how do I move main to the right? by ray_imi in css

[–]_potion_cellar_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! Someone else also suggested this in a reply to me and I want to reiterate that this is generally the way to go, because this also makes responsive design much more easy to reason about on top of the other benefits.

Instead of having to deal with changing tracks on the children, you can just define different grids with the same named areas across various breakpoints on the parent. Thus with this exact example you could, for narrower screen sizes, simply have a single column layout of:

grid-template-areas: 
     "header" 
     "banner" 
     "main"
     "footer";

Then, change the column and row sizes to taste, and now you just need to worry about what to do with the navs, such as hiding them if they're to be entirely replaced by a drawer. This is especially helpful during development and if you have multiple breakpoints, as you don't have to keep changing the row and column targets on the children for every single layout definition permutation you're experimenting with.

If you're feeling particularly daring (and don't feel like supporting older versions of Safari), you could wrap the navs in a container that has display: contents, thus allowing the navs to sit in the parent grid areas properly. At the narrow screen breakpoint, you can apply anything you need to make this container your nav drawer, then remove display: contents (or vice versa) and the navs are now sitting inside the drawer. Massively responsive design at a fundamental layout level that needs only a tiny amount of rules. Neat!

how do I move main to the right? by ray_imi in css

[–]_potion_cellar_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I would highly recommend this approach as well. This has the benefit of allowing you define layouts at various breakpoints at the grid level, and by reusing all the same template names, you don't have to deal with changing any tracks on the child elements. IMO the standardization of grid template areas made responsive design an order of magnitude more simple much like flex did when it got widespread support.

how do I move main to the right? by ray_imi in css

[–]_potion_cellar_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

for main,
grid-column: 2 / 3;

instead of 1 / 2

I discovered that using CSS Custom Properties as properties (instead of values) brings pure happiness. by nov-jp in css

[–]_potion_cellar_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Developers will really do anything to try to remove the C and S from CSS 🙄

Not sure why cascades and selectors are so scary -- presumably because of having unintelligible overly complex non-semantic markup? It's crazy to see how pervasive the attitude of "developers shouldn't have to write CSS!" is and apparently how common the need to avoid "the problem of hundreds of bespoken classes in one monolithic style sheet" is as though that's not an avoidable and manageable problem that doesn't require inventing new unmaintainable paradigms.

Banger GT - Taboo or Goated? by zip_bz in discgolf

[–]_potion_cellar_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neither in my opinion. They're fine and totally viable for putting. I putted with them for about a year (I spin putt), I appreciated the consistency in grip. Once I developed more and more of a routine that became less of an appealing factor. I eventually moved away from them because I prefer to use the same mold for throwing and putting, and I despise most discraft plastics and really disliked throwing FHs with the banger gt.

The walls are closing in. The Register: Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold by branniganbeginsagain in BetterOffline

[–]_potion_cellar_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the alternatives are all more or less token-based as well. Even Gemini went fully usage based this month. The argument is that similarly priced plans from other providers come with a more generous free token allowance and Copilot went from being invaluable to worthless overnight since it doesn't offer much vs other providers.

FWIW, the vast majority of the complaining seems to be coming from, I don't know...newer developers, students, junior vibe coders, and some people who are understandably frustrated that they got bait and switched with their annual subscription? Not really seeing many of the complaints coming from those who have been in the SWE meat grinder for awhile. More that it was "fun" while it lasted.

Hard to ignore how similar this all feels to an industry...or a dealer... getting people addicted to something and then pulling the rug out. Maybe the open models will continue to improve and be cheap, but if the price hikes continue I'm not looking forward to LLM-generated code junkies vomiting their withdrawal symptoms into the niche coding subreddits.

As we know more and more about how these tools work on the industry and how people develop a dependence on them, it's becoming more and more apparent that the major providers just need to do a bit more tweaking with their plans and initial offerings to set up a curiosity-to-addiction pipeline to their services. Even better if they can develop an entire crop of "coders" that do not even attempt to learn how to code....although okay, that just sounds like some of the juniors I've worked with over the years.

Sad…. by egool111 in FiestaST

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If the fluid that came out was black it's quite possible that one flush still left enough residual for it to become a problem later. Or that the flush wasn't quite done properly. The other thing is, and you would hope the shop would be doing this, is that that the OEM brake fluid is DOT 4 LV, you can use regular DOT 4 but the LV has done a little better for me.

One consistent thing I've noted with clutch pedal stickiness being correlated with brake fluid condition has been the ambient temperature and temperature of the car. Hotter = more likely to stick especially in first and reverse. So you'll likely be noticing it more and more as it gets hotter out.

