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cnasc commented on If you're remote, ramble stephango.com/ramblings... · Posted by u/lawgimenez

gopalv · 23 days ago

> The movie showcases culture and human nature more than any particular era.

Most of my middle management experiences has been between Office Space and Better off Ted.

One with "Don't care" as an answer and the other says "Care more" as its.

Those are the two extremes of the genre.

cnasc · 23 days ago

Better off Ted was sadly canceled way too early. Part of me wishes a streaming service would pick it up for a revival, but I know the monkey's paw there would be that it would be subverted by precisely the sort of corporation it set out to lampoon.

cnasc commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

mosselman · a month ago

Whenever someone presents an anecdote like this, there is always someone who says “but then you are doing react wrong”.

Ok, so why is it possible to do it so wrong so often then? That sounds like a downside of the tool. It is a sharp knife. That doesn’t mean there is no place for react, but it also doesn’t mean we have to wipe it under the rug and pretend like it is everybody else’s fault.

I never read a story about it taking an hour to add a field to a form in Rails and it only taking 2 minutes in react. I’ve experienced the other way around for years though. So there is some truth to it. Let’s embrace the truth and look for what react brings us despite this.

cnasc · a month ago

> “but then you are doing react wrong”

My objection is not that they are doing React wrong, it’s that their complaint is incoherent because there is literally nothing about React that could make this task take an hour. React isn’t a form library. You write the markup for an html input element, if it’s a controlled input you have a trivial one-line change event handler, and you have a submit event handler. Any additional complexity here isn’t coming from React, and managing to overcomplicate such a basic thing and misidentify the source of the complexity absolutely speaks to a skill issue.

This is especially funny in a thread where posters hold up Rails as a paragon of quality and efficiency.

cnasc commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

j0rd72 · a month ago

I find myself agreeing with the article (although I also agree that it assumes you've chosen an SPA when you shouldn't have). To add my own perspective:

I work on an app, the front-end of which essentially consists of 6 nav tabs, 3 of which show an index of records with corresponding add/edit forms. We don't have any hyper-fancy interactive components that would require heavy JS libraries. And yet... we develop in React.

Yesterday, I needed to add 1 new field (representing by a checkbox input) to both our app and a corresponding back-end application we have, which uses Rails views.

I checked the git logs after to see how long each took. The Rails view took me literally 2 minutes to update (add field to model, add field to controller, add input to HAML with a class on the parent div). The React view took me 52 minutes, plus I later found out that I'd forgotten a damn type on some interface that's a shallow copy of our model.

Is this a problem with React itself? Not really. But it's a problem in the way that it's used, and our 6 nav tabs and 3 forms don't need all the overhead of React. So for people in a similar situation, this article really rings true.

cnasc · a month ago

> We don't have any hyper-fancy interactive components that would require heavy JS libraries. And yet... we develop in React.

Is React really a "heavy" library? https://bundlephobia.com/package/react@19.1.0

> The React view took me 52 minutes, plus I later found out that I'd forgotten a damn type on some interface that's a shallow copy of our model.

This sounds like bad architecture, nothing about React would necessitate this. And if your typechecker isn't catching missing types, then it sounds like your types aren't adding much value.

cnasc commented on A brief history of hardware epidemics eclecticlight.co/2025/06/... · Posted by u/ingve

OptionOfT · 2 months ago

I remember leadfree solder. I ordered an Nvidia 8800GT at that time and it was significantly delayed because of failures.

The fix back then was to bake your GPU in the oven for a while, essentially reflowing some of the cracked solder.

And I know of countless BMW M3s and M5s dying too soon because of early iterations of lead-free bearings.

I understand the toxicity of lead, but I wonder if the hand could've been more targeted. Does lead in bearings really show up in the environment?

The origin of the capacitor plague is so interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

> A 2003 article in The Independent claimed that the cause of the faulty capacitors was due to a mis-copied formula. In 2001, a scientist working in the Rubycon Corporation in Japan stole a mis-copied formula for capacitors' electrolytes. He then took the faulty formula to the Luminous Town Electric company in China, where he had previously been employed. In the same year, the scientist's staff left China, stealing again the mis-copied formula and moving to Taiwan, where they created their own company, producing capacitors and propagating even more of this faulty formula of capacitor electrolytes.

Stolen and stolen again.

cnasc · 2 months ago

> I understand the toxicity of lead, but I wonder if the hand could've been more targeted. Does lead in bearings really show up in the environment?

Part of the issue is in manufacturing. It might be hard to prevent exposure of employees to lead dust if they’re machining parts containing lead even if the final product isn’t too risky.

cnasc commented on Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep apps.apple.com/us/app/lun... · Posted by u/lukko

throaway920181 · 2 months ago

Having done plenty of yoga in my life, I can tell you that breathing exercises are not "bunk."

cnasc · 2 months ago

If someone said "having taken many doses of basically just water in my life, I can tell you that homeopathy is not 'bunk'" would you find that to be a convincing argument?

cnasc commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

867-5309 · 2 months ago

I vaguely remember some televised British experiment in which a clergyman replaced his usual bread with poppy seed bread -- toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, etc. -- then at the end of a month or so tested positive for some opioid threshhold

cnasc · 2 months ago

From Brainiac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9At-dgp0rQ

cnasc commented on Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? annehelen.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/moonka

zw123456 · 5 months ago

I recently retired after 45 years in tech. I started out in 1978 at Bell Labs. I have had great jobs and terrible jobs. Great bosses and horrific bosses. And all the things in between. I did not just survive, I thrived and beyond and worked at 3 start ups and a bunch of other companies large and small. What I learned is to not to be afraid. Regardless of what is happening around you. Fear is the enemy. Don't be afraid to be weird or crazy or whatever is causing you to be timid.

cnasc · 5 months ago

Which Bell Labs? Are you still in the area? I’m minutes away from Murray Hill and a lot of what you’re saying resonates with me (~10 years into my career and starting to lean into what I previously thought was weird).

cnasc commented on Why LLMs still have problems with OCR runpulse.com/blog/why-llm... · Posted by u/ritvikpandey21

osigurdson · 7 months ago

Good point. I probably knew that at one time but now leverage it via chatgpt so forgot. Does anyone know if there is an AI wall with text to image?

cnasc · 7 months ago

I’m quite late here, but if you want a diagram you can ask the LLM to output Mermaid syntax and then paste that into Excalidraw or something else that can render based on Mermaid.

cnasc commented on Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014) dezeen.com/2014/12/18/wil... · Posted by u/delaugust

BeFlatXIII · 7 months ago

As a wise song once said, "You'd be non-conforming, too, if you looked just like me."

cnasc · 7 months ago

Memories of YTMND come flooding back

cnasc commented on The AI Fad Just Burned to the Waterline charleshughsmith.blogspot... · Posted by u/dxs

coldtea · 7 months ago

>We've barely started to hook these things up on our business processes and companies are investing heavily right now in doing so.

They said the same thing for ML, VR, and lots of other things, and they were fads...

cnasc · 7 months ago

ML is used extensively in business and I don’t see any indication that it’s fading. I don’t think I saw any real effort to put VR into business processes. Hype around AR has popped up and fizzled quickly a few times, but still no real push.