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JackbyDev

@ JackbyDev @programming.dev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skils

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  • If a requirement is that a developer writes code then I want to see them write code.

  • Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skils

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  • I'm sorry, but as an interviewer I'll never not have some form of live coding. Some people just don't know how to code. I don't mean that in some elitist, gate keepy way. I mean some people lie on resumes. If I used Excel every day (like I was an accountant) I would not take someone's word that they know how to use Excel, I'd want to see them do it.

    I am fully aware that problems are harder under stress. I advocate for genuinely easy problems in coding challenges. I don't like brain teasers. I don't really even care if you finish the problem. So long as I can tell that you know how to make a computer do things you tell it in code, know how to ask questions about a problem, and make progress towards solving it -- I'm happy.

    At an old job I made the mistake of not conducting a coding session of some form and we hired someone who I genuinely believe didn't know how to program. They'd ask for help on tasks very often and I'd try to guide them in the right way, but once we paired up, they just wouldn't ever type anything. After me becoming more and more clued into something being wrong and seeing no progress I finally mentioned it to my manager. I don't think he ever got fired, just shuffled around.

  • To skirt copyright law, Anthropic bought and destroyed millions of physical books to train its "Claude" LLM

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  • I don't really see a problem. It wasn't like rare books nobody had access to. I mean, AI in general yeah. But not the book part.

  • TIL BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma is basically a half scale model of the old World Trade Center

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  • Maybe they look better on the inside, I don't know much about them (and 2 of the 3 I can't exactly visit now). But yeah, I hate ugly buildings. I feel like architects have somewhat of a moral imperative to make sky scrapers beautiful and free of advertisements and company logos. If you wanna slap some tacky logo on your building at ground level, I'm more okay with it (or at least not radically opposed) but skylines should be beautiful.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • What a whiny baby XD

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • I feel like I'd need to check the wiki less if pacman had flags that made more sense lol. Plus so many variations of commands the wiki warns "this will break your shit".

    I really like Arch, I'm using CachyOS, it's been great. But I do miss apt lol. Maybe that's just because I was used to it though. Update and upgrade being two totally different things is also extremely counterintuitive.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • This is the type of shit that makes devs not want to support Linux. Respect volunteers.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • Oh, that's weird, you'd think there'd be a way to tell whatever is on air to download a specific tag. Or like one that downloads the other indirectly. I haven't looked into pkgbuild or aur.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • Having read a lot of the thread it sounds like that's sort of what's going on with the version on the AUR. Sounds like it is the old GPL v3 version and the dev doesn't wanna put the new CC BY-NC-ND version on the AUR themselves because they don't want to make an account there (understandable, not saying they should have to).

    The whole situation is sort of sad, but ultimately devs working on free (as in money, I now -ND is not libre) software need to do what they need to do to remain sane. If it's a CC BY-NC-ND emulator without Linux support versus no emulator at all I think we'd all want the first.

    I hope this thread can be an eye opener for folks to remember to treat volunteer devs with respect. (Not implying anyone here was part of the problem.)

  • Can any scientists confirm this important fact?

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  • My cat definitely treats people differently than other cats. She's not territorial with people, but if she sees a cat outside she gets fussy.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • I submitted a PR and bug report for something I was using recently to better help arch users install it in the future. I encourage other folks to do that. If you ever have trouble installing something, just submit a little PR with tweaks to the README that would've helped you. Oftentimes they'll accept them. It benefits everyone.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • ~11 months ago they relicensed from GPL 3 to CC BY-NC-ND.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • It's not an open source license. Even CC warns against it because it isn't a free media license.

  • Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.

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  • Make a fork that supports Linux as satire since the whole situation is so crazy.

    Edit: The joke being you could argue it's fair use.

  • Don't we all?

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  • Judging by how bad men are with women's anatomy despite consuming so much porn I'm gonna say watching movies doesn't give you any experience.

  • functional

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  • US education

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  • I'm curious what they think a lightning strike is.

  • Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan

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  • Good faith discussion.

  • Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan

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  • Where? And don't tell me to look up or read again because I recounted the conversation as I understood it already and went over with you that you're not being clear, so if you're acting in good faith tell me where?