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"Do not hallucinate."

Jokes aside, you ask in different ways, including different languages, and the more you test the more certain you are that it is correct. The only way to be 100% certain is to get the developers to tell you.

Even before this you could still search for "Twitter" on android play store and it would be the first result.

Great time to tackle some tech debt

I tried making a realtime multiplayer game network based on HTTP, sending movement data every 100ms and individual world changes on each HTTP requests by that was taking 50ms each on a wifi local network, I thought that was good enough but then I tested websockets and the round-trip for websocket was around 4ms.

Sure, to me a library is something you call, like ReactDOM.render(), React.useState(), etc, and a framework calls the code you create. You create files and modules for a framework in the way that it dictates, and a library doesn't constrict you in any way.

But defining react as a framework or a library isn't easy, the word "React" isn't just one thing. JSX, initializing script, and the app skeleton are all optional to using React, yet React without JSX doesn't exist, everyone does it, like bundling your web app is a must in production nowadays.

React wasn't so much a framework when it started, you could add pieces of react in different parts of your page, to the point people sometimes argued that it was overkill to have the entire page be a react app. It is slowly walking into the framework direction, and the new react.dev docs violently suggest you use a react with a framework. A developer doesn't just "start" using react in these times, they need to understand a lot to create a full project with react.

Indeed, react.dev is a disaster without precedents.

https://grossato.com.br/

Just some random web dev stuff. 3 posts as I created it last month.

I made an effort not to click on anything political for a few months and there's absolutely no video in neither side except for the "breaking news" section that youtube adds, not even on youtube shorts. We tend not to notice when things are right, but god damn how much I love youtube recomendation algorithm. I really hope it never corrupts itself. The "Do not recommend" works, and not just for the specific channel, but the overall category and related content, it's amazing.

Subreddits related to development and programming tried to create programming.dev, which is a federated alternative, but the registering is failing for some reason, possibly because of too many accounts being generated. Anyways aside from that it has good content.

If you use windows it will routinely set edge back to the default browser. The web team of microsoft is absolutely disgusting in every possible way, and it has always been.

Damn that's a clever implementation!

I've seen ADHD person explain this as having every reason to do the task, know that they need to get started now, and yet, just can't get around to do it. I've certainly felt that in some scenarios in my life. It's like getting the timing to start doing the task is impossible and everything else, no matter how mundane, seems safer and more fulfilling to do.

It's like you are missing the drive to get that thing done to the point that your brain just tricks you into thinking that anything remotely productive seems more important and better to get started on now than the actual task. To me this is a rare occurrence, hence why I think I am not a ADHD person.

The problem to me is that this difficulty is hard to differentiate from self-discipline.

I suspect you will be less likely to feel that inability to get around to do the tasks that you know to be important to do it if you fail in a way that life itself, the universe, hurts you for the failure, as opposed to your boss saying "you're fired for showing up late".

I also suspect that some people use religion to fix this: Like picturing a higher being looking down and saying "Wherefore dost thou not now do that which thou must? Else, I shall smite thee from the heavens or cause thee great trouble in the afterlife."

Agreed, it's so easy to blame your problems on the circumstances and feel good about it. Some people were just taught to always be victims (which is sad), and others just power through their weakness and eventually comes up on top.

Stoicism tends to be a difficult way to live but it does compensate in the long term.

Try working on your personal projects in the morning or just don't work so close to exhaustion on your day job. Working on hard problems with high intensity could lead you to burn out and that would be terrible for your employee and your own health.

I also noticed that. It got terrible fast a few years ago but it seems to me to be slowly getting better over time again.

Anyways I had this strange thought some time ago: What if social media is this way by design? I mean, what if it was intended to be shallow, to value weakness, to tell obese people they are fine the way they are, to say it is okay to be afraid all the time? That we should just judge people and that is valuable? And to value feelings and manipulation over truth and honesty?

People who don't hold these values will either leave or they will get resentful about how the world "degenerated" and how they are no longer welcome here. It is all lost!

The notion of "the world" has been distorted after the pandemic (it was already distorted but the pandemic helped) to mean their phone, the internet, facebook, instagram, twitter, etc.

And as mentioned by the article the real world is very different: The grass and the air is revigorating, people don't fight each other as often, they are busy fighting for their dreams, and obese people are told to get healthy, weak people are taught how to be strong, and if you lie people will hold you accountable instantly. A 40 year old psychopath will not tell a 12 year old that their gender is wrong because he will be punched on the face or sent to jail. Sorry for having to go there, it is just an extreme example.

Maybe it's possible that by making the social media landscape hostile to the kind of people who are good we can get them to be happy in the real world? Where we need them building a better society? I don't feel right saying this but part of me is fine with leaving people who are evil or lazy hypnotized by their phone.

Did you just describe reddit?

I agree that it's annoying but I think Google Cloud and other cloud providers also does this thing where you need to configure a new billing information to delete the original one. As an alternative you could create one of those virtual cards and then cancel it, i guess.

