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Not everyone is on a US tech salary (no idea about the company in question – just saying that this doesn't apply universally).

Yeah, like… exactly what she's doing? People here are so willing to assume that she's doing all this out of self interest, because of what? A $500,000 book deal? Compared to what she stands to lose? She isn't stupid, she knows the risk. As a New Zealander myself I'm not sure if there's just some cultural difference at play here with the tendency to assume the worst in people but it seems kind of sad.

Looking at the CSS variables page it seems that this is because they scale up the base font size at various breakpoints, starting at 106.25% at 576px, and going all the way up to 131.25% at 1536px. It definitely feels too heavy handed to me. The first time I viewed the website on mobile it seemed fine (because it's actually at or close to the browser's standard font size) so I wasn't sure what the problem was until I viewed it on my desktop. I can kind of see what they're going for as it keeps the layout fairly consistent, but I don't think it's the right approach.

I think that if people are trying to avoid plastics but unknowingly using them anyway due to misleading design or greenwashing then their heart is in the right place and we shouldn't sneer at them. At least they're conscious of the problems and trying to do better. Call out the companies who are doing this. Don't blame people for being confused by something designed to be as confusing as possible.

The whole point of my retro handhelds are to be an escape from this kind of complexity. I just want to sit down without any connection to the wider world and jump into some simple games like I did in my childhood. No distractions. They're for the times I want to escape 'productive work' for awhile.

I think you're overstating it a bit. There were definitely features that couldn't be implemented due to MV3 limitations rather than because the developer chose to leave them out.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

The next step is to click the project logo in the top left.

They mentioned at the top of the article that this is not the real name.

I don't think so. The data returned talks about loyalty, rewards, and gift cards.

This is exactly my experience, every time! If I offer it the slightest bit of context it will say 'Ah! I understand now! Yes, that is your problem, …' and proceed to spit out some non-existent function, sometimes the same one it has just suggested a few prompts ago which we already decided doesn't exist/work. And it just goes on and on giving me 'solutions' until I finally realise it doesn't have the answer (which it will never admit unless you specifically ask it to – forever looking to please) and give up.

It's boring, grey, and flat. It takes up too much space on the screen for very little reason (and I'm a fan of whitespace used well). It's generally unpolished with various elements misaligned, squashed together, lacking padding, or in other cases randomly too much padding/margin. It's just a big mess... IMO. I think the actual game underneath the UI looks great at least. I really like VI, and V has plenty of character too.

And yet I frequently see (in New Zealand), properties with oversized double garages (often built to fit oversized American vehicles) and driveways that take up half the land on the property. Cars use a huge amount of space in roads, carparks, garages, and are responsible for pushing things further and further away from the home. And then somehow cars are seen as the solution for the very problems they create. There's plenty of real world evidence that there are better ways to solve this.

I don't think cars are responsible for bigger backyards at all. The size of the average property where I live only seems to be shrinking as the roads get more and more congested.

I'm self employed and use it (Beancount, as I like the more strict approach) for my business accounts and also for my stock portfolio. Fava, the web UI, is very handy for reporting and visualising things, though I also have a few scripts to automate certain processes like importing transactions from Wise and tracking exchange rates. I really don't have the discipline to use it for daily personal expenses or budgeting though.

There are graphical frontends like Celluloid.

https://celluloid-player.github.io/

As a kiwi, are your able to make any of these (or your) projects? I'm quite interested.

You can also use %x(ls some/dir), which is a syntax used in other places too, like %w[word word word] (array of word strings, notice you can choose the delimiter).

They steal designs from independent fashion designers (because designing their own clothes would cost too much I guess). It's also the volume with Shein. They produce so much crap at such low prices and it's all just dumped into an already struggling environment. Shein is far from the only one, but it's the most obvious and well known example.

'Utterly inefficient' seems a bit hyperbolic.

These are important typographical features and I'm fairly sure this is handled by font rendering libraries, not the browser (other than handling the CSS rules), so I can't imagine it's that difficult to implement? Correct me if I'm wrong!

Please stop diluting words like objectively for things that you just feel strongly about.

If only we all had such thoughtful regulation, yet we are not all so fortunate as those in Europe.

I was very surprised by the sound coming out of my mother's new iMac.

For me it's the flex-basis, -grow, -shrink that I can never get my head around. But I don't need to worry about that very often (which I guess is why it never really sticks in my head).

Why, are they also forcing you to throw away your old iPhone?

Meanwhile, just last year people living a couple of blocks from me were removing sludge a metre high from the floors of their homes due to river flooding levels we've never seen before. Very comfortable indeed.

Because to make a significant difference to that person's life you'd have to give them an astounding amount of money (and probably other forms of support), and personally speaking I'm still desperately saving just for a chance at having a place of my own myself. Nobody claimed to be 'virtuous', but caring is a good first step. I donate some of my time and a small amount per month to a local multicultural group. Small things help. Caring helps. Why is this suddenly about whether you're happy to give away half your savings to a person you don't know? Society as a whole could make things better by sharing wealth just a little more equitably. But some people seem to think that billionaires are just fine and not at all a symptom of a sick society.

Sorry but I get really frustrated by this lazy kind of 'well why don't you do it?' response. It just feels like you're trying to convince yourself that you're right not to care (to be clear, I have no idea whether you do or not), and implying that anyone who does, and hopes for something better, is just a hypocrite.

Just because they don't understand something or don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't benefit them.

Doesn't the linked comment answer that exact question?

Way to be reductive. It's a very thorough summary of the situation, hardly low effort or obnoxious. If you think it's 'just an image format' then you aren't the target audience. Move on. This was a very controversial decision that could have long lasting effects on the industry. See the rest of the linked thread if you are actually interested in why that is. If not, why comment?

According to the comments directly below the linked comment, Safari is actually adding support...

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1665792517613256705 https://www.webkit.org/blog/14203/web-technology-sessions-at...

So, can we just get past this silly drama now and get JXL support back in Chromium?