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

Found in a book on assembly language for the BBC Micro: "I must give a vote of thanks to Amanda Poole Adams who transformed a sometimes untidy ink smudged hand written manuscript into a neatly typed one containing very few errors"

There probably should be dashes and commas in there, but on my copy I think they were destroyed by a noise filter at some point. But besides that, it is unfathomable to me that you'd HAND WRITE a book on assembly. Not even work directly on a typewriter!

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

In case you’re shopping for your valentine, I recommend this #Whataburger burger box. 😍

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

On iOS there are 2 variants that I know of: one is based on a qwerty keyboard and you can enter syllables in the romanization style of your choice. The other is based on (I think) keyboards for Japanese desktop computers

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neilk@xoxo.zone ("Neil Kandalgaonkar") wrote:

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

I think I like the default Japanese IME on android a little bit more than the iOS one. It's got a 3x4 grid of keys like a ka sa ta etc for consonant selection and then you hold down a key and slide in one of the cardinal directions to select the vowel.

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Is ChatGPT the Segway of writing?

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yaelwrites ("✨Yael Grauer ✨") wrote:

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exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Struggling to focus on the book I’m reading because the typography is so beautiful

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

@seldo The React ecosystem itself provides interesting evidence for this. Shopify and Wix have gone all-in, and thanks to the terrible results, have come to "hold it" VERY differently, because they can understand the value relationship.

Most teams, including them, start ignorant, not informed.

The SPA thing is losing traction slowly because we are learning much more slowly than Laurie's premise suggests.

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

@seldo There are situated reasons why the pricing function is wrong that are common to many software offerings.

Namely, the market for each (re)developed site is for a thinly traded, complex, non-commodity (due to historical factors related to production complexity). Ignoring them facilitates Laurie's argument, but doesn't help it in the end.

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andydavies@webperf.social ("Andy Davies") wrote:

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

@seldo Laurie's argument is, basically, the Milton Friedman "prices can be wrong in the small, but on average will not be".

The premise, of course, is that there is a good information being teased out by the pricing function.

In other words, Laurie's economics are just pre-1975, whereas i think the Chicago School has ruined enough.

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ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org ("Parade du Grotesque 💀") wrote:

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

@seldo And this, rather than Laurie's model of aggregate market price setting, is what I see over and over.

Outside of high-management-maturity organisations, NOBODY knows what this shit costs. The pricing function is busted.

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

@seldo One developer shared with me that an experiment demonstrated that every KB of JS on their mid-market e-commerce SPA cost them ~$700/K yr in revenue.

Outside the excesses of the Bay Area (which they and their customers assuredly are), there's literally no business argument for the MANY hundreds of KB of JS they were sending.

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

@seldo OTOH, I think it's fair to say that this has given me more direct and high-bandwidth access to the decision-makers and the narratives they have used to justify their choices.

Laurie's model is so far divorced from this argumentative and marketing morass that I do not recognise it...except in the effect of shrinking the TAM.

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

I wonder who has done more damage to UK trans women, Ray Blanchard or John Randall?

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

@seldo But at a larger level, which Laurie helpfully frames, this *is* about total addressable market tradeoffs and the extent to which they are optimal.

I sense that a large delta in our perspectives comes from the respective ways in which we spend time. More than 30% of my time over the past 8 years (and > 50% of it now) has been doing direct consulting with teams like the ones that build the apps he mentions.

I'm living in the trough of disillusionment, which generates a bias.

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

Just read @seldo's (well written and argued) response to my post from last week, and while I owe it a larger airing, a few things jump out:

First, "SPA" vs. "not-SPA" is about data model locality, and I'm not sure that sites that could easily be built with progressive enhancement and Ajax partials count.

See the diagram from the end of my longer post:

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niki@mouse.photos ("niki :heart_ace:") wrote:

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

Blogs flying about remind me that "SPA" is short for "Slow Page Apologetics"

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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White") wrote:

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

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

The one with the dancing robots the 4yo also likes is this one. If you haven't seen it before, be sure to watch until after the credits. The Chemical Brothers' "Free Yourself":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wzR_BVFsUU

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

"The girl in the sparkly blue dress that sings one, two, free..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvg

"Oh. She says one, two, free, four..."

"The one with a robot, but not the dancing robots"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g

"Pineapple kryptonite"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8VNZwN1mM