One opened up near my place a few years ago and I walked in once to check it out. I can’t talk about the quality of the instruction, but the person there was very enthusiastic. The place was full of Lego Mindstorms and other programmable toys. Looks like the sort of place I would have had fun at as a kid. But that was just a first impression many years ago.

Good lord, let’s waste more energy and destroy more communities because now naming things is too hard? I hope this is a joke.

Wow! I always just used chrono out of familiarity. Guess I’ll have to check out jiff!

This makes me want to rewatch it again too. Especially season 3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GW5WWvP1z0

You only get the phone call if you’re on ARM.

Hey cutie, are you an LLM? Because your comprehension is terrible. 😂

That’s not at all what I was saying.

And no, I’m not going to spell it out for you when it looks like lots of other people get it.

Must be all that regulation and socialism leading to unaffordable high prices. 🙄

Nice! I hope they follow through.

One thing I appreciate about Rust is that the developers seem to move thoughtfully and apply a fair bit of rigor. It may appear they move slowly at times, but I like their approach.

I think a lot of it depends on use case and other components. I use KDE Plasma with Wayland, and have a 32:9 monitor. For games, I want to play at 16:9 or 21:9, so I use gamescope to reduce the aspect ratio. It’s likely that if I had a “normal” monitor, many of my problems would have disappeared.

I initially bought the nVidia GPU after hearing how far the drivers have come, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much did in fact work. It’s really too bad that I did run into enough annoyances to need to switch back to AMD.

Cyberpunk must run really well on your machine! I hope you enjoy it!

I was using a 4070Ti until 6 months ago when I switched. It was fine for the most part, but I also ran into a lot of games that would crash in gamescope or have rendering issues. There was also some other 3D software (Orca Slicer and FreeCAD come to mind) that didn’t work well with the GPU. Some software with embedded browsers also had rendering issues and needed certain environment variables set. Looking through the bug reports, the issues were related to nVidia.

Maybe the software and drivers hadn’t caught up to each other yet, but there were enough bugs supposedly related to nVidia hardware 6 months ago that made me want to switch.

I’ve had far fewer issues on the AMD GPU.

I think that machine should handle games at 1440 just fine, let alone 1080. Looks like a nice build!

Good call going with a Radeon for Linux. I have a 9070XT and it runs great! I used to have an nVidia GPU, and while it was fine for the most part, it was occasionally problematic (especially with gamescope)

One thing to check is the power connector on your GPU. If it has a 12V-2x6, getting a power supply that provides the same connector will make things easier.

GNU/Linux

If you’re truly honest about wanting to improve your skills then do not use AI!

Just write code. Any code! It doesn’t matter. Spend the hours problem solving and debugging and banging your head against the wall. That’s how we all learned and gained experience. But also reach out and seek help about specific problems you can’t solve.

For a project idea, how about a program that uses the Lemmy API to scan resent posts for Python topics. It’s something that can start basic but can be expanded upon. Start simple by just scanning posts from the last day. Then expand by adding a configurable date range, scanning several communities, multiple topics, presenting notifications, etc.

This is cool and it’s nice to see some acknowledgement and self reflection.

I actually like async Rust and I feel that they made the right decisions there. It’s amazing that I can use similar constructs for a web server as well as a small embedded board. But the low level Futures stuff does get hairy. I still don’t really get the relationship between Pin and Unpin, and any time I have to write a Tower Service by hand it feels arcane. Fortunately I rarely have to go down to that level.

The tacit knowledge is interesting. Is there an ecosystem that doesn’t have that to some degree? Node and Python feel even worse to me, though I admit I don’t work with those as much. Still, if I ever have to look for a Node library, I get worried that I might be inadvertently installing some malware. That said, I am about to sit down with one of my juniors to start on a new Rust project, mainly because I want to help setup the initial crates (tokio, tracing, anyhow, clap, etc…). Efforts like blessed.rs are a good start. Or maybe there are some good “starter kits” using cargo-generate?

That’s a terrible take and its desperately trying to draw an equivalence where there isn’t one.

I’d argue that the slop code creates more drudgery with having to constantly babysit the LLM. Never mind a new blog post every week about how your “agentic workflow” from last week is all wrong and you need even more infrastructure to wrangle the LLM. It’s worse than the way the JavaScript ecosystem used to be!

Reading someone else’s code is challenging, but at least with a person you can ask them questions or debate.

I guess I’m just someone who finds reviewing someone else’s work tedious, though a necessary part of the job.

I get the impression this is common. It seems like education hasn’t caught up to the fact that a lot of people are wanting to learn software engineering, but they lack some fundamentals. There really should be an intro course going all the way from what is a file to maybe some basics about the ELF format? Sort of something that can lead into the OS course, but lay the foundation for just basic computer use. Let the nerds get their easy A, but give everyone else a better understanding and some fundamentals to build on.

I wonder how many of these folks just don’t know about the alternatives. I’ve come across otherwise capable developers who think git and GitHub are the same thing. People come to software from all sorts of backgrounds so I can’t blame anyone for not knowing.

I also imagine that if people are aware, the activation energy of switching is too high. It’s more than just setting a new remote and pushing. You have to learn the new system, maybe migrate tickets, wrestle with CI, etc. For a hobby project it’s probably easier to shut it down and just go do something else. I also don’t blame them here. There’s more to life than open source, and its amazing people are able to contribute when they can.

Indeed! I think packages like Doom Emacs help, but the learning curve is still steep.

But I do think leaning Emacs was one of the best things I’ve done!

laughs in Emacs

It is unfortunate though, since Zed did seem to have potential. But I can’t say I’m surprised given their focus on vibe coding instead if making a good editor.