Maddier1993

The horrors of compiling stuff take me back to my corporate job where I had to compile linux 2.x because a certain hardware vendor only had their driver tested on that.

Whatever you do, don’t start down the path of customizing a Linux distro.

Welp, I am already done with that one in my 20s. I guess I should have specified, I had at one point a running arch install that I used as a daily driver. My main session was xfce and I was tinkering with some openbox stuff. Long story short, an update bricked my arch install. Being a noob and also not having the power of nix back then, I basically lost all my configs and dotfiles.

Thankfully I never tinkered in Gentoo ever. I might try it out this year just as a bucket-list thing.

Nowadays, If I want to run arch I am running Endeavor OS.

(PS: I will try to one up you a more dangerous habit: Mechanical Keyboards. Thankfully my cheapskate-ass won't let me fall into this trap as much as I want to buy one... did I tell you I already have 2 of those in the house?)

I am a monster lurker for stuff that hits close to home. So I guess it became too much so I just threw it out here.

I guess it makes sense. Not doing anything is good in and of itself. Boredom needs embracing. I still remember getting entertained in my childhood seeing some ants move around and react to dead insects and carrying leaves.

I am not concerned about not having anything to show for my free time. I am just not finding interest doing stuff which could indicate something worse.

fair point. Sometimes I feel satisfied not doing much

Why is it just devs?

Because, (and not sure about your upbringing, speaking for myself and possibly those who agree) we entered the field because of our dream to get paid for what is effectively hours of our favourite activity: tinkering with our home computer (that dad forbade us from touching as we often broke something) and building cool stuff. I still remember the day I used Turbo C compiler to compile the "Hello, World!" program and the feeling of seeing the result made me happy and excited. My immediate thought was "what else can I do with this!".

I often tried implementing graphics in turbo C. The horrors of trying to find the cause of out of bound scribbling mess that my drawing code produced is quite nostalgic to this day.

I guess most of the current struggle is to just reproduce that joy that we got once.

This is same as feeling bad for people who think others shouldn't be getting caught in MLM schemes.

I don't agree with your argument.

Making a human go to prison for wiping out a family of 4 isn't going to bring back the family of 4. So you're just using deterrence to hopefully make drivers more cautious.

Yet, year after year.. humans cause more deaths by negligence than tools can cause by failing.

The question is definitely "How much safer are they compared to human drivers"

It's also much easier to prove that the system has those issues fixed compared to training a human hoping that their critical faculties are intact. Rigorous Software testing and mechanical testing are within legislative reach and can be made strict requirements.

Lol TFW Romania punishes rapists but the U.S. clears rapists.

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