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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.

> It has literally contributed to suicide and murders:

So have ballpoint pens.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-32489335 https://www.tribune242.com/news/2020/jan/22/ballpoint-pen-ki... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders

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.

> cmd+? i.e. cmd+shift+/ (...) Doesn't get simpler than that.

That's a very two-handed ableist view. Imagine having lost your arm and being told hitting three keys on opposite ends of the keyboard is simple.

I'm joking, but only about the calling you ableist and the emotional response parts. The situation does really occur. Keyboards aren't always the most accessible option.

(Hotkeys reveal mental limitations in myself. I can rarely remember them. I know a ton, but I've forgotten so many more. On MacOS in particular, when multiple modifiers are involved. Can never remember if it's cmd-shift, cmd-option, option-shift, cmd-ctrl, cmd-fn, or whatever.)

You try.

uBO Lite blocks ads on YouTube just as well as uBO did.

Which ones?

I haven't seen them in Dutch, so I wonder what the languages that do have typos have in common.

I switched to mise too for all my dev tooling. It just works so nicely for all kinds of ecosystems. I can use the same tool for Python, Node, Java, whatever and it just works.

> "I don't want to give my tax money to X" where subsidizing X doesn't hurt that person,

Taxes themselves are the hurt. You're ignoring that the taxes are collected from that person and that they could be spend on something that person would want more.

We need taxes, don't get me wrong, but it's entirely reasonable for people to have an opinion on what's done with the money they worked for.

That won't be a good heuristic much longer. A few weeks back I saw Gemini write "Redundant Abstraciton Overhead" (-citon instead of -ction). It was the first time I saw a model make a "typo", so I made a note of it.

Doesn't your password manager take care of that?

> when used as a terminal in PHPStorm

Truthfully, the terminal in Jetbrains IDEs just isn't that great. It's gotten a lot better with their rewrites (yes, plural) of the last years, especially on Windows, but it can still be pretty dodgy.

Since I've moved to my current home, I've had jobs in about 6 different towns and cities. I think for all of them I had colleagues that cycled to work and colleagues that drove for an hour or more.

All these jobs had homes and shops within walking distance. But they are not within walking distance of each other.

> This is possible if you’re not picky about where you live, where you work, your career options,

Yup.

And even if you arent't picky. The amount of surface area you can cover scales quadratically with the distance you can commute (either by traveling longer, or by going faster). So as a first approximation, the amount of competition for your labour also goes up quadratically.

Job-hopping is one of the best ways to get better jobs. And it is a LOT easier if you can commute further.

Which studies?

The claim is usually made without specific citations. The few studies I'm aware of show correlation between mental health issues and phone use, but don't show which way the causation runs. It's just as plausible that mental health causes more phone use, yet these message boards always like to blame the phone for the mental health issues.

I love Kokoro. I use it to read ebooks that don't have audiobooks and it works pretty good for that. I have a Python script that reads epub/html, runs the model and writes mp3s.

Kokoro supports a limited number of languages. I've had to resort to other models to support Dutch, and they just aren't as good. And usually a lot slower and bigger (too big for my 8GB VRAM). I've had to resort to the Windows built-in TTS. It doesn't sound natural at all, but at least it can pronounce most words and is very fast.

> How about when users accidentally click too much, or they believe the first click didn’t register?

I was really confused at their mention of accessibility, because my mind jumped to people with hand tremors who would double press when they intended only one press.

And then, of course, there are the people that double-click every button. To handle that, disabling a submit button in the onclick is very common.

> that should just be ticking up a version number.

Ah, but it's rarely just that in many systems. It can only be just that if the component library does exactly what you want. Unfortunately, it happens quite often that component doesn't entirely do what's needed.

People bolt on extra CSS to the components all the time. Two lines of CSS is very tempting if the alternatives are a few hours of work at least. But those two lines need to be verified against every new feature of the component library.

Do those two line fixes a lot, and upgrading becomes A Project.

Oh, okay. I misunderstood what you meant by walk on/walk off.

I find the exact planning ahead of time more annoying than a security checkpoint, so was hoping you found a better solution.