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JakenVeina

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  • Illinois state lawmakers attempt long-shot repeal of BDS ban

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  • I hope Pritzker understands that opposing this will LOSE him votes, whether it's for Governor or President.

    It doesn't even fucking MATTER how you feel about Israel, how the hell is outlawing boycotts and divestment EVER acceptable?

  • What is really meant by "programming" when people say they like to use linux for it?

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  • But im not sure how to apply it to anything realistic

    I think that's a misconception a lot of people have: unless you get a job in the field, or get into open source work, you probably won't. Not at any amount of scale, anyway.

    Like, you go to your computer and start working in...what?

    For myself, I find that (outside of work and open source) I don't really USE my programming skills, except that knowing programming enables me to think about problems in my life in a more analytical way. Every once in a while, I might be doing something tedious and techy that I'll take an hour or two to automate. For example, I've done that for re-organizing and renaming video and music files. I also helped my wife a few hundred pages of text from a wiki she maintains for her D&D guild, when they were migrating to a new provider.

    im just unsure what people do especially when starting out.

    If you have an idea for something that you find interesting or are passionate about or would use personally, great! That's extremely rare, so don't stress about it. My go-to recommendation for starter projects is to just re-make something that already exists. That gives you very specific, achievable goals. Specifically" I recommend re-making "dir.exe" or "ls" (the Linux equivalent), which are command-line programs that list files on your computer.

    If you can work a project like that, even if you never "finish" it, and you get any enjoyment out of it, that's a good sign. If you find that you dread working on it, or really struggle with it, then that's a good indicator that maybe programming isn't for you. It's a useful skill to have, but you shouldn't feel bad if it just isn't your thing. I always like the idea of being a musician, and toon guitar lessons as a kid, but whenever I would sit down to practice, I found I would rather be doing almost anything else. Eventually, it occurred to me that I can love music and musicianship, without being a musician.

    What is really meant by "programming" when people say they like to use linux for it?

    I think it's just a matter of personal preference among the type of people that are drawn to programming. Linux doesn't just LET you have a very high level of control over things that happen "under the hood", it often MAKES you have to deal with some things that Windows or iOS would traditionally keep hidden (to varying degrees, depending on distro). That ends up being appealing to the kind of tinkerer folks who are also attracted to programming.

    I don't think there's any inherent reason that Linux is better for programming, except MAYBE that there's more of a programming ecosystem built around it, because more programmers end up using it. Sort of a self-fulfilling prophesy.

  • When talking to yourself, do you use the pronoun 'I' or 'you'?

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  • Interesting that several people are reporting using "you" for negative sentiments, because I use "I" for those as well. E.G. "Well, I'm a fucking idiot."

  • Tell me the truth ...

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  • C, C++, C#, to name the main ones. And quite a lot of languages are compiled similarly to these.

    To be clear, there's a lot of caveats to the statement, and it depends on architecture as well, but at the end of the day, it's rare for a byte or bool to be mapped directly to a single byte in memory.

    Say, for example, you have this function...

     cs
        
public void Foo()
{
    bool someFlag = false;
    int counter = 0;

    ...
}

    The someFlag and counter variables are getting allocated on the stack, and (depending on architecture) that probably means each one is aligned to a 32-bit or 64-bit word boundary, since many CPUs require that for whole-word load and store instructions, or only support a stack pointer that increments in whole words. If the function were to have multiple byte or bool variables allocated, it might be able to pack them together, if the CPU supports single-byte load and store instructions, but the next int variable that follows might still need some padding space in front of it, so that it aligns on a word boundary.

    A very similar concept applies to most struct and object implementations. A single byte or bool field within a struct or object will likely result in a whole word being allocated, so that other variables and be word-aligned, or so that the whole object meets some optimal word-aligned size. But if you have multiple less-than-a-word fields, they can be packed together. C# does this, for sure, and has some mechanisms by which you can customize field packing.

  • Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.

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  • I'll take another look, but I didn't see any such setting when I was trying to diagnose. And I haven't changed any Plex settings since the last time we had an internet outage and it worked properly, just a month or two ago.

  • Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.

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  • I recently discovered that Plex no longer works over local network, if you lose internet service. A) you can't login without internet access. B) even if you're already logged in, apps do not find and recognize your local server without internet access. So, yeah, Plex is already there.

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  • Neither are more gay men and straight women.

  • Bungie appears to have extensively plagiarized an artist's work in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post

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  • Is the BlueSky OP here not a native English speaker? Cause, BOY that was tough to follow.

