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seandoe··on Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county
You should read up more on the opioid crisis and fentanyl specifically. Poverty and "lack of economic opportunity" is not a new thing. We're dealing with something entirely different and these armchair expert comments and opinions don't help things.
seandoe··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
Utahn with two young kids, yes please!!
seandoe··on Letter from Stanford Law School Dean to the Campus Community
Obviously some folks wanted the judge there to speak. Why are you so scared of differing opinions? Why must the only option be to silence those that disagree with you?

Let me preface by saying I'm completely pro choice. But you say "policies... literally murdering mothers by denying them critical healthcare." But wouldn't reciprocal policies allow for the murdering of unborn babies? Once again, I'm pro choice. But I can at least understand and consider the argument from the other side.

This polarized political environment where we demonize the other and can't bear the thought of civil discourse is played out. These childish ways are not welcome in America.

No one is asking you to be silent. They are asking you to not silence others.

seandoe··on Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013)
It's all about the headwind. All planes can have a short ground roll on take off or landing if the wind is sufficient.
seandoe··on New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
What is going to change the scroll position on a state or "page" change? It's not that they figured it out, it's just the nature of a single page.
seandoe··on Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
I have this recurring thought with each instance of this neo-puritanism I come across. It feels like society is losing patience for all things human. I sense contempt, almost hatred for the very things that unite us as living beings and separate us from computers. We're not perfect. We live in both place and time. We are born prejudice and survive prejudice. We form opinions through experience. We're practical, functional. We look out for ourselves, our family, our tribe, our community. Rather than fight or deny these tendencies, how about we acknowledge them and make society better by working within our humanness.

It seems like in it's attempt to encourage inclusivity and sensitivity, in many cases wokeism has pushed us in the opposite direction. If we aren't drones that have received the latest OTA update we are not accepted in society.

Also, altering the text of an author of yore to be more socially palatable for the times is pathetic, wrong, and more importantly a missed opportunity for education. These books were written in a time and place. If need be, let's talk about how and why the text, subjects and themes are different or maybe even out of place in today's society. Bowdlerization is lazy.

They could've added a great foreword that explains these things and kept the original text.

seandoe··on Declining sperm count: Much more than you wanted to know
ah ok, that's fair.
seandoe··on Declining sperm count: Much more than you wanted to know
It's interesting that you claim my statement is nonsense. That seems hypocritically dismissive. Ask for evidence or simply disagree. By saying nonsense are you implying that it's not possible that men's interests could be discounted by the popular opinion of today? How about the amount of funding and attention that breast cancer gets vs prostate cancer? Once again I'm not interested in why, just the current state.
seandoe··on Declining sperm count: Much more than you wanted to know
I don't think parent's comment was combative at all. Simply, their opinion and/or observation. If you don't think we live in a time when men's (white especially) interests are being attacked you're delusional. They are at the bottom of the identity politics war. Ideas of toxic masculinity, undeserved privilege, power, etc. are being touted as gospel by the educated, political class.

Maybe it's all deserved. Paying for generations of misbehavior or something. It doesn't really matter. The reality is that political popularity and public "good graces" _are_ a zero sum game. Politics are currently very much us vs them. And men are very much them right now.

seandoe··on I don't like making the best things
I like this. Thank you for posting.
seandoe··on Twilio to cut 17% staff, close offices to focus on profitability
Thank you for introducing me to the word thither.
seandoe··on Shaking Ordinary Ice (Hard) Transformed It into Something Never Seen Before
son, is that you?
seandoe··on Marko: An HTML-Based Language
Remix.run
seandoe··on Salesforce, but for Dating
Met her on Polk street did ya.
seandoe··on Alan Kay on web browsers, document viewers, Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard (2021)
I hear some version of this all the time. Why then are gui systems like electron so popular and why do new design systems continue to incorporate html/CSS as the design tools? If it's so bad why hasn't something else replaced it? If something truly better was developed it would be wildly successful. I don't know the answer, but I'm guessing cross-platform frameworks are just really difficult to develop. You say "just about the worst option imaginable", but the evidence doesn't really suggest that.
seandoe··on How Southwest Airlines melted down
Regarding your first paragraph, rarely are the gate agents telling the public the entire story. The truth is typically more complex and basically not of concern to the average passenger.

