justbaker

I always think it’s nuts Elixir was a small project Valim was working on that I tried to get some open source points for helping on in high school, and fast forward several years and I own books on it now. Wish I had something more meaningful still left in the codebase. I initially found Erlang/OTP a year or two before, printing out the pragmatic prog book in its entirety. It’s amazing how far the project has come.

[grunts]

You can document your code. You can keep it up to date. It isn't that hard. You just don't want to.

YES

I always think self taught is a better pathway. You gain more experience making mistakes and learning from them that way. You also pick up more “best practices” by learning how shitty your bad practices of the past were.

Which of those helps day to day? I’m always going to say the latter lol

I got one too and reported it as well. I called the number in the email wondering, trying to figure out scam or legit account compromised. The person who answered initially started saying answer as some other company, debt collection I believe, then corrected to PayPal. To resolve it and report the claim he asked what operating system and browser I used and instructed me to download a Remote Desktop app, which I found fishy and tipped me off it’s definitely phishing. I didn’t say much while I searched the number/figured out if it was common and the guy on the phone got angry yelling “hello??” Several times. I hung up and they called back twice.

I wish I kept the number to call them back and piss them off. Scammers/phishers are soulless entities of this earth.

I’d even say terrible for those who have no experience working remote; you’re entirely right in that it requires discipline. During the pandemic at my old company we had the IT/software department I worked in, and the auditing department. IT had no issues with complete remote having the prior experience and if anything productivity doubled. The auditing department struggled and was forced back in office as soon as possible.

Sounds like an idea for a kids book, “The Haunted Calculator”

7-Zip for windows is always something I go for on a fresh install. Then I also have rar support. But screw rar.

Also on a fresh install I install WSL, so tar is always available that way too.

That was one of my favorite bands as a kid, looooved All's Well That Ends Well.

Java is moving in a much better direction compared to when Kotlin first came around.

I find these people pathetic. An existence of Entitlement has no bounds.

I like how you said using containers, similar to how CI servers tend to be configured.

Eh I guess it adds up.

Heroin is more often injected versus snorted, dirty needles should also factor in. But then you also have poor quality coke with who knows what cut in. Heroin is cheaper by volume/dose, coke is much more expensive.

I second that. Sure I know smoking or vaping isn’t the most health conscious decision, but it’s something I enjoy doing.

MCM!!! I never actually played it but heard great things about it and MCM 2.

You should almost always choose the "dumbest" possible technology used in the "dumbest" possible way so that you can hire anyone and they can step in and be productive when you need to scale. It minimizes ramp up time. It minimizes deployment and operational complexity. It minimizes the ways the system can fail. Literally build the dumbest thing that solves the core business problem that creates value for the user and then figure it out from there.

Yes!!! Spot on. I always say “make it so simple an idiot can immediately understand it, or me when I’m hungover”. Choose the most boring, simple…yet reliable, stable, well supported tech you can. Focus on business problems and not if you can use fancy-new-tech to solve them!

I’m still struggling to get my hash browns the same quality. Better than denny’s/ihop hash browns but Waffle House sets a high bar for those.

Waffle House is a billion times better than Applebees. They Cook the food in front of you versus microwaving some frozen shit. AND it’s open 365 24/7 pretty much even when there’s inclement weather. I always know what to expect… the hash browns are the best shredded hash browns around. Applebees is a dying company only popular in smaller areas.

YES. Move to the desert and absolve your guilt. How dare you live above poverty

Mine also love stickers and get sick from them

I’d say psychology is a good a thing to know as well.

I absolutely hate it, why do that?

That’s the way it is! If you’re going to do stuff like that, learning how to crash gracefully is something you should learn up front. Tuck and roll!

I owe my life to a helmet; I sustained a brain injury from a motocross accident as a kid which I would be here had I been helmet-less. Damn you to hell Pedal Me.

Right now I don’t see any way he’ll run knowing he won’t win.

Sorry, not directly comparing them. I’m only using that as an example to split the professional work / personal life.

I wouldn’t say “it was okay back then”; 17 year olds today vs then is something that is night and day.

Also The way I see it, differentiate a persons personal life from whatever contributions they have from their professional life. A good example is Michael Jackson. You can love his music and hate him as a person. So it’s more split the legacy.

This also being said, I’d erase every pedo from the face of the earth given the chance.

The entire situation was cult fuckery.