devbent

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by devbent 3y ago
I remember trying to use react native web to unify mobile and web back in the day and I ended up using complex animation libraries for things that CSS could do in just one or two lines. Is Tamagui any better in that regard?
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by devbent 3y ago
That website breaks the back button, on Android...
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by devbent 3y ago
Spotify was like the 15th company in this field, they just benefited from all the ground work their predecessors had laid.
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by devbent 3y ago
> Seems like half of my coding questions it hallucinated some function that doesn’t exist. I've actually seen AI search and ChatGPT 4 hallucinate identical fake command line parameters to a program. It was ... rather sus.
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by devbent 3y ago
Assume the AGI has access to a credit card and it goes ahead and reserves itself every GPU cycle in existence so it's 1 month is turned into a day, and now we're back to being fucked. Maybe an ongoing GPU shortage is the only thin
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by devbent 3y ago
> Somewhere along the way I feel it became normal to just let your children do whatever they want online with no supervision and no parental controls. I got handed a modem at age 9 and I started dialing into local BBSs. I learned how to
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by devbent 3y ago
Sony's tvs are broken into price tiers, they have low end ones with garbage picture quality, medium tier tvs with better picture and a better CPU, and high end ones with excellent image quality. Sadly neither Sony tv I have had (includ
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by devbent 3y ago
Everyone is stupid at 3am when the on call alert goes off and a critical service is down. Write code and design systems so 3am you can fix them!
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by devbent 3y ago
In contrast, I've worked on 2 UI frameworks and knowing all about tree traversal was super useful. I've sat next to the engineer who had to write various sort algorithms for the embedded runtime I helped design. I've witnesse
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by devbent 3y ago
Sony sells TVs that cost just a bit more than the competition but you can easily not opt-in to ads during initial setup (they are not selected by default!). Sadly Google seems to insist on showing YT recommendations to matter what on Google
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by devbent 3y ago
Random question, Do all of you have ADHD? If not, that would be... Surprisingly I guess but also kind of hopeful.
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by devbent 3y ago
White vinegar does a better job deglazing than hot water.
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by devbent 3y ago
> I went to (in the US) most certainly were indoctrinating all sorts of things. Like what? That people should be treated with respect? Or how about that literacy is important? That slavery was bad? Or how about that lesson plan on how th
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by devbent 3y ago
Historically oral exams were commonly used to test a student's proficiency, but they fell out of favor as the educational system scaled up.
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by devbent 3y ago
Kidney failure is a common cause of death in all felines, wild or not. Feline's don't have kidneys designed to for in for the long haul.
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by devbent 3y ago
> If you keep your app server stateless you can simply multiply it for the number of copies you need for your load. This right here so many times over. I'm not going to spend time worrying about scaling, I'm going spend time fi
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by devbent 3y ago
Back when I was at MS I heard of accessibility PMs walking into VP offices and telling them that their newest version wasn't shipping until accessibility was 100% done. I don't know if it the same now, but when I was there certain
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by devbent 3y ago
> actually working out when a GC sweep will run is so non-trivial the only way to actually work it out is to run the program and watch it happen, Which is the case for memory fragmentation without a GC. A naively written program in C++ w
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by devbent 3y ago
> The people who have lived through them simply won’t stand for them. If another disease like the first COVID wave comes along I'll damn well vote out any politician who doesn't support lockdowns. When there is a super virulent
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by devbent 3y ago
> This non-correspondence of retinal positions during binocular viewing can elicit an experience of depth, I don't have binocular vision but I am still seeing the blue as being deeper than the read, so I think some assumptions may n
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by devbent 3y ago
My calculus teacher was a business major who went back to college to get a math PhD and be talked shit about the business major math classes all the time. I think complaining about business majors is a math professor tradition.
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by devbent 3y ago
It saves time, potentially a lot of time during busy hours. I've waited an easy 10+ minutes for a server to come and ask for drinks and another 5-10 to come back and take orders. Phone based ordering, which can include pictures of all
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by devbent 3y ago
> International travel and fine dining is absolutely not comparable to having kids in terms of the returns you get on these activities. The returns are guaranteed, whereas a child can end up having negative returns at an almost endless
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by devbent 3y ago
I think your entire thesis is wrong. People are not having kids because they have good alternatives now. International travel is affordable for more and more people, regularly going to fine dining establishments is something accessible to m
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by devbent 3y ago
> People dont choose to have kids based on how they like to spend their time. I did, I made a conscious thoughtful decision that I'd be trading off stuff I wanted to do and taking care of a child instead.
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by devbent 3y ago
Mp3.com purposefully breaking the law to prove a point screwed over an untold number of indie artists. IMHO it was a shitty thing for them to do.
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by devbent 3y ago
This has got to cost a fortune to run. I initially started on something similar and stopped once I realized what it would cost me per user. The voice over text is very well done, I'm wondering which service you are using for it. None o
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The internet used to have a barrier to entry. That barrier is what helped ensure quality. If the only people who can join are those who are passionate enough to read a lot of documentation and jump through a lot of hoops, yeah, the quality
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Soon as you add in connectivity, battery life dies. RF is expensive.
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New product teams are a grind, but with the right people, also a lot of fun. It isn't for everyone. When I was hiring for a NPT working on cutting edge tech I told everyone I interviewed they the work life balance was super skewed. The

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