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I mean, I think after the umpteenth bug featuring 20 year old Java Enterprise code you aro only allowed to make minimal changes to, we all start to think about this don’t we?

Some just do it, sans Java Enterprise code exposure.

  Cope's expeditions include riding a recumbent bicycle 10,000 km across Russia to Beijing (2000) with fellow Australian Chris Hatherly;
  rowing a boat down the Yenisei River in Siberia to the Arctic Ocean in 2001 with adventurers Ben Kozel, Colin Angus and Remy Quinter;
  and riding on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary which spanned over three years (2004–2007) and 10,000 km;
  He has also traveled into North Korea, among other places.
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cope

~ https://alastairhumphreys.com/blog/tim-cope/


I wonder if a chimpanzees butt is sufficiently similar to a human's to trigger filters as "inappropriate adult content".

Most mammalian anuses are surprisingly similar!

Yeah it's less about Chris Pratt's ability to inhabit and exude a character, as much as co-branding them film with Chris Pratt's brand as a cross-over.

I think tickets should be auctioned by the venue. It means there is no incentive for bots or scalpers.

It also means price end up being too expensive for many fans to go.

There's a reason why concerts prices are set to a much lower price that what scalpers can resell them, it's because the artists usually don't seek to extract the most money for a tour and they'd rather give their fans an opportunity to see them instead. (As long as it's profitable indeed, but there's a big gap).


JavaScript is ever evolving and it means you need to stick to one of the two browsers (WebKit or Firefox) and keep upgrading. XSLT hasn't changed in years. It's an actual standard instead of an evolving one.

I know that other independent browsers that I used to use back in the day just gave up because the pace of divergence pushed by the major implementations meant that it wasn't feasible to keep up independently.

I still miss Konqueror.


JavaScript is backwards compatible. You can use an older standard supported by everything if you wish.

Really? Because I have an old iPad (4th gen?) that no longer works on many sites. If it was backwards compatible they'd still function.

You are confusing backwards and forwards compatibility. Those sites may have added features that your iPad does not support, which is why it broke, if they have not added those, it might still work.

However JS is not 100% backwards compatible either, it is in many cases, largely backwards compatible, but there are rare cases of bug fixes, or deprecated APIs that might be removed and break old code, but this is not even JS itself, it's more like web/engine standards.


You are talking about forward compatibility.

JS is backwards compatible: new engines support code using old features.

JS is not forward compatible: old engines don't support code using new features.

Regarding your iPad woes, the problem is not the engine but websites breaking compat with it.

The distinction matters as it means that once a website is published it will keep working. The only way to break an existing website is to publish a new version usually. The XSLT situation is note-worthy as it's an exception to this rule.


> The problem isn't that AI slop is doing something new. Phishing, blogspam, time wasting PRs, website scraping, etc have all existed before. The problem is that AI makes all of that far, far easier.

The term I like is that AI has _industrialised_ those behaviours. While native hunted buffalo, it wasn't destructive until it was industrialised [1] it that it became truly destructive.

[1] https://allthatsinteresting.com/buffalo-slaughter


Well they hunted buffalo for feeding and pelt, the slaughter was done to make them hungry.

> or otherwise

That's where you would be wrong. By the time you posted your comment there are already people hawking manganese bracelets on FaceBook as a cure for Lyme disease.


Can you make a closed loop helium cooler? Also, that level of coldness seems like it would have negative interactions with other components.

> Can you make a closed loop helium cooler?

An MRI machine is a giant magnet with a closed loop helium cooler to keep the superconducting coils cold. A chiller is used to reject the heat outside.


Saw that the Steam Frame was wireless and lost interest. Wireless is always an extra complication that never improves things. I've learned lots about framing to hardwire my home network. Sure, make it an option, but I won't pay for latency, battery life, battery weight, cost, or pairing issues of wireless solutions. Give me (replaceable, standard) cables anyday!

That said, there is hope, because if there is a wireless version and it takes off, it can't be hard to make a wired version.


It doesn't improve quality and latency, but for VR it absolutely improves not dealing with a cable that you can't see and will tangle yourself up with if you turn either direction more than once

Two notes on how Steam Frame is handling this

- It's a standalone headset, less demanding games run directly on the Steam Frame and the wireless connection doesn't factor in to anything.

- It makes two simultaneous wifi connections, one on 5 ghz for connecting to your wifi network / internet, and another on 6 ghz for connecting to your streaming PC. They include an official 6 ghz USB dongle for the PC so you don't have to deal with finding which 3rd party option will work reliably.


I agree with you for most things, but a VR headset is definitely something where the pros outweigh the cons vis a vis avoiding wires for me.

It's also wired, and you could even take out the battery for the weight.

Yes, anywhere there is a race to the bottom. That is why you see cartels rise up, like unions are cartels. Things that are not cartels generally have ever diminishing margins.

I see the rising of cartels more just the inevitable consequence of market systems where some players just getting bigger and bigger. Then when only a few large players are left, they collude (either openly, or just by unspoken agreement). So less of a race to the bottom, but a race to the top.

I think we agree. To risk being trampled by a race to the bottom, they choose to rise above by forming a cartel.

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