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I really like the ideas touted by the Remix team, particularly (1) use the platform, (2) favor simplicity, and (3) make code more explicit; however, their implementation has always felt ... loosey goosey ... for lack of a better way of saying it. Their plodding approach to announcing v3 at Remix Jam had the same feel—lacking any real wow factor other than, "we're done with React."

I gave Remix a serious try some time ago, but the tutorials seemed rushed and the documentation felt incomplete (some of the referenced APIs were seemingly undocumented).

I would love to see something unseat React—I've never liked hooks—but I don't think Remix will pull it off.

As an aside, I wonder what Shopify's app developers think about the move away from React. I know they're all in on React Native.

And this is the new, fashionable, easy way to insult someone. Just say their work sounds like AI, and job done.

I understand that you had a different experience, but you seem to be committing the "argument from incredulity" logical fallacy.[0] What I described may not have happened to you, but it did happen—regardless of whether the timeline or details makes any sense to you.

Do you have any thoughts about the cost of college degrees being worth the cost? That's ultimately what prompted me to comment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

> you are significantly embellishing the story

The guy told us he was married, with children, and that he had a separate apartment where he "lived like a woman" most weekends. He lived that way because his wife didn't like it when he dressed like a woman around her. He said he was intensely aroused by wearing pantyhose and skirts, in particular.

That may sound "significantly embellished" to you, but I assure you it is not.

Regardless of what you, or anyone else here, would like to believe about my credibility, this was the beginning of why I personally no longer thought a college degree was worth the cost. I refused to spend another dollar of my hard-earned money sitting through courses where I was not allowed to openly debate the ideas being presented to me.

> You seriously dropped out because you didn't like one class?

No. The university added other "studies" courses to my requirements that contributed to my decision. After taking gender studies, I knew I could not tolerate the other "studies" courses the university was suddenly demanding—which were not required when I first started.

> Which university

The University of Utah

> which year was this

2014

> what was your major

Computer Science

> what happened with your education and/or career after you dropped out?

I still have 8 classes left. Nothing happened to my career.

> And what precisely do you mean by "castigated," in your specific case?

One of our guest speakers was a man with autogynephilia—a man who derives sexual pleasure from dressing like a woman.

In a follow-up discussion, I committed the "sins" of referring to him as a man, and saying things like he is not a woman, and there are only two sexes.

My instructor and some students went scorched earth on me over these elementary facts. They made it quite clear that the only acceptable narrative was that, because he "identifies" as a woman, he is a woman.

This is just one example of the kind of "thinking" that went on in this course. I don't like it when I'm told what I must think. As I said before, that's indoctrination, not education.

> I have a hard time believing this story.

Why? It's all true.

I dropped out after my university added various "studies" courses to the required list.

I took just one such course—gender studies—which was utterly abysmal. There was zero tolerance for debating ideas or considering opposing viewpoints. You either assimilated with the group think, or you were castigated for your heresy. It was indoctrination, not education.

Happy Thanksgiving! I've been here just five years, but it's my main source for discovering interesting things in this world. Thanks to everyone who makes positive contributions here.

I always loved how the Nostoromo looked futuristic, yet cramped and dirty. The narrow halls and small rooms reflect the minimalism you would expect from a greedy corporation that considers its crew expendable, while the clutter and disrepair reflect what you would expect from the apathetic, disgruntled employees.

I also stopped using the YouTube app in favor of the Brave browser on my desktop and my Android phone (no extensions needed). I can't remember the last time I saw an ad on YouTube!

The medical industry has not helped itself either. It seems to have jumped at every opportunity to erode public trust.

As just one example, my cardiologist recently scheduled a rigorous stress test for me. The day before the test, I got an unexpected call from some woman at the hospital, who told me that the test would cost $1,700 if I paid right then and there on the phone. If I waited and paid in the morning, it would cost $2,100.

It was like I was dealing with a used car salesman!

I canceled the test instead, deciding on the spot that I'd rather take my chances. I refuse to fund an industry that wants to use my wellbeing against me as ransom.

Same. We even have AI hackathons where your project must use AI in some way. I have a serious case of AI fatigue.

