Thinking about all the harm caused to my siblings and I because both my paternal grandparents and dad had favourite kids. My mom never chose any of us tho, and I will not engage with it either. It makes it really hard for this and other reasons to feel super comfortable having my dad be an active player in the lives of my kids 😔
Just explained to my toddler that the fast-acting placebo that kisses use to help soothe an ouchie has a radial effect and therefore works in an area and doesn't need a specific placement
@Becky Choosing a programming language often depends on the target use. Will it be a Command-Line Interface tool? A Graphical User Interface? A web page? A program on a controller circuit (Arduino, etc...)?
I think I want the to-do program to have a gui as I'm still not great at using a command line.... probably run on a "standard" desktop computer, if such a thing exists.... computers are weird but I've relied on @silverwizard a lot and I'm trying to think outside that while also learning from him
@Becky In the programming world, unfortunately there's no such thing as a standard desktop computer. So much so that the current most popular way of writing "portable" programs is to embed an entire web browser within the program.
@Becky So, first target one specific system with one specific front end. This will greatly reduce the scope of the required learning.
I started learning programming with command line programs in C because of the low learning overhead. I was also taught COBOL for file manipulation and Java for Object-Oriented Programming. In parallel, I had SQL classes on an Oracle system, but no integration with a programming language until my final project after 2 years of full-time classes.
It was a long process and it started pretty small, so I think that's what you should do as well to make it palatable.
Starting from scratch today I'd probably suggest starting with JavaScript, as you can then use it on the web (and mobile with progressive web apps) maybe with VueJS, or on the command line with NodeJS, or to create GUIs with Electron. 🤔 It's not the best language to start learning with maybe (personally I have a preference for strongly typed languages), but it's pretty flexible, under very active development both in syntax and ecosystem.
Although it's a pet peeve of mine Java's GUI probably could be thought of as a "standard" desktop computer, as the things written in Java bring Java's GUI with them (except the one's that don't, like LibreOffice and TuxGuitar). Users of the three desktop systems all get the same user experience out of the usual Java packages. Java stuff is a pet peeve of mine because I'm spoiled by having Linux' "bookmarks" to various directories in my load and save dialog boxes. OTOH Java's dialogs and other GUI things I have found to have a gentler learning curve than GTK+ and Qt, might get you writing GUI programs faster. If I feel a need to write something that interacts in a GUI way, I write a "web app" instead, but that's more a standard desktop browser experience than a standard desktop computer experience.
This is where my experience with @silverwizard has kinda messed with me. I know the way java works and it kinda irks me, although I know why you say it would be useful too, because it carries everything with it.....
This is why I'm a complicated case, I think.... because ultimately I've had too many people complain to me about languages... and by too many, I mostly mean one in particular lol
If you want to learn the foundations well and don't mind taking the long way around? Start with Racket and work through HtDP <htdp.org/>. (Racket probably even has a way to build GUI programs on any system you can install it on.) If you want to get a to-do list manager up and running? Use Perl to shuffle things in and out of the database, use CGI and a web browser for the GUI, and that'll put you in the space where you can ask @silverwizard for help when you get stuck.
Racket is a variant of Scheme, designed by people who have put a lot of thought into programming and how to teach it, and does a good job of the space it's in. The downside is that its structure is (partly by historical accident) not very much like most programming languages that most people consider "serious".
And as annoying as web browsers are, CGI is still the easiest way to get a GUI, followed by "whatever your dev tooling thinks is native", with anything else way behind.
I do want to learn both.... actually I am very much considering this if it's simple to create a to-do list, easy to learn, and will get my feet wet.... my main concern is if it's easily knowledge I can take on to learn other programming languages because really really I want to learn the skills to do any language vs one specific one
I think I'm mostly waffling on scheme, even though I think it's pretty and it would work with my brain, is because I don't know if it would make a to-do program that simple..... but it was my university days that I touched it, and early on at that... I hardly remember what I did with it, other than something with drawing shapes
This morning our kids were sick and both managed to get us to feel bad enough for them to let them sleep in our bed
At 6:30 I awoke and put out stockings, and then at 7 our 1yo woke up crying, my wife started to walk him out of the room while I let the 3yo use me as a pillow, sensing my wife was about to step on a stocking I said "Watch out, Santa might have left something there"
The second those words left my mouth, my sleeping soundly three year old sat bolt upright and was awake.
