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@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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33m ago

The beginner of tutorial hell
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Ephera @lemmy.ml 33m ago
I mean, there is a reason why that is so pervasive. It makes you set up the dev environment and figure out how to run a program, which is a step that you cannot skip.
Of course, you should go for a slightly more complex project afterwards.

48m ago

Sekyuritee

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 48m ago

By "unit", you probably mean a SystemD unit, right?

Android Gaming @lemmy.ml

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4h ago

Breakout 71 (Roguelike Breakout game with upgrades)

f-droid.org /packages/me.lecaro.breakout

4h ago

I mean, the example that you gave has me thinking that the manager is just bad. Some problems are just complex. You could not have left out the complexity here, because it is the problem. If it was as simple as they wanted it to be, then there would be no problem. But you can't make the problem magically disappear.

A good manager would ask what the problem is. Then they would ask why that is more complex than they know it. Then they would listen to your response and not understand a single word, but still recognize that, hey, evidentally there is a reason. Their expert said so, they don't have to understand the nitty-gritty.The only reasons they might have to understand the nitty-gritty:

They need to get active in their role to get the problem resolved, which they did not have to do here.
They distrust you, which is a whole 'nother fucking can of worms.

5h ago

hardest problem

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 5h ago

Yeah, I still remember when I "became an adult" in terms of software engineering.Our customer was fucking pissed, because a problem had taken multiple months to solve and there was no transparency why. Our senior was late for the meeting, so I had to explain what the problem was. I started out genuinely nervous and unsure how much I should dumb it down.

Then our customer tells me "No simplifications. I want to understand the problem in full.".The nervosity was gone in an instant, because that was my home turf. Because I ultimately had the programming skills to explain the technological side with zero insecurity.

Evidentally, I wasn't yet as confident in customer communication in general, but yeah, that was certainly a huge milestone in my ability to deal with human bullshit.

6h ago

Gen Z has the highest rate of veganism in history and it's reshaping the food industry

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6h ago

No, that's what I'm saying. Black beans 'lack' methionine in that they have less milligram methionine per gram protein than other protein sources, but they don't have none.

This table in the source that I linked is to be read as "you should eat 4.59 cups of black beans per day to cover the methionine RDA (if you weigh 70kg and all you eat is black beans)":

Here's another diagram showing that black beans do contain methionine, which got published in a scientific paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Amino-acid-composition-of-quinoa-black-bean-and-lentil-proteins-g-100-g-of-protein_fig1_351804462

6h ago

ich🎄🪄💻iel

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 6h ago

Man darf hoffen, dass sich der Paketmanager beschwert hätte, wenn es wirklich eine wichtige Dependency gewesen wäre. 😅

11h ago

Gen Z has the highest rate of veganism in history and it's reshaping the food industry

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 11h ago

By the way, all plant foods have all amino acids. They just have them in proportions to one another that don't quite match the proportions that we need. But this is only relevant, if you eat the minimum amount of protein necessary to sustain your body tissues.In a Western diet, we typically eat significantly more protein than that. As such, if e.g. black beans only provide 50% of an amino acid compared to the other amino acids and compared to what we need, you can totally eat 200% black beans to make up for it.Or, what's more likely the case, you're not gonna eat just black beans, but rather mix and match them with lots of other protein sources, which will have different amino acid distributions. Even wheat and rice contain protein. Well, and then you're gonna eat significantly more of that mixture than you actually need, so you don't need be particularly cautious at mixing+matching either.

Not the most scientific source, but has some decent illustrations: https://vegfaqs.com/essential-amino-acid-profiles-beans/

12h ago

I have OCD

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 12h ago

I'd guess, it's a variation of this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem

20h ago

ich😔iel

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 20h ago

Habe gehört, das bringt man am besten persönlich vorbei...

ich_iel @feddit.org

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20h ago

ich🎄🪄💻iel

1d ago

foss

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

To be fair, you can also somewhat steer whether it will take off as a dev, by how you promote it and how much time you take to make it easily usable by others. Many devs really don't care to have their passion projects take off, because it means you'll likely spend less time doing your passion thing, more time doing user support.

1d ago

Ultralativ – Künstliche Intelligenz: Für euch reicht’s

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Ja, auf den Paradigmenwechsel warte ich auch noch. Also so langsam kapieren die Leute, dass lange Texte nicht automatisch geil sind, und auch dass man nicht überall irgendwelche nichtssagenden Bilder reinwerfen muss, nur weil man es kann.

