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

A reminder: unless users are taking, or the server is sending, many related actions *about the same data set* per session, all you need is progressive enhancement and a bit of Ajax.

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• A chart showing data model locality increasing as interaction depth increases. I.e., the more you're manipulating the same data in a session, the more you'll need a client-side data store. The corollary is that most sites don't, and therefore won't benefit from any of the complexity that JS-first development taxes teams with. (remote)

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vantablack@cyberpunk.lol ("vanta "tits out at the bridge rave" black") wrote:

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• did you see a tent in the woods? someone shoplifting? a person sleeping in their car? no! you fucking didn't! people are struggling. don't make it worse and it's someone covering another person's mouth (remote)

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

So NYPD subway cops chasing a man for $2.90 in fare money, shot 4 people, including a bystander and another cop? Cool.🤦🏿‍♂️

An important thing to know about the subway cops stopping the crime of fare evasion, is:

1. White New Yorkers evade fares more than anyone else.

2. Cops get fired if they stop white fare evaders vs Black or brown fare evaders.🤡

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112375817515001544

This is what cops mean when they say that the racism is systemic, that the system was not built by cops but by rich men.

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

"State management" implies that something about the state of the application is managed. To accomplish that, we need data change propagation (which reactive tools like Lit or FAST or Svelte or Solid or Vue or Preact or even React -- because you need IE 9 support, I guess? -- make simpler) as well as some way to coordinate state with the server.

That latter half is where CRDTs and sync systems come in; tools like Replicache, Zero, and YJS.

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

Confusion about the difference between *real* state management and...whatever the React ecosystem is talking about...is underneath a LOT of the pain I see teams work through.

So if your system is confused ("agnostic") about sync, it isn't managing state. So we don't have to keep calling it "state management", because it isn't doing that.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Person from the 90s holding a floppy disk: what's the future of tech like?

Time traveler: *rips floppy disk from hand and throws it* now imagine that landed 100 miles away and you paid me twenty bucks a month to go fetch it for you whenever you needed it.

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

IDK who needs to hear this, but you don't have to pretend that React or Redux do "state management". We're all adults, we can use words to mean things. We don't have to pretend that MVC-but-immutable (but not really) is anything but MVC, and we don't have to keep saying that systems that only do data propagation, but not management, somehow manage data.

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alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:

The AI winter was harsh.
I remember sitting in a nearly empty room, listening to a lecture on neural networks — esoteric knowledge I thought I’d never use. Sure, it might come in handy for image recognition, but that’s about all.
How times have changed.

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are0h@h-i.social ("Secret Right Wing Cult Leader") wrote:

NYPD opening fire in a train station for 3 bucks is insanity.

There is no possible way to justify that kind of aggression.

Those cops just wanted to kill somebody.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Sorry for the amp link:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/israeli-podcasters-laughing-gaza-genocide-two-nice-jewish-boys

#freepalestine

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Israeli podcasters are laughing about genocide.:

"If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow. I would press it in a second." https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/israeli-podcasters-laughing-gaza-genocide-two-nice-jewish-boys

#freepalestine

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

Extremely good coverage of entirely disingenuous people:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/14/24244137/jd-vance-all-in-david-sacks-trump

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I want to be so clear right now. I am Puerto Rican.

My people have been through multiple genocides, colonization by two empires, mass theft of our resources, slavery, and sterilization of 2/3rds of the island up to as recent as the 1970s.

You're out of your fucking mind if you think I will sit back and watch Israel do to Palestine what the US and Spain did to Puerto Rico.

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parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.

But new analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

#tech #ai #datacenters #microsoft #google #apple #meta #climate

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

it was a particularly ugly battle, and 26 is far too young

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yes, GPT-4 o1-mini does a *very* nice job of offering coherent & useful coding assistance with clear explanations

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deno_land@fosstodon.org ("Deno") wrote:

Help us spread the word — it's time to #FreeJavaScript

https://javascript.tm

#javascript #typescript #deno #webdevelopment

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alshafei ("Esra'a") wrote:

"Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure citizens will be on their best behavior"

"Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras."

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

#Privacy #Surveillance #AI

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’:

"“We’re going to have supervision,” Ellison said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”" https://archive.ph/qqhCj

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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

“A primary motivation for multiple key backers of the TikTok ban bill was the desire to mitigate the spread of pro-Palestinian content among young Americans.” https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok?triedRedirect=true

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Pro-Israel Techies Who Got TikTok Banned:

"In the aftermath, a group of influential pro-Israel activists from the US tech sector, angry over TikTok’s unwillingness to more rigorously censor pro-Palestinian content, began actively lobbying for a ban on the platform. In other words, TikTok became a target in a global (dis)information war over Gaza."

This is damning. https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok

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css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

💡 CSS Tip!

Using scroll-driven animations, you can link a CSS variable with a range slider and easily update its value!

No more JavaScript to do this. A few lines of CSS, one HTML element and you can update any value in real time.

It's chrome only for now but I am sure this will be one of the most used feature in 2 or 3 years.

Demo: https://codepen.io/t_afif/full/GRbawQm via :codepen: @codepen

Online Version: https://css-tip.com/css-variables-range-slider/

#CSS #HTML

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• Overview of the CSS code from the linked demo (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

wolframkriesing@mastodontech.de ("Wolfram wants peace") wrote:

You think you need an SPA?
Try this and you feel no difference (often):

1. extremely fast loading page
2. onunload: store scroll offset e.g. in localStorage
3. at the bottom of the HTML restore scroll offset
4. make slow JS inside the page async and use nice spinners

And voilà a page load feels like an inline content update, just like an SPA.

If you want you can also add
@view-transition {
navigation: auto;
}
which makes it even smoother in browsers that support it

#website #performance

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

me + @slightlyoff

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• Solar Opposites clip where Terry tells Korvo his love language is Javascript (remote)

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quirk@computerfairi.es ("FoxQuirk 🦊") wrote:

Found this old meme when rummaging around my files

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• A lattice graph showing the relationship between Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi and associations to programming languages. Mario is like C. Luigi is like objective C. Wario is like C++. Waluigi is like objective C++. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://open.substack.com/pub/matzko/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok

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

Why isn't this guy working for CNN?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/16/good-fact-checking/

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

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

Starting my morning with "What You Do With What You've Got" covered by Dick Gaughan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-j11mksGic

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

What if a D&D adventure was entirely about hunting, killing, cooking, and eating monsters?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/16/one-should-always-take-recommendations-from-five-year-olds-seriously/

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• Delicious in Dungeon anime (remote)

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mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:

Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys

"The results highlighted a significant slowing of aging indicators, notably a roughly 6-year regression in brain aging. Metformin exerts a substantial neuroprotective effect, preserving brain structure and enhancing cognitive ability..."

Very significant finding published in CELL

fwiw i'd be looking closely for any correlation between metformin (which is widely prescribed) and age of onset of dementia

https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)00914-0