honkycat

#1 thing in command line shell scripting should be: "Do not use it for advanced scripts. If you have multiple if statements and for loops, rewrite it in a higher level language."

This is also the advice given in the google shell guide.

I say this after years of being a DevOps and Platform engineer. Bash is trash. It is great for 10-20 line scripts. Beyond that, it is worthless.

The USA is not the problem, it is SEA. Most of our trash ends up in landfills, which is much preferable to the ocean.

I think it is foolish to think that just because it was easy to tear something down, it will be easy to build it back up.

People are pissed off about the tanking economy and the brain-dead tariff approach, even though Trump said he was going to do this.

We know what tariffs do, it has been proven over and over again. What conclusion am I supposed to come to, after witnessing the predictable clown-show since January? We lost 5% today.

There is no popular left in the US, we have a center-right neoliberal party who rat-fuck all competition to the point their base has given up.

The corporate owners of social and news media pick the issues they want people to talk about and it is never anything I think is particularly compelling. Why do we care about a tiny fraction of a fraction of the US population's preferred pronouns again? Because nobody has to spend any money to fix that, unlike actually important things like environmental collapse.

> As such, this administration's policies are foolish, but many on this very site would need to give up a little bit of their privilege to reduce the pain felt by many of their fellow citizens.

Very few people who work as full-time devs are so wealthy that they are totally insulated from general social decline.

I got downvoted here the other day for saying Republicans are low-information voters.

My friends and countrymen: welcome to Trump's vision for the US. He is doing exactly what he said he would.

The dynamic difficulty indeed sucked bad. And it was multiple settings to disable it.

A while ago I asked Gemini to set an alarm, it said "Sure!"

...that was the LLM responding, and it did not set an alarm.

The fact we haven't globally banned single use plastic is incredibly stupid.

We don't bake cost of proper disposal into materials, that is why plastic is so cheap.

The Chinese manufacture the stuff like crazy and ships it all of SEA. Rural communities dump it into their rivers and all of that washes out into the ocean which ends up EVERYWHERE.

Plastic, and oil in general, has been a global ecologic CATASTROPHE.

Keep in mind: republicans are low information voters, and additionally they tend to be single issue voters.

So 99% of them probably don't care about this particular thing. They care about abortion, or "corruption", or welfare queens, or something else.

They have no idea the entire point of this exercise is to gut our public infrastructure so they can give hand-outs to their cronies companies to do the exact same job, but more expensive.

Pensions are robbing the younger generation of the opportunity to flourish. It is INSANITY.

In a lot of cities the pension liability for retired police and teachers is higher than the actual CURRENT budget of WORKING professionals. It is an issue EVERYWHERE.

The Russians are stealing their rare and valuable resources so they can gouge our long term allies.

Trillions of dollars in essential rare earth materials and natural gas isn't worth fighting for? Then why EVER go to war?

It is winter, come springtime the protests will be huge

Agreed! python easily has the worst package management out of all of them!

After dealing with constant build issues between Java and Typescript and Node and Python: I love go so much. The package management alone makes it worth it.

In a thousand years I think what we consider human will be a distant memory. Gene editing will transform our society. I call it the Michael Jordan Einstein theory

I dont think this is true. We're not given the choice for alternatives. Corporations value profit over good stewardship.

If our society had half a brain we would be banning as much single use plastic as possible, replacing it with whatever is appropriate.

"But it's expensive!" Yes. Properly disposing of waste costs money.

The dirty secret is that a LOT of it is tire dust.

We're addicted to our cars. It isn't going to get better.

Just enjoy the ride while you can. There is no hope to fix anything.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

we've banned gifts for adults and we just go out to eat anymore.

We don't need the junk and we are sick of stressing out about buying gifts.

they just want cheap h1b workers they can treat like slaves, that is all any of these capitalists want

DEI has so little effect on hiring. I'm much more concerned about H1B for cheaper work. It's a total non-issue.

An annoying person with a terrible idea is a powerful force at a tech company.

Nobody wants to deal with them, so they just kinda get what they want as long as they are mostly harmless.

If we can get fully autonomous public transit by driving slower, but it eliminates traffic, I think that is an absolute win.

Doing anything about the obesity epidemic has the same issue as 99% of our problems: People are getting rich off of selling cheap nasty food.

You think a politician is going to go after billion dollar industries? Get real.

It is a class issue, and an issue with the type of food that is "easy" to access for exhausted people with kids, long hours, etc...

other countries did social distancing and got it out of the way much faster. We drug it out for years due to incompetence.

Give me a break lmao

no it's not. it is because our schools are underfunded and our people have gone through multiple massive market contractions.

We don't put enough money into our schools. Our teachers are incredibly overworked and underpaid.

You can't get blood from a stone. If you make being an educator a loser job that doesn't make any money, ONLY LOSERS WILL DO IT. And then the loser teachers do a shitty job teaching your kids, because why bother if you are never rewarded for trying?

I would have LOVED the self-learning resources kids have today. When I was growing up, you had a textbook. Now they have Brilliant and endless youtube tutorials.

Hydrasynth Explorer

Minifreak

buying used off of ebay / reverb is fine

Or get a Arturia MiniLab 3, it comes with a synth package and can control anything on your computer.

Good free synths:

- Dexed

- Vital

- Odin

- Pianobook / Decent Sampler

The Intel story is very simple folks: they spent all of their cash on stock purchases instead of upgrading equipment.

Having done both: running a small Kubernetes cluster is simpler than managing a bunch of systemd files.