I'm pretty handy with computers and can copy paste code and have worked as a website builder and graphic designer for 15 years but I'm tired of relying on coders and not really knowing what they are doing. I hear python is a good place to start?
>>106489290>>106489291Yeah, fair enough. Honestly, I think that if you know any one programming language really well, then learning another language won't be that hard for you. After all, wasn't that the same experience all of us had? None of us started with bytecode or assembly, but somehow we still ended up learning the important, cross-transferable computer science foundations of these languages anyhow, right?So yeah, I don't think it's super important which language you start with. If you know one language deeply, you basically know them all. It's not that big of a big deal. If you know everything there is to know about python, then nobody can honestly say that you suck at programming or lack CS knowledge. It's just that I think some languages are better at instilling a "this is how computers work" sense of intuition and knowledge than others. Python is easy, it's fun, I love it. I use it all the time. But I'm glad it wasn't my first language. I feel like Python itself would have been a bit harder to understand if it was.
>>106489429>I think some languages are better at instilling a "this is how computers work" sense of intuition and knowledge than othersI absolutely agree with you. this is why I'm not sure how treat certain categories of programmers that do not seem to care about this. I would argue that all industry programmers should very deeply care about how their code interacts with the hardware, and even whether their code wastes time and space with a garbage collector, because ultimately wasteful code is such an enormous waste of money but even worse, even worse, it's an enormous drain on our economy and our ecosystem. I would argue that all of these retard TypeScript developers have done more environmental harm than cars and cryptocurrencies combined.
>>106489455Hmm... now that I think about it, the more I think maybe "just pick a language, any language" is the way to go when it comes to programming.Even take something as abstract and high level as Python, for example. Let's say that Python is all you know about programming. Well... then you know that Python will still complain when you try to say "1" == 1, right? So, if you use Python all the time for everything, eventually you will become familiar with the concept of data 'types', and how different types aren't simply arbitrarily equivalent with one another. Like... there's 'numbers'. and 'words'. And 'objects'. And these are all treated differently. Like... that's just basic logic, right?So then say you get even deeper into it. What's the difference between a 'list' and a 'set'? Why does Python have 'dictionaries' and why would they be used over something else? You can use all of this to work backwards from some of the abstractions that Python provides. And from there, you can become a good, well rounded programmer.
>>106489545But on the other hand, there are 'vibe coder' types who don't care about any of this, and will just copy and paste and proooompt whatever BS they need to get something that appears like it works. That is what needs to be discouraged. Such people are not exercising or building their knowledge of computer science in any way
>>106489545this is essentially how assembly programmers learned to want to have something like C (or even B before that, and whatever came before B but after the invention of assembly language). working with a processor directly is essentially typeless programming. all you have is registers of a certain size. on some machines, there is even only one size of register. there are no float types or string string or complex numerical types or anything aside from a thing that holds a sequence of bits. there certainly are no structs or classes or newtypes or subtypes or lifetimes.anecdotally, I also started programming with PHP and Perl. the starting point doesn't matter so long as you're willing to branch out and ask questions. I think the real struggle we're facing as an industry, as a society, is that most industry programmers are uninterested in honing their craft and asking questions. just trying to get a pay check and go home. I don't think picking the right language will change the outcome here.
You have 30 seconds to write a program that renders a swastika. Go!
>>106488081too much bloat just create an lnk file in 5 seconds
>>106489238> 卐Pretty based, ngl
>>106488084Good - the world hates you, you genocidal psychopath
>>106488069now make it responsive
What's the deal with monitor prices? Why do some monitors have the exact same specs, but are hundreds of dollars different in price?Is there some sort of catch with the cheaper ones where some obscure component sucks balls or something?
screens are all manufactured with some amount defectsthey rate the screens from F to A as they are producedyou're buying a F tier screen that was rejected by the manufacturer and sold in bulk to Chingchongnipnog LLC to put some gaymur branding on and resell to idiots
>>106488932how can I find A screens?
>>106488885>exact same specsmaybe research what the terms in the titles for these monitors mean?
