badthingfactory

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by badthingfactory 6mo ago
I appreciated the notification at the top of the screen because it prompted me to disable every single copilot feature I possibly could from my account. I also appreciated Microsoft for making Windows 11 horrible so I could fall back in lov
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by badthingfactory 6mo ago
You probably made the right decision. In my opinion, DHH is underselling how terrible the keyboard on the Dell XPS is. I bought the lunar lake XPS and I hate the keyboard so much, I turned it into an expensive Jellyfin server and bought a $
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by badthingfactory 9mo ago
StackOverflow answers are outdated. Every time I end up on that site these days, I find myself reading answers from 12 years ago that are no longer relevant.
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by badthingfactory 10mo ago
I avoid Teams as much as possible, but when I have to join a Teams meeting the PWA works fine.
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by badthingfactory 4y ago
I would have no problem with a company saying "We really like you, but we found a better match for role x. If you're interested we think you'd be great in role y and here are the details." If I don't like the compen
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by badthingfactory 4y ago
Any time a relative asks me which printer they should buy, I tell them to get the cheapest Brother laser printer they can find without wifi. I mostly do this to save myself support calls, but it's also the printer I use in my own house
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by badthingfactory 4y ago
I've written C# code that deadlocked a webserver, C++ code that crashed a computer lab, JavaScript code that made the browser unresponsive, a SQL migration that accidentally deleted too much data. I don't really know what point yo
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by badthingfactory 4y ago
The non-tech F500 I worked at several years ago is doing everything they can to abandon .NET/Java in favor of low-code tools. Their engineers are jumping ship and they're having a hard time finding replacements.
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by badthingfactory 4y ago
I-80 always comes to mind when these autonomous vehicle discussions occur. I'll believe in autonomous vehicles when I see them driving across Pennsylvania during a winter storm. There are days where I seriously doubt an autonomous vehi
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by badthingfactory 5y ago
I want to have this comment tattooed on my forehead.
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by badthingfactory 5y ago
Teams is the absolute worst piece of software I have ever used. Simply logging in only works about 50% of the time. This wouldn't be a big deal if I wasn't randomly forced to the login screen every few days. I experience a differe
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by badthingfactory 5y ago
My primary frustration with frontend development is that I have gone to JS Build Tool University... Roughly 10 times now. I'm not sure I've ever set up two separate frontends the same way. Even when I avoid the shiny new tools and
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by badthingfactory 5y ago
> That was in 2018... That's the _average_ person who is making a video game. The average person who was making a video game was upset at themselves for putting non-conventionally attractive females in the games they were making?
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by badthingfactory 5y ago
I think this is where the ninety-ninety rule is typically invoked.
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by badthingfactory 5y ago
I had a choice when I was 16 years old. I could take a 45 minute bus ride to and from school every day for free; or I could get a job, purchase my own vehicle, pay for my own gasoline and insurance, and drive to school in 15 minutes. I did
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by badthingfactory 6y ago
I wish everyone viewed the process like this. I was job hunting a few years ago and increased my hits by roughly 50% by doing one thing: adding more color to the stupid resume.
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by badthingfactory 6y ago
My company created a web client for our chat software product around 5 years ago. The quality of our product has slowly deteriorated as browser vendors continually remove or restrict features that once worked fine. Just to name two examples
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by badthingfactory 8y ago
> The Fetch API works in every browser. No it doesn't.
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by badthingfactory 8y ago
At least one study been done to see how responsive a passive "driver" of an autonomous vehicle can be. The study concluded a person that is required to intervene with an autonomous vehicle is no better than a drunk person. It make
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
I think it would probably work out pretty well... for the candidate.
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
This was my immediate thought. Mine has been deactivated for 4+ years and this hasn't happened.
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
I got a PSTV a few years ago and was itching to play some old Metal Gear games one morning. The PSTV is advertised as being able to play Vita games, so I purchased them through the PS Store on my PSTV. The game downloaded and was ready to i
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
React dev builds are terribly slow at rendering large lists. Open Slack and scroll up for about a minute. It becomes unresponsive very quickly. I don't understand how deploying React's dev build would help anyway... Do they regula
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
I understand Redux, have used it many times and have read the source code. I don't understand the argument that it is "basically is the same thing as having a root component handle all your state". It's that plus actions
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
> It is essentially Redux, only much worse the more complex your app is. so... not at all like Redux then. C# is essentially Python except it has different syntax and static typing.
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
If that was "essentially redux", redux would have no reason for existence.
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
You have a root component. Run the interval within that component where you have access to state.
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
> A broken stoplight is considered a 4-way stop under the law here. There's no need for hand signals or flashing headlights. This intersection is 4 lanes plus a left turn lane in all directions with constant traffic. Hand signals we
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
I was driving to work one day and the light was broken at the busiest intersection in town. People were able to make it through the intersection using hand signals and flashing headlights. How does this work when half of the cars are fully
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by badthingfactory 9y ago
Because you don't "just" develop your next project in some other language/framework. You and your team have to throw out domain knowledge and make a whole bunch of mistakes with the new language/framework before rea

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