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Comment · 4 months ago
It's interesting to see UK-based influencers all citing these weak studies (internet surveys) about how social media is not so bad for children, or bemoaning the huge loss for children whose access to educational videos will be cut.

While the financial motive is clear, they must all believe it to an extent, because social media made their careers and changed their lives.

The reality is that the vast majority of kids aren't interested in learning video editing or movie directing, they are mindlessly consuming AI-generated videos and similar content served to them. 30-second videos on random facts sprinkled here and there aren't education.

Not that I think this ban will help, but downplaying the harm to children is a bit too much coming from people with ties to these platforms, like the author of this article.

Comment · 9 months ago
From an engineer working on this here on HN:

> ...while far off from feature parity with the most popular production browsers today...

What a way to phrase it!

You know, I found a bicycle in the trash. It doesn't work great yet, but I can walk it down a hill. While far off from the level of the most popular supercars today, I think we have made impressive progress going down the hill.

Comment · 11 months ago
Yep, every SLA I've ever seen only offers credit. The idea that providers are incentivized to fudge uptime % due to SLAs makes no sense to me. Reputation and marketing maybe, but not SLAs.

The compensation is peanuts. $137 off a $10,000 bill for 10 hours of downtime, or 98.68% uptime in a month, is well within the profit margins.

Comment · 11 months ago
It's not a transitive dependency, it's just literally bundled into nextjs, I'm guessing to avoid issues with fragile builds.
Comment · 11 months ago
Gitkraken is the best, and I can't believe anyone would voluntarily use Sourcetree over it.

I've used gitkraken for over 9 years and it's great for both newbies and pros.

It completely solves the problem with new or intermediate devs, who are not used to working in a sizable team, constantly needing hand-holding.

Lots of people resist adopting it at first, but not one has regretted it so far. It usually goes like this:

1. "No I won't use it, the terminal is better"

2. Mess up

3. Finally give gitkraken a serious try

4. Realize they didn't really know git

Comment · 1 year ago
GitHub has both webhooks and an extensive API. What you are describing is entirely doable, nothing really requires GitHub Actions as far as I know.

Most people opt for it for convenience. There's a balance you can strike between all the yaml and shared actions, and running your own scripts.

Comment · 1 year ago
They must have not asked enough Leetcode Hard questions in interviews.
Comment · 1 year ago
The mod_pagespeed filter "prioritize_critical_css" was released exactly 12 years ago in early May 2013. At least 3 more popular critical css tools were released the following year, integrating with Grunt, Gulp, and later Webpack.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's a bit like the <center> tag. A codebase that's littered with stuff like "InlineStack" is harder to work with and parse because the resulting div soup still requires extra styling, which is now both markup and CSS.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
> North Korea didn't fire a single missile

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile...

> Russia didn't invade Ukraine

Russia invaded in 2014 and the conflict stabilized (but didn't stop) in 2015.

In the meantime, the Syrian civil war was raging on.

Similarly, if we ignore all the events in the prelude to WW2, the world was a very peaceful place. According to Hoover, Roosevelt was a threat to world peace, not Hitler.

I'm not implying anything with the analogy, I'm only trying to illustrate that the world was not peaceful between 2016 and 2020, despite the president's efforts.

Perhaps if we had gotten 2 consecutive terms, it might have provided more long term stability.

Comment · 2 years ago
The crew had 13 hours of oxygen supply for two pilots.
Comment · 2 years ago
If seeing how common `eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps` is any indication, people just don't bother with best practices. Not to mention the majority of people I interview or hire don't know anything about CSS performance, they learn on the job. They'll happily add 1000 box shadows in a view if it's in the design.

Also OP is looking to move an existing React UI to Svelte, why not try Preact first instead of an entire rewrite? Or even Inferno or million.dev? If they did and they're insufficient, I don't even believe the browser's DOM is the right technology for that UI then.

Comment · 2 years ago
Not only did your tool help me with Aegis & Keepass, but it introduced me to Go, so thank you 2x for it!
Comment · 2 years ago

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