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Good Luck in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I'd be curious to see a comparison against some other LLMs. https://lmarena.ai/ might be useful for this.

Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One thing I wonder about Linux is the OOBE for new users. A lot of Linux distros have you create the user and whatnot when you install the OS; it's not always intuitive on making a new user account to personalize. It'd make it a lot easier to preinstall distros and then let the user deal with finishing setup to their needs.

Debian 12.7 released in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Is the Secure Boot shim thing related to Windows breaking dual-boot setups of late? Are they all updating to avoid some kind of Secure Boot issue in general?

How to learn Rust? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

I just found https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/ today. Structured course developed by Google for its Android devs.

Google has a course on the Rust programming language in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

I found it completely by accident. Was looking at their GitHub repos for something, and saw this in there. I might even try to go through some of it (though I also want to get better at Nim).

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Google has a course on the Rust programming language (google.github.io)
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20 years in IT, and my career is effectively stuck (programming.dev)
 

If you look up my username on LinkedIn, you can get a good summary of my career. Most of my jobs have been go in, fix things, then on to the next thing; though the immediate COVID period was pretty bumpy in that regard (shorter-term gigs). I'm pretty sure I need another cert or two at this point, but have had some family issues distracting me the past few months from studying/focusing on what's next. I'm also working three different things right now (1 5-10hr/wk PT job + 2 intermittent gigs). I can't remember the job market being this bad or picky in my life; and I actively wonder how I'd be able to leave the field entirely. It feels like everyone wants a unicorn on the cheap these days.

Something with a "solid" 10-15/hrs a week would be an improvement over what I have going on right now; let alone full-time work. How do I even find such a thing on LinkedIn/Indeed/whatnot? Reddit's gotten me at least two jobs in the past, but the state of things there seems to be less promising these days. I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone else is in a similar situation, and how they're managing.

Thank you.

How to handle the erasure of your 'digital legacy'? in c/webdev@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Struggling a little with this too. The distance of time is my biggest grief: it's hard to apply for jobs, when my most relative experience for various roles is 5-10 years old. And the further along in my career, the less there is to show, or people to speak up for what I accomplished. "Did I really do that, at all"... worst case of imposter syndrome I can think of.

Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 (CVE-2023-38545) · curl/curl · Discussion #12026 in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

I think that's been asked before. That'd be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don't think Rust does (yet).

The Top Programming Languages 2023 in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] unquietwiki@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of commercial apps are built with it. And if you're not using Kotlin, you're probably using Java for Android dev.

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Nim v2.0 released (nim-lang.org)
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"Basic Computer Games", rewritten in multiple programming languages (github.com)
 

Saw this on Hacker News; it's an ongoing compendium of classic BASIC games, rewritten in up to 10 accepted programming languages; as well as space for "alternative" languages.

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sortplz: file-sorter/organizer written in Nim (github.com)
 

I wrote this in Fall/Winter 2022/23 and got some use out of it for my own data archives. Haven't done much else with it since, but would be willing to add/revise some features on it, if there's interest.

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Nim version 1.6.14 released (nim-lang.org)