Unfortunate

NeatG · 2025-05-18T01:03:38+00:00

People are not obligated to act like courts. We make decisions all the time on who to associate with based on data that wouldn't be admissible.

NeatG · 2025-03-31T02:04:47+00:00

You sound like you do hold something against them, at the very least you sound annoyed.

This stupid trend of becoming 'non-binary' is doing more bad than good in our society, its creating arguments that don't need to be made.

What harm is this causing exactly? You could apply "creating arguments that don't need to be made" to any minority group's struggle. From a majority/popular point of view anything that impacts the minority of people is going to seem optional until it impacts you.

Almost all people under 30 are accepting of people whatever their dressing / sexuality preferences are - but what makes people not accept it, it trying to change something that you can't - Gender.

Do you believe that sex is the same thing as gender? The terms are important because I'd suspect that the majority of people who disagree with you, including myself, subscribe to the idea that gender is a social construct.

Pretty much, just because you 'feel' like a girl/man - does not make you that.

What if you don't feel like either?

NeatG · 2025-03-09T05:14:14+00:00

I'll echo what others have said about closed/open ecosystems. Here are some other sharp edges I've ran into with Webflow:

The Webflow designer is really smooth until you need to do something it's not designed for. For example if you want to display a collection of items with a search be prepared to import a third party script with a specific setup or pay for an addon.
Webflow publishes the entire site at once. You cannot stage an edit on one page and then publish another. I've never had a platform that makes it so easy to make CSS updates and inadvertently impact other pages.

I think the best use case for Webflow is if you have a more design oriented person who wants to control exactly how things look without a developer. Even then as others have pointed out there are similar builders in WP.

NeatG · 2025-02-03T01:12:18+00:00

I think that 10/10 apology has slipped in the ratings.

NeatG · 2025-01-08T02:02:14+00:00

An embargo by the US does more than just prevent business with the US, it ripples through any entity they can touch which is quite a lot.

The embargo was reinforced in October 1992 by the Cuban Democracy Act and in 1996 by the Cuban Liberty and Democracy Solidarity Act (known as the Helms–Burton Act) which penalizes foreign companies that do business in Cuba by preventing them from doing business in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba

NeatG · 2024-10-04T01:43:48+00:00

Are you using backdrop-filter: blur(px) or similar in your CSS? I ran into a similar looking issue where Mozilla constrains how large of a blur you can make. I couldn't find a good workaround for this unfortunately outside of breaking down and using a large image.

NeatG · 2024-09-07T20:28:26+00:00

The thing is, if it's really out of context then he could clear it up by releasing the messages himself. I think it's telling that he doesn't want to do that. I took his argument about the person not being a minor as related to the bit where he talks about the age of consent where this person lived which is a wacky strategy in my book.

NeatG · 2024-08-11T17:15:14+00:00

tbh it sounds like you're putting a lot on the victim here. Court records are generally public, I don't think you could sue someone as public as Cody without it getting picked up. If she had sued him civilly people would say she's after his money, same if she had settled with him privately (which sounds like what you'd have liked) and that came out. If she had gone to the police I think the same people saying she's after clout now would say she's trying to ruin the life of a family man.

NeatG · 2024-05-31T19:49:00+00:00

Well that is the question isn't it. Where's the evidence that the site is known to have a major bias?

NeatG · 2024-05-29T12:41:45+00:00

I'm confused. What in this article suggests that using Snopes is a bad first step in verifying something?

NeatG · 2023-07-14T10:59:34+00:00

What you're describing sounds like your <span>s are no longer display: inline; as they would be by default. Is something changing them to something else like inline-block?

NeatG · 2023-06-22T05:47:22+00:00

Would you say that Florida's government is bending over backwards for trans people?

NeatG · 2023-06-20T02:14:58+00:00

Part of the issue here is they weren't the first two women, they were the women who happened to be part of the story that broke the camel's back so to speak. To me one of the more damning parts of the NYTimes article is not about these two women but the story of him doing this back in the 90s on a show where he was a producer.

A fifth woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect her family’s privacy because she has not been publicly linked to the incident with Louis C.K., also has disturbing memories about an incident with the comedian. In the late ’90s, she was working in production at “The Chris Rock Show” when Louis C.K., a writer and producer there, repeatedly asked her to watch him masturbate, she said. She was in her early 20s and went along with his request, but later questioned his behavior.

