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I Don't Like Magic 5 months ago

This person's distinction between "library" and "framework" is frankly insane.

React, which just is functions to make DOM trees and render them is a framework? There is a reason there are hundreds of actual frameworks that exist to make structure about using these functions.

At this point, he should stop using any high level language! Java/python are just a big frameworks calling his bytecode, what magical frameworks!

But what action are you triggering that automatically follows invisible links? Especially those not meant to be followed with text saying not to follow them.

This is not banning you for following <h1><a>Today's Weather</a></h1>

If you are a robot that's so poorly coded that it is following links it clearly shouldn't that's are explicitly numerated as not to be followed, that's a problem. From an operator's perspective, how is this different than a case you described.

If a googler kicked off the googlebot manually from a session every morning, should they not respect robots.txt either?

Confused as to what you're asking for here. You want a robot acting out of spec, to not be treated as a robot acting out of spec, because you told it to?

How does this make you any different than the bad faith LLM actors they are trying to block?

I like Mozilla and thought Pocket's future would be relatively safe in their hands.

Never trust a company like this. You'll always get burned. If it's not FOSS, its not reliable and will likely burn you

For VCs, why go anywhere else if the best of the world are flocking towards you already?

Very false. A lot of the best in the world have no intention of ever living in silicon valley. In my circles people dread even a week long trip there.

Yeah, using VSCode is a different IDE

Why do you assume everybody uses that?

If the product can't be used with the infinitely hackable emacs or vim, that's a shortcoming of the product.

The diversity of mediums chart at the end doesn't make any sense. What are the multiple lines? And at the end if he is saying everything converges to TikTok, wouldn't the TikTok point on the graph be on the axis for 0 diversity?

Why else would they want to lose hours to commuting, and not take advantage of their employees living in cheaper CoL areas?

They abuse this and it definitely doesn't help the worker. As a Manhattan based worker who has lived in Aspen and Hawaii, Google wants to pay people in the higher COL areas of Aspen more than 30% less despite them being far more expensive than Aspen or Hawaii. They will fuck you with cost of living then if you expect more money they will say they are just following the cost of labor (which is a made up metric they can arbitrarily manipulate)

It's more insidious than that.

Being forced to RTO across the country, then immediately laid off after I uprooted my life to do so, all while knowing the layoffs were planned while they were telling me to move across the country, is fucked.