jacobyoder

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by jacobyoder 11mo ago
In 2004 I was at a company that dedicated a team of people to rebuilding a bunch of tables (lots of financial data) in to styled divs because... "tables are depreciated". The fact that they couldn't pronounce or understand
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
> and without evidence either way it's a matter of opinion The absence of evidence is used as evidence of the thing (hostile deep state actors) existing, because they're so good they can hide their tracks so well that they
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
Hovering over the netscape link renders it slowly, line by line, like images used to come down...
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
> Instead of firing the commissioner, the president should be giving the agency a raise in the form of a bigger budget. The goal should be to restore public trust in government statistics, not undermine it. When you believe that governme
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
https://archive.ph/el7mM
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
> I'm willing to bet 99% of users run their browsers fullscreen. 99% of the folks I interact with usually just use whatever size the browser opens in initially, then maybe resize it if they're reading for a while, or need to
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
> I think the total reliance is a legitimate concern that needs to be addressed. > I still think this approach to addressing that issue is complete madness. You're assuming the 'total reliance' argument and correspondin
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
Going directly in to the Treasury. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/published-report... $252 million was collected from excise tariffs on May 6. You can look at this PDF day to day. EDIT: adding on to this.
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
More to the point, if high tariffs are GOOD , we should be embracing them and the WH should be working to promote 'pride in tariffs!' messaging. Show how much you love your country and leader by how much in tariffs you pay! It&
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
And for things that can not be manufactured or grown here... we just suck it up and pay the extra 10-20-30% anyway? If the 'intent' was to spur manufacturing, you'd enact laws with long term financial stability planned in.
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
If a business in France uses tech X imported from China, and a competing US business uses the same tech X imported from China but has to pay 145% more than the French company, is that not an advantage they have over the US company?
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
I watched the UK/US press conference this morning. Lutnick is infuriating. Anything remotely resembling an explanation or justification for 'tariffs' devolves in to obsequeous praise of how great Trump is. It's as if
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
Came to post the same thing. How can you not be biased? You built something. You want people to use it (assumption).
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by jacobyoder 1y ago
I just can't believe your take on this. The White House press secretary has directly said, multiple times, "this is the most transparent administration ever". /s In reality, this entire process is insanity. We've
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
forge is really just cloud provisioning, not the hosting/execution directly. and... shout out to ploi.io, a forge competitor doing good work.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
vultr has fractional GPUs you can get as a VPS. I think I was paying about $55/month to test one out.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
I need the audio streamed in - usually white/brown noise. This blocks out distractions. 30 years ago perhaps people could do 'knowledge work' without these, but most of the people I know who did knowledge work years ago - la
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
After that, I need to be using my hands more - washing them, putting stuff in the locker, tying shoes, etc. Standing there for 20-30-40 seconds is one of the few times one or both hands are free and my brain can go do something else for
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
I do it. Typically just checking a few message alerts, or finishing a news story, or starting a podcast download. It's less disruptive than checking those items in front of someone else, when you should be giving the other person att
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
I'd tried to put together an RFC years ago to introduce groovy-style accessors in PHP. $this->foo would look for a getFoo() method, and execute if it existed, or not if not. Felt like that was easier to reason about, fwiw, but I co
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Not sure I'd care to experience Beatles @ Shea, but would liked to have seen some Cavern and Hamburg shows. Would liked to have gone to some early AC/DC shows too... I actually stood in line for Achtung Baby tickets ('92 IIR
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Those projects can be demonstrating your skill/ability in all areas - testing, docs, UI/UX/DX, support, project management, sales/marketing and more. But now you're possibly (likely?) coming across as more accompli
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
But if you don't have a job right now... you have time to put in to projects that can showcase your specific skills. But then... you may end up demonstrating that you can take raw ideas and build an entire business out of them yourself
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Odd... you're not the first person I've heard this from, but have been hearing this particular process happening from multiple colleagues over the last 18 months. They are all out of work, all have had multiple interviews with va
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Take this online test in 30 minutes with awkwardly or ambiguously worded abstract problem. You don't get to ask anyone for clarification on anything like any normal developer would do in the course of their work . I've never bee
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
Not the OP but... > programmers to master the debugging tools of their ecosystem. I've seen countless experienced developers use printf-based debugging and waste hourse debugging something which could've been easily figured out
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
I worked in a place where... regardless of what I did in branches, someone else would merge it and their name would be the only thing that showed up in the git metrics, because we only looked at the final 'main' branch. I'd
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
"Suffice it to say that while people are sincerely trying their best, our leaders are not even remotely equipped to handle the volume of people just outright lying to them about IT." I've tried to come up with some heuristic
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
It doesn't show on desktop either. It's a hash link to no anchor.
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by jacobyoder 2y ago
How about not even look for a new owner, and just... check the content and complaint levels? If I was hacked and hosted spam, getting blocked/banned for months at a time when... the spam is cleaned and the hole that allowed it is fixe

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