j13n
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Scientist, engineer, conjunction avoider.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Humans didn’t evolve from chimps.
Comment · 3 months ago
And credits or rebates for vehicles with improved safety features?
I assume the 18-tonne lorries that move most of the world’s goods would be exempt, too, or would you pass that cost on to consumers? Just make everything a bit more expensive for everyone.
Comment · 3 months ago
First thing I thought when I saw it being tied.
"Hey, that's the Ian Knot!"
Comment · 8 months ago
Try dragging a playlist around in the left-hand sidebar such that scrolling is required. Or scrolling with horizontally where holding down shift is usually required.
Comment · 8 months ago
You think this is bad? Try using Apple Music with a traditional mouse. You can’t even right click on half of the interface, dragging elements near to scrollable edges doesn’t trigger any scroll, and UI elements like the star on favourited songs just don’t show up. It’s marginally better on a trackpad.
Comment · 1 year ago
You can disable all use of eval with htmx. The tradeoff is one has to write a bit more JavaScript.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is the second post I’ve seen praising Datastar in the last 24 hours, and once again no mention of the requirement to punch a gaping hole in one’s Content-Security-Policy.
If this is the framework of the future, cyber criminals are going to have a bright future!
Comment · 1 year ago
The linked post relies on the Datastar project, which requires use of `unsafe-eval` in one’s Content-Security-Policy [1]:
> When using a Content Security Policy (CSP), unsafe-eval must be allowed for scripts, since Datastar evaluates expressions using an IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression).
The project itself links to Mozilla’s docs on CSP, which state:
> The unsafe-eval keyword can be used to override this behavior, and as with unsafe-inline, and for the same reasons: developers should avoid unsafe-eval.
Out of the box, htmx uses a similar approach, but one can disable this use of eval [2]:
htmx.config.allowEval - can be set to false to disable all features of htmx that rely on eval:
- event filters
- hx-on: attributes
- hx-vals with the js: prefix
- hx-headers with the js: prefix
Comment · 1 year ago
I love innovation in this space, and remember when Parinfer came out having some enlightening discussions with colleagues about how they efficiently edited code.
I've since settled on Lispy and Lispyville in Emacs, and have run into very few issues over the past few years.
There's something about Lispy’s style of editing that appeals to me — the use of hugging parentheses to enable its bindings, combined with Lispyville making all of my Vim bindings safe, makes me very happy.
Comment · 2 years ago
A scalar field is a field with one value at any point.
Temperature can be represented using a scalar field. There is only one temperature at any point in our universe.
Theories like Quantum Field Theory describe our universe as a series of interacting fields that are everywhere. The Higgs field gives us mass, a single number at any point in space.
In this sense, the space around us is permeated by many fields.
Space itself is not a single scalar field because space contains many properties at every point that cannot be represented using a single number — for that one might use a matrix of values.
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s great to see reports of the excellent work Daniel Slutsky and others are doing to make data science more straightforward for everyone.
I'm grateful that I get to benefit from these community efforts.
Comment · 2 years ago
Nueva Pescanova is already sizing up cages.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've had a to-do item to build a collaborative AR experience for people to graffiti the world and find the creations of others.
I picked up the domain OutHere and spent some time drafting the initial experience because I think it's a compelling idea, but life has gotten in the way of late.
Comment · 2 years ago
The current trend of projecting information onto our eyes through devices is a primitive form of sensory enhancement.
It is time to make a leap towards a more transformative innovation, which could be achieved by transmitting knowledge directly into our brains. This way, we could simply know the name of a plant by looking at it.
Reading is primarily about acquiring knowledge. I am personally excited about the idea of augmented intelligence, which would not require strapping a couple of TVs to our faces.