This is Why You’re Distracted – Video
Goes well with all the antisocial media posts from this blog:
Debunking Netflix stock price propaganda: Subscriber Growth™!
My Debunking BitCoin Propaganda series of articles during the boom-and-bust period of cryptocurrencies was relatively well-read, mainly because it takes a step back from all the noise and carefully dissects the loud cheers and platitudes crypto pumpers were using to drown out rational thought.
Considering the accurate forecasting of those articles, … Read more
Goldman Sachs sets the Netflix trap
The pump-and-dump is on.
Back when BitCoin and other cryptocurrencies were ascending to unprecedented and irrational highs, I churned out article after article detailing all the analysis from first principles why the real valuation of cryptos is zero, and not $20,000/BTC.
I started writing about the cryptocurrency bubble when BTC was hovering around $… Read more
June 7 Ontario Elections: the illusion of choice
With every passing election, it becomes clearer that all electable parties (i.e. the only ones who are given a platform on media, namely the NDP, Liberals and Tories) are three varieties of the same poison: big government.
The conservatives, technically speaking, are supposed to promote smaller government. But we know that not to be the case, as intervent… Read more
Angular 2/3/4/5: change detection on data-bound array push/unshift, pop/shift or splice
Suppose you have a component and have bound an array variable to an input property, like so:
<myComponent [arrayInput]="myArray"></myComponent>
Suppose you were to modify the contents of myArray via its standard array methods such as push(x), pop(), unshift(x), shift(), or splice(i, c). You may notice that myComponent does n… Read more
Solr 7: match exactly one TextField, fuzzy search the others
Disclaimer: I just recently started tinkering with Solr, so this may not be the “textbook” solution to this problem — but it works!
Say you wish to categorize your documents in a hierarchy. For example, you want to have a pet search engine, and you want to bucket the pets accordingly:
… Read moreDog (mammal)
Dogs are domesticated mammals, not natural w
The Yanny/Laurel “debate” is a sign of the times
Another inanity sweeps the world. Another vacuous Tweet makes international headlines.
The Yanny/Laurel “debate” is surely a sign of the times we live in.
It is a “debate” devoid of nuance, encouraging more us vs. them mentality than independent and critical thought. Everyone is ready to jump into the fray, picking sides and st… Read more
How to replace the default search icon with a custom Ionicon in an Ionic 3 Searchbar
The icon for the Ionic 3 Searchbar is a hard-coded SVG written in SCSS rules. In particular, they are saved under the following variables:
$searchbar-ios-input-search-icon-svg: "<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 13 13'> <path fill='fg-color' d='M5,1c2.2,0,4,1.8,4,4S7.2,9,5,9S1,7.2,1,5S2.8,1,5,1 M5,0C… Read more
Facebook launching dating service, maximizing social dysfunction
Facebook’s announcement of dating features on its platform deserves a genuine laugh.
The platform notorious for increased social anxiety, psychological manipulation and damage, invasion of privacy, and erosion of public discourse, thinks it can “solve” the matchmaking problem.
I suppose it’s a valiant attempt at exp… Read more
The brainwashing is real: Jeremy Lam, “his” culture, and the prom dress
Cultural Marxism rears its ugly head again in the social media cesspool.
This time, Twitter user Jeremy Lam (@jere_bare) had the wherewithal to speak on behalf of 1.5 billion Chinese (and apparently me included). Stereotyping anyone with Chinese ancestry to great irony by grouping us all as like-minded thinkers and not individuals, he accuses a stranger … Read more