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I tried wayland (on amd) and found it annoying to work with compaired to x11 without any apparent benefits, wayland is definitely the future, but i don't think the future is now
Re:Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25? on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:57PM (#40650073)
it's weird to think that the only place you can go to hear the dangers of technology and the modern web, is that very same web through modern technology (tbf most blog posts like this one could run on a 25 year old thinkpad with a pentium m in w3m but still)
Re:Florida school bans book about book bans on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:25PM (#40649740)
If I'm not mistaken there's actually a Minecraft server that has a giant library of books and articles written in Minecraft books, that are all banned, and they're ordered by which country bans them.
People are dumb, and like to believe the first thing they see, so "programming" a population is as easy as showing everyone something so often that it is all they see, tge human mind is incredibly malleable, and many big tech companies employ teams of psychologists to make best use of that, given china is a adversary or enemy or whatever you wanna call it, giving them a pipeline by which they can have direct access to tens of millions of American minds is a little silly to say the least, you do not win a war by winning battles, you win a war by breaking the enemies will to fight "Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting" Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting then you do pal because he invented it
Re:Receive push notifications from your rice cooker on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:42AM (#39929066)
You could probably run this on a 32bit micro controller doing less than a watt
Re:Manipulating Yourself for Fun and Profit on Sunday January 07, 2024 @08:40AM (#38901095)
Fascinating article, very well articulated
Re:HN how do I learn to code? on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:04PM (#38898023)
Thank ya, imma do dat
Re:HN how do I learn to code? on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:03PM (#38894852)
Awesome thx
Re:HN how do I learn to code? on Saturday January 06, 2024 @11:00AM (#38892473)
Thanks, I will definitely do that
Re:HN how do I learn to code? on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:59AM (#38892469)
Any recommendations for a easy project?

HN how do I learn to code?

I was recently dismissed from my uni where I was planning on studying compsci (mostly had to do with my very bad grades from the semester I tried to major in mechanical engineering but I degress). My hope is to contribute to the FOSS ecosystem as a developer, but as it stands I have very little experience programming. I feel I have a rather strong conceptual understanding of how computers work,...

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