Once you move past a couple thousand LOC, you’ll appreciate having an easily modifiable, modular design you had the foresight to plan out.

Or you can just trawl through thousand of lines of unstructured spaghetti code trying to figure out where to shoehorn your new feature in like a QBasic/Arduino kid.

Try programming for a day without syntax highlighting or auto-completion, and experience how pathetic you feel without them. If you’re like me, you’ll discover that those “assistants” have sapped much of your knowledge by eliminating the need to memorize even embarrassingly simple tasks.

That’s…how the world works. We move on. We aren’t programming computers by flipping toggle switches or moving patch cables around anymore either.

‘Try directly hand-coding bits into regions of memory without a compiler/linker and experience how pathetic you feel without it.’

So it’s basically doing nothing and lying about it. 😆

Maybe I should keep it a hobby and not pursue a career. That kind of shit would mess with me. I tend to pour my heart and soul into my programming.

Programmatically, what does the kernel actually do with data sent to /dev/null? Put it in a temp buffer and just delete it?

I mean, companies exist specifically to do this for other big companies, I’m sure there are security procedures, background checks, NDAs and everything that needs to go with that.

START ME UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AJM6HMYjM

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This is like Kodak inventing the digital camera and then sitting on it for the next 20 years. Because it doesn’t use film. And Kodak is film.

Well…right now it’s being used to cheat on homework and generate infinite anime tiddies…so just a matter of time, I guess?

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It’s already corroded from the factory…hard drive platters use iron oxide. Can’t rust rust. The mechanical bits may be trashed but the platter can most likely still be read with specialized recovery equipment.

That’s unfortunate and uncalled for on a public forum where people didn’t ask to see it right away. Sorry you had to see that.

Yeah, there’s not much content, but I’ve found a lot of fans hanging around here, much more so than say, Reddit or other mainstream sites. Kinda like how Linux users are over-represented here. There’s a lot of overlap with furries and techies. I can spot a furry avatar/username from a mile away.

I found that furries are all over the place there.

I have some unfortunate news for you about this place then…

They’re missing a fusion reactor capable of positive energy output?

“Tech bosses think warp drive might get us to Mars faster…”

Do you mix personal and work email accounts? Do you not keep separate ones? My work email has absolutely no personal conversations in it not related to work. And work isn’t aware of any of my personal accounts.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

These aren’t the big beasts powering whole cities. They are designed to be incorporated into a factory or data center just like a diesel or flywheel backup generator.

Seeing those monochrome puke-green LCD screens from the 80s and 90s makes me feel like a kid again.