Where do you go to discuss computer systems, coding and all sorts of fun hobbies? It can't possibly be here only. There must be a better community that's more /g/ than /g/
>>106481257maybe dont attach a furry picture next time you disgusting pervert
which matrix homeserver to join?
>>106479572/maho/ im not telling you the site. lurk moar
>>106484914The autism in it scares me
>>106483627I think I made it, I'm in! Looks good, ~70 people, we'll see.
It's gotten pretty serious, hasn't it?
>>106487149Twitter is 90% bots
Just wait until you see the india problem, people are demanding flags there too kek.
>>106489195Indians are already making enough money to justify their blue checkmark purchases. They can throw a VPN in there.
>>106487149Everything this kike says is either for self interest or just out of spite.
>>106487149...as if it wasnt filled with bots before LLMs took off...During covid, almost every second recommended tweet could be reliably tracked to an account of a person that doesn't even exist.
Words words words.
>>106485786Just get a macbook pro unironically
>>106485786Apple bought out all the high end chinese machinists so every other brand is left with the country bumkins who didn’t pass the skill check, or worse jeets.Also westerners kinda just uhhhh, forgot how to machine parts.They just give CAD files to chinaman then get exited for next product CAD file they can hand off to chinaman.
>>106485786Macbook is the answer
>>106487820much as i hate apple as a company, they do make good products. ipad has been a genuine game changer for university, and i barely use my laptop anymore. for what i do need to use a laptop for (web browser bullshit and light coding), linux works fine.
>>106485786>people shitting on OP despite being so right>people telling OP to "buy a mac"It's legit fucked man, I haven't bought a laptop in a long time but looking now and should probably just upgrade my old one with some ramIt's that or carry around a SFF PC with a portable screen and look even more autistic than ever.
Previous /LDT/ thread : >>https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/106033708/ Welcome to the Landscape Diffusion Thread. This is a thread for discussion relating to leveraging generative AI technologies for landscape-related content. Images, videos and sound all welcome. Cloud-based landscape generation is also welcome.Please keep all non-landscape gens on >>>/ldg/ >>>/sdg/ >>>/adt/ >>>/nadg/>Beginner UIEasyDiffusion: https://easydiffusion.github.ioSwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI>Advanced UI ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUIForge Classic: https://github.com/Haoming02/sd-webui-forge-classicreForge: https://github.com/Panchovix/stable-diffusion-webui-reForgeStability Matrix: https://github.com/LykosAI/StabilityMatrixComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
best Canadian tech?
>>106489421eTransferPhone number optionalApp optionalDoesn't dox your legal nameFlat transfer fee
>>106489421CANDU reactor>>106489501etransfers are honestly sick, I pity americans and their corpo apps they use to send money
Post funnies.
>>106487206These days I use NotepadNext. It's still rather barebones but it's the perfect cross-platform replacement.
>>106489300Give Kate a try, it's a really good editor from KDE.
Not sure if this is humor or just really sad, but I thought I'd post it.
>>106485417Is the joke supposed to be that life would be so much more enjoyable right now without americans inventing the the worst things to come out of modern times?
>Not sure what private trackers are all about?A private tracker is an invite-only torrent website. Each member shares common goals: collecting, preserving and discussing media.>Have a question?- FAQ https://archive.is/UVQkn- WIKI https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Private_trackers- NEWFAG PYRAMID https://inviteroute.github.io/graph or https://inviteroute.github.io/sheet/- STUDY https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F379FE0CB50DF502F0075119FD3E060- SPREADSHEET https://hdvinnie.github.io/Private-Trackers-Spreadsheet/- TEN CURRY COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/dBbdE73M- TEN NEON COMMANDMENTS https://pastebin.com/raw/Ud2pGYaE- RED SPAMMER'S BIBLE https://rentry.org/69zbxh4hUse >>>/g/ptg as a link to find the /ptg/ thread.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106485285>>106487526Thanks for the info.>>106487761I'm not looking to migrate right now but I know that ruTorrent also has its limits and I feel like I'm slowly getting closer to that. Besides performance, I prefer qBittorrent's API over the XMLRPC shit that rTorrent uses. I also prefer to use a client that's in active development and even though rTorrent seems to be in active development again, I don't know for how long that will be the case. Basically the only alternative to r(u)Torrent that fits all my needs is qBittorrent (unless things have changes in recent years, I don't keep up with news about every torrent client out there) and the only thing I am worried about is moving everything over just to find out that qBittorrent's web-ui is also unusable with my amount of torrents.
