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AboutFull stack, constantly vacillating between loving my career and hating it. I would happily go start a chicken farm or some such shit if I could afford it. Military Veteran, so I drink a lot anyway. Myspace was the best social network. 20+ years Linux
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SkillsTolerating bullshit, PHP, Python, SQL, Perl, C#, Visual Basic/ASP, Front End, Javascript, Rust, Lisp. Also now a bitter IT generalist/server bitch, because no one else will do the work. IIS, CI/CD, AWS, Docker/Kubes, Firewall, VPN, BBQ
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LocationHell (Amurca, near where Deliverance was set WEEEEEEEEEE)
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@Jifuna I'm going to amend what I said about hyprland earlier - now that I've forced myself to use it for several days, it's actually pretty good. I would hesitate to call it 'lightweight' though, and just like any tiling wm, it requires a lot of config to make it comfy.
I think I'm going to stick with gnome since I don't want to spend hours tweaking configs to get things just right, but I guess if you really need/want a tiling wm and don't mind the absence of a few ease of use additions, it's a fine choice. -
@djsumdog feeling guilty? LOL
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Another funzie to occupy your mind as you try to sleep tonight - an errant gamma ray burst would flash fry the planet as well....probably wouldn't know it ahead of time either, and I'm not a dentist or whatever, but I think the survivability of something like that isn't terribly high.
I've also heard of this as yet hypothetical type of matter known as "strange matter" or something like that. If an asteroid made of that stuff hit us, we'd be ultrafucked. It's pretty much Ice 9 from Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle", but with everything that is made of molecules. -
You'll get there if you stick with it. I started maybe a little more than a decade ago, and I still feel like you could fill several oceans with what I still have no clue about. Your self-appraisal kinda reminds me of what it was like at my first couple of jobs, and it can be tough if you're in a less than awesome company that doesn't enable you to grow professionally. On the other hand, I know for my part that I was pretty impatient with my career. Just be open to learning as much as you can, but definitely do not quit your job right now in this market! Even if you're "encouraged" to use GPT at work, if you have time on a weekend, it can be helpful to follow up on things that you used or saw or heard about. Curiosity can end up opening a lot of doors in this field.
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@Jifuna Hyprland doesn't do a single thing that DWM or BSPWM don't already do, but people evidently go apeshit over it because it has "smooth animations". wOoOoOoOoOoOoO
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@Demolishun LOL it's really not that bad. Maybe I'm just a dipshit, but after remapping a couple of keys, it's rather pleasant.
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Microshit's endless integration of spyware bullshit has a computational cost. Funny how they get to rip people off and absorb other IPs (and re-implement them poorly) with really no repercussions until the EU gets involved. I thought we had antitrust laws in America, since JP Morgan, the Rockefellers, and all of those people that Upton Sinclair wrote about.
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Yeah, it' s pretty fucking ridiculous. I only get taunted with "you can make this all go away with youtube premium" 17 times per day as well. My VPN helps, but I can't install one on my locked down computer at work.
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Good for you! It's bad for you, but I also think that working with shit code is bad for you, and all I long for is the sweet embrace of oblivion after a week, or sometimes a day, or even a few hours of tolerating other people's bullshit.
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I guess @dfox must be alive, because image thingies are working again? That's good! Congratulations @dfox!
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I know not everyone will agree, but laptops in general are underpowered. At least they are if you want to get any battery life out of them. Best way to handle limitations like this is just to ssh into a more powerful non-laptop machine for development.
Then again, I've personally seen laptops and those crappy "all-in-one" Dell or HP PCs used as public-facing servers....yeah. -
@Chewbanacas I hope you're right!
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@Demolishun FUCK
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Interesting anecdote about the Indian dev. I have experienced something similar, also having to do with an Indian dev.
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Yeah, it's pretty brutal out there. I've been trying to change jobs for months now, and all I'm getting is ridiculous lowball bullshit at best and fake job postings at worst.
I think it's possibly correction from overinvestment and overmanning, combined with the (hopefully short lived) AI bubble. -
It's weird, because someone has to be paying the bill right? Looks like this is hosted on Digital Ocean, which is a lot better than AWS, but still requires money.
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Licensing? I must be out of the loop. Never tried podman, but hey if it works and makes things easier, that's awesome. Docker is an amazing tool, just has a bit of a learning curve.
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@jestdotty I had a contract at a healthcare company years ago that had the most well maintained PHP codebase I've ever seen. That was one time though, but they were really on their game at that company.
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@MammaNeedHummus For sure. Doing this on the replacement stuff, but the existing codebase is over 250GB of spaghetti, and no way in fuck am I going to write tests for all of that shit.
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@Lensflare You don't have to be a wizard for that! Just copy my stock trades! #unpelosi
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Hopefully not at a child's birthday party.
Wizard James: "And now for my next trick, I'm going to pull....something out of my hat!"
Random Child: "Mommy!"
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Join us on the Linux/BSD side!
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@Demolishun whoosh, I do not get the joke
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@donkulator it's hard not to become cynical in this sub-meta-industry. I feel your pain!
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If it actually is *working fine* after all that time, could be dude just wants to invent a problem to facilitate more job security? "Working fine" depends on your perspective sometimes.
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@Lensflare fair enough I guess. Maybe I'll give it another shot this weekend.
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That's pretty cool, and that's not just a kinetic pun
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@mostr4am This dude. Rock on, you misguided yet wise sonofabitch.
ps I'm sure your mother is a nice lady -
I sincerely hope this is not real. I'm not a lunatic - I still eat sandwiches and steaks and whatnot, but the apparent intelligence of cows really fucking bothers me. Not kidding, they're a lot like dogs, but weirdly more human? I don't want to go on and on about it, but cows are special in a good way. I try not to think about it.
This hacker, if they did this, should be punished. I think crimes against animals should be treated as though the crimes were committed against humans. 1) super fucked up, why. 2) proclivity for crimes against animals (those that cannot fight back) can precipitate into crimes against humans as well. Living things are not objects. -
@jestdotty lol true! I think I like dwm better, but these tiling wms can be such a massive time sink either way. Saves time on the day to day stuff, so that you can make up the difference changing the config and recompiling it 37 times at night.