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Is there no middle ground?

I love the clean approach with classless. Documents do have a structure and is makes it easy to change by just swapping out the CSS without touching the document.

But could you not just add the class only when you really really need to break the structure? The middle ground for me would to do my utmost to avoid classes within reason. So as few exceptions as possible. I know this is selling elastic bands by the meter.

On the other end you have Tailwind CSS. I know many are happy with it and find it has a nice developer velocity. But I find it overly verbose and "framework of the day"-ish.

So for me it is classless until my head hurts. Then I'll sprinkle in a class to get work done.

Around here it is quite common to do with dairy products.

I however choose not to do so quite deliberately. I want to avoid food waste. I just check the date is "good enough". My regular shop has a good enough flow that I usually pick from the front.

Food waste is a trending concern around here. But I think you and I who cares about shelf life belongs to the same minority. The majority has enough other worries and does not spend bandwidth to care as it is usually good enough.

I consider fish a "fresh" item and care more for looks and smell.

Same as with vegetables. But I hate people who prod everything - that is detrimental to the product.

It is a choice. But as you are probably aware; not one many makes.

While I do prefer to read as well I do like some of the better videos. Sometimes the information density is not as high as I would like - there are reasonable efforts.

Sure, there is amateur content. But there is a surprising amount of original researched content with a high production value.

A recent example with a scientific approach to cooking with some fun high quality references to Breaking Bad:

https://youtu.be/NnzADfbBBFo

Yes - they want to (discretely) sell thermometers as well. Not all is good. But very far from amateur.

Another illustrator from the 70's was Ingahild Grathmer[1] which was said to be a favourite by Tolkien himself[2]. Maybe he was polite because of the noteriaty (not sure if known at the time) but I do like them as well. Have a look at the documentary on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rNqVqzIxi3A&t=24m19s

(Go to 24:19 for Ingahild herself)

[1] a.k.a. Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid (https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Margrethe_II_of_Denmark) [2] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66764/time-queen-denmark...

> Please putany cool IRIX experiences you are having or had here where I can see 'em.

My mind was blown wn when I started University in 1993. We had rooms filled with brand new Indys. We had SUN boxes. We had been Solaris boxes. We had Snakes (HP 9000) running HP UX.

All as one heterogeneous system. You logged in to any workstation running X. Everything was seamless connected. One Login and everything just worked.

That new fangled Mosaic was then also primarily used to view scantily clad women. Serious students found serious information on Gopher. The geeks of the geeks wandering the MUDs.

Mosaic ran best (only?) on the SUN boxes. But through the power of X you could use it anywhere.

I saw the future. I thought that was how things was supposed to work. I have never experienced such a smooth and well running system ever since. So nostalgia hits hard with any mention of the old boxes.

Only thing I do not remember seeing at the time was IBM RS/6000 running AIX. And with full access to everything for a first year student. Glory days.

This was at DAIMI in Aarhus. First year students in Copenhagen at DIKU was envious as they had to share 1 HP workstation with around 20 terminals.

Around here flat sea is the killer as it usually is a sign of strong undercurrents. To the uninitiated it simply looks more calm. It can pull you down for real.

If you just float to open sea (typical tourist in a dingy or paddle board) you might need to get a "fun" helicopter ride from the friendly sea rescue services. Most people tend not to know that if the emergency is due to gross stupidity they will be billed afterwards (they are kind - so that is rare). Their rates are however significantly higher than regular tour operators.

So I do agree the lack of awareness is frustrating. If the locals stop swimming you should too.

But... Send me down under to Australia.and I would probably die in 5 minutes. Everything seems to be dangerous and/or poisonous there.

We are all to some degree "tourists" at some point in time with all that entails.

Many things:

A) A hub further south than Berlin. If Dresden (end station for the line) was a "hub" then OK B) Hard to find and find intercomnnectimg routes. C) It departures from Copenhagen South not Copenhagen Central. D) Poor availability. You need to book in advance if you're not very flexible on dates. This compounds when you need to interconnected. E) Insane prices. They have optimized themselves out of business. CPH - Berlin in a private cabin for 2 will cost around USD $500. This much more expensive than plane tickets and a very nice hotel room.

