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shipscode··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
If someone is pointing a gun at you, they are putting your life at risk. The inventory is tangential at that point.
shipscode··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Most humans with a gun pointed at them would take the option. Meeting deadly force with deadly force is far from a murder fantasy, in fact, self defense is an exemption to murder statutes, and for good reason.
shipscode··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Having a gun pointed at you is a threat to your life, not “the money of your boss”. Minimum wage or not, their life has value, and they should be to defend it by meeting deadly force with deadly force.
shipscode··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Why not just change the policy to allow staff to carry guns instead?
shipscode··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Dying at the hands of an armed criminal is a much better requirement in a job description I guess.
shipscode··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Why not just train staff and carry guns?
shipscode··on FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
Ok cool but this is the real world and companies need money to stay in business. This open source free internet principle works great, until nobody wants to do the work for free, which is accelerating due to global recession.

Mark my words, by the end of this economic downturn you’ll just be happy that you’re not getting charged for a web browser… if you’re lucky.

shipscode··on Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator
Aren’t most yc or funded founders broke asf? Meanwhile the solopreneur scene is printing cash money. Daniel makes good points here.
shipscode··on California mandates VC firms to release investments' diversity information
VCs will just create DEI programs with less funding than their main operations to pad the stats.
shipscode··on ”Be Useful”
Well that would be silly, masks MUST BE WORN when you’re standing around or walking to a table, you can only take them off if you’re actually seated at the table. Same as a restaurant. #science
shipscode··on ”Be Useful”
He’ll always be Arnold “Screw Your Freedom” Schwarzenegger to me.
shipscode··on Shell employees urge CEO to rethink shift from renewables in rare letter
Pivoting away from fossil fuels would be a terrible idea. They would be losing out on the entire class of educated consumer who wants to increase their own carbon emissions. Ignoring the environmentally conscious consumer would be a very bad play in today’s day and age.
shipscode··on Why has a useless cold medication been allowed on shelves for years?
That’s terrible. You may consider trying Yerba Mate. Anecdotally it’s helped a lot of people I know with ADHD. Perhaps something to try in the meantime. I hope the situation in your country gets better.
shipscode··on The Development of the M1 Garand and Its Implications
That guy must be jacked, lugging an M1 around the woods is no joke.
shipscode··on Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK
Flutter is the hottest astroturfed framework since svelte.
shipscode··on I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
Oh come on. Language specific knowledge is a game changer in programming speed & efficiency. Likewise the level of effort to understand modern React concepts has gone way up.

Deep React specialization is a great way to get most tech jobs. Some interviewers literally just want to see if you can use hooks in a solution. Applying a learners mindset in the middle of an interview comes off as amateur.

Learn the tech stack you’ll use on the job. It’ll get you tons of mid grade offers.

shipscode··on I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter
Flutter and svelte have clearly been astroturfed as part of their marketing strategy. I wouldn’t touch them with a 10 foot pole.
shipscode··on Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering
Can’t imagine. Bad enough having to see it from NY or NJ.
shipscode··on I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)
There’s a reason that the dentistry model is Drill, Fill, and Bill.
shipscode··on The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent
Do they let you guys carry at least?
shipscode··on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption
You’ve gotta be in a wild echo chamber if you consider Biden centrist moderate.
shipscode··on Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for better pay and benefits
Well. There’s your problem.
shipscode··on Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro
Having messed with VR/AR tech since the DK2, the Apple Store presence could be the killer app that VR/AR needs.

The manual learning process of ordering special fit lenses, adjusting the headsets, etc would be a great fit with Apple’s store model.

shipscode··on My take on the current React and Server Components controversy
Yeeeep. The arguing by clout chasers was the worst part.
shipscode··on My take on the current React and Server Components controversy
I agree. Hooks was the Angularification of React in the sense that it introduced many library-specific concepts and caused a deviation away from barebones JS.
shipscode··on My take on the current React and Server Components controversy
With the amount of bs I had to go through when they dropped Hooks, I'll never use shiny new tech from the React Team again. I'm sure there are thousands of devs who feel the same.

I think the React Team will soon be faced with an Angular 2.0 style situation where they are forced to break class components, hooks, etc to get people to use new patterns. The number of people who will do it out of goodwill has had to have been diminished to a minority percentage of React enthusiasts.

Personally, I just rock jQuery for my personal projects. I get the same dollar coming over the wire with a way faster time to live and reduced complexity.

shipscode··on My take on the current React and Server Components controversy
Sounds like the initial hooks launch. A lot of goodwill was used up with that. It might look fine behind the desk at Meta on the React team, but on the ground on real world 2nd and 3rd rate dev teams the damage has been immense. You have entire teams of devs that can't understand useEffect for 2-3 years.. can't say that about pre-hook React.
shipscode··on My take on the current React and Server Components controversy
I'm in the same boat. Redux + Pre-Hook React was very legible & straightforward... Post hooks React is strong on theory but weak on substance, and I've gone to just jQuery and Python for my latest project.

I did migrate my last project the barebones JS MVP -> React and regretted it immensely. It took about a month and didn't provide enough value to make it worth it.

shipscode··on GPT-Migrate converts repos from one lang/framework to another
I really doubt this works reliably given my own attempts at doing this for extremely small use cases.
shipscode··on GPT-Migrate converts repos from one lang/framework to another
Hmm not sure, I'll let you know after I use it and receive a cease and desist letter.
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