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werdnapk··on BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free
It's more the sanctions than the tariffs.
werdnapk··on BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free
Well if you bought the car, then it's not free.
werdnapk··on Anchoreum: A game for learning CSS anchor positioning
From https://caniuse.com/css-anchor-positioning you'll see "All major browser engines are working on implementing this spec.".

Not all browsers implement the same features at the same time. Firefox releases some features before Chrome, so it goes both ways.

werdnapk··on Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers
Water is the secret that I wish a younger version of me knew about.
werdnapk··on Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers
All wine is made from fruit.
werdnapk··on What's the Deal with Magnetic Fields?
Most of the crowd is here unlikely to get the reference, but since I do, 69 Love Songs is indeed great.
werdnapk··on Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars
Isn't Graphviz [1] the standard tool for this?

[1] https://graphviz.org/

werdnapk··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
Have you ever driven near the border? You'll be flagged for doing anything out of the ordinary with your car. If you have to pull over for a moment to find your passport for example, or if you made a wrong turn and try to turn around, or really anything that looks "suspicious", you risk getting additional searches or being pulled over.
werdnapk··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
I'd say BEM was a passing fad, but didn't rule the world. I also think tailwind will suffer the same fate, but we'll see how it plays out.
werdnapk··on The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
It's where people went for information "even before" the internet.
werdnapk··on David Lynch has died
The "sausages" skit [1] by kids in the hall I'm pretty sure is massively inspired by eraserhead.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChvxsVgT8c

werdnapk··on David Lynch has died
Mulholland Drive was my first Lynch movie and led me to watch pretty much everything else he released. I'd still start with Mulholland Drive if I started over again I think.
werdnapk··on Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
Wasn't expecting it to actually be called "Switch 2", but I'm glad they stuck to a name that makes sense.
werdnapk··on PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024
What's a real nested transaction? What's postgresql missing? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/subxacts.html
werdnapk··on Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third
I thought I'd read in the past that an uptake in C02 for plants/trees (and therefore faster growing) results in a weaker structure which doesn't stand up to the environment as well as slower growing trees.
werdnapk··on Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle
This is the route I took. I did not want to get involved in the sonos ecosystem even though most people were telling me sonos was "so easy" to setup. My setup... passive speakers, an amp and a wiim streamer and I can swap out any of the pieces with any nother from another manufacturer at any time if I want.
werdnapk··on Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
I've used nothing but Rails since about 2004. Of course I've been integrating and playing with various JS frameworks over the same time period, but the only things that's remained consistent is Rails as the base. I've gone through at least 4 or 5 different JS frameworks in that time and that aspect of development has grown rather tiresome.
werdnapk··on The Future of Htmx
Just a note to other readers, Turbo doesn't require Stimulus... I use Turbo mainly with AlpineJS and it works just as well since Turbo is the just tag driven side of things.
werdnapk··on Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
Yet, there stock is up over 70-80% last year and I have no idea what they really have to show for it.
werdnapk··on Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
Why does fb.com always erase your history so the back button no longer works once you click on the link to go there?
werdnapk··on Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1
Ok, updates regarding dependencies is definitely a good point.
werdnapk··on Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1
I don't understand the issue with it not being updated for 3 years. Perhaps it's stable and requires no updates?

If the author says it's no longer maintained, then that's something different.

werdnapk··on Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
I've always found the use of anchors on UI controls to be light years ahead of what HTML/CSS have been doing. I always used to create UI forms with resizing and different screen sizes in mind. If you were coding for a hard coded 800x600 screen then that was just laziness.
werdnapk··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
When my pixel 7 doesn't recognize my fingerprint, I press my thumb on the side of my nose to pick up a bit of skin oils and then my thumb print is recognized.
werdnapk··on Finding and optimizing N+1 queries on a relational database
In Rails you can make this 3 queries. One to retrieve the board, one to get all the report IDs associated with the board and a third to get all the reports with the associated report IDs.

An example in Rails would look like:

  board = Board.includes(:reports).find(board_id)
werdnapk··on Coq will be renamed into 'The Rocq Prover'
There's no real English way to pronounce it properly without doing it the French way: https://www.google.com/search?q=coq+french+pronouce
werdnapk··on "We ran out of columns"
Visual SourceSafe would show that a file was checked out hinting to maybe stay away. Good times.
werdnapk··on Do Skis Get Blunt?
snowboards too
werdnapk··on [dead]
"Are you qualified for this position?" "Yes?" "Welcome aboard"
werdnapk··on Craig Steven Wright Did Not Invent Bitcoin
Did any tech person actually think he was legit? He's been a phony from the start... seemed pretty obvious to me.
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