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sjsanc··on Isopods of the world
Not at all! Decorations are needed for lots of things. For example, obviously decorations are needed for decorating. Successful sexual posturing in some birds requires large, decorative body parts like feathers or crests.
sjsanc··on Isopods of the world
In my own experience, whenever I detect something AI generated I lose the ability to evaluate how much I can "trust" something. Compare an article on Medium with a published book on the same topic; both are human-originated but the substance of one implies authority, quality etc. Generating a website and pictures with AI requires very little effort and care, and I have no interest in carelessness. Like most humans, I can't help but evaluate the author alongside the art.
sjsanc··on Isopods of the world
Indeed, I saw the watermarks. It's clearly a testament to his skill that his consistency is so unbelievable. Maybe that's common in macro photography but I'm genuinely floored by it.
sjsanc··on Isopods of the world
The macro photography looks bizarrely uniform and the poses contrived. I feel like a sleuth trying to decide if this is AI generated or not. I suspect it isn't, but I'm somewhat distressed at how suspicious I am of cool things now.
sjsanc··on I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021)
In the implication being that eggs are not the real thing; in other words, a superhero's mild annoyance.
sjsanc··on Consider the Pawpaw
In South Africa we refer to the papaya as pawpaw, I'm in England now, and here they just say papaya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya. This article mentions papaya as a separate fruit. Is there something missing?
sjsanc··on MDN Playground
Compare MDN's entry for the `map` method

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

With Rust's

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/struct.Map.html

I find MDN to be a bit clearer, and they benefit from the in-browser runtime. All the extra detail in the Rust docs (blanket traits etc) were quite intimidating and distracting when I first started learning it.

sjsanc··on Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright notice in the end credits?
The GP's turn of phrase read quite convincingly like Iain M Banks, then I see this!
sjsanc··on Tailwind CSS v3.3
Have there been any comparisons written about Tailwind's performance vs thoughtfully selected CSS? I've been writing Tailwind exclusively for the last year or so and I haven't noticed anything in particular, but I find that using utility classes causes me to lose an awareness of the cascading nature of CSS. Aside from the filesize bloat due to the bigger HTML files, do long and highly-repetitive class lists slow down style parsing or DOM interaction? And if so, would @apply directives have an advantage over class lists?
sjsanc··on Spack – scientific software package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS
Not to be confused with the SWC bundler for JavaScript https://swc.rs/docs/configuration/bundling
sjsanc··on Write a First Person Game in 2KB with Rust
A lot of the comments in that thread appear to be flaming the OP for impersonating a legendary demoscene group, or something like that. I've always enjoy touristic, almost archaeological appeal of reading old subculture drama, and I wish I stumbled across them more often.
sjsanc··on My favourite 3 lines of CSS
Absolutely. You can usually drop the direction though as it's the initial value. But flex is so powerful for layouts, I'll slap it on almost anything, and barely have a need for grid.
sjsanc··on Does your office have a library?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403174 I have!!
sjsanc··on Does your office have a library?
I feel like I've read this before some here...
sjsanc··on Ask HN: Is it worth learning C# and .NET in 2022?
I'd say close to just works. I've spent the last 6 months developing with Rider on Arch and it hasn't been a completely smooth ride. Admittedly, a lot of my pain just came from inexperience. I screwed up permissions; it took me ages to setup the right .net packages due to the nomenclature (which, when I installed Visual Studio on Windows, is easily glossed over); function apps took a while to get working.

But it really is satisfying once you've got everything working.

sjsanc··on TypeScript and Set Theory
It looks remarkably (suspiciously) similar to Brian Lovin's website https://brianlovin.com
sjsanc··on One Typed Page
Reads like Italo Calvino, nice.