It's Linkdump Saturday! This is the day on which I clear the giant backlog of links from the previous week that I haven't managed to post in my newsletter's "Hey look at this" sections. This is my 19th linkdump; here's the previous 18 dumps:
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Why redesign the ESLint config system? Because of complexity. It was hard to maintain. >90% of our help requests were people trying to debug obscure error messages that even we couldn't figure out.
Eminem releases "Houdini," the first single from his upcoming album "The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)," promising a controversial and nostalgic return.
TL;DR: Too hard to learn; many people stick with OpenGL. In the meantime, a colleague at my university asked if it would be safe to basically switch to path tracing altogether for year 2 courses next year, using the APIs to render 2 tris essentially...
@jbikkerhttps://carette.xyz/posts/state_of_vulkan_2024/#the-2023-survey it also presents the results of the vulkan survey. The reason big games don't use vulkan doesn't really have much at all to do with complexity or the difficulty to learn. But it's certainly a significant factor for why small games don't use it.
Depending on how you look at it, I either grew up in the periphery of the labor movement, or atop it, or surrounded by it. For a kid, labor issues don't really hold a lot of urgency - in places with mature labor movements, kids don't really have jobs, and the part-time jobs I had as a kid (paper route, cleaning a dance studio) were pretty benign.
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I wish it was possible to insert the same element into multiple slots in web components.
Given there are other use cases for the “duplication” of something in DOM (see the selectedoption in the styleable selects as an example — https://open-ui.org/components/selectlist/#the-selectedoption-element), I wonder if we need this as a concept in DOM in general, and if this was ever proposed anywhere.
It would be awesome to be able to create a clone of an element, with an ability to automatically mirror all or some of the attributes.
Deutlich später. Noch einmal den kühlen Boden unter den Füßen spüren. Eine Armlänge nur von Haustür und erleuchtetem Treppenhaus entfernt wirkt die Nacht weniger düster, auch wenn die Augen kaum weiter als bis zum Zaun blicken und der Ort dahinter vollständig mit der mondmatten Finsternis verschmilzt. (Imaginäre Musik. Ein Hund bellt. Die Müdigkeit drückt schwer auf das Bewusstsein.)
@Edent If you decide to work out some sort of agreement with your current employer, see my lesson from my PhD: https://blog.tomayac.com/2021/10/02/14-years-at-google/#the-phd-time-2010-2014. This may or may not affect you mentally: prepare for rejection, and prepare for being the oldest PhD student (by a distance) in the room when you submit to conferences. Oh, in Computer Science submit to conferences; submitting to journals means you won't interact with others in person, and that's the most meaningful, fulfilling part. If you can afford it, do it!
11secs ago - Downloading or Watching33초 전 - 아직 여기에 있습니다. 전체 영화를 온라인에서 무료로 다운로드하거나 범죄도시4 스트리밍하는 옵션이 있습니다. 너는 영화를 좋아하니? 그렇다면 새로운 로맨스 영화 범죄도시4를 좋아하게 될 것입니다. 이...
"... like parenting, founding a company requires continuous, low-grade self-deception about the amount of work involved and the chances of success." @pluralistic
#Enshittification#SocialMedia#Algorithms: "Social media's enshittification followed a different path. In the beginning, social media presented a deterministic feed: after you told the platform who you wanted to follow, the platform simply gathered up the posts those users made and presented them to you, in reverse-chronological order.
This presented few opportunities for enshittification, but it wasn't perfect. For users who were well-established on a platform, a reverse-chrono feed was an ungovernable torrent, where high-frequency trivialities drowned out the important posts from people whose missives were buried ten screens down in the updates since your last login.
For new users who didn't yet follow many people, this presented the opposite problem: an empty feed, and the sense that you were all alone while everyone else was having a rollicking conversation down the hall, in a room you could never find.
The answer was the algorithmic feed: a feed of recommendations drawn from both the accounts you followed and strangers alike. Theoretically, this could solve both problems, by surfacing the most important materials from your friends while keeping you abreast of the most important and interesting activity beyond your filter bubble. For many of us, this promise was realized, and algorithmic feeds became a source of novelty and relevance.
But these feeds are a profoundly tempting enshittification target."
Like Oscar Wilde, "I can resist anything except temptation," and my slow and halting journey to adulthood is really just me grappling with this fact, getting temptation out of my way before I can yield to it.
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As it’s Mother’s Day tomorrow, here’s a reprint of my “The Mother is the Monster” essay first published 5 years ago… (my own is a cross between Mother Gothel in “Tangled” and Joan Crawford in “Mommie Dearest” than these ones 😂)
You only need two files. An index.php and a style.css. The CSS file can be empty, but it needs to exist - otherwise WordPress won't let you activate the theme.
The index file displays the requested post, or front page, in plain text. It isn't the most sophisticated code I've ever written!
Obviously, there are no links - so you can't navigate. There are no images - but there's also no alt text. There are no embeds, scripts, styles, or other fancy things. Just plain text.
Eminem Teases New Album ‘The Death of Slim Shady’ with Provocative Single ‘Houdini’ (thenarinder.in)
Eminem releases "Houdini," the first single from his upcoming album "The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)," promising a controversial and nostalgic return.
설계자 (The Plot) 전체 영화 2024 HD (m.facebook.com)
The Plot (설계자) 2024 전체 영화 보기, The Plot (설계자) 2024 전체 영화 온라인 무료, The Plot (설계자) 2024 전체 영화 다시보기, The Plot (설계자) 2024 전체 영화 온라인 한국어 자막...
파묘 다시보기 (2024 영화) 【The Roundup: Punishment】풀;버전 FULL~4K 굿보기 (m.imdb.com)
파묘 다시보기 (2024 영화) 【The Roundup: Punishment】풀;버전 FULL~4K 굿보기
파묘 다시보기 (2024 영화) 【The Roundup: Punishment】풀;버전 FULL~4K (굿보기) (www.imdb.com)
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Kelly Clarkson opens up about her weight loss journey and the medication that helped (thenarinder.in)
On Monday's episode of "The Kelly Clarkson Show," Clarkson addressed speculation about her weight loss during an interview with guest Whoopi Goldberg.
The Academic Papers UK Review — A Legit Academic Writing Service 2024 (chrisgreenwalty.medium.com)
In the heart of the buzzing UK landscape, The Academic Papers UK is a distinguished academic writing service globally recognised for its…