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As the author of a content management system I made with the idea to democratize internet content creation, I've had a lot of the same thoughts that the author brings up here. I've always thought that even learning Markdown was a bridge to far when it comes to empowering non-technical users however. In my experience it's best just to supply tooling similar to Word where you have buttons for things like lists and bolding. Using Markdown as the format itself is something I will agree with though.

Another thought I had is that local AI could most definitely play a part in helping non-technical users create the kind of content they want. If your CMS gives you a GPT-like chat window that allows a non-technical user to restyle the page as they like, or do things like make mass edits - then I think that is something that could help some of the issues mentioned here.

Even worse than cancellation is when there's sloppy writing that is very obviously in place to push the series into another season while a bunch of plot threads go unresolved. It's like the corporate greed is being placed front and center of the content itself.

My thoughts exactly. They are using the Google playbook of "don't be evil" until it becomes extremely profitable to be evil.

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I gave it an image of my crappy art and asked what steps I could take to make it look better. It gave me specific advice like varying the line widths and how to use this on specific parts of the character. It also pointed out that the shading in my piece was inconsistent and did not reflect the 3d form I was representing and again gave me specific fixes I could implement. I asked for it to give me an updated version of the piece with all of its advice implemented and it did so. I was pretty shocked at all of this.

I'm honestly surprised that VR hasn't been a bigger impact on board games. Besides the obvious fact that you can more easily get people together, software is great at handling the non-gameplay related "administration" that takes time away from the fun. Things that come to mind: shuffling decks, misdeals, misunderstood rule-sets (I'm looking at you D&D 3.5).

I guess the downside is also pretty big: no face-to-face communication - which itself can be a detriment to gameplay in games like Poker or PvPvE games like Dead of Winter. Also the tactile-ness of board games is such a nice escape from everything being digitized these days.

I got the same "old, weird internet" vibe that you did. Back in the 90's there seemed to be more moonshot ideas like VRML and The Palace Chat - things that were maybe a little silly and geeky but at least pointed the way to something that could eventually become more useful and developed.

I wonder how many great websites we lost with the death of Flash.

Off the top of my head, I remember visiting the website for the movie Donnie Darko back when the film was originally released and being blown away at the strangeness and creativity of it.

If I were to predict, Google would start identifying trends and slowly start ranking reddit higher for user centric queries. In my limited dev experience, that is already happening for Stack overflow. I love how the results are clubbed together under the first result.

Weird, I'm having the opposite experience with stackoverflow pages. Often I get pages from random websites that copy and paste stackoverflow content with some jammed-in SEO ABOVE the actual stackoverflow results.

Great timing! Just today I did a Google search in an attempt to figure out why my skin surrounding some recent scar tissue had a yellow discoloration. Didn't find my answer until the third page!

This plays some part. Another factor is the old 'it is harder to read code than it is to write it' adage.

Currently working in the world of TypeScript/Node/JavaScript there's so much stuff I miss from .NET.

* Awesome standard library - very little need to install packages from randos on the internet * LINQ makes performing complicated work with collections simple and readable * Great async model for work that needs to be done in parallel or scheduled

Was also impressed at how much stuff they managed to add to it over the years:

* Generics * Now runs just about anywhere: Windows/Linux/macOS/mobile * Null reference types largely gets rid of the endless 'Object not set to instance of ...' errors * Now supports some form of immutable data types (records)

Frankly most of the complaints I'm reading about here come from the companies that choose to use the technology rather than the tech itself.

I saw The Hobbit in a theater playing at 60fps in 3D and several people in the theater laughed at points in the film that were not supposed to be funny just because how odd certain things looked. Although I personally enjoyed the unique presentation it kind of made me realize that 60fps would never take off.

I feel like these points land harder when talking about animation rather than live action films.

Consider that when Disney made Bambi 2 in the 2000s, they came to the realization that their animators did not have the skill required to animate deer antlers and then basically had their hand forced into using CGI. In the 1930s this was not a problem: the film contains not just hand-animated antlers but beautifully painted backgrounds, an incredible score and some of the most expressive character animation ever produced.

It hardly seems to be a stretch to call animation done during Disney's golden age objectively better than what is being done today.

"We live inside a dream."

It is a very American thing to get so upset when the country is criticized.

I think this is thankfully becoming at least slightly less common, at least among educated Americans. For me at least the combination of meeting more people outside my bubble, travelling and learning more about the history of the United States has led me to a similar conclusion that you have reached.

A few weeks ago I returned to my rural Minnesota hometown to see people that had come from families that had lived there multiple generations wearing confederate flag clothing. I wonder if they had any concept of which side their forefathers would have been fighting with back then.

I've sometimes wondered why so many restaurants (even some chains) don't have any kind of online presence outside of a crappy HTML 'poster' that tells the world they exist. No delivery. No online orders. Seems like a missed opportunity.

Then I remember that it is an industry with tiny margins and remember my past work with small clients and come up with a similar list of thoughts that you have outlined here.

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As TypeScript is a core part of the Deno ecosystem, we are also very interested in pushing for even closer alignment of TypeScript and JavaScript in the future.

I've wondered why the frontend community hasn't gotten together and said, "The next version of JavaScript - is TypeScript!" I've been using TypeScript for five years professionally now and cannot understate how much easier it has made large frontend (not just Web, but mobile and desktop) projects. Surely enough thought and work has been put into TypeScript to make it the next standard.

Reading this I'm reminded of knockoutjs, which the author of SolidJS cites as an influence. I remember at one point, years ago, trying to figure out why it was so much faster than AngularJS. Two things seemed to be going on: 1) It was only updating the parts of the DOM it needed to 2) To do this it seemed to 'automagically' be inferring dependencies.

I wondered how they did this second thing and guessed that it was parsing the JS code I was writing somehow. Either that or flooding the observables with values and making note of how changes trickle down. It turned out that it was doing neither of those things but frankly I didn't understand how it worked even when it was explained to me. Might be a good time to revisit and satiate my curiosity and take another look at it.

Agreed. Everyone, regardless of their political leanings, tends to be ignoring the elephant in the room: why is there such an insatiable demand in America for conspiracy theories and white supremacy? It would serve all of us better to look at the root cause instead of getting hung up on the symptoms of the disease.

My arrow and page up/down keys do not work on this website. Very annoying.

Based on what I've heard from interviews from doctors and nurses, these people change their tune incredibly quickly once they have been diagnosed with Covid and start suffering from some of the more severe the symptoms of the disease.

Lots of sci-fi reference in the comments but the first thing I thought of when reading the article was the movie Pandorum.

A lot of it is simply narcissism. Many people who are deeply involved in conspiracy culture have professional, emotional, or social frustrations and are grasping for explanations about why they aren't getting the things that they want out of life.

Pardon my cynicism, but you could use these as a guide for drawing money from people that are predisposed towards having many strong cognitive biases. There seems to be a near limitless number of people with money suffering from extreme social isolation in addition to narcissistic personality disorder. These people have little interest in reality and will happily give you their money if you play into these biases.

Devs also leave after completing all the meaningful, interesting work and finding there is none left. It feels good to build and launch a product - or even add features that can have an impact on the bottom line. It is something very different to work on a list of features that you know very few people, if anyone at all, are going to use. Same goes for maintenance.

In my experience, people just want their biases confirmed and their prejudices reinforced. Moving away from mainstream media gives the people what they really want: white supremacy and conspiracy theories.

I can't even read the article - it just shows some pulsating bars where the content would be. Eventually you see an error pop-up regarding 'libry'

In my admittedly anecdotal experience, it's been a very long time since employers have had the luxury to be able to layoff software engineers.