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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

"Siri, what is a negative externality?":

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/health/apple-watch-911-emergency-call.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Good lord this aged like fine farts:

https://reactjs.org/blog/2014/02/15/community-roundup-16.html

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

DW3 NES is a much more complex game than the 1st but it's still missing a lot of quality of life innovations & it doesn't enjoy the same historical significance as DW1. Dragon Warrior 3 GBC is still good though. The stores are nicer to navigate & they upped the walking speed a lot

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

The original Dragon Warrior is interesting to play because you get to see what the first draft of this series looked like and what they managed to get right. Having to do Menu > Stairs to change floors is clunky but they managed to absolutely nail the sound design on their first try

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I've been playing a bit of both the NES and the GBC remake of Dragon Warrior 3 lately.

The original Dragon Warrior I would still absolutely recommend to someone interested in game design but DW3 NES probably not

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'm sure this will get sent to Reactors, so allow me to preempt some of the unsolicited feedback:

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• "Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The absolutely mind-boggling thing is that all of this is for *static content*. This isn't an editor or an ecommerce site with live shopping carts; no, changes apparently go through GitHub.

And famous people in React-land think this is sensible.

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rahmstorf@fediscience.org ("Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf") wrote:

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A useful link. No reason to be dropping it here. None at all:

https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/interactive_latency.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Reading posts from Reactors about how slow SSGs (Gatsby et. al.) got fixed through migrations to live APIs, but then they needed caching because calling the API was slow? All so they could keep using React for static content?

🤯

Friends, if your *bloody blog* needs Redis and Docker and custom GH Actions and database multi-homing and failover -- all because you couldn't get an SSG build for a few thousand pages under 30 seconds on modern hardware -- maybe programming isn't actually your thing?

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globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's cool that so many of the React Conf videos are on YouTube so that we have an accurate historical record of the smarmy, self-congratulatory tenor of frontend's lost decade.

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meowgorithm ("Christian Rocha") wrote:

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Flash@mastodon.world ("Flashdancer") wrote:

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Me and Jesus have the same idea for a great party.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/03/i-think-you-have-the-wrong-address/

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

*jurassic park voice* clever hans

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Ren. Creative dude. Check his other music on YouTube. https://youtu.be/JwtEOp7pC1A #music

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thomaswilburn@toot.cafe ("Thomas Wilburn") wrote:

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ChandraScience@astrodon.social ("Chandra Science") wrote:

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• Composite image of at least three galaxy clusters colliding in a jumbled scene. The resulting giant galaxy cluster, known as Abell 2256, resembles a grainy, pixelated, sky blue cloud topped with licks of flaming red hair. The cloud is adorned with red shapes and streaks, and set against a black background heavily dotted with colorful specks. Near our lower left sits the oval-shaped, sky-blue cloud pixelated with white dots. This is the center of the combined galaxy cluster. Shooting out of the giant cluster, angled toward our upper-middle right, is a straight, thin red line. This is a jet; a stream of particles blasting away from a giant black hole. A second, much shorter jet, crosses the tip of the first jet near the right hand side of the image. In the giant cluster, on the right hand side, are several irregular shapes. One resembles a bright white bean with a red outline. Beside it is a tangle of overlapping red shapes dangling out the bottom of the cloud. These are filaments, the result of jets interacting with gas. Three other irregular red filaments can be found to our left, just outside of the giant cluster. At the upper right hand edge of the oval-shaped giant cluster are sweeping sheets of red, which resemble lapping flames or licks of red hair. These relics are the results of shockwaves, likely generated by the collision of gas from the different clusters. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Getting kinda impatient for the complexity collapse in software...

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

wow, they're pumping out Disgaea 7 fast compared to the wait between 5 and 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7_l8uNld0

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ieure@retro.social ("Apex Redditor") wrote: