Not very intimidating, as long as they keep on fucking.

In short: it's always like this, sometimes more, sometimes less. And guess what: it's the main part of the job. As a developer you have to understand what the customer (your boss) needs (sometimes not what they say they want) and to figure out how to do that by yourself. It's nice to have colleagues you can ask, but it's like on stackoverflow. The accepted answer is not necessarily the right or good one. Often you have to work with bad documented legacy artifacts (code, api) and figure out what they do. Also the tech changes, you have to constantly keep up with changes and what was great years ago may now be outdated. My advice:

• Do not start coding until you are sure you understood what is to be done.
• if there is no user story to describe the task write it yourself
• write good tests for your code. It's an art. While thinking about corner cases you often find questions you did not think about at first
• if you don't know how to do it ask people around you, browse the web, read books. Develop the skills to figure stuff out. Most of the time noone knows the correct answer. It's your job to find it.
• do code reviews with others, usually both benefit from it
• write clean code

If you don't like your working environment then change it. Especially when you think you can't learn anything new there or it is no fun to work there. Go to meetings in your area (meetup or so) or online to meet other developers and ask them about their job. You get a feeling about what is considered a good job in your area. Good developers will always find a good job. Be one of them. As long as you think you're a god who can code anything, that's probably not the case. ;-) The best you can achieve is to be an expert in a very narrow field and to be good in some others.

Shattered pixel dungeon

Yes, it has.

I have never ever heard of a game coming with a help hotline. And I played a lot of games in that time. TIL that

one classic example is the game "The Legend of Zelda" for the NES. The game contained cryptic puzzles and secrets that were not easily solvable. Nintendo provided a hotline, called the Nintendo Power Line, where players could call in for tips, tricks, and solutions. Calls to the hotline were not free, creating an additional revenue source for the company.

with Lemmy and Mastodon the opensource community has a place to really try itself out

Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.

As you already implied: when you're not at home but travelling.

Why would they use bitcoins to pay for the stream? If it's already bitcoin why bother?

Argument Clinic https://youtu.be/uLlv_aZjHXc?si=TPn9cjOH1UUOmIvC

Usually a sign of multiprocessing/multithreading going wrong, e.g. accessing the same resource without proper locks like opening the same logfile in different processes and trying to write simultaneously. Those errors can be triggered just by reformating the code (or obfuscating in this case), thus changing the runtime behaviour slightly. Hard to find, especially since they're dependent on the speed/workload of the machine running the code.

Considering what you wrote that's probably a great idea.

The problem here is crystal clear. It is not illegal to get shot by somebody. If getting shot would be illegal, there wouldn't be so many victims. I mean how is it real freedom if I want to shoot in a mall or university and then these woke people steal my flying bullets with their bodies. That is not what God intended when He gave us guns. /s

You are aware that the impossible sections were on purpose to sell hint books and to make money with the telephone hintline which one could call being stuck?

Came here to say, that I came here to say this, too.

Lol. Thanks. I really don't care. I'm running linux servers professionally since the late 90s, which means I have seen one or the other WTF. And systemd had quit some of them, especially flooding log files and race conditions. For example see https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7293. That took more than 2 years to fix. And if people like to downvote my personal experience with it they are welcome to do so. I mean all I did was answering a question why one might use a systemd free distribution. Oh and for the downvoters: SYSTEMD IS MICROSOFTS ATTEMPT TO KILL LINUX! Poettering always was their agent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering 😉

I host my own gitlab-ce instance in docker which works well. I mainly needed a web UI for git and I track issues with it. I think there are boards or at least free plugins for the community version, but I do not use them. You can version your documentation in .md files too. Not sure if it can substitute Jira for you, but you mentioned Bugzilla and I like gitlab a lot more.

Just make sure to update the container regularly, you can't make big version jumps without the intermediate updates.

I think you can combine it with OpenProject if you need more project planning.

The community edition is open source, the Enterprise edition is not.

Similaritron (seems abandoned, but still works)

That's weired. Runs flawlessly on my Android 13.

Which timezone? Europe as a continent has 7 primary timezones, the EU itself has even more, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_European_Union

The Pokemon is called Rattata. https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/rattata

What about people who complain only about subreddits like r/donut - should they not, instead, complain about the hole thing?

Isn't the donut the hole thing?

It sure is . Here have some electrolytes and watch some cartoons. All is good.

My problem with systemd is that since I'm practically forced to use it that it's flakey in starting services after boot (independent of service and distro). Since systemd I had to install monit to check if all services came up. Didn't had that problem before. Or I forgot, it's been a while....

I bought NMS on release, even got a new PC for it and man was I disappointed by the missing content. Worse, after every time I tried to get back into it with some update my last efforts were broken. My base was broken or my home planet changed in a bad way or suddenly I had to manage a colony which I did not enjoy or my ship got lost due to a glitchy starbase. Every new patch I'm reminded of that and now I don't bother to start it any more. I hope y'all have so much more fun with it than I had.