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rick

@rick@ricko.social

I write code, fiction, and educational material. Enhanced with autism superpowers.

Photos I post are mine, and copyright by me. They may be reused under the CC-BY-NC-SA license, but not in any kind of machine learning.

My avatar is a 4-color animation-style rendering of me making a goofy hand gesture, in front of a pride flag for demisexuality. My background header is a photo of an electric truck parked off the road, overlooking a cloudy sky above a rocky coastline obscured by mist.

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twipped, to react
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Tomorrow I have to interview a job applicant about their React experience, and I'm looking at interview question guides.

They're bullshit, it's all absolutely bullshit. Most of it is just testing if someone knows the term for a particular pattern.

> What is the difference between a controlled and uncontrolled component

WHO CARES!? If you code it right it doesn't fucking matter!

rick,
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@twipped

"In practical terms, what makes unit testing a React component different from unit testing a vanilla JS function or class?"

"Give an example of an app or site where SSR would be a great idea, an an example where it would be a horrible idea. For each, explain why."

"When adding dependencies to a useEffect call, what are the pros and cons of passing in an object versus passing in decomposed fields from that object?"

rick,
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@twipped But also: "Give an example of a case where CSS-in-JS is a good idea and explain why that's a total lie and the correct answer is never."

/troll

rick,
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@twipped If the candidate can screen share, I love to do: "Pick an Open Source library you use regularly. Let's go find the source or API docs. Show me one thing you think is really clever about the library or its API. And what's one thing about it that you always forget or misremember or think is klunky?"

rick,
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@twipped Seems pretty reasonable to me.

My own React skills are poor/new enough that I doubt I'd do well on that question. But it's a small enough code snippet that it's not overwhelming.

rick, to random
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Oh, cool, Darren Korb's "Hades II" soundtrack is available via Steam. (Though not on Bandcamp ... yet.)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950840/Hades_II_Original_Soundtrack/

rick,
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Okay, look, this soundtrack is awesome.

It's slightly more vocal and "90s emo goth kid" than the soundtrack for the first game, which had a solid rock tone. This one also has something of a "creepy techno circus" vibe.

Or, if you're old enough to understand the reference, it sounds like an updated and expanded cousin of the soundtrack to "American McGee's Alice".

Love it.

Probably my favorite track: "I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death)".

https://youtu.be/cQFEcBIf8z0

willaful, to RomanceBooks
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? I was up all night 🥱 finishing You Should Be So Lucky. Amazingly, it's somehow not a letdown after the gorgeousness of We Could Be So Good.

The themes are around living an authentic life in a highly closeted time, and it's complex and believable. There are tropes too but not obnoxiously or pointlessly. And really well drawn, relatable characters. And pretty swoony romance too. 😂

@romancelandia
@romancebooks

rick,
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@willaful I'm about 2/3 through "The Orc and Her Bride" by Lila Gwynn. I needed something relatively light, and it fits that bill. It's doing a whole "spoiled elf princess' parents betroth her to an orc princess who actually turns out to be a much better person" thing. Not the most original treatment, but it's decent enough.

I've "temporarily" put down "The Queer Girl Is Going To Be Okay" by Dale Wells. After ~1/4, I just couldn't get into it. I need to try again when I have more attention.

rick, to nerdfighters
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Oh hey, did an overview of the stuff we work on at my job. (Completely unrelated to us. But it's still cool to see.)

https://youtu.be/nwTvJAUchkw

We're working on a device (camera + tablet app) plus cloud software and ML model to recognize diabetic retinopathy, and eventually other conditions, just like that video talks about. Woohoo!

rick, to Steamdeck
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I didn't really think it would work, but I tried running on my OLED. With the settings cranked down as low as they'll go.

Yeah, no. Not gonna happen, apparently. Guess I'll wait a few years.

rick, to random
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"What happened with that book that was sketching you out? DNF?"

"Nah. It's got about 3 hours left, so I'm going to put it on while I mow the lawn."

rick, to random
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Sadly, I will not be participating in Silent Sunday, as I have to do ~10 hours of weed trimming and mowing. I'd prefer to let it grow, but those are the terms in our lease. (And the neighbor started at 0700.)

My soundtrack for the day will be Paul Ruskay's Homeworld 3 soundtrack. If I need any weed-decimating epic battle music, I will switch to the Horizon Burning Shores soundtrack by Oleksa Lozowchuk, Joris de Man, and Melissa R Kaplan. Specifically, "Steel Snare":

https://youtu.be/7GkHKo0liP0?t=140

rick, to random
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May the Ten guide your way and always grant you victory.

