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Compiling to JavaScript is funny to me. Like here we have a language so pervasive on the web that everything uses it. It's high level, easy to write, but it sucks so here's a way you can write literally anything else and compile it to JavaScript

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I was browsing UnixPorn on Reddit and was reminded how opinionated people get about Linux. Sure I have my opinions, but I by no means believe my opinions extend outside personal preference.

I feel like it's a tell-tale sign between Linux as a hobby, and Linux as a tool. Hating SystemD is great and all, I personally prefer OpenRC, but if I actually need to use the system I'm going to want the init system that has the best online support.

There is no singular "right" way to use Linux. I fully understand both wanting to use Linux for its benefits as an operating system as well as using Linux because it's fun to customize. I do both. But I think people, specifically those who like more fringe systems, can tend to forget that some people just want an out of the box Linux experience that will work for as long as they need it to.

This mentality is by no means unique to Linux, I see it in many tech spaces. Yes Rust is objectively better designed than Java, but Java is easier to learn and hire for. I feel like many newcomers to these things can get pressured into making their life harder than it needs to be to meet other people's standards.

I suppose the moral of this post is; remember everyone has different needs, and your opinions do not trump those needs.

I always somehow manage to turn my commentary on the Linux community philosophical. Humanity reveals itself to be consistent in many strange ways.

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The Windows (Super) key on my keyboard died. As a sway user this is devastating. I'm stuck on KDE Plasma until my new keyboard comes. I miss my convenient navigation shortcuts dadgummit

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Shout out Document 4 on Microsoft Word. My favorite scratchpad for things that don't warrant their own document

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I decided to make a sourdough starter and had a bunch of organic rye flour I got from a Mennonite store that I decided to use. It's been three days and it's already over doubling in 12 hours. I'm so proud of my child, he is big and strong and healthy. He will make good strong bread to feed family.

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Look at my boy

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I don't know if this is a me issue or not, but being into computers in a rural area is sometimes infuriating. Whenever I mention that I like computers/programming to someone they always go, "So you play video games?" Then rant about how their *insert young relative here* only ever plays video games and won't get off their lazy ass and do some real work.

A: I worked doing siding for multiple summers during highschool thankyouverymuch.

B: I barely even play video games. Unless it's Civilization I rarely play anything for longer than an hour at a time.

And C: I know if I try to explain what I do to you will immediately lose interest.

I like rescuing E-waste, writing reusable code, and watching videos about niche hardware optimization, it's not that complicated

Probably relevant XKCD for that final point:

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I don't know if I love or hate all my English and communications courses for the fact that I am watching a YouTube video and noticing the rhetorical methods used

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"imagine them in their underwear" is weird sanitised advice for people who think the most debased thing someone can be is naked, but not so naked that they're morally discomforting. what you have to do, if you want stage presence, is imagine them as your soulless undead army

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The Fedora Sway Spin goes hard, highly recommend for a sensible configuration right out of the gate on a solid distro

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I remember early on in college when all my classes were in C++ and I would see things online about C++ being weird and difficult and be like, "pffft it's not that bad." Now after using mostly Java and C# I look at C++ and it's like, yeah, you're weird. The fact that the language can be written wrong in so many ways is honestly impressive. Kudos to C++ developers, I do not envy you

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A lot of people seem to misunderstand what "stability" (in term of Linux distros) means.

It's not about your system beeing reliable and not breaking/crashing due to bugs. Stable simply means "no updates that introduce breaking changes" (as in breaking compatibility, not as in destroying stuff).

An unstable distro can still be reliable (e.g. OpenSUSE tumbleweed due to great testing) and a stable distro may move so slowly that things start to cause trouble due to old age (for example only shipping end-of-life versions of certain libraries that some software vendors indirectly stop supporting it or as sysadmin not beeing able to roll out a python script because some systems still have only versions of python available that are EOL).

I see this kind of misunderstanding not just here on Tumblr, but everywhere in the industry.

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The award for most misleading name in academics is currently tied between imaginary numbers and the dark ages

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3/4 of the most recent major bug fixes in the game have involved moving or slightly altering a line, one of which involved me and the other main programmer trying everything under the sun for two hours only for me to randomly go, "What if I did this?" And solve the months old bug. Isn't programming fun?

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making video games is cool because if my artist hasn't given me the sprites for yes/no buttons yet I can use absolutely any image file I want as a placeholder

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Does anyone on here have any experience with ebitengine? It seems like such a cool framework and I think Go might be a good language for game development so I'd be curious if anyone has used it and what their thoughts are

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Nothing beats that moment in game development where you sit down, fix all the weird bugs you put on the back burner, and pretty everything up. It's the moment where it stops feeling like a weird tech demo and you remember you actually make games