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by cheema33 2y ago
I used to think like you. Until I used and understood the Relay GraphQL library. The learning curve is a bit steep. But if you are consuming a lot of GraphQL data in a web browser, this is totally worth the investment. GraphQL really shi
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by cheema33 2y ago
> What annoys me, is when companies expect _you_ to be loyal, when they would get rid of you in a heartbeat. Reality is that neither has to be loyal. Employees leave all the time for better pay/perks etc. You are judging employers
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by cheema33 2y ago
This doesn't work. I have tried it. The trick iodine tool uses works very differently.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Am I the only one who is always tired in the plane no matter what and cannot anything but close my eyes and wait till the flight is over? I suffer from adult ADHD. It is harder for me to focus when at work. But, on a plane or other b
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Who's at war with the US? We are not in a direct conflict with Russia. But Russia has invaded a neighbor in order to steal the land, people and property. And is currently bombing children hospitals in the process of achieving it
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by cheema33 2y ago
I use the free Microsoft Defender that comes with the OS. Why isn't this being recommended here? Is there something super wrong with it?
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by cheema33 2y ago
I didn't know anything about international reply coupon until I found out that this is what Charles Ponzi used to build his famous scheme on.
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by cheema33 2y ago
During the past 5 years I spent untold hours helping 3 junior devs level up in a very supporting and encouraging environment. In the end, it did not work. The devs were not self driven or motivated enough to make a difference. They would
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by cheema33 2y ago
And Sony's decline continues. This move reeks of desperation. I used to buy a lot of Sony products. Lately. Zilch. I know they still make some movies and PS5. But, man, they used to be so much bigger than that.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> I've also heard complaints from Devs who said GitHub Copilot has also been blocked I am soooo glad that I do not work for a very large corporation anymore. Man, the hurdles they create are a massive pain in the rear. I work for a
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by cheema33 2y ago
They are better than my ISP. My ISP is very aggressive about abusing the fact they offer DNS service to their customers. Several domains are inaccessible or get routed to some marketing garbage. Until something better comes along, I will
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by cheema33 2y ago
> When humans are well trained, human inference absolutely destroys LLMs. This isn't an apt comparison. You are comparing a human trained in a specific field to an LLM trained on everything. When an LLM is trained with a narrow fo
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by cheema33 2y ago
As someone who uses AI, as a tool, every single day, I call bullshit. If you understand limitations of current AI, it is an exceptionally useful tool. Just have realistic expectations and understand how to use the tool for what it has to o
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by cheema33 2y ago
As someone who uses AI, as a tool, every single day, I call bullshit. If you understand limitations of current AI, it is an exceptionally useful tool. Just have realistic expectations and understand how to use the tool for what it has to o
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by cheema33 2y ago
Yep. Same here. Man, I have not used mplayer in a very long time. But, it was the bee's knees. I used to work for a company that was developing some video based products. And this other company in Vegas sold our bosses a "revo
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by cheema33 2y ago
Lossy compression has its practical uses. Under ideal circumstances nobody is going to stop you from using FLAC.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Don't forget React. The most popular frontend stack at the moment. Been that way for some time. And GraphQL, Relay, Stylex...
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by cheema33 2y ago
> they are terrible OS citizens I used to feel this way. And then I discovered their Spectrum design and React libraries. I use them in production. And I am a huge fan. I don't think anything like this exists. Opensource or com
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Licensing? I think you've hit the nail on the head. I used to work for a very very large company. And they had a very strong preference for BSD licensed software, if we were building something using outside software. A few year
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by cheema33 2y ago
> You are being disingenuous and setting up a false dichotomy Or he is taking the argument to an extreme to highlight the absurdity of its trajectory.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Vanity plates are essentially free money for the govt. I am surprised every govt. body doesn't go for it. If you really don't like them, make them super expensive.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> I used to work at WhatsApp.. Do you know why there is a 4 device limit? I run into this limit quite a bit, because I have a lot more devices. And... Why is there is WhatsApp for most commonly used devices, but iPads?
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by cheema33 2y ago
The website https://openpanel.dev appears to be down. Maybe too many of us were hitting it.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Is there something that this project does that the opensource gitlab doesn't?
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by cheema33 2y ago
How long have we been hearing about 3-D printed homes? Years. Many years. None have ever gone beyond the demonstration phase into widespread adoption. This sort of thing reminds of all the wild claims about a new revolutionary battery st
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by cheema33 3y ago
Ban flying too. And road trips. Ice cream. Music Everything used to be better. And while I am here... Get off my lawn.
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by cheema33 3y ago
> I paid for it so I don't have to go through the PornoScanner™ Are you sure you are a Clear member? You seem to be missing some basic information about Clear membership. Clear members go through the same scanners as the commoners
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by cheema33 3y ago
> It’s very one sided in favor of GPT4 My experience has been the opposite. I subscribe to multiple services as well and copy/paste the same question to all. For my software dev related questions, Claude Opus is so far ahead that
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by cheema33 3y ago
At my company, I can buy pretty much anything I want. I do buy hardware often. But software dev tools? I am trying hard to think of one and coming up empty. Save for GitHub/Copilot, ChatGPT and Anthropic subscriptions. Those things
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by cheema33 3y ago
> Many people don't know that they can tell their manager they will be out for health/medical reasons and do not have to provide any additional information. We had an employee that used this technique. Too often. When the com

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