taeric

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by taeric 1y ago
I assume this is largely a US thing? Do other places have similar behaviors? I seem to recall many people from over seas were surprised that we let dogs in the house. That last is always amusing to contrast with how hard of a line some pe
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by taeric 1y ago
Fair, I was largely riffing off the theme in the post. That is, I took it as an implicit idea that floats represent real numbers. That said, I'd argue that they are neither reals nor rationals. They are scientific numbers with no syn
903.
by taeric 1y ago
Another poster was pointing out that this is not necessarily what is meant by templates in the post. I can see the distinction, but not really sure it changes my view. Since the post is largely more javascript literals for dom objects, it
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by taeric 1y ago
I confess your comment leaves me even more confused, all told. :D I largely get the intent of what you are saying. But the entire point of why developers use templates is so that they can create pages that meet a design. And the entire re
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by taeric 1y ago
My question to you, then, is if you think you contributed anything at all to this? Because, yeah, nothing there.
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by taeric 1y ago
I did mean grid, there. And don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily want everything absolute positioned. I just find it amusing when people try to get a badge or some such on something and then herculean efforts they will go thro
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by taeric 1y ago
You didn't share a templating language, though? You shared an example of a formatting/templating string, but didn't even indicate what level of format string it supported. Such that I don't know if you are sharing C&#x
908.
by taeric 1y ago
Then take my question as, "then what is a good templating example today?" Dodging the obvious question in favor of discussing if we can make progress... feels less than good faith.
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by taeric 1y ago
It is a shame we tend to teach floats as the computer version of reals. Thinking of them as "scientific numbers" really helps a ton with this.
910.
by taeric 1y ago
So, no? You don't have any examples by which to demonstrate what a good templating language is? You seem to have gone on a tangent that "good" is a general topic in my question. I meant do we have specifically good examples
911.
by taeric 1y ago
English is phonetic? The writing systems aren't regular in that the same letter can represent different sounds. But they still represent sounds. Indeed, your confusion wouldn't even be possible if they didn't represent sou
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by taeric 1y ago
substack and bluesky are just newer sites. I don't even think they are bad. Just I question the volume of markup that they use to layout stuff. Knowing that that is the standard. Do you have examples that are good?
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by taeric 1y ago
It is probably impossible to find a tech stack that has not seen horrible abuse somewhere. :D Granted, it did seem that XML got more heavily abused than some other options for a while. I am curious if that is just a by product of when it
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by taeric 1y ago
Agreed with your general push here, I think. I would add that a large part of the push away from it came from not having dedicated design and development teams. Is, I think, why industries such as gaming have stuck to a lot of these workfl
915.
by taeric 1y ago
I will forever harp on the idea that we really set web design back by putting so much focus on the HTML. Dreamweaver sites were not great, to be sure. But they had more creativity and design than the majority of what we seem to create now
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by taeric 1y ago
What is good, then? Because I'm really not seeing it. Just peek at substack and bluesky to see how the templating ideas in web dev have turned out. (I'm assuming they are decent modern examples. If not, I'm game to see on
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm laughing because it just hits so hard. Started playing some role playing with friends again recently and we were looking for a template for the character sheets. You know what they have? A PDF. That is their template. Why? Be
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by taeric 1y ago
Not really? People impose the idea that they can make this work. Yet no sites looked good on the Nintendo DS browser, and people were largely ok with that. Few sites look genuinely good on phones. People are largely ok with that.
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by taeric 1y ago
I've been in the opposite, where people will go through lengths to try and make it so that the defaultish dom layout makes things "fall into place" so that they had a very specific layout of elements. When a fairly simple se
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by taeric 1y ago
Hard not to laugh out loud at "We know what good syntax for templating looks like." We don't. Not even close. Because I'd hazard a good template is almost certainly more of a visual thing than it is a symbolic one. I
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by taeric 1y ago
My favorite mistake is when people assume it is only daylight savings time that you need to consider. I could just be on vacation in a different place, but still want to keep the same schedule. And indeed, knowing that most places open ar
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by taeric 1y ago
No? I'm pointing out that people tend to not pay attention. Synthetic fabrics make up the majority of all carpets. And are a growing majority in clothing. My overall point is that the majority of the plastics that make up "micr
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by taeric 1y ago
I don't think I've seen too much discussion of home dust, all told. Just going on a general view of what else could it be? Yes, dead skin and such makes up a lot. But as we use more and more synthetic fibers, those are spun far
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by taeric 1y ago
Totally fair. My exposure has been large on folks that virtue signal that they avoid plastic things. To the point that they are largely sneering at people that don't make the same choices they do. To your point, though, we could use
925.
by taeric 1y ago
I'm curious what paper packaging you have in mind, that isn't also lined with plastics. Maybe we could use more wax lined items? I don't know. But it is down right comical how people will avoid some macro plastic things on
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by taeric 1y ago
Sadly, I make that largely as an assertion that I don't know how to disprove. I do remember seeing a study on it at one point, but did not save it. I think this and tires were much higher than people contend with. At a personal level
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm curious how this would look using an exact covering algorithm. I'm also vaguely curious to see the various solutions that have been explored lately benchmarked. For that matter, a table that gives the stats on the code and e
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by taeric 1y ago
I hate to doubt studies, but with advice like: "Invest in a zippered fabric bag and ask the dry cleaner to return your clothes in that instead of those thin sheets of plastic." I am doubtful. I assert that the number one source
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by taeric 1y ago
I haven't been in a workflow where tramp is useful to me in a while. I recall it was borderline magical back when I did use it. I'm assuming it is highly reliant on how good your network connection is? Definitely has more config
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by taeric 1y ago
I don't know if it is just Linux. A colleague was just fighting his Apple watch not connecting to his new iPhone this week. There is some sort of state bit that gets flipped and essentially ruins things. It is quite impressive in ho

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