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  • When I started learning programming, I was like "tf is a map function?" and I always forgot about it. Then I tried the functional programming language Erlang and understood all these functions very well. But there is a downside, now most for-loops in C++ look terrible to me :)

  • What is the best way to store data for exceptional cases among nested objects in arrays in JSON?
  • What about using enums? In this case you will have to specify them for all records, but this ensures that the field will always be present.

    enum license_owner {
        regular_citizen = 0,
        embassy,
        government,
        ...
    }
    
  • only as in free beer
  • afair you can’t even change the wallpaper without activation

  • Why Do You Pirate Music?
  • You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify

    To get quality like this https://youtu.be/cX4KA-AFS9M ? Nah thanks.

  • How could one implement a linux installer that runs on windows?
  • It would be better for your nerves to just do a normal GNU/Linux installation. There are too many ways the installation can go wrong:

    replace swap partition with ISO contents

    For example, Ubuntu ISO has a size of 5.7G. But my swap, which you previously deactivated, was 4G. Either 2G, or it didn't exist at all.

    move user data from C:/ to other partition

    The other partition may not exist or may have capacity smaller than C:/.

    replace C:/ with linux

    The installed Linux must also be stored somewhere. And there is also a copy partition for C. The same problem of lack of space.

    move user data to /home/$username

    From %APPDATA%? You would have to be a know-it-all to resolve the location paths and configuration names of literally every existing program.

    reboot into linux

    And it is at this moment that Windows will completely randomly decide to update and rewrite the bootloader :)

  • new preference war just dropped
  • In Elixir, we mark statuses by using a question mark at the end of the variable name. Something like this:

    authorized? = user |> get_something() |> ensure_authorized?()
    

    I like this better than the is_ prefix

  • Viable Alternative for ZSH as the interactive shell?
  • so not sure why you think one or the other is less complicated

    Because of this:

    And some note by the author of the scheme:

    Unfortunately, the operation of bash startup scripts is dependent on patches added by OS distributions

    Why should I guess at the tea leaves instead of just using deterministic zsh?

  • It's so obvious when someone has a JavaScript background
  • console.log() is really easy to learn, but what happens after that is a complete "wtf"

  • Viable Alternative for ZSH as the interactive shell?
  • Bash has a very strange sequence of sourcing scripts like .bash_profile and others, and the type of shell (interactive or not) adds fuel to the fire. There is no chance to sort through this bunch of init files in order to correctly and conveniently set up environment variables. In zsh, only 3 files are needed for proper configuration; it couldn’t be easier.

  • Viable Alternative for ZSH as the interactive shell?
  • Why don't you just remove all plugins and use standard zsh? All sorts of oh-my-soy are not really needed.

  • Amber - the programming language compiled to Bash
  • The language idea is good, but: THREE.WebGLRenderer: A WebGL context could not be created. Reason: WebGL is currently disabled.

    Seriously? Why do I need WebGL to read TEXT in docs? :/

  • What search engine do you use?
  • I used DuckDuckGo a couple of years ago, but they added their own blacklist of sites (pretty stupid), and for my language it started returning crappy generated spam sites instead of relevant results. They shouted at the top of their lungs that for my language they simply index the results from Yandex, but this is a lie, they are different.

    StartPage gave the best results, but they introduced a captcha that I got every damn request.

    I'm currently using SearXNG, which collects results from Google. And these are damn normal results, unlike other search engines that consider themselves the smartest and edit the results.

  • How to find out what bootloader I'm using and then disable the 5 seconds delay?
  • EndeavorOS offers a choice of systemd-boot and GRUB. So, if you don't have GRUB, you probably have systemd-boot.

  • What projects should I do to gain applied development skills?
  • Some "pro" guys on YT will probably point you to https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x and https://github.com/practical-tutorials/project-based-learning. But...

    I don't recommend reinventing the wheel if you want to gain REAL development skills. Development is really about achieving your goal using existing (and preferably popular) solutions.

    It makes no sense to write any system-level projects from scratch in 2024 if projects with a similar purpose already exist. Try using them as a regular user. Maybe you will find features that you would like to fix or add.

  • Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement
  • This way we will have multiple sudo-tools on one system without the ability to remove all but one. Like now with all this crap like systemd-resolved, systemd-networkd, systemd-anothershitd and a bunch of tools that do the same thing, but are all required.

  • Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement
  • The main problem with sudo and doas is that they are not developed by Lennart. Seriously.

  • is cs rin down for everyone else?
  • It's working now

  • Junior Dev VS Senior Dev
  • Try not to work in pitch darkness :)

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