[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Read some existentialism, no joke. I don't agree 100% but I read a bunch of Beuvoir over the weekend and one thing I did like was it made me internalize the idea that coming up with a project I care about and achieving it is worthwhile in and of itself regardless of if it "could" be done by someone/something else.

Think about it this way, there are mathematicians from 500 years ago who did a lot of stuff by hand for hours that I could work out with a calculator in seconds today. But does that mean all their work was worthless? If I create a fairly shitty drawing, but I'm proud of my having created it, am I wrong to be proud simply because my friend who is a great artist could make a better one in half the time?

It's not just about the journey, but it's not just about the destination either--its about the journey to the destination, and placing value only in one of those things will cause you to be at a loss for the rest of your life.

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

As a full stack cloud dev usually for me it ends up being some lag between when Azure claims a thing was updated and when it actually was.

(shout out to azure B2C custom policies for taking like 10 minutes to actually reflect changes despite giving me a lil green checkmark)

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

It's still good that they monitor and investigate stuff like this ahead of time. NASA, historically, has allowed for a ton of really cool practical advanced in technology to occur because of research they do on stuff like this, and I think it's entirely worth it to work on this kind of stuff even if we never have to actually shoot it down.

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Don't sweat it. Some people just like to hate on things. You're allowed to ask question on an Internet forum dedicated to asking questions.

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Oh how I can't wait for the day that I can upgrade to an AMD graphics card instead of using Nvidia

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

If your pull request doesn't get merged in, you still learned just as much as if it did, so the time you spent doing it wasn't wasted. In fact, people may make comments on it explaining why it won't be merged in, so you'll learn more than if it was.

You don't need to be an expert to start contributing—in fact, the best way to improve is to try to contribute, fail, and then learn how to improve next time you tackle and issue :)

Also, your English is very readable. From this comment alone I can assure you it's more than good enough for writing issues and pull requests. You're doing great, just keep at it!

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

This is incredibly high quality content.

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't have to learn vi if you don't want to. Just switch your default text editor to one that you like (it doesn't even have to be a GUI one)

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

You're right and you should say it.

People meme on electron, and I think most of it is deserved, but it does make a lot of stuff way easier for devs, and that means more software for users. There's a reason it's so popular.

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Same. I was thinking the exact same thing at that point. A massive part of the movie's message hinges on that line and I smiled so wide when I heard it because it clicked much of the rest of the film into place.

[-] Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

That's not a lateral thinking problem. You could argue it's a joke, but it's certainly not a lateral thinking problem.

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