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yeah, I've come to terms that I mostly do programming-as-an-art and that includes how my code is structured, and I'm on exactly the same page.
In pragmatic business environments it's not worth the fuss but I never feel great about anything I make in those kinds of environments anyways, and I always appreciate being able to shine when there's no enforced code formatting.
I made a bunch of friends in the local rave & queer community, helped start organizations including founding a hackerspace, met the love of my life, and now am part of a very healthy community that has been helping me cope and get through this shitty tech sector hiring slump.
Taking breaks has been very good for my soul, and I've quieted the fear of instability with surrounding myself with people who I know will be there for me when things get rough.
It's surprising how cheaply you can survive when push comes to shove and you have to make concessions, live with roommates, live in small housing, going to the foodbank or getting on food stamps.
Although, runway is slowly dwindling and am unsure what's next for my future. I'm not too worried, though.
Sure, but the primary difference between what you're talking about is ecosystem lock-in vs file lockin.
both can be postured as a labor-saving measure, exposing user data to users is an additional burden on developers. Designing an extension system that is easy for other products to use is an additional burden on developers (& developer relations! And marketing! Other products won't just adopt your extension system willy-nilly)
But switching from obsidian to something else is so much easier on a file-level than say, google docs or whatever other super-proprietary system that's being used.
I'm very wary about adjusting my workflows to depend on flimsy or proprietary ecosystems. I don't really use vim with any plugins. I don't really use obsidian with any plugins, although I'm slowly trying to ease up to using a couple that would be big QOL improvements.
Striving for standard interfaces/workflows is a good thing, but I don't think emacs is that. vim isn't that. They've just cemented themselves as the de-facto.
I'm using vim bindings in obsidian, for what it's worth. I'm not re-learning a whole other set of keyboard shortcuts (although obsidian's is quite lacking)
Hi pkdpic!
As one of the founders of the hackerspace you've visited out in seattle & a fellow recurser that you might've heard about the space from, I can drop to you some of my notes & learnings from two years in of devhack.
the biggest piece of advice by far that I pulled from a bunch of european-style hackerspaces (& HacDC, my formative hackspace) has been: Just do it. Find a physical space, start doing meetups, promote it a bit and cool folks will find you.
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/attach...
We at devhack took a very word-of-mouth based approach to promotion and that has prevented what a lot of comments here are trying to mitigate in terms of attracting the wrong crowd too quickly -- although I think there's lots of value in creating a space which supports eccentric folks / ppl with diverse backgrounds.
Founding a hackspace is a very learn-as-you-go experience, has been very fulfilling and has had plenty of hiccups that we've had to react to as they come. The most important part is to have fun and create a fun space for you and your friends.
Also, put a roller rink in your space. very important and wish we had that
There are welcoming hackerspaces around for those with the eyes to find them ;-)
I've had a lot of fun setting mixxx up for DJing on my steam deck, with fully scriptable (in javascript) USB hid bindings, I've been able to reverse engineer the steam deck's control schemes to be able to mix quite portably.
NPR did a recent expose about a local renegade spot & the shows it supports in my scene:
https://www.kuow.org/stories/under-the-bridge-a-portrait-of-...
With mixed results, it kind of burned the spot by virtue of being talked about in too wide an audience but I think it's also important to make it known to the mainstream that this kind of stuff is happening.
All that's needed to make a rave happen is music & speakers, scale and quality is all configurable. Humans will always find spaces to congregate: whether it's their own houses, local parks, abandoned warehouses, industrial districts, or deep in the woods. I hope we're not losing our drive to be around eachother and dance, it's been such a integral part of my life story (as a fairly young person!) and has let me find my people.
pydoc has saved me many times! And doesn't require me dropping down into a shell too. help() is still invaluable, especially in debug shells when tab completion isn't helping me as much as I'de hoped.
I've been looking for the same, and the closest I've come to is the protocol utility & the more-maintained protocol-go re-implementation.
https://www.luismg.com/protocol/ https://github.com/ryungmin/protocol-go
The culmination of my commmunity college's CS103 class was learning the ins and outs of an ISA called MARIE. only 8 instructions & an editor+simulator written as a java app.
I had a lot of fun spending most of my time in that class writing an entire development stack for that architecture: assembler, simulator, debugger, and eventually a very barebones forth!
I tend to use `git add -p` for exactly this purpose ;-)
The flipper zero does have a (pcm?) speaker! It comes with a music player by default with the marble machine sample notes.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this what `git revert` is for?