Less than one second from asleep to awake for the day
Libro.fm has been a really good non-amazon addition to my life as a way to listen to a lot of audiobooks but I CLEARLY am not listening enough because I have 2 unused credits now 😶...
Thinking about how quiet this Christmas is. In the past I used to rush around all over the province to see all the family I could this time of year. And this year it feels at a standstill, moving slowly, with nothing on the agenda. I can't imagine going back to the business and even more can't imagine how I could possibly cope with even one large Christmas event through my very developed social anxiety. One day I may have to figure all this out but in the meantime, happy holidays to everyone, but especially those in the quiet stillness
Thinking of renaming my "webserver" to "mysql server". Basically it hosts things with something like a traditional LAMP stack (BSD, perl/python/ruby/php, and stuff obviously, and OpenHTTP rather than Apache), rather than web services that back a different thing that a database.
Unifi, Charred, Emby, Homeassistant, Koha hell even my email server all use HTTP for a lot of their lives, but my "web" server is my "web" server.
Cory Doctorow is just sitting on the Fediverse using it correctly "Your follow list is your job, you don't like it, stop following me" and people keep getting mad at him.
And honestly, I love it
Follows aren't endorsements or solidarity, they're "I want to read the things you say"
@mcv @hypolite With the character limits we have over here he could just put the whole blog post up at once, his current method is kind of a mess for this medium. I'm interested in hearing what he has to say but I don't know if I can manage what he's offering here.
@AGTMADCAT :verified: @Hypolite Petovan @silverwizard I guess he's doing it this way because it's tied to his posting on Twitter, so he uses the same format, considering Mastodon is supposed to be similar to Twitter.
But what if Twitter dies? Or he follows the Twitter exodus? Then it might make more sense to customise it more for this platform.
@mcv @hypolite I was thinking that he's already putting it up on his website as a single blog post, so he could just grab that text chunk instead. Tooling re-use definitely makes sense though.
@mike @silverwizard Is there anyone who follows him and for whom this way of posting works well? Because it would be a shame if he posts all these long threads and nobody reads it.
I love his threads, FWIW both content and form the only thing that I'm finding annoying is people's insistence in "teaching" him how to do what he's already doing. I admire how cool he is about that. I'd have long lost it. now, if I were in his shoes, I'd probably have scripted the thread-posting long ago, using some CLI tool such as toot. heck, I'd have written the script and shared it with him if I used Mastodon myself
The hardest part of computers is that people keep making bad things to make them easier, and then trying to justify the bad things rather than replace them
@silverwizard I saw this pattern summarized like this about AI: Tech: We are creating X Critics: Valid concerns Tech: We'll address these when we get there! Tech: *creates Torment Nexus* Critics: Alarmed concerns Tech: Welp, cat's out of the bag, there's no going back now!
I honestly try to avoid using Linux, and if I'm using linux it's because I need to use linux weird idiocy, and so rarely use its extra pieces. So no idea.
Oh awesome! I love BSD but I had trouble figuring out how to use it, and now that my new computer is ARM I can't seem to get it to work at all. @hypolite
Yeah, FreeBSD and NetBSD arm support is complicated since dtbs are a pain Arm efi is gonna make this better once it's done, but for now, the support is pretty good with the recent releases
I snapshotted a zpool with 1.5 fee TB, and now 0bytes are free on, and so I can't delete the snapshot, can't send the snapshot, and can't delete a dataset
It's a 4disk RAIDZ2 and it *looks* like I can't add more disks? Is there a secret to adding disks to the vdev?
if you have any datasets with reservation or refreservation set, you may be able to reduce them to make space free. I’m not optimistic that this will work, but may be worth a shot.
Nonono, a cold spare is a flashlight sitting next to a fresh unopened package of batteries on a shelf in the closet. Tell him the optimal redundancy strategy for a flashlight is a warm spare (ready to hand with the batteries in but not powered on).
Last night in a bid to see a walrus (at our three year old's request) we watched a show called Dangerous Waters on curiosity stream.
The Walrus search sent us to S2E1 and this show is the greatest bad reality TV show.
They wanna cross from Alaska to Russia on jetskis and spend the first half-hour of episode 1 discussing how prepared they were. Their MREs, their jetskis maintenance, the oil changes, the fuel cans.
