The danger is mechanical, not chemical. Think small sharp needles that you can breathe in.

Chemically it's just silicates. So you can melt it at high temperatures or do various other processes to get rid of it.

I'm not sure what they actually do.

No tolerance for people trying to live in the country without going through the legal process.

Public policy discussions always get boiled down to some simple wording that isn't strictly accurate.

Literally no tolerance? I always figured that like everything else, there’s a cost/benefit analysis to be done, and you try and tweak enforcement levels to the point where it gives decent results without costing the earth. No law is enforced with literally no tolerance in practice.

Legal immigration is also under heavy scrutiny with the "no open borders" folks. It is not as simple and law-abiding as you make it out to be.

In the spirit of brining down the level of intellectual sophistication here, I have a few recommendations I've enjoyed.

- All 18 Expeditionary Force books by Craig Alanson

- The first 5 Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart. UnArcana Stars (book 6) went in a direction that made the government look extremely incompetent.

- Jacques McKeown series by Yahtzee Croshaw

- Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

- Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor

What's truly infuriating is how awful the tagging on Audible is. "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is tagged sci-fi.

You would not believe how bad publisher data is. I run a book website, and Dune is often tagged nonfiction in the data we get from publishers. I don't think they know how to use the BISAC system the industry uses (https://bisg.org/page/BISACEdition). With Dune, they were marking it "AI," which is a nonfiction-only category.

Just one small example...

Plus Dune, somewhat famously, doesn't have any AI in it.

The prequel books (if any such books exist), feature AI in order to showcase why the original does not.

Andy Weir does a tight well placed adventure better than most.

I can see that you wouldn't like him if you're more into characters than plot, but that's not what everyone wants.

Interestingly, that was due to the top editor at a major sci fi publisher being really into psychics.

It's likely that they didn't have the rights to use the original fonts or icons.

And yet they advertise: "Chicago Bitmap Font: Pixel-perfect rendering of the classic Mac font"

It's a bitmap font, so someone took some screenshots and used those. Typefaces can't be copyrighted.

Are you implying that having both String.prototype.substring and String.prototype.substr is somehow confusing?

JS is in general better because by the time it came out people knew what to expect from a scripting language.

CSS didn't really have a lot of earlier styling and layout languages to copy. Also the original vision was much more limited.

> Also the original vision was much more limited.

Is this about CSS or JS (and things like Node)?

That's incredibly arrogant phrasing by both you and the author.

Here's a better explanation of the hostility towards CSS.

Nested flexbox had bugs in IE11, which wasn't end of lifed until 2022. The nested CSS in the article came out in December 2023.

CSS first came out in 1996.

The current state is much improved, but don't pretend there wasn't a solid 20+ years of sucking before that.

I’ve always found CSS trivial to use and I’ve done some complex styles. I really wonder what people who complain about CSS are doing.

>Nested flexbox had bugs in IE11, which wasn't end of lifed until 2022.

how is I hate CSS because IE was poorly maintained a serious argument?

For a long time, from the late 90's until roughly 2012, IE was the most popular browser. You had no choice but to work with it. If it didn't "work on IE", it didn't work.

Yea and people over exaggerated about it just like people over exaggerate things today like how hard CSS. The technology progress but people’s refusal to learn and desire to whine on the internet has stayed the same.

This is true, but the dominance of IE and its quirks, especially during the early 2000's, should not be underestimated. The browser situation, especially on Linux, was absolutely abysmal then.

I don't think flexbox really started being used until 2013 at the earliest, the comment I replied to was complaining about 2022 and a flexbox bug in IE. This 2012 thing doesn't seem to relate at all to the subject.

on edit: I know it was in WD in 2009 but I'm pretty sure it was around 2013 that people started playing with it. I think it started being popular in 2014-2015.

My comment was more about the prevalence of IE in general, not flexbox specific. There were tons of IE quirks that had to be dealt with.

They will cling to any cope they can because it’s easier than learning the tool properly.

“It’s not MY fault, it’s a browser no has used in 10 years fault! I can do no wrong!”

I'm curious what happens if you throw something like Ulysses by James Joyce at it.

It would probably just switch perspective with each chapter. If the AI has any real grasp of literary devices something metafictional like City of Glass could be interesting but an earlier/less complex example of metafiction like Marshlands might work better? If my memory serves I think the metafictional aspects of Marshlands could translate into this even if the AI completely misses the metafiction. Might play with this when I have more time.

Forget Ulysses, how about Finnegans Wake?