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FYI it’s a liberal arts college.

Albeit, a uniquely STEM focused liberal arts college.

It’s legit and their grads are wicked smart.

When I asked the guy who wrote it what's going on, he admitted he vibe coded the entire project.

This really irritates me. I’ve had the same experience with teammates’ pull requests they ask me to review. They can’t be bothered to understand the thing, but then expect you to do it for them. Really disrespectful.

I’m just one person. So take my opinion for what it is: just my opinion.

I started using Dropbox in high school and it has always “just worked”. I use the native app on Windows, iOS, and OSX. It’s essentially a virtual drive on all my devices and it backs up all my phone’s pictures and videos automatically. I can probably count on one hand the number of times Dropbox has annoyed me in the last 15 years. Maybe it’s overpriced, but at least it’s reliable. That’s worth a lot to me.

I experimented with Google drive as an alternative in college. It worked pretty well on android devices, but there was just enough friction on other OS’s that I abandoned it as a general file system. My g drive is basically just a graveyard of Google docs that I will never care to organize and random gmail attachments that ended up there for whatever reason.

Onedrive is by far the last choice I would make. My only experiences with it are (1) when Microsoft tries to force it on me/upsell me when I’m using office on my personal desktop or (2) when an employer uses it as their approved file sharing system. In my experience, it is consistently the least reliable of the three solutions. While Dropbox “just works”, I fully expect Onedrive to “just make me restart my computer, sign out and back in again, give up and just share the thing through slack.”

Again, just my experience.

Yeah, but then you have to use onedrive…

I took 6 months at 29 and it felt like a lot.

At 34, it still feels like a lot, but I also wouldn’t consider anything less than that a “break.”

Maybe this is a semantic distinction, but I’d say “your ability to convince people (period)” is what becomes more and more important.

Levels really shouldn’t factor into a problem discussion beyond determining who is involved in the discussion to begin with.

I find that hard to believe...

"Cast" is a pretty ubiquitous term and, anecdotally, Chromecast is almost always the device I find when traveling.

Probably selection bias on my part, but I'd expect most people to be aware of Chromecast unless they're over the age of ~70 and fully Apple-oriented.

Seems like throwing away a perfectly well known brand.

I think the other commenter’s point is you can use 2 fields to distinguish between the first field being specified as empty vs absent (or whatever terms you prefer).

E.g.

- type.specified => “”

- type.unspecified => empty

The same technique can be used to disambiguate between 0 and empty.

This seems like a great way to accidentally cause another global extinction event.

I’m probably overestimating the size of the anchor.

At the risk of incurring further downvotes:

- dynamic types

- confusing syntax

- idiosyncrasies in standard functions/libraries

- duck typing

- rails dogmas

Admittedly, my experience is limited (only 1 year of professional ruby dev), but I really did not enjoy my time with the language.

Yep, this is the same as people who tell you not to mark yourself “open to work” because it “makes you look desperate.”

If that’s what some company cares about, then I’m glad they won’t message me.

This looks super neat.

I didn’t see anything on the page about running the tool locally (remote code analysis is a deal breaker).

Anyone know if that’s an option?

There’s a time and a place for checking its work.

Depending on the search, I either don’t care, or I use something like perplexity, which includes its references.

Crypto (currency) never served a real use case other than pump and dumps or dark web transactions.

GenAI is used by people for all sorts of purposes. Anecdotally, it has largely replaced my own usage of traditional search engines.

This strikes me as a false equivalence the same way comparisons to the dot com bubble do.

To be clear, I'm familiar with the zipper merge and agree it's great.

The thing that is *not* ok is when someone flies by 20-100 cars then blocks their entire lane while forcing their way into the front of the line where there is no space for them to enter.

Not only are they being "selfish" by cutting in line, they're also being incredibly dangerous AND creating traffic by blocking their lane.

There's nothing like encountering 3 lanes of parked cars on a 65MPH highway as they all try to exit in 1 lane they could have entered half a mile ago.

