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That would be pretty anachronistic; jQuery didn't come around until six years later.

I'm sure everyone in the hospital and with collapsed houses would agree with your assessment that it's not a big deal.

It's kind of funny and also kind of insulting. I'd laugh if a friend said it but said seriously by some rando on the Internet, nah, find a better way to put it.

Admittedly, HN is suffering the same fate to some extent.

Imagine gatekeeping learning . I suppose the blind are incapable of it, then? Or is taking in information via the fingers somehow more valid than via the ears?

It's quite literally a second order effect. The first order effect is light generation, and a consequence of that effect is heat generation via light absorption.

Explain the attack that gets mitigated by reading the diff of a lockfile? Every major npm attack I can think of essentially follows the pattern of "version X.Y.Z is secretly evil".…

This really seems like the exception that proves the rule, given how few Facebooks came out of that era. We had a social contract, but it turned out that being sociopathic is a win…

Everything about that readme quote screams LLM. All it's missing is the user responding, "that doesn't make any sense, this won't work at all", and Claude responding back, "you're …

More like they will climb even higher on the lighting-dollars-on-fire leaderboard.

Everyone loves to say this... because it's everyone's experience. I stopped using SO as a resource years ago (well before the advent of LLMs) because it got to the point where almo…

The 4 packing takes up 100% of its square; it's trivially optimal. The 6 packing only takes up 2/3 of it, so it's not necessarily obvious that you can't do better.

"Just" Spoken like someone who's never had to work on a date picker.

This may come as a shock to capitalists, but some artists don't want to charge their fans more. Fugazi famously capped their ticket prices at $5 because they wanted their shows to …

People didn't leap from jQuery to React. It's a lot easier to imagine an AI looking at jQuery and [insert any server side MVC framework] and inventing Backbone.

Posing OpenSCAD as an alternative to the likes of Fusion is like posing MS Paint as an alternative to Photoshop. It's not even the same class of tool.

"We made merging to main silently drop some commits from main" was another good one recently. If GH had only one job, not doing that would be it.

This is more or less my take, but at least for me it's not about the level of difficulty exactly. It just feels very transparently like exploring a state space, where the "a-ha" mo…

Swipe through the "Major Events Timeline". It would be funny if it wasn't so sad how petty it is.

I believe the intended turn order is: 1: P1 selects 2: P2 selects 3: P1 reveals 4: P1 selects 5: P2 reveals 6: GOTO 2 I.e. each player always selects immediately before their oppon…

I doubt he would have much to say on the subject these days.

The most NixOS comment I've seen yet was when I was trying to find out about `mkOutOfStoreSymlink`, which lead me to this thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-manage-dotfil…

You might wish to do some cursory research before arguing further. For example, as a starting point, the Wikipedia page on civil disobedience has an entire section labeled "Action"…

Why is this approach better than the author's?

Alright, I'll bite. What about imperative programming fixes the scaling issues you're describing? Typically programming scale is regarded as a benefit of FP over imperative program…