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Re:Programming Is Mostly Thinking on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:46AM (#40104121)
I see this so often. It's how terrible software is written because people are afraid to change direction or learn anything new mid project.

I rewrite most of my code 2-3 times before I'm done and I'm still 5x faster than anyone else, and significantly higher quality and maintainability as well. People spend twice as long writing the ugliest, hackiest code as they would have to just learn to do it right

Why would that be a cause for concern?
Re:Microsoft Is Driving Users Away on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:09PM (#39505382)
I can't believe there are people that actually like powershell
And where I am at least, the superchargers aren't really even any more expensive than my utility rate
Don't use reverse proxies you don't trust
You can hash them without a salt and store them in a set of passwords not associated to user accounts to enforce uniqueness without having to actually know the passwords
Do you mean setting a database user account? As in the oracle user? Why is that exposed over the web?
>I feel the major issue with excel (and other stuff such as CSS) is that one learns by cobbling things together and never through a formal process.

This is literally all programming, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. As long as you keep learning and don't just keep doing the same cobbled together mess for years and years

Re:Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:21AM (#38751353)
Gross. Python is a million times better than ruby to read and write
Re:Software Architecture Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:30AM (#38731852)
Yes. It could be 25 Django services
Try a distro with KDE, especially a rolling release distro like opensuse tumbleweed. KDE will feel a lot more like "good" windows.
Re:Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop on Sunday December 03, 2023 @12:50PM (#38509059)
I think that's the issue. People use LTS distros running ancient software versions and declare Wayland sucks
Using a non rolling release distro as a desktop makes 0 sense. You're holding off on upgrades, forcing 1 gigantic upgrade at once that will never be tested. Do you have a dev or staging environment for your desktop upgrades? Why not do small incremental updates all the time?
Re:My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:50AM (#38361561)
It's totally fair. If you're going to be intentionally ambiguous just because it's technically correct, we can just assume you're an asshole and extrapolate from there
Re:My Free Speech Means You Have to Shut Up on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:47AM (#38361534)
>After 160 years of the same political party fighting to rebuild racism

Is this serious comment? There was nothing that happened in the parties in the 1960s? Maybe 1964? All of a sudden the people in the south just suddenly decided to no longer be racist, and joined the Republican party fighting _against_ racism?

Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs. It Isn't Working on Sunday November 12, 2023 @04:03AM (#38238627)
Yes, and now they have a criminal record AND a drug addiction. So much better and more likely they'll stay sober
How much yuan do you get for posting this?
Re:Tailwind vs. Semantic CSS on Monday October 23, 2023 @05:20AM (#37983325)
Why do you think this example is supposed to be the pinnacle of what the most performance and optimized tailwind can be?
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:06AM (#37566115)
Absolutely this. It's usable, but just barely, and not even close to a replacement for a real linux system
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:06AM (#37566111)
Ok, how do I actually install this? `wsl --update` says I'm up to date, but wsl --version` shows `WSL version: 1.2.5.0`.
Having form elements automatically update the back end is extremely annoying UI imo. There's usually no indication that it's actually doing that, and if there is I generally don't trust it.