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How are you finding KDE Linux's performance? I'm really excited for its progress!

My Playdate survival game, Plight of the Wizard[0], which uses the crank for aiming spells. I've had a ton of fun doing performance improvements, and now I'm implementing an upgrad…

Interesting. I've talked with engineers at Apple that worked directly on the Siri team who made no such claim and said it largely a cultural issue.

Build it up in your free time. It's extraordinarily valuable to build up those skills, and I'm not convinced that companies will allow time to slow down and build them.

Exactly. My company's add-in is a React app, which can be fun to debug with the limited developer tools in Word/Excel's browser.

> Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours. That's exactly when I would want to work on a side project after my full time job. Seems r…

My experience has been that the disconnect is between the Bay Area and everywhere else. The engineers at my company are split 50% in the Bay Area and 50% elsewhere. The engineers i…

This somewhat aligns with the 12 seasons of New York[0]. [0]: https://12seasons.nyc/

Vegetables, legumes, nuts, and grains are not expensive, and veganism is a protected class in the UK.

AI has made senior engineers useless to me. I have purposefully asked senior engineers specific questions to get their insight on a matter only to have them tell me, "here's what o…

If anyone is interested in keeping up with current events in a manner closer to "reading the history" rather than reading the news, check out Wikipedia's Current Events portal: htt…

> If one of those 30 is related to politics I don't see the problem. Just don't click on it. I think it's a fair issue for people trying to avoid triggering news topics. Sometimes …

I'd consider 5'8 and 210lbs morbidly obese. An average male at 5'8 should generally weigh about 150lbs and no more than 164lbs.

I follow a consistent comment pattern[0] that makes blocking vs non-blocking easy to identify. [0]: https://conventionalcomments.org/

No quite. On iOS, I cannot place the cursor in the middle of a word by putting my finger there. It goes to the beginning or end of the word, and then I have to drag it like an ice …

Yet on Android you can simply tap exactly where you want the cursor to be placed. It's a much superior experience.

> I’ll take a moment to lament the demise of the light duty pickup that provided a bit of extra utility while still fitting in a normal parking space. Remind me of my favorite arti…

My hypothesis for why our developers have reduced productivity is that LLM assisted coding has made reviews much more difficult. The words that are written are subtly more complex …

> The productivity gains I'm seeing right now are unprecedented. My company just released a year-long productivity chart covering our shift to Claude Code, and overall, developer p…

My cousin just finished years of medical school, residency, and his first job as a psychiatrist. He opened up a private practice a year ago and has been working hard to acquire a c…

That sounds like a one-off anecdote. For my anecdote, when the government was shutdown and people on food stamps needed help, I counted 8 churches in my neighborhood serving meals …

> I disagree with most comments that the brusque moderation is the cause of SO's problems, though it certainly didn't help. By the time my generation was ready to start using SO, t…

My company had an onsite where presenters were plugging their computers into a projector via HDMI. I watched seven individuals go up with their MacBook Pros, plug the cable in, the…

A YouTube video is likely a single track of audio or a very minimal amount. A movie mixed for Dolby Atmos is designed for multiple speakers. Now, they will create compromised mixes…