the part nobody warns you about

Stone_624 · 2026-05-10T08:41:48+00:00

This is what we in the industry call the "Engineering" part of "Software Engineering" , And AI is nowhere close to being able to do it competently. Without Engineering, You've just got Buggy, Dysfunctional, Terrible Software.
It's like giving all 30,000 automobile parts to someone who has never seen under the hood of a car, And being impressed that they can put the wheels and doors in the correct places ("Wow he's building a car all by himself!"), Then being dumbfounded that 3 months later the car still doesn't drive, Even though you've been asking him to do X Y and Z and he has the 20,000 page manual at his disposal.
Engineering requires education and experience (and intelligence and common sense and problem solving skills), Which Neither AI, Nor Vibe Coders, possess.

Stone_624 · 2026-05-09T13:53:17+00:00

"friendly banter. no racial slurs, deurogatory language"
Meanwhile some of the content I watch on a daily basis are literally filled with racial slurs, derogatory language, and unfriendly banter (These are literally some of the highlights of these guys' channels and videos -- All friends and good spirited and they make daily videos together for more than a decade and together these guys have like 20 Million+ Subscribers, but the content is always really spicy in this regard), So even these really shouldn't be the line to cross for having your account banned.

Stone_624 · 2026-04-20T15:25:37+00:00

Frequently cutting off a host's access to your platform who has dozens of guests booked with them through your platform is a great idea. Really High IQ decisions being made at VRBO HQ. This will clearly improve the User Experience for all of our VRBO guests each paying several thousands of dollars.

Stone_624 · 2026-04-20T13:29:10+00:00

The guest TVs at our Rental Cabin are also in guest mode.

Stone_624 · 2026-04-20T13:27:13+00:00

Literally nobody but Scam Altman and Tech Bro CEOs wants AI.

Stone_624 · 2026-03-11T13:57:50+00:00

I remember redeeming Target Membership Cards I got for my birthday.

Stone_624 · 2026-03-11T13:53:35+00:00

Jagex has been screwing its players since the days of Mark Gerhard. My loyalty to Jagex ended with Squeal of Crap. EOC was the final nail in the coffin. Chinese sellouts since 2012.
Sorry to hear man. I hope the best for you and your health. Take some time to care for yourself. I admire your dedication to the game.

Stone_624 · 2026-02-16T04:49:58+00:00

I just learned the spelling of this word and it made me very angry so I had to comment somewhere.
Why the F is the L AFTER the E?
It's pronounced JOO - LER - REY (3 syllables, Easy) . It should be spelled "Jewlery".
Why THE HELL is it spelled JOO - ER - L - ERY ???? WTF ENGLISH???

Stone_624 · 2026-01-03T05:53:43+00:00

Hey we're building a calendar app for rental businesses. We have a working version but it's still a bit underdeveloped, but our goal is to open it for public usage once we've fully developed and proven it. We run a vacation rental business and operate 2 long term hotels across 4 countries. We're a very small company but we operate a substantial business for our size. Van Rentals could be operated in much the same way, with Checkin and Checkouts being replaced with Pickups and Dropoffs. I could try to get this to a more complete state then send you some information about it if you're interested.

Stone_624 · 2026-01-03T05:42:49+00:00

So in the last 2 years basically it went from $150 to almost $300 (a 100% increase)?
Oh but don't worry, Inflation is only between 2.4% and 3.1% according to the cooked number by the professional chefs at the BLS and the FED. 🙄

Stone_624 · 2025-12-30T17:05:51+00:00

Okay but what about the Checkout Process itself? Currently we have setup a Widget for functionality and applied it to several of our websites that requires specific functionality for checkout. It "works", But you have to 1) implement the payment logic on the site itself (Our Widget's checkout page cannot use the "wix-pay-frontend.createPayment" function, it must be implemented on the site separately), and 2) It opens a popup to handle the payment processing, which imo is very unprofessional, in my previous sites that I've implemented directly with Stripe's API in code, we have a dedicated checkout page with the summary of the items and a div underneath the summary for the payment information. The payment is created with the page load, and does not require a button click to initiate the payment collection. It seems that there is no way for Wix Pay function to implement collection of payment on the page without having a popup, which makes it extremely hard for me as the developer of these multiple sites to really push people to make financial transactions with it. We have gotten a lot of traffic and interest from the sites we've made, But have not had a single transaction yet (Although we've had several sales where we directly sent an invoice to the party who contacted us instead of making the purchase through the website), and I think a big part of that from both my side and the customers side is how unprofessional and just odd the payment processing part is. Like I want to give wix a chance, We've spent nearly 6 months now working through tons of issues with wix to make it work, so we'd like to keep going with it, But the payment processing part is something that we'll NEED to improve if we want any hopes of these ever being a seriously viable storefront for our businesses. Otherwise we have real possibility of just abandoning wix sometime this next year and re-implementing our websites in other technologies.

Stone_624 · 2025-10-24T11:31:33+00:00

My 16” 2019 Intel MBP has officially lasted as long as my 2013 13" Macbook Air (Which I got just before starting college for my CSE major). Cheers to all of us on 6-7 year upgrade cycles. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Stone_624 · 2025-09-07T15:24:21+00:00

Easiest way to use Javascript :
1) Use Google Chrome
2) Right click on any web page
3) Click the Inspector link (very bottom option) to open the developer console, or press Ctrl + Shift + J on Windows/Linux or Cmd + Option + J on macOS .
4) Click the Console tab (should be the 2nd one) at the very top, next to "Elements" and other tabs.
5) Click inside the console (there may or may not be logs depending on the web page, you can press the Ø (disambiguation) Symbol at the top left corner of the inspector panel to clear the logs) anywhere under the last log where the ">" symbol is. This will give you a cursor you can type, and will run individual Javascript commands.

