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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 221 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 83 points 2 weeks 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 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 42 points 2 weeks 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 22 points 2 weeks 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 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 94 points 2 weeks ago (9 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 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wasn't that one of the Incan gods?

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

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

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'm partial to Tomatl and Ahuacatl

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[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] mcmxci@mimiclem.me 20 points 2 weeks ago

Someone cropped the last line? What a sociopatl

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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)

[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago

Type of dinosaur I believe

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (19 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 21 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure it's gonna be the stake

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks 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 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 12 points 2 weeks ago

Why not both? Probably worshipped at the stake.

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 34 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (8 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 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 23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks 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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[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yesterday I spent about 2 hours trying to get ChatGPT to walk me through the install process of putting Arch on a 2011 MacBook Air. It just wouldn’t work and the further along we got the harder it seemed and I really thought that using AI was necessary. I finally gave up and read the Arch Wiki and had it installed in under 45 minutes.

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 23 points 2 weeks ago

Raw dogging development

[–] shads@lemy.lol 20 points 2 weeks 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 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks 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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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 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 weeks ago

Like an animal.

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] lockhart@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago

The true psychopaths are those sweating about which tools other people use

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] cobwoms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

Just straight up raw-dogging it

[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 11 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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