In Defence of the Single Page Application
Trenchant, brilliant stuff by William Kennedy šÆ
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Trenchant, brilliant stuff by William Kennedy šÆ
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NEW YORKāClaiming he could easily fit into a similar position at most companies, local CEO Mike Waltke told reporters Monday that his skill set was transferable to any job that requires an inept dumbass to receive a big salary. āI have the incompetence necessary to effortlessly transition into a role at any company that yields a seven-figure income,ā said Waltke, adding that as long as a business pays him millions of dollars a year, heāll adapt quickly with his long resume of botching simple tasks and making stupid fucking decisions. āNo matter what the industry is, if they need a complete doofus who makes tons of money, Iām their guy. Iāve spent my entire life honing my stupidity from one job that pays millions to the next, giving me skills that every corporation is looking for in their highest-paid positions.ā Waltke continued that, with a few more years of proving himself to be at the forefront of being a fucking moron, he could one day become the richest dipshit in the world.
Caption by CO š¤£
If you liked that, you might like this longer documentary called āBeing Poirotā by Suchet himself.
Was doing some digital house-keeping and came by a cached copy of that by MisterBG. Things havenāt changed too much over the past two decadesā¦
Molly White asks if Web3 is bullshit. Short and excellent talk.
And because no good deed goes unpunished,
Fletcher claimed to have been harassed by his own community and he also found bullet holes in his barn. Fletcher used the proceeds from farming the land to pay the taxes for the interned Japanese. From 1942 to 1945 he managed the Tsukamoto, Nitta, and Okamoto farms. Fletcherās wife Teressa Cassieri also worked the farms.
But because he was a good decent human being,
The agreement was for Fletcher to keep profits after paying the taxes on the farms, but instead he returned the money to the Japanese farmers when they were released.
From a New York Times profile (cached):
For the next three years he worked a total of 90 acres on three farms ā he had also decided to run Mr. Tsukamotoās farm. He worked 18-hour days and lived in the bunkhouse Mr. Tsukamoto had reserved for migrant workers. He paid the bills of all three families ā the Tsukamotos, the Okamotos and the Nittas. He kept only half of the profits.
Many Japanese-American families lost property while they were in the camps because they could not pay their bills. Most in the Florin area moved elsewhere after the war. When the Tsukamotos returned in 1945, they found that Mr. Fletcher had left them money in the bank and that his new wife, Teresa, had cleaned the Tsukamotosā house in preparation for their return. She had chosen to join her husband in the bunkhouse instead of accepting the Tsukamotosā offer to live in the familyās house.
The mensch lived to the ripe old age of 101 š š Hereās a photograph.
Source: The New York Times
Things are going well with the Metaverse:
In a follow-up memo dated September 30th, [Vishal] Shah1 said that employees still werenāt using Horizon enough, writing that a plan was being made to āhold managers accountableā for having their teams use Horizon at least once a week. āEveryone in this organization should make it their mission to fall in love with Horizon Worlds. You canāt do that without using it. Get in there. Organize times to do it with your colleagues or friends, in both internal builds but also the public build so you can interact with our community.ā
He went on to call out specific issues with Horizon, writing that āour onboarding experience is confusing and frustrating for usersā and that the team needed to āintroduce new users to top-notch worlds that will ensure their first visit is a success.ā
Shah said the teams working on Horizon needed to collaborate better together and expect more changes to come. āToday, we are not operating with enough flexibility,ā his memo reads. āI want to be clear on this point. We are working on a product that has not found product market fit. If you are on Horizon, I need you to fully embrace ambiguity and change.ā
Iām assuming that asking āWhat the fuck are we spending $70 billion on again?ā wouldnāt be a recommended way to embrace ambiguity.
Update
Kate Duffy with Business Insider:
Zuckerberg told employees this year to have their meetings on Metaās Horizon Workrooms app, where people can come together as avatars in virtual workspaces, a person familiar with the matter told The Times.
[ā¦] The source, who remained anonymous, told The Times that many Meta employees didnāt have VR headsets this year or hadnāt gotten around to setting them up. Those staff then had to rush to purchase headsets and register them before their managers realized, the source told The Times.
