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Unfortunately though it's no longer a bargain between state and individual inventors for the most part.

From what ive gathered it is no longer a system that can be used meaningfully by you or me, either to get a useful patent or to enforce an infringed one.

Personally I feel weird talking at my phone in a public place, but to each their own

Come to think of it, my partner has been having strange dreams too and she never takes so much as paracetamol or coffee.

Personally I think it's a combination of isolation and stress.

Anecdotal, in NZ, myself and people I know are having strange dreams and not taking medication.

> WSL extension allows for the VS Code UI to run on the Windows side with a VS Code Server running within the WSL VM

This was why I have finally switched away from developing on windows, there's something about the VS remote code server setup that will spawn tons of processes and eventually slow WSL to a crawl. Possibly my fault, I haven't gone through all my extensions and settings carefully, but also not an issue when running VS code on unix without the server.

This ignores how far the market place has listed to one side already. At this point in time I find it a little hard to summon empathy for billionaires.

Don't forget the occasional translateY for good measure!

CSS grid is a lifesaver, but grid-gap does not replace margin unless you have a very regular design.

I was in this boat for 8 years or so before starting a company and hiring a second developer. I lucked out and got a highly research driven one to learn from, and I gotta say I've learned a ton in 2 years. Even if it's harder in some ways than being solo, I think it's been worth it to have that pressure to improve code and processes. I was kind of coasting before if I'm honest, even though I felt like I was really good at my job.

Well for one thing they seem to have have quite a comprehensive tax system which they keep updated. Something I realised could be valuable when dealing with a Californian client on a different Ecom platform.

Another one is a reasonably powerful but client friendly interface, which sounds easy but almost all other platforms fail in some way.

Lastly it isn't totally bad for headless ecommerce, at least if you dont look at the accounts system too hard.

As a developer on the blunt end of their theme development I have questions.

That said, they solve some difficult problems and no one else comes close at the moment.

Our friends cat does kill fluffy bunnies, very regularly. Luckily they are a pest where they are, unfortunatrly he can be quite messy about it.

Racing drone batteries can be charged around 4C and discharged at close to 100C (Unsure how many of those C is marketing), but then I think they safely qualify as high stress..

With increasing automation less people can do more work and therefore earn more money, this is already causing some of the unemployment issues we see today.

Do you write your own dom/data/event binding systems in vanilla javascript or simply not use that approach? Genuine question, I have written a ton of ground up code across multiple languages but couldn't imagine reinventing that particular wheel for what we do.

At a guess a lot of things would happen before that becomes a concern.

I went through a phase of using pub sub with jquery + rivets + radio + underscore templates years ago. Two way data binding was a revelation for forms.

Then came vue which solved all of this in a clean way with a lot of other benefits to boot. I chose it over react because it can coexist relatively fine with old code, and with years worth of sites to maintain there's a fair amount of that.

Out of curiosity does anywhere other than the US have this kind of incentive?

The fundamental issue with this is it tells you about what's there when what you need to know is what's broken (not even necessarily what's missing).

> You’ve got armies of managers and bean counters trying to squeeze nickels out of processes

Unfortunately the processes they are squeezing often involve budgets and salaries, like those of factory workers, teachers and nurses. Its a bit hard to sympathise with this kind of 'value' sometimes.

> In fast food, for example, self-order touch screens are vastly inferior to a trained order taker > Grocery checkout automation is atrocious

I don't kniw about elsewhere but in NZ and Japan I'll pick self check out every time it's there. Its a bit sad on the human side of things but it is easier

Liquid (the template language) is slow and extremely limited, and the apis are.. evolving. It's been hard at times to avoid nasty code that loops through everything to load a small chunk of data. At this stage we are starting to mirror Shopify content in addition to using it as a headless source.

And many of those processes are spreadsheet based, ie CRUD!

I'm guessing because linear transitions often look unnatural. E.g. trying to do fades

I used to get a bit frustrated when I'd look up some esoteric programming term and find a convoluted description of what was ultimately a simple concept that I was already using.

Change causes instability. We are only just now entering an era when large segments of the population aren't defined by a large tribe like religion or where they were born. The instability right now is arguably the result of cultural whiplash as older generations and their view of themselves are heavily out of sync with how younger generations live their lives and see the world. In any case there are so many factors at play here that assigning multiculturalism as the key factor when it's always existed seems to be excluding a lot of other key issues.

> The opposite of alienation and social atomization is basically conformity and homogeneity

Not sure I agree with that, you don't have to be like other people to get along with them. A strong social fabric at it's root is things like being willing to talk to all walks of life and not nurturing a fear of the unknown.

I wouldn't be so sure, I used dark mode winamp and litestep themes back in the winxp days. It could have originally been that crt white was not that nice, but I still find a largely white lcd screen a bit much.

New Zealand

Well, here at least trailers are rented because you can pick up a trailer at the gas station at zero notice. Renting a truck is a little bit different.

Another possibility is that unplanned obsolescence is part and parcel of chasing bigger margins, and the companies with the biggest margin win out organically.