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Comment · 29 days ago
Can I introduce you to iframes? Clunky but they do exactly what you are asking for.
Comment · 4 months ago
As someone who is not American, $10,000!!!!!! That's hard to conceive where I live. We even have a specifically free ambulance service here.
Comment · 5 months ago
The topic and content was genuinely interesting, but it read like an annoying LinkedIn promotional article with all the short punchy sentences.
Comment · 6 months ago
We're using OpenClaw to do a massive number of fixes and improvements to our ERP.

It takes Jira tickets, resolves them, and creates a GitHub PR, which is then reviewed by another AI agent. It can even analyse screenshots with MS Paint-style arrows.

So far it's been an amazing tool - I am very impressed.

Comment · 8 months ago
"make their own fork which nobody else is interested in because it is personalized to them"

Isn't that literally how open-source works, and why there's so many Linux distros?

Code quality is a subjective term as well, I feel like everyone dunking on AI coding is a defensive reaction - over time this will become an entirely acceptable concept.

Comment · 1 year ago
Well luckily it turned out that they were all ne'er-do-wells so it's all good.

Just like when the US used drones on Iraqi convoys and amazingly they were all Al-Qaeda sympathisers.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is what most people miss when they criticise UBI - for most people, it will be immediately spent, taxed, and put back into the economy. As long as the velocity is there, it's not an entirely bad idea as long as inflation can be kept under control.
Comment · 1 year ago
also Guestbooks and the email icon of the word 'email' rotating around a globe.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am 100% convinced that the baby weight thing is because grandparents love to compare newborns with their own experiences, and they were on the cusp of the metric conversion in the 60s. In a decade or two, this will vanish.

Imperial height is because 6 feet is the generic height of a "tall person" - we get so much of our sporting news from overseas and no one bothers to convert it.

Comment · 1 year ago
That's only a post-9/11 requirement, so it's not really part of the 'traditional' banking system.
Comment · 1 year ago
The thing I liked the most about XHTML was how it enforced strict notation.

Elements had to be used in their pure form, and CSS was for all visual presentation.

It really helped me understand and be better at web development - getting the tick from the XHTML validator was always an achievement for complicated webpages.

Comment · 1 year ago
I worked with a guy called 'Com' which is a reserved word in Active Directory. It causes chaos so apparently his AD name is always modified to be less offensive to the Microsoft gods.
Comment · 1 year ago
At one point, you could leave an open <script> tag at the end of the HTML with the language attribute set to "javascript9.9" or something non-existent, and the JavaScript banner ads wouldn't load.

Good times, those were.

Comment · 1 year ago
To be more accurate - by removing subsidies, NZ farmers became more efficient and sell their products at the world price, which is quite often overseas.

Subsidies and/or tarrifs always distort the market and have unintended consequences.

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