If you talk with "regular" people this does not even register as an option. Hence a poor network is not comparable to a proper network. It needs to be able to compete - not on all parameters but at least some.

That is like comparing range in gas cars and EVs. Some do that but there are other major benefits.

The lengths I will go through to avoid air travel is much higher than a 1:1 ratio in comparable time. When I have to get the cattle treatment I prefer cattle cars over cattle cans.

And even with 1:1 remember that layovers are a completely different beast. If Münich was a hub between Northern an southern Europe I would be happy to spend a well rested day before continuing on. Especially in spargel season!

...but only a fool does not fear German railroads. They could really learn from the Austrians.

The reason night trains are not a thing is because there is no real network. Looking for tickets in Europe it is often once or twice a week departures on specific routes. No real good north south interconnected corridor from Scandinavia.

And as a proper geek I have even sought them out but often found them sold out.

They cost optimized themselves to obliteration.

The Nimbus even came with a 3,5" floppy! Do you happen to know if they shared any design? Was there a reference Intel board which most designs are based on?

Reading up on the RC Piccoline I realise I misremembered. Each 4 computers shared one drive unit. So not quite terminals as I remembered. Did the UK variants have some of the same quirkiness? I see they have a "network server" (XN20) listed.

I was stuck on the rare 3" size. But lived in a fishing town so I could get them a little cheaper - they where commonly used for plotters on the boats.

Thanks for that hint. That was interesting.

Impressed by writing a website on a CPC. You have been a true die-hard. I first saw "the web" with Mosaic on a SUN Sparcstation in 1993.

These listings are fun to explore.

As a teenager I got my first 8-bit computer. A lot of my friends had Commodore 64. But a good computer salesman sold me and my dad on the british Amstrad CPC 6128[0]. It had the disk drive and a green monitor. Great computer. Great salesman. They had this newfangled Commodore Amiga but he did not know much about it. It was at the same price but without a monitor so my dad reasoned it would be better as I would then not occupy the living room TV with my computer. I could have jumpstarted my career on 16 bit. I could have been a contender!

The Amstrad had a Z80 CPU and ran Locomotive Basic when powered on. But it came with a disk containing CPM Plus 3.0. That was used for "business-like" things such as copying files using "pip to_me from_you".

That in turn made me the local über-geek in the computer room in my public school. They had 2 expensive danish made and rather rare Intel 80186 (yes - 80 one 86) based RC Piccoline[1] computers. They in turn each had 4 terminals and 1 dot matrix printer (a typical school setup at the time). A fact which never really dawned upon me at the time what "Concurrent" in CCP/M meant. My geek flex was when the vice principal fetched me during a regular class to help him remove a defamatory text file from a 5,25" floppy disk. He was not able to delete the file himself. I identified the "read-only" attribute was set and such wizardry was rarely seen around those parts.

Back in the day when computing was much more heterogeneous and fun. I am sitting here behind my Ryzen monster but still yearn for those days.

Now, kids. Get off my lawn :-)

[0] https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2666/Amstrad-CPC-612...

[1] https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/RC_Piccoline

You are basically McBlocking any further discussion.

The point is that it is too easy to be a nay sayer. Show effort. Be more that a "huh?"

Did you?

They base the feed on user input. The feed is then (supposedly) adjusted to what I like.

What I call a signal you call an attack.

I signal that I do not like Minecraft videos. But I do not attack them.

Your anger is misdirected. You should be mad at YouTube because they do not seem to understand that there can be multiple signals at once.

The chances that I click on a Minecraft video is low. Autotranslated even lower.

So we differ strongly in opinion on how the platform should work. I read your "attack" argument as I should write to the Minecraft creators and tell them their content would be better if they played Minesweeper instead.

I do not punish anyone. I just pursue a clean and (for me) high quality feed.

If you are up in arms that I punish your channel that is another signal that I am probably not your target audience.

When dealing with audiences at scale you need to listen to these signals as handling personal opinions in mails from the discerning viewer is not feasible.

