rvense · HackerTrans

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Right, JSX is not the only way of accomplishing a better syntax for dynamic HTML.

I was just saying that I do occasionally do things entirely by hand in Javascript with createElement, and it works for a quick thing but it is actually definitely a thing that warrents bringing in some alternative.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

My time is currently divided between an Angular project and a "no framework" project, so it's been some time since I touched JSX but we are talking about the difference between:

    <MyThing><div class="thing--contents">"Hello"</div></MyThing>

versus

    const div = document.createElement("div");
    div.innerText = "Hello";
    div.classList.add("thing-contents");
    const wrapper = thingFactory(div);

Aren't we? It just adds up very quickly is what I'm saying.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

IME "I'll just use createElement" leads to "Oh dear, I have to add another createElement" which leads to "I really don't like reading this code". But of course it's a trade off.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

The Taliban might be keeping more of an eye on the border than the previous Afghan government did, though, for that reason.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

The people are friendly and welcoming, and the scenery is amazing. As a tourist, I don't much mind paying a few bribes to policemen (who barely get paid a wage), and I can stand to keep my mouth shut about their president when I'm there (even though he's obviously a bastard). But it's painful to think what it must be like to live there and have nowhere else to go.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

Have the Taliban ever conducted any operations in Tajikistan? I know people go back and forth over the river (I went to Badakshan once and saw them swim across!), so there's contact, but I don't think the Taliban have a habit of going to Tajikistan to take hostages or anything like that?

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

There has been, as far as I know, one single case of tourists being attacked (and killed) by militant Islamists, which happened a few years ago. So statistically it's probably safer than a lot of places. There is significant resistance to the regime under the surface, but everything is still held together by an aging, kleptocratic authoritarian. So in some sense it's a volatile place, and the situation could obviously change significantly in a matter of hours or days in a way that's unlikely to happen in, say, Europe. (Or at least Europe of five years ago...)

I think it is still a very safe place to visit, and many tourists, including Americans, visit every year. Extreme things can happen anywhere. The likelihood of getting mugged I'd say is effectively zero, at least compared to London or Barcelona.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

Islam is extremely important to Tajik identity. But Tajikistan is making the same mistake many other Muslim dictatorships and authocracies did. By not having a real open political system, the only place for dissent to take root is in Islamist circles, and then that's the opposition you get.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

An amazing place. I visited twice about 15 years ago and have many fond memories of it, but mostly when I think about it I'm filled with sadness, because the people there deserve so much better. They're constantly knee-deep in corruption, both street level and just the very blatant kleptocratic presidential family. There's a lot of ethnic Russians, both expat workers and ones that didn't manage to leave after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that are very openly racist towards ethnic Tajiks but were usually allowed to run free. The people were hospitable and open and very happy to have guests in their country, but it also seemed like a very bleak place, with few good prospects for the future.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

Doesn't it mandate it for everyone? I don't use it anymore and haven't logged in since forever, but I think I got a series of e-mails that it was being made mandatory.

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

> 19th century anarchist essay

I think primitivism is a later invention. Certainly Kropotkin is very pro-mechanization. If there is a point of contention, it's to do with ownership, not technology itself.

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

It is a strange phenomenon, in that it is so nonsensical, yet so ingrained and self-perpetuating in a way. I can actually agree that it qualifies as a "duty", because it's something the people who make up the corporation honestly feel morally bound to. The idea seems to have become sort of a load-bearing neurosis in the Modern Yuppie. If and when we, by some act of cultural psychiatry, remove it entirely, that's a lot of personalities that are going to just crumble, and I don't know if there are enough hiking trails in California for the finance dude(tte)s in sillycon valley set to all find themselves again...

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

We could do something like that, probably. Or we could tell these bloodsucking copyright lawyers to get fucked and reform the whole damn thing so it makes some sort of sense and does something good for the world.

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

I'm not surprised. I imagine all images on the internet are used to train image classifiers as well. It's a shitty future, but it's the one we have.

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hace 6 añosdiscuss

Is it really a pendulum, or is it more that this was always an idea with merit that's now finally seeing wider adoption because it's become more widely available? (In part, I understand, due to some IBM patents that expire 10 or so years ago)

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hace 6 añosdiscuss

I find it absolutely infuriating that this cartoon villain can just decide to gunk up the sky for a commercial venture. This is like Nestle bottling public water.

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hace 6 añosdiscuss

My personal laptop is a Lenovo X200s from 2008 or 2009 with 8GB RAM. I use it to write words, read PDFs, do some software development (most often C and "vanilla" web stuff), design electronics in Kicad, and casually browse the web... and I'd be happy with it as my only computing device forever, except for some websites it's starting to be a little slow, especially a well-known site that's meant for exchanging messages under 500 characters. There's some irony there.

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