>>106489278"music videos", are a fat chance though
>>106489278brian pumper has parts of his mixtapes on emp scattered throughout .isos
>>106486162>57 upvotesthose niggas never heard about libgen
OPS neons... RED has pulled recruitment... It's over...
>It's sharty garbage. Just report it for off-topic/very low quality and move on.
nas brimstone
I do not care for the modern computing experience. I long for the past.
>>106478918Here are some DEs, you can see most follow the same basic formulas. But a few are weirder, such as UDE and Sugar.> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment#Examples_of_desktop_environments
>>106483811>It also works surprisingly wellonly if you have a compatible dgpu (rdna2, rdna1 or polaris)
>>106478347It's great but no matter where I try it there's always something missing drivers
>>106489192That's just the sad reality of smaller OSes. I really, really love the idea of Haiku but I'd have to find the right hardware to dedicate to it first. I'm too dumb to write drivers.
>>106489192That's peak retro computing experience. It's just like Windows 9X.
Okay, now this is EPIC.
>>106486243Nobody makes any meaningful amount of money from console hardware (unless you're grotesquely poor). The only benefit for AMD is that its R&D costs can be partially subsidized in this manner.
Why does Radeon make Nvidia's cheerleaders gloat? I don't really get it. It isn't like AMD fans dissing Intel. Radeon was never a top dog getting its comeuppance nor had it ever abused monopoly position nor bribed vendors to maintain its position when behind. I would like to know what they get out of it, they paid the same anyway. Radeons existence has nothing to do with you if you're a windows faggot.
>>106487253Nvidia is a thirdie brand. AMD is only really cheap in the US and Germany iirc.Some slav or slant gets his 4070 and suddenly he’s console warring in all the threads thinking he’s the big dog of whatever when he’s just hood rich.Many such cases.
>>106486243In fact, it was console money that saved AMD enough to bootstrap Ryzen.
>>106476992>((trans))formers>alpha troonoh man....
Everything is already from China, but here we discuss the cheap chink shit you see on various sites.1st rule of /csg/: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.Useful links>TWS IEM reviews: www.scarbir.com/>Guide: csg-guide.neocities.org/>Wiki: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Chink_Shit_General>What headphones/earbuds should I buy?>>>/g/iemg>I want a cheap smartphone what should I buy?>>>/g/spg/>I want to buy some sort of emulation device>>>/vr/hhg/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>106489042>to what?what the frik. i swear i uploaded a pic with that post. ah well.
>spend 5 mins taking pics and editing it to show them the broken cap clip on my shaver>spend another 20 framing it right in the video following their guidelines and making sure they can see that i can't use it>the temu chatbot automatically approves the refund one the next page after i submit itwhat the fuck. temu ain't bad.i wished i was more proactive and conscious of my chinkshit purchasing so that i had stuff to buy when they launched temu. i think it was like $15 off one item when they first came here.
>>106489127I looked at temu and it kind of sucks, you need to spend 25€ minimum
>>106489407yes, they've gradually nerfed it over the past yearit works best if you have 4~ish items to meet the 25yuro/$40usd threshold, then you can stack them with in-app discounts from spinning a wheel or whatever along with a cashback site to make it worthwhile
>>106488384>Rakuten CEOI actually met the guy when I worked for them for a while. Still got his book somewhere.
What is the best Microsoft office replacement i can for linux?
libreoffice
>mormen faggots pretending to kill you for no reason>play chess on computer>mormen faggots pretending to kill you for playing a board game
>>106488558what about wps office?
>>106488495OnlyOffice
>>106488706What? Meds NOW!