Your friendly local programmer, uni student and *nix addict.
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Your friendly local programmer, uni student and *nix addict.
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Share your latest blog post!
I wanna get into self-hosting and looking for inspiration.
What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough....
TRUTH TIME! How many of you have actually read a user manual of an operating system completely?
[Mention your Sex if you are comfortable, I want to see the breakdown between the sexes here]...
Dedicated room for PC?
Those of you who use your pc solely for gaming, do you keep it in a dedicated room or do you keep it in the family room? Want some opinions. Are there benefits other than the quiet and keeping you rig safe? Do you get more done with the gaming time you have? Why do you or don’t you have a dedicated PC room?
What do you think of our lord and saviour Odysee.com?
Yeah, I have been hearing about Youtube blocking ad blocks for a while now and I thought maybe Firefox + uBlock Origin is holding ads at bay for a while, but yeah, it happened today. uBlock origin has been unable to block some ads for me and I am thinking of leaving Youtube. I searched day and night (wink wink) for an...
NodeJS vs Go
I want to learn another programming language now that I’ve been using Python for over 2 years now. I am kind of leaning on learning JS so that I can use it for the backend and also for the frontend. But the syntax is kind of weird. I heard Go is pretty good for the backend and also is compiled. What do y’all say? I also...
What kind of Telemetry do you allow? (i.imgur.com)
I allow everything from FOSS that I like, you?
Is using a swap partition (on linux) bad for an SSD's lifetime?
Does having swap memory damage SSDs too much, what do you think about it?
thrown into a backend project as a backend dev with a language I don't know, how fucked am I?
The title itself is a recipe for disaster. Also this is a semi rant....
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Rumbles of a programing error causing the Russian Lunar mission failure. (twitter.com)
Perhaps the 84 second burn overflowed the integer (2^6) and was caught by a 2^7s check (127s)
Results of the PCMR Name Change Survey (lemmy.world)
Hello PCMR community!...
Why are trending posts on Mastodon mostly negatively politically oriented? (lemm.ee)
It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?...
I Don't Use Exceptions in C++ Anymore (thelig.ht)
Using exceptions in C++ desktop and server applications overall made sense to me. As I expanded my usage of C++ into other domains, specifically embedded domains, I began to experience more compelling reasons not to use exceptions first-hand…...
What would happen if caffeine was made illegal?
Caffeine must be one of, if not the, most used drug. It is vital to the operation of more or less every industry.
Is it worth getting a DisplayPort cable?
My Philips 242m8 came with the HDMI cable only, are there any noticeable differences if I use a DP cable instead?
Intentionally corrupting LLM training data?
Inspired by the comments on this Ars article, I’ve decided to program my website to “poison the well” when it gets a request from GPTBot....
is it ethical to use third party libraries and other stuff in my portfolio website?
I am confused as to whether it is acceptable to use code produced by other people for something that is related to me and my creations. Do i have to resort to coding my portfolio website with pure css and js to demonstrate my credibility and experience as a candidate employee? Does the ideology of ‘using other people’s tools...
do you turn on read reciepts in your messaging apps?
I dont use read reciepts on WhatsApp. I keep it off. So I cannot see if a person has read my message or the sender of a message cannot see Ihave read their message. Status update views are also hidden....