The Riker Maneuver
The Riker Maneuver
It’s complicated. It’s sort of colony animal, like a slime mold or a portuguese man-o-war. Either way, you shouldn’t touch it.
They changed the format in the last season and did a bunch of smaller myths and the build-team was less involved. They basically knew they weren’t going to do any more, so none of the cast were invested.
It’s your Beanniversary 🫘
A few things to note:
JavaScript is not a “batteries included” language - if you need math functions or cryptography or any kind of utility, you need to load it along with your script (usually from npm).
Loading a lot of small files is slower than streaming one big combined file, so tools like webpack will stitch all the files in your node_modules directory and minify it, so it’s not unusual to have big files like this.
Does the site actually need all this code? Probably not! The ridiculous part is that every one of those npm dependencies has it’s own list of dependencies, so just grabbing a small handful of libraries can result in huge trees of files!
Even more insane is that many of these probably have shared dependencies, but very slightly different versions, so multiple almost identical packages get downloaded.
Worst of all is that is most packages probably don’t use 90% of the code in the dependencies that they do need - e.g. if you want a “sin” function from a math library then you’ll be downloading “cos” and “tan” too.
There are tools like tree-shaking and pruning that help to remove unused packages during the bundler step, but I rarely see them used. It’s a lot of extra configuration and setup when mostly the products aren’t affected by a few extra KB or MB.
Anyway that’s why js and node and npm suck to both work with and to use. The site probably doesn’t need all that extra code, but there is no easy way to prove it so you get everything “just in case”.
Andy B, - good first name for a tester
“cool”
On Lemmy, it’s your beanniversary 😉
You’ll probably have to generate a lot of plots, graphs and figures. Choosing the right type of figure to explain the data is an important skill - maybe have a play with some of the examples from https://r-graph-gallery.com/
User: I’ve tried everything
Support: Have you tried <first step in documentation>?
This. https://youtu.be/3KXF423TEwY?si=n8ExMrJJRQQHLjIP
This is the early internet - a self hosted, bunch of regular people just doing stuff for stuff’s sake.
Also https://www.cockeyed.com - decentralized, zero budget fun.
In some ways, the low-medium technical barrier was perfect. If you could do some basic html or PHP, you were a creator.
Do not upgrade to Gemini assistant! It literally cannot do any Google home tasks, like set alarms, events, tasks etc.
This is despite it explicitly claiming that it can do most Assistant task (including the ones I mentioned above).
0 Stars.
It’s based on the same technology that makes you turn faster in Mario Kart if you tilt your head and turn the controller like a steering wheel.
Starfleet is not the military as they are so often having to remind everyone
I think the canon reason given for this and other “why didn’t the ship’s computer just stop them?” situations that it’s a privacy violation to just go around scanning people without their permission.
Although they do seem to do a lot of “scanning for life-signs” so who knows?
Boomer:
Millennial:
Gen Z:
Be naughty Request PII data removal Presents
Isn’t this the whole idea behind flatpak but everyone seems to hate it