wildpeaks

One problem is the gamification rewarded some bad behaviors, especially once one accrues enough points to get away with it.

I know exactly when I permanently stopped contributing to the site: it had been a few years since I happen to have something worth posting a question about, but for once I had a niche question about a popular-enough framework it was worth a shot.

A guy replied with a generic wall of text that had nothing to do with what I had asked, merely contained some of the keywords I also used.

When I politely pointed out it's not what I asked and reformulated in case he merely misunderstood, he got mad that I had refused to just give him the points.

He got extra mad when I figured out the answer on my own and posted it as answer in case others stumbled on the same issue, so he tried to edit my answer to make it look irrelevant.

Unfortunately for him, he didn't realize I also have enough points to edit it back, so he gave up and deleted all his comments to make it look like I'm talking to nobody, then went to downvote a bunch of my older posts.

And the sad part is that guy initially seemed well regarded in our small community, kinda killed my motivation to contribute to the site again after that. Plus I usually always find answers on my own, and anything I can't figure out on my own is so niche it would be pointless to ask.

I suspect it's because they have no incentive to fix it, people will spend tokens searching using Claude rather than doing it themselves for free.

Even if it was a long time coming, especially after Veilguard, the loss of a legendary studio is always sad.

I often half-joke that my ICQ number is the last thing I'll forget if I get Alzheimer, long after my own name.

Same reason an ATM gives you the card back before the money because too many people would forget to cleanup (picking up the card) once they reach their objective (getting money).

My only issue with Web Components is that, by design, they need to be registered with a globally unique tagname and can't be unregistered.

It's a reasonable compromise given the original purpose of custom elements, but in practice it ends up more maintainable to be inspired by its structures without using real custom elements despite I was initially excited that jsdom supports custom elements nowadays.

I wish Autodesk had a Creative Cloud equivalent: imagine a 50€ / month subscription that gives access to all Autodesk apps, it would have sold like hotcakes.

By remaining expensive proprietary tools, they lost the new generations of developers who learned 3D with Blender and Houdini Apprentice and who will naturally want to continue to use them once they become professionals, so their customer base will keep shrinking.

This is why having a human in the loop isn't enough because they will cut corners and skip reviewing what they should review.

I can imagine the resulting texture feeling better on the skin, but I can't unsee the lack of symmetry.

I lived in Germany for 10+ years, so unsurprisingly got Both (40/62) as result, although it was slightly frustrating sometimes to pick between answers where none really fit precisely (which in itself is probably a sign too, lol)

One issue is other people might still upload information about you, so you'd have to limit your irl interactions as well

The lack of local account makes it so difficult to setup a PC for someone else, I wish they just used the same strategy as macOS.

It's not a new thing, it's a common way to fill empty slots for aesthetic purposes, especially with RGB builds in aquarium cases.

It depends on the runtime: Node can run Typescript because it automatically strips types (which is so convenient during development).

But in browser, for now only the more limited JSDoc-style types can be shipped as-is indeed.

Because it's a waste of bandwidth if they're not enforced at runtime, the same reason why minification exists.

Evan You just announced it: https://x.com/youyuxi/status/2032385324572180575

I never stopped, Bandcamp sells DRM-free files (especially on "Bandcamp Fridays" once a month when more of the money goes to the artist, unlike Spotify and other streaming services), and VLC works on both desktop and mobile.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

Custom elements are web components, it's literally what the article is about

Exactly why I banned React from my pipelines years ago, native Web Components + dispatchEvent gives you the modern web without bloat and churn, and Vite for a lightweight HMR thanks to native ES Modules.

Server-side you can use jsdom to polyfill document, it supports Web Components too.

Merry Christmas !

May your glühwein be hot and your cats purring :)

lol it claims I'm fiercely anti-Creative Cloud whereas I'm actually one of their oldest subscribers (literally signed up the day it was announced)

Cryptic hints only work while your memories remain intact, unexpected health issues can render them useless

Power reveals rather than corrupt: it's easy to act moral when there are consequences (real or imagined) when you don't, but you see someone's true self when they know they could get away with it.

For example, this is why the way someone treats service workers is a good indicator of someone's character.

Happy Thanksgiving !

I haven't been participating as much lately because life got in the way but I'm still thankful this community exists, it remains one of the very few places I can have high level discussions with fellow inquiring minds.

Wow, 13 years already :)

The title is just a reference to the popular collection of books "XYZ for Dummies", it became a meme in the 1990s-2000s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies

You probably even saw some of them around, they have a very distinctive yellow cover.