alethiophile

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by alethiophile 2y ago
Personally, I would say that if you are doing DOM updates via AJAX calls that return HTML, HTMX is just the correct way to do it. (Unless you're using some other solution already for other reasons and it also includes that functionalit
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by alethiophile 2y ago
Why is it better to render JSON on the server, read that JSON in a separate client app that you also have to write, and then do a bunch of manual DOM calls in Javascript, rather than rendering HTML on the server and letting the browser&#x27
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by alethiophile 2y ago
The cost of launch is small-ish compared to the total program cost, but the limitations on launch condition the engineering requirements in ways that inflate the engineering costs. JWST had to be built as an insane on-orbit autonomous origa
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by alethiophile 3y ago
> The thing is there are just vanishingly few places where you only need a "sparkling of interactivity on top". I would say it's precisely the opposite. Say 97% of work done by web pages and web apps in practice boils down
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by alethiophile 3y ago
It's definitely a really imprecise usage.
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by alethiophile 3y ago
I assume "jQuery" here is being used as a metonym for the old frontend style where you would use the jQuery AJAX and DOM functions to query HTML fragments and swap them in. This is only really related to jQuery in that it used jQu
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by alethiophile 3y ago
The customer probably cares if your app takes five seconds to load because of the resource size, or reliably pegs a CPU core whenever you're using it. Of course, neither of these things are guaranteed in a React app. But they're d
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by alethiophile 3y ago
Alpine is primarily designed to be reused via server templating. You use a single template per component to do the in-HTML side, using the server template's facilities to handle variations as necessary. Then you can factor out complex
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by alethiophile 3y ago
How often do you learn new things later that, even as transmitted through untrustworthy media, allow for clear falsification of the former media presentation? This isn't zero but it's not very common either. Usually, the domain in
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by alethiophile 3y ago
Regarding a topic that you never come into personal contact with, your entire knowledge of it throughout your life will be media-mediated. How, then, would you ever learn what you had been misinformed of?
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by alethiophile 3y ago
I can't speak to any kind of general principle here, but viewing any standard modern web page e.g. Twitter, Discord in a Web browser reliably takes more CPU and memory than running a late-game Factorio save. I will allow that it is pro
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by alethiophile 3y ago
What exactly is the resource-intensive request here? Loading an E-mail, or list of E-mails? I don't see why that should be any more resource-intensive than any other CRUD app.
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by alethiophile 5y ago
Piston-engine planes are a remarkably small market. Automotive dominates the fuel market in total, and jet fuel (which is a lead-free kerosene derivative) dominates the aviation market. As far as I can tell, no one has demonstrated any tang
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by alethiophile 5y ago
Gas in the US (aviation or automotive) is always sold in gallons, but quantity of chemicals (outside of cooking) usually done in grams/kilograms. Thus, grams per gallon is fairly intuitive in context.
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by alethiophile 5y ago
The decline in smoking has absolutely been accompanied and/or caused by a massive array of state coercion, from requiring all their advertising to prominently state "THIS WILL KILL YOU" to limiting who's allowed to sell
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by alethiophile 6y ago
But if arbitrage bots were pushing the BTCUSD price up to match BTCUSDT, they'd have giant piles of USDT. And they'd have to convert it back in large quantities, or else they'd go broke. The world where no one tests the peg t
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by alethiophile 6y ago
Arbitrage isn't magic. The only way arbitrage can push BTC-USD prices up to match BTC-USDT is if the arbitrageurs are selling a proportional amount of USDT for USD. Either they're redeeming them with Tether, which some claim isn&#
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by alethiophile 6y ago
I mean, no, this is just bullshit. Surplus is what enables complex economies and trade. It also means you have governments trying to take over places, but this comes with surplus because without surplus everyone is too poor to even try. The
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by alethiophile 6y ago
Obviously the Bronze Age Collapse is not nearly so historically attested, and there's a lot we don't know. But your proposed series of events is not plausible. Temples, palaces, scribes, etc. are the sequelae of a highly productiv
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by alethiophile 6y ago
> Now, arbitrage bots will look at this in crease in btc-usdt, and be mandated to buy btc with USD so that BTC-USDT and BTC-USD are in parity. This is the bit that doesn't make sense. Arbitrage bots trying to push BTC-USD up to matc
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by alethiophile 6y ago
If arbitrage bots try to arbitrage between BTC-USDT and BTC-USD markets, and the USDT markets are the ones pushing the price up, then it's the arbitrage bots that would end up holding huge amounts of USDT. So what are they doing with i
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by alethiophile 7y ago
It only works if you've got a specific, somewhat unlikely configuration. You need to have ALL in the user specifier, but not root (or else it's not a vuln, just a bug). So > username ALL=(ALL, !root) ALL would be vulnerable; t
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by alethiophile 8y ago
...The pro-gun crowd are the ones who constantly quote the amendment verbatim. They don't "hate" it. And yes, it doesn't explicitly say in the text of the amendment what kinds of threats the militia is meant to defend &q
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by alethiophile 8y ago
It quite obviously meant both. The British army, against whom the people who wrote that clause had just finished fighting a revolution, was an army of "the same state" when the fighting was happening. Any attempt to deny that the
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by alethiophile 8y ago
In the context of the time when it was written, "militia" meant the entire male population of military age. You can look up period law codes and find this kind of definition. It wasn't a legal fiction, either; that was the on
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by alethiophile 8y ago
Most "death by firearms" are suicides, and suicides mostly don't need instructional videos. The rest are mostly murders, and there's nothing to suggest that gun videos on Youtube make people more or less likely to murder
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by alethiophile 8y ago
If they're trying to get away from privacy-related bad PR, maybe "oh, by the way, we're capable of bugging the entire rainforest and analyzing the take in real-time" isn't the best approach. Heaven knows it's o
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by alethiophile 8y ago
I just got one of those periodic "wow, those are the same person?" Internet moments; I've both used AFL a fair bit, and read Tangled Web, but never connected the two. Impressive fellow.
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by alethiophile 9y ago
If Bitcoin gains significant adoption overseas, that pushes up Bitcoin's value everywhere, USA included; geographical differences in price will be arbitraged away. The increase in price might or might not lead to greater US adoption, b
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by alethiophile 9y ago
Not true at all. The security of the bitcoin blockchain is fundamentally based on mining; after the inflation schedule runs low enough that it's not the major component of mining rewards (which won't be for decades), miners will c

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