We're a huge country I guess. I've experienced pretty much the exact opposite as you.
almost everyone I know takes home some portion of their meal from a restaurant. So that single portion is really two, or maybe three.
Most people around me have the waiter take their half-eaten plate away. Apparently, food waste is considered polite or something around me. If you actually try to finish your plate, you get made fun of. (I've been made fun of.) I guess it makes you look poor or desperate or starving or something?
IME people don’t usually have giant portions at home, they sometimes do of course, but things tend to be more sane for home cooked meals for your family. They also tend to be a lot more balanced, with more veg and grain.
The dinner plates my family and my wife's family (and extended family) have for dinner are quite large and they usually get filled up. Usually meat is the biggest portion of that plate, followed by carbs, and then veggies are the smallest (if present at all). My wife's family in particular always, always, always, has ice cream or cake or cookies after dinner.
My wife and I use smaller dinner plates, and again, surprise, get made fun of because we're eating such "tiny" (normal) portions.
Does anyone else get paralyzed on fixing small things because they're terrified of it becoming a larger thing?
This never occurred to me... I just thought I need to fix this. Shit. Debuff unlocked.
I guess “hire someone” is always an option, but it’s a difficult task sometimes, especially finding someone reliable.
Actually, this is way more annoying to me. I've been ripped off/scammed too many times. I hate blindly trusting other people to not screw me over. Just this week my AC mysteriously broke after a recent-ish visit from some HVAC "professional". I had to call another company cuz this is way more complicated than I can handle (for now...). After talking with the 2nd guy, it seems like the 1st guy didn't do the maintenance work properly... I tried researching and going with a reputable company, but damn it still feels like a shot in the dark. Completely random chance they may completely break my shit.
Also, for some work, I've noticed I do it either at the same standard or better than some of these "professionals". So. Meh.
Yes, it may take me several weeks to do it, but at least I know I tried to do it right, instead of rushing off to the next job.
Writing code never has been and never will be the bottleneck.
YES! I recently completed two code-heavy projects at work. My bosses kept asking me if I could use more AI to get the project done faster... and I kept telling them no! The bottleneck wasn't my typing speed. The bottleneck was me thinking through the design, thinking about edge cases, running experiments to validate hypothesis, testing out different API designs.
Typing out the code took like 1 day out of the 2 weeks. Code generation is not the bottleneck.
..... You know... yeah, that's true. One of the huge benefits of using some open source library is that you don't have to maintain it. But if you clean room it, then it's all on you.
Although, companies like Amazon will have the engineers to maintain it internally. But a lot of other companies won't.
I'm kinda surprised people seem to be sleeping on Piefed. I decided to try it out recently and so far it just seems like a better Lemmy with zero downsides? We're both part of the same fediverse, so I can still see all the Lemmy comms from here.
Half of the US used to be Mexico, so US Spanish is mostly Mexican Spanish. We don't use vosotros. My high school Spanish teacher (yes, I took it because it was easy) would always skip conjugations of vosotros entirely.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone use vosotros here. We understand it, but it's very uncommon. Univisión, Telemundo, Estrella, TeleXitos all mostly use Mexican Spanish. Same goes for the radio.
I will gladly write my own small, half-assed framework that I 100% know, can reason about, can debug, and can extend to fit my requirements. I will gladly pass on a fat-assed, bloated framework with a million dependencies, where I only need a few features, and where if I need something that isn't offered by the framework I have to submit a PR or add some janky-ass workaround.
Does Helioboard support multi-language typing? I write in Spanish and English all the time. I tried FUTO's keyboard but pretty much immediately had to uninstall it because constantly having to switch the language on the keyboard super sucked.
Not surprising, this guy is also onboard with Google locking down Android: https://dylanmtaylor.com/posts/2026-03-19-googles-new-android-sideloading-flow-is-a-fair-trade