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alanh
·3 ay önce·discuss
Chesterton's Fence is the flip side of this
alanh
·4 ay önce·discuss
"Data has weight, but only on SSDs" - Not just SSDs! Unless you always hang the chad, surely writing data onto punchcards reduces the weight of that 'storage medium'!
alanh
·4 ay önce·discuss
10^–15 is not a negative number, just a small one. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=10%5E-15+
alanh
·5 ay önce·discuss
Apparently I can’t attach a cover letter, but I think I might be a better fit than might be obvious from my résumé. I do tend to "think like a product owner" (to quote the job desc) and love learning new tech on the job; I have been a React fan since 2014; and I know a dozen languages, so picking up Golang sounds fun. I am a design-thinking engineer who can also write: https://alanhogan.com/blog
alanh
·6 ay önce·discuss
"Cars now provide zero benefit..."

"Gender-based discrimination..."

"Fuck Brendan Eich [for opposing gay marriage at a time that Obama did as well]..."

"As ever, unionize, free Palestine, trans rights are human rights, fix your heart or die."

Ugh. What if you could possibly focus on technology instead of woke virtue-signaling (and threatening to kill those who disagree)?

Anyway, 'write ur website by hand' is absolute garbage advice, sorry. No, you are not going to effortlessly syndicate it elsewhere when you are manually updating your index.html to point to your latest hand-coded plain html file. Surely you won't even have a sitemap.xml. Will you write the sharing-friendly meta tags by hand every time too? No.
alanh
·9 ay önce·discuss
The idea of changing what 'rm' does sets off all of my "foot-gun" alarm bells
alanh
·9 ay önce·discuss
Huh. I watched a lot, but not all, of the video, and I thought he made it clear early on that he was stitching together 1px videos & repeating the event for each pixel (about a million times for that 720p result)
alanh
·9 ay önce·discuss
And?
alanh
·10 ay önce·discuss
Right? Google is dog caca now. Myself and everyone I know keep getting sent to AI-written garbage nonsense slop websites, or for some reason, to the Hindustan Times
alanh
·10 ay önce·discuss
See my reply to parent. Reply to sibling: Whoa, I've seen the Sopranos 3 times and never caught that reference.
alanh
·10 ay önce·discuss
Curious, I asked Grok:

> Is there controversy over the true inventor of the telephone?Yes, there is controversy over the true inventor of the telephone. While Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited, several inventors and researchers argue for recognition based on their contributions:

> Antonio Meucci: An Italian inventor who filed a patent caveat for a "voice communication apparatus" in 1871, five years before Bell's patent. Meucci's device, the "teletrofono," could transmit voice over a wire. Due to financial hardship, Meucci couldn't renew his caveat, and Bell was granted the patent in 1876. In 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution (H.Res. 269) recognizing Meucci's contributions, stating he demonstrated a working device earlier, though it didn't officially credit him as the inventor. Some still argue Meucci deserves primary credit.

> Elisha Gray: An American engineer who filed a patent caveat for a telephone-like device on the same day as Bell, February 14, 1876. Bell's patent was filed hours earlier, leading to disputes. Some claim Bell may have had access to Gray’s ideas through patent office connections, though no definitive evidence supports this. Gray later challenged Bell’s patent but lost in court.

> Philipp Reis: A German inventor who developed a device called the "Reis telephone" in 1861, capable of transmitting music and some speech. While it was less practical for clear voice communication, some argue it was a precursor to the telephone.
alanh
·10 ay önce·discuss
"The message format is not dangerous. It is the message viewers that are dangerous in this particular regard."

Ah, I see. We should allow HTML but display it as plain text.
alanh
·geçen yıl·discuss
So interesting! The author doesn’t, I believe, yet cover how the first log tables were computed (by hand), so I asked ChatGPT. This may be of interest: https://chatgpt.com/share/67d3a64d-f8a8-8012-bde3-e80813b2b4...
alanh
·9 yıl önce·discuss
https://twitter.com/janamjohnson/status/900372990881402880 (linked from the article) is dead. Does anyone have a saved or cached copy of the image in this tweet? Or a similar screen shot? I don't have Facebook, so I haven't seen this engagement email
alanh
·14 yıl önce·discuss
Hmm, case-in-point, then. Thanks for pointing that out.
alanh
·14 yıl önce·discuss
You’re flat-out wrong.

The biggest deployments of Markdown — StackOverflow & GitHub — do not squash line breaks. They made this decision because authors did not assume their line breaks would be discarded.

The change is not geek arrogance. It is, in fact, a reaction to how Normal People use it.
alanh
·14 yıl önce·discuss
The problem is not that Gruber doesn’t want to maintain Markdown. If that were it, perhaps it would be easier to move on without him.

It’s that he thinks the best option is to do nothing. He claims the title of BDFL without playing the role.

See his first reply to the Markdown mailing list in nearly three years: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2012-Octo...
alanh
·16 yıl önce·discuss
(I didn’t downvote you but) you answered the wrong parsing of OP’s original question: It wasn’t “why can’t we use JS elsewhere?” but rather “Why can’t we use other languages in the browser,” a semi-tired plea from those who haven’t learned to love JavaScript and/or don’t realize that due to the countless number of browsers out there, JavaScript is going to be the only option for DOM scripting for years, at minimum.