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by dmitriid 4y ago
You can read the words "Hotel Platinum" on the phone photo. And it's blurred and "mushy" on D5500. And the phone had additional glare from an oncoming train, and it still pulled out things out of the dark. Depends o
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Wouldn't rehydrating the specific page which uses web component eliminate the need for explicit SSR support in the JS framework Erm.... No. If you don't have SSR then it doesn't matter if it's web components or not:
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Do biritish people really talk that polite IRL all the time? The other side of the same humor is re-writing everything with "oi, c*nt, over here, you c****sucker" Aaaand I think it's the same people :)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The fact that it's available in Chrome (don't insult us by using the vague Blink-based browsers) means literally nothing. Because Chrome are well known for shipping half-baked Chrome-only non-standards just because they feel
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Web components are a browser standard; so anyone thinking about the long haul for their web product would be well advised to think about web components as well. It doesn't make it 1. a good standard, 2. a requirement, and 3. a via
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> SSR first applications and might likely think about using a light weight framework like Svelte for a client rendered 'feature (or) two' like I did. Rich Harris called this "transitional apps" :) See this excellent t
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> planning to use Svelte for a component in your SSR application please note that that their Web Components support No idea why you put SSR and web components in the same sentence, and in a way that presumes that web components are requi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
What exactly was the threat for Apple in ~2008 or earlier when they started developing their own CPUs? Or 5-6 years earlier when they started developing iPhone? Or in late 2010s when they decided to transition their laptops and desktops to
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by dmitriid 4y ago
They weren't talking about web components.
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Apple could've also milked their cash cow. And yet they implemented and executed a multilayered intertwined decade-long (or actually longer) plan. Their first custom chip was launched in 2010. It means they were designing it since at
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by dmitriid 4y ago
And where exactly are those SoCs? I mean where are the M1-level chips? Forget M1. Where are A-level chips? They didn't even anticipate the switch to 64-bit on mobile devices, much less M1. Yes, custom SoCs are nothing new. To pretend t
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Apple has had over a decade designing and testing these chips to exact specifications and use cases. Without this you have... well, literally everyone else who haven't done this (because they couldn't or wouldn't). This is wh
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> they'll probably be offended by it once they figure out what it means. If that person is from the States and/or uses the term specifically in the way it's used in the US. And even then most might just shrug it away bec
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by dmitriid 4y ago
A year ago I skimmed through the spec and counted ~40 distance units in CSS (12 font units, 18 viewport units, 7 absolute distance units if I counted correctly). As you'd expect, none of them do what you'd really want them to do.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The black people on the receiving end of “coon” would be the decision makers in this case. The black people in the United States, specifically. To put this into perspective: 1.2 billion people live in Africa alone, most of them non-whi
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> They weren't at a casino. They lost the money in trading markets. Yes. They've gambled away the money that didn't even belong to them in a game of chance. It's a casino, but with other people's money. > And
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> So I do think blockchains do have some unique use cases where they would be beneficial (e.g. I think property (land, home, car) titles is a good one Two years ago I had a discussion on land registries. No, blockchain is a terrible tech
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by dmitriid 4y ago
I absolutely love the insight. I have some nitpick of course :) > just build off the open source code and data structures instead of having to re-implement it all from RFCs and other loose spec documents. It's never "just&quot
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> definition of "lunatic" - "a person who is mentally ill (not in technical use)." Have you, your relatives or your friends ever used the phrases "are you insane?" and "are you out of your mind"? W
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> coon' is objectively a long standing racist slur. In the US. Not even the whole of the US, but in some parts of the US. > That some people ("a guy from South Africa", ffs) claimed not to know this I wonder who is bein
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Ah, I misread you. Apologies!
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%! You make the mistake of assuming that blockchain had something to do with it. And not the act of replacing paper records with digital records. Blockchai
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by dmitriid 4y ago
It does. A few years back a non-native English speaker presented an Erlang library called `coon` because he like this abbreviation of the word `raccoon`. [1] The shitstorm from Americans (US and Canada) was unbelievable. Even though: - most
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by dmitriid 4y ago
You never played Porntris I see. Note, NSFW, https://www.retrogames.cz/play_445-DOS.php?language=EN
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by dmitriid 4y ago
WAT W and I cannot stress this enough AT?!!!!!! We had multiple re-runs of it in the 90s in various post-Soviet countries.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Whether it's hugely offensive or not isn't necessarily the right question here. It is the right question. If a term once considered offensive no longer is one, and there's no one who gets offended by it, is it still offe
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Sorry, I keep forgetting that HN is weird with line breaks Re-typing/re-quoting: -------- The link literally has this: export const className = style({ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column',
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> the way it's made, via object properties, enforces compliance to the design system. The link literally has this: ``` export const className = style({ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', selectors: {
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Hm. I see the same CSS-in-JS with a sprinkle of string interpolation for some variables :) I may run into the same issues as the other CSS-in-JS solutions (I only encountered stitch once, and not for a long period of time)
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> That's the same problem I see with tailwind. The thing with Tailwinf is that it already has a decent design syste encoded in its utility classes. It's very easy to slap a p-2 for a standardized padding than trying to remember

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