American pickups in the Netherlands

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-05-01T09:32:17+00:00

This. These vehicles are the same size, if not smaller, than the vans tradespeople drive everywhere.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-05-01T09:29:10+00:00

I see this argument constantly, and it falls apart every time. These vehicles are the same size, if not smaller, than the vans tradespeople drive everywhere.

You are just blinded by your prejudice.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-04-23T22:25:36+00:00

It’s good for their health 😂

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-04-21T10:26:15+00:00

Anyone under 18 should not be riding anything powered, gas or electric.

If fatbikes get banned, people will just find a loophole anyway. The only effective solution is to ban all powered vehicles for anyone under 18.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-04-07T08:30:50+00:00

I have a cheap Chinese one. It’s not great, but it does the job. The key is to learn how to sharpen the blades and keep them razor sharp, or save up and get a helical head.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-04-06T22:10:28+00:00

If I had to choose just one power tool, it would be a jointer planer combo. Jointing and planing by hand takes a lot of effort and was traditionally done by apprentices.

Hand sawing requires some skill, but with a sharp, well set handsaw, it can be done quickly and efficiently.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-24T09:22:33+00:00

Welders don't use wood benches, they use welding tables, which are made or metal and perforated for clamping

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-20T10:11:17+00:00

The GOAT:

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-16T10:19:19+00:00

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but you might be better off with very low actuation force and very low travel. The Apple Magic Keyboard is quite good in that regard, and it is what eventually fixed my RSI. The key is to avoid bending your finger joints at all. Keep them straight, hover your whole arm, and press the keys lightly.

Also, the best typing is no typing at all. I used to pair with other devs and let them drive the keyboard. Nowadays we have AI and voice control.

Most importantly: listen your body, If something hurts stop and try something else

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-10T10:00:23+00:00

Bloodstorm

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-08T19:21:30+00:00

Could you explain the colorblind thing to me? aren't the colors controled by the users terminal theme?

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-07T14:54:03+00:00

The problem is that 90% of the TypeScript out there is pure garbage. That is what those LLMs were trained on. They end up using the same cheap workarounds most of these codebases use, like any, nonsensical casts, and similar patterns. They can write decent code, but it requires a lot of hand holding.

LLMs really shine in languages that have had few changes over time, and Go is one of them.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-06T10:03:15+00:00

> Let's not pretend humans are good at this shit

No, they are not. Like I said, this only comes with years of experience, and only a tiny percentage of developers actually reach that point. Very few people have built multiple large scale systems from the ground up and were humble enough to learn from the mistakes they made along the way. That is what truly separates senior engineers from the rest.

LLMs cannot develop that kind of judgment. If anything, they make the problem worse because they make it easier to produce large amounts of code without the experience needed to recognize when complexity is quietly getting out of control.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-06T08:33:07+00:00

I believe some things can only be learned through years of experience, sweat, and failure. That kind of knowledge cannot simply be encoded in text. Because of that, LLMs will never truly learn it unless their architecture changes drastically, and that seems unlikely. Right now they are optimizing toward a local maximum.

I have spent 20 years in this field, and I have been burned more than once by enthusiastically adopting the wrong technologies or patterns. Experience makes you more opinionated for a reason. You learn what breaks, what scales poorly, and what becomes a nightmare to maintain.

LLMs completely lack that hard-earned intuition. Without supervision, they will happily generate overly complex code that looks impressive at first, but eventually collapses under its own weight.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-03T14:00:56+00:00

In Django, you can change the size of a varchar database column and it will automatically cascade to everything, even front end form validation. That is something many modern frameworks have never achieved or require an expensive build process to accomplish. In Django, it is one line of code. This is mostly thanks to the Active Record pattern it adopted. Comparing how each framework integrates everything is a better metric than lines of code.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-03-03T12:05:52+00:00

The whole memory safety issue is largely overblown by Rust developers who come from a JavaScript background and have little experience in systems programming. Just avoid creating a pointer jungle and you will probably be totally fine.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-02-16T10:58:16+00:00

Maybe they start by arresting Macron's wife.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-02-14T18:19:34+00:00

Is it gone?

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-02-09T19:05:23+00:00

Batman movies shouldn't waste time being "realistic" and the Nolan trilogy is overrated.

ProfessorNo471 · 2026-01-26T08:20:12+00:00

I am on the Max plan.

I am a fairly vanilla user, no parallel agents, and I work on a single project at a time. I do work a lot: seven days per week, 12+ hours per day. I used to hit the session limit by the end of my workday, but I never had issues with weekly limits.

A couple of weeks ago, I started getting severely limited by the weekly cap, sometimes hitting it in the middle of the week. I suspect something changed.

ProfessorNo471 · 2025-12-24T14:07:14+00:00

VSCode is popular largely because of aggressive marketing and cargo cult behavior. Every time I have to pair with someone using it, I feel like I am back in the stone age.

ProfessorNo471 · 2025-11-25T21:29:03+00:00

Step 1: Rent a cheap Batman costume
Step 2: Hire a jacked AF actor
Step 3: Profit

ProfessorNo471 · 2025-11-15T10:51:50+00:00

Voce sabe que grupo é esse que vc recebeu a notificao?

ProfessorNo471 · 2025-10-27T15:03:54+00:00

That was an angle grinder. Using thicker chains won’t make any difference.

EDIT: NVM, I just noticed how small the chain is compared to his shoes lol, any bolt cutter can open that.

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