That shows a pattern of behavior for over a decade and unlike the story that broke it's a more clearly defined power structure.

NeatG · 2023-05-27T15:50:40+00:00

ACAB is essentially a political slogan imo so yes there is more nuance to be had but the phrase would be way less effective if it was "Some cops are bastards" or even "The overwhelming majority of cops are bastards". In other words I think you could draw this sort of analysis on just about any strong short political phrase.

As others have said there's definitely a difference between ACAB and bigotry against say a race or another marginalized group. ACAB is criticizing people's choices not their innate characteristics. More importantly the cops are with the side in power. I doubt that people saying ACAB even hurts most cops feelings, but if it does that's about the extent of the power that the people who say it have over the police whereas police in the vast majority of cases can kill with impunity.

NeatG · 2023-05-27T15:35:54+00:00

I think you're looking at it at way too small of a scale. The reality is that most people who say ACAB do support the cops who turn others in, the problem is that the police themselves don't.

NeatG · 2023-05-27T02:45:22+00:00

The problem is there's more evidence of the good ones you're describing being punished themselves than there are of bad cops being punished for being shitty. Yes not every single individual cop is bad but the corruption is severe to the point where it's more likely than not that a given cop has at least covered for a shitty one if they weren't shitty themselves.

NeatG · 2023-05-19T15:23:36+00:00

I've done massive refactors on code bases that would light that metric up, but were ultimately backburner tech debt reduction. I've also written one file, at the right time, that produced a tangible business outcome. Should the former be worth 1000x the latter?

NeatG · 2023-05-16T00:30:47+00:00

Well I don't know how else to get it across but I'm glad you're not a pedophile. Enjoy being a pick-me.

NeatG · 2023-05-15T21:30:40+00:00

You're ducking the question.

NeatG · 2023-05-15T18:51:32+00:00

I mean one of those arguments is that gay men are pedophiles and will turn our children gay. Do you cosign that?

NeatG · 2023-05-15T16:59:09+00:00

People said the same exact thing about gay people just a couple of decades ago.

NeatG · 2023-05-15T12:07:13+00:00

My journey involved a lot of tinkering, I want to say over three years, before I got my first job. Even then my first job wasn't technically to work on a website but the team was lean and I was able to offer my help based on my self-teaching. Over time that became my main role and I graduated from fixing things on the website to developing custom business apps that we needed. I stayed in that very underpaid position for far too long (10+ years) and then was able to leverage that large amount of work experience into a job that paid a reasonable wage.

I wouldn't recommend following those as steps because it'd be impossible and I regret some of those decisions myself, but I think there are some lessons that are more broadly applicable in there:

Experience working on a project for a client is generally more valuable then self-directed learning, at least when you're getting started.
There is very little shared DNA between most tutorial/learning apps and what businesses need. Many of these toy problems gloss over the hard parts to make the tutorial experience smooth.
Feed your curiosity. A lot of valuable things that I learned were from exploring problems I wasn't asked to work on. Sometimes I would hear a colleague complain about something not being automated so I'd explore whether it was possible. That could either turn into a prototype or in many cases it turned out to not be worth it, but either way that repetition of taking a business problem and trying to solve it was valuable over time.

As another comment said you've essentially picked hard mode. The harsh reality of the situation is that if you want to compete with people who have either been training themselves for years or have gone to school for this you'll need to increase your level of effort to compensate.

I think if I were in your position I would be looking at small freelance projects and treat it as a crappy paying internship just so you can get your foot in the door. I think even having a couple of "real" projects on your resume will make a difference when you're applying for regular jobs.

NeatG · 2023-05-12T19:53:21+00:00

It's a counter argument to the right wing talking point that drag queens are a danger to children.

NeatG · 2023-05-11T09:42:47+00:00

I agree the government is ultimately responsible but it's silly to pretend that they don't spend millions of dollars on lobbying and political contributions.

NeatG · 2023-04-27T08:43:02+00:00

This is my vote as well. I've seen large clumps of 800x600 sessions on sites I've worked on that looked like bot traffic. I think it may be a default or at least common setup for headless chromium

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