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by stack_framer 10mo ago
I dropped out after my university added various "studies" courses to the required list. I took just one such course—gender studies—which was utterly abysmal. There was zero tolerance for debating ideas or considering opposing vie
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
Happy Thanksgiving! I've been here just five years, but it's my main source for discovering interesting things in this world. Thanks to everyone who makes positive contributions here.
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
I always loved how the Nostoromo looked futuristic, yet cramped and dirty. The narrow halls and small rooms reflect the minimalism you would expect from a greedy corporation that considers its crew expendable, while the clutter and disrepai
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
I also stopped using the YouTube app in favor of the Brave browser on my desktop and my Android phone (no extensions needed). I can't remember the last time I saw an ad on YouTube!
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
The medical industry has not helped itself either. It seems to have jumped at every opportunity to erode public trust. As just one example, my cardiologist recently scheduled a rigorous stress test for me. The day before the test, I got an
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
Same. We even have AI hackathons where your project must use AI in some way. I have a serious case of AI fatigue.
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
> I like slim and stupid servers, where each endpoint wraps a very dumb DB query. I thought I was alone in this, but I build all my personal projects this way! I wish I could use this approach at work, but too many colleagues crave &quot
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
I always loved that Bill Watterson gave Calvin an extensive vocabulary. He didn't dumb it down. Instead, he allowed young readers like me to learn new words as I read along.
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
Wow, this sums up exactly how I feel. The very last thing I want is to be "elevated to a manager of agents," as they so smugly say in the video.
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
That floating chess board was a subliminal message: Your project will teeter, and critical pieces will fall off. You will occasionally make an illegal move as the board annoyingly shifts beneath you.
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by stack_framer 10mo ago
Missing a promotion is extremely challenging. I started working toward a promotion to staff engineer at the beginning of 2023. By the end of the year, my manager said I was ready, but he had been asked to step back into an IC role, so he co
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by stack_framer 11mo ago
I worked for a small, local insurance company 10+ years ago that was not interested in the cloud in any way, shape, or form. They had their servers in two locations—the basement of our office building, and an offsite location ~300 miles awa
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by stack_framer 11mo ago
I wonder if the "React Ry–thought-leader-guy" crowd (I love this not-so-subtle reference to Ryan Florence) preferred div over button because of the built-in styles that browsers used to apply to button elements.
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by stack_framer 11mo ago
My question is: How did you get your entire team on board with this decision? My team disagrees on even the most trivial technicalities, so I can't imagine doing something on the scale you're doing (even though I wish we could lea
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by stack_framer 11mo ago
This happened to one of our documentation sites. My co-workers all saw it before I did, because Brave (my daily driver) wasn't showing it. I'm not sure if Brave is more relaxed in determining when a site is "dangerous" b
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by stack_framer 11mo ago
I couldn't disagree more. I laughed out loud at it! const sense = new Sense() sense.humor(true)
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by stack_framer 11mo ago
Just like fusion. It will revolutionize the world, but it's always just ... one more decade away.
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by stack_framer 1y ago
I worked at NS8 in 2020 for just four months before it collapsed and the CEO was arrested for defrauding investors of $123,000,000. Just a few months ago, I got a modest payout due to a lawsuit over NS8 laying off almost everyone with just
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by stack_framer 1y ago
Very cool. I may just cancel my Fubo subscription and switch to this (Fubo has the glitchiest, buggiest, slowest video player I've ever seen)!
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by stack_framer 1y ago
Nope. A previous flip has no bearing on the next flip.
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by stack_framer 1y ago
> Most sports bettors arent trying to make money. This is totally disingenuous. Why else are gambling providers forced to include addiction recovery phone numbers with their ads? > A ticket to the game is $100+, is that money wasted t
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by stack_framer 1y ago
> 97% of users lose money on sports betting. This is the worst thing about sports betting. A close second is being shown the odds for every little thing during the live broadcasts. Apple TV is the worst offender. Their coverage of Major
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by stack_framer 1y ago
My manager recently told our team that "AI usage" would be added to our engineering competencies, and we would all be expected to "use AI more." When I said my top preference for AI usage, by far, would be to eliminate h
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by stack_framer 1y ago
Brave is excellent on Android. I watch YouTube all the time with literally zero ads ever.
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by stack_framer 1y ago
Dear GitHub: No YAML, please. There, that's better.
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by stack_framer 1y ago
> conditionals are `if (...) { ... } else { ... }` As long as you're not invoking a hook in those if/else blocks!
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by stack_framer 1y ago
This is exactly how I feel. I gave hooks a real, exclusive try for two years after they were introduced (2018-2020). I didn't like them—at all—so I went back to only using React as a UI library. I'm lucky enough now to work at a p
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by stack_framer 1y ago
I did my own informal research study—I quit social media cold turkey. My findings: I feel much better. I don't need any other data.
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by stack_framer 1y ago
Here's a subtle problem: An animation that looks "delightful" on the screens you have, might look pretty bad on a screen you don't have. For example, the author's animation for scaling a button looks fine on my M1 M
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by stack_framer 1y ago
You're not stupid! It's a body of water south of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. It used to be called the Gulf of Mexico.

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