Why the FUCK does CMAKE generate VS project files that depend on having CMAKE installed on your system? And it has to be in a fixed path? And EVERYTHING has to be in a fixed path?
Have CMAKE developers ever compiled something or used version control? This is unusable and I am very angry and it's Monday and I haven't had my coffee yet.
EDIT: AND IT HAS TO HAVE VS INSTALLED AT A FIXED PATH TOO WHO MADE THIS CRAP????
I have a question for those who know #rust. When I went to school I learned Assembly, ANSI C, Java, and Perl (oh... and Mathematica, but I'm trying to forget it). Then I learned VB (later .NET), C++, and Python on my own. I've never been a full-time developer, but I will pick up an occasional pet project. Nearly everything I've done in the last 10 years has been in python.
Should I learn Rust? Are there new #programming concepts? Are there other reasons, as am #infosec professional, that make it worthwhile to run to an "Intro to Rust" class?
I've got to be doin this #mastodon / #activitypub / #fediverse thing wrong, cuz I don't see any of this #drama shit everyone else bitches about. I follow a few tags (mostly #programming and #homelab stuff, the interest topics) and mostly just refresh the feed occasionally and read posts until I realize I'm doom scrolling and then go off and do something else. Clearly I need to follow some controversial topics and invite some of that drama into my life.
Well, time for a new #Introduction since the folks over at mastodon.scot decided that it's anti-semitism to call very obvious Israeli propaganda accounts out for being zionist, and thus nuked my account 🖕 Other than speaking out against fascism I post about #catsofmastodon, #programming, #gamedev, #mosstodon, #knitting, #naturephotography and whatever else catches my eye. Nice to meet y'all!
Honestly, I had no idea DuckDuckGo had its own web browser lol. This article reminded me to try out DuckDuckGo's search engine again, and compare its search results with those of Google Search. I was actually surprised to find out that DuckDuckGo churned out way better search results. I'm definitely gonna use it instead of Google from now on.
This video is about #Rust, but it's comments about error handling are valid for anyone in any language. PHP friends especially, this is the kind of stuff I've been ranting about for a while now. :-)
This is TERRIBLE security. Even the people who came up with this idea DECADES ago have said that it was a terrible idea. This only makes things LESS secure.
Good security is simple:
UNLESS you are a security expert, assume that literally every security related idea you have is terrible. ONLY do what security experts (!= experienced devs) CURRENTLY advise. And do it without alteration.
I hate #medicine. I dunno why I even became a doctor. Must've been due to parental pressure. I love #astronomy & also have an interest in astronomy software/apps (& software in general). Problem is I dunno how to #code.
Is pursuing a degree in #compsci worth it in the age of LLMs? Or should I just get an astro degree & depend on "AI" to write codes for me?
Hello,
I was originally on ppb1701@noc.social, but started my own instance.
A little about me, I’m a Software Engineer from Tennessee. Been #Coding for over a decade, primarily in the .Net world, but also some Flutter and Ruby. I enjoy #gaming, #SteamDeck, #Disney, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
In what has to be an all-new hilarious level of "I will never find that again now and more importantly how the hell would I ever start looking", I have been reminded -- somehow -- of a singular book from way back when but nothing useful like, oh, a /title/.
And even though I think~ I could describe it, I certainly can't in any way useful for a websearch ... and the odds of just stumbling across one specific #BASIC book online is zero.
But it was a fun #programming book D: Damnit, nostalgia!
I have one creative domain I think I have some innate talent in, which is my heart and blood and soul: programming. I knew from before even reading that I wanted to program computers. I did 😂
I was also into music, but I didn’t have that talent. Everything was hard, pitch is extremely hard, I gave up on dexterity, rhythm is hard despite years of bass. I practiced and practiced and it took id say 20 years til everything congealed into what I consider my second avenue of “soulful” expression.
Now I’m getting into #photography which I think jives much better with my yolo sketch just do it approach I get in #musicmaking, #programming (in programming it feels like freeflowing yolo associative energy because it’s just so innate and practiced and I spent upwards of 50k h doing it, probably), and #drawing.
I think I want to reach for the “soulful” level here.
A fun exercise in re the design quality of the Linux kernel: How many lines of code do you think was the diff to add "-o nosymfollow" (ignore symlinks) as a mount option? ( git.kernel.org )
Think of a similar scope of change to a large codebase you're familiar with, for frame of reference.
Particle Life - Beautiful simulations arising from incredibly simple rules ( www.youtube.com )