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by dimal 1y ago
In seven weeks, there may be no way to restock. Six weeks inventory probably seems fine when there’s a constant inflow.
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by dimal 1y ago
It goes deeper than that. All publicly traded corporations are morally obligated by the Friedman Doctrine [0] to do stuff like this. If something returns value for shareholders (and monopolies do) then a CEO must do it. This is how the wh
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by dimal 1y ago
> Pure vision instead of error prone "set-of-marks" system (the colorful boxes you see in browser-use for example) One benefit not using pure vision is that it's a strong signal to developers to make pages accessible. Th
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by dimal 1y ago
I like it, but the best modules already have knobs and jacks for everything. When you have CV going into the jack, the knob acts as an attenuator or attenuverter. This means that the modules are generally larger. Make Noise generally does t
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by dimal 1y ago
That’s an interesting argument. I looked it up. Looks like it’s from Thomas Paine in Agrarian Justice.[0] It’s essentially an argument for universal basic income. Crazy, radical stuff, and it’s hosted on a government website! [0] https:&#x
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by dimal 1y ago
I’ve gotten into this mode too, but often when I do this, I eventually find myself in a rabbit hole dead end that the AI unwittingly lead me into. So I’m slowing down and using them to understand the code better. Unfortunately, all the tool
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by dimal 1y ago
I hope you didn’t think I meant to imply that this is only bad for autistic people. I know that many other people have the same issues. But when I mention these problems to people that don’t have difficulty, sometimes they assume it’s just
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by dimal 1y ago
I agree that they are beautiful and detailed, clearly illustrating the point. I really, really love them. I'd love to have them on my wall. That's not my problem. My problem is that they never stop animating. For me and many other
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by dimal 1y ago
Agreed, it's aesthetically beautiful. It should be a coffee table book. But for the web, it has terrible usability. Really, really terrible in multiple ways. My comments will be harsh, but since the creator is obviously very skilled,
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by dimal 1y ago
It's shareholder capitalism. Capitalism can be a great thing, but shareholder capitalism defines profits as the only reason for a corporation to exist. Humans are simply resources to extract work or profit from, and destroying the fu
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by dimal 1y ago
I think you’re overestimating how much needless animation helps sales and underestimating how many people are negatively affected by it. 20% of the population has high sensory sensitivity. Many of these people have issues with needless anim
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by dimal 1y ago
But really, 4chan-style bullshit took over the rest of the internet. At least in the old internet, it was self contained there. If someone spouted nonsense they read on 4chan, you could easily dismiss them as a crank. Now everyone is postin
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by dimal 1y ago
I used to be like that and I’ve completely flip flopped. I decided that people really need to know the problems they cause, and needless animations are absolutely rampant. I was watching a conference talk yesterday on SVG, and the speaker h
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by dimal 1y ago
Looks interesting. I’m a bit confused about how it knows the codebase and the custom rules interface. I generally have coding standards docs in the repo. Can it simply be made aware of those docs instead of requiring me to maintain two sets
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by dimal 1y ago
I think I like the idea, but I have to ask a favor: Please stop the animated banner text! I'm getting tired of how many web developers don't realize that endless, unstoppable animation is a huge accessibility issue. My brain appar
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by dimal 1y ago
I agree with the 100% rule. The problem with Typescript is how many teams allow “any”. They’ll say, “We’re using TypeScript! The autocomplete is great!” And on the surface, it feels safe. You get some compiler errors when you make a breakin
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by dimal 1y ago
Makes me think of The Sorcerers Apprentice.
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by dimal 1y ago
Of course not. You’d have to pay for the product, just like we do with every other product in existence, other than software. Software is the only type of product where this is even an issue. And we’re stuck with this model because VCs need
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by dimal 1y ago
> “We are concerned because the movements you see point to something else other than a normal sell-off,” said a European bank executive in prime services, a division that facilitates leveraged trading for firms including proprietary trad
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by dimal 1y ago
What’s a PMC?
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by dimal 1y ago
The problem is the microblogging format. No microblogging site can be a good town square. It’s not designed for discussion. It’s designed to allow people to shout into the void, hoping that someone hears them, so that they feel for a moment
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by dimal 1y ago
Ok, maybe a more accurate statement would be that the ratio of goofy shit to angst-generating bullshit was much higher in 2008. Maybe it was 70/30 in favor of goofy shit and now it's 1/99 in favor of bullshit. We had Facebook
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by dimal 1y ago
Remember when the internet was all goofy shit like this instead of algorithmically optimized social media angst?
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by dimal 2y ago
It seems like the models are getting more reliable at the things they always could do, but they’re not showing any ability to move past that goalpost. Whereas in the past, they could occasionally write some very solid code, but often return
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by dimal 2y ago
I agree, but I think news was always unreliable, but the difference was that there were only a few news networks and newspapers, and they all basically said the same thing. Everyone believed the same lies, so the system worked. But thanks t
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by dimal 2y ago
Amazon and Meta did too. Then Bezos changed the Washington Post editorial page policy that they could only write about personal liberties and free markets (subtext: not Trump). I wonder what Meta got in return. It seems like this relatively
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by dimal 2y ago
This is a cynical take, but I’m increasingly becoming tired of studies like this. Is this is where our science funding is going? It’s clever, trite, and probably meaningless. I keep reading about the publish/perish problem in academia
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by dimal 2y ago
This is great. That said, I think that unless Apple and Google install something like this by default, it won’t get much traction, because you can’t download the app when you really need it, and most people won’t think to download it befor
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by dimal 2y ago
I prefer types over tests everywhere . If I’m passing props to a component and I get a TypeScript error, that’s a test I didn’t need to write or run. I love finding errors like this at compile time instead of at runtime. Just because HTML
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by dimal 2y ago
This ship sailed in 2000. We've been hacking custom select boxes since then, so we may as well pave the cowpath. And besides, as a user, I want stylable select elements. Seeing an ugly old select box in the middle of a site where every

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