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vehemenz··on Account bans on Reddit
It compleletly varies by subreddit. Generalizations like this are lazy.
vehemenz··on Account bans on Reddit
Not enough info here to draw any conclusions. Changing IP only will likely trigger a ban-evasion ban.

I’ve been using Reddit since 2008, a dozen accounts, only got banned from one subreddit ever for calling out racism (actual, not the deflated, wishy-washy kind). It’s hard to take these stories at face value.

vehemenz··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
It's amazing that it even costs extra. Basic functionality shouldn't cost an extra fee, period.

I'm paying hundreds of dollars to use the IDE. The least they could do is integrate well with other harnesses (like every other text editor in the world does).

vehemenz··on Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace
My macOS is a dumpster, so I can tell you that all these products do slightly different things. It’s apples and oranges across the board.

Except instead of just apples and oranges, there are several dozen fruits involved, and it takes a month to fully taste and digest any of them enough to decide whether they’re worth eating. And by then, there might be an improved cultivar of one of the fruits you tried before but decided wasn’t good enough.

vehemenz··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Don’t even need that. If they’re packed in wine boxes they take up hardly any space.
vehemenz··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
I’ll believe it when wine prices go down. Prove it!
vehemenz··on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
This seems backwards. The salaries around here are relatively high, so a marginal increase in monthly entertainment costs wouldn't be noticeable in the first place. People can get self-righteous if they want, but these are entertainment services, not essential goods.

Only speaking for myself, but these streaming services would need to increase costs A LOT to make me invest valuable time replacing them.

vehemenz··on Claude Opus 5.5
My enterprise org has this model disabled because "security."

Does this mean they literally need to go in and check a box? Or is it a standard thing that enterprise accounts get these later than the consumer/API accounts?

vehemenz··on I am done with this shit
What's to stop you from rebuilding it yourself to improve the structure? Why couldn't you vibe code it better?
vehemenz··on I am done with this shit
Ever since software became a "prestige" career, attracting the former-would-be-dentists of the world, the entire field has been gatekeeping a lot of mediocre talent. Let's be honest.

If we're looking for a silver lining, AI is an equalizer and creates competition among the mediocre, driving salaries down. It's not all bad.

vehemenz··on I am done with this shit
Godwin's Law in one step. New record!
vehemenz··on We write code by hand
> Also with lower-case initial. disparaging. Opposed to new technology or ways of working; disliking technological change and innovation.

From the OED. The predominant use of "Luddite" has been disparaging for a long time.

You can debate whether it should be or not, but it's not reasonable to criticize conventional use.

vehemenz··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
If there's a criticism here, it's that they don't mention k8s right up front. It's completely opaque what this tool is. "Orchestration" can mean literally anything.

The web page presents ax as a typical developer tool, but it's actually not for developers.

vehemenz··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Pros and cons. The sloppy approach actually works well for Claude because its memory retrieval is more reliable than AGENTS.md style instructions.
vehemenz··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
It's kinda true. I use the terminal approach too, but I wouldn't trust every type of user with this long of a leash. There's a place for instituting systems that share context, manage authentication, and is permissions-aware.
vehemenz··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
While we’re asking rhetorical questions, why is China’s cultural development behind tiny, poor European countries?
vehemenz··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
History, philosophy, literature, journalism, art, education. The list goes on.
vehemenz··on If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
What do you mean the point of AI? The point of AI is to do whatever I tell it to do.

Its lack of “quality” (always invoked in a metaphysical sense) isn’t a problem for most of its uses. It can automate, research, build boilerplate, and test way faster than a human.

vehemenz··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
Agreed, but on other dimensions China is still 150 years behind the West. It’s important to keep this progress in perspective.
vehemenz··on The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
Except HTML is already a presentational markup language. People lose track of this.

Consider: MathML has a presentational schema and a content schema. The whole point of presentational MathML is the intermingling of concerns. If you want interoperable data, you use content MathML.

Interoperability is a noble goal, but if you want HTML to do everything you're already barking up the wrong tree.

vehemenz··on The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
This seems like a radical, unsupported conclusion to draw from a single frontend architecture decision.

Maybe there's an overwhelmingly positive case to be made for high-abstraction CSS with hidden structures. Outside those few select cases, we've known the tradeoffs for 25 years, and the added complexity is rarely worth it.

vehemenz··on The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped
The CSS Zen Garden worked because everyone was using a single markup file. In real life, it doesn't really work.

Instead of thinking of separation of concerns as a religious principle, think about what benefits it actually yields in the case of HTML.

When the markup is completely separated from its styling, this means that the CSS rules need a way to be mapped onto the DOM. This involves specific elements, organized a specific way. If anything is out of place in the markup, the properties may not apply as intended. Similarly, if the CSS doesn't account for DOM structures, then you need modify rules or add new ones.

This way of mapping is an implicit structure. It's something extra that's required, beyond the source code that's there. It can be computed by the browser, but it's not explicitly stated for a developer looking at the code to understand.

Contrast this with Tailwind, Tachyons, etc., where nearly all the structure is explicit, less complex, discoverable, and out in the open.

Hidden structure looks nice to the developer. The code "looks" clean. But understanding a code base's implicit structure is ephemeral, and there's inherent technical debt that will need to be repaid later.

Tailwind looks ugly, but there are no hidden abstractions or structures in the code, beyond its easy conventions and a minimal config file.

And, yes, there are ways to make high-abstraction CSS work, say, with a component library of known DOM patterns. But at that point, why not build the styles into the components directly, a la Tailwind, instead of adding complexity?

vehemenz··on New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore
$90k gets you a good quality of life in most of the US, too.
vehemenz··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Sure. Which one? If it’s CPI just say CPI.
vehemenz··on Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Which metric of inflation are you adjusting it to? And which assumptions are built into the goods and services measured, as well as their respective weights, of that index?
vehemenz··on Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Hear, hear.
vehemenz··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Showing the CPI next to these price increases wouldn’t hurt. If anything, it shows the problem with a single measure of inflation.
vehemenz··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
I’m not sure what to tell you. With only a few exceptions, the shorthand follows a very predictable pattern if you already know the property names. IDE completions help too.
vehemenz··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
I don't really get this argument. 90% of Tailwind is shorthand for existing CSS properties. There's really not much to learn if you already know CSS.
vehemenz··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
What do you mean by vanilla CSS?

I can't be the only one who has no idea what this means. Do you mean high-abstraction classes that are bound to the DOM arbitrarily, and are difficult to change later? We've had 25+ years to see how that doesn't scale.

Do you mean Tailwind-style functional CSS written by hand? What would be the point of that?

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