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by parminya 4y ago
Even better would be just committing to what's there - it's so widely deployed that it's not seriously problematic. It's there to be used.
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by parminya 4y ago
I generally agree that the documentation is a problem. A lot of the code is commented, so if you can find a package in nixpkgs that is using the same language, you can usually do some copypaste, somehow find the function definition it'
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by parminya 4y ago
You say nothing seriously false, but perhaps depending on things like NodeJS just inherently means your software is going to be poor quality. If that is true, then both you and the PP are probably right. I tend to think software quality wil
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by parminya 4y ago
I don't think tbody is really obscure to anyone writing with DOM. You can't embed a tr into a table: it has to be in a thead/tbody/tfoot. If you're writing HTML it's fine, the browser does it for you. But if yo
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by parminya 4y ago
I think they died well before responsive became a concern. Their heyday was really the time before not just CSS but even tables, at which time they were the only way to have links positioned in space rather than in flowing text. I don'
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by parminya 4y ago
> A strong argument for independent central bankers. It's a weird sort of thing. At one level it's easy, just elect politicians who respect independent central banks. But it's the politicians from whom the central banks ar
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by parminya 4y ago
Democracy creates buy-in and legitimacy, and requires good ideas to be sold to the people rather than imposed on them. There is additional evidence that compulsory voting adds to this legitimacy (in ways that may be freedom-harming, if that
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by parminya 4y ago
Just use each finger as a binary digit, open or cloned, and you can get to 1023. If you're really struggling to count you might add your eyes, elbows or and knees and get to 2^16 - 1. That should be enough for anyone.
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by parminya 4y ago
I don't think your concerns about 7 or 14 year terms are actually necessary: > However, you do need to protect individuals from corporations. This is generally true, so much so that I think the only relevant action would need to be
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by parminya 4y ago
> Uniquely complaining about PORTUGAL being unaffordable for the PORTUGUESE is such a Portuguese mentality, I can't even. I love this complaint. It's so perfectly a demonstrations of itself. It's somehow as if, suffering a
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by parminya 4y ago
If the web browser is governing the passwords you can and can't have, and forcing you to have unmemorisable passwords, you're better off rethinking the whole thing. For instance, it probably makes more sense to ask the web browser
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by parminya 4y ago
The language very much generates complaints because it is gives you no real help understanding what argument should be passed to what function and how to get that argument. Error messages are dreadful because there's often a million fu
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by parminya 5y ago
> No. That's the trap of Goodhart's Law. You need something outside of your metrics so that your metrics don't become your target. How can you make a metric out of "we aren't really sure what the direction of cha