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  • Would you try a FOSS dating app?

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  • The problem is most people are lazy and don't understand anything. They just use the app they know, even if it sucks.

    If you got it to be popular it could work , but I don't see how you could.

  • Needy Programs

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  • ls never asks you to create an account or to update.

    Don't give anyone ideas.

    "Pay $2.99/mo to see hidden files!"

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • I feel like most people don't buy software anymore. Everything runs in the browser.

    Like, nerds and enthusiasts and game playing people sure. But most people? Nah. It's all Instagram, Facebook, tiktok, Reddit, YouTube. Maybe like roll20 if they're a dnd nerd. Most people aren't doing Photoshop or blender.

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • Being an adult in the sense of being responsible, feel pretty good about. Pay the bills. Feed myself. Go to work.

    Being an adult in the sense of having no fun, or tightly restricted fun, not so much. Still go see live music and play video games.

  • People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the poverty

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  • I did have a coworker that was both a picky eater and didn't cook. She'd order seamless (GrubHub) for most meals. That's got to be like... $30/meal, two meals a day so $60, seven days a week, ~$400/week? My monthly food budget is like $200. Plus she'd go out drinking. Guess that adds up. That's like $100k over five years.

    She also had an expensive gym membership she didn't use and was too shy to cancel.

  • People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the poverty

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  • Some of my peers should be rich enough to retire, but fell victim to lifestyle inflation. Sure they're making $250k/year, but they moved into a $5k/mo apartment, go on expensive vacations, and just do whatever in their day to day. I don't know where their money goes. Maybe they are secretly investing.

    Meanwhile I live like a goblin on less

  • Frustrated Windows users are switching to Linux because of Microsoft’s Windows 11 shenanigans

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  • Good. The more people switch, the more support there will be.

  • Lucky enough, I am C++ Developer

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  • Personally I feel like SQL syntax is upside down, and things are used before they are defined.

     
        
SELECT 
a.id -- what the fuck is a?
, a.name
, b.city -- and b??
from users a -- oh 
join city b on a.id = b.user_id -- oh here's b

    I'd expect it to instead be like

     
        
From users a
join city b on a.id = b.user_id
SELECT
a.id,
a.name,
b.city

  • The Six Stages of Code Grief

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  • Lowering indent levels is nice in functions. Early returns mean you don't have to think as much. "If it got here, I know foo isn't null because it already would have returned".

  • The Six Stages of Code Grief

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  • Yeah some comments are not useful

     python
        
# returns the value as a string
return str(user.id)

    Some comments are

     python
        
# returns the user id as a string because ZenDesk's API throws errors if it gets a number.
# See ticket RA-1037
# See ZenDesk docs: https://etc/
return str(user.id)

  • Save icon

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  • Does Japan not have the fervent anti intellectualism that we have in the US with our right wing? And it's not in bed with racism to fuck public education together?

  • Do you associate some words with completely unrelated words/ideas?

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  • Sometimes the word "Interesting" causes my brain to recall the character generation in Morrowind. The guy says something like ""Interesting. Now before I stamp these papers, make sure this information is correct.""

  • What are examples of "instead of making our own situation better, let's make the other's worse"?

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  • Conservatism, mostly.

  • When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?

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  • Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.

  • Microservices

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  • One of my jobs went to microservices. Not really sure why. They had daily active users in the thousands, maybe. But it meant we spent a lot of time on inter-service communication, plus local development and testing got a lot more complicated.

    But before that, it was a single API written in Go by an intern, so maybe it was an improvement.

  • What to you, is always a losing battle?

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  • I've had a couple cases where I didn't change their mind on the spot, we at least reached a point of "I see what you're saying and why you believe that" that was better than we started.

    It's just a lot of work, and is doomed if the other person isn't present in good faith. But it's nice when it happens. It helps to ask sincere questions, and try to clear up any assumptions you might not share.

  • If your lifes goal was to make life better for as many people as possible how would you go about achieving it, assuming you could get start-up capital for your project?

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  • Probably get as many conservatives out of power as possible. Once they're gone we can work on climate change, better electoral systems, removing the evils of capitalism, and so on.

  • applogies

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  • It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"

  • Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now - Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

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  • There was an article on a tech news site recently about how to unshittify windows. Just like 4 pages of stuff to turn off and uninstall.

    People in the comments unsurprisingly were like "Linux is free and getting better all the time". People were mad. So mad.