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Digital Mark @ mdhughes @lemmy.ml
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  • You're advocating switching to another OS with a complex package manager, to avoid using a package manager that's basically a whole new OS. Giant Tower of Shit may be too generous for that.

    But I was of course correct, I said you wouldn't believe it.

  • I'd rather paypal/patreon/kofi/whatever $1/mo to 10 creators I like, than give Google any cut of what they get, whether by ads or premium. I'll never give Google a goddamned penny.

    I use Stop the Madness which turns all their ads into a single click at most.

  • [ LOVE ] I still miss working in it every day. I've mostly moved on to Scheme for myself, JS and sometimes Obj-C for clients.

  • I know you won't believe this, but you don't need any of these GTOS (giant towers of shit) to write & ship code. "Replace one GTOS with another" is a horizontal move to still using a GTOS.

    You can just install the dev tools you need, write code & libraries yourself, or maybe download one. If you don't go crazy with the libraries, you can even tell a team "here's the 2 or 3 things you need" and everyone does it themselves. I know Make is scary, with the mandatory tabs, but you can also just compile with a shell script.

    Deployment is packing it up in a zip and unzipping it on your server.

  • I did interview with a company in the Twin Towers ~1999. Didn't take it, wasn't that interested in continuing to sysadmin. Assuming I'd still have been there a couple years later, that could've been the worst day ever.

  • Back in the day, even in this century, printing out code in good text formatting on plain paper's not a bad way to work with some problems; you can spread out many pages on a table instead of one screenful at a time, make planned edits in paper or pen, then do them. It doesn't suit half-assed "coding" by hitting code completion and "next" in a wizard, but some of us still remember how to program.

    But then marketing hears about this and this meme is the best they can come up with.

    I suspect it's like Nigerian scammers being blatant about how dumb their scam is, to weed out the smart targets. "simplilearn" is obviously not for people who read manuals, you know?

  • Overlord, if you're lucky you'll just be ruled over by monsters that treat Humans as "sheep" to be bred, sheared, & slaughtered. If not, you'll be genocided by a cute little Elf, hee hee. Only hope is to find some way to be useful, and get converted into a monster.

    Sasuga Ainz-sama is justice.

  • Rereading Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, so I can read the new book, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. Been a few moments since I did a full reread.

    I have Greg Egan's Scale and John Shirley's Stormland next on the tsundoku.

    • The Black Swan (1942)
    • Inspector General (1949), Court Jester (1955)
    • Yojimbo (1961), Sanjuro (1962)
    • The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975), The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
    • Le Pacte des Loups (2001)
    • 13 Assassins (2010)
  • We should bring back codpieces and flamboyant colored pantaloons, frills, and velvet jackets, at least in winter. Summer thong & codpiece would be fine.

    1. Videos should be landscape, 4:3 preferably, not portrait.
    2. When I turn on a computer, it should be ready (and pref say READY) in a few seconds, not minutes and need Internet access.
    3. Email should be fully punctuated, have correct grammar and a premise, argument, and conclusions.
    4. I'm tolerant on short SMS or pager texts, but if it's used as immediate mail, all texts, IM, and social media messages should also be like #3.