ericmcer

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by ericmcer 2y ago
This is wasteful and can actually cause perf issues if used really heavily. I worked on a large applications where the design team decided everything should be frosted. All the text over images, buttons, icons, everything had heavy backgrou
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I am trying to stress pushing through these barriers with my kid right now. The second her brain encounters something beyond its current sphere she just shuts down. I have heard it is the ego protecting itself by rejecting something outrigh
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Sounds really cool. It reminds me of programming, that moment when new code starts to really sync up and code goes from being a bunch of text to more intuitive structures. When really in the zone it feels like each function has its own shap
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Thanks for also going the ridiculous route. Everyone else seemed to want to trick the LLM into revealing the answer but I immediately tried to take my pants off and murder Fitzpatrick. What is the point of having an infinitely flexible guid
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Why do people hate Elon so much? If the government is gonna be in bed with any capitalist I am ok with it being the guy who has repeatedly almost destroyed his personal fortune trying to build rocket ships, electric cars, WiFi satellites, a
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Exactly, you would have to compare it to other package managers to make it fair. Npm at this point is probably the most used and most worked on package manager in history. If it is still one of the worst ones that is actually kind of intere
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I was lucky enough to be a computer nerd who landed in Silicon valley/San Francisco in 2012 and it was a pretty special place culturally. It was pretentious and idealistic and confused, but the atmosphere where everyone seemed to be bu
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I have a couple family members who are doctors. Medical school and residency were nightmares, but after that they are golden. One of them works one week a month and makes 400k. Others have pretty cushy 9-5s and are taking home ludicrous sal
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I have tried a few AI coding tools and always found them impressive but I don't really need something to autocomplete obvious code cases. Is there an AI tool that can ingest a codebase and locate code based on abstract questions? Like:
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah... most dark chocolate has lead, the super expensive $5 bar might have the highest levels. Feels like they are targeting Lindt explicitly instead of going after the entire chocolate industry for being negligent about removing heavy met
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Anecdotal but I felt it was worst during the mass layoffs in late 2022/early 2023. It has been very slowly recovering since then. The late 2020 period was the absolute best time though. I got multiple offers almost instantly, and after
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I was talking to someone who is applying in another industry and they were bemoaning having to list a bunch of references on their resume, and having to call all their references to talk about the businesses that might contact them, what to
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Exactly! I will throw a day off a few weeks away so that I have something to look forward to. When it actually arrives sometimes I don't even care anymore, but it is a great morale booster in the moment. A few three day weekend can be
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah definitely agree. Tech at my kids school just means all the tests and homework are done on a computer instead of on paper, but it is still the same format as it has always been. Would be cool to see more open ended long running project
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This is awesome! I have made games for the browser a few times but always felt it wasn't a "serious" way to make a marketable game. Really cool to see someone else taking it seriously!
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by ericmcer 2y ago
How to attract the other side? Bernie Sanders said it best: "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them." Dems needed t
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This would actually make third parties a real threat and force Dems/Republicans to stop villainizing each other. Everyone voting out of hatred for the other side means a popular 3rd party candidate would be everyones 2nd choice.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Why don't they? Isolationist USA is not ideal, but USA spending way more defending Ukraine than the combined EU is also stupid. Russia is literally knocking on their doorsteps, they should be the first to push back.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Ah yes, the well known fact that Democrats love using the mail more than Republicans.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Great point, The fact that there are a ton of people who wanted Sanders and who flipped to Trump should have given Dem leadership a clue. People want real change, whether its a Liberal or a Republican they don't care, they are done wit
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah you wouldn't know any of that if you hadn't viewed it through a screen. The capitol insurrection had 0 effect on you other than making you angry when you saw it on TV.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
RFK says some wild stuff, but he does have a track record of being pretty vicious with large corporations that threaten public health. I am scared of him cutting a bunch of vaccines, but I am excited that he will go after food manufacturers
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I think this is kind of it for me, I didn't want Kamala to win at all, but I also didn't want Trump to be president. It feels like we have been on this march for the last 40+ years of eroding working class leverage and handing pow
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by ericmcer 2y ago
You specifically chose a range of dates to make this as dramatic as possible. Could easily say GOP has 24 to 20 since 1980, or 16 to 12 since 2000, or 8 to 4 since 2016.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
You should check out Reddit, people are talking about leaving the country, stockpiling weapons to protect their lgbtq+ family members, I even saw one women saying she was scheduling a hysterectomy so she doesn't die due to lack of repr
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I mean that makes sense? If you buy into the narrative that illegal-immigration is bad, then anyone could feel it personally. Weigh that against abortion which affects a few people in some smaller states where it is still illegal. Granted i
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Would be nice if I could just flip a switch and stop using all language that I want to cut out. I am currently working on getting rid of "I think" and ending statements with a "haha" (I hate this one). Sometimes I write
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Could this be a case where companies have a "people-ops" person who needs to justify their position even though the company hasn't hired anyone in months? So they create some new OKRs like: "Get 20 qualified candidates v
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I am excited for a future where I search for some info and don't end up sifting through ads and getting distracted by some tangential clickbait article. Fundamentally it feels like that cant happen though because there is no money in i
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeah this was always step 1 to negotiations as I learned it. The goal was always to try and schedule interviews so you could land multiple offers at one time. If you have 2-3 offers and an existing job your position is insanely strong. If y

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