If you’ve always wanted to pursue CS, do CS.

Honestly, there’s a lot of hype around AI. Companies are trying to figure out how to incorporate LLMs into their workflows, but no one has meaningfully succeeded yet past using it as an automated StackOverflow (which is usually wrong or outdated, just like StackOverflow). Yeah, startups will claim that things like cursor have saved them hundreds or thousands of working hours, but then they get burned their AIs leave in their API keys and code security flaws into their services. In the best case, they’ve created a nightmare codebase that will raise the turnover rates for their software developers significantly.

If you are actually passionate about CS, get a CS degree and don’t use AI for problem solving. Maybe debugging/concept explanations if it gets better, but don’t let it solve problems for you. Designing solutions, to problems, critically thinking about their strengths/weaknesses, and working through them is exactly what a CS degree is supposed to teach you how to do, so don’t throw that away by having AI do your work for you.

This is absolutely not true. Yes, the computer science field is constantly changing, which is exactly why having a strong grasp of fundamentals is incredibly beneficial. Any competent CS program will be teaching you how to approach programming in general (data structures, concepts, algorithms, protocol design, etc.) instead of focusing directly on specific languages. This is exactly because technology changes so frequently.

In my entire 4-year CS degree, I only took 1 class where the content in that class was specific to a certain programming language or technology. That class was called “Programming in C++” and it was an optional elective class. Sure, a lot (not all) of my classes were based on specific languages (Java, JS and frameworks, Lisp, C, C++, python, etc.) but the content in them was easily applicable to most general programming. In some of my classes we were free to use whichever language we wanted as long as we could get the compiler running on the submission server’s docker environment.

Yes, you can probably still become a software developer if you are dedicated enough to learning on your own, but in the current job market getting a CS job is definitely not a given anymore, especially when you’ll be competing against 1000s of other resumes with CS degrees on them. But a CS degree will make that learning process a lot easier, and will probably give you a more complete understanding of everything.

Why does that assembly code use a global variable for a loop value?? It’s also ignoring register conventions (some registers need to be preserved before being modified by a function) which would probably break any codebase you use this in

Kitty has multiplexing built in so it can also replace a lot of what tmux does (unless you’re using tmux over ssh)

Somehow this post has negative down votes and I’m all for it.

Pretty interesting how the number of active users per month has been fluctuating up/down but the number of comments and posts per month has been steadily going up

Isn’t servo mostly a Mozilla-led project? I thought servo would probably just replace gecko as the engine firefox used if it ends up succeeding

OP mentioned having used Linux for 4 weeks. If they are interested in learning more about Linux, I feel like even Arch would be a better next step.

I love NixOS and have been using it for over a year at this point but sometimes when things don’t work I feel like I’m banging my head against a wall. I’ve been using Linux for ~7 years now.

It’s not magic, it’s adoption rates. I’m not saying the money or resources are useless, but as it is right now, I think more people would benefit from actually trying to use rust in more large-scale projects (like R4L, windows, android, redox, servo, etc.) and using that experience to inform actual language development. I don’t think it makes sense to do a full revamp of the compiler until projects like those are actually proven. In the meantime it makes more sense to allocate funding/dev resources to those projects (or at least the open source ones)

revamp Rust to produce lightweight binaries, have a stable compiler and for it to be way quicker in compilation

It really isn’t that simple though. Rust’s compiler isn’t stable because the language itself is still being improved. This type of thing will only improve as adoption increases and real-world problems get ironed out. You can’t just throw money and devs at it and expect the problem to be solved.

It’s also not like the developers don’t care about compile time, but the nature of the language (strict compiler checks which catch things before runtime) will inherently lead to something slower that other languages’ compilers. There are probably still improvements they can make, but it’s not as simple as just deciding to rewrite/revamp it and expecting massive speedups.

But you’ll use AIs? I don’t think they are much better

I’d say it is (was? It’s been ~a year and a half since I used it consistently but I’m guessing it hasn’t changed too much since then) moderately left by US standards but definitely not progressive left - you don’t have to go very far to find thinly-veiled sexism/racism/homophobia, though that might just be because a large portion of the people there are terminally online in a bad way. That being said, there are definitely also communities ranging from conservative to hardcore conservative as well but I actively tried to avoid those so I didn’t really see them in my feeds. The same is true with progressive communities but they tended to drift away from being actually progressive once they got to a certain size.

Dots!

They don’t work for discord in hyprland unfortunately, it only works when I have discord tabbed in (I tried passing the shortcuts in the hyprland config file)

AFAIK kde’s way of doing it is kind of hacky because it was called something like “legacy global keybinds” in settings but I switched off KDE a few months ago so I don’t remember the exact details.

Can we get actually working global keybinds in Wayland next? Or is that a chromium/electron problem?

Tears of the Kingdom storyline has entered the chat

We’re already on the 6th generation of folding phones though

What priorities are there? I’m talking about emotions, not actions.

You can feel bad for both the children of this guy that will now grow up without a father and the millions of people he harmed at the same time. I’m not even saying I feel equally as bad for his children as his victims’ children (because losing a parent to a preventable death due to insurance is objectively a worse situation). All I’m saying is it’s reasonable to feel sympathy for both. It’s not like the kids had a choice in what their dad did.

It isn’t impossible to feel bad for both?

You can feel bad for his family while also not feeling bad about his death. Losing a loved one is hard regardless of how much money you have. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t ultimately a net positive (although I’m doubtful that UH will actually change any policies because of this)