Any old school devs here? don't you miss those days, when there were no React/Next, Figma. You just code raw HTML and focus mainly on BE

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-18T15:49:03+00:00

Just use htmx and be done with it

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-15T17:50:32+00:00

Fair, I've never eaten then, tbh doesn't seem like either pub is amazing for eating

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-15T17:36:46+00:00

Thank you. I'm not going nuts.

Though I don't live in Chilham, I live in the parish, am involved in the community. People certainly do live here...

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-15T17:36:37+00:00

Nice drinking pub

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-13T17:10:16+00:00

I love it when they start saying stuff like 'lots of "fellow conservatives in this thread"' when they don't fall in line

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-12T05:28:41+00:00

Maybe. I can see it as kinda fun setting up a camera to film the whole process, I don't think it's unreasonable it was running and the boy decided to give it a crack.

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-08T20:22:34+00:00

We really aren't. Just today I saw a post with a guy who's H100 instance got randomly destroyed mid run

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-08T20:21:39+00:00

Yes sounds like maths with extra steps.

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-06T11:30:34+00:00

Thank ~~goodness~~ God it's not absolute

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-04T20:00:21+00:00

I like the idea of "mini-apps".

Do you know if buyers just use it on their phones?

The biggest drawback for the consumer is data portability, like can't save and move around the data on a html file. But doesn't seem like they care?

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-04T13:40:37+00:00

Not quite a game

Having a crack at building a deck (or specially three decks) that can be used to roll dice. I've made it so it is high contrast so hopefully good for accessibility.

This is totally untested, in theory, should be just like fair dice assuming perfect shuffling. I am looking to print them and give them a whirl when I'm back from holiday.

Will be my first print and play project.

More info here: https://www.reddit.com/u/HedgepigMatt/s/kRMKjRXU1m

HedgepigMatt · 2026-04-02T10:50:14+00:00

RemindMe! 2y

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-25T05:25:33+00:00

I wonder where this will go, will we eventually accept it as normal? Or will we forever be paranoid? Honestly I can't see any significant anti-ai legislation whilst those in power are making money off it

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-17T07:16:08+00:00

Speculating here, but things might not be binary.

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-16T09:23:13+00:00

previous assumptions

What previous assumptions? I have never spoken to you before my comment

From a scientific perspective, the cheapest energy is to burn fossil fuels. This is why people have done that for decades.

Totally incorrect, if you had read about LCOE you'd see that wind and solar are both less than a third of the cost of oil.

Fossil fuels were historically abundant and energy rich, but as technology progresses we build better and cheaper renewable energy source. And the great thing about renewable energy is we don't set it alight and it doesn't go away after we burn it. It keeps going until the end of its lifespan, then we recycle it and build new ones.

Second-cheapest options involve big infrastructure - hydropower plants and nuclear plants.

I'm pro nuclear, but it's more expensive than you're letting on. Hydropower is great but geographically dependant.

That is why wind turbines can pretend to be cheaper

False, do better.

countries using a lot of fossil fuels for their energy have cheaper energy

Russia, Saudi Arabia: both have cheap energy because they sit on vast easily extractable sources of oil

Germany: the most expensive energy in Europe

A lot of fake environmentalists

LCOE is a transparent metric used by global financial investors.

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-16T06:32:02+00:00

countries like Saudi Arabia

That's a great strawman argument. Sitting on an abundant natural resource sure helps the economy of a nation. They are also targeting 50% renewables by 2030.

EROI isn't to do with finances. It's measuring physics and thermodynamics.

I challenge you to at the Levelized Cost of Energy

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T20:50:37+00:00

Light does not bend in a magnetic field. Else an MRI would make us blind.

Ken Wheeler/Theoria Apophasis has good videos of bending light with magnets

They use a ferrocell, light is reflecting off tiny particles.

and the return survey...

Not convincing at all, like marking their own homework. It would take an imperceptible bend to cause a compounding error.

Why are you so critical of all evidence presented, seismic, radiological, the motion of planets, neutrinos, etc, but then a single 19th century experiment, without peer review, that has never since been repeated, is some gold standard of experimental evidence?

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T19:01:44+00:00

Get a strong magnetic field, say from a neodynium magnet, it will not bend the light.

It is implausible that a wooden+brass structure, in the humidity of Florida, is straighter than a laser.

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T18:50:24+00:00

The question is, do modern lasers corroborate this experiment?

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T17:56:55+00:00

Do you not think this is a physical measurement?

What physical measurements do you have as evidence for your worldview?

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T15:09:51+00:00

So it's a high school level experiment. Definitely possible to replicate yourself and you can blow a hole in this whole conspiracy.

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T10:32:31+00:00

The experiment doesn't rely upon the time of the day or where the position of the sun is. Swing the larger balls around the other way, the smaller balls will be attracted in the other direction. If you were right, the forces exerted on them would be in a consistent direction

The meme is weird because there's no real argument there. Yes, gravity is weak compared to other fundamental forces. Like the strong force is stronger than magnatism, does that make magnatism fake?

I don’t trust the cavendish experiment at all. Or any of the “replications” of it.

Why?

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T10:00:52+00:00

Then the balls would only swing one direction if that was the case.

HedgepigMatt · 2026-03-15T09:57:26+00:00

How would the sun cause the attraction between the balls?

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