ᔑᐸᐱᑚᕬᐱᑎ @skanman@qoto.org

@baldengineer hey man, have you seen this?

@lupyuen well this just went into my shopping list of things to play with..

@cfrock

Doesn't work, we're all morons. One of the reasons it's really hard to invade the United States is the simple fact we're a bunch of morons with guns. It's an enemies military worst nightmare. If the United States did go into "all out war mode" again, which hasn't happened since WWII, the country will reunite as a whole again, invading the mainland becomes unthinkable, because of crazy criminals with guns. Are the chances of that scenario likely? Are they ever not? Once that ended we just go to a short period of celebrating by profiteering from the losers, and then go back to shooting each other peacefully. 😂

@admitsWrongIfProven Damn what a great observation!

Clarity is for sure a major issue these days, everyone wants fast food knowledge, and if it's missing stuff, that unintentionally creates a bias. This is a heavy reflection of our world today isn't it?

Repeating on the different aspects is what makes sociology so complex. Hard job.

Trust me that I'm arrogant 😂. I think that it's a result that I don't make close personal friends, and people individually are absolutely amazing and interesting. But people in large numbers generally suck. 🤣 So my perspective is limited to watching what all these large groups are doing from a distance.

@conradhackett @sociology

I want to contribute that in the United States, police who shoot, are typically sued by the criminal who threatened their life. Then it's a matter of the criminal / victim winning by technicality. The office may lose their career over this, and the ability to fight for everything they believe in. Would you give the criminal who threatened your life this opportunity? The problem is far more complex than simply taking weapons away. The current legal framework encourages this behavior, the media glorifies the hardcore lifestyle, and the citizens that thrive, thrive from a fear based economy.

We're all a little bit villain, and a little bit hero. No human is exempt from being human, one of the things that used to make the US wonderful, was people gained the ability to work hard for the bigger picture. Nowadays, we search for a groups to vilify, justifying the error in ourselves.

The United States is a highly competitive county. As humans we're inherently hunter gatherers, whether our target is knowledge, money, status, glory, honor, righteousness, piety is what diversifies what we value, and at the same time devaluing what is not our target. That makes us arrogant. But it also makes us work hard, fight, steal, lie, kill, protest, scream, and go to other extremes just to climb one more step on the ladder, so we can look down on the rest. My poor country once fought a war on extremism, and we fought it so hard, that we became the monster we're fighting. That's the nature of the great American experiment, some of it works until all of it works, some of it doesn't until all of it doesn't. That's the nature of all experiments. That's the nature of us.

@admitsWrongIfProven You're probably right, I've got a problem with arrogance, and thinking about the long term results of each of these is kind of humbling no matter the choice. You have any idea of how to reduce arrogance?

The main goal of this article isn't to influence you to build your applications my way, it's to illustrate that programming is a creative business, and following everyone else's instructions only leads to building what everyone else has already built. You might make a lot of money building stuff out of Legos, but you won't make more than the guy who created Legos.

Frontends are more dynamic than ever, here's a wild idea to make backends just as dynamic.

Instead of storing your custom modules as files, store them in a standalone database. The code can be executed by the eval method.

Pros -

Code optimization plans become simpler, you can use database reporting tools to see what code is being called, and how often.

Using an object based database such as Mongo or Maria, has the ability to run in cluster mode, which allows event listeners to be attached to the database. This makes building a cloud IDE that allows collaborative real-time development (like Google Docs) much easier to build.

The above allows for automatic code versioning and developer tracking.

The above also allows for the ability to catch errors, and try to run previous versions of the same code when errors occur.

Development of AI becomes simpler, code fragments can be stored and dynamically assembled in real-time when needed.

Server efficiency is improved greatly as node instances run in a process thread. A user that is only using certain features of the application, isn't loading the entire application into memory, shrinking the size of that users thread. Threads become more dynamic.

If a data intrusion takes place, your source code is protected by requiring access to a separate system inside the LAN creating an extra layer of protection.

This can be made super secure by creating private keys that are not accessible to even the admin of the node server because they are dynamically created by the process threads independently in conjunction with the database server, this code is served to the node server also from the database, but from a different user.

Application updates in real-time, while the user is using the app.

The most beautiful pro yet, if platform as a service is your goal, your applications can borrow code from each other in an extremely simple way.

You'll be a rebel.

Cons -

Development occurs inside a database. Can't use VIM, Nano, or even VSCode to edit, requires a custom cloud based IDE. NOT THAT HARD TO BUILD OK?

While can be done on one server, should be done on at least 2.

The eval method is insanely dangerous, it executes code from a string. The core of the application must be write protected in production, and argument validation strictly enforced.

This is a new concept for a node application architecture, there isn't much of an online community supporting it.

NPM modules must remain outside the database due to dependencies. I'm currently writing a module to import and manage them into the db.

You'll be a rebel.

If you've read this far, I hope these ideas have inspired you to branch out more in what you develop. We have have so many tools.

The best architects challenge the best engineers. The worst architects challenge the best engineers. If you're going to be challenged, make sure it's worth it.

#nodejs

@baldengineer For that, it's even better because it will automatically take full color gradients and dither them down to single bit.

@baldengineer I was recommending MS-Paint because it can take a modern JPEG or TIFF and reduce the bit depth automatically when you specify it when saving as a bitmap. So you can start with a modern pre-existing image, crop, resize, save it as 8-bit or 16-bit or whatever, and now you have a great base image to edit anywhere you want.

@baldengineer you're gonna think I'm crazy, but Ms paint from the windows 3.1 era. Those old versions of mspaint let you fully control color depth down to black and white. If you're only doing 2-3 frames of animation, keep it simple. 👍

@admitsWrongIfProven well that's the fun part about infinite self control isn't it? it can be quite expansive, however I mean in a mental capacity. It would make you immune from distraction or deviation. The human mine is extremely powerful, but our ability to multitask and/or process large input can make our thinking erratic. I would say you would have unmatched amounts of focus and will. You might not have the ability to mute pain, but you would have the ability to ignore it completely without it bothering you. To my knowledge, some physical control of the body is manageable via mental choice, so it's quite likely you could learn them much faster than everyone else, but not just have the ability immediately. As far as not burning up on the grill, you'd physically burn just like anything else would. But perhaps you'd have the focus to genetically reengineer yourself into something more than human. The potential is endless, but if someone has no goals in life, they wouldn't be affected at all. If someone has selfish goals they'd probably be amplified into a super villain. Fears are another thing that could be muted. They say love isn't logical, well it could if you wanted it to be. You could feel absolute elation or rage or sadness or nothing at all emotionally 24 hours a day. Most people practice the self control of taming their emotions, you could turn them on or off by choice. This would kill some people. I would probably be one of those people. 🤣

@nomi I always look forward to your poems in the stream 👍

@Grandtheftautism I smell a new illegal business opportunity 🤣

@markodraisma well nobody said skynet wasn't deep

@Grandtheftautism nuclear winter to balance global warming, sounds legit 👍

@Grandtheftautism unless the nostalgia is framed by a state of circumstances, let's say you had 200 Lego sets your whole life, suddenly they all melted due spontaneous thermolegomalgumation, you can feel nostalgic over your loss the very next day.

@Grandtheftautism oooh good question, if the one law could be changed at any time, it would also be irreversible and apply to all. Hope that gives you some context. 😁