For the robot overlords to take over.
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I measure this delay to set the pace of computationally heavy tasks.
I also consider it a proof of concept why browsers should expose more of the performance and capability stats to the web page. Maybe I don't want translucent layers of css animations if it freezes the gui? At least, I think I don't.
Also funny:
Because callbacks can trigger computationally heavy tasks that may trigger at the same time I've morphed into the habit of just slapping the data into an array and parsing it with a setTimeout used as a setInterval.
So, basically I went back to polling because of superior performance. (ha-ha)
If you separate it by type and size properly it can just be sold/recycled.
While it could be commercially viable I do think money should be pumped in from other sources. Preferably from [remaining] industries creating and using the materials found.
Finding smaller websites in 2018 is even harder. There are no good directories, people are not sharing their favorite websites but if they do their audience is so microscopic that it doesn't reach you.
I sort of ended up building my own box of tricks. Talking about those mostly generates feedback from the RSS oblivious who moan about RSS being dead and praising the glory of walled gardens that have some laughably inferior news implementation. (I'm not complaining, if not an accurate description it is an understatement)
The way I see it I would prefer to glorify with my subscription the (perhaps low audience) websites that really deserve it. People who worked to write and record things I'm interested in and ran that extra mile to make it informative.
But who cares about that if you can have the fcebook and twitter type of walled echo chambers?
It is not so much that RSS is dying. Why even make a website if you cant find readers for it? Arguably the whole concept of a website is changing from providing information for free to hard-sell commerce.
That said, while it is certainly getting more difficult every year to find new subscriptions, it can be done.
If you continue to put in the effort to find more you will reach a sweet spot where the number of dead feeds matches the number of new finds. One week you will be very happy with the results the next might be a sad display of the large older news outlets. It may give the impression of slow death.
It is rather weird... do you just delete feeds that don't work? Do you crawl the dead list every week? How long does it have to be dead before you purge it? Did it just move? Is the website it self still there? How valuable is its content to you?
Then, to repeat myself, since everyone and their mum is pretty much locked into walled gardens there is this huge echo chamber effect where, much like TV in the 80's, everyone is talking about the same topics. Trying to filter those out feels like reanimating a corps.
However: It continues to be worth it to find original thought. If I have to crawl the entire internet to find that last blogger who isn't parroting Ruppert Murdoch or Donald Trump ~ I will.
A long story short, if RSS is dead you've killed her. (lol)
Personally, while I understand no one can take it seriously, I think our private components would be a better fit than faces. It would make for an interesting future to say the least.
I got really bored and quit when it dropped me a bunch of letters that couldn't be made into words in any order.
The interface is also shit. Holding down the down button (I'm using a mouse) should just drop it.
The cubes feel much to big.
Extra fun could be had if one could rotate the u into an n, the Z into an N, the p into a d, q into a b and I into H.
We might have to deal with incorrect results that require repeating the operation 3+ times. The usefulness (speed) would have to make up for that.
We want a system optimized for transportation. We do not want a system optimized for wealth extraction.
Say someone is buying a house. He will look for the stuff he needs. If they have kids that have to go to school or if they cant drive for some reason they look at the bus and train schedule and kinda expect that service to be there the next month.
How you imagine it actually doesn't happen. You don't get a substantial number of people with kids, old and disabled people moving to an area without public transport so that you can move in for the killer profits. Even if there is a bus it would be unreliable if profit rather than transportation is the goal.
Its just like we don't wait until the entire region smells like human poop before we put the sewers in. Oh and no more internet and electricity for you! You are just not using enough of it to be relevant compared to urban centers!
Meanwhile in the already overly crowded city centers real estate prices will explode and force families to live in tiny single room apartments. From a strict profit driven perspective utopia is now happening!
What if in stead of a giant stack of hard to nav papers...
...what if in stead each discipline would aim to publish a book????!
Each chapter would highlight the most important components of which the full version would be.... another book?
tier 2 of the books would simply refer to papers to provide even more additional reading.
The whole thing would keep it self up to date using version control and the closer to the front page of tier 1 the more extremely critical the review would be. An as-large-as-possible crowd sourced budget should be dedicated to reviewing and rewriting each of the book.
Each would be freely available online but every self respecting nerd would want a copy on his bookshelves.
A strict less is more policy would keep the books portable.
Technicality of the tier 1 books should be limited as much as possible in order to fit in a little encyclopedia of terms and methods.
By exposing the most important parts of a field to an audience as large as possible scientists would finally get the recognition they deserve which in turn would stimulate allocation of public funds.
A truly absurd idea, there, I said so myself.
Each of these is great until it isn't. The real magic is in anticipating what you will need and making the switch from one to the next structure.
Who knows, it might one day be possible to have the same code displayed as either:
give john a cookie give jack a cookie give sam a cookie give tina a cookie
and
giveCookies(john, jack, sam, tina)
and
giveCookies(testSubjects.living)
Only visually depending on the number of living test subjects without the underlying code changing at all.
How we are to accomplish this I leave as an exercise for the reader.
That way old people can finally talk about the zx spectrum, the commodore 64 and IBM mainframes without disrupting the more interesting hipster conversations.
Lets set up a stock exchange for articles and with a stock exchange I mean a gambling platform. Have all the fun mechanics like hedging, shorting, double or nothing etc
That said we the association of comment manufacturers deserve better marketing and higher margins. Something for nothing is a terrible idea. Our time isn't free. Lets make opening a page cost micro points per comment posted and introduce cheap mega-downvotes.
Then have 1000 euro/month pro accounts to bypass having to work for your precious.
IMHO the only offensive part is how they took so much time to do it. That part is very nasty.
An example would be the frequency of posting. If you went with daily posts you have to stick with it. People who don't like daily posts certainly wont start reading you just because you've dropped to 1 post every 2 months. Try stay a few drafts ahead of reality if something new has to happen every day.
A different example would be making dumb jokes or the choice of uhmmm voice? Be humble and polite, be condescending and authoritative - don't mix the 2. If you chose to make some kind of jokes try stick with the theme.
Back in the days when I was half serious about anything one of the things was writing. To avoid the paper hat from self-combusting or blowing away in the wind I made sure I had one person with relevant skills read it to fire proof it and one grammar nazi to huff and puff at it. There is room for unreasonably people in your life here and in our world.