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MrBeast plans to trap 1000 vibe coders in a room without Claude. First person to centre a div manually wins $1 million.

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[–] 132 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I am <center><div>fuck Mr beast</div></center> old

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    People wanting to also center it vertically is what broke the web.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Ah, I remember the days when they used to be using PNGs for those.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    PNGs!? Oh sweet summer child...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    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."

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  • [–] 66 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Good luck finding 1000 regular Web developers in this market

    Or any market really, they really like their caves

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'd take "ask questions to that ancient dev even if it take 10 minutes of history lesson everytime" over using AI

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    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

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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. 🌚

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    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).

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    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????

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I learned today that the "branding" for Claude is an anus.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I misread and and thought it said with Claude. Which would still be an interesting challenge πŸ˜…

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Fucking jumpscare

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Centre it horizontally or vertically?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    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 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

    β€” profit.

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    he of course determines who is the winner beforehand, like all his other challenges.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • 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

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    "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..."

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Imagine if it had no internet access but it had all the relevant docs.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Why is Mr Beast next to the picture of Claude's butthole?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    No Claude? No problem! Just ask one of the many other LLMs for the answer. Easiest million ever!

    /s

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Just do it already.

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  • I only know how to do it using a table hehe.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Flexboxes are cool but their naming conventions are shiet

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago
    <div style="width: 100%">This meets the spec if the only requirement is that it's centered.<\div>
    
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  • Mr beast if he was based

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Easy money πŸ’°

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yes it's so difficult. /s

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