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The place where I work, Meedan, is hiring a Backend Engineer (Rails/Postgres): https://meedan.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=30 You'd be helping build software that helps fact checkers at different organizations coordinate their work (basically a CMS for fact checkers). It does not pay as well as a Big Tech job, but I love doing programming work where I can go to sleep at night thinking "I did not help rich people get richer." Maybe you will too. @darius Born on a mountain   @darius "... he said one of these days, you'll get out of these hills." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzcrflqDCg I'm always trying to find non-freemium games that I like on Android. I prefer paying once for something and having the monetization decoupled from the game itself. Anyway, Slice & Dice is a really great, fast paced dice-rolling RPG combat roguelite. You can buy it for mac/pc/android here: https://tann.itch.io/slice-dice It's also on the Google Play store. A detailed review: https://buried-treasure.org/2021/07/slice-dice/
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@darius I understand wanting to be considerate to other people, but in my case at least, content warnings actually come with this extra mental energy expenditure of having to decide whether I want to expand something or not from a vague short description, so I just don't bother and expand everything anyway 🤷♂️
@darius Also in this particular case for example: I don't do any mobile gaming so maybe I would've skipped this, but then you comment on it and explain it's actually available for a number of platforms, and I may actually be interested in the game from your description. So it's not always that clear-cut
There's a lot of reasons to hate living in 2022 but the fact that Twitter keeps telling me to join audio conversations like this one feels personally insulting
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@darius Wait this is not the point of your post, but Twitter does audio conversations? Like just an audio channel with 73 people you don't know? Who wants that?  I'm on this week's Reply All, talking about politics and social media bots! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whwmo9/182-state-of-panic  I just spent 4 hours trying to do something the idiomatic React way, trying about 6 different implementations involving many lines of code changes. Ultimately I gave up and wrote 2 lines of plain JS to fix the issue. Will it probably bite me in the ass later? Sure. Would the many lines of code changes that React wanted me to do ALSO have bitten me in the ass later? Also yes. At least this is a *legible* piece of inadvisable code.
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 I can't believe that it took until react-router version 5 or 6 for it to have documentation that wasn't utterly hacked together and incomplete. Unfortunately I'm stuck on v3 for a work project... if i can complain too... been using react for ~5 years and i'm still lost as to why we needed a solution for client-side routing at all. like, i get it. but i also very much don't get it.  @darius I remember this being a huge pain point for a project, and flailing around until it started working and then I forgot about it. What a nightmare. @jplebreton Hey do you know if anyone has proposed marriage via DOOM WAD? @andy was asking and I figured you of all people would know  @darius @andy hmmm, not that i know of, or can find anything about on doomwiki.org or doomworld.com / the idgames archives, though deeper digging could be fine there. i feel like if it had happened within the community it would have passed into legend. i'll keep digging because it's possible there's a proposal in some mostly-forgotten map from 1995. Speaking as an American Of A Certain Age (38) who took Advanced Placement Computer Science in high school, I wonder how much professional C++ software is/was floating around out there that uses the apvector, apstring, and apmatrix helper classes that were written specifically as teaching tools... @darius I think I took the test the first year after the switch to Java, kinda wild and I guess a bit impressive that it's been the same language for nearly 2 decades Are they horribly unoptimized and unoptimizable by the compiler just to be easier to understand?  @darius *gasp* They switched away from Pascal! jk Even back when I was taking AP CS, the choice of Pascal seemed dubious. I only learned it for the test, but was learning and using C on my own. But going from Pascal to C++ seems a bit dubious as well. 😆 Nice piece on David Graeber: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html Love this quote re: Abdullah Ocalan of the PKK: > As an anarchist, he had a certain discomfort with the portraits of Ocalan that were everywhere in Rojava, Graeber told one interviewer — but a leader in jail for life was a leader he could tolerate.
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  What's especially depressing about this idea is how gritty the original Captain Planet was compared to a lot of more recent material that targets kids. If you'd like to play Backgammon on the oldest continually running internet Backgammon server, and you'd like to do it on the command line via Telnet, well do I have a tutorial for you: |
