The Unclear Impact

why is chromium / edge text rendering on windows so ugly?

trying to buy a (small, but still larger than most computer monitors) tv without surveillance or ads 2022 challenge

i’m at the point where i have no clue whether the state management approach i tend to use with #reactjs is

1. totally common
2. frowned upon to the point that support for it might be removed from react at any time
3. the scariest thought of it all: both

#react #javascript #mobx

there are few more ridiculous things than react making all sorts of changes to their API so that they can enable multi-core rendering of UI in the future

@humanetech maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t this just a standard ISO US English international keyboard layout? people tend to use this here in Europe, although I agree, it’s weird if you have to type a lot of backslashes (yay, LaTeX!) and I, too, do prefer the ANSI layout

one advantage is that you have the extra “ISO key” next to the left shift, which some people use to have a more natural pattern for the fingers on the left hand when touch-typing: https://colemakmods.github.io/ergonomic-mods/angle.html

the icons on the F1, F2, F3 keys look like are for switching between 3 paired computers (they try to show something like computer 1, 2, 3), hence the indicator LEDs on them (it’s a bit baffling to add an icon just for this, on the bottom of my MX Master mouse, the switch just has the numbers 1, 2, 3 without any icon, and it still makes sense). it’s a feature/gimmick of MX devices, I reckon

@aral @volt4ire guess the next step will be turning on on-device scanning for terrorism according to hashes that positively, absolutely, surely contain nothing other than terrorism and no bribery at all at any time was involved in collecting them

discords for high-profile open-source projects look dystopian

first comments from my advisor are back for the first complete draft of my thesis

it’s baffling that even when right-wingers have a moment of awareness and realize that (among a plethora of other things) ubiquitous surveillance and proprietary tethers in technology make us like slaves, they’re immediately like “thus, we should exterminate minorities”

it’s inhumane, completely disconnected from logic, and prevents any action that would serve as a real remedy

fuck fascism.

@aral my first intuition would be that this always displays 1, because let count = 1 is on the top of the file, and it looks like it always gets executed when the page is rendered

I’d expect a clearer separation between the initialization and the rendering, like

let count = 1;

export default function render() {
  return <div>{count++}</div>;
}

or maybe even (goodness forbid!)

let count = useState(1);

return <div>{count++}</div>;

(btw, won’t the code display 1 times even on the first request, because the condition count > 1 gets evaluated after the post-increment? granted, I’m not familiar with the order of side-effects in jsx interpolation expressions)