☝️I also have this question.

I'm on programming.dev, and like it here! But also I have been thinking I would like to create a snowboarding community, ane it doesn't really fit the vibe... so I'll have to go do it on a separate instance probably.

*looks at wallet

*looks at steam deck

*squints eyes at wallet

...

Still wondering if and when is the right time to buy one. I may be in the market for a new personal laptop (non-gaming) first before I can consider getting a deck. C'est la vie

😂 Thanks for the chuckle -- though also... I'd read that I think

Using Voyager App on Android, it appears that the syntax highlighting defaults to SQL for code blocks without a specified language?

Strange

From what we saw (from 5-ish to 8pm), there were cops & protesters directing traffic, and it seemed there were a decent amount of people in the march we did on the streets surrounding the capitol -- part of it we went down Broadway. I saw some numbers on Mastodon that earlier in the day it got to 4,000 people. Don't know the actual tally though.

I'm 5-6 years into my career now, and there are still a couple greybeard-level types I can ask when I run into a real puzzle, but the need to do so has been shrinking as the years have gone on; I've gotten better at finding my own answers. During my first job I was on two different teams where a mentor took me under their wing. These were people who I could turn to for design advice, technical questions, insight on best practices, etc. For me, as a curious and extroverted person, this was invaluable learning experience.

Your experience may be different, but to me it's always good to have a solid group of people (coworkers, internet social network, even just stack overflow) I can rubber duck to or ask for input, discuss new technologies, learn from or learn with.

Coding a project of significant size is a collaborative process, and I think you'll find that if you approach it with openness and curiosity, you'll end up with mentors, peers, and mentees of your own at any given time.

The background is a euclidian nightmare

I paid for Kagi for a while and many of my coworkers use it. It's a solid and growing engine that's getting a a lot right re: creating good UX and generating search results (which should be the goal of a search engine, *sigh).

That said, l use SearxNG daily nowadays because it's decentralized and privacy-focused. You can use any of the public instances or host your own if you like.

Here's an example of the search results for "Neuroscience" on the instance I use.

Plus one for posteo. I've used them for several years now and have had no issues

Seriously can't agree more. Whatever small utility LLMs offer (I haven't used them in my day-to-day work at all because a regular search works for me just fine, and I can create my own images), it's not worth the incredible amount of resources used to perform a single query. Maybe if we had fusion energy and there were no environmental implications to further researching the theoretical limits of LLMs their use could be justified--but we don't, there are, so it can't.

+1 for Ferris!

I agree completely -- said with the C and the T as very sharp and pronounced as possible.

Thank you! Also love the username--great game in great series

I have been dancing around taking the plunge into GrapheneOS -- I have a pixel. Glad to hear you say this, bc it gives me confidence that I could move to it and not lose absolutely all the apps I have become accustomed to. There exists a list of apps that are compatible once de-googled (un play-protected), right? Also, I saw you mentioned that graphene can sandbox google play?

In the US: 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath; 3 stories since the basement is finished. The basement has my office and the (giant) couch + TV along with the half-bath, guestroom, laundry and a storage closet for mostly outdoor gear. Ground floor has a bedroom where our roommate lives (helping him get out of credit card debt), bathroom, kitchen, dining. Upstairs is the main suite: just my wife's and my room with attached bath and closet.

House has an attached 2-car garage and a big 3-4 car driveway as well, though overall the lot is pretty small by suburban standards in our area (<0.25 acre). Have two tiny dogs, and lots of plans for upgrades and remodels.

I joined a climbing gym after learning how to climb, belay and rappel for a week. I love learning knots, so that's fun, but also all the terminology and techniques. Plus there's a whole social aspect to it (climbers tend to be pretty friendly). Turning out to be a healthy and exciting new hobby!

Also @fool I remember learning to whistle as a kid--my dad was slightly annoyed he had shown me how to do it because I wouldn't stop whistling the main themes from Indiana Jones and Star Wars

TIL Conkers is a game--with a world championship no less

I'm glad to see this is still around: https://exercism.org/

helped me learn when I was starting out 7-8 years ago

Helix is, but I don't think Zed is? At least not by default. It has a command palette and multi-buffer, multi-cursor, but not visual/normal/nsert/etc AFAIK