Devasta

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by Devasta 1y ago
Abandoning XML tech is was and forever will be the webs biggest mistake. The past 20 years has been just fumbling about trying to implement things that it would have provided easily.
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by Devasta 1y ago
Slow compile times are a feature, get to make a cuppa.
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by Devasta 1y ago
It's honestly embarrassing that we are twenty years since the browsers took control of HTML from the W3C and they still have nothing approaching even one tenth the capability of XForms. The fact that legions of developers are working o
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by Devasta 1y ago
From wikipedia: Murdock purchased Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina, in 1982. At the time, the company was profitable and had no debts. He used the company's profits to pay back the loans he secured to make the acquisition be
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by Devasta 1y ago
Just like with IE, Microsoft will lose domination in the OS space for no other reason than it just gave up. It's maddening that they is a really capable OS sitting right underneath the layers of crap we have to deal with.
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by Devasta 1y ago
More licenses should do the same, this is excellent.
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by Devasta 1y ago
So if you had a machine that could solve blocks at a tremendous pace, could you rapidly go through 2016 blocks with minimal transactions processed, then just switch your machine off? The difficulty will have gone through the roof and transa
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by Devasta 1y ago
Imagine software engineering was like real engineering, where the engineers had licensing and faced fines or even prison for negligence. How much of the modern worlds software would be tolerated? Very, very little. If engineers handled the
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by Devasta 1y ago
Honest answer: because any serious efforts to improve HTML died 20 years ago, and the web as it's envisaged today is not an infinite library of the worlds knowledge but instead a JavaScript based and platform. Asking for things that th
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by Devasta 1y ago
With AI, all we will need is staff to write down a few paragraphs of their needs and constraints and the computer will be able to deliver the desired outcomes. Also, despite the fact that we were all working remotely for years, we need you
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by Devasta 1y ago
HTML -> JSX CSS -> Tailwind JS -> Typescript It must be maddening working as a browser dev knowing that the very first thing most devs worth their corn do is immediately go to abstracts so they are able ignore your work as much
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by Devasta 1y ago
Shooting a healthcare CEO and shooting MLK are the same thing to you? That's incredible.
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by Devasta 1y ago
Tbh the only thing that surprises me about Luigi Mangione is that there hasn't been a thousand more like him over the years. What a farce the US healthcare industry is.
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by Devasta 2y ago
Atlas Shrugged was one of the most important books I ever read. A society where the rich destroy the entire world fighting stupid battles against each other, even witholding technology that would aid all humanity because someone other than
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by Devasta 2y ago
I manage a team of business analysts and accountants who use XSLT for generating reports for banks, XSLT is usually their first experience programming outside some linkedin learning courses. Not once has one of them ever complained about na
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by Devasta 2y ago
If a browser was designed from scratch today it wouldn't have a markup language, documents would be PDF and everything else would be Javascript to canvas. Suggesting something like HTML would have you laughed out of the room.
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by Devasta 2y ago
I manage a team who build and maintain trading data reports for brokers, we have everything generate in a fairly standard format and customize to those brokers exact needs with XSLT. Hundreds of reports, couldnt manage without it.
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by Devasta 2y ago
And after all their efforts to get the unknown markup into an document form, they'll convert it's contents into the dominant information format of the 26th century: PDF.
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by Devasta 2y ago
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, he may find he has a web page from an unknown time period. To read it, all he'll need to do is reimplement all standards for the previous 500 years. Version numbers wouldn't make this easie
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by Devasta 2y ago
Maybe I'm just in the minority, I just don't see what purpose this serves. Besides my mouse, I just don't have anything that uses USB. My phone generally isn't connected, I've not needed a USB drive in years and I s
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by Devasta 2y ago
The internet has never been as good as it was when flash was at its peak. Just this past week Trump made a tit of himself on camera with Zelenskyy. If this happened in 2005 there'd already be some minigame out where youd be Zelenskyy f
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by Devasta 2y ago
Stuff like this is why UTF and any attempt at trying to encode all characters is a mistake. The real solution is to force the entire world population to use the Rotokas language of Papua New Guinea.
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by Devasta 2y ago
He seems to have the laughable belief that his conversation with Jerry couldn't possibly be disrespectful because he didn't swear and he didn't raise his voice, but completely ignores that he is repeatedly calling Jerry a lia
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by Devasta 2y ago
People are using machines dozens of times more powerful than machines from 15 years ago, but do they do things that are materially different to what they did before? Not really. They absolutely do care, even if they cannot articulate whats
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by Devasta 2y ago
HTML can never be meaningfully improved, that fact is at the heart of the current attitudes by the browsers. We are 20 years into the takeover from the W3C and still can't even do a PUT request without JS, nevermind anything approachi
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by Devasta 2y ago
Whether or not Musk is right about 150 year olds getting Social Security doesn't matter, he just wants to destroy the administrative state. So long as that happens, they'll be perfectly happy with the outcome even if they get prov
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by Devasta 2y ago
Meta has legions of people working tirelessly to give it's users mental disorders, be it on Facebook turning your elderly relatives into racists and transphobes or Instagram giving young women body image disorders, and yet somehow ever
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by Devasta 2y ago
> My overriding feeling after reading this is: displaying text is a key job of a web browser. Displaying ads is the key job of a web browser, and they are mostly video these days.
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by Devasta 2y ago
But people search reddit because its the last place on the internet not infested by AI slop, this is awful news.
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by Devasta 2y ago
When it comes to advertisers, there is no reason to assume anything but deliberate malfeasance.

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