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 No.1987[Reply]

Is it just me or are most jobs in IT utter bullshit? I am not referring to "Bullshit Jobs", the book. It's something different.

Take say twitter. The mobile twitter front-end in particular. What is twitter? Chunks of text with occasional hyperlinks, pictures and videos. There are also a couple of forms, to register, to submit a tweet, to report stuff, etc.
So again, it needs text, pictures, links and forms. All of that is supported by HTML directly, i.e. it doesn't even require a single line of javascript to accomplish that.
But judging from the fact that on an old phone twitter may take half a minute or more to load or it may actually fail to load, or freeze up while loading, and taking in account how generally sluggish it is, it's obivous that it isn't plain html. In fact, there's probably a good dozen of megabytes of JS and CSS code, and that is after compression. The code that nobody every asked for. "Yeah I'd really like some people to spend their time writing thousands (?) of lines of code just to provide me with a site with the exact same functionality but with way poorer performance" - said no user ever. Bloated frontends should actually push users away it'd seem, and they probably do to some degree, that's why e.g. nitter and invidio.us exist.

And this doesn't only apply to twitter. The same with youtube (there exist even more alternative front-ends, hooktube and invidious and there probably are more). The same with the vast majority of sites on the web, actually.
There are countless frameworks like React or Angular, that achieve the same thing as can be achieved using regular HTML and some js, but they make websites slower AND require people to develop them AND people to learn them.
And by the way AFAIK nitter or invidious devs aren't paid anything for creating the sites, they might receive donations but that's it isn't it

So who profits from the labour of those who develop such sites? Why would the capitalists behind e.g. twitter be interested in
a) Paying more people
b) Making the site less attractive to users, thus potentially reducing their profits.
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 No.2336

>>2335
The internet is a Chrome walled garden now, haven't you heard? Of course, it's not a monopoly like IE and microsoft!
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 No.2338

>>2336
Mozilla is basically google's puppet I think. Gecko is increasingly more akin to Chromium. And even then it cannot render such a popular site.
The entire internet is controlled but a single company. What a motherfucking dystopia we live in. Frightening.
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 No.2700

>>1987
>All of that is supported by HTML directly, i.e. it doesn't even require a single line of javascript to accomplish that.

It sounds to me like you think, you only need to use HTML to make twitter, which is obviously not true. For twitter database is a must, also you need backend language for communicating with database, I mean stuff that is fetching certain data (for example all posts by certain user) and sending to display in views. This backend language cannot be HTML, it can be JS, or any other programming language. Thing is: database comunnication is widely known as bottleneck in many web applications, I mean its a thing that is causing web app to be slow. So if you say that JS front end rendering is bottleneck of twitter, then I am asking: How do you know that bottleneck is not caused by database communication which is not related to JS?
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 No.3629

>>2700
Because nitter loads way faster while it should actually have to spend more time fetching data from twitter than twitter itself.
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 No.3631

At least its not reddit
>Open page
>Page loads fine
>After page has fully loaded it removes everything on the fucking page and says
&ltOoPs sOmeThINg wEnT wrOnG


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 No.3507[Reply]

What are you guys doing for exercise during quarantine? Got a couple of adjustable dumbells with 200 pounds plates myself. Can't find a barbell and olympic weights to save my life right now.
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 No.3512

I use the catalog instead of making duplicate threads like some meathead: >>2726
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 No.3611

>>3512
meanie :(


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 No.3414[Reply]

I made this video, I hope you can use it as a quick answer to all of that scum who tries to defend german soldiers during ww2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=att1P4Ot-y0&t=60s
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 No.3415

>>3414
based

This almost absolves you of the crime of being a namefag.
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 No.3459

>>3414
Kek. Nice one


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 No.3323[Reply]

Does anyone on here follow breadtube i've been bit dispirited with it lately tbh it was since about the time Dr. bones got cancelled… it's nothing to with the lies about them being
pedos, rapists or catfishing themselves they are mainly Kiwifarms conflagrations, its more the infrequency and nonchalance of their output, and the arrogance that implies.

are there any other sites lile MeansTV with specifically lefty stuff? Or have you got any reqs on people i should be watching?? please say there is leftygab or Dlive or something. im just so sick of centrist media and the endless/bottomless stupidity of it.


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 No.3159[Reply]

Can we get an /x/ thread going for any and all weird shit, serious or not? Since this is probably a majority materialist board, skepticism is welcome as well.

As a kid I was really fascinated by stuff like the paranormal and ufology. Not much of a believer anymore but every now and then I'll read about someone's experience or see a photo or something which causes me to pause and think there might be more to the universe than we think.

