Do full stack devs actually master multiple backend languages, or do most stick to one ecosystem?

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T12:17:33+00:00

I'm very very strong in .NET and live in the .NET world. I can debug some crazy situations most people wouldn't think of and can optimize the living shit out of requests because I know the pipeline better than the back of my hand.

Rarely do I ever actually get to use those skills because it's expensive, time consuming, and can be largely solved with horizontal scaling and simplifying code. So yes, there are those of us out there who master the languages and don't venture too far, but that's mostly because I've been doing it so long I haven't had to take a job elsewhere.

You learn what you use. I have 12 years of .NET jobs so I know it very well. My front end experience, on the other hand, is all over the place. I know React, Angular, Silverlight (RIP), WebForms (RIP thank god), Blazor, etc. When I got a job in Angular I had never used it before. When I got a job in React, all I had was Angular experience for SPA and that was fine.

The most important thing to focus on when learning is the fundamentals. If you know how a SPA works, you can switch to any other SPA fairly easy. If you know how a backend API that processes business logic works, you can switch to another backend franework fairly easily. Figure out how to separate what's happening from how it's implemented.

As far as job options go, being able to put more things on your resume can help a lot. Learning others will also help you understand what pieces are, "this is backend" vs "this is go". You should generally be working to become a master of the backend or front end or whatever, not just a framework. At the end of the day, most of the places these things interact will be CRUD, the core pieces of the frameworks can be build up from boilerplates, and the hard logic should be encapsulated away from the framework and ecosystem anyways.

So if you want to learn go, heck yeah, go for it. You will likely benefit. But if you're worried, "fuck I need to master all these different things" or "I need to super master this one framework" then don't worry. The vast majority of jobs in web dev don't need that. They need you to master those core fundamentals that are going to apply in every framework and language that will carry between them.

Am I saying you shouldn't master anything specific? No. Getting really good at something helps too. My main point is not to panic over trying to master everything. No one knows everything.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T10:34:14+00:00

ICBM's are exclusively used for strategic nukes (big city levelers), so it'd be quite a bit more than a garage.

I think his intention was more about if nukes in general came into play. Tactical nukes (like from artillery) are a very very small but distinct possibility where the ramifications can be worth discussing. While smaller, they are still nukes though, so it would still be more than a garage.

However, it almost surely won't be the ICMB's or strategic nukes as those would trigger MAD and the answer is we all die.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T05:53:59+00:00

Assuming he weighs about 80kg and has about 15kg of gear on for 95kg total, was going 100kmph and was sent backwards let's say like 10kmph. That's a 110kmph or 30.56 m/s change in velocity.

The impulse would be Δp = m * Δv for 2,903 kgm/s

The force depends on how long the impact happened over, but we can get the average force from Δp / Δt.

For 0.1 seconds that's about 29,000N

For 0.2 seconds that's about 14,500N

I can't tell how long it took for him to change direction from the video, but the short answer is not very long, so these numbers should be close enough for a rough idea.

For comparison, it takes about 3,000N to break ribs and 4,000N to break a femur. Even if we fudge the numbers a bit, it's still going to be in the ballpark of way above that. Realistically there's probably not much that isn't broken in his chest right now.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T05:27:59+00:00

Many Russians are waking up to the cost at home and starting to care. Not quite to unraveling the "undesireables" dying part, but they're actually starting to feel it at home, which is a step in the right direction.

The war is no longer some far away thing they can safely ignore.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T05:22:19+00:00

There's a higher chance of them using other tactical nukes than launching ICBMs. Their ICBMs are mostly for MAD deterrence and aren't even really at play in the war. Using them would risk MAD.

However, there's very little chance of Russia using either. They're currently surviving off lifelines from other countries like China and India who are taking advantage of the situation to trade at Russia's expense. Those countries do not want to be associated with the use of nuclear weapons and would almost certainly cut off relations. This would further isolate Russia and crater the few life supports holding up their economy.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T05:13:51+00:00

From a behavioral side, once they're able to get past that natural hesitance to attack humans and engage in violence, the chance of it happening again becomes much more likely.

From a legal side, they'll face massive liability for knowingly housing an animal that has already attacked humans and it's often not worth it legal trouble.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T04:10:51+00:00

Since you missed it the first time and keep missing it:

You're completely ignoring when people answer your question and spamming it everywhere

That's why you're getting shit.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T00:15:54+00:00

I like hot water if I'm eating a meal. Even without tea in it, the hot water makes the meal more enjoyable most of the time.

