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Page load time can impact index coverage (depth of crawl), freshness (revisit rate), and ranking.

Looking like a "touch button" is still looking like a button. Some indication that an element is tappable is still useful.

Technically (in the US at least) purely AI-generated content has no copyright, hence any copyright associated with the commit can only assigned to the human authors (or the entity …

> Isn't the fact that they're able to restore deleted comments from that far back itself an indication of malice, or at least irresponsibility? Meh. You're not exactly wrong but I …

This was more or less my working theory. It's not _all_ of my comments that have been restored, it's only my comments going back to 2020 (and I can't be sure that _all_ of the comm…

I've got a decade old account on which I've made a habit of manually deleting comments older than 6 - 9 months, since they get so little visibility and there's no value in leaving …

You're right. I don't know where I got 90 from but the period is 60 days. Curiously, based on the DOL guide at [1], which to be fair isn't text of the actual law but it is an offic…

IANAL and this may be minor nit, but I think when the WARN act is applicable, the laid-off employees are still _technically_ employed for 90 days (the pre-notice duration) and any …

Do it or don't, man. I don't care. But I stand by the statement that most able-bodied Americans could find some way to incorporate more human-powered transport into their routine i…

A "buy in bulk" warehouse store is of course one of the least reasonable examples you could have selected, but per the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 52% of car trips in the U…

I think it's likely that there is a higher concentration of tech (esp. software engineering) jobs in some of the further flung suburbs than in DC proper, which yields some more aff…

Or alternatively, high pay and old tech working for military contractors in roles that require security clearance. In some cases tech employers must pay a premium to get someone to…

The "simple" part could be up for debate, but in what way is "replace some of your car/bus/train travel with walking or cycling" not a solution to the problem of staying in shape w…

> I have nothing intrinsic against electron, and I'll take everything back if I see these "natural fits" actually fit. As a baseline, Electron performance _should_ be no worse than…

Menus? Clicking? That doesn't seem very emacs-y of you. M-x weirdness - up to and including the fact that it refers to a "Meta" key not found on modern keyboards - is exactly the k…

I appreciate that perspective. Launching quickly and no input latency are probably my base demands from a text editor. Not sufficient, but necessary. I may need to give Sublime a c…

> Platform conventions matter because uniformity matters Except just as you noted the conventions change across platforms, contexts and over time, so they aren't really uniform at …

> Very minor feature. Moreover it is supported out-of-the-box in emacs: `M-x list-packages`. I think `:packadd` or something may be the equivalent for vim.

VSCode's out-of-the-box configuration is better suited for the most common modern development contexts (probably?) and its customization, add-on and overall UIs are definitely more…

"No worse than a Java-based app" is sorta damning with faint praise. Java is notorious for being ill-suited for user-facing desktop apps - and justifiably so, at least historically…

Exactly. The truth is that over that last 15+ years _most_ of the apps that people use _most_ of the time are a perfect and natural fit for the web UI/UX: text, media, hyperlinks, …

Many Electron apps literally are a wrapped or packaged version of some SPA-style web interface, and the UX reflects that, naturally. But - beyond the base Chromium "footprint", whi…

> was never really quite able to get the [VS Code] interface the same way You're at least the 3rd person I've seen make that observation in this thread. I don't get how VS Code mad…

>I far preferred the UX and design of Atom, but I eventually caved That's my experience exactly. I still haven't been able to configure VS Code to fully match the experience I want…

Everyone believes Electron "sucks" because it's mainly the apps that suck that are noticeably built with Electron. It's the "when you do things right, people won't be sure you've d…