Devasta

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by Devasta 9mo ago
You've always been able to do it, doesn't even need to be HTML, serialise as XHTML and you can include the tags on your own namespace and have separate CSS for them. <!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http:/
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by Devasta 9mo ago
JavaScript is the primary language of the web, HTML is just the payload carrier. I don't want it to be this way, but HTML has nothing approaching even one tenth the ambition of XSLT and XForms. If HTML were proposed today, you would be
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by Devasta 9mo ago
People do for far less. If the Covid lockdowns taught us anything, its that a colossal number of people would happily subject tens of thousands of people to easily preventable deaths if it meant they could get Applebees for dinner. Besides
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by Devasta 9mo ago
Good. Cars only exist as a viableeans of transport due to vast subsidies and a total reorganization of society to suit them. Motorists should pay the cost of this absurd status quo.
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by Devasta 9mo ago
For every one who is excited about using AI like an incredibly expensive and wasteful auto complete, there are a hundred who are excited about inflicting AI on other people.
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by Devasta 10mo ago
> Where does the organisation intend to draw the line? The answer to this question is always "somewhere". Just because I can't proclaim an exact number of trees that constitute a forest doesn't mean the concept doesn&
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by Devasta 10mo ago
If you look at daytime TV in the UK, there are a lot of ads targeting the elderly talking about funeral cover and life assurance and so on. I for one cannot wait for a future where grandparents get targeted ads showing their grandchildren,
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by Devasta 10mo ago
If I was vegan and found out after the fact that a meal that I enjoyed contained animal products in it that doesn't mean I'm some hypocrite for consuming it at the time. Whether I enjoyed it or not at the time it still breaches so
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by Devasta 10mo ago
> To me, art is a form of expression from one human being to another. An indie game with interesting gameplay but AI generated assets still has value as a form of expression from the programmer. How though? If questions about style or su
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by Devasta 10mo ago
Excellent news. A blanket ban is the way to go on this, people trying to muddy the waters professing they just have nuanced opinions know what they are doing... it's only a horse armour pack, it doesn't affect gameplay, you don&#x
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by Devasta 10mo ago
Windows has ads now despite me buying it. Peoples TVs have ads now despite paying for them. Ads are now in our fridges for god sake. The idea that if these companies had just made enough money they would have left us alone is farcical. Bloc
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by Devasta 10mo ago
Asbestos and Leaded petrol solved problems for the people who used them too.
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by Devasta 10mo ago
The current web is built for machines, not humans.
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by Devasta 10mo ago
Oh for sure, its way way too late to do it, but I don't think much of any of the modern web stack would be kept if we designed in the 90s with what we know now.
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by Devasta 10mo ago
For me, the mistake is having style attributes in html. You should be able to write <div color="red" font-weight="bold"/> Instead of <div style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"/>
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by Devasta 10mo ago
When I run a red light it's wrong, but when a fire truck does it it's ok? Really makes you think.
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by Devasta 10mo ago
> I had this one really bad manager and I figured that surely I could do better. The only thing worse than being invited to a lot of meetings is not being invited to those meetings.
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by Devasta 10mo ago
Nah, fuck that. If Stormfront had half a billion daily users that doesn't somehow compel you to participate; anyone willing to stay on Twitter isn't worth talking to even if they are personally nice to you.
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by Devasta 11mo ago
Atlas himself doesn't carry as much as "engineering" does in that headline.
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by Devasta 11mo ago
Unironically, Zuckerberg and the rest of the top brass of Meta should be in the Hague.
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by Devasta 11mo ago
Just ban individually targeted advertising and be done with it.
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by Devasta 11mo ago
I know that XSLT can be implemented in JS (and I have used Saxon-JS, its good!) but the loss of functionality for the XML processing instruction will be a shame. There is nothing like in the modern web stack, such a pity.
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by Devasta 11mo ago
Real engineers can face personal liability and even jail time for negligence. How much of modern software practices would exist today if the senior engineer needed to sign off on a project?
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by Devasta 11mo ago
Its framing the issue as something that should be fixed by a change in the mentality of Marsf, not by rolling back the changes.
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by Devasta 11mo ago
I lead a team that manage trade settlements for hedge funds; data is exported from our systems as XML and then transformed via XSLT into whatever format the prime brokers require. All the transformed are maintained by non-developers, busine
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by Devasta 11mo ago
Its "Security" when they want to do a thing, its "WebCompat" when they don't.
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by Devasta 11mo ago
"The reality is that for all of the work that we've put into HTML, and CSS, and the DOM, it has fundamentally utterly failed to deliver on its promise. It's even worse than that, actually, because all of the things we'v
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by Devasta 11mo ago
While China has spent the past few years building trains, factories, solar panels and everything else needed for a global superpower, the west has spent that time buying and selling monkey jpegs to each other. I wonder if they'll be ab
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by Devasta 11mo ago
What about XML isn't modern? It's a far more capable format than JSON or anything else you can devise.
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by Devasta 1y ago
Hardly always good. The mobile app ecosystem on both iOS and Android is a morass of freemium games and ad slop, because the market has determined that hooking one whale is more important than creating a quality product. The competition will

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