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  • Celivalg@iusearchlinux.fyitoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlTrue
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    2 years ago

    I think the problem is that they are trying to teach math to generalists where in front of them are students formed to understand programmatical problems.

    Where the problems be restructured to a programatical problem, then it would work far far better.

    Mathematical exercises aim to solve 1 problem with 1 given set of parameters, programatical exercises aim to solve 1 problem with ANY given sets of parameters.

    And that’s what made me loose interest in math during my CS years.






  • Long story short, they don’t have the mod capacity to micromanage evry single comment, since unless you defederate, you have to moderate every comment and post that gets seen by your instance, so the whole fediverse basically, and they just can’t do that.

    Some instances have attracted some toxic behaviors and federating with them added an influx of comments that weren’t in line with their rules.

    They decided to defederate all the big instances that didn’t filter sing ups.

    It’s a blanket solution, and honestly, I don’t blame them for it, lemmy moderation is a bit hell.

    Their rules are a bit strict, but I approve of what they are trying to do, creating a “safe” space… The rest of the fediverse is a bit of a far-west with anything goes being the rule…





  • Very nice prose btw, enjoyed reading

    And yeah this sucks, my coffee maker has a 60 second boot sequence… Now I once suspeced it was heating up, but I don’t think that’s actually the case (found one that heated up in less than 10 seconds), more like someone decided to put an OS to manage the 8 touch buttons, pump, grinder and heater… Now appart from the boot sequence, it’s nice…

    But microwaves… What does fish mean?



  • It mostly comes because a linux system is essentially a collection of much smaller programs that do one simple thing each, and each of those programs has alternatives.

    So doing a gui for one program would allow you to control that one and not the others, and if you were using an alternative, you wouldn’t have that gui.

    Now trying to make a gui that agglomerates the most common ones has been done for userspace, mostly on specific distros… but when it comes to administering systems… it’s a different story.

    services, dns, ntp, boot, wm, lm, firewall, dhcp… all of these have important things to touch, but also have different programs that implement them.

    Most authors of these programs don’t bother with gui, mostly because it’s quite some work, but also because it’s not their problem. UNIX philosophy is very much do one single thing and do it well… and when you can do a simple CLI that allows users and PROGRAMS to communicate with your program, why bother with GUI if it only accommodates one part of that equation?

    Devs don’t bother with GUI not because they think it’ll be useless, but because it’s a lot of extra work for something that ultimately will be less reliable than CLI…

    One reason why linux is so good at doing servers is that no system software needs a GUI to work. Windows server has a headless version, but look how many applications are just unable to run on it as they all rely on GUI…

    So in a way, having CLI first and GUI second is a blessing, even if it makes the first approach more difficult for users.