Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39983233

There used to be a saying (Campaign really) for children about "Don't take candy from strangers." Now why was that? Mistrust was at the heart of it. You had no idea what the candy actually had nor if the child was being lured into a trap. Clearly, you can not ban strangers, you cannot ban nefarious candy nor stop the act of kidnapping of children. What this campaign really did was spread awareness to have parents educate their children on the potential ...

I remember looking at this in its early days and it suckkkked. Now, I'm like woah blown away. Community is much bigger, APIs easier to use, wtf happened! They surely weren't shy to break and break until they got it somewhere they liked. It's open source too.

Bloated? Oh please. Build a somewhat bare Flutter Flame App and the APK is 20mb. I'm sure it could be smaller if I removed some libs that I brought it that I'm not using currently.

Cross Platform. Everywhere except Consoles. Who knows maybe that will come...

I can see why up-voting is useful and how down-voting is detrimental. I can see why many websites have taken decided to remove negative reactions or at least hide the number of negative reactions from the public. When people up-vote things and see the number they tend to just upvote. Same goes for down-votes, no matter how they feel about it. When other people think something is good, that likely boring sh*tty thing is seen as good.

When YouTube decided to hide the number of negative reactions, people took i...

Faux News and Right Wing Co. can b*tch and moan all they want about CRIME when election season kicks in, but fundamentally making crime expensive is not cheap. What is crime? How do you know if criminal act occurred? How do you lower criminal acts?

Of course this article assumes that law enforcement is a bunch of trustworthy do nothing wrong do-gooders, for which many are not and are just there to be told what to do for the job.

First off, you want crime to go to zero? Get rid of the laws obviously ☠️. There...

But "THE CHILDREN" has been used as a rallying cry for passing highly restrictive laws spanning from cursing, rap, video games, pornography, soda, whatever people don't like. Texas, Florida are part of the top 5 biggest states by population and you have their governors signing laws to legislate "social media" and "porn". It's never worked, the "children" find ways to bypass along with not so restrictive parents giving them access. They don't just stop at "THE CHILDREN" either, its just the excuse to shoehor...

With Leptos as the web framework! Yes, the RUSTIFICATION of the world continues!

The motivation for this was to get off NodeJS, which has a myriad of issues that I no longer want to reconcile with. I love Rust, so transforming this blog to use Leptos wasn't hard at all. Going from lit-html to Leptos was just not hard, it's crazy how good some frameworks have gotten with templating.

PageSpeed shows performance improvements of course, some other things I will have to resolve. My server doesn't need as much memo...

The question is will it be called World War 3. Wars are not labeled until they have long past the mark of it actually started.

So World War 1 and World War 2, all coincided with certain countries arming themselves up to the teeth, maintaining alliances and telling everyone don't worry it's only for defense. Take a look around at countries constantly increasing their military budgets far beyond what would be considered peacetime investment and shortages both natural and artificial.

There's a gunpowder (pellets...

Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762776) for reference.

Comments here resonate with me given the weird sh*t that happened starting March 2023. Feeling of fluid in the head, near fainting for no apparent reason, heartbeat > 100 just standing, persistent even when laying down, can't walk going to fall, head heavy, brain fog, etc. Some comments even pointing out how complete and totally shit doctors are trying to convince people that i...

Version 3 is in Lit, version 2 was Svelte, but those choices were because I liked NodeJS and wanted to see how close I could stay to vanilla Javascript, but I'm abandoning NodeJS, in general, due to poor choices on their part. I don't believe in investing more into sink just because it works and is functional. It degrades over time and becomes harder to upgrade. That's what NodeJS is, a degrading sink. It's bloated AF and getting more bloated.

Moving forward I have been moving to Rust. Leptos is a great fram...

Ah Project Phantasy, so original. I'm far enough along that I might as well write about this stuff in a series like Atlas Fury (Project Atlas). I'm excited about the work like I was with Atlas Fury.

Project Phantasy is an online multiplayer game for mobile devices The objective is to land as many hits on the opposing team with your avatars as possible. It's a real time strategy game, on the lines of Clash Royale which is still fun to play.There is no general theme to the game as it touches on many themes.

Pol...