So what you're saying: Please complain through proper channels and hope they accept your input?

Or should he just keep using the signals he gets and immediately clean up his feed?

I actually see this as a feature. YouTube recommends a lot of garbage. I suggested that they improved my feed but they implemented this signal instead. I use the exactly this method to weed out a lot of content I do not care for.

You cannot tell the 500 pound gorilla anything. I prefer my videos without subtitles. I have that set as a preference. Yet when chromecasting it is common for the subtitles to spontaneously turn on. And has done so for a long time.

English is not my first language and my first language is not widely used. Hence I am not used to dubbed movies/programming and I am used to seeing subtitles.

If a native english speaker could understand the horror show that the machine generated subtitles are. If you are used to subtitles they are extremely hard to ignore. You will then read and get the understanding (often hilariously wrong) before the audio catches up and you might end up rather confused.

I can understand an American might have a hard time watching a subbed German movie. Thats natural because it is not common. But when you grew up with subtitles it is actually effortless. Except when they are poor. Then it becomes worse because of the cognitive load of 2 languages and the effort to figure out what is correct.

Dear english only speakers: Translation is hard. A poor translation is worse that no translation as it obfuscates the message. AI is not there yet at all. Maybe impressive but often not helpful or plain and simply distorts the real message.

Exactly this. Fashion often conflicts with sense. That is a universal truth. Even though the fashion might be rooted in some form of sense.

Mahogany and teak was in fashion around here for a while and oak went out the door.

Oak was considered cheap so we painted it. The fashion then change to lye treated. Then we went with soap treated oak.

And then one day Ikea came into fashion.

Price is an important function of choice. But we should not discard the fashion trends.

Rich people might have good sense. Or they may have a sense for fashion. But they are still just people like the rest of us.

So the "unless someone tells you" really rings true to me. Rather than equating rich with good and hence equating good sense with common sense - I think it is a really interesting question.

What opportunities and choices are not obvious to us have-nots?

I never believed that that getting rich would make me happy and solve all my problems. But I am quite sure that I would get a nicer set of worries and problems than I have now.

Would I like to experience that for just a day? No, thank you. Ignorance can be a bliss.

It is one of those Schroedingers cat like questions.

A.k.a "The Loudness War"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

I would say mostly in the courtyards.

And yes - it can be quite the challenge. And people sees it as a god given right. The same rights as people who have their essential 4 bicycles.

Some of the same people who find it too cumbersome to use the bicycle storagespace/garage commonly found in basements. It can be a challenge indeed.

The basement parking is very common but rarely cater for the cargo bikes so they need to reside in the courtyards.

In some neighborhoods they have converted some of the street parkering spaces from cars to bicycle racks.

At Ikea and shopping malls they usually have dedicated parking for the cargo bikes.

Same in Denmark. It is almost a must have for inner city families. Much more common than two wheel Long Johns.

Two very common models are:

https://www.christianiabikes.com/classic/

https://www.ladcyklen.dk/ladcykel/nihola-ladcykler.html

Super rare is untrue. Rare would even be a stretch. I live in Copenhagen and use a helmet. I would claim it is common to use a helmet. Not everyone - but many do. And it is not even mandatory.

Helmet usage is actually increasing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00224...

We recommend it for tourists as well. Though it is rare with helmets for that group who might need it the most: https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/sites/visitcopenhagen.com/fi...

Helmets are not compulsory and interest groups works to keep it that way: https://www.cyklistforbundet.dk/english/use-of-helmet

But less scary F150s and good bike infrastructure, yes.

I hope many people read this and take it to heart.

It is a rare and wise insight which only becomes crystal clear with age. Choose your battles very carefully.

This is a golden nugget up there with "time flies". I never understood that as a kid but really hits hard with your mid-life crisis.

Listen carefully little grasshoppers.

You are right and it is an evil form of gate keeping.

Pros before bros.

Nerds are just wannabes.

The mugglers may suffer as they do not know, care or can articulate it. If they do - they are clearly nerds and we can discard them as a minority.

