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It's not a caricature if it's taught at supposedly elite institutions of education, into which admission is contingent on a declaration of adherence to said ways of thinking.

Even if that were true, I'd still not put any faith in the empathy skills of people who use e.g. "incel" as a slur, who claim "it's okay to be white" is hate speech and who call ar…

Spanish-speaking non-binary people are hopefully not so stupid as to conflate a lack of appetite to rewrite the entirety of Spanish grammar with a refusal to acknowledge someone's …

The issue I have with WASM is that its threading model is basically the web-worker model: each thread has to have its own module and can only communicate through pure data via shar…

Twitter hired tons of employees since 2020 so the apparent massive layoffs simply weren't. And there is a lot of dead weight at tech companies regardless. Political pundits had a d…

>React doesn't provide a systematic answer for handling state in apps if data is flowing up, down and sideways So let's first back up and recognize that this earlier statement was …

One thing I find funny is the problem of data loss. On macOS, it's been the norm for years that applications retain their state when quit and re-opened, including unsaved documents…

This injected CSS will remove the popup: body article.newsletter-post.post .subscribe-dialog, body article.newsletter-post.post .subscribe-dialog-scroll-modal-scroll-capture { disp…

I don't really care about Elon Musk as a philanthropist or not. He's like a one-man Apple in that way. But. - The environmental problem with electric cars is undoubtedly due to the…

Hello. I am rational developer. I am very clever and very rational. Devoid of emotion. Oh what is this? Someone implies that there are objective standards of quality in a field I k…

This is why you should never finalize specs until you've written the documentation for it. If it sounds stupid when you say it out loud, it _is_ stupid.

A node.js back-end.

This is a detail, but it's imo illustrative of how refined Apple UI is and how easy it is to get it wrong. The design of how the Dock scales and animates follows a very simple prin…

Scrollbars are actually a real pain to implement. - you first need to lay out the scrollable content normally, without a scrollbar - then you need to detect whether it spills over,…

- Make vague generalizations about white people, men - Blur the distinction between non-credible fringe groups and some of the most credentialed institutions around so you can play…

It's only a spectator sport if you're not downstream from those changes though. I also think ageism is only part of the problem, it's stubbornness in general. Even if you're younge…

*is a game developer with a particular focus on "RETVRN TO TRADITION" where anything that isn't super lean-and-mean is bloated and inefficient and ridiculous, and only exists becau…

Thesis: >The application event loop coalesces these damage rectangles and initiates an optimized operation: it only redraws views whose bounds intersect the damaged region, and als…

This explanation is useless imo because it expects the reader to already understand the weirdest part: "If I have a function A -> B, how could I possibly get something that goes in…

...and you will show your users stale data, which is a non-starter for a chat app. You will then need to implement some custom push/invalidate mechanism, based on a custom interpre…

Relevant post: https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ There are two common social perspectives: information sharing vs emotional harmony. From one perspective, the other…

Every time someone argues something based on the merits of Go, I can't take them seriously anymore.

Things CSS got wrong: - not supporting tables in CSS1, even though they were the dominant layout mechanism used at the time. - `box-sizing: content-box` as original sizing model, w…