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FoomFries··on How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1
Since everything is a car analogy...

A driverless vehicle doesn't require me to add a driver to reach a destination. A serverless solution doesn't require me to add a server to achieve the goal. Something is still driving the car, something is still serving the data. But it's out of my hands.

FoomFries··on Fantasy meets reality
The tragedy of the commons is as pervasive as it is overlooked.
FoomFries··on Berlin Review: LAN Party
Some ambience from Quakecon - https://youtu.be/SVfdVXxTOj0
FoomFries··on Escaping High School
I disagree. I think that what college offers is more than an increase in salary. For hyperbole’s sake, you could use the argument of ‘my trust fund is already paying me more than your median graduate’s full-time job’ and most would roll their eyes at such a statement.
FoomFries··on Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists [video]
The friction coefficients in rain aren’t bad if you’re riding at posted speeds, outside of solid metal and painted lines. It’s riding right after it starts raining that you want to avoid - all of the oils which drip from vehicles get displaced by the initial deluge, and that is slippery stuff.
FoomFries··on On the Apple Vision Pro
Why is this? Camcorders in the 80s weren’t weird. Home movies weren’t weird. Is it solely because the device has other primary functions? Because it’s not clear that if you’re pointing at something you’re likely recording?
FoomFries··on School district sues Meta, Google, and TikTok over ‘mental health crisis’
I don’t remember being able to do this at school while in a classroom. So I guess that part is new. And likely a problem if that’s the only venue for required learning.
FoomFries··on Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”
Because if you face the back of the boat the sides reverse. It’s similar to stage left. When you can’t afford to be confused, one name is better than a conflicting argument between your left and the boats left.
FoomFries··on USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher handwriting
Indeed, and this is why they continue to downscale the number of people doing such tasks.
FoomFries··on How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)
Yep, these videos have been around for some time. Good stuff!

https://youtu.be/RqC7QpNrprg

FoomFries··on A taste of Brazil: How guaraná soda became a national icon
Guarana flavored soda is the original flavor of Bawls energy drink, based in the US. Pretty tasty.
FoomFries··on The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later
The use of acronyms without definition is exhausting. A three letter one which has multiple uses all the more so.
FoomFries··on I was an App Store games editor – Apple doesn’t care about games
Hearthstone has two main game ‘modes’. The constructed Magic: The Gathering is card packs, the battlegrounds auto-chess team building auto-battler is subscription (although arguably that doesn’t affect much). The other incentives are cosmetic, and there are other game modes which are more niche. The problem with Hearthstone is that because it has a swath of modes, and all those modes price differently, it looks like you have this perverse overlap when in reality it’s pretty disparate.
FoomFries··on I was an App Store games editor – Apple doesn’t care about games
The engine and rules are the same, but the track is different. You change enough things you get a different game - you don’t change enough, and people get bored. I’d compare F1 to NASCAR. Building a new track isn’t cheap. The rules change every season making the cars require redesigns and try to use the available rules to eke out their own advantages. Part of the fun of hearthstone is its deck building, and if the available card pool never changes or updates in large ways, that aspect of the game dies.
FoomFries··on I was an App Store games editor – Apple doesn’t care about games
I don’t mind paying for content on a monthly basis when it keeps the game fresh. To each their own though. I feel like Hearthstone for example is reasonably priced for what you get.
FoomFries··on Police say GPS tag darts can eliminate need for dangerous high-speed chases
And those they can’t, they can tag. Hence the article.
FoomFries··on AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB
There is a business where you take picture, glue it to cardboard, cut it into pieces and then sell it to people who try to put it back together. Sometimes a puzzle is fun, and that’s all you need.
FoomFries··on How to live near your friends
My spouse and I regularly do a Wednesday night dinner. One person cooks, everyone eats, and the cook rotates. People get a small break from the weekly grind while leaving early enough to work the next day. People get a nice social conversation, and most of them get a night off of cooking. It works quite well if you can get your friends to commit to it.
FoomFries··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
You’re conflating human work and machine work. I think that’s the real argument here - it’s fine to study someone’s work and learn from it as a human, because that takes impossibly more time and produces impossibly less total works than chatGPT doing the same thing.

I’m not arguing for either side, just pointing out that we need to carefully consider what rights AI should share with humans.

FoomFries··on Ask HN: Why do cameras stop recording after 30 minutes?
It’s always interesting to find what businesses will do to lower these. My favorite is Converse sneakers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-converse-sneakers-...

FoomFries··on How thick is sea ice and how do we know?
I would imagine sonar coupled with water pressure could measure thickness (or however a sub measures its current depth).

Surface temp is done via IR satellite imagery, although clouds will muck the readings.

FoomFries··on How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)
Many people cannot react to several frames, it is usually a predictive choice instead of a reaction. A great example of this is the Millie Blocker written in flash some time ago. It tests the reaction time of a move with a startup of several frames, and as it turns out is not so easy to react to without predicting. http://www.teyah.net/MilliaBlocker_v0.3.swf
FoomFries··on Things I want to see in JavaScript and Front end development in 2023
There’s something to be said for native support in a library, and Axios having it for interceptors makes me fine with using it instead of fetch.
FoomFries··on High egg prices should be investigated, U.S. farm group says
It’s odd. I could argue it’s to keep eggs in stock, considering what happened with cream cheese and bsby formula recently. Small drop in supply, media scarcity coverage, many people buy 5x their normal and suddenly the prophecy has self-fulfilled. But, who knows.
FoomFries··on Ask HN: Do you test in production?
Is it? I would argue if you have live data in some large amount, you’re not going to be keeping that in sync with your dev environment (and it should be sanitized, which has its own fun oddities at times). I would also argue that your staging environment probably isn’t running the same hardware specs as live. Inevitably you’ll find race conditions, odd data structures and other fun things which simply aren’t apparent on systems prior to live.
FoomFries··on Researchers find that a simple “talking to strangers” intervention is effective
I think the goal is more ‘always have an exit strategy’ but for small children they can’t be expected to maintain a self awareness at all times. So the idea is to just remove the possibility entirely. Perhaps a statement of ‘don’t spend more than a few minutes talking to strangers’ or ‘don’t follow a stranger to a second location’ would be better as kids grow older.
FoomFries··on What color is it?
It seems disingenuous to fade from one color to the next while displaying only two hexes for color. Either that or it’s not fading and my eyes are deceiving me, but as I’m on mobile I’ve not the time to look at the source code.
FoomFries··on Fastest Frontend Tooling in 2022
I will say my sole frustration thus far with Vite has been the inability to turn off caching in a meaningful way. This is especially important when you are developing a plug-in for a larger project installed into your node_modules - the Vite cache won’t update changes unless it thinks it should, usually via version number change.
FoomFries··on Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade
One on one a shark will not kill you. It possesses the capability but it is verifiably false that sharks are constantly aggressive, killing humans any chance they get.
FoomFries··on Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade
I suggest you not look into what happens to the male sex of chicks in factories.
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