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Starlevel001··on Play with TailwindCSS in the Browser
> There is only two kinds of people. The ones that don't like Tailwind and the ones that have used it.

I exclusively write server-side templates with minimal to no javascript. I don't like Tailwind because it doesn't work for that.

Starlevel001··on Sunsetting Atom
I use IntelliJ for the bulk of my programming (which is nearly all Kotlin/Java) and begrudgingly switch to VSCode for other languages (i.e. Rust). It's hard going from something that seems to magically understand my code to an editor where everything, even supposedly core functionality, is a second-class citizen.
Starlevel001··on No-op statements syntactically valid only since Python X.Y
Or just put a ``python_requires`` in your setup.cfg.
Starlevel001··on Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
I find Rust easier to read in a real IDE with semantic highlighting (although the IntellIJ plugin constantly breaks this) and inlay type hints so that everything doesn't end up blurring together.
Starlevel001··on Python-patterns – A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python
This is essentially just a class but worse.
Starlevel001··on Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable
> I mean it's not like most consumer hardware has to be on the latest nodes.

Maybe developers should take some responsibility and stop fucking writing code that's slow as shit and unusable on anything past their company-paid for macbook pros.

In an ideal society programmers would be sat down and given a seven year old mid-range laptop and threatened that if their program lags in the slightest they would be fired and blacklisted from the industry.

Starlevel001··on Rust: A Critical Retrospective
> This is in part because all the Rust documentation is either written in eli5 style (good luck figuring out “feature”s from that example), or you’re greeted with a formal syntax definition (technically, everything you need to know to define a “feature” is in there, but nowhere is it summarized in plain English), and nothing in between.

I wish I wish that Rust had a better documentation system. It's rather telling that any serious project has to use an entirely separate static site generator because the official doc system is so crippled.

Compare this to the Python docs, or some truly excellent Python library docs (like Trio: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/, or Flask: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/, or Django: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/https://docs.djangopro...), which are all written using Sphinx and integrate properly with crossrefs and such rather than writing manual markdown links as an example.

Starlevel001··on IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)
ITT one step away from "IQ is correlated to genetics (and also your race)"
Starlevel001··on Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
> If you are on the spectrum, the reason you act like this is because you don't understand that you are doing something wrong.

completely untrue, nearly all autistic people I know including me are hyper-aware of social situations and specifically act in ways to avoid being a dick. this is a pop-psychology notion of autism.

Starlevel001··on Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data structures
All the while I have to use broken, unsafe software on a day to day basis I reserve the right to complain about things that make programs broken and unsafe
Starlevel001··on What a better Rust would look like
The borrow checker is not hard. The difficulty is vastly overstated by web developers being told "no" to their shitty code for the first time in their life.
Starlevel001··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
I have literally never had it reset.
Starlevel001··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
The constant whining about Twitter on here makes more sense when you understand what the people here might be saying to solicit such a response.
Starlevel001··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Damn, now it'll be even more of a good idea to immediately block every bluecheck.
Starlevel001··on Rustaceans at the border
> Just as web developers, of all people, are finally, after over a decade, coming to the conclusion that arbitrarily-packaged dependencies are a bad idea for so many obvious reasons, Rust developers are trying to replicate NPM in the kernel.

Web developers and Rust developers are the same group

Starlevel001··on An argument for a return to Web 1.0
> Going luddite is never a good solution.

> Personally, I'm hoping all this share-everything is just a trend, that will pass by itself. Future users will look back at it with a sense of wonder: did people really post pictures of their food online?

This seems like a very contradictory post.

Starlevel001··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
I assume this will mean that if you post the picture of him with Ghislane Maxwell you get instantly banned
Starlevel001··on Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)
A lot of the software I use is extensively unit tested.

This software is still buggy and broken.

Ergo, unit testing is not working.

Starlevel001··on Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize
I wonder how they got those well paying and secure jobs
Starlevel001··on We can do better than “same, but electric”
If the worst thing that happens to you in the climate apocalpyse is having to live in a smaller apartment, consider yourself lucky.
Starlevel001··on KyuWeb: A proposal for a simple document-oriented web
> For one thing, I think common mark is really the worst form of markdown and especially considering the whole angle of hacker culture and DIY these kind of projects clearly aim at, I am always baffled that something more feature rich and easy to interoperate with like pandoc flavored markdown is not chosen.

Or something even better than MD, like reStructuredText.

Starlevel001··on DARPA developing new cognitive science tool to identify those at risk of suicide
Now this cuts out the annoying governmental process of having to find your future suicide bombers. You can just look them up in a database and assign an agent immediately!
Starlevel001··on Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken
> in what way is Russian culture similar to the US?

Overtly fascist

Starlevel001··on WASI: A New Kind of System Interface
> Guess what? Lots of people don't want to write Java.

It's funny that some of the most popular languages these days are Go (crippled Java 1.4) and Rust (Java for frontend web developers who need to be tricked into it) so it seems like lots of people really do want to write Java.

Starlevel001··on WASI: A New Kind of System Interface
1994 blog post: "java.lang: A New Kind Of System Interface"
Starlevel001··on Hugo is awesome, its documentation is not
Sphinx-based docs are usually excellent due to how easily it lets you flow between tutorials and references.
Starlevel001··on MDN Redesign
Looking at the MD source files is enlightening. Every markdown documentation system eventually approaches an underspecced, less powerful, and domain-specific version of reStructuredText/Sphinx.
Starlevel001··on Love is biological bribery?
Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you that they are chemicals. All knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?
Starlevel001··on Pokemon GAN
Vivillon just has 20 different forms, so it makes sense it would be more common.
Starlevel001··on Pokemon GAN
0 is closer to Sivally than Arceus.

Some manual seeds:

4552 is a corrupted Talonflame

2518 is another Vivillion, and so is 3330, and so is 2216, and so is 3373, and so is 3151 (looks like all Vivillion forms were put in)

3129 is horrific, it's like Glaceon has been stretched into a Wurmple and put on top of a Dracovish head and an unknown body

1742 is a mutilated Slurpuff

2410 is a Tapu mixed with... Corsola-G?

3805 is obviously Magmortar with some dragon head

3546 is clearly Reshiram (with genie arms?), and 1878 is mega Tyranitar (both down to the colours)

2194 is Gible x Joltik

1576 is radioactive Alcremie

2000 is straight up Roselia

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