Isn’t jfx still actually using HTML and CSS, though? like it’s cool that the UI logic is in Java, but doesn’t using CSS mean you still need to lug a rendering engine around, even if not a whole browser?

you’re right, apparently. from Wikipedia:

The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as “short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.”

AR-15 is semi-auto rather than selective fire, so it’s not an assault rifle. I had mistakenly conflated assault rifles with “assault weapons,” which is a separate (and more vague and contested) term.

you can still buy an M-16 or AK-47, but it has to be transferrable (grandfathered in before FOPA) and you need extra paperwork.

you can buy an AR-15 in any gun store. they even make a “JR-15,” for kids. no, I’m not kidding.

Java (and Object Pascal, I’m assuming) have very old-looking UIs. Discord’s gonna have trouble attracting users if their client looks like a billing system from 2005. Also, what do you do about the web client? Implement the UI once in HTML/CSS/JS, and again in JForms?

So if you’re picking one UI to make cross-platform, and you need a web client, do you pick JForms and make it work on the web? or React and make it work on desktop?

that they’re willing to let some of their kids die rather than get a vaccine they think might turn them trans or autistic shows how much they value the lives of trans and autistic people.

I had a bong as a freshman. I cleaned it with acetone. I then had several tubes instead.

and I was just looking at a 100Tbps backhaul the other day… that’s what, a billion times more bandwidth?

why do all the femboys run Arch? I’m a NixOS girl and I refuse to convert for any boy no matter how cute he is.

a rare LessWrong W for naming the effect. also, for explaining why the early over-aligned language models (e.g. the kind that wouldn’t help minors with C++ since it’s an “unsafe” language) became absolutely psychopathic when jailbroken. evil becomes one bit away from good.

I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.

j00 r t3h f1r57 p3r50n 1v3 s33n 70 u53 1337 5p33k n s00 l0ng, h4xx0r!

perhaps followed by a Butlerian jihad against OpenAI and Tesla.

He might have a connective tissue disorder? EDS in particular causes stretchy skin, though I’ve never seen the scalp do that.

t. EDS patient. it’s pretty crippling and painful but I have some fun party tricks!

And Dimitry Prigozhin was Putin’s chef! Before he founded PMC Wagner, helped invade Ukraine, led a failed coup attempt, and got blown up.

Truly the soul of Russia is in its cooking. 🪆

Lemmy has a grand total of one (1) spambot, a scammer posing as “Nicole.” in a way, this is Lemmy World Heritage in the making.

is there an AMA sublemmy?

I really hope RFK Jr keeps drinking raw milk.

I’m switching to DeepSeek-R1, personally. locally hosted, so I won’t be affected when the US bans it. plus I can remove the CCP’s political sensitivity filters.

it feels weird for me to be rooting for PRC to pull ahead of the US on AI, but the idea of Trump and Musk getting their hands on a potential superintelligence down the line is terrifying.

wait, why would you need to bypass guardrails for this?

I’ve heard that some people have difficulty with hypotheticals in general. not just on political issues, like it’s a surprisingly common cognitive issue.