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[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 days ago

My cycle goes : think think think, draw, think, draw, think, write code for a day or 3.

I use an ide or a text editor. never use that other stuff.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 221 points 3 days ago (11 children)

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 88 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us. And we are used to reading manuals, since we first installed our system.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They did it before the Internet was even a thing, my friend.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Nope, not a sell out. Just a person using the tools at hand. You can't just live in the past. You did it without Google back then because there was no Google and you had to use what you had to use. Now you use Google, because again, you have to use what you have to use. In the end, I personally only care about the outcome.

I just chose to use tools to make my life easier

If you don't then I'd call you stupid. Keep doing that, friend. That's the best way actually. You want your life easier so you can put out great work.

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[–] urandom@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I remember using man pages when I was contributing to a C open source project back in the day.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It is extremely easy to use the internet without using google.

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[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Is psychopatl an Aztec insult I don't know about?

[–] mcmxci@mimiclem.me 20 points 3 days ago

Someone cropped the last line? What a sociopatl

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

(For any nerd wondering, the name of the language is Nahuatl but I guess Aztec language is more recognizable for the sake of the joke lol)

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago

Type of dinosaur I believe

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 95 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Yay! Cencorship! I spent an extra 3 seconds focusing on the word psychopath trying to figure out what went wrong instead of reading it like a normal word. Isn’t that so much better than offending an algorithm with the letter ‘h’?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wasn't that one of the Incan gods?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You are thinking of the one they used to design the common keyboard layout, Qwertycoatl.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...

This is psycopathy?

Having actual competence in one's field?

Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

EDIT:

Welp, I'm sure thats a good sign, lol.

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 20 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure it's gonna be the stake

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's a joke on a tweet about a guy spending a multi-hour flight just staring straight ahead.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I've done similar things in a coffee shop before, just working on my own code, and I have actually been 'politely' asked to leave by the staff.

The staff evidently being a bunch of morons who thought I was... hacking into ... something?

They didn't know what, but they were very concerned.

I was unable to convince them I was not, because 'terminal' = 'hacking' to idiots who only know anything about computers via movies and tv shows.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago

Knowledge and skill have now been demonised

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Why not both? Probably worshipped at the stake.

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[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yesterday I spent about 2 hours trying to get ChatGPT to walk me through the install process of putting Arch on a 2011 MacBook Air. It just wouldn’t work and the further along we got the harder it seemed and I really thought that using AI was necessary. I finally gave up and read the Arch Wiki and had it installed in under 45 minutes.

[–] ballgoat@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

That tracks. The AI push is extraordinarily premature. It makes sense that capitalist idiots see mass layoffs as improvement, but rational people do not.

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 33 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I use:

  • DuckDuckGo
  • Neovim
  • ~~rusty~~ dusty IdeaPad
  • ~~Arch~~ NixOS btw

I don't read man pages but I read documentation.

Am I also a psychopath?

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 22 points 3 days ago

Raw dogging development

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

imagine programming on an electric computer. i exclusively generate punch cards for crank operated adding machines

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 days ago

That's impossible. He would be too busy telling everyone that he uses Arch to get any work done.

[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago (8 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I can’t live without vim.

Sometimes I wander into vscode but it’s less productive for me.

Plus vscode has weird name inconsistencies (the app is called visual studio code, it’s branded as vscode, and the menu bar says Code), which is probably normal for Microsoft but unusual elsewhere.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (5 children)
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[–] notabot@piefed.social 19 points 3 days ago

I should fork vim and call it 'death', so I can shout "give me vim or give me death!" any time someone suggests a different editor.

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[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I still remember my Masters degree in distributed computing. C++ in vi (not even vim), monochromatic display, 36 computers working together to give me a bunch of SIGSEGV.

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[–] lockhart@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago

The true psychopaths are those sweating about which tools other people use

[–] shads@lemy.lol 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I was going to ask how he knew it was Arch, but I feel like that is just setting up the next comment.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I can still do this provided that the language is Perl. But the few cases when I actually have to do so are rare, and never in public.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a fine operating system, what editor do you use?

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This indecent has been reported

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I had an internship 15 years ago where I was forced to write C++ with no internet access. I had to use a programming manual and man pages.

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