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Personally, I would say that if you are doing DOM updates via AJAX calls that return HTML, HTMX is just the correct way to do it. (Unless you're using some other solution already f…

Why is it better to render JSON on the server, read that JSON in a separate client app that you also have to write, and then do a bunch of manual DOM calls in Javascript, rather th…

The cost of launch is small-ish compared to the total program cost, but the limitations on launch condition the engineering requirements in ways that inflate the engineering costs.…

> The thing is there are just vanishingly few places where you only need a "sparkling of interactivity on top". I would say it's precisely the opposite. Say 97% of work done by web…

It's definitely a really imprecise usage.

I assume "jQuery" here is being used as a metonym for the old frontend style where you would use the jQuery AJAX and DOM functions to query HTML fragments and swap them in. This is…

The customer probably cares if your app takes five seconds to load because of the resource size, or reliably pegs a CPU core whenever you're using it. Of course, neither of these t…

Alpine is primarily designed to be reused via server templating. You use a single template per component to do the in-HTML side, using the server template's facilities to handle va…

How often do you learn new things later that, even as transmitted through untrustworthy media, allow for clear falsification of the former media presentation? This isn't zero but i…

Regarding a topic that you never come into personal contact with, your entire knowledge of it throughout your life will be media-mediated. How, then, would you ever learn what you …

I can't speak to any kind of general principle here, but viewing any standard modern web page e.g. Twitter, Discord in a Web browser reliably takes more CPU and memory than running…

What exactly is the resource-intensive request here? Loading an E-mail, or list of E-mails? I don't see why that should be any more resource-intensive than any other CRUD app.

Piston-engine planes are a remarkably small market. Automotive dominates the fuel market in total, and jet fuel (which is a lead-free kerosene derivative) dominates the aviation ma…

Gas in the US (aviation or automotive) is always sold in gallons, but quantity of chemicals (outside of cooking) usually done in grams/kilograms. Thus, grams per gallon is fairly i…

The decline in smoking has absolutely been accompanied and/or caused by a massive array of state coercion, from requiring all their advertising to prominently state "THIS WILL KILL…

But if arbitrage bots were pushing the BTCUSD price up to match BTCUSDT, they'd have giant piles of USDT. And they'd have to convert it back in large quantities, or else they'd go …

Arbitrage isn't magic. The only way arbitrage can push BTC-USD prices up to match BTC-USDT is if the arbitrageurs are selling a proportional amount of USDT for USD. Either they're …

I mean, no, this is just bullshit. Surplus is what enables complex economies and trade. It also means you have governments trying to take over places, but this comes with surplus b…

Obviously the Bronze Age Collapse is not nearly so historically attested, and there's a lot we don't know. But your proposed series of events is not plausible. Temples, palaces, sc…

> Now, arbitrage bots will look at this in crease in btc-usdt, and be mandated to buy btc with USD so that BTC-USDT and BTC-USD are in parity. This is the bit that doesn't make sen…

If arbitrage bots try to arbitrage between BTC-USDT and BTC-USD markets, and the USDT markets are the ones pushing the price up, then it's the arbitrage bots that would end up hold…

It only works if you've got a specific, somewhat unlikely configuration. You need to have ALL in the user specifier, but not root (or else it's not a vuln, just a bug). So > userna…

...The pro-gun crowd are the ones who constantly quote the amendment verbatim. They don't "hate" it. And yes, it doesn't explicitly say in the text of the amendment what kinds of t…

It quite obviously meant both. The British army, against whom the people who wrote that clause had just finished fighting a revolution, was an army of "the same state" when the fig…

In the context of the time when it was written, "militia" meant the entire male population of military age. You can look up period law codes and find this kind of definition. It wa…