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by ativzzz 2y ago
I have noticed it's a lot more concise than it was a few weeks ago. I used to glaze over way too much detail in response to my questions, now it's the opposite - too little context
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I bought a framework back in 2020 or so and really wish I just waited a little longer and spent a few hundred bucks more on the M1. It's fine, but the issue is linux sleep/hibernate - battery drain. To use the laptop after a few d
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> you lose much of the benefit to your fitness If you're biking for the purpose of fitness then this is a downside, but if your goal is to see more and go further, then it's an acceptable tradeoff. Similar to coding. If you&#x2
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by ativzzz 2y ago
It is remarkable. I have one child, and it is by far the hardest thing I've ever done - far harder than any job I've had. It doesn't help that both parents are working full time. Maybe parenting has changed recently and we ar
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Likely, I'd just want to do whatever the best man made stimulation trap was at the time
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I've been working with web apps for a long time and have always turned live reloading off whenever I can. My code editor always auto saves changes so i just alt tab to browser and refresh to see changes With live reload, often what hap
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I want to play video games. I spent my childhood playing games in every waking moment of my free time that I could get away with. I did the same thing in my young adulthood, and now my current life. As an adult, unfortunately (lol), family
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Not even close, the marginal federal tax rate is 12% for income between $11k and $44k [0]. This doesn't take into account state/property taxes, but it's nowhere near [0] https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-
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Good thing the high pay balances it out. Also the fact that literally every company needs them to some extent means you can find the specific tradeoffs that work for you
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A lot of creativity is generated by spending countless hours sharpening > the technical skills necessary to make movies, draw, or pluck strings AI will (hopefully) be an accelerator for the people still putting in the hours. At least it
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Ah I see. Yea our CI is getting slower with more tests but so far we've found increasing parallelization helps. And for one off tests, spring + rspec is good enough
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> a. test - this has been getting slower AI helps with this one - if you use a code editor that has an AI plugin, being able to write out some describe/it blocks and add the code you're testing to the LLM context as well as som
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by ativzzz 2y ago
The top post talks about technical culture - that's important However, overall company culture is important too. Does your company give a shit about your employees? Does you hire good people or does you settle for bodies filling seats?
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Because the quality of the product is not solely in engineering's hand. We build the products, and have a lot of impact on the microdecisions, but larger feature planning usually comes from product management, who ultimately should be
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I recently was messaging a host on airbnb and noticed some small papercuts like the Enter button not sending a message (adds a newline instead) and sending a message doesn't scroll to the bottom so I sent the message multiple times unk
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Do you work on software that gets sold to customers? Often, uptime guarantees are included in contracts. If your software breaks, somebody has to fix it. > Why would you waste eng time on something as trivial as support? Because eng is t
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I feel similarly. I've noticed nearly every form of self-help material I've read starts out with some trauma the author overcame. Anectodal evidence ofc. I feel like there needs to be something that "kick starts" you to
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I'm sure he means transparency in the market where employers are competing with each other, not the market where individual employees are choosing employers With a few exceptions, I've found that companies that talk about transpar
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by ativzzz 2y ago
The way animations are done in react native for instance, is that you use JS to define the animation and send it to the native code which actually executes it. JS should just do the same in the browser instead of relying on an arcane langua
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Funny how the "Open" in OpenAI disappeared pretty quickly. I bet the "Safe" in "Safe Superintelligence" will follow a similar path
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Maybe you joke but absolutely. Good security is about empathizing with the users and knowing the risk model of the organization and finding a balance of security + best possible UX.
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> there was no license provided for the code or the repo Interesting - I assume any code that's not licensed as "free to use for whatever purpose I want"
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Same - I have now become a morning person against my will. I also haven't set an alarm since the kid was born (almost 2 years)
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I mostly just take pics of my kid, dog, and family. They used to be quite bad, but the latest iPhone just takes good pics 95% of the time unless the lighting is really bad. The camera software is really good - it captures the face looking a
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Lol why are you surprised that a forum dedicated to professionals in a very high paying field with low barriers to entry has people with a ton of disposable income?
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> Do you have any tip for learning js at it's fundamentals? Build something you think is fun. Take a static index.html page without any build tooling (just open the file with a browser), link a JS & CSS file to it, and make a co
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> But, it's considered taboo to express a love of the USA I don't agree. Every sporting event still plays the national anthem and often has soldiers or military involvement or mentions I see US flags all the time, all over the
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Agree with this, skip the frameworks and start with the basics Can even skip the web server aspect and make a fun page with just a html page that links to a stylesheet and JS file (or inline them) - a browser can open an html file without n
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> three large things that don't particularly matter to normal people. According to google searches, chatGPT has something 100-200 million people using it monthly. IDK how accurate that is, but even if it's off by a magnitude, t
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My spouse is extremely outgoing and social. She is the "social engine" who organizes events and parties. It's exhausting at times, but there's no better way meet some people who are "mutually intelligibility in a br

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