Nate Cox

The dumbest of takes indeed.

I am a software engineer with literally decades of experience, I was self hosting websites on personal Linux boxes via dynamic dns before it was cool, and I basically live in my terminal. I’m a proud NixOS user and I spend about as much time shelled in over SSH as I do not.

I use an iPhone because it’s a fucking phone, I use it to browse the web and make calls. I just need it to stay out of my way and not crash.

Maybe deciding that which phone someone uses needs to be a core part of their identity is the actual problem.

I like my iPhone and I think Jobs was a twat.

The world does not exist in dichotomies like you’re asserting.

“People using devices I don’t like are stupid” is among the dumbest of takes.

If I can’t do it on-demand I don’t see how I can call myself a programmer.

Context for all of the following: I am a long time programmer who is also a hiring manager for programmers.

Interviews are not real life. During an interview the dynamics of power imbalance between yourself and the people deciding on your livelihood fuck with most people’s brains and cause them to think and behave differently than they do in real life. During an interview people are nervous, vulnerable, and outside of their element to an extreme degree.

Someone struggling to perform at anywhere near their normal level during an interview is exceedingly common and reasonable. It’s super silly to say “if you can’t perform under extreme stress that you won’t experience day to day then you just aren’t a real programmer”.

Edit: tagging @[email protected] because they should see this too.

You can’t verify it because they didn’t provide any sources. Probably because any source on this would quickly show what a massive overreach these claims are.

Framework supports a bunch of open source initiatives, and some of those initiatives have figureheads that suck. Framework has basically stated that they are supporting open source as a whole and are staying neutral about the people running them. That’s a choice people may not agree with, I have fairly strong opinions on this myself… but there’s a huge gap between Framework’s actual statements and the author’s claims.

Oh fuck off. Nobody is “astroturfing” AI hate.

Plenty of us hate AI for perfectly reasonable ethical, sociological, and accuracy reasons.

Just because some anti-ethical twats are doing something with AI impactfully doesn’t justify the use of disinformation on our side.

ITT someone whines about perceived whining.

Fuck EA.

I didn’t watch the video, that last part there is disgustingly on brand for him.

I’m a long time rails dev, and I gotta say seeing DHH as the face of this was enough to send me on my merry way.

Edit: ok, well also seeing mechahitler on the front page.

The dlc is important to some, to each their own.

It is pretty shitty to fail to release something and then go radio silence about it with no real explanation, though. On top of the regional pricing issue too.

Too bad they botched the deluxe edition / season pass release.

I don’t think I follow. Are you thinking that I’m saying Vampire needs character stats? Because I’m not.

I just think a game based on a TTRPG—a concept built around putting role playing first and foremost—should probably be pretty strong on the role playing aspect.

It’s just wild to me that a game straight out of a TTRPG is “light on RPG elements”.

Like, what’s left of Vampire without the RPG elements?

Well duh; it’s the department of war not the department of defense.

(Hopefully obvious /s)

And so the current Intel chipset I have will be the last I ever own.

I am salty as fuck about PT.

As a standalone entry it was absolutely fantastic, I loved every second of playing it. As a demo it got me so incredibly hyped about the full game.

And then Konami pulled some of the dumbest shit I have ever seen.

I had an iPhone flip out at one point and do the full screeching alarm cycle every 15 seconds or so for several minutes until I figured out how to turn it off.

Fun side story: I told my friends about it and how to turn it off, and one of them like berated me for being selfish because I didn’t want my phone screaming at me continuously for an alert I already knew about. That’s how I learned that guy was a shithead.

My dude, I worked home renovations for many years. Nice try to discredit me rather than my argument though.

I’m not an expert on it, I’ve only watched a few videos on it, but from what I’ve seen they add structural elements between the layers at certain points which act like rebar.

There’s no framing of the walls, but they do set up scaffolds to support overhangs (because you can’t print onto nothing)