Or they pick a few and make an example out of them.
I believe the example would be "Good luck with that I'm in Germany."
Readit Newsshadowgovt commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
shadowgovt commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
If you think technology will protect you from censorship look at China. They can stop all but the most persistent users. It is just a question of how much they care to; they have the means. And most users are closer to Homer Simpson than Edward Snowden.
Mississippi would have a hell of a time convincing every ISP in the US to put up a firewall too.
They could try, but not even China could build an impregnable firewall.
shadowgovt commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
Meanwhile, nothing has changed on Mastodon.
(I personally don't think Bluesky is a bad idea and I'm glad for more things in the ecosystem. But the point of decentralizing isn't just to protect against editorial constraint by the service owner; it's to protect against government pressure too. Mississippi could go after Mastodon service providers, but it'll cost them a lot more to find and chase 'em all).
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> too much space = scroll scroll scroll = brain tired.
> grug like dense UI that show all tools.
And yet I have to scroll on this very site while two thirds of my monitor are empty.
Grug like dense UI, but grug also remember what web look like before people who knew newspapers used it.
Newspapers look like they do for a reason. Grug eye tired sweeping too far left-right.
Grug split difference, leave room for user to use tiling window manager to make article take up half screen while other half is HN box to talk about article.
shadowgovt commented on Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser turtleware.eu/posts/Using... · Posted by u/jackdaniel
WebAssembly is about an improved Developer Experience. It lets us write in the languages we like :)
I can't say how many times I've reinvented pieces of Common Lisp to do my job. Now I want to start a side project with this.
My only concern with this approach from an ecosystem standpoint is that runtimes (and more importantly, their standard libraries) can be expensive. JS is still the heavyweight engine that everyone running a browser already has installed; a world where the browser has to download a novel runtime per website is going to be hard on the end-user on the back of a low-bandwidth connection.
... but it doesn't have to be that way. Proper tree-shaking of libraries and smart caching of common resources should make it possible for that cost to get minimized or amortized.
shadowgovt commented on Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser turtleware.eu/posts/Using... · Posted by u/jackdaniel
Ah, in an alternate world where Brendan Eich wasn't pressured by his superiors to make JS more Java-like, we could have had something like this as very normal.
I wonder how much faster that would have pushed the world into FP ideas. While sometimes I prefer the bracket/C syntax, I wonder how things would have evolved if JS was a lisp originally. Instead of things moving to TypeScript, would they be moving to something like typed Lisp or OCaml, or PureScript ?
It's hard to predict. There's a nonzero possibility that in that world, developers would have rejected the Netscape scripting solution, embraced the alternative that VBScript support in IE briefly represented, and we'd either be in a world where Microsoft dominated the web because only their browser did the fancy stuff that web 2.0 ended up needing to support ecommerce... Or where a couple of mud-pit-fight court cases had resulted in a vbscript-alike being the lingua franca of web scripting because Microsoft lost their exclusive control over it.
"I probably shouldn't extrapolate this historical anecdote to the modern era..." yes cherry-picked history taken in isolation is utterly meaningless.
Just for balance here's some cherries I've picked on the left side of the political spectrum:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
How do these people relate to Democratic Socialists in the United States of America in the twenty-first century, since that's the political affiliation of the person we're actually talking about?
shadowgovt commented on Emacs as your video-trimming tool xenodium.com/emacs-as-you... · Posted by u/xenodium
I agree with you, therefore I am pretty sure you meant to reply to the parent I was also replying to.
Confirmed. I wasn't disagreeing with you; it was a "yes-and" to what you were saying.
Take any phenomena on a globe earth, describe the exact same thing in flat earth coordinates and then say that everything weird in the equations is a new physical effect you just discovered.
If every observation conspires to make it look round, it's round because observation is all we have. Refusing to accept observational evidence that forms a coherent explanation is either anti-science or anti-definition-of-words. This justification for flat earth exits the realm of scientific inquiry and enters the realm of Cartesian evil demons, a hypothesis even Descartes rejected.