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by toastercat 2y ago
To give some more balance, I've met coworkers who have strong CS fundamental skills and are Leetcode BEASTS, but are terrible engineers.
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by toastercat 2y ago
> But most people just prefer spending their time on infortainment and being presumptious on Twitter, than actually learning stuff. Yeah that or wasting their time working on open-source or side projects, which typically has a poor retur
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by toastercat 2y ago
I find the engineers I've met who most boldly espouse the "Don't comment what it does, write what it does" philosophy are the ones who write code that I often desperately wish had comments.
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by toastercat 2y ago
This is really cool to hear as someone who used to experiment with Haxe for game development. Would love to read a case study.
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by toastercat 2y ago
I'm kind of being doom'n'gloom, but unfortunately, this always seems to happen, and folks who previously disavowed Twitter/X when Elon took over still stuck around for 2 years. I don't believe the whole "I don&
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by toastercat 2y ago
The proprietary and for-profit always wins. Even if Mastodon had all of the feature upsides of BlueSky, it would lose the marketing war.
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by toastercat 2y ago
damn if I had this kinda money I'd do something crazy. like pay off my parent's mortgage.
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by toastercat 2y ago
What's the difference between this and the GAO? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Offi...
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by toastercat 2y ago
Fellow ligature-disliker reporting in! It messes with my typing intuition that when I hit a key, a new character is not printed on the screen (instead, the last character is altered).
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by toastercat 2y ago
The most sustainable way to "buy" music IMO, is to pirate it, and then buy merch from the artist as support. Or just buy off Bandcamp if its an option.
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by toastercat 2y ago
> this i agree with, except that effects are "residual". it's not improving for most people on the bottom 1/2. it's brutal out here. that was a mistype. I meant to say the residual effects of COVID on the economy
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by toastercat 2y ago
cute post, but get off twitter and talk to a real human being and most folk did not and do not really care about "woke" ism as you imply. its simply not really an issue as much as rightwing media blows it up to be. people are stil
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by toastercat 2y ago
It doesn't show it. :( But I googled around and found this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbjuctKts9M Unfortunately, there is no confirmation that it's actually cats on the grill, or that the cats
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by toastercat 2y ago
Man Pidgin used to be excellent for Steam and Facebook Messenger for me. I no longer use Facebook Messenger, but I really miss the Steam plugin (its been busted for years at this point)
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by toastercat 2y ago
Link? I'd like to watch for science... :)
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by toastercat 2y ago
This so much. Meanwhile hiding true stories like the Haitians eating dogs, Hillary's child sex ring, and FEMA stealing people's houses.
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by toastercat 2y ago
Was the 2020 election stolen?
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by toastercat 2y ago
Yeah this always surprises me when people compare the candidates. OK, Kamala was mediocre. But a ham sandwich is better than Trump's inane incoherent rambling. His positions are a vague protectionism.
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by toastercat 2y ago
Can't tell if you're criticizing the Democrats, or the Republicans.
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by toastercat 2y ago
OK fine, how does it compare to RetroArch?
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by toastercat 2y ago
I've been working on a Rails codebase for a few years now. The biggest downside coming from TypeScript codebases is that lack of static typing and the immature static typing ecosystem in Ruby. I know DHH publicly denounced strong typin
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by toastercat 2y ago
PocketBase's UI is built with Svelte: https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/tree/master/ui EDIT: Also, not OSS, but https://search.brave.com seems to be built with Svelte
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by toastercat 2y ago
Sometimes you don't want to develop a full-stack application.
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by toastercat 2y ago
I would probably just go with the Vite template: https://vite.new/svelte-ts
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by toastercat 2y ago
Agreed, other nice things to have: * A multi-touch screen * Dedicated app store * AI voice controlled personal assistant * Face ID to unlock the phone * 48MP front facing and back facing cameras capable of 4K video * Maybe have a fruit as a
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by toastercat 2y ago
Hey, it's like that scene in The Big Short where Mark Baum talks to the CDO Manager. "We're not in the Merrill Lynch building, we're in New Jersey" "You're 20 minutes away" "Well 5 if you use a h
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by toastercat 2y ago
I'm torn. I'm not a huge fan of malware and I don't have a lot of respect for the modern ad networks. However this culture of expecting websites to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is als
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by toastercat 2y ago
> Ublock doesn’t work for YouTube ads and never has. Either you are misinformed, or you are flatout lying. I literally just tried it on Firefox with uBlock and after 10 videos, received 0 ads. See here for more context: https:/&#x2
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by toastercat 2y ago
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by toastercat 2y ago
Hit the nail on the head. I've quit every other social media site with the exception of HackerNews. And while some would argue HN isn't social media, I would disagree; I'd argue most of what makes HN so popular is the comme

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