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JDubbleu

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  • Junior Dev VS Machine Learning

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  • I mean if you have access but are not using Copilot at work you're just slowing yourself down. It works extremely well for boilerplate/repetitive declarations.

    I've been working with third party APIs recently and have written some wrappers around them. Generally by the 3rd method it's correctly autosuggesting the entire method given only a name, and I can point out mistakes in English or quickly fix them myself. It also makes working in languages I'm not familiar with way easier.

    AI for assistance in programming is one of the most productive uses for it.

  • The New Code Editor Zed has a Strong Start, and is now Open Source

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  • Not OP, but my main preference for MacOS comes from the UI/UX of an absolute rock solid OS on top of a unix-like shell. I regularly go months without rebooting my machine with 0 issues like software hanging on wake.

    I know there are a lot of exclusive creative apps, but all I really use my MacBook for is code, typical browser stuff, music, slicer/web interface for my 3D printer, and to interact with my home server. I'm not an open-source/Linux purist by any means, but pretty much all the software I use is widely available on all platforms. It probably helps that I bought a MacBook after growing up with Windows/Linux, so I came into it with a set of software I was familiar with that already existed on other platforms.

  • Americans are asleep, post European windows

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  • It still seems incredibly over engineered. Every window I've used in the US has a latch you flip out that prevents the window from opening more than a couple inches so that it's still effectively locked. Newer windows here are also all double or triple panes with inert glass in between the panels for insulation.

  • in your opinion, what would meet the definition of "broke the Internet?"

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  • If you hit us-east-1 and us-west-2 I truly believe 95% of Western websites would not be fully functional. Most people either rely on, or rely on a service that in some way relies on those regions. Every time Lambda has gone down in IAD it takes with it many ordering applications and tons of physical badging systems around the country.

  • Americans are asleep, post European windows

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  • Yeah while the European windows are interesting I don't really get why having a window open 50 different ways is useful. It seems like an over-engineered solution to just cracking the window. I also can't imagine it's more reliable than the good ole vertical/horizontal sliding windows which are just a window in a track.

    Many houses in the northeast have the old school vertical sliding windows with an extra glass pane that can be dropped in front of the screen. This creates an air insulated barrier between the internal and external glass panes and even on the 100+ year old windows I've seen they insulate very well.

  • Wine-GE-Proton8-26 Released

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  • This feels like when the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers combined to make the Megazord.

    I'm cautiously optimistic because despite their solution being simple in nature it will still take a fuck ton of work and community effort to get the proposed Protonfix DB going. With that said I have no doubt this will be awesome once it's completed, and I cannot wait to try this out! Stuff like this makes me wish I was a systems/OS dev and not backend/API/cloud.

  • Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows

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  • Damn, this looks WAY better than when I used Thunderbird in 2020. Gonna have to give it another try on my work laptop since I use Outlook there.

  • Your .dots have arrived

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  • What I'm paying to find out I don't have breast cancer. I have insurance. (Ultrasound and mammogram in the USA)

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  • I'm forever grateful to have been on Kaiser my entire life, and that all my employers have had it as an option.

    It's expensive up front (~$5k per year, my employer covers it thankfully) but the most I'll ever pay per year out of pocket is $1500. Office visit/urgent care is $10, ER is $100 and waived if you're admitted, prescriptions are $20, and the most expensive surgery I could get is $150 which includes the hospital stay if needed. My partner got sterilized for like $35. The biggest thing for me is my therapy is free so long as it is virtual (my therapist is 4 hours away by car anyway), and $10 for an in person visit if I make the hike.

    It's absolutely wild how much one's experience can vary with the healthcare system in the US based on their insurer alone.

  • The Google messaging update looks bad. It reminded me I purchased textra a while ago.

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  • My brain omitted that context for some reason, fair enough.

  • Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns

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  • No. The majority are taking federally illegal drugs in some capacity.

    73% have taken weed in some form in the past year according to a quick Google search compared to 43% of Americans. The California bay area (tech capital of the world) is also very open minded to drugs. I've been to many parties here with people openly using cocaine, shrooms, molly, and acid. Never felt unsafe or concerned for anyone because even at large parties (500+ people) people are always looking out for others and keeping everyone safe.

    I honestly didn't believe recreational cocaine use was a thing until moving here and it absolutely blew my mind. I'll personally never touch it, but to each their own.

  • The Google messaging update looks bad. It reminded me I purchased textra a while ago.

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  • It's not just read receipts. It's reactions, replies, and immensely better image quality.

  • Chinese hackers ready to ‘wreak havoc’ on critical US infrastructure with 50-to-1 cyber personnel advantage, FBI director warns

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  • Obviously this is anecdotal, but of my friends in tech (early to late 20s) I'm the only one who has not used hallucinogens or psychedelics. I don't think a single one of their salaries (not TC) are under $150k.

  • Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

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  • My partner and I are close to securing a lease in SF and we explicitly picked places that appeared to be owned by a person and not a giant corporation to avoid this BS.

    Our current landlord and property manager are both amazing. They tried to get someone out at 8pm when our hot water heater broke, and our rent wasn't raised when our lease went to monthly. If not for wanting to live in the city we'd have likely stayed here for many years.

  • "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pl

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  • This is fair, but it's at least broken up so they can selectively gut the parts of it they don't like instead of having to figure out what a 300 line method named "process" does.

  • The original SteamOS-like Linux distro HoloISO now dead, replaced with immutable version

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  • This seems more in line with how these OSs should be made IMO. I understand the point of Linux is to do whatever you want with it, but that's antithetical to the point of game ready operating systems like these. Especially when your average user is gonna be less Linux literate than other distros and can easily break something. It's also not like the read-only file system can't easily be modified by those who know what they're doing.

  • Nothing is real rule

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  • I'd actually argue the complete opposite of OP for developers.

    The picture I use for professional stuff is a shoulder up photo of me in front of a brick wall with some greenery in front of it. I'm wearing a black hat, plain shirt, glasses, and a backpack. I've gotten dozens of interviews and recently a new job with this photo that I've used since 2020. I've even received compliments on it being a, "not fake photo".

    Being too much of a "suit" in the developer world can actually harm your chances IMO. Meta actively tells interview participants to come as they are and outright says to not wear a tie because in their own words, "we care about your abilities, not your clothes". Obviously clean up and look nice, but that doesn't mean you gotta stress about appearance. I've personally done all my interviews in various hoodies and it's never been an issue or counted against me as far as I can tell.

    Obviously fintech and finance is gonna be a little more formal, but I don't personally want to work somewhere where how people dress is anyone's concern.

  • "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pl

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  • I had to rewrite our entire scheduling system at work to use Outlook instead of Google Calendar. The guy who wrote the Google Calendar scheduling system made it so unmaintainable that it was faster to just rewrite the entire thing from scratch (1000+ line lambda function with almost 0 abstraction).

    At least 90% of what I wrote is just exception handling. There's ~15 different 4xx/5xx errors that can be returned for each endpoint, but only 1 or 2 200 responses.

  • Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4

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  • Pixels come with built in transcription software that can transcribe any audio played by the device. It's super useful for watching videos on mute in public, or providing closed captions for applications that don't support them. It's incredibly accurate and better/faster than every other transcription software I've used. It's also local too thanks to the on-board Tensor chip.