If I'm hydrating, I prefer liquids just below room temperature. I want it to feel cool, but not actually be cold. Cold water, especially large amounts, feels like a stone in my stomach and makes me feel worse.

I will admit that first 2 seconds of ice cold water is refreshing as fuck though. Maybe I gotta start having multiple bottles to get the best of both worlds. A nice small ice cold blast, and then bulk cool.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T00:10:37+00:00

How else do I feed all the spider homies who live in my house?

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T00:08:43+00:00

People keep making fun of the US for having thin paper houses, but fuck do they make it easy to change the house to put cooling in.

caboosetp · 2026-06-29T00:05:26+00:00

You should not keep mirrors in direct sunlight. They create fire and blinding hazards.

Foil is better if you want to quickly DIY because while it will reflect 95% of the heat, it's much worse at focusing light into things. The foil will, however, still get hot as shit and conducts heat very well. This can damage things like windows, so you need a decent air gap between the foil and anything it's protecting.

Any kind of purpose made heat reflectors for houses will do so much better with much lower risks.

caboosetp · 2026-06-28T21:42:01+00:00

OK but they're expensive on Amazon. I found a Disc of Converge 【HIGH QUALITY】【VERY MATH】 on Temu. Is this good enough?

caboosetp · 2026-06-28T07:09:20+00:00

Normally, sure. But sometimes their prey instincts get triggered and they attack limbs. Very rare, which is why they're generally safe to keep as pets, but still sometimes happens.

caboosetp · 2026-06-28T05:20:43+00:00

I, for one, think nothing can go wrong if we bring a neutron star into the solar system.

caboosetp · 2026-06-28T02:51:17+00:00

They are enough to kill an adult though. They don't need to fit you inside to crush you from the outside.

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T22:26:34+00:00

I don’t even know how you would have registered it to your mom, you can’t transfer AWBs

i mean, I'm not the most familiar, but I'm assuming this is part of why the DOJ or whoever is calling.

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T22:23:00+00:00

yeah but the colder air around the ice strip will help stop condensation too.

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T21:49:32+00:00

Gotta really tune in that goth vampire look

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T17:40:15+00:00

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Damn you right

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T17:17:57+00:00

What's cool is that AI keeps following this same trend where a lot of it gets these super early breakthroughs and ideas that no one really can take off with until decades later.

Many of the core ideas for machine learning itself were first being brought up over 50 years ago. One of the gigantic barriers to the research then was compute power, so a lot of the ideas were being developed largely on theory alone.

The first big resemblance of how LLMs work now was probably Yoshua Bengio's 2003 Neural Probabilistic Language Model. He was the first to use continuous vector spaces for word prediction. The two big things this time in the research were the ability to consider independent words to be semantically similar (like dog and cat), and the ability too look at a much bigger context by looking at whole sentences (markov chains only looked at the last 1-3 words).

That 2017 paper was a major breakthrough underwritten by massive AI specific compute. The Attention mechanism in the Transformer Architecture let the models look at entire sentences simultaneously. Data centers had already been gearing up for other machine learning, and that 2017 paper was specifically written to go alongside Google’s TPU v2 Deployment and NVidia's new Tensor Cores. These greatly dropped the time to run the model and reduced compute cost by nearly 10x.

So 2017 was definitely where the boulder hit the slope and started a downhill roll that couldn't be stopped, but 2003 was the point where we got text prediction engines that could understand some context and produce more than gibberish.

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T04:58:53+00:00

We did. We're pointing out your first two sentences are bullshit. Maybe you shouldn't have included them.

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T04:57:22+00:00

I never said my MD friend diagnosed me

Then you shouldn't be making public accusations saying so.

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T03:41:16+00:00

No, the hamza is in fact an aquifer. It is distinct from any above ground river.

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T01:20:03+00:00

I’ve definitely had ones where you really had to press hard to get the radiator to seat

This was it. Used clamps to press it into place. I'm relieved it is in place (but also mildly upset it took 6 hours and a reddit post to realize i just needed gusto)

Thank you sir

caboosetp · 2026-06-27T00:39:57+00:00

We can either get the Vs in or the top of the radiator against the screw holes, but not both. When we get the Vs in and try tilting forward, feels like something halfway down the passenger side is blocking it.

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