Random Linux nerds who were bullied. BULLIED, I say. When we coded our personal sites on Netscape on Linux (which was painful enough when Netscape 4 had a hazy understanding of CSS1/2 already) and the site had some random glitches on IE from time when we couldn't ensure IE compatibility.
This "IE6" shit needs to stay buried, OK? This is "history that must never repeat" shit, OK? OK. Good.
BONUS JOKE:
There was a whole range of jokes dedicated to what happens when you shoot yourself on foot with your favourite programming language.
My favourite was this:
"You shoot yourself in the foot with JavaScript.
If using Netscape, your arm falls off.
If using MSIE, your head explodes."
I’m one of those old devs that has been writing CSS for like 18 years. It’s funny. Even with access to AI, folks still ask me CSS questions because I actually know the ins and outs of it.
I don't think there's a lot going on in Jimmy's head. Jimmy got his start on youtube by counting to 100,000. Then he just did whatever video idea he thought would get the most views. He's not a creative or intelligent person. Jimmy never really stopped counting.
Not sure if you referenced it on purpose, but Folding Ideas recently published a deep dive video essay on the Mr. Beast empire, and I believe that "Jimmy never stopped counting" was their conclusion as well.
It's a great video. I'd recommend it if you haven't seen it.
Idle hands and all that. Someone this vacuous with this much access to resources sounds like the perfect target for manipulation by someone with ill intent. Whatever it is may not have been his idea, but he also doesn’t seem like the person to say no to a paycheck for literally any reason.
I think that's underselling it, severely. I have no idea what would win the YouTube algorithm, many people try and don't get a fraction as close to Mr. Beast. Clearly, he has the creativity to come up with incredibly successful video ideas, initially even all by himself! Even he they're not my style, and I personally dislike his videos, brand and the guy's own personality, I do have to recognise he has this from of creativity and a lot of it.
Well, Jimmy Donaldson is guilty of torture and running illegal sweepstakes at the very least. His company is also the perfect place for Epstein class wannabes, which I’ve heard rumblings about but nothing concrete.
Every time I see that face I want to get violent. I want to just bash his head in with an axe handle. That fake ass fucking smile just drives me to rage and I don't know why.
The smile doesn't reach his eyes. When someone is genuinely smiling, the area around the eyes wrinkle up some (especially the outside corners). Fake smiles don't do that, not without conscious effort. It's so unsettling because it's setting off an instinctual urge of "this guy is being deceptive and is likely a threat". You can check by covering part of the face in the image: cover the mouth, and the eyes just look dead and soulless.
I'm not usually one to knock someone's appearance but you're right with this guy's weird friggin grin. Like it's not genuine or even appearing to be, in the slightest.
It's so cynical, cold, creepy and soulless. How did the A-B testing that drives his every single decision settle on that expression?
That's a big "IF" tho. I've been teaching embedded programming classes and had to teach folks some very basic stuff like how to RTFM or how to look for stuff on the internet - people don't even use search engines anymore. 🌚
Claude has become the search Engine. Stackoverflow doesn't even exist in the mind of Vibe coders around me. Disconnecting claude means coffee-time until it's back
If you're very new to that - I'd just recommend picking up some Arduino (at least UNO R3) starter kit plus some measurement tools - multimeter and maybe an oscilloscope (there are cheap handheld ones like DSO).
And then you just fool around with what you've got - try to read each sensors data, try to use each actuator, think of some useful projects with what you've got.
And from there you can go to stuff like ESP32 to explore wireless stuff (mostly compatible with Arduino too).
that's a big IF. few weeks ago I had to teach a junior dev how divs worked, he had no idea. he even initially asked an LLM how they worked and the LLM hallucinated half the responses.
I'm a backend engineer that only does minor frontend tasks once in a blue moon, and on the top of my head I know two ways to center a div horizontally (well 3 with the obvious <center>) and one to center it vertically. When I hear frontend developers saying it's hard, I always start questioning their competence at a basic level.
As someone with very little programming knowledge, the existence of all the "Learn how to program in our easy to use course and AI Assistance for $800 a month!" sites baffles me when w3schools is just... there. It has helped me massively, without a dime.
I also just realised that the about page of w3s has a ChatGPT section of "This is how ChatGPT describes W3Schools", why????
