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I did this sophomore year because my French teacher wanted things handwritten. I spent a lot of time making it fit on the lined paper and getting the color just right but I'm sure she figured it out anyway.

I don't care about startup time in my window manager but st launches in 50 ms and alacritty takes 500 which is a noticeable and annoying difference so I'll take st every time. A lot of the time I want to open the terminal with a specific command in mind so with alacritty I ended up typing before it launched.

The desktop was pretty terrible for me (on Linux) for until a few months ago, but now it works perfectly. The only thing missing is sms from the desktop but from what I understand Signal won't ever add that because sms isn't secure

I've read through that course!

Luckily I accidentally installed Ubuntu when I was in 6th grade because I read it would give me higher fps in Minecraft and it had an exe installer so I didn't realize it was a whole OS. I've been Linux only since then and learned all the other stuff there as a result

Yeah I've recently been trying leetcode and codeforces and I'm way worse at it than I'd expected. It's fun though, so I'm working hard to improve.

Thanks for your advice!

Luckily I went to a really hard high school. I breezed through middle school and then completely flunked freshman year so I learned my lesson early.

I'm 100% sure that if I had not gone to such a hard high school I would've completely ignored your advice and failed at least a semester of college.

Yeah I can totally see where you're coming from. I go (went?) to a STEM high school and since I'd already been coding for a while at that point I basically had the same attitude and then AP Computer Science ended up being one of my harder classes.

I've been thinking of minoring in physics or something, but maybe I'll try Art

Those are all classes I think I'd find very interesting. Recently I've tried to naively write my own game engine and OS and failed pretty miserably.

Man, to be honest I was looking forward to not having to take humanities classes now. I have my first advisor meeting for scheduling classes in a few days, so I'll be sure to find something with lots of writing. Thanks for the advice.

I haven't thought about trying to be a developer in a non-IT field; it seems like something I'd really like to do.

I spend most of my time coding on side projects, so as it turns out I'm not great at algorithms. Recently I've learned that I can only really do easy problems on Leetcode/codeforces etc, and I've been trying to improve.

Thanks for the advice!

To be honest, I would consider finding some sort of bootcamp type thing if not for my parents being pretty dead set on college. I do have a lot of stuff I want to learn which will, in my limited experience, be a lot easier to to understand with a formal education.

I've been looking for a software dev job for the past few months and almost everything I've found that's more than a WordPress/shopify job wants a bachelor's. Do you have any advice for getting a software dev job straight out of high school?

well neither does the author; they're writing python

as a non web developer who needed to get a static site with a consistent header and footer up I just made a makefile which watches an src directory and cats the header and footer onto each file

I'm going into college next year and while I've always loved online learning, I would be devastated to have college fully remotely. I'm not sure how badly it would effect me in terms of academics; I didn't really do much 2nd sem anyways, but I need to move out and learn to live on my own.

I usually make a simple n body gravitation sim or a sudoku solver

a dwm clone for wayland

The proposed law would make the FBI require a warrant whereas right now they do not. Clickbaity article but it's still important

you can also use espanso: https://github.com/federico-terzi/espanso

> Maybe we are

https://adhdawarenessmonth.org/everyone-has-little-adhd/

An ADHD diagnosis is not purely based off of exhibiting behaviors typically associated with it. While everyone is forgetful/distracted sometimes, ADHDers have a physical/chemical difference in their brain which make such behaviors impossible to avoid.

> Suggesting the whole world stop doing this is silly

One person at a time

I have adhd. in my experience, commodifying the use of ADHD as anything other than a mental disorder makes it easier for people to make claims like "everyone is a little bit adhd" etc.

I appreciate your comment, but please refrain from referring to general lack of focus as a community as ADHD

just wondering, why idle instead of vscode with minimal extensions, or sublime text maybe?