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Starlevel001··on Ask HN: What do you say to someone who wants to get into software development?
"Unless you get really lucky, you are going to spend your life making one of three possible things:

1. Software that is undeniably evil and has a net negative effect on humanity for money

2. Software that isn't directly evil but you'll be adding features that exclusively make it worse

3. Software designed to help the former two groups work more efficiently."

That sums it up pretty well.

Starlevel001··on Life at 800 MHz
> (Shoutout to lib.rs btw for offering a rust crate database that actually works without javascript. We have no idea what crates.io thinks it makes sense to require javascript to look up packages but here we are.)

Well, Rust is a language primarily targeted at web developers after all.

Starlevel001··on Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
I'm really not sure why you were hoping for that on a forum attached to a venture capitalist firm site.
Starlevel001··on Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
That's because ``t.test`` returns a MethodType instance rather than a FunctionType instance, which is invoked without the self.
Starlevel001··on Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
This site fetishises money over morals to a disturbing degree, so yes, they are just taking a cheque and keeping quiet.
Starlevel001··on “Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”
There are plenty of people with the capability to this wasting their life building adware.
Starlevel001··on Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
Discord hates bots. They've been trying to restrict their power for the last three years.
Starlevel001··on Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)
This is an obvious troll post but python is a pure OO language, everything is a an object with an associated class. Functions are just instances of FunctionType.
Starlevel001··on How I learned to stop worrying and push to master
> Deploy now, catch bugs...sometime, maybe (TM)!

Given the state of literally all software I use, this seems to be the default behaviour.

Starlevel001··on JuNest – The lightweight Arch based distro that runs upon any Linux distribution
In the last ~eight years of using arch I can count the number of times it's broken on one hand.
Starlevel001··on Mold 1.0: the first stable and production-ready release of the high-speed linker
> most restrictive

It's the least restrictive for user freedom.

Starlevel001··on “Open source” is not broken
The most obvious sign that "Open source" is broken is that everyone uses that term and not Free Software.
Starlevel001··on PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager
> - Use pip freeze > requirements.txt as a "lockfile".

This is not and has never ever been correct. It makes it infinitely harder to install an application vs the standard `pip install -e .` which works on every package manager and avoids PYTHONPATH issues, as well as being able to publish your application to PyPI for easy installation (as simple as pip install --user app or pipx install app).

Starlevel001··on Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips
If you live in a city you shouldn't be using cars.
Starlevel001··on What will enter the public domain in 2022
5 years flat, no extensions.

Why should the government prop up your failure to market something?

Starlevel001··on The American prison system’s war on reading
The point of most prisons is cruelty, not rehabilitation.
Starlevel001··on California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
In the South East they still do the 11+.
Starlevel001··on Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
ASGI is a bad solution to the concurrency issues as the ecosystem is heavily centralised around asyncio (which is ``java.lang.Thread`` for async/await, with all the pitfalls included).
Starlevel001··on Why is Excalidraw so good?
Yet he still dropped to UU this gen. Not that good!
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