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  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlXFCE Vs MATE
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    14 hours ago

    i use xfce, but entirely because it worked well when 16 megabytes of ram was considered average and it literally took almost a half hour to log in and start using a browser on both gnome and kde.

    is mate as lightweight as xfce?



  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlDebugging
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    16 hours ago

    With imperative style, you have a lot of implicit state that you need to know to figure out what actually happened. So, you end up having to go through the steps of building that state up before you can start figuring out what went wrong.

    i think i struggle with this part the most since i’m entirely self taught and relied on very old methods for writing my source since the educational material i used was the most common and freely available at the time i starting doing development work. i’ve learned that it was acceptably sufficient for the IT-based problems that i was trying to solve at the time i learned it and that legacy style has been keeping me at a disadvantage.

    if seen some of the newer style of debugging like the one you’re shared from the young fresh graduate developers who are lucky enough to be spared the slog of a over decade within “customer service” oriented side of the tech industry umbrella and it’s painfully evident to me how vastly superior it is compared to the old methods that i taught myself and it’s encouraged me to seek a degree to help me master them and my new job will make that degree free for me; which matters A LOT as an american considering the price tag it entails.





  • i think the american authorities response to the black panthers was portent of trump’s election win and the clearest example that americans are unaware of this country’s true nature.

    a part of me wishes i didn’t know so that i could keep blaming leftists and latinos for trump’s win without ever realizing that i’ve been put into trap of choice between a genocide-enabler and the genocide-ignorer and either one got more votes than all of the people who wanted to end the genocide combined.




  • its likely possible since you’re a human being and i image that it would take a lot of work given the manner in which you’ve shared this information.

    there’s a song out there by sublime that speaks to me and has enabled me to seek out the help that i needed from professionals and maybe it can help you too in some way:

    Daddy he once told me,

    “Son, you be hard workin’ man”

    And momma she once told me,

    “Son, you do the best you can”

    Then one day I meet a man,

    He came to me and said,

    "Hard work good and hard work fine,

    but first take care of head"

    they were referring to weed as a coping strategy in the song; which i also do; but i’ve used it also convince myself to seek out help because no one can take care of the shit that goes on their head if they don’t know what they’re doing.







  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlForest of trees
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    2 days ago

    my crystal ball comes from being on so many shit lists because i’m the “uppity beaner who doesn’t know when to shut up” and the “queer who doesn’t know when to walk away from a confrontation” and the “weirdo who doesn’t know how to read a room” and “the pocho who doesn’t get it” and the “"normal" guy who won’t stop attracting the neuro-diverse” and the “big and loud scary dark man coming at you on the street” and the “bleeding heart liberal” in a deeply conservative family and hometown.

    you’re right about the deportations being a little bit hyperbolic and that’s not what what i was referring to; if i’m deported, it won’t be because i’m immigrant labor, but because no one will help like it has happened to me in more incidents that i want to remember in my past because of those shit lists.

    i share this because i had a similar conversation with my father and my sister independently about trump’s plan to deport people like them and the rest of my siblings and they had a similar response about it being hyperbole. like i said in my previous comment: my crystal ball is telling me that it’s going to hit me before it hits them and they’re refusing to see it despite them being the target demographic in trump’s designs. (i am too as my family’s anchor baby and our storied history with immigration because of it). i still don’t know when to shut up and felt like i had to give voice to an unknown perspective with people who i think can “get it” and be aware that it’s a thing as well for people who aren’t immigrant labor, but still has the same life altering impact nonetheless.



  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlForest of trees
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    2 days ago

    i’m convinced that if i had fewer vulnerable identities that i would never have been able to see through practice all the “common sense” bullshit levied against me all my life and i also think that’s the only reason why i try when others with identical backgrounds, like my family, don’t bother; i’ve learned the hard way that ignorance will hurt me long before it will hurt them.