JDubbleu

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[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

I'd say it's more convenience than elitism.

I'm in BTN and it's the only indexer I use for my Sonarr instance because it has absolutely everything. I've never not been able to find something and almost everything I download will saturate my 1.2 Gbps connection.

For Radarr I don't have any private trackers and it takes 35 public trackers to get coverage that is almost as good. The options I'm given are way less organized and download speeds are a gamble. It's not really an issue because I rarely watch movies, but I definitely understand why private trackers are so sought after. I'll eventually try to get into some smaller ones which tend to be pretty easy to do.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so because it requires you to provide proof you work there actively, and those who leave are assigned alumni and grandfathered in. It's mainly just lots of PIP and toxicity that is discussed, and memeing about how dog shit things are.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Even within SF there's plenty of great areas, but "peace and tranquility in the sunset district" doesn't make headlines. SF has a ton of problems and I really hope we can fix them in the long term, but they tend to only be in certain parts of the city. Saying all of SF is like this is akin to saying the entire bay area is like SF. They're both massive overgeneralizations.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

I can't think of any neighborhood in SF where I'd choose one of these places over literally anywhere else. Too much good cheap food here.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is already a thing. I'm part of a 25k person Discord server for Amazon/AWS employees both current and former. We often discussed a ton about the company's inner workings, navigating the toxic AF environment, and helping people find other jobs. Nothing ever trade secret level, but that Discord would give any competitor a massive leg up in direct competition with Amazon.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

I mean I live in the most expensive region of the US and live pretty comfortably, but go off paying to see ads and have content taken from you I guess.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Damn, this looks WAY better than when I used Thunderbird in 2020. Gonna have to give it another try on my work laptop since I use Outlook there.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

No. The majority are taking federally illegal drugs in some capacity.

73% have taken weed in some form in the past year according to a quick Google search compared to 43% of Americans. The California bay area (tech capital of the world) is also very open minded to drugs. I've been to many parties here with people openly using cocaine, shrooms, molly, and acid. Never felt unsafe or concerned for anyone because even at large parties (500+ people) people are always looking out for others and keeping everyone safe.

I honestly didn't believe recreational cocaine use was a thing until moving here and it absolutely blew my mind. I'll personally never touch it, but to each their own.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Obviously this is anecdotal, but of my friends in tech (early to late 20s) I'm the only one who has not used hallucinogens or psychedelics. I don't think a single one of their salaries (not TC) are under $150k.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

This is fair, but it's at least broken up so they can selectively gut the parts of it they don't like instead of having to figure out what a 300 line method named "process" does.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I had to rewrite our entire scheduling system at work to use Outlook instead of Google Calendar. The guy who wrote the Google Calendar scheduling system made it so unmaintainable that it was faster to just rewrite the entire thing from scratch (1000+ line lambda function with almost 0 abstraction).

At least 90% of what I wrote is just exception handling. There's ~15 different 4xx/5xx errors that can be returned for each endpoint, but only 1 or 2 200 responses.

[–] JDubbleu@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not to mention people saying, "just ignore every major metro in the US which happens to make up a majority of the population" in response to housing being expensive is ignoring that most people are dealing with housing being way too fucking expensive. Like sure if I go buy a plot of dirt with a house 2 hours from a major population center then of course it'll be affordable. Too bad there's 0 jobs out there and 0 reason to live in the sticks for most people.

274 million people live in or near population centers, with only ~57 million living in rural areas. We can't just ignore that the places with most of the people are becoming unaffordable due to draconian zoning policy and lack of government push for more housing.

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