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Two pieces of advice I'd like to give my younger self, who is just starting out as a programmer:
1. Yes, it really is as simple as it seems.
2. Yes, we really have made it this complicated.
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jonasmerlin
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I wish I could but I would prefer not to.
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@KevinEspiritu Sick. Sitting in the same boat of wanting to learn to draw right now. Do you already know when you'll drop your learning resources thread?
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Everything I've learned about drawing after 78 days of teaching myself to draw from scratch:
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@cvaneenige @danshipper Same, but with both a book and my camera.
Yes I've got scoliosis, why do you ask?
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Weird take from someone that makes a living working in a company that depends entirely on absorving other people's creations.
Aidan McLaughlin@aidan_mclau
the people i intellectually respect the most have a quite lopsided output : input ratio they write, build, or create more than they read, study, or absorb geniuses are not sponges, they are volcanoes
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I feel like if you've at some point developed an almost obsessive interest in rocket stoves and rocket mass heaters that's basically a diagnostic criterion for adhd or autism
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@gnomeslair Mêlée island at night is such an incredible vibe. And funnily enough I also looked long and hard at those skylights when the 20th anniversary update came out!
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@gnomeslair I was very surprised as well. I knew they were all in the archive, but this was the first time I really looked at them, and these are waaay better scans than I would've expected. Really cool. And yeah, the link was mostly for anyone else who wanted to read the whole thing 😄
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@jonasmerlin1 Still have the physical copy, but, hey, that's a lovely PDF. Thanks!
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This 1995 article from Dragon magazine #193, which I absolutely adored as a teen (both the magazine and the article), is the main inspiration for the game I've been working on for the past 16 or so months.
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@gnomeslair What keeps you from simply running it and seeing how it goes?
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@librarythingtim @LibraryThing Not doing it would be an unjustifiable business offense.
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Buying Taylor Swift's "Read" poster for the @LibraryThing office would be a justifiable business expense, right?
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This is the year I began switching from running to swimming 🏊. A logistical PITA but an infinitely superior form of cardio.
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@rsms Somewhere where people know how to do things right! Add return values above function name as well. Perfection. (I'm serious, this is how it should be)
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Where does the programming aesthetic of “braces on its own line” originate?
Example:
if (something)
{
do_stuff()
}
else
{
do_things()
}
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@TheGingerBill @pikuma He straddles the line but has turned more parody over time. Though parody is the wrong word, it's more like actual, lightly held believes taken to an over the top extreme for comedic effect (and engagement).
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@pikuma Doesn't appear to be parody. Looks 100% real the more dig into it.
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@rebeccawatson Basically, it's impossible to tell if someone solves a problem due to their "natural" fluid intelligence or some kind of training they underwent, either knowingly or not.
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@rebeccawatson I understand that these kinds of tests aren't super accurate, but you seem to assign at least some credibiltiy to the results of the study. Is there some control for these kinds of training effects? (The text book example with the socks suffers from the same "problem" I think?)
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Well. Here's a distraction I guess skepchick.org/2024/11/this-p…
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This is exactly my experience and the reason why propagating these dumb "percentage of code written by" statistics is such corporate bootlicking bullshit. It plays into the hands of MS, Google and OpenAI and damages everyone else.
Adi Polak@AdiPolak
AI is probably not going to replace you
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@patrickhwillems It's so deeply satisfying seeing you succeed and doing what you've been aiming for for so long. Truly hope this works out in the best way possible.
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