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What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?
  • I live in the second one. On purpose. I'll never wear my debian tshirt.

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  • Wow, you've tried nothing and are all out of ideas!

  • This line is chilling
  • I'll happily supply the hacksaw to keep you occupied.

  • YSK The US Government has a Webpage for New Fathers to Find Dad Jokes
  • I actually love that we have resourses like this.

    My gripe is that they miss the mark by targeting new dads. The reason dad jokes are great is they are the first jokes your kid understands. So I would think dads of 4 to 9 year-olds would be a better target.

    The high you feel when your kid cracks up at some offhand dumb joke can't be bottled.

    But the reason I love this as a resourse is that explaining jokes to a curious child develops connections in their head in a way that only a parenting rolemodel can really do. So even if it's not laugh-out-loud funny to explain a joke, if your child tells you that they do not get a joke, first and foremost realize that is a vunerable admission. Buddies will rag on you for not getting it. Parents see a gap in their kids' world experience that they can fill.

  • which linux phone is the most promising?
  • Is this seriously your takeaway from a well-thought out post? This the smugness of reddit that I really don't miss.

    edit: I am refering to the root comment, as that isn't clear.

  • You were disabled. You're stuck laying down most of the day. What do you do to earn a living and survive?
  • This can't help in the short term, I would consider learning steno. It used to cost thousands to rent specialized equipment to do it. Now with Plover (foss), the software component is free. You just need a keyboard with n-key rollover to do it.

    I wouldn't actually recommend learning on a standard keyboard. I personally use an ortholinear for typing, and that's what got me into plover.

    One way this would help one disabilities to make money is that with high-speed internet, you can caption internet broadcasts or remote company meetings. There are nonprofits that you would work for to find companies that need your service.

  • Box rule
  • Who says the kid didn't scavenge for it?

    I bet he gets fed frozen pizza. Lazy-ass guardians. You need to cook that shit.

  • Alabama station in disbelief after 200-foot radio tower stolen
  • Fun fact: 200-foot radio towers are free. You can take them home. I have 257 200-foot radio towers.

  • Me after I got fired
  • You're correct in a lot of languages; Excel comes to mind. Just that's not how int rand() works in C.

    Sorry, I don't why you're getting snark and even being accused of using the word "integer".

  • Project Veritas admits there was no evidence of election fraud at Pennsylvania post office in 2020
  • This is shocking though. It's usually subtext that they are lying. I think something was discovered in the constant litigation they need to get ahead of.

  • Junior Dev VS Machine Learning
  • But which consumes more energy? Like really. I'm betting AI does, but some tasks might be close.

  • Tucker Carlson interviews Putin and asks Zelenskyy for conversation
  • How can you enjoy your tea without a window?

  • Can someone help me understand this maths riddle?
  • Exactly. More precisely, the wording is making the reader confuse assets and debts. Which side of the ledger does that sheep actually belong on?

  • Do you use a serial (Oxford) comma?
  • You, laz.y ba'stard;

  • Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ?
  • "Daddy, why do people have to eat?"

    [long pull from cig] "Plants... They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way."

  • Trump wants to debate Biden 'immediately' — but president shrugs him off
  • I guess I don't see what you're torn about.

  • Trump wants to debate Biden 'immediately' — but president shrugs him off
  • On the other hand, he hasn't done a debate so far for this presidential race

    It is way too early for R vs. D debates. Why would Biden debate him? Biden is handily beating Dean Phillips. Trump needs to defeat Haley first. It's not Biden fault Haley is still in it.

  • King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says
  • King Charles cancer -> KCC -> Kansas City Chiefs -> Taylor Swift is a deepstate psy-op.

    It's all coming together.

  • I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

    I thought I would knock some dust off my drafting skills after a small chat with @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

    Seeing this image on the tutorial made me realize, FreeCAD seems to be a Technical Geometry Super-Suite. It makes sense that CAD would grow to include all of these things. But I thought sharing the initial perspective of some one who hasn't looked at this stuff in about 18 years might be interesting.

    Granted I'm not actually familiar with most of this stuff, and none of it from the POV of FreeCAD. If this can deliver 10% of what I'm looking at, I'm in for a treat.

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    Microblog Memes @lemmy.world Ook the Librarian @lemmy.world
    Surely, only North Korea would see it that way. [Is OC allowed? I'm new here.]
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    ook_the_librarian Ook the Librarian @lemmy.world

    My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he says is "Ook" and can traverse the library stacks with great ease. He is happy.

    I have a pretty strange knowledge set. I'm not super friendly, but I like to get high and link people to stuff. Just pretend I said only "ook"

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