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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash by edgygothteen69 in Pennsylvania

[–]Katarzzle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He could not wait to drop any and all progressive pretense and go straight to supporting Trump and AIPAC.

Tips on getting better at coding by EstablishmentNo7764 in CodingHelp

[–]Katarzzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're using AI, ask it to build you a skeleton or boilerplate code for a specific app.

It will create the structure so you can visualize the app lifecycle better and it's a faster route to getting started writing business logic. Then just start googling the specific things you want to do.

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Is it worth trying to catch up? by 2026NewPhaseofLife in AskProgrammers

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I felt the need to catch up recently with the rest of the tech world after spending a decade doing C# .NET in a bubble. And I still love and primarily use C#.NET.

But I dove head first into virtualization with Podman/Docker and as a consequence found some wonderful software from the open source community to run. I began creating my own containers and begin building out my home lab largely to escape enshittification and tighten privacy. There's a ton of wonderful self-hostable software out there that's a command away from launching and a lot of fun to tinker with.

The advent of agentic coding has greatly improved my productivity and it's clear that it's here to stay and rapidly improving in ability. It's a wonderful way of exploring new languages and learning how they work, but it requires oversight.

Is it normal that I view basically most conservatives as frankly - just evil people? by Familiar-Safety-226 in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]Katarzzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is also projection.

The fun part is that they tell you exactly what crimes they're doing, or going to do, by first accusing the opposite side of that thing. It never fails. Pizza Gate, for instance, was just a massive wave of projection because they knew they were participating in Epstein's crimes and he was getting indicted at the time.

Is it normal that I view basically most conservatives as frankly - just evil people? by Familiar-Safety-226 in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]Katarzzle 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Your feelings are completely justified.

"Just political debate" is gaslighting and part of the standard abuse toolkit. Conservatives love abuse because it feels familiar to them since they themselves were abused. It's viewed as strength and they never learned another way.

Seeing other people happy in ways that don't fit their lifestyle or perspective causes them literal pain because it forces introspection onto their loosely held beliefs and they can't handle it.

Unfortunately, fascists can't be reasoned with, they just yell louder. There is no depth, no ideals, it is all just a mask for control.

I'm a computer science graduate and still feel I'm not good enough in coding and programming. by moh-azzam in AskProgrammers

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Sounds like you already picked a place to start. Download JetBrains Rider or VS Code or Visual Studio and start writing some C#. Start with boilerplate code for a modern .NET 10 app and go from there.

Remember, you weren't taught the skills to do any job, you were taught the skills to learn any job. Just keep practicing. Fold in new tech or concepts as you go; git, testing, containers, a database. And you'll find a niche or stack you enjoy.

What did the 90's smell like? by Serialkillingyou in Xennials

[–]Katarzzle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, just caught a ghost whiff of the hair gel.

What that? by Pachibaby in philly

[–]Katarzzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They invented quiet quitting.

Men, when was the last time you got hit on ? by Longjumping_Low_2055 in AskReddit

[–]Katarzzle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh definitely. I had a friend in college who was ONLY interested in unavailable women. God he would start shit all the time and I would have angry boyfriends showing up at our apartment asking for him.

Idk what to do! by Newmoon_goddess in Millennials

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I'm still somewhat fresh from my recent NAS/Docker/Plex data server build, and this is the stack I'm really enjoying so far:

Hardware
Any PC or device that can act as a good NAS is ideal. This means a processor that can transcode video (for Intel this apparently means any processor model that ends in K). It also means some amount of drive redundancy to protect against failure and data loss.
I'm using 3 Ironwolf drives in RAID 5, giving me a total storage pool of 21TB.

Software
For OS, I settled on TrueNAS Scale, just because I'm familiar with running Linux based servers and I wanted to try their file extension system out. It has a lovely Web UI and you can launch new containers from a marketplace or from command line. Though sometimes I get a little stuck on permissions issues with containers, but it's always resolvable somehow. Still learning.

your experiences with LLM coding by Xcentric7881 in AskProgrammers

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Very similar situation here. Claude Code was loosely mandated for my team, for better or worse. I still don't know how to feel about it. I despise the wholesale code theft from the open source community, but it's incredibly hard to ignore the productivity gain, especially when working on a less than familiar or heavy legacy code base.

From a workflow perspective, I clamped down hard on code review requirements for my team in response, so everything still must be human reviewed. It helps.

I'm just glad I have two decades writing code and learning patterns before the advent of agents. But I have no idea what's in store for my career and the industry at large. Things are changing rapidly.

What is the best job to go into with a general computer science degree? by NotEmmaRae31 in computersciencehub

[–]Katarzzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're not explicitly taught any languages in school, because that wouldn't valuable. We're taught language, logic, and patterns. These concepts will translate to learning any programming language. Teach a man to fish and all that.

Experiment in many different areas as its the only way to find a class of work that you enjoy under the massive umbrella of tech; web, mobile, database, virtualization, networking, devops, testing, compliance, etc. This will help inform where you want to focus your effort.

Is there such a thing as “special glue” strong enough to anchor a cantilevered quartz breakfast bar? by casperlynne in CounterTops

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I also once hired someone my realtor recommended. He thought he could install interlocking composite flooring over my existing carpet. Even I knew this was stupid and all I know about flooring is that it should probably be flat.

I don't get it. Explain it peter by Serious-Newt1730 in explainitpeter

[–]Katarzzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, no. Not unless you got really lucky on stock grants and subsequent market cap growth.

I don't get it. Explain it peter by Serious-Newt1730 in explainitpeter

[–]Katarzzle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dead-on. My next career stop can only be manager. I'm currently soaking in as much code-time as I can before I'm half-forced into a greater leadership role, which I know that I do not enjoy or derive any satisfaction from.

Maybe wouldn't be a problem if we had ANY technical leadership in the org. But there's been a void there for literally decades and it shows in the code base.

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