[-] realbadat@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Start small

This is my strategy whenever I learn a new language. Start easy, escalate in complexity.

  • print to the command line
  • take input from the command line
  • dumb blackjack game
  • dumb blackjack game and store session results
  • Make a fugly UI but keep the operations text
  • Make a fugly UI and add basic graphics

Etc.

The basic game itself doesnt matter - make it hangman if you want. The idea is to get used to a language.

Keep doing that sort of thing, experimenting and learning, find ways to break things, find weird ways to solve problems, figure out ways to write even less lines of code. Find elements that you can make a function instead. Sanitize inputs excessively. Whatever.

Play around, and keep playing around. You'll learn in no time.


For the record, this is how I learn, by doing. I have a really hard time sticking to tutorials, and I find examples far more helpful than a manual entry explanation of what something does. YMMV.

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Considering the sweeping loss of maga in Texas, I'm thinking some Texans are starting to care, which is good to see.

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Didn't want to assume it wasn't you!

Showed it to some family who also love ttrpg. If we ever get a chance to play I'd love to try and find a 3d print to paint.... Going to have to look.

Maybe I'll DM so I can remove all horses and make them all reverse centaurs....

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not the person you replied to, and I'm not calling it spyware, but the moment I saw crypto integration I immediately lost all interest in Brave as an option. I personally don't think any individual/group/org/whatever integrating crypto into their software is someone trustworthy (as mentioned my opinion), so I can understand others not trusting Brave either. Whether it does anything bad today or not.

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Or XLR in the pro world

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

He died 4 years back, so no. ALS is usually about 2 years from diagnosis, and he made it a bit past that, but not much.

Once the ridiculous amounts of nonsense paperwork was run through (during which time my dad lost the use of his arm, speech was one of the first things to go), he got plenty of support. But getting there is the nightmare in my opinion. They started out trying to give him like 15% disability - which is insane, ALS is terminal and is always a 100%.

But thanks for the link! It looks like there's some stuff there that applies to my family in terms of benefits, so going to do some digging.

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

And there it is.

Let's try four numbers without a period.

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Pretty quick.

My kids are currently 5 and 2 had my vasectomy about 6 months after the second (wanted sooner but no appointments available, and it's first consult then another appointment).

Toughest thing for me was the second day. Day of I was given Valium, procedure was easy peasy. I'd call it a few days of discomfort, just plan to take it easy.

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Honestly stencils are best for that.

[-] realbadat@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Alphabet <> Google.

The parent company, Alphabet, removed it from the handbook. I couldn't tell you if they put it back in, but Alphabet removed it about 10 years ago.

This is not some conspiracy theory, it was released, they replaced that section of the handbook.

ETA:

Following Google's corporate restructuring under the conglomerate Alphabet Inc. in October 2015, Alphabet took "Do the right thing" as its motto, also forming the opening of its corporate code of conduct.[1][2][3][4][5] The original motto was retained in Google's code of conduct, now a subsidiary of Alphabet. Between 21 April and 4 May 2018, the motto was removed from the code of conduct's preface and retained in its last sentence.[6]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

https://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/alphabet-do-the-right-thing/

https://www.fastcompany.com/3056389/why-google-was-smart-to-drop-its-dont-be-evil-motto

http://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/

https://web.archive.org/web/20151004012914/https://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-dont-be-evil/254019/

Your memory of the Google handbook isn't really relevant.

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