And the kicker:
Included in the Times report was inside information from two employees who told the newspaper that some workers call important metaverse projects āmake Mark happy,ā abbreviating it to āMMH.ā
Wonāt someone think of our mad king? Iām going to return to the office only to be forced to attend meetings virtually. MMH š„²
Update
VP Metaverse (at Meta, that is. I donāt know how governance works in the Metaverse). ā©ļø
Via Ellen šÆ
Coached by a former Wall Street bond trader who studied the opposition and set up a pipeline that produces Superstar Mathletes:
āYou wouldnāt grab a kid in ninth grade whoās never played football and expect him to be a great high-school football player,ā he said. āFor most of these kids, this is their football.ā
Mr. Frazerās insight was to connect four levels of education: The kids he scouts in elementary school develop in middle school, compete in high school and take specialized classes from college professors that he brings to Buchholzās campus. As soon as the system was in place, the team started winning and never stopped.
It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.
Many of the gifted kids in his program have parents who work at the nearby University of Florida and push to get on Mr. Frazerās radar. Others he finds on his own. He tracks down test scores of students in his district, follows the data and recruits high achievers. Some who were discovered by his spreadsheets have since graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with math degrees and landed on Wall Street themselves.
The mathletes who try out for the team and make the cut are combined into one class section and fly through competitive algebra, geometry and calculus during the school day. Mr. Frazer essentially bends the rules to move faster through harder material and pack more than two years of math into one school year. āI cover everything the state wants me to cover,ā he said. āBut there is no restriction on covering extra material.ā
Jira is middle-management-ware, a term I made up for software that serves the needs of middle management, or, at least, the needs middle management thinks it has, which comes to the same thing as long as youāre selling to them. (link)
Jira is a tire fire. It should be condemned and officially designated a superfund site. My goddamn ticket tracker shouldnāt spin up my fans when I try to do something as austere as access the backlog, but, as we all know, itās impossible to display tickets withou 21 MB of JavaScript and 164 HTTP requests. (Yes, those are real numbers.) (link)
and finally,
JIRA makes it dangerously easy to implement overly bureaucratic processes. A certain kind of organization is drawn to it for that reason. Even a healthy organization switching to JIRA can get carried away with the tools now at its disposal. JIRA is a software product but also a social institution, an organizational philosophy. Sure, you can have the software without the attitude or vice versa, but use of JIRA is still a (weak) negative signal about the quality of an employer.
Turns out that the main thing protecting employee autonomy is the logistical difficulty of micromanagement. JIRA āsolvesā that problem. (link)
For day-to-day things, a 10-year old MacBook Air is perfectly adequate (except, maybe, if youāre trying to read an article on the Des Moines Registerās or KCCIās websites without using a PiHoleā¦)
Didnāt realize it was a four-parter. Major nostalgia. Have forgotten most of my French but I somehow still remember a lot of words for things (and their gender!) thanks to these books (well, Volume 1 at least). Looks like the CBSE still uses it. Hereās audio to accompany the books.
I know nothing of D&D, wanted to find out more after watching the latest season of Stranger Things, and came by this video. I still donāt understand how the figurines contribute to the gameplay but was amazed by his vast collection of them. Lots of lovely passion and camaraderie here ā„ļø
That would be a Swiss gun instructor. His country has 2.3 million guns per 8.6 million people and has had exactly one mass shooting since 2001.
They are able to do this despite being one of the most armed European countries because they have commonsense gun laws, actually fucking act to prevent senseless tragedy, and do not fetishize or worship their guns or the hallowed, immutable, āGod-givenā Second Amendment.
There was yet another mass shooting in America, this time in Ames, Iowa, a collegetown I lived in for many years. Three innocent people died. More thoughts and prayers by our effete, corrupt leaders until the next horrifying and avoidable tragedy. Nothing will change.
Update March 21 2023
Amil Niazi in a sobering article about ambition, COVID, women, mothers, and late-stage capitalism.
Think jq
but for HTML/DOM. If you wanted to get all the post titles on this log,
curl -s -o - https://log.nikhil.io/ | gunzip - | pup "header > h2 > a" text{}
Lovely stuff.
Itās hosted by three University of Iowa engineers and scientists who are tired of ācropagandaā and is rather entertaining. The latest episode calls the recent E15 Law a āFart in a Hurricaneā.
