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cal85

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    Comment #46849695

    How do you know this? Not disagreeing, just curious.

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    Comment #46148129

    The problem is FUD. Some guy at a company gets told he has to wait for legal to approve some open source project or initiative that happens to use JS in the name, because his boss …

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    Comment #46147876

    They thought of that and called the spec ECMAScript instead.

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    Comment #46027656

    Because it’s written in vanilla JS.

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    Comment #46015334

    Camouflage in what sense?

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    Comment #45974033

    Had same issue until I disconnected from Tailscale, in case that helps anyone.

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    Comment #45835678

    They seem to be actively working on vertical tabs for Chromium right now: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/q/message:+vertical...

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    Comment #45763998

    > I think there really are people who can visualize that apple. Based on what evidence?

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    Comment #45733374

    True. But it feels like a fairer comparison would be with a huge healthcare company that failed to vet one of its therapists properly, so a crazy pro-suicide therapist slipped thro…

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    Comment #45562812

    It's not an em-dash, it's an en-dash, which is rare in LLM output. Also just stop being insufferable.

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    Comment #45549834

    Or, when you do go looking, it doesn’t feel the same. Why?

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    Comment #45549710

    The last sentence can’t be true. If you go looking for them, they’re easy to find. The problem is you don’t.

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    Comment #45549634

    > That needs to be solved. Seems like an easy solve. Just don't do it. I don’t do it, but I’m not sure how that solves the problem of other people doing it.

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    Comment #45422571

    The post says why.

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    Comment #45419994

    The difference is that social media now exists. The fear of an embarrassing or compromising moment causing social embarrassment at an unlimited scale or affecting future employment…

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    Comment #45338740

    7 gigabytes? With a “G”? That must take 10s of seconds, minutes even. And for what, a ‘good experience’? Humans make no sense to me either.

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    Comment #45325289

    > I'm not saying it's wrong but people are reacting to this as if the Times university guide is some objective truth. I can’t see a single example of anyone reacting to it that way…

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    Comment #45303150

    The equivalent tailwind is to just put h-8 (or whatever it is) on whichever form elements and buttons you want to be that height. Tailwind recommends you never use `@apply` - it’s …

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    Comment #45291354

    Billions of people willingly use banks, fast food chains etc. all the time.

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    Comment #45288707

    I’d like to see an example!

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    Comment #45236889

    yeah I can read it ok

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    Comment #45043989

    I don’t understand what you mean, but I’d like to. I think it is obvious that we all need subscriptions to survive (if “we” means free adults, and excluding people who steal etc). …

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    Comment #45036323

    Don’t we all need subscriptions to stay alive?