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caporaltito··on I didn't write any JavaScript, and other shortcuts
> Thousands of lines of Javascript were spilled to do this in the past. Now browsers do it for you.

Alright. Now I want my date picker to have no rounded borders, the days in the weekend to be in a specific color and Wednesday to be in another one. And everything has to look the same according to your browser, of course. How does this guy do it?

caporaltito··on Geddit: Open-source, Reddit client for Android without using API
I don't get how much of a big deal this API thing is. I don't get how much effort is put to have yet another client app. I don't get all of this. This is... Reddit!
caporaltito··on Albert Camus
I think the biography didn't get his name right: they meant Albert "Mutherfuckin'" Camus.
caporaltito··on Beware offers of “help” with your projects
Tru dat.
caporaltito··on Valve Sued by Immersion over Steam Deck and Index Rumble
An idea is not a technology. Making a controller vibrate to give the player or user feedback is an idea. Filing a patent on an idea is called patent trolling and should be heavily punished.
caporaltito··on IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
Also, their competitors are better at AI, they basically use it to say they fire people because of their competitors.
caporaltito··on On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish and global Englisch
> A permanent residency (PR) in Berlin does not require German language skills anymore.

Of course it does

caporaltito··on Qantas is bringing back Airbus A380s from the California desert
No, it's a big plane so they needed a bigger desert.
caporaltito··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
No, the answer was 12.
caporaltito··on Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
This is also my opinion. AI will dig a huge gap which does not yet exist between the best and the worst products (articles, code, whatever your product is). People will only have to navigate in this new landscape filled with a huge majority of mediocre crap and a small minority of gems.
caporaltito··on Cheating is All You Need
I would not be particularly proud that I managed to get a PR that I didn't write and I don't understand approved and merged into the codebase my fellow colleagues and I are responsible for.
caporaltito··on Cheating is All You Need
The guy should calm down. I mean, did he really used LLM for coding? Or even for asking the biography of someone famous? They are bullshit generators. Very high performant bullshit generators which outputs need to be carefully reviewed.
caporaltito··on Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules
Not really. I lived in three different european countries (France, Germany and Poland) and the switch to private was never worth the price : way more expensive for a barely better service. With public healthcare, you have the power of the numbers. Way more people are on the public side, which drives the prices down. If people are not willing to pay an astronomical price for their health, then health companies follow as long as they make decent profit.
caporaltito··on The widespread layoffs are more because of copycat behavior than cost-cutting
This guy again? How many years of experience working in the industry does he have again?
caporaltito··on Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti
Also, if you put a guy controlling Normandy, he will control the mouth of the river Seine which runs in Paris. So you secure the biggest city of your kingdom from being raided from this river by enemies rowing it upstream, which was the biggest problem with Vikings raiders back then.
caporaltito··on Ambient: The Multiplayer Game Engine
Looks like a good start for a game engine. It definitely good to have professional competitors to Unreal.
caporaltito··on ESA: Small meteorite will safely impact atmosphere tonight over northern France
> Holy crap that was exhilarating

A perfect occasion to... laachen?

caporaltito··on Visual design rules you can safely follow
Excellent. This is really the ABC of UI design.
caporaltito··on Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
From now on, I will switch to this version for my child's story before sleep
caporaltito··on Stop developing this technology
Your analogy is 100% on point, I guess?
caporaltito··on Stop developing this technology
This reminds of the whole crowd of artists calling for a ban of AI generated art because "it's stealing". The change will happen, whether you want it or not. So those guys'd better raise the prices for their unique, by-hand manufactured, hard worked pieces of work and leave the low-quality, generic and industrially generated ones to AI. Embrace the change, as they say.
caporaltito··on A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
Finally, something useful posted here
caporaltito··on Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?
No, it is not "better".
caporaltito··on Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?
Comparing Java & Javascript? This reminds me the last recruiter message I got on LinkedIn. "You are a Javascript expert, I have this mission for you with the same language! They're looking for a Java expert!"
caporaltito··on Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
When did this guy actually worked in the tech industry again?
caporaltito··on Taking over a Dead IoT Company
Hello, author! That was interesting!
caporaltito··on Don't use Tailwind for a design system (2021)
The guy is not happy because he still has to write CSS from time to time, yet says the classes from a CSS utility library, which prevent him from having to write too much CSS, should be thrown to garbage. Another absolute title article to make you click.
caporaltito··on [dead]
Way too much emojis to be trustworthy, just like a LinkedIn publication
caporaltito··on Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?
A tech german brewery.
caporaltito··on Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
> There are probably more continuous family heritage firms in Japan practising some art (brewing, soy sauce, woodwork, coppicing) than anywhere else. Can you name a European family concern doing the same thing continuously since before 1600? I can't name any Japanese ones but I wouldn't be surprised if there were many. Institutional enterprises like Oxford university press exist since deep time, but in Japan it would be a continuous lineage of printers continuing to use woodblock printing (maybe alongside hot type or photo typesetting)

That's a bit exagerated. There are a lot of fields in Europe which keep traditions since the Middle Ages. Sure, the difference is the amount of people doing it, but it is still there.

Centuries old breweries in Germany, Czech Republic and Poland. Traditional tweed weaving in Scotland. Stone cutting and stained glass apprenticeship through "brotherhoods" in France. That is just on the top of my head. The only difference with Japan is that those markets have already shrunk to modern needs and those markets already went through centuries of heavy modernization. So one really traditional european company serves the market like tens would in Japan.

But the traditional know how is still there.

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