Caveman

My dad died back in 2016 when I was 25 so I got an early inheritance to invest at a good time.

But like, why?

I don’t think vigilante violence is a good idea but if some of the murders in the US are targeted at billionaires instead that’s fine by me. If the system wasn’t fucked this wouldn’t have been news.

Not very engaging and hard to care about the characters. They put so many characters and fight scenes that it’s hard to care about a any of the even if they technically killed half of them.

I have KDE Neon on my Laptop and Bazzite on my desktop/server but I want to switch it up a bit.

I’d like to get a TuxedoOS laptop with specific hardware fix and I’m also thinking about EndeavourOS these days to try out for a couple of months.

For the server I think I’d probably to just go for Ubuntu because it’s piss easy to manage because of the experience I have with or just the Fedora KDE. I really like Bazzite though for all the batteries included.

I prefer manufacturer Android on my phone but I hate it with a fiery passion. I have an uncommon Xiaomi phone and the memory management is abysmal where they kill activities almost instantly after they go away from view. I like it because the battery life is amazing. I’d prefer to use LineageOS but it’s not supported on my phone.

Clean Code, in overly idealistic and speaks like it’s the holy truth but ideas are generally good. Same with Clean architecture. The guy talks like it’s the only way but in my experience it’s just a collection of tricks you could do but maybe shouldn’t because of time pressure. One off code with a single purpose doesn’t have to be that clean and functions almost never have to be that small.

Pragmatic programmer is also good and there are also more books on non-programming part as well. You could also ask ChatGPT since it’s really good at exactly these questions.

Still, no use reading this until you ran the gauntlet of building up basic programming skills :)

My journey went codecademy -> codingame -> quitting my job and going to university -> first job

I went to University to get more problems to solve after grinding codingame and decided to overkill them and had fun while doing it. I remember Mars lander, it was really hard, hahaha.

Start my picking what you want to do with programming. Then do a couple of simple challenges in any language like advent of code and such in python just to get your feet wet and solve some problems.

After that you should have the main building blocks and then you scale up into making a “thingy” sized project. I personally liked making games with progression like.

1. Text adventure
2. Tic tac toe
3. Another text adventure but with battles and hit points.
4. Tetris

Then you can start learning separation of code into modules like “This is the game and this is just how it’s shown” which applies to pretty much every application with a user interface.

After that you have enough skill to learn anything and you can go about learning a specific skill or technology that you want to work with and you’ll be at a skill level of a junior programmer.

Advancing beyond that I’d recommend reading a couple of books (crazy I know) that go over best practices and why they exist. You use those guidelines and get better at working with larger amount of code and then you get to mid level. During this time you should also basic rules of thumb on how long each thing takes to run, both algorithm complexity and how http requests are usually the bottleneck.

For senior level you’ll need to gain a lot of experience and become a library of solutions and bug knowledge while also having a good grasp of tradeoffs. You’ll need to know when to insulate yourself from change and when it’s overkill to deliver the code in a timely manner while not sacrificing tomorrow.

It’s very hard to skip any step in my opinion but reading a couple of books really helped me advance through the junior phase quickly just by knowing what solutions are out there. Books are not as valuable when you don’t have experience since it’ll stick 10x better if you encountered the problem described in the book.

To get started just pick anything and get your feet wet. Good luck!

I stand corrected, that’s an excellent case of socialism working that was democratically elected in a multi party system. I didn’t know one existed! Thanks for sharing. It also has some really good numbers for a state in India.

Here’s a paragraph from Wikipedia page on Kerala for everyone else that didn’t know about it.

Kerala has the lowest positive population growth rate in India, 3.44%; the highest Human Development Index (HDI), 0.784 in 2018 (0.712 in 2015); the highest literacy rate, 96.2% in the 2018 literacy survey conducted by the National Statistical Office, India;[11] the highest life expectancy, 77.3 years; and the highest sex ratio, 1,084 women per 1,000 men. Kerala is the least impoverished state in India according to NITI Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals dashboard and Reserve Bank of India’s Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy.[22][23] Kerala is the second-most urbanised major state in the country with 47.7% urban population according to the 2011 Census of India.[24] The state topped in the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals according to the annual report of NITI Aayog published in 2019.[25] The state has the highest media exposure in India with newspapers publishing in nine languages, mainly Malayalam and sometimes English. Hinduism is practised by more than half of the population, followed by Islam and Christianity.

Not at all, it’s easier that other gendered languages since object genders get shuffled up.

Warcraft and StarCraft series not including World of Warcraft

Heroes had a lot of potential. They should reboot it and take inspiration from JoJo’s Bizarre adventure

How much girth does the SD card have? 👉👈

First time playing Skyrim was magic maaan

Yeah it’s very skill based but unlocking guns really helps out by helping with the RNG and unlocking characters also like the health tent. Finding the bonus levels is also really good since it’ll get you more supplies while making the run longer.

For sure it’s not for everyone but this thread is a lot about opinions anyway so I’m leaving this one as mine since I love the feeling of overcoming seemingly impossible challenges with skill like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight and Celeste.

I did experience the same feelings as you did and I so many times I thought “This is bullshit” but I put faith in my brain to figure it out and there was a small but noticeable difference in every 1h session. More health, more chance of beating bosses without getting hit and such. In the end I beat the high dragun which made everything worth it and somehow it’s still fun and challenging to play. That’s why I put it as my pick as the GOAT.

So to begin with all communism so far has never been democratically voted in as far as I know and pretty much starts with an ideological military government that then needs to transition back to democracy.

Many do transition to a one party system where all democracy is contained within the party and essentially becomes a “primaries only” type.

Then slowly over time power consolidations and purges bring it towards a dictatorship because there are no checks and balances against it.

So it seems to me that the only way to get to the ideological communism is through democracy and constitutional changes, proportional representation and coalition governments that don’t allow any one toxic pernon to consolidate power.

It’s hard to say since it’s like comparing apples to oranges when comparing different genres.

• Action Adventure: Dark Souls 3
• Survival crafting: Subnautica
• Base building: Factorio (Subnautica strong second)
• RTS: StarCraft 2
• City builder: Cities Skylines w mods, otherwise Cities Skylines 2 probably
• Card game: Slay the spire
• Rougelike: Enter the Gungeon (Hades strong second)
• Turn based strategy: Chess probably, never gets old
• RPG: Skyrim probably, haven’t played Baldurs Gate and don’t remember enough about Dragon Age Origins though.
• JRPG: Chrono Trigger
• AFK/cookie clicker: Magic Archery (1-2 hours to complete and fun throughout), Leaf blower revolution is strong second

Running is beneficial for knees and ankles over medium to long timeframes. There’s a 100 year old guy that runs 10k every day and his knees and ankles are doing fine.

I’d make a development fund and fund renewable tech, green startups, lobby politicians for policy changes like a carbon tax to pay for social programs.

I think it’s best to use the fund more or less like Bill Gates did.

Never been in that situation