stephenc

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Want to know what is worse than GoDaddy? Network Solutions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I mean, 2 and 4 have been true already for quite some time in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I like Ubuntu Server. It's got a nice installer that is simple and straight to the point, and lots of documentation. I'm also very familiar with it if I need to troubleshoot.

That said, I don't like snaps and every new version pushes them harder. I'm currently learning openSUSE to see if it can become my new go-to for servers.

I always run Linux servers headless, so how the distro does GUI (if an option) is not relevant to me in this scenario.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That's some magnetic personality you've got.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have always been a laptop guy my whole life because the portability, flexibility and comfortability of them.

Decades ago, I would say that laptops didn't really have these attributes. Back in the day, they were heavy, most had short battery life, and were very slow compared to a decent desktop. Laptops have come a long way in three decades. :)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Also, the reason for the public beta is because people practically begged LJ for it. We actively told him, "We don't care if there are bugs or missing features, just gimmie now!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well with Arabic numerals, zero is also the most physically round. :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also worth noting that the fact that Linux gaming works at all on many "Windows-exclusive" titles is an absolute magnificent feat of engineering. For the longest time we've been working to get games working on Linux despite both game developers and engine makers historically expressing anything between disinterest and antagonism towards supporting games on Linux.

But I also get that the final product is still not all that smooth from a user's perspective. Just be sure to put the blame on where it belongs (definitely not Linux, or Wine who has been bending over backwards for over a decade to swim against the flow).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'd call it Paradox Lang, or PL for short. It even has features that are contradictory to each other, you just have to declare which mode you want at the top of every file. Can you imagine. :)

The only feature it doesn't have is "lightweight and minimal language".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Quite a few languages that are major players now started as hobby languages.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Well I guess I am part of "they" since I have my own programming language pet project. Why did I create it? Because I wanted to, mostly. Sure, there are also some finer language design choices I wanted to choose differently for my preference, but mainly I just wanted to learn how.

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