oh i didn't mean it as an excuse, i meant that highlighting this little fact kind of puts an immediate damper on his whole parade lol. the lowly unix sysadmin in my experience is less well informed than the average joe sixpack on plenty (most?) of topics

if anything coding is one of the rare spots AIs are proving to be extremely useful in my experience as a domain expert, contra most other claims (or even actively harmful, such as video gen.) it's very weird to come at it from this angle in that regard

i hate to be a prick but from what i understand this guy is just like a sysadmin, a certified unix guy, not an actual software engineer. and so his opinions on the subject do not matter at all as far as i am concerned lol

i've been wanting to do this for a while now but for buck. translating lockfiles works fantastic for reindeer (rust) so I was pretty eager to see how hard it would be. how much of this is reusable do you think? (i've spent 10 total seconds looking)

i'm sorry about your friend; it was also rather melancholy recently going over the computer programs of some long gone old friends. but, there's a certain kind of magic to meeting people in the online medium in these ways.

growing up doing public computer programming has been interesting. every so often, you see unmistakable usernames you haven't seen in +10 years; other times you end up seeing it involved in a project you like. i work on a high profile project now; i wonder how many old friends have seen that

once in a blue moon, i go check out some of the coding profiles (GitHub) of some of the fellas from the backwater programming IRC room from ~2013. a few of them died long ago; cancer, drowning. some still have occasional blips of activity. some have been inactive for many, many years now

i'm not really sure why i read Comments On Vote-Based Link Aggregator Websites other than being in the mood to disappoint myself. but i like clicking links. the links change colors and they even have information on them, sometimes

it kind of reminds me how people think of just giving people money as "mutual aid". that is simply charity. charity is not mutual aid. but this doesn't mean giving people things is bad, either. it's important to distinguish them though