Some day, eventually, after all the dust settles in the JS ecosystem, there will be a stable framework for managing UI state in a sane, sensible, predictable and well-understood manner - and someone at the WHATWG/W3C will finally write up a spec and the functionality will be baked-into Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc.

And we'll be free from having to learn a new JS framework every 6 months. And maybe even npm hell too.

Until then, time to buy another Pluralsign training course...

Is there any mechanism or inventive discouraging current Ethereum POW miners from rebelling against the coming switch to POS, and starting a major fork of the network when the network is slated to switch over ("The Merge")? How will everyone instantly agree that ETH1 is worth nothing on that date?

I haven't read enough to know the answer, figure someone here might have a better understanding. Was hoping the article would answer it, but it doesn't really.

Have you played League of Legends or Dota 2 before? It will be hard to convey the mental/emotional exhaustion that most people feel from playing MOBAs at even a semi-competitive level. In my experience it's a lot different than playing FPS or other games.

I have a distinct memory of finishing a game of Dota 2 and realizing that it felt as though I'd just finished a 3 hour exam. I didn't feel happy that we'd won, just relieved. I don't think this will convince you, but perhaps consider being open to the possibility that it genuinely is as difficult as solving most programming problems that we face in our day-to-day work. In my mind, it's at least as difficult as "easy" leetcode problems.

Streaming aside, tyler1 has an almost inhuman dedication and focus when it comes to League of Legends. On Hacker News it's common to hear that programmers can't work (on classic programming tasks) for more than ~4 hours a day. I also feel exhausted after working for ~4 hours and have always wondered if this was some sort of mental trap I'd fallen into or a genuine limit.

Games like League of Legends require complete focus and attention yet he somehow manages to regularly stream for 10 hours and sometimes reaches peaks of over 30 hours(!!!)[1]. Can you imagine solving leetcode problems (even easy ones) for 30 hours?

In 2020 he paused streaming so he could focus solely on going from Diamond (mid-to-high tier) to Challenger (highest tier). If I recall correctly, he said he would sleep on the couch by his computer, wake up, play and go back to sleep on the couch after ~17 hours.

I don't follow League of Legends (I prefer Dota) but tyler1 has always stood out to me as a person with an incomparable focus and dedication. I haven't seen anything similar in the Dota community and the only programmers that jump to mind would be geohotz or maybe Nick Winter[2].

[1] https://dotesports.com/news/tyler1-marathon-stream-top-lane-...

[2] https://blog.nickwinter.net/posts/the-120-hour-workweek-epic...

if you attribute this inflation to the guy in office instead of the global pandemic that's been going on for multiple years, you're nuts lol