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@PromptSlinger @davepl1968 "It works fine" meanwhile the program crashes randomly and nobody knows why.

@davepl1968 Thirty years later that custom pointer array code is probably still running in production somewhere. Nobody knows who owns it. It works fine. Everyone's afraid to touch it

I had this conversation at Microsoft in 1996: Me: "Why do we have our own pointer array code?" Mgr: "Because it's solid and well tested." Me: "So is vector<> in the STL!" Mgr: "Devs don't know the STL" Me: "They're devs, they should know the STL!" Mgr: "That's great, but they don't, so no." And so we continued to use and write all of our own containers and so on. Because the STL was scary.

Why does Honda's Bluetooth connection or Android Auto's smartphone connection suck so bad? It's a 50% fail rate (which jumps to 90% when you have to go somewhere important) means that a developer should be given lashes every time it fails

X is unusable now. With long posts and generative AI, nothing here is real anymore. I'm not anti-AI, I use it all the time, but when every post is "here's what happened", "let's break it down" and then 7 paragraphs long, it's just AI slop. I don't come to X anymore.

@micyoung75 "file cabinet of records". Can you try to be less disingenuous?

Calling this the Save America Act does not change what it does. You are proposing a system where a citizen who has voted for decades can be turned away from a fluorescent lit gym in November because they do not have the exact document you now demand, while mail in options they relied on for years disappear. That does not stop the mythical wave of noncitizen voting. It stops nurses on double shifts, caregivers, deployed family members, and folks without a file cabinet of records from casting a ballot at all. If the goal were truly integrity, we would pair verification with universal, free IDs and flexible, secure options to vote. Instead, this reads like an attempt to choose the electorate, not protect the election.

@Maldrick_ @trinnas @FedPoasting This. Suddenly tuition rates would plummet, job placement and salary after college would increase as the lender and colleges now share the risk and have a stake in your future.

@trinnas @FedPoasting The same leverage every other lender has with every other type of loan. Thus restoring responsibility to student lending and bringing the cost of higher education down. You do realize that this one exemption is why college costs exploded over the past two decades, don't you?

No… the entire point of making student loans dischargeable is so that lenders will not issue irresponsible loans in the first place, which requires the conjunctive step of removing their federal backing. This is why the right loses, btw. We refuse to think further than two inches in front of out faces.

@brankopetric00 Go to config/database.php and set 'sticky' => true

You are scaling a read-heavy database. You add 5 Read Replicas. Latency drops. Success! But now users complain: 'I updated my profile, but when I refresh, I see the old data.' This is 'Replication Lag'. How do you implement 'Sticky Reads' (aka 'Read Your Own Writes') at the application or proxy level to ensure a user always reads from the master *immediately* after a write?

@USATODAY I couldn't care less. It's not intended to be voter suppression, but if you're not smart enough to bring documents to get an ID, you shouldn't vote. Married women who take their husband's name vote more Republican anyways, so it's not going to hurt your side.

Here's how the voting ID law could make it harder for married women to register to vote and cast ballots if passed. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

@Math_files 1 million isn't enough to buy a house and retire on. $100M is life and generational changing.

Math says red, Brain says green

@abhijitwt 1password cli template files. developer.1password.com/docs/cli/secre…

How do teams usually share .env variables securely?

@xwanyex Trump is further left than 2008 Obama. Asked to define marriage in a 2008 debate, Obama said it “is the union between a man and a woman.” Of course we've all seen the clips about Obama and illegal immigration.

You can put the whole “how could anybody vote for Trump” thing to rest with a simple hypothetical: Imagine Donald Trump is a democrat. Everything about him is the same, but he’s running as the Democrat nominee. On the other side, the Republican says that if he wins he will return the US to segregation and he has the Supreme Court nominees ready who will allow him to do it. That’s it. That’s literally all you have to imagine. On the one hand you have Trump. On the other hand you have a policy landscape that is beyond the threshold that any liberal would be willing to tolerate. In that scenario 100 out of 100 liberals votes for Trump. This very simply proves the point that literally everybody understands that there is some policy threshold beyond which you would vote for a candidate like Trump. Many ordinary Republicans feel like the current liberal platform is beyond that threshold. This isn’t at all complicated or weird or difficult to understand, so anybody who rejects it is either a liar or dimwitted. We all understand this framework. We all accept this framework. There isn’t a single person reading this who wouldn’t in some situation adopt this framework.

