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But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground? Re: embracing aesthetics while misunderstanding ethos - I've noticed this about religion too. There is frequently a divide between subscription to dee
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It sounds like you're saying we need to consider the flexibility and articulation that classes enable when they reflect considerations beyond concrete presentation.
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Yes & yes. It seems to me really learning CSS has been something most devs who started doing anything else have long wanted to avoid. I suspect it just scratches different itches and feels more like configuration than programming. And
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But they think cyberpunk is really cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhsEADnbOU
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> and BEM because it was difficult to scope css. I suspect this reflects the cultural problem that in many organizations no one really wants to create or stick to a systematic design. Scoping CSS isn't trivial as a site grows large,
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And the only weapon required was making a constituency of American ignorance, resentment, and mean-spiritedness.
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Everything you're saying about the international trust American voters have betrayed and thrown away is pretty reasonable. But this: > The Democrats allowed 'radical' social change to dictate the party platform and didn&#x
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Yeah, "Calm down everyone, the only issue here is that certain jurisdictions have sensible definitions that mean we can't legally claim we're not selling data because we are" is arguably clarifying but it's not part
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You need studies to show that peace & stability support greater productivity and wealth? Likely as it is that research can indeed confirm this, given the depth & tone of your inquiry, perhaps the most immediate convincing experime
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That’s an apt description and poetic itself, thanks for the reference!
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Bad at what? I agree most poetry is bad at hitting my subjective quality markers, at tickling my sense of sophistication and meaning. I don't even like the majority of poetry from poets that I love . I fell in love with Cummings as a
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Some of those tweet criticisms gets the side eye from me: > People seem to not realize that poetry isn't just a thing you can do. It requires knowledge of form and structure, and of course some amount of talent It's very much
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Legislators step up when enough of their voting constituencies make it clear that they value something as a non-negotiable (assuming votes still matter). Which means those who care about this are back to not only contacting legislators but
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The economy of thought that you brought to that comment could be seen as impressively efficient, depending on the outcome you want to optimize for given inputs.
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I don't have expertise in why the language is used, but I'd imagine: * this is the language traditionally used in automobiles * the term probably has a specific meaning with regulatory and culturally established implications thr
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> Exceptions are a terrible idea. I hear people say this frequently, but don't ever hear people actually state the case. My experience is that particularly for web back-end exceptions have been incredibly useful, but I'm intere
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Speaking as someone who’s pretty happy with his still-working DX — and values hardware longevity — this is half the issue precisely. (the other half of course being what happens when material is pulled when it’s only cloud-resident and vend
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Which research is clear? Having (a) talked with acquaintances who have absolute/perfect pitch (b) read a fair bit of research (c) practiced the “trick” under discussion (d) had a brief mid-adolescent period where I experienced tones as
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This. Stuff like stitched leather was obviously indulgent without a lot of function, but skeumorphic buttons at least carried a standard complement of affordances that too much flat design ignores.
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> I edited to add: what extraordinary wording. Thanks for the kind words!
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Years ago, I saw a sign at a junkyard mechanic's shopyard: "We screw the other guy and pass the savings on to you." I laughed, as one does. A little dark humor goes a surprisingly long way, though the darkness feels stickier
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The point that there’s effort involved in verification is an important one and definitely part of any thorough inventory of liabilities and advantages of LLMs. I am less convinced this means it’s always a wash (or worse). Sometimes it’s goo
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Of course the savvy are using LLMs now, but they’re also reckoning with two things: * you have to check an LLM result, especially if it cites something (because it may or may not exist) * you can’t cite an LLM result It’s a useful tool, but
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Libraries and librarians are starting to seem very relevant again. As are journalistic institutions.
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One of Bill Thurston's answers on MathOverflow should be required reading on this and a lot of related topics. When basically asked "How do I cope with the fact that I'm no Gauss or Euler?" he replied: > The product o
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Obviously, land use restrictions make a difference. I can think of a few acres down the street from where my parents house is that could easily be used to build about 48 units of modest (triplex/fourplex) density where a church on was
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5 years ago I was working on a semi-novel crowdfunding platform that relied on video presentations. First iteration we used the YouTube API because hosting our own video seemed daunting and that worked fine for a bit. Over time we started t
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Apparently I need to work on my deadpan delivery. Or just articulate things openly: we already insulate business owners from liability because we think it tunes investment incentives, and in so doing have created social entities/corp
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We can just insulate businesses employing AI from any liability, problem solved.
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As long as the essential controls are there (play/pause, volume, transport) and don't have serious UX sins (tiny or otherwise lacking touch targets) restyling them is overrated. And an unfortunate number of recreated controls seem

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