Harder with an amend due to having to get the difference of commits within the reflog, sure.
I've had good luck with yappi for debugging asynchronous code, not really focused on memory usage but walltime & such.
Looking over the app in-depth, I see a lot that could be done depending on how much you want to do ;-)
- The initial import can be done pretty easily, `ledger bal` reports my current balances, so for example I can do `ledger bal Assets` and it will report back totals on my `Assets:<Bank>`, `Assets:Retirement:401k`, `Assets:Retirement:Roth 401k`, etc.
- You could potentially get a very in-depth "progress points" import with `ledger reg`, which just shows the history of my ledger. `ledger reg Assets:<Bank> --monthly --collapse --total-data` gives me a monthly tally of my savings since forever.
- It would be possible but harder to infer future events & spending I think. I can somewhat figure out how much I spend monthly looking at my data, but you'de need heavy processing to get anything useful out of that.
I think maybe a more reasonable request rather than supporting ledger is to just support a general purpose plaintext import. The above `--total-data` command for example just gives me:
2018-06-01 10000
2018-07-01 11000
...Wow, this seems cool!
Would love some integration with [plain text accounting](https://plaintextaccounting.org/) so that I don't have to re-document all my finances though, even just a simple `ledger equity` import.
/bin/bash: line 1: markdown: command not foundI've been trying to get into the rave scene recently and I've found it a bit hard to find "underground" events as somebody not so socially adept..
Got any tips?
XSLT too!
I basically have to constantly rotate through new music, once I get used to songs I start being able to predict them and they take up mental energy. Doubly so if they have lyrics.
I've found SiIvagunner works well for this, they release like ~10 new song mashups a day and maybe half of them are good. Just load up some random youtube playlist consisting of thousands of songs and I won't recognize a single one of them.
It's been mentioned around on other comments but take a look at Outer Wilds if you have the time, you and I seem to have very overlapping preferences and I was surprised not to see it on your list.
Appreciate the suggestions! Will have to take a look at the few that I haven't yet.
I mean, it's not amnesty international, but a UN Special Rapporteur on Torture claimed:
"Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture."
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Related: ggwave & associated discussion
Ironically, ublock origin does not work on this blog page & allows scripts such as google analytics to run because it is hosted under the umbrella domain addons.mozilla.org
I wish the exception for add-ons not working on the addons site would only apply to the actual add-on download portion of the site, and they don't host random non-addon-download content on the same domain.
For example, in Firefox, I use the dark theme for the UI, but that’s completely unrelated to the content, and prefers-color-scheme matches the content, not the chrome. Content I keep normal, light.
Of note is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529323 which is requesting to change this behaviour to align prefers-color-scheme to the UI theme if there is no overriding behaviour.
I prefer this because now rather than setting dark mode to each site I go to, they can be signalled this already. There's no user friendly way to set firefox's prefer-color-scheme: dark if the OS does not have the capabilities to do that.
I think this is a complicated question to answer, but I'll give it a shot:
Within the tech industry, the correct proportion of minorities should be representative of your hiring pool (which is why I think they ask you to self report), or maybe even proportionally to "all qualified potential candidates", not sure how you'd measure that out.
The problem is even within qualified potential candidates, many minorities are still under-represented. This is a societal problem outside of the tech industry, but one that leaks into it.
More opportunities for these minorities to get a leg up to enter the field would bring the proportions closer to normal, stuff like affirmative action for schools.
It's a tough answer and nobody wants anyone in the chain to take responsibility for lifting up those that have been put down, it's definitely a flawed approach but I'm glad to see businesses attempt it.
Perhaps this will incentivize locking guns up better so they won't be stolen?
What's the current punishment for losing a gun and maybe having it end up causing "gun violence"?
The knee-jerk reaction is running to the government to try to make whatever you don't like illegal.
The things I advocate the government to ban are things I believe are bad for society.
I don't like ice-cream, but I don't advocate for an ice-cream ban because I don't believe ice-cream is tearing apart our society at the seams.
Dark patterns are bad for society, and prey on people's miscalculations and inefficiencies of our chemical-brains. In the same way that child labour came up because it was profitable short term, but it was decided against that it was still a bad thing for society.
The government's job is to steer society to a better place, god knows we'll take it down a bad path left unsupervised.
I believe they are referencing to how Epstein died, which was ruled a "suicide"
Sounds like a great way to demonetize any content I disagree with /s