Excellent observation. This is my hobby horse: language is vague. So define "thinking" now.

Even when words are strung together into sentences, languages are imprecise and meaning is tied to context.

If you're going to go to all that trouble in Figma, you've actually *done* the development already, so what's the web developer for?

...and now Figma is having a multi-billion dollar IPO, after Biden's FTC/Lina Kahn wouldn't approve a merger with Adobe.

Mockups are supposed to be a *quick* way to let people see what things will look like and how the flow will work, before you start the difficult process of actualizing the UI.

That's your opinion. Some people sees things differently.

Also, I am not claiming mine is the best explanation to answer your initial question.

Speaking as a Drupal developer: Figma is great for designing Components, communicating and sharing code between teams. 'Everything' is Components for the last 5 years or so. A Component library developed in Figma by designers is directly transferable to theme code Drupal front-end developers can work with, as in copy-pasted html, css, js in a folder for each Component. Component Variations are similarly simple code differentiation.

A Component structure in the Drupal Radix theme is pretty much like a Component used on any other framework. Typically a Card Component, in the Components folder, will be a folder called Card and inside will be files called card.twig, card.js, card.scss, card.component.yml and anything else pertinent to the Card component. This example is very Drupal-specific and card.twig is a lot like HTML and card.scss is high-end CSS prior to being rendered for browser delivery.

If a shop chooses to ditch Drupal for something entirely different like Java Spring, the workload to convert the design Component investment itself is fairly light because of the structure I described.

Here's a Drupal theme's documentation for a Card Component along with its upstream Bootstrap source documentation with an actual rendered Card. As a Drupal developer I'm familiar working with technical documentation like that. But the in-house design teams work with Figma to get the colors, fonts, and general layout just right. Kinda like a functional, in-house Style Guide.

I recall probly about 2015 sitting around tuning in playlists on YouTube for my Ladyfriend, Buble and Adele and and if you let it play for an hour, it subtly sounded different.. like they were sung by someone else, cover versions crafted so close to the original... who do you complain to ffs... like that is straight up counterfeit.

>Or they already _have_ backdoors

PRISM?

whoo wasn't quite expecting this to end up the ditch so soon... but...
that's basically scientific method... new discoveries inform or destroy the older theories as the become proven...
not perfect but seems to be the best we have go on

that's the one I was thinking of..

We have a picture of a planet 110 light years away from here, published within the last few months. We can measure the cosmic background radiation to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

We have tools of insane levels of precision. How come we can't find some gravity object only a few light minutes away?

What was that movie from... early 90's?... they recruit children to fight aliens because they are good at video games ... humanity's last hope.. yeah, I guess we're there now. Kids have better reflexes, so...

Wow. That's sad. I cold boot to desktop in 10 seconds with Devuan and xfce.

As you say, if you could mitigate any of those serious conditions, like schizophrenia, it would be a no brainer if you have the money. I would say "prove it", and it would probably die, for me, right there.

>selling to the anxiety of the cost-insensitive.

I think you hit the nail on the head, right there. You don't want your baby to be a cripple, right? Ok, pay money.

I never expected or had plans to become somewhat obsessed with urban planning, however life's circumstances have very much made me aware of the discipline and resulting enhanced lifestyles, and the Not Just Bikes youtube channel has been a truly massive influence. I recommend everyone check it out.

No need to invade Taiwan. Play the long game. Wait.

Sun Tzu Adjacent: if your enemy is destroying itself, do nothing. Just wait 5 years as the usa is sucked dry by the oligarchs.

Die by the sword.
Klingons would approve.

Or probably not. They 'd probably say diving out of a balloon 23 km above the surface is for cissies.

Haha! Sounds like the Men's only Tavern we went to as teenagers. It was already smoker's yellow everywhere by the time we were going there .

Yyeeeechhhh...