J. Kirchartz @kirch@tilde.zone

January 20 2017: Alt-right leader and fascist Richard Spencer gets punched in the face at Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC. Happy Anniversary!

Deno is a cool project. However...

https://deno.land/std/manual.md Why did they have to build their static HTML manual as a web app which requires JavaScript, has a loading spinner, breaks if there's a network hiccup, and can't render incrementally on slow connections?

And why is every single client given the task of rendering the markdown to HTML, instead of just rendering markdown to HTML once on the server?

me

this looks like something @SuricrasiaOnline would have in their library https://twitter.com/scienceshitpost/status/1217939056031457280

why cant I, hold all these mullets?

In today's WTF news... Opera - yes, the browser company - "has made a dramatic pivot into predatory short-term loans in Africa and India" https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnaround/

Burden comes deviants or counts
#HolzerKreuger

fun math:
-financial experts say you should only spend 1/4 to 1/3 of your income on housing
-the average price of a one bedroom apartment in Harlem is ~$2300 per month
-in order to afford this, at the max recommended 1/3 of your wage working 40 hours a week, you'd have to earn ~40 dollars an hour.
-To get to 1/4 your wage, you'd have to earn ~53 dollars an hour.

rent control isn't an extreme policy, it's a compromise between right now and eating your landlord.

if you tell me to RTFM i will block you

Car Alternators Make Great Electric Motors; Here’s How

The humble automotive alternator hides an interesting secret. Known as the part that converts power from internal combustion into the electricity needed to run everything else, they can also themsel… https://hackaday.com/2020/01/16/car-alternators-make-great-electric-motors-heres-how/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1217826651209379840

Bad idea of the day: a study comparing average number of lines in a repo to that repo's license