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From many years of first hand experience: - QA is always the first thing companies outsource, with predictable results - Companies either go the route or “separate QA org with sepa…

Destination Thailand Visa is comically easy to get if you have ~$20K in savings

Discord culture is the definition of riff raff

The thing is a healthy community, by definition, isn’t going to allow a struggling loner to join them

I used to feel that way but I’m completely over it, especially going through the experience of registering a few domains for side projects recently. There are just too many already…

It makes complete sense and it would be for the best, therefore it will never happen

The participants in the train study were essentially given a "job" to talk to strangers, which completely changes the mental framing. People generally try to follow through on a jo…

Eh, I got my comp sci degree in the 2000s and for the most part we learned barely enough to pass the exams. Colleges weren't exactly churning out an army of disciplined professiona…

I’ve followed this issue for a long time, the thing is at the end of the day the average American just doesn’t care very much what happens to tech workers. There’s an underlying at…

Every company I’ve seen that maintains a separate QA org chart, inevitably offshores the entire QA org to India or China, with predictable results. In 2025 I think the only thing t…

Suburbs and commuter towns desperately need Robotaxi - there’s literally no other option. Public transit isn’t coming, Waymo isn’t coming, Uber and Lyft are shrinking Even a US cit…

I’ve been using Tesla FSD since the original beta rollout. Collision avoidance has never been a real problem. Phantom braking has gotten a lot better, though still not 100.0% fixed…

Never seen it in the US, but it was fairly common when I was on vacation in Europe

In the English speaking world, the biggest and most important dating app by far is Instagram. Match Group should be considered an adult entertainment business, like the old Craigsl…

I’m not sure outsourcing every function of education to SaaS products like we’ve been doing the last 25 years ever made the system more productive

TLDR > It is also revitalizing an unsuccessful experiment the company began in 2016: offering bespoke local activities, or what it calls “experiences.” The next stage, launch date …

Eh, back when I got my first software engineer job at $BIGCORP 20 years ago, I was almost always the only one in the room younger than 40. Not being a web dev was the key, of cours…

The Coming Psychological Black Death (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0K0sI5XiP4

The post says they use pandoc for parsing, that’s a very good trade for being able to cut Node completely out of your project

> slopper new 2025 slang just dropped

Not sure why this is downvoted. People forget or weren’t around for the early 2000s when companies were absolutely preoccupied with code copyright and terrified of lawsuits. That l…

The problem is society doesn’t allow normal people to enforce boundaries or consequences against those “aggressive angry people” in any meaningful way.

If only Snapchat didn’t lose cultural relevance, how different things could have been

I was born in 1985, we got dialup around 1996 I think? I did teach myself programming in the 90s, after my friend loaned me his floppy disk with all his QBASIC stuff. Then dabbled …

I got put into some “smart kid” activities in grade school, but as a poor kid with zero advice from parents, I really had no idea what to do with it. No one told me that math is re…