Solemarc

My completely unqualified position is that manjaro is not more stable than arch, in fact, according to the news manjaro's changes are just more instability. I've been running basic arch & KDE for 6 months now and it hasn't been perfect. The biggest issue I've had so far is; "using the scroll wheel in the KDE start menu will crash the DE" and that was fixed in a day.

I had a fun one this week! I needed to make an SQL query that would aggregate rows by invoice and date, but only aggregate 5 then overflow to a new row. I also needed to access the individual row data because the invoice items weren't summed, they were displayed on separate columns!

I ask my senior if there's an easy way to do this, he comes back with "chatgpt says you can assign row numbers then get individual row data with % row number"

I go to Gemini and ask "how to aggregate rows by 5 and get individual row data out?" It says "you can't" (since when has Ai's been able to say you can't do X) So I ask it about the modulo operator and it gives me an example that doesn't really work. After screwing around for a while I give up and decide I'll just run this query 3 times. 1 for rows 1-5 then for 6-10 and one more for 11-15 that's so many rows surely no one will break this.

FYI Android is not about to become closed source. Google has their own internal dev branch and the publicly available main AOSP branch, this is already known. What they're doing is simplifying their release process so that rather than having two "main" branches AOSP will be downstream from their dev branch.

IMO, it's pretty good. I've really only got two criticisms. I don't like the active component of combat in my turn based games, but that's pretty minor. My bigger gripe is that I think the last act of the story sucks.

I was so strong at this point that boss mechanics were purely optional to me, I was capable of one shotting everything.

Also a lot of the human characters do things that made me dislike them in the final act.

Used to use vscode, then one day it stopped working for me. I've been using Helix full time for a few months now and I'm pretty happy with it.

I remember being taught phonics in primary school in the 2000's, and I went to a public school so I don't understand why we think this is revolutionary either. Maybe it's just new in VIC? I'm from QLD

It's funny, to me I've had an llm give me the wrong answer to questions every time.

The first time I couldn't remember how to read a file as a string in python and it got me most of the way there. But I trusted the answer thinking "yeah, that looks right" but it was wrong, I just got the io class I didn't call the read() function.

The other time it was an out of date answer. I asked it how to do a thing in bevy and it gave me an answer that was deprecated. I can sort of understand that though, bevy is new and not amazingly documented.

On a different note, my senior who is all PHP, no python, no bash, has used LLM's to help him write python and bash. It's not the best code, I've had to do optimisations on his bash code to make it run on CI without taking 25 minutes, but it's definitely been useful to him with python and bash, he was hired as a PHP dev.

The steam page doesn't say anything about PSN accounts right now. Maybe it'll get updated, but right now it looks good.

In my local currency (Aussie Dollars) AAA games cost $120. Like, man, I'm not spending $120 on a game. I can't remember the last time I bought a game at that price.

MDN says you're right because innerHTML is un-escaped and you're probably trying to use textContent. Didn't know about this one, thanks.

Isn't the "passive aggressive licence" just MIT?