Just watched Zootopia 2. It was not good. Mid at best. Plot and pacing is a mess. Character development is basically absent. We're either in an endless police chase or just expositing backstory. The laws of physics take a back seat, and we get looney toons. Fun for kids.

@DiscountedTr Is eternal rent bad advice? It is, unless you can't be financially responsible enough to own and default on it. Dave's advice is bad if you're good with money. Dave's advice is good if you're bad with money. I've always disliked it, until I realized I wasn't the target audience.

> builds a massive empire preaching debt-free living and "baby steps" to millions > neglects to mention it will take the average American multiple lifetimes to save that up without a mortgage or successful investments > sits on a net worth north of $200M—owns multiple mansions, private jets, luxury everything > unlevered primary residence so he loses out to inflation every year despite a staggering net worth from his media business > tells followers to avoid buying a house if it requires a mortgage longer than 15 years or if they can't put 20% down cash > pushes "rent forever if needed" while he personally bought properties with leverage back when he was building wealth > dispenses timeless common-sense basics: spend less than you make, save 15%, emergency fund, no debt > conveniently ignores his own rule when it comes to calories, has been overweight for years despite preaching discipline > sells $129 "Financial Peace University" courses, which wont make you money unless you're the one running the Dave Ramsey show

@YoungParikPatel @LizzieMarbach Yes that is the point of the second amendment. But not to loosely claim that you should be able to be armed while fighting federal officers and not get shot. The point is to shoot them with the expectation that they are shooting back. 2nd amendment is for warfare, not protesting.

The uncomfortable truth in this situation is that this shooting seems like it was justified, but wholly unnecessary and shouldn’t have happened. 1) It is justified in the sense that the officers very obviously had probable cause to believe their lives were in danger. They heard a gun go off right next to them while dealing with a protester who is resisting them. 2) It was wholly unnecessary because the guy was unarmed and the gun going off seemed to be an accident. They were not actually in danger. Events like this make people uncomfortable because there is no perfect “this was right” or “this was wrong” verdict that it fits into. Instead, it is “this was not right, but it also was not wrong.” The situation in Minneapolis is pure chaos. Even the most well trained agents are going to have incidents happen that the left will smear. Yes, we need to train ICE better to make them fully equipped to handle this situation, but even more so, we need to have the wherewithal to understand public outrage is going to happen no matter how perfect ICE acts. The left is causing chaos by design. They are purposely orchestrating this. Look beyond the emotions and outrage, and stand on biblical truth and facts. Yes, call out government when they’re acting badly. Hold them accountable to a standard of righteousness, but also stop allowing yourself to be manipulated by a compelling narrative. Fixing lawlessness is going to be messy. It’s like training a three year old to stop having tantrums after they’ve been allowed to do it for so long. The process is really hard and your heartstrings are tugged on by their tears. But if you stand strong, the tantrums will pass, and peace, respect for law, and order will be on the other side.

@brankopetric00 Microservices do not make it easier for multiple engineers to work on parts of the project separately. There's absolutely no advantage for bigger teams. I'll die on this hill.

Microservices question that divides teams: You have a monolith making $2M/year. It works. Deploys take 45 minutes. One team of 8. CTO wants microservices because "we're scaling the team to 30 engineers next year." Current state: - 200k lines of Python - PostgreSQL with 50 tables - 12 distinct bounded contexts identified - 99.9% uptime last year - CI/CD pipeline exists but slow Do you: A) Start extracting services now B) Improve the monolith first C) Wait until pain is real What's your move?

@SumitM_X 1. Get rid of microservices 2. Don't have any more over-architecture problems 3. ??? 4. Profit

Each microservice owns its database. Now the business asks for a real-time dashboard requiring joins across multiple services. Your non technical manager asks you to do it in 1 sprint without breaking service isolation? What's your plan ?

@baldridgecpa Can you offset by donating to charity?

