oopsallmagic

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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Is that the fault of the system, or the fault of the tourists for visiting a new place and not reading up on local customs?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Or even the fifth-grade science project you can do. Fill a soda bottle with air, a soda bottle with CO2, put them in the sun, then measure their internal temperature. You can do it with your kids in an afternoon.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Not exactly. Harfbuzz, the font shaping library, has an optional feature to use WASM for shaping. Normal font hinting is much more restricted, precisely because Turing-complete fonts are a horrible idea.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
The engine isn't built with it by default, so this is a non-issue.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
It's technically not arbitrary. There is a stack, of sorts, but IIRC it has a depth of six or so, by default. You can do cool stuff with font shaping, but you can't easily execute arbitrary code.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
No, because Unicode doesn't concern itself with rendering, it's just for codepoints.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Except road funding, huge chunks of which come from the federal government (because, big surprise, cities and states can't afford thousands of miles of stroads and highways without invoking a government that can print its own reserve c
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
To be fair, I used to live like two or three miles from school, and we would've had to pay for the bus because I was "too close". So mom dropped me off at like 6:00 AM because we were poor as shit. If we cared about education
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
You can fit like 50 people on a bus, and maybe 10 in the equivalent space taken up by two SUVs. Seriously, how is this a question?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
The entirety of the Netherlands used to look like the US in the '60s and '70s, albeit not at Super Sized(TM) scale. Look up their urban design in 2024, it's quite pleasant and human-friendly.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Are these the same bike lanes that start and stop randomly and are often just the shoulder of a 45-mi/h road with a bike, and implied middle finger, painted on?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Adult brains, too. I appreciate the study, but this is one of those "yes, obviously" situations for anyone who has ever been outside amongst cars.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
People need to get comfortable with git being a DAG, and not the degenerate case of just a straight line. Merge commits aren't scary, folks.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Then why are you even using a VCS?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
How is it supposed to know how you want your errors handled by default? Handling errors is the programmer's job.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Can't you just install it?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
It's not. This is a non-issue. Every web shop is writing bash to twiddle a build script on servers they also manage, which includes the ability to install any package they want.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
And of course, it is impossible to install additional interpreters on the computer.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Not once have I worked anywhere where the people writing shell scripts didn't also control all of the boxen those scripts ran on.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
That depends on your valuation.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
I mean, the crap that was already there wasn't great to begin with.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
> We can't expect to turn back the clock and have everyone writing HTML by hand again, not when we're all accustomed to typing text and uploading media via carefully manicured, intentionally minimal user interfaces. I mean, I d
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Children, um, don't use this kind of reasoning.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
I miss actually owning software that couldn't be rewritten or revoked at any given time.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Concur. It's an unfortunate race to the bottom which is just indicative of the dilution of ability in this godforsaken industry. Why can't a team of grunts manage a basic CRUD web app? That's what's so frustrating: most
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
You don't necessarily get them at high pay grades, either. I know people making fat salaries who truly can't manage to write anything decent, it's all a big JS monstrosity with 500 MB of broken dependencies and six build tool
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
And all this for marketing emails nobody reads anyway.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
That used to not be the case. Has something changed?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." All magic comes with a price, and the inside of Mylar packaging is absolutely magic. That is, it seems like whenever we try to science our way out of some food mistake, we end up making it
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
It sounds like your issue is with the syntax of Jinja, and the hellscape of HTML email. I'm not sure how 20 MB of inscrutable JavaScript would help, considering it's also just template rendering with extra steps (bonus: using the

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