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hopefully their demise brings JavaScript back to the commons!

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Re:Pico CSS is no longer maintained on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:38AM (#50303718)
ew. at least use daisyui
Re:Pico CSS is no longer maintained on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:49PM (#50299311)
What would you choose?
Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:36PM (#50298380)
a few years ago i watched all the versions of Macbeth that I could find. His was by far the best, with most of the others being awful (and Denzel's being by far the worst, though quite beautiful).

Everyone has to watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnaXDRwu84

Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:35PM (#50298356)
Every time the Antichrist gets mentioned, people heap scorn. Even more than a lesser demon.

I find the Antichrist interesting. His views on...

Re:Twelve years of distributed SQLite on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:55AM (#50220816)
Because sqlite is extremely fast. Most projects won't hit its limits
Re:I Electrified My Push Scooter with a Power Drill on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:41PM (#50144615)
video or it didnt happen!
Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:54AM (#50129913)
Strictly speaking, they didn't say anything about their engineering skill
Re:Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:50AM (#50087795)
You can watch Steve jobs rave about the future of PWAs here! https://youtu.be/QvQ9JNm_qWc
Re:Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:48AM (#50087769)
Well, first nothing that apple says should be taken at face value, especially when it comes to the web.

But if you're not inclined to educated yourself via the tremendous resource I shared, I suppose you could look at

https://wpt.fyi to see how far behind safari lags in supporting features.

There's also the fact that a proof of concept port of Microsoft edge to IOS significantly outperformed safari.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/17/apples-webki...

Chrome is also not the only chromium browser. There's also Vivaldi, brave etc, which make up for some of the ad-related shortcomings of Chrome. I happily use Vivaldi.

Re:Smart people don't think others are stupid on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:21AM (#50087355)
Indeed.

Though, there's also plenty of completely innocent, decent, but stupid people. Be it innately or just as a result of a terrible set of environmental factors

Re:Smart people don't think others are stupid on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:19AM (#50087326)
100%
Re:Smart people don't think others are stupid on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:14AM (#50087258)
This is just... stupid...

Of course there's stupid people. A lot of them. It's simply dishonest, manipulative or plain stupid or say otherwise.

If this article was more insightful, thoughtful, etc it would be saying that a smart, decent, wise etc person wouldn't belittle anyone for the combination of innate intelligence and environmental factors that caused them to not be thoughtful, creative, able/willing to learn etc.

And they'd moreover perhaps even take the responsibility upon themselves to try to do something about it - addressing inequality, social and educational systems, changing culture, better family planning, and endless other things.

Re:Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:37AM (#50085418)
Beyond their anti-PWA bullshit, safari is just a worse browser across the board. It's the nre Internet Explorer. Much more on that here

https://infrequently.org/series/browser-choice-must-matter/

Re:'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:03PM (#50064285)
I agree with how you handled the situation and this comment.

Though, it makes me think of the quote "Science advances one funeral at a time" - Max Planck

Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:43AM (#50058070)
you misunderstood the comment you replied to. They were saying any day without issues/problems/failures, not Github Issues.
Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:42AM (#50058045)
worse than this is that if you fork a repo that has actions, the actions will run on your account as well - which is completely unnecessary. I have all sorts of stale forks that are just churning away with actions that I dont care about at all because I am not getting charged.

The solution, of course, is not to simply start charging for all actions, because then everyone would wake up to all sorts of mystery charges. They'd need to notify that forked actions would be turned off and then opt-in for paid actions.

Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:32AM (#50020300)
I missed this when I skimmed the post. Sad stuff. I'm a big fan of deno.
Sorry to hear this is happening. One thing that might be helpful is to port it to another language and build as wasm. Agents are pretty good these days at stuff like this might even end up being faster.
Re:Developer Survey 2026 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:05PM (#49983327)
it is utterly incomprehensible/unusable. a fitting end to a toxic place
Re:Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:16AM (#49979788)
im not the person who you initially replied to... But surely it is self-evident what they meant by lighter (even if we dont know precisely what they were referring to) - CPU, ram etc... This is something that is always discussed when it comes to node vs bun vs deno
Re:Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:46AM (#49978428)
You know exactly what it means. You're just being a pedantic ass to someone for whom English is not their first language

Ps to the original poster. I screw things like this up in my 2nd language all the time.

"more" and "-er" are sort of redundant. You could say

More light (but this is just awkward - you'd just say lighter).

Much lighter gives an extra degree of lightness than lighter.

Much much lighter even moreso. There's nothing wrong with saying it like this in an informal context like this, but it would generally be better to use words like significantly, vastly, enormously, slightly, a bit, considerably etc to modify the degree of "lighter"

Any LLM could explain the nuances of all of this in much much more detail (this actually makes sense, because detail is not -er).

English is difficult, but dont let that stop you - it is easy to communicate effectively with even a low degree of proficiency, when the other person is acting in good faith.

Re:How to save a life without knowing CPR on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:52PM (#49971375)
I once killed a kitten and then brought it back from the dead with CPR.

It was a stray that showed up, was covered in fleas. I decided to bathe it and it didnt occur to me that cold/room temp water would not be good for it. It was fighting but I just assumed it didnt like the water. Then it just went limp.

Quickly googled CPR cat, saw something in the (pre-AI) preview thing about blow into its nostrils (the chest was quite surprisingly inflating like a balloon without much force), and just started doing that while poking/pinching its heart area. Some amount of time later - could have been 5 seconds or 45 - it sputtered back to life.

I found it a foster shortly after. I have significant allergies to cat hair, scratches etc...

> At the time of the sentencing, the judge who oversaw the case, Todd Lang, seemed to appreciate the use of AI. "I loved that AI, thank you for that. As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness," Judge Lang said. "I feel that that was genuine."

This judge should lose his job

Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:55AM (#49934971)
have you ever used, for example, vs code or Excel? both have robust GUI and keyboard capabilities. Andexcel has vba and now python and other scripting, and vscode is eminently extensible.
Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:59AM (#49933068)
im with you. I have tried all the TUIs and immediately bounce off of them due to how utterly awful even just basic operations like text editing are. I use Vscode copilot chat because in the before-times I was perfectly happy with vscode. I cannot comprehend how people can now give all of that up for TUIs. It also has its Agents Window, Copilot CLI etc... and you can use any api keys, subscriptions etc... that you want.

And, of course, most of the tools have created their own GUIs anyway, which are far worse than VS Code (even when they've forked VSCode itself!)

I think the "borderline psychotic" phrasing is apt.

Re:192GB Framework Desktop open for pre-order on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:05AM (#49920187)
Can you explain why Norway's swf would take a hit?
OK, so it's less about isoates vs firecracker than it is about them now doing it in-house...

Perhaps the article says that, but the framing is all wrong

Re:5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:36PM (#49913275)
I'm having trouble understanding/believing this, given that Cloudflare Workers are also v8 isolates and run vastly faster than the 25-40ms that netlify says their isolates took...

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