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  1. Comment on No one’s laughing now: ‘Joker Folie à Deux’ falls down with $39m-$40m opening: How the sequel went sideways in ~movies

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    Wait what, how do you get free drinks and snacks at home? :-)

    Wait what, how do you get free drinks and snacks at home? :-)

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Viral hot sauce challenges have fueled a $100 million chile pepper arms race in ~food

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    Getting spicy ingredients here in Switzerland is pretty similar; basically you can't get them in grocery stores, not even the fancy ones. But we do have "Asia" market stores that carry fresh red...

    Getting spicy ingredients here in Switzerland is pretty similar; basically you can't get them in grocery stores, not even the fancy ones.

    But we do have "Asia" market stores that carry fresh red Thai chillies for instance, which is much hotter than anything you can get from typical grocery stores.

    Maybe you have something similar in Germany.

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  3. Comment on Struggling with first dev job - seeking advice in ~tech

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    Regarding "real testing"... I can recommend the testcontainers framework. In a nutshell, with testcontainers you can spin up a real dockerized database instances (or any other docker containters...

    Regarding "real testing"... I can recommend the testcontainers framework. In a nutshell, with testcontainers you can spin up a real dockerized database instances (or any other docker containters for that matter), and then run your tests against these dedicated temporary test instances.

    A lot of times, tests with database interactions - if there are any at all - simply mock what the database is supposed to return, but there is no real database access taking place when running the test. Sometimes, tests also use so-called "in-memory" helper databases to kind of mimick the actual production database; this is already a bit better, but still not the real deal. With testcontainers, you can start a real postgres/mysql/mongodb/etc. database server instance, and run your tests against these instances. This is especially useful if you want to test custom SQL functions or procedures.

    Testcontainers is available for a multitude of programming languages (and also plays together with pytest).

    You mentioned emotional stress and fear of breaking things... As others have already stated, you should not be in that position as a junior dev, especially as a new hire. I can only say that for myself as a senior dev, I would also have constant fear of breaking things if it were not for thorough testing.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on What's your recommended survival crafting game to play solo? in ~games

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    Yeah, I can understand that. Dying is very much part of this game, especially in the beginning :-) If you want to give it another try, I would suggest selecting the starting region "Mystery Lake"...

    Yeah, I can understand that. Dying is very much part of this game, especially in the beginning :-)

    If you want to give it another try, I would suggest selecting the starting region "Mystery Lake" (this was the first region in the game, and is very beginner friendly). For difficulty, choose the lowest or second to lowest. Walk around until you find a railway, then follow that railway until you see a house some 50 yards next to it (called "Camp Office").

    As for what to do... I am sure there are beginner guides on youtube that explain it better, but here is my quick rundown. You need to cover the following needs: warmth, fatigue, hunger, thirst.

    When you spawn, you will not be thirsty, hungry or fatigued. So use your first actions to try and find buildings and pick up any items you find, most notably you will need a knife, a hatchet, matches, a cooking pot and any clothing items. Also pick up any sticks on the ground which can be used to make fires. In easier difficulties, you will most likely find ready made food (chips, jerky, dog food, etc) and sodas to drink. It should be possible to survive many days on that.

    You can sleep inside buildings which often have beds, or you can use your bedroll (press space for quick-dial menu, then choose camp-craft > bedroll). If your building has an oven or stove, you can make fires there, or you can start fires outside on the ground through the camp-craft menu. Use fires to melt snow into water, then boil the water to make it drinkable. You will need a container such as the cooking pot (or empty cans) to melt/boil water. Snow cannot be picked up; whenever there is a fire, you can just select "melt snow"; this works both inside and outside.

    Your first "real" food will be from deer carcasses you find. Carcasses can be harvested for meat using a knife or hatchet. The more frozen the carcass, the longer it will take to harvest. You can place a fire next to it to unfreeze it. Carcasses also have hides and guts. These items must be dried inside a building by placing them on the ground for a few days. Same for birch and maple saplings. Hint: you can move things around by right-clicking them. With these items you will eventually be able to make clothes and even bows/arrows at a workbench. (Be sure to pick up any arrows you find, their metal arrow heads are very valuable in the beginning until you find a forge to create your own arrow heads much later in the game.) With the bow you can then hunt deers & wolves for real. Of course, you might be lucky and find a hunting rifle in the meantime (which has finite ammo, but is nevertheless a good way to start hunting as well).

