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Comment · 4 years ago
My excuses:

1. No free will.

2. Bad parenting.

3. Witches.

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> handwriting C /…/ reading out what I'd written, semicolons and all, to the interviewer.

I had to re-read it to make sure you are not joking. The fact that you were not made me laugh harder.

I'm now just saying "retuuurn" in various exaggerated accents.

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> Filed: 2017
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It is worth having Deno even if you are not using it: just as a Js/Ts LSP server (it's inbuit). Smaller and better than tss etc.

Also makes much more sense for local scripting. Give it a try even if in doubt for production.

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Buying an inexpensive Roman coin was on my list. Not as a collectable — but as a meditation / fidget device. Makes you think about a lot of things and sort of… gives an interesting perspective.

Atm a Nuka Cola bottle cap makes more sense though.

Comment · 4 years ago
On a local platform a post like that would live for a couple of seconds. But it's not even the issue.

You simply do not realize the depth of this brainfuckery. I good friend of mine, an objectively smart, logical and rational guy — believed that Malaysia Flight 17 was shot down by Ukraine in 2014. I tried to convince him for hours. Haven't spoke to him since, but have heard which side he's on.

I can accept that old dumbfucked babushkas with iron teeth and 3 brain cells support it — they'd support a war on Alpha Centauri if the magic box would say so.

I can even accept — and I'm really stretching it here — a common working guy being fooled by TV — after all, it's 24/7 on all channels, without breaks.

But interacting with anyone who has both means and capacity to see the real picture is physically painful. It's like you are in some sort of literal… nightmare, where things are out of control, and have no fucking logical explanation.

You talk to a guy. You show this picture. You use this argument. You pause. You breath. You repeat. You look at his face — and see your nightmare.

There are those who are talking to people every day. Nevzorov [0] alone has 1M+ Telegram subs, and growing. But even he — the best Russian journalist — is not trying to convince anyone anymore. He is just laughing at them — at their stupidity, their military fuckups, their slave mindset.

There are others — with different approaches. I support them as much as I can — as people would more likely listen to them than a random guy who could be an American spy.

[0] https://t.me/s/nevzorovtv

Comment · 4 years ago
While there is an optimal text line width range, I do not enforce it with the 'ch'.

Visually challenged users might use bigger font sizes — and a line would get too wide for convenient reading. There are some other issues with this approach.

I personally just keep an eye on what the top text-centric sites are doing. The logic being that NYT, Substack, Medium, etc have much more resources than me to research the subject. I just keep a list of about 10 sites and check their readability progress 2-3 times a year.

Comment · 4 years ago
I default to Vanilla, would agree to Svelte under pressure. But most start with React. The logic likely being — at least I'll find a job if this fails. Can't blame, makes sense.

There are some exceptions — e.g. Pieter Levels (RemoteOk, NomadList) who sticks to Vanilla for everything. But it's rather rare.

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