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Before Mythos/Fable they were simply size-ordered. A Haiku is a small poem of 3 lines, a Sonnet has 14 lines and an Opus is a larger work.

I suppose a Fable is seen as larger. But some of them can be quite short, and not generally considered poetry.

> Sounds like they just want to maintain control over the outbound traffic which sounds rather sensible to me.

Yeah, and probably also forcing Zero Data Retention contracts on those service, instead of the consumer variants.

Responsiveness has been fine for a while. Not surprising with the smartphone revolution being nearly 2 decades old by now.

GP asked about reactivity. And that still requires some frameworking, either prebuilt or a lightweight self-written one.

Beautifully ironic. This post argues against being convinced by LLM statistics, by showing (presumably) human statistics with so many "Don't Trust Me" flags.

1. Unverifiable source ("a meta-analysis", trying to get authority without actually having it.

2. Hyper-specific numbers without error bars (and source), pretending to have certainty and precision.

3. Shockingly large number, intended to get an emotional reaction and a sense that it rounds to "all".

4. Numbers align too neatly with the point being made. They could still be true, but there could also be some overinterpreting, stretching of the truth or just plain lying going on.

Beautiful demonstration that numbers intended to convince are never to be trusted outright. No notes.

As an aside, the whole freak-out about LLM hallucinations has mostly shown me that way too many people accept human numbers way too easily. People are frequently as dumb or even dumber than LLMs.

"Someone is wrong on the stock market." Isn't there an xkcd about that?

Then what was the point of asking why they used JS over "a compiled language"?

One of my software engineering maxims is that popularity is a feature.

I don't mean that in a "social proof" kind of way. Popularity brings it own advantages. Because lots of people use something, you get the advantages of lots of other people using it:

a larger ecosystem, more libraries, easier to find new team mates, easier to find people willing to learn, better and more answers on Stack Overflow (or in LLMs now, I guess), etc., etc.

And there's just no compiled languages more used and known than JavaScript/TypeScript. Java and C# come closest, but they're still far off and still require runtimes.

I've been using LED lights for over a decade. Can't say I have replaced any of them.

And nowadays you can get E27 LED bulbs for 75 cents at IKEA, which is cheaper than incandescents ever were. Not sure how they managed that, because it sounds insane.

No, I have the same problem with pockets. Ear buds love falling out of my pockets in the car.

It's the main reason I mostly wear jeans. The five pocket configuration's vertical orientation holds onto its contents better than the slanted pockets of slacks and chinos.

I would really like some slacks with vertical deep pockets. Jeans get so boring.

> Going to the gym is exhausting, running a marathon is exhausting,

Those don't make me feel great afterwards either. I'd just feel I spend half a day just to end up where I already was.

> spending a day weeding your garden or laying a new carpet could be exhausting.

These would give me a good feeling. The result is what gives me the dopamine hit.

Nah, not illegal in the EU. Giving a retention offer to leavers is something magazines sometimes do. It's a bit sleazy, but not illegal.

I always check Google before Amazon, because it's impossible to find anything on Amazon. Amazon is a bit like the bargain bin of a DYI shop. If it's immediately visible it's okay, of not, don't bother searching.

Half the time I can't even find the category page. And if I do find it, the filters will just be useless anyway.

> Oh why can't this idea die

People like to feel superior to others, so dunking on people using a popular technology tickles some pleasure centers. Considering another viewpoint gets in the way of that, so other viewpoints are ignored.

That was the reason I bought a lot of stuff at their competitor baby-dump.nl. Until BP bought BD, and instituted the same policy there...

It's their site, they can do what they want. And as long as there's competition I can even admire them for making a sacrifice for something they believe in.

This kind of stuff becomes a problem when it starts arguing that others must do this too. If someone argues that all shops must be closed because their religion forbids working on that day, then that's an issue. But as far as I know, the Baby Park people haven't done that. They made a personal moral choice and sacrifice. Good for them.