Zangoose

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Zangoose , to Programmer Humor in Junior dev VS FAANMG dev

My point wasn't that FAANG isn't exploitative (my bad if it came off that way, I didn't mean for that), it's that everywhere else is also exploitative to some degree (most probably less so than FAANG, there are definitely a few that are worse though), and that it could still be reasonable to work there for some people.

Zangoose , to Programmer Humor in Junior dev VS FAANMG dev

The other consideration is that pretty much every company you could work for as a software developer is going to try to take advantage of your work. Most companies are morally bad at best and morally terrible at worst. If you discourage any good person from working there, the problem will only snowball from there.

If working at FAANG gives you the resources to support things you're passionate about, and you're willing to stand up for your values when they do something bad, there isn't a problem with that IMO.

Zangoose , to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

If he was counting his money in $100 bills it would still take him about 40 years,

Edit: assuming he counts 1 $100 bill per second

Zangoose , to Programmer Humor in Y'all got any more of them PR approvals
Zangoose , to Linux in [Vent] Please avoid BusyBox

I just want developers to consider their deployment environment and maybe generate and include more capable, POSIX BB instead of just choosing the smallest and most useless.

This is completely fair, but the only example you gave to show this was about regexp in OpenWRT, and it seems from the other comments like there are several ways to go about doing this. You mentioned half of your RAM being free, but on the flip side of that, something with half as much RAM or less would be struggling a lot more. Admittedly I don't know much about OpenWRT but routers aren't exactly known for being powerful systems, so to me this seems like a perfect use case for a leaner set of utilities.

To your other point, languages like Python and Lua might not technically be everywhere but it they are common enough and simple enough to learn that you really are holding yourself back by avoiding them. Lua in particular is used by a lot of Linux projects (e.g. Neovim and Awesome WM are the most recent that I've used but there are tons of others) because of how easy it is to embed a configuration/plugin API into existing codebases.

Tldr; you're being dissed because the only example you gave about BusyBox being overused is (on the surface at least) a valid use case with easy solutions that you seem to be intentionally ignoring.

Zangoose , to Linux in [Vent] Please avoid BusyBox

To be fair learning lua isn't exactly a hard process, there's a reason it's embedded into so many other tools. If you're familiar with python you're like 85% of the way to writing something basic anyway.

Zangoose , to Programmer Humor in It's called attaining divinity

Another interesting low-level interpreter/emulated system to look into for anyone else trying to get started with this type of thing is the CHIP-8! It's a pretty basic 8/16-bit instruction set (there are 35 opcodes, the instructions themselves are mostly simple) and there are tons of detailed guides on making one and writing roms for them.

Zangoose , to Ask Lemmy in Lemons(?) of Lemmy, what is something that feels so obvious to you that you just get lowkey pissed at the world for not knowing?

Is that definition not supporting your points though? It defines gender as mostly a social construct, which imo reinforces the fact that it's made up and not a tangible thing anyway.

Sometimes biological sex matters (e.g. as medical info for a doctor to understand) but other than that it's connected to gender in name only, based on made-up social rules.

Zangoose , to Programmer Humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

See now we've got a valid argument going

Zangoose , (edited ) to Programmer Humor in Start ups when that VC funding kicks in

Wasn't the name "soccer" originally from England?

Edit: it was, and it was used for ~100 years in England until around 1960 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football

Zangoose , to Android in best foss replacement for microsoft launcher?

I've been eyeing lawnchair to replace my nova setup for a while but neither aurora/play-store nor F-droid have the newest release, is there a repo/manager to download from that doesn't involve manually going to the GitHub and installing it? Edit: lawnchair is one word

Zangoose OP , to Programmer Humor in Good luck web devs
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