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@KitRedgrave @witchfynder_finder with clocks it’s less the fact that it’s an analogue gauge and more the whole “simultaneously base‐12 and base‐60” thing; kids are like “oh no i have to multiply by 5”

it’s probably possible to replace all analogue clock interfaces with digital interfaces in our world today, but that’s putting the cart before the horse. that’s like saying “there’s no need to learn more than Basic English because that’s what all newspapers are written in.” it’s true that we can create that world. but a better world would be one in which everybody had the proficiency to read clocks.

some things you gotta lose; some things are worth keeping

as a student of Marxism, one must learn to look beyond appearances and understand the true essence of things

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anyway bea called my homepage oldschool and yes it is but also that page uses Grid Layout and Fetch API

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what kids don’t realize is that for the first few decades of the internet, people wrote webpages which were useful to themselves rather than portfolio pieces for social media followers or potential employers

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the true oldschool is webpages which are actually useful

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these nerds think a black background and green text is oldschool but don’t know how to build an actually functional website

for ( const button of document.getElementById("search").querySelectorAll("button") ) {
button.addEventListener("click", ( ) => location.href = button.dataset.search.replace("%s", document.getElementById("query").value)) }

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sometimes i write code which might be useful to others

and sometimes i write code which no person should ever try to replicate

and i like to think that usually it is clear which is which

no changes to the underlying XML, or to the /Fortune/ page which renders it, i just parsed and extracted data from it instead of using an IFRAME

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@witchfynder_finder “do we really need [organization we cannot possibly make bow to our whims]?” is not the statement of power they are trying to make it sound

@witchfynder_finder anyway, the answer is that China doesn't need International, Western-Organized Sports

@Satsuma i mean it could be but i don’t know about it either then :P

@witchfynder_finder interesting omission of “International, Western-Organized” from that title

@Satsuma well it needed to be serious enough to involve death but whimsical enough to not be traumatic and that was the first thing which came to mind

@Satsuma it doesn't this is actually a thread about TDoR

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