Do your todo apps, sudoku solver etc. Simple problems are fine. Don’t look down on them, don’t tell yourself that they’re too simple for you. There is always more complexity that you first expect once you start tackling it seriously.

Also, every self respecting tutorial ought to have exercises after every chapter. Don’t skip them either.

It’s a possibility with chromebooks because of the google ad network, but I can’t see why consoles, linux, mac, even windows tbh, has any incentive to support this. At best, they might make it an option, but there’s nothing in it for them. It actively makes their content look worse, while an ad supported OS like windows already has capability to place ads anyway.

Of course this is just a theoretical exercise. Technically, there’s nothing in a QR code’s algorithm or the mathematics that prevents it from scaling infinitely. The error correction algorithm even allows up to 30% of the code to be damaged and still retrieve the data.

Practically though… Well, given the QR code is smaller than bacteria, paper looks more like a tangled forrest of plant fibers at that scale. Paper just doesn’t support that kind of resolution.

However, I’m inclined to believe humanity can print that QR code on silicon wafers like we do with chips.

I assume you could deactivate an account without pruning if the account is legitimately human, just a very obnoxious one?

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No way it’s C. The average student will go home and find that they can’t do much of anything they like, with the level of C they know. Even printing a string is famously hard in C, they’ll hate it. Nothing drains their interest in programming faster than segfaults.

The average students wants to build games, websites, discord bots etc. Javascript makes it easy, none are easy in C.

My personal rule of thumb is that if it interacts with the OS or filesystem deeply, native is probably better. E.g. IDEs, cli programs, browsers, Steam etc.

Apps that do a simple things are likely to work perfectly fine on flatpak.

But the problem is that there are outliers in each case. You should pick one and be ready to switch if things don’t work properly.

Bet there are children that need protecting!

I seem to remember many random projects joining the foundation. Is this fine? Wouldn’t they dilute their capability to manage a whole bunch of unrelated projects?

Eating your seed corn? One good meal then a permenant famine is enough for CEOs to raise valuations and investors to pump and dump the stock. The famine is someone else’s problem. It’s exactly what the market rewards.

If you want to get a programming job, you want a good looking CV. By contributing to prominent open source projects on github, github’s popularity and fancy profile system makes it look real good on a CV.

Github is a magnet for lazy vibe coders spamming their shit everywhere to farm their CVs. On other git hosts without such a fancy profile systems, there’s less on an incentive to do so. Slop to good code ratio should be lower and more managable.

Does that include research time? I sit around pondering solutions, drawing diagrams, planning. When implementing harder solutions, usually 2 hours of actual deep work. But there are days where I wire up the logic and other grunt work, I can do that for 5 to 6 hours.

That’s fine. Unfortunately people are using it to coordinate open source software development. I don’t know how people do it. You have to use the search box and scroll through hundreds of chat messages to find some code you need. It doesn’t show up on google. It’s just horrible.