Shit, I've been working for 10 years (but only a few months with these tools).

I actually considered the looser validation when I discovered that toHaveReceivedAnyCommand() worked, but, ultimately decided there *had* to be something wrong with my setup and I refused to leave it to hit someone else.

Shame the AWS SDK doesn't communicate the actual error in a more human readable way. I was legitimately questioning my sanity and/or the validity of the library for a minute there.

This makes me feel better about wasting the last 2 days debugging a failed unit test that was due to duplicate dependencies (with different versions).

  expect(mockDynamoDBClient).toHaveReceivedAnyCommand(); // passes
  expect(mockDynamoDBClient).toHaveReceivedCommand(UpdateCommand); // fails

  Received number of calls: 2
  Expected number of calls: >= 1
  Expected command: UpdateCommand

  Received commands:
    - UpdateCommand
    - UpdateCommand

Once you have everything in your airspace set up…

The great filter of self-maintaining ski equipment.

I don’t have the space for a permanent setup and it’s just more convenient to drag the skis to the store once a year than buy the equipment, learn to use it, store it somewhere, remember where, etc.

I imagine many others (most?) feel the same.

I don't love the first example used:

A 2014 article in Psychology Today titled ‘Why We Don’t Give Each Other a Break’ used the example of someone who cuts into a line in front of you. You might think, “What a jerk,” when in reality this person has never skipped ahead in a line before and is doing so now only because he would otherwise miss a flight to see a dying relative.

That’s certainly possible, but extremely unlikely. The most likely explanation is that they’re in a hurry and selfish enough to ignore the other people in line.

As a side note, I firmly believe that cutting in line (or late merging into a turn lane) is the worst, most selfish thing that people do all the time.

To be fair, most parents who anticipate sending their kids to college and/or graduate school start saving well before that happens.

So, it’s not like 1/4 of your income just disappears the day they enroll.

No offense, but this is wrong.

There is a metric-fuck ton of telemetry on a windows machine (really any sufficiently sophisticated software/device).

Not only do they correlate the update start event with the update end event, they also have a billion other metrics that nosedive if the machine can’t actually reboot.

That doesn’t make it any more acceptable, but it’s the truth. It’s totally possible the first metric report doesn’t show up for a day, too. So, it’s doubly not ok for them to push something so haphazardly.

First time I’ve seen hackernews link to Lemmy.

Love to see it. That place needs more organic growth.

Yeah wtf is this headline?

I don’t want a stake. I want this company to not exist.

A friend of mine ran a marathon with 0 training in large part to spite me for laughing at him for saying he would.

Not as extreme as an ultra, but still an unimaginable feat for most people.

I wouldn’t have believed it if he didn’t wake me up to rub it in my face when he got back.

I have no idea what you’re getting at.

You started by insulting all Americans for cybertrucks even though they aren’t popular.

Then you called me stupid because I can’t connect the dots of your incoherent ramblings.

I suggest you spend less time condescending and more time checking your grammar.

Have a nice weekend.

Should probably throw our calculators away and go back to pen and paper too right? /s

This is a tool for teachers that is now free. Maybe I’m an idiot, but that sounds good to me. Give teachers all the things because we sure as shit aren’t paying them enough.

I’m totally on board making students do things by hand when they’re learning, but that isn’t what this is.

The whole company behaves like rogue cowboys.

If a PM there didn’t say “fuck it ship it even without her permission” they’d probably be replaced with someone who would.

I expect the cost of any potential legal action/settlement was happily accepted in order to put on an impressive announcement.

I want to know!

Used to work on GCE, but as the article mentioned, there are a lot of safeguards built in over there to prevent you from accidentally deleting things and account wipeout has a grace period to prevent a lapse in billing from deleting anything.

Some internal stakeholder surely fought for it so they could get promoted.

Happy for that person, wherever they are now.

I’m surprised more people don’t know this.

I love end of year because nobody’s pushing anything or needs help.

Then you take vacation in January when the floodgates open.