(Also are Programming socks memes welcome here?)

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      4·
      5 days ago

      You jest but I unironically want one of the Thinkpads with a Snapdragon X (|Plus|Elite) to compile my Rust on.

      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        7·
        5 days ago

        Woah, I said an older Thinkpad. We dont talk about what Lenovo has done to the modern Thinkpad image (theyve dragged it through the mud). Eveyone knows the last good Thinkpad was the T480.

        • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
          1·
          5 days ago

          Their Thinkpad T’s and X’s still seem honestly good, it’s just that there’s many Thinkpad lines that are shit as well.

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            5 days ago

            The problem is that even the T and X model Thinkpads have been chasing thin and light above build quality. They no longer have protective metal cages, the keyboard isn’t as good, and its bends/flexes (which makes sense considering its thin). I get thats the “modern” laptop design but I wish they went back to making massive laptops.

              • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                01·
                4 days ago

                Nearly every laptop OEM has been making comprimises, if you want a true classic Thinkpad style laptop (thats thick and has good build quality) the MNT Reform is the only option. Its massive, thick, has a mechanical keyboard, has an option for a trackball, and isnt particularly powerful (the Raspberry Pi CM5 is realistically the most powerful thing you can put in it).

    • yuri@pawb.social
      1·
      5 days ago

      this comment genuinely reminded me that i need to both find my choker and finish installing linux on my x230t

  • Luc@lemmy.world
    211·
    6 days ago

    You can never have enough socks. Many a christmas goes by where again nobody gifts me a nice pair of socks. People always seem to think I am in need of more books to read!

    (Hope I’m somewhat correctly recounting Dumbledore’s answer in relation to the mirror of Erised)

  • bluGill@fedia.io
    13·
    6 days ago

    If you need to learn C, at least use the first edition of the book - the one without the ANSI additions is much smaller.

    I’'ve actually never read the second/and edition so I can’t say if it is good or not. I can tell you that the first edition still has a proud space on my bookshielf though the acid paper is starting to take a toll and I suspect it won’t be long and I’ll be needing a reprint.

    • zerofk@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 days ago

      It’s also a very good introduction to programming, and just a good read. Probably the best book about programming I’ve ever read.

    • PowerfulTurtle@lemmy.caOP
      45·
      6 days ago

      I haven’t read either, honestly Rust is so much better than C or C++ and if I were going to learn a low level language I’d probably go with that instead. Currently I only do Python and a tiny bit of Javascript.

      • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        I dare assume you get downvoted for liking Rust, so take my upvote for balance. We differ about what we think of the language, but this kind of angry downvoting is plain ridiculous

    • gerryflap@feddit.nl
      161·
      5 days ago

      Programming socks provide a +2 programming skill buff. Their tight fit around the legs provides better blood flow through the legs which also means a better blood flow through the brain.

      They also make you more cute :3

      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        Ah. Ok. To each their own.

        Weird that I haven’t heard about it until now tho. It’s been my experience that an uncomfortable amount of software engineers are fairly conservative, but that’s more likely because of being in the Midwest.

        • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 days ago

          :( I also had a bit of a culture shock when I started working, after being young and naive and assuming people interested in tech were progressive, and going to a public university for CS surrounded by other liberals.

          • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            See i didn’t have that experience. I come from a long line of electrical engineers, and went to a Catholic private university.

            The EEs, save for my mother, are ultraconservative. So I knew what to expect. I went for computer engineering, so my first job out of college was in a contract design services company that was mostly old white men.

            When I got into my current career, which became entirely software focused, I was surprised to see such an array of conservatives, but found many more progressives than previously.

            What I have observed in my 12 years of career is that the conservative individuals are very rigid black and white thinkers. In fact, when my cousin was diagnosed with autism, my uncle remarked that it was pretty weird that every engineer he met seems to fall into that diagnosis. There was already a quiet joke in the family that what they now call Autism was what they called engineers in the 60s-80s.

            That’s not to say autistic individuals are more likely to be conservative - but almost every conservative engineer I know falls right into this description. Interestingly, I know that ASD also has a large crossover with the LGBTQ+ community. It would make sense to me then, that this “programming socks” meme started.

            It all seems to be based around who can accept change and who cannot. This, to me, explains why there are far more progressive programmers than conservative, and the opposite is true for other engineering fields.