going outside for direct action.

    Sadly, there aren't enough people here to make that worthwhile.

    Other than that, curious programmers watching their creations interact in the wild?

    Even with LLMs, getting appropriate responses is a bit of an effort. So is integrating with Lemmy. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that we're really lazy, and it's unlikely that there's a significant volume of bot coders here.

    Just Google the number of Lemmy bots. There are disappointingly few.

  • What are some science fields or projects that could use programming help?

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  • That's shitty on a bunch of levels. Is there a bright side? Are there jobs out there?

  • Is worth being all different from normal audience?

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  • If there's stuff you enjoy, and it's healthy for you to enjoy (eg, you feel more connected, and are learning about stuff that interests you) then you should keep doing it.

    I have constructed this "superior" all different character of mine only to find I just don't have the personality irl to back up the character I've created and was longing to have something to be relatable to people.

    Who does the character benefit? If it isn't you, or the benefit of being superior is outweighed by the cost of being different, then you should stop.

  • What are some science fields or projects that could use programming help?

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  • Pay is still shit.

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  • What are some science fields or projects that could use programming help?

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  • Twenty years ago, I briefly worked for a research group doing genomics stuff. The researchers couldn't code worth shit, so they had a hard time analyzing results in a reasonable amount of time. It was easy to be a hero.

    I suspect new researchers would be way better coders (I assume AI may help too).

    The pay was shit.

  • By @ellisjrosen

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  • It was an asymptomatic smash!

  • Mimi #3: Proposal

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  • God Guevara

  • Paw patrol: What is the call-to-action per pup?

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  • This is valuable research that needs to be done.

    I feel like Zuma is basically Night Boat, but the writers rarely give him an inlet, canal, or fjord.