They get to their first town on schedule, and spend hours knocking on doors asking to crash on someone's couch, they didn't think to arrange a hotel.
Stupid, but ok, fine. They can camp.
So they do it! They cross the Berring Strait! They land in Russia and!
THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY DETAINED BY THE RUSSIAN BORDER PATROL!
They spend the next episodes talking about how the low grade hotel they are held in is a gulag and being conspiratorial about their jetskis being searched.
FreeBSD recovery plan: Ignore the fact that whenever I snapshot my zpool the disk goes from 1.5TB free to full, snapshot Make a recovery USB and put in server Make a small NAS with a rockpro64 and put an 8TB mirror on it Move the server data to the rockpro so backups are close, cheap, and up to date Remove storage card, replace, attach to disks manually Try rebooting and hope to fuck my pool works on the new storage cards If not, restore from backup
@silverwizard Finish Mando, skip Boba Fett and Kenobi, then go straight to Andor.
Andor is the best Star Wars. Boba Fett sucks, Kenobi is all fan service. The Mandalorian is cool, and certainly cuter than Andor, but Andor better on every single other measure.
Well, Andor starts a bit slow. I guess that's the one downside it has. They released the first 3 episodes at once for a reason: that second episode with just lots of character development isn't a great moment to have to wait a week.
@silverwizard Then take your time, wrestle your way through Boba Fett and Kenobi, in the knowledge that the light of Andor shines at the end of the tunnel.
Why yes, company that I expect to do business with exactly once in my life, I would love to create a special account on your website just for you and then get told that you won't let me access the thing I've already paid for because you don't like my name.
LifeTouch, for grad photos. To access anything from the actual photo session (paid for up front before you get the chance to pay more for prints) requires a session ID (from the receipt they gave me when they were taken), an access code (from the "OK, we finally updated our database" email), *plus* the name of the person the photos are of. I had to call customer service, and give them the information, and they told me my name was misspelled in that database (but not as recorded on the receipt) and what to tell the website to get it to let me in.
I very much dislike being offered advice when I'm struggling, especially in regards to things I already know. My sister and mom and all my friends and immediate family know this, but my aunt and uncle and cousins are trying to help this extremely stressful situation by offering advice on topics that I am more knowledgeable about then them (mostly only because I know the situation better). It's like not bad advice but I'm stressed and I don’t want to hear it and the last thing I need is multiple calls per day giving me the same advice and asking for updates.if I have something to report I'll share it.
Winter is cruel because I need to take vacation before EOY, and therefore can't take vacation in January easily, and therefore I have my stuff to play with during a time when I don't have time to play with it, and I have time without the new stuff
Seeing more bullshit "HTML is a programming language" discourse, and uh, damnit
HTML meets some definitions of programming language, but would be way less useful if it was used that way.
Stop gate keeping Programmer as the only Good profession and understand that other roles and jobs are as valuable, and as part of the tech ecosystem. Programmer is not the Best Job or the Good Job, it's a fucking role and people who don't do it aren't lesser, so telling a designer they're a programmer because HTML is fucking patronizing and degrading to *their actual skills and profession*.
HTML is not a programming language... but web site design where the lines between "content" and "interactive user interface" is verrrry blurry absolutely requires the discipline of a programmer.
Arguably, anyone suggesting HTML, in and of itself, is a "programming language" says more about their notions of software development and "programming" than it says about HTML. Srsly.
HTML should not be equated with "Web site design" nor "web application development" because you can absolutely design a Web site and hardly use any HTML at all.
the <script> element is HTML of course, but it's not a program, the javascript INSIDE it is a program.
<h1> is not an instruction. It means nothing without a specific piece of software, and the fact that the rendering of content wrapped in <h1></h1> is not consistent across user agents and can be altered by also-not-html CSS or JavaScript reinforces that in my mind.
PHP is not HTML. PHP can contain bits of HTML for rendering.
HTML in and of itself is not a programming language.
My dad gets psychosis sometimes on account of refusing to take medication and there's not much I can do about it, but goodness I wish *I* didn't get wrapped up in his paranoia and unreality because I need half an ounce of trust to help him out of this wretched situation that I literally could have completely solved for him if he'd let me in any earlier at all...
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