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  5. Comment on What's your recommended survival crafting game to play solo? in ~games

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    I can very much recommend "The Long Dark"! My recommendation is to play it in "Sandbox" mode instead of "Story" mode. Sandbox mode in this game is not to be confused with "creative mode" as in...

    I can very much recommend "The Long Dark"! My recommendation is to play it in "Sandbox" mode instead of "Story" mode. Sandbox mode in this game is not to be confused with "creative mode" as in Minecraft where you have all items available to you... Sandbox just means you spawn and try to to survive for as long as possible making your own adventure (whereas story mode means you play it with certain objectives in a more kind of linear way).

    I also currently play "Valheim" solo, which is a lot of fun, too.

    18 votes

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

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    I don't have experience, but recently saw a video Photography basics in 10 Minutes which I found very interesting.

    I don't have experience, but recently saw a video Photography basics in 10 Minutes which I found very interesting.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Does emacs or vim have better support for PHP parameter hinting and intellisense? in ~comp

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    I don't really have a recommendation regarding Vim or Emacs. A colleague of mine swears by emacs, and basically does all his tasks (including things like keeping a todo-list) with it. Both are...

    I don't really have a recommendation regarding Vim or Emacs. A colleague of mine swears by emacs, and basically does all his tasks (including things like keeping a todo-list) with it. Both are highly customizable as far as I can tell.

    I just wanted to say - since you mentioned you don't want any heavy editors like Eclipse - you might want to give VS Code a try, yoo. You'll find plenty of extensions for PHP for sure. These extensions can be installed directly from within VS code itself. I am finding myself often editing code in VS Code when I don't want to fire up heavier IDEs like IntelliJ.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Regarding github... I assume you are already using the SSH - and not HTTPS - URL when cloning, but just to be sure, your clone command should look something like this: git clone...

    Regarding github... I assume you are already using the SSH - and not HTTPS - URL when cloning, but just to be sure, your clone command should look something like this:

    git clone git@github.com:your-github-name/your-project.git
    2 votes

  9. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    I'm in the very lucky situation that I live close to an Asian wholesale importer, which supplies basically all Asian stores around here. They also have a shop for regular customers, which receives...

    I'm in the very lucky situation that I live close to an Asian wholesale importer, which supplies basically all Asian stores around here. They also have a shop for regular customers, which receives fresh Thai herbs twice a week.

    I only found out about this store after talking to a Thai chef at a fairground. Do you have Asian/Thai restaurants in your vicinity? Maybe you could ask them where they get their ingredients from.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on The old games that still hold up incredibly well in ~games

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    How do you currently play Wind Waker if I may ask? I am very much hoping that there will be Nintendo Switch port, but I am not sure it is ever going to happen.

    How do you currently play Wind Waker if I may ask? I am very much hoping that there will be Nintendo Switch port, but I am not sure it is ever going to happen.

  11. Comment on Any advice on handling being an engineer at a shrinking team? in ~life

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    Accepting a pay raise and/or senior title and then leaving after 6 months is not rude at all. It seems that you feel obligated to your company, but you must not be. They were not able to grow the...

    Accepting a pay raise and/or senior title and then leaving after 6 months is not rude at all. It seems that you feel obligated to your company, but you must not be. They were not able to grow the team as intended, which should be their problem, not yours. They also did not increase backend compensation for 18 months, either because they simply cannot financially or do not value the developers. Both are valid reasons to start looking for another job.

    Also, if they cannot increase wages, they should at least be able to increase total compensation through shares.

    If you personally feel this company has a good product and you want to stay longer to see if something comes out of it, then I would recommend setting a period (e.g. 6/9/12 months) for yourself to define how long you will be staying. Then after this period, start applying heavily (of course it does not hurt to apply beforehands, too!)

    I wish you all the best.

    16 votes

  12. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    Not that this is anything special, but last week I took the time to marinade steaks overnight and I think it made a big difference. The steaks felt much juicier and tender. I loosely followed a...

    Not that this is anything special, but last week I took the time to marinade steaks overnight and I think it made a big difference. The steaks felt much juicier and tender. I loosely followed a recipe that used lemon juice, olive oil and soy sauce as the main ingredients for the marinade. I never heard or thought of using soy sauce in a steak marinade before either.

    5 votes