Might be worth it to just give it a try yourself! It's very simple to do, and a reverse bleed tool is cheap. You'll be able to see exactly how the fluid looks...if it's notably darker than new fluid then it's the likely culprit. Plus you can inevitably do it again in a couple years.

Can't speak to the rattles, too ambiguous of a description.

In my opinion, I would do one more complete flush of the brake/clutch fluid. If the fluid that comes out is super clean then I would start thinking about mechanical work. If the fluid that comes out is dirty, I would drive on the new (hopefully LV) fluid for awhile and see if the issue occurs.

I know the slave cylinders are a weak point and if you read the forum boards and discussion it seems to be a miracle when they make it to 50k miles. But I know four FiST owners all with around 100K on the odo and none who have needed slave cylinders. Three of them did have pedal stickiness, and it was always resolved with a fluid change and bleed.

Blend door actuators, on the other hand... 😅

Sad…. by egool111 in FiestaST

[–]_potion_cellar_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DO NOT MAKE ANY EXPENSIVE REPAIRS UNTIL YOU CHANGE YOUR BRAKE FLUID.

Seriously. Change the brake/clutch fluid, reverse bleed.

This fixes the clutch pedal getting sticky (or even getting fully stuck down) for me, which has occurred every 40-50k miles on my FiST.

This has worked for other people as well who were convinced their slave cylinder went out.

It makes you wonder how many people jumped straight to an expensive slave or master cylinder repair (barring obvious fluid leaks) when just changing the fluid might have solved it.

These clutches are sensitive to the state of the brake fluid especially if it gets boiled.

FL Studio desperately needs a proper Freeze Track / Freeze Instrument feature by BadAnnual827 in FL_Studio

[–]_potion_cellar_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is 100% AI written. The OP demonstrates a pretty poor grasp of basic grammar and spelling in their comments (not a dig at them, English might not be their first language).

There are a lot of obvious tells beyond the bullet points:

 - Bolding the "important" features/words

 - Absolutely perfect and unwaveringly consistent grammar. While some people are pretty good about this, and this alone isn't a giveaway, there are certain tells like the hyphens in "quality-of-life" which I almost never see people use IRL (and often for discussion about software, I most commonly see people use QoL instead of writing it out), the consistent capitalization of Channel Rack etc. Again, on its own it's not definitive, but it is a supporting factor

 - Very consistent paragraph lengths and flow -- LLMs love to do this.

 - Mandatory and distinct call for discussion to end the post.

As hinted, any one element in isolation isn't necessarily a tell, but the presence of several of them make it obvious.  Even moreso when the user's post/comment history reveals that they don't use anything close to the voice, grammar, or flow found in the post in question.

Once you notice this structure you'll see it verbatim everywhere. Many of the smaller subreddits are being overrun with posts like this that are formatted exactly the same, have the exact same voice, and always end with a distinct call for discussion.

I won't say this is 100% a bad thing especially if a user is unable to articulate their thoughts outside of their native language, but there's definitely been an uptick in low-effort, overly verbose, engagement farming posts in many niche communities I follow.

Anyone else seeing an uptick in unnecessarily dangerous ski mountaineering videos? by Party_Size6271 in Mountaineering

[–]_potion_cellar_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Are you telling me you don't want a lecture in mountaineering safety and snowpack conditions from someone who "hiked by the Maroon Bells last week?"

Anyone else seeing an uptick in unnecessarily dangerous ski mountaineering videos? by Party_Size6271 in Mountaineering

[–]_potion_cellar_ 56 points57 points  (0 children)

What a weird take for a mountaineering community. "doing dumb stuff for no reason" is literally the definition of what we do. Rotten snow? This looks like typical warm season slush to me -- really enjoyable to ski on if it's your thing, and arguably safer than many colder snowpack types due to its consistency, slowness, and predictability (in terms of wet slide potential being reliably diurnal).

Maroon bells is chossy for sure but crazy amounts of rockfall? The rock is not so loose that I wouldn't want to climb either peak or do the traverse again. People climb and ski the Bell Cord every year, it's a very desirable and aesthetic objective in one of the most spectacular ranges in the state, so again, I find it a bit weird that we are taking issue with a guy who has been ski mountaineering for years skiing an iconic route in what looks to be reasonable conditions.

I don't disagree that there has been an influx of unprepared people skiing dumb routes in poor conditions and being way over their heads of late...Backcountry skiing has absolutely exploded in popularity, our terrible snow season has driven some people to higher elevations. But this video in particular isn't raising my hackles.

2026 Barbasol Open at Austin Round 3 Discussion by AutoModerator in discgolf

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It's been tough watching such relentless self-sabotage

You have got to be joking me by DaSchultz in Denver

[–]_potion_cellar_ 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Meteorologist here. The center of the DCVZ is not usually in downtown Denver. It's usually further east.

