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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t trust anyone over 30 0x30

  later:

  don’t trust anyone over 30~20~ (that’s vigesimal notation, btw)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A History of DHTML and Web Applications - The History of the Web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone called those “web apps” though. I sure didn’t.

  As I recall, the phrase didn’t enter common usage until the advent of AJAX, which allowed for dynamically loading data without loading or re-loading a whole page. Early webmail sites simply loaded a new page every time you clicked a link. They didn’t even need JavaScript.

  The term “web app” hadn’t been coined yet but, even without AJAX I think in retrospect it’s reasonable to call things like the early versions of Hotmail and RocketMail applications - they were functional replacements for a native application, on the web, even though they did require a new page load for every click (or at least every click that required network interaction).

  At some point, though, I’m pretty sure that some clicks didn’t require server connections, and those didn’t require another page load (at least if js was enabled): this is what “DHTML” originally meant: using JavaScript to modify the DOM client-side, in the era before sans-page-reload network connections were technically possible.

  The term DHTML definitely predates AJAX and the existence of XMLHTTP (later XMLHttpRequest), so it’s also odd that this article writes a lot about the former while not mentioning the latter. (The article actually incorrectly defines DHTML as making possible “websites that could refresh interactive data without the need for a page reload” - that was AJAX, not DHTML.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A History of DHTML and Web Applications - The History of the Web⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird this article doesn’t mention Hotmail and RocketMail, which both had email client web apps in 1996.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real NASA research papers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  thank you OP for allowing me the opportunity to read this entire image here on lemmy prior to seeing the creator’s mastodon username, so that i could believe it was real for a minute :)

  (for anyone unfamiliar with it, check out her other amazing work…)

  also ping and thankyou to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social (in case mentions on lemmy notify mastodon users?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real NASA research papers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  now do gtkmm

• Outcry in Italy as U.S. Says ICE Agents Will Join Olympics Delegationwww.nytimes.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “you wouldn’t download a car” meme, with “download” replaced with “document.querySelector(‘video’).playbackRate = 4;” and “car” replaced with “video on youtube”

  via this comment from @Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't have to use gyroelongation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe this helps? (via a comment in my previous post of this meme)

• You don't have to use gyroelongationlemmy.ml ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution be like...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  later:

  4-panel comic from pbfcomics.com with whales and speech bubbles. first panel has a whale saying: “Gentleman… our waters are in great danger.” Second panel: “Perhaps we should follow the path of the devonian sea creatures, and adapt to walk on land”. Third panel: no text. Fourth panel: a different whale says: “Barry. Shut the fuck up… seriously.” 📎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alchemy is so hot right now.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  that's because it is:

  * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Antideuterium * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Deuterium * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Deuterium_cartridge * …fandom.com/…/Deuterium_control_conduit * …fandom.com/…/Deuterium_injection_subsystem * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Deuterium_filter * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Deuterium_poisoning * memory-alpha.fandom.com/…/Deuterium_stream_coil * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Deuterium_tank * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tritium * memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tritium_intermix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alchemy is so hot right now.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.marathonfusion.com/alchemy.pdf

  …substack.com/…/government-funded-alchemy

  tldr from that blog's assessment:

  > First, the researchers have a high degree of credential credibility. […] These are very much not software engineers who think they’ve solved alchemy after talking with ChatGPT for a year or something. […] > Optimistically, in my mind this leaves about 10% odds that fusion energy becomes commercialized or at least piloted over the next couple decades and Marathon Fusion’s approach for the alchemical production of gold becomes a meaningful consideration for these fusion plants! That’s pretty high, and implies a high value for continuing to research this technology, even if not necessarily for Marathon Fusion specifically. Manifold traders are giving this proposition ~20% odds, which likely reflects the discount rate on a market that only resolves in 10 years, although it also leaves room for other potential methodologies for gold production (presumably also through fusion energy but who knows).

• Debunking John Oliver's Venezuela Episodewww.youtube.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i thought the photo in this thumbnail looked familiar, and then realized it’s because I just saw a post from her a minute ago - one of many linking to a very old video of a large crowd in Venezuela falsely claiming that it shows people celebrating the US kidnapping Maduro today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐦‍⬛ Blackbird singing in the dead of night... (人´▽`*)♪⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i added some links in my crosspost of this in !emoji@lemmy.ml:

  • mefi.social/@HarryRutherford/109935858214218911
  • www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19307-crow-emoji.pdf
  • emojipedia.org/black-bird
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile Ball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  Yamaha has entered the chat

  * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Corporation#History * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Motor_Company#Histor…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Que Jeff Goldbloom laugh track⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “why not both” meme template, top text “cue, or queue?” bottom text “Porque no los dos?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fuck Jar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  !lifeprotips@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  goose chasing person meme template, caption “end-to-end encrypted to who”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  shocked-pikachu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  shocked-pikachu

• Why did the proposed *Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance* project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it?en.wikipedia.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHY???⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  either that, or

  Giorgio A. Tsoukalos “aliens guy” meme, no text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly wtf?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not the first time OP is raising questions like this 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is eyemaxxing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  futurama fry squinting “not sure if” meme, no text

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the process has a great name: Kleptoplasty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the main device to hammer in a nail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “is this a pigeon?” butterfly meme, captioned “is this numberwang?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same, honestly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bears definitely took notice of the drone. The animals’ heart rate skyrocketed when the UAV flew overhead, and their stress response was stronger when the quadcopter flew in windy conditions that masked the sound of its approach — apparently bears do not like being surprised. One bear started moving faster after the quadcopter flew by. And the bear that had experienced the greatest increase in heart rate — from 41 beats per minute to 162 — moved nearly 7 kilometers in the next 28 hours, encroaching into a neighboring female’s territory.

  All in all, though, the bears weren’t stressed all that much, the researchers concluded.

  🤌

  At least there is this:

  Ditmer’s team says that their results reinforce the NPS ban on drones in parks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  Is the communications holofilter ready?

  Engage the overlay. Put them on screen. Commander Sisko disguised as Kobheerian Captain Viterian (Norman Large) by the USS Defiant’s Holofilter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  here is a previous thread about this image with a discussion about how accurate this is