As for your conclusion, it's just not accurate. Systems _are_ used for scheduling and allocation of equipment and crew resources. You just have to realize that getting you, as an individual, to your destination on time on any given day isn't the number one priority of the company. There are a lot more concerns they are considering. If the airline industry is really as dysfunctional as you think, with such shortcomings in areas as important as equipment and crew scheduling and allocation, you should drop whatever you're doing and start an airline. You'll soon be filthy rich and do the world a great service.

seandoe··on How Southwest Airlines melted down
> clearly that wasn't so: they were just making things up as they went along.

Where did you get your information? I have experience in the industry and scheduling logistics is clearly not how you describe it. The issue is that to optimize for profit you sacrifice the ability to maintain service through catastrophic events and can end up in a bit of a dominoes situation.

seandoe··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
Swaying public perception in an optimistic direction is enough of an effect to justify the cost and effort of this achievement.
seandoe··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
And had we continued to develop and improve upon fission we'd probably be in a better place.
seandoe··on Breaking up with JavaScript front ends
Welp, I couldn't back out of that site after making 100 url changes. Your argument would be a lot more convincing if you addressed that issue. That's such an old issue, please don't bring that back with your new throw-back style.
seandoe··on Driving Amazon’s electric delivery vehicle: Rivian EDV [video]
errr by wild you mean grossly domesticated.
seandoe··on The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (1997)
It's still information, regardless of anybody's opinion of the content.
seandoe··on Asdf – language tool version manager
Great tool. I love it. Thanks!
seandoe··on Has the CIA Done More Harm Than Good?
Would we even know?
seandoe··on Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management
I use syncthing with logseq and I'm pretty happy with the match up. You do have to be careful when you have multiple logseq instances running at the same time. I try to avoid that. I utilize the re-index feature quite a bit too.

I love syncthing itself though! I used to use resilio sync and syncthing is so much better.

seandoe··on Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana
"Idealized". I don't disagree with you. I have thought about this a lot. I'm not suggesting full, open, commercial legalization for hard drugs. I'm saying full decriminalization, with the government tightly controlling production and distribution. As long as the price and the availability (how easy is it to get?) outperform the black market then we'd be in a much better position than we are today. It wouldn't be as easy as grabbing it off the shelf in a c-store. Users would have to go to specific facilities, possibly see a social worker, receive information about the drug, how to use it safely and legally, as well as be informed of abuse treatment options. For most people this would be enough of a barrier. The illicit drug trade brings about violence, ancillary crime, poor/dangerous quality control (fentanyl!). We can do better. Legalization wouldn't be perfect but it would be so much better than the situation we have now. I can guarantee that.
seandoe··on Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana
Yes. Plain and simple. Go even further and legalize. Decriminalizing doesn't solve the many issues that trafficking brings. This is low hanging fruit. Harder drugs would need to be tightly controlled but revenue could be spent on helping users... rehab facilities, safe use facilities, counseling, etc.

Same thing with prostitution. Human trafficking could be significantly reduced by legalizing prostitution. Government should not be involved in policing morals.

seandoe··on Recording the Grateful Dead: The Culture of Tapers
If you're looking for standout performances of particular songs checkout http://headyversion.com/

You can get sbd versions of most shows on archive.org, and headyversion will have links to archive.

I made something similar to headyversion but for phish, https://phine.st but it doesn't have a lot of content and I lost interest.

seandoe··on Recording the Grateful Dead: The Culture of Tapers
In the later years they (Jerry especially) didn't talk with the crowd much.
seandoe··on Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)
Jwts are great for micro/multiple services -- no need to hit the auth db on every request.

Determine ttl by considering the context and then balancing performance/security concerns.

If you need to invalidate a session before the ttl expires, throw the identifier in a memory cache. But I think this is overkill for most applications. Rather, protect important state changes by asking user to enter password or to provide other form of auth.

If the frontend wants access to the jwt data, a pattern I like is splitting the jwt by keeping the header and payload in js readable cookie or local storage, then keep the signature in an http only cookie.

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