Some guy turned down a $10,000 raise because it would push him from the 12% bracket to the 22% bracket. Twitter laughed at him. "That's not how marginal rates work!" They're right. He's wrong. What an idiot, right? But a client called me two weeks ago freaking out. She was about to lose $12,400 because she's projecting $5,000 too much income. Here's what happened: She's 58. Husband is 56. They run a consulting business together. They buy health insurance on the ACA marketplace. Last year they made ~$85,000. Paid $9,100 for coverage. This year they're projecting $90,000+. She got her 2026 premium quote. $21,500. That extra $5,000 in projected income was going to cost her $12,400. That's a 248% marginal tax rate. The ACA subsidy cliff came back. Enhanced subsidies expired December 31, 2025 and Congress didn't extend them. If your household income exceeds 400% of the Federal Poverty Level, you lose ALL premium tax credits. For a couple, that cliff is $84,600. She was about to blow right past it. We ran the numbers. A $10,000 retirement contribution drops her projected income to $80,000. Well under the cliff. She keeps her subsidies. Saves $12,400 in premiums. Saves another $2,400 in federal tax. $14,800 in total savings on a $10,000 contribution. That's a 148% return before her money even grows. Problem solved. We had until December to sort this out, but a ton of people will fall off this cliff and never know. This is one cliff. There are more. QBI Deduction Accountants. Lawyers. Consultants. Doctors. You get a 20% deduction on qualified business income. $400K profit? That's $80K off your taxable income. Worth $30K in tax savings. Phase-out starts at $201,775 single / $403,500 married. Every dollar above that threshold eats into your deduction until it's gone. Net Investment Income Tax 3.8% surtax on investment income. Kicks in at $200K single / $250K married. These thresholds haven't moved since 2013. One dollar over and every dollar of dividends, interest, and capital gains gets hit. Capital Gains and Dividends 0% tax on qualified dividends and long-term capital gains up to $94,050 married / $47,025 single. One dollar over? 15%. This isn't a phase-out. It's a cliff. Social Security Taxation Combined income over $25K single / $32K married? 50% of your Social Security becomes taxable. Over $34K / $44K? 85% taxable. These phase outs haven't changed since 1993. A Roth conversion can flip a switch and make your entire Social Security check taxable. SALT Deduction The cap went up to $40,400 in 2026. Good news. Bad news? It phases out above $505,000. High earners in New York, California, New Jersey? You might be back to the old $10,000 cap. Senior Deduction New for 2026. Extra $6,000 if you're 65+. Phases out at $75,000 single / $150,000 married. That threshold is LOW. A lot of retirees will lose part or all of it. Here's the point. Your AGI says you're in the 24% bracket. But your REAL marginal rate might be 50%. 100%. Sometimes 248%. How much more tax will that incremental dollars of income cost you? Most people don't find out until it's too late. Here's what to do. Know your cliffs. Model your numbers BEFORE year end. Build in a margin of safety. You don't want a surprise 1099 in January to blow you off a cliff you thought you cleared. Sometimes a retirement contribution pulls you back under. That's exactly what we did for my client. Sometimes you defer income to next year. Sometimes you just pay it. But don't stumble over a cliff because someone told you "marginal rates don't matter." They don't. Until they do. Run your numbers. Or call someone who will. H/T to @money_cruncher for the inspiration. Definitely give him a follow.

@SumitM_X As a developer have you asked yourself if the complexities of an access/refresh JWT token pair is a over engineered premature optimization, and the benefits are negated by the first DB call you do?

As a developer, Have you asked yourself why do we need refresh tokens if we can just make access tokens long-lived?

@pronounced_kyle Is mortgage calculated in inflation rates? If so, that's not the best metric as it's self referential. Cost/median wage would be better.

Or inflation adjusted: 45 years ago: $334,739 40 years ago: $354,903 35 years ago: $331,653 30 years ago: $317,887 25 years ago: $331,224 20 years ago: $387,443 15 years ago: $299,828 10 years ago: $355,504 5 years ago: $426,016 Today: $428,000

Average cost for a 2,000 sq. ft. home in America: 45 years ago: $97,000 40 years ago: $124,000 35 years ago: $144,000 30 years ago: $159,000 25 years ago: $187,000 20 years ago: $249,000 15 years ago: $215,000 10 years ago: $272,000 5 years ago: $368,000 Today: $428,000

@Rajatsoni @sircalebhammer Cue public school teacher saying they denied a raise because it'd put them in a higher tax bracket.

@sircalebhammer Almost no one understands how progressive tax rates work

This already happens lol 31.4% of filers pay $0 (or less) in federal income tax, mostly due to standardized deduction. Most people think they contribute so much more than they actually do 😭 and I’ve learned absolutely no one knows anything about taxes in this country lol

Dieting will help you lose weight. Exercising will give you more energy. Losing weight will help you exercise. Increasing energy to help you diet is a fool's errand. Dieting to give you more energy is a fool's errand. Exercising to lose weight is a fool's errand.