Few months ago I finally accepted that Google is a business that will adapt itself to serve the majority of people that use it, including finding a business model that makes them keep afloat (like adding ads, filtering results, etc). I have been banned from this 'majority of people' group by committing the most scary of the acts: I got old. I don't care about empty blog posts, pages about celebrity gossip, SEO filled articles about that one thing you should definitely change in your life, etc. Seriously, people are learning to game the search engines before they learn how to write anything of value! And it kinda works because by the time I realized the emptiness I have already clicked "Accept only required cookies" and closed two ads on the most creative positions they could come up with! And they will be more creative with the X button next time, I JUST KNOW IT!

Pay attention to the comments around this community and others and you won't go a month without reading a comment or a post complaining about Google Search. For one, the other services google produces are good and I pay for some as I find them valuable. Second, I love the past of google search, it helped me a ton. Third, I know that Google Search is such a popular thing that you'll always find someone complaining about it, I get it, but it is my feeling that present-day search for google has been rotting away slowly for the past years. My Google-fu was envious back in the day and if you remember or used that term before then you are probably getting old too, sorry, but do join me in my mid life crisis and let's long for the good old days!

I now use Kagi search. It is not perfect nor updated as often as Google Search but I pay for it out of principle: I hope that more people will do it, and since only people who cares about search would do such an unnecessary act, it will probably get optimized for weird people like me.

I love when people unite technology and art. Its duality reminds me of the of the the useful and the pretty, the male and the female. I thank those who were involved in its creation as it is a nice concept.

I liked the controls, they are impressively intuitive. It could have more knobs, or more individual movement of the elements of the scene so that we could have even more flexibility.

I can't help but notice the bitterness associated with men in this piece though. It seems to indicate that men taint the image of women with an incomplete representations of their personhood when they manifest their "Male Gaze" into art.

Since I am one of those wretched beings I will defend my perspective: men of these times saw things worth preserving. You might not like it but that's not the point.

And it seems that we overloaded the servers with submissions or something because I got an error submitting my picture. It was a nice experience still.

What difference does it make if that hole that opens to your network is in tail-scales servers (with a public IP and port) or yours?

Are we comparing clients knowing my ip vs not knowing my ip while connecting to my server? Because there's a huge difference. I would obviously want my ip to stay unknown if possible. With my ip you can roughly geolocate my server, DDOS it, try other ports like 80, 443, 22, 3306 to know more about it, etc.

You can do a credit card chargeback but large companies like to do the shady tactic of banning your account forever because some 'suspicious activity' has been detected by automated systems on their end. Of course that you can call your lawyer and sue them but they conveniently allow you to appeal: All you have to do is send a photo of your face, your documents, and a text describing why you think you should not have been banned, maybe a blood sacrifice if they feel like it. In exchange they give you the hope that one day someone will review these things and lift the ban, but right now you will have to wait a few weeks until you forget about it because their systems are overwhelmed (as they have always been) since they are a big company.

This didn't happen with Airbnb for me (it was another equally big company in different sector) but I did learn an interesting lesson about how big companies treat users who know they can chargeback when they get billed incorrectly. It might not even be evil but they will not waste extra resource on getting your problem solved because they will always have more important things to do.

Since I had to google I'll share the definition: IPFS is InterPlanetary File System, it's a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting IPFS hosts. It is like a public distributed blockchain for parts of files and each file has an unique id and a hash to make sure they haven't been tampered with once you download them. When you open a node you can select which files you would like to make available for people to download from your server.

I wonder however how will IPFS prevent itself, once popular, from being either overrun by criminality such as pirating, or to be limited by the government because of that criminality, or subject to ISP blockage (like they do to the other popular peer to peer downloading service)?

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Yeah. Precision of accelerometers is a tough problem. Dealt with some on my engineering degree and because they measure the second derivative of position we can add 'integrate' it twice to get the position, but that process yielded terrible results after centimeters. The imperfect nature of accelerometers adds up a lot of errors along the way. An entirely theoretical, infinitely sensitive, and perfect accelerometer would give us the perfect position if we know what is our starting position and although I don't have any experience with a "quantum" accelerometer, I don't think a quantum accelerometer is perfect enough and I don't think this article made a good case about it.

I thought of a silly project though: What if we tried to fix the problem of customer-grade accelerometers being too imprecise by parallelizing the accelerometers?

We would connect a large number of sensitive accelerometers, something like 100 or 1000, maybe of different frequencies, and feed a segment of the sensory data over time to a neural network measuring the fitness of it towards minimizing the prediction error for long distance traveling such as needed by ships or anything really. Does anyone know if any project has been attempted in the past?

Great read but am sad that the last 'perfect' simulation doesn't have a simulation render in real time (snapshots at fixed intervals such as 1/60 of a second) so that we can marvel its beauty without the slowness of the algorithm.

I disagree, business that fire people "to make a statement" don't last. And it seems OP is just good at what he does, hence he will always have more work.

My opinion is that the company likes having OP in a desperate state because in doing so he won't have enough time to look for a job elsewhere.

Why would you ever say that "car X is capable of the same velocity as car Y if you measure car X's velocity by km/h and car Y's velocity by mph"?

Which company has the power to do DNS blacklisting?

Step 1: Wait about 100 billion years.

Good luck in implementing it tho.