You make a fair point, programming skill is more important than language but picking a programming language is still important in a lot of cases.

Ecosystem size can reduce “reinvent the wheel” code.

Some languages just have dogshit performance like Ruby, lua is pretty good though and it absolutely matters when you have to crunch a lot of data. Access to developers is big since you ideally want to find someone with experience in the language your project is in.

Some languages like Rust are very good for making safe code but very bad if you want to get out a microservice fast. I could make an equally correct version of some adapter in a fourth of the time in python compared to rust and I know them similarly well.

Then there’s low RAM requirements like embedded devices, it’s best to run something that compiles to machine code and doesn’t need a big runtime. Java and C# become almost useless in very low RAM environments and you’d have to use Zig, C or Rust instead.

So long story short, depending on what you’re writing it can just not matter or matter a lot.

You mean js

/s

That’s why he’s not called Santa Clause with an e, duh

Yeah, I think I’ve met 3 murderers, two before they murdered, one after the fact.

One was mentally unstable and sad, then made fun of, second I met was kind and normal, third was dumb bulky drug dealer that was also kind.

None of them were evil or psychopaths or any of those typical traits and it made me think that to become a murdered you have to be both unlucky and triggered in a meaningful way.

I get where you’re going with this but it’s not that dumb IMO, the maximum penalty absolutely is dumb.

If a person can barely cycle and obviously is drunk on a bike I think it’s fair to assume that they’re a danger to others so it should be illegal but the police shouldn’t be breathalysing everyone.

With tweaks to the law I think it’s fine:

1. Allow 0.3 instead of 0.15 so you can have two drinks and ride a bike. Bikes go a lot slower so the reaction time requirement is not the same.

2. Removing driving license for a non-traffic violation doesn’t make sense, it disproportionately affects those that have licenses.

3. The fine and jailtime is ludicrous. Add in recklessly riding a bike for those such as riding too fast past pedestrians and jailtime for seriously injuring someone like breaking their leg or something.

Generally you want people to ride a bike instead of driving a car when drinking, it’s a lot safer for everyone but still discourage it enough so people consider taking public transportation. If people walk their bike through crowds and then ride along empty streets just let them.

Bottom line, it’s a good idea, but horrible execution.

That’s a question that is very hard to answer. Dogs have a similar-ish brain structure but there’s a good chance you need a massive prefrontal cortex to have a chance of getting autism.

Meanwhile Microsoft makes the start menu with React

I just at ~/projects it contains a boat load of stuff including my Neovim and bash stuff.

Guys, use GNU Stow + git for your configs shit’s good.

It’s a commodity that’s widely used as a way to keep the value of a portfolio in case of inflation. Gold has a lot of utility but recently because of uncertainty about the US dollar central banks have been stocking up on gold.

Complete societal collapse is very unlikely and we have studied economics enough to the point where hyperinflation is avoidable.

For investors keeping some gold (10-20% of portfolio) can be very nice since it allows you to buy the dip and is inflation proof. On the other hand, gold can become a speculative asset so it’s value can be inflated just like any other commodity. So in a way currently it’s either a nice tool or a bubble (or scam as you call it).

Silver, used in solar panels, is also pretty good for same reasons.

I know about a funky thing where if you have equal amounts of sweet, salty, bitter, umami and sour you feel less full after eating it. It might be completely unrelated though.

Yeah, I always thought it was just the brain filling in the blanks by lack of data as in no data meaning “constant sound” or something.

If you can actually hear the tinnitus it’s very promising for curing it, if it’s a spasm in a micromuscle of the ear trying to free the hair from mucus there could potentially be a way to have something slow release a muscle relaxant in the ear to remove it as an example.

I’d say because it’s still new and the content is very nerd heavy as you have probably seen from all the Linux posts. Also, most user’s here come from the reddit exodus after the removal of third party apps.

One other thing is that when you link content from Lemmy you can just link the image directly instead of sending a link to Lemmy with a login screen. The adoption rate from people linking will be a lot lower since Lemmy is not sacrificing quality to increase numbers.

Either way, I like the size and it suits me, I can “finish” my Lemmy for the day in a reasonable amount of time and I get my fix of Linux news, memes and shitposts so it’s just a win for me.

Pretty sure you’d have to label nicotine content and age restrict it no matter how it’s consumed.

It’s science, I don’t know the specifics of craving but I know they spent a lot of money to figure out how give you that feeling.

I’ve been using KDE for 6 years now and Gnome is not my vibe but I still consider it a massive upgrade that’s not disappointing.

At that point you could spend 10k to make a procedurally generated font and spend another 10k on quality control. Still doable since there is a database of stroke order for Japanese Kanji

I mistrust because it’s inaccurate.

If you have 48GB you don’t need a swapfile. To min-max you could lower the “swappiness” so it uses swapfiles way less. It’s just bonus memory that lives on the SSD. Swap files and swap partitions behave the same unless you run out of SSD space.

Linux system has better architecture than Windows so your system is safe unless you install a virus (of which there are way fewer).

Where you install programs? Just use the app store or terminal, the location doesn’t matter.

The “hardening” is interesting though, you can go really far into security if you want. If things are installed in user-space it can’t fuck with your computer on a fundamental level so it’s preferred. You don’t have to worry about it though unless your installing some niche programs from someone you know nothing about.

I barely use AI for work but I gotta say that it’s the first time I can get some very specific tasks done faster.

I currently make it write code generators, I fix the up and after that I have something better at making boilerplate than these LLMs. Today I had to throw up a bunch of CRUD for a small webapp and it saved me around 1-2 hours.

I must have an older install then, I installed Bazzite some time ago and it came with discover