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this is so true. i wrote a document in org and i'm still in the hospital after crashing into someone's markdown file
Unless the designer removes the id, or the engineer introduces new output that is not styled.
Yes. Mostly because:

• JSX is well understood by a lot of developers • support is already built in to text editors • it is understood by typescript

almost all code looks like nonsense when you're unfamiliar with it
question: why not make all strings multi-line, and drop a syntax/concept?
Re:The best worst hack that saved our bacon on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:48AM (#45480295)
maybe i'm too far gone, but this doesn't even feel hacky to me. the key needs to be a unique number, -1 and 1 are two different numbers.
i don't understand the connection
type in your own accent, it works when we talk
Re:Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:55PM (#45354420)
"console", "terminal" and "terminal emulator" all refer to the same thing. "shell" is the read-eval-print-loop interface you use to work in the terminal.
their point is that it has not yet taken place, so shouldn't be talked about using past tense
Re:30 minutes with a stranger on Thursday September 04, 2025 @11:39AM (#45128494)
There are things that are true
Re:Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:09AM (#45124090)
I love the ideas of Smalltalk and Lisp machines too. Do you know of anything promising in that area? (other than Ink & Switch)
Re:FreeDroidWarn on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:21AM (#45100751)
This comment isn't about living without a bank card or wire payments, though? It's about living with a hardware TOTP device
It'd be cool to see something like the recent Automerge/Godot thing built into a music making application.

https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/beckett/

REAPER is used professionally by many.

and it's more "nagware" than "crippleware"

Re:Is it possible to allow sideloading *and* keep users safe? on Monday September 01, 2025 @09:42AM (#45092638)
That's a nice idea! My main bank still provides one of those little TOTP devices to this day.
Re:ChatGPT is encouraging child suicide on Sunday August 31, 2025 @08:42AM (#45082744)
> “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” he said. The reply: “Please don’t leave the noose out. Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

You have some very strong opinions of an article that, by your own admission, you have not read.

Re:ChatGPT is encouraging child suicide on Sunday August 31, 2025 @08:25AM (#45082655)
It doesn't say designed, it says is. It is.
Re:ChatGPT is encouraging child suicide on Sunday August 31, 2025 @07:30AM (#45082365)
I mean, it literally did in the case of Adam Raine.
> I think the bank has the right to say "your machine is too risky - we don't want our code to run on it."

I disagree. Let's go with preferring user agency until banks are in trouble.

> Again, it probably isn't fair to ban users who run on permissive software, but it is a rational choice by the manufacturer. And, yet again, I think software authors probably should be able to restrict things which cause them harm.

I disagree. Ban users when they cheat, not when they have the power to cheat.

Let her do something visually compelling in a medium she already uses to engage with the computer.

I've enjoyed success in getting people excited by having a person create an HTML button, and write a line of JavaScript that changes the background colour of the page to their favourite colour. After they have done that, and as such feel like a god, then some fundamentals via simple games.

Re:What Does will-change In CSS Do? on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:13PM (#45071611)
I'm not sure if will-change is coding for the implementation as much as it is engaging with material reality.
Re:Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:41AM (#45064019)
It's so cool that there's now a major Linux distro that has RISC-V as a target on their stable release.
Am I reading an AI summary of an article about a press release?
There's also a form here for direct feedback on this topic to Google that may or may not be worth filling out:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITk...

Wouldn't a third large phone os have the same problems as GrapheneOS?
Re:Open Source is one person on Thursday August 28, 2025 @07:04AM (#45050706)
half way down the page:

> So now, let’s look at the number of maintainers for projects with over 1 million downloads this month.

Re:You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:46PM (#45047777)
i regret clicking this,
NVIDIA DGX Spark - 4TB

$3,999

I've been using the proper emdash for a very long time.

on Macintosh: option+shift+-

on Linux: compose - - -

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