@AvatarOfKaine

Yeah, when you think everyone around you are the psychos, chances are you are the psycho.

And mind you, I'd step off the threats, you're completely inoffensive to me, which doesn't preclude the fact that if you ever were to become a threat, I'd still unalive you on the spot :)

But you do you, I guess...

And here you go going psycho again...

@CaptainRant

Problem with leadership roles in tech, is that, again, you will be expected to have a veeeery wide command of all fields IT, and all stacks past and future.

Not down to detail command, but overall knowledge, because, if you want to lead, you need to be someone your followers can turn to, not the other way around. Otherwise, you're just a boss, not a leader.

@jestdotty

Yeah yeah, sure.

You call me propaganda spewer when all you do is spread conspiracy theory bullshit.

So yeah, please do trust chatgpt.

You'll just destroy yourselves in time, and the world will be better. :)

@jestdotty

Yes, there are.

Yes, every living organism mutates all the time. Mutations are defects in cellular mitosis. Sometimes they are harmful, and they lead to malfunctions, cancer, or other shit.

Most of times, they are inconsequential and just transmit, but can serve as a base for future mutations.

In very few cases, the mutation is actually beneficial, but since modern humans have all but defeated natural selection, it never gets to express itself.

And hence, we involve, and that's, on the long term, -unless we really master generic engineering, which we are not close to doing- really bad for us as a species.

@Lensflare

There are so many species of fungi, I guess "mushroom" is just the umbrella term. Dunno if English has specific names for specific species, but in Spain, we sure do. It's really uncommon to hear someone say "setas" (mushrooms) unless they are referring to like, a combo of several species.

@int32

I had to learn the hard way, but now I live by this quote:

"No plan survives contact with the enemy".

So don't sweat it, try to prepare as best as you can, but accept that shit is just not gonna go your way and wing it to the best of your ability.

@CaptainRant

Well from what I gather, it means music playing out loud outta speakers is banned, which, like @Lensflare said, should be a must.

In your headphones? I'm gonna play whatever the fuck I want, management be damned.

Well, I'm afraid your wants are incompatible.

Solving problems is not always gonna be fun and rainbows. If that were the case, there would be no problems to begin with.

Also, as an employee, and an engineer, you are hired to solve the problems arising from exactly that, custom client logic, aka, business needs.

And of course, all of us have trouble here and there.

Maybe you should apply to a strictly (meaning, not software engineer) programming position. They usually pay less but you are not required to solve complex business requirements, and just stuff closely related to your chosen stack.

But if you want to pursue an engineering path, I'm afraid that, no matter if you like them or not, you'll have to cover many of those bases you say you hate, such as DSA, DBA, etc...

@Demolishun

Oh, I also just remembered that at least on windows, when you open a file for writing with the windows API, you can provide a hint for size so the OS can try and get a good continuous block.

@Demolishun

The endings are indeed a bit underwhelming but then again, the impact lessens if you play the "secret" ending.

Phantom liberty was somewhat better but felt shoehorned.

In the end, I'm just glad they didn't neuter every OP build that lets you mow down maxtacs.

Then again, I'm biased because I simply love the cyberpunk rpg and setting.

@AvatarOfKaine

Don't act like a psycho and I will have no reason to treat you as one.

So far you are doing alright. Keep it up.

@AvatarOfKaine on SSD fragmentation is non-consequential since it's essentially random access.

Defragging a SSD is actually harmful, since it consumes write cycles for no real benefit.

Fun fact, the SSD controllers already remap sectors without you ever knowing.

@retoor

I'm sure your post violates a couple PEP entries. Let's run a linter on it XD.

@devJs

Fine, RAID 0 then, which I don't know why is even a standard RAID level since it fails to comply with the very first word of the acronym.

Nothing a spanned volume wouldn't do better, save for some throughput increase.

@kiki A couple MacBooks, dunno model, they all seem the same shit to me.

This was back in 2017 if that gives any hint.

@kiki

I've personally witnessed liquid caps in apple devices pop just by being in a humid environment, which in Spain includes... All the coast.

And of course, they will use that to rip you off again even if they only need to replace a faulty switch.

In any case I'd say apple is the cult.

They use every tactic, honest or not, to keep you in their walled "garden", and instill fear about the outside world.

It's a bit like Plato's cavern myth.

Once you get brave enough and step out of the cavern you realize how wonderful the world can be.

@devJs except that isn't really RAID.

Likely through a custom pooling allocator, which means you must say hello to C/C++.

Can you get it to speed up? For sure. Will it be worth the effort? I sincerely don't think so.

@Demolishun

If you are dealing with a SSD, don't need to worry about fragmentation, since they are basically like RAM, random access.

To be actually sure, just make sure to write in chunks that are a multiple of the block size, (ideally page size for best interaction with RAM), but in the end, fragmentation happens at OS level so you don't get much control about it.

About parallelization, I/O never lent itself too well to it since it's in essence a serial operation.

As was said before, in the case of an HDD, jumping around from place to place with random writes would tank performance.

The only way you could likely speed up via parallelization is if each file is stored in different *physical* drives and output to different drives from the ones being read.

Given that an ext filesystem can have pretty much anything mounted anywhere, you can hardly control this.

You would also need to pay special attention to how you store what you read in memory for cache locality.

Well in today's world it's all the same.

I mean, the majority of apps are just webviews or abominations like react native in mobile, or electron in desktop.

Also so many companies use web mobile apps just to circumvent ad blockers and/or browser anti tracking measures.

@ANTIASYLUMIST If she's your wife and you are a citizen she is not a refugee, dumbass.

@Demolishun

Yeah, what I said about Spain mostly holds, tho not even then have gotten to the point of jailing political opponents (although I have no doubts Perro Sánchez masturbates at the thought).

In France, from what I know, the prosecution against Le Pen is not tied to any political reason.

Dunno about Germany though.

All for all, in my opinion, EU has gotten too soft for its own good, and woke politicians have infested every institution with their shitty agenda, and now that security ain't guaranteed, that we are getting flooded by refugees, immigrants, and criminals, that we may be facing economic recession, and such, people are starting to get fed up, and therefore vote for right wing parties because they say what they want to hear. And the current governments (socialists mostly) fear this not because of political disagreements, but because they know they'll lose the power and access to state money for their debauchery.

@hjk101

Combining a chroma-like stereoscopic video with the passthrough (real environment from cameras) of your hmd to make it seem the action is happening in your actual room.

@Lensflare yep.

If you are naturally bad at it, I'm afraid there's not much to do. You cannot just rewire your brain to be able to interpret stuff differently.

You can compensate for it through study and maths, but it's not ever going to reach what someone with natural talent *and* effort can do.

And bear with me, this is not a stem vs nonstem thing.

I'm a physicist, and I could not, for the life of me, solve many integrals a mathematician could do with their eyes closed, because I'm just not made for thinking their way.

@shoema1

Dafuq?

@ragnar I think you have some work...

As an almost patient of this, gotta say that I wouldn't know if it's just me, but yeah, it doesn't work like a fucking joystick. Reverse cowgirl if they get too wild can be dangerous. They tend to "thrust" forward, and it just doesn't bend that way.

It'd be a beautiful and fast world.