It’s not always destructive as in “to crush”, it can also lend an air of diffusion, dispersion, fraying at the edges, which is perhaps closer to the idea of “sprawl”. I’m not Swiss, so it could be different there, and I can’t speak to how common “Zersiedlung” is in Switzerland. In Germany I would say it’s probably strictly a governmental/admin term of art, if anything.
In my German-speaking opinion, Zersiedlung is more about destruction of landscape than about fraying of settlements. You don't say that a village is zersiedelt, you do say that a landscape is zersiedelt.
You are right. "Zersiedlung" is a term of art in land-use and development planning to describe the undirected expansion of settlements into rural areas. I happen to work in the periphery of planning and approval and the term comes up quite often. The English equivalent would be the mentioned "suburban sprawl".
I’ve always wondered about this. I guess typographically they should just occupy the same horizontal space, or at least be kerned closer in such a way as to prevent the ugly holes without cramming.
It’s true, though, that the hierarchically wrong option looks better, IMHO. The whitespace before the comma is intolerable.
This is an interesting case where I am of two autistic hearts, the logical one slowly losing vehemence as I get older and become more accepting of traditions.
Is some kind of smear campaign against Torvalds going on? For some reason I’ve been seeing a lot of this old stuff make the rounds. This one is actually quite harsh (the “moron” bit) and I don’t particularly agree with the hard-wrapping, but I detest the indignation and moral panic that invariably follows… I also detested it back then, but it’s especially disgusting now that he’s mellowed out a bit.
Torvalds does not really need any help from a smear campaign to come off as abrasive. He is as he is, one of a multitude of different kinds of engineers (indeed, people) one can find I the real world.
Sure, but digging up 13 year old stuff still smacks of intention and I generally find it distasteful. What good-faith reading should we apply to this submission? It’s not like Torvalds is going around sweet-talking people into give him money or votes or attention or whatever, in which case I might see some merit in “exposing” him.
>when those people with lower standards try to get their commits
included in the kernel, I will ridicule them and point out how broken
their commit messages or pull requests are.
I like to complain about bloated websites as much as the next guy, but isn’t one of the curses of the modern web precisely that the main response often doesn’t contain more than some linked scripts and is thus very small? How many of these emails do they send?
Regarding the first two footnotes, I’m pretty sure that originally the singular form “parenthesis” just refers to the aside inserted (by use of brackets, like this) into a sentence. Because it sounds like a plural and because of the expression “in parenthesis”, people probably mistakenly applied the word to the pair of symbols, and when that became common, started using the real plural “parentheses”. This has staying power because it’s fancy and “brackets” is way overloaded, but historically it’s probably just wrong and especially nonsensical in math and programming, where we don’t use them to insert little sidenotes.
But the front end code is in one place, and that place is the server. It is true, though, that the experience greatly benefits the easier it is to manage and return partials from backend code. Some frameworks make it harder than others.
I'd rather have the often loaded static html running on a server that is optimised for that job, or served from a cache close to the user. The backend can then just serve up the dynamic content and be optimised for that job.
The 'often loaded' static html won't help if the 'often loaded' JS bundle is re-deployed (eg, when the devs make a 'small' change) and the cache is invalidated. In that case all the users will be forced to reload the giant JS bundle over and over again, as opposed to just reloading a single resource on a single page like they would with the htmx approach.
I like to return errors as text/plain and I have a global event handler for failed requests that throws up a dialog element. That takes care of most things.
Where appropriate, I use an extension that introduces hx-target-error and hx-swap-error, so I can put the message into an element. You can even use the CSS :empty selector to animate the error message as it appears and disappears.
Usually the default behavior, keeping the form as-is, is what you want, so users don’t lose their input and can just retry.
Acidwolf, Human Action Network, FlexE and his wiki lists some more and might want to check here[0].
I don't remember what website it was (it's probably redacted anyways, but I'm sure he does and others do now) but I remember him once getting joking that someone uploaded his album before he could.
> The Flashbulb is good shit
For those interested, he has a wide range so it can change dramatically between handles and even within albums. For example look at the difference between Lawn Wake I, If Trees Could Speak, and Lucid Base II on Red Extensions of Me. His earlier work tends to be more glitch. (Acidwolf is less glitch but still trippy) But then gets more melodic like in Arboreal and Opus at the End of Everything. I'm pretty sure I've heard Tomorrow Untrodden (from Aboreal) in a car commercial some years ago (was it Undiscovered Colors?).
I'd recommend trying these. I doubt people will like all but I think these are all approachable and have good coverage.
- Terra Firma, on Terra Firma
- If Trees Could Speak, on Red Extensions
- Passage D, on Kirlian Selections
- Piano variant on Old Trees (Not on Spotify [1])
- Precipice, on Piety of Ashes
- Undiscovered Colors, on Arboreal
- Three Hundred CC, on Hardscrabble
- Dishevel, on Krilian Selections
- Coinage, is this even in an album?[2] Dude makes a fucking song out of dropping coins.
- Or watch what he does with a fucking straw...[3]
I've been listening to the guy for over a decade now and he keeps producing great stuff. I also suggest listening to full albums rather than on random.
Side note: he isn't anti-AI. As a ML researcher myself I actually generally like his takes. Use AI to better us, not replace us, not further harm (like Flock), and to make it an extension of us rather than to offload. There's a fuck ton of cool stuff that ML/AI can do and I'm really not sure why we're so hyper-fixated on having it create slop. But hey, I don't get the fixation with human generated slop either. There's two paths we can go with this technology. Either we can use it to drive costs down and produce lower quality stuff quicker or we can use it to make higher quality stuff at the same rate (there's a spectrum of course). I'm already frustrated by the low and declining quality of things, maybe we shouldn't just strap a jet engine to the train already moving that direction...
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