Ephera @ Ephera @lemmy.ml Posts 83Comments 3,965Joined 5 yr. ago
Yeah, for me, the big thing was that I only found out you could test-run Linux without installing after I had made the decision to install it. Of course, having no real clue what I'd get into massively delayed the decision...
It's like a conspiracy theory for that guy. Everyone who tells them it's not true that you can get rid of programmers, has to be a programmer, and therefore cannot be trusted.
Das deutsche "to tag something". 🙃
suddenly found myself in the Realm of Zot.
Yeah, when I got there the first and only time, I was also surprised how little separates you from Zot once you've made it through the Dungeon and the rune branches. Far too many of my characters have died on the final stretch...
We use Leptos at $DAYJOB for a web-UI of medium complexity. Debugging is mainly a matter of println-debugging, to be honest. Well, with log statements. We use tracing-web for logging to the browser console (if you're using log rather than tracing, you can do the same with console_log). And then console_error_panic_hook to make panics visible in the browser console.
None of this is particularly great. Sometimes you get a stacktrace and no chance to try to debug it, because it happens in compiled WebAssembly. Sometimes you run into reactivity issues, which you just have to try to reproduce and narrow down why it happens.
You do gain experience over time and can spot issues more quickly or code it correctly upfront. And well, I've never seen a frontend framework, which was immediately intuitive in its reactivity or similar. Humans are just a messy interface.
Yeah, not sure what else to add. The upgrade to Leptos 0.7 was definitely a challenge, but we managed to push through, although I would not have wanted to do that without some of the experiences I've made with personal projects.
Feel free to ask questions, if you want to know anything more concrete.
For anyone wondering, the Rettungsgasse ("rescue aisle") is something we do on longer stretches of road whenever congestion happens, to allow ambulances to pass through as quickly as possible. Everyone on the right side of the road keeps to the right and everyone on the left keeps to the left, forming a roughly ambulance-sized gap in the middle. On multi-lane roads, it's formed to the right of the left-most lane.
There's also laws for it. You can get fined, if you hold up the ambulance, because you failed to form the Rettungsgasse, or if you have the audacity to drive down the Rettungsgasse to try to skip a traffic jam.
It's not really a thing in cities like shown in the video, as we'd typically try to drive into side roads or onto parking spaces or the sidewalk to make room for the ambulance. The laws don't apply there either.
Yeah, leaving moral reservations aside, it's especially annoying to me, because it's being pushed with complete disregard whether it actually helps me.
I've been working in a programming language for the past two years, in which I'm well-trained. Better than the statistical average that LLMs blurt out, at the very least. So, I'll often end up correcting whatever it generates, rather than just typing out the same directly. In particular, I also find it much easier to think while typing, rather than while reviewing code, so I need pauses to think anyways. And I also just find it disrupts my concentration when the autocompletion-style LLMs keep flickering their suggestions at me.
Similarly, flavor images. So much of management is fucking excited about generative AI, because they can type shit like "wombat hanging off of a line of code" and then it slops out an image, which they can slap into their presentation and pretend it has meaning.
I don't like those images. The AI-generated ones look terrible to me, but I did not either like them before they were AI-generated. It's just pointless imagery, why are you showing me this?
Obviously, management can disagree with my stance, many people do, but if they want me to present shit, they need to respect that my presentation style just does not include flavor images, no matter what flavor image generator we pay for.
The German law has a passage which allows you to install it, no matter what your landlord thinks. Maybe that's in Utah's law, too...?
Here in the Europes, I find curbside parking similarly depressing. Like, man, it should be a human right for kids to be able to go outside for playing ball. But you can't do that anywhere around here, because wherever there's kids, you can be sure that someone's parking their precious car nearby.
This is why I recommend FOSS apps for base functionality like that. There's plenty folks out there, who've implemented a grocery list app as a hobby project, who don't need to try to make money off it. As such, their app can exist without ads, tracking or needy notifications.
Yeah, while writing the comment above, I realized a quip like that could work. Maybe also "We just ran out of strong men, but I'll see what I can do". Didn't have that sleight of mind in those situations so far...
