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  • Show Lemmy: I made an easy-to-use, "React-lite" web framework in only 2000 lines of code, named Modulo.js

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  • What have been your biggest challenges as you've developed this?

    I'd give it a go, and probably will at some point, but just don't have time at the moment. But having had a cursory glance, I'm very impressed with the documentation. The framework looks similar enough to Vue and svelte that I feel it would be easy enough for most frontend devs to pick this up quite quickly.

  • What benefits do you get for being on-call? - programming.dev

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  • Like many others here, at the company I work for you get nothing.

    I do one on-call shift as primary per week and one as secondary. I then also cover a week every six weeks or so.

    If shit really hits the fan, them work is pretty cool about taking some time back, but we're far from micromanaged as it is, so we can just kind of make it work.

    I'd say an incidency probably occurs on around half of my primary shifts (and I've yet to ever do anything as secondary), and nearly always it was something I could resolve within one hour.

    Every dev at the company is on the rota once they've got a few month's experience.

    Based in the UK.

  • Call for admins

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  • I'm happy to lend a hand.

    I'm based in the UK so would be most active in the evening hours of UTC.

    I work as a software developer with a reasonable amount of work involving server administration so if it's useful then I'm also happy to lend a hand there (even to just bounce bugs off of).

    If my activity here is not enough yet, then I can share my old Reddit account (although I wiped a lot of it when the API changes were initially announced there).

    I'll also not be offended if you pass me up for more suitable volunteers.

  • Advanced math in game design: random walks and Markov chains in action

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  • I've really enjoyed this article. Feels like it's gone into just enough depth for those curious about Markov chains. It's certainly made me want to dig deeper into the subject.

  • Why a ton, and not a megagram?

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  • I am shocked by how well your latter example emphasizes an extremely large quantity of tacos.

    I vote for that one.

  • Add Support for mlmym on programming.dev

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  • Federation Updates

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  • Thanks for the explanation.

    Yes, that seems rather rash. My understanding was that the admin and mod team there were quite level-headed, despite the extremity of many of their users, but perhaps not.

    I appreciate this instance's stance of matching their action but being openly open to re-federation.

  • Federation Updates

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  • Why did hexbear defederate from this instance?

  • Where the heck do you get decent and relatively cheap mens t-shirts from?

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  • Yes they do.

  • What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society?

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  • Can confirm. Endless rain this summer in the UK. No grass watering required (not that it is ever required...). Didn't stop my neighbour watering on the few sunny weeks we've had...

  • There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)

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  • It's not even that these evangelizers think we should all be using the same browser. It's that there are currently only two realistic choices: Chrome (and it's derivatives) and Firefox (and it's derivatives). There is safari too, of course, but it hardly compares to either in it's current state.

    Given those two choices, only one of them is in support of the open web. The other is literally trying to add DRM to the web.

    As to your first point: I agree that here it may be preaching to the choir and that we all get it. But it has such a small marketshare, I'm not sure it is good for those encouraging it to be quitened.

  • There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)

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  • I get it with the others, but given what Google is currently trying to do with Chrome and the open web, I think the Firefox evangelism is the least sinful of these by far. Or maybe I just became part of the problem.

  • [RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege

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  • Who are you with? I get 150 symmetrical for £25 with Swish.

  • What are some small, pocketable/keychainable items that are worth carrying everywhere you go?

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  • How often is that bootable Linux drive useful to have on hand though? I can't imagine it being useful more than once a year or so, but maybe I'm not thinking creatively enough.

  • What is your easy to prepare go to meal to cook when you want to impress someone?

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  • I make this all the time. An absolute staple of our weeknights.

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • It doesn't need to be an authoritarian government or an evil government as such.

    It would just need to be a govermt that doesn't prioritize fairness and egalitarianism above all.

    If the people dishing out the housing have biases and they're not favourable to you, you're stuck.

    At least in the existing system you have the ability to progress and determine your quality of living to some degree.

    I don't think our current system is good by the way. I just don't think state owned housing is the right medicine. Not unless we can find a way to instate benevolent dictators.

  • Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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  • It's that's fine that you've got some examples of features that are more powerful in JB products. It would be a great shame if such a heavy and reasonably expensive program didn't.

    But I'm not arguing that VS Code is better or worse. I'm arguing that it is comparable (on the sense that it is worth of comparison). Which it is.

    I agree that JB's search is fantastic. Unmatched perhaps. All of that indexing it does when you open a project really pays off.

    But you can get a lot of JB's functionality in VS Code. You can get a very good code inspection in several languages, Python being the premier example. You can also get excellent docker integration, excellent linting, a reasonable search and replace across all files, and a top notch debugging experience for some languages (Python being the premier example again).

    Sure JB products do some of that stuff better (at the cost of being heavier programs with significant start up time).

    I use both. I like both. I believe VS Code is very formidable and could be the sole editor a developer uses flr many types of projects (Web Development, Python projects, many Go projects too all come to mind).

  • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • The problem with this idea is, what if the state is controlled by unsavoury people? I know that is kind of a hard thing to imagine, but just humour me and assume it's possible.

    It gives far too much power to too few people.

  • Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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  • Yes, I've made heavy use of PyCharm, IntelliJ and Datagrip and I'm a huge fan of them all.