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New comment by crab_galaxy in "Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser)"

crab_galaxy — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:17:28 +0000

Mostly agree. I do find that FE unit tests are a decent litmus test for complexity though. IMO the more difficult it is to test your react component, the more you probably need to think about breaking your component down.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

crab_galaxy — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:11:47 +0000

Personally I think you’re both correct but I also think you’re talking about most people‘s definition of an acquaintance.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

crab_galaxy — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:12:37 +0000

What about the other 998 million tokens?

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

crab_galaxy — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:25:46 +0000

I think it’s pretty common for states to require a masters degree to maintain your teachers certification.

You also have to pass a standardized test specifically on subject matter in order to get your teaching certificate.

The undergrad degree I did was split into thirds, one for subject matter, one for teaching pedagogy, and one for teaching your subject matter.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise"

crab_galaxy — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:15:13 +0000

> running few years old JS deps

What do you when a critical vulnerability gets discovered and you have to update a package? How many critical/high severity vulnerabilities are you running with in production every day to avoid supply chain attacks?

New comment by crab_galaxy in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:10:56 +0000

It's so funny to me when the dollars stop being abstract for a moment, and I see that the US has regions that beg for quite literally .2% of this amount to fund things like public transit, lead remediation in elementary schools, or homelessness programs.

Americans will never see a dime of benefit from this war.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:59:58 +0000

`vendor/` folders give me the worst developer PTSD :p

6 conflicting versions of jquery, and you know every single one of them was monkey patched, cemented into the codebase forever.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:53:56 +0000

Fine in what way? What people?

I have not seen or heard of a single person who is excited about AI generated blog posts, or TikToks, or commercials, or images. In fact it’s the opposite, the internet coined the term AI slop, and my non-internet addicted friends hate the fact that chatGPT is killing the environment.

The only people I’ve ever seen champion AI are the few who are excited by the bleeding edge, and the many many peddlers

New comment by crab_galaxy in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:58:31 +0000

They do, don’t they? Apple devices have had a robust whitelisting/blacklisting feature for at least a couple of years. I use it to block websites and apps to lessen my phone addiction. I’m sure Android offers similar features

New comment by crab_galaxy in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

crab_galaxy — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:36:11 +0000

Yeah you’re right. However, resource gaps can be filled by things like volunteer librarians, teacher wishlists/donations, field trips, strong PTAs, etc..

This is common in my city. It’s a big underfunded school district with a handful of coveted, well supported schools. I’m assuming it happens elsewhere in America with the success of platforms like donors choose.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

crab_galaxy — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:06:12 +0000

Maybe they can bring their resources with them too, and the poor schools can have things like lead paint remediation, honors classes, and extra curricular activities.

I like this idea!

New comment by crab_galaxy in "How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:27:07 +0000

> The question is whether you actually need such a camera for anything. With a new smartphone that has multiple lenses, out-of-the-box photos will turn out MUCH NICER than from a camera, because initial processing is built into the software. Digital cameras don't have this. You need to take RAW and work pretty hard on it to make the photo look as good as what a smartphone delivers right away.

You’re completely neglecting to highlight Fuji’s film simulations. I use Fuji’s specifically because they produce excellent jpgs out of camera. Not really sure where your take is coming from, an xt3 on auto will blow any smartphone picture FAR out of the water.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:04:19 +0000

I totally agree with the authors point. The Franklin Institute at its core is a place that teaches science through tactile experience and the special exhibits don’t reflect that.

Some context as a local though, the Franklin Institute’s special exhibit space rotates every couple of months and I imagine they’re put on by outside vendors who move the exhibit from venue to venue. The special exhibits for better or for worse more akin to Disney World or the pop culture museum in Seattle. I’ve been to a bunch of them and they’re usually quite good, but they don’t represent that tactile learning experience at all.

Many of us Philadelphians really lament that the place isn’t as well maintained as it should be. It was the field trip destination for so many kids and I’m sorry OP wasn’t able to recreate that same level of magic for their kids.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "URL-Driven State in HTMX"

crab_galaxy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:14:10 +0000

> never gets implemented because there’s never time

In my experience that time is saved and more when you find you no longer need to manage Zustand/redux stores to track application state. This pattern works beautifully when incorporating the query parameters as query keys with tan stack query too.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses"

crab_galaxy — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:04:51 +0000

I got the two fingers making an x sign a handful when I was in Japan. It’s really not a big deal and it never felt malicious. You just move on, though it does kind of suck when you’re hungry!

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Show HN: Trying to eat better? I built a nutrional assistant"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:51:02 +0000

I’m interested based on the title but I have no idea how to use it. I think a placeholder prompt or basic instruction would go a long way, otherwise it just looks like a chatGPT clone

New comment by crab_galaxy in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:49:53 +0000

Yeah, I’m not sure if BNPL loans have changed in the last decade at all but the financiers make money on the people who don’t pay the balance by the end of the term. I’ve financed a couple expensive electronics when it made more sense in my younger days and the terms were such that if you don’t pay it off by the end of the term, you owed ~24% of the total bill in interest.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs"

crab_galaxy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 03:36:52 +0000

This is a very popular take, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the article.

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Zod 4"

crab_galaxy — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:49:43 +0000

OpenAPI TypeScript is the closest thing I’ve found to perfection when your API is written in a different language than your client.

https://openapi-ts.dev/

New comment by crab_galaxy in "Solar grants held hostage in Pennsylvania legislature – as demand soars"

crab_galaxy — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:10:00 +0000

We do. PA politics are the absolute worst. Democrats are useless, and republicans perfected the art of voting for absolutely nothing positive, then call for privatization. As a cherry on top they loathe the cities, which are the core of the states economic engine.