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[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's the same as good ol' Mitch. He can hate others and not in one specific case. Being racist doesnt mean you have to be all the time.

What I don't get is how she could marry him. Who signs up or stays with someone who promotes hate for every aspect of yourself?

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Been doing that for many, many years.

Just recently made some tweaks and now my vimwiki output goes to my Obsidian directory. This way i can get a nicer output on my phone when I'm really just wishing to search and read my notes instead of taking them.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Border entry is different than self incrimination.

If you are charged with a crime you cannot be compelled to give a password as it resides in your head. However if you use finger prints or face recognition to unlock it you're SOL.

Best thing to do is get an android and setup a dummy account. use that account when you get off the plane so when you unlock it there is nothing to go through.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

I've got a few pocket nodes, got a solar node on my roof and just outside the range to transmit into a massive mesh we have around the city. But i hear all the chatter.

Honestly its far more boring than anything I've done with ham radio. No one is having conversations, there are no nets, no socializing using the technology. Just people pinging from random locations.

Where as with my ham license I have local repeaters where we have nets on different topics, including one at midnight for anyone who is up. I chat with people using DMR, EchoLink and Allstar to get out to places all over thw world with just an HT. I do HF work for contests, rag chewing SSB, CW and digital modes. I build hardware and antenna, work from parks, collect QSL cards.

And i also bought a $30 meahtastic radio that i occasionally get a "Ping from downtown, anyone hear me?"

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

Thinking about the code I've written over the last quarter century I'd wager that a majority of it was somewhere between mediocre and bad. Some is good and a very small bit is actually exceptional. I think that's a pretty common rating of our output.

This is what coding LLM learn from. No one is selective and only trains on the most elite code ever written. Nope, just the buggy stuff we all put up on Github. So of course these LLMs are gonna be writing junk code half the time.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 73 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I think what amazes me the most is that is seems like every single maga politician is an absolute garbage person. You'd think sheerly by statistics there would have to be one who isn't but apparently that isn't the case.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 1 points 4 months ago

Though most democracies don't shoot people when they are in good times quite like the US.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

How do you "move on" from knowing my neighbors are nazi fascists? How do I just ignore the fact they voted to destroy families of people they dont like, dehumanizing them and laughing at it when people fall apart?

You don't get to pretend you voted for a fascist party and aren't a fascist yourself. We all know that if there is a Trump replacement when he dies these same people will want a new hate party leader in office. If you think we are just going to move in maybe ask the Germans how painful the transition of the 20 years post WW2 was for them. That's what is in store for the US if things don't change now.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

Completely agree. It does feel odd.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago

What language doesn't have its worts? My point is that Java is the defacto corporate service language so if that's what you're doing chances are the libraries you're using are also being used at FAANG or Fortune 500 companies who will spend the money to vet libraries, bug bounties and pay developers to escalate issues. If you pick a language that has no substantial use in your given field you won't get the same visibility.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tend to find languages that are best of feature. If i need a fault tolerant, quick to continue service I'd probably pick Erlang or Elixir. If i need meta programming I'm going with Racket or Haskell. If i need a quick and dirty graphical tool for internal use only I'm writing it in tcl/tk or python/tk. If it's system code I'm using C and Assembly.

The problem i have with Java is outside of Android development I never have the use case i have at my corporate job. There we need a widely know language (so we can hire) that is used in a lot of web services (highly tested and bugs caught early and very visible) that has a diverse ecosystem (less custom built code). None of those attributes are needed in my hobby work.

[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

As a programming language polyglot, currently using Java for backend services, one of the biggest reasons to use Java is due to the ecosystem. Hardened libraries for web frameworks and everything else under the sun means you have confidence in the language. You have millions of instances running in the wild so detection of issues are found and resolved quickly, corporations backing security audits and a lot of funding to make really good libraries.

I hate the language itself and would never choose it as a language for a hobby project, but i completely understand why Java exists and thrives.

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