andioop

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[–] andioop 19 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

Some people actively desire this kind of algorithm because they find it easier to find content they like this way. I'm not sure if they are immune to doomscrolling and actually have gotten it to work in a way that serves them and doesn't involve doomscrolling, or if they are doomscrolling and okay with it. But for me, I really wish I could go back to the chronological feed era.

[–] andioop 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Eh, I thought different moderation philosophies were allowed, and as far as I know excluding commercial news is different from the rest given I avoid most tech communities because of all the tech-related-but-not-about-the-tech-itself articles. But my avoidance also means I have not touched every tech community, so if there is one that shares this moderation philosophy I get it.

[–] andioop 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I clicked [email protected] and at least by the sidebar it seems to intend to be that, though not too active, and I had to go report an opinion piece I agree with that got tons of upvotes even though the rules say no opinion pieces.

 

The textbook "Mathematical Logic through Python" presents a new approach to teaching the material of a basic Logic course to undergraduate Computer Science students, bringing Mathematical Logic into the comfort zone of the ever-growing population of programming-savvy students by tapping into their unique intuitions and strengths.

The book's approach captures the essence of the mathematical analysis of Logic using a sequence of carefully designed programming projects in the Python programming language. Each chapter in the book provides the background for, explanation, implications, and mathematical treatment of an associated programming project.

This material has been published by Cambridge University Press as "Mathematical Logic through Python" by Yannai A. Gonczarowski and Noam Nisan. This pre-publication version is free to view and download for personal use only.

Found this book online, thought it was cool.

[–] andioop 7 points 4 days ago

If you thought this was fun you might like https://jsisweird.com/ with similar questions

[–] andioop 2 points 5 days ago

Lovely article.

You’ll also need to approach this guide with an open-mind. If you start off angry or feel like this is an attack on you for using (and maybe even enjoying!) GitHub, then you should come back once you’re in a better headspace. This is merely a detailed guide on how to achieve a solid set of feature parity between GitHub and SourceHut.

I didn't feel attacked at all till I read this, ironically. The rest of the article made me go right back to feeling unattacked.

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by andioop to c/[email protected]
 

Transcription since this is a link:

A Twitter post by emi @grohliest. It says: "you guys. my little sister's boyfriend is a programmer. for her birthday he made her an app that has a button on it and when she presses the button, a light starts to blink in his room to let him know that she wants attention."

Crossposted from https://programming.dev/post/30490984

[–] andioop 8 points 5 days ago

This is both sweet and funny. I'd love to have a spouse like that. Thanks for taking care of them :)

 
[–] andioop 6 points 1 week ago

https://jakec007.github.io/2020-06-28-how-we-trick-rocks-to-think/ fun, accessible-for-non-experts related article

Today we’re going to explore how the thinking rocks that power your computer are created.

[–] andioop 3 points 1 week ago

Interesting read, thanks for posting!

[–] andioop 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most of my games work right out of the box, and the ones that have problems are ones that I'd also have to fiddle with for more than a 1-minute check to ProtonDB are ones I'd have to fiddle with on Windows. However I also do not touch anything with online multiplayer or anticheat, and I know games with kernel-level anticheat tend to not handle Linux well on anything but a Steam Deck.

I swapped a PC I had mostly for gaming over to Linux. I'm having a pretty nice time.

As for piracy, I know pirated games that need to be emulated because they are originally Nintendo Switch games or something work well. No idea for pirated PC games.

[–] andioop 2 points 1 week ago

Hey thanks, that looks like it would probably solve my problem! (And thanks for your willingness to reply on old threads with people asking for help!)

[–] andioop 6 points 2 weeks ago

For what it's worth, if you didn't tell me English wasn't your first language, I would not have known from this comment.

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Appreciation for Advent of Code (self.advent_of_code)
submitted 3 weeks ago by andioop to c/advent_of_code
 

I know I'm not going to be a leaderboard type, especially given my schedule around the holiday seasons. So I take my time and read the whole problem, including the flavor text, and I have to say I appreciate it! Nice and festive, it's the little things that make this seem more like a fun programming puzzle exercise I actively want to do as recreation, and less like a dry exercise to force myself to learn a new language or library. But it still facilitates me doing those two things anyways. The flavor text, along with the ASCII art that gets colored in each day I star, helps it feel like a festive thing too—so I don't feel like I'm being a Grinch doing these puzzles during the holiday season.

I also appreciate the problems staying up after Advent for people using them off-season ;)

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by andioop to c/[email protected]
 

I'm a very happy iOS user planning on switching to the FairPhone when my iPhone finally craps the bed. I figure the switch will mostly be easy or just a matter of "go do this on your laptop or a web browser instead," but the two things I am most worried about are:

  • Find My iPhone alternatives for FairPhone. I'm an idiot who sometimes loses my phone when the ringer is turned off, so calling it does not help. This is the biggest sticking point for me because I am forgetful and I feel without this feature I might have ended up having to buy a lot more new phones because I couldn't find mine. I know they do have one through Google but wonder if there is such a feature without Google.
  • if it can do payment at stores (I've gotten very cozy with Apple Pay) or if I need to start carrying a credit card around again. This is mostly a convenience thing, although there are some card readers that reject my credit card and happily take the same card through Apple Pay, so sometimes it's an actual need. I could probably get around it by just ordering a replacement credit card though.
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by andioop to c/programming
 

A bit different from the audiobook request 2 years ago, as I'm not looking for audiobooks (so it does not have to be nice to listen to, I can see code examples) but regular books you read. Let me know which books helped you out the most, or that you just found fun to read!

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for helping me inflate my reading list! I was wondering what question I should ask to get answers including books on databases, cybersecurity, basically any topic that might fall under "computer science" and not just programming. In hindsight I maybe should have posted somewhere other than Programming and said something other than "Programming book recommendations" if I wanted that, but since I am also interested in programming and software engineering all these books will definitely be eaten soon. Thank you!

Oh, and [email protected] for programming books exists but is sadly not getting much attention.

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well that's rude (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by andioop to c/programmer_humor
 
 

Source

Transcript:

10 things that block your Happiness

  1. Self-hatred
  2. Not being able to let go of the past.
  3. Not being able to forgive yourself.
  4. Not being able to value who you are.
  5. Assuming RAID is backup.
  6. Not making backups.
  7. Not verifying backups and finding out restore time.
  8. Needing other people to validate you.
  9. Letting other people define who you are.
  10. Trying to be perfect and to please everyone.
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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by andioop to c/[email protected]
 

I did try to read the sidebar resources on https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/. They're pretty overwhelming, and seem aimed at people who come in knowing all the terminology already. Is there somewhere you suggest newbies start to learn all this stuff in the first place other than those sidebar resources, or should I just suck it up and truck through the sidebar?

EDIT: At the very least, my goal is to have a 3-2-1 backup of important family photos/videos and documents, as well as my own personal documents that I deem important. I will be adding files to this system at least every 3 months that I would like incorporated into the backup. I would like to validate that everything copied over and that the files are the same when I do that, and that nothing has gotten corrupted. I want to back things up from both a Mac and a Windows (which will become a Linux soon, but I want to back up my files on the Windows machine before I try to switch to Linux in case I bungle it), if that has any impact. I do have a plan for this already, so I suppose what I really want is learning resources that don't expect me to be a computer expert with 100TB of stuff already hoarded.

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Pokémon GO notification (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by andioop to c/software_gore
 
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