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Ephera

@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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  • Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

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  • Hmm, I don't have too large of a sample size, but I don't feel like Ruby programs are buggier than Python programs, on average. Not being the language for programming beginners and data scientists, probably aides that impression, though...

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  • Hawkward...

  • Healthy Snacks

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  • A few years ago, I learned that the stomach rumble when you're hungry, is part of a process that's actually kind of important health-wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrating_motor_complex

    So, it's good when your stomach and small intestine empty out on a regular basis. It's good when you're hungry on a regular basis.Just yet another luxury problem of modern times, that we have food available at all times and need to stop ourselves from snacking.

    Side-note: It's also good to go hungry, because then when you do eat, the food tastes so much better. This also means you can go for healthier food and still have it hit the spot.

  • Are monorepos really simpler?

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  • The thing to me is always that, yeah, you need a huge commit for a breaking change in an internal library inside a monorepo, but you will still need to do the same work in a polyrepo eventually, too.

    Especially since "eventually" really means "ASAP" here. Without going through the breaking change, you can't benefit from non-breaking changes either and the complexity of your codebase increases the longer you defer the upgrade, because different parts of your application have different behavior then. So, even in a polyrepo, you ideally upgrade all library consumers right away, like you're forced to in a monorepo.

  • Why do modern monitor controls suck?

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  • Good question. My best guess is that the buttons have become less important, because:

    • they try to auto-detect where a signal comes,
    • they have better defaults, so you don't really need to change settings, and
    • even monitor brightness can partially be controlled by the OS.

    But yeah, I got a new monitor at work, and instead of buttons, it has a joystick on the backside. Now the monitor's menu pops up every so often, I'm guessing because something shook the joystick just enough to trigger it.When I saw that joystick for the first time, I wondered how long it'll take before it breaks, but it's broken on day 1, so that's great. 🫠

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  • I believe, the problem is mainly white bread, which is what people typically have in mind for feeding ducks.

    As opposed to wholegrain, it only retains the endosperm, which is mostly just carbohydrates without many nutrients:

    I think, the lack of fiber is also particularly problematic. At least, I've heard that it gives them diarrhea, which probably means their guts don't have time to extract the few remaining nutrients.

  • Do you think the DRAM shortages will result in more of a focus on software optimization?

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  • Yeah, and for consumer software, the companies developing the software don't have to pay for the RAM, so unless it becomes a widespread reason to switch away from their software, they do not have to care at all.

  • Career Change

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  • Spidey does appear to be pregnant in panel 4, so...

  • Can I get a computer science degree, certs,or education without ever touching Windows?

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  • No idea, but I have not yet heard of a computer science department going exclusively for Apple...

  • Can I get a computer science degree, certs,or education without ever touching Windows?

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  • Probably varies a lot between countries and universities. In my university, you were better off, if you were on Linux. But I've heard horror stories from the US before, where Windows was mandatory...

  • Factual btw

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  • Quitting Spotify for Navidrome

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  • A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.

    So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can't even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:

    And yeah, I've got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don't even need an SD card in my case.)

  • Quitting Spotify for Navidrome

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  • Presumably, that ampersand needs to be replaced with &...

  • Is there is any web comic artists which publish their comics as SVG or as transparent PNG?

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  • Not what you're looking for, but perhaps also interesting, there's a comic written in CSS: https://comicss.art/

  • How much do you care about music?

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  • I'm weirdly deeply invested, like I've got decent headphones, I've composed songs before, I've played two instruments, and like someone else posted, I've also implemented my own music player program.

    But man, I struggle with feeling it as art. I don't know, if that's a case of music-maker being snobby about everyone else's music, while being too critical of their own music. Maybe my expectations are just too high.Like, I'm trying to create lyric-less music where I feel a meaning. And at times, I'm amazed that I can evoke the sense of snowfall. But at many other times, it just sounds paperthin to me, and I still haven't managed to really portray a deeper meaning.

    Maybe I'm just frustrated, because poems come more naturally to me (and yes, I am dense for not adding lyrics to my songs 🫠).

  • The Abstract Wikipedia team has decided to rewrite the backend in Rust

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  • Apparently, Wikifunctions is a place to define e.g. mathematical formulas, so that they can be executed ad-hoc to provide insights about common questions.

    Certainly makes sense to run those functions sandboxed in WebAssembly, since the function code is user-provided.And then, yeah, I can imagine the process management making up a good amount of the complexity of their backend code...

  • Dying to be right

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  • Programming peaked

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  • Their primary purpose certainly isn't the same, but with JavaScript being used to implement text editors, it's in a playing field where many would argue that Rust is better suited.

    Well, and Rust can play in JavaScript's playing field, too: You can implement webpages in HTML+CSS+Rust by going through WebAssembly.

  • S&Box went open-source and the comments are very calm

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  • Man, at $DAYJOB, if we open-source something, they tell us to check for checked-in passwords and whatnot, and force us to throw away the commit history, which always feels stupid when we've known upfront that we're going to open-source it and so kept things clean from the start.

    But then, yeah, you see a post like that and just think that it really wouldn't have been too difficult to search for swear words before publishing.I mean, I also don't really care, since it's code rather than an official communication channel, but I can understand why management might care.