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Life's an array of arrays. 101010 exactly.
Philosophy & Programming. I love coding, comic-books (and no-comic books), films and (dark and loud mostly) music. I suck at all of this. <3
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array, to ubuntu
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I, for one, would like not to having to think about my OS much. Just knowing that it's FOSS, and get sh*t done. So here I am, mostly stuck on for dev work because reasons, and not a day I don't read someone telling us it's bad and we shouldn't use it. It's a bit tiring and I've got enough on my head to consider a switch ATM. So note to myself: keep using whatever works for me while I don't have to compromise personal values, and thus become:

simon_lucy, to music
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Those that seriously enjoy King Crimson, others may call them fans, I of course wouldn't accept that, but they are often completists interested in slight variations, novelties and such.

The smart people around DGM have run marketing schemes to satisfy that so I have entire tour recordings, outtakes, etc, etc.

But my completism hasn't extended to splinters that don't include Robert Fripp in some way.

The "Stick Men" are pushing me out of that. https://stickmenband.com/

array,
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@simon_lucy Anything with Tony Levin on it tends to be, at the very least, interesting. :)

helgztech, to random
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No I don't need to spin up a BSD to play with. Nope. nooooooo.

array,
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@helgztech But don't we all? XD

helgztech, to random
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Haven't finished watching the freebsd at netflix prezi because reasons. Wondering what the security implications of bsd with zfs are given it records a checksum with data. Can't quite get my head around how the file system works - no volumes or partitions! Apparently there is a lot of freeBSD code in OSX. And yet the BSDs suffer from lack of developers.

array,
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@helgztech YMMV, but at least for me the main showstopper is hardware support. No WiFI, no trackpad (I tried in a laptop, and a quite old one FWIW). No easy porting drivers and stuff from Linux, apparently because licensing collisions... But I've had FreeBSD and OpenBSD in VMs and they're really nice to play with. If I had to fire up a server, I think any *BSD would likely be my choice. :)

array,
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@helgztech That's what everybody says, until it's too late to get out the 🐇 hole. 🤪 Just a suggestion, but if you can spin it into Gnome Boxes, at least the VM part will be piece of cake. But don't worry, plenty of challenges ahead! 😆

array, to Java
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My project goes on, as a learning practice preparing for $newJob. I have, on purpose, excluded any frontend frameworks, just plain old HTML and CSS, and some JS strictly when needed. I build my templates with JSP, and I'm not using any backend framework. A bit more work? Maybe. But it's crystal clear, less bloated, and so fast! Plus, I get to see behind the abstractions, implementing models, services, factories, servlets, utils, etc. all by myself. In other words: I'm having fun. :)

array,
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@HaraldKi I 100% agree with this and your blog post, thanks for sharing. I've been bitten by, say, trying to override Bootstrap rules, or trying to upgrade the npm deps for a Express+Vuetify project weeks later after starting such project and everything breaking... Java is, I believe, more "boring" in that sense. ;)

That said, I was taught straight "vanilla" web tech in my AD, and though I like, say, Laravel, the "magic" you mention, and to rely on so many moving parts... It's a trade off. ;)

array,
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@HaraldKi For CSS in particular, I very much prefer straight CSS rules. I have a complete control (well, to a point; CSS is as easy as it's really difficult to get right!) on my views, up to any detail. And JS, sure say Vue makes some things more straightforward, but writing vanilla JS puts you, again, in control, no magic here (dynamically inserting data with JSP apart), and for a pet project more than suffices. Plus I've noticed how fast it is, compared to the Node/Vue project...

tulpa, to music
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This is some interesting "cosmic" black metal that I'm just discovering: https://labyrinthusstellarum.bandcamp.com/album/vortex-of-the-worlds

@array This would probably appeal to the part of you that likes Khonsu.

