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    7 days ago

    The average person only owns a fraction of a car, but I do believe that existing on a street either inside or around cars is the highest risk an average person is being subjected to on an average day.

    Keep in mind that only a small number of privileged people own a car, but everyone has to deal with them and are subjected to their risks.



  • I know this post is more about the committing on LLM “fixes”, but find the other reasons more interesting.

    Similar to the date & time library there are a couple of other things that look easy at a first glance, but get complicated very quickly, because it has so many special cases:

    • lexicographic sorting (different languages sort things differently)
    • Postal address formatting (different standards in different countries, with many different context sensitive rules)
    • string handling


  • What makes implementation so difficult is that browsers cannot just “work”, they need to be correct in what they do. And support all websites.

    The standards of HTML, CSS and JS have developed over a long time, not only is the amount of stuff massive, over time sometimes strange features where implemented, that were then used by website developers, and now these all need to be handled correctly by all new browsers.

    Emulating and reimplementing existing stuff is often more difficult, especially if you cannot leave out any feature, no matter how obscure, because that might break someone’s website.