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css_apologist commented on Testing Ads in ChatGPT   openai.com/index/testing-... · Posted by u/davidbarker
css_apologist · 13 hours ago
Will this make OpenAI profitable?

What's the expected revenue from this?

css_apologist commented on Nobody knows how the whole system works   surfingcomplexity.blog/20... · Posted by u/azhenley
css_apologist · 17 hours ago
Yes, but the person who understands a lot of the system is invaluable
css_apologist commented on OpenClaw is changing my life   reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx
mancerayder · 2 days ago
Don't you get bored with spending many years learning and becoming advanced or an expert in a system paradigm (like different hosting systems), a programming language (i.e. Perl), or a framework (pick your JS framework), only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later? And then in a job interview, when you try to sell yourself on your wisdom as expert on thing X, new to Y, they dismiss you because the 25 year old has been using Y since its release three years ago?

And when you're in an existing company, stuck in thing X, knowing that it's obsolete, and the people doing the latest Y that's hot in the job market are in another department and jealously guard access to Y projects?

How about when you go to interview, and you not ONLY have to know Y, but the Leetcode from 15 years ago?

So maybe I've given you another alternative to 'it has to be power, there's no other rational reason to go into management'.

Here's a gentler one: if you want to build big things, involving many people, you need to be in management.

Do you enjoy brick laying and calculating angles around doorways? You're the engineer. Do you want to be the architect hiring engineers, working with project managers, and assessing the budget while worrying about approvals? They're different types of work, and it's not about 'power' like you are suggesting. Autonomy and decision-making power are more the 'power' engineers often don't get (unless they are lucky, very very smart or in a small startup-like environment).

css_apologist · 2 days ago
Yea, I enjoy being the engineer
css_apologist commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair   attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox
cfiggers · 7 days ago
In my opinion it is obvious and should be uncontroversial that some environmental regulations work and are great and should if anything be reinforced, while other environmental regulations do more harm than good and need to be reigned in or eliminated.

Turning "environmental regulation" into a unified bloc that must be either supported or opposed in totality is a manipulative political maneuver and it should be forcefully rejected.

Regulations are not people, and they don't have rights. It is fair and reasonable to demand that environmental regulation justify its existence with hard, scientifically verifiable data or else get chopped. Clearly, banning leaded gasoline has that kind of justification, and therefore I'm strongly in favor of maintaining that ban and extending it wherever it isn't in place yet. The same reasonable standard should be applied to other regulations across the board.

css_apologist · 7 days ago
give me an example of EPA regulation that needs to be eliminated
css_apologist commented on JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool   json-render.dev/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
viraptor · 16 days ago
While is a cool idea on its own, I don't get why they try to reinvent it as a new system. We've got swagger, openapi, graphql and many other systems that already describe the APIs. They mostly include documentation too. Why not just expose those for the same effect? (If I was cynical, I'd guess Vercel wanting a proprietary thing of their own just for less portability)
css_apologist · 16 days ago
those describe server APIs

how would it relate to ui?

css_apologist commented on Show HN: Rails UI   railsui.com/... · Posted by u/justalever
justalever · 20 days ago
css_apologist · 20 days ago
i wish :(
css_apologist commented on Show HN: Rails UI   railsui.com/... · Posted by u/justalever
css_apologist · 20 days ago
ugh this looks dated even by 2016 standards

when will developers learn UI actually matters

bootstrap was a mistake, and lowered the bar for everyone

css_apologist commented on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button   paulmakeswebsites.com/wri... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
paulhebert · 21 days ago
Author here. I agree that the having the code editable in my repo is nice!

But the fact that it just wraps another dependency (Radix) kind of defeats the purpose for me.

100% agreed on CSS being the right approach here! I’ve been using CSS hacks to style radio buttons for ages before we had good CSS support and never even considered recreating it in JS

css_apologist · 20 days ago
yea blew my mind shadcn is a radix wrapper
css_apologist commented on Vibecoding #2   matklad.github.io/2026/01... · Posted by u/ibobev
css_apologist · 20 days ago
this isn't technically vibe coding right? this is just like using llms here and there for details you don't care to learn more about
css_apologist commented on Show HN: wxpath – Declarative web crawling in XPath   github.com/rodricios/wxpa... · Posted by u/rodricios
rodricios · 21 days ago
I think xpath is cool too!

If wxpath can help revive some of that excitement, then I consider my project a success.

As for your question, while wxpath does extend the xpath syntax, `/map` is not one of its additions, nor is it a html map element.

XPath 3.1 introduced first-class maps (and arrays) (https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#id-maps), and `/map` is the syntax to create said structure. It's an awesome feature that's especially useful for quickly delivering JSON-like objects.

css_apologist · 21 days ago
sick, ty

u/css_apologist

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