dawa

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[–] dawa 7 points 2 months ago

Just think about all those administrative tasks you've been neglecting which are piling up. And remember, a few even require you to phone a hotline.

You'll get back to deep cleaning in no time.

Also, have assigned/labeled boxes for everything. And a big bag for whatever doesn't belong to any of them. It's way easier to deal with mess if your brain doesn't need a lot to figure out where to put said items.

[–] dawa 14 points 2 months ago

Here's what I look for with software engineers II hire.

Pragmatism: pick the right solution for the right problem. And your work should create minimal work for others.

Thirst to learn: there is always something new and exciting and there's always a better way to do it. Look for that. It also means being open to feedback.

Collaboration instead of execution: I need my team to challenge me. For that, they need to get as much of the bigger picture as they can. That means always being able to answer "why" you do things. It also means that I expect healthy conflict with my teams. If you go from being taught to teaching me, you immediately get a bump in my list of top teammates.

No excuse: we acknowledge problems and deal with them together. (Requires a good work environment though).

As you can see, nothing I wrote is purely code related. Only thing I ask tech wise is: know your shit, where to find it, who to ask.

Also, my top resource to get people started with what it means to become a software engineer is solidbook.io.

[–] dawa 35 points 2 months ago

Elon: want me to keep paying for the children's pension ?

Grimes: Of course

Elon: Then you'd better say I'm the best at video games publicly. Because I am and you have to tell everyone.

Grimes: Oh, for fuck's sake...

[–] dawa 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm on Pcloud, server with rsync+rclone to move files from file system to cloud and use it as a unified file system.

The lifetime storage offer from pcloud has been worth it for me and I even upgraded it from 2 to 12 TB

[–] dawa 8 points 1 year ago

Ori and the blind forest

Didn't click with the floaty movement and combat. But once you get through the first hours, the game is a delight

[–] dawa 14 points 1 year ago

Choosing to retire his version of the Joker because Kevin Conroy passed away is a very sensible and respectful decision

[–] dawa 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, it's not even the season pass. I was giving such examples regarding the whales who want to look cool, but in reality others often only see the default skin if it's from past season.

The 60$ skin is their pay to play roulette to get a 1% to get said skin with increasing price to get next "prize"

[–] dawa 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maps, warframes, weapons and skins will also likely be loaded as needed, so you'll probably start with 20GB but bloat to 60 as you play

Another trick I noticed playing CoD mobile is that they don't load every other player's skin, only the latest. So if your install doesn't have it, it only display's the default skin for other players. Which also mean that the skin you paid 60$ for in the last Season Pass is only visible by a few players.

[–] dawa 2 points 1 year ago

You just brought back fond memories of mine

I loved sliding that keyboard

[–] dawa 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Really depends on your age and interests

I started learning programming concepts as a teen by using RPG Maker. It introduced me to concepts such as variables, conditions, loops in a "low code" environment.

Thing is, I had a reachable goal which made it easier for me to learn and feel good as I had a tangible result. Things such as "I want to add a point everytime I touch X item" where very good for this.

IMO, I wouldn't worry too much about the language at first and focus on small reachable goals you want to achieve. But to each his own way of learning.

Like games? You should probably check out GDevelop.

Want to automate some of your online tasks? Maybe n8n.io.

Also, it's better if the tool you use starts with a high level of abstraction (it's very esay to use) and allows you to add in some scripts.

If you want to go further, pick a language and go through the basics. And if you're feeling even more adventurous, head to roadmap.sh to find a learning path towards your goal.

Edit: Also, ChatGPT is really good to teach you IF you always ask it to explain whatever you don't fully understand in the code it writes

[–] dawa 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And he's not alone.

I'm on tech Twitter and trying to switch to Mastodon. Unfortunately, the latest news and top content are still on Twitter and I don't want to be missing out on either of those.

[–] dawa 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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The AIdotEngineer conference starts today and should be live streamed on Youtube

3 days of talks around the integration of AI in products

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