Aber letztens hat z.B. bei uns das Management so 'ne Mini-Lotterie gemacht und am Ende wurden 3 Personen ausgewählt. Diese 3 Personen mussten dann natürlich per KI-Video verkündet werden, weil das der neue, heiße Scheiß ist.Aber wenn man's eben mal trocken betrachtet, dann hatte das ungefähr die selbe Energie wie so ein Standard-Template aus dem Windows Movie Maker, anfang der 2000er Jahre.

Also nicht nur, dass das Video inhaltlich maximal unspektakulär war (eine Schriftrolle hat sich entfaltet und dann wurde ein Schriftzug darauf geschrieben), sondern es war auch so unfassbar unpersönlich.Die vorstellende Person hätte einfach live dreimal den Zufallsgenerator laufen lassen können und von mir aus noch bei jeder gewürfelten Person kurz etwas jubeln können, und es wäre tausendmal spannender und menschlicher gewesen.

1d ago

I appreciate our community

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Hmm, interesting, thanks!

2d ago

I appreciate our community

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Yeah, I get called a tankie on the regular now, just because my user account is on .ml and I still don't actually know what it's supposed to mean. Apparently, I'm supposed to have political opinions on topics that I'm significantly more ignorant on than the people who call me that.

2d ago

RIP Minecraft, I'll miss you

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Yeah, but anyone willing to implement shaders for Luanti can just contribute it to the game itself. Then you wouldn't need to do anything to get the support.

2d ago

They uwued my boy! [Rule]

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Yeah, would not surprise me. I imagine, the most susceptible to the marketing are teenagers, who have not yet developed partner preferences beyond superficial attractiveness and who may not feel as secured yet in their manliness or beauty or whatever.

Convincing them that it's a spray which gives you +1 to manliness/beauty, is a surefire way to print money. And since they have little experience what manliness/beauty actually entails, just giving your products stereotypical branding is the easiest way to do that.

2d ago

Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

That timeline seems a tad bit optimistic. Even if the LLMs were entirely flawless, you'd still want to ship each rewritten part at some point to see if things break in the wild. And you don't want to be shipping too much of it at once, so that you can still tell which part is breaking everyone's PCs. So, you'll be shipping maybe one or two rewritten components per month. I cannot imagine that they have so few components that they'll be done by 2030.

Well, and LLMs are not flawless. When something breaks, someone has to debug code which they've never seen before, potentially in a programming language where they have no deeper expertise, and the code is almost certainly going to be needlessly convoluted, too, because LLMs tend to do that, especially when translating between two languages with rather different patterns.

But perhaps the biggest risk to his whole endeavour is that there's no direct benefit from this rewrite.I imagine, they're allowed to start on it, because their investors are still drinking the kool-AId, but if there's any calls for more profits, this project will fall by the wayside very quickly.

2d ago

They uwued my boy! [Rule]

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Ah, good point that it might be a plant after all. Apparently, it's native to South Africa: https://kumbulanursery.co.za/plants/lycium-oxycarpum

No idea, if they'd actually brand a fragrance with such a relatively unknown plant, and that webpage unfortunately doesn't say whether the plant is citrusy or sweet, but another name for it is "honey-thorn", so...

2d ago

They uwued my boy! [Rule]

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

I also enjoy how it's apparently "sweet citrus scent". I was expecting "wolf thorn" to smell like a lot of things, but neither sweet nor citrus was one of them...

2d ago

I see his point

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

A friend recently told me that they have a fig tree and an orange tree at home, which don't normally grow in our climate.Then she said that they had to bring them inside for the winter, so I thought, makes sense, but how do you move a whole tree inside?And then she added that the fig tree is now stood in their living room.

I had so many questions, but started out by saying that it sounds cool to have a proper tree in your living room. Only then did she point out the somewhat crucial detail that they're still tree saplings. 😅

2d ago

FOSS Is Always One Maintainer From Collapsing

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

I almost expected someone to learn that just from me posting. 😅

Basically, OpenOffice used to be organized by Sun Microsystems. Then Sun got bought by Oracle back in 2010.Oracle does not have a good reputation at all, so the OpenOffice devs from back then figured they'd need to take things into their own hands and set up The Document Foundation to organize further development. But the OpenOffice trademark was owned by Sun/Oracle, so they had to rename and get a new homepage and everything. The name they chose is LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/

After the OpenOffice project was effectively dead, Oracle handed it and its trademark over to the Apache Foundation, where it's seeing occasional bug fixes. But to my knowledge, they don't even have the capacity to fix all the security problems.All the actual feature development happens over on the LibreOffice side.