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Beej Jorgensen

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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  • 🚨Oregon Republicans say they've gathered enough signatures to put a transit funding package on the ballot and ask voters to repeal it.

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  • There are really no drawbacks to state Republicans to letting the roads fall into disrepair since Democrats will shoulder the blame. It's all upside getting this funding cancelled.

  • What are the options if my country makes VPN's illegal?

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  • Off topic, but with DeCSS the problem wasn't that it was proprietary or a trade secret. Once the algorithm got out, it was out. Since it had been a trade secret, there was no patent protection on it.

    However, some laws and treaties prohibit distributing code that circumvents copy protection schemes, and this is where they ran into trouble.

    And that's why they were all those songs and t-shirts and other free speech items made with the DeCSS algorithm on them. Eventually the cases were dropped.

  • When people say that the tech market will bounce back up for CS graduates are they been delusion? People seem to have this religious concept that the tech sector always bounces back. It this copium?

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  • Because software makes the world go 'round, and people are better than LLMs at software, and companies like to make money, and building product makes money. At least that's why I think it's going to bounce back.

    Look on the bright side: if AI ever gets better then humans at coding, it'll be better than humans at a lot of things and the global economy will collapse.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • I was just going to say this. The modal part is the important part. Helix seems great, but I was unable to find a killer feature to draw me away.

  • How much are SOLID principles in OOP programming (and JVM languages specifically) just a mindless following of a set of ideas that aren't always the best solution?

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  • The funny thing is I really liked the old JS prototypal inheritance. :)

  • How much are SOLID principles in OOP programming (and JVM languages specifically) just a mindless following of a set of ideas that aren't always the best solution?

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  • I'm a firm believer in "Bruce Lee programming". Your approach needs to be flexible and adaptable. Sometimes SOLID is right, and sometimes it's not.

    "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

    "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

    And some languages, like Rust, don't fully conform to a strict OO heritage like Java does.

    "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

    "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

  • For those of you that use version control, what do you use to edit your documents?

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  • You can set git's difftool to vimdiff. That is admittedly outside of the current editing session, though.

  • "Biden Administration Policies Led to a 0% Market Share in China", Claims NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as He Hopes for a Breakthrough in the Region

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  • But keeping them there just makes good business sense.

  • "Biden Administration Policies Led to a 0% Market Share in China", Claims NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, as He Hopes for a Breakthrough in the Region

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  • He's not wrong—Biden fucked that up good—but Trump kept those policies, too, something NVIDIA was shrewd not to mention. By the time Trump finally offered half an olive branch, it was far too late.

  • For those of you that use version control, what do you use to edit your documents?

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  • Honestly, I write virtually everything as markdown in Vim. The only time I get out of that is when I have very specific formatting requirements and I don't feel like messing with LaTeX or I need to submit a Word document.

    Plain text is superior due to lack of dependencies. 😁

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    Mammatus clouds

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    Fall is here

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • Additionally, the citizens who support this kind of government surveillance are fine with a few innocents getting charged.

  • Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, a new AI-driven alternative to Wikipedia and its “wokeness”

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  • Ministry of Truth

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • One of our geology grants got hit for mentioning mineral inclusion. Total clown show.

  • Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.

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  • The kleptocracy in action.

  • Do you guys use AI when programming? If so, how?

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  • Sparingly. I use chatgpt to help with syntax and idioms when learning new languages. And sometimes I use it to help determine the best algorithm to use for a general problem. Other times I feed in working code and ask for improvements like a mini code review

    The only time I had it code something from scratch for me was when I wanted some Vimscript and I didn't want to learn it. I tried the same thing with jq and it failed and I had to learn me some jq.

    I hate popups in editors in general (no intellisense for me), so I lothe AI trying to auto complete my code.

  • Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.

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  • But I was told that rich people like musk and Trump weren't swayed by money because they had enough... 😂

  • Exclusive: US mulls curbs on exports to China made with US software, sources say

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  • My thoughts exactly. If you want to destroy the US software industry, this is a great way to go about it. Coupled with making it as difficult to get trained as a software developer, of course.

  • Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?

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  • Dad taught college and got tired of this game. So he wrote his own book and students could print copies in the print shop for $10.

    Now that I've gone on to teach college I've continued that tradition, except online for $0.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • I avoid those desktop apps, anyway. I just keep them in browser tabs. Not that I frequent Facebook.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer.

    lo.calho.st /posts/black-magic-buffer/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story

    medium.com /yandex/good-retry-bad-retry-an-incident-story-648072d3cee6
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Sega Jet Rocket: The trailblazing '70s arcade game with no computer or screen

    newatlas.com /games/sega-jet-rocket-arcade-game/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    How does a car cigarette lighter work?

    www.lumafield.com /article/how-does-a-car-cigarette-lighter-work
  • Interactive Fiction @lemmy.ml
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    Vintage Infocom collection on eBay

    www.ebay.com /itm/115558782739
  • Interactive Fiction @lemmy.ml
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    GPT adventure game generator

    github.com /that-one-arab/gpt-interactive-novel
  • Programming @beehaw.org
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    Decoding C Compilation Process: From Source Code to Binary

    hackthedeveloper.com /c-program-compilation-process/