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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 212 points 2 days ago (6 children)

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us. And we are used to reading manuals, since we first installed our system.

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They did it before the Internet was even a thing, my friend.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Nope, not a sell out. Just a person using the tools at hand. You can't just live in the past. You did it without Google back then because there was no Google and you had to use what you had to use. Now you use Google, because again, you have to use what you have to use. In the end, I personally only care about the outcome.

I just chose to use tools to make my life easier

If you don't then I'd call you stupid. Keep doing that, friend. That's the best way actually. You want your life easier so you can put out great work.

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[–] urandom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I remember using man pages when I was contributing to a C open source project back in the day.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

But he went out of his way to install man pages on arch? Probably a narc.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It is extremely easy to use the internet without using google.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 91 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Yay! Cencorship! I spent an extra 3 seconds focusing on the word psychopath trying to figure out what went wrong instead of reading it like a normal word. Isn’t that so much better than offending an algorithm with the letter ‘h’?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wasn't that one of the Incan gods?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You are thinking of the one they used to design the common keyboard layout, Qwertycoatl.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I'm partial to Tomatl and Ahuacatl

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[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 10 points 1 day ago

You saw that but not devloper? Buncha amateurs.

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[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is psychopatl an Aztec insult I don't know about?

[–] mcmxci@mimiclem.me 18 points 1 day ago

Someone cropped the last line? What a sociopatl

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Type of dinosaur I believe

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

(For any nerd wondering, the name of the language is Nahuatl but I guess Aztec language is more recognizable for the sake of the joke lol)

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...

This is psycopathy?

Having actual competence in one's field?

Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

[–] dotslashme@infosec.pub 18 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure it's gonna be the stake

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a joke on a tweet about a guy spending a multi-hour flight just staring straight ahead.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I've done similar things in a coffee shop before, just working on my own code, and I have actually been 'politely' asked to leave by the staff.

The staff evidently being a bunch of morons who thought I was... hacking into ... something?

They didn't know what, but they were very concerned.

I was unable to convince them I was not, because 'terminal' = 'hacking' to idiots who only know anything about computers via movies and tv shows.

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[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Why not both? Probably worshipped at the stake.

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 30 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I use:

  • DuckDuckGo
  • Neovim
  • ~~rusty~~ dusty IdeaPad
  • ~~Arch~~ NixOS btw

I don't read man pages but I read documentation.

Am I also a psychopath?

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[–] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (8 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can’t live without vim.

Sometimes I wander into vscode but it’s less productive for me.

Plus vscode has weird name inconsistencies (the app is called visual studio code, it’s branded as vscode, and the menu bar says Code), which is probably normal for Microsoft but unusual elsewhere.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

As another Helix user, I'll gladly accept the high five 👏

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 18 points 2 days ago

I should fork vim and call it 'death', so I can shout "give me vim or give me death!" any time someone suggests a different editor.

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[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I still remember my Masters degree in distributed computing. C++ in vi (not even vim), monochromatic display, 36 computers working together to give me a bunch of SIGSEGV.

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 20 points 1 day ago

Raw dogging development

[–] shads@lemy.lol 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was going to ask how he knew it was Arch, but I feel like that is just setting up the next comment.

[–] 69420@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I had an internship 15 years ago where I was forced to write C++ with no internet access. I had to use a programming manual and man pages.

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

Like an animal.

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 day ago

That's impossible. He would be too busy telling everyone that he uses Arch to get any work done.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

imagine programming on an electric computer. i exclusively generate punch cards for crank operated adding machines

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can still do this provided that the language is Perl. But the few cases when I actually have to do so are rare, and never in public.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Well yeah, Perl is write-only. Larry Wall asked the monkey's paw for a language that works on the first try. What's onscreen are your raw brain patterns.

Thank god it runs like crap. Optimized C isn't pretty, but any project that compiles proves someone looked at it more than once.

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[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago

Just straight up raw-dogging it

[–] DominatorX1@thelemmy.club 11 points 20 hours ago

My cycle goes : think think think, draw, think, draw, think, write code for a day or 3.

I use an ide or a text editor. never use that other stuff.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a fine operating system, what editor do you use?

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 10 points 2 days ago

Back in my day we would program using office hole puncher and going to a library every time we needed to look up some API information.

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