Anyways, I just started playing Deus Ex and it got me back into that sort of mindset. Figured I'd make a thread and see if any anons were interested.
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 No.3163

>>3159
Even if we are talking in a materialistic sense. I always believe in the zoo hypothesis where our solar system is actually heavily monitored by other civilizations on our economic development. With all of them being post-scarity cybernetic communists.
That’s why even though posadism is a big meme I still think that any species that can explore space would be communist. Maybe capitalism is our greatest filter yet.
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 No.3164

Fidel Castro was clairvoyant.
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 No.3166

Please don't.
We have enough schizo-posting as it is.
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 No.3302

>>3166
Use this as a containment thread then, if you think someone's being a little too schizo direct them here
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 No.3304

>>3166
Redirect every schizo to this thread lad.


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 No.1956[Reply]

Thread for discussing general Super Smash Bros topics

- casual play

-competitive scene

-cool combos & more
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 No.2593

Is anyone here interested in any of the competitive aspects of smash or is it all just fun and games?
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 No.2604

>>2593
For funsies, plus patting myself on the back for spotting references and remembering where a song is from.
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 No.2686

I haven't played for hundreds of hours (yet), but I just got murdered, saw my opponent grabbing the Smash Ball and a Blue Shell while I respawned, and I got murdered right again, so here are my unsolicited opinions about improving Ultimate:

1. There should be more mobility when you respawn, like flying around in a UFO for a bit and then jumping out of it or something like that.

2. Item spawning should be balanced around character speed and position. For the basic idea, picture a flat stage with two characters standing there. A single item can spawn in the middle between the characters, meaning when both characters start running towards it simultaneously, the faster one will grab it. A more fair reference point for spawning is wherever both characters would meet when they started running towards each other simultaneously. Of course, items only ever spawning exactly at that reference point would be pretty dull. Instead, this could be used together with some randomization and a tracker checking whether there is a strong trend of being particularly fair or unfair towards a player in how the items have spawned and this potentially triggering a different spawn point to make up for that. You also need to take verticality into account, but that's the idea basically. (Perhaps something like that is already in the game; if so it's too subtle for me to notice.)

3. The Final Smash Meter as an alternative to the Smash Ball seems like a really half-baked idea. I think it should take longer to get the F Smash from this (especially with characters that have a very strong F Smash) and when the bar is full, I think it would be more interesting if the character pulsated in and out of the state where you can do the F Smash, like 1 second in, 2 seconds out, 1 second in or something like that.

4. Attacks by slow characters should have more hitstun.

5. There should be an automatic slow-mo replay of the kills after a fight because I often have no idea what just happened. I feel like I'm Joe Biden driving a car. Where am I? Who just got killed and how? When somebody got killed by stage hazard or an item, a little line of text explaining what it was would be helpful. Oh my God, I really sound like I'm getting senile :(
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 No.2699

6. Items are really overpowered. They should modify your character's abilities, but it feels rather like your character vanishes for a while behind the awesome power of the item. EITHER Items should get a big nerf across the board, from how long gust of wind, the hammer, the invincibility star etc. are active to how often you can swing the big baseball bats and swords OR a kill with an item should count for half as much as a non-item kill. Or maybe both.
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 No.3210

/v/ is now the roulette board, please go there for your video game related discussions.
>>>/roulette/


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 No.1389[Reply]

Thoughts on Hypernormalisation
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 No.2940

>>1844
Bad takes like what it? Interested in watching it. But stuck in the living room so tell if there are any adult situations please
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 No.3072

>>1389
It's appropriately Lynchian for our horrific post-modern fascist world. The book that coined the term is worth looking into:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Yurchak

an interesting talk of his (in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg6Vq0cXvSc

the book: https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Everything+was+Forever%2C+Until+it+was+No+More
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 No.3107

Anne frank is really cute why did the nazis have to kill off so many qt jews omg
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 No.3145

>>1389
Why was she so cute bros? She didn't deserve to die so early.
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 No.3146

>>3107
Nazis were really autistic. Fuck them.


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 No.2887[Reply]

Did Kojima predict the coronavirus outbreak?


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 No.2808[Reply]

Do you like Godard movies? Probably most famous leftist director. Do you think he doing disservice to socialist ideas by obscuring them? I love his 60s movies: Pierrot le fou, Weekend, but i must admit i dont understand his latest movies, maybe because i dont understand historical context. I watched Film Socialisme today but i dont know what to think about that, can anyone explain what does he want to achieve?
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 No.2818

Can't really help you with his later stuff, but I've enjoyed all of his early New Wave works from the 60s as well. Contempt, My Life to Live, and Alphaville are personal favorites.
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 No.2825

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I'm not a film enthusiast (far from it) but I watched La Chinoise on a weed edible. It was great.


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 No.2673[Reply]

Anyone watch this series?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42XISWiH7jc

It chronicles from 1920s to 1960s and then various other americana stuff.
I watched the 1930s one and it seemed pretty relevant now

>Economic crash because of nature

>Democratic candidate proposing a new deal
>1 term US president
>authoritarian regimes emerged in several countries in Europe and South America
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 No.2674

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>This video contains content from CBS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
also we have a history board >>>/roulette/
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 No.2676

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>>2674
yeah but I though this was entertainment-ish more than historical knowledgey

also fuck geo-blocks! VPN ftw


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