Maybe could be interesting to get an AI to create a prompt for another AI, and send that prompt down the line like Chinese whispers.
Edit : or maybe it wouldn't be. I havent used LLMs and such for about 5 years. I was fascinated at first and played with them for about 2 days getting them to write limerick and shit, but the novelty wore off fast.
I‘ d recommend playing around a bit with opencode and their free models, just to see what changed. Oh and you don’t have to use it to code, but a fun experiment would be to run it in a Linux container and see what it can do.
take a screenshot of the div in question, set it as a background for the body and make it no-repeat, center center.. don’t forget to slap some fancy 100vh for the body too..
done! It will even render exactly the same so it is cross-browser ready!
use the option cover and it will work for all screen sizes and resolutions!
add diabolical-laughter-047.mp3 as the unstoppable music loop and like seven useless frameworks for additional style points, ohh and like three font families.. just in case.. and definitely some analytics from BIG G
And if its anything like the stuff he put out, it's rigged with a plant, like the kid of someone who works for him, from the beginning so he doesn't have to really pay anything
98 Comments
xangadix@lemmy.world · 138 pts · 59d
I am
<center><div>fuck Mr beast</div></center>oldCannonFodder@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 59d
margin-left: 276px;
Adjust number until it looks centered. Easy peasy.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 59d
Make sure to put
!importantat the end just to be sure.Cyber@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 59d
Best viewed on Internet Explorer with 800x600 display
tempest@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 59d
Needs more flexbox
kubica@fedia.io · 12 pts · 59d
I got you fam:
* { display: flex !important; }fubarx@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 59d
People wanting to also center it vertically is what broke the web.
xangadix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 59d
Just add
<br>untill it looks somewhat in the middle, dohhakunawazo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 58d
...or tables with a lot of spacer.gif
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 56d
Yeah don’t give this guy any extra attention
somnuz@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 59d
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 119 pts · 59d
SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 59d
display: gridfor a single element feels kinda cursed to meorca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 9 pts · 59d
It definitely is lol. You’d use this for a landing page content container or something.
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 59d
Now make it work on IE6.
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 59d
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 59d
Ah, I remember the days when they used to be using PNGs for those.
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 59d
jestho@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 59d
PNGs!? Oh sweet summer child...
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 58d
IE6 didn't support PNGs? I guess I could misremember but I am fairly sure it did.
jestho@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 58d
Not transparent PNGs without using some cursed vendor css filter stuff
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 58d
Hey. Hey hey hey HEY.
That's not fair to us.
Random Linux nerds who were bullied. BULLIED, I say. When we coded our personal sites on Netscape on Linux (which was painful enough when Netscape 4 had a hazy understanding of CSS1/2 already) and the site had some random glitches on IE from time when we couldn't ensure IE compatibility.
This "IE6" shit needs to stay buried, OK? This is "history that must never repeat" shit, OK? OK. Good.
BONUS JOKE:
There was a whole range of jokes dedicated to what happens when you shoot yourself on foot with your favourite programming language.
My favourite was this:
"You shoot yourself in the foot with JavaScript.
If using Netscape, your arm falls off.
If using MSIE, your head explodes."
jestho@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 59d
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 59d
flex gang where
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 4 pts · 58d
I use flex for most stuff 💪🏼
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 59d
Just throw it in a flexbox with
margin: autoMadrigal@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 59d
Hah. How about this: trap 1,000 regular web developers in a room. First one to use a proper semantic element instead of a div wins $1 million.
0x0@infosec.pub · 38 pts · 59d
Good luck finding 1000 regular Web developers in this market
Or any market really, they really like their caves
Madrigal@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 59d
And their divs.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 11 pts · 59d
I’m one of those old devs that has been writing CSS for like 18 years. It’s funny. Even with access to AI, folks still ask me CSS questions because I actually know the ins and outs of it.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 8 pts · 59d
I'd take "ask questions to that ancient dev even if it take 10 minutes of history lesson everytime" over using AI
varjen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 57d
The history lesson is bonus content.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 57d
Yeah, and usually they are nice or funny ones
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 59 pts · 59d
Holy shit those lifeless eyes give me the creeps
zurohki@aussie.zone · 33 pts · 59d
I stand by my description of him: "That guy in Youtube thumbnails who smiles with his teeth but not his eyes."
