> but for kicks & giggles, I dropped in a bid around $2,200 ’cause I was confident I’d be outbid

Boy do I wish I could just drop 2k on a whim for a vanity project

Not to minimize the amount (2k is a lot), or obligations you may have (family, etc), but sometimes you can change your life in small ways to make those sort of impulse buys more affordable. Renting a room instead of a house, buying an old used car instead of new, etc. These kinds of changes are (to me) a small inconvenience, with big rewards

A lot of people pay a lot more than that for vanity vehicles, kitchens etc

> It is funny how we keep asking more and more and more even though we already have it so much better than before.

I've been developing web stuff for 15 years now and sometimes I can't believe comments like these. We didn't have it "so much better before". CSS sucked hard and getting things right for three devices was an incredible pain in the ass.

Tables have semantic meaning. They don't support fractional units. Reflowing for mobile is impossible and you need JS hacks like splitting tables. You can't reorder natively.

I have been developing web stuff for 20 years now and I also can’t believe comments like these.

Flex and grid enable layouts that are far beyond anything we could do with table layouts. Anyone who claims otherwise has obviously not done any amount of serious, production FE UI design and development.

Are there bits of DX ergonomics I’d like in flex and grid? Of course. Does the syntax sometimes feel a bit arcane? Yeah. But the raw power is there, and anyone who claims the contrary is either a gormless backend developer, or some troll who is trying to design things in MS Word.

Tbf it said “we have it so much better Than before” I think they agree with you

I saw a similar comment on HN recently that CSS was "better" back in the day and what we have today is either unnecessary or too hard.

I reminded that person we had to use floats and positioning hacks and abuse HTML tables for page layout before flexbox and CSS Grid were created.

There was no way simple method to center a div!

> we already have it so much better than before

They meant now. "we have it so much better than how it used to be."

Token stealing hasn't been a real danger for a decade now. If you don't mark your token's as non-HTTP you're doing something explicitely wrong, because 99% of backends nowadays do this for you.

with http-only they can't _steal_ the cookie, but they can still _use_ the cookie. It reduces the impact but doesn't fully solve it.

90% of papers I read in computer science / computer security speak of software written or AI models they trained that are nowhere to be found. Not on git nor via email to the authors.

> I am yet to see any western nations go bankrupt for universal healthcare.

Boy are you in for a ride. France will be first and Germany is on a good track for it within the next two decades.

By tax. If you use taxes for nothing else, at least use them for children with cancer.

Orphan crushing proponent: "Why should I pay for orphans not to be crushed??"

There's money to be made on arbitration of orphan crushing! If I don't do it someone else will.

Introducing “The Automatic Orphan Crusher 9000” complete with conveyor belt fed chutes and titanium jaws, no orphan can escape! Just place a piece of candy…”

Does it have AI?

That would be part of our Orphan Industries plan for managing output of your 9000s on the industrial floor. Sure. Monitor throughput and TTK right there from the app.

Even scarier when you consider that this entire technology has reached the public only three years ago.

> do we really need this when Javascript has template literals now

yea? JSX is much more than templating.

But then there are packages like htm that are doing basically the same thing with just tagged templates.

I still can not blacklist homeservers by domain instead of ever changing IPs. Great stuff.