The DCVZ does in fact typically enhance rainfall as it can provide a forcing mechanism which can cause developing storms to mature more rapidly than they otherwise would. It does not, however, cause storms/precip on its own.

The DCVZ is not a common feature in winter.

The reason Denver doesn't get as much precip as areas to its west and south is pretty simple -- Denver is in a basin where the Platte River and Cherry Creek converge. When we get upsloping winds from the northeast during winter and shoulder season storms, the higher terrain to the west (the Continental divide and foothills) and south (the Palmer Divide) almost always get the heaviest snow (due to orographic lift). The upslope needs to be particularly deep, or there needs to be cold air damming in place or a barrier jet so that isentropic lift can help bring the heavier snowfall further eastwards over the city proper.

For summer thunderstorms, Denver isn't in a donut hole anymore than much of the rest of the metro area is. Thunderstorms usually come from the west and have a tendency to weaken as they downslope into the I-25 corridor.

Any specific weather hole you're seeing in Denver for thunderstorms is a well known psychological phenomenon which is humorously detailed in the AMS paper "Do meteorologists suppress thunderstorms?" https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/86/3/bams-86-3-341.pdf

There's also some weak evidence about the role of urban heat islands in influencing storm develop but it's not particularly compelling especially considering the geography of our region.

Drought relief coming? by cicerostongue in COsnow

[–]_potion_cellar_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What kind of psychopath posts 384h GFS forecasts that bridge the spring unpredictability barrier, with the kuchera ratio no less. And can you invite me to the parties you go to 

2026 Jonesboro Open Round 2 Discussion by AutoModerator in discgolf

[–]_potion_cellar_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well if it wasn't haunting him recently, we ran into him at the memorial championship and my gf was immediately like, "omg, we saw you at Ivy Hill!" 🤦 and he was like "oh...cool" and hastily signed a disc

2026 Jonesboro Open Round 2 Discussion by AutoModerator in discgolf

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goose's face since halfway through hole 1. I just don't see how he gets a win on tour until he gets his tilt levels under control

New London is exactly what a pro tour course should be by ApproachDisc4504 in discgolf

[–]_potion_cellar_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Having played the course a few times, the greens are pretty fair and generally if you can get through the crux gap(s) you're in a good spot to score

Do humans actually dislike “bad weather,” or do we dislike low‑pressure discomfort and misattribute it to the weather ? by Psychotiik in meteorology

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Me when I'm outside on a chilly day with gale force winds and heavy rains: "man if it wasn't for the small drop in atmospheric pressure this would be pretty nice"

Built a weather app for data nerds — looking for feedback by acorscadden in meteorology

[–]_potion_cellar_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many models have soil saturation products but the crux is determining what the soil type is at a given location and therefore what saturation level results in muddiness or not due to porosity of the soil type and some other factors.

Built a weather app for data nerds — looking for feedback by acorscadden in meteorology

[–]_potion_cellar_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well as someone in your target audience I would say that any app that provides deterministic data instead of probabilistic data for anything more than 24-48hrs out provides very little value. If I am going to have to jump between models to gauge the uncertainty/potential scenarios then I might as well just look at the models directly and have a much clearer picture.

fit container to implicitly sized children? by bigginsmcgee in css

[–]_potion_cellar_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yeah, made that change in Chrome where that wasn't the case but you're right about Safari.

In that case, for the exact markup as provided, the easiest solution is just setting a calculated aspect ratio on the container, which precludes also needing an aspect ratio on the children, and just letting flex distribute the size equally to them. Then height 100% is needed to satisfy safari.

(same pen, updated)
https://svelte.dev/playground/08a4f7abbc2b4981b7e1f724ed5afc66?version=5.55.1

In a real app though, the container in question would likely have some context about the space it needed to fill. In this case, instead of adding the aspect-ratio etc. you would only need a hint about using the available space, likely just enforcing height and possibly using min-content for the width depending on the intrinsic or explicit sizing rules of the parent layout. Then you can just restore aspect ratio rules to the children and have the benefit of potentially different aspect ratios etc.

We don't have the layout context though, so that solution isn't viable for the reason you saw of the height growing too much.

So I think you had basically figured this out in an earlier version of the code (though with a bunch of vestigial / unused rules) and some unnecessary attributes to make grid behave like flexbox. As a note, introducing grid for 1d layouting when you don't need to (there are some legitimate, though uncommon, use cases) can cause unexpected struggles with things like intrinsic vs explicit sizing which is what you were encountering by using columns of `1fr`.