> I like slim and stupid servers, where each endpoint wraps a very dumb DB query.

I thought I was alone in this, but I build all my personal projects this way! I wish I could use this approach at work, but too many colleagues crave "engineering."

I always loved that Bill Watterson gave Calvin an extensive vocabulary. He didn't dumb it down. Instead, he allowed young readers like me to learn new words as I read along.

Wow, this sums up exactly how I feel.

The very last thing I want is to be "elevated to a manager of agents," as they so smugly say in the video.

That floating chess board was a subliminal message: Your project will teeter, and critical pieces will fall off. You will occasionally make an illegal move as the board annoyingly shifts beneath you.

Missing a promotion is extremely challenging.

I started working toward a promotion to staff engineer at the beginning of 2023. By the end of the year, my manager said I was ready, but he had been asked to step back into an IC role, so he couldn't start my promotion paperwork.

My new manager felt I wasn't ready for promotion, but she claimed I wouldn't have to start over. It felt like starting over though, because it took another year to convince her. During that time I consulted regularly with her and my director of engineering—seeking and taking every possible opportunity to demonstrate that I could operate at the staff level.

My manager then spent six months writing an 18-page promotion packet, highlighting my accomplishments, and outlining why I deserved the promotion. The packet was approved by my director of engineering, so they both felt I was ready. It was then presented to an anonymous promotion committee, which ultimately makes the promotion decision.

Despite two and a half years of effort, the committee rejected my promotion. They even provided a list of 12 bullet points where they felt I was coming up short.

I gave up trying for the promotion, for my mental health. Sheesh.

I worked for a small, local insurance company 10+ years ago that was not interested in the cloud in any way, shape, or form. They had their servers in two locations—the basement of our office building, and an offsite location ~300 miles away. They were professional server rooms, complete with proper cooling, backup power, and the like.

At first I remember thinking they were behind the times, but now I'm certain they've avoided wasting a fortune on the cloud.

I wonder if the "React Ry–thought-leader-guy" crowd (I love this not-so-subtle reference to Ryan Florence) preferred div over button because of the built-in styles that browsers used to apply to button elements.

My question is: How did you get your entire team on board with this decision? My team disagrees on even the most trivial technicalities, so I can't imagine doing something on the scale you're doing (even though I wish we could leave AWS for our own hardware).

This happened to one of our documentation sites. My co-workers all saw it before I did, because Brave (my daily driver) wasn't showing it. I'm not sure if Brave is more relaxed in determining when a site is "dangerous" but I was glad not to be seeing it, because it was a false positive.

I couldn't disagree more. I laughed out loud at it!

  const sense = new Sense()
  sense.humor(true)

Just like fusion. It will revolutionize the world, but it's always just ... one more decade away.

I worked at NS8 in 2020 for just four months before it collapsed and the CEO was arrested for defrauding investors of $123,000,000. Just a few months ago, I got a modest payout due to a lawsuit over NS8 laying off almost everyone with just three days notice. It was very stressful to be without a job in the middle of Covid!

Very cool. I may just cancel my Fubo subscription and switch to this (Fubo has the glitchiest, buggiest, slowest video player I've ever seen)!

Nope. A previous flip has no bearing on the next flip.

> Most sports bettors arent trying to make money.

This is totally disingenuous. Why else are gambling providers forced to include addiction recovery phone numbers with their ads?

> A ticket to the game is $100+, is that money wasted too?

No, and this is equally as insincere as your first statement. Gambling takes money without offering a fair return in goods or services.

> 97% of users lose money on sports betting.

This is the worst thing about sports betting.

A close second is being shown the odds for every little thing during the live broadcasts.

Apple TV is the worst offender. Their coverage of Major League Baseball was already bad, but they found a way to make it even worse by constantly showing the odds of this, that, or the other.

My manager recently told our team that "AI usage" would be added to our engineering competencies, and we would all be expected to "use AI more."

When I said my top preference for AI usage, by far, would be to eliminate human code reviews, the response was basically, "Oh, not like that."

Brave is excellent on Android. I watch YouTube all the time with literally zero ads ever.

Dear GitHub: No YAML, please.

There, that's better.