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My humor may be crass, but the comparison stands.

You can't assume everyone received a severance, had enough severance or wasn't severely impacted by the layoff (just because they made a decent living prior).

There's a non-zero percent one or more laid off individuals killed themselves due to losing their job. Don't minimize that.

I don't think you get it. The wealth of the people has nothing to do with this. A cheap prostitute and a well paid engineer deserve the same respect. Why are you bringing wealth or social status into it?

That's not what you said though.

So... it's okay to treat them like crap.

Check out his videos on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/@smatla

Or, you know, open Vercel in a web browser.

Right... I'm sure that's what happens.

The thing is, no one says, "I use Windows, btw."

Or that one microservice holding up the other 10,000 microservices keeled over :)

I used to blog and share it. Sharing on HN is a waste as your account will get shadow banned for posting to the same domain in a row, so you have to spread it out between sharing random other links which feels scummy.

Sharing it on Reddit will likely get you banned/removed from a subreddit. Sharing it on dev.to will get you almost no views and maybe one comment from newbie developers. Never tried sharing on Twitter as I don't have one, but I imagine it's like sharing on anything else.

Sharing on LinkedIn works for engagement in groups if your topic is relevant to groups, but I found people will engage with my post (thumbs up, comment, etc) but very few people actually click the link and read your post.

Most traffic comes from Google, and I have no idea if those readers got what they came for.

I ultimately stopped writing and sharing. I removed all of my writing. I don't think it's worth the time or effort unless I find a better reason to write/share.

If you want people to find your content and read it, it's probably the wrong reason.

That's what we need-- some random third party inbetween you and your entire infrastructure. What could go wrong? :)

Unless your carpet implements car.

I'm not even sure what I just read. I thought it was going to explain why they don't use any analytics anymore and all I got as a 10,000 foot answer that could be summarized as, "Well, because!"

I don't use analytics on any of my services simply because I don't like analytics and people tracking me, so why would I do it to others?

Does it mean I don't track my business metrics? No. I still measure general conversion rates from sign up to payers. I measure things like sign ups per-month. You don't need analytics to track that. Basic metrics combined with a "CHANGELOG" file with dates/releases/fixes is plenty for my solo business. Want to know what I did in January to spike sign ups or more payers? Look at my change log.

Where's Java primarily used these days?

Ah yeah, that rings a bell now!

I finally did it... I kept an iPhone long enough to not be able to upgrade. Looks like iPhone 8 doesn't get iOS 17. I guess I won't be bothered with update nags anymore.

Wasn't the original backdoor in a code example the NSA provided to companies interested in using cryptography? They gave an example seed or whatever, and most companies copy/pasted it instead of generating their own primes, so the NSA could break it trivially.

My memory around this is fuzzy and I can't seem to find the original source.

Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but I prefer zip or (even better) tar.gz at this point... I never understood winrar. I always thought it was a Windows specific thing. I never even heard of people using winrar on Linux/MacOS, etc.

My goto has always been C and SDL2. I have always been able to create the games I want to make with it and it's nice to be able to transfer skills from one game to another (and often can bring code over from one to another).

I don't recommend building a generic engine or anything.. I start with putting a window on the screen, capturing player input and from then on I focus on the core game itself. The entire code base is the game, there's no engine unless you consider the game an engine.

Would I recommend this for building a AAA game and targeting 12 platforms? Probably not. If you're dabbling with game development then I think it's an incredible way to learn a lot while building up a skill set that is transferable between projects.. plus you won't get the rug pulled out from under you like Unity just did :)

It's a shame much of the skills developed in Unity don't really transfer elsewhere. I'm sure some of it can be transferred to another engine like Godot, but most of the gotchas and subtle things you pick up after years of experience won't transfer.

It's why I like to stick to more fundamental tech when building something... at least the skills you develop will be with you forever.

I just hit one year with a system76 laptop. The hardware isn't super, but I have had zero complaints in the last year.

I agree it's awful, but anyone using an iPhone that is locked down doesn't care about ownership. The games can go right in their iTunes library with the other media and entertainment they don't own.

I think it's a good thing it's in decline. Cereal for the most part is terrible for your health and wallet. There are far better alternatives for breakfast. Maybe people have started to realize that.

YOLO

Cool, but what kind of sexual activity? It's non-binary.

A great way to increase your boomerangs is to lay off more people and send out more job offers a few months later.

I like the idea of exposing the database and pushing more business into the database.. but it's terrifying.

Row level security and exposing postgres to the world sounds cool, but I can't see myself doing it.

It's like... encryption is awesome in theory and protects your data, but would you push your password-store to a public github repo? In theory you could...

edit:

A quick Google-fu and it looks like some people do push their password-store to Github... balls of steel.

https://github.com/jysperm/passwords

1. install pass otp

2. pass otp add whatever/otp/me

3. paste in "otpauth://totp/whatever?secret=whateveritis

4. pass git init; push to remote

Now you you have MFA on any device that has git and your gpg key.

Not going to lie.. the more I use Postgres the more I realize my entire application is Postgres. Soon you'll be doing entire CRUD endpoints and sending emails from Postgres...

Wait, PostgREST already does...

builds entire SaaS with Postgres