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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Honestly, I more than half agree because the factor most seem to conveniently ignore is that languages and environments that encourage better and safer code are aimed at the lowest common denominator.

    The lowest common denominator of developers are the ones that benefit the most from a reduction in defects or unsafe code they may produce. They are the biggest pool of developers. And in my experience, the ones least likely to proactively take measures to reduce defect rates unless it’s forced upon them and/or baked into their environment.

    They are the ones that will slap any in typescript to resolve errors instead of actually resolving them, or the ones that will use dynamic in C# instead of actually fixing the bad design … etc
















  • I want:

    • Multitasking speed
    • Fast SSD storage for dev tasks, builds…etc
    • Large SSD storage for games
    • Memory to run multiple development environments, lots of research tabs, and not have to turn them off to go play a game for a couple hours
    • A GPU capable of playing most games on decent settings on a 4k monitor (upscaling allowed)

    So generally this means:

    • mid-high end CPU
    • mid GPU
    • 64+ GB RAM
    • 1x High Performance 1TB m.2 SSD as primary drive
    • 1x w/e 2TB m.2 SSD for secondary

    RAM prices makes this… Absurd. My current PC is actually getting a bit slow for me now, it’s about 5 years old now, and it’s time for an upgrade. Which is going to cost me 2-3x what it should, simply from RAM…



  • Such a shame that Wayland did away with accessibility APIs which makes switching a hard stop for those of us with disabilities that rely on software that works with these APIs.

    They work with X11, which had consistent APIs, but Wayland leaves it up to each distro to implement their own APIs, if they do at all, fragmenting the ecosystem.

    Hell, even mouse acceleration curves are skuffed now, it really sucks.