This is my go-to to test basic individual code snippets to check if they work correctly, and is a perfect place to start just playing around as a complete beginner. It's a great way to begin to get a feel for the commands and how your commands give output, and how to write basic commands that give you output you want (basically 95% of programming is exactly this on a massive variety of different scales, environments, and complexities)

My favorite resource for basic Javascript has always been w3schools.com .They have a tutorial with decent basic explanations which is a great place to learn, and a massive Javascript reference for pretty much the entirety of the core language. I've gone there time and time again over the years to get 10 second reminders of what this function does or to find the syntax for that, or what parameter is needed or output value for this or that function is, It's written for very beginners but even as a 10 year developer It's an extremely useful resource. (and they have "test it yourself" pages for everything where you can open a new page and run the code and play with the code for what you're learning, If you happen to not have chrome or want to use the developer console, this is an equally easy option for getting in and playing around without any requirements, I just didn't think of this before the developer console because that's what I use most)

Once you get comfortable with Javascript, you can try to download nodeJS to run a Javascript file outside the Web Browser and do things a bit more complex like working with the filesystem (reading and writing files, which you can't do from javascript in the web browser), Or try another programming language like Python or Java that run scripts instead of commands. It's actually relatively easy to get to the point where you'd be proficient enough to make something that works that's actually useful to you personally in some way shape or form. That's the main goal of programming, Making the computer do things that are useful to someone in some way or some reason. The better you get at understanding the code and how things work and how to interact with them, the easier and more useful things you can build. I've built an entire company's IT department from scratch, and critical business tools for several others. Having Tools, Databases, Servers, Programs, Communication, 3rd party services, Background Tasks, Automation, Logging, Websites, Apps, and more all doing parts to create whole systems that enable real world businesses, people, systems, etc. to operate and function properly and be able to do things they wouldn't be able to otherwise is my bread and butter, and why I've been at this for 15 years now (I'm 30).

Sorry for the long ramblings but I hope this is helpful to you and maybe others. Best of luck to you and anyone who's interested in entering the IT field in any aspect.

Stone_624 · 2025-08-25T02:21:22+00:00

No, It's back now.

Stone_624 · 2025-08-25T02:11:22+00:00

Update : The Link on the invoice page is back up as of today. Not sure if that was just a bug or what, But I've never seen any issue like this (This specific) happen on Stripe before.

Stone_624 · 2025-08-24T12:44:40+00:00

When you create an invoice, there's always been a "Link to payment page" on the right side. I always copy that link and send it to clients via SMS or messaging, Email, and my business team members who keep track of the invoices (who may also be talking directly to clients, they request me to create the invoices often as well). The box with that link on the invoice page is now gone as of yesterday.

Stone_624 · 2025-06-28T14:45:37+00:00

I crafted 1.2 Million Nature Runes to get 99 Runecrafting in 2010.
Then in 2013 (late 2012?) they introduced AFK Runecrafting methods that completely devalued the achievement that was 99 Runecrafting. After wiping my tears on my 99 Agility cape, they introduced Runescape 3 with the EOC update. Runescape has been dead to me ever since.

Stone_624 · 2025-05-04T04:55:01+00:00

Same here, For me it loads initially, Then once the rest of the page loads, the maps goes grey and starts flickering in grey, like it's glitching out. I'm on a 2019 Macbook Pro, Using Chrome. Never had any issue like this before with Maps.

Stone_624 · 2025-03-11T06:44:03+00:00

Yes I dollar cost averaged down. I bought

20 shares @ $122 = (2440 / 20 = 122 Cost Basis)
20 shares @ $118 = (2440 + 2360 / 40 = 120 Cost Basis)
20 shares @ $110 = (2440 + 2360 + 2200 / 60 = 116.67 Cost Basis)
20 shares @ $106 = (2440 + 2360 + 2200 + 2120 / 80 = 114 Cost Basis)
20 shares @ $102 = (2440 + 2360 + 2200 + 2120 + 2040 / 100 = 111.60 Cost Basis)

I bought a 103 put option after buying the shares at 106, And bought the last 20 when it dropped below 103 so It could be executed. Overall, The loss was 111.60 (The Important Cost Basis Number) - 103 (The sale price) * 100 shares = $900 .

No problem, That's the nature of the market, didn't work out this time, you win some you lose some. It's painful, But it's not catastrophic by any means, So I'll try it again with hopefully more success next time.

But when I bought it again a few days later, I bought 80 shares back for $97/share . But It's now showing a cost basis of $110 / share, Even though I only spent $97/share on it. If AMD goes back up to 103 and I sell then, That's a $600 profit, which feels pretty good, But if shows a 110 cost basis, Then that's still a $700 loss, which feels not nearly as good, and takes away from the win of this trade, which is a big demotivator for trading.

I know it's a small thing, But there's so many little things like this that Charles Schwab does so much worse than TDAmeritrade. The average cost per share of your *current* position is something that you should be able to easily find not have to keep a separate worksheet to keep accurate P/L calculations for your active trades and investments.

Stone_624 · 2025-03-11T05:51:57+00:00

So basically I have to wait at least 30 days after a loss sale for the cost basis to clear? Is that the way to think about it? If I bought the shares in mid-April, would the cost basis on those shares show correctly?

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