aerovistae

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by aerovistae 5y ago
> the boring office work of rockets, tunnels, robots, AI, and of course bullet-proof trucks. .. > not sarcasm hmm
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Agree with everything you wrote except "maybe more people will start using Mastodon". I didn't even know this existed until you said it, which doesn't bode well for mass adoption given that I'm someone who's on
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by aerovistae 5y ago
While this is ultimately somewhat true, it's a bit of a doomer perspective - knowing "some programming" is the gateway to learning other things. When you see a list like "processors, memory, motors, sensors, etc" th
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Mob mentality outrage is one of the few things that produces effective change. Would you encourage the same policy of not naming the the accused parties with the #meToo movement? Because it's not productive or worthwhile to focus on a
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by aerovistae 5y ago
It's not my field, but feels like an appropriate answer. After the recent death of the myrmecologist EO Wilson, I decided to order a couple of his books and have spent the last few nights reading "Journey to the ants". It has
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Sure. I agree. But a thread-full of that disgust doesn't have any value as a conversation. We already all know how we all feel about this sort of treatment of other people, it's a given.
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Fair enough. I do already know that rule, honestly, I'm a long-time user and I've seen others fall into the trap of that thinking many times. It just happened to occur to me with this thread.
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Not off-topic. Strictly on-topic.
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Honestly I don't think this is the reason. I'm a web developer and more than once have chosen the web for a target simply because it....made more sense from every angle. There was just no incentive to build a desktop app that woul
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Does anyone notice a weird effect with this article's font where random letters of parts of letters appear bold, and it seems to shift as you move your eyes around? I'm viewing it on a 2020 M1 Macbook Air screen.
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by aerovistae 5y ago
I'm sure it's technically possible, but things were starting to feel hackier and hackier and already the latency was a no-go, so the value proposition was becoming less convincing. I'm still using it for user auth though, tha
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by aerovistae 5y ago
It was because I needed to run validation over the inputs sent to the server, and then update other data which the user themself did not have authorization to access.
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by aerovistae 5y ago
For me the most painful part was latency, and especially cloud function latency. I wanted to create an entire API through cloud functions and rapidly discovered that they have major issues with "cold startup". A lot of people have
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Before I even look into it, I'll tell you this: the headline was enough to grab my attention on its own. I strongly feel this is a badly underserved niche and I've had major issues with Firebase's limitations. You definitely
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by aerovistae 5y ago
I find this valuable. -Sometimes for conversations about alternatives -Sometimes for conversations about the product's stability history -Sometimes just for solidarity in frustration
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by aerovistae 5y ago
...what is the golden rule of rebasing edit: googled, "Never rebase while on a public branch" i.e. a shared branch
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Why don't they belong..? Their salaries are known to be among the highest of all.
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by aerovistae 5y ago
I sort of lost faith in percentage guesses the night of the 2016 US elections when I watched the NYTimes prediction flip from >95% Clinton wins to >99% Trump wins in a matter of seconds. It really opened my eyes to how illusory the ut
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by aerovistae 5y ago
When reading these posts, I want to believe that the Russian army will fail as much as anyone. But I am reminded of Knoll's Law, and moreover reminded that up until the moment Russia invaded, there were armchair "experts on Russia
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by aerovistae 5y ago
I literally have no idea what this comment means. I re-read it several times unsuccessfully. I am familiar with Scott Alexander but that did not help my comprehension.
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Reminds me of my favorite internet essay of all time, no longer available except on wayback machine[1] > ...the US criminal justice system is overwhelmingly preoccupied with procedure and process, often at the expense of justice. This m
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Has anyone else noticed a serious escalation in references to this phenomenon the past couple weeks? I've seen highly upvoted posts on it both here and on reddit all of a sudden and am just curious where the momentum is coming from so
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by aerovistae 5y ago
It didn't come across as combative at all, no worries. I find it pretty convincing to be honest. If anything I think the biggest hold-up is that I can get jobs as a senior front-end engineer but if I looked for Ruby jobs I'd kind
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by aerovistae 5y ago
I'm a a typescript/java engineer. I would say my lifetime code stats are probably around 40% JS / 35% Typescript / 15% Java / 8% Python / 2% other. That is to say, I've barely ever written any Ruby outside
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Side note but I am so excited for his new books later this year. It's been so long since he wrote a new book, and statistically these are almost certain to be his final novels given his age (88). I found the prose of Blood Meridian a
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by aerovistae 5y ago
"worried about the 5G thing"?
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by aerovistae 5y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66113393/why-is-async-re...
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by aerovistae 5y ago
I hate it, not because it requires an account, but because Microsoft is nightmarishly bad at account management and has been since I was a little kid in the 90s. They somehow make it possible to have multiple different unsynced accounts acr
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by aerovistae 5y ago
I'm from the US and I skimmed past this post 6x before finally stopping and thinking about it because I had no idea what CO was. Although it's obvious in context if you're American, without context nobody would recognize stat
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by aerovistae 5y ago
Massively useful! I also recently learned you can right click a line of code in the chrome debugger to add a logpoint - i.e. "log the value of this expression when you reach this point in the code" - so I don't have to manual

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