Wow you want to regulate private business? Sounds pretty woke /s

Read this idiots post history everyone

I was a self taught programmer who 10+ years later is now a senior software engineer. I can’t tell you what to do but I can tell you what worked for me.

The reality is, I never sat down with the intent to “learn programming”. Instead, I had practical ideas for things I wanted to make the computer do, and then I learned whatever was necessary to accomplish my projects as I went. Whenever I got stuck or hit an error, I’d search my questions online.

I never truly “finished” most of these early projects but they gave me a practical understanding of how things fit together. From there I just kept making stuff and taking on harder projects and then harder jobs and eventually other programmers started coming to me asking for help because they knew I had solved the thing they were working on before.

I’m not sure if it’s advice, but I’d say stop worrying about learning and just do. If you like firmware, go buy some shitty unsupported peripheral from Goodwill and try to make it work on your modern system. Solve a problem you have in your everyday life. It doesn’t matter if you accomplish the goal, you’ll learn a lot by googling your way through it. Do that enough and you’ll wake up one day and be a competent programmer.

This comment might be a good opportunity for self reflection. You asked a question as if you were interested in good faith dialog, but then instead of trying to understand others point of view you’re just arguing that you’re “objectively” right and they’re wrong. You even admit at the end of this comment that you weren’t really interested in hearing what others had to say, you just wanted to shout your “point”. Another word for that is preaching.

Regardless of the topic, that kind of approach is going to rub people the wrong way. To answer your original question that is why people get annoyed when veganism comes up - because it’s often brought up in the hostile and preachy manner you’re employing in this comment.

Based on my past interactions with people who want to talk about veganism on the internet, I’m guessing you’ll just jump down my throat again in a response rather than consider what i said, but just maybe this will get through to you. Since you weren’t interested in dialog, I’m not either - I won’t respond so don’t bother trying to tell me what you think in a response.

Country McCountryface

I’m on vacation!

I took 2 weeks off from my high pressure corporate job and my laptop isnt with me. This week I’m spending time with my family out in the woods, and next week I fly home to a lovely staycation. I haven’t had more than a long weekend since Christmas so this is nice.

Same on Witcher III. I’m the target audience of that game - I love RPGs of all kinds, have played all the classic series like TES, Baldurs Gate, Planescape, Icewind Dale, Dragon Age, you name it. I even play ttrpgs multiple times a week.

I wanted to like Witcher III so bad that I forced myself all the way through the game to an optimal ending. But I just never started enjoying it. The world just feels… Flat. Fake. You do exactly what CD Projekt Red envisions or you hit a stone wall of empty game world.

Despite the skill trees and inventory and all of it, it just doesn’t feel like an RPG at all. It feels like a Disney ride on rails.

Yeah :) I actually am going to reach FI myself next year at 33 y/o. Was hoping to hear this person’s story since its a concept I’m very interested in.

How do you support yourself and how did you make that happen?