You know? Like, there’s zero friction with Arch, I feel like. It’s just out of your way.

If you like to fiddle, I might suggest Arch. 😁 Hit me up if you want help with getting started!

Why do distros make that so difficult?

# pacman -S nvidia
# systemctl reboot

Good to go. 🚀

And an image created by AI.

What is the symptom of a Linux machine being attacked by this? What can even happen? Doesn’t the operating system need to support whatever is being installed, and also allow it to happen?

Very interesting perspective, thank you for sharing that!

artisans working at their craft – and i think it lays bare their background and how they see the world and themselves in it.

I don’t think it has anything to do with how I see the world and myself in it, in my case specifically. When I say coding is a craft, I base it solely on the fact that problem solving using code can happen in so many different ways, and there will be almost as many code styles and problem solving styles as there are coders.

I’ve seen it when reviewing as many other people’s code as I have. I have reviewed what must be thousands of student coding assignments over the decade or so I was in academia, and for each assignment, there was almost no hand-in that was the same, despite the sometimes extremely narrow problem scope. Were they identical, they were usually suspected of cheating or collaborating too closely, and when confronted, usually admitted as much.

And in my soon-to-be decade in the private sector I’ve seen so many styles as well, even with coding style guides in place. And not just style discrepancies, but just thinking about problems, and different ways of solving them. None necessarily worse than the other (although mine is surely the best out of all the equal ones).

This is what I mean when I say it’s a craft. 🙂 Everyone has they way. It’s much like molding a sculpture, while it simultaneously also can be viewed simply as a tool for solving a problem, by the sole, isolated programmer.

Rubber stop, tile floor. I imagine it’s the stop that would get scuffed. 😅

Makes sense 👌

Username relevant 👌

Ah okay, makes sense I suppose. Thanks for explaining.

Why is the list not sorted?

350 shootings in 2023 is crazy. That’s actually so many. How tragic.

Oh gosh. Oh gosh, no. You can’t reverse percentage like that 😂🫣 The secondhand shame!

I don’t understand how ChatGPT is still around. It should’ve died financially or from embarrassment a long time ago.

I assume you don’t do this for a living then. We who chose this line of work I think actually usually enjoy the coding.

At least moreso than reviewing and fixing other people’s bad code.

But it’s not like we don’t do those fun things you mentioned, too. You first think of a design, investigate the high level trade-offs, iterate, brainstorm, repeat. Then you code a bit, then start over and see if what you did works, and circle back. The coding part is the smallest part IME.

So I don’t get this whole “AI lets me do other things”. AI for me takes up the same time as it would’ve taken me to do it myself, because learning the code output, reviewing it, refactoring, and fixing shit takes so much time compared to just doing it, that it’s at least equally time consuming. And leaves me with the boring bits.

Coding is a craft, and I enjoy my craft. 🤷‍♂️

I’m on Facebook as often per year as I am on Reddit these days. Hint: you can count it on one hand. F— both of those sites.

You know what I’m saying? I have zero interest in using AI to code. It’s taking all the fun out of coding and leaving me with only the boring parts.

we all conform to a weird strict standard of all leaving/returning at the same hour.

That darn circadian rhythm, am I right?

🙄 Jesus Christ.

Alright, yeah, maybe that’s for the best. We don’t seem to understand each other at all.

Best wishes though, take care.

I didn’t say that, no. Again you are putting words in my mouth. Please don’t do that.