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 35 pts · 59d
I just took a screenshot of the image and then cropped the bottom of his face out, there is no denying it
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 17 pts · 59d
cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 59d
Jason Segel really carried that show
Enkrod@feddit.org · 11 pts · 59d
Dont dead open inside
pyre@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 59d
he looks like he's crying
otacon239@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 59d
I don’t know what it is, but I just simply can’t believe that the guy is not deeply involved in some of the most twisted shit.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 9 pts · 59d
I don't think there's a lot going on in Jimmy's head. Jimmy got his start on youtube by counting to 100,000. Then he just did whatever video idea he thought would get the most views. He's not a creative or intelligent person. Jimmy never really stopped counting.
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 59d
Not sure if you referenced it on purpose, but Folding Ideas recently published a deep dive video essay on the Mr. Beast empire, and I believe that "Jimmy never stopped counting" was their conclusion as well.
It's a great video. I'd recommend it if you haven't seen it.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 59d
Idle hands and all that. Someone this vacuous with this much access to resources sounds like the perfect target for manipulation by someone with ill intent. Whatever it is may not have been his idea, but he also doesn’t seem like the person to say no to a paycheck for literally any reason.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 59d
I think that's underselling it, severely. I have no idea what would win the YouTube algorithm, many people try and don't get a fraction as close to Mr. Beast. Clearly, he has the creativity to come up with incredibly successful video ideas, initially even all by himself! Even he they're not my style, and I personally dislike his videos, brand and the guy's own personality, I do have to recognise he has this from of creativity and a lot of it.
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 59d
Well, Jimmy Donaldson is guilty of torture and running illegal sweepstakes at the very least. His company is also the perfect place for Epstein class wannabes, which I’ve heard rumblings about but nothing concrete.
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 59d
His internal monologue; “Just lift the corners of your lips and it will look natural”
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 59d
The Smile Demon has returned once more
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 59d
Every time I see that face I want to get violent. I want to just bash his head in with an axe handle. That fake ass fucking smile just drives me to rage and I don't know why.
DigitalForest@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 59d
The smile doesn't reach his eyes. When someone is genuinely smiling, the area around the eyes wrinkle up some (especially the outside corners). Fake smiles don't do that, not without conscious effort. It's so unsettling because it's setting off an instinctual urge of "this guy is being deceptive and is likely a threat". You can check by covering part of the face in the image: cover the mouth, and the eyes just look dead and soulless.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 59d
I'm not usually one to knock someone's appearance but you're right with this guy's weird friggin grin. Like it's not genuine or even appearing to be, in the slightest.
It's so cynical, cold, creepy and soulless. How did the A-B testing that drives his every single decision settle on that expression?
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 58d
Because he is a insufferable douche bag
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 27 pts · 59d
Forcing people to write CSS? I thought there was an international treaty against that
rylviq@sopuli.xyz · 23 pts · 59d
It's not a difficult task at all without AI. I mean if they can use forms and sites like the og stackoverflow, w3 schools,.etc
ivan@piefed.social · 39 pts · 59d
That's a big "IF" tho. I've been teaching embedded programming classes and had to teach folks some very basic stuff like how to RTFM or how to look for stuff on the internet - people don't even use search engines anymore. 🌚
Jakylla@jlai.lu · 15 pts · 59d
Claude has become the search Engine. Stackoverflow doesn't even exist in the mind of Vibe coders around me. Disconnecting claude means coffee-time until it's back
rylviq@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 59d
I still use a normal search engine. I use AI chats when I really need it for something. Well it does makes thing easier tho
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 59d
I've been wanting to try embedded programming for a while, it looks fun!
What would you recommend as a starting point? Any books I should pick up?
ivan@piefed.social · 4 pts · 59d
If you're very new to that - I'd just recommend picking up some Arduino (at least UNO R3) starter kit plus some measurement tools - multimeter and maybe an oscilloscope (there are cheap handheld ones like DSO).
And then you just fool around with what you've got - try to read each sensors data, try to use each actuator, think of some useful projects with what you've got.
