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Jubijub commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo

solardev · 7 days ago

Bring back VRML!

Seriously though, if I were forced to maintain every tiny legacy feature in a 20 year old app... I'd also become a "former" dev :)

Even in its heyday, XSLT seemed like an afterthought. Probably there are a handful of legacy corporate users hanging on to it for dear life. But if infinitely more popular techs (like Flash or FTP or non HTTPS sites) can be deprecated without much fuss... I don't think XSLT has much of a leg to stand on...

Jubijub · 7 days ago

+1. I worked on an internal corporate eCommerce in 2005 built entirely on DOM + XSLT to create the final HTML. It was an atrocious pain in the neck to maintain (despite being server side so the browser never had to deal with the XSLT). Unless you still manipulate XML and need to transform it in various other formats through XSLT/XSL-FO, I don’t see why anyone would bother with it. It always cracks me up when people « demand » support for features hardly ever used for which they won’t spend a dime or a minute to help

Jubijub commented on Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024) jedkolko.com/2024/09/24/u... · Posted by u/mooreds

tossandthrow · 25 days ago

> One thing RTO should make plain for everyone is executives and their managers value control over substance.

As one who manages a remote team - substance doesn't come for free.

This sounds great as a dichotomy, but it is not - people who care aniut their work, and collaboration are rare to come across.

Jubijub · 25 days ago

This. I am a manager, and frankly, getting a bit tired of people who just cast some degree of in person presence as “pure desire for control”. People require coordination (that’s partly why manager / project manager / product manager roles exist), and that coordination is orders of magnitude easier and faster in person. Sometimes just in the course of going from meeting A to meeting B, I will solve <=3 minutes stuff that would take me 2-3x the amount of time via chat or quick ad hoc meetings.

I am against full RTO 5 days a week, because for focused tasks, WFH is way more productive. But hybrid is not entirely stupid. Sure, if 100% of your work is focused work (say SWE work for instance), anything other than full WFH is a loss to you. But unless you work 100% alone with nobody else, 100% optimal for you may not be 100% optimal for the project / product / organisation. And I’ve seen first hand how conflicts brew when people can’t just go in front of a white board and hash out differences in person

Tl;dr : it’s wayyyyyyyy more nuanced than “RTO is stupid you control freak”

Jubijub commented on Speeding up my ZSH shell scottspence.com/posts/spe... · Posted by u/saikatsg

lompad · a month ago

Why not just use fish at that point? It's been rewritten in Rust too.

To me personally, oh-my-zsh and similar projects feel like a worse version of the stuff fish brings by default.

Jubijub · a month ago

Fish is awesome, but there are times you need POSIX/ bash-like shell syntax

Jubijub commented on OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

fuzzfactor · 2 months ago

Yup, looking at the other side of the coin there's the full chance to become an ad company on steroids instead.

It's just so disappointing when somewhere the opposite approach to "don't be evil" is always lurking.

Jubijub · 2 months ago

It’s a certainty at this point, they will need the revenue stream

Jubijub commented on Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success blog.tjll.net/the-systemd... · Posted by u/Mond_

jauntywundrkind · 2 months ago

This doesn't match my experience at all. For the life of me, I cannot imagine what you are talking about, what any of your issues are. Did you file any tickets, or report any issues?

What about "actually doing stuff with systems" was "nope nope nope nope"? What situations did systemd break in? What did you try before giving up to reinstall the OS?

Thise fud train is cast aspersions, no meat.

Jubijub · 2 months ago

+1, systemd is very usable, and works. I would really not go back to what was before

Jubijub commented on TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-end... · Posted by u/avonmach

yincrash · 2 months ago

With no explanation on the change, I will have to assume that taking off our shoes never made us any safer.

Jubijub · 2 months ago

Case in point : fly from EU to US, no shoes off. Same planes, flying over the same cities.

Jubijub commented on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like? matduggan.com/what-does-a... · Posted by u/fside

Jubijub · 2 months ago

It’s a dark take, but I mostly agree with it. The ad model, with all its flaws, is a flexible model, and it has funded the web for a while.

The part that will break is that a lot of sites will have 0 incentives to continue to publish, in the face of 0 revenue and 0 credit. That will degrade the quality/ relevance of LLMs. I also think that “guaranteed produced by humans “ will have value.

Jubijub commented on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway techcrunch.com/2025/06/12... · Posted by u/achristmascarl

jghn · 2 months ago

I believe they bin vehicles by available seating and not by things like luggage.

Jubijub · 2 months ago

+1 So you may get say a 7 seater where the seats are folded in the trunk, so you can carry 7 people XOR 5 people + light suitcases

There is no option to say “send me a mini van”

Jubijub commented on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine cnn.com/2025/05/30/busine... · Posted by u/lwo32k

cjs_ac · 3 months ago

There's a connection to the return to office mandates here: the managers who don't see how anyone can work at home are the ones who've never done anything but yap in the office for a living, so they don't understand how sitting somewhere quiet and just thinking counts as work or delivers value for the company. It's a critical failure to appreciate that different people do different things for the business.

Jubijub · 3 months ago

That is a hugely simplistic take that tells me you never managed people out coordinated work across many people. I mean I a more productive individually at home too, so are probably all my folks in the team. But we don’t always work independently from each others, by which point having some days in common is a massive booster

Jubijub commented on CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content civitai.com/articles/1502... · Posted by u/50kIters

speedgoose · 3 months ago

Are the reasons a dislike for porn, pornographic deep fakes of real people, or pedophilia?

Jubijub · 3 months ago

I have no beef against porn, but what makes you think the other two use cases at acceptable ???