somegeek

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev -3 points 6 months ago

Wayland is so much worse than X11currently,IMO. Specially on older devices.

I don't understand the forcing of wayland upon users.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We test on humans

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

YouTube shorts

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A morakniv knife, a ka-bar knife and an Opinel knife.

A Citizen watch A Kenneth Cole mechanical watch

A lighter

Now I understand why we men love all these things. They last forever and for some reason this really appeals to men.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 91 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Infinity is technically not a number tho 🤓☝️

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Ah ok. I thought there might be a generic soluction like AOSP and it just works with some minor tweaks. Thanks

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Krazm is truly the goat of software memes

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Don't focus too much on tools (languages,ide, editor, etc.)

Get strong fundamentals in math and software, code with C and a high level language like python for a couple of years and you're good on the tooling side.

Focus on your mathematics, logic and philosophy. These are what separate legendary engineers, scientists and visionaries from people who are only amazing at programming.

Remember that you are an engineer/scientist/philosopher not a cog in the machine that gets told what code to write and writes it.

I highly recommend reading the works of Feynman, Dijkstra, Turing and other greats to better see how they think and approach things.

(Maybe these aren't the direct answers to your questions, but wisdom. damn I wish someone told these stuff to me sooner)

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

My take is, don't do explicitly bad stuff, like, don't create malicious software of work for military, or DARPA, cia, NSA, google, etc.

But also, your work shouldn't be necessarily divine. No work is. If you look Into it, even being a Linux kernel Dev isn't that divine. Just don't be a direct cause of bad things, and I think that is good enough.

And get payed good and use that money for good stuff. Kind of a robinhood job. If you can earn for example 200K from a not super evil company and give 30K to people who need it, is much better than earning 100K working in a open source startup or whatever and not help other people, and also be poorer.

Of course, it's really important how much you enjoy your job and if you are excited to go to work everyday.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

One of the worst news I've read lately.

Why aren't Israeli maintainers removed? Oh because linux is basically owned by IBM now.

The linux kernel isn't free anymore. It's open source, but not free.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Releasing apks in github isn't a viable option? Syncthing without the android app is pretty much pointless.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

It's good for new, unrelated stuff. For example if you're just starting to work with python, or just want to test some project, its much easier to setup than nvim or emacs. I also like intellij idea. I think in terms of just works, it is much better. But it is more resource intensive

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