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array, 38 minutes ago to random

I've been a couple of days to write... Say, about 5 LOC. In the meanwhile, I've read thousands, run the debugger more times than I can count, read a lot of external docs and try almost hopelessly to figure out what was really happening in the code soup I'm struggling with. Now I'm almost sure that my solution to what on paper looked like an easy problem to solve should work and hopefully won't break anything else.

Or not. :P

tulpa, 1 day ago to debian

if you install #Debian with #XFCE, you get the xfce4-goodies package, which means you get xfburn. LOL, CD burning. I don't even have an optical drive in this machine.

"What year is it?"

tulpa, 1 day ago to infosec

In #infosec people like to talk about "defense in depth". In other kinds of (non-computer) security, I never hear about that philosophy.

tulpa, 2 days ago to debian

I think maybe #Debian 12 with #XFCE is literally perfect for me. And that's without doing anything in terminals, only clicking around in GUI settings. I didn't even have to install any additional packages.

btp, 3 days ago to random

I love pistachios but they're so much work to eat; taking them out of the shell one by one and all.

array, 6 days ago to random

I'm experiencing first hand the beauty of, ahem, "legacy" code in prod. Four code blocks in a row that insert a break statement... After a return one; up to 13 levels of nested if- else if blocks (something so common my colleagues call that figure the "Doritos"); one class with a couple of thousands lines which has class declarations in the middle of pure spaghetti functions; TODO comments from a decade ago; functions with 3 (!) different declarations to perform the same exact logic... 1/2

mitch, 6 days ago to random

bad news, back still isn't making any headway. heading to the urgent care tomorrow. hopefully some steroids can get me ahead.

tulpa, 6 days ago to Pittsburgh

People who are in #Pittsburgh for #PyConUS: There are some nice places to visit while you're here.

National Aviary is my favorite: https://www.aviary.org/

Phipps Conservatory is nice too: https://www.phipps.conservatory.org/

The convention center is in the cultural district, so walk around nearby.

If you like to shop at fun places, especially food, check out the Strip District. Just outside of downtown.

There are also the Carnegie Museums: https://carnegiemuseums.org/

#pycon

mariatta, 6 days ago to random

Live weather report from Pittsburgh: in case you wanna decide how to pack for PyCon US.

Today is very hot 🥵 27C/80F ☀️

Caveat, I'm the kind of person who starts the AC at 24C 🫠

#PyConUS

tulpa, 7 days ago to random

8am, sweatpants and a sweater. 2pm, shorts and a t-shirt.

tulpa, 7 days ago to random

A parody of the famous Sphinx riddle: What runs on OpenBSD in the morning, Debian at noon, and Fedora in the evening? (My desktop, yesterday.)

tulpa, 7 days ago to random

The valuable computer experiences are the ones where you learn something. The really valuable ones are where you learn something about yourself instead of the computer. Like, you don't actually like a feature that you thought you did.

tulpa, 8 days ago to random

It seems to me that most musicians do their most compelling work in their early to mid careers. After many years, things tend to go flat.

tulpa, 8 days ago to random

The advantage of a relatively simple system like #OpenBSD is that you have a good chance to understand it.

The advantage of a turnkey system like Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian, is that you can get away without understanding it.

tulpa, 9 days ago to random

There are some people on here who I like, but can't stand to follow, because they post too many hot takes that turn out to not be accurate.

tulpa, 10 days ago to random

There's not really any way to do no-nonsense computing, because there's just too much nonsense to avoid.

RL_Dane, 10 days ago to ADHD

Someone needs to write an #ADHD videogame called "Dopamine Farming" where you have a stable job and a great life and all of a sudden DONT care about anything in the world and start planning things around the dopamine they will produce so you can get through the day, like, "Time for a haircut! I don't need one that badly, but that's fifteen dopamine points, so I'll take it!"

btp, 11 days ago to random

Damnit. I ate a whole bag and a half of rolls and now my stomach hurts. My eating habits are the same as a 12 year old's.

mariatta, 13 days ago to random

Finding a time to meet is the one thing I hate the most. Feels like this should be solved already. Feels like automation is possible, and yet here I am having to enter my availability to some doodle-like poll.

This availability is just a lie. It is correct for now, but becomes stale and outdated on daily basis.

array, 13 days ago to random

The ETA just for setting up the development environment in $newJob is no less than 2 weeks, but it's no problem if it's two months. I know many of you are used to this kind of scale in dev work places, but I'm kind of terrified (that, plus the ~300 person IT workforce all in the same place, the git repo with more than 100 repos -and this is, apparently, just the tip of the iceberg-), the commits in 1000+ LOC files made in the past century... This will be fun, fortunately. And sadly. :P