For anyone else wondering WTF SAE is:
Tools and fasteners with sizes measured in inches are sometimes called "SAE bolts" or "SAE wrenches" to differentiate them from their metric counterparts. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) originally developed fasteners standards using U.S. units for the U.S. auto industry; the organization now uses metric units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units#Other_names_for_U.S._customary_units
When you skip head day...
I mean, if it's still shit and it's getting even worse, I don't know why we wouldn't continue to mourn that, or at least call it out.
Well, as the other person said, it was not a failing of LiMux. It was political. Munich had been ruled by one coalition throughout the lifetime of LiMux and after it went to a different coalition, they announced the switch back.
The manager of Munich's IT department also publicly stated that they were surprised by the decision, because there are no larger technical problems and compatibility is resolved by providing virtualized MS Office, where necessary.
Coincidentally, Microsoft also moved its German headquarters from just outside of Munich's tax region into Munich around the same time.
Well, traditionally, console prices were subsidized by the more expensive game prices. They'd sell the console at a loss to then make that back per game. Them raising both the console price as well as game prices is what makes it awful.
Yeah, always weirds me out. Like, if you ask for help normally, I'll be the first to jump up. But if you ask specifically for strong men, you ask me to be a cunt to everyone else in the room, saying I'm stronger than them, which I don't even know.
And even if I were to think that I'm the strongest, there's still no way to know that I'm actually able to lift whatever heavy object it is. If I cannot lift it, I'll look like a massive poser, when I then come crawling back, asking for help from others.
I mean, maybe this works better in different cultural contexts, but whenever I've seen it tried, it always resulted in those going along, who did not have to worry to about being confused for strong men. Which is just stupid, too. Let my older colleague throw their back out, even though I would've gladly helped as well.
Good way to extort get Microsoft to offer competitive prices. ¯(ツ)_/¯
But yeah, it was the city of Munich that had a few goes at this. Now it's the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Yeah, I don't have first-hand experience with Arch for that reason either. Well, and also because I do want a distro to set things up for me. You could set up the snapshotting (with BTRFS and Snapper) on theoretically any distro, but not having to figure out how and what settings are good, that's why I go with openSUSE.
I might look into NixOS at some point. It obsoletes the need for OS snapshots, because the entire OS configuration is made in configuration files. But from what I hear, it helps to be a programmer (which I am) to really appreciate NixOS.
And yeah, don't know much about Bazzite either, but from what I've heard, it really has some design decisions that make it feel more like a games console. The atomic/transactional updates, for example. As I understand, updates and such are applied to a copy of your OS, which gets swapped in when you do the next reboot. This helps keep the system stable after applying updates, but implies that you can't really just poke around manually in your root partition.
It can be helpful for users not looking to experiment, but yeah, can be a pain, if you do want to.
As for a real-time kernel, the JACK FAQ says you don't need it, but the distro might limit real-time scheduling anyways: https://jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html
I've had JACK running on my system about a year ago, although I didn't really have a need for low latency, so I can't say, if it actually worked correctly.
Perhaps also worth pointing out that "Pipewire" is becoming a thing, which tries to make interfacing with JACK and PulseAudio much easier. I believe, I also used Pipewire back then. But yeah, folks who've dealt with JACK a lot more than I have, seem to be really excited about it, so it's presumably doing a great job.
Yeah, and them being trigger-happy with the ban hammer is why Lemmy exists at all today. All Reddit alternatives back then were Nazi hotpots, because pretty much only folks who got banned from Reddit joined the alternatives (and back then, Reddit moderation primarily concerned itself with Nazis).
They would show up on dev.lemmy.ml, too, and "just ask questions", like if an immigrant did a certain crime, would you want them deported?
These questions served no point other than to drive the conversation tone to the right.
And yeah, I was glad that the admins were always vigilant about that and immediately banned anyone asking such 'questions', even if it may have thrown legitimately curious folks under the bus, because it allowed proper conversations to exist.
Of course, I have survivorship bias. I don't concern myself with China or Russia nearly enough to have specific opinions about them.
But when someone is not being intentionally intolerant, I am of the opinion that talking to them is worth it and the only way to help center opinions which one might perceive as extreme.
But well, I also don't concern myself with my admins nearly enough to have specific opinions about their opinions either. I don't have to agree with everything they think, just because I'm on their instance, so I don't care nearly as much as some other folks here.
When you're asked to sprinkle software engineering onto data science projects ✨
