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  • OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing names, emails and more

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  • Is it really so hard to self host the analytics with an open source analytics solution? I don't know why people at any scale of more than 15 devs would want that kind of security risk.

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Warhammer 40k /s

  • Munich wants to legalize parking on sidewalks

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  • I understand that they need to have it clear for first responders but parking on the sidewalk makes the sidewalk less usable. Also if first responders need to get through a street having the sidewalk available to get the car out of the way is more beneficial instead of street full of cars.

    Then there's the thing where cars will fill up the parking spots when possible and since it's not a metered parking spot there's a good chance it'll not get checked very often.

    In my view the result is effectively making the sidewalk smaller as if they would just remove it up to the 1.6m and replace it with on street parking. Investing in bike paths that can be used by first responders like in the Netherlands is a more effective way to deal with the same problem.

  • what is your clothes quirks?

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  • For me the best is shorts or sweatpants always with optional sweater or t-shirt, ideally not both at the same time. Crucially no socks or underwear, I prefer washing clothes more often to wearing underwear.

  • Programming peaked

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  • If it were my choice I would probably go for Vue since I've worked with it for about a year also Evan Yu is a developer I have 100% confidence in making it better over time. I mean, he made Vite after all. The transition from v2 to v3 was pretty much backwards compatible while angular breaks shit all the f-ing time. But out of the ones I don't know Svelte looks the best. Do I need a "chart.js-svelte" package? Nope, just use the normal one. Dependency management looks soooo much simpler than having a less supported framework specific version of it.

  • there was that one summer in 67BC

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  • It depends on how far back you go. In the Roman Empire they had a GINI wealth index of almost 1. Meaning only around 1000 people in the whole empire had 99% of the wealth.

    You had the slaves which didn't have any rights and made up a large portion of the early empire, freemen which got grain subsidies and basic assistance which was still not enough to feed the family, plebs that had a job which didn't qualify them for basic assistance but still barely surviving, the top 10% that were just a tad more than surviving, the 1% which could afford a "middle class" lifestyle and rich senators. On the top if it was the emperor that owned something like 90% of everything.

    Middle ages until early modern had serfs be around 90%, not too shabby since they got some land to do with as they please but they were overworked and taxed whether or not they made money.

    2025 is pretty nice in Europe since the median wage affords you a middle class life with luxuries, shelter and food security but 1950s US after WW2 looked pretty good IMO. Work as a waiter, buy a house in 5 years and feed the family? That's something almost nobody can do today right out of high school.

    So financially in history it's been shit, it wasn't good for the top 10% either way back before modern times and lavish lifestyle was never the norm at any point. I still think that with better wealth redistribution, taxation and building a crap ton of housing could make 2025 people way better off than almost all periods in history.

  • Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse

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  • This could potentially be done with an identity system that allows a company to verify the age a user while not knowing anything else. Although I trust pretty much nobody to do it while respecting privacy and security.

  • Programming peaked

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  • I started programming in 2015 and I'm very surprised that webapps have managed to get worse in that time period. We have 10 years of work on the V8, 10 years of React and Angular, 10 years of DX improvements and my current work is C# takes a minute to compile and Angular takes 4 minutes for a production build.

    I know now we have TS and there's a lot of safety that comes with it but somehow things are just slow, both building and on deployed websites. Websites should be snappy when everyone has a GPU that can go incredibly fast compared to 10 years ago and cores that are 2x faster and 4x as numerous.

  • New car registration by manufacturer, EU + EFTA + UK (October 2025)

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  • You can charge the plugin hybrid and do your daily drive (~50km) on just electricity. Hybrid cars are just a way to save some fuel with regenerative braking and charging on a downhill.

    PHEV is great if you have a monthly/weekly trips that are longer than 100km where you use petrol or if you want the option to drive 500km road trip without an hour long charging break. This is very good for people that have a charger at work but live in an apartment that they can't charge the car.

    HEV is going to be cheaper than the PHEV since you have a lot smaller battery and electric power system. The electric system is only there to take a load off the ICE engine and can potentially make it last longer by not having it run at a lower intensity.

    As soon as you can charge the car at home EV is the best, people should take a break from driving every 2-3 hours anyway for safety on road trips. Downside is that you need a charging station to drive of course. EVs can potentially be the cheapest of the bunch since you only need one system to propel the car forward and battery prices are falling.

  • Another angle of this modern art installation

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  • It's a deadlock situation and can arise without any screw ups. Imagine the buses being 5x as long and all reach the intersection at the same time as an example. All have space to enter the roundabout but they'll reach the same situation as in the picture.

    To fix this people uses signals and can be done by having the buses follow "Only 1 or 2 articulated (double) buses are allowed into the roundabout at a time". A rule like that might be required if you have a lot of articulated buses. The risk of this happening depends on how many ways you can enter a roundabout no a bus like that, how long the buses are, how frequently they run and how big the roundabout is.

  • TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery

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  • Prisoner's rights are human rights.

  • What's a good hyperfixation you've had?

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  • I'm right now back in a running/weightlifting phase after finishing a chess phase. I really wish there was more to learn about it because I have the thirst for more information about how to optimise the workouts. Especially nice since it gives me the chemicals I want but I wish the gym would stop playing music.

  • I hope you do

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  • Nothing beyond clarity. I always thought I was working around my own character flaws but after I realised I'm autistic it reframes it as me working around autism.

    It didn't provide help but it did provide answers. I now sometimes say to clients that I have autism and I might ramble on too much about details and people seem to like it.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • I would go for "garbage, bad and ok" where bad is acceptable. Most styles are ok, a lot of anti-patterns are bad but still get the job done but sometimes people write pure garbage. I'm very happy that at my job we just have a lot of bad code that's workable but this one contractor wrote an absolute piece of shit. His code was a convoluted side-effect mess that was "reactive" and at around 3-5x more verbose than the "naive" solution. He made so many decisions that increased complexity and overhead that it become a rigid buggy mess.

    Sometimes people just need to stick to the basics by using a database layer and a service layer on the backend and a API layer and component code on the front.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • At my job there's a class method that's longer than that.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • I kinda rolled my own ORM, it was just a glorified class to SQL parameter converter that is then passed onto some SQL code. Then there was a thingy that marshals the result. Using table value functions in SQL standardises the result so any select * just works. It was around 50-100 lines total.

  • I also have one

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  • Not using a chair to store semi dirty clothes is absurd. Wearing shorts two days in a row saves a lot of laundry.

  • 🐑🥁🐍

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  • They're used differently, which trumps historical meanings.

  • Do you agree?

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  • Not as good as I would have expected. I remember my in-laws car license plate but not their birthdays. It might be because I use a calendar to track those.