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hidden input box is something I heard before from some hacker-ish old collegues - seems to be a powerful and reliable approach to store state & enable communication between components!
Oops, I worded my comment poorly -- it's not a hidden input, but rather a "CSS-visibility-hidden textbox input". Hidden inputs are useful but something completely different.
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Huh, that's actually my exact bug. I didn't realize this was so hard, thank you.
https://xkcd.com/1425/ One of the frustrating things about web dev, I find, is the staggering gulf between apparently nearly identical tasks and unpredictability of it. So often I will find myself on gwernnet asking Said Achmiz, 'this letter is a little too far left in Safari, can we fix that?' and the answer is 'yes but fixing that would require shipping our own browser in a virtual machine.' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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https://xkcd.com/1425/ One of the frustrating things about web dev, I find, is the staggering gulf between apparently nearly identical tasks and unpredictability of it. So often I will find myself on gwernnet asking Said Achmiz, 'this letter is a little too far left in Safari, can we fix that?' and the answer is 'yes but fixing that would require shipping our own browser in a virtual machine.' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did an LLM convince you to put in the anthropic argument entry in the galaxy brained section? Claude Opus? https://gwern.net/blog/2025/conference-size