Uhm, REST/GraphQL APIs exist for this very purpose and are considerably faster.
Note, the AI still gets stuck in a loop near the end asking for more info, needing an email, then needing a phone number, and the gibber isn't that much faster than spoken word with the huge negative that no nearby human can understand it to check that what it's automating is correct!
during the long learning curve, one is usually grossly underpaid and sometimes scammed and or cheated.
See, that's the issue on such sites. Posters want a whole (e.g. e-commerce) project done for $100 because, "it won't take long" and then challenge your quotes with "well, I can get someone in bum|f*ck|land to do it for $100...". A game I don't want to play.
And sticking around and building a rep for a year is difficult when such sites have lots of scammers and sock accounts actively challenging you to make you look bad and their other alt accounts look good.
Finding coding gigs nowadays
Not sure if off-topic, but what's the best way to go about finding coding gigs at the moment? Need some urgent funds so need to reach out to people somehow.
I think of linkedin as a facebook for businesses leading you open to being spammed by agencies, which I don't really want.
Though I have years of experience of coding across many languages and fields (audio, computer vision, e-commerce backends, etc), and github accounts over the years with some pushes to the core of a few major projects, I haven't really kept the accounts, and past projects have nearly always been back-ends for clients so can't exactly add them to a portfolio.
Languages I'm currently using would be python / php (including symfony and laravel), though happy to switch to javascript/html coding, some c/c++ etc, so I'm not tied to one area I guess.
Is there a decent place to advertise or, is there a better way lately? Thanks
To save people the time of not having to read it all to know how to do something so simple as to install it when it could just be made to install itself?
I can insult you, but you can't call me out because I'll insult you again. lulz!!
The code is open and there for you to read. What you're actually saying is you're too lazy to read and understand it because the world owes you something. amirite?
Arch users don't value their time.
Having a "great" understanding of how a Linux system is tied together is fine for the now, but in five years time, will be useless as things change so why not spend your time being productive in the now.
You're going to be horrified to discover the software versions the military use.
mentioning pointers, time sharing, endianess, word size, registers
I'm turned on! Don't stop!
It actually leads to a fantastic product and more free time because you're not having to babysit kids who think the world owes them something because they can code 'hello world' in python.
Oh the irony. What's gatekeeping about not wanting rubbish code in your repository? Lack of knowledge is self-gatekeeping.
The 'wah wah...boomer' cries are...cringe. Either step up with the knowledge and action, or don't bother and cry "gatekeeping".
less hard than running debian or redhat back in the 90s
Zoomers will never know the pain... and the joy and actually getting it installed!
Stable means not updated.
Oh no! I haven't got the latest push from 30 seconds ago. My operating system is so out of date and I'm so uncool!!11
nvidia GPU
No flavour of Linux works well with them. That's the joke or something.
If someone is accepting the fact that shit might go sideways, is willing to learn through experiencing issues first-hand or simply likes to spend time fiddling with their OS to find the perfect setup for them - that should be the Arch- and Arch-derivatives audience.
But once you leave the comfort of your parents house, time is money and no one has a spare twelve hours to get a functional OS together when another distro would do it in minutes.
Although Ive been using linux for 2 years now, and i still want an installation manager with sane defaults.
Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour, Debian?
I remember installing Debian before Ubuntu was born using an ncurses type interface and spending five minutes selecting the packages I want to install, (only for it to tell me that one package was incompatible with another and the installation couldn't proceed!) but being able to do it somewhat graphically made it so much easier than simply by text.
An OS stays out of your way and lets you do what you need to do. Having to essentially create the basics is unproductive and a waste of the user's time.
I'm pretty sure "Power users" don't use Ubuntu.
Not to hijack, but what are the well-known cheap companies that will take a standard PCB output format, create the board and place the components and then pop it in the post. Assuming sensible MOQs. I'm in the UK, so I guess it'd be China rather than UK / EU. Though there'd be lead solder issues I'm sure.
And this is how I see Linux quickly unravelling and planned insecurities creeping in over the next decade or so.
Critique This! A Simple Qt Dock Widget which enables the whole widget to be 'folded' to use less screen space
I'm working on a project that needs lots of toolbars on screen at once, even though not all of them will be used at the same time. So, I'm modelling this 'foldable' dock widget after what I remember Photoshop panels used to be like.
It's a work in progress, but would like to hear constructive suggestions.
https://blocks.programming.dev/0101100101/42c5d67f86c049baa3500aa38e439f8a
Is it ok to post code (~250 LOC) for critique here?
Working on a class that I'd like to use in a library (not for work) and think I'd appreciate external opinions!
If not, where else could I post code for critique? Thanks
Go buy a linux book at a charity shop or a library sale!
A great way to learn the basics. It'll be old, but that's ok. It's going to cover all the shell basics and then more. It's still going to be useful, it'll cost you pennies, you'll be able to dip into it when you want, and you'll be giving to a good cause.
Do you use a macro keyboard for shortcuts? If so, what for and what size?
Macro keyboards are mini programmable USB keyboards that can be pressed to trigger shortcuts, a sequence of keypresses etc. They can have several layers so switching to a different one will trigger different keypresses from the same key, so e.g. different IDEs can be represented.
I've just bought one with a view to setting up shortcuts for debugging. Each IDE has its own unique keys for navigating through the code, so I figure it'll be nice to just press one key to start debugging and one key to step into instead of a combination of ctrl+whatever etc
Do you use one? If so, what do you use it for and what size do you use? Is it too big / too small?