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Comment · 1 year ago
I was thinking about switching back to Windows but finally getting missing functionalities like Recall may change my mind...
Comment · 1 year ago

    (maximum_number_of_students <=> students.size).clamp(0..)
Holy... Is this better or worse than write-once perl regexes?
Comment · 1 year ago
All that's left is to make it road-proof!
Comment · 1 year ago
The wallet name was exodus, how fitting :D
Comment · 1 year ago
Another thing is that almost every complaint I see about React (except bundle size maybe, but who cares?) exists in the APP context.

If your use case is a simple website, React is just a nice templating lib and you won't need to use any of the things people generally dislike about it. That AND your experience when you inevitably have to add some interactivity is going to be 100x better than vanilla JS.

As for the build step, there are many turn key solutions nowadays that "just work". And isn't a small build step a plus, compared to being at the mercy of a typo breaking everything? To me that piece of mind if worth a lot, compared to whatever manual testing you'd have to do if you work with "text" files.

Comment · 2 years ago
It looks like rubyist brainrot
Comment · 2 years ago
There is a reason why many parts of the world will ticket you for not wearing your seatbelt. There is a reason you cannot (could not? crypto changed a lot) do advanced stock trading without a license. Why gambling is regulated, etc.

We don't want people to hurt themselves, because we have humanity and because they become a drain on society.

I find it hard to be that black and white with phenomenons like OF, that emerge from a mix of societal and technological advancement.

There are grey zones and not everyone is fortunate enough to be taught to be responsible. Not everyone can go through life without feeling desperate and resort to doing things they would not be proud of.

We should try to educate and protect people instead of pointing internet fingers at them.

Comment · 2 years ago
> I am lacking empathy for those who are apparently so hooked up to the here-and-now

A large amount of those people are very young, at an age where you don't really pick your options solely on their super long term consequences.

Most people are going to be "stupid" in their early adulthood, failing and adjusting is a big part of it. Unfortunately, some of those decisions will stick more than others and sex work is very sticky (zing).

Comment · 2 years ago
You can also discard changes that way, e.g.:

    git checkout -p -- .
Comment · 2 years ago
Strongly typed languages have a higher barrier of entry and require an engineering mindset. That's anecdotal but if I think of exceptionally competent people I've worked with on JS projects, all of them have spent time building and advocated for properly typed code bases.

The other camp "just hates it" because it "slows them down", as it seems they spend most of their time fighting the types but never get to the point where you get that huge return on investment.

Comment · 2 years ago
I have a small software company, under 10 employees. We make B2B applications and focus 100% of our efforts on understanding our customers' needs and the quality of our product. No marketing, no "incentives", nothing. Just honest work and creativity.

I've done consulting here and there and going full time could easily clear half a mil a year. I make a LOT less than that.

Our customers are happy. They are warm and praise us. They are forgiving when we make mistakes because the trust is high. They tell us about all the trickery they face from most other companies all the time.

It is a true win win. I do not sleep on a pile of cash but I sleep very well nonetheless.

Comment · 2 years ago
It is exactly that. We make stuff, problems arise, we make new stuff that does not suffer from said problems.

Because everything is a trade-off, new stuff creates new problems. Those are the problems complainers complain about, ignorant of their history.

The cycle then repeats.

Maybe I am not cynical enough but doing easy things from the past is completely trivial and doing unimaginable things from the past is not that hard anymore. Looks like the cycle has some forward momentum in the end!

Comment · 2 years ago
Does your curvy monitor support touch?
Comment · 2 years ago
> VR? Sex dolls?

Until now, VR child porn and child sized sex dolls were not on my mind when I thought of state sponsored healthcare.

I say this half jokingly, I am not really sure how I would want society to deal with that kind of mental illness. It's hard to have a nuanced perception of it, yet without nuance we are no better than the people we judge...

Comment · 2 years ago
It says there are 6 people with my last name in Spain, guess you can call it uncommon :p

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