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[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Disney never comes right out and says these things about their cartoons. Ursula is based directly on the drag artist Divine, but you won't catch a Disney executive admitting that.

But yes, Scar is basically the gay uncle.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It has nothing to do with SEO. We do server side rendering because it's the simplest thing that works.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Interesting because there's a very old gay stereotype that they're extremely violent. These days, it's usually that gay men are effeminate and passive, and I think a lot of people don't even realize this stereotype existed.

Baron Harkonnen and Scar (The Lion King) are examples.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago

Also, the evidence points to Bill being one of many rich and powerful clients, whereas Taco had a much deeper relationship. Their level of guilt is not the same.

I could be proven wrong on that, and Bill can fuck off in any case.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's more common than you think.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Steam Deck hits a sweet spot. You can make it more powerful, but it'll cost significantly more. You can make it cheaper, but you'll cut out too many games people want to play.

Also, anything like this with a resolution higher than 720p is wasting pixels and GPU power, IMO.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 weeks ago

For comparison, the Trump Admin just approved a 5000 bed tent camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. The contract was awarded to Acquisition Logistics for $1.26B.

That's $252k per bed. There's easily enough money there to build single family homes for every one of them, and even that would be wasteful. (And yes, even in high cost of living areas, the sheer scale involved would almost certainly bring costs below that number).

When we say "the cruelty is the point", this is why. There's a lack of other explanations for their actions.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't have a fundamental problem with web apps having access to GPU resources. There's obviously games that can benefit from that. Engines like Godot and Unreal can directly use a web stack as a build target. It makes sense there.

In general, I don't have a fundamental problem with any of this being there provided the attack surface area can be managed. Which it isn't, but that's another discussion.

I have a problem with the tools being applied indiscriminately. I'd almost say that every site should start vanilla, and you'd have to specifically justify any use of JavaScript.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

JavaScript is needed to actually build anything useful

Not even close. I wrote a management system for the keyfobs at my makerspace. I had some JavaScript in there previously for things like loading up logs with pagination over ajax calls or searching for members by name. I took all that out and made it straight server side HTML. It's fast, takes minimal browser memory, and the back button works with zero fuss.

Just try making an application that way sometime. Yes, you can find places for targeted use of JavaScript, but every web dev should at least try making a project without it.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As a web dev, I'll say that yes, it is achievable. The problem isn't what's possible, but that we've trained new frontend devs in certain ways and given them certain tools. Those tools are being used in places they shouldn't, and those same new frontend devs are failing to learn the fundamentals of HTTP and HTML.

React, for example, is a JavaScript framework that's become incredibly popular in recent years. It's meant for "single page applications". I once made a control panel for a vacuum former with it, where you could turn on zones of heating and get the temperature updated in real time. You're not expected to navigate away from that page while you're using it. I think this is a good place to use React, though you could make the argument that it should be a native GUI app. (I'll say that it isn't that important; this thing runs fine on a Raspberry Pi 3, which is the target platform).

React is not a good option for an ecommerce site. You want to click on a product to check out its details. That means you're going between very different views (pages) a lot. React increases complexity with no clear gain. An argument can be made for the address/payment/finalization steps. The money people like that because there's a strong correlation between streamlining checkout and how often cash ends up in their hands.

A lot of those sites use React, anyway, for everything. Why? Because we've trained a bunch of new frontend devs so much on it that they have no idea how to make a site without React. This overspecialization has been detrimental.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

JavaScript is directly related to almost everything that makes browser tabs take up more RAM than a typical PC in 1998. There are ways to use it in targeted ways that improve responsiveness (objectively or subjectively). The web as it stands is so far beyond that justification that it's almost laughable to even bring it up.

I run a personal blog with zero JavaScript; just HTML, CSS, and some pictures. Firefox's memory snapshot says it uses <3MB on the homepage. Amazon's homepage is currently giving me 38MB, and this comment section with the Alexandrite frontend is giving me 30MB. Those two may even be at the low end of what's out there.

[โ€“] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thomas Jefferson. Good at writing, shit at social conventions. Developed a whole mechanised house via slaves. Slavery might not be an autistic trait, but mechanizing your house is.

I wouldn't consider him a positive example, but he almost certainly was autistic.

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