Yes, but since volunteering is a thing, they may think they’re in the clear. Doubt they are though.

Sounds illegal.

A book? About programming? Whoa.

Oh I could likely see the difference. But if there’s a significant impact on battery life, I would probably be just fine with the lower resolution.

It would suck if the touchscreen option were only available with a 4K resolution because of that.

Touchscreen? Great!

UHD though? In such a small form factor, it sounds like a needless battery drain. Or are there use cases I’m missing?

What the fuck

Those game wikis are basically the only ones I use an adblocker on. They’re basically unusable on mobile.

I’m gonna be honest, if they used a feature that wasn’t ready for prime time, it’s still on them.

That’s not mileage infuriating, that’s fucking abuse.

Hey, if it consoles you, three quarters of our pure back-end C# developers are as you describe, too.

All the full-stack devs I’ve worked with so far were just back-end developers who write terrible front-end code.

Hmm, I follow the package’s readme and only get invalid command errors.

Gotta install the pip dependencies.

Oh but first you need to create a venv or everything will be global. Why isn’t that local by default like with npm? Hell if I know!

Ah but before that I need to install the RIGHT version of Python. The one I already have likely won’t do. And that takes AGES.

Oh but even then still just tells me the command is invalid. Ah, great, I live CLIs. Now I’ve gotta figure out PATH variables again and add python there. Also pip maybe?

Now I can follow the readme’s instructions! Assuming I remember to manually open the venv first.

But it only gives me errors about missing pieces. Ugh. But I thought I installed the pip dependencies!

Oh, but turns out there’s something about a text file full of another different set of dependencies that I need to explicitly mention via CLI or they won’t be installed. And the readme didn’t mention that, because that’s apparently “obvious”. No it’s not; I’m just a front-end developer trying to run the darn thing.

Okay. Now it runs. Finally. But there’s a weird error. There might be something wrong with my .env file. Maybe if I add a print statement to debug… Why isn’t it showing up?

Oooh, I need to fully rebuild if I want it to show up, and the hot reload functionality that you can pass a command line argument for doesn’t work… Cool cool cool cool.

Python managed to turn me away before I wrote a single line of code.

Running an already functional project took me nearly two hours and three separate tutorials.

It’s not just that the input data is crap. Mostly the issue is that an LLM is a glorified autocomplete. The core of the technology is making grammatically correct sentences. It has no concept of facts or logic. Any impression that it does is just an illusion borne of the word probabilities baked in.

LLMs are a remarkable example of brute-forcing a solution to a problem, but it’s this same brute force that makes me doubt it’ll ever reach the next level.

I’m a front-end developer. I sometimes need to solve algebra problems. I’m pretty bad at it because I , but my knowledge that a problem is solvable by math comes in handy maybe once or twice a month. It’s just that on the few occasions that there’s algebra that I can’t figure out how to solve (maybe once a year), I may ask for help from a colleague.

Examples of cases where math comes in handy:

• Pythagoras when I need to figure out the x/y components of a diagonal distance
• Width/height calculations from a variety of parameters

In summary, as long as you know what math is capable of, you probably won’t have major issues. There will pretty much always be someone around to help with the math part if necessary.

As for calculus… I forgot all about the one calculus class I’ve taken and I’ve never suffered for it.

6 and 9 are huge fan favourites. I hated 6 enough to drop it, and while I did finish 9, man was it mediocre.

10, 13 and 7 are my favourites.

Vue and React are popular alternatives.

Lit is a less popular alternative that’s 100% compatible with native WebComponents, and I’ve been interested in it ever since I first heard of it.

The old version, AngularJS, died. The newer Angular lives on, and I heard it’s a much better experience.

I think the profanity filter used to be non-optional on iOS’s autocorrect.

Yeah, our company has been meaning to transition to them for a while. I started saying Jsdoc comments but people complained about the pollution. Then I said fine, we’ll do TypeScript one day instead.

That one day has yet to come. I don’t actually get to decide much at this company, after all. Aah, technical debt.