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by smlavine 1y ago
The setup UI has no option for you to proceed beyond this point without internet access.
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by smlavine 1y ago
Having been through interviews lately for mid-level CS internship positions, I'd say that having FOSS contributions on my resume that I was able to discuss extensively was indeed a factor in both attaining an interview and ultimately a
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by smlavine 1y ago
As a CS undergrad in my final year of study, a 5-year contract with guarantees with regards to employment, benefits, promotion etc. would appear to me and think would also appeal to many of my peers.
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by smlavine 1y ago
The god-mode minor mode that is linked is also mind-boggling: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode
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by smlavine 1y ago
It's really cool to see this and other recent experimentation towards breaking past the local maximum of modal editing we've been in since Vi. Really neat stuff!
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by smlavine 1y ago
Do you use snippets or something to help speed this up? Manually typing `printf("longvarname=%s secondvarname=%d\n", longvarname, secondvarname);` adds up over a debugging session, compared to a graphical debugger setup with well-
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by smlavine 1y ago
It's not a silver bullet, but Visual Studio is leaps and bounds ahead of gdb et. al. for debugging C/C++ code. "Attach to process" and being able to just click a window is so easy when debugging a large Windows app.
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by smlavine 1y ago
Out of curiosity, how often do you use your bank's app? I don't have my bank's app on my phone. Pretty much nobody ever gives me paper checks, and all of my employers have strongly encouraged/required direct deposit as p
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by smlavine 1y ago
Related recent news, the 0.15.1 release with the start of some IO changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44964701
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Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser(ziglang.org)
167 points by smlavine 1y ago|75 comments
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by smlavine 1y ago
Should be easy enough to do the math: https://netsplit.de/networks/
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Bookworm Adventures has been erased from the internet, and I want to know why(rockpapershotgun.com)
15 points by smlavine 1y ago|1 comments
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by smlavine 1y ago
I think this is the number one reason more people don't end up using IRC nowadays. The flow for newer, younger users is: - Use some software project, want to ask a question, see they have an "IRC channel" - Hopefully it'
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by smlavine 1y ago
Being a programmer is absolutely about knowing how to configure your development environment, though.
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by smlavine 1y ago
I once used m4 to generate my blog. Hated it. Escaping was a nightmare and I was always afraid I'd quote something wrong.
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Sorry, You Don't Get to Die on That "Vibe Coding" Hill(theinternet.review)
3 points by smlavine 1y ago|2 comments
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by smlavine 1y ago
If Duolingo wants to be an "AI-First" company, then what's stopping all of us from being an "AI-First" society and just using Google Translate all the time? This contradicts the whole thesis statement of their compa
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by smlavine 1y ago
This is true, this is an inherently more complex system. Personally I prefer the French two-round system as a balance between complexity and proportionality -- America sorta has this with primaries, although them being months in advance and
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by smlavine 1y ago
Nah, just vote for the party you like the most. The nerds at the elections office take care of the math themselves. "Better" than US/UK/Canada where you have to consider a primary system or multiple elections or "Li
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by smlavine 2y ago
Well, my knowledge stops at "file-wide" at least :) Thinking more now I think the most important part is knowing what your tools are capable of and how to use them to their fullest, more so than the particular environment (assumi
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by smlavine 2y ago
I'm in university right now and am working on a semester long group project with a few other folks. It's written in C. Most (all?) of the rest of them use VS Code, I use NeoVim. I've observed that, while VS Code isn't a
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Federal Budget of the United States (1789)(wallbuilders.com)
2 points by smlavine 2y ago|0 comments
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by smlavine 2y ago
The photo made me think of a common thing at my workplace -- a conference/customer visit had too much catering, and the leftovers were deposited in the break room. They usually don't stay very long.
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by smlavine 2y ago
Sleep hygiene. I'm in college and I know too many people that waste away online until 3am and are always tired and then down coffee after coffee during the day.
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by smlavine 2y ago
I agree with this. Default, unconfigurable light mode has been around for a while, and infrastructure like the Dark Reader plugin is around to address this. There is no such thing for light mode, though. In my opinion, light mode is better
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by smlavine 2y ago
I'm very minimally affected by this; I have a PKGBUILD I submitted to the AUR that was then yanked up into community. I don't care about the "license" change/clarification itself. But I hate how their email was ph
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by smlavine 2y ago
I was very coolstruck to discover that GStreamer has a built-in sink to output ASCII "video" to the terminal: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/aasink/aasin...
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by smlavine 2y ago
Do you happen to have a link to the "Basic Hand Tools" version?
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by smlavine 2y ago
First time hearing of Orkut, what was it?
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by smlavine 2y ago
Not xitter (and more context): https://substack.com/@techemails/p-94286303

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