web3-is-a-scam

The entire industry is BS all the way down

I cancelled my subscription after 2 months because I was spending way too much mental effort going over all of the code vomit fixing all of the mistakes. And it was basically useless when trying to deal with anything non-trivial or anything to do with SQL (even when I frontloaded it with my entire schema).

It was much less effort to just write everything myself because I actually know what I want to write and fixing my own mistakes was easier than fixing the bot’s.

I weep for the juniors that will be absolutely crushed by this garbage.

I’ve run into way too many issues with musl to consider it for anything serious. For containers I use debian-slim and it’s great (of course, it’s Debian after all).

reader mode ftw

> Haven’t you ever gotten a big PR from someone because their editor settings were different and they auto formatted a file differently than it was written before? This makes PRs a nightmare to differentiate between style and substantive changes.

I immediately reject those PRs. If your editor can’t format only changed lines you need a better editor. If you’re working on a task, changed lines should only be for what is necessary to implement it - nothing else.

I question the value of my CS degree to be honest. I haven’t used any of the advanced mathematics to the point that I’ve forgotten al of it, and any of the CS topics that I do touch on has been cursory at best. Anything major has al been stuff I learned on the job.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Which is the entire point of the first amendment. You don’t need to protect popular speech from censorship.

Not generalizing, just saying if you live in a place with more extremes in the climate than a heat pump may not be ideal.

My 20 year old air conditioner recently died and I was looking into replacements. In my climate the temperature ranges from 40C in the summer, and -40C in the winter. After doing some research, it seemed pretty clear that having a furnace+AC was the way to go for my climate. Hardly a magic bullet technology.

Nice. Less propaganda in my feed is a plus. Did they think this would somehow make me mad at Facebook? Thanks Zucc!

Deploying changes that I’ve worked on and seeing things working in production. Terrifying at first, eventually it becomes a non-event - which boosts confidence.

Twitter is terrible now but no way in hell am I jumping ship to a Meta product.

Blocking one of the biggest on-ramps will surely work wonders for adoption.

Why though

Instagram doesn’t even work for me, any link someone sends me just goes to a white blanks screen. I refuse to make an account so I just tell people to stop sending me those links because it’s just a waste of time.

Why would Sony refuse to allow diablo 4, or call of duty for that matter, to appear on the PlayStation? The most contentious thing about the entire activision deal is the titles that currently release on PlayStation becoming exclusive to Microsoft platforms, there’s no chance Sony would ever block those games from their platform arbitrarily just silly business move.

The funny thing is even as a consumer that understands all the confusing branding and power differences, I would still buy the cheaper system if it had compelling games to play compared to the PS5…it just doesn’t, and when it comes to first party titles everything Microsoft puts out is mid at best (Halo), or downright awful (Redfall). I also own a Nintendo Switch and I think I own more games on that than any other console I’ve owned in my entire life so raw power is t an issue for me. I want to want to buy an Xbox but the most important thing (games) just is t there. I may still buy one when Starfield comes out because it would be more expensive to build a gaming PC to play it (mac user), but I’m waiting to find out from reviews if it lives up to the (admittedly impressive from what they’ve shown) stuff they’ve shown off recently.

I just installed Rectangle and forgot about it, never had a single problem with it.

People trying to cite the reddit policy as if it’s some kind of law or constitution. They will change their policies or just straight up ignore it if they want. Lmfao

Considering how large GitHub is (in the industry) it’s like asking is “are Facebook users gamers”?

If Palantir is rejecting it then we definitely should

My Kinesis Freestyle 2 Keyboard was life changing, my hand issues are non existent now.

I’ll add another:

“Follow these steps and if something doesn’t work figure out the solution and update the document”.

This is silly. IANAL but if there’s no legally registered entity that owns the copyright and trademarks to the project, with code signed over with CLA then as far as I know the copyright belongs to all of the authors of the code by default. So to “whom it may concern” applies to everyone who has ever worked on the project.

He might not soely be invidious, but from a legal perspective I’d wager all of the contributors are, and a “nuh huh” is not gonna fly in court.

Does this technique generally work with postgres as well?

As a rails developer Inhave grown to despise active record and consider it an anti-pattern as well.

Perhaps one day an alien species will conquer is for sustenance and prefer to consume us live because it tastes better.

Isn’t faking use activity….fraud?

When you’re trying to gain traction on a new and free website it’s one thing (Reddit essentially started this way)…but if you’re trying to sell the company to investors this should be a crime.

The “true believers” need a greater fool to be their exit liquidity, it’s that simple.