jjpones

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by jjpones 13d ago
I think about that article of the travel-blogger who admired Anthony Bourdain and her experience with self-sabotage. Partying out late at night in a sketchy unfamiliar country. Letting herself head home alone at 3 AM with her senses impaire
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by jjpones 13d ago
Heck, you can have your information as clear and concise as possible, but the moment I sense that "AI-generated" texture, I am immediately closing the tab. This is just extrapolating from how I feel about the bevy of obviously AI-
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by jjpones 1mo ago
Yes, we should be looking into the wasteful water use in golf courses too.
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by jjpones 2mo ago
Funnily enough, as someone who absolutely hated my Java classes in college and ending up in a job that made me learn Scala, I just appreciated it as Java but better.
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by jjpones 2mo ago
Currently running an internal maintenance mode project with a Scala backend. The odd times I'm asked to look at it, I still find the code very beautiful.
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by jjpones 2mo ago
That's the infamous "word.exe" CSGO scandal.
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by jjpones 3mo ago
To add a couple more into this list: - Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia (upcoming) Honestly, a lot of great anime fall into the cracks. Orb almost slipped me by, but that was a fantastic watch and I am eage
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by jjpones 3mo ago
Well that took a wild, albeit unsurprising turn at the end (bringing in race). Though I do still wonder if there ends up being actual material improvements on brain scans being behavior predictors or if it truly stays in science fiction (pr
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by jjpones 5mo ago
I've loved tailwind for the colocation of the component HTML and its corresponding styling (never gave up on traditional CSS though!), but with scoped styles I might start leaning back to traditional CSS.
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by jjpones 6mo ago
I feel you. This whole hoo-haa has made me so much more money-minded, and so much less optimistic about Software Development than I was 10 years ago. I just remind myself that it's bad now, but it can get much worse. Now I'm just
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by jjpones 6mo ago
As the even younger kids say: :skull-emoji: :skull-emoji: :sobbing-face-emoji: :wilted-rose-emoji:
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by jjpones 7mo ago
For me it wasn't the color, but how smooshed the post body is. I had to override the max-width and added some letter-spacing.
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by jjpones 7mo ago
As a (somewhat younger) Filipino, I didn't even know there was any basis in calling my country "The PI". Well now I know.
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by jjpones 8mo ago
>the Nakanohito (human actor) may terminate their contracts (with the corporation that owns their VTuber persona) and later debut with a new persona, a process known as "reincarnation". If anyone's curious enough to click
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by jjpones 8mo ago
When college taught you x,y,z best practices I take it they also defended them with the reasons why right? Why not to cross layers, why x pattern works for y problem. It's good to have confidence in those patterns, especially if you un
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by jjpones 8mo ago
I'm the 18th meow :3 Honestly, think you so much for posting this. I love small and fun projects.
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by jjpones 9mo ago
Related: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/hideo-kojima-says-metal-gear-... (title: Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear Solid 2 became the future he hoped would not happen)
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by jjpones 9mo ago
>...the roles of maker and consumer tend to be more clearly separated. In contrast, among Japanese users, that line feels much more blurred. Seeing a Japanese singer I really enjoy listening to post clips of her Valorant gameplay with he
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by jjpones 9mo ago
[Not now] and similar "options" will never not irritate me.
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by jjpones 9mo ago
One of the more recent experience I've had pushing a skill from conscious competence to unconscious competence is in a multiplayer video game that involved very large scale fights that literally hundreds of players participate in (and
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by jjpones 9mo ago
I agree that the technology is fine, and I also appreciate the breadth of tools I can fiddle with and how surprisingly approachable they've become for me (mdn docs are amazing to explore). But I miss the community spaces of the old int
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by jjpones 10mo ago
> I need things I don’t want to use to not appear in the UI. Couldn't have said it better myself. Similarly, current youtube is unusable without element blocking and custom CSS editing. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a
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by jjpones 11mo ago
Of course that's where Busdriver would be!
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by jjpones 11mo ago
Youtube Music doesn't auto-play the next track in a radio. On the web, some videos display an error on load, but become viewable once refreshed.
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by jjpones 1y ago
I am younger, being part of online forum communities in the late 2000s (primarily video games and art centric ones) and I truly pine for the era of the internet free from algorithmic feeds, infinite content scrolls and profit incentives. Th
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by jjpones 1y ago
They've (somewhat) recently produced Smiling Friends, a show spear-headed by two creators who had their start in animation in the early youtube era. And I'd say it's pretty successful given it's recently starting its 3rd
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by jjpones 2y ago
Nearly two decades ago, I spent my time as a young teen on a Korean MMO called Flyff. It was pretty cool to read a forum post from one of the EDGE writers gathering people's opinions on the cosmetics they liked using for their characte