jimmux

joined 2 years ago
[–] jimmux@programming.dev 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Does he think people will just start buying things they don't need to make the tariff go away?

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Newspapers and magazines used to be absolutely everywhere. Littering train carriages, stacked up in waiting rooms. Most of my workplaces would have a daily paper lying around that rotated through the team. Paperbacks exist because they were easy to carry around.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 13 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Pebbles are small enough to fit in your mouth. This is clearly a stone.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 34 points 1 week ago

This would have been the real power play. Greenland says they will roll out the red carpet and welcoming party of locals. On arrival, the locals are bears and the carpet isn't red. Yet.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] jimmux@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

At my last job we had a lot of old code, and our supposedly smartest framework people couldn't be bothered learning front end properly. So there was a mix of methods for passing values to the front end, but nobody seemed to think of just passing JSON and parsing it into a single source of truth. There was so much digging for data in hidden columns of nested HTML tables, and you never knew if booleans would be "true", "TRUE", "1", or "Y" strings.

Never mind having to unformat currency strings to check the value then format them back to strings after updating values.

I fixed this stuff when I could, but it was half baked into the custom framework.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)
[–] jimmux@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, but he'll need to borrow a vehicle to get to work now.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 44 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I kind of miss when No Man's Sky was an endless, empty expanse. That sense of loneliness and futility was an emotional experience that it doesn't have now. It's become a much better game, no doubt, but putting time and careful planning into that long crawl towards the galactic centre felt right.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 11 points 2 weeks ago

Feels like you're stuck in an exoskeletoooon.

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