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DecoySalamander··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Layouts implemented with tables make sense when you need to place elements once, and not a ton of them at once. Making even slight changes to your tables within tables within tables is such a nightmare, that throwing out all of your code and starting from scratch might just be preferable. Tables are not a basic tool for this task, it's a severe misuse of the tooling, caused by a lack of alternatives at the time.
DecoySalamander··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
If I had to make a guess, you, as a person, can't implement an OS, personal computer, or any other appliance in your home. Maybe you can do the wiring or manage to dig out the basement itself. Not sure why browsers specifically draw your ire.
DecoySalamander··on Defold: cross-platform game engine
It is a bit fractured - there is a Redot fork. But that was caused by governance issues, not anyone's desire to sell the engine.
DecoySalamander··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
There are so many possible scenarios. What if the campus is infested with face-huggers from the award-winning movie Alien? What if there are still Jewish students and faculty members who need to be harassed anonymously?

I'll leave those to people more familiar with the subject. And as for the pneumonia scenario, I reiterate that the only sane course of action is to seek treatment, not to walk around public spaces, masked or not.

DecoySalamander··on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
> How do replies work

Reply references the post it is replying to by ID, most boards will turn that ID into a link or even create a UI to view a chain of replies.

> How do you know it's actually the person you're replying to who's replying back?

You shouldn't, an anonymous imageboard invites you to engage with ideas, not people. However, on most boards you can enter a password with your post, which is displayed as a hash, changing you from anonymous to pseudonymous (although this is generally considered attention-seeking and is frowned upon).

DecoySalamander··on 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak
Phrases like "eat the rich" and "liberals get the bullet too" are variations of what you've exemplified, but a common response to them is just a shrug. We saw a lot of this kind of sentiment publicly expressed after Brian Thompson's death, and I don't think anyone lost their job or got ostracized for celebrating his murder.
DecoySalamander··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
If you're seriously ill, you should get treatment, not walk around hoping that a piece of cloth will save others from exposure to whatever it is you're coughing up.
DecoySalamander··on On JavaScript's Weirdness
Quirks in this article and others like it are not something that would be encountered under normal circumstances unless the programmer is doing something silly (like skipping semicolons, ever touching eval, or relying on type conversions). Now, second point about loops (actually scopes and value declaration) is a core part of the language and needs to be learned, framework or no framework.
DecoySalamander··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
With SPA, all your backend has to do is spit out data and sometimes validate it, leaving your front-end completely in charge of presentation and user interaction. You can even have completely separate teams working on it. It feels a lot less complicated than the alternative.
DecoySalamander··on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine
Putin's capacity to wage war is by no means unlimited. This war has the potential to bankrupt Russia (just look at its 21% key rate) and the US already has experience in pushing an adversary to collapse.
DecoySalamander··on U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine
This argument makes no sense - you have never been asked to pay a special "Kurdish" tax, or a special "Ukrainian" tax. You will still pay the same amount (or more) of taxes even if the US becomes completely isolationist.
DecoySalamander··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
You have to both outnumber the loyalists to certain degree and show significant determination. Euromaidan did that with 800,000 protesters at its peak. As a percentage of the population that's less than what Belarus saw, but at the same time Yanukovych had significantly fewer people willing to do his bidding than Lukashenko.
DecoySalamander··on Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
Sounds like a recipe for getting people with knowledge of security best practices and people with knowledge of the systems being developed, but not both at the same time.
DecoySalamander··on Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"
This post was what finally pushed me to switch after years of growing dissatisfaction.
DecoySalamander··on Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
Supposedly for training models to generate gameplay videos, like what Microsoft (and others) have presented [0] recently.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-mu...

DecoySalamander··on The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
I think you can accommodate most changes by storing ordered list of IDs of visited nodes as well as variables set by choices. This way if you'll delete or replace some nodes or branches you can walk back to still existing parts.
DecoySalamander··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
Wouldn't you pause for a moment to consider how a 2004 standard is relevant to a COBOL codebase that is probably more than 50 years old at this point?
DecoySalamander··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
> COBOL quirk where the zero datetime is 1875

This is a piece of misinformation coming from Twitter/X post.

DecoySalamander··on US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
If you consider ancap to be a left-leaning ideology you should reread "Classification" section on the page you've linked.
DecoySalamander··on Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)
It means system/browser settings like the one available in navigator.language.
DecoySalamander··on DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
The killer feature that made me switch to DeaDBeeF was the replaygain scanner that works out of the box. I just wish it would integrate better with the KDE environment.
DecoySalamander··on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
By this definition, mom telling you to clean your room is also a form of totalitarianism, and yet you somehow find the strength to manage.
DecoySalamander··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
But are they wrong? I'm pretty sure that I can ask any LLM to produce a followup for "Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" and get one as good, or even better than the original. Lack of percolation would actually be an improvement.
DecoySalamander··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
But what if they are replaced by government workers who are made redundant? It might just balance out.
DecoySalamander··on Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs
What has changed over the years is our expectations and requirements. Sure, you can skip "all the noise" and slap an attribute on your button, but then you'll have to track down another 20 buttons in your codebase that need a color update. You can be smart with your approaches, but at a certain project size and complexity, frameworks are unavoidable. The only choice you really have is to learn an established one or handcraft something new for every thing you make.
DecoySalamander··on Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
"Amazing shit" like devops or bad political puns? Surely it's not too late for you to try either or both.
DecoySalamander··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Taking resources - tax dollars and opportunities usually granted on the basis of merit - from white person and redistributing them to black person on the basis of race absolutely does punish the white person. Talk of "historical oppression" is just a polemic to distract from this racist favoritism.
DecoySalamander··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
You can just pay people, regardless of their place of employment.
DecoySalamander··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
The only thing that removing anonymity would do is make it easier to harass people with dissenting opinions. Professional bad actors can switch to posting under "real people" names, just as spammers now post from home IP proxies.
DecoySalamander··on The Future of Htmx
A fix here would be to drop snapshot testing altogether, since being flaky and overly broad is a natural result of dumb diffing of your app's output.
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