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GeePawHill

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GrandPaw, Geek, Software Development Coach, Writer, Ass Pain. Continuously startled by people and people-stuff. Pronouns: Don't care, will respect yours. https://geepawhill.org

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skinnylatte, to food
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15 years ago I was making travel / food videos for fun. I want to do it again, but I’m scared of becoming a ‘YouTube creator’

https://youtu.be/ACjIDnX8rPo

GeePawHill,
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@skinnylatte I certainly enjoy your food threads, TILs by the dozen, and also your photography threads, TILs by the dozen.

As a content creator myself, I have to say, I have come to believe there is almost no way to do it that doesn't imperil right livelihood.

I have seen some people do it, but they are very rare, and very gifted, and very lucky. I once thought I could, and now don't think I can.

RickiTarr, to random
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Alright, lots of heavy discussions today, so let's talk about something silly!

What is a movie that always makes you laugh?

Personal pick:

Anything Mel Brooks, but Robin Hood: Men in Tights, it's just funny every time I watch it.

GeePawHill,
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@RickiTarr The Jerk. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A Fish Called Wanda.

Virginia's go-to is Time Bandits.

mekkaokereke, to random
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315 lbs X 16 reps.

Strength of Ancestors.

https://youtube.com/shorts/DAook6kzjWY

GeePawHill,
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@mekkaokereke You're a badass, my friend. You got a spotter there?

GeePawHill,
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@mekkaokereke Cool, good.

I am not a person who knows much about these things, so I wasn't doing knowing shit.

GeePawHill,
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@mekkaokereke Just, you know, you're my Mekka, and I care for you.

GeePawHill, to random
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Here is how unimportant your vote for Biden is:

Republican legislatures all over this country have already passed laws -- and are continuing, desperately to pass laws -- to make it impossible for you to vote.

Sugar, if your vote didn't matter, they wouldn't be trying so hard to keep you from voting, or convince you not to.

StillIRise1963, to random
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If Black people gave up, please know a lot of YOU Americans out there wouldn’t have the rights YOU have. So, you need to understand that giving up isn’t an option.

GeePawHill,
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@StillIRise1963 If Black Americans had ever given up, America would not be all the things so many Americans, even white supremacist Americans, take for granted.

To pick just one, imagine American music -- you'll have to imagine it, because we have zero exemplars of it -- without Black Americans refusing to give up.

GeePawHill, to random
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Gil Scott Heron, "Lady Day & John Coltrane".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aRNUsmfeck

GeePawHill, to random
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Actually, that's an interesting last sentence in that last thread: "Maybe I shoulda fought more."

One of the challenges of being an elder in the geek trades is this.

When you look at stuff in the trade, geek stuff, and you're appalled, you have to constantly wonder: is the problem really the problem you see, or is the problem the fact that you're just aging out?

GeePawHill,
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AI coding assistants are bullshit. DI frameworks are bullshit. Singletons are bullshit globals. Frameworks where your code can only run inside the framework are bullshit. Codeless is bullshit. Agile-in-name-only is bullshit. Stretch goals are bullshit. Command lines are bullshit. The browser stack is bullshit. The idea that interprocess internet calls are free is bullshit.

GeePawHill,
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That's just some of my views that incite rage among younger geeks.

I can sit down at the end of the bar muttering into my scotch like this for hours.

Is it that they're so young, or is it that I'm old man yells at cloud?

GeePawHill,
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@thebillasch @ramsey Y'all goofin', and I'm cool with that, but you need to understand, I am serious about that list and about 20 other items.

tess, to random
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There are a lot of songs about New York but it speaks to both my age and my cultural background that the one currently playing in my head is Billy Joel's New York State of Mind.

GeePawHill,
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@tess He was much reviled in my set, as a young'un, but I was always pretty impressed. And I love "New York State of Mind". On nights when I sing to the trees, I often sing that one to them.

GeePawHill, to random
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The jury has reached a verdict. Here we go.

GeePawHill,
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Guilty, 34 counts.

This is all gonna be a nightmare, and was gonna be a nightmare whichever way the verdict went.

But that's a helluva day.

The man who singlehandedly raised the average number of felony indictments for a US President to 2, has now been found guilty on the first 34 charges.

It is, awful news, the whole thing is awful news, but it's the awful news I preferred to the alternatives.

GeePawHill,
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Well.

The drinking lamp is lit, my friends.

GeePawHill, to random
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People advise one not to use Chrome -- I don't -- but they also advise to use Firefox, instead -- I do -- but for the record, it is not clear to me that any of these browsers can be trusted.

It feels more like Chrome is just a chapter ahead, and the others will soon catch up.

GeePawHill, to random
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I am deeply regretting not looking at this project for 9 months.

So much fucking bit rot in a year-old gradle/kotlin/intellij project.

Makes me cray-cray.

grimalkina, to random
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This kind of thing has been around the block for a bit -- the reality in my opinion is that "programming ability" is simply not something we've defined and possibly not a single thing. The many decades of interest in predicting programming ability have sometimes succeeded at pushing against our stereotypes that it is math associated (as this work), but "math ability" is ALSO a fraught measure. It's important to bring a lot of context to the prediction of ability...

https://fosstodon.org/@yabellini/112470616882303876

GeePawHill,
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@grimalkina Yeah, every word I've read on this topic is basically so incredibly overloaded with meanings ranging from the complex and sophisticated to the simple and naive, to the blatantly sexist, racist, able-ist, and so on. It feels impossible to trust any statement that is made.

It's one of the areas we most need an altogether new language, or something more like the analyses that, say, Clifford Geertz brought to anthropology.

Something far more ethnographic, for one thing.

GeePawHill, to random
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A developer pattern I have noticed: the Crystalizing Name.

You're designing something that's kind of complicated, and you know there's a thing that does a thing, but you don't yet know what it is, and therefore you don't yet have a name for it.

You stall, and let the mixture bubble on the back burner. Then, boom, you got the name, and the whole concept gels seemingly instantly.

futurebird, to random
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Is there a good resource or book for learning about some of the details of how webservers work?

For example if I want an IP address on a intranet to be a webpage that people on that intranet can go to... how would I set that up from scratch. Let's say I have a machine with a static IP on the local net... (but what I really also need to understand is how a static IP is established locally, a DNS?)

Maybe the dream book or resource doesn't exist. But I ask anyway.

(it's macs if that matters)

GeePawHill,
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@futurebird Do you want to do this yourself? Do you want to start from scratch? Do you want teaching material?

An http1.1 server is actually a ridiculously easy program to write. One needs only to know a dab of multi-threading for the sockets, and lots of String manipulation. Won't be fancy, will work.

Of course, most programming languages have deluxe cool libraries, and they're even simpler to use.

GeePawHill, to random
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Uh-huh, whatever. You knew I was a snake when you clutched me to your breast.

GeePawHill, to random
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If you were a "natural" at pair programming, at pairing, let me ask you a question.

How many years into pairing were you before you began to understand that pairing was an actual skill, requiring technique, and practice, and learning, and not a universal attribute of all human programmers?

GeePawHill, to random
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I remember when I trusted the CDC.

I didn't trust them to always be right. Science is damned hard when events are breaking.

I did trust them to always do their best.

Those days are as gone as my youthful enthusiasm for ELO.

Wear a fucking mask, and fuck the fucking CDC, and if you work for the CDC, baby you brought this on yourself.

GeePawHill,
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@cferdinandi @Npars01 Our whole an entire American experience is owned.

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