sjoedev

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by sjoedev 1mo ago
We’re building data centers in the U.S. at an unprecedented and increasing rate [1]. Is it so hard to imagine that something which was fine at one scale may begin to cause issues at some massively higher scale? If I drink one glass of wine
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by sjoedev 1mo ago
I likely align with you on most political and social issues since you seem to be in despair. However, this question is seriously misguided. This is by far the best time to have been a human in all of history. You say AI is making our creati
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by sjoedev 1mo ago
This is myopic “Silicon Valley” rhetoric and lacks understanding of art or why it’s appreciated. We have video cameras and movies, yet stage actors on Broadway are celebrated like movie stars. People still read books. We have cameras and ph
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by sjoedev 2mo ago
> Next.js and TanStack Start don't send any JavaScript to the client if you decide to server-render everything. AFAIK, this isn’t true. And you still get more JS per interactive element than with HTMX.
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by sjoedev 2mo ago
Sure. I personally think SPAs/React have better DX than HTMX. IMO, the most compelling reasons to use HTMX instead (for building dynamic/interactive web applications) are to reduce the amount of JavaScript sent to the client and m
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by sjoedev 2mo ago
Adopting something like HTMX is primarily a UX choice, and the language you use to serve it is almost irrelevant to UX. JavaScript is a nice backend language. It’s fast, has a massive ecosystem, and many people know it well.
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by sjoedev 6mo ago
There are no concrete numbers for Valorant that I know of, but the “Head of Esports Partnerships and Business Development for North America & Oceania Riot Games” Matthew Archambault was quoted saying the Valorant player base is 30-40% w
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by sjoedev 6mo ago
Do keep in mind: they also develop, maintain, support, and market Unreal Engine, which is possibly the most advanced and innovative game engine out there. It’s used by tons of other studios (including AAA) and is used in other industries li
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by sjoedev 6mo ago
I think online/digital gambling is worse because it follows you everywhere. I don’t like any form of gambling, but at least with casinos there’s some escape in not physically being there. It’s also harder to enforce age requirements on
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by sjoedev 8mo ago
Alex Pretti escalated the situation? Have you seen the video? Did you see how the ICE agent shoved that woman? That was not “law enforcement activity.” It was assault. Alex Pretti had every right to be there, and he tried to help a woman wh
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by sjoedev 8mo ago
I wouldn’t put them in the same category. Bootstrap has a much stronger opinion about how you write and structure CSS, while Tailwind is a framework for building a style system and writing arbitrary CSS that conforms to it. In practice, Tai
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by sjoedev 1y ago
> In the Swiftie-verse, an “Easter egg” refers to a hidden clue or detail that Taylor plants in her work … I don’t see this as meaningfully different than, for example: > In the computing world, “Java” refers to a programming language
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by sjoedev 1y ago
Code review has been an industry standard tool to ensure the correctness of software for decades.
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by sjoedev 1y ago
My experience using LLMs is similar to my experience working with a team of junior developers. And LLMs are valuable in a similar way. There are many problems where the solution would take me a few hours to derive from scratch myself, but l
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by sjoedev 1y ago
> The distributors may or may not buy from China and Mexico. They most certainly do. And they’re paying more. And, consequently, they’re raising prices. Which small, local business pay to operate. You’re not making a strong argument here
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by sjoedev 1y ago
I play video games at a decently high level (like top ~10% in a few competitive games). To support what you’re saying, I can tell the difference between 144hz and 240hz if I’m in control. For example, if I can shake the screen around. If I’
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by sjoedev 1y ago
WASM does not need to access the DOM to be extremely useful. JS is already very effective and ridiculously fast for updating the DOM. WASM is to offload computationally expensive workloads that JS is not so good for (perhaps some sort of co
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by sjoedev 1y ago
Since it’s hosted on GitHub, I snooped through the repo, and it appears to be created using VitePress [1]. [1] https://vitepress.dev/
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by sjoedev 1y ago
Look around the world at how many “landslide” election victories are won in places that do not truly have elections. Those with authoritarian intent are notorious for controlling the narrative. All around the world, we are seeing many examp
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by sjoedev 2y ago
Cloudflare is not profitable [1]. I’m wary of what might happen when they need to become profitable. Could this be another case of a company offering an excellent, cheap product while being propped up by investors, only to later have an “en
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by sjoedev 2y ago
Taco Bell will never be the healthiest thing you can eat, but in terms of fast food, it’s not half bad. In my anecdotal experience, their quality has gone up across the board compared to years ago, and they’ve also added many healthier cust
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by sjoedev 2y ago
Related: Nestle pays $200 per year to bottle water near Flint, MI (2017) [1]. As a Michigan native who has family, friends, and coworkers affected by the Flint water crisis, very frustrating. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/