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by hackthemack 9mo ago
That type of webpage style was quite common in the late 90s. Compare it to https://www.circlemud.org/ I think the html editors of the time defaulted to some of style we now find quaint/quirky.
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by hackthemack 9mo ago
Something is seriously wrong with the US justice system. Some links to bolster your point. https://waldenconsultants.com/2020/04/13/yet-another-study-s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi
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by hackthemack 9mo ago
I noticed the Hall of Fame grading of predictive comments has a quirk? It grades some comments about if they came true or not, but in the grading of comment to the article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654216 The C
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British ex-paratrooper on track to complete 27 year walk around the world(msn.com)
2 points by hackthemack 10mo ago|0 comments
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
Something that really sticks out to me after reading the article, is how Sun had all the hype in the world when Java was released. There were internet discussions about Java replacing Windows. That Java was going to be the future of program
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
Some other, recent, JavaScript discussions 30 year anniversary since the announcement of JavaScript https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146406 It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet(arstechnica.com)
10 points by hackthemack 10mo ago|4 comments
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
I wish people were not so inclined to reply with "Ad Hominem Ridicule" one liners. I like a good joke, but such replies lack a certain level of content that addresses the point and feel "low effort". I do agree that comp
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Curiosity Rover Detects Largest Organic Molecules Found on Mars Yet(science.nasa.gov)
2 points by hackthemack 10mo ago|0 comments
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High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation (2015)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by hackthemack 10mo ago|0 comments
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
I agree. I got really tired of hearing tables are for tabular data! For 20+ years. My reply was always, Who cares if it accomplished the layout you want. If the meaning of a word is what got people so hung up... why not go and make a new cs
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
Anyone in tech should read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... It was more tech companies in collusion than many people realize. 1) Apple and Google, (2) Apple and Adobe, (3) Apple and
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
I agree. But, I think the execs just say, "How can we get the most bang for our buck? If we use X, Y, Z technologies, that are the new hotness, then we will get all the new hordes of hires out there, which will make them happy, and has
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
I agree. Perhaps, "by design" is not the correct phrasing. Many decisions and effects go through a multi weighted graph of complexity (sort of like machine learning).
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
I have a theory that the churn in technology is by design. If a new paradigm, new language, new framework comes out every so many years, it allows the tech sector to always want to hire new graduates for lower salaries. It gives a thin vene
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
One thought I recently had, since using deepCopy is going to slow things down, is if the source code for QuickJS could be changed just make copies. Then load up quickJs as a replacement for the browsers javascript by invoking it as wasm.
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
> It's unclear to me what the author thinks OOP is I rather liked the old post "Object Oriented Programming is an Expensive Disaster that Must End" written over 10 years ago. https://medium.com/@jacobfriedm
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
I am a fan of immutability. I was toying around with javascript making copies of arguments (even when they are complex arrays or objects). But, strangely, when I made a comment about it, it just got voted down. https://news.ycomb
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
Fair point. I did not usually see a free roaming cart though. Maybe times have changed. Usually, people would prop them up against a curb, or ditch them into a grassy spot, or they would put them by a low spot in the parking lot next to a d
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by hackthemack 10mo ago
I worked at a grocery store for a while in my teens and early twenties. It is really a surprise to me that this has become an internet topic and even more surprising how strongly people feel like it is a litmus test for good vs bad. I just
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The US Is Rebuilding the Airfields That Staged the Hiroshima Nuclear Strike(rferl.org)
5 points by hackthemack 11mo ago|3 comments
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DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI's ability to remember(technologyreview.com)
3 points by hackthemack 11mo ago|0 comments
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by hackthemack 11mo ago
Thinking on this subject a bit more. I have to wonder if C++ made references just so there is a fast an efficient way to mutate without having to make a copy? Maybe someone should work on a way to make references in javascript land. Sort of
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by hackthemack 11mo ago
I guess in javascript world, the phrasing I am looking for would be I wish all arguments were copies unless I put some symbol that says, alright, go ahead and give me the original to mutate? It seems like this way, you reduce side effects,
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by hackthemack 11mo ago
It is a similar idea to what Carmack is writing about. Golang, Clojure does something similar to what I am talking about above so not sure of the motivation behind the voting down of the comment.
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by hackthemack 11mo ago
One area that I like to have immutability is in function argument passing. In javascript (and many other languages), I find it weird that arguments in function act differently depending on if they are simple (strings, numbers) versus if the
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Trump orders immediate resumption of US nuclear weapons testing(france24.com)
30 points by hackthemack 11mo ago|38 comments
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by hackthemack 11mo ago
The Luanti client lets you search and install mods from content.luanti.org It differentiates between mods and games. A game changes the core game to be much more different, but sometimes a game is just a collection of some other mods. http
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by hackthemack 11mo ago
I much prefer just writing stuff for Luanti (formerly minetest). You can, pretty much, get the Minecraft experience by downloading mods. Or just use the VoxeLibre game mod. https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy&#x2F
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by hackthemack 11mo ago
I do not use ai image generating much lately. It seemed like there was a burst of activity a year and half ago with self hosted models and using some localhost web guis. But now it seems like it is moving more and more to online hosted mode

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