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cynicalreason commented on The front end community wants to wash its hands of the decade we lost   twitter.com/slightlylate/... · Posted by u/caspii
Beltalowda · 3 years ago
Yeah, that's the part that really kills me about JavaScript. I can deal with the language, npm, some curious conventions in the community, every "npm install" telling me I have 100+ security vulnerabilities. It's the whole "THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING OF AWESOMENESS SINCE THE INVENTION OF AWESOMENESS!!!!" that kills me, which is really just my snarky way of saying that I found there's generally some serious lack of introspection in the community at large. Something like, say, the Python packaging situation is far from ideal, but people are generally pretty honest about the fact that the situation sucks, and that it has sucked for quite a few years. Python devs tend to get embarrassed when you ask about packaging, or the GIL, and most ecosystems have some pain point(s) like that.

I understand that some problems are just hard, that there are obstacles, or that things you build don't always turn out to work as well as you intended when you started out (sometimes what seemed like a good idea at the start turn out not to be so good ideas later on), and that many things are also trade-offs where there is no perfect solution. That's all okay. It's the whole attitude I find hard to deal with.

cynicalreason · 3 years ago
maybe people enjoy working with it .. I love it, I went from a systems admin/customer support to being a senior react dev, I learned angular, than some javascript, than some programming and then some more and some more.
cynicalreason commented on The front end community wants to wash its hands of the decade we lost   twitter.com/slightlylate/... · Posted by u/caspii
stemuk · 3 years ago
After reading the entire thread I am still in the dark about what exactly the author wants to see changed.

The narrative that frameworks = bad and vanilla js = good falls apart quickly IMHO in medium to large sized projects since the complexity has to be abstracted in some way in order to reach a realistic timeframe for completion.

cynicalreason · 3 years ago
I'm in the same boat, I was expecting some punchline .. it's just moaning without anything concrete
cynicalreason commented on Valve Steam Deck   steamdeck.com/en/... · Posted by u/homarp
mrpippy · 4 years ago
CPU: AMD APU Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32)

GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (up to 1.6 TFlops FP32)

RAM: 16GB LPDDR5

Display: 7", 1280x800, 60Hz

OS: SteamOS 3.0 (Arch-based), KDE Plasma desktop

Storage: Onboard 64GB eMMC/256GB NVMe/512GB NVMe, microSD slot

cynicalreason · 4 years ago
so I imagine the games will be ran via stadia ?!
cynicalreason commented on We quit our jobs to build a cabin   outsideonline.com/2415766... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
nwallin · 5 years ago
> The first thing he did was host a long-weekend work party to fix it up. I flew up from my home in Oakland, California. With a group of friends, we tore out exposed nails, cladded interior walls, built a deck and an outhouse, and hung shingles. At night, covered in sawdust and grime, we drank too much and huddled around a propane stove to keep warm, eventually falling asleep and breathing in noxious fumes all night until we staggered awake in the morning. >>>It was awful—and one of the best weekends I’d had in recent memory.<<<

There's a word for this: Type II Fun. Type I Fun is when you're having fun and you know you're having fun while you're doing it. Type II Fun is when you're absolutely fucking miserable the whole time, but afterwards you and any of your friends that were with you say it was the best time ever.

Lots of outdoor activities that are supposed to be Type I Fun end up being Type II Fun. Lots of activities that aren't supposed to be fun at all end up being Type II Fun. (basic training is a common example) I've heard Dwarf Fortress is Type II Fun, but I could never get into it.

This whole process of building the cabin sounds like a class example of Type II Fun to me.

cynicalreason · 5 years ago
Amen ... I've started building a shed (10x10) 1.5 months ago with 0 woodworking experience.

It's the most fun I've had in a decade .. my joints are swollen, I've got bruises and scrapes on my hands and feet, skin on my hand is actually rough.

I work from home nine-to-five, software. I can't wait to finish work to actually go outside and work on the shed.

I've actually considered quitting my job and doing this full time .. but it won't pay nearly enough as I'm making in software and my financial commitments won't let me.

cynicalreason commented on Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'   bbc.com/news/science-envi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
zpeti · 5 years ago
Why don’t they just give the money to spacex? This is such typical French/eu behaviour. Let’s build something that already exists, for 10x the price, 10 years late, so that we can create jobs and have our own... Except the market viability is close to 0.

how about using that money for something that’s actually innovative? Or perhaps charge less tax so people can decide on their own what’s worthwhile.

cynicalreason · 5 years ago
competition is good, it's better than piling all the money in one place.
cynicalreason commented on Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'   bbc.com/news/science-envi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
pansa2 · 5 years ago
> "This is not just twice as difficult as any typical Mars mission; it's twice squared"

So, four times as difficult?

cynicalreason · 5 years ago
it was a test .. you're hired
cynicalreason commented on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever   buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/minimaxir
caseyw · 5 years ago
I’ve worked from home for a number of years. It’s all about having a normal schedule. My family knows when I’m in the office, I am at work. There isn’t anyone popping over my shoulder, and general interruptions are almost nil in my case.

I think a lot of people are going to be super surprised what a quiet room and your playlist of choice can do to increase productivity. Just my 2 cents.

cynicalreason · 5 years ago
this is exactly the reason I prefer the office .. I have 2 kids, 5 & 2, and if I'm home they are very much used to me being around them or doing something together, working from home is not ideal
cynicalreason commented on Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)   quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-... · Posted by u/webdva
varjag · 5 years ago
People do that with Soviet system too. In the 1980s, a disproportionate number of top scientific cadre were born and raised in Moscow and went through the few focused schools there.

Born gifted in Govneevka, Kirov obl., pop. 20,000? Good luck.

cynicalreason · 5 years ago
The system was absolutely flawed, still is, but still good enough to encourage the highly skilled.

Our (Romania's) education system was (is) the same, if you were GOOD at something there were plenty of paths that teachers would generally push you towards, special clubs for maths, languages, art (less common). Or schools who would try to group together highly skilled students.

System (after communism) has the same flaw, most rural areas have worse access to education, or better said, much worse quality of education.

cynicalreason commented on Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)   quora.com/Why-are-Soviet-... · Posted by u/webdva
burpsnard · 5 years ago
Im crap at math, but annoyed at why. Read about math teaching, and what I found was that there's nothing that correlates with math ability except interest and encouragement (and general iq). There's no genes, brain scans, blood tests, or behavioral signs at preschool age that can predict math success. Teacher ability and enthusiasm likely plays a role.
cynicalreason · 5 years ago
I believe the opposite when it comes to 'behavioral signs at preschool age' .. I think a child natural inclination towards 'math like' sciences is visible very early
cynicalreason commented on Server-Side Only React with Next   webcloud.se/blog/2020-03-... · Posted by u/danielstocks
jensneuse · 5 years ago
Step 1: Server Side HTML

-> Website needs to be more interactive.

Step 2: Server Side HTML + Client Side React SPA

-> Website is now interactive but performance decreased.

Step 3: Server Side HTML + Server Side React + Client Side React SPA

-> Website is interactive, performance is good but now it's overly complex.

Step 4: Server Side HTML + Server Side React

-> Let's make it a bit more simple and even more performant by making it less interactive again.

Step 5: Server Side HTML

-> More performant than the previous iteration, also less complex.

You can see that nothing really changed but developers are super happy because they improved the experience all the time.

cynicalreason · 5 years ago
Cheap comment ..

I see them as options, not steps, options within the same ecosystem

A lot changed, but the limitation is still the same - the delivery platform - browser (dom + js)

u/cynicalreason

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