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New comment by llbbdd in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

llbbdd — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:25:00 +0000

Absolutely. Show me the source of a sufficiently complex web application that isn't built on React, and I'll find the React-by-any-other-name inside.

New comment by llbbdd in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

llbbdd — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:23:35 +0000

There are very many highlight performant sites built on React, and very many sites that are homespun or built on other frameworks that perform badly. It's a scapegoat.

New comment by llbbdd in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

llbbdd — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:27:18 +0000

The appeal is that it's not React, aimed mostly st people who have a grievance against React for one ill-informed reason or another. In time it will either become React by another name or die out.

New comment by llbbdd in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

llbbdd — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:37:12 +0000

It's fascinating to see retrofuturist ideas being built in real-time. Being able to translate your thoughts instantaneously to cogent written text and using it to make a PowerPoint is almost painfully analogous to e.g. cassette futurism, or like 50s visions of the future where we have gigantic video screens but they're still CRTs.

New comment by llbbdd in "The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town"

llbbdd — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:48:40 +0000

I don't have much familiarity with composting or fish sauce production, but wouldn't the high salt content make it a bad fertilizer?

New comment by llbbdd in "You only need the frontier model for one single edit"

llbbdd — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:18:20 +0000

I call him "my son"

New comment by llbbdd in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

llbbdd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:36:34 +0000

Most young people are familiar with lowercase sentences and have been for a while, yes

New comment by llbbdd in "Thunderbird Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback"

llbbdd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:30:53 +0000

This is a good encapsulation of why the year of the Linux desktop is perpetually fifteen years away.

New comment by llbbdd in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

llbbdd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:25:45 +0000

Surprised to read this as a Queens thing, this sounds perfectly at home in the Midwest.

New comment by llbbdd in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

llbbdd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:02:49 +0000

I'm...not old enough to read a Business Insider article about being annoyed by lowercase letters.

New comment by llbbdd in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

llbbdd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:17:02 +0000

> forced lowercase

??? shift is an extra key to press

New comment by llbbdd in "All Star Wars Games Ever Made – Released, Cancelled and Mod Archive"

llbbdd — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:28:37 +0000

Fun coincidence to see this mentioned today, just recently I rescued my DroidWorks disc from my basement and was looking into how to get it running on a modern system. Obviously Wine/Proton are probably an option but I saw that there have been some efforts to build open implementations of games like Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 and Grim Fandango that ran on the same engine or a modified version of it, I wonder how much of that pre-existing work would be transferrable.

New comment by llbbdd in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

llbbdd — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:46:50 +0000

All places laden with useful information.

New comment by llbbdd in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

llbbdd — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:23:23 +0000

The style of plastic bin definitely looks the same. The ones we were getting looked something like this[0], same folding-flap top as in your link but form-fitted insulation inside:

[0] https://flexcontainer.com/product/insulated-molded-container...

New comment by llbbdd in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

llbbdd — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:07:27 +0000

I used this service before it rolled out widely and these boxes were a mixed bag. On one hand they worked really well, they were essentially insulated hard totes with styrofoam lining and often had dry ice in them for anything that needed to be kept cold. On the other hand, I lived in an apartment, so storing 3-4 totes for a week or more was a real chore.

The funniest thing I remember though is that the totes weren't optimized for the size of some of the products available very well - if you put a frozen pizza in it, it sat diagonally, and without enough room to really put anything above or below it. You order four frozen pizzas, and you're allocating many cubic meters of apartment space for them until the next time you order.

New comment by llbbdd in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"

llbbdd — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:07:46 +0000

I'm glad to see more of this approach to modernizing education. I roll my eyes seeing people argue that we should go back to pen + paper or other weird rose-colored regressive approaches to preventing AI usage. It's part of education now, it's part of work now, and learning environments that don't acknowledge that are going to be dragged kicking and screaming into a future with empty classrooms.

New comment by llbbdd in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:17:45 +0000

See my other comment. I want my doctor/plumber/etc to be able to recall faster, type faster, work better under pressure. If you're better at those things you should get better grades and be paid more.

New comment by llbbdd in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:16:11 +0000

Those are all proxies for "is smarter". They have better memories, perform better under pressure, etc. Universities are meant to prepare students for the real world where these things matter.

New comment by llbbdd in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:05:51 +0000

Fast students are smarter. Why avoid grading on that?

EDIT: Rate limited so: "smarter" here means how well the student will perform in a career in their chosen field. Fast + accurate is the ideal.

New comment by llbbdd in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

llbbdd — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:52:11 +0000

Agreed. A lot of my countrymen have forgotten that America generally kicks ass, it's sad to see.