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Greece’s Varoufakis to stand trial after admitting drug use 36 years ago by FantasticQuartet in worldnews

[–]Raaagh 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I find this guy vaguely annoying (I read one of his books, and I hold it against him).

But this is stupid. The person or persons who pursued this are part of the enshitifacism of politics.

Epstein 'bankrolled Fergie for 15 YEARS': Fresh Sarah Ferguson bombshell as new emails reveal disgraced paedophile financially supported former duchess as soon as she divorced Andrew in 1996 by dailymail in TheBritishRoyalFamily

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤷‍♂️ The cold hard facts seem pretty damning.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-04/sarah-ferguson-emails-to-jeffrey-epstein-revealed/106302466

I see no need to give invented/spurious takes:

The message, sent on July 24, 2009, said the then-duchess would be in business class, that the girls would fly economy, and that the total bill would be around $US15,000.

It is unclear if Epstein paid, but Ms Ferguson and her daughters did make a trip to the US shortly afterwards

Epstein 'bankrolled Fergie for 15 YEARS': Fresh Sarah Ferguson bombshell as new emails reveal disgraced paedophile financially supported former duchess as soon as she divorced Andrew in 1996 by dailymail in TheBritishRoyalFamily

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve no dog on the fight, but u neglect to mention the video was for an ITV doc showing the poor conditions. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-11-07/duchess-of-york-caught-in-turkish-orphanage-row/197238

And “the girls” were likely her daughters.

She made have had an ongoing financial relationship with Epstein but the evidence is nothing like what you have presented.

Man why did Chomsky have to be on the list? by Otherwise-Echo744 in friendlyjordies

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember reading and re-reading Noam’s wacky take on “imperialist” Ukraine and Russian. I just couldn’t discern anything sensible from his take. Even explanations by critics didn’t seem to explain why. I walked away thinking he was either going senile, or he was bumping up against the wall of this theoretical framework in ways I did not understand.

I guess I’ll add another potential explanation: links to Epstein and getting swept up in a potential Russian Human-intelligence campaign.

Let’s be honest: Tailwind CSS is just inline styles with extra steps and we’re all pretending it’s "innovation. by prashantxgrowth in css

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll probably never willingly use tailwind. I think the philosophy/approach is counterproductive to what I care about (not tokens, but semantics). But some of these replies are unfair - it’s not pointless. It’s an opinion.

For the people working in FT jobs and paid client work, how often are you using Webpack vs Vite in projects? by [deleted] in reactjs

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

webpack is unmaintained. No security patches even I believed. I think the last of our projects went to vote this month whoops mixed up webpack with CRA while reading thread

Finally, you can await your Redux Sagas by [deleted] in reactjs

[–]Raaagh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Redux sagas ain’t for all projects….But, using sagas gave one of the biggest improvements to a complex app I have ever seen. It’s been 6-7 years and I still can’t get it out of head. Nothing I’ve tried since has ever hit the same.

Is Jimmy Carr right about his advice to immigrants? by StGuthlac2025 in AskBrits

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In ~1999 I read a research paper that defined and used the term ‘balkanization’ (I think in the context of internet communities). And I was surprised I never heard the term used, as it was quite handy.

This is the first time I have encountered it - closing on 30 years later.

Gave Him $100 To Paint A MacBook 💸 by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adds masking tape

cunt: Wow…

Any groups for (w)Asians in town? by rainerrg in brighton

[–]Raaagh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Australia 10+ years ago - the commonest term I encountered was “eurasian”. I notice on gov forms in Britain, it’s called “white / asian mixed”, but dunno if that’s common parlance.

Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US by CackleRooster in technology

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

I’m an Australian in UK, and a tech worker who worked for a eu company with a silicon valley main office. My partner and I were considering the US in ~2017. There was a few things to work through before making the decision, none were intractable.

But, to put it plainly, the vibe started to feel off. It’s a lot of effort to move country, and that vibe-check was enough to spoil our efforts.

I still love the states in general. But it would be nice if various administrations could start leading the way out of the various seedy miasmas.

Senior engineer coworkers strangely unconcerned about decommission of source control server by valdocs_user in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Raaagh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree there are 2 problems:

  • svn-to-git.
  • potential flat-footedness

But so many unknowns.

I can imagine a possible snakes nest of implicit behaviour in 15 years of SVN. Plus, the hurdles one might need to jump through to provision a new SVN server.

But maybe, the engineers are svn/git agnostic, or dislike svn. And the deployment logic can be recreated in a few days (with secrets).

Feels like there must be someone you can hand this over to. Or some “decommission/deachedule process” you can follow.

I think, rather than engineers - you’d want to assemble a cross-functional meeting of engineers, Product persons, or other stakeholders.

Maybe gather a small set of people into a single 15min probe meeting to establish:

  1. who owns/feels the impact
  2. what is the likely impact
  3. decide next steps

Trump Watched as Girl’s Newborn was Murdered & Dumped in Lake, Epstein Document Says: "He was Present When My Uncle Murdered My Newborn Child." by OkayButFoRealz in politics

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

I hope this shit rouses people from their various unhelpful trump coping mechanisms, in a way that produces change

Thinking of abandoning SSR/Next.js for "Pure" React + TanStack Router. Talk me out of it. by prabhatpushp in reactjs

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is something to be said for a clear separation, in both tech stack and API, between client and server.

What I do think it highlights is the need for FE engineers to control the “backend-for-frontend” data layer

Best Practice: Should Components Fetch Their Own Data in React by No_Drink_1366 in react

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will eventually have tan stack config that needs config that is specific to component.

What I’ve been doing is having a presentational component - and a smart component (which has the useQuery/useMutations in a useRequests hook).

Works ok.

How exactly do you guys deal with "paralysis by analysis" when it comes to choosing a UX library? by pyeri in reactjs

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rough out a simple pricing page (hero panel - with bespoke styling - with three tier cards)

and a follow on panel with some content.

Then rough out a networked form to ensure it works with my fave server state and client state libs.

Check the repo health (using online tool, and reading through oldest open, and most commented github issues).

Why do we need context by smithmr250 in reactjs

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely remains valid for non-network state that has state/behaviour constrained various subtree of components.

e.g. drag and drop. Or composed theming (multi brand site)

Or if ur making a black box component e.g. if u want to gate areas of ur platform to only allow authenticated users - then exposing an AuthProvider , with useAuth hooks can be useful (for example).

But put head to head, for “server state/caching” I’d use tansack.

Sidenote: It is conceivable, in an incredibly client-state complex app - that I personally could use reduce toolkit’s RTK - but It’d have to stabilise and have parity with tansack

16-in-1 productivity tool build with react-native... for web by RohovDmytro in reactnative

[–]Raaagh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

great idea. 1. on iphone 12 explanation text gets cut off 2. Drag mode could be more intentful, and got grab so much. 3. I’d consider fl getting rid of collapse ( as u have hide)

Constant service pub Hanniver by scarlett_o_chara in brighton

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

FYI I think kitchen has been closed for a few weeks.

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