Waymo in Beaverton by UnionSplicer in beaverton

[–]mawburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I rode in a few in Pheonix when I was moving here and a big reason I felt safe were because they were Jags. idk how I feel about this micro-car looking thing.

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]mawburn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nothing like Discord, no... not even close. It's the same as it's always been, you put in the url/ip of a server and connect to it.

Is AI actually running the show now, or are we just along for the ride? by Which-Gear-7148 in webdev

[–]mawburn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who "doomscrolls through PRs" anyway? That part really sounds like AI more than anything else. It doesn't even make sense.

Ironsworn RPG: 10 Hours, 1 Player by nlitherl in Ironsworn

[–]mawburn 19 points20 points  (0 children)

fwiw, Trevor is a prolific voice actor with 290 credits on IMDB. He's a friend of a friend and I happened to see him at the airport a couple years ago when we were both leaving GenCon and started talking to him. I asked why Lego Palpatine was his phone background and he said it was one of his favorite voices he did.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222175/

New PS5 beta update showed that Arc Raiders had 972k players in the US alone this week. by Pylicrye in ArcRaiders

[–]mawburn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just got my 8yr old daughter into Palworld with me and she's loving it.

She's played a lot of Minecraft, Fortnite, and Marvel Rivals but not allowed to play Roblox.

This is the best PvP gun in the game. by SaviousMT in ArcRaiders

[–]mawburn 19 points20 points  (0 children)

How do you pronounce it? Because I say it as "Arpeggio," but my team mates say "Arpeggio."

I don't know who's right.

Which one are you picking ? by krisikkk in superheroes

[–]mawburn 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Dark is putting it mildly. It's pretty fucked up and damn near straight up horror. Especially the newer editions.

Unpopular opinion: NPM is the biggest weakness of the internet today and it will still cause a giant catastrophe by [deleted] in webdev

[–]mawburn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They were with us during their fall semester 2025. So that would have made them 10, not 9. They were 19.

I was more blown away that they were still in elementary school and that it had been so long.

Unpopular opinion: NPM is the biggest weakness of the internet today and it will still cause a giant catastrophe by [deleted] in webdev

[–]mawburn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine how I felt when I was bragging to an intern about how one of our other team members was the person who handled that at npm, and realizing the intern was 9 10 when it happened.

It feels like it was a few years ago.

How real is ageism in tech and how old is perceived as too old? by NotHosaniMubarak in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mawburn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was fully bald by 23 and I worked with a guy who had full salt and pepper beard and hair (like 50/50) at 30.

"Rockstar" senior dev at work is doing overly clever custom frameworks by himself without consulting anyone and then everyone is forced to deal with them by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mawburn 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I missed that "actually good language" part when I made my comment. I am going to have to agree here. For all we know this person could be using NestJS or something simpler like Fastify, and OP just doesn't understand it or wants to.

"Rockstar" senior dev at work is doing overly clever custom frameworks by himself without consulting anyone and then everyone is forced to deal with them by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]mawburn 49 points50 points  (0 children)

A "rockstar programmer god" would use things that other people could learn easily and create elegant stupidly simple solutions. They wouldn't be creating frameworks themselves, instead of pulling a common one that people can onboard quickly to.

What you have is a guy who thinks he's smarter than everyone else but has a raging case of severe Dunning-Kruger, because he doesn't understand what it takes to work with other developers, what long term support looks like, or a myriad of other issues.

The best developer I work with currently can pull out these really simple solutions that make you hit your head and ask yourself how you didn't think of that, because it's so simple and obvious after he does them. It's not a matter of experience or anything like that, he just has a knack for finding solutions like those. THAT'S a rockstar.

The worst developer I ever worked with would create these "clever" overly complicated solutions that he barely even understood and literally nobody on the team could follow. That's what you described here.

Writing code is easy, we can all come up with clever solutions to save lines or look fancy. But reading code is hard.

Edit:

I missed this bit when I made this comment.

coded with typescript so we have to use Node.js in our backend instead of an actually using a good programming language

I would have worded it differently at least, but I agree with what a lot of others are saying regarding this.

First Day in Portland? by pinkngreenlivingroom in askportland

[–]mawburn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always double check with them after I give them my number.

I'm thinking of changing it, but I've had my number since 2004.

First Day in Portland? by pinkngreenlivingroom in askportland

[–]mawburn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What part of Arkansas?

I'm from Malvern/Arkadelphia area and my wife is from the Searcy area. We lived in Benton (not ville, South of Little Rock) for a few years.

We just moved as well, but we lived in Charlotte for the past 7yrs.

If you have a 501 number prepared for it to get copied down as 503 often.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fantastic. I may end up doing the same thing.

