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by toastercat 1y ago
No actual SWE believes AI can do 30-50% of their work. For me at least, it can maybe do 5-10% of my work; this usually involves scaffolding some test cases, generating some quick documentation, and just plainly replacing the Google Search -
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by toastercat 1y ago
Me too, and I also like to look at candidates' Github pages. But I also really think we are in the minority.
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by toastercat 1y ago
This is nice to hear and congrats, but I'd be willing to wager that your project didn't get you your offers; your interview performance got you your offers. Yes, your project gave you something interesting to talk about, and of co
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by toastercat 1y ago
> “It is difficult to find the motivation to keep applying,” said Mr. Taylor, adding that he was now building personal software projects to show prospective employers. I know it's common advice for students and newly grads to do thi
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by toastercat 1y ago
> GitHub in essence is still pretty much the same, there's products that have feature creep but I wouldn't say GitHub does that. I think we're using two different products. Off the top of my head, I can think of Github Pro
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by toastercat 1y ago
I've got this feeling that the endless feature creep of Github has begun to cause rot of core essential features. Up until only recently, the PR review tab performed so poorly it was practically useless for large PRs.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Can someone in this thread please give me a good steelman that humans don't have a significant affect on climate change? This seems to be a growing sentiment among friends who I regard as intelligent, but goes against what I've be
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by toastercat 1y ago
This is true. But it's a chicken-and-egg problem now. I would have never thought to use a ChatGPT proxy, but if my future job searches are going to be plagued by AI interviewers, maybe it only makes sense that I start fighting fire wit
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by toastercat 1y ago
Wondering if you've tried rxi/lite or the community fork, Lite-XL [1] and how you've found the font rendering to be there? FWIW, I've yet to find a better text editor than Sublime Text. [1] https://github.com&
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by toastercat 1y ago
I've traveled to Japan twice in the last 6 years; once pre-pandemic in 2019, and again in 2023, both times in the Fall. It is unbelievable how tourism has exploded there in such a short amount of time, and I thought it was bad in 2019.
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by toastercat 1y ago
this comparison doesn't really make sense since JS as a language keeps a lot of old baggage to maintain backwards compatibility.
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by toastercat 1y ago
I recently just got my RMA fulfilled for a Pixel 5 that developed a spicy pillow after 5 years, but I've already sworn off Pixel devices from here on out after this and a total lemon of a Pixel 6 I had bought my wife for her birthday.
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by toastercat 1y ago
I was this close to buying the newest generation Framework, but in the end, could not justify the price when I found a far better bang for my buck and respectable self-repairability with a refurbished Gen 5 T14. It's even surprisingl
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by toastercat 1y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. This article is definitely biased against modern front-end development for example and recommends HTMX as less "complex", but from what I've seen, using HTMX just trades one form of com
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by toastercat 1y ago
Switched both my work PC and personal PC over to Fedora KDE in the last year, and have loved every minute of it! Far better than GNOME, in my experience.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Wow was not expecting to see a Sundays reference in this thread, let alone HN. One of my all-time favorite bands!
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by toastercat 1y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say most people who are building dynamic web applications don't need server-side rendering.
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by toastercat 1y ago
100%. Used it last year for the first time in a long time and was surprised by how awful the experience was. Docs were vague and hard to navigate. My web application seemed slow by default. We also had a hell of a time trying to deploy it w
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by toastercat 1y ago
I've only tried Cursor superficially for 10 minutes. I admit I've kept my head in the sand during this AI boom for the most part. I'm curious from people in this thread: * Are you using Cursor as your main editor? * For more
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by toastercat 1y ago
Stop using adblock, they said, it's immoral, they said, just buy YouTube Premium, they said.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Any policy can be abused, including DEI. But as a whole, I think DEI has done enormous good.
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by toastercat 1y ago
Nice one! Although it doesn't seem to save newlines on refresh.
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by toastercat 2y ago
Remember when Chrissy Teigan called Trump a "pussy ass bitch" on Twitter, and he tried to get Twitter to remove it? [1] Ironic considering his/MAGA's insistence that the deep state were censoring conservative voices on s
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by toastercat 2y ago
At least in the US, it's interesting to see that the far-right has gained so much political power while accusing moderate/centrists of being far-left, and benefiting from the perception that the deep state is controlled by radical
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by toastercat 2y ago
I hear you, but the people I want to communicate with refuse to use platforms that don't so easily ban you.
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by toastercat 2y ago
I used to love Ripcord, but I wish the developer would take the FastSpring payment button off their site. I paid back in 2020 or so because it was fantastic back then, and I had hope development would continue. The Slack implementation is c
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by toastercat 2y ago
I think this is the biggest mistake of not hiring Juniors/Mid-Level. All Senior Engineers were at one point Junior/Mid-Level who had other more Senior Engineers to learn from. :) That said, every company is different -- maybe it w
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by toastercat 2y ago
Name clash with the not very well known Lua library, you should strongly consider changing the name https://github.com/rxi/lume
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by toastercat 2y ago
> sane built-ins such as a terminal After I initially switched from VSCode back to Sublime Text, I used Terminus [1], which I used to swear by. But then I made an effort to strip back the amount of plugins I used, and just bound a hotkey
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by toastercat 2y ago
Sublime Text is my primary editor. I had a brief 2 years where I used VSCode and got addicted to plugins, until I realized I was spending too much time configuring plugins and went back to Sublime Text with the release of ST4. It was mind-b

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