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Re:AI companies are shredding rare books on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:45PM (#49073135)
> “imprinted”

I would say “reduced”

Re:AI companies are shredding rare books on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:43PM (#49073106)
They aren’t “digitizing them” as if they are making them available online.

They are creating embedding vectors and training documents - changing whatever they want - and destroying the original copy so nobody knows what was actually said.

It is just like book burning.

Re:AI companies are shredding rare books on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:40PM (#49073058)
The gigantic loss is that they are destroying the original copy.

They aren’t verbatim uploading the text 1:1. They are creating vector embeddings and training documents from it, changing whatever they want since it’s in private and protected by NDA, and destroying the original source of information so that nobody knows what was originally recorded.

Re:AI companies are shredding rare books on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:38PM (#49073025)
I agree, this is bad.

They’re privately putting info into their LLMs, changing whatever they want, sorry, “sanitizing” then destroying the original.

As others mentioned, not great for rich interactivity.

Example: Render a scrollable list and you need to change contents of the li items mid scroll - it resets the scroll position to the top because of how it replaced the entire HTML on render. There are workarounds you can do, DOM hacks, but they aren’t ideal.

React is designed around that kind of thing. They do some funny magic under the hood to support seamless DOM reconciliation and things like prop drilling of entire components on the prop of another, and so-on. This gives them a more granular way to manipulate the DOM without total page re-rendering.

Next.js SSR works because it’s designed around React. So they’re giving you all the SSR stuff you want but you still get client-side React for rich interaction design and other SPA niceties.

So if someone releases an SSR-like thing like htmx it feels like something is missing.

Maybe htmx needs an opinionated framework that gets more into high performance rendering and state management.

Or maybe they hone in on the “basic web pages” market. Who knows, maybe those make a comeback somewhere. PDF gets replaced with standalone HTML or something, and people use HTMX, or maybe it’s used in a dev environment for HTML email design in some future where email can have events (who knows). Couple of ideas.

Right now it feel incomplete or has nowhere for me to plug it in. Love the concepts though, HTML/JS should have been like that.

Re:Did They Ghost You? on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:06AM (#49065094)
> Too many bad actors have changed the strategy.

1a) Who the other girl is looking at

1b) Wallet Size

2) Face And Body Appearance & Social Positioning

3) Dick Size

That's it playboy

Insert joke about lack of garbage collection in Rust ultimately concluding that I'm not very hospitable
Cloudflare: "We reduced bot traffic by 80%"

Me: "Bro you reduced all traffic by 90%, my customers are pissed"

Re:'AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making' on Saturday July 25, 2026 @06:36PM (#49052427)
Feel like AI prep vanished cold blood ambushed into a 5-point kidney, thistle tea'd then MfD 5-point eviscerated my career, when all I was doing was gathering peaceblooms in silvermoon when I should've trinketed the kidney death coil into a fear. It is what it is
Re:The Silurian Hypothesis (2020) on Saturday July 25, 2026 @06:31PM (#49052375)
> I can't speak to dinosaur people

Dash out of context

Re:Did They Ghost You? on Saturday July 25, 2026 @06:11PM (#49052178)
Is ghosting really such a big deal?

Wait until you get an overly smug rejection letter that the author seemed too eager to write, and took too much joy in writing.

Some people love to reject, and would never miss an opportunity.

Another angle is -

If you've been ghosted, you still have not been told no. That means there's no record of you ever getting denied for the position.

(and maybe you really haven't been)

It's kinda better IMO

That's interesting, the idea that hosting implies a front-end (whether UI or API).

So it's similar to why we don't call Heroku or Vercel "hosting" or "compute" because it's more of a service (though "cloud" and "platform" are pretty vague too).

This literally has to be it. The people that say it tend to say it a lot.
Re:Apple won't let me show my app on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:14PM (#49039585)
I just gave myself an idea: e2e testing for games
Re:Apple won't let me show my app on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:09PM (#49039525)
I once wrote a similar blog post when Apple rejected one of my games for bogus reasons.

Then out of frustration I deleted the submission and re-submitted with no changes except a new version number - that one was approved.

Deleted the blog post lol.

Over the following years I would learn that the App Store review process is random. It depends on who you get. Sometimes the reviewer seems mistaken about things and reject it, and on the other end sometimes they approve a build that has bugs, as if they didn't test it at all.

One time a reviewer accurately caught iPad issues. Apple reviewers love iPad. Make sure your app works on all modern versions.

Also once you get approved the first time, that app will usually get easily approved after that.

For games: They are very unlikely to play through a whole game and find bugs later on (a problem IMO), but they are more likely to use surface level menus and things on a regular app, so in some ways it can be easier to get a faulty game approved where regular apps are held to higher standards.

Re:If You Build It, They Will Come on Saturday July 18, 2026 @06:35PM (#48963132)
Interestingly, I always guessed the opposite.

That modern American Christianity obsoleted the old clubs and "secret" societies - most of which were no longer very secret, more ritual than societal, and at some point had to define what "higher power" meant to its members - a topic that easily takes over the municipal development discussions - to not only the younger men but to the women (who were largely barred from such organizations).

90s television and the "role model" movement helped Christianity unify and sweep the attention of the youth, reflected in "youth group" programs across churches in the United States and also the rise of indie televangelists (some became millionaires, along with thousands of pastors).

By the early- to mid-2000s, Christianity had figured out how to put on a much better show (for the kids) and, especially in California, again had evolved into something new, more palatable, entertaining, and far more inclusive than you could ever get from something like a Masonic order or even a Rotary Club.

90s-00s Christianity was a massive movement that I wonder whether or not would be possible without the advent of TV. To me, those old clubs where grandpas met and discussed things was a way of the past. Like comparing newspapers to social media - just an obsolete way of sharing information.