My thoughts exactly. JSX provides the best templating syntax I have seen - it's just JS, and it uses curly braces to delineate JS. Putting JS, or worse, custom syntax in strings is terrible, and every other delineator choice is less idiomatic and uglier than curly braces.
I really feel like this article should also mention the rate of formation of new stars. According to [1] Universe Magazine the James Webb telescope has revealed that more than 3,000 stars are formed every second.
Based on this about 5.5 million stars are created every 30 minutes and only about 1 start goes supernova in the same period? This seems like it really reinforces the we are still in the early stages of the universe theory if the ratios are that imbalanced.
Still though the imbalance in those events makes me suspicious that we are missing something.
I don't understand this comment. Like yes, 3000 stars per second, cool fact. But why would that fact make sense in the article? The article was about being surprised by the name "SN 2021 afdx", which has nothing to do with star formation.
In my opinion the article was great and is also complete. More cool astronomy facts belong in some other article or format.
Because the amount of stars that can go supernova is limited by how many stars there are in the first place? A comment about the staggering rate of star formation makes sense to me in relation to an article about the staggering rate of star supernovas..
GIMP is astonishingly bad. I got by for many years with Paint Shop Pro, even through its steady decline after Corel acquired it, but eventually they destroyed it. In desperation I turned to GIMP but it is so bad that I now use Photopea. I would pay for a modern functional equivalent of Paint Shop Pro, but I don't know that it exists.
I spent a week learning Laravel and modern PHP for a project that never materialized. I am so grateful the project never materialized, because for all the past 2 decades of improvement PHP remains a language I never want to work with. There may be some details in "A Fractal of Bad Design" that no longer apply, but the phrase itself still very much applies - PHP (and Laravel) remain a fractal of bad design.
Sounds like you have had the misfortune of using terrible banks. I have never had this issue with home mortgages or car loans, it was always easy to make extra payments directly to the principal.
I use a regional bank and they have always been a bit behind when it comes to tech. But even a decade ago, I could make my payment online and there was a simple checkbox to send extra payments toward the principal.
Staging can be a helpful alternative to micro commits. I'll write some code, make some progress, revise, and once I get a small changeset that I'm happy with I stage it. Then I'm free to make a bunch of exploratory changes and the diff will show only those changes, and I can back them out easily. I move forward bit by bit like this until the feature is done then commit.
