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by sodapopcan 5d ago
Ya, I wish I saved a link to it but an HN'r wrote a good beefy comment about this. TL;DR, AI has been exponentially more useful, and exponentially more accepted, in tech circles than anywhere else. Certainly there are lots of people
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by sodapopcan 7d ago
I feel I would be in a much better place if I had been banned from using computers as a kid. It's all relative.
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by sodapopcan 7d ago
> Working with the customer sometimes sucks. Sometimes it sucks, but often it's awesome. I love seeing people use what I built for them. It was also very enlightening doing prototyping and watching the customers use it. Often the
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by sodapopcan 8d ago
But that's not quite what it is, though.
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by sodapopcan 8d ago
A bunch of people have already said this but I also have known CSS very well (being using it since its release) and even enjoyed it. Butt the moment I saw someone using Tailwind I thought, "I want that!" The idea that Tailwind i
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by sodapopcan 8d ago
IE, it has a built-in design system!
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by sodapopcan 8d ago
All good points. To be clear, though, I wasn't trying to insinuate that Tailwind has NO design smells. I also like Tailwind, though I don't really use it anymore.
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by sodapopcan 9d ago
> the site docs garnering traffic (beyond potential tailwind labs conversions) is more of an indicator of a code or design smell than anything I've heard this before, but it's really no different than vanilla CSS. My guess is
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by sodapopcan 9d ago
Seriously. I always wonder who makes these comments, then I remember I'm old and there are people who don't remember every era of the web. Although, it's still incredibly weird to essentially claim that Tailwind solved date
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by sodapopcan 9d ago
That's too bad, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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by sodapopcan 10d ago
That is an understatement! And not only that, "simple" is relative. The common saying that gets push back is "Do the simplest thing possible." People always seem to ignore the "possible" part of that phrase.
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by sodapopcan 12d ago
D'oh, haven't been successful
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by sodapopcan 12d ago
Ha, indeed! I misguidedly turned to Reddit somewhat recently when the activity on the programming forum I spent most of my time on died down thanks to LLMs. As I got sucked into reading various shit posting on AI, there are multiple quote
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by sodapopcan 12d ago
Maybe as per usual, I think we all mostly remembered so many numbers thanks to pattern recognition. I'm old enough to have had a rotary phone in the basement growing that I used less than the various other keypad phones in the house.
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by sodapopcan 12d ago
...which can come in handy. Sometimes your cellphone battery dies. I still know my parents' numbers from memory (as well as some of my friends' parents' numbers, though that isn't super useful) but I am concerned about
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by sodapopcan 14d ago
> The things we say publicly actually do matter Certainly > the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences? You mean breaking AIs? Not much of a lesson.
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
Ya, "how do we make money off this?" ruins everything, but it's inevitable. But yes, that is exactly what I liked about the internet back then: I was just browsing the crazy shit people would put online just because they tho
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
A chuckle is the best I could have hoped for! I should have clarified that this was well before "NPC" was being thrown around by even non-gamers.
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
You're right, but along the lines of what another user mentioned, my memories of "the golden age" had little to do with commerce and just visiting cool and interesting websites. I used Yahoo! right up until google became a t
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
> I think when people use NPC as an insult (it is a dumb insult in my opinion) Probably not totally relevant, but a several years ago I was out for one of my best friend's very low-key bachelor party (just a few friends/famil
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
I'm currently looking for work and not even 2 hours ago I wanted to look up a company on Glassdoor for the first time in a while. I forgot they were aquired by Indeed. My Indeed login worked, but then I was demanded to give them my p
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
I got a Sunbeam F1 in January and have been pleased with it. The hardest part is when I lost it, there is no find-my-phone (at least not that I know of, I should look, they are always adding new features). It has GPS and weather which is
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
> Pangram extensions Was not aware of these. Thanks!
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
And here's the rub: it's not just you who had to stop, lots of readers had to stop. You are not alone in this and were absolutely right to point this out. But alone or not, you did you, and that's the point.
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
SEO is what ruined the web AFAIC. > Time to start some human-only darknets. I know very little about darknets. How could you ensure that they are human-only?
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
I think so, though I didn't spend any near that amount of time on other language forums, though I guess that's saying something. It's cool having José, Chris, and other big community leaders participate often. Same goes for
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by sodapopcan 15d ago
> there is a running joke among a part of the community that goes something like "0 days since last persistent workflow orchestration library announcement". Ha, I missed this! I rarely click on any topics anymore, but I have n
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by sodapopcan 16d ago
Oh Lucas! Ha, I searched your name on the forum before even reading the article but did so hastily, a thread for a talk which I guess you commented on came up, and I thought you were the guy from the talk and was like, "Nope, don&#x27
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by sodapopcan 16d ago
I'm not a huge fan of the changes myself, but discussion collapse was in full effect before the change (and had started happening long before it). But ya, I think I agree that it doesn't help. The change was made in good faith i
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by sodapopcan 16d ago
> discussion has collapsed I used to be extremely active on Elixir Forum. It was the main place I would interact with people online, and HN was a bit of a distant second. Now HN usage has spiked a bit and I now have a... ugh... reddit

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