Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

I am not a codecel but I studied and work in STEM so I do some programming for data analysis. While it ain't my first rodeo and I know how to get shit done, I also don't minmaxx- my code is slow, inefficient, and crashes computers when transferred to other machines, but it is functional.

So now for the story: back in highschool I was taught programming in Java. It made sense, and it was a good language. I was good at it too. During and shortly after finishing school, whenever I needed to write a program, I'd do it in Java.

But trouble was brewing- the more I googled and researched how to do things in Java, the more I found posts saying I shouldn't use Java. Posts saying that Java is bad, or in fact the worst popular programming language, that it was scary that billions of machines run on it, etc. These thoughts stuck to the back of my head and made me ponder- why would people say such a thing? Java works! It is intuitive, the things I do make sense!

During college I was taught Python. Finally, I'm in the big boys club! I'll learn Python and finally get why everyone is so antagonistic to Java! I'll join the rank of elitist geniuses and spit together on the plebs that start out with Java! Except that didn't happen. I never fully grasped Python

structure=[]? Wtf is that supposed to mean? Is that a list? A matrix? Something else? It never made sense to me. This made working with Python slow and cumbersome, having to reference stackexchange way more than I had before, all while my peers and tutors praised for how simple it is. Stockholm syndrome hit hard and I internalized this notion. 'yes, Python is good actually. Very good! I just... suck at it.' This carried on for three years. It got better, but still never made full sense.

The last chapter of this journey happened this year. After many, many projects done in Python because 'it is the way', I decided to mess around with microcontrollers recreationally, to make something for fun. I launched my Arduino IDE for the first time and God's glorious radiance blinded me . "What is that? Do I have to... declare variables?" My life flashed before my eyes, I saw myself from a distance sitting in front of the monitor. All these years of coping... All these sleepless nights hating myself over being a Javacel... Every single error message Python has ever given me...

I finally get it! I don't actually like Java! I don't even hate Python in particular! I just hate languages that have dynamic variables that don't have to be declared and assigned beforehand!

It's so obvious now! And all it took me was a single use of C to see it!

I managed to write code for my Arduinos swiftly and without issue, and have been a happy man ever since. Now I've learned not to be limited in my queer identity by a single language, but If I had to chose one, it'd be

Finally I am at peace with myself, and my code runs smoothly. . Learn from my mistakes dramatards, lest you be doomed to repeat them

https://www.instructables.com/Piezo-Energy-Plant

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

I've been looking at eGPU enclosures/boards for fun (there are super cheap decent barebones ones on Aliexpress now apparently) and I keep coming across the same rsluration in every thread about them. Without exception, every thread will contain at least 1 rslur trying (and failing) to use a TB3 eGPU setup with a TB2 apple computer from over a decade ago.

Why is this such a common situation to end up in? Why are so many of these idiots trying to attach RTX3070s to iMacs with 5th gen i5s? Enlighten me, slackers.

Imagine for a moment that you are me: a balding smoothbrained millenial on the wrong side of 30 emanating a constant funk of mildew and sour milk. The last time you cared about coding you were booting off floppy diskettes and making HTML websites with frames.

Now, I'm working on an idiot project. I want to make a web applet where I could input text, store it in a .txt file and then retrieve it from another PC.

Is web2py and an apache server a feasible approach? I'm too for django.

web2py uses SQL for a storage db, but honestly it's going to be a single user app (just me) and storing the .txt files in a directory with a date/time naming scheme would be fine.

Would this work the way I want it to? I have tried googling but these questions are too basic and r-slurred to find answers to.

Not sure where @RedNose is so I'll just post this. Post ur solutions below or whatever idc

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

This week it started bitching and ask me to prove I am not bot every time I use it and today it gave me 24 quiz that I had to click bikes/bus seems like I'll be forced to change search engine

In 2021 someone started a discussion on the Microsoft Tech Community forum of a pregnant Clippy.https://t.co/l9emUAUkGs

— vx-underground (@vxunderground) December 5, 2023

Developing States are at the center of the development of central bank–issued digital currency. Their governments' efforts to capitalize on digital currencies—as well as the accompanying discourse of fast-tracked economic development and democratization of the financial system promoted by the states and the technology and political entrepreneurs who court them—reaffirm the role of islands as sites of experimentation, this time as fintech laboratories.

!chuds bros?

Summary for those just joining us:

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

https://2goback-cute twink.reddit.com

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/issues/362

https://github.com/simple-login/app/issues/1955

Honestly, the more these one time accounts try to convince me to remove protonmail and simplelogin, the more I see how much it's needed to block them. It's like the marketing team is desperately trying to keep their services from being rightfully flagged and it just makes me want to block them even more. I do hope they won't cloud your judgement @7c , as these services are used for temp emails by all definitions. If you have any questions you may always ask me from the conversation we have started :)

https://github.com/7c/fakefilter/issues/73#issuecomment-183761101

Owner decides against adding protonmail but the drama continues as he doubles down

More Github drama:

OP argues with ProtonMail maintainer

OP pings repo owner

lol

lemmy world thread

Sick of sites requiring an account, email or phone number. Makes the web even more unfriendly. I hope temporary emails can always get around filters, as if you play stupid games you should win stupid prices.

https://lemmy.world/comment/5786168

the discussion is happening here: https://github.com/7c/fakefilter/issues/73

Someone working at Proton has commented on the issue, the list maintainer wanted to take the discussion with proton private so we have only a few posts from them.

If you want my personal take:

It's very clear how the list maintainer opposes anonymity in the internet in any form, which I see as an attack on freedom, journ*lism and activism.

I'm not a fan of Protonmail of any sort and in fact I consider that their privacy is lacking… but I really hope they can talk some sense into this guy. This block list seems to be used by a lot of webs that will start blocking virtually every private email provider.

(Edit: I assumed the person that posted the email list was a maintainer, but they don't seem to have a “contributor” or “owner” badge, so idk. Maybe they are just very angry at privacy and anonymity on the internet)

https://lemmy.world/comment/5784189

Orange Site discussion (nobody knows what is going on yet but they're taking sides anyway)

The gist includes this though:

anger directed at me for trying to hold Hans accountable for blocking protecting marginalised community members from abuse and making F-Droid unnecessarily unwelcoming

Which marginalized community members will she be concerned about?

as a programmer - how many apples do you count? pic.twitter.com/koAeU0bFB6

— gbae the app developer (@daboigbae) December 2, 2023

Kill AI ethicists. Behead AI ethicists. Roundhouse kick AI ethicists into the concrete. Etc.

Summary for those just joining us:

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

The UE-1 is one of my favorite projects to date, but there's no denying that it's weird as far as computers go. So weird in fact, nearly everyone who got hands on with it at the last event I had it at was completely lost as to what it was or how it worked. That got me thinking that a little handheld vacuum tube computer built using the same core concepts as the UE-1 would be great for introducing people to the concept of 1-bit computing. In this episode, I build up exactly that, with a little help from my friends at PCBWay!