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by jcpst 3y ago
Modern cars. Older cars don’t spy in you or need subscriptions to bypass arbitrary hardware restrictions. But newer cars are ‘safer’, so it’s kind of a crappy tradeoff
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by jcpst 3y ago
The difference with cars is it’s a lot easier to build yourself a vehicle. Used cars and parts and kits and how-tos are everywhere. It’s so much simpler than a web browser.
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by jcpst 3y ago
Same. I even use gmail in the browser on Firefox/iOS, and all it does is give me a splash page saying the app is better, then I click through.
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by jcpst 3y ago
At least with ledger cli, the format for a transaction is simple enough that a just make a script that reads the CSV that I can export from my bank’s website. But to your point, it’s still a lot of customization and manual work, I never kee
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by jcpst 3y ago
Yes- it’s pretty messed up seeing those wealthy carnivore animals systematically breed, cage and murder billions of the other animals just so it can be conveniently purchased on-demand at their animal grocery store. Factory farming is prett
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by jcpst 3y ago
If I go to a gas station and there’s video at the pump, I do not go to that gas station again.
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by jcpst 3y ago
For me, writing on paper provides insights that I just don’t get from a computer. Writing outside the lines, doodles and swirls on the edges as I ruminate. Adding geometric borders around certain areas, arrows pointing at important things.
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by jcpst 3y ago
There is also scientific evidence that hand-writing down your goals on paper is a positive factor in achieving those goals (this was on a recent episode of huberman lab)
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by jcpst 3y ago
I always thought being intelligent and lazy was superior. Why waste my time doing something if I don’t have to? You can ‘clever’ your way out of a lot of hard work and get the same results.
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by jcpst 3y ago
Just upvoting this isn't enough. I work in a large .NET shop. I only wish there was just the option of building admin or LOB apps with any of the three you listed above. Sure, there's some consistency in the tech stack, but I do n
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by jcpst 3y ago
Good point. They’re all just tools and patterns. The actual tools used _could_ save some time, but experience plus the capacity to reason about software is a bigger deal. The article just made me think of some devs that I’ve worked with tha
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by jcpst 3y ago
This perspective is really interesting to me. I’d be interested in knowing what people find problematic with it. I used to unit test all the components individually. But these days I test with most of the componentry wired up, only mocking
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by jcpst 3y ago
It would be interesting to know how long the author has been developing software. For me, this is the kind of stuff I questioned in my first few years. After I productionalized a few real world systems for a business, the whole “dev street
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by jcpst 3y ago
Huh- I use datagrip because I prefer the UI over say, dbeaver
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by jcpst 3y ago
Maybe someone correct me if I’m wrong, but VS for mac just looked like a fork of the Xamarin IDE I used to use on Linux w Mono. I tried it and was not impressed.
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by jcpst 3y ago
I use Rider over any other editor for F#, every time. The underlying resharper/jetbrains smarts are just way better than anything else IMO
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by jcpst 3y ago
High school. We were able to keep our oldest from having a smartphone until then. She’s in college now. The external pressures are nuts. It got to where she was just staring at the screens of her friends phones. My next oldest starts middle
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by jcpst 3y ago
This is worth it. I purged my collection years ago. All I kept were my top 3 or so favorite artists, which were too obscure to replace, and bands I did shared gigs with or played in, and a few of my favorite studio albums I recorded. I star
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by jcpst 3y ago
Fantastic, this is great work. Takes me back to my undergrad days studying Ben Johnston’s JI systems for my own compositions.
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by jcpst 3y ago
It took me a minute. My brain saw the period and then truncated the third zero to make sense of it. This is pretty common in humans. But because I thought that one hundred dollars was odd, I read the article, which I then realized it was on
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by jcpst 3y ago
Microsoft has a good tutorial that showcases what you can do when designing with switch expressions in mind: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals... Probably one of my favorite recent-
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by jcpst 3y ago
Yeah, that’s how I viewed it too. I figured it was just an assumption on their part, rather than an accurate statistical statement.
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by jcpst 3y ago
> A baker with a website and an online presence is finding more customers than a baker who only exists in the real world. I can say for sure that this is simply not true. There are bakeries without websites that make a killing, while at
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by jcpst 3y ago
I would love to just flip a switch in the browser dev tools and see html validation errors.
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by jcpst 3y ago
Ok. Am I supposed to feel bad now? It’s fine if you’re neighbor makes more than me. I bet I have other neighbors that make more than me too. I bet your neighbor didn’t just decide to own a landscaping business and went straight to his 3 hou
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by jcpst 3y ago
Great podcast from Huberman Lab covering a lot of science around caffeine use. https://hubermanlab.com/using-caffeine-to-optimize-mental-an... A few takeaways: * stopping caffeine ingestion 8-12 hours before you plan to sle
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by jcpst 3y ago
Funny story: at my first programming job, there was a coworker that had never had coffee before. Then he tried some and started drinking it everyday. Then he realized “he couldn’t stop” after it was time to start paying the coffee club dues
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by jcpst 3y ago
That doesn’t work for everyone though. I work for an employer because I don’t want to spend time running a business. It’s just not worth it for a lot of us. I don’t even ever want to be a manager. I’d rather just put in my 40 hours as an in
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by jcpst 3y ago
This is a thoughtful approach, I like it. I take this one step further- I like to start some web prototypes with a single HTML file (Single File App). All you need is an editor and a browser. Jsdoc and copilot make this pretty rapid now too
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by jcpst 3y ago
Doesn’t walmart use clojure?

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