sodapopcan

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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I'm with you, and was also a bit surprised to see that coming from Fowler.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Oops, just wrote something similar before seeing this. It came up recently in another community where it seems some people take the word "avoid" to mean "never" and in this case: "never not even in the past."
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Exactly. Plus, many people don't seem to understand the word "avoid" (it's come up in my own bubble recently). It doesn't mean "never." For example, a vegan would not say "I avoid eating meat.&quot
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Ya, I wish I saved a link to it but an HN'r wrote a good beefy comment about this. TL;DR, AI has been exponentially more useful, and exponentially more accepted, in tech circles than anywhere else. Certainly there are lots of people
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I feel I would be in a much better place if I had been banned from using computers as a kid. It's all relative.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> Working with the customer sometimes sucks. Sometimes it sucks, but often it's awesome. I love seeing people use what I built for them. It was also very enlightening doing prototyping and watching the customers use it. Often the
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
But that's not quite what it is, though.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
A bunch of people have already said this but I also have known CSS very well (being using it since its release) and even enjoyed it. Butt the moment I saw someone using Tailwind I thought, "I want that!" The idea that Tailwind i
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
IE, it has a built-in design system!
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
All good points. To be clear, though, I wasn't trying to insinuate that Tailwind has NO design smells. I also like Tailwind, though I don't really use it anymore.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> the site docs garnering traffic (beyond potential tailwind labs conversions) is more of an indicator of a code or design smell than anything I've heard this before, but it's really no different than vanilla CSS. My guess is
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Seriously. I always wonder who makes these comments, then I remember I'm old and there are people who don't remember every era of the web. Although, it's still incredibly weird to essentially claim that Tailwind solved date
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
That's too bad, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
That is an understatement! And not only that, "simple" is relative. The common saying that gets push back is "Do the simplest thing possible." People always seem to ignore the "possible" part of that phrase.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
D'oh, haven't been successful
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Ha, indeed! I misguidedly turned to Reddit somewhat recently when the activity on the programming forum I spent most of my time on died down thanks to LLMs. As I got sucked into reading various shit posting on AI, there are multiple quote
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Maybe as per usual, I think we all mostly remembered so many numbers thanks to pattern recognition. I'm old enough to have had a rotary phone in the basement growing that I used less than the various other keypad phones in the house.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
...which can come in handy. Sometimes your cellphone battery dies. I still know my parents' numbers from memory (as well as some of my friends' parents' numbers, though that isn't super useful) but I am concerned about
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> The things we say publicly actually do matter Certainly > the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences? You mean breaking AIs? Not much of a lesson.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
Ya, "how do we make money off this?" ruins everything, but it's inevitable. But yes, that is exactly what I liked about the internet back then: I was just browsing the crazy shit people would put online just because they tho
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
A chuckle is the best I could have hoped for! I should have clarified that this was well before "NPC" was being thrown around by even non-gamers.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
You're right, but along the lines of what another user mentioned, my memories of "the golden age" had little to do with commerce and just visiting cool and interesting websites. I used Yahoo! right up until google became a t
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> I think when people use NPC as an insult (it is a dumb insult in my opinion) Probably not totally relevant, but a several years ago I was out for one of my best friend's very low-key bachelor party (just a few friends/famil
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I'm currently looking for work and not even 2 hours ago I wanted to look up a company on Glassdoor for the first time in a while. I forgot they were aquired by Indeed. My Indeed login worked, but then I was demanded to give them my p
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I got a Sunbeam F1 in January and have been pleased with it. The hardest part is when I lost it, there is no find-my-phone (at least not that I know of, I should look, they are always adding new features). It has GPS and weather which is
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> Pangram extensions Was not aware of these. Thanks!
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
And here's the rub: it's not just you who had to stop, lots of readers had to stop. You are not alone in this and were absolutely right to point this out. But alone or not, you did you, and that's the point.
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
SEO is what ruined the web AFAIC. > Time to start some human-only darknets. I know very little about darknets. How could you ensure that they are human-only?
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
I think so, though I didn't spend any near that amount of time on other language forums, though I guess that's saying something. It's cool having José, Chris, and other big community leaders participate often. Same goes for
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by sodapopcan 2mo ago
> there is a running joke among a part of the community that goes something like "0 days since last persistent workflow orchestration library announcement". Ha, I missed this! I rarely click on any topics anymore, but I have n

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