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by azangru 1y ago
> Wasm-compiled SQLite is so successful that it actually replaced a part of the web platform, causing Chrome to remove WebSQL entirely The causual inference here is almost certainly incorrect. According to Chrome Blog [0], WebSQL turned
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> Indeed, looking at the breakdown of Figma over time would seem to reveal that is what has occurred Where can one look at that breakdown?
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You keep saying the word "teachers"; but that word does not appear in the text of the article. Why focus on the teachers in particular? Also, there are various incentives for teachers to publish books. Money is just one of them (I
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I had no idea what Hinge was (had to google), and now I am curious what is it that makes it holy shit with a boost.
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> Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers How is this done, technically? User agent checking? IP range blocking?
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Pro-diversity folks, especially in the humanities, did pick it up. There are several trends you can observe in popular literature on linguistics for general public. One, you will see linguists express regret that languages are dying out, an
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> I can’t imagine the fun of reading “Cien Años de Soledad” in Spanish or Dostoevski in Russian. I wouldn't call reading Dostoevski fun in any language (and I did read it in Russian) :-)
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Is the 'beyond C2' defined? C2 is the highest possible grade in the Common European Framework of Reference for languages. How would one ascertain that someone is beyond C2, given the lack of generally accepted criteria?
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I'd just like to point out that the notion of 'sprint', let alone sprint velocity, comes specifically from scrum. Which is just one version of agile software development, albeit the most common one. For example, the arbitrari
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> Agile is that is only adds a way to quantify what happens, so it definitely creates an illusion of productivity > ... > I worked in fiance once with Agile ... I found that we were putting a metric to everything possible, expectin
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Yes; dysfunctional meetings suck up time. But on the other hand, in a dysfunctional team without meetings, developers do not coordinate their efforts, may not realise what is the most important to do on a given day, do not get a shared unde
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> In Big Agile, engineering = new features. I find it so odd that 'agile' is something that people chose to hate. What dysfunctions did 'agile' itself bring that had not been there before? Didn't managers before
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> if you just turn javascript off that gets rid of 99% Given how websites are built these days, if you just turn javascript off, half of them, if not more, will become unusable.
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Yeah... This is a regular reminder that the Material Web components project [0] has been effectively shelved. [0] - https://github.com/material-components/material-web
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Sure, content is anything a container contains :-) My point was though that when a dictionary definition gives an unsatisfactory reading of a sentence, then perhaps other, indirect methods should be employed to tease the meaning out.
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> I have no clue how you discerned this from the description, but I'd like to understand more. One way of understanding the meaning of a dubious phrase is examining its use in context. For example, one of the pages of the Astro docs
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So how do historians, or philosophers, or classical linguists currently survive in our capitalist system?
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> Why try to engage in the arts ... Why try to engage in engineering quality software Try applying your questions to other areas. Why engage in the study of philosophy, or history, or ancient languages, when barely anything of use ever c
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> Knowing a new language is a lot more than the ability to use google translate. Machine translation has poor reputation for the mistakes it makes; but if it ever gets good, then I wonder why learning foreign languages will be a more pop
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I had a similar reaction, though somewhat weaker, and had to take a double take at the images. On the one hand, at first glance, they aren't as mindlessly hopeless as most of other ai-generated imagery. They even make some kind of vagu
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> I'm currently interviewing for new roles > I have to talk about this one role, in detail, multiple times with every company. Ok; so how do _you_ talk in interviews about this past job that you regret? If you've had to talk
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> Why not use Web Components? If you check out his examples (e.g. clock), you will notice that he is using web components.
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I've switched completely to audiobooks for any kind of books (fiction primarily, but also non-fiction) that do not have code in them, or any other material that requires visual consumption. I made the switch more than 10 years ago. I a
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> Chrome has not been well funded for years. Hasn't it? It has still been developing quite rapidly; and used to lead in interop scores (reflecting how well a browser conforms to the specs).
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Have they given up on tensorflow.js for the browser as well? Is there any replacement?
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> from your explanation of the role I'm not sure I see the value either Google has traditionally had a fair number of developer relations engineers. Chrome team alone has several. The current devrels include Una Kravets, Bramus van
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I've skimmed through the comments; and seen that most people have commented on the cog in the machine thing, or on layoffs in general and how they suck. To me, the shock from this blog post was about seeing a Chrome developer relations
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They want more wizes
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> does not scale CSS already has @layer; and @scope is coming (waiting for firefox). There are naming conventions like bem. There are also tools to guarantee unique class names (css modules, 'single-file components' in various
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> The web is the only platform where people routinely chide other people for wanting to use their favorite programming languages. Oh, I've been plenty chided for wanting to use Node on the server, and not something faster like Go. A

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