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 No.14817[Reply]

Is crypto finally dying? From this crash

Are the prices gonna go back to normal after the middle aged mid-life crises geeks sell their stuff

I can't wait
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 No.14856

it's not dying
honestly i might invest in it this time around, it seems to me as if as long as you don't get greedy you may be able to make your savings grow a little
i live in a shithole (nonsocialist country) where inflation will eat all my money unless i invest it into something so im thinkin about going full ancap mode and becoming a bitcoiner

 No.14886

>>14817
a "friend" of mine hasn't been online since the crash, think he might of lost his house

 No.14887

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>>14817
Bitcoin will never die, but hopefully people realize all other cryptocurrencies are not safe or wise investments.

 No.14888

>>14887
We can always kill bitcoin users and hit mining operations with ballistic missiles.

 No.14889

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>>14887
i will invoost and i will be happy


 No.14881[Reply]

Anyone want to make.. something? I'm not sure what, my imagination has been neutered from too much wageslaving. I'm a pretty skilled web developer, would be nice to create something that isn't useless or serves capital.
If this sounds interesting throw out an idea!

 No.14882

> I'm a pretty skilled web developer
https://git.leftypol.org/leftypol/leftypol/issues?q=&type=all&sort=oldest&state=open&labels=&milestone=0&assignee=0


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 No.14802[Reply]

I've lost count of how many times Novideo has announced they're making an "open source driver" (whatever that means). It isn't even the full driver: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

 No.14803

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Dual MIT/GPL, only kernel modules, only tested for CUDA, Turing of newer required

 No.14808

nvidia foss drivers for 2039


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 No.7742[Reply]

Hello there, /tech/ comrades.

I am passing by to let you know that a Matrix chat for /tech/ talk has been created! The chat has been added to the official leftypol community. This chat is meant to serve as a place to talk tech and programming in general.

Come join us! The link is: https://matrix.to/#/#leftylambda:matrix.org?via=matrix.org

This chat will also be hosting an SICP /read/ing group. That is, we will be studying the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" and helping each other solve the exercises. For those unaware, SICP used to be the introductory textbook for Computer Science classes at MIT back in the day, and remains a cult classic to this day. It can be used as a general introduction to programming, but will also be rewarding for those more experienced.gentooGentoo
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 No.9367

>>9366
Good to hear, it's just something my C++ autism has been nagging me about throughout

 No.9368

Btw, we're now done with chap. 2!

Until 2021-06-25:

* 3: Modularity, Objects, and State
** 1: Assignment and Local State
*** 1: Local State Variables
*** 2: The Benefits of Introducing Assignment
*** 3: The Costs of Introducing Assignment

 No.14789

So I want to read the funny Patchouli book, can I only read it or would it be advised to also try some Lisp on the side as I read it?

 No.14790

>>14789
You have to do the exercises, otherwise it does not count.

 No.14805

>>14789
You can read >>14156 as an introduction to lisp.


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 No.14781[Reply]

How to block everything coming after ##[href="/manga/genre/*/*"]

The stars don't work. Website is MAL if anyone curious. I tried reading through the list. And I can't get "n" "<" ">" or "*" to work. I'm trying to block all the genres, rather than doing it one by one.

 No.14782

CSS doesn't have regex, you're gonna have to use partial matching for that.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors


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 No.14706[Reply]

Are there actually any real world problems that can be solved by software and wouldn't make the world a worse place?

The more I think about it the less useful programming seems.
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 No.14744

>>14738
xD this is most indubitably epic sir

 No.14745

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read cockshott

esp. toward a new socialism, but also book related

 No.14748

>>14738
Nice twitter meme!

 No.14749

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>>14735
A more labor intensive process does not mean high quality. Even for 2D animation with computers you have the huge advantage of being able to correct animation errors. Also shitty cell animation exists.

 No.14751

>>14735
Moar liek quantity->quality, amrite??


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 No.14666[Reply]

The pain of typing to 2 different people in 2 different languages languages is now gone :)
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 No.14692

>>14686
>>just turn off JavaScript and nobody will be able to fingerprint you based on extensions
>ah so you dont even know what issue im actually talking about, thanks mozillatard

what the fuck are you talking about? if javascript is turned off, the only data that the server should see is in the requests that you make to it by clicking links or form buttons (which can include some identify information in the headers like your ip address, browser, operating system, and a unique id generated by the server and sent to the browser in a prior header… but i've never heard of plugins being listed there).

