It can be worse, 15kg of exactly the same material more expensive than 25kg. I don´t get it

They definitely struck their crowd of customers. And their customers´ customers.

Antivirus is a f*ing scam. As are "automatic security updates".

Factor in all things that potentially go wrong (missing flight connection, weather conditions, luggage stayed at departure or is stolen, different electrical sockets etc) + the prep needed to make the most out of it, including the mental headspace to dedicate to it and you start wondering whether it´s worth it

For me:
In order of ease of use:
Paint.NET, Krita, Photoshop, GIMP
In order of advanced ability:
Photoshop, GIMP, Krita, Paint.NET
In order of cost-to-quality ratio:
Krita, Paint.NET, GIMP, Photoshop

* Paint.NET with plugins
** cost-to-quality including time spent

Fuck off world should be the new getting started of every programming language

It's telling that the first example was hyperspecific and the others super vague

Been there 8 years ago
Keep enjoying it
still there haha

Thank you so much uBlock Origin (Firefox mobile supports extensions so you can also use it there)

Also try opening a JIRA issue on a 13-inch screen. I can barely see 2 lines of the ticket description, the rest is navigation, filter, breadcrumb bars

Climate change has turned my country in a sufficiently "heaven on earth place" that I don't feel the need to go south anymore (I prefer mild heat, max 32°C, over baking to death)

Also hate that we speak the same native language fluently, and in-person, but online he always addresses me in English..

I'm EN/SFP. Who does like being bossed around and having to provide excessive technical details to people who won't get it? Explain it in such a way that they can have their own (somewhat simplified) mental model with only the core concepts (and eventually a metaphor).

Could you give 1 or 2 concrete cases? At where I work most folks are Java-oriented and they thoroughly struggle with the implications of a "static build" powered by Node.js (eg supposing changing an env variable on-the-fly on the server will impact the pregenerated HTML). Even with tech people from another context communication can be hard

@AleCx04 there are some use cases. FP higher order function. This example returns a function whose prototype is set to an anonymous class. Before React Hooks HOC's "higher order components" were all the hype, those used a similar mechanism

CLI = portable, unified and callable on remotes.
Other devs look at me like I'm a git wizard but if they made the same one-time effort to experiment with and memorize the most useful commands and combine them in sequences they could do more advanced git ops faster and with confidence

Y not simply have them set up docker runners? Can't be that hard can it? (spoiler: been through this last year, it is worth the effort)

Just came here to fact check my gut feel that a post with so many I<ActualName> interfaces was going to be about C#

A good soldier doesn't always make a good captain or the other way around. Use their abilities to the best possible extent but within their capacity. Relativize. Going through the same situation right now so just sharing what works best for me.

I hate how technical profiles always seeking better tools need to level down to non-technical profiles always going back to their comfort zone.

Fuck Windows, Teams (ESPECIALLY Teams), Skype, Office 365, Sharepoint and Outlook.

@electrineer yeah she still has ABP, we're going to switch her over tomorrow

I have the feeling that Google shows me more and more commercial results as years go by, so DDG all the way

The same CMS hooks told React hooks: we have very little in common and your choice of name is unfortunate and confusing

Try with metalsmith.js:

1. Work on metalsmith project, add the plugins you need and leave out anything you don´t.
2. Leave alone for 5 years
3. Come back after 5 years: it still works (as proven by nodejs.org until 2023 a.o.)

Disclaimer: I maintain it.

Commitment to stability, no framework lock-in, and yes you can combine it with any tools or framework of your choice

My thoughts whilst reading the Next.js 14 blog post (for your convenience: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-14)

YAGNI YAGNI YAGNI

I just need to build a sustainable cottage and you bring me plans for the Burj Khalifa

I still use Notepad++ for fast loading large data files, quick edits to config files, and for detecting stuff like NUL chars.

My ex-PM once typed a URL starting with P on his personal laptop whilst screen sharing shared screen and guess which search suggestion came up hahaha. It was just a fraction of a second and I was the only one who noticed xD

@aviophille completely agree but I believe the chances of that happening are below 0 =/

Also, ofc, tobacco is not in the consumer price index, so all smokers take a hit (every year). I take issue with the specific devaluation of creative software work vs for ex a news article. This was also dubiously legally argumented but it is clear software devs were discriminated against simply because it was the biggest group of benefactors that cutting them off would bring a 75million euro to the govt budget.

To give you a more concrete idea about IT: function parameterization would not be qualified as creative work, but creating a new component from scratch would (hence max 25%)

@lorentz @saucyatom Inflation adjustment does continue through a consumer-price index (this was introduced for job market competitivity vs neighbouring countries, I think it´s even frowned upon by EU), but you still lose purchasing power for an entire year if the inflation started in January (this happened with the Russia-Ukraine war starting)

Fiscal measures cf company cars and intellectual property were introduced to stimulate resp. job growth and attract creative profiles in a country where the tax burden is insane (near 40% for salary and 33% for company gain, + 21% VAT on each service/product sold).

The tax exemption on software IP is only applied to a max. of 25% of your gross wage and was granted on a business-by-business (and even by employee profile) case in court processes that could last up to 2 years. The current government cancelled all running grants (so even if the grant was given by the state until 2026, they just retracted it).

At the lowest level IT optics, non-binary would be quantum: a lot of attention with zero practical impact on our daily lives, but may eventually matter in the future with enough investment. The difference being in IT there is a cash incentive.

A bit higher level it could be like a "troolean": a boolean with a potential NUL or undefined state. Tends to be the least interesting or "prefetal" state.

I never thought about it from that point of view. Smart move to get all the developers behind the idea promoting encapsulation and portability. Commercial entities definitely have an outsize impact on the W3C & ECMA-standard. See for ex https://cdt.org/insights/...

Where I live, even with the SEPA system, banks do near-instant transfers to other accounts under the same bank, but across banks it takes 1-3 workdays (so if you do the transaction on Friday evening, it will probably only arrive next Tues/Wed. BNP Paribas affiliate banks are the slowest in my experience

I worked on a GDPR-related project (providing transparency from state to citizens) and a bonds trading platform for a bank.

Was highly motivated for the former, and felt completely out of touch and uninspired by the latter. I just couldn't identify with the value it presumably provides to a very select number of people. And it even led to me leaving the project, that much of a deal-breaker it is.