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There was a time that SVG was going to replace flash, or something like that, but these days people just use the "simple" subset. I've seen multiple implementations for the vector graphics based on compute shaders, impressive stuff, can render the tiger svg with no problem. Parsing the bezier curves out of the xml is not that hard compared to all the work needed the have this work on the GPU. Most people also don't understand XML, I'm building a sort of compiler for it with full support for Namespaces, Schema, XLinks and all of that, boring stuff that needs to be done, I don't understand why this needs to be your problem though and even then those standard are not THAT hard. You will only understand XML if you need to use XML. Yes XML is verbose but also your mom is fat and you still love her don't you? Developers look at me weird when I start talking XML, like I am some sort of boomer that want to limit women's right to choice or something like that. Better not to mention it, or I'll have to listen to them explaining why JSON is just better for hours on end without ever considering the strange bizz requirements I labour under.

Hypermedia Systems 2 years ago

Nice, what if I have a 3D model and I want to show extra info in a html div about a vertex, edge, face or object that I have selected?

Hypermedia Systems 2 years ago

What are you gonna do if you want to give a user the option to display the same search result in a html table and a map drawn on a canvas element, or maybe some info viz thing like a chart? No htmx fanboy has a nice solution for this. Im fine with making hyper media part of the synthesis but ignoring features that you have for free with modern hybrid ssr spa is not helping.

1. Only to the extend that this also benefits the the genes of a coerced female.

2. Maybe it is, but not sure if that needs to be a problem.

3. No, at least admittance rate of blacks vs asians would make one believe the opposite is true

4. Yes for the vast majority.

5. Probably, but most conservative philosophy is boring and backwards anyway.

6. Are we counting a history of oppression as part of racial biases here?

7. Euh yeah, how is this even controversial?

8. I don't/can't know, but it would surprise me if it was higher then 10%.

9. I would not classify epigenetic as a social influence, so no. (maybe use the word environmental here)

10. No, but unit cohesion can help performance a lot.

I hope this helps

I used to be more into functional programming but then I found other excuses to learn mathematics. I still think about how my imperative implementation can be turned into a functional one, or the other way around, but honestly the computer graphics programmers and machine learning engineers are doing cooler stuff. Even learning about category theory without needing to have an excuse to implement it makes it a lot more enjoyable.

I never managed to finish my degree mainly due to dyslexia, and started working as a self-taught programmer, but I can only second this opinion. My CV doesn't get past most first screenings and even then people sort of treat you like a second class citizen.

Maybe I should start lying about my lack of a degree like a real con man.

Experience report: Impossible to write any serious complex application in this. Lacks components for basic things everyone gets for free on other platforms, things like video, maps or rich text components. Nor does if offer any clear easy path to add them yourself. Breaking API changes every few months. No way to theme something. Immediate mode graphics are great until you need to start managing some complex state, then you are forced to implement your own retainer mode graphics. Again it reintroduces problems that have been solved a long time ago. Very fancy renderer based on piet-gpu that only takes control points of a bezier curve as input and tessellates everything from that. Cool concept, but try drawing a real circle with that, and some some approximation with 4 bezier curves. Wasm is not more then a proof of concept that won't be production ready without years of engineering by compile team. Overall nice for Go developers that wanna do some simple UI with lists and input fields.

Sorry, I can't find it anymore. I got it from the youtube channel by Sam Vaknin. He is a convicted coin man with NPD, so take everything he says with a grain of salt. That having said, his work tend to lack the sort of victim pandering you see in other narcissism "experts".

EDIT: there are a number of other studies on google scholar linking ADHD to psychopathy (in prison populations), just not the one with the fMRI scans.

No, I think there is more to it then people what to admit. For example, there is a lot of comorbidity between ADHD and narcissism. There might be less social stigma about being the quirky inattentive ADHDer rather then the selfish narcissist but they are both attention disorders in some way. MRI scans of people diagnosed with NPD show that there brains prefer their dreams over reality. Meaning, there is a pathway in your brain for sensory information (exteroception) and a pathway for predictions your brain makes (interoception). For people with ADHD and NPD their interoception will often overwrite their exteroception when there is a conflicting signal.

