James

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

YouTube hardly classifies as free.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Article doesn’t directly state it, but implies the tunnel is going to be there to reduce the visual impact of adding a bigger road to the area.

Big waste of money IMO. Makes way more financial and environmental sense to just move the highway a couple KM away(buying land as needed) and widen it there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No love for VLC player?!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You only need the app to set your preferred temperature and led colour. Once that’s done you can forget about it and even uninstall if you want to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got one as a gift last Christmas, use it daily.

I would 100% buy another if it broke.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

That’s not what they are trying to do at all though.

The article makes it sound more so like they want their own ‘great firewall’ like China, or to go even further and create something akin to North Korea.

No reason to reinvent tcp/ip in any case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If Lemmy continues on the path it’s on it will get there, but this is a long path.

Think 10 years minimum before we start to see maple syrup level niche.

Rome wasn’t built in a day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I see your point, but I would almost argue that starting out with all these shortcuts available in high level languages is ‘jumping into the deep end’ itself.

When a newbie sees obscure error messages in some of these libraries they might not have any idea what they mean or why they were triggered. My opinion is that having a smaller set of tools to start is actually simpler despite being able to do less with them.

I’m slightly biased because I started with C 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

In addition to what this guy said, don’t just use libraries to skip steps when writing small programs.

For example when parsing a file you will often use the split and strip functions in python, but learning how to implement these by yourself will teach you more.

To really learn fundamentals you should try and implement most operations yourself. It’s why in my opinion C is a better language to start with, because it forces you to learn the fundamentals.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I just noticed you added comments for voting.

Unfortunately that doesn’t work too well because the comments aren’t sticked and some options become less visible.

I think a straw poll would have been the better choice, despite you being unable to track votes from only our instance.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Ban the bot.

Automated reposts that don’t get any interaction in the comments are just spam.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s all tier 1 help desk ever does anyway.

From my experience they know less about the product than I do when I try to get support on it.

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