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ShadowCatEXE

@ ShadowCatEXE @lemmy.world

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  • What got you into coding ? (aside from money)

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  • I was heavy into skateboarding as a kid, and I was interested in making some skateboarding media website with images and videos. I had initially began with wix, because I had no idea programming was a thing (I barely used technology, or even a phone). I messed around with it for a while, and then learned that I could make websites with just a simple html file… And the rest was history. Ended up getting into PHP, then game development with Java, etc.

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    What is the best TV show that you have ever seen?

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  • Prison Break or The Blacklist for me. I haven’t finished watching either of them, likely to never finish them, but they’re the shows I’ve watched the most season of.

  • Chrome on iOS supports moving the address bar to the bottom. Why not Android?

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  • I don’t know the full details, but I’ve read that Apple may be dropping the requirement to use WebKit within third party browsers in the near future. Something to look forward to.

  • What's your weird physical habit?

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  • When doing dishes, I tap silverware on the edge of the sink to remove any water before putting it into drying rack. Absolutely useless, but for some reason I do it.

  • What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?

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  • Staying on the SQL theme... The company I work for has a fairly old (~20 years) system. There's a feature for users and site admins to export massive amounts of data, with the option to export data from when the system was first released. Purely CSV or XML data formats. On large datasets, the time for export would vary from 10-20+ hours, and would frequently timeout, forcing you to split exports into multiple timeframes and manually merging them into a single file. The solution? Indexes! Indexes were non-existent. After adding them, export times have dropped to ~10-15 minutes, which is a rather insane performance increase, especially since a single export is accepted per account at a time.

  • Looking for a survival sandbox game where you progress through technological ages

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  • TerraFirmaCraft is also something that came to mind, but this seems to fit OPs request better.

  • i wanna have fun programming again

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  • Yeah, same here. I spend all day at a computer, last thing I want to do is spend more time at a computer. I've also spent more time working on my own vehicle's, and just generally being outside more often.

    One thing that I do enjoy from time to time is graphics/game programming. Nothing really ever results from any of my projects, but it is something I enjoy, as i don't do graphics programming at my job... It's usually systems/web development, so the difference in the type of projects I choose to do as hobby programming has helped for me.

  • Military Time vs 24hr?

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  • Sorry, I meant 12hr is standard (agreeing with Nemo's original comment).

  • Military Time vs 24hr?

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  • It's standard in Canada as well. I prefer 24hr personally. There were a couple times where I've napped in the evening, and woke up thinking I was late for work in the morning. Not fun. 24hr clock solves that. Plus it just makes more sense to me than 12hr clocks.

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    What are some must-haves on your Halloween music playlist?

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  • If you’re a Metal fan, Halloweentown by Dark Divine is a really good song.

  • What do you like about the vehicle you drive and would you have changed anythin about it?

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  • I drive a 2013 F-150, and a 6 speed 2012 Audi S4.

    I’m in northern Ontario, so I’m in the bush quite frequently. I pull trailers, haul 4 wheelers, wood, and other things in the back, and it does it without issue. Decent on fuel, being a truck and it’s mostly reliable… Older though, so I’ve had things break on me, but nothing I couldn’t fix myself.

    The S4 is a hella fun car. I drive to Toronto a number of times throughout the year, and its handles the 24hr round trip with ease. Decent on fuel if you stay off the gas. Quite reliable, but the car is known to have a few rather expensive problems. One of which is the PCV, which I plan on replacing next summer as preventive maintenance, along with some other minor maintenance items. Hoping I don’t have to do the timing chain and tensioners any time soon, but it is a 200k km car. This is a 6 speed, so it doesn’t have the issues the DSG models have. It’s also lowered and has an exhaust… It is quite raspy unfortunately. Would like to install a resonator to help get rid of some of it.

    I’ve replaced wheel bearings on both. 4WD actuators, some coolant hosing, O2 sensors, fixed the wire harness in the rear doors, patched the cab corners and a handful of other things on the ford (I’ve owned it longer than the S4).

    I could go on forever about these two vehicles, but overall they’ve been good to me, and I haven’t had any major issues or have been left stranded (though I almost was a couple times with the ford, but I was able to get home).

    I’d say with most vehicles, as long as you take care of them, they’ll take care of you, although there are some exceptions.

  • What is the most promising pathway to reach universal healthcare?

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  • What are the odds people actually vote for it though? I’m of the impression that most Americans would rather to pay for healthcare than have it taken out of their taxes.

  • How to learn math after school?

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  • You don’t need to be good at math for programming… It all depends on what you want to do. Even if you do want to do math heavy things like graphics or dealing with any formulas for any reason, you can learn as you go… However, wanting to jump ahead is never a bad idea. Most of the time, basic understanding of math is absolutely fine in programming.

  • Thanks, Windows, I didn’t want my computer to turn off, anyway

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  • Just be careful when copy/pasting commands. Especially when updating/removing packages.

    I’ve shot myself in the foot a number of times where I’ve nuked my desktop environment from existence because deleting a package also deleted the entire environment. Definitely on me though, I didn’t read properly. So just keep an eye on what you’re doing, read what it’s updating and removing and the majority of the time you’ll be fine.

  • When the pizza party is too expensive, you go with the EncourageMint

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  • I would rather not get anything than get a rock for recognizing my efforts.

  • Apart from “life is short”, what other lines do you use before making bad decisions?

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  • “This will be either badass or really stupid.”

  • What games have you been playing recently

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  • ..2 years ago, Rocket League. Last year, RL. This year, RL. Next year, RL… It never ends. Really the only game I never get bored of, and I have an embarrassingly amount of hours on it. Almost purely snowday.

  • What happens during a wildfire evacuation?

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  • Real curious… If you were insured by the same company you work for, would you be able to handle your own claims, or is there some sort of conflict of interest?

  • What connections or activities are you planning to pursue when you are older/retired?

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  • Hunting, fishing, and sitting by a fire, with zero concerns. That’s all I want… And maybe with a steam deck 20 in hand.

  • Help me decide a font for my website

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  • Nunito is a fun font.