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ebc , to technology in Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

Oh, my sweet summer child…

ebc , to technology in Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

From this thread, looks like you’re right, sadly…

ebc , to insanepeoplefacebook in Why do they never think people can stack rocks?

People in this thread act as if the Romans were baboons.

No, people 4000 years ago were still people, i.e. they had roughly the same brains as we do. This means their creativity and intellect was pretty much the same as we have now; they were more than capable of inventing techniques to carve and move large rocks. They didn’t have modern technology, but they still had technology.

Also, building stuff by piling up rocks is so basic, it’s normal that it evolved in parallel on different continents. OP’s pic actually shows a few different solutions to the problem; some of them make neat rows while others are more “random” in their approach.

ebc , to technology in Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

Even if Assange himself was openly interfering in US politics, how is that relevant? If he isn’t a US person, and he’s not on US soil, why would he be bound by US law? US law isn’t universal law, you know.

ebc , to technology in Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

Yes, but that’s not treason. It could be treason if he was American, but he isn’t.

ebc , to technology in Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

I fail to see how that’s relevant here. The guy isn’t a US national and wasn’t in the US when he committed his alleged “crime”.

He has absolutely no duty towards the US and is 100% free to associate with whoever he wants, and yes, even Russia.

US has no standing whatsoever in this situation, and it’s a travesty of international law that Sweden and the UK even entertained the idea of extraditing him. The response should’ve been “go sue the American who actually committed that crime on American soil. Oh wait, you’ve already convicted her, and she’s already out after serving her sentence? WTF are you going on about then?”

ebc , to nottheonion in Israel using trebuchet to fire flaming projectile at Hezbollah

Well, it is the superior siege engine.

ebc , to nostupidquestions in Why would the NA beer industry standardize on a bottle shape that's grotesquely inconvenient, topples with minimal force, and doubles the required volume to ship?

The lining in question is very thin (akin to a layer of paint) and just burns up when the cans are re-melted.

Recycling beer bottles is indeed pretty easy once you get them to the processing center intact, but it’s getting there that’s the hard part. They’re fragile, pretty heavy and don’t stack well unless you put them in some form of packaging.

Once they’re broken, they’re basically useless; glass isn’t recycled much except as grit material for sandpaper; re-melting it is resource-intensive and sensitive to impurities.

ebc , to news in Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails

I’m one of these, my name is definitely male but when you read it it’s really easy to confuse with the female version. It doesn’t help that it’s really rare in my generation while the female version is much more popular. All this resulted in me getting misgendered on a regular basis. A few examples:

  • as a teenager, I won a prize with a monetary award. The check was for the female version of my name.
  • when I got my first house, I signed up ONLINE for the electric utility. The invoice ended up being addressed to the female version of my name. I sure as heck didn’t make a mistake in my own name when signing up, so someone over there must have “corrected” my name
  • I once went to a week-long course, where we each were assigned an individual room, but bathrooms and showers were shared across all rooms on that floor. I was assigned a room on the ladies’ floor, which took me a while to realize as I thought it was just mixed-gendered.
  • and that’s without counting the hundreds of times teachers took attendance. I’d say at least half of them got it wrong.

Anyway, I thought pronouns were a bit of a weird thing for trans and non-binary people, but as a very cis man who’s had issues with people reading my name wrong, I put my pronouns in my signature now.

ebc , to programmerhumor in Just getting into JS

It’s true that you can easily fall into analysis paralysis when you start learning JS, but honestly things have somewhat stabilized in recent years. 10 years ago everybody was switching frameworks every 6 months, but these days we’re going on 8+ years of absolute React dominance. So I guess that’s it for the view layer.

The data layer has seen some movement in more recent years with Flux then GraphQL / Relay, but I think most people have settled on either Apollo or react-query now (depending on your backend).

On the backend there was basically only express.js, and I think it’s still the king if you only want to write a backend.

Static websites came back in fashion with Jekyll and Github Pages so Gatsby solved that problem in js-land for a while, but nowadays Next also fulfills that niche, along with the more fullstack-oriented apps.

Svelte, Vue, Aurelia and Mithril are mostly niche frameworks. They have a dedicated, vocal fanbase (see the Svelte guy as sibling to your comment) but most of the industry has settled along the lines I’ve mentioned.

ebc , to programmerhumor in Just getting into JS

Honestly I think the main thing that the JS ecosystem does well is dependency / package management (npm). The standard library is very small so everything has to be added as a dependency in package.json, but it mostly works without any of the issues you often see in other languages.

Yeah, it’s not perfect, but it’s better than anything else I’ve tried:

  • Python’s approach is pretty terrible (pip, easy_install, etc.) and global vs local packages
  • Ruby has its own hell with bundler and where stuff goes
  • PHP has had a few phases like python (composer and whatnot) and left everyone confused
  • Java needs things somewhere in its $PATH but it’s never clear where (altough it’s better with Gradle and Maven)
  • C needs root access because the only form of dependency management is apt-get

In contrast, NPM is pretty simple: it creates a node_modules and puts everything there. No conflicts because project A uses left-pad 1.5 and project B uses left-pad 2.1. They can both have their own versions, thank you very much.

The only people who managed to mess this up are Linux distributions, who insist on putting things in folders owned by root.

ebc , to programmerhumor in Just getting into JS

C is crazy. While you are learning it you are learning Make and gcc without your consent.

Java is crazy. While you are learning Spring you are learning Maven or Gradle even without your consent.

ebc , to programmerhumor in Just getting into JS

To any non-js dev taking this too seriously: A good half of the technologies mentioned in this meme are redundant, you only need to learn one of them (in addition to the language). It’s like complaining that there are too many Linux distributions to learn: you don’t, you just pick one and go with it.

ebc , to technology in The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff

Haven’t watched the video, but what do you think circularization is? If you’re “just a circulization away from orbit”, you are indeed going a bit slower than orbital velocity. There’s no point to going orbital velocity if your trajectory still brings you back inside the atmosphere. To get to orbit you want to raise your periapsis outside the atmosphere, and you do that by doing a burn at the apoapsis, which is what we commonly call “circularization”.

ebc , to technology in Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams

My main gripe is that the web version only asks that once it spent ages loading the old version… And it’s not even a choice because I already switched on desktop. Can’t you just load the fucking new version to begin with?

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