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What's that got to with recipes? OP is right, ChatGPT is excellent for recipes. I can tell it exactly what ingredients I have available, plus whatever constraints I want (e.g. max prep time) and it gives me all kinds of wonderful recipes - and to make things even better it, it only gives me the recipe and doesn't waste my time with 500 words of SEO nonsense. As long as ChatGPT is this good I don't think I'll ever need a "normal" recipe website again.


Same idea as "Jon Skeet facts": https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-fact...

(context: Jon Skeet is (was?) the highest-rated user on StackOverflow.)


I've read Bostrom's Superintelligence and followed the debate around so-called "AI safety" but it always felt too abstract to take seriously.

That's starting to change now - this AI is getting good, powerful, and alarmingly convincing. I still don't feel like the AI apocalypse is inevitable, but it's starting to feel possible, and it makes me uneasy.


> Because of limitations in browser parsing engines...

I'm happy about this feature, but they don't really elaborate on what these "limitations" are, except a passing reference later on to "making the parsing engine slower".

Anyone know what the issue is exactly? Why can't they implement it the other way without making the parsing engine slower?


Couldn't <this> be a custom HTML element? So there'd be a naming clash.


> SCSS are getting superseded by CSS.

Reminds me of how Coffeescript died out because its best ideas got integrated into Javascript.

What I want to know is: how the hell did this take so long? Nesting is such an obviously useful feature to have in CSS, and once I'd experienced it in SASS I never wanted to be without it. Why did it take 10+ years for this to be introduced to CSS, especially when other browser-based technologies like JS have evolved enormously in that time?


Some of the Less/Sass maintainers are also active parts of the communities that write the specs and I guess when the idea of nesting was fresh to these preprocessors they didn't feel compelled to make it a core part of css with how widely the preprocessors were getting adopted. While I don't doubt our computers 10+ years ago could parse through nested styles it's probably really trivial now and thus being implemented into core.

As far as the speed of which things get implemented, I often feel there is a lack of understanding where design and development overlaps. Most devs are just devs in the sense they solve algorithmic/browser rendering problems, and don't really dabble enough with markup/styling languages like HTML and CSS to hit the pain points of using them. And the people that deal with markup/styling do not know the proper channels to rally behind some of the ideas that would make their lives easier. Unfortunately, there are less individuals that are proficient at markup, styling, and programming (not just in the sense of coding in JS/TS, but understanding the internals of the browser and programming for it), and the unicorns that do understand are often snatched up by Google/Microsoft/etc. which often have their own agendas. I feel there's just a lot more niche backdrop knowledge that is required to get the ball rolling. These are just my feelings on this matter, I could be wrong.


For another take: I try to write a single module.css file per component in which I do zero nesting, avoiding any preprocessors (other than postcss modules, obviously). Nesting, IMHO, makes CSS a bit easier to write but much harder to read.


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