I feel like nowadays the bots are actually really good in English because of LLMs.

Arch also kinda allows that if you write custom PKGBUILD file. It’s easy to write for simple stuffs that are based on make/cargo etc.

It’s time consuming if some program gives you 100s of lines of code in bash script to install their program though.

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Another disadvantage of building from source is dependency management. You might accidentally uninstall some dependencies, the standard library versions might change and break your packages, etc.

Using package manager mitigates that.

Then you’re just running bash scripts with bash. You’re not running bash scripts with fish.

You can just choose a day and go with it. As long as both of you agree, and it’s approximate it’s fine. We just count earth going around the sun, it’s divided arbitrarily, and Earth’s never going to be in exact place anyway.

The android auto equivalent for cars would be something I’d be interested in, that’s the only reason I had to reenable google on my phone. I don’t see any open source software that do it.

You can’t use phone calls or texting when your family lives in the other side of the globe. Many parents are not tech savvy for them to be able to use something else if you aren’t there to set it up. Lot’s of them got into Facebook, and their friends are there, and we need to be there for them to reach us. It’s the network effect.

Also for many parents, internet = Facebook. They don’t even use emails, or any other services for that matter, maybe news websites that are bookmarked in their browser years ago by their children.

The risk of LLMs aren’t on what it might do. It is not smart enough to find ways to harm us. The risk seems from what stupid people will let it do.

If you put bunch of nuclear buttons in front of a child/monkey/dog whatever, then it can destroy the world. That seems to be what’s LLM problem is heading towards. People are using it to do things that it can’t, and trusting it because AI has been hyped so much throughout our past.

It’s not boring though. You just have to find things. I see so many interesting projects, and so many interesting ideas that I want to implement but run into time/skill issues. Summer is when I can just forget about other things and develop what I want, but I think after university I won’t have much time at all.

Crashing through unwrap is not necessarily restoring unsafe behavior of other languages though. I’d consider this wayyyy better than silently continuing with invalid value until the program tries something that doesn’t make sense/is overreaching and it crashes.

I don’t do actual video game with steam or ps5 and such, so I don’t know if you’re into it.

Me and my wife play this game called bomb squad, it’s one of a very few games that run natively on linux (without steam and such), is free to install/play and works with game controllers.

For me it’s making something. Mostly coding a new feature on my personal project. Making a new map/plot.

Sometimes just winning a videogame match, or getting that in game achievement.

Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there’s literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.

Flood control is very close to my area of research. My research involves effect of dams on river water and I don’t get to talk about it often, so it was fun. But I haven’t actually worked on a dam control or made policies, so my work is more theoretical what ifs.

As others have mentioned they already do that to a degree they can with the uncertainty of forcast. It’s called Forcast Informed Reservoir Operation (FIRO).

Important thing is that the forecast is uncertain farther you go in future, and smaller the area you’re looking at. So the policies will have to take that into account, you can’t simply empty your reservoir because if your forcast is wrong and you don’t get enough rain, then you don’t have the precious water anymore for dry season. But if you’re wrong on the other side you get flood issue.

Satellite data and a lot of ground sensors are in place that help us better forcast the future storms along with improved computation and technology, but nothing is sure, and it might get worse with current situation. We already have problems because of previous funding cuts causing us to lose so many sensors.

Also a fun fact, we’ve had dams for so long that we don’t know the natural flows for so many rivers so we can’t calibrate our models well. Basically we built dams long before we started measuring the rivers. I’ve been meaning to publish this, but it’s just stuck in a draft for almost a year now :(

Internet looks very different without it.

I do have a career, I am a specialist of (kinda) GIS and data analysis related to hydrology. I’m currently on the path to complete my PhD within the next year. I have been really successful at pitching my programming ideas on non-programming domain. Solve problems for clients, make applications/algorithms that can outperform what they had before. It does sometimes make me feel like I’m a bit too wide on my skillsets related to others in my field, but at least in my immediate circles, I am still as good in the core aspects of my field. But there are so many people that are better specialist than me if I search around.

But now, due to the current climate, and situation in the USA, I have been thinking I might have to move to another country before I finish PhD, and I might not be able to find a job in another country immediately, so I’m thinking of finding some small gigs I could do for some side income.

Thank you, something like this would work well, if they are small tasks that help the main contributor because they don’t have the time. I do have experience working on those for free :D

I don’t know about the big examples like the one in wiki though

I had upwork account since a long time, last time I tried (was a few years back), it just said “we have a lot of people with your skill, so no” lol

Thank you. I looked into it. I did make a profile, let’s see how it goes.

I feel like there should be something like that for sure. But I don’t really know how to find it or convince people to hire me for a problem they don’t know they have. It’s be great if I knew owners personally, but I’m not really outgoing type (who reason I got good with programming lol)