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tatterdemalion

@ tatterdemalion @programming.dev

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Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist

  • Which stage are you at?

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  • Pretty sure my journey looked something like:

    1. Ubuntu for a while
    2. A furious bout of hopping experiments: Debian, ElementaryOS, Crunchbang, MX Linux, Fedora
    3. Arch for a bit, but it was too much struggle
    4. Ubuntu for a while, embracing the "vanilla" lifestyle
    5. Manjaro for a while. It seemed to solve my previous issues with vanilla Arch.
    6. EndeavourOS, basically a better Manjaro.
    7. NixOS, which had a significant learning curve but ultimately gives me the most control and repeatability for all of my machine configs. Still daily driving this on my desktop, router, and some web servers.
    8. Tried out Fedora Atomic on my old laptop out of curiosity. Installing packages was ultra slow. Workflows were too annoying.

    So I think the graph is actually pretty reflective of my own experience, aside from some of the specific distro choices during my peak ignorance phase, and obviously I ended up at NixOS which isn't even on here.

  • Misogyny or something... Idk

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  • What an idiotic suggestion. Hetero men everywhere will rejoice in you shutting the fuck up right now.

  • Linux reference in the wild

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  • I currently have more audio issues on my MacBook Pro than my Linux desktop. The Mac will sometimes just fail to recognize headphones plugged into the 3.5mm TRS port. NixOS desktop w/ pipewire has no audio problems whatsoever.

  • Age check

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  • There is no such thing as “consent” in this situation.

    Are you arguing Clinton raped Lewinski?

  • Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing?

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  • An issue which I aim to resolve using a self-hosted VPN.

  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • Pretty sure my eyes max out at 4K. I can barely tell the difference between 4K and 1080P from my couch.

  • Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

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  • Pretty much everyone I've talked to about this says the same thing. LLMs are useful for one-off scripts or quickly generating boilerplate. It just turns out that those tasks don't make up the majority of programming work unless you are in a bullshit job anyway.

    We aren't yet great at knowing when LLM will save time and when it will inflate time.

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  • Only if you think of the wall as an adversary and not an ally.

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  • No you just immerse in the wall for a femtosecond.

  • What are some methods of distributed civil disobedience for Americans?

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  • I believe that's called a Boycott. Usually those are targeted. I'd recommend boycotting as many companies as you can whose CEO tickled Trump's anus with a faux golden thimble.

  • And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away

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  • We might not know the parents, but we do know that iPads didn't exist in the past and people still managed to raise kids.

  • The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.

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  • I agree up to the extent of the numbers. I think $50/hr is feasible if we make drastic changes to our economy. $150/hr simply cannot work with the country's current number of workers and overall productivity.

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  • What does Wikipedia have to do with the mission statement of the HO&GRC? Isn't Wikipedia an NGO charity? I don't know how much federal funding they get. But Wikimedia isn't actually contributing to the database IIUC. They just develop the wiki software.

  • xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse

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  • You are part of the wavefunction. There is no collapse, just entanglement.

  • The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.

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  • You're out of your mind if you think a $300k salary for every working citizen is feasible. Paying that out would require $53 trillion, which is more than our GDP.

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  • It's a repost, but a good one.

  • I don't see the problem

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  • I guess I am at least aware of it, but I didn't make that association when I saw the post.

  • I don't see the problem

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  • Eh, this seems like a niche enough kink that it's your own fault for thinking this sounds dirty. I'm kinda annoyed I know about it now. You should delete this post.

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  • Not sure which Oxford dictionary you're using, but the Google one says

    an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA )

    Maybe it's been changed?

    And Merriam Webster online says:

    The word acronym typically applies when the resulting thing can be read as a word

    My position on the whole "word meanings change over time" debate is: I agree, but if you used to have two words with distinct meanings and now they are getting collapsed into one, that's mostly because people weren't aware of a subtle distinction. And that's not a good reason to make the distinction meaningless for everyone.

    FWIW my original comment was a joke, I hope that was clear.

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  • You can check multiple dictionaries (Oxford, Merriam Webster) and they will agree with me.