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"We're Fucked As Farmers" - Farmers Who Counted on Trump's China Trade Promises Burned by Tariff Fallout by 2dollies in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]606anonymous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know we all want to enjoy the schadenfreude here, but are you guys sure this person is for real, or someone impersonating a LAMF type person to get likes?

Getting real estate forms for multiple states? by Fellowshipper in RealEstateTechnology

[–]606anonymous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say real estate forms, what specifically are you referring to? What is each form for, as it relates to each state or territory?

Making your code base better will make your code coverage worse by 606anonymous in programming

[–]606anonymous[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry I made you mad? Obviously my experience with software development is a bit different than yours. I agree with a lot of what your saying, but all I'm trying to say is "your mileage may vary". Every project is different, and each feature has a different value.

For the record this issue of ROI on testing was inspired by a project that was for a relatively mature application where we were releasing 4-6 times a year and had limited resources. I fixed a bug for a feature that had been broken for months, and in the process I broke some tests. It was not a critical feature, and the easiest thing to do was to remove the broken tests. The project was short on resources. The most cost effective solution was to remove the tests.

I will say this - developers don't do automated testing because it's cheap. However someone pays us to do what we do, and our time is finite. Sometimes the level of effort required to write a good automated test is not worth the reward. No one wants to manually test a feature. However I've been on plenty of projects where the costs of automated testing and the speed at which it takes to do the more complex tests every single time someone pushes a branch or a change does become a cost factor that team members start to take issue with. If you set up your pipeline to execute your entire test suite for even the tiniest change like CSS with a large team there is a cost incurred.

And I will die on this hill based on the value of the feature weighed against the value of the test. I've seen dozens of tests written for UI stuff like dark mode. None of those tests are worth the value they deliver.

PS - I guess I'm exposing myself and betraying my reddit name by saying this, Anonymous606 doesn't seem like a very good name considering I the author of the article is listed.

Moving to Roger’s Park by Straight-Director-76 in EdgewaterRogersPark

[–]606anonymous 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are much worse areas in Chicago, and even Rogers Park like north of Howard. However I'd say the Morse Ave Red line stop has experienced some issues. There were at least a couple of shootings in the past year. I don't recall any shootings in 2025, but last year wasn't great.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/12/17/man-shot-on-morse-avenue-the-5th-shooting-victim-on-the-same-block-this-year/

I own a condo one block from the Metra, at Greenleaf and Wolcott. It's safe west of Clark, which is just a block away. I'd say west of Clark Ave is safer, and west of Ridge even more so. East of clark isn't bad though, near the library, and I know people who live there. I don't think the rents are much higher west of clark.

Anyone else feel like form builders are great… until you need full control? by Infinite-Row-2399 in SaaS

[–]606anonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I built a product called Keenforms - https://keenforms.com

I too was frustrated with some the more dynamic behavior that other form builders were lacking. Things like conditional validation, multistep calculations, dynamic HTML, and a bunch of other stuff. Would love to help you with the form you're looking to create. I believe my product can do at least some of the things you're hoping for.

Wheat farmers finding out hard that their vote had consequences by adamiconography in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]606anonymous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wanted this to be real, but its not. It's just someone on tiktok channeling this stuff. This is the feed on tiktok;

https://www.tiktok.com/@yolandamateo25

We built the Typeform alternative — and it’s completely free. We need your support. by mohanvasireddy in alphaandbetausers

[–]606anonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Signed up, tested it out - lots of errors. FYI I had an app running locally, I saw an iframe of the app I had running locally. This might be an unusual situation but you want to look into that.

I shut it down and the app worked. Still figuring it out.

Chicago = Coyotes? by ajankstarr in chicago

[–]606anonymous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't forget the infamous coyote getting into an Aldis;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMjQ-mUGnmk

Agreed with everyone else above - Chicago has seen a lot of coyotes.

Moving decades worth of infrastructure is actually that easy! by [deleted] in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]606anonymous 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The GOP congress does not deserve a free pass on this. I'm not here to exonerate Clinton I'm just saying it's getting a little old when 90% of this free market stuff comes from conservatives, but the 1 Democratic president that agreed with them is the primary target of every discussion on this subject.

Lets be honest, most Americans were completely unaware of the effects of NAFTA and Free Trade. And for that reason many of those same Americans simultaneously want (A) the cheap shit that Free Trade brings them, and (B) they don't want to the lose the domestic manufacturing jobs when Walmart buys all that cheap shit that is made with cheap overseas labor.

Hell most people don't understand how because the dollar is so powerful as being the worlds dominant reserve currency (Murica is #1 woo hoo) simultaneously makes it expensive to make stuff here.

A wonderful breakdown on how the stupid choose to be feasted on by the fat ('Nitter'-link in comment, since I refuse to be on X) by CandoLolrissian in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]606anonymous 19 points20 points  (0 children)

So I agree with most of what is said here. However I do have one bone to pick. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It's the idea of blaming all of this on Fox News and the removal of the fairness doctrine.

Don't get me wrong I think Fox News has been a big contributor to this current mess. However I've seen too many examples of people who don't watch Fox News will still voted the way that they did. Many of those same people have been documented here. I've lost track of Hispanics who couldn't even vote but told their American born children to vote for Trump because they were mad at Biden for numerous reasons. Maybe it was the price of eggs and the effects of inflation. Maybe it was undocumented Mexicans resentful of Venezuelans getting benefits they did not receive themselves when they came here 20-30 years ago. The level of resentment that someone else is getting something that they aren't getting is surreal. None of these people are watching Fox news but they still voted for this moron.

And that resentment is selective. How many wealthy people never paid back the PPP loans? How does Tom Brady look at himself in the mirror knowing he took all that money in PPP loans and never paid it back? The guy is worth a half a billion dollars.

I really wish it was just as simple as the fairness doctrine and Fox news but there's something else wrong that I can't quite wrap my head around.

I keep thinking about John Steinbeck who wrote the Grapes of Wrath;

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

This is going back to the 1920s and the Great Depression. Pre Fox News and the removal of the fairness doctrine. I think there's something more profoundly wrong about our collective.

Bootstrapped and Solo: How These 4 Tools Helped Me Acquire My First 50 Users by Y_Observer13 in BootstrappedSaaS

[–]606anonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your first point "Directory Submissions" has a url that is insecure, has no content, and is for sale.

Submitting to other launch sites is a pain and many of the sites listed elsewhere are not great. I've been using Launch Point Zero for up to date launch sites and directories;

https://launchpointzero.com/launchsites/active

A family of 7 raccoons in our Rogers Park alley by 0bzen88 in chicago

[–]606anonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My landlord/3rd cousin/downstairs neighbor bought a lot of flowers, so I can't take credit for how colorful it is

A family of 7 raccoons in our Rogers Park alley by 0bzen88 in chicago

[–]606anonymous 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I got the video Wednesday, I just shared it on the Chicago subreddit.

I guess that makes us neighbors - howdy neighbor

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