array,
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@tulpa Hey, thanks for sharing. :) I usually need some days listening to something like this to form an opinion, but so far I'd say it sounds right up my alley. ;)

array, to random
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What ends with my patience when I'm in "helpdesk mode" is that most people I'm trying to help seem to have learned to use their GUIs just by repetition and memory, and fsck heuristics. Switch a button's position, move a menu item, and they are lost. No matter how many times you say, "you just have one screen to explore, so just read what's there, move your pointer, read the tooltips, click and read the menus..." But it's parrot's way or the highway. 🤦‍♀️

array,
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@justincroser I use Sway myself and TBH, there's not much to play with, as it's mostly not responsive to mouse clicks, no icons, no nothing... If you don't know the kb shortcuts you are mostly lost. But that's a bit of a corner case. ;)

array,
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@justincroser Yeah, I've sometimes given my laptop to some people and asked them to open the browser or something like that just for a laugh... People just think that you are weird I guess. I'm pretty ok with being a weirdo, you know. XD

helgztech, to random
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🎵 It's the end of the world as we know it 🎶

array,
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@helgztech 🎵And I feel... Fine? 🦄

array, (edited ) to random
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I can relate: "From a Lorry Driver to Ruby on Rails Developer at 38" https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/lorry-driver-to-rails-developer-at-38/ I was a bookstore clerk with nearly 50, I went back to school instead of doing a boot camp, and I just got a full stack ++PL/SQL position, but otherwise this sounds quite familiar. So the obvious moral of our tale is "you can do it, if you work hard and are passionate about it". But is it? I've seen younger, about the same age and even older folks try and fail. And it's OK. =>

array,
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What I mean is, I think tales like ours can maybe be inspiring for other people to try a similar path. But is not really easy for everybody, we all have our own set of potential skills which can be a match for this... Or not. Try and fail just likely happens to everybody who dares to venture out of their comfort zones. And I think it's OK. Knowing our own boundaries and trying to venture beyond them has its own value. No matter if you got it or failed, you are great. <3

array, to random
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This morning I received a call to have a job interview this evening, dev position, in a big enterprise ("big" according to my humble standards; ~200 people in the IT department I've been told, a noticeable change from being just 2 developers in my former job). Stakes are high and probabilities are low, but having another chance when everything seems to be going south is nice. :)

array,
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@aral Thank you again, I really appreciate the encouragement... And I really need a job. <3

array,
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@aral You're too generous, I really appreciate this. :) Yeah, I'll keep you posted. If this does not work I'll keep on trying, but I have very little experience and I'm quite old for a freshly-out-of-school junior position, it would seem. But I've got the passion, I put the effort.. And honestly, I've got the need, so whenever there's an opportunity, I'll be there. :)

array,
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@teapot_ben Thank you so much, I really hope so, even my possibilities are realistically low. But if I don't try, I'll never get to it! :D

array,
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OK so my second job interview went great and I got the job! I'll be code-monkey-ing some , and PL/SQL for a local multinational enterprise, so expect whole new categories of bugs and ways to nuke your production servers that will amaze the Computer Scientists for years to come. :darthvader: A big thanks to you
fediversers who have suffered my lame adventures as a crappy dev student, and even crappier unemployed crappy dev wannabe, now the Null Pointer Exception is the limit! ♥️

array, (edited )
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@joel Thanks! I believe I'll do, I know someone already working there and he told me it's a very good place to work, the initial conditions are pretty good indeed. Now I just hope I'll do OK enough to keep the job! ;)

array,
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@aral In case you missed my last post and because you asked to keep you posted, I got the job! ☺️ Thank you again for your encouragement. I hope this goes well, it really looks like a good position, it's a big enterprise but they use quite a lot of FOSS... I hope I'll have my chances to contribute some FOSS code in any of the projects I'll be working with. :)

array,
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@fedops Thank you so much! On paper it looks really way better than my former position, and I have a former classmate working there already who says it really is a very nice place to work. I hope to keep (self) pressure at bay and perform acceptably enough... But right now I'm just happy I could make it (again), after so many times of being on the edge of just giving up and back to crappy jobs. :)

array,
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@sherwoodinc Thanks! ♥️

array,
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@aral Thanks, I'll do my best! ☺️

array,
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@teapot_ben Thanks! :D

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