One of the most fun part of climbing is the problem-solving aspect of it. Figuring your way to get up the wall/boulder. Why would you want to get rid of that?
Do you enjoy climbing with others? Personally, I enjoy seeing the different beta on a climb, especially between different body types. It is interesting seeing unique approaches to the same problem.
What about when you try to solve the problem and you get stuck and can't? Or solve it but in a bad way that requires way too much exertion?
The point is to try to solve it yourself, then compare with an expert solution, and therefore learn how to improve.
If you're just blindly trying to problem-solve through trial and error without ever comparing against expert feedback, you're going to learn climbling extremely slowly...
When faced with a challenge, you want to figure out as much as you reasonably can, and then learn what you were missing.
Struggling at the same problem for several sessons, or god forbid years, sounds like misery to me. I'd rather use that time productively learning, rather than struggling for the sake of it, because I refuse to learn from others.
It's funny how nothing has changed in 20 years. We used to say "hotmail uses FreeBSD" and now you guys are saying "netflix uses FreeBSD" as your source of pride.
No doubt, so do I. FreeBSD is good for very specific things like rock solid stability and intense networking. But for general purpose use I too prefer Linux, because it gets all the new toys first.
If I want to build a rock solid stable internet service, I reach for FreeBSD. If I want to use a Unix desktop I reach for MacOS. If I want to have a personal server for messing around with or running some proof-of-concept app or website, I reach for Linux.
While I'm mainly an emacs user, I do enjoy using mg from time to time. Especially nice that it comes with macOS nowadays (used to come with age old emacs version). I could probably do everything in mg, but I just cannot stand the auto indendantion in it when you have 8 spaces of indent and write a newline, the next line gets auto indented with a tab instead of 8 spaces (newline-and-indent assumes tabs are every eight characters..) Sure, this is not an issue if you use only tabs, but most projects just tend to be using spaces. Also, I think in OpenBSD mg there is a flag for enabling/disabling this (IIRC).
Cool stuff! I used Push 2 for a long time and I really enjoyed the workflow with it. I decided to sell it since most of my music work shifted to using Logic so didn't have much use for it anymore. Until quite recently, I had this scratching itch to rebuy Push 2 and start playing around with it, just to notice that it's sold out everywhere. I had a feeling that they will release Push 3 quite soon, so great to see it out finally. Maybe I need to start using Ableton again!
It's his history and actions that made him unsuitable for the position. Despite that, they still decided allow him to return to the board. While RMS and FSF have done great things in the past, actions should have consequences and movement shouldn't be tied to one person.
The previous attempt of removing him was executed as an appalling witch-hunt. Yes, Stallman is insensitive, but when people saw something more insensitive being done to him, they sided with him.
I'm all in for finding a replacement for Stallman, but that must be done in a more careful manner.
Love to see alternatives to these big code hosting solutions! Personally I'm donating to sourcehut, mainly in "support your local" -mentality, and definitely recommend people doing the same for your favourite projects
. But that being said, for most of my coding, I have a simple self-hosted cgit + gitolite setup that suits my needs exactly! Unfortunately, cannot get completely rid of GitHub due to work and open source necessitites.
This is very cool! Sometime ago I ended up starting a similar project in Common Lisp, but then life happened and it has stayed as WIP for quite a while already... Maybe now I don't need stress about finishing it since this seems quite handy!
I fell into programming. I had been programming since being a wee lad but I never was too keen on studying or school itself. After high school I realized that I couldn't get into the school I wanted, studying psychology in my case, probably could've gotten in there if I would really wanted to, who knows. At that point, I was pretty good at programming and thought that might as well try some computer science stuff. Luckily got into one school, but got a real job on my first year, and the school became secondary for me. I was able to audit lots of stuff so I could finish my Bachelor despite working at the same. After that degree, haven't looked back to schools since and, for some weird reason, I quite enjoy my current software engineering job.
