8bitbeep

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by 8bitbeep 26d ago
The author of the article is Claude.
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by 8bitbeep 1mo ago
> It's the classic "But I can customise EMACS endlessly, why would I use an actual IDE?" argument all over. That paragraph sets me off. I’ll take Vim and Emacs over VSCode and Eclipse any day.
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by 8bitbeep 4mo ago
There’s nothing unreasonable about HTML being effective at what it was designed for.
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by 8bitbeep 5mo ago
Very cool, but I think the user's cursor should be a different shape/color from the others. I frequently tried to move a neighboring cursor by mistake.
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by 8bitbeep 5mo ago
Remember when programming was fun? To me, after the novelty of seeing a computer program execute (more or less) what I ask in plain English wears off, what’s left is the chore of managing a bunch of annoying bots. I don’t know yet if we’re
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by 8bitbeep 10mo ago
Also, not everything is a competition that needs to be won.
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by 8bitbeep 11mo ago
React (and Tailwind for that matter) are great for hiring and getting hired. The chances of someone screwing it up or being lost in their first week/month when parachute into a project are pretty low. It has very little to do with the
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by 8bitbeep 1y ago
> crypto (via stablecoins) is easier/faster/better than the status quo ante. It must be ignorance on my part or perhaps I’m just lucky with residency and clients, but I get paid through services like Wise frequently. Taxes are
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by 8bitbeep 1y ago
Funny. I don’t need to work hard for that at all. It comes naturally to me. It obviously has its pros and cons, but to me, a shiny new tech has to prove itself first in order to deserve my attention. There are, occasionally, the “wow, I got
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by 8bitbeep 1y ago
Hopefully there will be careers for people in 20 years.
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by 8bitbeep 1y ago
> 4 BRL (aprox 1 USD) I wish. That's off by 50%
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by 8bitbeep 1y ago
> Brazil’s fusty banking That's precious coming from an US publication, a country where checks are still used.
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by 8bitbeep 2y ago
I’m also unease about the open-source-but-not-really VSCode situation. I don’t know how useful an editor you can build from the available source, which is enough for me to not consider it seriously. I’ve been bitten before.
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by 8bitbeep 2y ago
It’s a know phenomenon. A friend of mine had a reasonably important public office position. Always on the phone, constantly demanded, giving interviews, etc. The first few months after a change in administration were a great relief. A year
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MacStories Won't Stand for Meta's Dehumanizing and Harmful Moderation Policies(macstories.net)
12 points by 8bitbeep 2y ago|0 comments
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by 8bitbeep 2y ago
It's very modern CSS.
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by 8bitbeep 2y ago
True, it’s just that the original quote is hard swallow. Try melting sand and polishing your own lenses and compare that to a US$ 5 glass.
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by 8bitbeep 2y ago
> We all know that custom, hand-made, artisan-crafted, boutique tools are always better than something factory made. Right. We all know the best chips in the world are made by local artisan silicon-etchers. None of that TSMC pasteurized