  • Supreme Court Justice Rips Into Trump DOJ: “Assume You’re Dead Wrong”

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  • Yet, it seems to me that your argument is, ‘We get to keep on doing it until everyone who is potentially harmed by it figures out how to file a lawsuit and hire a lawyer.’

    Nailed it. Because they know full-well that most people DON'T have the capacity to file a lawsuit and hire a lawyer. They are ignoring laws because they know no one will make them stop.

    Can't wait to see the court vote 6-3 the other way.

  • Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions

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  • The Steam release of Persona 5 Royal, unfortunately. Which is kind of insane, it's a single-player game.

    There's some others that I can't personally attest to, but that sure look good from what I've seen. Monster Hunter: Wilds, for example. And the new Doom from a few days ago, if you're into that sorta thing. Metaphor Re-Fantasio. The new Prince of Persia from last year. Hi-Fi Rush. Rocksmith, of all things.

  • Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions

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  • As of a few months ago (IIRC the timeline) Steam shows this directly on the game's store page. You've got to scroll down for it a little bit, but it's right under where it lists features of the game, E.G. single-player, controller support, etc.

  • Judge arrested by Trump administration fights back with Trump’s own immunity case

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  • On one hand, turnabout is always a good time. Maybe it'll clue some folks in to how bullshit that decision was, from the start.

    On the other hand, lol, no it fucking won't. They'll just make up some other new bullshit reason that "no, that doesn't actually apply, in this one specific case, where the person we want to prosecute doesn't agree with us".

  • Tell me the truth ...

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  • That's a good analogy.

  • Tell me the truth ...

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  • It's far more often stored in a word, so 32-64 bytes, depending on the target architecture. At least in most languages.

  • Is it possible to listen to artists who are terrible people without feeling guilty?

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  • I'd say it depends on WHY you like the art. Does it tie into the toxic or reprehensible traits of the artist? Was the artist trying to send a toxic or reprehensible message with this art?

    If not, then it's just a matter of ensuring that your enjoyment of the art doesn't translate into support for the artist. Or, at least, that it doesn't cross your personal line of support for the artist.

    So, for example, does the Kanye music you like have nazi themes or messaging? Far as I'm aware, no, the nazi-ism is just his newest shit, so you're probably fine as long as you're not streaming from Spotify or YouTube, or otherwise giving him revenue.

  • Texas Democrats Help Pass Bill Letting Fetuses Count for the HOV Lane

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  • This isn't just a horrifically-misleading headline, it's straight-up false.

    The bill originally was written to directly establish personhood of a fetus, but Democrats got an amendment in that keeps the "pregnant mothers get to use the carpool lane" part, without the language that establishes personhood for a fetus. They literally called the Republicans' bluff on "this bill is about supporting mothers", by making that specific. This caused one Republican to retract his vote, because the amendment "guts the pro-life purpose of the bill".

  • Finding out how much your boss cares

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  • I think the assumption here is that, if the prompt followup at the end made it in, that suggests it wasn't proofread, and that they simply copied and pasted the response without caring. If that's true, then yeah, that's a little bit offensive. Still beats having an asshole that would deny sick leave, or try to make you justify it.

  • [SOLVED] Is there a lasagna/shepherd's pie cross?

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  • Yes, I've done this. It was my immediate thought the first time I made Shepherd's Pie. I just did Lasagna, but mashed potatoes instead of ricotta and other cheeses, and beef/gravy instead of pork/marinara. Pretty great.

  • What are the best gaming moments of the last decade?

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  • Entire final hour of Tears of the Kingdom.

  • Satisfactory @lemmy.world
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    Day 5 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored

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    Day 4 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored

  • Satisfactory @lemmy.world
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    Day 3 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored

  • Satisfactory @lemmy.world
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    Day 2 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored

  • Satisfactory @lemmy.world
    JakenVeina @lemm.ee

    Day 1 of posting screenshots every day, of whatever I've been working on that day, until I run out of content or get bored

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    My 8-year-old just hit me with this: Where do teachers go on vacation?

  • Meta (lemm.ee) @lemm.ee
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    Hexbear?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes

    www.theolognion.com /p/company-forgets-why-they-exist-after-11-week-migration-to-kubernetes
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Am I too late? I hope I'm not too late.

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
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    Dishwasher Recommendations

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    "Show Read Posts" appears to be applied to viewing my own profile.

  • Music @beehaw.org
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    Sinaed O'Connor - The Unreleased Song You Never Heard

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Where did all the Twitter users go?

    imgflip.com /i/7sattq
  • Chess @lemmy.ml
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    Chess.com bug? Or am I an idiot?