[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Someone is going to need to pull a lot of weight in planning, organizing, and leading these meetings, presentations, and projects.

I've never managed a project before, but assume we should gather everyone who is interested by sending out some sort of survey. It would be good to have knowledge about what people are interested in learning, send out my ideas of how this should be structured, and ask for general comments. These could be about the final project, individual time commitment, references, philosophy of learning, etc. I'm thinking 8 weeks could be a good place to start. How should this survey be sent out to others? I want to choose a service that doesn't encroach on user privacy since we are on Lemmy. The same is to be asked of a communal repository. I don't want to use Google Drive.

What would we need to do on our first meeting together?

Saturday mornings or Monday evenings (Pacific US Time) are some thoughts. The sessions could be between 1 and 2 hours depending on the engagement.

This is a what I mean by someone pulling a lot of weight, a teacher carousel has a slim to none chance of working out. One person is going to need to define and implement the vast majority of the curriculum. They’ll need to do a lot of research and work in advance.

I'd like to ascertain this information in the survey if anyone with expertise in particular programming domains would like to lend their expertise and put together a short slide deck. Otherwise, I'm okay to deep-dive on topics we agree on, find a healthy amount of literature as resources, and brainstorm a way that each subtopic could be useful in the grander scheme of the project. So that there is some type of cohesive narrative to this endeavor.

Hope that's a good starting point.

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the code example. I tried going through web3 awhile back with HTML, but need to go through at least 60% more of the course and examples they provided on the website.

I'm a bit confused on what a server is, past "someone else's computer" or "another computer" or "a machine elsewhere that is able to take and receive requests". When you write a "GET" request, is this pulling from another file on your machine locally, but still using the HTML framework and WASM to have "Piece of code 1" talk to "Piece of code 2"? And this all happens locally on the same machine you're using?

Currently I'm using the Kate IDE editor since Neovim made me hurl my lunch. Spyder was what I used for Python, but it can't be used with more than one language unfortunately. I'd assume programs with functions provided by Electron are able to cache what they retrieve... Is the "server" downloaded alongside the application, therefore not requiring WiFi connection to use the application?

Hope my questions aren't too out in left-field and thanks again for your response!

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This. I think the only one I really thought was good was the Aaron Paul one where they went into space... I might be someone neo-ludditish but that movie shows some true terrors of those who want to eradicate technologies and the individuals associated with them. Cold ending...

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Still getting into programming and having a bit of trouble understanding what a "manifest" is. What does this technically entail? Are "manifests" implemented differently by PL or OS?

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Follow the rabbit holes! You never really know where they go.

I completely agree with this one! Been awhile since this comment was posted, but I've had a great deal of fun with Pop!_OS after I nearly went mad. I used my arch system for about 2 months exclusively. Right now I'm dual booting it and Windows. I'm exploring Windows with new eyes again just so see what exactly was abstracted away from me and I'm just using it to get work done more efficiently.

Thanks for the initial advice :) I'm working towards using only a Linux system and I learned I liked Debian as well. Ubuntu, Mint, and OpenSUSE didn't really feel the way I wanted them to, and I still was piecing together concepts that were fuzzy from my 20 years of Windows usage getting in the way.

Currently trying to get Gentoo onto a Chromebook and got curious about hypervisors so a new rabbit hole has reared its head...

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'd give it a try! It has been quite fun to have a Linux system and to finally feel more comfortable with the Unix-like way of using a computer. It has greatly simplified a lot of things I needed to do when I was in uni, such as uploading and processing data from a DAC as well as the simplified way of managing packages and CLI workflows. I never knew how many times the task just needed a solution with a Regex in it, but it takes one awhile to learn it.

It feels weird to go from being a lifelong Windows user to using Linux. Unfortunately, I chose Arch to be the distribution I'd struggle with because I was too stubborn to give up. Now that I'm a little more comfortable with systems, I've been hopping around tinkering in different virtual machines. It took quite some time before I felt I got fluid enough with the CLI, but it makes everything feel like a text adventure game! It's so nice to be more comfortable with Vim when I need to do systems work, access servers remotely via SSH, or navigate the system more easily. I never thought you could agnostically open files, so that was nice to learn. It's impressive the beast of programming problems that needed to be solved before one could have a seamless in-home system. I can't imagine shuffling magnetic tape through a dinosaur, or the hoops you'd have to jump through and technical knowledge to use a PDP-10 or older computer. Lots of respect for the gurus who can speak in tongues for those machines :) Thanks for the advice, never knew immutable OSs were a thing.

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yikes! I'm going to have to watch out for that. I don't know if I can just jerry-rig together some HDDs into one of the RAID X configurations, but I think I want to get some that are quite a bit larger than 2TB given the amount of things I'd like to do with my NAS (File server, email server, personal website, etc). I'll do some more research, thanks for the help!

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

It's happened to me as well... When I started talking more about Free Software and security, the advertisements on my phone all showed me cybersecurity software or services to "ensure my privacy". It freaks me out too when Discord randomly opens and I get invited to some AR headset Discord server called "Kokomo"

Aruba, Jamaica, oh I know where I never want to take her now 😵‍💫

[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the platform! Unfortunately, Reddit isn't what it used to be, but we definitely can reignite the community that we all so fondly remember. Already loving it here and how friendly everyone has been :)

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