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If you think that way, you are not objectively weighing the benefits of server side rendering. It _is_ useful and shouldn't be tossed away for the benefits of a 6MB javascript blob.

I don't know why, but the entire demonstration and explanation of the vision pro felt totally surreal. It felt like a 5-10 minute opening sequence for a Black Mirror episode.

I don't think anyone asked for this.

Anyone else think Stackoverflow has been in a decline the past decade?

Stackoverflow hardly surfaces when I am searching for help and when I find answers it's usually a blog or a hosted blog somewhere. Most Stackoverflow answers are usually 4-5 years old and outdated.

Perhaps it's simply my engineering has improved in the last decade and I no longer search for help very often and when I do it's outside the scope of Stackoverflow..

Rarbg Is No More 3 years ago

I wonder how much it costs to run? I can't imagine it's too crazy.. data can be stored/cached easily and access is random and has some hot spots (recent torrents). Seems like it would be fairly cheap to run?

I think it's important to have focus and direction. It's very challenging to have hobbies or side projects when you're focused and have direction.

For example, you feel like you're wasting your time reading a fiction book when you could be doing X to make more progress. Playing a video game? Forget about it. I got to a point where I wouldn't even listen to music because it may take some other gains away.

I struggled with these same problems ( I'm not even Asian =P ). I wish there was some magical fix, but there isn't. What I found to be best is to embrace it... I picked roughly three things I want to excel at and I center my life around those things.

This means I won't ever learn how to make digital music, pixel art, read X fiction books or whatever, but life is short. I'd rather excel at a few things I care about deeply and pass on everything else.

Why I Left Rust 3 years ago

I can try to summarize my understanding of events.

  1. Dude gets invited to do a keynote. 
  2. Dude gets his keynote invite withdrawn because some members of the rust team were "uncomfortable" with the content of dude's blog. The content which was technical and not of the standard Twitter/cancellation variety. 
  3. Second Dude leaves rust leadership because he seen how the rust community treated first dude.
Totally understandable. Why waste more time with a community that can't discuss things critically even if they go against many ideas of the tech in question? Maybe a bit of an over reaction, but it's likely he knew a lot more of the community and what it's really like. This was likely the last straw.

Alternatively, look at the Go community and leadership. The Go team discussed generics and eventually implemented them although leadership and the community was often against it. They certainly didn't cancel keynotes or speakers that were pro-generics.

No_color 3 years ago

The primary usecase for no color, in my opinion, is for running software on CI/CD and other automated systems. Sometimes you want to track logs or alert on certain output and you don't want a bunch of garbage characters that can't be displayed on those systems.

The same goes for music. People plug in ear buds the second they sit down at a desk or step out the door.

The only time I find it hard to do things in silence is while exercising... mainly the treadmill.

As it stands now, modern recruiting is roughly the same as an AI recruiter.

Scrape 10,000 emails/basic biographics and email blast everyone with an exciting opportunity at an {X} company doing {Y} thing that raised {Z} money. Insert unlimited leave, work life balance, and some other thing no one cares about but the company.

This brought another quote to mind for me,

"You know, the whole thing about perfectionism.. perfectionism is very dangerous, because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in— it's actually kind of tragic because it means you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is." -- David Foster Wallace

It's not about what you use, but the fact that you actually use it. I would grab whatever you feel an inclination towards.. be it Nextjs, Rails, PHP, etc.

The only thing that matters is that you do-- so pick whatever gets you off HN and into your editor of choice :)

I recently got back into the habit of reading documentation from cover to cover.

I would say it has been very valuable in my recent learning adventure. It saved me a from numerous gotchas that would have bit me. It also gave me a base knowledge to know what to look for when I needed it.

Otherwise, I would have been Googling and shoveling crap together myself instead of doing things how they were intended.