 No.14693

>>14667
>>14686
You're fucked either way, you should use tor if you want privacy sadly.
https://noscriptfingerprint.com/

 No.14694

>>14688
>>14692
I think he's talking about this bug.

>WebExtensions can be used as user fingerprint
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372288

 No.14695

>>14694
That relies on JavaScript, which he indicated the problem he was talking about did not.

 No.14705

>>14693
>>14695
>inb4 it's because torproject says
<You should not install any additional add-ons on Tor Browser because that can compromise some of its privacy features.


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 No.14635[Reply]

This is your reminder to go to a park with a bag of books and have at it before you get De Quervain's/carpal tunnel syndrome/computer vision syndrome.

Take a break from that screen my friend :)
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 No.14661

>>14650
>>14654
wtf its tru tho, just cause u have good eyes that dont have problems with screens doesnt mean its not a thing, or that it's somehow anti-tech

 No.14668

>>14661
staring at a screen for hours will at most make you feel fatigued which will fix itself after sleeping, it will never cause myopia or astigmatism or whatever, thats on your genes

 No.14696

>>14668
malthusian!

 No.14703

>>14668

Purely anecdotal but I feel like since I went from many reading text on many screens at different distances - tablets, big screen 6ft away, desk at 3 feet away - to almost exclusively reading text at a desk, I've noticed it's become much more difficult to focus on text at less than 2 feet away. I've started increasing the default text size on tablets.

Considering clamping an extension to the desk so that the monitor can be further away, and going back to computing with different screens at different distances. Obviously being outdoors and focusing on things at different distances will help with this too.

 No.14704

>>14703
have you considered going to an eye doctor……..? lol


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 No.14600[Reply]

A girl saw me using my T60(1) and started laughing at me.

She said "Wow, how old is that laptop? That thing looks ancient!" and when I answered honestly (14 years, the T60/61 came out in May 2007) she snickered at me and said "can't you afford a nice macbook? That's so sad, nobody should have to use a laptop that old! That's older than my little brother!".
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 No.14630

>>14621
<No touchpad
<No clit mouse
How do you control the cursor on this thing?

 No.14631

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>>14630
Clip on track pad but the Toshiba T series was before the business world took Windows seriously, back then the people that could afford these machines only wanted to run Lotus 1-2-3 and Word Perfect for Dos.

 No.14632

>>14630
touchpads are awful

 No.14642

>>14632
Hence the clit.

 No.14685

A girl saw me using my T60(1) and started laughing gently.

She said "Wow, how old is that laptop? That thing looks ancient!" and when I answered honestly (14 years, the T60/61 came out in May 2007) she looked amazed at me and said "so old and it is still running? That's so cool, nobody should have to buy a new laptop every 2years! That's older than my little brother!".

And then we fucked


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 No.14419[Reply]

2006-2015: 375% increase in CS majors
2006-2015: 20% increase in number of software-related jobs
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 No.14584

>>14583
I'm not doing survivorship bias, I'm saying a ton of people who are going into tech degrees will get nowhere with them and have been scammed, because they spent four years learning nothing and have no skills.

 No.14603

>>14551
Most of those weaker CS majors will end up in application support, IT infrastructure, helpdesk, or become business analysts. Some will muddle through as mediocre programmers for the minimum amount of years until they manage to get into project/product management (or "real" management). So they will still have jobs in the tech industry just not as programmers.

 No.14604

>>14551
>90% of my graduating class still didn't know how to use a CLI or manually manage memory
Non garbo collected languages are common in industry and using a CLI is optional depending on IDE.

 No.14628

>>14604
People who don't understand memory management write bad GC lang code. I've seen this basic pattern all over real production code:
Class1 DoSomething(Class1 thing) {
    Class1 thingCopy = thing; 
    thingCopy.Mutate(); // Oops
    return thingCopy;
}


CLI tools are used all the time even for IDE-centric languages like C# or Java. Programmers who don't venture out of their IDE even a bit won't have a clue what's going on when they:
>write a build script or pipeline
>run migrations
>use git
>have to deal with their web frontends
>the list goes on…

>>14603
True enough. This applies to a lot of "wasted"/"useless" majors– they end up doing something somewhat unrelated to their degree, but not necessarily just working at Starbucks.

 No.14669

>>14628
>This applies to a lot of "wasted"/"useless" majors– they end up doing something somewhat unrelated to their degree, but not necessarily just working at Starbucks.
except CS isn't just SWE, its more generic so a linux sysadmin, network admin, QA, or prod/app support engineer/analyst isn't really wasting their degree, they just have a job in tech thats less prestigious than being a dev.


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