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901.
by afavour 10mo ago
It’s difficult to compete economically. If the US has welcoming immigration policies for scientists and will pay 10x what your country can afford then you’re going to end up with a brain drain. Recent changes in the US have changed that cal
902.
by afavour 10mo ago
The US government is a democracy and can be replaced should it exceed people’s limits. The CCP… uh, not so much. I’m not trying to say the US government is faultless but it amazes me how often I see this kind of anti-democratic institition
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by afavour 10mo ago
But you’re disproving your own point. Other people’s experiences aren’t knowable so you can’t say it’s just a willpower issue.
904.
by afavour 10mo ago
How can you say that with any certainty, though? How do you know that hunger hits you in the exact same way it does another person? That overcoming it requires the exact same amount of willpower in all people?
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by afavour 10mo ago
I also code on the subway from time to time and this does occur to me. But there are locations in an NYC subway car you can sit that would make it very difficult for someone to grab your laptop and exit the train before the doors close. It&
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by afavour 10mo ago
Masonry was never “in”, no? Mozilla proposed it and were the only ones to implement it, behind a feature flag. Then WebKit proposed an alternative that was discussed at length: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/i
907.
by afavour 10mo ago
> Is this increasing complexity in the Web layout world worth it? Yes. I held off learning about CSS Grid for a very long time and as soon as I did I was converted. Sometimes I think the web doesn’t get enough credit for its ambition: mo
908.
by afavour 10mo ago
I don’t know. In a way I don’t think it matters if China are currently actively engaged in altering the opinions of Americans, what matters is whether they can . And an unknowable algorithm absolutely gives them the power to. IMO the bigge
909.
by afavour 10mo ago
Actually I think there’s an important distinction there: the draw of TikTok isn’t people sending videos to you, it’s the algorithm that automatically suggests them to you. I’ve heard it describes as uncanny at matching your interests and
910.
by afavour 10mo ago
I do think the current administration is still a step down from the (not particularly great) last, though. Congress has essentially given up their authority on everything so any movement must come from the top… and the top has an extremely
911.
by afavour 10mo ago
It’s still a privacy violation a lot of people would be outraged by if they knew it. Tracking what shows you are watching is a valuable data set.
912.
by afavour 10mo ago
That’s just Vite’s dev mode. I think React is way overused but your example here is a bad one. You just weren’t aware what the dev tool was doing, it has nothing to do with the experience end users will have. It isn’t even anything to do wi
913.
by afavour 10mo ago
Most users are entirely ignorant of privacy and security and will make choices without considering it. I don’t say that to excuse it but it’s absolutely the reality.
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by afavour 10mo ago
It doesn’t have to be synced to the cloud though. Even if you want it on multiple devices, if the tech industry decided to try just a little bit you’d have a cross device, local store sync solution. But there’s money to be made from track
915.
by afavour 10mo ago
I use Kagi as well. Search is still shit because so many of the underlying pages are ad riddled shit. We might not be using Google but so much of the web still targets it.
916.
by afavour 10mo ago
I’m an AI skeptic. I think a lot of these pronouncements about how AI is going to revolutionize the workplace and/or society itself are made by snake oil salesmen who are looking out for their own profits. And yet. I think skepticism c
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by afavour 10mo ago
Feels like a dishonest approach, to be honest.
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by afavour 10mo ago
Is there a name for the fallacy where you assume the path not taken is much better? Because I agree, this is that. Mozilla’s challenges are foundational, Eich as CEO wouldn’t have made a dramatic difference in outcomes.
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by afavour 10mo ago
Mozilla (in its previous form) has long been doomed. Mobile cemented it, I think. Browsers are part of the operating system and getting users to switch from the default is an incredible uphill climb. Especially when browsers are essentially
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Tesla's 29 Robotaxis have crashed 8 times since June, worse than human drivers(sherwood.news)
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921.
by afavour 10mo ago
Check an address and interview anyone resident there in a way that gets useful answers to the questions at hand. In this instance it was a bust because no one useful was there. But if the mastermind behind the whole operation was there yo
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by afavour 11mo ago
That would presume they are able to see into the hearts of hiring managers everywhere
923.
by afavour 11mo ago
Come on, we can aim for a higher level of discourse than that.
924.
by afavour 11mo ago
Embracing MAGA on your resume can pay dividends when they’re in power. Perhaps less so once the tide (inevitably) turns. There’s a reason a lot of gov tech folks deliberately paint themselves as non partisan.
925.
by afavour 11mo ago
> Employers would have to be pretty spiteful to look at it the way you purposed I disagree. If a persons resume contains description of blatantly harmful work how else can I interpret it but negatively? At best you’d have to chalk it up
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by afavour 11mo ago
> Tech Force will primarily recruit early-career technologists > Tech Force will include centralized organization and programming and serve as a recruiting platform post-employment. Be prepared to struggle at the end of your two year
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by afavour 11mo ago
> So they gutted and destroyed USDS > No, USDS became DOGE To me these statements are not contradictory
928.
by afavour 11mo ago
Yeah, given the primary benefit of government jobs like this is usually the stability, pension etc when you’re offering absolutely none of that you really need to look down the back of the couch for some benefits.
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by afavour 11mo ago
ReturnType is TypeScript, no? You’re using JSDoc to express but it’s a TypeScript type.
930.
by afavour 11mo ago
Eh. I agree with the principle. I’ve written personal projects with JSDoc because I truly love the idea of finally being done with build systems and just serving the files I write without a step in between. But it’s more annoying than just

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