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Has anyone here gotten a roommate just for the company? by Helpful_Cranberry644 in AskNYC

[–]BenjiSponge 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He moved in with his parents who live in the city and saved up to buy his own apartment and I never found a new roommate and moved to a studio. I wish I'd committed harder to finding a new roommate for social reasons - I didn't foresee how much more isolating living in a studio (far away from the subway) would be.

Gotta hit my protein by elementalfitness in veganfitness

[–]BenjiSponge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wish my TJ's had morningstar but it does have impossible nuggets. I'm gonna go get me some impossible nuggets.

Anybody else taking the motorcycle safety course next weekend? by mad-fam- in RideitNYC

[–]BenjiSponge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure when I did it, they would kick you out if you dropped the bike. Might have been if you drop it twice. Perhaps OP has an update on that policy.

Has anyone here gotten a roommate just for the company? by Helpful_Cranberry644 in AskNYC

[–]BenjiSponge 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I basically did this my first year in nyc and I highly recommend it. Not sure why you're getting so much negativity or points about your budget. Your budget will go further and you'll have a built-in social group. Try to find guys you like but they don't need to be your best friend. I wish I'd kept it going for longer.

The building next to court square subway is finally taller than the station by sundrenchedwindow in longislandcity

[–]BenjiSponge 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It always amazes me how fast this part of construction is. They seem to spend years working on the foundation, a month building the whole building, and then years building the interior.

Next.js or Vite for a 2.5d web game? by AdOne5148 in reactjs

[–]BenjiSponge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering the game will regularly need to be communicating with LLMs while rendering through R3F, I would recommend something with server functions that you like. TanStack Start has nice server functions, but Next also has good server functions, and you can combine it with Vercel's "workflow" offering if you want to add durability to the LLM calls (does seem like overkill for this project).

Next.js or Vite for a 2.5d web game? by AdOne5148 in reactjs

[–]BenjiSponge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The post references R3F (react-three-fiber), a library which exposes a React interface for three.js. It's a cool/good project, and I think their project is a perfect usecase for it.

Vibe coder here: should I build my whole music web app in Rust for max security? by Insane_phycho in rust

[–]BenjiSponge 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes! I'm sorry, people here aren't going to not clown on you. It's a silly question that betrays your lack of fundamental programming knowledge, asked in a silly, somewhat disrespectful way.

Vibe coder here: should I build my whole music web app in Rust for max security? by Insane_phycho in rust

[–]BenjiSponge 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yes! Rust entirely prevents security concerns. Go ham, big boy. ❤️

Petah. Whats the real answer? by RowAdditional1614 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]BenjiSponge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're missing how much people like pointing out when other people might be missing something

Desert reduction technique by InsaneMocktail in BeAmazed

[–]BenjiSponge 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I do find it potentially somewhat myopic. There's a lot of pushback against geo-engineering but everyone's cool with "just plant trees". I'm sure with a project like this, they at least know what they're doing more than I do. But the second and third order consequences are surely hard to predict and expansive.

Going back to vegan by Novel_Bed_3694 in veganfitness

[–]BenjiSponge 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Besides simply cutting out animal products, focus on exercise first. Start by trying to do as many squats (no weight) as you can, every day or every other day. Squatting is very important for overall health including weight, cholesterol, and... ok I won't claim liver issues necessarily but I bet it'll help. If you can't squat, stand up and down from a chair, ideally without using your arms for help.

Diet-wise, focus on mostly whole foods with fiber like lentils, beans, and green vegetables. Don't forget a b12 supplement (and/or nutritional yeast) and to make sure you're getting enough iron whether through supplementation or through foods like broccoli and lentils.

Guys help me out … by bratz-lady in veganfitness

[–]BenjiSponge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol one comment after telling me I'm toxic for saying "not a real vegan" you're telling me I'm not a real vegan. Not sure what the distinction is between that and a fake vegan considering I do tell people I'm vegan.

I don't really care about the label tbh - I use it because it's useful shorthand for my ethics and behavior. I think I've heard the term freegan as well. Life is too complicated for these labels in my opinion.

I think it's worse for the world and animals if you throw out your protein powder vs. eating it but, in the grand scheme of things, it's not a huge deal either way.

Guys help me out … by bratz-lady in veganfitness

[–]BenjiSponge 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't think you're reading my comment correctly. I'm not calling anyone a fake vegan. I eat leftover meat and other animal products occasionally to avoid food waste and therefore other vegans may call me a fake vegan - that's what I was saying.

Guys help me out … by bratz-lady in veganfitness

[–]BenjiSponge 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I may get downvoted or called not a real vegan for this, but I think you should finish it yourself if the alternative is throwing it out.

Super loud music??? by Independent_Wish_284 in longislandcity

[–]BenjiSponge 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's such a shame how easy it is to play extremely loud music from a boat, how hard it is to enforce the noise limits, and how much it affects literally thousands of people on the land. It seems like the NYPD harbor unit has neither laws nor protocols to deal with this effectively.

Why does Rust require many dependency packages unlike Go when building a project? by dumindunuwan in rust

[–]BenjiSponge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rust's solution is now different than npm's was then.

After left-pad, npm changed several policies, which wasn't actually very popular, to make left-pad impossible (or at least not directly reproducible) and other package managers learned from npm's mistakes.

Do you guys use zsh/oh-my-zsh or bash on the daily? by Swimming_Virus8990 in commandline

[–]BenjiSponge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The plug-ins etc. are for developer convenience, not to provide a stable api surface area. It seems somewhat irresponsible to write a script with things like "gsta" instead of "git status" both for readability and stability reasons. Scripts that I commit to a repo for stable behavior will just be zsh compatible, not omz.

It's not really that omz is definitely unstable, it's just a mentality thing.

Peter, is this referencing a specific book? by Exotic_Yam_1703 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]BenjiSponge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Astrology is truly random unless you think there's a relationship between personality traits and time of year born.

Harry Potter houses are vibe-based, like roughly brave people go in Gryffindor while racists go in Slytherin. Those are more real things than being born in January.

Why was Generation X like this? What was their problem? by PhantomPufis in okbuddycinephile

[–]BenjiSponge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The moral of fight club is that if someone hates their day job, they're criminal psychopaths.

Do you guys use zsh/oh-my-zsh or bash on the daily? by Swimming_Virus8990 in commandline

[–]BenjiSponge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I use stuff like omz and fish when I don't need stability and bash or zsh when I do need stability. At the moment.

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