We're doing structural type checking for a language that wasn't developed with that in mind.

How are CSS and HTML a mess? Combined, they're an incredibly powerful layout engine that works almost the same across all environments and devices while also featuring easy accessibility.

When taking a bird eyes view on CSS it will be hard to oversee that CSS is a mixture of different concepts that evolved over time with a lot of inconsistentsies. It is possible to make it work, but it's not pretty.

Same for HTML. If the web would be reimagined today, there is a very low chance that we would create HTML as is.

the biggest problem with html/css is that they are tightly coupled. you can't meaningfully modify a layout with css alone.

second biggest problem is "no stricter mode". so even wrong or useless html/css code goes unflagged and is treated as it is normal.

CSS is way too powerful.

> you can't meaningfully modify a layout with css alone.

https://csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/

That statement wasn't true ages ago, and it's even less true now.

> you can’t meaningfully modify a layout with css alone Wut?

I have never in my career encountered a Vanilla JS project of at least medium size that I would have called simple. They all feature brittle selfmade frameworks whose developers have since left the company years ago.

I write C++ and C# all day - I think it’s fair to say the same about a project in any programming language!

I don't think any C compiler has been single pass for the last 20 years. Typescript's analyses are also not that complicated, it's just that the typescript type checker is written in js. Iirc the actual ts -> js part is pretty fast with some of the more recent compilers.

That's not the point...

I disagree - this is an excuse. Even the post we’re commenting in now shows that it’s a series of poor abstractions and bad tooling that takes way too long to do the basics, combined with a language and ecosystem that encourages this behaviour . They saw a 5x speed up by changing tools while still using a JavaScript framework so it’s clearly possible for it to not be complete nonsense.

The cost far outweighs the profits.

i am already on api tokens for the chinese open source models and no subscriptions. these are all available in the original form open source and priced above the inference cost. i think this is the long term option.

zero degradation in speed or quality seen.

So you see better performance with the API plans than the subscriptions?

Time's up and money is tight. The downgrade was bound to happen.

Guy writes a website that scrapes data of people without their permission, is repeatedly warned by authority and uni personnel to stop, doesn't and then writes a piece on unfair treatment. Shucks.

This may well be, but japanese image boards are huge

*As long as you're part of a privileged, accepted class

White European is enough? how rich do I have to be?

EU members have a well documented history of ignoring EU law.