From the makers of: Why is this game running so shittily all of the sudden? [30 minutes later:] Charge your battery or your laptop will die.

Disabling CPUs by writing a zero to some file under /sys

I use Mint and I just double-click *.deb files to install them. Ubuntu does not do this?

Could you elaborate why you don’t want a software audio mixer? I mean, mixing is essentially what you’re trying to do.

Also: Is the bluetooth output from your laptop required? Would a wired connection be acceptable?

I’m very, very late to the party. Why is Flatpak the latest shit? What’s wrong with the classic *.deb viz. *.rpm distribution?

But does it really make less sense to say “a string slice”?

That’s an interesting point. You say “a pizza slice” or “a slice of pizza”, but you only say “a slice of bread”, not “a bread slice” (right? I’m not a native speaker).

An important question no-one has asked yet is, What do you need that info for?

The key is to not reassign function names to local variables.

const print = obj.toString
print() // gives you a bad time

At least there’s a help text. All my BIOS ever says is:

Enable Intel foobargnarfthingy. Enables the Intel foobargnarfthingy.

To inform people that their reach decreases when they don’t provide their ideas in text. I mean, they already have the script. All they need to do is upload it somewhere.

the fact that every small thing is its own cmdlet is super annoying. I can do everything in Linux if I know 10 commands

That sounds more like a clash of cultures than a real problem. In Linux you need to know 10 options and possibly subcommands for each command. Naturally the same concept has different flags, and the same flag has different meanings in different commands. Is that really better?

50 million users have an extra 3 seconds of unnecessary lag in a day because you wanted to hit tab rather than write code? That’s nearly 5 years of cumulative wasted time.

As if anyone cared if they had to wait a total of 3 seconds in a workday. If it’s a second per user action, we’re talking, but this is some bare-metal CPU wrangler’s take on how ‘efficient’ code should behave; completely disregarding that most users who touch a computer need 5 seconds to type ‘hi’ into MS Teams.

Most engineers already write bloated, abstracted, glacial code that burns CPU cycles like a California wildfire. Clean code? Ha! You’re writing for other programmers’ academic circlejerk, not the hardware.

It’s interesting that everybody else preaches ‘Write for the human first, for the machine second’.

You want real connection to code? You earn that. You dig in. You wrestle with segfaults at 3 in the morning. You pace your apartment muttering about pointer arithmetic. You burn through Handmade Hero until you get it.

Absolutely the best learning happens at 3AM. This guy is selling being overworked to the breaking point as some kind of rite of passage. That’s not working. Or learning. It’s the road to sucking off a 9mm 4 weeks later.

Well, I’ve done that… partially. However, since I’m not a top-1‰ superstar rock-dev, my solutions took several attempts, still make a lot of assumptions, and are generally kinda bad.

Until I’ve reached an actually good boilerplate automator, Copilot has its place.

That’s what you get when you define a file system as “a system that names things”.

The pointer itself does not contain the physical address and its value but only communicates the existence of the physical address and its value.

So you’re telling me 0xDEADBEEF does not contain the physical address of the thing it points to?

I’ll up that to 99%.

None of the people I know who aren’t in an IT job or in a relationship with one who is knows how to use a computer.

Been there, done that. I’ve learned to be very unique in naming my shit.

Are you saying that the data has no value just because you can’t touch it?

It’s a company that targets kids. Their prices are ludicrous

How does any of this make a difference?

Also for a company targeting kids there sure are a lot of whiny adults in these conversations.