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zimablue commented on Clojure Scripting on Node.js github.com/babashka/nbb... · Posted by u/reil_convnet

Borkdude · 4 years ago

There was a self-hosted CLJS project for Node.js which is now abandoned. It was called lumo. It came with a custom image of Node.js with lumo built-in for better startup times since the JS bundle of self-hosted CLJS is quite large resulting in not so great startup out of the box. Nbb is just a library that you can use with any Node.js version. That said, it might be worth revisiting the self-hosted CLJS approach at some point.

zimablue · 4 years ago

But the slow-starting, big-bundle default one still works right? For someone developing an electron app maybe it would be a useful option.

zimablue commented on Clojure Scripting on Node.js github.com/babashka/nbb... · Posted by u/reil_convnet

zimablue · 4 years ago

Just as an FYI for the interested, there is a self-hosted version of clojurescript now, it enables macros in the same runtime with some caveats but the main downside (AFAIK) is increased bundle size, which is less relevant for node.js.

zimablue commented on 10 years of whatever this has been apenwarr.ca/log/20211117... · Posted by u/zdw

zimablue · 4 years ago

The most defensible / widespread use-case of getting money out of an oppressive regime strikes hollow to me as a lefty. Most people in an oppressive regime don't have the problem of moving large amounts of money around. And it only helps you with "temporarily store it somewhere with a wildly deviating value", how does that help when you need to get it BACK into your hands and actually spend it?

The real exploitation for 99% of the population isn't someone currency-manipulating your fortunes, it's being a de facto wage slave because we live in a system that decides at birth that you're a slave and 1% of people aren't. Crypto doesn't help you with that, ironically it makes it worse because it helps the kleptocracy move their money. That's who has a use for anonymous money, and they're normally robbing the locals. See: the Panama Papers, Russia

zimablue commented on 10 years of whatever this has been apenwarr.ca/log/20211117... · Posted by u/zdw

anm89 · 4 years ago

But Google hasn't succeeded! It was supposed to do something useful but all it does is mine data for ads. They were supposed to not be evil but they are evil.

But Facebook hasn't succeeded. It was supposed to do something useful but all it does is mine data for ads. They were supposed to connect everyone but all they did was corrupt our political system.

But Apple hasn't succeeded. It was supposed to do something useful but all it does is pump out a new Iphone color every year and remove a port. They were supposed to revolutionize computing but all the did was figure out how to sell shiny junk made by poor people in developing markets to middle class people in developing markets.

See how easy it is to play that game?

Somehow I'm guessing most people who like bitcoin in 2011 aren't reeling from the failure of bitcoin.

zimablue · 4 years ago

I don't think Google has succeeded, for the same reasons you state ironically. "Making money/having power" isn't "success", it's "making money/having power". I don't find it at all ridiculous to say that Google and Facebook are failures, I (as the author) contest the synonymity of success and money. It's actually telling of how shit our society is that you (and most people) say "success" and mean "money", and find attempts to separate them laughable.

zimablue commented on Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/meibo

SilverRed · 5 years ago

Which is why email is an absolute nightmare and missing so many features and takes so long to implement the most basic security and privacy. Outside of business use, email has become the newsletter and password reset center because it doesn't work well enough and hasn't kept up.

The IMAP protocol is a known dumpster fire but getting jmap implemented over every email client and server is basically impossible. Gmail avoids this by just implementing their own proprietary protocol which only works with gmail and the web ui/apps.

zimablue · 5 years ago

>outside of business use

Well that’s a clause doing a lot of work. I guess email could have been the permanent contact repository a la Facebook if it had been easier for people to own their own addresses

zimablue commented on UK to depart from GDPR lawgazette.co.uk/news/uk-... · Posted by u/bencollier49

bb123 · 5 years ago

I agree. I didn't vote for Brexit but it is hard to see how the pro-Brexit crowd haven't been vindicated with the vaccine roll out.

zimablue · 5 years ago

Britain handled corona one of the worst in the world, the vaccine thing does seem like a genuine good news story but it’s bolting the door after the old people are all dead. Go back, look at the excess death rates, the extra preparation time the Uk squandered and the rhetoric at the time. Our ruling class have the blood of hundreds of thousands of dead on their hands and it’s astonishing that the entire British public is mollified by getting vaccinated a couple of months early, when the damage is already done.

zimablue commented on One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong vox.com/policy-and-politi... · Posted by u/satchet

kjeetgill · 5 years ago

Do you think the bulk of voters for Trump believe one of these things? He won a considerable number of votes.

zimablue · 5 years ago

It’s about 40%, look it up there’s polling on it, and that’s apparently probably over representing the more trusting/sane ones. Partly joking on the last part dunno how the populated those polls.

zimablue commented on One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong vox.com/policy-and-politi... · Posted by u/satchet

Green_man · 5 years ago

Trafalgar almost certainly got more states wrong (counts aren't all finished, but we do know likely winners in all states). Other sites like 538 predicted all states correctly, except NC and FL (50.5%/48.8% and 50.9%/48.4% respectively, both predictions wrongly favoring Biden [1]). Meanwhile, Trafalgar's polls put Trump up in NV, GA, PA, AZ, and MI (from their website, all late Oct / early Nov polls [2]). Once counts are final, we can more accurately compare margins and errors more specifically, but Trafalgar does not have a good record for 2020. Comparing models to a single pollster isn't completely even, but it's important to note that the Trafalgar polls were mostly outliers, disagreeing with the consensus in many states [3].

[1]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

[2]https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/

[3]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general...https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

zimablue · 5 years ago

Number of states that you get wrong isn’t a great measure though right? If I call if for trump at 51-49 and you call it for Biden at 75-25 and Biden wins by 51-49 I was more correct than you were, to count “states called” is the wrong way to evaluate analysis in the same way that fptp is unrepresentatove of the popular vote, ironically.

zimablue commented on When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion nytimes.com/2020/09/25/op... · Posted by u/hodgesrm

kmlx · 5 years ago

1. we already had a vote on proportional representation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternat...

2. everyone thinks proportional representation is excellent. the reason is usually a misunderstanding of the voting process. in reality it has drawbacks, same as first past the post. before the UK referendum a study was commissioned exploring the various types of voting. the conclusion was that all these systems have flaws and all these systems are similar. but the clarity and the definitive mandate a party gets from FPTP will make sure alternative voting will not be adopted anytime soon.

zimablue · 5 years ago

No we didn’t, that system wasn’t proportional representation by any definition, please do not make posts that are not true, other readers might be misled.