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by switchbak 20d ago
That's just people though, if you walk around with a scar on your head you'll see lots of knee-jerk immediate reactions. Some people are able to mediate those initial reactions and be kind, others just go with it and treat people
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by switchbak 20d ago
Wouldn't that be "???"% of autistics are undiagnosed? Because ... they're undiagnosed?
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by switchbak 21d ago
More than 2 levels and out come my downvotes. Or if it's just knee jerk with zero humour. But I probably violate my own rules ... which is to be expected.
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by switchbak 21d ago
At this point, I'm starting to wonder if their honesty is even load-bearing at all?
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by switchbak 21d ago
Top-level troll: that's not a "version" of Elastic Search, it's a fork of ES specifically created due to ES's licence change that made it more difficult for AWS to extract money from it at Elastic's expense. No
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by switchbak 22d ago
“Simple stuff like having backup Internet” that sounds expensive. Who has room to back up the entire Internet? Personally on the 0.2 days a year I have to worry about it, I just head to the coffee shop. Or you know … take a couple hours off
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by switchbak 22d ago
I’d love to buy a tiny swappable coprocessor that slots in next to my cpu and can take this stuff on. Swap it out every 8 months as you can benefit from something better. Hell, sign me up for a subscription!
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by switchbak 22d ago
My analogy is: almost everyone can to go Home Depot and grab all the plumbing supplies they need to do a lot of jobs. And people do - Home Depot does great business. But plumbers are still in very high demand, and charge really high prices
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by switchbak 22d ago
I think it was an example of a well executed idea taken war too far, like the touchscreens on a Tesla replacing essential physical buttons. Or the obsession with getting rid of buttons on the iPhone (which we’re now thankfully retreating f
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by switchbak 22d ago
I owned one for a very long time. I know people loved the clicky clack, but that thing was a UX abomination. The only thing it was good for was high speed jogging - not something that you typically do very often on a music player. "App
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by switchbak 22d ago
Maybe they have standards and preferences. "fine" and "overreacting" seem like your very subjective value judgements.
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by switchbak 22d ago
I have a nice M2 and a Linux box ... I do enjoy the looks of the Mac, but I never find myself reaching for it. A modern Linux box is just so much more useful, especially when you live in the backend dev / K8S world where Linux is the a
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by switchbak 23d ago
I suppose it depends what audience will be editing it. XUL used it because that was the fashion at the time, but it wouldn't be something I'd want to hand edit. Qt used its own QWT (now dated) which was a lot easier for a human to
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by switchbak 23d ago
They didn't succeed per-se, they rode a gigantic wave of free money and barely avoided catastrophe. I think much of what we see there is really heroic efforts: subsystems get swapped out with things that suck less, PHP gets a new optim
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by switchbak 23d ago
Man, the knee-jerk downvotes for this are awful. One can observe a problem while not advocating support for it. It is quite true that energy decision making has been tremendously politicized, and I don't think that's good for anyo
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by switchbak 23d ago
Your inclusion of FP is interesting in an unintended way: LLMs actually thrive in a highly constrained system like you describe. "It's hard to switch your mindset" - isn't nearly as true for an LLM, it can usually adopt
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by switchbak 23d ago
It's like a tool that has caused a fan out of both good and bad outcomes. Good: you can refactor your codebase at will, throw out legacy cruft by the megabyte, improve build/CI time, and simplify ruthlessly. Not to mention kick ou
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by switchbak 23d ago
Why would anyone choose XML for a modern GUI layout in 2026? That seems like a mis-step.
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by switchbak 23d ago
They will also know the fundamental underpinnings of the web, you know - the thing that those html devs are actually using. That’s like saying someone who fabricates cars doesn’t have the skills to drive them. Perhaps not, but they’re very
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by switchbak 25d ago
Who exactly is this ill mannered counterpart to Trudeau? Please tell me you’re not talking about Trump here? Trudeau was a colossal cluster f of a prime minister, but he’s nowhere in the same ballpark.
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by switchbak 25d ago
I think you’re ascribing malice where stupidity would suffice. Raw tribal stupidity. And of course there’s those that know exactly how wrong and awful this is, but support it out of self interest anyway (eg: Marco Rubio). That’s even worse.
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by switchbak 26d ago
Thanks, I also took it in the least charitable way - which also wasn't fair. Thanks for being cool.
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by switchbak 27d ago
The point is that some people didn't realize contracting was a step up, not a step down. But sure, take offence and presume I'm bragging. I imagine you're a lot of fun to be around.
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by switchbak 27d ago
I should know better than to make statements in dumb topics like this. It's like dipping a net into a pool and just filtering out weird takes like this one.
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by switchbak 28d ago
I was a contractor for 14 years, and I kept running into people like you that didn't realize I got paid a lot MORE to come in and fix the problems that the full timers couldn't. Reminds me of the folks I tell I work in "IT&qu
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by switchbak 28d ago
Wow, it's a good thing you work from home. We don't want you roaming around in polite society!
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by switchbak 28d ago
Being miserable is now a disability? Seriously? That reminds me of a sign I saw in a handicapped parking spot: "Being an asshole is not a disability".
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by switchbak 28d ago
Or something big. Which is often not wrong.
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by switchbak 28d ago
Exactly - these recommendations often come with no context or scale provisions. Yes Postgres can work in the small for a lot of things, it can even work at surprising scale if you use it according to its strengths. But if you use it for thi
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by switchbak 1mo ago
You know, you had a bunch of statements in a row, in what appeared to be someone trying to make a point. And then you said "USA! USA! USA!" ... what in the actual fuck are you trying to achieve with that? "Was USA behavior ve

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