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antod commented on Rob Reiner has died hollywoodreporter.com/mov... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

hypeatei · 15 hours ago

According to POTUS, he died because of Trump Derangement Syndrome[0]. Very classy and totally normal behavior from our highest office.

0: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1157241415688...

antod · 13 hours ago

TDSDS seems more of a real thing than TDS. The intellectual equivalent of "I know you are, but what am I?"

antod commented on No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me zerokspot.com/weblog/2025... · Posted by u/speckx

giantrobot · 8 days ago

The moment O'Reilly went subscription-only they lost me as a customer. I have a huge library of O'Reilly books I've purchased as PDFs. Shit I've got a huge library of print O'Reilly books despite years of slimming down.

It really sucked because I've been learning from O'Reilly books for thirty years. But I've become fundamentally opposed to DRM on media and subscription-only access is the ultimate DRM. I don't have any desire to be locked into their app to access stuff I paid for and be at the whims of their poor UI decisions.

antod · 7 days ago

Yeah me too. The only recent O'Reilly books I have came from humblebundle specials.

I've also been pretty disappointed with their quality and/or usefulness lately. They seem to just cover stuff in a less technical vague high level way now. Hopefully that's just a sampling error on my part.

antod commented on The past was not that cute juliawise.net/the-past-wa... · Posted by u/mhb

WalterBright · 8 days ago

TV tells me that hunting wabbits is not very productive.

antod · 8 days ago

Especially the wascally ones.

antod commented on New layouts with CSS Subgrid joshwcomeau.com/css/subgr... · Posted by u/joshwcomeau

psygn89 · 20 days ago

Use <table> for tabular data, but for layout you should use grid. Grid doesn't have it's own element like table does, so you have to use css to apply that display to a div.

CSS takes a bit of time to understand. It's cascading nature and how certain properties behave differently based on the html structure or display type or direction makes it tricky. I don't blame you sticking with tables for layouts for yourself - making layouts with floats was a pain. Bootstrap hid a lot of the layout pain. But today we have flex and grid to help us realize our layouts.

antod · 20 days ago

There were back in CSS 2 display values for table, table cell, table row etc which meant you could make divs or other block elements layout like tables did. Of course it wasn't supported in a certain browser with 90% market share.

antod commented on Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft? birchtree.me/blog/are-con... · Posted by u/ingve

glpgeFwac · 22 days ago

> Can't use 3 monitors without an expensive DisplayLink dock

Or you could buy a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max and plug in four monitors without displaylink.

antod · 22 days ago

I haven't kept up, but do they support display port daisy chaining and multi display docks now?

antod commented on Google is killing the open web, part 2 wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/akagusu

ErroneousBosh · a month ago

> it would tell you about things like separating content from styles and layout, yes.

That's what CSS does.

antod · a month ago

XSLT is really separating (XML) data from markup in the case of the web. More generally it's transforming between different XML formats.

But in the case of docs (eg XML-FO for docbook, DITA etc) XSLT does actually separate content from styling.

antod commented on The man who keeps predicting the web's death tedium.co/2025/10/25/web-... · Posted by u/thm

msla · a month ago

> What's wrong with TCP, HTML and DNS?

The Company doesn't own them. The Company doesn't control them. People can use them for things contrary to The Company's interests. The Company must protect itself, its brand, and its Intellectual Property!

> Why use the inferior solution someone built as a hobby project?

Hobby project? The Company is not a hobby. The Company is a Major Corporation with Interests, Investments, Shareholders, and Vision. The Company is The Future!

For "The Company" read "CompuServe" or "The Source" or any of a few other "online services" that existed before the Internet was opened up and the World Wide Web wiped everything clean. They were The Future of the not-so-distant past. As for why they didn't survive, well, Metcalfe's Law is a good first-cut explanation: The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users, because that's the number of connections it can have, and value comes from connections, inherently. What good is a network that can't connect you to what you want?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

antod · a month ago

I got up to the compuserve bit before realising you were talking about the past rather than the (very corporate) present web.

antod commented on We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner prosopo.io/blog/we-cut-ou... · Posted by u/arbol

travisgriggs · a month ago

> by virtue of being more complex

I just wish there was a way to underscore this more and more. Complex systems fail in complex ways. Sadly, for many programmers, the thrill or ego boost that comes with solving/managing complex problems lets us believe complex is better than simple.

antod · a month ago

One side effect of devops over the last 10-15yrs I've noticed as dev and ops converged is that infrastructure complexity exploded as the old school pessimistic sysadmin culture of simplicity and stability gave way to a much more optimistic dev culture. Also better tooling also enabled increased complexity in a self fulfilling feedback loop as more complexity also demanded better tooling.

It's kept me employed though...

antod commented on A brief look at FreeBSD yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

feelamee · a month ago

if Linux is a JavaScript, then what is Windows? haha

antod · a month ago

IBM VisualAge Perl++

antod commented on Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026 iflscience.com/on-novembe... · Posted by u/Neuronaut

nomel · a month ago

> It's expected never to encounter any other object in all eternity.

This is read as "near zero" rather than "no chance". "Expected" is a word of uncertainty.

I think the rough napkin math would be: take the volume that the probe will sweep through and multiply it by the volume of matter in the universe/volume of the universe.

antod · a month ago

So a virtual impossiblity? That's a finite improbability rather than an infinite improbability. I think I need a fresh cup of really hot tea.