The IT job market is a two sided lemon market, people may lie on their CV but companies can be very abusive as well. If you don't do what OP suggests, people will not respect you. I've had five developers join my interview call to see if I can implement a palindrome checker. This is proof that non of them bothered to read my CV and check out my github projects. This is not respectful, and you have to stand your ground against such nonsens. Let them now this is not what you expect from people working for you and and that you expect better from them in the future. If they don't like that you won't have lost anything.

That is not a popular thing to say about the internets own man sticking it to the man, but I agree. I havent seen the incelesque videos, but some of his content in the last years is very high on the drama, always bickering with everyone, whining about this and that. It is not the same as him fixing some board with a random piece lifted from some other board. This is a common pattern with people trying to do good but can't seem to come to grips with that they can't fix everything and thus become losers addicted to defeat. It is sad, I hope he gets better though.

How would Pythagoras' formula look like in your language, because that has been my problem with stack based languages in the past. Great at doing high level abstract mathematical operations, fixed points and all of that jazz, but then it becomes impossible to read basic stuff without doing a dry run in your head.

It is wrong the call this a "complete misunderstanding" as the paper clearly deals with triplets and formulates a different encoding scheme for entities and relations. Ok, so it is not RDF or even hyper graphs but it is dealing with a graph structure.

Sometimes you find the truth at the bottom of HN. It hurts, I spend my early adulthood trying to learning most of the topics on this page thinking it would make me a great software engineer. These are good ideas, but I wouldn't call them great, they are often very dull and don't make one a great thinker.

Special books for special children did an interview with a self identified sociopath that shows the same level of self awareness and openness to discuss the problem[1].

I think it is always difficult to analyse why someones does something. In Psychology, behaviour is like a Feynman diagram, you can always rotate the picture and get a valid particle interaction. What is cause and what is effect is hard to tell, but yes some people steal out of a sense of justice if you can call it that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdPMUX8_8Ms

Astro DB 2 years ago

How is something like this or other services like cloudflare's D1 an actual scalable solution for any serious app? Is it the pattern where you give every customer, team or "workspace" it's own database and manage this through some distributed kv store? I am just trying to understand how this is a relevant solution and not some weird SQLlite fetishism you see going around.

Wow great talk, I forgot about it, one peace of advice, play it at 1.5 speed, the speaker is a bit sloooow.

I know everyone is calling BS on this, and I am just a simple web developer so what do I know but there are at least two priors that make me think that what is discussed here could have some validity.

* The stochastic/random nature of processors is already used in cryptography for physically uncloneable functions. Dunno if this has any practical uses in industry, and it is crypto, so it is probably also BS, but it is the same phenomena you get if you log in into your BIOS and turn off ECC of your RAM.

* The very first computer capable of MCMC was designed by von Neumann himself and used uranium as a source of randomness as part of the Manhattan project.

Anyway semiconductors have never been my strong suit, but I guess this is more of a IP play then a consumer product business. Now let me get back to writing unit tests.

The funny thing about this discussing is that no one seems to care about the actual problem that is being solved by XML rather then just serialising and deserialising some data used by one piece of software. XML is mainly useful for exchanging data between organisations in a pre agreed format and schema where everyone is doing something else with the information. I'm implementing XBRL right now, and I can't say that I enjoy it, but I also wouldn't know how to do it better except maybe in some superficial way. Sure XML is bloated and maybe something like RDF/TTL would be better because of build in support for links, multiple languages and datatypes but that still leaves the problem of having to deal with whatever is expressed in a taxonomy that can be GB big.

Otherwise a good article, but labelling hyper-political people as mere victims is doing them too much of a service. The only sure-fire-way of detecting a covert or malignant narcissist is in how much they signal their victim hood status and their moral superiority. It takes a certain kind of person to google for videos of Ben Shapiro and then get outraged about the things he says. This behaviour is not much different (expect in severity) then Justin Smollett tying a noose around his neck.