SorteKanin @ SorteKanin @feddit.dk

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menu system

I think you are vastly underestimating how complicated menu systems and UI in games are. I have a friend who works as a professional game developer in a small studio and far as I heard, he's spent most of his time just working on their UI/menus.

Changing these things is neither easy nor fast.

Arguably any time loop is a paradox as it has no beginning. It kinda breaks cause and effect but I mean yea we're talking time travel so I guess we shouldn't be surprised.

This story is already strange and OPs post history contradicts it. Seems fake.

I think it is because Windows has many subsystems, it's just that you don't hear about most of them aside from WSL.

So it is referring to the particular Windows Subsystem (of which there are many) that can run or emulate Linux.

No code has been written as of yet, but I am learning to program, from the bottom up, backend to frontend.

I mean... This isn't inspiring great confidence. Fediverse platforms are by no means simple and neither are all the features you mention. I think you have good ideas, but as a professional software engineer with a masters in computer science who is also working on a fediverse platform... It's not easy and learning everything from the bottom might be a big bite.

There is nothing pointless about following your passions - in fact I'd say that is the only point of life. It's the opposite of pointless.

Maybe you need to reframe it as not failure, but progress. See how you get better and closer, not how you didn't reach the goal. It's about the journey.

I don't think it's immature - I wish more people had that kind of motivation.

But you say you're entering your 30s. I'd just like to remind you how long time you actually still have. I studied computer science myself and I had multiple friends at the university in their 40s. People do switch up their careers if they want it enough. It is possible.

I love programming and will continue my computer hobbies for life. I will never make a profession out of it

Why do you say that? Is it by choice or do you not see how you could make it a career?

I’m slowly coping with the fact that all my work will ultimately influence very nearly nothing at all…

What kind of impact were you hoping for? I mean lots of jobs have little "influence" - I would actually say almost all jobs. But that doesn't mean we are not all part of collective progress.

Using "lemmings" is arguably more wrong - there are plenty of people on the fediverse who are not using lemmy.

A pi with multiple terabytes of storage?

I get the concern but I don't think you need to be as concerned as with email. Email is a lot simpler without a lot of validation. On the fediverse, HTTP Signatures are used to verify requests, so you can't spoof stuff as easily.

That said, spam mitigation will probably still be an issue that continuously needs to be dealt with.

You are forgetting another option: Develop new projects that interoperate with Lemmy via ActivityPub. Then use and support those projects instead.

I mean if you truly intend to stay in a country for many years, shouldn't you learn the language? Also just for your own sake.

Denmark seems to fit fairly well and there are some English-only jobs in Copenhagen. I have a lot of colleagues that don't speak Danish.

Denmark is close I would like to say.

Lived in a dorm for 5 years while studying. Makes you confront that anxiety quite often and eventually you get more comfortable.

Basically exposure therapy :P

What does it mean if a democracy bans a party that the voters want to elect?

To be fair, 80% of voters did not vote for AfD - and if 80% of voters want to ban a party? Well, that is democracy. Although it's a dangerous tool to use.

The US is way more fucked, as more people actually voted for Trump than not.

It's not that hard to understand. The whole gaming industry is filled with people who are super passionate about games, like passionate to a fault. This makes it very, very difficult to unionize as there's almost always some other game dev out there who would take the job for less pay and more hours.

I actually know a friend like that. He was job jumping a lot, looking for game dev roles almost exclusively. He finally landed such a role. Far as I heard, he's working overtime a lot (voluntarily) and he earns less than half of what I earn as a "regular" software developer.

What is insane, is how many people studied computer science but are totally unable to apply mathematics to the problems they try to solve.

Could you elaborate on this? My experience during my computer science education was that a lot of maths was required, but just usually not the same kind of maths as most of the rest of mathematics, because continuous stuff doesn't apply most of the time.

I think a big difference between the way maths and programming is done however is the way it is written. Mathematics is usually about stating a relation as an equation, i.e. x = y^2. But programming can't just state the relation, it needs to also state how to compute that relation. Honestly my confusion is that maths has never focused more on the computation part of it, it seems very weird to me.

Every four panel cartoon can be loss if you want it enough