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by 9rx 1mo ago
Browser vendors have really dropped the ball in supporting CSS, which is no doubt how we get comments like the above. Firefox is likely the least-worst offender, but as you point out still needlessly complicated for what CSS considers to be
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> is Zig the closest to filling that niche? Given what you said about Go, presumably that is Solod ( https://solod.dev )
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by 9rx 1mo ago
CSS is explicitly designed for you to apply your own user stylesheet. That is exactly what it envisions you doing. If you don't like web technologies you might want to question what you are doing on the web. However, the web also encou
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by 9rx 1mo ago
A closer analogy is going to a gas station where a microwave is offered to heat up any food you purchased. If you don't want to heat up the food, cool. If you expect the food to come hot you're in the wrong place. Except in this c
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by 9rx 1mo ago
Is doing something for yourself really working for free? That's an interesting take. But I can understand why you don't want this for yourself, so enjoy the page in all its splendour as it is already!
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by 9rx 1mo ago
Users being able to supply their own stylesheet is a core tenant of CSS. Go nuts and make it look however your heart desires!
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> Consumers are represented by representatives who should have their interests in mind Exactly. Representatives are merely messengers, so they can only represent the consumers when sharing the message of the consumers to the extent tha
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> Consumers cannot possibly understand all potential ways in which they can be screwed over In a democracy, consumers and the government are the exact same thing. Since they ostensibly do not understand all of the potential ways in whi
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> "My phone is a server now" would've been better Not really. No sign of a phone. Just a computer — same as what all other servers run on. "My server runs on a computer with a form factor that is atypical for server
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they’re increasingly right. Has coding ever meant anything else? This is just semantics, but I don't think a product person talking to customers to find out what
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> The amount of non-determinism in compiler and LLM output is so vast that even comparing them is silly. What is that supposed to mean? Yes, LLMs are often considered to be non-deterministic because, in practice, they rely on systems w
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by 9rx 1mo ago
What is product management and service management? I tried asking the AI: - A product manager (PM) guides a product from its initial idea to its final launch and beyond. They define the product vision, set the strategic roadmap, and work wi
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> People management was always only a branch of management. What other branch is there? You are either delegating or doing all the work yourself. Those who delegate become seen as managers, as that delegation requires managing the peop
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by 9rx 1mo ago
Proponents of what? Growing the pie isn't going to convince anyone who has a small slice of anything. Maybe you've never seen a pie before, but no matter how much it grows by the angle of your slice remains the same. People don&#x
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> What I don't agree with is saying that programming was always management. I doubt anyone would, and that is why we even talked about the time when programmers weren't managers. Again, there really was a time in early comput
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> That's a weird way to put it. How so? > Still, the bulk of the work is in the details. The bulk of the work is in describing the details of what you want to see happen to another entity, which is what managers do. Someone e
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by 9rx 1mo ago
The last time a programmer wasn't a manager was when they were handed a piece of paper with toggle combinations and their job was to flip the toggle switches as detailed. AI doesn't seem to have much applicability in any other pro
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by 9rx 1mo ago
What boggles your mind is not that people are falling for the genetic fallacy, but that others are calling them out for falling for it? Does this stem from you believing that there is value in making logical errors, or is your angle more to
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by 9rx 1mo ago
> I really think it was just one persons opinion that got published. What alternative is there? Obviously very few of the ideas in the book were conceived of by Uncle Bob himself, but his editorial opinion is what chose which ideas to
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by 9rx 2mo ago
Every value must have a zero value was congruent with the dynamic languages of the time, which is signifiant as Go was designed to "feel like a dynamic language" that was able to handle production scale (i.e. something that could
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by 9rx 2mo ago
"Production-grade" typically means something that has been battle tested by users and has gone through all the trials and tribulations of dealing with their complains, suggestions, and other feedback to see an initial vision (the
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by 9rx 2mo ago
Those who held that philosophy (Thompson, Pike) are now retired. Those who still have careers ahead of them want to have something to do. The natural consequence of a "bullshit job" economy.
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by 9rx 2mo ago
> You take it as a conspiracy against developers when it's really a small team trying to find their way the best they can. Especially within a company more powerful than the individuals. The project was done, at least feature-wise
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by 9rx 2mo ago
Only if the compiler is perfectly naive. With the state of today's optimizing compilers, the output might be very different from what you'd expect. But it also doesn't matter because the business goal is the results from ex
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by 9rx 2mo ago
I was pleasantly surprised driving through the boonies recently. Scanning through the channels I stumbled upon a station that I'd say was playing only 20-30% typical radio hits, with the rest filled with artists you may have heard of i
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by 9rx 2mo ago
PGlite offers the "real database" compiled to WASM, which can then be embedded similarly to SQLite. You don't have to choose between PostgreSQL and "just a file".
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by 9rx 2mo ago
The last time I remember seeing the same kind of behaviour was when document databases appeared on the scene. Content creators far and wide were writing about MongoDB vs Postgres, stories about rewriting an app to be "web scale",
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by 9rx 2mo ago
Do you see any other examples of where technical excellence is attention grabbing? From my vantage point, when something does a great job at solving a problem better than everything else nobody spends their days trying to read about it, eve
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by 9rx 2mo ago
> They do not need an ORM. What you do need is some kind of boundary mapping layer so that your application isn't tightly coupled to the database. That might be a an RRM instead, but if you are going to all the trouble of adding a
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by 9rx 3mo ago
Yes, it is nice that there are still glimmers of the good old days of the internet.

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