BigJono

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by BigJono 2y ago
They're the best of the bunch when it comes to PC parts, but think how far off they are in terms of usability compared to USB, or Ethernet, or HDMI, or Displayport, or those old VGA cables you had to screw in, or literally anything els
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by BigJono 2y ago
This shit is so fucking dumb. Sorry for the unhinged rant, but it's ridiculous how bad every single connector involved with building a PC is in 2025. I'm just a software guy, so maybe some hardware engineer can chime in (and I&#x2
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by BigJono 2y ago
AWS KMS is great product branding. I've never seen another company so accurately capture how it feels to use their product with just the name before.
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by BigJono 2y ago
> They're probably right ... Fuck them. TypeScript is a cult and they're gaslighting you. Seriously.
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by BigJono 2y ago
This view has always been bullshit. It doesn't differentiate between the complexity of the types themselves and the complexity of representing them in a static type system.
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by BigJono 2y ago
Yeah, this is absolutely light years off being useful in production. People just see fancy demos and start crapping on about the future, but just look at stable diffusion. It's been around for how long, and what serious professional ga
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by BigJono 2y ago
Why does it not feel right if it's long lost it's negative connotation? It's completely arbitrary at this point.
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by BigJono 2y ago
TS, GitHub, VSCode and ChatGPT are going to make the EEE days look bush league. There's an entire new generation of programmers that have a visceral hatred for doing any unassisted programming or writing a single line of code they coul
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by BigJono 2y ago
Soon there's going to be a fuckload of money in pretending to clean up AI generated code while secretly deleting it and starting again.
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by BigJono 2y ago
It holds up well in gameplay because the gravity gun is still fun. But I think most of the hype was multiplied by HL2 being such a massive step up in graphics. Nobody in my friend group played Doom 3, so for us it was going straight from HL
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by BigJono 2y ago
It would have worked out fine if we managed to lose the prototypes without ramming classes into the language and baiting all the Java dickheads over to the web ecosystem. Javascript breathed it's last breath the moment someone saw Nest
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by BigJono 2y ago
Yep and TS has all of that plus a gigantic layer of bullshit on top. The web development community has created the perfect environment for nobody to ever get any work done while still feeling like they're being productive because they&
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by BigJono 2y ago
> * Robotic manipulation in unstructured situations is just, maybe, starting to work. Maybe. We're getting close to Amazon warehouses, at least, going fully automatic. We might get more general purpose automated factories. This has
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by BigJono 2y ago
My theory is burnout comes from a lack of autonomy. If your "do the minimum" is having complete control over a module and implementing features as slow as you can without pissing anyone off too much, you're going to have a gr
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by BigJono 2y ago
Yep this triggers the fuck out of me too. It drives me absolutely insane when I'm taking the time and effort to write good test cases that use inline per test data that I've taken the time to format so it's nice and readable
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by BigJono 2y ago
I installed Pop OS with about 10 minutes research as soon as this Recall bullshit was announced, and everything I've tried so far works fine. Having more options isn't a bad thing unless you let yourself suffer choice paralysis. Y
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by BigJono 2y ago
Deviating from conventions to avoid footguns is so misguided. I've been writing C family languages for like 15 years and never once accidentally done a if (foo); whatever; The convention itself IS the thing that stops you from fucking
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by BigJono 2y ago
Or get the anti-terror squad put on them for asking a politician a question in the street.
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by BigJono 2y ago
That's why I used two hypotheticals at each extreme that can be extrapolated to any point in-between...
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by BigJono 2y ago
What do you mean by "gets access"? If the R&D cost (including amortised failures and whatever) for some hypothetical drug is $1B and the manufacturing cost is $100M for 100M doses. The drug should cost about $11 + a reasonable
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by BigJono 2y ago
The very next dot point is agreeing with you: "The ideal quantity to use these tools is tiny, much more miniscule than any of us is trained to think". And I agree tbh. The TS community has turned me off static typing for life. It&
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by BigJono 2y ago
This is exactly it. You could show me the best, simplest, most elegant tool ever and my first reaction is going to be to throw up in my mouth as soon as you say "hey, check out...", because the last 50 things shown to me have all
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by BigJono 2y ago
Lmao flogging off wrappers over things other people have built is "hacker spirit" or whatever now is it? This place has gone completely to shit.
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by BigJono 2y ago
What am I missing? You gave two examples: The first is replacing useMemo with some inline code that does the same thing, so, as far as I can tell that literally saves just one function call to useMemo but none of the actual work it does? Ho
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by BigJono 2y ago
What would I ever do without my software engineering team collaboration tool that can't send a fucking code snippet without burning half the screen on whitespace and a 400px font size title lol
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by BigJono 2y ago
Why does something need to be a "fundamental right" to be worth protecting? Huge swathes of the population have been using operating systems on personal computers mostly the same for thirty years. How does it benefit society for o
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by BigJono 2y ago
Thank you, the amount of people that defend this sort of stuff is insane. Quacks like a dark pattern to me. I just got done setting up my 3rd work Macbook in about 8 years and every single time the credit card thing gets me. Back and forth
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by BigJono 2y ago
> 500 test cases were successfully converted, executed, and passed. Wonder what "successfully converted" means? A converted test executing and passing doesn't tell you whether it's still testing the same thing as befo
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by BigJono 2y ago
Australia is always going to be worse as long as we have this weird government/cultural pumping of housing as an investment. Every single bogan here talks like the absolute epitome of life accomplishment is to have a property portfolio
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by BigJono 3y ago
You don't need an affiliation with a company to mindlessly parrot it's marketing material.

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