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 @user-246 
 
 Yeah plus the second time around you're likely to make something better than
 whatever incomprehensible hack you did the first time.
 
 More time working on the project == more context which means you might even
 have solved the problem twice already and now just have to copy-paste
 something that's more robust than your previous one-liner.
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 @user-1074 
 
 the more you try, the more you have to calculate, which is a problem, because
 endlessly recursive calculations create infinite loops, which frankly are
 impossible to compute because they defy computation! Not good, not ideal, no
 thank you, not for me, no thanks, not what I'd like.
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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 The point isn't to make solutions. You're too hung up on the question of "what
 could be better than capitalism"
 
 Make something better when it's time. For now, just get people on your side.
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 it's probably a good idea to write pseudocode, then real code, instead of
 starting with real code, and bugfixing something incomplete and more difficult
 to reason with.
 
 unless you write real code easier than pseudocode. idk do what works for you.
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 "you know what you never really hear anyone say?
 
 I need more projects."
 
 they should be allocated more resources so they can accomplish their
 objectives one-by-one as a matter of course.
 
 easy, if we all help each other.
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screenshot of a bunch of mastodon posts. sorry it's too much to alt text. there's some visuals drawn on the bottom right.
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 I know you don't want to hear this, but there is a chance that there will come
 a time where your life depends on your ability to debug a computer without the
 internet. To set up an SSH server. To install Linux. To program in C. To do
 something else that I'm not prepared for... If StackOverflow didn't exist
 because network connectivity has been lost, could you remember syntax? Maybe
 it's a good idea to set up a local LLM that can answer basic questions about
 technology. Maybe it's a good idea to set up on your parents computer, just in
 case you have to hide out there for a couple months. Maybe it's a good idea to
 download wikipedia, just in case.
 
 If I need to use a mac, I'm screwed
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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 I feel like I'd be at least a little more productive if Stack Overflow (the
 website) let you collapse comment chains the same way Reddit does
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 @user-883 
 
 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
 My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
 gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
 flags" and I'm like "no"
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
 could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
 wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
 are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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 @user-1049 
 
 I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
 write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts
 file and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says
 down below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know
 who to blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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 The trolley problem, but you're strapped to the track, and pulling the lever
 means working hard for months on end.
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 Remind me again why we need computers that are so mind numbingly fast that we
 can't possibly hope to understand their entire stack?
 
 Oh yeah, so we aren't able to understand their stack. How could I forget.
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 source code should be like a story
 
 "here's why we did what we did with our architecture"
 
 and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once
 - git style.
 
 parts of it could rhyme,
 
 if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
 because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
 setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments
 
 ,,, they could selectionize
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 "oh also I should mention that if you think about her too hard or too often
 there's a chance she'll overhear what you're talking about anyway so try not
 to think about her too much."
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 functions should be forced to describe the context of why they were being
 called. I think it would help debug a lot if we supplied a reasoning for each
 and every request [function call] that we made. We might even be able to parse
 them into semantic pyramids which we could sorta use to estimate [tree-like
 scanning] how and why the program did do wrong.
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 there comes a point where you can tell yourself "alright, me, no more new
 projects. only working on old ones. just keep adding stuff, pruning stuff
 away. grow your bonsai computer. make it neat. or worse. up to you. see how
 you do."
 
 ... or am I the only one who can't stop conceptualationating?
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 @user-192 
 
 you could throw yourself into the project of hosting a private server, that
 way you could be working on "Runescape" while also being productive
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