A beach bum based primarily out of Waikiki, the earthbound kid has cleverly deceived friends and acquaintances into believing her self-stylings as a would-be philosopher and raconteur at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Eva is on some level a parody of Gundam used to explore adult themes of depression, isolation, loneliness, parental conflict, and figuring out your sexual identity. It's more like Akira or Ghost in the Shell than it is like Pokemon or One Piece. For an American analogy, it's like Watchmen vs. Superman. Watchmen is a case of taking the kids entertainment of superhero comics and using it to explore more adult topics.
To get through education, I had to set a lot of fake deadlines to get the panic monster to kick in sooner: "oh no, I need to have the first 1,000 words written by today but I don't!" It works but it makes you miserable because you are always in panic mode.
Another way to make a fake tree is to store a JSON blob. If the data only has internal relationships, that can be easier than trying to keep the sort number unique and in order.
The last time I used Craigslist to apartment hunt, people spam the listings with the name of places 30 minutes away for some reason, as though I would just give up on living in the neighborhood I was searching for if I saw there was something somewhere completely different at a price that wasn't even that good.
Plain CSRF wouldn't help because they're scraping the site and executing the JS. It has to be time delayed CSRF so they give up and submit before it's loaded.
The real solution is to use a CAPTCHA, but they're so user hostile, that's the last resort.
That reminds me of my terrible spam prevention hack. We kept getting a bunch of spammers signing up for our newsletters, so I made the form require a JavaScript based hidden input to submit. That worked for a while, but then new spammers started executing the JS and getting through. So I added new JS that just waits 15 seconds before putting the right hidden values in the form, and that’s done the trick (for now).
Fetch exists because everyone just writes a 10 line adaptor function that looks like fetch anyway, so might as well build it into the browser and save the trouble for people who don't need progress events.
The word dao literally means “road” but by the time of the DDJ, it had come to mean “way of doing something” and “speech that explains how to do something”. Interestingly, in Greek “method” is meta + hodos and hodos means “road” so it’s an etymologically appropriate translation.
The joke is that as a person who lives on the East Coast, I end up with files or whatever from Dec. 31, 1969, which is a very random date until you realize it's localizing the zero timestamp into my local timezone. My brother-in-law once asked me why he had a bunch of photos in his photo library marked as Dec. 31, 1969 and I had to explain it to him.
> (A rule that can be told by words, is not the rule that should universally apply)
I'm curious where the dev got that translation or if they made it themselves. I have translated it before like "No method that can be explained is universally applicable" but I haven't seen many other translations like that.
Sure, I think that's a very real consideration, but if you're not a daily JS developer, I'm not sure why you'd use a function-call syntax to build up a template either. Something like Alpine.js where you just mark up your server side HTML is a lot easier than putting a bunch of logic into JS to build up a template. Or you could use lit-html or a million other things. This is an idea that's been done a million times but never catches on because it's not better than the alternatives.
Well, for example, when I worked at the Baltimore Sun, the owners at Tribune Media sold the already owned outright headquarters of the Sun, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, etc. and has us all lease office space from somewhere else instead. This is an insane business decision. No one who wants to keep a business alive would think to replace a money making asset (just lease out the other floors of the building) with a money losing ongoing expense. But it gives you one quarter of extremely high profitability in exchange for lower profits for the rest of time, so they did it.
Ransoming cloud storage is just a matter of finding a dev who has production keys on their laptop and getting them to install some CLI that promises to butter toast or whatever.
Well, right now the LLMs are pretty damn trigger happy about censorship after RLHF. Ideally, they would be slightly less prone to do things like tell me they can't help me sort my own data because it has a copyright.
I would be interested in an LLM with a bicameral mind: one stream generates text and another one judges the text generated by the first and chooses whether or not to censor it and so forth.
There's some distinction in Aquinas that I don't remember the word for that would describe a "table" of pinecones as just being a table by analogy but not a real table. It has a form like a table, but if it just arose by accident, it lacks the substance of a table. I don't think aliens or videogames complicate the question that much, but I do think some flat surface in the forest is only like a table but not really a table until some conscious being comes along.
I have a friend who researches botany, and it's the same thing for plants. If you only grow the "best" corn, you end up selecting for corn that slurps all the nutrients away from the other corn in the corn field and getting lower total yield. He says that we humans should do what natural selection cannot, which is to use group selection to pick the corn that is best at playing well with others, not just getting ahead individually.
I agree discovery vs. manufacture isn't that big of distinction. If a rock table was almost fit for purpose, but not quite, you might do something to make it work, or if it's way too different to work as a table, you wouldn't consider it at all. In any event, human intention is taking raw material (trees, rocks that are almost table) and using it according to an intention, and the intention is what makes it a table.
A table is an artificial object. If I’m trying to build a table and a leg breaks, I will replace the broken leg. A natural object like the Old Man of the Mountain isn’t like that. When it broke, nature didn’t care and didn’t “fix” it. Biological organisms are weird because they are in between. Your heart pumps your blood, and if it’s not working, your body tries its best to fix it. It has a function like an artificial object, but it has no designer or mental intention behind it. Then what about the mind itself? The brain is an undesigned organ. How can it represent the world?
Water and fire have qi but lack life. Trees and shrubs have life but lack intelligence. Birds and beasts have intelligence but lack morality. Humans have qi, life, intelligence, and moreover morality, hence are most honored under heaven. Our strength is not like the ox, nor our speed that of the horse, yet we employ them. How is it so? I say, humans work together and they do not. How do we work together? Through social roles. Where do social roles come from? Morality. Thus morality creates social roles, and from social roles comes harmony, from harmony comes unity, from unity comes strength. Strength overcomes obstacles and conquers nature. Thus we have mansions and palaces to reside in.
It’s a very clear distillation of Chinese thought, but no one ever talks about it.
There is no possible way that USDT is backed one-to-one. It just isn't. If it were, it would have a simple audit trail that they would publish. They don't because it isn't. It's a scam that will at some point unravel, and everyone will lose their shirts because of "many good people" lol.