codelikeawolf

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by codelikeawolf 2mo ago
I immediately thought of the Judas Priest album and agreed that supplying heavy metal to the UK is indeed vital.
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by codelikeawolf 2mo ago
I'm a bit of a Forensic Files nerd, so I worked on a little side project a while back to pull the transcripts from several episodes, use entity recognition to categorize people, places, things, etc, and load them into a Neo4j database
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by codelikeawolf 2mo ago
Ugh, what a bummer. I'll be listening to Holding Out for a Hero on repeat today. Nothing gold can stay.
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by codelikeawolf 3mo ago
I was speaking from my own experience. I feel like we are generally required to _accept_ sloppiness given certain circumstances, but I have never worked with an engineer that actually _likes_ sloppiness. How cool would it be if you were giv
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by codelikeawolf 3mo ago
If you ever decide to switch careers, please reach out! We're living in weird times and it's nice to know there's other folks out there exploring similar options.
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by codelikeawolf 3mo ago
> That said I just had my floors refinished and the contractors we lucked into finding for that 2 week job went above and beyond even my level of attention to detail. It's funny you mention this, because I also have generally had go
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by codelikeawolf 3mo ago
Yeah this is a totally fair point. I suppose it's indicative of a greater trend I've been noticing as the years have gone by: standards have lowered because the highest quality work has become prohibitively expensive. But the thin
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by codelikeawolf 3mo ago
Oh my god as soon as I started reading the parent comment I immediately thought of Whackbat! This made my day.
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by codelikeawolf 3mo ago
I feel like shoddy construction/craftsmanship isn't limited to new home construction. My wife and I just wrapped up a 6 month renovation of a >100 year old house. I used to work in industrial maintenance, so I knew how to do a
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by codelikeawolf 4mo ago
I was thinking the same thing. It truly is a magical place and unlike any other city in America I've been to. I think relocation is best for the safety of the residents (obviously), but I can't help but think "New Orleans 2.0
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by codelikeawolf 5mo ago
I was in the same boat for a while, but I gave it a shot several years ago when I was doing a lot of driving every day and was powering through audiobooks. This might sound a little hyperbolic, but it actually ended up changing my life in a
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by codelikeawolf 6mo ago
When we moved to Portland about 7 years ago, our first apartment was in the Pearl District on Couch (asking someone to pronounce it correctly is another good Portlander test). I'm a huge fan of the alphabetic street names. It made it r
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by codelikeawolf 6mo ago
Serves me right for collecting facts from Instagram memes.
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by codelikeawolf 6mo ago
Funnily enough, leather tanners and pee is where the terms "piss poor" (being so poor that you need to sell your pee to tanners for cash) and "doesn't have a pot to piss in" (can't even afford a thing to hold y
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by codelikeawolf 7mo ago
Bring in Starcraft sounds next please. I want to hear "YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS" when I hit my token limit.
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
Could you post a link?
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
I've been in therapy for over a year and one of the most valuable things I've learned as a fellow "problem solver" is to run through the "three H's" when something comes up: 1. Do you want to be Helped? 2.
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
Ah, my bad. I apologize if I came off as too aggressive. I know these comment threads can get heated. As far as the comp/transpiling thing, I was referring to something like ScalaJS, ClojureScript, Kotlin/JS, etc. I'll admit
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
I think maybe you misunderstood what I meant. When I said "perfectly capable mechanism", I meant building the app in JS/TS and leveraging Wasm for additional functionality in your language of choice. I'm also not sure if
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
> I think it sort of does answer that - if js was not an awful language, there would be no need for TS. Eh, I disagree. For me, this statement is the equivalent of saying "if Python was not an awful language, there would be no need
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
I'm not sure if this is meant to be snarky or if you're saying that the languages you listed have improved over time. If you're being snarky, you've proven my point by saying several random programming languages are bett
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
I don't mean to split hairs here, but considering the wording of "throw something in the gutter", I would argue that "hate" isn't really too far off the mark. > Wasm with 'fast' DOM manipulation op
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
Wasm is essentially a CPU in the browser. It's very barebones in terms of its capabilities. The DOM API is pretty beefy, so adding DOM support to Wasm would be a massive undertaking. So why add all that complexity when you already have
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
> Let's not go into that for the millionth time Ok, that's fair. My goal with this question wasn't to open a can of worms. But whenever I see a strong averse reaction to JS, I assume that the person hasn't tried using
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by codelikeawolf 8mo ago
> Do that and frontend web-apps will throw JS into the gutter within a decade. Why though? What's wrong with JS? I feel like it's gotten a lot better over the years. I don't really understand all the hate.
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by codelikeawolf 9mo ago
Fair point. If I'm writing scripts, I normally opt for a JS file with JSDoc annotations if I want autocomplete for types (you don't need a tsconfig/tsc installed in WebStorm). Most projects I've encountered with TS scrip
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by codelikeawolf 9mo ago
> Did you (rightfully) want to tear your eyes out when some LLM suggested that you script with .mjs? I respectfully disagree with this sentiment. JS is a fantastic Python replacement for scripts. Node.js has added all kinds of utility fu
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by codelikeawolf 9mo ago
It's called motion interpolation, but a lot of TVs call it "motion smoothing". It artificially increases the frame rate. I don't really know how to describe it, but I find it a little disconcerting and I immediately turn
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by codelikeawolf 9mo ago
I spent about 9 years in web/frontend development and when all the AI coding things started coming out, I was admittedly concerned and defensive. I thought the output was gross, it couldn't help me with what I was working on, et
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by codelikeawolf 9mo ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time trying to gain a11y expertise and learn best practices, this messaging drives me a little bonkers. There is so much inaccessible content on the web. The official ARIA guide tells you "you'r

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