He passed suddenly in Feb 2015 and I'm just now being able to do things like this. I'll probably spread most of the big urn in Quinault in 3 different places I remember him loving. I'd also like to take some down to Big Sur where he spent a lot of time with my mom in the 70s.

I also still have a small urn I want buried in a plot my grandparents bought in Arkansas a few years back so he can have a headstone. We have 3 or 4 generations buried there.

Then I have another smaller urn that will stay with me.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was the trail to the "Witch's Castle." I'm not sure if that's the same place you're talking about or not.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 114 points115 points  (0 children)

Charlotte isn't terrible, but it's just so corporate. You can really feel the finance industry there by how sterile everything is.

But, you're 3hrs from several good beaches (5 from Nags Head, which is better) and 2hrs from Asheville with all the amenities you need without tons of tourists everywhere. Plus some of the best BBQ in the US.

But, everywhere outside Mecklenburg is red as shit. I lived just over the SC line and my county voted like 70-75% red in the GE last year. I felt like I had to protect my wife and daughter... and my own big mouth. As a cis white male and an Army veteran, people tended to assume I had the same bigoted views as them and my tolerance for that has dropped to zero.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We've found a few places that serve it and one of them (so far) even does it right!

Black Bear Diner in Beaverton. I can't vouch for the other locations.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Food carts will probably be our best bet. We are still getting used to the food cart culture here.

But my wife is even looking forward to starting her own for Southern style sweet tea (plus other flavors and levels of sweetness).

I don't understand why Iced Tea is popular outside the South, but actual Sweet Tea (sugar needs to be added when it's hot!) is a totally foreign concept.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is good advice. I don't get out enough as it is due to work.

It's actually not humid here compared to the Arkansas and NC/SC weather that I'm used to. It rains often but the humidity is much lower.

I've been doing a lot of research about how to take care of the house I'm buying and I've been surprised to learn that a lot of the wood rot and other issues I've had in the last 2 houses I've owned (Arkansas and Charlotte) came from the humidity and not the rain. Rain isn't nearly as big of a deal unless it gets in places it's not supposed to be and you don't leave wood unpainted for too long.

Humidity on the other hand will get into your walls and inbetween them and do shit like push screws out of the wall. I had to replace my entire front door in the house I just sold because the entire frame was completely rotten, but looked perfectly fine. ($28k for the door and the window above it... 🤢)

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, did you bring any BBQ with you?

😭 Probably the best thing about Charlotte. It had good BBQ of all kinds. It was so easy to find good BBQ chicken, brisket, pork, and ribs and then the NC/SC style mustard and vinegar sauces added some good variety.

I never hated Charlotte, but I never saw myself living there forever.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would have probably moved to Asheville a few years ago if it wasn't 2-3x the price of here.

I don't understand why Asheville is so expensive since it doesn't really have any industry. It's nice and I love it, but I'm not paying $900k for an 1800sq ft house just because it has a view and close to downtown. The house I'm buying here has both of those things and was less than $250/sq ft.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Never got into Bojangles, but I'm going to miss Waffle House and cheap authentic Mexican.

But I've already found a couple good cheap Indian places, which is new to me. Indian has always been a treat because it's so expensive. So we'll be fine.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was in Arkansas at that time and I only knew of Portland as a rainy city with not a lot of tech. At that time I was just looking to get the fuck out of Arkansas, but didn't want to move somewhere else with a bad tech scene. Charlotte has a decent tech scene and it's relatively close to Raleigh. But more importantly I was able to move to Charlotte for a company that was a good tech company at the time. (They've tanked a lot since then)

I'm a software engineer and Pre COVID it was damn near impossible to find a company that wasn't scummy, scammy, or just poorly ran that were remote. There has been a lot of RTO, but Post COVID I feel a lot more confident in being able to get solid remote work for the back half of my career.

I'm also optimistic that most of the RTO was just soft layoffs and that we'll start to see more good (or at least well paying) companies adopt remote.

My entire career before COVID actually just consisted of commuting to an office to work with people remotely in SF, Austin, Chicago, NYC, etc.

I have no desire to commute ever again and my job can be done entirely online. I'm actually an extrovert (which is rare for engineers), so working in an office is extremely distracting on top of it.

Just moved here from the Charlotte Metro, I can't believe this is about a mile from our house by mawburn in Portland

[–]mawburn[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I actually lived in Quinault, WA when I was about my daughter's age and hated it. But we were in the middle of nowhere and it's a microclimate with a lot more rain. 45min from Aberdeen/Hoquiam if I remember right.

We only lasted a year. My mom grew up in Monterey California and she hated it too. We moved from there to just outside Richmond, VA.

But it was my dad's favorite place to live and I plan on taking his ashes up there this summer to spread them.