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Ok good, I'm checking out the CSS clock demo. Looks interesting, although I'm probably not the target audience, I'd just code it normally. I may revisit and see what else it can do.

The alternate strategy is loyalty to "the business" rather than any particular person.

When you're invested in the success of the business above all else, and you make that known, you'll carve out a position where you're valued.

Not because you went on a "carving out your importance" mission, but because your energy goes into your work, and the details and care for the long term business objectives. Also... you can then enjoy yourself more, which opens creativity which opens innovation. Sometimes this might mean disagreeing with managers or working on stuff nobody really knows you're working on right now.

> "So if you want to get something technical done in a tech company, you ought to wait for the appropriate wave"

No. That doesn't work. You have to start building it. Don't wait.

I didn't notice at first but it's one of those "blog post ads", concluding with "it's time".

Time for what? To click the "open app" button? Okay, so I clicked.

It doesn't open app. A button labelled "open app" should do what's on the tin. Instead it prompts for sign-up with terms and conditions warnings. I'm out.

Just open the app without sign-in! Why not? Too hard? Too scary? You can haggle for sign-up later. Let's see what you have right now, under the button labelled with a promise that I expect you to keep. Lying to me on page one is not a good start.

Here's an example of a web app that does it right. The button "start using Photopea" isn't a lie: https://www.photopea.com/

> "I spent 2 months designing and making an admin panel "

Why? It's easy and quick to code complicated things these days. It's nice having custom dashboards and functionality that fits exactly with what you need. Way more professional.

I'm sure Google Sheets are fine. But I've been seen truly ugly Google Sheets with way too many tabs and horizontal scrolling. Clunky cells that seem to expand and have their own scrolling universe with different laws to everything else. Why can't I simply click the cell to copy it all, nope, let's try double-clicking the cell, I just want to grab the contents to the clipboard, nope. Now it expands and I'm scrolling the whole sheet and have lost my place because Google Sheets tries to snap to rows or something. Damn I hate this memory of navigating someone's horrible Google sheet.

Not to mention EDM festivals. Remote bush doofs where everyone is off their chops, escaping reality, dancing during the day, exposed in the light.

Being recorded in 4k from different angles including action cams on people's heads on the dance floor, is a far cry from the relative anonymity of festivals of old. I remember when the only people who'd see you all bright eyed and bushy tailed were other participants in the party mayhem, which is how it should be.

> "I know my words sound harsh"

Your words sound unhinged. Like your anti-fascist label maker is unrolling a mini manifesto of regurgitated anti-Israel nuggets. You're harbouring an array of ideologies, all intersecting and spilling on the page. A diatribe of disturbance.

Meanwhile, my approach is grounded in a singular idea: That Hamas are the enemy in a war. It's a serious problem. Wars are like that.

Not just the enemy of Israel, but of any civilisation that values civil liberties without the punishing cloud of oppressive fundamentalism and stone-age brutality looming over every aspect of life.

Qatar is useless. After 2 years of "negotiating", a few drip-fed hostages including dead ones. Israel released more Palestinian prisoners than there are hostages. What a disgrace that hostages still remain in captivity. A disgrace that Qatar "hosts" the Hamas leaders, and that the Iranian regime funds the whole lot.

An unforgivable situation. Israel is responding to the threat. Obviously the eventual goal is peace. I won't click your links thanks anyway.

> "I am not gonna try to debate..."

Clearly. A disturbing trend of late.

Can you name one other genocide in history where the genociders supply millions of tonnes of aid to those they're genociding?

Protests in Israel would be maxed out if Israel were committing actual genocide. Israelis are good people, they wouldn't stand around while their defence force committed genocide. They don't want Hamas regrouping into Hamas 2.0, and who can blame them.

International Law experts can't go to their filing cabinets and pull out the file on "similar wars" to what is happening.

"Israel isn't doing it right"... says every armchair "free palestine" advocate without actually saying how they should do it.

Let Israel finish it, THEN if they don't leave and help rebuild, with Palestinians under new governance of their own (helped by international peace keepers or whatever) then hold Israel to account, but not before during the war, that's just flotilla levels of useless.

> "genocide scholars"

Laughable role, given no access to the place you claim is a genocide, and that's an active war zone with terrorists running around delaying the inevitable and prolonging the suffering.

  1. Look at map of Gaza
  2. Look at casualty stats, incident reports and statements released from the Hamas media office. (The same information cited by international media)
  3. Look at carefully staged photos from journalists in Gaza who have contracts with Reuters but are nevertheless under Hamas who have strict control over the media landscape in Gaza and shape the narrative. 
  4. Declare "genocide". 

> restrictions on food and supplies entering the area

Yes, and people are suffering. We all know it and wish it wasn't so. But Israel can't just go home and hide in their bomb shelters. Millions of tonnes of aid including food, medical supplies, shelters, water and other resources HAVE made it through in thousands of trucks. Some of which gets looted, or blocked by hostile groups who seize the trucks.

Israel isn't committing genocide except in the minds of pro-palestine activists, many of whom refer to Hamas terrorism as "resistance" more than the more suitable description, to use your words (and the words of the UN incidently) "unspeakable horror".

Meanwhile, the ones who say they would commit genocide if given any chance at all, are the ones Israel is at war with.

You'd think those suffering genocide would do the one thing to stop it, namely releasing the hostages and ceasing their own officially chartered genocidal ambitions.

> Hamas should be condemned

How does anyone not see that condemnation is not nearly enough? Hamas need eliminating, not merely "condemned".

Anyone arguing against the need to defeat Hamas in the place they launch attacks from and hold hostages in, is peddling a woefully broken, illogical argument. A war is happening. In war, you have enemies. "We should condemn our enemies" sounds like some kind of captain obvious baby talk.

