Readit NewsPublic policy discussions always get boiled down to some simple wording that isn't strictly accurate.
I need to read the new Peter Hamilton book (book 2 due out soon). And I am ashamed to admit I haven't read any Greg Egan yet, need to get on that :)
- All 18 Expeditionary Force books by Craig Alanson
- The first 5 Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart. UnArcana Stars (book 6) went in a direction that made the government look extremely incompetent.
- Jacques McKeown series by Yahtzee Croshaw
- Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor
Characters are all interchangeable and quirky because he says so. The science is tacked on like a chemistry teacher putting their kids to bed.
SciFi: Read Larry Niven and James Blish if you like feats of engineering, read Ann Leckie and Nancy Kress if you like characters defined by their actions.
Don’t tell me to be excited Andy just because you wrote “THAT’S SOO COOL!” after revealing some tidbit. I’m not a fucking child.
I can see that you wouldn't like him if you're more into characters than plot, but that's not what everyone wants.
JS is in general better because by the time it came out people knew what to expect from a scripting language.
CSS didn't really have a lot of earlier styling and layout languages to copy. Also the original vision was much more limited.
from the article is talking about people like you, who refuse to learn something properly but have the arrogance to think they know better.
Here's a better explanation of the hostility towards CSS.
Nested flexbox had bugs in IE11, which wasn't end of lifed until 2022. The nested CSS in the article came out in December 2023.
CSS first came out in 1996.
The current state is much improved, but don't pretend there wasn't a solid 20+ years of sucking before that.
Not working in the industry, what do they actually do with asbestos that has been removed? I presume it can't be 'destroyed', so it needs to be stored indefinitely somewhere where it doesn't cause harm? Dump it in an unused mine shaft and seal the entrance?
Chemically it's just silicates. So you can melt it at high temperatures or do various other processes to get rid of it.
I'm not sure what they actually do.