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DaleGribble88

@ DaleGribble88 @programming.dev

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College Prof in the US, focus areas are Human-Computer Interaction, Cybersecurity, and Machine Learning

  • Fresh newbie with a boot problem

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  • Filling up the Linux bingo card quick this morning...

    Noobs: "Help! How can I do X?"Community: "Pfft! Why do you want to X? You should be using Y instead."

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  • True, but if there is a large project with many different collaborators, they'd need a more verbose system than a CSV file anyway. (And likely a more senior developer who knows how to handle situations like this.) My point is that excel files, and CSVs in particular, are easy to parse, easy to check for completeness, and easy to distribute to less technical people. Basically, while not optimal, they will just work.

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  • A trick the indie game development community has used for years is just a simple excel file. CSVs are the easiest to work with if you are unfamiliar. First column is the ID of the text that you can reference in code, and each column is a translation of that text. Get the initial translation in place, typically English, then email the excel file to anyone who ask to create as fan translation. Also, unless you are translating the Illiad, the extra memory use is negligible.

  • How do I avoid becoming a crotchety old man? I’m seriously asking.

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  • A video by The Linux Cast on the debian website and how it needs to be more user friendly.

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  • I don't think that is a hot take at all. Many popular Linux tools in a way that feels like it was easy to implement, but not necessarily easy to use. This makes sense when you realize that many of the projects started as labors of love by developers, not UI/UX designers. Those folks work for money, and don't spend their weekends designing imagery layouts for software that doesn't exist just for fun. I think the only way this hole is going to be dug out is if universities start focusing more on cross-training and software engineering/development degrees instead of computer science degrees. If the next generation can make something useable, then people will use it. Once people use it, the money can flow, and professional designers can be hired.

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  • What Better Game To Test The Dock

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  • I got an Rg35xxx about a month ago and it has been fantastic!! I didn't replace the stock OS as a lot of folks suggested because the stock one already has everything that I need it to do. If I had one complaint, it would be that the battery isn't great. I haven't had it die on me while out and about yet, but it can cut it close. Overall, I highly recommend it for someone into retrogaming old gameboy advanced -ish era games.

  • ‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say

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  • I wish I was a flying miner pretending to be an alien so that I could harass villagers in Peru. That would be so awesome.

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    What's a more niche sub that hasn't taken off here (yet) that you miss?

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  • Still waiting to see which guitar sub on which instance will come out on top. I miss seeing the NGD posts, answering questions for all the new folks, and learning about obscure equipment.

  • How do you go out of your way to support snaller businesses?

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  • Ordering from Walmart has always been a good experience for me. Especially when I can do in store pickup to keep my meth head neighbors from plundering my porch. However, the one item I did try to order from AliExpress never arrived, so that left a bad taste in my mouth.

  • Compare american vs japanese craftsmen-cars

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  • I'm actually going to fault regulations on this one. The EPA bases fuel economy requirements on the wheelbase of the vehicle. They used to publish a range of values based every other year or so, but then changed it to a formula. The formula is non-linear, making it neigh impossible to build anything with a small wheelbase anymore. In theory, they could design a small hybrid truck, but would need an obnoxiously long bed to compensate.

    I watched a YouTube video on it not terribly long ago, and iirc, a 95 Ford Ranger, if held to the current formula-based regulations, would need 60+ mpg to be produced without major penalties to the company.

    The EPA either needs to reevaluate the formula, or start manually publishing the numbers with values that are actually achievable by the industry at scale. Basically, by publishing the formula, manufacturers are able to min-max their designs in all the wrong ways.

    EDIT: Updated for clarity and fixed some typos

  • What's the stupidest rule your school ever enforced?

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  • The AR Reading program that was popular in the early 2000s was an absolute disaster. It basically killed my love of reading for almost 10 years. They wouldn't let me read books "above my level" based on some BS test that used timed reading. I wasn't dumb, I just sub-vocalized when I read like a lot of people, so I read slowly. Read slow, don't finish the test, grade poor, so "no books for you!" said the school.

  • How I feel about capitalist bootlicking from ex-Reddit community

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  • It's a brand new copy pasta in the making.

  • Highly rated book you DNF

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  • I was also bested by Dune. I never finished "To Kill a Mockingbird" in high school, and have never had any desire to pick it back up. The most embarrassing/shameful is... "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." I love the movies, and I love learning about the lore on YouTube, but I just cannot make it through that book. "The Hobbit" was such a fun and silly little story, and I loved it! Fellowship just reads like those chapters in Genesis that you tend to skip over.

  • Data structures…

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  • Split the difference, it is the only element in a deque.

  • The Password Game

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  • I figured out what random country I got dropped into was, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the best chess move. Made it though up to rule 16 with this: Pepsi2004assnbcgb🌔wordVII114355!JuneVTRAcTKuwait

  • What advice do you have to share with the random folks of lemmy?

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  • Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.Also, good enough is good enough. And if it's not, well then, it wasn't good enough then, was it?