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  1. Comment on Does anyone have any advice for new dads? in ~life.men

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    I think that's simple but powerful advice: Put your mobile away. I see so many dads who are bored with their babies and study their phones all the time. I don't think they're bad dads, I just...

    I think that's simple but powerful advice: Put your mobile away. I see so many dads who are bored with their babies and study their phones all the time. I don't think they're bad dads, I just think they're struggling with old (and bad) habits.

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  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Total War Warhammer 3 and Three Kingdoms. I know, I'm late to the party but I don't play much anymore. Both games are fantastic. Warhammer has amazing battles, and Immortal Empires is the nicest...

    Total War Warhammer 3 and Three Kingdoms. I know, I'm late to the party but I don't play much anymore.

    Both games are fantastic. Warhammer has amazing battles, and Immortal Empires is the nicest sandbox ever. I still need to fully understand 3K, but it feels like it has the same strengths as Shogun 2 and then some more (and Shogun 2 is my favorite TW of them all next to Rome 2!).

    3 votes

  3. Comment on How to get into photography? in ~hobbies

  4. Comment on How bad are Nvidia GPUs for Linux really? in ~comp

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    Okay, I'm glad to see it's not just me...

    Okay, I'm glad to see it's not just me...

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  5. Comment on Job search blues in ~talk

  6. Comment on Science fiction or fantasy recommendations for children in ~books

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    I read the Hobbit and LotR for the first time when I was 9, and I loved it. So I think it's a good recommendation.

    I read the Hobbit and LotR for the first time when I was 9, and I loved it. So I think it's a good recommendation.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Job search blues in ~talk

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    I don't agree with the gatekeeping here, but I also think there's some truth to it. There is a certain point when the easy jobs are not required anymore. For example, our content team can now do...

    I don't agree with the gatekeeping here, but I also think there's some truth to it. There is a certain point when the easy jobs are not required anymore. For example, our content team can now do things with ChatGPT that used to be work for interns or juniors. Automation tools have also become really good. For example, I've seen Zapier being used as infra for a whole company unit. No dev required.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Alien: Romulus | Official trailer in ~movies

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    The trailer looks really good. I love all Alien movies except for Alien 3. I even liked Covenant. So this is something I'm looking forward to.

    The trailer looks really good. I love all Alien movies except for Alien 3. I even liked Covenant. So this is something I'm looking forward to.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Thoughts on PHP routing strategies in ~comp

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    I am sorry then. I did not interpret your post like this. Also, those are highly subjective points. I worked with the technologies you mentioned, and I pretty much prefer Symfony over Rails, which...

    I am sorry then. I did not interpret your post like this. Also, those are highly subjective points. I worked with the technologies you mentioned, and I pretty much prefer Symfony over Rails, which is also batteries included and ships with Doctrine - an amazing ORM - and TWIG - an equally amazing templating solution. I also disagree that TS is better than PHP. (For context: I like both TS and PHP, only worked very little with Ruby, and my favorite language is Go.)

    2 votes

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  12. Comment on Thoughts on PHP routing strategies in ~comp

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    Strange question. If you're productive with a stack or language, it's fine to use it. As for PHP... It's a good, performant language with a stable ecosystem and good package management (PHP v7+)....

    Strange question. If you're productive with a stack or language, it's fine to use it. As for PHP...

    • It's a good, performant language with a stable ecosystem and good package management (PHP v7+).
    • It has Symfony and Laravel which are both amazing.
    • It has good tooling.
    • It's easy to deploy.
    • There are many PHP devs out there which makes handovers easy.
    • There are tons of PHP projects out there which makes it easy (or easier) to find work.

    Really, the only thing that speaks against PHP for web dev are very specific requirements. And if you have them, you probably know that.

    16 votes

  13. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    A colleague of mine says that she liked it very much. But I'm not that much into negotiation, it was more like a one-time fun read for me

    A colleague of mine says that she liked it very much. But I'm not that much into negotiation, it was more like a one-time fun read for me

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

  15. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I liked the Voss book as well, although I found his constant self promotion tiresome.

    I liked the Voss book as well, although I found his constant self promotion tiresome.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    I don't understand why it sends a red flag to you that I want to try something, but still thanks for the advice. And for containers in general, I dockerize all my projects anyway. I just like to...

    I don't understand why it sends a red flag to you that I want to try something, but still thanks for the advice. And for containers in general, I dockerize all my projects anyway. I just like to have a lot of stuff outside of containers. For example, Go and Node so that I can quickly test some stuff in my terminal.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    Yeah, dev containers sound interesting and I will probably try them at some point.

    Yeah, dev containers sound interesting and I will probably try them at some point.

  18. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    I didn't hear good things about it, though.

    I didn't hear good things about it, though.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    I didn't know about Stow, thanks a lot. :)

    I didn't know about Stow, thanks a lot.

    and pinky promise it's fine to run it with sudo

    :)

    2 votes

  20. Comment on How do you organize your Linux packages? in ~comp

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    That's a fantastic idea, thank you. Also thanks for your advice in general, it sounds reasonable. And yes, Homebrew is probably the best reason to develop with a Mac. It's great.

    I have a small script that sets all my important bitwarden secrets to ENV variables when I need to. It works well enough for my purposes.

    That's a fantastic idea, thank you. Also thanks for your advice in general, it sounds reasonable. And yes, Homebrew is probably the best reason to develop with a Mac. It's great.

    1 vote