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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Having to calculate and fish out coins? Ain't nobody got time for that. It's not that hard or time consuming if you actually use your change instead of letting it accumulate. I typically have less than a dollar in coins on my
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by basscomm 11mo ago
That only works if you completely reconfigure sales tax
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by basscomm 11mo ago
That's why the dollar coin was redesigned in 2000. The old dollar coin had a reeded edge that was too similar to a quarter, so it was sometimes hard to distinguish if you had vision issues (or if you didn't have vision issues beca
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> That said, I do prefer paper $1 bills over coins. Paper is lighter and easier to carry. Sure, but how many $1 bills do you typically carry around? If it's more than four, then you can trade them in for a $5 bill just about anywher
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by basscomm 11mo ago
We also have a $2 bill that nobody uses for whatever reason. I never understood the objections to the $1 coin, especially after the redesign to make it more distinct from a quarter. $1 coins are great for buying stuff out of vending machine
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> everyone gets pennies as change but few carry them around let alone spend them It's not just pennies, it's all coins. In a former life I worked in retail and almost nobody would fish around in their pockets for exact (or even
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by basscomm 11mo ago
I used to be able to load the local XML and XSLT files in a browser and try it. When the XSLT blew up, I'd get a big ASCII arrow pointing to the part that went 'bang'. It still only kind of works in FireFox XML Parsing Er
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by basscomm 11mo ago
Running a script that interprets a different script to transform a document just complicates things. What do I do when the transform fails? I have to figure out how to debug both XSLT and JavaScript to figure out what broke. I don't
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> font, color, and others are no longer in HTML5 spec. Sometimes browsers are asked to render HTML documents that were written decades ago to conform to older specs and are still on the internet. That still works > JS is not there jus
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Then write it in languages that have debuggers, instead of XSLT. Up until a few years ago, I could debug basic stuff in FireFox. If Firefox encountered an XSLT parsing error, it would show an error page with a big ASCII arrow pointing
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Last i checked, google isn't a charity. Last I checked, Google isn't supposed to be able to unilaterally decide how the World Wide Web is supposed to work
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Google doesn't hate XSLT, it is simply no one wants to maintain libxslt and it is full of security issues. Given how rarely it is used, it is just not worth the time + money. If the author wants to raise money to pay a developer w
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> You can have a document without CSS but you can’t style it. What? CSS didn't come around until several years after HTML did. And you can certainly style an HTML document without CSS. > On the other hand, you can replace XSLT wi
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by basscomm 11mo ago
It's possible to write buggy software in every language.
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> If there were that many, why do people only list the same handful again and again? And where are all the /operators/ of those websites complaining? I've spent the last several years making a website based on XML and XSLT
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by basscomm 11mo ago
> Maybe the pods foam up too much, because it seems hell of a foamy inside. Dishwasher detergent doesn't make suds. Dish soap does. Are you sure you're using the correct stuff? Or prewashing the dishes for some reason and not g
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by basscomm 11mo ago
I think the fundamental disconnect here is that you're assuming that I am a developer. I'm not, I'm a lousy developer. It's not for lack of trying, programming just doesn't click for me in the way that makes learnin
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by basscomm 11mo ago
I'm always puzzled by statements like this. I'm not much of a programmer and I wrote a basic XSLT document to transform rss.xml into HTML in a couple of hours. I didn't find it very hard at all (anecdotes are not data, etc)
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by basscomm 11mo ago
Counterpoint: the more I used XSLT, the more I liked it, and the more I was frustrated that the featureset that ships in browsers is frozen in 1999
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by basscomm 11mo ago
I'm not much of a programmer, but XSLT being declarative means that I can knock out a decent-looking template without having to do a whole lot of programming work.
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by basscomm 11mo ago
My kneejerk reaction is the sunk cost fallacy (AI is expensive), but I'm pretty sure it's actually because businesses have spent the last couple of decades doing absolutely everything they can to automate as many humans out of the
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by basscomm 1y ago
Some man pages are better than others. OpenBSD's man pages are usually very good. Linux's man pages sometimes are so bare that they're worse than if they weren't there at all.
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by basscomm 1y ago
> Does anyone have tips for how to make it more useful? Maybe I could grep better for options? For example in the link, the author lists out common curl commands like making a POST request or adding a header. If you tried to look through
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by basscomm 1y ago
Not everyone is a developer. Finding and fixing typos benefits everyone and allows nontechnical people to participate in the projects to improve the software they use, even if they can't contribute code.
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by basscomm 1y ago
That site is trying to tell me that http://localhost is not a valid URL
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by basscomm 1y ago
I don't think there's actually a shortage of tech workers in the US. I think there is probably a shortage of tech workers in the US that are willing to work for the wages that companies want to pay.
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by basscomm 1y ago
Not even a little bit. Where I work we regularly churn through kids just out of college and most of them don't have Clue One how to operate anything on their computer.
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by basscomm 1y ago
I currently use XML and server-side XSLT to transform it because browser makers keep threatening to remove XSLT support (and I like to make it accessible for anyone using alternative browsers). Unless I'm missing something, Caddy doesn
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by basscomm 1y ago
> you make it sound like setting up automated renewals is an onerous process The problem isn't that it's hard to set up. It's that it adds another thing that I have to monitor for failures and troubleshoot when it breaks.
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by basscomm 1y ago
Expecting someone to set up automation to manage one certificate on a hobby site is overkill

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