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6y ago
My very-non-self-driving car beeps when I'm not wearing my seatbelt; clearly technology to detect the driver's presence is not rocket science. Lawyers saying it's the "driver's responsibility" strike me as a fa
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I've stopped following anime for several years now. The trajectory of one punch man from it's humble doodle-like beginnings to mainstream speak volumes about the state of commercialization these days IMHO. The isekai genre is defi
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6y ago
Saw an article a while back[0] FWIW, it says Uber opened already, but returning to office is voluntary at this point, there are capacity limits (IIRC 20%), and as far as I know, most people are still working from home. [0] https:/
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6y ago
Why is the assumption that it's an either-or thing? We can have responsible parents AND people being outraged at zuck's moneygrab-at-the-expense-of-children move. With this said, I don't exactly understand how an instagram fo
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6y ago
I definitely read resumes (and ask about it). While it's not the sole criteria for hiring/not hiring, I think it says a lot about the candidate.
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6y ago
Took a glance around the thread. In summary, it sounds like you are still fairly young (in the good sense), have an analytical mind but haven't sticked with anything for longer than 2 months. You said you're worried about your imm
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6y ago
> Linda Smith, 35, was allocated a hotel room at the end of November, grateful to have a place to shower and a bed in which to sleep. But the hotel has a 10pm curfew that she consistently has to miss if she wants to earn enough money mak
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6y ago
It's a stage 2 proposal, which technically can be used today via babel[0] (though personally, I don't recommend using stuff below stage 4) [0] https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-proposal-throw-expre.
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6y ago
> The complex surgery involved a team of more than 50 specialists including surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and residents > Their observations will inform the development of Mount Sinai’s Tracheal Transplant Program, enabling Dr.
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Oh, don't even get me started on CBSA. I was driving from a town in Illinois to Toronto (a very long 10 hour trip as it was). Got to the border, they said that I needed to pay several thousands dollars to import my car because accordin
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6y ago
Had a strange experience in my last entry into the US myself. I have a Canadian passport, but have a US green card. Officer (in a rather rude tone): "what were you doing in Canada?" Me (sleepy and a bit disoriented): "sorry?&
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6y ago
To be clear, I didn't mean to compare a butcher shop to a Whole Foods, but rather to point out that not all food markets are live animal markets, and that blanket statements like "China does X" can gloss over the fact that ev
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6y ago
Well ultimately that's up to you. Just saying that it might cause some grief in terms of SEO, googling/stack overflow, accidentally downloading the wrong thing, etc. Also, it's not really great etiquette to reappropriate name
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6y ago
> has poor wet market sanitation practices Honest question: Is that a fair/accurate generalization to make? If Hell's kitchen episodes and accounts from food industry workers are any indication, sanitation practices in food han
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6y ago
Oof, consider renaming the project. Hyperscript is the name of an existing project[0] whose namesake is used to identify a specific JSX-compatible API pattern that is used extensively by several projects, some of which are fairly high profi
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6y ago
cmd+"+" has always worked regardless of what unit is used, though?
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6y ago
Also worth mentioning that rebuilding on file system events is something that already existed in the JS space, and it's typically just called "watching". Even the compile-only-what-is-needed part already has established termi
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6y ago
Yes I'm aware of that. But regardless of whether you mean this in the sense of adapting to user stylesheets or the idea that disparate elements' font sizes should relate to each other, they both strike me as maintainability trade-
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6y ago
Not sure what argument you're trying to make; can you clarify? This article is also partially about smartphones (dark mode, responsiveness, etc). Back when `em` was not a thing yet, text was measured in `px`, where 16px was considere
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The delicious irony is that this adds an extra point of failure (the request to the CSS file may time out), which brings us right back to the message of the original...
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6y ago
Good advice regarding `lang` and a11y aside, I think people are starting to kinda miss the point of the brutalist format. The format is meant to prioritize pragmatism and functional form instead of being statements in and of themselves (in
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6y ago
Some people see `px` and assume it's physical pixels and because they know some devices have different pixel densities, they go complaining about how coding in terms of pixels instead of `em` doesn't account for density, unaware t
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6y ago
We are not in a simulation, but if hypothetically we were, any answer would be equally conceivable, since they're all hypotheticals with no concrete basis on reality.
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6y ago
> My skillset is just HTML, CSS, Javascript and Python Why not just use Django?
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6y ago
Sure, when you have compilers and third-party static analysis tools, the palette of what is feasible broadens significantly. I was speaking strictly about no-build-step frameworks.
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Yeah, I wouldn't go as far as say that it impedes communication, but it's more common than one might expect for a random conversation to derail into a conversation about dialect differences.
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Agreed, incremental recompilation falls squarely in the AOT camp.
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I spent a lot of time w/ latinos in college. Argentinian spanish does have some peculiarities that make it more difficult to understand than other countries' variants - most notoriously, 'y' sounds like throaty `j` (bord
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I may just be being pedantic here, but isn't this AOT rather than JIT? JIT means the optimizer is code that ships as part of the runtime, which is sort of the opposite of what this does.
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I don't recall about the specifics in Argentina, but in Brazil, it's customary to greet females by touching cheeks with them and making a kiss sound. It would most definitely be very awkward if you (as a male) attempted to do it t
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