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[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

My cycle goes : think think think, draw, think, draw, think, write code for a day or 3.

I use an ide or a text editor. never use that other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 221 points 1 day ago (12 children)

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us. And we are used to reading manuals, since we first installed our system.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They did it before the Internet was even a thing, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Nope, not a sell out. Just a person using the tools at hand. You can't just live in the past. You did it without Google back then because there was no Google and you had to use what you had to use. Now you use Google, because again, you have to use what you have to use. In the end, I personally only care about the outcome.

I just chose to use tools to make my life easier

If you don't then I'd call you stupid. Keep doing that, friend. That's the best way actually. You want your life easier so you can put out great work.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is extremely easy to use the internet without using google.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is psychopatl an Aztec insult I don't know about?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Someone cropped the last line? What a sociopatl

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(For any nerd wondering, the name of the language is Nahuatl but I guess Aztec language is more recognizable for the sake of the joke lol)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Type of dinosaur I believe

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yesterday I spent about 2 hours trying to get ChatGPT to walk me through the install process of putting Arch on a 2011 MacBook Air. It just wouldn’t work and the further along we got the harder it seemed and I really thought that using AI was necessary. I finally gave up and read the Arch Wiki and had it installed in under 45 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

That tracks. The AI push is extraordinarily premature. It makes sense that capitalist idiots see mass layoffs as improvement, but rational people do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I tried reading the gadget bridge instructions for my watch. Could not get a straight answer on getting the authorization key (I'm a noob), wasted 2 hr. o3 gave me perfect instructions that got it done in 20 minutes. Ya win some ya lose some.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Yeah. It is really good at some things and bad at other things. I used to have a good sense for it but the arch install threw me off.

I find it’s good at giving regex commands from natural language and vise versa. It’s really helped me get a grip on that aspect of learning (neo)vim.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...

This is psycopathy?

Having actual competence in one's field?

Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure it's gonna be the stake

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a joke on a tweet about a guy spending a multi-hour flight just staring straight ahead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I've done similar things in a coffee shop before, just working on my own code, and I have actually been 'politely' asked to leave by the staff.

The staff evidently being a bunch of morons who thought I was... hacking into ... something?

They didn't know what, but they were very concerned.

I was unable to convince them I was not, because 'terminal' = 'hacking' to idiots who only know anything about computers via movies and tv shows.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Knowledge and skill have now been demonised

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Yay! Cencorship! I spent an extra 3 seconds focusing on the word psychopath trying to figure out what went wrong instead of reading it like a normal word. Isn’t that so much better than offending an algorithm with the letter ‘h’?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wasn't that one of the Incan gods?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You are thinking of the one they used to design the common keyboard layout, Qwertycoatl.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I use:

  • DuckDuckGo
  • Neovim
  • ~~rusty~~ dusty IdeaPad
  • ~~Arch~~ NixOS btw

I don't read man pages but I read documentation.

Am I also a psychopath?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Raw dogging development

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

imagine programming on an electric computer. i exclusively generate punch cards for crank operated adding machines

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

That's impossible. He would be too busy telling everyone that he uses Arch to get any work done.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

The true psychopaths are those sweating about which tools other people use

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I can’t live without vim.

Sometimes I wander into vscode but it’s less productive for me.

Plus vscode has weird name inconsistencies (the app is called visual studio code, it’s branded as vscode, and the menu bar says Code), which is probably normal for Microsoft but unusual elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

I should fork vim and call it 'death', so I can shout "give me vim or give me death!" any time someone suggests a different editor.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a fine operating system, what editor do you use?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This indecent has been reported

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can still do this provided that the language is Perl. But the few cases when I actually have to do so are rare, and never in public.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I still remember my Masters degree in distributed computing. C++ in vi (not even vim), monochromatic display, 36 computers working together to give me a bunch of SIGSEGV.

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