[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

Because they are universally incapable of coming anywhere close to the full power of git.

I can't tell you how many times I've had GUI-only people ask me to unfuck their repo (fortunately not at my current job, because everyone uses the CLI and actually knows what they're doing). It's an impedance to actually learning the tool.

Ultimately any GUI is a poor, leaky abstraction over git that restricts many of the things you can do for little actual benefit.

[-] expr@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

First off, videos on tiktok aren't really worth taking seriously. There's just too much fake garbage on there.

But anyway, the cost of education is absolutely a huge problem. It should be free or very low cost.

That being said, it's simply demonstrably false to claim that a degree is useless or doesn't help you get a job. There are many fields where a degree is an absolutely a requirement, like medicine, law, engineering, etc. The specific degree does matter a lot, though, and there are other important job hunting skills that you need to develop in order to actually get a job.

Speaking from personal experience, every job I've had thus far (as a software engineer) has listed a 4 year degree as either a hard requirement or strongly preferred. I do not believe recruiters would have given me the time of day were it not for my degree, because they are looking to match as many requirements as possible and are filtering people out. And when applying for jobs, ATS programs routinely filter out job applications with resumes that don't list a degree.

Job seeking is an extremely gameified system and you have to learn the game in order to beat it. It sucks big time and I loathe doing it, but it's what you have to do if you want to get high-paying jobs. That, or know someone at a company that can get you a job.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago

You're the one who has been spamming, it would seem, based on how much you've been posting this exact same message everywhere.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago

In Nebraska, I get my ballot by mail way in advance. I fill it out at my leisure, doing research on candidates as needed. I can then either mail the ballot back or drop it off at one of several locations around town (including any of the public libraries). I haven't voted in person in years. This method is so much better.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago

I just... Go to sleep. No noise needed.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago

That used to be true, but in recent years he has gotten a lot more conservative, so I personally take his predictions with a huge grain of salt.

[-] expr@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Technically "to eat" is the Infinitive form of the verb, and using infinitives as nouns isn't all that unusual in many languages.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

HOUSES SHOULD NOT BE INVESTMENTS. They are an essential need and we have many people with no homes.

The alternative is stop treating them like investments. An owner should live in the house for some reasonable portion of the year. Crucially, this means corporations wouldn't be able to purchase homes. If you do that, housing prices would stabilize to much more reasonable, attainable levels.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

No, this technology has been around for many decades, since the early days of computing. It is nothing new. The only thing that has changed is the volume of data and computing power.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

AGI continues to exist purely in the realm of science fiction.

[-] expr@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

Obviously not. They're saying that the person that gets pregnant gets to decide whether or not they want to abort. It's not the decision of the sperm donor.

[-] expr@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

SQL is incredibly structured. It's also a very good language, and developers need to stop piling on junk on top of it and producing terrible queries. Learn the damn language. It's not that hard

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