Narwhalrus

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Agree. I may be misunderstanding something here, but to view votes one would have to spin up their own instance. This would prevent your average abusive moron from harassing users who down voted their post/comment.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Typically, I can read an "average" open source programmers code. One of the issues I have with C++ is the standard library source seems to be completely incomprehensible.

I recently started learning rust, and the idea of being able to look at the standard library source to understand something without having to travel through 10 layers of abstraction was incredible to me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Remind me how to do this, please. I always forget this part...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Agree with this. I think tactfully pointing out minor issues you see can be helpful because the implementor is closer to the problem and may have just overlooked the issue and can come up with a solution easily. I've been on the giving and receiving end of this, and so long as everyone is behaving professionally, it's always been helpful.

On the "tactful" note, I'll generally say something like: "I don't have a solution, but I see problem. I don't know that this is reason enough to hold up this PR. I'll leave it up to you."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just curious, if Marianne doesn't get the Democratic nomination do you still plan on voting for the Democratic nominee?

Regardless of your feelings about Harris, (I have similar feelings) you must recognize that having her as president would be, by far, the lesser evil when compared to Trump especially if you're concerned about excessive imprisonment / decriminalization of marijuana.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Back in the day my first smartphone was the one plus one. That was back when they were half the price of the flagships. It's not that way anymore, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah. My first smartphone was a OnePlus One. That thing was great. Back then they were coming in at half the price of the bigger flagships with no shitware. Not the case anymore unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. I use both quite a bit. Chocolatey is great!

The point Im trying to make is package managers are better suited for developers and the lack of a great alternative for installing software on the distros I've used is not helping with the mass appeal of Linux.

I could be wrong here as I've never tried any of the "home computer" distros (mint, ubuntu).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why do you think its bad? From a secruity standpoint its obviously not great, but its undeniably more convenient than running a curl command to pull in a third party .repo file, yum update and yum install to get something that isnt easily available in my base repos.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Im not sure the software center being half baked is even the real problem.

One of the nice things about Windows is that you dont need a central, curated, repository for software. You can google the thing you want and just download an msi/exe of the latest stable version and, 99.9% of the time, leading back to your first point, it will just work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what prevented me from using podman, unfortunately. That and the setup for devcontainers in vscode wasnt exactly seamless.

Unfortunate since their windows support is great.

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