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thatswrong0 commented on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock   wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
lisbbb · 3 days ago
The handwringing over Trump continues and is completely unwarranted. Obama bailed out the entire banking industry to horrifying moral hazard. The US is bailing out Intel for national security reasons and taking a 10% stake is a better deal for US taxpayers than how typical bailouts like GM played out. Sheesh! It's like you can't even read a news story these days without seeing the anti-Trump bias programmed into the article.
thatswrong0 · 3 days ago
Completely unwarranted? lol
thatswrong0 commented on Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012)   simonwillison.net/2012/Fe... · Posted by u/thunderbong
doix · 3 months ago
There is also the "backend of frontend", for a lack of a better term. When you've got a complex webapp, you start managing a lot of state on the frontend. You basically end up with a second database that you keep in sync, possibly two.

I think it's pretty common nowadays to have indexdb to cache data, but also your state management framework (ngrx,redux,mobx,etc) which sits between indexdb and your rendering framework.

I am (unfortunately) a FE engineer nowadays but I write very little HTML/CSS. It's mostly wrangling FE state and making it "efficient", cache invalidation, optimistic updates that mimic BE operations, etc.

thatswrong0 · 3 months ago
Yep.

On top of that, the complexity of front end (for me, which is in a “real time” app) often comes down to providing a user experience that “feels good” while also accounting for the complexities of keeping things in sync with the backend(s). For example, I often want a user to be able to update a thing and I want that change to feel immediate, but if 1% of the time that errors out because of business logic reasons, I need to be able to undo the immediateness, restore the previous state, maybe reconcile the local state with the newer remote state, and then display the problem to the user.

Maybe I’m just doing things wrong but there’s just a lot of complexity related to that and I struggle compartmentalizing it in a maintainable way

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thatswrong0 commented on Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities   techcrunch.com/2025/05/14... · Posted by u/rpgbr
hedora · 3 months ago
At least in the bay area, the main feature is that this is an illegal bus.

Each city council is able to sabotage bus services through their area, and they do. It inflates property values and keeps “undesirable” people out.

This bypasses the intentional sabotage that’s been applied to bay area public transit. Of course, it’ll still be much, much worse than a competent bus system. I wonder how well it will work in other countries.

thatswrong0 · 3 months ago
> This bypasses the intentional sabotage that’s been applied to bay area public transit

I lived there for a long while and I'm genuinely wondering what this is? I feel like there were at least some unintentional secondary effects of certain policies but can't think of anything recent and intentional.

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thatswrong0 commented on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety   reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/vinhnx
parpfish · 4 months ago
Stardew is the opposite of relaxing for me. It’s a never ending to-do list and sense that you don’t have enough time. It’s “Chores: The video game”
thatswrong0 · 4 months ago
Yeah I feel that. It was fun for me, but also kind of stressful. I don't know why I felt the need to min-max it but yeah.
thatswrong0 commented on iRobot made Roomba into an icon. Now, it's in a mess   fastcompany.com/91302893/... · Posted by u/mathattack
doctorpangloss · 5 months ago
It would be nice if you didn’t have to reconfigure your whole home to make sense for disc shaped robotic vacuuming.
thatswrong0 · 5 months ago
Wait why..? Most vacuums sold now make it easy to create no-go zones. The only thing I occasionally have to deal with is loose cables wreaking havoc
thatswrong0 commented on How to Be Good at Dating   fantasticanachronism.com/... · Posted by u/jger15
thatswrong0 · 5 months ago
> Very roughly the ratios for me were 100 swipes → 1 match → 0.1 dates → 0.05 lays → 0.005 meaningful connections

Yeah I think I'm going to stick to becoming friends with friends of friends and with random new people at places where we generally have shared interests, and then seeing if there's any mutual romantic interest after that.

This process sounds emotionally draining.

thatswrong0 commented on Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar   reuters.com/lifestyle/flo... · Posted by u/boguscoder
guelo · 6 months ago
I am baffled. My family found it boring, senseless and my kids didn't want to finish watching it. My theory is that the lack of talking makes people imagine there is something there when there is nothing. It makes zero sense. The graphics are also not very good.
thatswrong0 · 6 months ago
What isn’t there to get? it’s a dead simple concept
thatswrong0 commented on Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet   zetier.com/speedrunners-a... · Posted by u/chc4
prophesi · 6 months ago
I think if they're active in the speedrunning community, then they're already well aware of this! And for a fun additional example to add to this article, you can often find TAS'ers talking about arbitrary code execution. The legendary GDQ run of TASBot's alternate ending to OoT[0] utiziling an ACE exploit they found in that game absolutely blew me away.

[0] https://youtu.be/PNbkv_DJ0f0?t=3112

thatswrong0 · 6 months ago
I love Ocarina of Time speedruns. The sheer level of love that went into that specific run was sooooo beautiful, and like the fact they made it internet live.. via an N64...?

I want to shout out ZFG if ppl arent aware cause he has IMO done the most technically impressive real time speedrun of any game - specifically the 100% SRM run he did is inscrutably insane. But it wasn't just about him - it was an effort by so many people. The number of glitches and exploits that have been found by the community, as well as the NP hard routing and tools created for finding angle perfect setups by various people..

It's straight up community driven exploit art. And it's like yeah, the fastest way to beat the game is to practically manually manipulate memory to redirect specific function calls to give you stuff you need and float around and purposely void out facing exactly a 1/65536 perfect angle setup a hundred separate times to randomly jump around to various rooms in the game?? Wowwwww

And the community around it is so wholesome. The sheer amount of collective curiosity, ingenuity, and effort to dismantle and exploit a 20+ year old game for no other purpose than going fast.. idk. Love it.

Here's a commentated tool assisted human-like run (but not live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8EE9FXeJnE

And the actual run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdxdwnpi-wU

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KarmaCake day3312February 14, 2013View Original