People conflate pro with premium. The mass market should be able to sustain premium and discount. The market might be too small for pro DCP content. But I would like the market to understand that there are 3 important segments. Pro, premium and discount.

Pro - special specific needs. Premium - for the regular Joe who wants good quality. Discount - for the masses.

Premium market is underserved. Unless you are willing to pay luxury prices for Kaleidescape or the likes.

It is the race to the bottom with streaming providers testing commercials. They have already succeeded with the "junk content" as the big studios wants to keep licenses for their own services.

The quality bar is set for the lowest/cheapest common denominator.

I often hear that hand waving "what the market wants". But it is more "what the market can suffer". See IPv4 vs IPv6.

I am not working with mastering as the OP. But I can see the low fidelity of streaming services. I watch my content projected to a large screen.

So I am one of those weirdos. I do not mind as I know I am a nerd. But there are more of us than you think but the penny pinchers wins as usual. "The majority do not see it". But they do. The majority went out and bought 4K TVs. They are slightly disappointed as it did not get "that much better". Most would have been just as happy with a 1080P OLED display. But only the geeks can articulate what they want.

The worst local offender is the online Blockbuster. Compression artifacts galore. But as most view content on phones the audio is stereo only. So your "sufficient" is not my "sufficient".

I get the "weird" part. No offense at all. But you are talking about optimizing for what the majority will suffer.

And it is done to save the last little penny. We could optimize for technical excellence but pride has gone out of fashion.

Been there. Done that.

But it doesn't even stop there. It goes down to the SMB market as well. Granted not the S but in Medium and larger places.

I have been dragged into multiple sales calls with the agenda "we need an app".

Full stop.

Fun day to be the "Solution Architect" on call.

In DK I would say it became common with the kitchen and maybe bedroom TV around 1990 and TVs in the kids rooms around 1995.

Cable TV became common in the 1980s (around here). So distribution is just a question about point of entry.

Are the aussies and UKensians that different?

Source: I worked at a TV/electronics shop in the early 90s.

Kids these days wouldn't now the struggle of finding a weak termination.

Now get off my lawn ;-)

You are missing the point. You are correct that thin ethernet might have been the craze. On the PC you would add an ISA or PCI card. So should we only count from when it was added to the motherboards?

The point is that the first 10 base T still works if used with modern equipment. That standard is from 1990 and grew extremely fast.

Around 1993-1995 coax was considered totally outdated. Fixing termination problems where never fun. A nail in the coffin was 100 Base T which was standardized in 1995.

Tokenring and ATM was contenders around that time but lost to ethernet.

That kind of backwards compatibility is really amazing.

Nope. As you say yourself: Possibly an antenna connection.

Exactly that. When we redid the floors i our apartment we renewed the electrical wiring and added ethernet and coax. The coax was intended for radio/tv.

There is however an overlap of people who have the foresight to add coax cabling also add ethernet a well.

If I was was re-doing today I would add more empty pipes and fiber.

Cabling ahead has a very high WAF (Wife Approval Factor) when adding new gear :-)

Yes. But that still seems more palatable. Go figure.

For better or worse; that is the current perception.

I only had 1 slight jump on Android/Firefox.

When I scroll past the title it jumps to the main paragraph. This seems to be the only jumps for me.

If you continuously scroll up/down around that point it is really annoying.

Page positioning is an important feature but more often used for flash rather than function.

If you rephrase that to tools which deals with what the endpoints emits there is a boatload. Most emits JSON but XML can be found as well.

Personally I use jaq. Gojq is nice as well. Both. Inspired by the original ja. You can find many lists[1].

I would especially point out jid[2] which often comes in handy to explore apis.

Or if we stay at the http calling level and the command line: wget or fetch.

If you include scripting languages then most http libraries will do. With Python a simple approach would be "python -m json.tool".

[1] https://ilya-sher.org/2018/04/10/list-of-json-tools-for-comm...

[2] https://github.com/simeji/jid

Santos Dumont had close competition by Jacob Ellehammer[1] who is probably only (mostly) known locally.

But truly pioneers: Building planes, helicopters and cars totally from scratch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Ellehammer