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davidd_1004on The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history

I don't really understand the "too long" complaint when NFL is the most popular sport. A baseball game is something like 30-45 minutes shorter than an NFL game. And NFL and MLB both have about 10-20 minutes of actual live play each so I don't think "nothing happens" is a particularly good explanation either.

I think the biggest reason is that it's much more difficult to follow as a casual fan due to the number of games. It was fine when baseball was more or less the only popular sport, but now it's competing with too many other things.

I hope it's true that the parity gap due to not having a salary cap is hurting the sport's popularity, but I'm not sure that's true either. The majority of fans root for only a handful of teams who benefit from not having one.

davidd_1004on A farewell to Arc browser

I remember back when they launched a lot of people, myself included, were skeptical of their business model and the CEO told everyone not to worry about it. Turns out they were right lol

davidd_1004on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

Using them perhaps? Complaining about separation of concerns never makes any sense when you use components because the components are the structure and the styles are tightly coupled. You could separate the styles, almost all of them are going to be specific to the component so there's not much of a point unless you really like writing one-off class names.

davidd_1004on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

I've seen one of these posts every 6 months for the last 5 years and not a single one has figured out components yet.

davidd_1004on Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill

The worst consequence of LLMs is the reduction in the amount of out of touch LinkedIn posts from executives.

davidd_1004on You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I've always found the git GUIs more confusing than just typing out the commands. They never seem to map well to how I work.

davidd_1004on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

300 million dollar organization btw

davidd_1004on GitHub notification emails used to send malware

Had this happen to me over a year ago so I assume reporting it to them did nothing :)

davidd_1004on Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences

I think they have a specific list for cookie banners

davidd_1004on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

It's fine if it's the default honestly, as long as it exists as a setting you can change.

davidd_1004on Weak rules allow ultra-processed foods like Lunchables on school menus (2023)

Meat could be higher quality from wherever they are sourcing it.

davidd_1004on Weak rules allow ultra-processed foods like Lunchables on school menus (2023)

The commenter likes McDonalds better in France. I was just saying that the ingredients aren't any different in the burger.

davidd_1004on Weak rules allow ultra-processed foods like Lunchables on school menus (2023)

McDonalds burgers are 100% beef in the US

davidd_1004on Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)

Most scientific code breaks when anyone but the author of the paper tries to run it