Maybe it's time we reset and started again. Freeze the standard for HTML, and create a new format (WPDL - web page description language?) that's lighter and less confusing to render. Browsers might even start being consistent if we did that.
Good luck with that. You need every bit of the current CSS and JS complexity to have any hope of meeting WCAG 2.1 AA, for example. (E.g. yes, you do have to support Firefox text-only zoom or equivalent up to 200%)
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There you go. You're welcome.
What hooey. A Toronto streetcar (tram) is 28m long and can hold 130 people.
A Waymo taxi is probably around 4.5m long and can hold 5 people. So 28m worth of Waymo taxis bumper-to-bumper with zero clearance between them can hold 30 people... less than one-quarter of the tram. In reality, you're probably only going to get 15-20 people in the Waymos because of the clearance between them.
Individual vehicles are just about the worst way to move a lot of people efficiently.
Um, yeah
Yes, you can increase efficiency of one aspect by seriously constraining something else. Big deal?
Serious question: what can html, js and css do today that they couldn't 10 or even 15 years ago, at least for the user? I think the only cool, new, user-friendly innovation I have seen in that timeframe is passkeys. Granted, I don't run across random sites like I used to.
CSS alone is insanely more flexible. Things like virtual units (several different kinds of virtual unit, lol), calculations, etc. Your browser has to support all of this, and get the same answers as the big boys, to have any hope.
No one guy in his basement is doing all that - unless it's by wholesale using parts of chromium, say.
Also, 10 years ago was 2016. You'd probably have to go 20 years back to get to a real market of multiple usable open source browsers.
I think it's easy to recognize this problem, but a lot harder to solve it.
Developing a modern browser is a ridiculous amount of work. Too much to be developed out of free time of volunteers. Which comes back to open source competitors that have perennial problems with funding or direction and commercial competitors facing a huge barrier to entry against multi-billion dollar giants. (Noting that several of those giants even have had rulings against them for abusing their monopoly position.)
Yep. Modern browsers have to be ridiculously complex.
Because modern HTML, JS, and CSS are ridiculously complex. They do ridiculously cool stuff, so I'm not saying that they shouldn't be. But they are, and therefore the browsers have to be as well.
Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a plan last week which could target submarine cables linking Arab countries to Europe and Asia.
Make sure you all meet in one place to discuss it some more
We abandon the boring things that work in favor for the new exciting crap that doesn't.
We also have the PhD system that literally requires coming up with novel new things, or at least pretending to.
And that's where we get our education grand poobahs from
Between the rise of emoji culture and Orange45's dismantling of education, it's not surprising Cathay will soon surpass MAGA's Red AmeriKKKa.
lol what?
You do know that Americans were better readers before there ever even was a federal Dept of Education, right?
GEMINI IS A NEAR PERFECT AI. COPILOT IS A DETERMINISTIC GARBAGE GENERATOR
First of all, I can get garbage from Gemini just fine (although it is a very useful tool if you are aware of the limitations). I've never used copilot, but I am pretty sure it is not deterministic. AFAIK all such models are probabilistic, and since they use randomness for generation, you can also call them stochastic, but definitely not deterministic. I don't know if I am missing something about copilot in particular, so correct me if I am wrong, but it does sound like a garbage post
But
I have a Kindle from 2015. In one of the 'recent' updates â" I think it was released a year or two ago â" they made it impossible to read imported ebooks.
You connect the Kindle to a PC, copy ePub files and then disconnect it. The files (books) are there. Check the reader a few hours later and all the books will have vanished. If you attach the reader again, the files are deleted. Fuck you, Amazon!
Hmm, I have one newer than that. and my imported ebooks are there and persistent.
Not necessarily easy to find though - the UI is horrific.
(also, I think I used the "email it to your special Kindle email address" method rather than USB cable to get them on there)
Yeah, exactly. It's not like it's all that hard to just put up your own website. It's just not something most writers can do, or want to do.
So
If it's just a "tax" and you get no value from it, then go ahead, create and maintain your own website. Since it's so easy that it should be free.
Does that apply to classified documents?
If it did, and if you applied that evenly, then all living ex presidents would do time.
So
(And if your valuable stuff were stolen from a car, you'd be calling those mean old police, and you'd be hoping that the thief would do time.)
Bruce66423 commented: "Just for stealing a couple of suitcases from a car. Funny how the elite punish those who inconvenience them. Can you imagine an ordinary victim see their offender get that sort of sentence?"
I would hope so. Why shouldn't you do time for theft?
There's got to be more to life than compile-and-go.