Screenshot of the game "Horizon: Forbidden West" showing a three-quarter portrait shot of Aloy against a background of grassy snow cover. A caption reads: "Penttoh: May the Ten always grant you victory." Aloy is wearing Utaru gear and paints, with her head uncovered except for her Focus. Her top seems to be made of thick woven leather, rope, and grasses, in a theme of sun-bleached grey and green, with a light shawl in crimson. The paint running down her arm is white as the snow behind her, and seems to show pebbling, or perhaps the dense leaves of foliage.

rick,
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Fitting, I think, that my re-play on the SteamDeck saw the completion of the main game this morning. I haven't started on the Burning Shores DLC yet.

Overall, the first 3/4 of the game is pretty stable on the SteamDeck ... until you get to SF. I had 2 or 3 game crashes before then, but at that point the game started crashing so hard it would lock up the SteamDeck and require a reboot. Nothing specific seemed to cause them, just mundane stuff like opening up the map, or scanning a datapoint.

rick,
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But to be fair, I skipped some of the mini-games:

  • Didn't play any Machine Strike
  • Didn't do the races
  • Didn't fight in the Melee Pits

I also didn't spend much time grinding for gear or resources. I didn't just zip from point to point, but nor did I dawdle. Steam says I have 93 hours played, so it feels about average for a casual-but-thorough playthrough of the quests.

rick, to random
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Rivian's AWS bill for 2023 was $63M USD.

Which is interesting if you think about it, because their public-facing cloud stuff (Website, Owner portal, Gear store) is probably only ~1% of that.

What's left?

Total speculation, but I'd guess it's the terabytes-per-vehicle of telemetry data and video storage and transfer, and then the compute for training Driver Assist (and alpha-FSD) ML models on that.

rick,
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But if you think about it, most of that ML model training will be done with telemetry from Rivian-built AWS delivery vehicles: they drive more consistently and for longer periods than random Rivian vehicle owners.

Which is an interesting synergy: Rivian builds the vans, which Amazon drives, generating data which goes into Rivian ML models, trained on AWS compute, enabling eventual Rivian FSD, so AWS can one day remove human drivers from its fleet.

You'd think $RIVN would be better than $10.

rick, to random
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Random thought of the day:

It's kinda odd that we now accept that all modern console, mobile, and desktop gaming is tracked at a granular level.

Steam, Sony, MS, Ubisoft, etc, now know exactly when you're gaming, how you play, what you play, etc.

Yet we still pay $70USD+ for new games from publishers who collect and monetize this surveillance.

And we all accept this.

rick,
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Huh. This implies that at some point some conservative legislator is going to get doxxed and butthurt for choosing all the :heart_lgbt: and 🐻 romance options in BG3/ME/etc, or for having 100+ hours in that Colonel Sanders KFC dating sim.

rick,
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I guess the upside is that 5 years from now Activision-Tinder will allow you to filter out the profiles of n00bs who haven't beaten Diablo 6 yet. Presuming you're subscribed to the $19.99/mo Season Pass, of course.

rick, to photography
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Y'all, I think the bunnies in the area may be on meth. Or maybe guarana. Same thing, right?

I think it's a Black-tailed Jackrabbit. But I'm not an expert.

This particular bunny is completely unafraid of the Rivian, and will just chill in the road until I yell out the window.

rick,
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@jonburr Oh no! I hope not!

I think it may just be the angle of the shot. It's been around the entire time we've been here (several years) and has seemed healthy the entire time.

twipped, to random
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It’s like a room full of DC villains… He is literally Lex Luthor. His wife sounds like Tilde from Horizon Forbidden West.
https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/112329743209523481

rick,
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@twipped On my recent re-play of HZD, I wanted to get 100% completion, and I took the time to re-read all the datapoints.

For a game where production really spun up around 2014, the datapoints are shockingly (and depressingly) ahead of their time in regards to capitalism, AI-related job displacement, etc. Like, "too soon, y'all" levels.

But good news: according to HZD it'll only be another 20 years before lawmakers get around to actually making useful legislation:

https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Turing_Act

rick, to random
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How are we in 2024 and businesses still suck at HTML email?

Like, how is there not a checklist of "can people actually read this?"?

(Notice the complete lack of useful non-image text.)

rick,
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Or am I like the last person on the planet who has "do not load images until I say so" enabled for email?

(And yes, I also have mobile Firefox set for NoScript by default. Get off my lawn.)

rick, to random
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Dear Rick of the future:

You've been looking forward to the soundtrack to "Tales of Kenzera: ZAU". Remember to check Bandcamp for it next week. It's being released by Lakeshore. Hopefully not just on AMZ. 🤞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTWE8SMZLYA

-R

rick,
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The soundtrack to "Tales of Kenzera: ZAU" by Nainita Desai landed on Bandcamp this morning:

https://nainitadesai.bandcamp.com/album/tales-of-kenzera-zau-original-soundtrack

I'm really enjoying it. Thanks for the reminder, Rick of the past!

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