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by njovin 3y ago
I agree wholeheartedly that frontend work is very, very complex (and has only gotten more so in recent years), but I disagree it's the hardest part of the stack simply because you typically don't have to worry about scale. Imagine
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by njovin 3y ago
Which games has MS shown good stewardship of? Halo is a shell of what it once was and has snubbed the players with false promises in recent iterations (couch co-op used to be a staple of Halo but they reneged on their promise to include it
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by njovin 3y ago
This is true, but they are also re-elected at a rate of ~80% with no term limits on re-election (2022 saw a 100% re-election rate for Senators despite congress having a 75% disapproval rating at the time). Hooray for the 2-party system.
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by njovin 3y ago
> It’s interesting how some complain companies don’t listen to them, and others say that it doesn’t matter if changes are made after (rightful) complaints In this case I think those can (rightfully and reasonably) be the same people. If
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by njovin 3y ago
$93m is approximately 172 minutes worth of revenue for Google.
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by njovin 3y ago
From the article: > The mice in the study began to move peculiarly, and to exhibit behaviours reminiscent of dementia in humans I know this is only _in mice_ but the policy we have of "let industry do what they want and if we find o
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by njovin 3y ago
Even most of the mushrooms are wrapped in plastic at the stores I visit :(
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by njovin 3y ago
I'm still shocked that there hasn't been more of a regulatory push to eliminate single-use plastics. In the US the closest we've gotten is banning plastic straws and charging for plastic carry bags. Everything I've read
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by njovin 3y ago
For anyone who is discouraged by this (accurate) comment, don't discount the utility of a manual grinder. You can get a 1Zpresso which is a beautiful, durable piece of equipment for a fraction of the cost of an automatic grinder and i
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by njovin 3y ago
This is definitely as corrupt and not as nuanced as you might think. I recommend the book Cadillac Desert whenever this discussion comes up. The history of water management and delivery in the American west has been one of corporate greed,
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by njovin 3y ago
I really enjoy using alpine.js. It gives me dead-simple lightweight DOM manipulation with much less code than vanilla JS or jQuery and doesn't require any build systems.
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by njovin 3y ago
My experience with Robocalls (I get 25-30 per day) has been that the overwhelming majority are trying to run a scam against Medicair (the US government's health program for older people) by fetching some personal information from the v
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by njovin 3y ago
I do this and I have family. If somebody leaves a voicemail I check it right away. About 6 months ago I started getting 10-30 calls per day so I really have no other option. Most of them are Medicare scammers (I'm not even old enough
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by njovin 3y ago
Anecdote++ Myself and most of my social circle happily used UberEats heavily before and during the pandemic. It was great to pay a little extra for delivery. The pricing dark patterns and inflation have put a sharp end to that. We now onl
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by njovin 3y ago
This doesn't mean much if you consider we may have just gotten better about predicting and avoiding human loss during extreme weather events. A better indicator IMO is the amount of property damage from extreme weather events, which ha
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by njovin 3y ago
I don't understand the concern for having heavy tension on a wire for a large piece of art. Can't a cross-brace on the back of the frame be used to negate this issue?
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by njovin 3y ago
This is completely myopic. I'm already working on a project that's third wave post Web.
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by njovin 3y ago
As a coder with a side hustle, I tried using FB ads a few years back. I had a niche product targeting a very specific demographic (K-12 teachers in the US). My business' page got tons of new followers from people not in education and
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by njovin 3y ago
If somebody calls out the problem and then we all agree on an attempted solution why is there some major psychological damage to the general population as a result of that? Just because something might be scary we shouldn't talk about
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by njovin 3y ago
"Clear over Clever" is a pretty simple rule that helps avoid this type of thing.
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by njovin 3y ago
55% of the California's allotment of water from the Colorado river goes to farms that grow feed for livestock. That's a considerable amount of non-well water that's being practically given away to allow corporations to profi
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by njovin 3y ago
California has already done this, so feel free to report any businesses that aren't allowing US-based customers to cancel immediately. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x... .
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by njovin 3y ago
While we're at it, stop subsidizing water that's used for exports. If a corporation wants to grow crops in California and sell them overseas, they shouldn't be getting cheaper water than US residents.
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by njovin 3y ago
At this point I'm baffled that the entire world doesn't know that if somebody is asking you to buy them gift cards, you're being ripped off. Do we need to legislate having big "FRAUD WARNING" signs on every gift car
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by njovin 3y ago
It's funny that you mention recipes at the end because that's exactly what I like to use ChatGPT for. Every single recipe site has been so corrupted by SEO that you need to scroll past 12 paragraphs of nonsense to get to the actu
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by njovin 3y ago
The gov't doesn't have a great track record when it comes to treating the citizenry as unwilling participants in their Bond villain-esque nonsense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray https:&#x
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by njovin 3y ago
I think that says more about the work ethic of unethical rich people's children than it does about the efficacy of coaching.
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by njovin 3y ago
Environmental issues aside, allocating $80m in bonds so that a private company can increase profits seems insane. > The largest oil producer in the Uinta Basin, Finley Resources (which operates in Utah through its subsidiary Uinta Wax),
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by njovin 3y ago
This article has a good breakdown of where the Colorado's water goes. TL;DR: - 55% goes to livestock feed (hay, alfafa, etc.) - 11% cotton - 14% other food crops - 4% thermoelectric power - 4% commercial & industrial - 12% residen
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by njovin 3y ago
I'd argue that a vast majority of web applications are not "dealing with people's money" so there's not a need to code for such cases. The right tool for the right job, etc. etc.

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