One of the hosts is an engineer named Chris Jones who also writes a very lively blog with wonderful nuggets like this:
[ā¦] corn ethanol for fuel is stupid. The industry exists by virtue of one reason and one reason only: government policy. The environmental benefits of using corn to produce a liquid biofuel HAVE ALWAYS been more desperation-half-court-heave than slam dunk, itās lower potential energy when compared to gasoline makes the 10% blend number an obvious head fake, and its dominance of American politics has kept higher energy players sitting at the end of the bench. So why does ethanol get its ticket punched to the Big Dance year after year after year? Politics. Liberal politicians from Joe Biden to Amy Klobuchar to Dick Durban to Sherrod Brown to Cindy Axne to the Iowa City dogcatcher provide all the cover Republicans in general and Iowa Democratic state legislators in particular need to continue force feeding us this rancid cod liver oil until kingdom come.
See also: āIowa is Addicted to Cornographyā
Simple, consistent, SVG, adjustable stroke-width, and there are 1900 of them (and counting).
Itās what all the Patagonia-clads are raving about. They tell me it solves all perf problems in a snap.
Update
Hereās an NPM package. And, of course, Java if youād like to deploy this in an Enterprise⢠setting.
Behold the story of a Master Strategist, a 5D-Chess playing Svengali absorbed in his craft šš„
I donāt know whether to laugh or cry. This really got me:
My job is to keep our code running while other packagers are changing theirs.
Lord have mercy. NPM continued use and existence is proof that (Almost) Every Day is a Miracle āØ
I mean just look at it š„°
Really cool stuff. Trained on the New York Times ingredients corpus (large 13.5MB CSV) and turns this
ingredients = [
"3 large melons",
"5 1/2 cups water",
"2 cups flour",
]
into this
[
{
"name": "melons",
"unit": None,
"qty": 3.0
},
{
"name": "water",
"unit": "cups",
"qty": 5.5
},
{
"name": "flour",
"unit": "cups",
"qty": 2
}
]
Heslinās vow on Wednesday comes one day after Jones offered an FBI agent and 18 members of 10 families who lost loved ones in the school shooting $120,000 each to settle defamation lawsuits he lost against them in Texas and Connecticut late last year.
[ā¦] Jones, the host of the āInfowarsā internet program, called the Sandy Hook tragedy āstaged,ā āsynthetic,ā āmanufactured,ā āa giant hoax,ā and ācompletely fake with actors.ā
Saved me a ton of time with small project Iām working on right now. Looks like itās written in C.
Brilliant. Take a bow, Late Show writers.
Iāve been nearing capacity for a while and this is a Godsend.
Hereās a giant list of games people have created with it. Hereās a teeny little introductory adventure. I plan on playing The Quest of DuBebe this evening:
Very common in India. And that article is from a journal that offers EAL news. EAL (English as an Additional Language) is not the same as ESL (English as a Second Language). EAL is favored above ESL among the language pedagogy community:
Why? Because sometimes it is not clear what an individualās āfirstā language is (perhaps they grew up speaking one language at home, and a different language at school). And because oftentimes people can speak more than two languages.
EAL is more inclusive and applies to āa wider range of individualsā contextsā.
[ā¦] some individuals may not have an easily identifiable āfirstā language. For example, take a person who starts speaking Spanish at home and then starts attending school in English. English could take over as the individualās ādominantā language, even though Spanish was acquired āfirst.ā Letās say this person continues to communicate at home in Spanish ā you could say Spanish is now their āhomeā language. Because theyāre not getting schooled in Spanish, they might decide to study Spanish formally when they are older. In this case, they would be a āheritage language learnerā of Spanish. Lastly, even though English has become the individualās dominant language, they might still experience some transfer or interference from Spanish ā in this case, the individual could benefit from EAL offerings.
A study of DNA extracted from the leg bones of extinct moa birds in New Zealand found that the half-life of DNA is 521 years. So every 1,000 years, 75 per cent of the genetic information is lost. After 6.8 million years, every single base pair is gone. Bacterial RNA is much tougher and sequences have been recovered from ice crystals that are 419 million years old. These are only short fragments of 55 base pairs though.
Excellent stuff, particularly the mechanical keyboard envy1. Thereās a Nikhil in it too! šāāļø
I donāt think Iāll get into them. Got myself one of these (brown switches) about three years ago after outsourcing the research to a highly enthusiastic and helpful co-worker. The āLā key sticks sometimes but zero complaints so far, even after spilling beer on it once š¬ ā©ļø
Because we donāt simply write non-annoying and non-creepy software that respects you and does the thing you want it to do anymore. Gotta deliver Value⢠to all key stakeholders. By which we mean ourselves and the Market. Not you. You are nothing more than Data that taps āPurchaseā to us.
