crypto: exists

tech-leftists:

@scor

>post about fed taxes being ridiculous

score: lists things funded by state taxes

bUt I'm NoT IgnOrAnT!!

@scor oh please, cry me a river. you're in my thread. you're welcome to leave.

but if you're gonna come in here and spew bs like muh roads when I specifically am complaining about fed taxes... lol.

@scor this is a pretty ignorant response. it completely ignores any hard facts about how much is being taxed, who pays the majority of taxes, where the majority of that money goes towards.

turning a blind eye to the rich who barely pay any taxes, and the corrupt federal government who misuses our tax dollars.

but sure. let the little guys subsidize the entire country. that makes sense.

not to mention, the majority of the items you've listed have to do with STATE TAXES. which I'm fine paying. read my post again though, I'm complaining about FEDERAL TAXES.

@Stuxnet its decently offset by the no sales tax meme. I've already saved a bunch of money from it.

I'm mainly annoyed by fed taxes anywho. I'm in the 24% bracket :(

forgot to update my state actually. I ended up leaving California. am now in Oregon.

@electrineer I actually paid my own way through community college and then a cal state. I worked full time for 8~ years and made my way through school mostly part time.

if this isn't what you meant, my bad lol

looks nice! i work from home but sometimes i wish i had an office to go to with a window like that.

Highly recommend Brave. chromium based but with tip top security. Lots of QoL features as well. Also has a neat little crypto token you can earn by using the browser. I've made $3 USD so far. pretty neat.

>ram built into the chip

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

im in college, so yeah. im pretty much coding or studying every day :c

I'm a college kid zoomer dev. I've only ever worked in an office once, and it was a pretty cool experience. It was a small team of devs making b2b aerospace inspection software. There were 4 software devs, including me.

I sat behind the PM with an age old win7 laptop that took 10 minutes to boot up visual studio. I liked always having someone there to ask what i should do next for tasks and walk over to the senior engineers office for advice.

Covid hit and they just stopped contacting me. Got another job WFH as a front end engineer. It's cool but they don't really communicate. They don't even use github. I finished one project and nobody has messaged me and nobody has an answer for what i should do next. Im basically getting paid to sleep in at this point.

@vomitmachine

okay that's what I was leaning towards but wasn't sure hence the post haha. Thanks for the reply, gonna try to crack out this project now :D

@wiwe2210

Wow thanks for the awesome reply! I think it might help me to check out the diagrams and repo, so if it's not too much to send over i'd love to take a look. I definitely want to make it highly extensible cause i have a few board games i've been wanting to make web versions of to play in quarantine.

I think we'll be seeing a trend towards less 'heavy' frameworks. I recently started using Svelte, its like react but tiny file sizes. i used to be a react fanboy but honestly svelte is just too amazing

@redbastien the issue is the overuse in design and how it just comes off as lazy and uncreative.

As a student, I am so not looking forward to this bologna. I've done 3 internships so far and none of them required that much interview gunk besides, "how did you build X project from your github page?"

@HiFiWiFiSciFi

Sounds like you've met a lot of youngins who aren't using React correctly. I think it's a pretty powerful stack, and can actually be pretty effective in some areas of the web.

@netikras I get that, but often times i enjoy using micro frameworks that give you useful tools to quicken up your development such as flask and well, now svelte. its tiny and god does it make making reactive websites incredibly easy. i really can't stand building websites with just plain js or jquery.

@calmyourtities

those are very rare cases haha. The one app i LOVE that almost needs to be an app is this little utility called Chwazi. I use it for tabletop game night. everyone places their finger on my screen and then it'll randomly chose someone. thats how we decide who goes first. not so easy with a webapp, unless you did something like, -enter in the peoples names! and then it picks someone... not as fun

@YNWADev

honestly i think this stems from the possibility that mobile apps are dying. I can't think of the last time i downloaded a new app that wasn't a game. I use email, web browser, and social media apps. nothing else really.

i don't think that mobile apps are useless, but i do think their use cases are being overtaken by web applications.

@jespersh

just looked that up. I like that there are more reactive/declarative frameworks taking off. It really is a pleasant developer experience. I never really liked MVC architecture.

Aw man, this breaks my heart. We need more people like you in this world, OP. I'm so deathly afraid of what challenges I will face once I graduate, but knowing people like you exists gives me comfort.

@F1973 i feel personally attacked

i looked into it. but im not really sure what/why i need it... but i installed it anyways..

I have a dev.to account, i mainly use it to lump my bug squashing articles for my future self.. and any other poor lad who may come across the same issue.

if you reaaaaaaaaaally wanna cringe though, head over to web-dev twitter. Hooly COW. Every other post is:

JavaScript Quiz!

var a = 5;
var b = 6;

var a == b ? 'hello world' : 'oh no!'

so think like uber... and dogs.. see where im going with this?

I really do like apple products. I have the newest macbook pro, and its really nice. I hadn't really used a unix based OS before, and that mixed in with Apples top tier UX is really great.

I also have a cheap ipad for note taking in class. The one thing I dont have is the iphone. I just prefer the google pixel. I think iphones are great. They have a nice software suite, and UX is fine. I just feel like the pure android pixel experience is more aligned with what i liked about my macbook. great ux, extensible, and respects the user.

@Berkmann18

i think his reasoning is he knows it. judging by the way he spoke about web development in this class, he knows less than the bare minimum. he couldn't even explain what his 1 element css file did - which leads me to believe he had a colleague make him the boilerplate code for the last project.

nonetheless, i'm going to ask to use svelte. it's a tiny little web 'framework' that allows you to write code more reactively/declaritively. this way i can just straight up render text on the screen using css grid (he wants us to display columns for each algorithm, and display a new row for each 'pass' of each algorithm on a string of text), instead of fumbling around with some sort of p5 canvas.

@nitwhiz Yeah i get that. I'd rather just use a tool that's more intended for this type of job. I'm already doing it twice with P5 as required, and then I'm writing it on a Sapper web page just for fun, cause ive really wanted to learn it. Perhaps i can ask just to use that.

It's just odd because P5 is something that updates on a timer. Sure i block the timer using some sort of approach similar to using semaphores, but id rather just not lol.