discomrobertul8

January 01 race to open hundreds of "update year in readme" PRs

It's quite strange though when you consider the fastest way to get egg on your face is to do something badly because you didn't understand and just made it up instead of looking it up

> I genuinely don’t understand how front-end developers accept this level of needless complexity.

in my anecdotal experience as a bit of an old fogey with a greying beard, the enthusiastic juniors come along, watch a video by some YouTube guru (who makes videos about code for a living instead of making actual software) proselytizing about whatever the trendy new library is, and they assume that it's just what everyone uses and don't question it. It's not uncommon for them to be unaware that the vanilla elements even exist at times, such is the pervasiveness of React bloat.

> Back to tsunami. Whenever I hear the word mispronounced by those who ought to know better it just grates badly, the mangled mispronunciation distracts my attention from what's actually being said. So often one hears TV newsreaders including those on the BBC slur the word as 'sooonami' when clearly its English spelling indicates the correct pronunciation. Tsu, つ, sounds like a hissing snake—say it to yourself. Is that not obvious?

It's because English has no (or very few - I can't think of any) words that begin with the same phoneme.

That's just what happens with loan words. Japanese loaned "Arbeit" (アルバイト) from German and they also pronounce it "wrong".

> We are now building a new product focused on agentic development

This is sad. It seems innovation has all but stopped for IDEs intended for a human as the primary driver.

There's more to life than GDP and "free speech".

Noah's Automatic Reference Counter

soulJaboy Script

I like LLM stuff sometimes. But it's too obnoxious, over-eager, loud and incorrect by default. I wish it were modal and I could have an entirely AI-free "normal" mode for when I know what I'm doing, and then enable all the AI crap when I actually want it.

Same here in London.

They'll all sink when they crash in to the dumped Lime bike reef (purchased from China)

I thought it was going to be about the shell

Sizes tend to be a lot smaller. One poster above said a large soda in the USA is almost one litre! In the UK it's roughly half that size at 500ml.

As the sugar level is directly proportionate to the overall volume, it can be quite surprising how much sugar there is when you aren't used to such massive servings.

Ok cool, this bodes well for my "disposing of household waste by dropping a nuclear bomb on it in Central Park" startup