LaGrange

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by LaGrange 6mo ago
Thing is, it's not how incompetent they are, but the opportunism itself. The property I mentioned pulls in opportunists regardless of their competence. So eventually if you work in a field like this, you end up surrounded by them. Ther
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
For at least the last 3 decades programming was a field that rewarded utter mediocrity with (relatively to other fields) massive remuneration. It has been filled with opportunists for as long as I remember.
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
Bluntly? Because working with y'all is becoming insufferable. Because I don't want to work in IT. Note this isn't "I don't want to program" or whatever. That's cool and fun. But the people in here? Oh go
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
That sounds quite expensive to start, to be honest. But if you can? Sounds fun.
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
Changing flats so it's cheaper (it's hard but still possible here), then go for an entry-level "barista" job. It's gonna be very broke, but I'm not the first one in my friends circle to make the jump, so I have
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
> I mean, that works for you since you're retiring. But for people still working in the industry, you adapt or die. As it's always been. There are jobs outside of IT. They are harder, they have less benefits, they pay less. It&
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
> You can still do creative thinking while using AI as a powerful tool at your disposal. It remains the case that AI _erodes_ your ability to that. So, eventually, after a few years, no, you can't. Edit: meanwhile you're making
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
Because adults remain children. As in, their parent’s kids and therefore property. [edit: I should mention also property of the state beyond that] It’s less explicit in US I guess but in some places that’s very blunt - if you don’t support
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
It’s not unlimited. The limit might be very high these days, but it’s at most bandwidth times duration. And while that sounds trivial, it does mean they aren’t selling you an infinity of a resource.
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by LaGrange 6mo ago
I mean, looking at it in 2026 Word 2000 looks _amazing_. How far my standards have fallen. And yeah, I've met a lot of people who love Figma. I hate it so much, personally, getting around and finding what I need in it is so much pain.
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
lol that’s a line so incredibly naive it hurts. One does not “simply” reduce spending.
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
> It might work against people just use their Mini Mac with OpenClaw to summarize news every morning, Good enough for me. > More centralized web ftw. This ain't got anything to do with "centralized web," this kind of ep
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
It was. I was differentiating between eating them (evidence unclear) and breathing them (pretty clear).
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
FYI this article and thread is about Paris, France, not Paris, Texas.
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
We don’t really know if eating microplastics is particularly bad, but we do know breathing any pm2.5 and below dust is.
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
Yep, CO2 is a problem but pm2.5 pollution made many cities hell to live in - and much (not all, of course) of that comes from rubber tyres and asphalt roads.
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
That's just a weird way of saying that the reforms didn't go far enough.
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
"There was a rise in hospitalizations of pedestrians and cyclists" looks at the reason CARS.
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
> Have fun being poor Not going to lie, I’d rather be poor. Not destitute - I’ve been poor but not destitute and I’d rather not go desperate - but poor? As in (because “poor” is very imprecise and can imply anything between utter poverty
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by LaGrange 7mo ago
Doesn’t matter. There’s no world where a multiplayer action game is worth it, and anyway this is a classic example of trying to solve a social problem with technology. The reason cheating is a problem at all is that instead of playing with
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by LaGrange 8mo ago
> Well, admins (or anybody other than the developers / deployment pipeline) having permissions to alter the JS sounds like a significant vulnerability. It's a common feature of CMS'es and "tag management systems.&quot
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by LaGrange 8mo ago
> It’s counterintuitive but I learned this best by playing RTS games. If you don’t spend money your opponent can outdo you on the map by simply spending their money. OK, hear me out over here: We are not in an RTS. Edit: in real-world se
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by LaGrange 8mo ago
Those are fairly normal comments around here.
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by LaGrange 9mo ago
> At Citus Data, we saw many customers with solid-sized teams of Postgres experts whose primary job was constant tuning, operating, and essentially babysitting the system to keep it performing at scale. Oh no, not a company hiring a team
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by LaGrange 9mo ago
Ability to actually code something like that is likely inversely correlated with willingness to give Dr Sbaitso access to one’s shell.
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by LaGrange 9mo ago
> rejection of whiteness It's 2026, wtf are you talking about.
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by LaGrange 9mo ago
Bye, nobody will miss you. I’m trans, I’m autistic, and I caught on how bad he was day one, as his comics had a very specific slant to them that felt less like truly looking at workplace dynamics, and more acting misanthropic and aggrieved.
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by LaGrange 10mo ago
Any empire that falls back in the give me more money race will not be empire for long. Give me more money now.
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by LaGrange 10mo ago
Brendan Eich was garbage, though, and on top of that he made Brave which is basically a joke, so not exactly missing him.
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by LaGrange 11mo ago
Last time I was at school requirement analysis was a thing, but do go off.

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