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John Bellick, Mexico City/Madrid Full stack developer
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jb1991··on Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
I would love to get rid of my smartphone altogether, actually. I’m just not quite sure how to do it. I need to use a map app often. And most of the announcements and services in my country from companies and schools are all handled through WhatsApp. So it makes it a bit difficult to cut that tether.
jb1991··on Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
Numerous studies have supported this thesis, that phone addiction is identical to a chemical addiction.
jb1991··on Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray
This one? Not called “Charlie” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210044/
jb1991··on The Vespa at 80
What I mean is, all these gasoline powered scooters are terrible.
jb1991··on The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam
As are many of the modern fatbike riders ;)
jb1991··on The Vespa at 80
I have to agree that the amount of pollution these things put out is really a dealbreaker in modern times, in my opinion. They really smell up a street when they go by, it’s so noticeable after having mainly electric cars and bicycles going by.
jb1991··on The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam
And to be more specific, he was biking home on his fatbike.
jb1991··on A Special Wireless-Free Nikon Camera Is Publicly Available for the First Time
I think you wrote this comment with the compiler’s pedantic warnings turned on.
jb1991··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
Unless I misunderstood your question, are you simply trying to use emacs bindings in all text areas of the browser like the URL bar, any text fields on webpages, being able to move to the beginning or the end of a line, backspace, etc., go to the next or previous line, all with emacs bindings? That has worked for decades on Mac and it works for me now in all browsers.
jb1991··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
Firefox emacs bindings still work on Mac since everywhere on macOS supports emacs bindings, nearly.
jb1991··on Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
He’s just a braggart. When you see something like this in somebody’s personal bio on social media, it’s basically a banner that means “take everything I say in the context of me promoting myself.”
jb1991··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
The source of your information requires more scrutiny.
jb1991··on The Last Technical Interview
My point was that this perspective is not lost on the author of that article, as he directly addresses it.
jb1991··on The Last Technical Interview
That is directly addressed in the article.
jb1991··on What Is a Dickover?
I was thinking it would be nice if you could at least drag the popup out of the way so you could delay reading it while you first focus on what’s underneath. But then I realized, that would technically be a dick move.
jb1991··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Now I am super curious, I really need to see an example of one of these videos!
jb1991··on Everyone Against Us (2023)
Here in Mexico I definitely know a few people who feel similarly.
jb1991··on The Art of Money Getting
I also think a big part of it is that it’s becoming more and more easy to cheat your way through life in many respects. Many people always chase the thing that makes the most money, and they’ll take every shortcut they can to get it. And the tools for cheating your way through life are evolving. Every aspect of the tool chain.
jb1991··on Everything in C is undefined behavior
Exactly, this is very old C++ on display in this article. It’s certainly not as safe as a language like Rust, but quite a lot of undefended behavior and things that will shoot yourself in the foot have been changed over the last 10 years.

Most C++ today will be immediately obvious and not accidentally mixed up with C.

jb1991··on Everything in C is undefined behavior
Some of the C++ code in this article has not been idiomatic in over a decade, and would be considered a code smell today. The language has evolved into quite a different language than when it was first created. As soon as I saw all of those raw pointers and direct pointer access, it was clear that at least part of this article should be taken with a grain of salt.

The other obvious issue with the overall perspective is that C and C++ are being thrown together directly as if somehow they’re nearly the same language, but they are really very far apart nowadays.

jb1991··on Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer
Is a trackpoint the same as a pointing stick?
jb1991··on Prolog Coding Horror
These two languages are completely different paradigms.
jb1991··on Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer
> pointing stick mouse. It adds high-precision pointing stick functionality to any setup

I’ve never heard these terms before. What is a pointing stick on a computer?

jb1991··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
Or just about any movie theater of any kind outside of North America.
jb1991··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
Outside North America just about every country I’ve ever lived in or visited had assigned movie ticket seats.
jb1991··on Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
It’s the only way I’ve ever seen movie tickets sold outside of North America anywhere.
jb1991··on Let's talk about LLMs
Funny, I have the complete opposite impression after using claude code for a while. I would never trust it to design anything. Never again. But it can code pretty well given a very tight and limited scope.
jb1991··on [dead]
It’s a sad side effect of the AI revolution that no one knows what is real and trustworthy anymore. I saw a “rare” photo someone shared on Reddit of Hitler and it received tons of comments until it was pointed out that it’s definitely not a real photo.
jb1991··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
I can assure you that they would not have gone through all this enormous effort to quickly install a statue without very careful consideration of the most effective place to do so.
jb1991··on I have officially retired from Emacs
The thing about emacs and muscle memory is that all of the standard emacs keyboard shortcuts are also the standard all throughout the Mac operating system, so when you’re writing in text boxes in a webpage, writing in a Google doc, anywhere you type, throughout macOS, it’s emacs shortcuts. That has a lot to do with building my muscle memory.
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