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Oh boy. A free watch.
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NGL I tried swiping more than once lol
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Oh boy. A free watch.
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NGL I tried swiping more than once lol
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This is a major Life Pro Tip
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The programmer in me died when I read #3
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What's something you want to stop doing but can't actually stop?
I want to stop being a perfectionist. I tend to overthink very simple tasks, trying to make sure I do things in the most efficient manner. Agonize over mistakes. I find it funny that I'm so critical of myself but I would never think to apply that to other people. I'm working on it, it's just very difficult
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(slow and steady breathing)
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I thought I was the only one being driven mad by this! It's even better when the messages are all short so you hear multiple pings in rapid succession
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I've used Lemmy more in the past 12 hours than I have in the past month since signing up. All because of Sync.
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I never would've thought of this, loving sync as a first time user
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Hey, I'm new to GitHub!
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If it makes you feel even better, I'm a software engineer and I had lots of trouble learning to use GitHub and git, it's embarrassing to admit it but I'm super glad I learned!
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How hard could it be?
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I had a course in uni that taught us assembler on z/os. My advisor told me most students fail the course on the first try because it was so tough and my Prof for that course said if any of us managed to get at least a B in the course, he'd write us a rec letter for graduate school. That course was the most difficult and most fun I've ever had. I learned how to properly use registers to store my values for calculations, I learned how to use subroutines. Earned myself that B and went on to take the follow up course which was COBOL. You're not crazy, I yearn to go back to doing low level programming, I'm mostly doing ruby for my job but I think my heart never left assembler hahaha
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I can never go back, I can see why torrenting is so popular in Canada
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I setup jellyfin plus the arr stack on an rpi4 and man has that little thing changed my life, all the content I could ever want just for the cost of a Usenet provider. Hope you enjoy man!
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Have you ever encountered a real asynchronous work culture?
I'm working at a startup as a junior software engineer and have a biweekly meeting to discuss high priority tickets and general catching up. I often hear about other engineers that have to do daily stand-up meetings and I feel like that would just kill my momentum tbh
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I still don't get buffers
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I didn't know about registers, thank you for this!
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I've used Lemmy more in the past 12 hours than I have in the past month since signing up. All because of Sync.
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I've been jumping between Jerboa, liftoff and now sync. Sync just has a smoothness that the other two apps don't have, at least in my experience on my pixel 6 pro, scrolling and everything is butter smooth on sync, the others have some odd stutters sometimes
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hell no!
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I haven't been in the field for too long but my very first job had extensive ci/cd pipelines setup. At first I was kind of annoyed by having to write tests and having my code auto refused by lint checks. Now that I experienced a job that didn't have any automated testing, I realized how much I love TDD. Nearly all my personal projects have ci with at the very least lint checks.
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Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.
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BMW I have has the same thing going on. I was working on the car and thought to unplug the battery before continuing to work, unplugged it, closed the trunk, with my tools inside, closed the other doors and went inside for a snack. That was a rough day. I figured out that jumping the car would let me pop the trunk real quick and that saved me. Horrifying few hours before finding that out though
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For me this happens after I update Linux, so if you have Firefox open while a Firefox update is installing, upon finishing, if you open a new tab in Firefox then it shows that screen. For me the more annoying part is that on Linux the language I set Firefox to is reset to Englisch after every update, I maybe set something up wrong because on windows I don't remember having this problem but it happens after every Firefox update on linux
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If it ain't broke
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I took courses in uni for COBOL and you're right, the language itself isn't difficult, it's honestly a lot like writing plain Englisch but making sure your JCL was correct, checking I think it was the spool in order to make sure your jobs were working correctly, reading memory dumps, it was a ride. I love mainframe but it feels like all jobs mainframe ask for 5+ years experience
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Anon is an engineer
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I graduated in the winter in 2023, didn't attend the ceremony or anything. I have really bad social anxiety so the ceremony seemed like more stress than a celebration for me, I just ordered food and relaxed. But I do remember, after walking out of my last final, thinking "damn do that's it huh", I know it's just a bachelors degree but I didn't believe in myself enough to even think I'd ever actually graduate. Things turned out okay though, even had a job lined up before graduation which was lucky given the current job market for software engineering. Believe in yourself, your hard work got you that degree, proud of you man!
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I have 40 tabs open...I need...them
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We dumb
Graduated and am working as a junior engineer and I basically feel like I have a mountain of stuff I need to learn, I can see I've grown since I started a year ago but man is there still so much for me to learn
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Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player
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Precisely how I feel. I love playing something cooperative and I dislike when it's some PVP fps game. Baldurs gate with some friends or divinity, the borderlands series is great coop fun too
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Anyone else quit S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 to play Anomaly?
I got annoyed when they sent me to the swamps to turn off some psy antennas. Felt like too much distance between each antenna, psy storms would happen very often and there wasn't anything to hide in to wait out the storm. Managed to get that last antenna off and now the objective is another long walk across the map, right through an area crawling with bloodsuckers. I'm fine with the long walks, I know fast travel is available for certain points on the map and I use it when I can. But man, I just can't comprehend why bloodsuckers are everywhere in this game and why they take so much ammo to take down. Dropped the game and have been playing the mass effect trilogy