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kowdermeister··on Why I Write CSS in JavaScript
- Were there moments when you cried back SASS or vanilla CSS?

- In your react example, I see you created <Title> as styled.h1, but that's an awkward way of bootstrapping a component. Even if I used SC, I would still put the style information outside my component code in the same directory. At this point I don't see the benefit over doing something like:

    import * from './login.scss';
What can SC do that regular CSS or SASS can't?
kowdermeister··on I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
Of course it's worse, since you have more pixels than image data.
kowdermeister··on Google .dev domain early access
I guess the usual ~$200k.
kowdermeister··on This person does not exist
I like the fact that the server returns an image directly without any HTML or other content. It makes the loading experience fun too.

How many faces are generated? This can't be real time.

kowdermeister··on This person does not exist
In the right context you'd have no reason to doubt some of the good ones from this set is a real person.
kowdermeister··on Show HN: Pino – Open source web app for membership management
User / pass doesn't work.
kowdermeister··on Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
I don't use them yet, but I'd render shaders. I need to test it if it's worth it since it's probably possible without GPU-s.
kowdermeister··on Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
As someone, who never written a book this makes sense, however is it that common that you move text between chapters that often? I guess it varies from writer to writer. However I would go mad with a single file that size.

A 4k monitor with 20 small windows would be me approach :)

kowdermeister··on Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses
> A big component of my overall problem was dealing with individual file names.

umm, I know naming is hard, but xx_chapter_name.md?

kowdermeister··on Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
My only interest is missing as I see at first glance: GPU support

Edit: found it as "Graphics Card" :D

kowdermeister··on Can You Find the Bug in This Code?
When you assume the compiler reads it the same way your brain does :)
kowdermeister··on Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?
No, good as always :) But seriously, yesterday I wanted to deploy my beta to a fresh server install and I did like 10 google searches of various server and tool issues. I got it all resolved and the beta is running but I didn't stop at how bad these results are.

What are you searching for when you see a decrease in quality?

kowdermeister··on Next.js 8 released
Here's the PR to Webpack:

https://github.com/webpack/webpack/pull/8609

kowdermeister··on Ask HN: What’s your laptop?
Dell XPS 13 9380

- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz, 1800 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

- 8 Gb memory (enough for me)

No complaints so far

kowdermeister··on Swc – Fast JavaScript to JavaScript compiler
> project is mostly Rust, is the perf improvement simply because of that?

I would think so.

kowdermeister··on Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline
Messenger is way too powerful to catch up with friends.
kowdermeister··on Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every post in the timeline
This escalated quickly :) So if I put ads on my site, I'm literally Hitler?
kowdermeister··on The brain exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency
So if a neuron fires or not (I guess that's what you mean by action potential) can simply be translated to 1 or 0 hence it's digital?
kowdermeister··on The brain exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency
The brain is analog.
kowdermeister··on The brain exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency
So which version worked for you better financially?
kowdermeister··on Be: From Concept to Near Death
> Free from day one?

That's great in theory, but how do you then pay the developers?

kowdermeister··on Sr.ht becomes Sourcehut
Minimalism is a modern UI trend :)
kowdermeister··on What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
Thanks. For the lazy... it's explained here:

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1280235

kowdermeister··on What Happened to the 100000 Hour LED Bulbs?
How do you predict product lifetime?
kowdermeister··on Ask HN: What big programming productivity gains you see happening in 5-10 yrs?
Web application deployment got way easier than it was 10 years ago. Now now there are plenty of alternatives for CI and testing tools that can automate the process of releasing and verifying code at scale. By scale I mean lots of developers collaborating on the same code base and handling massive loads at the same time.

It's also the field that I think will see lots of improvements and maybe some fundamental disruptions. Maybe it will be GitHub actions and it's right around the corner :)

kowdermeister··on Ask HN: What big programming productivity gains you see happening in 5-10 yrs?
> you should take a couple hours to read what software engineers thought was obvious prior to 1980

If you care about the subject this much and you think that everything was better before the 80s, then why don't you link to or name some sources you value?

kowdermeister··on Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
Then you are clearly subbed to the wrong subreddits. I find too much fun content there covering all my interests.
kowdermeister··on TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning for the Web and Beyond
It was not really relevant. It could be anything that's new, webassembly for example, or some new WebGL framework...

> Are you just trying to say you love React, Node, Java...

No stack I advocate in particular. I'm trying to say that the web is a wonderful platform and I hope it will stay for a very-very long time.

For the client side ML libraries, I don't think it makes sense to use it for tracking. You can already extract information with a high accuracy.

Tracking is a natural consequence of money flowing into the industry and tracking can be achieved with high accuracy. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but at least we can do something about it.

kowdermeister··on TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning for the Web and Beyond
> the web could get any more terrible than it is today

Please cry a river how bad it is. As someone actively developing since about 2006 I think it's never been in a better shape.

kowdermeister··on Hacker facing an 8-year jail term for exposing vulnerabilities in Magyar Telekom
> Does the public prosecutor in Hungary have a poor conviction rate?

Not if you are a politician. In the last two terms of Fidesz 1 low figure guy was convicted. I find that ridiculous since we are the poster child of corruption in the EU.

It is because the Chief Prosecutor[1] is a good old friend of Orban.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9ter_Polt

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