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Luddites weren't crushed by progress, they were crushed by an armed militia backed by the government. 12,000 militia and yeomanry units, in fact. Knowing how most of the AI fanatics are like thou…

That's quite literally the opposite of what high trust means...

Dunno if it counts because it's not unlimited usage for a flat rate, but in the Netherlands a lot of utilities like water, gas and electricity are billed at the same flat rate every month, then o…

I recall an article on HN quite a while ago about one of those property management companies/websites in the Bay Area. The article was detailing that, while the majority of people looking to rent…

Why exactly do we need age verification, again? Other than the classic "But the children!" excuse of course.

But the data binding part isn't the same across frameworks. In Vue you have v-model, in React it's props and so on. The way you build a custom Select Dropdown, for example, will be very diff…

On the site I maintain at work, if I check literally any of the old components that don't use tailwind, what I see in the styles list of the devtools is 75 different variants of .card__wrapper or…

Tailwind tends to be smaller bundle-wise because it will only compile the styles you actually use in the final bundle. The old app I work on, the BEM classes are staggering in their size all combined,…

The hard part isn't just placing the correct styles, that is trivially learnable, it comes in when you have multiple people touching the same code, or even in small teams with a large enough proj…

I'm sorry but that just sounds like a tooling and skill issue? Adding a new form field takes me a grand total of 5 minutes in the Vue app I maintain at work, and I'm a mostly backend focused…

Co I work for creates customer support software, so naturally we have some AI solution available to people. A lot of our customers (aka businesses deploying our customer support software for their c…

In my case, stylus is a transient dependency of a transient dependency of a transient dependency... Vite has had stylus as an OPTIONAL peer dependency for a very long time now, and stylus itself has…

The crazy thing is that `npm audit` doesn't even list `stylus` here, at least not in my repos. Despite them literally overtaking the damn package on the registry for a *security issue*.

Man I thought I was going crazy. My staging build was failing and I saw that stylus was the culprit. Running `npm why stylus`, `npm ls --all stylus`, and other variants of these two commands consisten…

10x as much wealth for whom? It certainly won't be for the people displaced by the AIs.

If the industry comes out with a new, better connector, they can use it, as long as they also provide USB-C ports. If enough of them collectively decide the new one is superior, then they can start us…

No, GDPR is the law that allowed me to successfully request the deletion of everything companies like Meta have ever harvested on me without my consent and for them to permanently delete it. Fun fact,…

My favorite part is people taking the 98% number to heart as if there's any basis to it whatsoever and isn't just a number they pulled out of their ass in this marketing material made by an …

Always good to be cognizant that there are MANY people out there, especially on HN/YC circles, with large vested interests in LLM tooling. Just check out the YC batches lately, you'll be har…

We'll only be able to afford our lifestyles by letting OpenAI's bots make spreadsheets that aren't accurate or useful outside of tricking people into thinking you did your job?

Reading through the thread, it seems like half of the commenters work for OpenAI, so it'd make sense people aren't critiquing it much :p

> There's no Bond villain at the helm We're talking about Sam Altman here, right, the dude behind Worldcoin? A literal bond-villainesque biological data harvesting scheme?

> Luddites represent those who failed to understand the impact that automation had on humanity You contradict yourself in your prior paragraph here. Were they failing to understand the impact of au…

Every time pro-AI people bring up the Luddites I have to laugh, because they've clearly not had their magic little boxes actually tell them anything about the Luddites. They argued the exact oppo…

So has mine, and quite predictably our product has gone into the shitter and breaks constantly, requiring reverts almost daily. They've armed a couple of Juniors with Cursor and given them the wo…

This is just blatantly false. Source: I have had to work with regulators in various companies in reference to GDPR. You are given ample warning if you're found to be in violation of GDPR, you are…

You realize the major colonizers comprise only 6 nations in the EU (7 if you count Russia, 8 if you count Turkey), and not all of them are that well off these days despite their past riches? (Spain an…

We've recently come under new management, and the interview process for ICs has changed about a week ago and is similarly absurd to me. For the frontend role, we have candidates awkwardly read th…