lionelholt | 2 months ago | on: PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
I wonder if those issues are resolved by using the Dexie.js wrapper, because I've had no problems with that.
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lionelholt | 4 months ago | on: US Government Uptime Monitor
Energy > National Nuclear Security Administration (civilian)
Should we be concerned about that being shut down?
lionelholt | 7 months ago | on: Do not download the app, use the website
I thought the main reason is because it's a lot more difficult blocking advertisements in an app.
lionelholt | 8 months ago | on: How to Think About Time in Programming
... humans don't generally say
"Wanna grab lunch at 1,748,718,000 seconds from the Unix epoch?"
I'm totally going to start doing that now.
lionelholt | 8 months ago | on: The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?
Use your mouse wheel or Page/arrow keys?
lionelholt | 11 months ago | on: Val Kilmer has died
"This is funny."
lionelholt | 1 year ago | on: GulfOfMexico: Perfect Programming Language
But it's not perfect. GulfOfAmerica would have been perfect!
lionelholt | 1 year ago | on: The Fertility Crisis – highlights from the comments section
Lower birth rates is NOT a crisis. In fact, it is the most effective SOLUTION to the ACTUAL crisis of HUMAN OVERPOPULATION which is at the root of every problem e.g. climate change, dwindling resources, increased transmission of disease, etc.
lionelholt | 1 year ago | on: If you need the money, don't take the job
If my 2002 Land Rover Discovery II is vintage enough, I will gladly pay you to tinker with it, the next time you're in Oregon USA that is!
lionelholt | 1 year ago | on: Tortured by regrets? A new study details how best to overcome them
"For some, regret might be slow-brewing indecision that amounts to loss, like not having children."
Or ... having children!
lionelholt | 1 year ago | on: The data that powers AI is disappearing fast
The decision to block bots is not always about protecting intellectual property. A practical consideration I haven't seen mentioned is that some of these AI bots are stupidly aggressive with their requests, even ignoring robots.txt. I had to activate Cloudflare WAF and block a variety of bots to prevent my web app servers from crashing. At least they're reasonable enough to identify themselves!
lionelholt | 1 year ago | on: Access to broadband internet causally linked to reduction in suicides
What is the precise mechanism of causation?
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: Japanese scientists working on creating human eggs and sperm in the lab
Considering the gigantic problems of dwindling global resources, climate change, etc, birth rate collapse isn't a problem. It's a solution.
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
The problem as summarized by the photo isn't drugs. The problem everywhere -- not just in Oregon -- is Human Overpopulation. The severity of it in Oregon has increased because of populations spilling over from elsewhere, most notably California. Sadly, Portland is finally a large city, thus it has the same issues all other large cities have. This overall problem of Human Overpopulation which is the root cause of pretty much every other problem in the entire world (climate change, wealth gap, dwindling resources, etc) is exacerbated by certain politicians opposing birth control.
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas
It hasn't been signed by Governor Kotek yet.
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/what-do-people-think-gov-ko...
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas
Taxing FOOD is always regressive.
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: Turmeric’s unexpected link to lead poisoning in Bangladesh
Doctors aren't necessarily scientists. Anecdotal evidence isn't as strong as randomized controlled trials to establish causation. It could have been the high fat content of many recipes that call for turmeric.
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: Corporate profits account for almost half the increase in Europe’s inflation
The even deeper underlying structure for all of the world's problems is ... Human Overpopulation. Inequality increases with population due to fewer resources available per person. Democracy withers with the ever-growing population because more consumers, constituents, tax payers, soldiers, etc give more power to politicians, overpaid CEOs, etc. Name nearly any global issue and human overpopulation is at least a likely and usually primary factor.
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: YouTube download websites disappearing from Google search results
I just did a Google search for "YouTube Download" and in the first page it returned SSYouTube, DVDVideoSoft, Y2Mate, 10Downloader, and YTBvideoly. I didn't test DVDVideoSoft because it's a Windows app and I don't want to bother with installing in VirtualBox, but the website itself is working. The other ones are online downloaders and while they don't retrieve the highest quality, 720p is still HD. Most of them simply redirect to a streaming url from which to Ctrl+S, but one of them did have an actual Download button. None of them are the best, but still functional, thus I'd say Google isn't doing such a great job at censoring.
lionelholt | 2 years ago | on: War Is a Racket (1935)
Predating that is Ludwell Denny's "We Fight For Oil" from 1928. I have a physical copy of this book. Its mere existence says a lot, and still does ...
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