ddejohn

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by ddejohn 11d ago
Absolute joy to read as a guitarist of 22 years, and having a degree in applied mathematics and a fondness for old calculators. As an aside, I love the simplicity of the interactive elements in TFA. Something I desperately wish I could have
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by ddejohn 12d ago
Eh, I had plenty of problems with Spotify too. My point was more that they're all pretty shit.
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by ddejohn 15d ago
Gorgeous site. ODEs, PDEs, and computational physics were some of my favorite courses in college and I really regret not pursuing a master's degree. Unfortunately, I graduated in spring 2020 during the shutdown. I had been hemming and
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by ddejohn 15d ago
> Spotify is, without doubt, the worst piece of software that I still use on a daily basis. It's incredibly buggy, incredibly slow, and the UI has so many "usability inconsistencies". I left Spotify about a year ago and ha
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by ddejohn 26d ago
The author was paraphrasing a tweet written by somebody else: > The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying [...]
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by ddejohn 26d ago
> Users are usually fine seeing many changes on the screen quickly because it gives the impression that stuff is happening on the background This gave me a chuckle because I personally hate things like watching the browser jump through
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by ddejohn 1mo ago
100% of air traffic controllers had consumed dihydrogen monoxide prior to an aviation disaster.
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by ddejohn 2mo ago
Nor Firefox on Windows, nor Chrome on Windows. Very confused about what I'm supposed to be seeing here lol.
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by ddejohn 2mo ago
I am similarly very confused. Tried in multiple browsers, including a stock chrome install where I haven't messed with any animation settings.
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
> the killer feature that kept me on Firefox precisely, I do occasionally have to switch browsers which is incredibly frustrating but that's more of an indictment of the current state of the web than FF in my mind
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
Great to see this feature being added to other browsers. I use the Firefox Multi-Account Containers, Temporary Containers, and Containerize extensions to manage my browsing and it's (mostly) a very nice experience. There are some rough
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
I still regularly visit TheGearPage forum for musicians (mostly guitarists), and it's still active. There's also Hardforum for hardware related discussions, though I don't visit as often anymore. Many others I used to visit a
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
What are you using for cell service? Been wanting to switch to GOS for years, but I've also been really uninterested in having to find a new service provider (currently using fi).
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
> What time you have in mind, that was really better? Don't think there's ever been a time in human history that would qualify as good , but I will take better : any time pre-COVID. We have completely gone off the rails since
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
Deeply sickening that modern society is such that we have to make room in our brains for objectively outlandish connections like these. That a children's cartoon and game about cute little companions has to in any way be involved in
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
> storytelling “My Journey” type stuff This is the stuff with which I struggle the most. I'm an introvert, and "my journey" sounds so insufferable and egotistical to me, I physically cringe at the thought of having to talk
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by ddejohn 3mo ago
I am miserably bad at soft-skills interviews and never get past this round. Been over a year since I've had somebody actually try to assess my technical competency in any real capacity. I'm also getting maybe 1 INITIAL interview
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by ddejohn 5mo ago
when I first read "orbital slingshot" in the title I thought it was a game about doing gravity assists, which I think would be much more interesting and fun
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by ddejohn 1y ago
Who is the other?
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by ddejohn 1y ago
I use 12 columns so I can still do this 1/3 - 2/3 split, but other proportions as well. I tend to have a chat app on the left quarter, browser in the middle half, and a music app on the right quarter. Lots more freedom than only t
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by ddejohn 1y ago
Excellent post that actually gets into important details for real-world applications. I'm a huge fan of the design of Litestar. > I also still think there are a lot of bad use cases for repositories and service layers that people sh
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by ddejohn 1y ago
It's downright awful and I'm having a hard time imagining the author proof reading their own page and thinking "yeah, that's great". As an aside, I have an article in my blog that has GIFs in it, and they're im
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by ddejohn 1y ago
Completely agreed. The codebase I work on really badly abused multiple inheritance all over the place. Some of our classes are 5+ layers of inheritance deep. All the code I've written since joining has used `typing.Protocol` over ABCs,
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by ddejohn 1y ago
No problem. Also, hello Denver neighbor! Cheers, best of luck.
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by ddejohn 1y ago
heads up, your resume link is a 404
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by ddejohn 1y ago
I know, I'm just complaining about the mountain of code that does this at my company. And there is no fixing it using the article's approach or any other for that matter due to the sheer scale of the abuse.
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by ddejohn 1y ago
Everything in the codebase I maintain at my job is an arbitrary dict and there is no type information anywhere. It wasn't even written that long ago (dataclasses were a thing long before this codebase was written). There's actuall
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by ddejohn 1y ago
Who's it for, then?
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by ddejohn 1y ago
yep, the legacy codebase I maintain does a lot of this kind of stuff and has made it difficult to write unit tests in some cases due to all the code that runs at import and all the state we end up with
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by ddejohn 1y ago
Not having subdomains work for container assignments is a baffling design decision. It's a well-known issue and oft-requested feature that the devs seemingly have no plan to fix. It's incredibly frustrating. > whenever I'm

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