Dude, that quote is out of context. He said he prefers "sympathy" to "empathy" and went on to call out those who push selective empathy when it suits their political agenda. He was right.

In my country Australia, there's a backlash on self-destructive "empathy" decisions in criminal courts. Violent repeat offenders are granted bail or short sentences for violent crime, why? Because the judge empathises with their traumatised upbringing, for example when they come from a war-torn country. This pattern of "justice" has spiked crime rates including violent home invasions and stabbings.

My 2 cents from Australia. At the very least he encouraged debate, and motivated others to challenge and vigorously discuss ideas, data, history, politics and perspectives. That's healthy, not dangerous. We're meant to defend the right of such activities.

I didn't agree with his religious convictions that underpin much of his arguments, but that's because I'm not religious. He presented other arguments on various social issues that sounded sensible. He also respected anyone who fronted his events, listening & engaging intellectually in a civil manner.

Apparently his last word spoken was "violence" (unconfirmed). Anyone celebrating his death is an extremist, and if that turns out to be a lot of people, then we have a bigger extremism problem than people care to admit. How to fix that? We need more bipartisan condemnation and unity across the floor - in my country too. Sounds like they couldn't even agree on a moment of silence without a shouting match. The division is fuel for extremism.

> JS to persist the setting.

Yes, local storage is crucial functionality. I don't get people who disable JS, but I suppose if they have a bunch of sites they whitelist it's less painful... but then they must trust those sites all the time? How do they know if those sites haven't installed new scary scripts?

Perhaps one possible solution is for browsers to offer a setting to enable all the "safe" functionality of javascript such as button events for fancy carousels, but block the stuff that causes anxiety. I suppose then we'd all argue about what aspects are safe vs scary.

> "I think it was a mistake to combine styling and layout"

Perhaps because we can have different styles of layout, it fits with CSS better than you say. Carefully designed padding, margins and negative space is both a style and layout consideration.

Containers contain styles, but the container's relationship with other containers may tie with presentation such as border thickness, colour, shadows, and let's not forget animation and interaction effects on containers. Maintaining control of these aspects in one place makes good sense to me.

You've moved the posts from "watching youtube" to "searching youtube", then added something about my emotional state.

Doesn't surprise me you don't want to expand further, since you have nothing to expand. When the craftsperson makes a tutorial video, complete with close-up shots, and organised edited presentation, with more than one take on their side, it can be superior to going to their workshop. Both can be useful, but your argument that "youtube" is disqualified from offering value to those wanting to observe mastery, is a broken argument. Instead of running away, why not admit your error?

I ended up asking Grok, which said:

"Routine inspections are common in many states but not universal. Some states, like California and Texas, explicitly allow periodic inspections with proper notice, while others may have stricter regulations limiting landlord access unless there's a specific reason (e.g., repairs or suspected lease violations)."

I'd like to see a pricing page where if you get the ball though the hoop, or some other challenge, you get a discount.

> "mastery of video production"

If a master craftsperson records a video in their workshop demonstrating their craft and talking about their craft, you are observing mastery. This isn't some wild theory, this is a cold hard fact. Which leads us to the question, what the hell are you talking about?

Are you saying masters of their craft aren't on youtube?

On a related note, how do routine inspections work in the US? Does someone walk through the house taking photos every 6 or 12 months, making sure you're keeping the place clean and no damage etc? That's how it is here in Australia, and is absolutely the worst aspect of renting IMHO.

True, but at least your procrastination activity is learning about the thing, as opposed to unrelated procrastination activities.

I think they meant that Verdana is a nice replacement for Times if you care about readability and presentation.

Good pickup on the font being the default browser choice, I didn't notice that!

Because the process of "arranging" requires an end goal, according to the definition of the word. No assumptions needed.

I was replying to the person who suggested the universe might be consciously exploring itself (goal) via an arrangement of molecules into humans. For fun, maybe the arranging process is at the beginning and the end goal is some kind of cosmic party after which everything resets again, or something.

Orwellian comedy isn't really a thing but it should be if we're heading that direction. My 2 cents with kathaaverse...

  1984

  You are Stones, perpetually stoned and suspiciously cynical; the telescreen blares drivel about chocolate rations, which are obviously getting smaller, and you gotta decide if Big Brother's lies are even worth the buzzkill.

Perhaps humans are not the end goal of the arrangement process. We like to think we are, but we're likely just a phase.

> "...we should not allow kids outside"

That's not an equivalent analogy. Freedom of movement, to stand outside a store, is a human right. It is not the same as "freedom to lurk around online spaces on Mummy's laptop and Daddy's internet account."

Your analogy needs modifying. If we remove the laws, a child could walk into the store and buy beer with their pocket money, no questions asked. This isn't the same as them browsing the internet no questions asked.

The child is not paying for their devices or internet access. Their parents are paying and providing the needed equipment. In a way, it's like giving keys to after hours access to the local mall, where all kinds of stores can be browsed including adult magazine stores, without any shopkeeper to apply the laws.

So one solution is don't give kids the keys. Or, since their online activity leaves a digital trail, even if they did have keys, there's a chance to moderate their activity via seeing what they have done rather than police where they might go.

The Gaza Health Ministry is the main source of data you read about in Reuters and AFP. Hamas also runs a media office that provides official statements on airstrikes, casualties and other events. They have a history of suppressing and intimidating journalists, and they have a history of propaganda.

There are no foreign journalists in Gaza. The journalists you're referring to are Palestinian freelance journalists. Those journalists are working in a media landscape controlled by terrorists. For example they wouldn't be permitted to report back to Reuters about Hamas policing or regrouping.