Fun little quiz! Did not do as well as I thought I wouldā¦
Eighth Wonder of the World indeed. Hereās a nice calculator that draws graphs, and allows for monthly contributions and rate variances.
In case that site is unavailable, and for the year 2020, itās an exponential curve with the
Until not-too-long ago, I used to think that āthe top 1%ā referred to āfew hundreds of millionsā-millionaries or billionaires š¤·āāļø
Forgot to add this to my Collection of Shitkraken.
Two lawyers who currently work for Trump or in the former presidentās inner orbit say they want absolutely nothing to do with her and have cautioned others in MAGAland to do the same. One said theyād recently deleted her phone number.
Two other people familiar with the matter said that ever since he left office in January, certain advisers and longtime associates to Trump have kept an informal shortlist of people who they should look out for, including at Trumpās private clubs or offices in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. The point of this roster is to intercept and possibly rebuff attempted outreach, visits, or phone calls from a handful of conservative figures who could bring the ex-president more undesired headaches.
āSidney is very much on the no-go list,ā one of the knowledgeable sources said. āHer problems right now do not need to be the [former] presidentās problems.ā
Powellās legal exposure right now is, of course, massive. And ever since she tried to work with Trump to orchestrate a coup last year against Joe Biden, feelings of frustration and bitterness have lingered between Trump and Powell. According to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, since December Powell has privately talked about how disappointed she was in Trump because he didnāt end up appointing her to a āspecialā role in his White House where she would have probed āelection fraudā conspiracy theories during the final days of his term.
āShe sounded pretty broken up about it,ā this person noted. āI felt sorry for her.ā
Meanwhile, the Brave Leader of the Elite Strike-Force Team feels bad about his own ban from State Television.
Certainly looks like it, Mr. Hlas. Go Hawks š¤
Iām not saying thereās going to be a schism or anything, but Iām not not saying that, either.
This is just genius. (Cached)
It belongs to Tom Bosworth. I thought āI cannot even run that fastā and decided to look at the video.
While it certainly does look like theyāre running, there are some severe restrictions on their movement, of course, else itād be an event called āTrottingā. The rules are:
Judges look out any infractions by eye (no technology) and disqualify people appropriately.
Yes, weeks after his buddy Bernie Kerik asked people to spare whatever they could for Giulianiās legal bills, the āRudy Giuliani Legal Defense Fundā has raised a mere $9,590, or less than 0.2% of the $5 million goal. (Itās not clear if the RGLDF is a separate entity the āRudy Giuilani Freedom Fundā that Kerik helped create.) Kerik, the former NYC police commissioner, knows a little something about legal woes, having pleaded guilty in 2010 to tax fraud and other charges, before being pardoned, of course, by Donald Trump. You may also recall Kerik from other hits like reportedly conducting an affair at an apartment near Ground Zero that had been reserved for 9/11 rescue workers. On the fundraising page, the organizers encourage whatever kind of person identifies as a Giuliani groupie to pony up as much cash as they can to defend the former presidentās former attorney, explaining āThe swamp is revolting by placing a bullās eye on the backs of every Trump loyalist. That puts Rudy at the top of their list. Rudyās fate will determine if America still is a Republic governed by We The People!ā Sadly for Rudy, that pitch has apparently mostly fallen on deaf ears.
Another example of the Best People attracting other Best People 𤩠And Iām sure his illustrious client will swoop in and help him out with the $250 Million he wheedled out of his supporters?
[ā¦] according to three people familiar with the matter, Trump, as well as several of his legal advisers and longtime confidants, have been hesitant about swooping in to help the embattled Giuliani, who for years worked as Trumpās personal lawyer, a political adviser, and attack dog.
[ā¦] Over the decades and during his presidency, however, Trump has cemented a reputation for regularly turning his back on close allies and one-time loyalists, including when legal or political pressures became too hot for him.
You donāt say. Could be the Elite Strike-Force Teamās enviable success rate because, ordinarily, The Best People who are most loyal to their Orange Daddy get paid well and on-time:
Shitkraken is a gift that keeps on giving š©