For anyone coming later, I’d actually add a section between where you explain commands for the first time and where you explain their flags or at minimum directly after the flag section. The section should explain how commands are found, how the PATH works and where the majority of binaries on a Linux system are located. Knowing that will allow a reader to immediately understand how simple a shell is and how people are always able to write their own scripts for stuff.
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Smug? The majority of Americans I know are terrified of what is happening.
tyler@programming.devto
Europe@feddit.org•Iceland will not participate in Eurovision 2026English
354·3 days agoWhy in the world is Israel included anyway? Europe ends at the Bosphorus Strait.
tyler@programming.devto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What programming language would you recommend for teaching to non-technical people that use a variety of different OSes?
11·3 days agoYou should read the Python documentation for how many ways there are to set it up. It’s not easy. It might be easy for a pro, but for a beginner it will be a nightmare. Python’s own documentation is thousands of words long for how to get it running correctly, it’s the exact opposite of what you want for beginners. And no it’s most definitely not the most human readable. They call it Ruby Prose for a reason.
I’m not here to have a flame war over Python vs other stuff, but I’ve used both professionally for over a decade. Python is good at stuff, but being human readable by beginners and having good tooling are not even in its ballpark. It has syntax unlike any other modern language and its tooling is shite. https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-python-packaging/
tyler@programming.devto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What programming language would you recommend for teaching to non-technical people that use a variety of different OSes?
1·3 days agoJava is much easier to set up than Python is. For one Java works with mise, asdf, sdkman and numerous other automatic tool managers. Python on the other hand works with none of those. I wouldn’t recommend either for being easy to set up. Ruby is much easier than both (including my favorite language, Kotlin) and has just as many nice features and is much easier to read than Python.
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movies@piefed.social•Not sure if I'm just old and bitter now or movies have gotten worse
35·3 days agoGone Girl. Most boring, predictable, lazy ass movie. The Postman is by far the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Tootsie, I can’t imagine a more problematic way to make a movie. One Battle After Another was good, but nowhere near good enough to win any awards which it definitely will win.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What programming language would you recommend for teaching to non-technical people that use a variety of different OSes?
2·3 days agoIf only it were that easy. Like i said, my job for years was literally deploying scripts and software to a fleet of machines including Macs and windows laptops. Every single install would have something go wrong, every single time.
tyler@programming.devto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What programming language would you recommend for teaching to non-technical people that use a variety of different OSes?
26·4 days agoAbsolutely do not use Python. It’s a nightmare to install on random computers and the majority of your time spent will be trying to get it working on everyone’s computer (that was my job at one point). As far as I remember, there isn’t a “good” C compiler that comes on windows and the one on Mac is missing some stuff.
I’d go with Ruby, it’s dead simple to install on every OS, easy to teach and learn, and doesn’t work differently across OSes. There’s an installer for it for windows and it comes installed by default on Mac (or it did? Maybe they stopped that).
tyler@programming.devto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What folders do you make in addition to the default ones ?
3·4 days ago~/dev~/dev/oss~/dev/work~/dev/personal
So you’re just gonna ignore Spain then… alrighty. I can see that you have no interest in actually conversing.
Thankfully it was named after the peanut butter and given a nice slogan to boot so you always know how to pronounce it properly!
Which would completely explain the ridiculousness that is seasons weirdly continuing past the end of the year.
Awww. It’s so cute. Fantastic photos!
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts
22·5 days agoDude. I have zero problem with germs. I think we need to be washing our hands less. It’s causing us (verified with many, many studies) to have more allergies and be more prone to sickness.
I do have a problem with morons saying that buttholes are the cleanest part of your body and then suggesting to eat ass. It’s so scientifically inaccurate as to be insulting. You’re so far off on understanding my position (which I’ve stated numerous times now) I can only assume you are trying to misrepresent my position to make me look like an idiot.
You can fuck right off, thank you for nothing.
tyler@programming.devto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts
1·5 days agoHuh??? What are you talking about?
You are making an argument about internal struggles within a country. I honestly do not give one shit what you internally call your regions. But to the rest of the world they are not sovereign nations and are therefore not called countries. This would be like any politician in America arguing that California or Texas are countries because they’ve stated they want to split from the USA at numerous points. This is the same for Catalan or Galicia which have been trying for decades to split from Spain. Hell even Palestine is recognized as a sovereign nation by at least some other countries, this is not true for any of the regions of the UK.
tyler@programming.devto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts
32·6 days agoNo clue what the last of us looks like but you’re literally making my point for me. No part of your body is clean, arguing a fucking butthole is clean is absolutely insane and is in no way scientifically accurate. Yes, there is bacteria everywhere. There are poop particles everywhere. Ergo, there is poop everywhere. How the hell is poop getting everywhere if your fucking BUTTHOLE IS CLEAN???
tyler@programming.devto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts
22·6 days agoI didn’t say they were dangerously or infectious, where the hell did you read that? I said there’s clearly stuff coming out of your butthole all the time, it’s not a clean location, no matter how much you clean it. Acting like putting some soap on it means it’s clean in an hour is completely disingenuous and scientifically inaccurate. And the example I gave was of one single thing coming out. If one thing is coming out then more is as well.
There is no stupid. The 4 countries of the United Kingdom are akin to the states of the United States. No other country will ever recognize them, for one because they’re not even trying to be recognized as individual countries. Second because they literally define themselves as one country, not four. Third because they’re called countries but really they’re provinces or states, the UK just abuses the term country.
The UK is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy[o] with three distinct jurisdictions: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own governments and parliaments which control various devolved matters. A developed country with an advanced economy, the UK ranks amongst the largest economies by nominal GDP
The Acts of Union 1707 declared that the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland were “United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain”.[p][22] The term “United Kingdom” has occasionally been used for the former Kingdom of Great Britain, although its official name from 1707 to 1800 was simply “Great Britain”.[23] The Acts of Union 1800 formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Following the partition of Ireland and the independence of the Irish Free State in 1922, which left Northern Ireland as the only part of the island of Ireland within the United Kingdom, the name was changed in 1927 to the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”.[24]










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