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i host a website because i have information that i want to put on the internet, not because i want ad revenue.


doesn't look like it to me



But you can only see replies to tweets if you're logged in; so thank you for providing that link, but currently, that's the only way that those of us who aren't logged into Twitter can find it.


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Not only can you just replace twitter.com with nitter.net, I bet there's a browser extension you can get (or generate in 1 minute with any LLM) that would load any Twitter link into Nitter.

https://nitter.net/samhenrigold/status/1964464940049453153


That works despite twitter though, not because of it. It is ultimately an argument against twitter.


Plenty of people put their content behind paywalls, but apparently, someone who puts theirs behind a free loginwall is a bridge too far? I'm not sure I understand the outrage.

I can't stand Bluesky, but I have an account on it. What the fuck is the big deal?


Whataboutism. Look it up.


It's a comparison, not whataboutism, and you still didn't answer the question.


you might consider contributing to your local tool library or hackerspace


We both know that approximately 24 hours after donating something he will BADLY need it for an unexpected repair.


Then he can borrow it from the library he donated it to :)


I'm always worried that some less skilled user will have broken or not maintained it. I don't know how maker spaces get around this


Usually they have volunteers who do maintenance. At my local tool library the tools are well-used, but there's also like 10 of everything so you have lots of backup options.


most places i’ve borrowed things will seek some basic assurances that i know what i’m doing, first.

for example, when i borrowed a MIG welder, the person at the space asked me to weld some scrap metal in front of them before they let me loose with it.


This is easier than many assume: If you can find the Discord or even an e-mail for your local makerspace and send them a photo, they might urgently send someone to pick it up from you if it's useful to them.


Is a local tool library or hackerspace something common? I’ve never heard of that but that sounds cool


tool libraries exist in most cities and a lot of rural areas. many hackerspaces also function as a tool library even if they don’t use the term.


Great suggestion.



Amazing what you can do when you don’t have elections.

Edit: I’m 100% for renewables. Unfortunately half my country is against them and they won last time.


Climate action and renewables has always been very popular with voters. Since political action has consistently lagged popular support I'd suggest that you'd need to look outside elections to see what is holding the west back on this.


Popular in the abstract, unpopular if you ask how much voters are willing to spend or sacrifice for it.


This is just a talking point put about by climate deniers since dealing with climate change is cheaper than the alternative.

It's no different from Fox News headlines saying Medicare for all would cost X billion and not mentioning that business as usual would cost twice that.

An attempt to turn a popular, cheaper option into a scary bogeyman with selective lies.


Popular but I guess not a top concern with voters for one thing. Also the influence of money on US politics is anti-progress.


if you're going to list the strengths of china, one of the biggest ones is unironically having leadership that doesnt get interrupted in massive ways every 4 years. i'm not going to debate the negative parts of that, clearly it is also problematic, but despite the negative aspects it has factually largely contributed to their strength and prosperity


Solar and Wind are some of the most popular forms of energy generation

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/06/05/americans-vie...


Representative democracy in name only, for it is neither.


the central committee is actually trying to slow it down

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/07/07/china-moves-to-curb-s...


i dont think that the US, without elections, would suddenly go on a renewables building spree.

the same interests that prevent it today would still exist


Amazing what you can do when the ruling class hasn’t spent the last 40 years undermining education and gutting services.


gestures broadly at things I have no control over and things I wish didn’t happen


They're still massively using coal and using more and more of it.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...


The Chinese coal usage in absolute terms has recently started to decrease due to the massive renewable build out.

In other words: China is building enough renewables to both cover the grid expansion and offset existing coal usage.


> Chinese coal usage in absolute terms has recently started to decrease

That's not what the data I had linked above seems to indicate (2023 to 2024 it went from 5.7 to 5.8 TWh)

And it keeps building coal power plants: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants, though the article is also optimistic that China is at/about to reach peak coal.

And it's also funding coal power plants abroad, thought the scale doesn't seem that big compared to their domestic production: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Con...


The data is comparing 2024 to 2025.

> From December 2024, coal power generation declined for five straight months before ticking up slightly in May and June, mainly to offset weaker hydropower generation due to drought. Coal power generation was flat overall in the second quarter of 2025.

> The chart below shows growth in monthly power generation for coal and gas (grey), solar and wind (dark blue) and other low-carbon power sources (light blue).

> This illustrates how the rise in wind and solar growth is squeezing the residual demand left for coal power, resulting in declining coal-power output during much of 2025 to date.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-china-is-still-bu...

What they are doing is ensuring energy reliability and phasing out old nasty coal plants in favor of modern ones expected to have peaker like capacity factors.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-coal-plants-2027


Well, they are making more stuff


So they're evil and their progress is meaningless because it isn't immediately perfect?

The US is far, far worse than China.


The numbers I've seen aren't currently far worse, with the US producing slightly more CO2 per capita than China. But the trend is there to make it eventually far worse as we maneuver to be bass-ackwards.


I liked this comment looking at CO2/kWh instead of per capita

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44990464


XSLT is often used on low-power IOT devices which don't have the resources to render server-side


What are those low-power devices (can you identify any?) doing with XSLT, then? If they don't have the power to do the transformation, it seems pointless for them to possess the template needed to perform the process.


that's why they use XSLT. the whole point is that rendering happens in on the client.

you can find discussion in the several other recent XSLT threads


i don’t think you’ll see this at the typescript level, and you won’t see anything like this that compiles to javascript. specifically, compiling typescript to javascript with runtime checks would not actually be very useful.

typescript is pretty ambiguous about a lot of the things that would need explicit definition for runtime safety, and anyways we already have tools for that - it’s called zod.

and comprehensive checks would incur a significant runtime penalty, unless they were restricted to external interfaces, which is what you’re really concerned about. we already have tools for that - protobuf, swagger, etc.

anything else is sharing a runtime with you. so either it’s in your ide, and you just don’t write shitty code; or you’re trapped in some kind of demonic javascript prisoner’s dilemma, and you are mutable.

so typescript is basically ‘good enough’ for developers.

thinking forward anyway, and assuming you’re really willing to share a runtime with a stranger…

node doesn’t really operate in that kind of context, but maybe browser code does. i could imagine a framework based on web components, workers, and maybe iframes, taking advantage of message boundaries to enhance analysis and conceal code generation. it’s not that much better than typescript.

but if you want efficient runtime checks, and you want to leverage static analysis and strong module boundaries to scope the type-checking codegen, and you probably need additional syntax, you might as well target wasm.


Yeah, but Zod and all of the runtime schema libraries all kind of add verbosity to the type system compared to say something like Typia[0] which AOT compiles the type checks (and ends up being way more elegant).

Caveat is that there are some restrictions with the compiler and some possible footguns (duplicated declarations bloating code).

[0] https://typia.io/


> you won’t see anything like this that compiles to javascript

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/47658


investors actually tend to purchase cheaper homes

https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-stabiliz...


investor market share of homes is down from its peak of 20% a few years ago, but i wouldn’t call it a “tiny fraction”

https://www.redfin.com/news/investor-home-purchases-stabiliz...


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filthy mutt


archaeologist?


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