And from there you can go to stuff like ESP32 to explore wireless stuff (mostly compatible with Arduino too).
rozodru@piefed.world · 8 pts · 59d
that's a big IF. few weeks ago I had to teach a junior dev how divs worked, he had no idea. he even initially asked an LLM how they worked and the LLM hallucinated half the responses.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 59d
I know this gets said a lot, but... we're so cooked.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 6 pts · 59d
I'm a backend engineer that only does minor frontend tasks once in a blue moon, and on the top of my head I know two ways to center a div horizontally (well 3 with the obvious
<center>) and one to center it vertically. When I hear frontend developers saying it's hard, I always start questioning their competence at a basic level.MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
As someone with very little programming knowledge, the existence of all the "Learn how to program in our easy to use course and AI Assistance for $800 a month!" sites baffles me when w3schools is just... there. It has helped me massively, without a dime.
I also just realised that the about page of w3s has a ChatGPT section of "This is how ChatGPT describes W3Schools", why????
Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 59d
This is a place of hatred and ridicule, not a serious conversation. :(
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 59d
I learned today that the "branding" for Claude is an anus.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 59d
All the AI logos are.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 59d
Well, Vonnegut's anus.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 59d
It could also be the splat of something that came out of an anus. It works on multiple levels.
CrolishGrandma@programming.dev · 16 pts · 59d
I misread and and thought it said with Claude. Which would still be an interesting challenge 😅
toofpic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
center this div hor and vert no questions asked go its approved
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 59d
Maybe could be interesting to get an AI to create a prompt for another AI, and send that prompt down the line like Chinese whispers.
Edit : or maybe it wouldn't be. I havent used LLMs and such for about 5 years. I was fascinated at first and played with them for about 2 days getting them to write limerick and shit, but the novelty wore off fast.
Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org · 1 pts · 59d
I‘ d recommend playing around a bit with opencode and their free models, just to see what changed. Oh and you don’t have to use it to code, but a fun experiment would be to run it in a Linux container and see what it can do.
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 59d
Centre it horizontally or vertically?
limer@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 59d
Yes
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 59d
Thanks Claude.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 59d
jestho@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 58d
Looks pretty centered to me ✅
somnuz@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 59d
solved it:
take a screenshot of the div in question, set it as a background for the body and make it
no-repeat, center center.. don’t forget to slap some fancy100vhfor the body too..done! It will even render exactly the same so it is cross-browser ready!
use the option
coverand it will work for all screen sizes and resolutions!add
diabolical-laughter-047.mp3as the unstoppable music loop and like seven useless frameworks for additional style points, ohh and like three font families.. just in case.. and definitely some analytics from BIG G— profit.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 58d
he of course determines who is the winner beforehand, like all his other challenges.
timestatic@feddit.org · 11 pts · 59d
Poor guys, they'll starve before that happens
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 58d
"Congratulations, you won million dollars! But first, we'll, of course, have to deduct the cost of the AI credits you used in this challenge..."
locuester@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 57d
they don’t have ai…
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 59d
And if its anything like the stuff he put out, it's rigged with a plant, like the kid of someone who works for him, from the beginning so he doesn't have to really pay anything
victorz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 59d
The irony is twofold here. A div takes up 100% of its parent's width by default because it's a block-level element, as all such elements do.
But centering stuff on the page has been trivially ezpz since at least a decade.
Poor div, always the butt of the joke.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 59d
100%. It's already centered.
victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
Exactly 😄
AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 59d
No Claude? No problem! Just ask one of the many other LLMs for the answer. Easiest million ever!
/s
FiniteBanjo@programming.dev · 4 pts · 58d
Imagine if it had no internet access but it had all the relevant docs.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 58d
Why is Mr Beast next to the picture of Claude's butthole?
dellish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 57d
Huh. All I can see is two pictures of buttholes.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 59d
I dont get it
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 59d
Vibe coders are really dumb.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 59d
Well, i am a vibecoder after all so it kinda makes sense i dont get it lol
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 59d
It's like a modern day blond joke.
Muffi@programming.dev · 2 pts · 59d
Flexboxes are cool but their naming conventions are shiet
HappyZed30@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 58d
Just do it already.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 1 pts · 59d
I only know how to do it using a table hehe.
SatansDaughter@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 59d
Mr beast if he was based
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
Yes it's so difficult. /s
Ajen@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 56d
iamericandre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 59d
Easy money 💰