kbcool

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by kbcool 10d ago
Yes. How else could the LLM even begin to do what it did otherwise. Not a criticism of you, just a place for a rant but I still find it incredible when people think they're doing something novel when really they're just reassembli
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by kbcool 2mo ago
The S&P 500 has dropped over 40% multiple times including 1929. It did it in the 70s, 2000 and 2008/9. The COVID crash nearly hit those levels also
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by kbcool 2mo ago
I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't a simulator for managing what happens inside the airport rather than ATC. I'm also unsure why I feel that way as it sounds like a nightmare
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by kbcool 4mo ago
I'm also bummed. My company shutdown the money burning pit due to fire safety concerns
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by kbcool 11mo ago
That much is the key. They're still washed, otherwise they would have all kinds of crap on them (literally, chickens only have one hole), they just aren't subjected to chemicals and scrubbing etc. Having very low salmonella rates
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by kbcool 1y ago
I was searching for a comment like this. It sounds like a crazy workaround for Flutter's strange architectural choices
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by kbcool 2y ago
Or America's advantage is by its own design. Rich people can invest relatively small amounts in hundreds, if not thousands of startups through preferentially treated retirement funds and pay no (or little) tax on the ones that make it
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by kbcool 2y ago
We must be buying different things if you think Amazon is cheap in the EU. I find almost everything can be had cheaper elsewhere these days, except the Chinese junk like you find on Temu, the enshitification has well and truly sunk in. I al
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by kbcool 2y ago
Dude. They're even on the React Native showcase page. I don't know what to say but you're massively mistaken. Uber use React Native too BTW. Lots of other big tech companies also, I don't know of any that use Flutter in
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by kbcool 2y ago
It's probably within an order of magnitude but it's really just hobbyists, casuals and indies using it. If you compare it to React Native there probably are more Flutter apps published but if you drill down into the top 1000 on ea
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by kbcool 2y ago
LOL Bolt is a React Native shop. Just Google "bolt react native" they have jobs and articles about their usage but also any library inspector will tell you that.
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by kbcool 2y ago
No. Read the simple form of my response, the first part. What you said was an example of one factor as to why it's more complex than the simple form for people who really want to dig down deep but on its own it's not an answer
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by kbcool 2y ago
This old myth is as old as the RN vs Flutter debate itself and I'm willing to help bust it again. The simple answer is that when people have a problem or question about Flutter they simply key in Flutter. With RN they can ask about Rea
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by kbcool 2y ago
Since when was Flutter the "go-to solution for cross-platform development"? Maybe for hobbyists but in the corporate space it's still React Native. The problem with Flutter, and this extends even further with KMP is that the
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by kbcool 4y ago
The wig costs $2m a year? I need to get into this business. The vegan diet probably saves a few bucks but I doubt he's any fitter than any other guy who spends that many hours a day on exercise.
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by kbcool 4y ago
It's easy for a new app, plug and play! It gets harder if you want to retrofit it to an older app using older third party libraries that have no or limited support. You have to pick through everything to work out what's playing up
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by kbcool 4y ago
> There is also no practical way to build on React Native without using a metric ton of third party libraries As an author of a few quite large React Native apps I have to disagree. There's a few key ones and apart from that it&#x27
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by kbcool 4y ago
Snap is trying to generate headlines in a desperate attempt to stay relevant. This has nothing to do with WFH. Just a sorry attempt at trying to piggyback on Musk's just as desperate attempt to get attention with his 996 proclamation.
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by kbcool 4y ago
I'm an older engineer too and I am very aware of how frustrating this can be for techs of all ages so I made our screening test less fizzbuzz, do my work for me and gotcha questions and more real world, challenging, engaging and most o
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by kbcool 4y ago
Works beautifully on an M1. I never have any of the issues that colleagues do on their heavily IT mutilated PCs.
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by kbcool 4y ago
Did they actually dump it in the end though or just announce it? Appbrain still lists React Native in the list of SDKs for the current version. https://www.appbrain.com/app/airbnb/com.airbnb.android Seems if it wa
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by kbcool 4y ago
That's why PPP is so great. When using it, it doesn't matter if the person makes 150 euros an hour if it costs them that much for a meal but the person in Italy only has to work half as long for a meal.
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by kbcool 5y ago
Anecdotally there is a lot more content for React Native than Flutter. I hang around the subs for both and the amount of lmgtfy answers vs idk is much higher for RN. Most common issues and app design patterns are solved and documented. Flut
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by kbcool 5y ago
This comparison is ridiculous. Flutter and Dart go hand in hand as the only thing people use Dart for is Flutter. If you want to compare them you need to add React Native + React + Javascript questions together and then you'll realise
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by kbcool 5y ago
Is anyone surprised? A lot of the large tech companies that have been saying it's ok to work from home have almost as much invested in real estate as they do in their own technology. Sustained WFH would reduce the value of this real es
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by kbcool 5y ago
I always figured it had something to do with lactose intolerance. Somewhere between 40 and 50% of the population are intolerant which is high compared to most of western Europe.
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by kbcool 5y ago
I accept that Google can't always pick these apps up when published but they need a transparent mechanism for reporting and taking them down. I have a successful app on the Play store that is becoming less and less successful over time
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by kbcool 5y ago
You may have been saying this tongue in cheek but it's an important thing to consider when choosing a platform. I got very burnt once (in terms of time wasted anyway) by a startup that couldn't decide what it wanted to do. They ha
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by kbcool 6y ago
LOL. Australia is the richest nation (that isn't just a tax dodge) on earth. Sure because the metric used is USD it varies. I'm going to give you a great grounding example. A typical gardener in this country can take home $80k USD
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by kbcool 6y ago
Google are scared. I don't think they will go as far as withdrawing search (note: it's just search not their 3 million other products) from Australia. But it does set a scary precedent for them. To repurpose their analogy in the s

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